STAR OF THE NORTH.
*. W. WEAVER, EDITOR.
Blooms burg, Thursday, Jan. 24. 1850.
WHAT OF THK TAKIFFT
In defining his position in Congress lately,
Mr. Fuller said, among other things, "alllhat
I now ask upon Ihe subject oj the tariff is to
It'let alone."' Soil would seem the
•craliarevenue sctoflß-16 isnotsuch a wicked
invention of Beelzebub af'erall the noise that
was made by the bar room politician abanl
the "black British tariff" and tho awful "ru
in" of the country. In truth it has, like every
other Democratic measure, sofully vindicated
its justice and merit, that the opponents of
Democracy are glnd to let it alone.
Jast so it is with what a year ago the ene
mies of Democracy called Ihe " Nebraska
iniquity," and denounced as ' infamous."—
They ara driven to own now lhat they have
nothing betier to offer, and are quite willing
to let it alone.
These men easily find fault with others,
but now that ihey have a majority in the
House of Congerss they must confess to their
shame that they huve no improvements lo
offer upon the woik of the Democratic ad
ministration ; and since they have a few
.mors offices they only ak lo be ' let alone."
JUaln Teachers' Institute.
The following is the work assigned to tho
Teachers ol the Main township Teachers' In
stitute for its session on next Saturday. We
repest it, because the list was not full in our
veport last week:
Dr. Evans, to illustrate his method of teach
ing Rhetoric.
Mr. Kabler, do Alphabet.
Mr. West, do Geography.
Mr. Baker, do Penmanship.
Mr. Philips, do Menial Arithmetic.
Mr. Krickbaum, Essay on method ol govern
ing school.
Mrs' Evnns, Essay on Female Education.
Question for Discussion: —Shall schools be
governed entirely by moral suasion ?
The following was among the resolutions
adopted at the last session :
Resolved, That the thanks of Ihe Institute
ere due, and are hereby tendered lo our
County Superintendent lor his attendance,
and his able and encouraging remarks, which
have gone home to tho minds, of both teach
er and citizen, and which, like bread cast up
.on the .water, will be gathered again.
THE GIFT KNTEItriIISE.
UNANGST'S Gift Enterprise was declared off
on last week, so far as money had been paid
over by agents for tickets. The larger pri
zes of houses ant! lots were left out of the
list. 'Some watches we believe are the lar
gest prizes- which fell lo the lot ol any person
in this place. None of the prizes have yet
been harrded over, aj Mr. Unanget has left
for Northampton, Philadelphia or some oiher
place to -bring on the jewelry and other prop
• erly declared ofi as prizes.
NEW LINK OF TELEGRAPH.—A new line of
iflagrapU t in yourae of <ron<MvtMlion lo
nect with the one extending from Port din
ton to Philadelphia. The wires are alrea ly
up and ill operation as far north as Danville,
and the posts set to within about twenty
miles of this place. The company expect to
have it finished by the Ist ol March. It tuns
along the route of the Catuwissa, Williams
port and Erie railroad, and when completed
will prove a great convenience and safety lo
to travelers over thai road.
SENATOR RIOLER.—We are informed that a
number of Ihe principal stockholders and
■other interested in the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad, in view of the election of U. S.
Senate of President Bigler, waited upon him
and expressed their desire that the Company
should not thereby lose his seiviees. He
replied lhat he would endeavor lo continue
-the perfnrinance of his ruilroad duties as
iPresident, be-towing upon i! all the time not
'required by Ihe public business at Washing
ton.
DEATH OF COI.. DOYLE.—A letter from
Count it Bluff announces the death of Colo
nel Doyle, the United Stales Marshal for No
braska. Ho accidentally fell a few days
Since, and was so severely injured thai
lie lived only about half an hour. Col. Doyle
was a young man of much promise, and his
sudden death will prove a source of much
sorrow lo his family and friends. He was
.from South Carolina.
W The Foreign News by the America is
not particularly iinporipnt. One of the ru
mors of the dny is that Louie Napoleon is
anxious for peace, so anxious that he will, in
order to accomplish his wisho.',- even risk a
rupture with England. But this se'ems im
probable, and yet bis career thus far has
been so bold aud unscrupulous, that surprise
would scarcely be expressed at any new
act o' hit-however desperate or daring.
I3T We have been pleased to receive the
Hew York Observer in an enlarged form, so
that it is now Ike largest newspaper in the
world, lis size is 52 inches by 39, and its
type surface 3360 square inches in each
number. But its merit consists in the qual
ity of its matter-as much as in the quantity.
£7* The Lvzcrtte Union has again chang
ed hands. Mr. H. Boseo retires from the
-editorial management, and is succeeded by-
Edward S. Niebell and Charles Waelder. Mr.
Niebeil is an intelligent, enthusiastic Demo
crat, and quiteeffieient in the encountsr with
Know-Nothingisra.
BOUNTY LAUD WARRANTS.—Tho total enra- j
ber of applications for bounty lands at the
Pension Office, to Dee. 31st, 1855, was 232.-
£00; and the number uliowqd or granted
77,700, out uf 186,524 which had been ex-,
•mined.
HP* The citizens of Danville determine to
have their town lit up with gas, snd are or
ganizing a Stock Company for that purpose.
BP" An educational meeting was .held at
Washingtonville, Montour county, on last
Tuesday evening.
An Eluqacnt Tribute to Jnclcson.
In a speech recently delivered by Col. Ed
ward Picked, Jr., in referenoe to the Demo
cratic victory in Tennessee, l:e said :
"It was well for the memory of tbe immor
tal sage of tho Hermitage, that the bigoted
crusade against foreigners should receivceuch
a rebuke from the people of the State beneath
whose soil his mortal remains repose. In
every drop of his blood, an
Irishman. His father was one of the Ifish
patriots whose brow turned pale with indig
nation at llu oppressions and insults offered
to his native land. Ilis mother's cheeks were
fanned by the soil breezes that blew over the
blue bay of Dublin, and wreathed in tbe ro
ses that grew on the green sod of Erin. But
if, as the hero of New Orleans was ascend
ing the steps of ihe capitol to take the oatli
of fealty to tlio Constiiuiion of the United
Siatss, a foul whisper had reached his ears
lhat llis President elect was an Irishman, and
therelo'e an arili-Arnericaii, one hand would
have been laid on his breast, and the other
would have grasped his sword, and he would
have said, 'yes, in every drop of my blood
'and every nerve of rn> arm, I am an Irish
man; but here at last is an Ameiican bean,
that, le it beats, will love the Constitution
and the liberality it guarantees, and here is
an Ameiican sword that aha' 1 , be ready tode
•fend lhat liberty till .this arm is paUiask in
death.'"
Amrrlcaus Must Knlc America I
If one not acquainted with the tricks anil
falsifications ol the Kr.ow-Ncthings, should i
hear their war-cry of "Americans must rule ;
America," rays ihe Washington Union, he :
would have strange feelings. Lei us exam- j
itie into this empty brag, and so expose a 1
new inconsistency of the Know-Noihtngs.— !
Congress, in vinue of our constitution, line j
Ihe right of legislating, and lie who legislates I
t: rule>!" The Senate consists of 62 members, I
and the House of Representatives of 234. i
All of these are natives of this country ; not j
a single one is of foreign birth; yet the Know- !
Nothing cry is, "Americans must rule Amer
ica !" Instead of the foreign-born citizens
of our country exerting a political power
equal lo their specific power, Ihey are in this
respect, not represented in our national legis
lature at all. Our total population amounts,
at present to übout 27,000,000, of which
neatly 5,000.000 (exclusive of their children
botr. in this country) are foreign lorn. If
these five millions should be represented in
Congress on an equal fooling with the native
born, of the Senators fourteen, and of the ;
234 members of the House fifty-three should j
be foreign born. Yet the Know-Nothings, in ;
spite nf all these facts, persist in proclaiming ,
their hypocritical doctrine, "Americans must
rule-America 1"
How hlmh Ought Scholars to Read at a Les
son?—We are sometimes asked th's ques-[
tion, and we think it an important one. "Not 1
how much, but how well,' 1 should be the |
motto of every Teach#!. Often one para- 1
graph is enough for a lesßon. Supposo this
sentence lesson :
we ladt abouf birds?" It would
be far belter for the Teacher lo insist upon
the rising inflection opqp leasts and the fall
ing upon birds, and continue lo practice Ihe
class until all can read it correctly, inan lo
read pages without it. When that sentence
is read correctly, a point has been made—a
principle developed. This is true of all read
ing in school. Too much is generally read,
unless be'ter.
What is irna with regard lo reeding, is
likewise true of spelling. Too much of it
is done. Every wort/ missed should be
learned before it is left for another. How
often is (his neglected. The most of out lit
tle scholars are not able to master more than
one difficult word at a lesson, so as to re
member it. If but one word is permanently
learned at a lesson, progress has been made.
A letter from London says that most of
the French Ministeis expect that Russia will
j accept of the terms of peace proposed, while
a majority of the British Ministers think <Mh
erwise. The Russian paper published at
Brussels, concludes an article with (his lan
guage:—"As to an ultimatum having been
tendered by Austria, there is nothing in ihe
recent acts of that power to induce us to be
lieve that she is disposed to show hetself
more vigorous towards Russia titan she has
been hitherto lint if it were a well ostab
! lished fact that Auslria had sent to Si. Pe
tersburg such a message as is ascribed to
her, then, certainly, we should be farther
than over from peace, ff, since the confer
' ences, Austria has changed her opinion as to ;
Ihe terms of peace which Russia might sign,
she, however, retains her opinion as lo those
which it would be disgraceful and impossi
ble for her lo accept."
IIOUNTY I. A NO LAW.
The LAW of March 3d, 1855, granting
bounty land for services in ihe hue war, re
quires ameni!me. n ! to a particular that does
great injustice io quf.'c a numerous portion
of our utlizeus, wlio at"" justly entitled lo
bounty land. The act ol 1850 allowed, in
tlie absence of record evids.nce, Ibat parol
proof might be made lo establish 'he claim
of the applicant. The act of 1855 inquires
record evicence in all such cases. This is
all wrong. Cases have come under our own
observation, where one third of the compa
ny, or all who wcro living, were willing lo
testify to tho services of individuals, who are
deprived from obtaining their bounty land,
because their names do not happen lo be on
the rolls at Washington We trust that our
able and efficient Senator, Hon. Richard
Brodhead, who was mainly irtalrumenlal
in the passage of the late act, will en
deavor to procure a supplemental act, au
thorising and requiring the Commissioner
of Pensions to receive parol evidence in
such cases.
CT The Hon. Jefferson Davis, Secretary
of War, has bean nominated for U. S. Sen
ator by the Democrats of the Mississippi
Legislature, on the first ballot, by 12 major
ity.
17* The ice on the Lehigh was not ao
I thick iu fifty years aa it ia this winter.
Legislating lor ltullroad Security.
Mr. Trice has introduced into the State
Senßte a bill tor the security of railroad tiav
eling, which defines duties, fixes liabilities,
and renders that certain in statute law which
now depends upon legal and
decisions. The bill requires that the bag
guile and freight cars shall invariably be
placed in front of the passenger cars; steam
tyiisiles to sound on alarm at eighty rods
from any crossing of the high way at the
same level; speed to be reduced on ap
proaching a draw ; the running time to be so
regulated that no two trains moving in oppo
site directions shall be on the same track at
the same time, without a switch and siding
between them, unless the train that is out of
time is preceded by an agent on foot, eighty
rods in advance, with signal; when fcr.y
train is stopped when another is expected, a
signal is to be sent eighty reds in the proper
direction. In enclosed, or fenced parts of the
country, cattle guards to be constructed at
every commencement and termination of
such enclosure. When a rail is raken up
for repairs, a signal is to he placed at eighty
rods distant each way. It is made a misda
, meauor for any crossing a railroad with a
horse or vehicle, or driving any animal on it
when n locomotive is approaching within
fotty rods of such intersection. It is ulso
made a misdemeanor with ninety days' im
prisonment, for a railroad conductor to get
intoxicated. SSOOO is the greatest amount
which may be recovered of a railroad for
j any person's death through its negligence.—
| No recovery of damages wheu the person is
| injured acting contrary to the printed regula
| lions of the company. The punishment for
, injury through the negligence of any eta
j ployee of the road is twelve months' im
j prisoument. )f death ensue, the punishment
is the same as manslaughter, l'ersons who
j put obstructions on railroads, whereby death
ensues, shall be iried for murder. If injury
| is caused, the punishment is ten years' iin
i prisoument. The bill appears to be a fair
| one, sufficiently guarded for pnblic protee
-1 lion, and not oppressive to railroad compa
nies.
No (treat Friend to thu flutters.
We saw a hat last week on the head of one
of our subscribers who called at our office,
that ho had worn for Ihe last forty years. Of
course he did not wear if every day, but kept
it for Sunday tee and wore it occasionally
on holidays. It was 6tiil a good hat and look
ed as though it would last forty years more.
The owner assured that the changes of style
made it a fashionable hat every five or six
years. We mention this little circumslanco
to show what can be done by economy and
how dearly most of us pay for the privi
lege of ' keeping in the fashion." With a
little cure this man has made a single hut last
rnanv years, and it has answered his every
purpose. We have often made the acquaint
ance of sons of v. farmers who could
make a Sunday co,. t , t st them ten or twelve
year?. Such habits of economy were char
acteristic of the German Farmers, but they
too an fast giving way, and wq see
and daughters of Ihe present generation grad
ually becoming more "fashionable." The
boys are not content to follow in the footsteps
of their fathers, but drive their horses, wear
Shanghai coals, and even sport a mustache,
while the girls seem entirely to have forgot
ten the good example set thern by their
mothers. They have learned to know that
costly fans are handsome, that the fashions
of the bonnets change four times a year, and
that coming to town in a handsome now bug
gy or an expensive sleigh, is more respecta
ble than riding in an old-fashioned sleigh
with a tulip painted on tho back, or a wood
sled. W3 lemember the time when the
country girls who visited town on Battalion
day carried their shoes and stockings in their
hands until they approached the town, when
jhey tvjjiuldeft clown by the road side and
pull them 011; bnt those days have passed
forever. We fear very few boys of ihe pres
ent thy will make a single hat last forty years.
—Easton Argus.
Finn! Finn!!—On Friday evening last,
übout 11 o'clock, our town was aroused by
the cry of fire, which broke out in Lewis
Lang's store next door to tlio Montour Court
House. The storehouse and dwelling house 1
of Mr. L. burnt up. The Court House took j
tire at the end next the burning building,
and was considerably damaged, but by the
gallant exertions of our citizens, tho build
ing and public records were all saved. The
Court House was insured, and Mr. Lang had
an insurance wo understand, of §IOOO on
his store and buildings.
Another fire occurred in our Borough on
Wednesday morning last,at 6 o'clock, which
burnt up entirely the large lan house of Berry
Deen, near the river, destroying several hun
dred dollars worlh of leather,and other prop
erly, beside the building. No insurance. It
fortunately happened that both of the fires
occurred when thero was no wind, and when
the buildings were covered with snow.
Danville Intelligencer.
How TO ACCOMPLISH IT.—Can you fall in
love? Do you know how ? Were you ever
in love at all? Never mind blushing I
Would you like to make somebody love you?
Of course. Thai's understood. Well, it cati
be uVnc, and very easily I Yes—no matter
how yo" "lay be the lady or gen
tleman, you make his or her heart turn
to you like the sui.'fiower to the sun, and liv
ing only in the light of .V ou ( affection. But
how ? Just read that mysterious work, ad
vertised in another column of our paper to
day, by Professor Rondout, ot New York,
called "The Bliss of Marriage." He gives
you the whole secret.
TICK ICE BUSINESS—The excessive cold of
tho last eight or ten days has made ice of the
most solid and compact kind, and our deal
ers in the article us well as those owning
ice-houses, have been busy at work putting
up a good supply.
EFFECTS OF TUB WAR IN ENGLAND The
Manchester Examiner, an able English pa
per, says that the increase of pauperism in
Manchester has been nearly fifty per cent, in
1859, above the number in 1854.
Fiom the Potlsvitlc Gaeilte.
Combiuatloo to Iteducc the Iron Duty.
A Washington Correspondent of the New
York Tribune says, "it is ascertained that a
formidable Combination of importers of iron
in New Yo|k, and manufacturers in lingland,
has been organized, looking to u demonstra
tion upon (jongress for the repeal of the du
ty on or failing in
that of a law bound
ing it for five years, with a retrospective fea
ture so as to include corporations which have
beeu lobbying here for the last two years."
That such an effect will be taade is almost
certain, and looking at the probability of such
a scheme, in what estimation must we hold
the representatives in Congress from this State
who vote for, and our presses that advocate
the election of Banks, a known free trade pol
itician, to the Speakership? Do Ihoy wish
to give the sway over the House in the hands
of that faction, or are they so wedded to, and
so determined to carry out the proscriptive
spirit of Know Nothingism, that they will do
it even at the sacrifice of the vital interest of
the Commonwealth 1 Should they succeed
in electing Banks, these aro questions that
will be answered through the ballot-box next
autumn, and they who baiteroff the Coal and
Iron interest of the State to secure the action
of Congressbotiile to the Catholics, will hear
the curses orflftnl'ragoil and indignant pub
lic.
This then, to track with the
notions of the Tribune, throws in some twad
dle about the tariff of 1846 as follows:
"This organization assimilates in charac
ter to that which appeared when the tarifl of
1846 was proposed, and is understood to be
supplied witli the same 'material aid' which
was said to have enlightened the wisdom
and influenced the votes ol members of Con
gress on that memorable occasion. Tnis
blow at our industry would be disastrous to
those interests which most require to bo fos
teted, anil it remains to be seen whether an
open and barefaced attempt to procure spe
cial legislation for British manufacturers can
be carried through anAmericnn Congress by
the assistance of British gold."
This foolish and exploded humbug about
"British gold" in ytipeclion with the tariff
of' 42, and for the honor of
the inventors of the story, it should be allow
ed to sleep. The measure that it was expect
ed would be made odious by the fiction, has
survived the clamor of demagogues, and in
history will be recorded as one of the aiding
causes of the last ten years of unexampled
prosperity. But the most bareface effrontery
we have ever witnessed, is in the fact that in
this State most of the presses that in '46, and
since, charged the Democratic parly with be
ing bought by " British gold" to favor a low
tariff, are now themselves, these same presses,
advocating tho establishment of a free trade
dynasty in the lower house. Heretofore they
have advocated "protection for rhe sako of
protection," and now they, at one sweep,
would not only destroy ptoleclicn, but would
throw away every cent ol revenue from that
source. Now as th ese presses raise the clam
"r " f "British gold" against
the Democratic parly becauso the tariff of
'46 was too low to keep out British goods, as
they asserted, it is certainly prooer for the
public to ask wlwse gold it is that has brought
these "protectionists" around, and made thorn
the advocates of a free trade policy that will
j let in Biitish gooda without any government
tax whatever.
If the Democrats, in carrying out this long
avowed partiality for a revenue tariff with in
cidental prelection, could be suspected of
corruption, how much more obnoxious to the
charge are these pretended protectionists,
who rant against free trade, and yet labor for
the triamph of free trade by electing the mas
ter spirit of that doctrine to the Speakership
in Congress 7 With them there has been a
complete somerset, and the question is who
paid them for playing the harlequin.
The above quoted New York anti-Demo
cratie journal <M£4-rt it is British gold that
is now working tor the free trade movement,
and as the anti-Democrats of this Slate are
the sole movers from litis section, we are per
fectly willing that their kindred press should
name the reason for their course.
Of course our Nix-Wisser presses and rep
resentatives will wince some under the im
putation ; but yet they must bear the charge
as it looks very probable, and is made by one
that ought to know.
Democratic Nomination of Slate Trcas
uier.
HARRISBURO, Jar.'y 18.—The Democratic
members of the two Houses met in caucus
this eveniog, to nominate a candidate for
State Treasurer, when, on the first ballot, H.
S. Magraw, of Lancaster, received a majori
ty of all the votes cast, and was declared nom
inated. The vote stood—Magraw, 40; Ham
lin, 13; Goodwin, 7 ; McClintock, 7; Scatter
ing, 12. Mr. Fonniman was withdrawn
Whole number present, 79; necessary to a
choice, 70. The election takes place on next
Monday.
Our foreign Delations.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—The Union eays
that no such question as the suspension of di
plomatic intercourse bad been before the
Cabinet. Our relations with Great Britain are
certainly delicate, and porhaps critical, but a
proposed withdrawal of Ministers is not
among the evidences going to intimate Iho
delicacy of those relations. The Union nays
—"We cannot deny that there are serious
questions of difference between the twagov
ernmeols."
The Alliance between France, England and
Spain. — WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—1t has been
ascertained ''Mm source, (hat
the long tnlkedufalliatice between Spain and
Great Britain France, has been formally
consummated, Spain binding herself to send
into the field from ten to twenty thousand
men in the Spring, and ber interests, particu
larly in Cuba, to be protected by France and
England.
irf The contraotors in the English army
have a profitable business. Some of them
olear 8300,000 a year. One man who fur
nished fodder for horses made the sum of
$238,000 tbe first year of his contract.
Horses Shod without Nulls.
Mr. Lewall,of life w London, Ct., has in
vented a horse shoe that is to be worn by
the horse without being nailed to his foot
He makes the wholo in two pieces, employ
ing in addition, two 6mall screws to aid in
screwing the parts together. Both are made
of malleable iron—the lower portion, or sole,
being very similar to the horse-shoe ordiuarU
ly employ ?d, but with a groove around its
exterior, and without nail holes. The upper
portion, or "vamp," is.thin, anil bus a flange
projecting inward from its lower edge, to
match the groove in the sole. These parts
are so arranged as to secure a tight and firm
connection, and the whohl is made addition
ally Gecuro by the aid ol the set screws be
fore mentioned at the heel. A shoe of this
kind once fitted, the vamp may bo made to
wear out a great number of soles. The ex
terior may be highly finished and plated with
silver, which gives a very flashy appearance
to a team of livery horses, or the shoe may
be enamelled jet black when intended for
while or grey animals. One practical advan
tage derived from this style of shoes is the
facility with which they may be removed or
exchanged, EO that a skillful hostler may ex
change the shoes, or rather the soles, on
every occasion when the presence of ice or
th<| like renders it desirable, and may even
be expedient in extreme cases of exhaustion,
as with race borsee, to remove the shoes al
together for a time, and allow of u more re
freshing rest.
To Stop Potatoes Rotting. —An experienced
agriculturalist informs us that about six years
ago he applied slaked lime to potatoes that
were partly rotten, and it immediately arrest
ed the decay. I'ota'oes that were partly rot
ten when the kmc was applied, remained as
they were, the progress of the rot being stop
pod, while potatoes to which the lime was
not applied, continued to rot and were lost.
Since then he has made it a consrant prac
tice to apply slaked lime to his potatoes as
he takes them up. He lays a thin layer of
lime on the floor where the potatoes are to
be laid, and sprinkles some of it on tie pota
toes—about every ten inches as they are put
down. He considered this as perfectly pro
tecting them from rotting, as he never had a
rotten potato since he has practised it, and
he believes that potatoes thus used arc ren
dered belter by the action of the lime. We
advise the farmers to try this plan, as it car.
easily be done by t'lem all.
Great 7'ypngrahhical Feat. —The most re
( rnarkabla of all performances in the way of
j rapid publication, has just been effected by a
j Philadelphia firm—Messrs. E. H. Bullet &
Co.— in placing before the public their edi
tion of the third and fourth volumes of Ma
canlay's History of England. The whole
process was accomplished with a degree of
speed hitherto unrivalled. The London edi
j tion contains sixteen hundred octavo pages.
I Of this large work, the types were picked
j up and set, the pages stereotyped and print
| ed, and copies of the first edition of ten
j ihopsauj eopi es wero in ihe hands of the
publishers, bound, within fifty working hours
iTrom the commencement of tho work.
Such speed should astonish the London
publishers. When their edition was already
stereotyped, and 20.G00 copies ready for de
livery, they announced the fact, and 36,000
subscribers presented themselves. The pub
lishers asked 0 delay ol one month to pre
pare the additional 16,000 copies.— Xorlh
American.
Simple Mode of Cutting Stone —Among the
French machinery will be found a very in
genious and simple mode of cutting stone,
exhibited by a man named Chevaliere. He
causes a wire 10 run at a high velocity over
the surface which he wishes to bisect, and
by dropping on it a mixture of sar.il and wa
ter the operation is rapidly completed. The
hardest granites yield so quickly to this pro
cess, that tho inventor can with one horse
power separate it at the rate of a square foot
per hour, the wire mnning at the rate of forty
feet per second. Using the ordinary saw,
tho same amount of work would require
three-horse power and would expend 15 Irs,
worth of material, instead of 1 i'r, which is
all that Ihe wire costs.— London Mining Jour
nal.
FOR TIIE WF.ST.—The Indianapolis Journal
states that quite a sensation was produced in
that city, on the 12th inst., by the arrival of
forty-five orphan boys, who had been gath
ered up in New York city, and after having
been kept some lime in tho Orphan Asylum
thero, wero being taken to the West by some
benevolent individual lor the purpose of
finding homes for them among the farmers,
so that they could be brought up without ex
posure to the moral malaria of a city atmo
sphere. The name of the benevolent gen
tleman could not be ascertained.
KANSAS.—The Free-soil men in Kansasoau
tion their friends in other parts of the country
to believe none of the reports from that terri
tory, as the telegraph is in the hands of the
"border rutrains." The "border ruffians"
give Ihe same caution in regard to the reports
of die Freo soil men. The public will soon
begin to take them at their word. There is
scarcely an occurrence which happens there
which is not most grossly exaggerated, and
which has to be corrected by subsequent in
telligence. The last report of a battle between
tho two parties, and several persons being
killed, proves to bo nothing serious and no
body hurt.
FROZEN TO DEATH.—The Davenport Ga
zelle states that four men were frozen to death
near Fort Dodge, and that eight others were
missing. The stage-driver ou the route be
tween Cascade and Ar.amosa, on Wednes
day last, became so chilled that the passen
gers were obliged to carry him into a private
house and wait some time before he was able
to proceed, inside the stage to Anamosa, one
of the passengers supplying his place as dri
ver. At La Salle, Ihe driver of a coal carl
was fouod frozen to death, sitting on his cart.
THE JUG LAW. —Wa notice that a great
number of petitions have been presented in
both Houses of the Legislature praying for
the repeat oi the Jug Law of last session.
Philadelphia ftlurkell.
Ftoun AND MEAL.—The market for flour
is very dull; shipping brands are freely of
fered at 88 25 per bbl. Family flour seelft at
from 88 31 to 8 50 per bbl. The inquiry from
relailers and bakers is freely met at 88 02 a
900 for extra and fanoy Brands. Bye Flour
—small sales at 86. Corn Meal is wilbout
demand. Pennsylvania is offered at 83 6?J.
GRAlN.—Wheat is inactive and lower; sales
of Southern and Pennsylvania red, at 81 81
a 2 and small lots of white at 82 12 a 2 15.
Rye is steady; free sales of Peen., 1 200.
Corn is in demand; sules of new yellow at
80 cents per bushel. Oats are inactive.—
Last sales at 43 a 440 per bushel, for South
ern and Pennsylvania.
WHISKEY is very dull; seles of bbls. at 31
a 350, and hhds. at 33 a 34. *
CLOVERSEED is less notive at 88 a 8 37}
per 04 lbs., and Flaxseed at 82 10 per bush
el.
t3T Female politicians aro very numerous
at Washington. During a session of Con
gress they ore particularly busy. Most of
them come from the Southern and Western
Stales—the wives or widows of M. C.'s and
govgjnmenl officers. Some of these ladies
nTe admirably posted up in the political his
tory of the country. They understand ma
ny of the tricks and trammels of legislation,
and always And out the weak side of a new
or doubtful member. As solicitors for office
in behalf of friends they are indefatigable
and irresistible.
Sate if the Doyteslown Exhibition Grounds.—
The famous Doylestown Exhibition grounds,
together with the fragments of what war
once the Exhibition Building, was sold by
the Sheriff on Saturday last for 36, 550, sub
ject to a mortgage of 82,871. ft was pur
chased by a company, who it is said propose
either to re-eiect the building and conlinue
it for Exhibition purposes, or build a Semi
nary for the education of young Ladies: The
latter we think would be the most profitable
investment.
A THRIVING dir.—The St. Paul (Mitt.)
Times, has an article giving the business sta
tislics-of the place. Jl shows an average in
crease of business over last year of some 30
to fifty per cent. The nine warehouses on
the levee are set down as having done busi
ness of over 81,000,000, on an aggregate cap
ital of 860,000. Navigation open 7 months.
Whole uumberof steamboats arrived, 560-
Estimated number of passengers over 80,000.
"THE HOLT TREE INN " —We have receiv
ed from the publisher, T. B. Peterson, Phil
adelphia, a copy of this publication. It is
written by Charles Dickens, the announce
ment of which alone is sufficient to insure for
it a wide circulation. This book is made up
of Christmas and New Year's stories which
cannot fail to excite a vast amount of inter
est.
EST The Legislature of New York has pas
sed a Jaw that no religious or bonevolent so
ciety shall receive any bequust or devise, the
annual income of which is over 810,000, anil
it must have been made at least two months
before the death of the testator. In no ease
shall the bequest be more than one fourth
of the estate. This is a good law.
The Prohibitory Liquor Law in New Bruns
with.—ST. JOHNS, N. 8., JUII. 21.—At a meet
ing of fifteen hundred inhabitants of Freder
ickstown, on the I9th inst, the Mayor presi
ding, resolutions condemnatory of the prohib
itory liquor law weru carried by a vote of five
to one. Speeches were made on both sides.
The proceedings were harmonious and con
ducted with much good feeling, closing with
three cheers for the Queen.
THE WESTERN PORK TRADE.—The price of
potk at tho West continues dull, and the sup
ply large. The quantity from Kentucky this
year will far exceed the last. In Ohio, the
receipt of hogs at Cincinnati, by railroads,
during the past week, was 29.000, against
about 19,000 the previous week. The total
number slaughtered for packing, at Cincin
nati, so far this season, is 257,375. On Sat
urday last, hogs were held in that oily at 85 13
a $5 22, without sales.
Accident to Ex-Governor Corwin. —On Tues
day evening, as Ex-Governor Corwin was
walking at tho corner of Vine and Fourth
streets, Cincinnati, he slipped, and falling on
tho iCo-covered sidewalk, received a fracture
of the neck oi the thigh bone, within the cap
sular ligament. At last accounts lie was do
iug well.
Dreadful Accident —The Boone Co. (tnd.)
Ledger stales that three interesting young la
dies, on going to bed at a Mr. Hunts', near
South Salem, Hendricks county, a few eve
nings sir.ee, took a vessel ol live charcoal in
to their bed-room, and on (be next morning
were all found dead.
A NEW USE FOR SHANGHAI CHICKENS.—A
farmer in Greenbush, New York, is said to
keep Shanghai chickens in bis orchard, for
the purpose of frightening the hogs away.
PATRIOTIC LADIES.—The Imperial Princess
es of Russia have sold their diamonds, and
paid (he amount received for them into the
coffers of the Stale.
The number of revolutionary pensioners
grows less and lesa. It is now reduced to
726. The number of revolutionary widows
receiving pensions is 5,552.
W Prof. Holloway, the celebrated Pill
and Ointment man, expends 8150,000 a
year in advertising.
ty Bucks county has thtee Democratic
candidates for Canal Commissioner—How
ard R. Sager, Joseph Morrison and Edward
Nicholson.
Two million acres of land will be brought
into market in Kansas Territory by the first
of next June.
HT Bears are very plenty in some of the
northern counties of this State this season.—
Two big fat feilowa were killed in Potter coun
ty last week.
The Hutchinson family aro going to settle
in Minnesota and quit singing.
HP" PENNSYLVANIA CENTRAL ROAD.—WD
see by an article in the Pittsburgh "Commer
cial Journal'' that the receipts of this road
for the past year have been over 24 per cent,
of the cost of construction—being the best
paying road in the Union.
BP" A San Francisco letter says:—The ex
tent of the segar business here is immense.
A single stand within a large hotel has been
rented for 820 per day, payable daily. I
know of another of less note for which $4,-
000 per annum has been paid lor the last
two years. Tho Consumption ol the 'weed'
in California is awful.
BT Miss Josephine M. Bunkley, the young
lady who created so mnch talk about a year
ago in consequence of Irerescape from a con
vent at Emmetsburg, was married in Weldin,
N. C , on Monday of lust week, to Dr. S.
Andrews, of Perth Atnboy, N. J.
PATENT FOR PIPE MAKING.—ATI EcgHsh
man has obtained a patent for the following
method of making pipes ; he takes thin stride
01 wood, and bends them spirrlly and dia
gonally, and fills up the interstices with as
phalt of cement.
It is said that the non conviction of Baker
lias given new life to ruffianism ir. New York.
There is no franking privilege iu England.
Even the Queen has to pay her penny.
THE work on the Washington Monument
lias been suspended for want of funds.
B P. FORTN KR. AuclioueerT
WILL SELL
0.1 the 25th end 26:h, in Maine township,
Columbia county, the entire furnace stock
horses, and merchandise of G . & R. Shuman
On tbe 10th proximo, at Lloyd Thomas',
Esq , iu Franklin township, his entire rem
nant of merchandise and house hold goods.
1 On the 11th prox., at the late residence of
Stacy Margerum, in Cultawissa, a large lot
of liquor house furniture, &c.
Cy Persons who desire the services of H
I*. l OIH Wril as Auctioneer will do Well
tp engage him before advettising tbe date of
their sale.
IT Hollowuy's Ointment and Pills, an in
valuable remedy for Dropsical Symptoms.—
Mrs. Emma Huntly, of Houston, Texas, aged
45, last fall was thrown upon a bed of sick
ness, her feet and legs began to swell, strong
ly indicating dropsy at this period of her life.
Iler husband became greatly alarmed, as it
was leared that she could nut recover, so
dreadful was the attack. After trying many
remedies without benefit. Mr. Huntly at last
put her under a eonrso of Holloway's Pills,
which she took for about three weeks, and
ti.e swelling considerably diminished; by
continuing litem five weeks more, she was
completely cured. These Pills will also cure
all bilious and liver complaints in a very short
time.
C 3" S. M. PETTENGILL & Co., Advertising
Agents, No. 119 Nassau Street, New York,
and 10 State Street, Boston, are authorized to
receive and receipt for advertisements and
subscription to (his paper.
'J . ~" 1"
In Berwick, on the 12th inst., Mrs. MAR
UAIIET SGLT, nged 61 years, 5 months and 18
days.
Dssfritmfioii ol' Prizes.
rrnHK distribution of prizes drawn iu E.
JL Unangst's Gift Enterprise, will be dis
tributed by Jesse G. Clark at his Book Store
in Bloomsburg on the 10th day of February
next, and the prizes will remain in his hands
forty days from that date, subject to he called
for at any day wiihin that lime.
No property will be distributed unless tha
tickets which drew the prizes is presented.
Circulars with a full statement of the draw
ing will ba distributed.
JESSE G. CLARK.
President of the Committee.
Bloomsburg, Jan. 23, 1856.
rpllE Ladies of the Lutheran Church would
respectfully announce to the citizens of
Bloomsburg and vicinity, that they propose
preparing a PUBLIC BIIPPGR,on
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY sth, 1858,
in MRS. BIGG-' bouse, on Main Street, nearly
opposite Leacock's Hotel, Bloomsburg, for
the benefit of the Church. The patronage
of the friends of Benevolence is respectfully
solicited.
IT** Supper Irom 5 to 8 o'clock, P. M., af
ter which the patties can be served with
OYSTERS AND ICE CREAM.
Bloomsburg, Jan. 23, 1856.
LETTER from the Hon. THEODORE FRE
LI.XUIIUYSEN, President of Ringer's Col
lege, N. J.,to A. Rarncy, No. 195 Broadway,
New York, Publisher of Johnson's Philosoph
ical Charts: 4
NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. 19, 1855.
DEAR SIR: I thank you for the Philosophi
cal Charts. They furnish an admirable sub
stitute for the far more expensive apparatus.
These Charts, hung on the walla of the school
room, iu all which ( hope to aee them, will
spread beloru the scholar a palpable illustra
tion of tho great laws in Natural Philosophy.
He will learn inuch of God from the works
of His hand and the ordinances of His ap
pointment.
The small volume that comos with them,
and a little explanation by the teacher, will
render the Charts one of the most useful
means of instruction.
Verv respectfully yours,
THEODORE FRELINUHUYSEN.
Mr. A' Kanney.
There are ten charts in all, each measur
ing 34 by 52 inches, and the set contains,
altogether, about three hundred diagrams,
illustrative of the moat important outline
principles of the Natural Sciences. Beside
the essential diagrams found in tbe ordinesy
text books, these charts contain several ori
ginal illustrations, and possess the merit
rarely found iu school books—of being en
tirely original in plan and arrangement.—
They are, moreover, highly ornamental to a
suhoot room, and obvi&te the necessity of
philosophical apparatus which would cost
from 83,009 to 85,000-
Price of the set of ten charts, neatly c'jJ.
ored and mounted on cloth, accompanied
with an explanatory key (a bound book)--919
Neatly colored and mounted on thick pa
per without cloth, including the key . . . .jo
In sheets, plain, on thick paper, stronalv
bound, including the key ..
Booksellers, Teachers, Agents, and all in
terested in Education, are respectfully re
quested to address the publUher, Adofphoe
Ranney, No. 195 Broadway, New York
M ;! or * ,j °py in the above shall
receive Not. 8 and 9 of the above series of
(-harts, which are on Astronomy and com
plete m themselves, accompanied with the
key, post-paid. A. R.
/■THIBET SHAWLS with silk fringe, a
hoe lot just received and for sale by
A C. MENBCH.