STAR OF THE NORTH. g 1. R. W. WEAVER,, EDITOR. lilooiu*l>ui{r, TlmrMlityj[ iliutli 20, 18.16 UFMUCU ATIC ifsfs ( I UITTA I luhiT CANAL CO.MMI-SIONEn, GEORGE SCOTT, of. Columbia County. GENERAL, JACOB FRY, Jr., of Montgomery Co. ,( ! J J (t'jtvproa UENKRAL, TIMOTHY IVI:S. ,f Cotter County. GREKN-liVt l> JRAlAlllsV. The bob-tail says he can't stand it apy long er to see us get more offices than any other man iu .the coqnty. His trouble reminds the reader of the Frenchman, who, when the ser vant told him there were three new hoy* at home,crushed his hat over his eyes and rush ed out with the exclamation, "by gar me put .a stop to dis." He barks excruciatingly to think he made such a mistake in selling him self as a tool to the Know-Nothings, and can't get his share ol the offices. Poor fellow ! Last soring his Know-Nothing keepers kissed him ou to eat up the Democratic Standing Committee of this County, because it select ed a Delegate to the Harrisburg Convention. But to show in how ridiculous a light his rage was viewed, the Standing Committee this year went oil just as if the SUII still arose in the east, and selected a delegate in the same manner as last year. Rut, of course, as the bob-tail could receive no recognition in n party whose candidates for three years past he has opposed, not even a crumb tell to Itim; and bis blood boiled over to see our name on the State Central Committee. It was more than Ixis frail nature could stand; and so in the agony of his suffering lie fires away—as he did at the Committee last year—doubtless with the same result. As to Hie Auditor Generalship, we never asked any delegate or other person to support us for that nomination, but wrote distinctly to a friend that while another gentleman whom we named was a candidate we desired thut no vote should be given for us. If Mr. Scon had not been a candidate for Canal Commis sioner with fair prospscts, it was the design of the delegates from this district to vote for us; and we would have certainly received more votes than the fellow who goes for the vol unteer got when he tried to be a candidate for Canal Commissioner and failed to get his own county. • His envy of our luck is no doubt sharpen-1 c ed with the reflection over that Mercantile j r Appraisership which he twice begged for end i s twice got—over the left. Perhaps his dreams ; f were disturbed with visions of that Revenue i | Commissioner's office which lie made prep- I r arations to fulfil, and was sure of—until an- £ other man was appointed. Or it may be that I ; he only felt a little soie to remember the mail j I messengerslnpbetwecn Bloomsburg and Cat- | t tawissa which be felt sure of, alter ho had r blowed the Post Office Deportment into the , middle of next week, until our friend Pren- j | ties turned up Moil-messenger. j t And these were all appointments, 100, old i fellow, besides about forty others yon were ; after. So you had better have a guorl opin- '■ ion about appointments. The only difference , between us seems to be that you try for ; the appointments and wo pel thetn. It is j certainly Irue that we have doelinnd Hnd re signed more offices than you ever held; nnd j auch as we held have always been attended to with fidelity, so that we received others Without asking lor them. Nona of ours ever yet ended in a "red box," an execution for the public money, and a special act of the Legislature for relief; as did the only one, we believe, you ever held. New Arrangement. We have now made such arrangements that the "STAR" will reach nearly all its sub scribers in the county north and east of this ; place on Wednesday afternoon. The offices j along the Cambra mail route will receive tbeir packages on fhul day, and so will also . the offices along the river between this place and Wilkes Barre. This will include Light , Street, QygnneviUa. Hew Columbus, I afitf Cambra on the one line, and Espy town, j Lime Ridge, Berwick, Beach Haven, Sliick shinr.y and Wilkes Barre on the other. Cat- | tawissa papers will always be mailed in j time to reach that place by the cars on j Wednesday afternoon. We have tried this 1 arrangement for three weeks past, and find J that it suits our subscribers better than the | old one. The "Star" will now reach Buck horn, Jersey town and White Hall onThnrs day morning, and Stillwater, Benton and Coles Creek on Friday morning, while under the old style it was sometimes nine days up on its journey to teach the three places last named. Ir WE CAN by any moarilt find room next wee* Mir SO lung a Joeumcnt, rro rril+a pnblish the powerful speech of Senator Case, ' on Ameriian relations with Great Britain, It is not political, as that word is generally under stood, but a national and statesmanlike produc lion of the highest and boldest character. FOR MUSICIANS. —Whoever wishes to buy • superior new piano forte or melodeon will do well to call at this office. We can put him upon the track of a good instrument ami cheap. £7* The operatots at the Montour Iron Works are "on a strike," to the number ol several hundred, asking for back pay, and ■n arrangement for monthly pay in the lu lure. iy To-morrow (Friday) the township elections will lake place in the several dis tricts of this county. GF" Petitions are in circulation fn Rush township, Northumberland county, to have thaUtownship annexed to Montourcounty. |y The Democratic Stale Central Com' inlttee is-called to meet at the Merchants' Hotel *n neM fiatubdajr. -v' fMi ', - tSf The epicures et Danville feast on fresh •had already. Correspondent* of the "Star." From Philadelphia- PHILADELPHIA. March 17, '56. ■ The details of the terrible Calamity on the Delaware will reach you ie time more fully than 1 can give them. There were about 100 passengers on the steamboat, of which about 30 were women aiul children. Ten are known to be drowned or burnt to death, and twenty others yet missing. There were many instances of heroism, and upipy claims in that way which ate unfounded. The fire seoiijs to have really been an unavoidable accident; at least there was as much care as 1 is common on river s camhoats. The trade book sales close to-day, At no previous sales did so many books change hands. The publishing business has grown more than any other within the past few years, and this is a good sign of the increas ing wealth, leisure and intelligence of the times. Politically, everybody seems to take it for granted that Mr. Buchanan is to be tho next President, and JRiehard Vaux the next May or of the City. The honest portion of the old line Whigs will voto with the Democrats, and there will be such a division of the mu nicipal ofiiccs as shall he fair and just. This arrangement will not bo made secretly nor by collusion, but iu a manly and open man ner. For every avaricious and looso-ioinled fellow that the the Know Nothings have ta ken from our party we shall get two respec table and honest Whigs. The landlords who were sentenced to im prisonment and fine by Judge Kelley last week for spiling liquor, carried their case to the Supreme Court, but that tribunal sus tained llio opinion and action of the Court below. 11l the Griswold divorce case, the Court refused to annul the decree of divorce which had heen made in favor of the hus band by ihc wife's consent. On each ol the business thoroughfares of llio city there is every indication of a heavy spring Hade. The business is later than us ual, owing to the severe winter and the im pediments to navigation and railroads; but the prospect is (hat the sum total will exceed that of any previous season (or years past.— In almost every department of trade the preparations for active operations were su perior to former years, in consequence of the delay, and, when buyers arrived they were enabled to purchase with greater facilities than formerly. Slocks were, and ure now, well assorted, but, it -the demand for goods continues, it will not lake long to absorb many of lite styles of dry goods, boots and shoes, straw goods, lac. The merchants from the West are making very satisfactory payments; so, also, with a portion of South ern buyers, but, us a genetul thing, the South is backward. The number of stran gers in town, at present, is very large. Near ly all the hotels are we/I fjlled, and, in some instances, the crowd makes the quarters un comlottable. I have to-day seen a specimen of the new promenade over-dress for ladies which is now all the rage in Paris. It is a close fittii g coal, like the New York suttoul worn by gentlemen —only not quite'so long. Pearl drab oattlietnire or pelisse cloth ate the ma terials from which it is preferred. The eut is double-breasted, with four pearl or passe menterie bullous on each side of the lapels, and corresponding holes in lite lapels ; and two buttons at the waist behind, at the junc tion of the box-olails and side seams. The collar is quite small. The sleeves are cut in the pagoda style—that is, with a very little fullness at the arm-hole, and formed to fit the arm nearly to the elbow, from whence they widen so as to become very large and flowing at the wrist, where they are turned over to form a round cuff of three inches depth. For a waist sixteen inches in length, the skirt should be About eighteen inches long, and eut i:i a regular circle, to sew with out fulness to the bodice, and still fall grace fully over a hooped skirt of moderate ampli tude. The linings are of silk serge to match, and the edges are bound with floe galloon. There are two diagonal pockets in the skirls. I describe it thus minutely, baoa Chestnut (street will soon swarm with ibem. 1 be LlccDke Bill. HARRISBURG, March 17. —The House Com- j miltee of Conference on the License Bill in forms nic that they concede;! much more than the Senate Committee, but that an in separable obstacle to an arrangement was, that the three members of the House refus ed to make the ratio of taxables in the coun try more than 125, and also refused to raise the minimum of country licences above $25. COOKING WITHOUT FIRE. —The last inven tions a plan for cooking without fire, de. scribed in the Scientific American. The in vention is a combination of tin cooking dish es, placed one üboye another, 'he bottom of one vessel filling on lite top part of tho dish "below. In the lower dish of all, a small quantity of quick-lime is placed, and then, by means of a lube, cold water is introduced upon the lime. Chemical action generates intense heal, whereby the articles on the dishes are quickly cooked, ready for the la | bte. A "YOUNG LADY," from Philadelphia, has been culling, up a great many shines in Pe tersburg, Va., where she had put on a pair of trowsers, with other habilaments to match, and was sporting it like a fine yonng gent.— The father found her thus unsexed, and took her home. This interesting specimen of feminine precocity was only sixteen years old. The progressive Spirit. —The Legislature of New Mexico has passed an act to create and organizb the Atlantic ar.d Pacific Railroad Company, with a capital slock of ten mill ions of dollars. Very good for a beginning, but the amount of capital should be multi plied by twenty, t'o come nearer the actual amount required to contract such a road. The Montour American, the new K. N. pa per at Danville, in an able editorial, declines the supput of Fillmore and says truly that "endsr no circumstances can this Stale be made to assume and maintain a Pro-alavery position." Correspondence of the "Star." FltyM DEI..4WAItE. MUJORD, Del., March 14, '56. Mn. WCAVKR, — Dear Sir: —Agreeably to promise I set down lo give you and your readers a peep at this, (in many respects,) interesting Stale, viz: Delaware. The im pression made upon tho mind of an individ ual who has lived all his days among the hills and mountains of New England or Penn sylvania on first corning into this beautiful peninsula, Is striking indeed, and something like that which I suppose is experienced by those who for the first lime visit the great prttries of the west. On the map, the little Stato of Delaware makes but a small figure; but in the remarks about to be made, I shall pay no regared lo Mason fy Dixon's Line, but lake ill to view the whole Peninsula—from tho Pennsylva nia line to the extreme point of CnpeChnrles. This is a region without mountains, and ex cept along the Brandywine, without any ele vation of sulficieiit importance to deserve |>he name of bill. The whole is almost a uni form level, broken only by sluggish water courses that drain the country into the two bays that bound it east and west. The length of this peninsula is about two hun dred miles, and the mear breadth about six ty miles. All together it would make a beau tiful, uniform and convenient Slate, and at some day the boundary may bso adjusted as to embrace t lie whole of it. This should be done. There are now about two hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants in the whole territory above indicated. There are three qualities of soil—that of tho extreme northern part, bordering upon Pennsylvania, is a consistant loam, and is very productive in wheat and all the cereals and grasses peculiar to the best cultivated portion of your own Stale. A considerable part is a sandy loam—very easily tilled, and capable of producing the finest crops, and all the f-uils of this particular latitude. The balance, and probably the largest portion of the whole, is very sandy. This sandy soil is very easily tilled; and is really, all things considered, worth double that the broken, hilly lands of your country tire. All 60uth of the middle of Sussex County in this State the timber is principly yellow pine, a tree very different in its appearance from the yellow pine of Pennsylvania. Here the growth is free anil rapid, and the appear ance of lite tree as fair and symmetrical as the white pine of your country. All north of the point, or line above indicated, the timber consists of oak, hickory, walnut, pop lar, sweet and sour gum, maple, and in some sections chestnut. There are eight kinds of oak. In the sandy, and sandy loam regions the only grass of spontaneous growth is a tail hard grass called sedge grass, of very little value, and generally lound growing in old fields long since worn out, and thrown out, us they term it here, lo rest. There are some depositee of bog-iron-ore in the low lands of Sussex county in this State, from which a very superior quality ot iron lias been made ; but at present there is nothing done—no iron works, or mining in operation. This region is the Yaukeedom of the South, j Settled at firs', by the staid Scandinavian, this I ' whole region, Irorn its open and accessible ' character, was soon fully taken up and set- ' tied, not however as thickly settled as New EnizlanJ. Though with the same degree of homogeniousiiess as it regards the people.— There is no mixing here of Irish, Liutch, English, Yankee and Jersey as in Pennsyl vania, but all are the dependents of the first settlers here. It is owing to this circum stance, and (be almost entire non-intercourse that lias rubsisled between this and other Stutes, that has left this whole peninsula, with the exception of the northern extremi ly, at least fifty years "behind the limes." Of the advantages which this country pos sesses, and the inducements which it offers to those who contemplate emigrating from the more densely*peopled teillemenis of the north nod east, I shall have something to say (or write) in a subsequent communication. Yours truly, D S . The Prometheus at New Orleans. Two Weeks I.nler from California. NEW ORI.EANS, March 12—The Steamship Pionrtethens has arrived with San Fraocisco dales to the 20th ult. She left San Juart on ihe bill Inst. The steamship Northern Eight left on the same day lor New York, with 5300,000 in gold. A shock of an earthquake occurred a! San Francisco on the 15th ult., and caused some slight damage. It was felt throughout the Stale. The appointment of Mr. McDuffle, as IT. S. Marshal of the Northern District, has caus ed much indignation. He is charged jvith Peiug a professional gambler, and strong pe titions have been signed for his removal. It is supposed that President Pierce has been imposed upon, or made the appointment by accident. The Indians are still committing outrages in Oregon and Washington territories. Nu merous volunteer companies are mustering to act against the marauders. The question in relation to a State govern ment for Oiegon, is to go to the people by a special election, to be held in April. Central America. General Walker has seized all the boats belonging to Ihe Transit Company, and, after annulling the charter, has granted a new charter to another company. Ii is said that Costa Rica has not received Col. Scblessiuger, and there is strong oppo sition there to the foreign party in Nicaragua. Col. Kinney has published a letter in sub stantiation of his claim in Central America. From Japan. The schooner Page arrived at San Fran oisco from Japan, bringing most distressing intelligence. It is reported that the city of Jeddo was destroyed by an earthquake on the 11th of November. One hundred thou sand houses, it is estimated, were demolish ed, burying about thirty thousand human be ings beneath the ruins. W Teh poof men can sleep tranquilly upon a mat; but two kings are not able to live at peace in a quarter of the world. REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Mod (lord's Arithmetical Series- The Juvenile Mental Arithmetic : designed for the use of Primary and Common Schools The American Intellectual Arithmetic: tie signed for the use of Schools and Acade mies. Tite Practical Arithmetic: designed lor the use of Schools and Academies. The American Ehilosophical Arithmetic: de signed for the use of Advanced Classes in Schools and Academies. By JNO, F. STOP DARD, A. M. New York: Sheldon, Blake luuit & Co., Lancaster: llirain Young & Co. This series of Books have brcome among the most popular issued, now being used in the school districts of some States entire.— They are atl carefully designed to conduct the learner from initiatory steps, by an easy and progressive gradual system, to the more advanced attainments in Mathematical Sci ence. The Lancaster Express says: we have examined the series carefully, and, basing our opinion oil considerable experience as a teacher, we have no hesitation in pronoun cing them superior lo any other series that has come under our notice. The Author, Prof. Stoddard, is now Principal of the Lan caster County Normal Suhool, at Millersville, a responsible trust for which he is peculiarly and eminently qualified : and for this reason this excellent series of Books possess addi tional interest lo our readers. A whole vol ume of the meat exalted recommendations from the beßt Educators in the country, who have used this series, might be given, sus taining the opinion we have above given, but we hove room for only one or two. The following testimony comes from the Princi pals of ten of the Public Schools of Brooklyn city, and whose names are subscribed to tbe copy before us : '•Having submitted ''Stoddard's Intellectu al Arithmetic" lo the practical lest of the school room, we have no hesitation in ex pressing a strong preference for it over al' Text-books on the subject. The author has taken a decided step in advance of those who have preceded him ; and his labors are likely to do much towards popularizing a study, the importance ot which as a mental discipline can hardly be over estimated. The works formerly in use were deficient of systematic arrangement, were neither gradual enough in their transitions, nor sufficiently compre hensive and varietl -as regards their exam ples. SlO idard's on the other hand, is an eminently practical hook ; philosophical ar rangement, natural and lucid in its analysys, original in its design, adapted at the com mencement to the comprehension of begin ners and carrying the pupil by easy inductive steps through the rno6t complicated opera lions ; it seems invulnerable to criticism, and leaves little ornothingto beuecomplt-hed by future authors on th e subject. The exam ples sre.numerous and-vatied, embracing all cases likely to arise in business, and thero are not less than fifty pages of questions ca pable of Algebraic solution. The Chapters on Percentage, Interest- and Discount, are worthy of special commendation. It these the author has an entirely original plan, which enables the pupil to solve mentally, with perfect ease, questions which, without this drilling, few are able to manage even on the slate. In view of these striking and ex | cedent,features, we warmly commend I'rof. | Stoddard's work lo all who are interested in I the eduratiouof youth." David Burbank, Principal of the Munro Collegiate institute, (Elbridge, N. Y.,) thus writes to the Publishers, Messrs. Sheldon, Blakeman k Co. •