fm OP THE NORTH.)
v/: 'jßSSiirfS^
R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. 1
Uloomibiirv, April 30, 157. j
Democrntic Nomination*.
FOR GOVERNOR,
• WILLIAM F. PACKER,
of Lycoming County.
Ron CAN At. COMMISSIONER, I
NIMROD STRICKLAND,
of Chester County. 1
Wllmol's vision or Mere, floating up the ,
SnfqaebaßDit.
It was sard that Wilmot had challenged ,
Gen. Packer to stump the State with him, ,
hut that proved to be one of tho Republi
can electioneering stories, liko which we
had many last fall, and may expect many
more. By the last number of Wilmoi's pa
per, the Bradford Reporter, it looks rather as
if the Judge intended to fight out this con
test ior Governor with the Star, since he dc
votes a long article to our paper's position
on the "nigger question." He talks about
slaveholders bringing theirslaves into Penn
sylvania and hiring them by the year to
labor in our factories, mines and workshops;
and intimates that the decision in the Drcd
Scott case would authorize this. It does no \
euch thing. Whoever becomes a citizen of
Pennsylvania acquires the rights of citizens
in this state ; and the black man would be
come free whenever Pennsylvania became
his residence and place of permanent occu
pation by the assent of his master. Indeed
the Judge's article admits incidentally that
the doctrine of the Dred Scott case is that
slaveholders may consider themselves cit
izens of other states, while in Pennsylva
nia, only so long as the animus revertendi is
preserved.
Nor can the Wilmot men complain that
this lime during which there may be the
animus revertendi is uncertain or indefinite,
and might be unfairly construed to legalize
slavery. The object and time of holding
slaves was limited and defined by Benja
fnan Franklin's emancipation act of 1780,
so as to apply to travelers and sojourners
visiting our State or going through it from
slavestates, but was never to exceed six
months. (See any old copy of Purdon's
Digest.) This law the abolition legislature
ef 1847 repealed, at the same time that
they refused the use of State jails and state
laws to carry out that provision of the Uni
ted Stale constitution which provides for
the restoration of iugitive slaves, and made
it a misdemeanor iu any State magistrate to
be engaged in such execution of the law.—
(See pamphlet laws of 1847 or Purdon's Di
gest.) - If now it is uncertain and indefinite
how long-the animus revertendi may exist, it
is the Abolitionists who have made it so.
The act ot 1780 shows how the men of
that day understood the rights of slavehold
ers to visit Pennsylvania, and the reciprocal
duties of Peunsylvanians to treat the citi
zens of other Stales with fraternal comity,
and not as aliens and outside barbarians.—
Franklin and his compatriots abolished sla
very in Pennsylvania, but they did not feel
any necessity or duty to establish Under
ground Railroads and deal in "nigger steal
ing." They did not get up riots like
at Philadelphia, Christiana and Boston, nor
did they shoot down United States Mar
■halls, because their philanthropy and pa
triotism was no crazed fanaticism. From
J7BO to 1847 the people of this good Com
monwealth felt no danger if a Southerner
visited our State with a dozen slaves, for if
he staid over six months the slaves became
free.. But this peace at?d security was dis
turbed by political demagoges; and they
have only mischief, agitation, fears and
alarms to offer in their places. There is re
ally no dar.geftiow more than at any time
since 1780.
The article in the Reporter admits also
that the operations of the Undergound Rail
road would limit the probability of slaves
being hired into Pennsylvania. Men of cool
sense know that it alone would limit the
possibility of any slaveholder ever recover
ing a negro from Pennsylvania, even if it
wore one not worth having.
'lf Judge Wilmot were guided more by
reading and reflection, and less by impulse
and temper he would find that the Consti
tution of the United States and the fugitive
slave law only provide for the restoration of
fugitives from labor and not of such as the
owner may himself have made permanent
residents and citizens of a free state.
But the main answer and most forcible
reply to the suppositions of these Abolition
ists as to what might happen, is to refer to
Ivhat has happened. Pennsylvania has abol
ished slavery, and its influence has been for
freedom both by the sentiment and the in
terest of its people. It has not found slave
labor either desirable or profitable in our
toil, climate and pursuits of business.—
These forces, more powerful than laws, will
keep slavery out of the State much more
easily than they drove it out years ago.—
The Abolition demagogues may deal in
fears, conjectures and apprehensions to
move some weak-nerved old ladies in
breeches—they may deal in dark pictures
of rafts of slaves floating up the Susque
hanna, just as they used to deal in the raw
head and bloody bouea of the poor old
Pope to terrify bigots and fools; —but the
great fact stands out on the history of I'enn-
that her people and her interests
have . s U lt U P au eternal barrier against sla
very.
THR ISMS Aas SHORT Spiritual
Ttlcgruph gives s list of 38 nflWB P®"
pere which has been slatted since t..6 be ß' n *
[ring of 1850, and of these 31 have been J.I*' 1 *'
continued. The editor of tf)e "Telegraph"
says that for conducting that paper he haa
neither made apy charge, nor reoeived any
thing from the concern for his servicss or oth
erwise, but has put money into the establish
ment which is elill doe him, amounting to
*8,255 67. The debts. and assets of the
firm, taken at a fair valuation show a defici
iteey or loe* amounting lo $5,138 32.
The Cessir IsyeililiideMr.
We foel it our duty to oall attention to the
qualifications necessary for this place, mow
especially as there seems bnt little interest
among Directors on the subject, and aa we
are'not a candidate, but free to speak what
be able lo teach a primary school in the
spelling book, reading, writing, arithmetic,
geography and grammar; for some of out
schools are already beyond this point, and
many more ought to be so in less than three
years from this time. It will not do to act
as if tho schools were to stand rill and pro
gress no more. Three years ago nothing but
the primary branches we have named above
had been taught in the public schools, but
now we can point to proficient scholars in
algebra, geometry, natural philosophy, and
astronomy, and to others studying physiol
ogy and history. Book-keeping, navigation
and surveying aro following close after, and
will soon come in if they are allowed. And
yet we have persons mentioned in connec
tion with the Superintendency to whom
nearly every thing beyond the routine ot
the simple primary branches is a closed
book—who cannot demonstrate a problem
in Euclid, and have never answered a ques
tion or heard a class in history. It would
be a calamity to the schools of the county
to place any such person at their head; for
boys like those in our public schools last
winter, or those in Mr. Eaton's now, would
soon find out that they knew more the
\ Superintendent. This would destroy his
whole power in tho schools, and his influ
ence among teachers. Examinations would
become a farce; and he would not dare to
refuso a cer.ificate.to any applicant. During
the past two years and a half over two doz
en applicants were rejected, and none of
them ever complained at their fate. If more
good teachers can be induced to come into
the county it will become necessary to re
ject still more applicants who are unfit-
Within our time of service not a single one
of our decisions was appealed from.
Let then some man whose capacity and
moral character shall have weight and pow
er be chosen for the placo.
THE MCKIM CASE iB talked of in onr town,
but not nesr so much as the splendid new
styles of dress goods at Menseh's Arcade.—
He has them pilod up of as many colors as
Joseph's coat, and 6ells them in obliging
manner at a low figure. His assortment is
full, and you can get anything to please even
a fastidious taite. If you don't want to buy
go in and see the fashions. No charge form
admission or showing goods—children half I
price. v.'.
RUNNING AFTER NOVELTY. —The Danville!
American tells how a couple of enterpririnpß
specimens of fair but frail expanded dimity!
recently canvassed Danville for subscriber-!
to a new Temperance paper lo be called the!
Gem which they promised to establish at
Eimira, N. Y. They got quite a number of
subscribers, but the paper never came, and
the cheated populace learned to patronize
home journals published by some responsi
ble person.
CHOKING THEM OFF —The Register If Citi
zen, tho organ of the Kr.ow-Nolhings in Lan
caster, lately refused to support the Black
Republican nominees forStatenfficers; where
upon several gentlemen of the faith which
cares a great deal for the black man, w.ho
had claims against the publisher, pressed
them to execution and made the Sheriff sell
the establishment. They have now in it a
man who will go his whole length for Sam
bo. White Sam may help himself.
A BASE FALSEHOOD. —The'[more reckless
of the Abolition and Know.Nothing papers
have charged General PACKER Willi voting for
the "Jog Law" when a member of the State
Senate. It is a delibetate, wilful falsehood.
General Packer was out of the Legilature
more than three years before the "Jug Law"
was passed—but the unprincipled fellows
who have given circulation to the lie, will
not detract. They are too destitute of honor
for that.
ROBERT R. LITTLE, ESQ., of Tunkhannock,
has been appointed by Secieiary Toucy of
the Navy Department, Judge Advocate of one
of the Naval Couita of Inquiry of the United
States. Mr. Little is a gentleman of capacity,
and has shown a true and firm principle in
politics as in every thing else. The favot to
i him is a merited one.
Up TOWN the most noted arrival is the new
t stock of cheap goods at Evans'. JACK is an
energetie fellow, and is determined to sell
, goods, which ho understands how to do about
as well as the next man. He offers desirable
, bargains, which you will do well to ''snap
. at" before the best samples are sold,
r
THE MCNCT LUMINARY, the organ of the
, opposition in Lycoming County, does not
r raise the name of Wilmot for Governor.—
. The Luminary was very bitter against him
1 >n 1846 because of his vote on the tariff of
, 1842.
POSTMASTER AT KASTON.— CoI. William H
Hutler has received from President Buchan
an (he appoimment of Postmaster at Eaaton,
Pa. Col. H. ia editor of the Kaston Argus,
and is amply qualified to discharge the du
ties of the place.
* W Mr. Powell, who painted the De Solo
picture for Congress, has been appointed by
the Ohio-Legislature to paint a representation
B of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie—the price
" not lo exceed 85000. It will be placed in
one of (he panels of the rotunda of the new
j State House.
We invite attention to the article on
our first page to-day from (he School Journal
in relation to the election of County Super
inteh.''eßl - '' contains many important sug
-1 gestiona, a. is in good eeaaon.
WThe bill to eetaN^ l lb county ol
■ Lackawanna out of Lyzern? WM defeated In
> the House by a vote of 26 yeaa (0 18 nay*.
OF The Phapix Hotel at Wilkeebarre it
offered for sale. I
Death or Rep. Mi (J. Montgomery-
HON. JOHN 6. MONTGOMERY died at hit res
idence in Danville on last Friday morning at
3 o'clock, from disease contracted at the Na
tional Hotel, Washington. He attended the
inauguration, and staid at the Hotel about
five days. While there he became sick, end
hastening home be was after a few days ta
ken down lo hie bed. At one time beseem
ed to recover, bat soon relapsed, and lingered
till death relieved hie sufferings. He retained
hit intellect to the end. From a post-mortem
examination the fonr physicians present de
cide that his disease and death was eaused by
a mineral portion.
The deceased was edncaled a* a lawyer,
and upon oomiag to the bar was for twelve
successive years the Prosecuting Attorney of
what was theu Colombia county. He waa
honorable end manly in bis profession, as in
every thing else. He was not what the pub
lic call a politician, but in the fall of 1855
was sooght as an eligible candidate for ihe
Legislature. He was elected by a vote whiob,
under ihe circumstances, was a compliment
to him. Last fall he waa evidently the most
eligible man in the District for Congress, and
was elected by a handsome major ay. He
was about 55 years of age. His death is tru
ly a public calamity, as much in the loss of
a strong, good man, as in (he terrible manner
by which he fell a victim to wholesale mur
der.
His neighbor, Mr. Chalfant, who knew
him well writes with truth and feeling.—"Ol
the illustrious victim who hath fallen here,
in Ihe prime of life, and in the strength of in
tellect, it becometh me not to speak, still 1
cannot forego the occasion to say that the
Democratic party of this district never lost ana
abler champion, nor society a better citizen,
uniting great talents with an unconquerable
will, and an unbending integrity, be was em
inently fitted to shed lustre on any station
tiis lellow citizens should think fit to place
him in. In the late canvass in this district,
when he was a candidate for Congress, al
though party feeling ran high, the opposition
never breathed an imputation against his in
tegrity or his moral worth, but he is gone,
he has fallen with his country's honors bound
around his brow; and I humbly throw a
flower opon his passing bier."
DKAIH OF THR
HON. JOHN G. MONTGOMERY.
TRIBUTE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BAR.
At a rlffctmg of ihe members of the Bar of
the counties of Montour, Columbia and Nor
thumberland, convened at Ihe. office of J. VV.
COM LV, Esq ,in Danville, April 25tb, 1857,
WM. G. HURLEY, Esq., of Bloomsburg,
was appointed President, and ROBERT F.
CLARK, Esq., Secretary.
Tne object of the meeting having been sta
led in a lew periinent and feeling remarks by
J. W.IpoMLY, Esq.,
On motion, J. W. COMLY, CHAS. PLEASANTS
and PAUL LEIDY, Esquires, were appointed to
draft resolutions, who reported the following,
which were unauimously adopted, viz:—
WHEREAS, It has pleased. Almighty God,
by a mysterious dispensation of His provi
dence, to remove from us, by death, a worthy
and highly esteemed member of the Bar of
this county, one with whom we have been
long and intimately associated, both profes
sionally and ill lite social walks of life, and
one whose talents and integrity had wou for
him the confidence of his lellow-citizens;
AND WHEREAS, We deem the occasion one
that calls for a united expression of our es
teem and regard for our deceased brother,
nur appreciation of his many virtues, our deep
sense of the loss which we, as well as the
community in general, have sustained in his
death, and of our sympathy with the family
of the deceased ; Therefore
Resolved, That it is with the deepest feel
ings of sorrow we have received the an
nouncement of the death of the Hon. JOHN G.
MONTGOMERY, taken as he has been in the
vigor of life, before age had made its impress
on his system or impaired his powers, and
that our grief on this occasion is rendered the
more poignant by the fact that he was strick
en ifown by an unknown hand.
Resolved, That in his death Ihe Bar of Mon
tour county has lost a worthy, highly esteem
ed and talented member, the community a
valuable citizen, and his family a kind and
affectionate husband, father aud counsellor.
Resolved, That we do most deeply sympa
thise with lite afflicted family of the deceased
in this peculiarly distressing bereavement,
and lhat as a token of our regard for the mem
oiy of the deceased, we will wear crape upon
the left arm for thirty days.
Resolved, That the Chairman of this meet
ing be direoted to present lo the widow and
family of the deceased a copy of the forego
ing preamble and resolutions.
Resolved, That these proceedings be pnb
lished in the papers of the counties of Mon
tour, Columbia and Northumberland.
WILLIAM G. HURLEY, President.
ROBT. F. CLARK, Secretary.
Tke Motional Hotel Disease.
OF
The death of another distinguished victim
of the late National Hotel disease, Hon. JNO.
G. MONTGOMERY, of this State, and the con
tinned iilnesa ol the new Collector of the Fort
from Ihe same complaint, re-directs public
attention lo the origin of this terrible epi
demic.
There'are certain coincidences connected
with this subject which are suggestive of the
most horrible suspicions, but for the honor of
human nature, we hope they may be un
founded. Mr. Buchanan arrived al the Na
tional Hotel on the 25th of January. On the
26th, Dr. Hall was sent for to see the first
case. A few days afterwards he had 35cases,
and quite a large number took sick, many ol
them leaving Washington. Mr. Buchanan
was among the letter. The symptoms in all
cases were the same—violent, copious purg
ing, inflammation ol the large intestines, with
a constant disposition to relapse.
During an interval of several weeks pre
vious to the 2d of March, no new case oc
curred. On the evening of that day, Mr.
Bnchanan returned to Washington, aud
about that period the hotel was crowded
with visitors. On the 4th of March the dis
ease broke out with increased violence and
many hundreds were affected. The symp
toms uniformly indicate poison, which some
physicians consider of a miasmatic, and oth
ers of a mineral nature—probably copper.
No satisfactory elucidation of the mystery
has yet been made.— Pennsylvanian.
1111 111 I
1 be CillwllM Rlllroti.
We have josl bean handed lha leal report
of tbe Preaident of the Cafewiasa, Williame
port and Erie Railroad' Company, which ie
fall of information. Tbia work m daily be
coming of more importance, aa ieahewn by
tbe monthly returns of tbe bnaineae over it,
aa well aa by the attention which ite atock
and loana command on the atock market. Aa
at preaent worked, tbe Catawissa road coo.
necta, byway of tbe Little Scboj Ikill and
Reading with Philadelphia, Iboagh it
waa origiohNy designed to connect with New
Yoik A very large amount of money waa
expended on it, ar.d ia now in it, though it
coat preaent owners probably leaa than one
fourth of its capital. Tbe Quakake Branch
of tbe road, by whiob it was intended to con
nect the company's coal fields, at the Summit,
with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at the junc
tion of that road with the Beaver Meadows
Railroad, in all probability will be opened at
no diatant day. Tbe road waa graded some
years ago, and the means it ia said, are now
ready at New Yolk to pot down the nils and
eqnip it. Tbisdoue will give the Catawissa
Railroad the advantage of the New York as
well as tbe Philadelphia market, in competi
tion with the Erie Railroad for a share of the
trade of the lakes. During the latter part of
last summer the Catawissa road was put un
der efficient management, and the President
of tbe Williamaport and Elmira Railroad was
induced to accwit its PreeiJeney. It ia well
stocked continue to be vigorously
worked. The floating debt baa been extin- ,
guished, and such arrangements made as, it
is alleged, will insure the continued payment
of the coupons on the funded debt The en
tire amount represented in the road, including t
construction, depots, equipments, etc., is 83,-
722,016 ; nearly the whole of which went di
rectly into the road. The money expended,
it is believed, purchased more of labor and
material at the lime of its expenditure than
such a sum would now command. The cap
ital is SI,500,000; income bonds, 8221,500;
chattel 10 per cent, mortgage, 8122,500, and
10 per cent, bonds, 870,000 —in all 83,614,-
POO—exclusive of 8108.0'.6 of floating debi.
On the 30th of August last the report shows
the Company's liabilities and estimated in
come as follows:
Interest at 7 per cent, on
first mortgage bonds, 81,500,000 8105,000
Interest al 7 per cent, on
the income bonds, 221,500 14 505
Interest at 10 per cent, on
bonds subscribed 192,500 19.250
Interest on floating debt,
say 10 per cent., as if
funded 108,016 10,802
J* 8150,557
Tne present business of the road may
fairly be taken at 830, per mo.,
though it is believed that it will
average, through the ensuing year,
considerably over that sum 8380 000
Operating expenses 50 per cent. KsO.OOO
8180,000
The Catawissa Rsihoad extends from near
■Tsmnqua to Milton, and runs through a re
gion full of coal, iron, etc. The Company
owns about 1200 acres of coal lands, estima
ted to contain two millions ol tons of coal.
The Quakake Branch alluded to passes direct
ly thro' (hivroal property.and,on this account,
as well as in view of the vast importance of a
New York connection, deserves attention.—
Ledger.
Tbe.lJcKlni Case.
The Pennsylvmianot the 25th inst. contains
the following ixportant development in tbi*
case:
" Yesterday morning, a young man named
Michael Bonner, an old associate of McKim,
the alleged murderer of young Norcross, at
Altoona, was brought to this city from Dela
ware county, and placed in the Central Sta
tion. It seems that at M'Kim's request a
subpoena was served upon Bonner, and the
officer who served it found htm somewhat
under the influence of liquor. The upshotof
the matter was, that a letter, written to bim
by McKim, from the prison at Hollidaysburg,
on the 6lh of April, was got from him.
"Tbe writer of this extraordinary letter al
most admits bis guilt of the murder, and then
earnestly implores Bonner, and others of his
old associates, to come to his rescue and
swear bim out of the difficulty. McKim lays
out the plan of action, tells what soil of a s'o
iy is to be told, and how the witnesses are to
prove an alibi for him. This important doc
ument will be aent to the District Attorney
of Blair connty, and Bonner will be detained
here until that officer is heard from.
Those whoare familiar with McKim's hand
ray that the letter is in his handwriting with
out a doubt."
WON'T PAT.— The keeper of a restaurant
in New York city has brought suit against
a number of prominent Black Republicans
in thai city, to recover the sum of 81,312.20.
The fun of it is, a darkey ia the prosecutor.
Determined to have a jubilee for the friends
of Fremont, whether succetsful or not, the
' freedom sfariekers" got op a large Fremont
Ball in New York in December lam, at
which the not only ale tbia nigger's bread
but drank bia wine to exceae and made him
hire over one hunJred negro waiters, and
then like a pack of ingrates walked off and
refused to pay him. Sambo, bowever, in
sists on his rights, and with the air of a hero,
J rags them to judgment.—Ear/on Argus.
POPULAR MOVEMENT IN ITALY. —The pop
ulation of Venice appears to give considera
ble uneasiness to the oivil and military au
thorities, by recent manifestations of popu
lar feeling on pnblic occasions. Tbe ladies
appear at the opera with bouquets ia wbieh
the popular colors predominate, and liberal
sentiments are so enthusiastically applauded
that instructions have been given to suppress
such sentiments. The nvtiooal flag waa hoist
ed in oce of tbe most poblio places on a re
cent oecaasion, and when the archduke visit
ed the theatre the people purposely absented
themselves. These raanjfestatioos are simi
lar to those which preceded tbe rfivohilioa of
IMB.
A VETERAN OTTICIAL. —CoI. Harrison, U. 8.
Coueul al Kingston, Jamaica, ia 85 yeara old,
and was appoioted by General Washington.
"KAHOCUS" is now lha name for whiskey
ijtoddies throughout all New England.
From tkt Harrisburg Patriot.
TO TUB PRIPIAOC PKAASYLVANIA.
COHE T# THE RE&fCE I
YOUR TAXES ARK A ROUT TO RE EN
TAILED VPON YOU FOREVER I
There ia bow pending before tbe House of
Representatives a bill for the sale of the Main
Line of the canal and railroad belonging to
the Commonwealth, which is the most to<
pendous fraud opon lbs pnblic revenues, and
upon the best interests of every tax-payer,
that baa svar been propoeed in the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania, and, strange as It may
seem, there is at lb ie moment strong indica
tions of it* passage.
Tbia bill proposes to sell tbe Main Line,
extending from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, in
cluding all the rolling slock, machine shops,
depots, collector's offices, lock boose lots,
and other property along the line, not inclu
ding the tonnage tax* for the earn of 87,500,-
000, if purchased by individuals, or if pur
chased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, including Ike tonnage tux. for tbe som
of 89,000,000. It is impossible, in the short
space of time allotted to us, to expose at I
length the enormity of the details of this bill. <
It is sufficient to say that it gives an advan- [
tage to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company '
over any other purchaser of seversl millions
of dollars. The con.pany arc merely required
to give their bocds for tbe purchase money,
bearing five per cent, interest, the first pay
ment of ten per cent, not to be due for thirty
thirty years, the balance in ten eqnal annual
1 paymenia, extending the time of the last pay
ment In the long period of forty-three years.
In addition to tbisgrealsacriSceof yourprop- <
erty, the company are permitted to abandon j
i the Portsge Railroad and the Western Divis
ion of the Caual, thus sacrificing the capital '
invested by private individuals in business
along these lines, a distance of one hundred
and forty-seven miles. Dot not satisfied with
the sacrifice of the public interests, the bill [
releases the company irom the payment ol ;
all taxes, whether for Stale,connty, township, ,
ciiy, borough, road or school purposes, upon
its capital stock dividends, their city office '
palaces, and property of every description.
The followiog statistical statements taken |
from the pnbiio records will show the manner
in which the bill proposes to rob you of the ,
revenues which have been wrung from your !
hard-earned toils, and Ie throw them into the
coffers of a mammoth private corporation.— ,
These statements are based upon the receipts
and expenditures of tbe Main Line for 1856. ,
Tbe prospective value of the liue is not taken >
into the calculation. 'All the improvements ;
of any consequence, which are contemplated,
have been completed. The receipts of the
present year up to this time, exhiail an iu- j
crease over the last. The opening of the
Broad Top region, the best biinmiuous coal '
region in the State—the largely increased coal,
business along the line of the Portage Rail- :
road—the erection of new furnaces and the ,
opening of some of the best ore beds in tbe :
State, on the slopes of tbe Allegheny mount- i
ain, give fair promise of a large increase of;
tonnage:
Thereceiptsof the Main Linefor
1856, were 81,221,973 45
Add tonnage tax, 222.227 68
Total receipts, 81,445,201 13
Expenditures tor same period,
including 10 percent, on cost
of locomotives and improve
ment o! machinery and struc
tures, not properly chargeable
to any oue year, 8857,461 44
Profits over expenditures, > 8587.739 69
Being the interest on a capital of 811,754,-
793 00 at five per cent., (tbe rale of interest
required by the bill,) which it is proposed to
sell for 89,000,000.
There is, bowever, another important fi
nancial view to be taken of this bill. It al
lows the company to abandon the line from
Hollidaysburg to Pittsburg. The following i
statement will exhibit a still greater sacrifice
of tbe public interests to private cupidity : 1
Receipts in 1856 on the Main
Line from Philadelphia to
Hollidaysburg, 81,148,361 68
Add tonnage lax, 222 227 68
Total receipts, 81,370,589 36
Expenditures for the same pe
riod, inclading 10 per cent
on cost of locoinonves and
improvement of machinery
and structures, not properly
chargeable to any one year, 8605,334 82
8765,254 54
Add tolls doe Eastern Division
from the branches, Estimated
at 860.000 00
Total profi's oo Main Line Irom
Philadelphia to Hollidaye-
I burg, 8825.254 54
| Being the interest on a capital of 816,505,-
000 at five per cent., (the rale proposed by
tbe bill.)
If to rtia be added the lowest estimate
which baa been made of the property and
1 material on the Portage Railroad and Western
Division 8500,000, the value of the main line
| from Philadelphia to Hollidaysburg is shown
to be 817,005,000, exclusive of the amount
| of the taxes on tbestocx, dividends, and prop-
I erty of the company, which is released by
this bill, end which would increase this es
timate of the present value of the property and
' revenues to be dispoeed of some two or throe
millions of dollars.
People of Pennsylvania! These are facts
not to be controverted. Here you have a
bill to dispose of yoor properly, worth 820,-
000,000, parable in forty-three years. Nor
is this all. Yon have oo security for the pay
ment of even this small snm. Tbe company
I are required to give their bonds for the par-
I chase money, without any other security than
, a lien upon the property purchased, a portion
of which they are authorised to abaodou long
before the first payment is to be made. Wbat
then, under these eireametance#, is to become
I of the State debt 1 Njnleaaible provision ia
made to apply the proceeds to its redemption.
f None ever will be made if this bill becomes
a law. Yoor improvements will be thrown
away. Yoor present tax will not only be
. continued, but you most be called on to bear
( aa increase of your burthens, or the fair fame
of oar Commonwealth moat be tarnished by
a repudiation of its plighted faith to its eon
r fiding creditors.
This it no fancy sketch. Your interests are
in danger. Your hill* of legislation am j
erowded wiib borers in Ida interest* of a pri- '
vale corporation. A majority of yow repr#-
tentative* haae, thus far, aahibiiad a dolor
minaiioa 10 make tbia enormona sacrifice of
jroo r interests. They bare refused to make
a tingle amendment lo the bill, which haa a
tendency 10 protect the poblio revenoet, or to
redeem the faith pledged to private individa
ale by a aolemn act of the legielalore.
The idea of a tale of the public works for
tbepnrpoao of reducing the State debt ie a
popular one, and ia now being aeized opon
by profeaeiona! borers and demagognea lo
nialead jroo, and increaae your burthen*. Do
not ba to deceived. Tbe bill ROW before Uie
Legislature, doea not, nor is it intanded to
reduce tbe debt. On the contrary it will in
crease taxation.
The practical question, therefore, for yon
to determine ia—will yon permit sanh an
outrage upon your pecuniary interests lo be
consummated I Are you williug to transfer
not only yonr revenues, but even.your polit
ical independence to the keeping of an over
grown and ever grasping private corruption ?
' No time is to be lost. Let yonr voice be
! immediately heard in the balls of legislation.
I Do this, and yon may arrest one of the great
| est outrages that has ever yet. been perpetra
, led upon thg.rights, the interests and the pros-
I periiy of the'yepple of Pennsylvania.
J Two COMETS. —Betides D'Arrest's Comet,
j now visible through the telescope, a second
comet, visible through the same instrument,
| has been seen by M. Brubn, of Berlin. It
is situated in the Western sky, anJ is nearly
a* bright as D'Arrest's. If these comet are j
belligerently inclined, we would euggest the ,
propriety of hitting each other, instead of ,1
striking thia mundane sphere. A pitched -
battle R ancb a celestial field, and betwee*
, ench fiery combatants, would be something
j novel and exciting.
— ■ ,
nr A novel suit it before the Hunterdon i
county, N. J., Circuit Court, brought by the
Union Bank of Frenchlown, against Hudnot 1
' and Snyc'er, tor malicoosly conspiring to draw ,
specie from the said bank, by presenting its i
■ no'ea lor redemption, with the object of brea
king tbe bank! Tbe damages are laid at
$5000! We shall r.exl hear of some debtor i
bringing an aetion for damages agRD I bis
creditor, for presenting a bill for payment at
a time when it ia inconvenient for the debtor I
to be troubled with snch liule remembrances '
of the obligation h6 owes to others. <
LcFT-HSNDiDSroccnoN.-M.-iry Davis, aged
18, haa been arrested at Ballaton, New York,
charged with the seduction of a Young j
, American, named Clark, of Albany, aged
15. The yonng lady induced the precocious I
boy lo elope with her, and they pasted for
brother and sister, though realy acting as
man and wife, for several days before tbe ar
rest of the gay and fair "Lothario."
i•• • •
j GIVING LIFE AGAIN TO THE DESERT. —The
French are engaged in a good work in Al
geria, which will mike their conquest a ben
\ efil to that country. They are sinking artes
-1 j ian wells in the desert probably for their own
I , convenience; bnt the benefits most be gen
| era). The well of Temacin gave ISO quarts
I tbe minnle; others more; the Arab' were
frantic with joy in seeing fertility at once re
stored to their grounds. Speeches of the
\ most grateful acknowledgment were addres
, sed by the chiefs of tribes lo the French offi
- cera and engineers. Science put a power in
tbe hands of man which enables him to irans
' j form nature herself.
II tvHenry Coon the younger was last week
i acquitted a*. Wilkesbarre for the murder of
Wm. P. Stephens on the 28ih of June laat.
IS" The vacancy in Congress caused by
tbe death of John G. Montgomery will be
> filled at the next general election in October.
FC#"Oua READEBS will find an excellent piece
1 ; of poetry on nnr first page to-day.
j Keasseablißg of the Male Democratic
I Convention of 1857.
iln pursuance of a resolution adopted by
tbe Democratic State Committee of Penn
. s) Ivan ia. the delegates to the Stale Conven
tion of March 2d, 1857, are requested to as-
I sembleat the Capitol, at Harrir-burg, on Tues
i day, the 9th day of June. 1857, at 10 o'clock,
j A. M., for the purpose of nominating eandi
: dates to complete the State Ticket, and iran
-1 sacling all other businees pertaining lo the
i; origiual authority of the Convention,
j CHARLES R. BUCK A LEW,
Chairman.
I J. N. HUTCHINSON, J
"| It. J. Hm.DT.MaN, j Secretaries.
' | Hotloway's Pills— Coughs, colds, influen
za, and asthmatic affections are always more
j nr less associated with irregularities of the
secretion*. The stomach, the bowels, and
i the liver, cannot be in a healthy oondition
* j while the longs and the pore air passages
' leading lothero are obstructed, and in all dis
' eases of the respiratory organs, Ite affect of
; the Pills is highly salolarv. As an outward
! j application for sore throat, croup, asthma and
I broocbitia, Hollo ways Ointment is invalua
ble. It soon relieves tbe irritation of the at
-1 cous membrane of the trachea and the bron
> cbial tubes, and removes that choking sensA
i lion so alarming in croup and asthma.
1 WHITE TEETH, PERFUMED BREATH
' AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION —can be ac
r anired by using the "Balm of a Thousand
- Flowers." What lady or gentleman would
I remain onder the curse of a disagreeable
breath, when by naing the "Balm of a Thou
sand Flavors" as a deutrifice, would not only
1 render it tweet, bin leave the leetlt as white
i' as alabaster 1 Many persona do not know
i i their breath ia bad,and the snbjeel ia to deli
cate their friend* will never mention it. Be
ware of counterfeits. Be sure each boule it
' signed FETRIDGE & CO., N. Y.
- For sale by all Droggisls.
r Feb. 18, 1867-6m.~
i On the IBih inat. by the Rev. William J.
, Eyer, Mr. REINHAET BERCEB, and Miaa MA
( SIA OBLASSES, both of Danvilla, Moniom co.
In Berwick, on Saturday, April 1 lib, by
Rev. I. Bahl, Mr. Prrag BACHMAU, and Mia*
■ LOUISA HIPPENSTEIL, both of Briarcreek.
On the 23d inti. by the same, Mr. FUANK-
I ua KELLER, to Misa SUSAN ANN BOONE, both
j of Light Street
;
b In Mifflin twp., tbe 15th inat., CHRISTUVA,
wife of John Michael, aged 50 yearn and 17
■ day*.
* | In Neacopeck twp. on the SOtb mat., SUSAB j
> ELIZABETH, daughter of Ckarlaa It Elisabeth {
' Smith, aged 3 mouths.
j DBATHOP ALA wrea.—James Dunlop, Eq.,
! anthor of Dnnlop's Digast, and formerly land
ing membar of the bar of Pittsburg, died ia
Baltimore on Monday lest,
Notice to Rrltool Direct or a.
T WOULD respectfully suggest to the sever
el Boards of School Directors of Colombia
county, lo tbe importance of making oat and
forwarding to me, at an aarly day es poesibl*,
the Annnal Reports and Affidavits of their re
spective districts, as the School Department
will not issue warrant* for the State appropri
ation nnlil tbey have been receivad. Blank*
bavs bsan sent to avery district in the county.
R. W. WEAVER,
County Superintendent.
Public Nolicct
To the School Directors of Columbia County
GrNriaMßN : fn pursuance of lha 43d aeo
lion of the Act of Bth of May, 1854, you era
hereby notified to meet in Convention et the
Conn Hons* in Blonmaberg, on the first
Monday in May, A. D. 1857. being the fourth
day of the month, at 1 o'clock P. M. t and
select trio* voce, by a majority of the whole
number of Director! present, one person of
literary and scientific attainments,and of akill
and experience in the art of Teaching, a
Coonty Superintendent, for the three succeed
ing years ; determine the amount of compen
sation for the same, and certify the resolt lo
the Slsta Superintendent at Harrisbnrg; a*
required by the SOtb and 40th lections of said
act. R. W. WEAVER.
County Superintendent of Columbia Co.
Bloomsburg, April 6, 1857.
A. C. MENSCH
AT TitE ARCADE STAND
ITAS just received and opened a full and
large assortment
OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
which he will sell at the lowest living proff'.
Ilia stock embraces Stella, thibet and orapa
shgwle, barege, barege delaine*, tissue*,
lawns, dabeges, crape orientals, alpaccas, he.
SILKS.—A very handsome assortment of
tatriped, plain, plaid and black ailka, which
he intends to sell at very reduced price*.
EMBROIDERIES.
An immense slock of embroideries, inch
as embroidered handkerchiefs, collars, spen
cers, sleeves, Swiss and jaconet edgings and
inserting*, linens, cotton and thread lace*,
flouncing* and embroidered ourtains.
DOMESTICS—MusIins, drillings, tickings,
checks, osuaburgs, baggings, ginghams, flan
nels, table diaper and ready-made j^ags.
Men and Boya' Wear.
Cloths, cassimeres, vesting*, jeans, cotton
ides, denims, blue drillings, cotton plaida &o.
CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS.
A very large assortment of new style car
pets, such as tapestry, Brussels three ply, in
grain and Venetian oil cloths, of all widths.
A large assortment of Ladies' & Children*'
Shoes, which he will sell very cheap.
GROCERIES.
A lot of fresh sugars, molasses,
TEAS. COFFEE, FISH SPICF.S T
&c. Also Hardware Queens ware, nHaaHMi
Crockery and Woodeft ware.
IT Floor and Feed always lor aale at the
lowest market prices for cash.
Bloomsburg, April 29, 1857.
This Way for Bargains I
A. J . EVANS
HAS JUST RECEIVED A NEW STOCK OF
SPRING&SUMMER GOODS
AT his old aland on tbe upper end of Main
Street which be will sell cheaper than
the cheapest. It cousins in part of Silks al
paccas, lustres, bartges, de lames, duoai
cloths, poplins, brilliants, chillies, de bages,
lawns, skirting, bench and scotch ainghains,
prints, gloves, hosiery, collars, hanJkerchiels,
&c. Shawls and Mantillas olevery sly le and
quality.
STAPLE ft DOMESTIC DRY GOODS,
Cloths cassimeres, vesting*, flannels, mus
lins, lickings, stripe*, checks, calicoes, eel
tonades, linens, sheetings, nankeens, drill*,
marseilles quilts, colored and white carpel
chain, parasols, umbrellas, a large and splen
did assortment ol HATS. CAPS, BOOTS AND
A SUPERIOR LOT OF FRESH
TraiiCofliej Sugar, Molaues
Rice, Spice-, &o. Also, Hard were, Queens
ware, Crockery and Cedarware.
Having selected my entire atock with the
greatest care and at the lowest cash prices, I
can assure my friends and the poblio gener
ally. that I will do all in my power to make
establishment known as the " Read quarters
for bargains " Those who wish to purchase
will find it to tbeir advantage to call and ex
amine my stock before purchasing.
I will pay the highest market price for
BUTTER, EGGS. RAGS, SOAP AND
Dried Fruit, and country produce in general.
Bloomsburg, April 29, 1857.
TWENTY-FIVE WITNESSES
OR. THE
FORGER CONVICTED.
J. JOHN S. DYE IS THE AUTHOR
Who has had 10 years' experience SIR
J" Banker and Poblisher, and author of
iS A Series oj Lectures at the Broadway Tuber •
Sd node,
ad when for 10 successive nights, over
tF 10,000 People Mf%
bim with rounds ol applause,
while he exhibited tbe manner in wbiob
counterfeiters execute their fr*uds, and
"the surest and shortest means of delecting
g^them!
© The Bank Note Engravers all sap
y that He is the Greatest Judge of
Paper Money Living.
© Greatest discovery ol the present century
|Pr Detecting Counterfeit luk
• Notes.
© Describing every Genuine Rill in exls'-
©noce, end exhibiting at a glance every
Counterfeit in Circulation!!
g Arranged so admirably, that Referenea la
S easy and detection Instantaneous.
nr No index to examine! No page* lo
J* hunt up! But so simplified and at
-0 ranged, that tbe Merchant, Bank-
er and Business Mao ean see
2 all at a Glance.
English, French and German
Thus each may read the turmein his own Na
-2 live Tongue.
3 MOST PERFECT BANK NOTE
2 LIST PUBLISHED,
Also a List of
S ALL THE PRIVATE BANKERS IN
~ AMERICA.
! A Complete Summary of tbe Finance of
Europe and America will be published in
each edition, together with all Ih* Import
■J'ol news of the day. Also,
A SERIES OF TALES
jFiem an old manuscript found in the Eaat.
■* I: furnishes the most complete •
F* history of
Oriental Lift, ~ .
lu describing tbe most perplexing post
gliens in which the Ladies and Gentlemen
riot that country have been so olten fonnd.
These Stories will continue throughout lha
*■ whole year, and will prove ibu Moat En-
Miertainnig ever oflered lo the Publie.
© OF Furnished Weekly to subscribers
flonly, at tl a year. All lettars must be ad
dra*ed lo
i W JOHN S DYE. Bitker.
1 <5 Published and Proprietor. 70 Wall Street,
1 O April 27, 1857, New Yoik.