STAB OP TBI MBTI. _ ■" .OT'l l. •• • ip-.- lit . i. *. ur, mm. Illuoraaharc, Wedaescr, Feb. 18, 1887. T-Un VMTK OF HISTORY. 'On oar firM page lo day we publish a graph ic extract from Macaulay's History of Kng- | land depicting British Know Nolhingistn in the reign of'Charlea if. It shows how the frailtiea of bnman nature ate alike in all agei . and coanlriea; and bow moral epidemics prevail and return again, like those diseases which afflict the physical system. If men i were wire to read the history of the past they j 1 would know the first symptoms of a returning ] delusion as well as the physician discovers . i -disorder in the feverish pulse of bie subject- i The man of medicine relief on bie history of I past cases and cores, and this inen ought to i do more generally in cases of moral maladies. j i It would sooner effect a cure, for the expert- i fice ol the past would teach an admonition i to observe the true spirit of human brother- i hood. | The history of 1669 in Old England runs , very much like that of 1854 in Acts England, j The Pspe of Rome was dressed up as the I great scare-crow on borh occasions by men j who were utterly destitute of religious send- • i roeiit; and crafty, unscrupulous demagogues ' , deluded those who aopposed every body as ! t honest as themselves. Bedloe and Csrstai.-e f were the prototypes of the Joe Hiss and Kal- ( tcch of this day ; and Oates reminds us of ■, Beecher taking up subscriptions in his Church | Inr Sharp's rifles to be used against hiscoun- , hymen of the Sooth, lit almost every little a town we had imitators of Bedloe and Cir staire on a small scat-', with their knot of de luded followers in dark dens. To these they t pictured Democracy as worse than ever Fa- I (list pictured purgatory. The fanaticism of; f 1669 added to our language the words "aliam" \ and "mob"—that of 1854 manufactured the f classification of "Know Nothing." j But there is a wise provision in the nature g of human society thai such delusions must I t be as short-lived ss they are mischievous and - ridiculous; for otherwise society would be consumed by the beat of their fury. In lbs , reign of James I; Oates and his accomplices i came lo an ignominious end. The fury of j Protestant persecution invoked the rage of | i Popish revenge. The outs of Charles H were i the ini under James I ; and while under the ; former reign there flourished the infamy ol I Oates, under the latter it excited the inho-, inanity of Jeffreys. The moral world has its j t tide of like the ebb and j ' flow of ! ' lowed of the wiPv 11 The rtjMgjßferTnttn...Wt. i Charles II; and theTroWnMPHNSMftI • under Charles by the Popish persecutions un der James. In our more humane age perse cution is softened down lo proscription ; bat Ibe tides of human passion and bigotry uu ioitunately yet ebb and flow as in the darker daysof yore. Next week we will copy from the same book lha account of Oates' downward ca reer. These limes for cool thought are the season for men to read yjpon this subject in * a spirit of candor. CORPORATIONS. - Honest Sidney Smith of merry memory should be among ua to touch off ttre mania lor incorporations. In our day nothing can be done without a charter. The doctor who btings yon into the world must he thegrrdu ate of a chattered institution. The swaddling r-loths and baby-jumpers of the infant are manufactured by an incorporated Company. The trinket that first m life delights it is made by ■ corporation. The ramble of the child ; is over ibe grounds of a chartered Company. The youth is educated at ar incorporated Academy, and graduates at a chartered Col- j lege. The' man does business by "Act of Assembly," snd worships his God in an in corporated church. His food to health, and his patent medicine in sickness are provided for him by a corporation. The earth s > tread j on, and the waters of oor rivers are given to ), corporations by oor legislatures. Your mili- I tary companies drill sccorditig to Act ol As- I sembly, end a fire in yoor city mast uot be 1 extinguished by any one bat an incorporated ' monopoly. Sinners are converted and poi- ' son is sold by a charter. Yoor legislatures 1 legitimize spawns of grog-shops, and incor- ' porate inooufislming establishments by the ! ' wholesale. Yoor charter* granted yearly are ' no longer numbered, but are weighed by the i' ton for transportation over the State. Bosi- , ' ness no longer depends upon enterprise and industry for success, but upon the protection | ' ■of a charter. From the cradle to the grave— from childhood tooldage—everything around | is done by corporations. And when the life i it worn oet of us, an incorporated Company I of physicians helps us out of the world, and i our bodies are incorpoiated into the dust of a chartered Cemetery. Canal Commissioner, lite Harrisburg correspondent of the Pub lic Ledger, in speaking of the next State Con vention, says:—"Nimrod Strickland, of Ches-: ter county, will again be presented as a can didate for Canal Commissioner. He bat failed several times, as (be best inen often de. Search the State over, and no belter man can be found in it. Ha is an honor to the patty to which he belongs. This is Ibe itMimon) of friead and foe." APPOIXTMCST.—Gov. Pollock has appoint ed Isaac S. MONBOC Notary Public at Cata wissa in this county. We were sorry to see our friend oppose Democratic nominations last fall after be helped to make them, but uow we are right glad to see that the Oppo sition treat him well. TRs appointment was a very fit one for Hie Governor lo make, and ; wilt satisfy everybody. tW Hon. H. B. Wright is Revenue Com- J mtsstoocr from Loserne county. The Board j is now tn session at Hanuburg. P^MHMNNNNAMMI I GOVERNORS VTIO Gov. Pollock has used ifta veto power ap art taratil occasion* already this winter. He vetoed, among other 1h.n.,.n set to Of gnnize certein election districts in Columbia ind ?rhoyJhill counties, upon the ground that tha Courts has* the power and art the proper tribunal la arrange these matters Tha sot had reference to Oenyoghsm town ahip la this county, and a special Court of Quarter Sessions will hare to be kahl in oor county on the 2lst inal., to enable the citi zens of that district to hold a valid election. Tha Governor at the same lime vetoed a geceral art which would have given the power to fix places of holding the election to the Legislature as was the case a few years ago. A GOOD APTOINTWENT.—Those of onr read- ! era who heard the Hon. D. A. Smalley of | Vermont address the Mass Meeting in j Bloon.sborg last fall will bs pleased to learn that he hat received 'torn the President (he appointment to the United States Judgeship for the District of Vermont, left vacant by the death of Judge Prentiss. He is a gentleman and a scholar; and it is a gratification for our political friends to know that the Demo, cratio speakers who were invited here were all men, like Dickinson and Smith, of the highest character and ability. No black guard like Vord was allowed to disgr.ica our party. PAT*i. ACCIDENT.—Owen M'Can, a brake- ' man on the Williamsporl and Klmira railroad, was thrown from the lender, at Ralston, on I the 9th instant, and insiadlly killed. Two j freight cars passed over his abdomen, neatly ! cutting his body in two pieces. He was ' about 30 yeats eld, and leaves a wife and ; two or three children in Elmira, who were entirely dependent opuu his labors for their j support. A HIST TO ADVERTISERS.— Warren's cele- I brsled blacking manufactory has ceased to be. The business has "died" out simply I from a resolution taken by the proprietors ' who succeeded the spirited original of the ! firm "to discontinue advertising in the news- ! papers as a useless expense." The conse- j sequence might have beeu forveen. The ' firm of "Warrso" has ceased to exist within ! one generation. MAD DOQS.—At Danville there has re- j cently been much alarm about mad dogs. j Several are said to have been killed, and ! many others to be bit. The Borough Coun cil have decreed that ell dogs must be muz zled, or else thpy may be killed. Mr" The reason so muchenoney goes out of the county is that many merchants do not advertise at all, and vety few advertise judt- 1 ciously. Let people know that you have ! jttst what tl cy want, and they wilt boy at , ty. ha, this" Winter been angagtd in lecturing. on Astronomy and illustrating the diMMiaf; with a camca obscura. Last week he lec tured at Danville on Cosmology. trr The Lancaster Bank has made an as signment qf all its effects. The note holders are to be saved first, the stockholders next, | and the depositors fall behind. Mr. Bach man, the late President of the Bank, has been arrested for embezzling the funds of the institution, and held to bail in 812,000. tW Bayard Taylor describes an apparatus for keeping the seat warm while traveling in railroad cars which he met with in Germany. Long, flat boxes, of tin or zinc, covered with , carpeting snd filled with hot sand, and placed upon the floor, between the seats, so that the passengers on both sides can make uso of lliem. l'be&e boxes were mildly warm whan the cars stalled, and not qnite cold when they arrived at Hamburg, eight hours after ward. 17* Rev. Mr. Harvey, Methodist minister in Carbond&le, Pa., who a few years ago turned spiritualist, and has been holding re ligions services connected with the tappings, has been brenght to see the error of his ways; and finally he and his ptincipal fol lowers have come out in a card, and owned •beir conviction tffat the whole is an impos ture and a delusion. One poor girl, who j sows for a livelihood, was persuaded that she was the spiritual wife of the great Napo- , ieon. The spirits Aid her that sho must | dress more richly and elegantly; and she who had been most demure and plain, sp "peered in the xmi, drnstsd in the most gaudy colors, to the great astrAiishment of ber many friends. Sbe wss about ilirling with Mr. Harvey and others for Frar.cc when the aflair exploded. THE LATE MS. BROOKS. —The death of Hon. Preston S. Brooks created a great eenanlion in South Carolina. On the arrival of the news st Columbia the Mayor ordered the town bell to be tolled, and the exercise* at the South Carolina College were immediately suspend ed. At Charleston a large palmetto tree, standing on one of the streets, was draped in mourning, and the fi*gs of the shipping in port snd on the publ-c buildings placed at half mut. HP it appears that the coal extracted from lbs mine* of Pennayivania the last year, has been equal to lb* sum of forty millions of dollars, which is well op to the yield of the gold mines of California*. A GOOD IDS*.— lt it said thai a certain town in New England, in ordtr to get rid of sup porting a pauper, elected him to a seat in a lbe Legislators. Wonder whether Lebo, Mean er and Wagonseller were elected on the same principle. MASSIMO FAULT.—A mother and four daughters, all of whom reside in Northamp ton, have, collectivity approached the altar of Hymen seventeen times! The mother has bad four husbands, one of her daugh ters four, and lbs otbeit three each. JI- ..ua.'l .I—MI > r nrtMiiim af the Common school Report The innunl report* of the Bohool Buperin ter.dant* for th* ysst ending Jon* 185# hav. been feesivad and present much InieraAlftl matter lot rsftsetion. Th* mom-trouble seem to exist It, Bradford county, ami the moil op pojiion cam* from thera last winter. Th< Bneka cannty rapori contain* lit* fo'lowin; pmsgo< "An sxposhion of (ha condition of a few schools, a* extracted from my 'note book, will give a* juet a *iaw of them a* cap b< obtained ; and by exposing the defeat* c> *oma and showing the* goodness of otbare moy cante the plan* of operation in the for mr to be (banned and thoae of lb* latter ft be adopted. "In one icbool where I had drawn a ma; of Pennsylvania on the tftaclcboard, the same diagram bad remained for a year, the boat, never having been need in the iieriro. "In another not a scholar in the achoo ; could tell ine in what country he lived, ant I when I held np Holbrook'a five inch globe | the oceans on which were painted blue, ami i asked what it was, a large boy, at least 11 ! years of age, replied, 'a bird's egg!' "At one school, where I called, the teach er came to the door; it was storming severe' ly ; without sny salutation or token of recog nition, ho hastily withdrew, and by the lime my horse was lied and blanketed, and my febool apparatus placed in the door-way, be had roughly sketched a map of his own Stale on each of the two black-boards, which the ! directors bad recently procured for him.— Divesting myself of my wet het and over ! coat, I stepped to one of the boards, and ex -1 pressing tny pleasure at the interest thus | manifested in the study of geography, com menced pointing out with a ruler the bound . Aries and rivers, inquiring of the scholars al | tbe same lime what they were. I was una i ble lo gel a single answer from any of them, | because this was their firt "drill." They | interchanged sly looks with each other, as - much as to ray, 'our foxish teacher has been holed this lime.' | "At the time of my visit lo another school, j with eight good windows in the room, three | of them only had the shutters open. The 1 mephitio atmosphere was very oppressive | and ofTdnsive ; but it was not long before the | sashes of all were raised and a (ree circula : tio.t of pure air admitted. Although this was , late in the summer, the house bad not been | whitewashed this season, nor the desks, seats 1 and floors scrubbed and cleaned. Tbe room < might be fairly characterized a* filthy and | unhealthy, and but little wonder need be ex pressed that a child compos mentis, should be, as was here the case, twelve months learn ing its letters! This teacher asked me if I thought the schools throughout the County were any better than before the County Su periutendency. Judging from things about him, the question was natural enough. "Soon after this 1 visited another of an up. rorious character. There were several wfantt here who were not old enough, according tc Uu;, tp be admitted. The teacher said she nursing, I was vmaniPw nx the rato, and surprised her very much by informing bet she had no business lo have them in schoo at all." The following case from Monroe county it much like some we could give of Columbis if it would do any good ; and illustrates what kind of men taught schools before examina lions -.vera required— "There was one man who came lo me who was wiser than all the rest, with a teach' er fur examination. 'Here,' said he, is s schoolmaster I want you to inspect; he it ' good enough to teach our schools; I have •' been a school director for (ourteen years and have hired all the teachers. We don't want any law ; we dont want you lo visit on: dis trict ; we get this man chap for ten dollars and board; give him acertifiealo so be can get his money.' I then addressed tbe teachei and tried lo make myself sociable. I wished to know where his Dative place was. '1 don't know,' he auswered. His friend told him 1 only wanted to know 'where be lived when he was at home.' 'O!' said he, 'I live in Bushkili township, Northampton county.'— 'How far are your best scholars advanced in arithmetic?' 'About three miles,'said Mr, Pedagogue. His friend looking a little sur prised, put the question iu his own language j 'How far has your biggest boy ciphered?'— I 'O! I believe my biggest boy has ciphered jas far as ths single rule of jour III' There . happened to be a number of intelligent per sons present who were excited to laughter and they remarked that this and similar in stances would have a tendency to awaken the people on the subject of educr.iotr. It tt needless to say that (he old man and hit school teacher went home somewhat disap pointed." Of course wc have only selected the mosi glaring instances of ignorance and folly from the pamphlet before us, and the pnblicatior of these will, we are confident, do a greai deal o( good. Titers are hundreds of othei paragraphs, showing the progress made in al the counties in the mode of teaching, ths improvement in school-houses, and the in creased interest in education among the whole people, which are very encouraging. Lord Palmerston lately undertook (and very hap pily succeeded) to prove the fallacy of the oft-quoted line, "A little learning is a dangerous thing." He might have had new proofs to sustain hit ■ argument, il he had been able to procure a copy of our Common School Report. Foi the "little learning" that exists in many counties is certainly much batter than none , and aa an earnest of greater learning in the . future, Ilia entitled to all possible respect." Ota BULL.— This celebrated violinist, bro ken down in health attd almost reduced it poverty, is about to return lo Norway to re gain, b* aays, what he loal in America. r Heavy RUBBERY. —Hon. A. J. Douelson - who wae a candidal* for the Vice Presi ' deucy, waa robbed oil tbo sth inst., on tin i steamboat Daniel Boone, from Nashville, c - a draft OH New Orleans of four thousand dol lars; and a gold watch. 1 ' tk rfMlftm trivet. *I l usqussilonsbly irn§ that the President ' •>*< ""(Mti 10 com* Info office absolutely nn : trammeled by parijr dictation, ofthor North or kooth; and we shall be (ha last fo infrioga In any wise upon hit Jaw and olar prerrmo b„ wp d**M*Tio b. Prni. dant of iha *pfeauiNrjr, and doußtlsss lia •111 enter In good fslthOpon tho discharge of ihr dnfiaa of bit pothloff,' with a wlto regard to Iha wtllara of the whole coarrtry. For ourselves, wajhonld prafer that, in (ha •election of she. MM of department, tlx President shall be let alone to aaleot hie own men. Ae ha will bo held responsible -far the cor,duel of Iha edminiairation, into whoae handi (oarer the chief subordinate offioes may fall, n la bet just that in Iha choice of workmen he should be withoot trammel or hinderanoe. Of conrie, we all hare our preferences, and m most cases, we dure lay theie preferences are baied upon an accurate knowledge of the meo, and ptoper confidence in the fact that ihey will oatry out the measure* which the election of Mr. Buebanan waa designed to eecuie. But it will require no extraordinary charity to beliere that outers too are equally trustworthy, and equally competent with our own, and will do as much to advance the true welfare of the country, by fearleasly ad hering to the wise and wholesome features of public policy, the triumph of which was secured by tbe recent election. And whether Mr. Buchanan shall choose hi* colaborxeurs from the North or the South, Irom Virginia' or New York, is and ought to be a matter of small concern, if he shall choose wise, worthy and faithful men. He will do this, let croakers say what they 1 may. If no higher motive prompted it, a politic regard for the success of his adminis tration will ensure such a course. We have (to fears, rben, that the chief offices will fall into the hands of unworthy men, or that we shall have any need fur crimination or com plaint when the names of tbe cboseu ones are announced. We have again and again set forth in sub stance what we now say, and are determined, let the President do as he may In the selec tion of a Cabinet, to defend whatever of wis dom there shall be found in his policy at home or abroad. Were Mr. Buchanan an unknown msn, there might possibly be sorr.e occasion for anxiety as to his men and meas ures, but with a veteran officer, so able and so distinguished, at the helm, who oan doubt that even in the present crisis, he will guide us safely and surely through the perils that may encompass our course 7—Richmond En quirer. "AcKNOwi.trxisiaNTa. —Senator Steele has our thanks tor copies of Canal Commission ers' report and Slate Treasurer report. Mr. Steele as a working man in the Slate Senate, will be all that Biodhead was in the U. S. Senate, the most industrious and useful man there. We consider him the most able rep resentative of Luzerne in Harrisburg this winter. A strong party man, and a promi nent leader amougkAhem, he will siand by his parly in every nrem ito. w* should not respect him as we .to were it otherwise. But we think he wilt not permit Parly to in terfere with his duty to his constituents and the local interests of his district."— Record of the Times. GP" We clip the above paragraph from the last issue of ihe Record, and give it to our readers as a specimen of the consistency which characterizes the editor of that sheet. What a change has come over tbe spirit of his dreams ! When Mr. Steele was before the people as a candidate for the reponsible position he now adorns, this same editor who now extols him to the skies, waa at a loss to fiod language severe enough to vent bis political spleen against him. He kept ■ his rickeiy old Power Press in motion day and night, and' Sunday 100, printing band bills in which Mr. Steele was posted through out all parts of tbe county as being one of tbe vilest political sinners. No falsehoods nor station wtnrwo glaring to bo circula ted about him ; go intrigues were too base and dishonorable to be concocted, In order to prevent his election ;'the flames of perse cution burned most furiously around him ; his personal and political character was shamefully maligned; and every epithet which Ihe language could furnish, was heap ed upon bis devoted bead, by this same edi tor who now professes to have so much re spect tor him. He was accused of belonging to tbe Know-Nothings—of being a "trading politician"—of securing his nomination by unfair means—and denounced as being ut terly "unfit to represent Luzerne County in -the Stale Senate!" All this, and a great deal more, was published against Mr. Steele, by the immaculate, consistent editor of the Record, who aow considers "him tbe most able representative of Luzerue at Harris burg.—Luzerne Union. Important Arrest. About the 2lst of January, Justice Ulmer issued a warrant, on the complaint of G. S. Post, one of the conductors on the Williams port & Elraira railroad, for the arrest of Geo. W. Browning, of Leroy, Bradford county. Mr. Post charged Browning with passing on biro, in payment of fare, a counterfeit five dollar bill, of the York County Bank. The warrant was placer) in the bands of Consta ble Kemp, who proceeded in the 5 30 P. M. train to Troy, and from thence to Leroy, where he arrested Browning, and returned with him to Williameport in the next train. After a hearing before Justice Ulmer, he was committed in default of 81000 bail.— The prisoner appears to have operated in connection with Mingus and others, recently 'arrested in PMtadelpbie,and passed tbe bill for which he was arrested on bis return from 1 an interview with Mingus. He had been arrested before for tbe same offence, but re leased on bail. On being taken into one t tody, be made desperate effort* to escape and dispose of the money be bad about his person by throwing it away. Of the capital thai disposed of, one hnndred and and forty , five dollara of counterfeit York County bills, - and one hnndred, dollara in bogos quarter ) eagle* and gold dollara were recovered, and f it is expected tint much more will be found • when the enow goes oft.—Williameport Ga zette frm Ike Rubin Ledger. t IITHmtUb HdTllf HI, We presume oar hundreds of thousands (I of readers afl iter the Union, embracing largely the mareantlle eofnmoitlty, would • like to boo# what lhay are thought of by • the 'Mercantile Agency Oeperimenwthroogh- out Ihe country.' W We herewith antes the names of tbe va> I rioOi States of lbs Union; how many failures have taben place the past y**r; how thooe failure* have baeu decided upon after iovaa i ligation, regarding the honesty of the par i '•*; <1 lastly, the nembci of marabouts, i now doing business in sach Bfate, who era i recorded by the "Inquisition" as "in a pre , carious condition." f In a pre r Swindling carious States. Failures, failures, condition. New York, 708 31 ||9 Ohio, 241 10 ist Pennsylvania, 234 7 67 Massachusetts, 170 7 62 Illinois, 169 13 42 Virginia, 146 6 31 Michigan, 92 6 23 Wisconsin, 81 14 Maine, 68 10 10 Britiab Provinces, 67 6 19 lowa, 67 7 5 Connecticut, "33 14 North Carolina, S3 5 31 Georgia, 47 3 19 Maryland & Del. 44 5 8 Kentucky, 38 4 New Jeraey, 33 - f 1 Missouri, 32 2 * 6 Vermont, 32 1 16 Sooth Carolina, 31 2 3 Tennessee, 28 : 6 > Louisiana, 24 4 5 New Hampshire, 23 Rhode Island, 22 3 1 Minnesota, 21 lO 1 Alabama, 18 2 2 Terriloriesft Califor. 17 3 7 ' Texas, 16 4 Florida, 12 Arkansas, 8 Total, 2705 A Counterfeit Nolo Plate Secured. * On last Thursday night Deputy United States Marshall Jenkins, and officer Samuel Johnson, succeeded in securing at a house ■ in Luzerne couuly, about twelve miles from Wilkes-Barre, the steel plate from which the new counterfeit ten dollar bills on the Girard Bank were printed. The press and mate rials had disappeared; but tbe officers se cured the plate. Messrs. Jenkins and John son have rendered the public good service in getting ouf of the hands of rogues the means by which this dangerous counterfeit was gotten up. The plaie which was band ed over to the officers of the bank, was ad mirably executed, and the whole of the ras cally work waa iu skilful hands, as the sig -1 natures and the filling up were copied from the genuine notes with perfect precision. A large quantity of thn epatton p.p.. u L*. circulation, and the publio should keep a abarp look cut for it. Less than two weeks' . ago the dangerous counterfeit made its first appearance, and the plate is already in the | hands of the bank. We repeal that the offi cers who secured the plate have rendered an essential service to the community.— Phila. Ledger. An Editor Asaanlted. There is great excitement in Middletown, Connecticut, in consequence of a severe chastisement inflicted by Capt. De Kay, of' New York, on the person of Walter S. Car ter, editor of the Middlesex Argue. It ap pears that Carter sent a copy oT hia paper to Professor Harwood, of Berkley Divinity School, which the Professor returned with a note staling that he was not a subscriber, and requesting the discontinuance of Ihe pa per. On receipt of this note, Carter pub lished a severe article, it is said, reflecting in harsh leims on Harwood and hia family. Capt. De Kay, who is Harwood'a brother-in law, subsequently met Carter in a bookstore, and on the latter acknowledging that he was the author of the article, assaulted and beat him so terribly that he lies in a very critical situation. De Kay was arrested, and the ex ciiement waa so great that it waa found ne cessary to detail a strong police force to pro tect him from violence. Every lawyer m ' town has refused to defend him, and lynch ing is publicly talked of. We have not seen the article which caused Ihe assault; but 1 if its character was such as represented, re -1 fleeting on li e Professor's family simply be cause he returned a paper, Carter is not fit to conduit a publio journal, and deserved a preity good oowhiding. He abused Ihe lib erty of the press, and had he been only motlvretvty olitrtiwSj cli in. no sympathy.— Harrisburg Patriot and Union. CAUSE OF BHOOKS' DEATH. —A New York phyAioian writes tbe Courier and Enquirer. that Mr. Brooks could not have died with the croup, but must have died from a spasm of the epiglottis, whioh is simply a valve that closes the passage to tbe lungs when we swallow food or Auids. Slight congestions of this little valve often take place in colds, and produce cough, with altered voice, and if the congestion extend to the muscles of Ibis valve, it will fall upon it* own orifice ' and suffocation ensne. The remedy is al ways at hand. The patient may place his thumb on one side of Ihe traehea or wind pipe, and his finger on the other side, a small inch below the angle of the jaw, squeeze lightly, and push directly upwards towards the tongue; and the motion, with the pressure on the muscles, will immedi ately, raise the valve to it* perpendicular po sition, and breathing is restored—bold it a few minutes till the valve recovers its lone and the patient will be out of danger. i s 0" Some year* ago, a woman Was killed d on the Madison Railroad, and a man with . her, who claimed tj be the husband, receiv i, ed 81000 damage*. Subsequently, the Com r pany ascertained she wa* not hie wife, sued d tbe man in tbe courts of Kentaelfy and re* d covered the amount of the award and interest r- and what la better,have received the amount, lees the lawyer's fee. ■ I 111 MIIM. Tli* dwells of iht China news eon Arm the ta(agraphia account.. Tha factories were I binned by iha Chinaaa, iha flanaa berating " onl ainahanaoatly in all directions, All ak t lampa by iha seamen and marinaa le Hop • tha An were fruitless, It rated all night and op to iha boar of tha steamer a dapaitura. • Dant It Co'l. premises wara iha Aral to go, folioWid bf'tls whole Pstisbung-Hong. Tha i Imparial and, indaad, ell iba Honga, ara da ■ atrayad. Tha only bouses untouched whan Iba ataamar tali warn iboaa af iha Brbtth Con.a --> law, Augustine Haald, 11. Jardine, Mtthe ■ aon it Co'l., Tomrr It Co'a , oa or two in iba English Hong, Russet it po., in Iba Swe diab Hong, and Welmora It Co., in iha Int. poriai Hong, bat it waa doubtful whether they would ultimately aarapa. Tha Ayre,Oriental, and Mercantile Boenka were on Ara, and no hopes were entertained of earing them. Admiral Seymour withdrew hie men into the garden ; the only refuge left for for eigners. The Admiral's future steps were unknown. There was but link) doubt, howerer, that Canton would no longer be epared, the die charge of shells and rockets baring already commenced. The London Times' Hong Kong correspon dence, dated Dec. 15, aays: On the 15th of November, Captain Fote of the U. S. ihip Portsmouth, was on the way from YVbampoa to Canton in the ship's pinnace, for the pur pose of withdrawing the American marines stationed in the foreign factories, when, in passing the BarriCr Forts, the boat was Ared into by the Chinese and was obliged to put back to YVbampoa, notwithstanding that the American flag waa flying at the time, and was also wared from the boat to that there might be no mistake. The American men of-war, Portsmouth and Levant, moved up the river and bombarJed the Forts, which die Chinese defended biavely, replying with a well directed Are, killing two men and wounding others, and doing some damage to the vessels. Commodore Armstrong then wrote to the Viceroy demanding an. apology within 24 hours. The reply being uneatis ' factory, the Americans at once proceeded to lake the forta, which Ibey have since de stroyed. In this service several lives were lost Since ibis took place, Yeb has written to the American authorities to say that tlfcir flag shall be respected, and thai it was entirely a mistake that led to the misunderstanding.— There are yet two small points at issue, but we understand that the Americans will ac cept this apology and withdraw from Canton. The Plenipotentiaries and Naval Comman- I dera in-Chief of Great Britain and America, ' have held a conference on Canton, but there i have been no results of importance arrived at. The China Mail of the 1 lib, aays that the Americans met with a fatal accident in com pleting the destruction of the Barrier Forte. One of the mines exploded through the care : fastness or A seaman, kitting him and two of Mris shipmates, and wounding six oitrers. The Portsmouth and Levant bad returned to YVhampoa. A despatch says the French bad destroyed ; , some forts. From Havana— 4rrial or the Isabel- CHARLESTON.—'The steamship Isabel arri- j ved to-day, bringing dates from Havana and Key YVest to the 10th insl. Among her pas , sengers is M. Mareizek and his opera tronpe. " The British ship Crown had gone to . pieces. The news from Havana is unimportant. A , telegraph company h*d been formed To lay a cable to Key YVest. , A letter from Carthagena says tbat the British will not carry the blockade into ef fect ur.til the action ot Congress is known. Dr. Kane's health was much improved. The steamship. Empire City arrived at Ha vana on the Bih. Sugar was active. Molasses waa dnii, with small receipts. SOMETHING SENSIBLE.— The following item of sensible advice is taken from Halts Jour nal of Health, and we think it not out of place to insert it here: "Dress children warmly, woolen flannel next their person during the whole year. By every consideration protect the extremities well. It is an ignorant barbarism allows a child to have bare arms, and legs, and feet, in summer. The circulation should be in vited to the extremities; warmth does tbat; cold repslg it. hi s at the hands and feet we begin to die. Those who have cold hands and feet are never well. Plenty ot warmth, plenty ol substential lood and ripe fruits, and plenty of joyous out-door exer cise, would save millions ol ebiktreo Ma nually." Ten Dollar Counterfeit. A ten dollar counterfeit bill on the Girard Bar.k of Philadelphia is in circulation. The new note is calculated to deceive, and yet its spurious .character is easily detected. It is fainter in appearance than the genuine note, baa tbe same vignette and medallions; but iu tbe genuine there are strong white linos passing through tbe engravings which are not to be peceived, or but faintly in the counterfeit. Tbe most distinctive difference i is however, in the liDee or white spaoes above and beneath the portrait of Girard.— These lines in the counterfeit are double the width of tbe gentiine. By laying tha two' > notes together so that the Ansa will meat, the i difference is at once perceptible. Thecoun - teifeit is of the letter B. No more ten dollar bills on the old rials will be issued by the i bonk. POPULATION or MISSOURI.-"— A census of the Slate of Missouri, which has just been taken, I shows a total of 912,206, divided as follows: i Free whites 819,593; free blacks 2,652; • slaves (9,690. Increase of white population - in aix years 224,453, or over 28 per cent: 1 increase of slaves 1,823, or a fraction over - two per cent. Two counties return no t slaves; twenty counties report only 1,000; , the highest reaching only 96, end tbe lowest having 8. There were OriNH*. If ley df nor readers have had ilneb's as i le the exir.vr.se of giants in former limes, It t them raid the folio wing, and believe: "A correspondent ot the National (III.) Emporium wriing from eleven, Ohio, eeyr A lew days ago, while Wei Erbeian end Mike Shots were digging ■ well for James Malsen, Esq., near North Send, Ohio, lira skeleton of a men, or rflfrsr a giant, was found, twenty-nine feet below ibe tutf.ee ol tbe eorth—who, when living, lowered to the ' enormous height el twenty-three feet and ten inohaa. Prof. Lint, who examtneed the aksle'on, eeye: "The os-bumeroue of the skeleton mens-' tired sia (eat four and a half inohes, and the seperior condyle, where it enter* the glenoid CSvity of the scapula, mestured eighteen and three eighths inches in diameter." Heucr, says the Doctor, "admitting the proposition | dsm one ire ted by comparative anatomy, that j all muscular power depends on the magni tude of the trtictalatirg condyles of the limb* to which they are attached, we must srrive at the startling fact, that this monster man while in ike full vigor of life, was tweriiy ihree feet and ten inches high, end wee ca pable of wielding the loreertn With sufficient force to have thrown a cannon ball weigh ing 18 Ibsi from Cincinnati to Indianapolis, or a distance of 88 milea, or to have taken a large millstone in each hand, and walked with perfect ease at the astounding rate of thirty-seven and one-eighth miles an hour. YYThar'a Samson and Golliah of Hath now I How THE GORMAN LADIES Do.—The ladies of Germany have an odd way, too, of keep ing their skirts from under their feet. They put a belt—often a plain, leather strap about the hips, ail inch or two below the waisi, , and draw the dress np a little. The strap holds it. If a lady is going out on the dirty street in bad weather, ten to onMuw will see her prodoce from a pocket the old leather strap, catch up be' garments just out of the reach of the mad, and fasten them to. By this contrivance her handsale left at lib erty, and her clothes protected. KT There is a thrifty, well grown sboet, said to be abont six months old, belonging to J. Salmon, of Patrick county, Va., which hat eight fair, distinct leet, on which it walks. Its legs seem to commence a fork about the knee joints, and continue to widen until they near tbe feet, and then Anally sep arate. The hog walks well, only a Utile clumsy. A DESERTER FROM MoßMO*ismElder John Hyde, who was sent some eKe ago from Utah as a missionary to the Sandwich I Islands, has renounced the Mormon faith, i and is engsged in exposfhg its flßlacies. He states that the census of the inhabitants of the Territory of Utah is false and exaggera ted, exceeding, by Afty per cent., the actual population. HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.—The sudden changes of temperature in this cli mate have a terrible effect npon the skin. muulai and iLa gluiils. Hence the prevalence of salt rheum, erysipelas, blotoh -1 es, boils, rheumatism, quinsy sore throat ! and the many other complaints so frequently j generated and always aggravated by this | cause. Fortunately, in Holioway'. Ointment | we have the means of promptly removing this class of diseases, and of so thoroughly invigorating all tbe exterior organs and in teguments as to prevent their recurrence.— The Pills operating in harmony with the ointment, regulate the secretions, and dis charge from the Auids of the body any acrid ' matter calculated to produce external inflam mation or internal disease. WHITE TEETH, PERFUMED BREATH AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION —can be ac quired by using the " Balm of a Thousand Flowers." What lady or gentleman would remain under the curse of a disagreeable breath, when by using the " Balm of a Thou sand Flowers" as a denlriflce, would not only render it sweet, bat leave the teeth as white ' as alabaster ? Many persons do not know their breath it bad, and the subject is so deli cate tbeir friends witta.ru mention it. Be ware of counterfeits. Be sore eaoh bottle is signed FETRIDGE & CO., N. Y. For sale by all Druggists. Feb. 18, 1867-6tu. On Tuesday, 10th inst., by the Rev. D. J. YValter, at the residence of the bride's father, in Mt. Pleasant, JOHN M. WHITE, of Orange, to TACY E., second daughter of Dr. J. H. Vanderalice. On the 7th insl., by Rev. J. W. Lesohsr, at YVilkes Bare, Mr. WASHINGTON GARBISOA , of Lime Ridge, to Miss MART A. GRUVER, of Wilkes-Barre. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. TUB ttpsT ws-gtrr V PIPVH Sample Numbers Furnished Gratis. EXAMINE FOR YOUHSEL VES. Apply to the publishers, DEACON and PETERSON, 66 South 3d Street, Philadelphia. Sheriff Sale. TFY virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas to ** me directed there will be exposed to public sale on I Mouday (he IMb Day of March next. at the Conri-House, in Bloomsburg, the fol lowing described property to wit: A certain lot or piece of land silnate in the Village of Espytown, Scott township, Colum bia oonnly, containing ONE FOURTH OF AN ACRE, be the came more'of leas, bounded on tha North by Main Street of said village, on the booth by an allay, on the East by m Street, and on the West by a lot of the widow Trimbly, whereon is erected a two story fntme dwelling bouse a stable with the ap purtenances. , Seized taken in execution and to be sold as the property of Alexander MeCarty. STEPHEN H. MILLER, SHERIFF'S OFFICE, ) Sheriff. Bloomsburg, Feb. 18, '57. J JUST LOOR AT IT. ALL persons having accounts of over six months standing are requested to come for ward ami settle op by the flrst of March ; and all accounts of onaand two years stand ing mils' be attended to immediately or coat will be added. A. C. MENSCH Bloomsburg, Jan. 28, 1857. .
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