STAT OF fHfe NORTH
R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR,
illoemsbnrfr, tffcursdaf, Angosl 3, 1855.
WOR CANAL COMMISSION ICR,
ARN OLD P m LUMER,
or VtNANGO COUNTY,
DBMOC HATIC COUNTY CORVBRTIOR.
IN trconlaoce with ibe tola of (he Demo
cratic party, the Democratic voters of the
ee.eial election districts of Columbia county
will moat at their respective placoa of holding
the general election, on SATURDAY the 25th
day of August next, between the hour* of 3
and 7 o'clock in the afternoon to choose two
delegates from each township, to meet in
County Convention at the Conrt House in
Dloomsburg on tho 27th day of
August next, at \ o'ekick, P. M., for the pui
poso of making the annual nominations of the
Democratic parly.
The Democrats of the eeverol townships aro
enjoined to strict vigilance that none but Dem
ocrats participate in these elections, and the
success and integrity at the party impeiatively
requires that KnuwNnthings cannot and shall
not have a voice eithor as voters, officers or
delegates in the formation of a ticket which
they would not support when formed, unless
by some unfoitunato accidont some of their
own kind should be on it. 'I he Democratic
party accords to these men the same right
which it claims for itself to support men of
their own principles; but they must do it in
their own household, and not attempt to force
them on the people under the name of Dem
ocrats. Although it may le difficult in all
cases to know who belong to the Secret Order,
(lie precedent of the* Democratic Slate t Con
vention seems to be tho only ssfo one —that
the tree must be judged by its fruit, and that
those men who year after year openly and no
toriously oppoto Democratic nominations and
support Whig and Know-Notbing candidates
.ere not Democrats, and can have no just or
honorable claim to contiol or direct the policy
<f II parly which they havo refused to support
•ud vainly attempted to derlroy.
JOHN S. TSTEUNKU, I JACOB D. KLINE,
JOHK H. DEWITT, I HENRY MET/,
ISAIAH JOHN, | StanJing Committee-
The Course of Lienor and safety.
The Standing Committee have this week
issued their call for the usual County Con
vention of the party, to which we invite the
nttention of reflecting Democrats. The cau
tion in the call is judicious, and well timed,
for a'straight-forward and. manly course is
l!ic only one of safety a' this time. If men
who were formerly Democrats have fallen
from their faith and ute joined to their idols,
let them alone—they have chosen their WBJ
and their company, and ure no more of our
household. II they are honest, in time they
will come back repentant prodigals—if not,
the cause o( the people is far belter without
them. Democracy can rely upon its virtue,
and must vindicate When the sirocco
of bigotry swept the Stele last fall, Columbia
stood firm and IdTtnful, and met the enemy
at the first step upon her soil. The result
was that in the miDsl of disaster, when
treachery was doing its utmost, and with the
faithful falling ill round, in Columbia Ivnow
nothingism was stricken to the earth, and if
the balance of the State had done as well Biglcr
would at this moment be Governor of the Key
stone, snd no stain would rost on the Slate. —
Firm and prudent action can do even more
this fall, for the prestige of victory has gone
from the antagonists. Cool reason has done
its great, good work in honest minds ; and
all honest, sensible men are becoming
ashamed and d'Sgualed at the narrow self
ishness and ridiculous alarm upon which the
new party of secret oaths is based.
The ofTices for which candidates are to be
•nominated are none of them sourcosof prof
it, and we have yet to hear of the first msn
in this small county who grew rich upon of
fice. Indeed to some men the position is
ruinous in the associations and hibits it oft
en induces. But to the public it is a matter
of importance that men of integrity, sobriety
and respectability be chosen ; so that the
public business may be well done, SDd the
county not be disgraced by stupidity or cor
ruption. These are the first considerations;
and a political parly can only maintain its
stability and respect by properly regarding
them in selecting its candidate*.
<• Of course the first matter is that a man
shoakl l>e honest; and he who has been
treacherous in bis political character is not
safe to be trusted as a man. He who had
no respect for his honor in one of bis posi
tions as a citizen, can give you no assnrsnce
that he will not deceive you in another also.
The man who has been all things to all
men until he believes that "all is fair in poli
tics" is ruined beyond the hope of redemp
tion.
To the true men who have honestly sup
ported the principles and organ izalipn of the
Democratic party comes the call. Let good
and true men be chosen, and their election
is certain. Not men of narrow passions,
selfish bigotry or double-dealing ; but men
who have been consistent, open end Hue to
the cause ot the people. Not suoh as are
Democrats only until they are disappointed,
and then go over to the-4iemy; but men
who are above envy, and teel not the itching
to inetigate mischief and* jealousy. So shall
Truth triumph and the Know-Nothing# be
confounded.
I3P* One day last week Thomas Harris, an
industrious Welshman who had for some
years been a citizen of this place, was acci
dentally thrown from a boat on whioh he was
engaged in crossing the river at Namiooke
and drowned before assistance could be ren
dered bim. His body was brought to this
placo for ir.termeut.
ty For several dajs past workmen have
been engaged in raising the will and ptbei
wiso improving the large buck building oc
cupied by Mr. Mensch's Store and owned
by the Messrs. Hartman at the corner ol
Main end Market Street*.
jy The Ledger announce* that John L
Dawson of Pennsylvania baa bten appointed
Clovemor of KM*** in the place of A. H. Ree
der removed. '
OT The Know-Nothings have been remo
vieg (oujgn to achats in Louisville,
. , BOOK NOTICES.
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cription and a bolder Revelation, of the
Mysterlis and Secrets 'el Ndnneries, than
? have ever before been submitted lo the
American public. Elegantly bound in
a cloth, I2mo. Price St. Dewitt fe Daven
pori, New York, Publishers,
s The publishers have kindly sent ns this
m work, and ws feel bound to give it sneh a
notice as shall serve theit interest and pro
mote its sale. We shall do ibis cheerfully,
fairly and honestly, with our best'hope that
. the book will " take." Everybody who he
, lieves or wishes to believe that Catholics aro
creatures with hoofs, horns and tails ought
t to buy a copy at once, and all such will be
' as much delighted with it as a young woman
* with a new baby. Every body who very
I much wants a new and improved edition of
> MARIA MONK will find this book just the thing
| to pnt him into conniption fits—of admira
r tion. And every Know-Nothing who wants i
- to tickle himself to death by indulging in his
' anti-Catholic sensibilities can be accommo
dated by sending on one dollar.
"Them's our sentiments," and that's what
we call a first rate notice. For further par
ticulars as lo how often the poor virgin was
racked, boiled, starved and buried by the
"prowling wolves" in the shupe of closely
shaven priests, until she escaped and was
married—see book passim.
FOB SALE I
We would like to raise somo money for a
trip to Niagara and to pay our paper-maker;
and therelore we shall offer for sale a few
judgments and accounts against subscribers
and advertisers who have failed to pay like
honest men. Tne first one is a judgment
against a certain Dr. D. E. Cole, formerly of
Manayunk, lately of Burlington, N. J, and
perhaps note of some other place. lie is the
chap who professes to enre everything in
general and consumption, bronchitis anfl dis
ease of theltver in particular, by moans of a
receipt obtained from a Nebraska Indian
Doctor which the public can have dog-cheap
from Dr. Cole for two dollars. That no per
son may be deceived as to the real value of
the judgment (the amount on its face not ma-
I terial) we will slate that the Doctor when ur
ged lo pay another honest debt abused us by
saying we were more of a gentleman thau
the other fellow because we had not urged
our claim. Of course we felt iosulted by such
a compliment fi urn such a source, and sent on
our accouul to be collected, so as lo improve
the Doctor's opinion of us. He bad previ
ously sent us a number of promises lo pay.—
We had almost forgitten the matter, when
last week the following letter reached us by
which we prove that we have a bona fide
judgmeat for sale.
BURLINGTON, New Jersey, )
July 26tb, 1855. )
MA. WEAVER —Sir;—As you directed, D.
E. Cole has been sued—after two adjourn
ments, judgment obtained, —execution taken
onl, —goods appraised—and after all, its no
use. The State law allows him.2oo dollars,
and the officer'says he has not 8100 in bis
house.
Just about as I expected. Any man who
. will do as he has done will cheat the prin
ter and devil to boot, whenever he can.
Total expense of costs, &c., Si 72
The only satisfaciion to be had oul of such
a 6camp is to advertise him.
Yours, &c.,
P. S. This is all 1 want of such jobs,—
about as soon take a case of Italic.
So wo sent on enough lo pay our friend
and the costs, snd we would much like to
sell the judgment for at least enough to in
demnify us. What's bid? Don't all crab
in at once.
We hope that by this time the Doctor's
opinion of our " honor" and "generosity" is
no better than that of the " Whig Lawyer."
When this one is gone, there will be a
" few more ol the same sort left;" but those
who intend to bid bad better do so soon a*
there is no probability of any new cases ari
sing at this establishment under our present
terms of requiring all persons oul of the coun •
ty to pay in advance.
Rot Ratified.
The Democrat still raves on because the
Standing Committee of this county took the
advice of prudent and true Democrats, and
like their brethren in Montour, Luzerne and
more than one half the state beside, called
no conventions this spring. Last fall and Ibe
fall before the Democrat was not satisfied
when the Committees did call conventions,
but went over to the Whig and Know-Noth
ing volunteers where it belongs. Of course
it is not to be expected that any thing which
the Democratic party can dot will satisfy it.
With the spirit o! the loafer in the old siory,
the editor determined that the Democrats
were wrong and should be defeated in 1853
and 1854 because they did call conventions,
and now he says they are wrong and shall
be thrashed because they did not call soon
-1 vent ion. Like the dog in the manger, he
' determines nobody shall eat if he can't. He
' will fight against Democratic nominations
' but not for them* He will fight for Know
j Nothings aud Whigs, but not against them.
j tIT "A Wmo LAWYER" in his organ of
last week feels hit becaose we incidentally
9 told how he aotsd as advertising borer for
the Democrat. He does not deny l)is inters
„ ferenca in our business, and If any perDMP
0 doubts it the Prothonotary tod his Dejiutv
. are witnesses to the 'act. We
0 the fact to show bow the tool was paMUH
e bim for doing his political jobs in the e&flH
.. al columns of the Democrat, and not with a
iS design to reproaob the Whig master for his
"smartness" in the crafly trick of injuring
our business, nor lo provoke him to
a " digest the venom of his spleen
i- Till it dts split him."
Therefore as we made no personal attack
on bim the public can have no interest In
his name. It is however right to say that
bis reason for feeding the Democrat was not
■ given at the lima we referred to, but previ
-4 oualy to Mr. Connor. When men presume
to talk of "generosity" and "gentlemanly
honor" who Will meddle in men's private
business to their injury Know-Nothings most
)- be getting plenty or " honorable" businen
scarce.
•
Correspondence of the "Star/'
From Philadelphia,
PHILADELPHIA, July 88tb, 18S6.—The Main
' Line was offered for sale, at the, Rsohnnge,
3 but there wah no bid. Either limes are too
i hard for the Pennsylvania Railroad Compa
• ny to raise the ®IOC,OOO down money, or that
Company still expeots to got it for less than
#7,500,000. The Governor and Col. Curtin
> were personally here !o see to the sale, whit h
• is now adjourned sinfdie.
i The first excursion to Niagara Falls, over
' the new route through Northern Penneylva
' hia and New Ydrk, is announced for the 23d,
' 24th, and 26th of Augut-t. The attaches of
; Messrs. Cornelius & Baker's chandelier man
-1 ufaclory are getting it up for the purpose of
affording the artisans connected with that es
tablishment an opportuniiy of witnessing the
great wondes.of Nature, and giving them
: some relaxation from their labors. Exten
sive arrangements are being made lor the
excursion, which will be accompanied by
an efficient baud of music. Formally it was
only the uppcr-4endom that could visit Ni
agara for pleasure, now faithful labor loads
the way.
In the political department there is noth
ing strange. The Know-Nolhings have nom
inated Mr. Kern lor ShcrifT, but it seems as
if he could hardly stay nominated. Mr. C.
J. Wolbert, one of the candidates in tho lodg
es, who was defeated by Mr. Kern, publish
es a long circular address to the Executive
Council ol the American purty, making eigh
teen specific charges against the fairness of
the election, whereby his competitor got the
advantage of him. According to Mr. W. the
officers in some of the Councils were per
sonal friends of candidate;, and other persons
were admitted to voie who did not belong to
the Order; thai in one of the Councils where
ninety-five votes were reported as having
been given for bim, he lias the names of one
hundred and twelve members of the Coun
cil who ure willing to be qualified that they
voted lor him on that occasion. He is a lit
tle verdant in asking them to be honest
enough to try the battle over.
As it is supposed there are still a few Whigs 1
in existence, even if the party is defunct, and
as their voles need looking after by-the Know
ftothiugs, they have flung out afewslool pi
geons to issue a call for a Whig Stale Con
vention to be held al Harrisburg on the 11th
of September. Wonder how many will be
in that Convention who voted fot Darsie last
fall.
Alderman Mitchell died la*l Thursday.—
He was one of the beat officers in the City,
and was universally respected.
Under the present Know-Nothing City Ad
ministration our City Treasury is ill effect
bankrupt, and School compell
ed to sell their school orders to the brokers
at a discount of from 10 to 15 per cent.
The ma-kets are becoming more reason
able. Flour can be had for #8 50 per barrel,
and wheat for #1 75 per bushel.
The United States Bank
* v
We, a few days ago, noticed tho fact that
tho trustees of the Bank ol the United States
will make a final dividend on the 20th of Sep
tember, when the coocern will cease in any
shape to exist. The Albany Atlas, alluding
to the matter says: It'has taken fourteen
years to wind up the concern ; and at the end
the stockholders lose all and the other creditors
get little. The bank was originally chartered
at a period of great financial depression and
distress; when the failure of State banks, af
ter the war, had deprived the people of a
currency. The constitutional objections to
its existence were lost sight of in the desire
to secure its advantages. Tho government
became a holder of the stock to tbe amount
of one-fifth of tbe capital; and it received the
deposits of public Customs. When the ques
tion ot its re-charter came up, the exigencies
which had called it imo existence had ceas
ed, and the objections to it subsisted. Tbe
old democrats, who never believed that suoh
an institution was embraced in the objects of
tbe Confederation, or was to be endured un
der the democratic interpretation of tbe Con
stitution, renewed their objections to its re
charter. General Jackson believed that all
the public service required conld be render
ed by an agency, more purely governmental,
and which would not interfere with or " reg
ulate" the monetary affairs of the people.—
The bank had assumed the functions of a
"regulator" of credits of the country, and as
sumed to hold a national jurisdiction over I
State banks, while its own administration was
based on the same vicious system which 1
made the local baiikd so often a delusion and
a nuisance. How Mr. Biddle undertook to
perpetuate Ins character by the purchase ol
presses and the bribery of politicians, is well
known. With as much folly as wickedness
be contended that the bank had a right to
expend tbe money of the institution in a war
fare and upon the government, its leading
stockholder. The panio, the distress com
mittee, the suspension, the'revolution, blood
less as yet,' the alleir.pl to control the cotton
matket, tbe immerse speculations of the bank
followed. The energy and wisdom of Jack
son and Van Buren were successlul; and tbe
monster was prostrated; though in its fall it
1 brought down State credit and cast a deep
stain, not yet eradicated, upon tbe Atner
' icsn name. But though thus defeated, it
j*' managed lo perpetuate its infamy by ngw
phase of corruption. Under the.pre
JjjgmMoring tbe common schools iti(UgM|
■HHSRitaI improvements of jtanstftfjflp
was
VHPHK*bpon of
' State, and after a
5 penditure of money among the
the two Houses. But this
corrupt others without being
1 There is a law that regulates
i of vice, and threatens it with
t men), having their source in mutukl ApffE
i Tbe old Mother of Abominations was'nMl
t to the bone. Patches end paint conld not
it conoeal the interne) ravages, aiyd after wad
- dling about a few years in bloated vice, she
s rolled ovpr and died. There were gay young
y politicians that haunted the bouse she livetl
e in. Where are they I What did they become 1
it The story haa a moral in it, which time kai
is not failed to engrave deeply on the history
of the country, where politicians may gatbet
future instruction. It ia that no accomala-,
lion of wealth, however great, can hold an
even oontest with a free people; that corrup
tion cannot reach the masses : and that poli
' clans who ally themselves in a contest on
the side of associated wealth and monopoly,
against the ideas of popular liberty, become
suspected by the people, and no talents or
n virtues can outweigh the burden ol this eus-
IJ picion.
Opinion of Judge Kane
' IN THE WHEELER SLAVE CASE.
;• UNITED STATES DISTRICT COUBT.—JQDG?
' Kane.—The two questions of contempt of
Court anil perjury In Fassmore Williamson,
" in not obeying the commands of the writ of
habeas corpus, and in making an alleged
false return thereto, was op for decision yes
-8 terday morning. Judge Kane delivered a
1 very learned and exceedingly able opinion ic
relation to the subject. .
3 The U. Sr A ex-rel. Wheeler vs. Patsmore
' Williamson —Sur Habeas Corpus, 27 July,
e 1855. —Colonel John H. Wheeler, of North
Carolina, theUuited States Minister to Nica
' rugua, was on board a steamboat, at one of
the Delaware wharves, on bis way from
YVashiogton, to embark at New York for hia
post of duty. Three staves, belonging to bim,
9 were setting at his side on the upper deck.
Just as tbe last signal belt was ringing,
Passmore Williamson came up to the parly—
declared to the slaves that they were lree—
and forcibly pressing Mr. Whoeler aside,
j urged them to go ashore. He was followed
by some dozen or twenty negroes, who by
muscular strength carried the slaves to the
adjoining pier; two of the slaves at least, if
not all three, struggling to release them
selves, and protesting their wish to remain
with (heir master; two of the negro mob in
the meantime grasping Col. Wheeler by the
collar, and threatening to cut his throat if he
made any resistance.
The slaves were borne along to a hackney
coacb that was in waiting, and were con
veyed to some place of ooncealment ; Mr.
Williamson following and urging forward the
mob,-and giving his name and address to
Colonel Wheeler, with the declaration that
he he held himself repsonsible towards him
for whatever might be his legal rights ; but
taking no personally active part in tne ab
duction after be had left the dock.
I allowed a writ®! Habeas Corpus at tbe
instance of Colonel Wheeler, and subse
quently an alius; and to this last, Mr. Will
iamson rnndo return, that the persons named
in the writ, " nor either of them; are not now,
net was at the time of issning the writ, or the
original writ, or at any other lime, in the
custody, power or possession of the respon
dent, nor by bim confiued or restrained:
Wherefore he cannot have the bodies," etc.
At the hearing I allowed the relator to trav
erse this return ; and several witnesses, who
were afked by him, testified to the facts as 1
have recited them. The District Attornev
upon this slate of facte, moved lor William
son's commitment, 1. for contempt in ma
king a false return, 2. to take bis trial for
perjnry.
Mr. Williamson then took the srand to
purge himself of contempt. He admitted the
facts substantially as in proof before; made it
plain that he had been an adviser of the pro
ject, and had given in his confederate sanction
throughout : He renewed his denial that he
bad control at any time over the movements
of the slaves, or knew their present wherea
bouts. Such is the case, as it was before me
in the bearing.
I cannot look upon this return otherwise
than as illusory—in legal phrase, as evasive,
if not false. It sets out that the alleged pris
oners are not now, and have not been since
the issue of the habeas corpus, in tbe custo
dy, power or possession of the respondent ;
and in so far, it uses legally appropriate lan
guage for such a return. But it goes further,
and by added words, gives an interpretation
to that language essentially variant from its
legal import.
It denies that the prisoners were within
power, custody or possession at any lims what•
ever. Now, the evidence of respectable, un
contradicted witnesses, and the admission ol
the respondent himself, eslab'ish the fact be
yond controversy, that tbe prisoners were at
one time within his power and control.—
He wan the person by whoso counsel the so
called rescue was devised- He gave the di
rections, and hastened to the pier to stimu
late and supervise tbeir execution. Ho was
tbe spokesman and first actor after arriving
i there. Of all the parties to tbe act of vio
lence, he was the only white man, the only
citizen, the only individual having recogniz
i ed political right, the only person whose so
\ cial training could certainly interpret either
I her own duties or the rights of others under
i the constitution of the land.
■ It would be futile, and worse, to argne,
. that be who has organized and guided, and
[ headed a mob, to effect the abduction and
. imprisonment of others—be in whose pres
. ence and by whose active influence the ab
) duction and imprisonment have been brought
E about— might excuse himself from responsi
- bilily by the assertion that it was not bis hand
3 that made the unlawiul assault, or that he
t never acted as a goaler. He who unite* with
> others to commit a crime share* with them
- all the legal liabilites that attend on its com
t mission. He chooses bis company, and adopts
r their aol*.
R'e law of all concerted
tut applies with pecu
n in which redress and
e sought through the
This, the grifel reme
liberty is vindicated
to language in the re
r that can mask a sub
interests of life, per
peace, social repose,
of that is worth liv
this principle. The
would lose more than
H Bait tneir value, and courts of justice become
|. impotent for protection, if the writ of habeas
e coiptis could not .compel tbe truth, full, direct,
g and unequivocal, in auswer to ita msodetf
d If will not do to say to tbe man, wfcoid
il. wife or whose daughter has been sbducted :
is " I did not abduct her ; die is not in my pos-
V session J 1 do not detain her, inasmuch as
>r the assault was made by the band of tny
l—ftl
- subordinate, and I have forborne to ask where
i they propose consnmmatiog the wrong. 1 "
It is clear, then, as it seems to us, that in'
- legal acceptance the palrties whom this writ
r called on Mir. Williamson to produce, were
, at one time within bis power aßd .control J
i and his answer, so far a* ft relates ■to his
r power over tbem, makes no distinotion be
■ tween that time and [he present. I cannot
give l a different interpretation to his language
from that which he has practically given him
self, and canDOl regard bim as denying his
power over the prisoner now, when ha does
i not aver that he has lost tbe power which he
' formerly bad.
He has thus refused, or a: least be has fail
' led, to answer to tbe command of the law.—
' He bas chosen to decide for himself upon tho
lawfulness as well as the moral propriety of
his act; and to wi.'bhoM • the ascertainment
and vindication of the rights of others from
that same forum of arbitrament on which all
his own rights repose. JU a word, he has
put himself in contempt of the' process of this
Court and challenges its action.
That action can have no alternative form-
It is one 100 clearly defined by ancient and
honorable precedent, too indispensable to
tbe administration of social jnstice and the
protection of human right, and too potential
ly invoked by the special exigency of the
case now before tbe Court to excuse even a
doubt of my duly or an apology for its im
mediate performance.
The cause was submitted to me by the
learned counsel for tbe respondent, without
argument, and I have, Iherelore, found my
self at some loss to understand the grounds
on which, if there be any such, tbey would
claim the discharge of their client. Only one
bas occurred to me as, pethaps, wilbin bis
view ; and on this I think it right to express
my opinion. I wilt frankly reconsider it how
ever, if uny future aspect of the case shall
iuvite the review.
It is this: that the persons named in this
writ as detained by the respondent, were not
legally slaves, inasmuch as they were within
the territory ol Pennsylvania when they were
abducted.
Waiving the inquiry, whether for the pur
poses of this question they were within the
territorial jurisdiction of Pennsylvania while
passing irom one State to another upon the
navigable waters of tbe United States—a
point on which my first impressions are ad
verse to the argument—l hare to say ;
1. I know of no statute, either of the Uni
ted States, or of Pennsylvania, or of New
Jersey, the only other State that has a qualifi
ed jurisdiclionsoverthis part of the Delaware,
that authorizes the forcible abduction of any
person or thing whatsoever, without claim of
property, unless in aid of legal process.
2. That 1 know ol no stutute of Pennsylva
nia, which afiec'.s to divest the rights of prop,
erty of a citizen of North Carolina, acquired
and asserted under the laws of that State, be
cause he has found it needful or convenient
to pass through the territory of Pennsylvania.
3. That 1 am not aware (hat any such stat
ute, if such an one were shown, could bo
recognized as valid in a Court of the United
States.
4. That it Beems to me altogether unim
portant whether they were slaves or not. It
would be the mockery of philanthrophy to
assert, that, because men bad become tree,
they might therefore bo forcibly abducted.
I have said nothing of tbe motives by
which the respondent has been governed. I
have nothing to do with them ; they may
give him support and comfort before an in
finitely high tribunal; Ido not impugn tbem
here.
Nor do I allude on the other hand to those
special claims upon our hospitable courtesy,
which the diplomatic character of Mr. Whee
ler might seem to assert for him. I am doubt
ful, whether the Acts of Congress give to him
and his retinue and his properly that protec*
tion as a representative of Ibe sovereignty of
the United Slates, which they concede to all
sovereignties besides. Whether, under tbe
general law of nntions, he could not ask a
broader privilege than some judicial prece
dents might seem to admit, is not necessarily
involved in the cause before me.
It is enough thatl find, as the case stands
now, tbe plain and simple grouoJsof adjudi
cation, that Mr. Williamson has not returned
truthfully and fully to the writ of habenacor
pus. Ho must, therefore, stand committed
for a contempt of tbe legal process of the
Court.
As to the second motion of the District At
torney, that which looks to a committal for
perjury, I withhold an expression in regard
to it. It is unncccssray, because Mr. Will
iamson being under arrest, he may be charg
ed a' any lime by the Grand Jury ; and I ap
prehend that there may be doubts whether
the affidavit should not be regardeJ as exlta
judicial and voluntary.
Let Mr. Williamson, the respondent, be
committed to tbe custody of tbe Marshal
without bail or main prize, as for a contempt
of tbe Court in refusing to answer to the writ
of habeas corpus, heretofore awarded against
him at tbe relation of Mr. Wheeler.
U. S. District Attorney Vandyke for Mr.
Wheeler, and E. Hopper and C. Gilpin foi
defendant.
District Attorney asked for warrant of
commitment under theseal.ofConrt. Grant
ed.
1 Mr. Gilpin, for the defendant, asked leave
to amend the return so as to conform to the
' views of this Court.
Judge Kano said he would give the defend
' ant a full hearing upon any motion his conn
' sal should oboose to present. .
The Court then took a recess.
1 After the decision by the Court, United
' Slates Marshal Wynkoop took the prisoner
' into custody, and conveyed hira to Moya
mensing Prison, in a carriage, and handed
i bim over to the keepers. A number of Wil
- liamson'a friends requested the Marshal to
* put the prisoner into the oustody of one of
i bis deputies, and thus avoid sending bim to
> prison, but tbe Marshal declined, by reply>
ing that he would comply sirioily with the
i mandate of tho Court.
. I3T NORTHUMBERLAND.— J. M. Auten and
J. H. Zimmerman are named in ibe Demo
' crat for the next Legislature.
i t3T The population of Canada ia naar threo
r millions,
Arrival of the Atlantic.
, ONE WEEK~CVTER~FROM EUROPE.
NEW YORK, July 25, 9} P. M.—The Steam
skip Atlantic, from Liverpool, arrived this
evening about 9 o'clock, bringing dates to
Saturday, (be I4th iust.
The Atlantic left Liverpool at noon on the
14th. A despatch received from London at
the moment of her departure, elated that
Lord John Russell had tendered his resig
nation of the position he held in the Minis
try.
There is nothing of special importance from
the seat of war. '
A Ministerial crisis had taken place in
England, caused by Lord John Russell's
shuffling explanation of bis cenduot at Vi
enna.
On the 16th, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was
to move that a Ministry containing Lord John
Russell is unworthy die confidence of the pub
lic.
Sebastopol bas been subjected to two days'
heavy fire without effect. The besiegers
were erecting immense works against the
Malakoff tower and Redan batterier. Jhe
besieged were erecting equally formidable
works behind these defences.
The British parliament waa to bepjorogued
on the iOth ol August.
Previously to Lord John Russell's resigna
tion, it waa reported that if he did tasign he
would take '.he Uiey aeclion of the Cabinet
with him, and then Lord Palmerston would
frill the places with more decided men out of
the liberal ranks, and aiso that Lord Derby
was coming with another Coalition Cabi
net.
The accounta relative to the crops in all
parts of England, are very favorable.
The visit of Queen Victoria to the city of
Paris, bas beett definitely fixed for the 7lh of
August.
Austria. m .
Anew Austrian circular is spoken of. It
is intended as Count Bud's reply to the in
nuendoes put forth by the Emperor Nupole
or., and will defend the conduct of Austria
towards the Western Powers.
two Weeks Later from Culilorulo.
The Democragc State Convention lias nom
inated Governor Bigler and Lieut. Gov. Purdy
for re-election.
The Democratic State Convention of Cali
fotnia adopted a platform resembling the
last Baltimore platform, with an additional
resolution denouncing the Know-Nothings.
The Indians on the Klamatz river ore com
mitting murders and ravages upon the whites.
A party of 18 whites are reported to have
been killed.
The Fremont Land case is to be taken
baok to the Supreme Court, on a bill of ex
ceptions.
The Oregon Legislature is democratic
throughout.
The majority of the Hon. Joseph Lane, ns
delegate to Congress is 2200
CtT Potatoes appear to be so abundant
that the price has come down in some parts
of the country very rapidly and very consid
erably. In Lancaster they are selling at 75
cents, tho Daily of that place sajs, and con
siderable contracts for future delivery havu
been made at 50 cents per bushel. In Syra
cuse, N. Y. ; contracts have been made for fu
ture delivery at fifteen cents a bushel. This
is an extraordinary decline from $2 75 and
83 a bushel, which they sold at in the winter.
These statements are made in the newspa
pers of those places, and are not contradict
ed. We suppose, therefore, they are strictly
| true.
CROPS IN EUROPE. —The prospects of an
abundant harvest aro promising iu England
and France, as well as in this country. The
papers speak very highly of the enormous
yield. ' Potatoes are said to be in great abun
dance in England.
ry It that a farmer in Virgiula
named Allen, will raiso 50,000 bushels of
wheat this season.
Ey Bennett, the editor of the N. Y. Her
ald, has gone to Europe.
HOI.LOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS, an in
fallible Remedy lor Blotches on the Skin.—
Edgar Mortimer, aged 25, of Third street.
Philadelphia, was for five years a severe suf
ferer with blotches on the skin, the whole of
his face, neck, arms, and hands, being dis
figured with them like small pox ; he consul
ted several very clever medical men, who
told him that it was the predicating symp
toms of some disease, which alarmed him
exceedingly; however, he took HollowAy'n
Pills immediately, and rubbed the Ointment
on the parts affected, and in two weeks tho
whole of the blotches disappeared, and his
health was considerably improved. These
remedies will euro the most deeply seated
old wounds and uloers, even of twenty years
standing.
IMPOBTANT TO FEMALES —Dr. CIIEESEMANS'
PILLS. —The combinations of ingredients fn
these Pills, is the result of a long and ex
tensive prictice; they are mild in their oper
ation, and certain in restoring natueo to its
proper channel. In every inatance have the
Pilla proved auccesaful. The Pilla invaria
bly open those obstructions to which females
are liable, end bring nature into its proper
abaimel, whereby haalh is restored, and tho
Kale and deadly countenance changed to a
eellh; one, No female can enjoy good
health unless she is egulai ; and whenever
an obstruction lakes place, whether from ex
posure, cold, or any other eauae, the goneral
health immediately begina to decline, and the
want of such a remedy baa been the ctuae of
so many consumptions among young female.
To ladica whose bcullh will not permit an in
'crcase of their family, these Pills will prove
a valuable o< quisitiori, as tbey will prevtnt
pregnancy. Headache, pain in the aide,pal
pitation of the heart, loathing of food, ahd
disturbed sleen do most alwavs arise from the
interruption of nature; and whenever that ia
the case, the I'ilta will invariably remedy all
these evils,* Nor are they leas efficacious in
the core of Jjcucorrhoeo, commonly called the
" Whites," These Pilla should Bever be ta.
ken during pregnancy, as they would bo eure
to cause a mtacarrigae. Waranted to be purelv
Vegetable, and free from, any thing injurious to
life or health. Foil and explicit directions
accompany each box.
These Pills are put up in square flat boxes.
Porons residing where there are no agency
establiebe.l, by enclosing One Dollar in a let
ter postpai d to Dr. C. L. Cheescman, No. 867
Blocker street, New York City, can have them
sent to theit respective addresses by return of
mail.
\ MT)I 11 11 " 1 .I_JHT
SBSBI&a
** —■ ; -v
In Berwick, on Sunday, July 22J, Mr. Jo
aEW Eca, in the TBtb year of bis age.
i In the borough of Muncy, on Snnday the
15ib instant, at the residence of her son-in
law, Mr. Joseph Stanler, Mr*. MARGARET M.
RUSSEL, relict of Kerr Russel, Esq., of Nor
-5 thum her land County, aged 66 years and 2
I months.
t The deceased was a daughter of Hugh
• Montgomery, Esq., a native of Dauphin co:
. aud long a resident of NortU'd oo , leaving a
large and respectable family and circle of
i friends and relations to mourn her lose.
Irf Bloomsburg, on last Saturday evening#
i DANIEL SNYDER, aged about 72 year*.
i Another strong link in the chain of broth
■ erbood is torn out, and another of lhe vener
ble fathers of the town has gone to bis resl its
i his long home. He wts a pioneer in thi*
village when it was rude and rough and wild,
in his years of early manhood.' Me grew in
to manhood with it, and gave all the best
years of his life to make Iris honest toil smile
from the gladdening new homes as tbey
sprang tip; until he could see his hand of
usefulness in all around him, and he beoamn
to love the town as one of his own children.
And so his honest heart guided his toil-worn,
open hand to minister its true and watm Ger
man hospitality to many friends through
long life surrounded with all the enjoyments
that make life worth living Our; until after a
full thiee-scote and ton he was gathered, lika
one of bis own ripe sheaves, ia the harvest
of Death.
His integrity of character gave him a strong
bold upon the hearts of the many who came
to know him rightly. He was not ambitious,
except it was to make the earth more beau
tiful and more bountiful for his having lived
upon it. Ho accepted a seat in the Slate Le
gislature, but it was not from a lust for office
or for profit. He was happier far in his home,
and among his honest yeoman neighbors.
He was u devoted member and pillar of
the German Reformed Church, and reared
Ins family like a Christian patriarch. Hia
worship was not ostentatious, but those who
knew him best can testify that it Was zeal
ous and sincere. At his funeral it was by
ali seen and felt that many had lost a Iriend,
and R good man had (lied.
ES^< OLL!R^^UEA ! M^^^ ! EN !SS5^
COLLECTOR'S OFFICE, J
beach Haven, June 30, '65. j
R. VV. WEAVER, ESQ.:
i- Dear Sir, —The amount of
Toll collected at this Office during the month
of' June 1855, is 830,§03 49
Amount per lust report, 40,143 29
Whole amount since Ist Tier, last 70.948 78
" " same period last year 68,749" 14
Increaso " " this year 52,21)0 64
Respcctlully yours,
PETER ENf, Collector.
Trusses! Trasses! Trasses!
0. H. NEEDLES,
TRUSS AND BRACE ESTABLISHMENT,
e. W. COR. OF 12111 AD RACE STREETS,
PHILADELPHIA,
IMPORTER of fine French
es, combining extreme lightness,
ease and durability with correct construction.
Hernial or ruptured patients can be suited
by remitting amounts, as below;— Sending
number of inches round die hips, and stat
ing side affected. *
Cost of Single Truss, S2, 83, sl, 85.
Double, 85,56, 88, and 10.
Instructions as to wear, and how to effeol
a cure, when possible, sent with the Trass.
Also for ssle, in great variety, Dr. Run
ning's Improved Patent Body Bruce, for the
eure of Prolapsus Uteri; Spinal Props and
Supports, Patent Shoulder Braces, Chest ex
panders and Erector Braces, adapted to all
with rtoop shoulders and weak lungs; English,
Elastic Abdominal Belts, Suspensories, Syr
inges—male and female.
Ladies-.rooms, with lady attendants.
August 2, 1855.
OPi2£2f£2i
Anderson's Academy
OF
DRAWING AND PAINTING,
At the "Exchange Building
"Any person who can learn to write can learn
to draw."
THE Ludies and Gentlemen of this place
are invited to call and ir.specl the Collection
orPaintings, now on view, most of which ato
original Sketches from Nature.
Many persons labor nnder the idea that a
talent for drawing is necessary. This is
wrong, and therefore Mr. A. invites alt who
think so to call at his rooms, and he will
prove to them the fallacy of snch an opinion
by teaching the pupils to execute, in a lew
lessons, what cannot be accomplished by
any other system. Each pupil guarantied to
Draw and Paint from Nature, and if unsuc
cessful, no charge will be made.
Gentlemen engaged through the day, can
receive instruction at night.
But one class will be taught in this place.
Bloomsburg, July 26, 1855.
Trial List for September Term 1850.
1. Bartholomew Huber, vs. Peter Billmyer
et. al.
2. Samuel Rosell vs. George Dodson.
3. Daniel ShOltz Ex's. vs. Daniel R. bhullz
et. al.
4. Adam Kline et. at vs. C. F. Mann et; al.
5. Melick'a Com. vs. S. F. Deadly et.
6. Daniel Hower vs. Jonas Borninger.
7. Joseph Sharpies* vs. Jamison Harvey.
8. A. B. Milliard vs. Daniel Sponenberger.
9. Enoch Howell vs. Isaiah shuman.
10- Jobnalhau J. Hogeland ts. Israel Ashlon.
11. Susannah Hall vs. Archibald Henry.
12. William Edgar el. al. vs. Alexander Ed
gar.
13. John Donnelly el. al. vs. John Smith.
14. Wra. B. Petennan vs. George Painter
et. al.
16. John L. Flick vs. Samuel Brttqlor.
16. Joseph Hampton vs. Samuel Henry.
17. Rev. Isaiah Bah! vs. John Workheiser
18. Hugh Thompson vs. Augustus B. Pea rue
•t. nL
19. Wm. M'Kelvy et. al. vs. Jonathan Mus
leller.
20. A. B. Pearcevs Hugh Thompson.
21 WM. M'Kelvy et. al. vs Jonathan Model
ler.
Adaini strator's Notices
NOTICE is hereby given that letters of
administration upon the estate of Jacob
Rohrbach, late of Franklin township, Col.
county, decerned, hare been granted to the
undersigned residing in Senbury, Northum
berland oounty. All persons indebted to tho
estate are requested to make payment with
out delay, and those having accounts to pre
sent them for settlement to
JACOB F. ROHRBACH,
Administrator.
i Bloomsburg, July 20, 1855.—0 m.