STAR OF THE NORTH.
R. W. WEAfffR, EDITOR.
Vloorasburg, Ihursar> March 0, 1856.
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A case from tWs Comity hps lately been
deoided In the Supreme Court which has
called onl considerable noticefrom the press;
■hot, *d far fch wroMf tree, very few of the
• *di tora.understand the point involved. The
jtase baa ,cpo*qp)> mt|brtnale ill feeling be
, Vweert dutdnlßtufaU ujoSj Brethren, and in
• m or neiit liß hai.wid flinch to
ogate .ron? the. public; respect and reverence
for the law. True the case illustrates a sad
.instability ic the legal decisions of our high
est tribunal, but it ia plain that the majority
of the court (from whose opinion Judge
. Black dissents; are only restoring the law
* as it first Mood in this State.
In September, 1814, the Supreme Cour! of
Pennsylvania decided that where a new sur
vey interferes with or runs over an unim
proved old one, and improvements are made
on the new survey, 'but not Within the limit
of the interference, the owner of the new
survey can not by title or prescription claim
•ny right to auch interference which ho has
Sevet improved. He is presumed io have
taken notioe of, and to have been warned by
the old lines when he taade bis junior sur
vey; and there ia no presumption from his
possession outside ol those old lines that he
claimed or held any right within them. This
vraa m me case or Cluggage vs. Duncan, 1. S.
&R. 109. In June 1816 at Sunbury the Su
preme Court decided another case reiterating
the tame rule of law. (2.5. & It. 436.)
In 1847 Judge Woodward in the Common
Plaaa of Centre county decided a ease upon
the same principle. But the Supreme Court
changed the law, and reversed Judge Wood
ward and the two old cases, which bad serv
ed as the basis of a number of like decisions
in Nisi Prius and other lower courts. (5 Barr
300.) This latter decision was then follow
ed, until in the case we first alluded to, a
majority of Judges restore the law of 1814
and 1816, and oome back to ibe old common
lew principle. In fact, Judge Black himself,
when thia last case was previously before
the Supreme Court in 1852 said that the de
cision of 1847 was an innovation and change
of the old common law as it had been enun
dated from the days ot the Revolution until
1847. (7 Harris 308.)
If it be said that the owner of the old sur
vey in this case made no improvement upon
bis land, the answer is—neither did the hold
er of the new survey take any possession of
the interference, or show any disposition lo
claim within it. If it be said that the delend
ant in such case only sqnats upon the old
survey, and is therefore only a trespasser;
the reply is—so too is the bolder of the new
survey a trespasser as to the interference;
and it ia well settled that a plaintiff in eject
ment must recover upon the strength of his
own title, and not upon the weakness of the
defendant's. Where neither has a title the
law leaves them where it finds them.
The following is the conclusion of Judge
Black's opinion. It is very bitter against his
brethren ; but we think his blow lodges up
on those who ITrsT changed the taw in 1847.
'f be judgment now about to be given is
o(tp of 'death s doings.' No one can doubt
that if Judge Gibson and Judge Coulter had
lived, the plaintiff could not have been thus
deprived of his properly; and thousands of
other men would have been saved from the
imminent danger to which 'hey are now ex
posed of losing the '.tomes they have labor
ed and paid for. But they are dead ; and
the law which should have protected those
•acred rights has died w.th them. It is a
melancholy reflection that the property ot a
eitizen should be held by a tenure so frail.—
But 'new lorda, new laws,' is the order of
the day. Hereafter it any man is offered a
title which the Supreme Court has decided
to be good, let him not buy, if the judges who
made the decision are dead; if they are living
let him get an insurance on their lives, for ye
know not what a day or an hour may bring
forth.
"The majority of this Court changes, on
the average, once every nine years, without
counting the chances of death and resigna
tion. If each new set of judges shall
consider themselves at liberty to overlhtow
the doctrines of their predpeessore, our sys
tem of jurisprudence (if system it may be
called) would be the most tickle, uncertain
end vicious that the civilized world ever saw,
A French Constitution, or u South American
republic, or a Mexican administration, would
be an immortal thing in comparison to the
short-lived principles of Pennsylvania law.—
The rules of properly, which ought to be as
steadfast as the hills, will become as unsta
ble as the waves. To avoid ihisgreat calam
ity, I know of no resource but that of stare de
cisis. I claim nothing fot the great men who
have gone before us on the score of their
marked and manifest superiority. But I
would stand by their decisions, because they
have passed into the laws and become a pari
of it—have been relied on and acted on—and
rights have grown up under them which it is
unjust and cruel to take away.
WHERE If A NTI-N EHH ASK A |
The Know Nothing party of this State pre
tended to be opposed to the principle ol pop
ular sovereignly as embodied in the Nebras
ka bill, and under that pretence fished for
votes. The lute Convention at Philadelphia
were howevor compelled to surrender to the
justice of the Democratic creed on that sub
ject and placed the following plank in their
platform. We shall sse how it will snil the
anti-slavery people.
"The recognition of the right of the native
born and the naturalized citizens of the Uni
ted States, permanently residing in any Ter
ritory thereof, to frame their Constitution and
laws, and to regulate their domestic and so
cial affairs in their own mode, subject only
to the provisions ol the Federal Constitutions,
with the privileges of admission into the
Union whenever they have the requisite pop
ulation for one Representative in Congress.
Provided always, that r.one but those who
are citizens of the United Slates, under the
constitution and laws thereof, and who have
a fixed residence In any suoh Territory, ought
to participate in the formation of the consti
tution, or In the enactment of laws for said
Territory or Staled'
Troable in the Camp. \
'• The Knot* Nothings who I aft weak -jolted
front the Philadelphia Convention in their
protest against tha nomination-of Mr. Fill
mora any "the nominee la hot a member of
the Ameriean party; he baa never been in
side of a council room, and no act of bia life,
no word spoken or line written by him,which
we have any knowledge of, indicates that he
has any sympathy with the party, or would
carry out its principles."
Those bow. included 5 majority of the )
delegates from New Totlc, and they ought to j
know., II the fact is se they state the party j
must be in a desperate condition to be com
pelled to go outside of its ranks for a candi
date. It is at the earns time a confession j
that no one party alone can hope to succeed
against the Democratic candidate. .
But in reply to the protest of the bolters,
we notice by the papers that In the New York
American State Council at Canandaigua, on
last Wednesday, the statement made at Phil- !
adelphia that Mr. Fillmore was not a mem-I
her of the Order, was contradicted by the J
President of Council 171, of Buffalo, who
gave the assurance that he himself was pres
ent when the obligation of each of the de
grees was administered to Mr. Fillmore and
that he is a member of the order in good
standing.
For Hotel Keepers, and Others. M
•
A <*e was lately tried at Pottaville which
l.u. .town fomo rhnrp law. a gentlemen
hired a horse of a livery stable keeper, To
bias, and stopped fcr the night at the hotel of
a Mr. Oerther. The country beaux seem to
have suspected that the gentleman with the
dashing turnout had come to."spark" some
country beauty, and in a malicious spirit of
jealousy robbed the horse of his glory by
shearing the balr from his tail. The livery
man brought suit against the landlord, who
insisted that had been guilty of no negligence
in the care of horse, and proved that it was
tho custom to have the stables unlocked in
that township. The horse had been worth
$l5O.
| The Court said that the defendant was
, tvhnd to use every care and diligence with
regard to the articles entrusted by the guest
to him, and that the most ordinary way to
exercise it with respect to the guest's horse,
was to lock the stable—that whatever the
custom was, the landlord, ifi using but the
most ordinary care, was bound to lock the
stable, and that as the stable was not !ocked >
he was guilty of negligence. The measure
. of damages in this case is the difference be
j iween the marketable value of the horse be
j fore and after the injury done, and the jury
I are confined to that measure because there
j is no evidence going to show that the lund
-1 | lord had connived at that injury. Verdict of
jury for plaintiff for $73 78.
Au Interesting Case for Miucrs.
Chief Justice Lewis lately delivered the
j opinion of the Supreme Court in a case of
j interest to miners. A mining company, in
I tbe course ol necessary operations in mining
i minerals from their own land, interrupted the
percolations which supplied a sptinjj on an
adjacent tract, and the owner of the spring,
> | under the direction of the Court of Common
| Pleas had recovered damage for the loss of
lilt. The Supreme Court reversed thisdecis
i j ion, and say that in such case, where the
f interference was only with percolations in
visible on the surface, and not in any spirit
of malice or design on the part of the Com
pany, the owner of the spring can recover no
damage.
" MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED SLAVES.''—It
was claimed that the Know Nothing parly
was started upon anti-slavery principles, and
those who wen; in its ranks were at first very
vehement anti-Nebraska brawlers. But
last week its convention nominated Andrew
J. Donaldson for Vice President j who in the
course of a speech accepting that nomination
said "he was the owner of moie than one hund
red slaves." No wonder that the anti-slarery
men bolted.
Judge Douglass was much reviled by these
brawlprs because his wife owned some slaves;
and slaveliolding was a standing accusation
against Mr. Polk. The enemies of Democ
racy have now a man for their leader who
himself owns more than a hundred slaves.—
We shall see what headway they will make
with him.
DON'T TEM. ANYBODV.—Keep the secret to
yourself. For goodness sake do not tell it
about, or else there will be 110 unmarried
people. Weddings will be the order of the
day. Every body will be choosing a help
male. In another column is the advertise
ment of that much talked of book by Pro
fessor Kondout, of New York, the "Bliss of
Marriage." It gives you the exact process
of the art of creating love, of compelling
anybody to love yoa dearly whom you wish
to inspire with that lender passion. But then,
should such a secret get out into the world I
Head <he book yourself, but keep silent.
Thai's onr counsel.— N. Y. Tribune.
as r The Democratic State Convention was
held at Harrisburg yesterday (Tuesday) Jno.
G. Montgomery Esq. is the Representative
Delegate from this district, and will repre
sent it fairly. He was chosen by the Stand
ing Committees of the two counties. Those
Know-Nothing brawlers who barked so noi
sily at the Standing Commiite last summer
for selecting a delegate will find that the
Committee have treated them with silent
contempt, and done just as they did last year,
without the least regard to the croaking,wrath
and fury.
Isr Indictments were preferred in Phila
delphia against E. Walker's Gift Prize pro
ject, as being in violation of the law prohib
iting lotteries. The Grand Jury returned
them "not a true bill." But the District At
torney and Judge Kelly called the attention
of the Grand Jury to the law, and instructed
them that such projects were lotteries, and
subject to indictment under the statute.
On the 19th of February, an attempt
was made to blow up a Catholic Cathedral
at St. Louis. Two boxes of gunpowder were
exploded between tbe pillars of the portico.
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TfAUIIftKS' ASaOCIATIOII.
The sixth fMdgfrg of the Columbis County
Teachers' A(soclM|on wta held ih the Liibi
Street Ufo>er l Sch<>l Roofi, on Saturday the
Ist of Mfrch. The President, Mr. Weavar,
in the chair. Several classes ol the Light
Street School wero present with which teach
ers might illustrate their method of teaching'
the several branches. •
.An in reading was conducted by J
Mr. Applman. First ga'ch sfcholar read alone
and then all read in concert. Mr. Weaver
then questioned the class in the principles
and rules of reading. Prof. S. R. Sweet, or
Now York, was ih alteiidahce, and, at the
request of the President, he then illustrated
h IB method of teaching Rhetorical Reading.
Mr. Appleman illustrated'his method* of
teaching Geography. Mr. Weaver gave an'
easy method of teaching Geography npon
{ the blackboard. The class answered readily,
j and the exercise covered the subjects of lati- '
i tude, longitude, the zones, the seasons, and
the diurnal revolntirirt oflho earth. Mr: Bur
gess and Prof. Sweet made some further re
marks upon tho subject.
A class in Orthography was then exorcised
in a lesson bj Mr. Appleman. Farther ques-
Mr. A p pie
exercise in Grammar, by which that branch 1
as well as Orthography, writing and compo
sition are taught at the same time.
Mr. Weaver then offered Ihe following res
olution, prefacing it with remarks to urge
the important work of teachers' improve
ment. He desired that there should be a
Teacher's Institute iu this Cottniy, and said
lhaT" whenever, Ufon a conference with
Teachers, sufficient encouragement was giv
en lo such an object, a call for an Institute
would be issued. Meanwhile lie would urge
every teacher to attend those lo be held in
neighboring counties. - •
Resolved, That the thanks of this Associa
tion are tendered id Prof. S. H. Sweet for his
instruction among us, and that we heartily
commend and encourage the proposition to
have him hold a Teacher's Institute in- this
county ; behoving, as we do, that shell a
meeting is highly necessary, and would be
very beneficial.
Mr. Burgess seconded the motion to adopt,
and it was unanimously carried.
Mr. Burgess then made some very perti
nent remarks npon the necessity of teachers
observing a distinct and exemplary articula
tion before their pnpils and the oommunity.
They should certainly in their practice show
respect for the rules which they teach, and
teaching wiKcome easy to them by practice.
In fact tliqy will always be teaching and
learning by their praotice.
This being the time forthe annual election
of officers, the Association proceeded to elect,
and the fnltowrrrp wero uii*niinouvly otiosen:
j. L-tiiv^
It was Resolved that the next meeting of
the Association be held at Bioomsburg on
the last Saturday in October. Adjourned.
School Exercises at Light Street.
The public examination of the school at
Light Street under the charge of Mr. Lewis
Appleman took place on last Friday. Clas
es were examined from Orthography to As
tronomy and Music ; and acquitted them
selves to the satisfaction and pleasure of all
who were present. The classes in Orthog
raphy, Grammar, Geography, Oral and Writ
ten Arithmetic were examined by Mr. Ap
pleman. The examinations in Rhetorical
Reading and Astronomy were by the Coun
ty Superintendent; and while these exercises
were without any previous conference be
tween hint and the class, so that no scholar
knew wnat would be required of hi.n or her,
the examinations were thorough and search
ing, and the classes stood the test very well.
The concert reading was excellent. The ex
ercises in music were conducted by Mr.
Abraham White, one of the scholuis, and
were creditable to all connected with them.
In the evening (he large room was cram
med with interested spectators. There must
have been some SOO persons packed in, and
quite a number were unable to enter at all.
The exercises opened with music. This was
followed by original compositions read by
the girls, alternating with declamation from
the boys. Every scholar had asliaie in these
exercises. Several dialogues were spoken,
and wit with humor and music enlivened the
evening. The County Superintendent then
addressed the citizens and scholars. Upon
motion of Mr. S. L. Beitle, the thanks ot the
citizens were unanimously voted to Mr. Ap
pleman for the able and satisfactory manner
in which he had conducted the school during
the past term. The exercises closed with
singing by the class; and the meeting ad
journed alter 11 o'clock, having maintained
excellent order during a pleasant and inter
esting session of fonr hours and a half in a
crowded house.
This was the first public examination of a
school in Light Street, but we are sure it will
not be the last. In fact, so far as we know,
it was the first publio examination of a com
mon school ever held in the oounty. But there
is r.o reason why a similar one could not be
held in nearly every district in the county, if
parents, directors, teachers and superintend
ent will co-operate together as they have
done at Light Street. We know that none of
these parties have had as much labor and
(rouble in that place as in other districts
where schools are in confusion; and - this i's
simply because each one has sustained the
others in carrying out a correct~and efficient
system of education.
On next Friday there will be a public ex
amination of the schools at Berwick under
the obarge of the Bee. Mr. Naah and daugh
ter. In the evening there will b exerciie*
like those at Light-Street on lait Friday eve
nig. The County Sfpgrinleddant 1 will be
present.
We expect seven! other such examina
tions to follow the^B.
One of the 'f ItegDtar (Jrailii atts."
Some time ago we received a circular ad
vertisement from one pf tjie paler.i-medicine
nuiMaees which afflict the community, with
a request to publish it three months for pay
at the end of,thai lime. The advertiser'ia his
circular proposed lo'cure all the ilts fhat' the'
| flesh ia heir to, except pulmonary disease*,
and there was a nota bene at the end inform
ing the world and "the rest of mankind" that
ho "is a regular graduate."
We rpepeotfully answered that our terms,
out pf the county were invariably
pay in advance. To ihis the disciple of A3scu
lapius sent us the following epistle to "define
his position," which we publish for iho ben
efit of those who use the patetji cure-alls of
these "regular graduates ;'.' and also for the.
study uf an ex-Judge we lately heard of at
Orangeville who is deeply interested' in try
ing to have the common schtol system "ap■
petted."
Febr 26th 1856
M R W Weaver
my dear friend —Yooer of 23th
is duly bin Reed bi.t i am sorry i cant com
if'V vouar Order aSuLaever pay for ex
iling in at varies but by pimgflj' always with
4ny paimams and i am aciucan of thes plies
read owne Concrderahla f-operiy and I can
rdarejore do; and also wuld
(like lo git known in youar part of Stad thrug
thar be a gread menny Suffrings in youer Co
i fell It my duty to make it known i Adver
tise verry Extancive and i think if you wuld
by wall pleased with me if you had any
Aquaintance with me & i am sorry achuid i
not sne'eid in doeing So.
YouresSincire frind
Ey One of thp fast young men of Tama
qua last week eloped with the wife of his
neighbor and her two young responsibilities.
The injured husband ia upon their track in
pursuit, iv.
idT The London Times says that the Brit
ish Government will soon require afresh loan
of one hundred million dollars. Anotherfea
| ther for the back of the camel John Bull.—
By the way, wars are much more expensive
lhanihey used to b. To fight the Russians
(wo year', has cod Great Britain more mon
ey than the whole of our revolution.
\JT The New Oileatis Sun tell* of a ma
chine which has been invented "out South"
which enables a man to tell when he is gel
tiog too drunk lo walk. Ris called a fiubltt
ometer and gives timely warning by hitting a
fellow suddenly under the short ribs the mo
ment he has had enough.
TARIFF. —It seems now pretty certain that
Congress will repeal all duties on wool, raw
ailki hemp and dye-stuff, and admit them
free of duty. A bill lor that purpose is in the
course of preparation, and it is believed that
it will pass both houses aad be approved by
the President-
that Mr. Montgomery has
Sfesetited petitions and introduced a bill into
HJp Legislature lo erect Conyngham town-
IJBip in this county into a separate election
This is, wo suppose, in order that
I the election this spring may be held in that
I township.
fcaMVhen Mr. Fillmore was President, A.
J. Donalson, the present Know Nothing nom
inee for Vice President, was' the ediior ol the
Washington Union, a paper that violently op
posed every measure and act of the Fillmore
administration. Now every principle of man
liness is prostituted in the crazy chase for of
fice, and the lion and the lamb lie down to
gether.
ty The following volunteer toast was of
fered at the American festival, in Worcester,
but was not accepted by the president, who
declined reading it.
"Lafayette and Benedict Arnold—The one
a foreigner, the other a native—the acts and
history of both are a lasting refutation of the
proscriplive doctrines of Know-Notbingltm."
PHILADELPHIA ADVERTISEMENTS.—Druggists
and merchants who wish to buy cheap in
the city will find it to their interest to call at
the store oi N. Spenoer Thomas.
Mnrphy & Koons deal extensively in Fish,
Cheese and Provisions, and promise fresh
articles.
John L. Pomeroy advertises the Super
phosphate of lime, which scientific agricultu
ralists prove to be one of the beat fertilizers
yet known.
E7* At Sunbury on the 22d olt an "Amer
ican Ladies Festival" was given for the ben
efit of the Lutheran Church. Among the
toasts were such as the fallowing:
"The Clay Whigs of '44, may they ever
remember that the great Nestor of their par
ty was defeated by foreigners and Roman
Catholics, he having a majority of three hun
dred thousand ot the Amerioan born voters."
These "Americans'' are the very persons to
reprove the Catholics for mixing together
their religion with politics I Verily I
iy One of the Know Nothing Banters —The
Monk Leahey, who, it will be recollected,
figured in this and oshet cities, in certain
"awfsl disclosures of Popery," and who was
afterwards imprisoned for life in -Wisconsin
for murdering the paramour of his wife, has
repented and recanted, and confessed hia im
posture. His conversion re-conversion
are of little moment, except to himself. But
though "he goas back to florae.," ip one
sense, ha is not to get out of prison ; but will
remain for his life in his solitary coll—an ex
trappist (strapped.— Albany Atlas.
ty Samuel V. has been
elected President of the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad, in place of Hon. William Bigler,
who deplined a re-eleciion.
ty The following question is now before
the Bangtown Debating Club: "Wbiob do
worr.on like best—to be hugged in a Polka,
or aqneezed it) a sleigh * We shall announce
the decision In an tr
Doneltoa Slandering (be Dqad.
The proceedings of the KtMw Nothing Con- |
venlion, h* re*ol(led in Tuesday'#- Inquirer,
present some remarkable statements. Tlie
nominee for the Vice BB&Sideney, under first
impulses,-said "that he left iho Democratic
parly ;" hot at the suggtfltton oNrj old'Wtlg,
who did not wish the candidal* to avow that
position, corrected'him, and induced him to
adopt the lnnguage of his prompter, "that
the Democratic party had left him." He was
thfn aaked by Andrew Stewart—Ovhr an op- .
poner.t and reviler of "Old Hickory"—'''where
won Id Glen. Jackson- be,-if alive, In the pres
ent contest?'* The reply of Donelson, of
course, was, "With the American (Know
\Nothing) parly" I! ! A base slander. But
the assertion of Gen. M'Call, that Mnjor Don
elson bad beon the adviserof Gen. Jackson,
during the administration, calls for an ex
planation. If he mentis thereby, that any of
the measures which distinguished the admin
istration of the old patriot, hero and stares
man* were proposed by Donelson, we must
be allowed to deny the statement; because
the only case publicty known, in which he
dared to interfere with the General's judg
ment and action, is recorded by J. C. llives,
Esq., as follows!
The message of President Jackson, which
referred to the preach Indemnity, was solt
ened in its language by Donelson and others,
WtIO warned Itio irervv nnti the
President. Mr. Rives brought it back in
print, and it was read to the General. "Stop,
Doneldson," said Jackson ; "(hat is not aa I
put it; how is this?" "Why,"General," re
plied Donelson in great confusion; "the Cab
inet had a meeting, and thought thelauguage
was a little 100 strong, and they concluded to
aoften it a little." "I don't care lor the Cab
inet," rejoined the President; "this is my
message—not theirs;" and turning to Mr.
Rives, observed-—"Please restore the origi
nal language." Thiß was dona, and the event
justified the spgacity of the old statesman.—
Prance paid the money. The war that was
to be, ended in smoke.
This incident shows what reliance Gen.
Jackson placed upon Donelson's advice, and
how for he was ebcustomed to follow it. As
lo the General being in the Know Nothing
ranks, if alive, there, is not a true frieud ol
his, ia the Utij.led Slates, that believes the
foul slander.— Pennsylvanian.
Fall of n Wnrchonse.
On Thursday morning last, Messrs. Busby
& Co's warehouse. Market streei, Philadel
phia, fell with a tremendous crash, killing
several men who were employed in the
building at the lime. The eastern wall fell
upon a tavern in the rear, demolishing the
upper parts.
There were stored in the building, before
the accident, in (he third and fourth stories,
about 4,000 bushels corn, 2,000 bushels oats,
a quantity of bran, about 400 barrels flour,
&c. The most ot this produce was thrown
together in onp confused mass among the
ruins, in the rear portion of the premises.
The damage is estimated at from $7,000,
to SB,OOO, including both stock and the
building.
Philadelphia markets.
Ftoun AND MEAL. —Flour is held at $7 for
standard brands, but mixed brands are still
offered at 36 75 per bbl. Sales for home con
sumption at $7 25 a 38 50, for common and
extra brands, Rye flour is dull at 35. Corn
Meal is held at $3 12} per barrel.
GRAlN. —Wheat—prices are entirely nom
inal—3l 55 a 1 60 is offered for good red,
and $1 70 a 1 75 fot good white. Rye is
dull; sales in store at Si. Corn is in belter
demand; sales of new yellow at 58 a 60 ctR.
Oats are dull at 40 cenis per bushel.
Claverseed is in fa'r request, at 38 50 per
64 pounds.
Whiskey is held firmly—barrels at 29 cts.,
and hhds. at 27 cents.
I ts' As the season of high winds is ap
proaching, the following humorous .instruc
tions how to "catch a hat," may not be re
garded as inopportune: "There are very
few moments in a man's existence, when he
experiences so much ludicrous distress, or
meets with so little cbatilable commissera
tion, as when he is in pursuit ol his own hat.
A vast deal of coolness, and a peculiar de
gree of judgment, are requisite in catching a
hat. A man must not be precipitate or he
runs over it; he must not rush into the op
posite extreme, or he loses it altogether. The
best way is to keep gently up with the object
of pursuit, to be wary and cautious, to watch
your opportunity well, get gradnally befoie
it, then tr.ake a rapid drive, seize it by the
crown, and stick it firmly on your head;
smiling pleasantly all the lime, as if you
thought it as good a joke as any body else."
TUNNELING THE BROAD MOUNTAIN.—The
Sunbury American says that Judge Helfen
stein "is making the excavation of a tunnel
through the Broad Mountain the special ob
ject of his attention." He has, recently,
made a trip to Europe for the purpose of
raising funds, and it is to be hoped that he
has succeeded, as we should like to see the
enterprise accomplished. The American in
forms us "that this tunnel would be some
thing over three and a half miles long, but
such is the nature of the mountain through
which it is intended to be driven, that while
the work would be progressing, sufficient
coal could be taken out to pay a considera
ble poilion of the expenses. Its excavation
wonld be, to some extent, like driving a vast
coal shaft, which would, ultimately, be used
for a highway. Considering the vastness of
the work, and the means of railway com
munication it would afford between Phila
delphia and the West, it is an enterprise
worthy of a master mind and a giant will."
ty Tn Snyder county last week, six in.
dictments were sent to the Grand Jury for vi
olations of the Restraining Liquor Law, and
all were returned "not a true bill."
w The Lycoming Gazette has passed into
the hands of Messrs. Atwood & Wilson, late
of the Clinton Democrat , and the first num
ber reads well and looks well. ' '*•
HP The small pox prevails to a consider
able extent in Harrtsburg.
WHO I WHAT? AND WHEREFORE* \
ij V 0R >
A (few FACTS FOR the invalid.
Have our readers ever hearth of Professor
HoßoWay? Undoubtedly they have, juat •
lhay have beard of Humboldt, Arsgo, OtSP
ated, Sillmau, Agassiz, and other notable men
of learning. But have they ever asked them
selves irAo and what he is? If they have no
definite information on that matter, we will
proceed to enlighten them. The Professor is
ajp English physician, a native of that coun
try which proditcirf Harvey, Hunter, Abpr-
nethy, .and other tffumtusli of medioel saiw
eoce. So much for the WHO; and now fori
the WHAT. He is to other physicians what
Clav, Webster and Calhoun were to stales
|men, what Washington—revered name!—
was to patriots and generals,—what Shak
! spere was to dramatists, and Irving and Cbal
i mere to preachers,—viz: the greatest of liis
: age and profession. His reputation has pen
jetrated the encrustations of prejudice,, sur
mounted the barriers of malice.and he avow
j edly stands alone, the mejlkal colossus of. the
woild. Bo.much for the WHAT. .
| Wherefore do we speak of him here? If,
■ when our fellow countrymen were ilyitig by
j thousands of yellow fever, at Norfolk and
, Portsmouth, we had hoard of a remedy which
; would arrest the progress of the disease, and
| stay the footsteps ol the spoiler, and we had
noglsatad to oommuuicala. il, what would
have been our desert ? Truly, a very sum
mary punishment by Lynch law. For if
there he any duly more imperative than an
t other, it is this,—" to visit the sick in their
I affliction," and to use every means Iqr their
restoration to health. This is why we speak
of Professor Ifolloway. This is our answer
to the wherefore.
Years ago, when the Professor was a much
younger man than he is at present, his atten
tion was directed to the great disproportion
between the cures performed by the physi
cians, and those which they undertook to
perform. He observe ! that not once in a
score of cases were they successful. Itseein
ed to him, either that roediciue was not wor.
thy the name of a science, —that it was mere
ly a thing of chance, and therefore a positive
injury to mankind, or that the Physicians
were ignorant of the true healing .ail. Hav
ing embarked on the study of human physi
ology, and understanding the pathology of
diseases, lie alighted upon the true reason ol
want of success, and made that discovery
which will immortalize his name. To cure
| a disease, doctors treated it locally, topically.
; Was it the kidneys that were deranged? Or
, the liver? Or the stomach? Or the lungs?
I Straightway they proceeded to prescribe for
j kidneys liver, lungs or stomach, not know
ing that the evil was contained in the blood,
which feed llios organs with its life giving
stream, and that to arrest the disease at its
very seat and centre, they should purify that
vital fluid, and leave the rest to nature. This
lis the secret of Dr. Holleway's astonishing
success in all parts of the world. He purifies
the blood and health follows.
Lei any sick person, who has "suffered
many things of many physicians," and ob
tained no benefit, give heed to these words
or ours, ana try rraiMWSy's riffs—ilTfe ii in
ternally affiicted, or Holloway's Ointment, if
he is eufferiug from wounds or sores. He
will thank us for our advioe, and rejoice that
the Professor '.as arrived in this country, and
opened an extensive establishment in New
York, which promises to rival his mammoth
one in London.— U. S. Journal.
B. P. FORTNER, Auctioneer,
Will sell on (lie 6th of March, the personal
properly of Peter Menach, in Bloom town
ship.
On the 7th of same month, the personal
properly of David Reed, in Locust township.
On the 8:h of same month, the personal
I properly ofEphraim Drum in Franklin town
i ship.
I On tl.e 10th and 11th of March, the per
■ sonal properly of Lloyd Thomas, in Frank
! lin township.
; On the 12th of same month, the personal
property of Lafayette Reilz.
' On the 13th the personal property of Ad
am Sironp, ip Hemlock township.
On the 15th the personal property of O. P.
Teilsworth, in Franklin township.
On the 17th the farming stock of Robert
Stiff, in Cooper twp., Montour 00.
On the 18th the personal properly of the
late Daniel Snyder, dec'd, in Bloomsburg.
On the 19th and 20th the personal properly
of Andrew KuhiT, in Bloomsbnrg.
On the 21et the personal property of Sam
uel Rupert, irr Union township, Schuylkill
I county.
On the 22i the personal properly of Jesse
Shannon in Bloom township.
| On ine2slh the farming stock of Hamilton
Clark, in Rush township, Northumberland
couuty.
On the 26th the personal property of Na
thaniel Overdorf.
Oil the 27th the personal properly of Thoa.
Clayton, in Franklin township.
On the 28th and 29th the merchandise of
i Chrislain Shuman, in Beaver township.
| On the 31st and Ist dny of April, the en
tire team and tavern stock of Reese Fair
man, Light Street.
On the 4th of April (he personal property
of Wm. P. Smith, in Cattawissa township.
Persons who desire the services of B.
P. FORTNER as Auctioneer will do well
to engage him before advertising the date of
their eale.
LEONARD S.STEINMAN, Auctioneer
WILL BELL
On ihe 7ih of March, the household and
kitchen furniture of Moses May in Blooms-
I burg.
On the 10th & 11th of March, the real and
persontl property of Peter Plank in Ringtown,
Schuylkill county.
On the 20th of March, the household and
kitchen fcrnilure of Abraham Terwiiliger in
Bloomsburg.
On the 28d of March, ihe house and lot
of James Ralston, jr., dec'd, in Bloomsburg,
for B. F. Hartman, guardian.
Mr. Steinman will alto sell at private sale
Seventeen shares of the Stock of lh Berwick
Bridge Company.
%W Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, the veteran
Frtt Soil Congress from Ohio,
hS published in l Relational F.ra a teller de
clining a re-election.
HTGetling-brighter and brighter—'.he Bea
ver Star. Long may it shine!
Holloway' t Ointment and Pills, an undoubt
ed Remedy for Asthma. —Ellis ,WU*on,
of Brooklyn, New York, had TOT five years
very severe attacks of a-thma, which depri
ved him of bodily rest night and day; the
cough at choked Jtfind,
safe either eating or drinking, and his fam
ily were dieuasssd. beyond roeasnre to tea
him gradually reduced to almost a skeleton.
! Hhllowaylj Pill* in hnrVasby were as usual
cfiicaoiour. This gentleman used them for
eleven weeks, and they efiected a perfect
I cure ; he feels himself stronger now-than he
j has been for the lad fifteen years.
'•> seAiß&ssMßi 11
i On the 27th ultimo, by the Rev. J, A. Dc
Mover, Mr..lnviN D. JCMNE to Miss HARHIKT I
E. KCEI.UB, both of Rohrsburg, Col. Co. A
On the 28it nit.,by Rev. Win. J. Eyar, Mr.
J. ISAAC OVER, and Miss HARRIET FsTrewlAN,
i both of Locust town-hip, Col. Co.
On the same day by the same. Mr. JAMES
VOCIIT, of May berry township, Montour Co.,
and Miss F.MKMNR TITZWORTH, of Shsruokin,
Nortli'd Co.
Ir. Cambra, Lnz. Co., nn TfrursJay, Feb'y
21st by Rev. I. Bafil, Mr. DAVID SAVAOB, and
Miss RACHEL MCHEKBT, both of Fishing
creek township, Col. Co., Pa.
On the morning ofaAe 20th ult., by Rev.
Mr. Axteli, Ilev SAAMUTI, BARNES, (Metho
dist Clergyman,) of Berwick, Pa., and Miss
GRACIA A. STONE, pi Moritpeligr, V.
In Nescopeck, Luz. Co,, on the 21th oh.,
by Rev. I. BahT, Mr. MARTIN BARTER, Juil.,
and' Miss HESTER LARISH, both of iho former
pUoe. '-I *■
In 3erwiok, on the 28th uh.. by Rev. T.
Bahl, Mr. RICHARD HUBERT, and M as MARV
ANN NUNUBESSER, both of Lime Ridge.
1 NOTICE.
THE public is hereby notified not to trust
I or harbor my wife ELIZA ANN on my ac
' count, as after this date I shall not pay any
debts contracted by her.
DANJEL FUNCK.
Locust township, March 1, 1856.
New Wholesale Drug Store,
A'o. 20 Soulh Second Street,
PIUUDEL^HU.
TV SPENCER THOMAS, IMPORTER,
■f' l * Maiiufaolurer. and Deider ir. Drugs,
j Medicines, Chemicals, Acids, Dye Stuffs,
! Paints, Oils, Colors, White Lead,
French and American While Zinc, Window-
Glass, Glasswarp, Varnishes, Brushes, Instru
ments, Ground Spices, Whofe Spices, and all
other articles usually kept by Druggists, in
j eluding
| Borax, Indigo, Glue, Shellac, Potash,
j kr. &c. &c. All orders by mail or otherwise
I promptly attended to.
COUNTRY MERCHANTS
are invited to call and examine our stock be
j.fore purchasing elsowhere.
C? GOODS sent to any of the Wharves or
j Rail Road Stations. Prices low and goods
j warranted.
j Philadelphia, March 6 1856-ly.
Premium Improved
! Super-Phosphate of £iime.
,-rpiuu csajLv gn ulih SSISEWSI.,< ■ ■■■
i JL ed by Agricultural Societies, was given
I to this superior article, at the last Pennsylva-
I nia Stale Fair, at Harrisburg, as a Ferti'izdr
of the best quality for
Wheal, Corn, Oat*, Grass & Potatoes,
Rasing Heavy Crops, and greatly Improving
. the soil. The subscriber respectfully informs
Farmers and Dealers that ho is prepared to
supply the Spring demand at the old price.
AGENTS WANTED.—A liberal discount
allowed. ALSO,
No. 1 PERUVIAN & MEXICAN GUANO.
POUDKETTE AND LAND PLASTER.
Oils, Candles, Soap, ifc.
! Of the best quality, at lowest market rs^es.
JOHN L. POME ROY,
j 9 St 10 South Wharves, below Market St.
Philadelphia.
' CP-Farmers can load on two private alleys,
; and avoid the crowded Wharf,
j March 4, 2856—3 m.
Public bale of Real Estate.
! -1N pursuance ol an order of the Orphan*'
I Court ol Columbia county, on
Saturday the 29th day of March last.,
I at 2 o'clock, P. M., Hiram R. Kline, Admin
istrator, Sir., of Wiiliam Patterson, late of Or
ange township, in said county deceased, will
; expose to sale by publio vendue upon the
: premises
*fl Tract of Land,
' situate in Fishingcreek township, Columbia
j county,containing about SEVENTY ACRES,
adjoining land of Amos Spayd, Gold
! er, Elias McHenry and the heirs of John Laz
arus. The propeity is very valuable as a
mill-seat, and there are now in it a large
, a Saw Mill, a two story frame dwelling house
and other out buildings. It is the best water
privilege in the County, and has all Fising
creek as a feeder without a dam. It is six
i miles above Orangeville, and on the waters
! of Raven Creek, late the estate of said de
ceased, situate in the township of Fishing
creek and county aforesaid.
H. R. KLINE, ADM'R.
By order of the Court.
JACOB EYERLY, Clerk.
Bloomsborg, March 4, 1856.
"PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
IN pursuance of an order of the Orphans
* Court of Columbia county, Joseph Hartzel
Guardian of the estate of Eliza Fisher, Jacob
Fisher and Peter Fisher, miner children ot
John Fisher, la'e of Beaver township, Col.
county, deceased, will on
SA TURD A Y, the 29 th day of MARCH
inst., at 1 o'clock in the afternoon expose to
public sale at Mainville, the interest of the
said wards (being the undivided one fifteenth
part for each ward) of a certain message or
tract of land situate in Main township, Col
umbia county, containing altogether
£LS£><3) a
adjoining lands of Jacob Fisher and Jaoob
Sim in an, winch it hardly improved, but on
which there are no buildings.
At the same lime ar.d place, Henry Hart'
7.01, Guardian of the estate of Lydia Fisher
and Josiah Fisher, minor children of the
said John Fisher, will also, by virtue of a
similar order of lbs Orphans Court of Col
county, expose to public sale the interest of
the said Lydia Fisher and JoSiah Fisher,
(being the ondirided one fifteenth perl of
the whole for each ward) jn the same pre-
T" a- , „ JOSEPH HARTZEL,
Guardian of Eliza, Jacob and Peter Fisher.
HENRY HARTZEL,
Guardian of Lydia and Josiah Fisher.
N. B. The interest of Sarah Fiaher, lite
widow ol John Fisher, deceased, and mother
of the above wards, will be sold at the same
time.
Main lownshlp, March 4, iB6.