STAR OF THE NORTH. R. W. WEAVER | EDITOR. ft 100 nit* burg Thursday July 5, 1855* FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, ARNOLD PLUMMER, or VENANGO COUNTV, Was nominated on third ballot by the Den erratic State Convention on yesterday. 1 he Itccder Case. The administration at Washington, having learned that Governor Kreder had been pur chasing lands from the half breed Indians of Kansas, lias required him, and others con nected with hitn in the transaction, to render a satisfactory explanation to the government. By the law of the land the United Slates government is regarded as the guardian of ; ihe Indian.tribes, and they as its wards. No person is permitted to contract with the In dians, except by the approbation of the gov ernment; and it is lite spirit of all our juris prudence that persons aoting in a fiduciary capacity cannot contract with those for whom they hold property in ttust. The Irailty of human tißture requires that litis safeguard be thtown around the weak and unwary.— Ruled by this principle, it woulJ seem thai j Gov. Reeder's purchases are impioper and | illegal. But in addition, nli contracts with the Indians under the protection of the gov eminent must have two. disinterested wit nesses. The deeds in this case are nominal- j ly to Judge Johnson, with Gov. Ueeder and j another interested party us witnesses. But j though such technical info.-mnlity might ; make the deeds voidable, it would not as an J informality be a cause for Gov. Reeder's te- I moral. But the Governor alleges that the persons , with whom he contracted were not Indians j but half-breeds —that they are intelligent 1 enough to contract for themselves —and that j be used no deception with them in the pur i chases of their lands.' How far this may be j • defence we do not know, and it tnay ap- , pear that he can make a full justification.— [ We believe it is conceded that the price for the lands was a fair one, and that no actual fraud was perpetrated upon lite venders ol the land. The prompt, fearless action of President Pierce is an honorable contrast to the artful and crafty speculation of the last administra tion in Gatphin and Gardiner claims, and the dishonorable "winking" and collusion of members then in the Cabinet. Then the government treasury was defrauded and men in high stations boldly walked off with their j ill-gotten share of the plunder. Now the i humblest ward of the government is shield j ed not only against imposition and fraud, but t against every art and action through which j deceit and wrong might lie.practised. Then | the speculator in forged claims swelled proudly and strutted over honest men with impunity. Now the fairest bargain is scru tinized, and the action of the public officer must not only be honest but above suspioi ion. We are proud of such an administra tion, and this act augurs that the best days of the republic have not all gone by, and there is yet public virtue left. We have felt friendly to Gov. Reeder. and yet hope he may pass unscathed through ordeal, for the generous wish is always bet ter than sour nr.alieo. But in any event the action of the President is commendable, and all honest men will applaud it. In past yeats 100 many fortunes were wrung from the land of the red man by high officers of our government. Tho evil exam pie of the old Roman Governors far from the Home Department found imitators in Warten Hastings and Lord Clive; and it ie a confession in sorrow that jimerican human nature has been subject to the same irailtiee. Jackson and Houston have honored humani ty by their julice to the weak and waning race, and Pierce will do well to emulate their example. HON. RICHARD BRODIIEAD visited our town on last Thursday and fonud friends who were heartily- glad to*see him. He is in fine spirits and in such excellent health es to promise the Know-Nothings and abolitionists vet many an earnest blow. He is one of the eolid, common sense kind of men wholully deserves all the favors of fortune that have fallen in his way. t3T During the heavy storm of last Satur day evening, the lightning ran along the tel egraph wi-e into the drug store of Dr. Tag gart, where the telegraph office is now kept, and played some wild freaks, as lightning will. The Doctor was stunned and knocked down, and the box of filed despatches set on fire; bnt fortunately the Dr. soon recovered and, the box being thrown out, no further damage was sustained. [jfl Regular passenger trains are now daily running between Easton ahd Allen town, on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Next summer the Lehighton and Tamaqua branch will be made, which will complete an im portant and direct passenger and coal road fo New Yoik, from this region. REASINO MACHINES.—Between fifteen and tixteen thousand reaping machines it is said will be manufactured and sold this year in our country. The demand is so great that manufacturers cannot make them fast enongh for tbeir orders. This affords evidence of ag ricalmra! prosperity, as the cost of these ma chinal will amount to nearly two millions of dollars. OT At the administration of the Lord's Supper, by tba Rev. Mr. Wisbart, at his church ia Now Athens, Harrison co., Obio, a faw sabbaths since, he defrayed all Know- Nothings from participating in tin? ceremony. Ho took a position that a person could not be a Christian and an honest man and at Ihe same time a Know-Noihiiig. The State convention of yesterday adopted a thoroughly national platform. EDUCATIONAL. DlCKlason Seminary- The anniversary exercises of Dickinson Seminary at Williamsport came off daring the early part of last week. The institution is in a flourishing condition, and reports du ring the past year 74 scholars in the Classi cal Department, 115 in the Higher English Department and 169 in the Common English Department; making a total of 358 scholars in the Seminary. Among these are the fol lowing from this county : Classical Department. David C. John, Cattawissa. George W. John, " Thomas J. Swisher, Jersey-town. Frances M. Low, Lime Ridge. Emily M. Low, Sarah K. Melick, Light Street. Edmund J. Bowman, Berwick. Higher English Department. Martha Bowman, Mifiiinville. David R. Appleman, Buckhorn. William Krikbanm, Cattawissa. John F. Dierner, Bloomsburg. James L. Shumsn, Mainville. I Common English Dcpaitment. Samuel Criveling, Light Street. George Breisch, Cattawirsa. W. N. Creasy, Mifiiinville. Joseph R. Evans, Greenwood. H. H. Brown, Mifflinville. Wm. Fishei, Mainviile. The annual address before the Literary Societies was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Hodgson of Philadelphia. The Latin salu tatory was by D. C. John of Cattawissa, who is also the editor of "The Star of Literature," a publication of essays and compositions by the Belles Letters Society of the Seminary., We are indebted to this Society for an Hon orary Membership, and forlhe fuvors of their several publics'ions. LIST Of County Superintendents of Common Schools ' of Pennsylvania, with their salaries and the number of schools in each county. COPSIIES. SUP'R'NTR. SALARIES, SCH'R. Adams, D. Wills, $3OO 00 128 Allegheny, B. FL Kerr, 1000 00 358 Armsliong, J. A. Campbell, 300 00 169 Beaver, T. Nicholson, 350 00 137 j Bedford, T. R. Gettvs, 300 00 163 | Berks, W. A. Good, 350 00 362 Blair, H. A. Caldwell, 400 00 122 Bradford, E. Guyer, 500 00 342 Bucks, J. Fell, 1000 00 213 Butler, I. Black, 300 00 190 Cumbria, R. L. Johnston, 400 00 117 Carbon, J. H. Sievers, 400 00 76 Centre, Wm. J. Gibson, 600 00 135 Chetar, R. G. Furlhey, 1000 00 214 Clarion, 11. W. Orr, 300 00 152 j Clearfield, A. T. Scriver, 200 00 82 Clinton, A. Taylor, 300 00 85 | Columbia, R. W. Weaver, 300 00 140 i Crawford, S. S. Seares, 400 00 316 | j Cumberland, D. Shelley, 500 00 160 ! i Dauphin, S. D. Ingram, 300 00 157 I Delaware, G. Smith, 500 00 83 ; Elk, C. R. Early, 75 00 21 j Erie, W. A. Armstrong, 600 00 280 Fayette, JfV. Gibbons, 500 00 190 Forest, J. S. Hays, 25 00 10 Franklin, J. FlcDwoell, COO 00 181 Fulton, R. ltoss. 100 00 60 Greene, J. A. Gordon, 262 50 154 Huntingdon, J. S. Barr, 300 00 167 Indiana, S. P. Boleman, 600 00 200 Jefferson, J. C. Wageman, 300 00 83 Juniata, David Laughlin, 200 00 91 I'Lancaster, J. Wicketsham. 1500 00 405 j Lawrance, T. Berry, 500 00 127 I.ebanon, J. H. Kluge, 760 00 147 ' Lehigh, C. W. Cooper, 500 00 161 Luzerne, J. W. Leslier, 600 00 250 Lycoming. J. W. Barrett. 500 00 154 FlcKean, F. A. Allen, 250 00 62 Mercer, J. R. Brown, 400 00 238 Mifflin, It. C. Ross, 500 00 86 Flonrno, C. S. Delrick, 300 00 104 I Montgomery, E. L. Acker, 600 00 216 i Montour, E. W. Conkling, 350 00 54 Northampton, V- Hilburn, 025 00 189 Notlh'd., J. Reimensnyder, 360 00 85 Perry, A. Height. 300 00 108 Pike, I. B. Newman, I°o 00 43 Potter, J. B. Pradt, 300 00 75 | Schuylkill, J K. Krewson, 1000 00 189 j Somerset, J. J. Stulzman, 400 00 162 ! Sullivan, B. Bedford, 50 00 40 Susquehai.'ii, W. Richardson, 350 00 252 Tioga, I. F. Calkins, 400 00 183 Union, J. S. Whitman, 300 00 169 Venango, M. C. Beebe, 200 00 168 Warren, W. RotT, • 300 00 129 Washington, J. L. Gow, 1000 0C 230 Wayne, J. F. Stoddard, 500 00 125 Westm'land, M. McLinstry, 550 00 244 | Wyoming, C. R. Lane, 150 00 71 j York, J. Kirk, 500 00 247 j NOTE —The No. of schools in several of the counties is taken from the report of 1853 .- that of 1854 not having been full in this res peot- Value of a Good School Teacher. We earnestly commend to the attention or parents the following thoughts from Chan niug, on the importance of good instructors for their children. "There is no office higher than that of a teacher ol yeuth, for there is nothing on earth so precious as the mind,soul,and char acter of the child. No office should be re gardod with greater respect. The first minds in a community should be encouraged to as sume it. Parents shoull do all but impover ish themselves to indace such to become the guardians of tbeir children. They should never hsve the least anxiety to accumulate property for their children, provided tbey can place them under influences which will awaken their faculties, inspire them to a manly, useful, honorable part in the world. No language can express the foliv of that economy which, to leave a fortune to a child starves his intellect and impoverishes his heart." 17 The Farmers' High School, incorpora ted by the last Legislature of Pennsylvania, was organized at Harrisburg on the 14th. The offer of Gen. Irvitt to give 150 acres of land, if the school shall be located in Centre coun ty, and other propositions to give or sell sites, wero referred to a committee, to be reported on early in July, after an examination of the localiltee. For the Star of the North. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Weather.—Fillibuste rs—Germansfor music and Mr. Foersch.—Love and Murder.—Squirrels and the Constitution.—Oae.—Ship Building. Nr.w YORK, June 30ih, 1855. The weather, for a few days past, has been of a sufficiently ardent temperature to try, pretty fairly, the endurance of those who sigh amid the chilling blasts of winter for the de lights of the torrid season. Many of them as they vainly eeelt relief in ice-water and palm-leaves from the miseries they so thoughtlessly invoked, wish again us reck lessly that they were plunged to the ears in the midst of a Nova-Zemblan snow-bank.— They envy the good fortune of the expedition ists in search of Kane, and feel a sympathet ic indignation with the polar navigator, at the idea of the outrage of bringing him buck from so delicious a summer retreat as Alderman Jones' Sound, or Scoresby's Inlet. It seems that after all the protestations re garding the legality and peaceful purposes of the Kinney Expedition, it is really a (filibus tering scheme, designed to affect a revolution in or a possible conquest of Nicaragua. The invasion is to be made in conjunction with a similar demornttralion on the Pacific shore, simultaneously undertaken by the would-be President of the Republic of Lower Califor nia, Col Walker, with forty or fifty men from Sun Francisco. These gentlemen must look out for the Nionrnguan Government. The German Musical Festival has come to a close, and the various societies engaged in it huve returned to their homes. Thepic-nic in Elm Park was a splendid affair. It were well if our American people would learn to cultivate more extensively those elevated so cial enjoyments for which the Germanß are so much distinguished. Fir. Pairsh, one of tho speakers on that occasion, alluded very properly, though in a very delicate manner, 10 this palpable deficiency of the Americans, lie would not like, he said, to say anything derogatory to the American character, which had so many substantial elements worthy of the utmost respect. But he believed that the social virtues do r.ot always flourish best where the energies ol both mind and body are devoted entirely to material pursuits. — There was something worth living for, beside the acquisition of wealth, and without which there was, after all, no real and satisfactory enjoyment to be found. The papers record a remarkable double su icide occurring in Brooklyn on Wednesday. The cause was that ever active occasion of mischief among romantic young people— 1 love. What were tho particular misfortunes, of the secondary class, growing out of this prolific causa causans, have not transpired.— They were potent however; fur prus.de r.cid i was deemed alone competent to exterminate j | them. The affair is altogether most singular. Neither of the' parents of the unfortunate | young man kne'v anything of their son's at- I lachmetit to the lady in question, and neither jof them had ever seen her. What then, was their surprise, as well as horror, to find, on Wednesday morning, a strange and beautiful female lying dead upon a lounge on a piazza in the rear of their dwelling, with '.he form of their lifeless son in her arms! At the instant before this shocking spectacle blinded their eyes, their son was supposed to be in the Western country, whither he had gone osten sibly to settle up his business, and then to re turn to live with his father. What a return was that to those fondly expectant parents! It was only last week that another young lady committed suicide by poisoning,from a disap pointment in love, occasioned by the inter ference of her lover's friends; and on Tues day night, an Irish girl put a period to her ex istence with a dose of arsenic. Tlio delegates irom the Know-Nothing and Know-Something Conventions having arrived home and made their reports, and the excite ment of those meetings being over, the good people of Boston have dashed eagerly into the Squirrel question. "Squirrel" or "No Squirrel" are now the issues presented to the lloslonianr ; die Anti-Sqnirrelists seem to be rather in the ascendency. 1 hear that the K. N. Mayor of Boston, Dr. Jerome Von Crowninshield Smith, hearing that squirrels had been introduced by the K. N. Mayor ol Philadelphia into the public parks of that city concluded to try a like experiment on the great Common of Boston, and, procniing a colony of real native red and gray squirrels from Vermont, let them loaso upon the trees of that fine pleasure ground. Hence the par lies. The Anti-Squirrelists declare the May'- or performed an unconstitutional act; he hav ing r.o more power to introduce the little chir rupers than he had to call back the British soldiers who were driven away from the same locality eighty years ago- They dolefully predict immense evils to the Common and its venerable trees. But the Squirrelists, who are progressives, cry 'fudge,' and are san guine of the most beneficial results. It strikes me that Mayor Smith made a serious over sight in not importing, with his nut-eating colony, such an efficient protection for them as the British game-laws. The Committee of the City Council on the subject of Lamps and Gas have before tliern, and it would seem under favorable consider ation, the petition of anew association called the Metropolitan Gas Company, tor leave to lay gas-pipes thtough the streets of the city. One very considerable annoyance to which the people of New York have been quite 100 long subjected, and under which they are get ting rather impudent, is the high price they pf y for gas, and being compelled to pny for greater quantities than they really uso. The Metropolitan Gas Company promises to form these abuses ; and the people are dispo sed to listen to anything that offers to remove the humbug in the matter of light. The ship-building interest of this city la in rather a depressed condition, at preMht. ba ring the first half of the present year jgpt clo sing, there have been launched from-fdIAP yards in and about New York only 23 ves sels; there are 16 remaining on IhgWßcks, unfinished, and few or no contracts for rmEts. In Ihe.firet half of last year, there wore 30! vessels launched, and 36 were remaining on the stocks on the Ist of July. Only 5 steam ers have been built or are building, thus far, this year; while 44 were built or building at the same lime last year. The same depres sion is believed to prevail in ship-building, generally throughout the country " ( Pennsylvania Bible Society. We bave received the 47th annual Report of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, it con tains the usual amount of inlormalion in re gard to the progress of the society in the dis tribution of tiie Bible. The amount received for Bibles, &c., the past year, was by the Sunbury Female Society, 8270 Northumberland, " 18 Milton, " 60 Lewisburg, " 125 Bloomsburg, " 105 Berwick, " 28 A Paper Calculation. A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says, that an enormous amount of coal will be brought to the Baltimore market over the Northern Central Railway, as soon as the latter shall be completed to Sunbury, * ill be made clearly apparent from the following es timate. Say— From tbe Sliamnkin Valley 600.000 tons. ' ' Treverlon Works 500,000 " ' ' I.ykens Valley 150,000 " ' ' Dauphin Region 150,000 " Total, 1,300000 " Krgi-terli.g Letters. The system of registration of valuable let ters, prescribed by the Post-ofllce Depart ment, went into operation on the Ist insl.— The regulations provide that, on the pay ment of a registration Ice of five cents, a re ceipt shall he given by the Postmaster when a letter is mailed and extraordinary precau tion be used in its forwarding and delivery It is not to be confined to money letters, but nny letter will be legistered which the wri ter considers valuable, but for which the De partment do not make themselves liable.— Postmasters liavo been instructed to make no record or marks upon registered letters, by which the fact of their containing money or other valuables may be suspected or made known. Governor Johnston. The New York Tiibunc pays Gov. 'ohn son the following compliment, in regard to his action in the late Kuow-Nothing Conven tion at Philadelphia:—ln 1850 Gov. Johnston, of Pennsylvania, was an ardent Free-Soil Whig, and honorably hostile to the Compro -1 mie which Mr. Webster and Mr. Fillmore brought upon the conntry. All parties re spected"him, and the North relied on him as a man of conviction and backbone. But last week at Philadelphia, we find him voting for the Pro-Slavery platform, framed by negro ' drivers and doughfaces, by which it is forbid den to touch the existing laws on Slavery or to attempt by any political action to secure Kansas and Nebraska for Freedom! What a fall from 1850 to 1855! Facilis descensus Averni. But Pennsylvania will repudiate her recreant ton. Hard Work lor ('residents. An English traveler, Mr. Weld, in a new work on this country, relates (lie following ( ! on the duties of the Piesident: ' Although Gen. Pierce is remarkable for liia affability in private life he is not pop ular. He is an excellent man ol business. More than once lie complained of the tre mendous labor of his office, which is so great as to scarcely leave him a minute's leisure. 'Some chrange in the duties,' he said, 'must be made, as no man car. stand the work, even for four years. You can form no idea.' he added, 'of the number of | voluminous manuscript documents connect ed with public business which I have to 1 read.' Suggesting that in many Cases this might be dor.e by a secretary, he replied:— No,'tis better to read and master even the most lengthy document, for then 1 am in a position to cut a man short if he is talking nonsense.' This admission is significant of active participation in the business of the Government.' Washington Afl.iirs. WASHINGTON, July I.—The total number of Land Warrants issued lias been 7500. The applications allowed so far have been 11,084. The total number'of applications J received, has been 184,500. | Warrants were yesterday quoted at 110 a )111. The Pension Office will commence issu ing 80 acre Bounty Land Warrants, on Tues day next. It is said that the Grand Jury has found five bills of indictment against the destroy ers of the block of marble sent from Rome for the Washington Monument. Mr. Waldo, the Commissioner of Pensions has not yet decided as to the acceptance of the Connecticut Judgeship, to which he was recently elected. The neit amount in the U. S. Treasury subject to draft, is 818,438,712. During the month of June, about twefltv clerks, mesiengers and watchmen have been removed from the Departments for political reasons. A Railroad War. An excitement has been created among the . railway folks in the vicinity of Scranton, Pa., during the lew days past by an nttempt on the part of one of the contactors to coerce the Company into the payment of some 850,000 alleged lobe due from underestimates made by M'Neill M'Neill and his assistants during the progress of the work. Tbe road bed is finish ed, or nearly to, says the Herald, and the Company are desirous of lajing the track upon it. The contractor refuses to give it up until his demands are complied with,and Iks stationed a large number or men who are ordered to resist any person who at tempts to lake possession of it. Some ol them are supplied with revolvers, and threa ten to shoot the first man who presents him self with a hostile intention. IT The following was ort one of the ban ners, curried in the procession at the Lan" caster anti-liquor law meeting: "When tbe preachers begin to legislatei it is lime the people begin to preach.'' ARRIVAL of (he BALTIC. ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE. The steamship Baltic arrived at New York on Thursday Morning, at one o'clock, with Liverpool advices to the 16th insl. The papers furnish the details of the French capture of the Mamclon and White Works, after a sanguinary conflict, in which 6000 men were killed end wounded. The French look sixty-two guns and 600 prison ers, ar.d their new position enables them to shell the shipping in the harbor of Scbas topol. Simultaneously the English stormed and took the riflemen's works in the quarries, but lost five hundred in killed and wounded. Copious details aro to hand of the attack on Kertsch ; also, telegraphic announcements of further successes in the Sea of Azoflj w here the fleets attacked and destroyed the stores at Taganrog,|Mariopol and Genilchi Accounts of those exploits are yet rather meagre. On the Tchernaya and in the Baltic we have no new movements. Duke Conslahtine is appointed Regent of Russia in the event of Alexander's de cease. The allied fleet in the Sea of Ax >ff have burned the stores at Taganrog, Mariopol and (•enitchi, and a land expedition is fitting out against Perekop. The Russians are said to have obtained communication with the Crimea, indepen dent of the road from Perekop, by construct ing a bridge of boats across the Sovesche. The Russians are reported to have evacua ted Anapa. There is nothing from Tehemaya or the Baltic. Private letters from Kertch give a fearful account of the sufferings of the Russian army as well from wounds as sickness. General Lamolia, the younger, has died of cholera, at Bdlakl&va. The British ship Shamrock has foundered at sea, with a cargo of copper valued at 8200,000. Tae captain and crew escaped. Strachan, Paul & Co., London bankers, and llalford & Co., Navy Agents, have failed. In the Baltic, the Russians fired npon a boat bearing a flag of truce. Twenty-one sailors and three officers were killed. The | English had, at Odessa and at Knikale, under the pretext ol a flag of truce, taken sound ings of the bays, which enabled litem after wards to gain advantages over (lie Russians. The latter seem determined not to let them practice this trick with impunity in the Baltic. FRANCE. The most interesting intelligence relers to her Majesty the Empress. Dr. I.ocock, the celebrated accoucher (who had considerable experience in Queen Victoria's nursery,) was summoned by telegraph to Paris, where, af ter consultation with Drs. Dubois and Con nean, it was formally announced that the Empress is encienle. ITALY. The King cf Sardinia is about (o proceed to London, to negotiate for lite hand of the English princess royal. On the evening of the 18th, an atlempl was made to assassinate Cardinal Autonelli. The attempt failed and the assassin was ar rested. Count Castelcicara has set out to as sume the government of Sicily. State TrsrpEnxKCE Convention. —A Mass Convention of the friends of Temperance will be held in Reading, Berks county, on Wednesday the Bth of August, to commence at 10 o'clock, A. hi. As the enemies of the late Liquor Law are making the most determined efforts for its repeal, it is important that all its friends should attend this Convention. No one need wait to bo appointed a Delegate, as all who como will be members. Come to the jubi lee and show the friends and foes of the law that it cannot be repealed, except by the passage of a more stringent one. The Address of the State Committee will be delivered to members of the Convention for circulation, and Ibey are requested to collect funds to defray the expense. P. COOMBE, Chairman, f)'c. PHILADELPHIA, June 25, 1855. ty Editors throughout the State are re quested to publish this notice. How IT WORKS. —The prohibitory liquor law does not seem to work as reslrictively in Boston as was expected. The magistrates are nclive enough in sending the violators of the law before a jury, but the juries are little disposed to convict. Fourteen cases recent ly tried, ended in an acquittal of all except one, the exception being a disagreement. In most of the cases the evidence has been de fective, but in one ot two cases the evidence warranted a conviction. The juries declared judges of the law as well as of the facts, they virtual'y have decided against the law .—Ledger. VT The most telling answer to the charge made by abolitionists, says the N. O. Vis-a vii, that slaves are not protected by law in the South, in the case of the State of Louis iana vs. Hunter, In which defendant is charg ed with selling a slave, and separating the mother from her children, contrary to the statute in such case made and provided, is that on Friday last the accused plead guilty, and was sentenced by Judge Robertson to a fine of one thousand dollar, and six months imprisonment, and forfeiture of the slaves. TAKING ALARM. —The Pittsburg synod of the I.uthercan church have adopted the fol lowing resolutions: '• Resolved, That, in the judgment of this Presbytery, the principle* of our church ex clude from communion the members of the secret society called ICnow-Notbings, and (he members ol all stich societies, and that the Presbytery direct sessions to enforce this opin ion." 17* There are five thousand negro Know- Nothings in New York. They are death on the "tl—H foreigners," and the pride of their white Know-Nothing brethren- Hot Weulber*-lleware of eicrun. The deity of the hot weather renders cau tion ell the more necessary now that it has come. Statistics show that the largeat num ber of death* front imprudence happen * when a cold spell is suddenly succeeded by one o( intense heat; and (he reason is that people, feeling the change tcutely, /hdnghtlessly risk their health in the effort to get cool. A laborer becomes over-heated, tushes to a hy drant, drinks cold water to excess, and per ishes in a few hours. Another person seeks relief in juleps, cobblers, and other mis-call ed '"cooling drinks," and tho result is increas ed excitement ol the brain, instead of dimin ished action there, often followed by sudden demit. A third is tempted by Iresh frui', and either eats to much or eats that which is not ripe; and he too pays for indiscretion with bis life. A fourth, fifth and sixth vio late the laws of health in some other way, and are prostrated by illness, it not swept into the grave. And so it goes, to the end of the chapter. The virtue of temperance, at this period of the season, cannot be incg|bated too strongly. We do not mean temperance in the use of distilled or malt liquors only, but temperance Itt all Ihings, but especially eating, drinking, and work. A surleit, when the thermome ter is at ninety, is almost certain death. Kven a slight overloading of the stomach, or the indulgence itt some indigestible article of food, often leads to violent cramps, if not to cholera in its worst form. Hut to eat to little, or to eschew either meats or fruits altogether, ' as some theorists do, is an error only less dangerous. The safest way is to contiuue the usual diet, whatever that has been, la king care, however, to indulge moderately, that is with temperance. So also with drink ing. If it is madness to imbibe spirituous li qoora in tho hope of being cooled, it is folly to injure the digestive organs by excessive indulgence in sotla-water or ice-cream. Na ture invariably suffers when attempts are made suddenly to cool a person who is heat ed. Moderation in all Ihings is indispensa ble. To jump into a river, to quaff copiously of ice-waier, or to bring anything else that is cold into sudden contact with the body, when the latter is heated, is trifling with health and life. Excesses in work are a fertile source of ill ness, and sometimes of death, in sultry weath er. No man can perform as much labor oil a hot day, or under a verticle summer sun, jas he can in winter, or under cover. It is 1 not only day-laborers who are in jeopardy. | Any unusual draft upon the nervous, or even musoular system, is sure to be felt at the seat of life. A wise man will always economise his strength in the summer. Whoever over works himself in any way extiausts the ner j vous power, part of which should have gone j to assist the. digestion; and the consequence I is, that when he comes home, fatigued and | hungry, to eat a hearty n.eal, he is s'ruck j down by billiouscholic, dysentary or cholera. | To throw ofTthe garments, when heated, and sit in a current of air, is a common error; and ! the seeds of many a consumption have been I planted, in this way, in healthy men. He j temperate in your labors and in your pleas- I nree, in sleeping and in waking, if you would ) escape the diseases inoident In hot weather, and which are so often fatal.— Ledger. AN IMPOSTKR CAGED. —We leain from the Norrislown Herald, that a colored man, named, Chas. Smith, representing himself as a preacher, came to that place a few days | ago, for the purpose of raising lundi to aid I him in the redemption of a part of his family I from slavery, fie was fortified with letters i purporting to have been written by a gentle man in Washington, recommending his case to the sympathies of the benevolent, ar.d on tlje strength of these lie succeeded in ma king collections from a number of citizens.— Some of them, however, not relying fully upon his statements, wrote to Hev. Mr. Johns, ol Washington, one of his pretended vouchers, and received "in reply that he knew uothing ol the matter, and that so far as he was concerned, he believed the Rev. Smith ! to be an impostor. Upon this representation, j and other suspicious circumstances, the fel | low was arrested, and on Monday, on a hearing, before Justice Ilossiter, evidence sufficient was elicited to hold him for trial, and in default of bail he was committed to Prison, where he will find time, by the Au gust sessions, to reflect upon his case. ET" THE "Old Court House and Offices," of Montgomery county, were sold by lite Commissioners, at public sale, on Wednes day of last week. Tho Court House was Purchased by Gabrtal Kohn, Esq., for 5331,- 00; the Offioe by Charles Briggs, forsl2o,oo. The marble steps, iron door? in the Offices, and a large lot of furniture were sold extra. The whole proceeds of the sale amounted to between six and seven hundred dollars. The ' work of demolition was commenced on Saturday. COUNTERFEITS. —Counterfeit Gold Half Ea gles are in extensive circulation. Tltey are said to be well executed, with the exception thsl they are a little thicker than the genuine, and of somewhat brighter color. There is also a fancy article, resembling half an eagle, called a California gold piece having a gold digger on one siJe and Liberty on the other- They are worthless, but may paes in the dark. IT It is estimated that the whiskey drink ers of tho United Stales could build the Pa cific Railroad in a coupte of years. An exchange adds: The money they spend for the whiskey might pay for the grading, smokers and chewers could bny the iron, and the surplus two inches in length of la dies dress cost, would supply the locomotives. On the Union Course, L. 1., on the 21st, a great pacing match came off between Poca hontas, and Hero, match 82000, mile heats, best 3 in 5, to wagon, and driver weighing 165 lbs. Time of the hea I —quarter, 34 sec.; half mile, 1.07; 2.17 12. This is the fastest time on record. TIIE ANNUAL CONVENTION uf the Sweden borgiatt* is being held in Boston, Having del egates from eight elates of the Union. Moae ''KOREIUN INTERFERENCE." —TItey say Gavazzi is coming over here next Fall, to lecture in the principal cities and towns of the Union in aid of the Know Nothings. The Albany Stale Regnter says that "in his jour ney through the Union Gavazzi will be ac compined by an old and distinguished mem ber of the Amedcan Parly, whose name has already occupied an honorable place in the national literary world." This probably means Mr C. Edwards l.ester, otherwise known as !l-len Dhn. IHP" Tqe Kndw-Nothing Council recently held in Philadelphia, provided for a Nation al Council to be held in the same city, com mencing on the 22.1 February r.ext, to select candidates lor President and Vice President of the United Slates. The delegates are it> be front each Stale, rquaf in number to its representation in both branches of the U. S. Congress, and to be ohosen by the Slate Councils, two being from the State at large, I and ono from each Congressional district. TELEGRAPH EXTENSION NORTHWARD.—A line of telegraph wires is being put up along the route of the Culluwissa and Williams port, and Williamspoit and Elmira Railroad, f'ltis is much needed A perfect system of telegraphic communication on railroads, is a great safeguard against accidents, and lends to insure promptness and certainly in the running of trains. DI.-MISSED. —Juhu Wilson, Commissioner ol 'he Land Office, received his letter of dis missal on Wednesday last, direct from the President, and retired from the office imme diately. It is thought that Wilson Shannon, of Ohio, will be his successor. I The Baltimore Republican says tho rea son A. J. Do nelson lias become a Kttow i Nothing is thai President Pierce refused to giva him a fat office which lie wanted.— ■ Otherwise he would have remained a Dim ocral. lull of nit Aqueduct, KAVTON, PA., June 30.—Tho Dutham Aque duct, about eight miles below here, on the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Ca lial, fell down to-day. li will take t.vo or "* thrue weeks to repair the damage. EST* The unmarried Lady who exhibits the tiesl specimen of horsemanship at the next Crawford eonnty (Pa.) Fair, is to receive n beautiful silk dress from the young men of Conneautville. t OLD AUE. —Mary Tltoma*, a colored wo man whose age is reported at 125 years, died on monday last, at the house of her son-in law, in Philadelphia. The deceased was included in the lust census, as the oldest in habitant of Philadelphia. nr A convention of the School Direcors of Berks county was railed for the 30th of June, to take into consideration the propriety ;of increasing the salary of their County Su perintendent. A CONSCIENTIOUS MAVOR. —The mayor of a city in Ohio gntdrur.knol long since.—.J When sobered, he went before a. Squire, itt- r formed on himself, paid his fine and resigned his office. AG&MAMMS&Q O-t the 28lh ult., by the Rev. Francis M. Slusser, Mr. DANIEL MDRDAW, and Miss SA MANTHA YOUNQ, all of Espytown. A&ASIM. In Bloomsbursr, on the 3d inst., MARK, infant son of John C., and Mary Matilda Jones, aged 9 months. TOLLS AT BEACH IIAVEN. - COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, I Reach Haven. June 30, '55. J R. W. WEAVER, ESQ.: Hear Sir, —The amount of Toll collected at this Office during the month of June 1855, is £30.803 49 Amount per last report, 40.145 29 Whole amount since Ist Dec. last 70,948 78 . " " same period last year 68,748 14 Increase " " this year 1-2,2u0 64 Respectlully yonrs, PETER ENT, Collector. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. jVYVriCE is hereby given thit letters testa •A™ mentary upon the estate ol John Kline, late of Benton township Columbia county, deceased have been granted to the undesign ed residing also in thai township. AH per sons indebted to the said estate are reques ted to make payment without delay, and those having accounts against the estate to present them for settlement to I. K. KRICKBAUM, Executor. Benton, Col. ca., June 30, 1855.—Ct. List of Letter* REMAINING 'tithe Post Office at Blooms bnrg, Pa., July in, 1855. Artley Catharine Lewia El ward.. Barnhart T. Montgomery Duuiel Board man J. S. x Miller John Cristy Micheal Russcl Thomas . Driblebis Catharine Ren Thomas ship > Evanson T. E. Rupert James Gulick G. H. Shepperton Thomas Gaflanv Catharine E Smith Spencer C. Gureland Hiram Thomas Edward R. 2 Gilbert Joseph Verry Wm. Kitchen Martha Jane Wolf Sarah. Link Anna Persons culling for the above letters will please say they are advertised. PHILIP UNANGST, p. M. " List of Letter* REMAINING in the Post Office al Catu wissa, Pa., fur the quarter ending June SOIU, 1855. Bangharl George MoLnuahlin Samuel Brooks Benj. Miller Franklin Breish Adam Morris Donaldson sbp Carey M. G. New Berry J. R. Crites Noah Overder Samuel Deer Mary J. Richard James _ Fisher Saralian Richard Geo. M Gaffrcs Terrus Ruff Daniel Horn Samuel Shoemaker F.Jwaid Hurly John Schuyler Elizabeth Kerlio Jno. Vallechamp Dr. Kerrvl.arl Wm. Went* Gilbert & Co Kenedy W. A. Wollever Adnin. Lucy C. ship. Yocum Calab 3 Moloney M. ship. Per-otta calling for the above letters will nleasu bay they are advertised. ' • C, K.UIN, p. M.
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