STAMF THE JVOBTH.
R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR.
lllootuliir|(j Wednesday, April 29, 1857.
Democratic Nomination*.
FOA GOVERNOR,
* WILLIAM F. PACKER,
of Lycoming County.
FOB OA SAL COMMISSIONKR,
KIM ROD STRICKLAND,
of Chester Cpunty.
Wtimet'* vision of Muves Heating up the
Susquehanna.
It was said that Wilmot had challenged
Gen. Packer to stump the State with him.
but that proved to be one of tho Republi
can electioneering stories, like which we
had many last fall, and may expect many
more. By the last number of Wilmot's pa
per, the Bradford Reporter, it looks rather as
if the Judge intended to fight out this con
test for Governor with the Star, since he de
votes a long article to our paper's position
on the "nigger question." He talks about
slaveholders bringing their slaves into Penn
sylvania and hiring them by the year to
labor in our factories, mines and workshops;
and intimates that the decision in the Ured
Scott cose would authorize this. It does no
euch thing. Whoever becomes a citizen of
Pennsylvania acquires the rights oi citizens
in this stale; aud the black man would be
come free whenever Pennsylvania became
bis 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 rcverteruli is
preserved.
Korean the IJ'ilinot men complain that
this lime during which there may be the
animus rcvcrteriili 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
ntan Franklin's emancipation act of 1780, j
so as to apply to travelers and sojourners
visiting our State or going through it from |
slavestatos, but was never to exceed six I
mouths. (See any old copy of Purdou's j
Digest.) This law tho abolition legislature j
of 1847 repealed, at the same time that j
they refused the use of State jails and state I
laws to carry out that provision of the Uni- I
ted State constitution which provides for j
the restoration of fugitive slaves, and made [
it a misdemeanor in any State magistrate to 1
be engaged in such execution of the law.— !
(See pamphlet laws of 1847 or Pardon's Di- J
gest.) If now it is uncertain and indefinite |
how long the animus revcrtendi may exist, it j
is the Abolitionists who have made it so.
The act ol 1780 shows how the men of j
that day understood the rights ot slavehold- t
ers to visit Pennsylvania, and tho reciprocal j
duties of Pennsytvauians to treat the citi
zens of other States with fraternal comity, \
and not as aliens and outside barbarians. —
Franklin and his compatriots abolished si a-,
very in Pennsylvania, but they did not (eel
any necessity or duty to establish Under
ground Railroads ami deal in "nigger steal
ing." They did not get up riots like those
at Philadelphia, Christiana and Boston, nor
did they shoot down United Stales Mar
shalls, because their philanthropy and pa
triotism was no crazed fanaticism. From
1780 to 1847 the people of this good Com
monwealth felt no danger if a Southerner
visited our State with a dozen slaves, lor if
he staid over six months the slaves became
free. But this peace and 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 danger now more than at any time
since 1780.
The article in the Reporter admits also
that the operations of the Undergound Kail
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 ii it
were one not worth having.
If 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 miplit happen, is to refer to
What Acs 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
soil, climate and pursuits ot 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
ol rafts of slaves floating up the Susque
hanna, just as they used to deal in the raw
head and bloody- bones of the poor old
Pope to terrify bigots and fools : —but the
great fact stands ont on the history of Penn
sylvania that her people and her interests
have built up an eternal barrier against sla
very.
Thc Im# *Kt ruoKT-Livco. —The Spiritual
Tttegrapk gives a lial ol 33 apiriiual u*wspa- 1
;>erj which hac bee 11 atarted since iba begio- 1
ning of 1850, ami of these 21 bare been dis
continued. The editor of the "Telegraph
•ays that lot conducting tha: paper he has j
neither made any charge, nor received any
thing front the concern lor bia services or oth
erwise, but has put money into the ealabliah-
JSMI which is atill doe him, amounting to
57, Toe debit and assets of iba
firm, taken at a fair valuation show a defict
uecy or loaa amounting to 85.138 32.
Ilie County Sopeilnteudency. ,
iWe feel it our duty to call attention to the
qualifications neoeSEaryfor this place, more
especially as there seoins but little interest
among Directors on the subject, and as we
are not a candidate, but free to speak what
wo know. It is not enough that a man may
be able to teach a primary school in the
spelling book, reading, writing, arithmetic,
I geography and grammar; for some of oor
schools arc 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 the schools were to stand still and pro
gress no more. Three years ago noihingbut
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 are following close after, and
will soon coine in ii they are allowed. And
yet we have persons mentioned in comiee
! tion with the Superintendency to whom
| nearly every thing beyond the routine of
I 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
bo a calamity to the schools of the county
to place any such person at their head; for
boys like those iti our public schools last
winter, or those in Mr. Eaton's now, would
' soon find out that they knew more than the
1 Superintendent. This would destroy his*
j whole power in lite schools, and his infiu-|
I ence among teachers. Examinations would I
become a farce: and he would not dare tol
relttsc acer ificato to any applicant. During!
the past two years and a half over two doz 1
eu applicants were rejected, and none ofl
them ever complained at their fate. If morel
good teachers can he induced to coine into!
the county it will become necessary to ro-1
jeet still more applicants who are unfit—H
Within our time of service not a single one!
of our decisions was appealed from. i
Let then some man whose capacity audi
moral character shall have weight ami pow-B
er bo chosen for the place. f
TIIE MCKIM CASE is talked of in our town,
but not near so much as the splendid new
styles of dress goods tit Menseh's Arcade.—
He has them piled up of as many colors as
Joseph's coat, and sells them in obliging
manner at a low figure. His assortment is
full, and you can get anything to please even
a fastidious taste. If you don't want to buy
go in and see the fashions. No charge for
admission or showing goods—children half
price.
RUNNING AFTER NOVELTY. —The DanviPe
.tmerican tells how a couple of enterprising
specimens of fair but frail expanded dimity
recently canvassed Danville for subscribers,
to a new Temperance paper to be called the
Gem which they promised to establish at'
Elmira, N. Y. They got number of
subscribers, but the paper neWr came, and
the cheated populace learned to patronize
borne journals published by some responsi
ble person.
(TIOKINC THEM OFF —The Register ff Cili
zen, the organ of the Know-Nothings in Lan
caster, lately refused to support the Black
Republican nominees lorStaieofficers: where
upon several gentlemen of the faith which
cares a great deal (or the black man, who
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 Satn may help himself.
A BASE FALSEHOOD. —The more rockier
of the Abolition end Kttow.Nolhiag paper.'
have charged General PACKER witti voting for
the "Ji'g Law" when a member of rhe Stale
Senate. Ii is a deliberate, wilful falsehood.
General Packer 'war nut of the I.egilatnre
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
(or that. .
ROBERT li. LITTLE, ESQ., ol Tutikhannock,
has been appointed by Secietary Toucy ot
tiie Navy Department, Judge Advocate ol one
of the Naval Courts of Inquiry of the United
Slates. Mr. Little is a gentleman of capacity.
and has shown a true and iirin principle in
politics as in every thing else. The favot to
him is a merited one.
UP TOWN lite most noted arrival is the new
stock of cheap goods at Evans'. JACK is an
energetic fellow, and is determined to sell
goods, which he understands how to do about
as well as the ne*t man. He otiers desirablei
bargains, which you will do well to''snap
at" before the best samples are sold.
THE MCNCV LIMINARV, the organ of the,
opposition in Lycoming County, doss not
raise the name of Wilmot for Governor
The Luminary was very bitter against him
in 1846 because of bis vote on the tariff oil
1842.
POSTMASTER AT EASTON. —CeI. William H
Hotter has received frnm Presiden' Buchan
an the appointment of Postmaster at Easton.
Pa. Col. H. is editor of the Easton Argtt*.
ar.d is amply qualified to discharge the du
ties of the place.
Mr. Powell, who painted the De Soto
picture for Congress, has been appointed by
the Ohio Legislature to paint a representation
of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie—the price
trot to esceed SSOOO. It will be placed in
one of the panels of the rotunda of the new
State House.
EP U'e invite attention to the article onj
our first page to-day from the Seboot Journal
in relation to the election of County Super
intendent. it contains many importaut sug
gestions, and is in good seasoo.
(7 The bill to establish the tew county ol
Lackawanna out of Loaerne was detested in
Ihe Hons* by a vote of 26 yeas to 42 nay*.
ty The Phcßtiii Hotel at Wiikesbarre
offered for sale.
'Death or IJ#h. John G. Montgomery, j
HON. JOHN GF MONTGOMERY died SI his res
idence in Danville on last Friday morning at
3 o'clock, from disease contraoted at the Na
tional Hotel, Washington. He intended the
inauguration, and staid at the Hotel about
five days. While there he became sick, andj
hastening home he was after a few days ta-l
ken down to his bed. At one time ho seem
ed to recover, but soon relapsed, and lingered
nil deaih relieved his sufferings. He retained
his intellect to the end. From a post-mortem
examination the four physicians present de
cide that his disease and death was caused by
a mineral poision.
The deceased was educated as a lawyer,
and upon coming to the bar was for tweli
successive years the Prosecuting Attorney ol
what was Iheu Columbia county. Me was
honorable and manly in his profession, as in
every thing else. He was not what the pub
lic call a politician, but in the fall of 1855
was sought as an eligible candidate for the
Legislature. He was elected by a vote which,
under the circumstances, was a compliment
to him. Last fall he was evidently the most
eligible man in the District for Congress, and
was elected by a handsome majority. 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 the terrible tnannei
by which he fell a victim to who'esale mur
der.
I His neighbor, Mr. Chalfanl, who knew
j tiim well Writes with truth and leelitig.—"Oi
the illustiious victim who halt) fallen here,
in the prime of life, and in the strength of in
tellect, it becometh me not to speak, still 1
cannot forego ltie occasion to say that the
Democratic party of this district never lost an
abler champion, nor society a better citizen,
uniting great talents with at: unconquerable
will, and an unbending integrity, he was em
inently fitted to shed lustre on any station
his fellow citizens should think fit to place
him in. In the late canvass in this district,
svhen 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,
lie has fallen with his country's honors bound
around his brow; and I humbly throw a
flower upon his passing bier."
ItKATH 01-' THE p
HON. JOHN G. MONTGOMERY. i
TRI BL'TE OF THE MEMBER* OK THE BAR.
At a meeting of the members of tho Bar of
die counties ol Montour, Colombia and Nor
thumberland, convened at the office of J. \V.
COMI.V, Esq , in Danville, April 25ih, 1857.
IVM. G. HURLEY, Esq., of Bloomsburg.
was appointed President, and ROBERT F.
CLARK, Esq., Secretary.
Ttte object of the meeting having been sta
led in a few pertinent and feeling remarks by
J. \V. COMLV, Esq.,
On motion, J. W. COMLV, CHAS. PLEASANTS
and PAI L LKIDY, Esquires, vvege appointed to
drali resolutions, who reported the following,
which were unauimoualy adopted, viz:— I
WHEREAS, It IRNS pleased Almighty God,!
by a mysterious dispensation ol His provi-l
deuce, to remove from us, by death, a worthy]
I nut l.'mldi' esteemed ve w]
tiiis county, one with whom we have been
long and intimately associated, both profes-J
sionally and in the social walks of lite, and
oiio whose talents and integrity had won for.
him the confidence of Ins lellow-cilizens;
AND WHEREAS, We deem the occasion one,
that cans for a united expression of our es
leem and regard lor our deceased I din ~
our appreciation of hi* many virtues, .iur Jeepi
sense of tho loss which we, as well as 4he
community in general, have sustained in hi*
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
noun cement of the death o( the Hon. JOHN G.
MONTUOMEHV, 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 oacaeioti is rendered the
more poignant by the fact that he was strick
en down by an unknown hand.
Resolved, That in his death the Bar of Mon
tour county has lost a worthy, highly esteem
ed and talented member, the community a
valuable citizen, and bis family a kind and
atlectionate husband, father and counsellor.
Resolved, That we do most deeply sympa
thise with the ufllieled family of the deceased
in this peculiarly distressing bereavement,
and that 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 tbe Chairman of this meet
ing be directed to presqpt to the widow and
family of the deceased a copy of the forego
ing preamble and resolutions.
Resolved, Thai these proceedings be pub
lished in the papers of the counties of Mon
tour, Columbia and Northumberland.
WILLIAM G. HURLEY, President.
ROUT. F. CLARK, Seerttary.
The National Hotel Disease.
The death of another distinguished victim
of the late National Hotel disease, Hon. J.vo
G. MOVTGOMERT, of this State, arid the con
tinued illness of tbe new Collector of the Port
from the same complaint, re-directs public
attention to the origin of this terrible epi
demic.
There are oortsin coincidences connected
with this subject which ol the
most bumble suspicious, but for the honor oi
buman nature, we hope they may be un
fonnded. .Mr. Buchanan arrived at llie Na
tional Hotel on the 25ih of January. On ihe
261h,.1>r. Hall was sent for to see the first
case. A lew days after watds he had 35cases.
and quite a large number took sick, many of
them leaving Wahingtofi. Mr. Buchanan
was among the latter. The symptoms in all
cases were the same— copious purs
ing, inflammation ol ibe Urge interlines, 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.
Buchanan returned to Washington, and
about that period the hotel was crowded
with visitors. On the 4th of March the dis
ease broke ow with increased violence and
many hundreds were atiected. The symp
toms uniformly indicate poison, which some
physicians consiJerof a miasmatic, and oth
ers of a mineral nature—probably copper.
No satisfactory elncidation of the mystery
has yet been made.— Pennsyivanian.
I The Catawlnn Railroad.
We hare just been banded the last report
of the Pnsident of the Catawissa, Williams
port and Erie Railroad Company, which is
foil of information. This work is daily be
coming of more importance, as is shown by
the monthly returns of the business over it,
as well as by the attention which its stock
and loans command on the stock market. As
at present worked, the Catawisea road con.
necls, byway of the Little Schuj Ik ill and
Reading roads, with Philadelphia, though it
was originally designed to connect with New
Yoik A rery large amount of money was
expended on it, ar.o is now in it, though it
cost present owners probably less than one
Of .mil 01 its capital. The Quakake Branch
of the road, by which 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 distant day. The road was graded some
years ngo, and the means it is said, are now
ready at New York to put down the rails and
equip it. This done will give the Catawissa
Railroad the advantage of the New York as
well an the Philadelphia market, in competi
tion with the Erie Railroad for a share of the
trade of the lakes. Daring the latter part of
jlast summer the Catawissa road was put un
der efficient management, and the President
of the Williamsporl and Elmira Railroad was
induced to accept its Presidency. It is well
stocked and will continue to be vigorously
worked. The lloaiing debt has been extin
guished, and such Hrrangemenls made hs, it
is alleged, will injure the continued payment
of the coupons on the funded debt. The en
tire amount represented in the road, including
construction, depots, equipments, etc., is $3,-
722,016 ; nearly the whole of which went dt-
Jrectly 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 $1,500,000; income bonds, $221,500;
chattel 10 per cent, mortgage, $122,600, and
10 per cent, bonds, $70,000 —in all $3,614,-
000 —exclusive of $108,016 of floating debt.
On the 30th of August last tho report shows
the Company's liabilities and estimated in
come as follows."
Interest at 7 per cent, on
first mortgage bonds, $1,500,000 $105,000 ;
Interest at 7 per cent, on
the income bonds, 221,500 11 505
Interest at 10 per cent, on
bonds subscribed 192,500 19,250
Interest on floating debt,
say 10 pet cenl., as if
funded 108,016 10,802
$150,557
The present business of the road may
fairly betaken ats3o,o"o per mo.,
though it is believed that it will
average, through the ensuing year,
considerably over that sum S3BO 000
Operating expenses 50 per cent. 180 000
SIBO,OOO
The Catawissa Railroad extends from near
Tarnnqun to Milton, and runs through a re
gion full of coal, iron, etc. The Conrpany
owns about 1200 acres of coal lands, estima
ted to contain two millions ol lons of coal.
The Quakuke Branch alluded to passes direct
ly .Wi. a-ov-*- 1 * ■—*--- ' ———
as well as in view of the vast importance of a
New York connection, deserves attention.—
Ledger.
'l'lie illcliliii I'ase
j The Per. -y human of the 25th inl. contains
I "die following inrpo rtant development in this
" Yesterday morning, a younff man named
Michael Bonner, an old associate of McKiui,
the alleged mttrdprer of young Norcross, at
Altoona, was brought to this city from Dela
ware county, anil placed in the Central Sta
tion. It seems that at M'Kim's request a
-tibprnna was served upon Bonner, and the
officer who served it found htm somewhat
under the influence of liquor. Theupshotof
the matter was, that a letter, written to him
by McKim, from the prison at Hollidaysburg,
on the 6th of April, was got from him.
"The writer of this extraordinary letter al
most admits his guilt of the murder, and then
earnestly implores Bonner, and others ol his
■old associates, to come to bis rescue and
swear him outol the difficulty. McKim lays
out the plan of action, tells what sott of a sio
ly is to be told, and how the witnesses are to
prove an alibi for him. This important doc
ument will be sent to the District Attorney
of Blair county, and Bonner will be detained
here until that officer is heard from.
Those who are familiar with McKim's hand
ray that the loiter is in his handwriting with
out a doubt."
WOK'T PAT.—The keeper of a restaurant
in New York ciity lias brought suit against
a number of prominent Black Republicans
in that city, to recover the sum of 5t,312.20.
The fun of it is, a darkey is tbe prosecutor.
Determined to have a jubilee for the friends
of Fremont, whether successful or not, the
' freedom shriekers" got up a large Fremont
Ball in New York in December last, at
which the not only ale this nigger's bread
but drank his wine to excess and made him
hire over one hundred negro waiters, and
then like a pack of ingrates walked off and
refused to pay him. Sambo, however, in
sists on his rights, and with the air of a hero,
drags them to judgment.— Easton Argus.
POPCLAH MOVEMENT IN ITALY.— The pop
ulation of Venice appears to give considera
ble uneasiness to the civil and military au
thorities, by recent manifestations of popu
lar feeling on public occasions. The ladies
appear at the opera with bouquets in which
the popular colors predominate, and liberal
sentiments are so enthusiastically applauded
that instructions have been given to suppress
such sentiments. The national flag was hoist
ed in ore of tba most public places on a re
cent occassion', snd when the archduke visit
ed the theatre the people purposely absented
themselves. These manifestations are simi
lar to those which proceded the revolution of
1848.
A VETERA* OFWCTAL —Col. Harrison, U. S
Consul at Kingston, Jamaica, is 85 years old,
and was appointed by General Washington.
''KALLOCUS" ie now tha name for whiskey
ddies throughout ail New England.
From the Harriaburg Patriot. 1
TO rriE I'ROPI.E OF PRNNSYLVANIA. (
COME I © THE RESCUE !
YOUR TAXES ARE A ROUT TO RE EN
TAILED UPON YOU FOREVER!
There ia now pending before the 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 stu
pendous fraud upon the public revenues, and
upon the best interests of every tax-paver,
that has ever been proposed in the Legisla
ture of Pennsylvania, and, strange as It may
seem, there is at this moment strong indica
tions of its passage.
This bill proposes to sell tho Main Line, <
extending from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, in
cluding all the rolling stock, machine shops,
depots, collector's offices, lock house lots,
and other properly along the line, not inclu
ding die tonnage lax, for the sura of $7,500,-
000, if purchased by individuals, or if pur
chased by the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- j
par.y, including the tonnage tax, for the sum :
of $9,000,000. It is impossible, iu tho short j
space of time allotted to us, to expose at j
length the enormity of the details of this bill. j
It is sufficient to 6ay that it gives an ad van- I
lage to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company j
over any other purchaser of several millions J
of dollars. The company aro metely required !
to give their bunds for the purchase money,
bearing five per cent, interest, the first pay
ment of ten per cent, not to be due for thiriy
thirty years, the balance in ten equal annual
payments, extending the time of the last pay
ment to the long period of forty-three years, j
In addition to this great sacrifice of your prop
erty, the company lire permitted to abandon |
the Portage Railroad and tho Western Divis
ion of the Canal, thus sacrificing the capital
invested by private individuals in business
along these lines, a distance of one hundred
und forty-seven mileß. But not satisfied with
the sacrifice of the public interests, the bill {
releases the company irom the payment of ;
all taxes, whether for Stale,county,township, ;
city, borough, road or school purposes, upon !
its capital slock dividends, their city office ,
palaces, and properly of every description.
The following statistical statements taken
from the public records will show the munnei
in which the bill proposes to rob you of the j
revenues which have been wrung from your
hard-earned toils, and to throw them into the !
coffers of a mammoth private corporation.—
These statements are based upon the receipts
and expenditures of the Main Line for 1856.
The prospective value of the line is not taken
into the calculation. All the improvements
of any consequence, which are contenqitated,
have been completed. The receipts of the
present year up to this time, exhibit an in
crease over the last. The opening of the
Broad Top region, the best bituminous coal i
region it) the Stale—the largely increased coal j
business along the line of the Portage Rail
road—the erection of new furnaces and the
opening of some of the best ore beds iu the
■State, ott the slopes ol the Allegheny mount
ain, give fair promise of a large increase of
tonnage:
| The receipts of the Main Line for
1856, were $1,221,973 45
Add tonnage tax, 222.22-7 08
Total receipts, $1,445,201 13
Expenditntes tor same period,
including to percent, ou cost
of locomotives and improve- +
rnenl of machinery and struc
tures, not properly chargeable
to any one year, $857,461 44
Trofns over expenditures, $587,739 69
Being the interest on a capital of $11,754,-
793 00 al five per cent., (the tale of interest
required by the bill,) which it is proposed to
sell for $9,000,000.
There is, however, another important fi
nancial view to be taken of this bill. Jt al
lows the company to abandon the line from
Hollidaysburg to Tittsburg. The following
statement will exhibit a still greater sacrifice
of the public interests to private cupidity :
Receipts in 1856 on the Main
I.ine from Philadelphia to
Hollidaysburg, ' $1,148,361 68
Add tonnage tax, 222 227 68
Total receipts, $1,370,589 36
Expenditures fot the same pe
riod, including 10 per cenl.
on cost of locomotives and
improvement of machinery
and structures, not properly
chargeable lo auy one year, $605,334 82
$765,254 54
Add tolls due Eastern Division
from the branches, estimated
at $60,000 00
Total profits on Main Lin# Irom
Philadelphia to Hollidays
burg, $825,254 54
Being the interest on a capital of $16,505,-
000 at five per cent., (the rale proposed by
tbe bill.)
If to this be added the lowest estimate
which has been made of the property and
material on the Portage Railroad and Western
Division $500,000, the value of the mainline
from Philadelphia to Hollidaysbnrg is shown
to be 817,005,000, exclusive of tbe amount
of the taxes on the etock, dividends, and prop
erty of the company, which is released by
this bill, and which would increase this es
timate ol the present value of the property and
revenues to be disposed of some two or three
millions ol dollars.
People of Pennsylvania! These are faeis
not to be controverted. Here you have a
bill to dispose of your property, worth f20,-
000,000, payable in forty-three years. Nor
is this all. You have no security for the pay
ment of even this small sum. The company
are required to give their bonds for the pur
chase money, without any other security than
a lien upon the property purchased, a portion
of which they are authorized to abandon long
before the first payment is to be made, What
then, under these circumstances, is to become
of the Slate debt? No feasible provision is
made to apply the proceeds to its redemption.
None ever will be made it this bill becomes
a law. Your improvements wiM be thrown
away. Your present tax will not only be
continued, but you must be called on to bear
an increase of your bunbeoa, or the fair fame
of our Commonwealth must be tarnished by
a repudiation of its plighted faith to its con
fiding creditors.
Thirie no fancy sketch. Your interests are
in danger. Your halls of legislation are
orowded with borers in the interests of a pri
vate oorpoiation. A majority of year repre
sentatives have, thus far, exhibited a deter
mination to make this enormous sacrifice of
you r intereais. They have refused to make
a single amendment to the bill, which has a
tendency to protect the public revenues, or to
redeem the faiih pledged to private individu
als by a solemn aol of (he legislature.
The idea of n sale of the publio works for
the purpose of reducing the Slate debt is a
popular one, and is now being seized upon
by professional borers and demagogues lo
mislead you, and increase your burthens. Do
not be so deceived. The bill now before the
Legislature, does not, nor is it intended to
reduce the debt. On the contrary it will in
crease taxation.
The practical question, therefore, for you
to determine is—will you permit such an
oulrage upon your pecuniary interests lo be
consummated ? Are you willing lo transfer
not only your revenues, but even your polit
ical independence to the keeping of an over
grown and ever grasping private corruption 1
No time is to be lost. I.et your voice be
immediately heard in the halls of legislation.
Do this, and you may arrest ona of the great
est outrages that has ever yet been perpetra
ted upon the rights, the interests and the pros
parity of the people of Pennsylvania.
Two COMETS.—Besides D'Arrest's Cornel,
now visible through the telescope, a second
comet, visible through the same instrument,
has been seen by M. Bruhn, of Berlin. It
is situated in the Western sky, and is nearly
as bright as D'Arrest's. If these comet are
belligerently inclined, we would suggest the
propriety of hitting each other, instead of
striking this mundane sphere. A pitched
battle on such a celestial field, and between
such fiery coinba'.antSj would be something
novel and exciting. '
HP* A novel suit U before the Hunterdon
county, N. J., Circuit Court, brought by the
Union Ilat.k of Frenchtown, against Hudtiul
and Snyder, lor malicottsly conspiring to draw
specie from the said bank, by presenting its
no es lor redemption, with tho object of brea
king the'bank! The damages are laid at
$5000! Wo shall r.exl hear of some debtor
bringing an action for damages against tits
creditor, for presenting a bill lor payment at
a time when it is inconvenient for the debtor
to be troubled with such little remembrances
of the obligation lie owes to others.
I.trT-IIANDED SEUucTioN.-Mary Davis, aged
18, has been arrested at Ballston, New York,
charged with the seduction of a Young
American, named Clark, of Albany, aged
15. The young lady induced the precocious
boy to elope with Iter, and lltey passed for
brother and sistpr, though realy acting as
mutt and wife, for several days before the ar
rest of the gay and fair "Lothario.''
GIVING LIKE AGAIN TO THE DESERT.—The
French are engaged in a good work in Al
geria, which will make their conquest a ben
efit to that country. They are sinking artes
ian wells in the desert probably for their own
wantvciiiviivrj but iho OeiitJllts iimrH be prn*
eral. Tho well ol Temacin gave 120 quarts
the mittnte; others more; the Araba were
frantic with joy in seeing fertility at once re
stored to their grounds. Speeches of the
most gratelul acknowledgment were addres
sed by the chiefs of tribes to the French offi
cers Rnd engineers. Science put a power in
the hands of man which enables him to trans
form nature herself.
ty Henry Coon the younger was last week
acquitted at Wilkesbarre for the murder of
Wm. P. Stephens on the 28th of June last.
ty The vacancy in Congress caused by
the death of John G. Montgomery will be
tilled at the next general election in October.
nroua READERS will find an exiftMJftt piece
of poetry on our first page to-day.
Kcassemblitis of the state Democratic
Convention of 1857.
In pursuance of a resolution adopted by
the Democratic Stale Committee of Penn
sylvania. the delegates to the State Conven
tion of March 2d, 1857, are requested to as
semble at the Capitol, at Harrisburg, on Tues
day. the 9th day of June. 1857, at 10 o'clock,
A. M.. for the pur nose of nominating candi
dates to complete the State Ticket, and tran
sacting all other businees pertaining to the
original authority of the Convention.
CHARLES R. BITCKALEW,
Chairman.
J.N HUTCHINSON, 1
R.J. UAI.DE.MAN, j Seeretarus.
//01/orroy's Ptlb —Coughs, colds, influen
za, and asthmatic affections are always more
or less associated with irregularities of the
secretions. The stomach, the bowels, and
the liver, cannot be in a healthy condition
while the lungs and the pure air passages
leading to them are obstructed, and in all dis
eases of the tespiratory organs, the affect ol
the Pills is highly salutary. As an outward
application for sore throat, croup, asthma and
bronchitis, Holloway's Ointment is invalua
ble. It soon relieves the irritation of the mu
cous membrane of the trachea and the bron
chial lubes, and removes ibal choking sensa
tion so alarming in croup and asthma.
W IIITTT TEETH, PERFUMED BREATH
AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION—can bo ac
quired by using the " Balm of a Thousand
Flowers." What lady of gentleman would
remain under the curse of a disagreeable
breath, when by using the "Balm of a Thou
sand Flowers " as a dentrifice, would not only
render it sweet, but leave the teeth as white
as alabaster ? Many persons do not know
their breath is bad, and the subject is so deli
cate their friends will never mention it. Be
ware of counterfeits. Be sure each bottle is
signed FETRIDGE & CO., N. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.
Feb. 18, 1867-6 m.
On the 18tb iust. by the Rev. William J.
Eyer, Mr. KEINHART BF.RUER, and Mies MA
RIA OBLASSKR, both of Danville, Montout co.
In Berwick, on Saturday, April 11th, by
Rev. I. Bahl, Mr. PETER BACHMAN, and Miss
LOUISA HIPPENSTEIL, both of Briarcrssk.
On the 23d inst. by the same, Mr. FXAXK
us KELLER, to Miss SUSAN ANN BOOKK, both
of Light Street.
In Mifflin Iwp., the 15th inst., CHRISTIANA,
wife of John Michael, aged 60 years and 17
days.
In Nescopeck twp. on the SOth init., SUSAN
ELIZABETH, daughter of Cbarlea & Elizabeth
Smith, aged 3 mouths.
DEATH or a LAWYCR. —James Dun) op,E>-q.,
author of Dunlop's Digest, and formerly lead
ing member of the bar of Pittsburg, died in
Baltimore on Monday last.
Notice to School Director*.
I WOULD respectfully suggest to the eever
al Boards of School Directors of Columbia
county, to the importance of making out and
forwarding to me, at en early day m possible,
the Annual Reports and Affidavits of their re
spective districts, as the School Department
will not issue warrants for the Stale appropri
ation until they have been received. Blanks
have been sent to every district in the county.
R. W. WEAVER,
Coun'y Superintendent.
Public lVolice>
2'o the School Directors of Columbia Cottnly "
GENTLEMEN : in pursuance of the 43d sec
tion of the Act of Bth of May, 1854, you are
hereby notified to meet in Convention at the
Court House in Bloomsbarg, on the first
Monday in May, A. D. 1857, being the fourth
day of the month, Rt 1 o'clock P. M., and
select viva voce, by a majority of the whole
number of Directors present, one person of
literary and scientific attainments,and of skill
and experience in the art of Teaching, as
County Superintendent,forthe three succeed
ing years : determine the amount of compen
sation for the same, and certify the lesult to
the State Superintendent at Harrisburg; as
required by tbe 30th and 40lh sections of said*
act. R. W. WEAVER. Jk
County Superintendent of Columbia
Bloomsbnrg, April 6, 1867.
A. €. MENSCH
AT THE .IRCJIDE STJtNO
¥JAS just received and opened a full and
large assortment
OF SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
which he will sell at the lowest living profit.
llis stork embraces alelia, thibet and crape
shawls, barege, barege delaines, tissues,
lawns, debeges, crape orientals, alpaccas, Sic.
SSILKS.—A very handsome assortment of
striped, plain, plaid and black silks, whfoh
he intends to sell at very reduced prices.
EMBROIDEKIES.
An immense stock of embroiJeties, such
as embroidered handkerchiefs, collars, spen
cers, sleeves, Swiss and jaconet edgings and
inserting*, linens, cotton and thread laces,
flouncing* and embroidered curtains.
DOMESTICS—MitsIins, drillings, tickings,
check*, osnaburgs, baggings, giognams, flan
nels, table diaper and ready-made bags.
Men and Boys' Wear.
Cloths, cassimeres, vesting*, jeans, cotlori
ades, denims, blue drillings, cotton plaids &c.
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' & Childrens'
Shoes, which he will sell very cheap.
GROCERIES. pSFSSfc
A lot of fresh sugars, molasses, Ijgli
TEAS. COFFEE, FISH,SPICES 1881
&c. Also Hardware Queensware,*^™"' "TCI
Crockery and Woodenware.
TV Flour nnd Feed always lor tale at the
lowest market prices for cash.
Bioornsburg, April 29, 1857.
This Way tor Bargains!
A . J. EVANS
HAS JUST RECEIVED A NEW STOCK OK
SPRiNG&SUMMER GOODS
AT his old stand on the upper end ol Main
' Street which lie will sell cheaper than
the cheapest. It consists in part of Silks al
paccas, lustres, barages, de (nines, ducal
cloths, poplins, brilliants, challio*, de hauee,
tawns, sitirttng, Ireum nmt scutch ginghams,
prints, gloves, hosiery, collars, handkerchief*,
&e. Shaw Is and Mantillas ol every sty la and
quality.
STAPLE & DOMESTIC DRV GOODS,
Cloths cassimeres, vestings, flannels, mus
lins, tickings, stripes, checks, calicoes, oot
tonades, linens, sheetings, nankeens, drills,
rnarsellles quilts, colored and while carpet
chain, parasols, umbrellas, a large and splen
did assortment of HATS. CAPS, BOOTS AND
SHOES. A SUPEKIOR LOT OF FRESH
Teas, Coffee* Sugar, Molasses
Rice, Spines, &c. Also, Hardware, Queens
ware, Crockery and Ceiiarware.
Having selected my entire stock with the
greatest care and at the lowest cash prices, 1
can assure my friends and the public gener
ally, that I will do all in my power to make
establishment known as" the "Head quarters
for bargains." Those who wish to purchase
will find it to their advantage to call and ex
amine my stock before purchasing.
1 will pay the highest market price for
UUTTER, EGGS.IUGS, SOAP AND
Dried Fruit, and country produce in general.
Bloomsburg, April 29, 1857.
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