STAR OF Hffi WORTH.
B. W. WEAVER, EDItOR.
HtWMisbßnr, Werfwesday, May 1857.
Democratic Nominations.
FOR GOVERNOR,
WILLIAM F. PACKER,
of Lycomrng County.
FOR CANAL COMMISSION KB,
KIIHBOD STRICKLAND,
of Chester County.
HcMeaMtntt or the Mate Democratic
loorentioa of 1857.
In pursuance of a resolution adopted by
the Democratic State Committee ol l'enn
sjlvatiia, the delegates to the State Conven
tion of March 2d, 1857, are requested to as
semble at the Capitol, atHarrisburg, ort Tues
day, the 9th day of June, 1857, at 19 o'clock,
A. M., for the purpose of nominating candi
-dates to complete the State Ticket, and Iran
•acting all other businees pertaining to the
•original authority of the Convention.
CHARLES R. BUCKALEW,
Chairman.
J. N. HUTCHINSON, I •
R. J. j Secietat its.
IftUaT O.N LY I RIJG UCN.
EX-SKNATOB FOOTK, who has been tor some
time associated wilk tl. Kow. Nothings in
California, has withdrawn from that organ
ization and returned to his first love—the
Democratic party.
So says an exchange paper, and as such
cases are numerous througli all parts of the
country, the fact is no doubt as stated. Wo
refer to the case only for the purpose of call
ing attention to the danger which results
from placing superficial men in positions
of responsibility. We shall be glad to wel
come back all the prodigals who left the
simple but substantial fare of Democracy
for the husks of Know-Nothingism—men
of impulse and sentiment, rather than of
judgment and reflection; like Wilmot and
Foote:—men whose mercurial temperament
and restless spirit cannot watt for the slow
growth of nature to mature them, but must
seek greatness by leaps These men are al
ways on every question which
arises, and fall into every new Ism. Foote
was not content to be a Demoer.i lie United
State Senator from Mississippi, and so expi
ated his folly in California retirement, and
now comes back a repentant prodigal.—
Wilmot was always an uliraist, as much on
questions of linance as of constitutional
construction; and after he is ignominiously
defeated in his wild chase for Governor he
too will come back again to the Democrat
ic fo'd.
And when such men come in sincerity
we will be glad to welcome them back and
give them a good scat at the feast. But we
warn our friends that such tnen ore not safe
to be again trusted as leaders They have
proved blind guides once, ot.d it w ill be our
folly if we allow ourselves to be a second
time betrayed. Men who turn with every
new wind of opinion or clamor are getter
ally active and officious in their party, and
leave each one in turn beause they cannot
find room enough to expand themselvo.
We know how in 1816 men who aspired
to eminetice proved erratic on the taritf,
and how in 1848 the Taylor mania bo'o otf
inatty more ; while a few poor country edi
tors in the backwoods alone he'd out the
people's banner to t'-e breeze. So too it
was in the flood of 1854; and as one of the
few who stood firm in those contests in this
region, and fought the battle almost single
handed and alone, wo feel aright to enter n
protest against giving the control of the
party to the men who in datk days were
the first apostates. If such men return from
an honest conviction of error they will not
aspire to rule the party, and dictate who
shall be its candidates. If they come back
trom other less honorable motives we have
nothing to gain from them, either of charac
ter or of strength.
Court Proceeding*.
Caurt met last Monday in this place, pres
ent Judges Woodward, Kline and Evans.—
Isaac Dewittof Greenwood was appointed
Foreman of the Grand Jury.
An indictment against Moses Gaumer for
larceny was found a true bill. The prisoner
was put upon trial, but after some evidence
was given by the Commonwealth, he with
drew the plea of not guilty and plead guilty
on the indictment.
An indictment against William Whipple
for horse stealing was found a true bill.—
He was put upon trial, but all the evidence
produced consisted of confessions made by
the prisoner which were induced by hopes
and persuasions, and were therefore inad
missible. For want of otlior evidence he
was discharged.
The case of David Reinbold or. Aaron
Wolf on the civil list was tried. It was
a claim for work and labor in digging a
The case of Jane M. Berniuger vs. W. A.
Kline is now (Tuesday afternoon) on trial.
'i rial of McKira.
The trial of McKim commenced at Holh
daysburg before Judge Taylor the early part
of last week. There eere some 40 witness
es to be examined on the part of the Com
monwealth, and 6or 6 for the defence. The
woeten who accompanied McKim to Potts
ville, were brought by an officer from that
place, and a man named Bonner, originally
subpoenaed for the defenee. was brought by
an officer of Chester for the Commonwealth.
The Doctor with whom Norcross studied in
„ Dunlieth, ia also in attendance, aa well a*
several witnesses from Dubuque. Koons
and Wolf, the men who arrested McKim on
the North Mountain, are preseat. On Mon
t day McKim was brought into Couit, and
swore oat an attachment for two of hi* wit
nesses, residing in Chester.
We pobliah to-day tbe new fee-bill
for Justices and constable* wbicb has recei
ved the Governor's signature and is now the
law of the State. Ws bava on hand copies
of it in naa( form for Justice* to put np in thair
rffioe as ffie law directs. The bill raises tbe
leee of the officers ebcut ib pet cant
SCHOOL CONTENTION.
In pursuance of the caJI and law the School
Directors ol Columbia County met at the
Court-house in Bloornsburg on Monday af
ternoon and organized by electing BENJ.
P. FORTNER, President, and A. C. MCHBCH,
Secretory of the Convention. The townships
were called over when the following direc-
tors were found to be present:
Benton —William Cote, N. P. Moore.
Briarcreek —S. B. Bownan, Enos Adams.
Beaver —Tilghman Rittenhouee, Charles
Michael.
Bloom —Dr. J. Ramsey, A. C. Menscli, Jo
seph Sharpless, E. B. Beidulman, Welling
ton Harlrnan, J. W. Ilendershot.
Centre —James Kocher.
Catawissa —Matthias Hartman.Wm. Ilart
man,'Solomon Rein hard, I. S. Monroe, Jno.
Scott.
Fishingcretk —Thomas Lunger, George D.
Kline, Henry Biltenbender.
Fiankl'n —B. P. Fortner, Wellington Clay
ton, William Menscli, Moses Howcr.
Greenwood —Joseph E. Sands, Elias Wert
man, Thos E. Eves, Aaron Reece, Humphry
Parker.
Hemlock —Reuben Bogart, John G. Nevins,
' Baltis Appleman.
Jackson— ffm. E. Roberts.
Locust —John Harner, John Yeager, jr.,
Geo. Fetterman, jr., Peter S. Hrlwig, Wright
Hughes.
Maine—A. Andrews, Joseph Geigcr, Geo.
Sliuman.
JHailison.— Neherniah Welliver, Joseph
Masters.
Montour —Josiah Roberts, Jacob Arwine,
Lewis Roat.
WJflin l'hincas Smith, John R. Yohe,
Samuel Nuss.
Mount pleasant—
Orange— James Patterson.
Pine—
Roaringcreek —David R. Hower, Michael
Fcrderoff.
Scott —S. E. Fowler, Theodore McDowell,
Peter Ent, Aaron Boon, Daniel Snyder.
Sugnrtoaf—Veier Hess, David Lewis
Dr. Ramsey offered the following resolu
tion:—Resolved that a Coti'miileo of three be
appointed to examine the candidates for
County Superintendent, and that no person
be vo.od for as such candidate without hav
ing been examined.
The resolution was adopted. A motion
was subsequently made to reconsider the
resolution, but was lost. The President ap
pointed B. F. Eaton, R. \V. Weaver and
Andrew Madison as tiro examining com
mittee.
Dr. It.imsay nominated Wellington H. Ent
of Light Street, and Mr. Beidleman nomina
ted William Burgess of Greenwood. Mr. Ent
subsequently declined being a candidate.—
The Convention then adjourned to Mr. Ea
[ ton's School room on Third and Mr.
| Burgess wa examined by the Committee in
i the presence of the Convention.
A vole xv.ts then taken, and he received :
43 votes —none being cast for aty other per - j
son.
The Convention ther. proceeded to fix the 1
ralary o( the Superintendent for the coming '
three years. Several sums learn St,ooo to'
l f4OO were proposed, and it Was fiiiully fixed
\ at S4OO year.
The Convention then adjourned sine die..
SALE or THE HIAI.N I,INF.
Even tiro Hnrrisburg Telegraph, an oppo
si. oti jutper opposes the corrupt project of
sell:: g or rather giving awav the Ma n Line
I winch is now contemplated in the legisla-
I litre, or,d especially that part of the project
] which proposes to squander the proceeds
|ot tl e sale. The following is from its col
umns:
sunt,my and Frle Railroad Bill.
Thi is a bill which proposes to pledge
$3,000,000 (if the bonds received from tho
sale of the Main Line, as collateral security
for the redemption ol that much of a loan
authorized to be made by that company,
and to pledge the credit of the Sta e for the
redemption of that much of the loan.
We are the warm friends of the Stmbury
and Erie Railroad, and would be rejoiced
to see that improvement made, but we re
gard this proposition as little less than mon
strous, and calculated, if it becomes a law,
to defeat every advantage which the State
might gain from the sale of tlie Public
Works. It is but transfering the schemes ot
robbery and plunder from one theatre to
another. It is well known that the contracts
for making that road are in the hands of a
few bold operators on public improvements,
who will be the only party benefited by the
passage of this bill. Ami when the money
which is borrowed on the credit of the State
is expended, and forty or fifty percent of it
pocketed by the contractors, the Common
wealth will either have to make new ad
vances to finish it, or suffer an unfinished
road to be sold, by which lime these very
contractors will have enough of the State's
money to purchase it. and leave the State to
jm_ un ututuice. xne bill was defeated in
the House this morning by a lie vote, but
| we have no doubt wilt be brought up agtiin,
j as these vultures are not so easily io be driv
en from their prey.
Sensible.—Tho \ationui Era, th* leading
anti-slavery paper in the country, published at
Washington, came out last weak u i.b a long
article egairut ir.e coarse of the tree state
party in Kansas, in refusing not to lake part
in tbe election of delegates to the constrtu
tuiional convention. The Era advrses the
party to ' reconsider" their plan, and make
immediate efforts to show their sireng-h at
the polls. The Era gays that do lest oaths
are required of voters, and every inhabitant
can vote, and if the free stste men do not vote
they will prejudice themselves in the eyes of!
the people and be placed at a disadvintage ,
with tbe democratic party.
tF" Mri. Anna Maria Veitargruber, wbo
baa been confined in the jail of Sullivan 00.,
since October 1855, awaiting trial for lb#
murder ol ber hatband, will be tried at .the
May tens of Court. Satisfactory arrange
ments could eol be effected by tbe Prosecut
ing Attorney and Defence to carry jhe trial
into another county.
'What Modesty'!
An Abolition paper up in " Wilmot'* Dis
trict," says:
" DaviJ Wi!mot received the news of his
nomination, sitting at home, in the micist of
his family. Neither he nor his friends kept
"open house" at Harris burg or elsewhere. —
He did not find it necessary to attend as an
outside delegate, even."
What a retiring, modest, unambitious man
Mr. Wilmot is! When the Convention that
nominated him was in session, he was "sil
ting quietly at home, in the midst of his fam
ily," not thinking of such a thing as his se
lection 1 Some men can't help having honors
thrust upon them, no matter how much (hey
I run from them or try to avoid tbem. He was
| "sitting quietly at home, in the midst of h>s
! family." It is a downright shame to disturb
I such a quietly inclined man, and force him to
I be a candidate for Governor—especially when
j there is not the least chance on earth for him
to be elected. But the chronicler ot David's
virtues might have added, that he has spent
the last six months in pettifogging, pipe-lay
ing, wire-pulling and such little modest trick
ery to blindfold and humbug the Know Noth
ings and get the same unlooked-for nomina
' lion ; and that by resorting to every kind of
legerdemain, which he undeistands to a mod- |
est extent, he had everything cut, laid up,
and diied long ago, so that there wss no
more need for him at Harrisburg during the
Convention, than there wss for stone
itl the city of Jetusalem at the building ol
Solomon's temple. The most innocent look
ing creature to be found isa fox, the morning
after a visit to a farmyard; gnd of course Mr.
Wilmot would be "sitting quietly at home in
the midst ol his family." Modesty will in
jure that man in some way yet. lie even
had 100 much of it to resign his judgeship '
Inst fall before stumping the State for Fre
mont, for fear he should trouble the people
to elect another. Modest David Wilmot.—
Lycoming Gazette.
1 he Poisoning (owe.
The Cleveland Plaindealer, whose editor
| lias recently returned from a visit of some
weeks to Washington, in referring to the lute
; poisoning sickness in that city, and the con*
I cuirent testimony of numerous physicians in
i all parts of the country that the symptoms
could only have been produced by poison,
refets to the fact that the ma'atly originally
broke out at Mr. Buchanan's first visit to the
hotel; it ceased when he left lor Wheatland,
and upon his return, after a fortnight's ab
sence, became again more violent than ever.
The President elect was warned by anony
mous letters not to eat or drink in that house;
and under the advice of friends, although he
returned to the hotel from a feeling of regard
for its worthy proprietors, he never broke
bread or emptied a glass there, until he look
up his residence in the Presidential Mansion.
Occasional visitors who did not board litem,
but used the bar, wore not afflicted, whi'e
nearly all the occupants of the diuing toon)
were more or less prostra'e.l.
tloilis on Geography.
In the schools of this county there has been
much improvement within a few years in the
introduction of a uniform series of books in
reading and arithmetic. It is to be much de
sired that this progress should go into other
branches of study, fn Geograplipv Monleith's
Manual has been generally introduced lor
primary scholars, and has proved an excel
lent work. There is none belter. Moms.
B.rnes & Co., the publishers, have recently
i -ned a new anil enlarged edi.ion of the
work, but one which can still be used nlo.ig
with the old edition until new books can be
procured for the whole class. It contains
quite as much geography es most scholars
retain through life; and ut the conclusion has
elementary chapters on astronomy and a little
geometry, which are useful and entirely with
in the comprehension of those who might
use the book.
For more advanced scholars the same pub
liß.'iers have McNally's system of Geography
which embraces maps and reading matter in
one volume, and is yet comprehensive enough
for any of our Upper Grade schools. There
is no such uniloimiiy of books in advanced
Geography as is desirable, and where it can
be done the Directors would consult the true
interest of the scholars by introducing this
book.
Morai. for the Young, by Emma Wil
latd, a teacher of reputation, is another good
little work Irom the same publishers. It is
the best book of the kind where such i de
sired. Orders for these books will be faith
fully filled if addressed to A. S. Barnes & Co.,
No. 51 & 53 John Street, New York, or toJno.
W. Pattou, Lancaster, Pa.
Ticmeudons Blast of Fowder.
Yesterday afternoon, Messrs. Fitch, Coolt,
& Co. lelt rff the heaviest blast at Quarry ville,
so said, that ever was left offi at (he Bolton
mountains. In this case 1500 pounds of
powder were let off. The mass of Rock up
heaved was tweaty-five feet in depth, and
twenty-five feet wide by fifty feel long. At
least 3000 tons of rock were removed, 1000
tons being thrown from fifteen to one hund
ted rods distant.
One solid mass of rock, weighing at leat
fifeen tons, was thrown a distance of thirty
rods: fences in the vicinity were completely
destroyed, and the tops of trees taken off as
if done by an axe. The tops of apple trees
in an orchard near by were taken completely
off, presenting a desolate appearance. The
public road which runs at the foot of the hill
was completely filled; many of the larger
rocks reqoiring to be blasted before they can
be* removed. One mass which lay on the
road, after being divided into four parts,
conld with difficulty be removed by a six ox
team.
It generally requires, in opening a new
quarry, an oatlay of soma f4,000 to remove
the waste rock which lies over and above the
paving stones. — Hartford Conrant.
to" The bill to separate (be office of Su
perintendent of Common Schools from (hat
of Secretary of tbe Commonwealth has re
ceived the Governor's signature, and has ap
pointed Henry C. Hickok, Esq , to tbe former
office. He is familiar with its da ties, and
iht appointment is a good one.
LETTER EROW PAITH.
Dr. John R. Evsrhart, of Weatobeater, who
is now sojourning in Pari*, writes a very
pretty letter from the metropolis of civiliza
tion. We Jtad it in the last Westchester Re
publican.
PARIS, March 30th, 2657.
DESK B.— Bon voyage to the long and rainy
winter, to eraekicg chimneys, oil-cloths ooi.ta
and umbrellas! The buds and birds have
come at last to fill the gardens of Paris with
the fragrance and music of spring. The
French are out like bees seeking for pleas
ure, as these for honey. They saunter thro'
the Jardin ties Plantes to throw ground run
to the monkeys and feed the pigeons from
their hands. They stroll around the fount
ains of the Place de la Concorde—watch
children fly patnieJ balloons in the green al
leys of the Tuilleries; or launch baby boats
amongst the wild fowls in the artificial lakes;
or enjoy the puppet shows in the Champs
Elysees, or the military manoeuvres of Zou
aves in the Champs de Mars. They rambfe
out amongst the shrubbery of Versailles;
amongst the marble graves of Pere la Chaise,
and through tha shady avsnues of Funtain
bleau. They seem to forsake their homes to
pursue their happiness in the atteets, discuss
meals and everything but polities, in the
Boulevards. Tbe Empire is not to be deba
ted, tbe ear of the police, the tongue of the
babbler and the birds of the air forbid it.
With this cautious embargo on French lo
| qu&city, Napoleon, once called "the little,"
. has worn his crown like a great monarch.—
He has made his day the Augustan ege of
France—made hie capital us magnificent as
Csesar's—avenged the winter of Moscow by
I the wiider of Sebastopol—and is about to en-
I ter the Celestial Empire hand in hand with
the Conquerors of the Nile.
The Constable of Hanover square, hss be
come the constable of Europe. The people
who laughed at him in Strasburg, swear fealty
to him at the Tuilleries. The Potentates
who denied him a refuge, seek his friend
ship. Trie forlorn stranger of New York
makes princes of his Baltimore cousins. The
heir of a banished dynasty, the last Napoleon
has just finished the gorgeous tomb of the
first, on the borders of the river, amongst the
remnants of bis living gaurds, near some of
hit buried Marshals, and inscribed oil it that,
pathetic, patriotio dying aspiration of the ex
ile, "1 desire that my ashes may repose on
the banks of the Seine amongst the people I
love so well."
The Imperial Nephew has realized the
wish of the Uncle. The destiny of the latter
is lulfilled in the foiraer. History satisfies
poetical justice.
To day 1 .-aw again th royal infant in a
carriage drawn by (our horses, surrounded
by guards and lacqueys. Tl.e hope of France
was modestly sucking his fingers, and hardly
seemed to appreciate bis circumstances.
Negroes are rather at a premium here, no
prejudice exists against thetn, 'he color is
popular. This illustrates the diversity ol
tastes. The French ate fond of garlic and
are never offended by the odor of it. They
admire Washington more than Gen. Piece.
Tney represent our Indians wilh lon* bean s.
American bankers, Grsen & Co , have failed,
to iho misfortune nl ><>•" f iheit country
men here. Blessed are (he poor for they lost
noining. Yours,
JOHN.
Uniting Indii and Europe Tklegraphical
i.v.—The Porte Ins to ai: English
company the right to ronsiuct a submarine
telegraph between Constantinople anil Alex
andria, 10 be continued thence to India, so
thai the western coast of the Pacific will soon
be in telegraphic corrniunication wiih Eng.
land, thence by the Atlantic cable lo Ameri
ca, and, at no distant day, to San Francisco.
The imperial firman granted two years for
the construction of the line from Constantin
ople to Alexandra, aid four lor a line along
the Red Sea, the southern coast of Arabia
and intervening spncetill it reaches the Prov
ince of Scitide, when it will connect with
lines already established in British India, one
of which extends lo Lombay on the Western
coast, whilst another t avetses this great pen
insula, from Kttrracht" lo Calcutta, and cros
sing the Gulf of Bettgd, extends to Pegu, the
great port of the Burnan empire, only two
hundred leagues from the frontier of China.
It is steted that both will be commenced im
mediately, and tbe fir.-t completed within the
present year, while lie second will not tarry
long. The English Government beir.g so
much interested in ttis enterprise by vast
movements in Persia irui China, is giving it
an earnest support, sivetal vessels having
been sent to make sontdiiigs between Alex
andria and Rhodes.
tW The Legislaturt has done a heavy bu
siness in the establishment ol new banks.—
No less than nineteen bills have passed both
Houses, authorizing an additional capital of
86,350,000. With the exception of a few,
located where bank accommodations are ab
solutely necessary acd are not to be had, the
majority of theae charters have in store an
abundance of evil for the people of this State.
Without supplying at urgent necessity many
of them, we have a ight lo believe, will give
us a full supply of a'l the troubles and disas
ters of which reckless and unrestricted bank
ing is so productive. The following is the list
of Bank Bills paserd, with tbe amount of
capital of each Bank:
Bank of Lewiebirg, capi'al, S200.000;
Pii'Mon Bank, 800.0*0; Corn Exchange, Phil
adelphia, 500,000; kittening Bank, 150 600;
Oc.'orara, 150,000; Coatesrille. 150 oOO; -xl
legbeny, City, 500,000; Commonwealth, Phil
adelphia, 500,000; Doylestown, 150,000; Sha
mokin, 150,000; Farmers and Drovers',
Waynesburg, 100,000; Catasaqua, 400,000;
Citizens-' Deposit Bank, Pittsburg, 500,000:
Rsston Bank, 200,000; Anion Bank, Pbilada.,
500,000; Central Bank, Hollidaysburg, 300,-
000; Pottatown, 200,000; Union Bank, Read
ing, 300,000; York County Bar.k, 200,000.
—Total, 86,350,000.
The Governor or Utah. —Major Benja
min McCnliongb, of Texas, has been ap
pointed Governor of Utah, and the Union
say* he will probably accept if. Brighatn
Young would find Major McColloagh rather
a tough subject to bring into epiriiual subjec
tion
The Norcross Mnider—lrial of UcKln.
Tbe trial of D*id Stringer MoKim for (be
murder of Samuel T. Norcroee, nedr Altoona,
in January last, commenced at Hollidaye
burg, the county down of Blair, on last Thurs
day evening. The ueual difficulty in obtain
ing a jury was experienced, ar.d it was not
until Friday afternoon that the case was
opened by the District Attorney. Tbe latter
gave a history ol the case, which it is not
necessary here to repeat, as most, if not all
our readers are familiar with it. The facta
in brief, are that Norcrosa started from Illi
nois to return to his home in New England.
He had several thousand dollars in hie pos
session, and being in delicate health, he had
aocepled lite proflered setvice of McKiru to
attend to his watt's.
The two got out of the ears at Altoona,and
walked up the road together on the 16th of
January. Soon after Norcrosa was fouixJ ly
ing upon the railroad (rack, in a living con
dition. His tnroat was cut and his skull was
fractured by blowa with a club. Ttie mur
dered man died without being able to speak.
McKim fled, and his trunk came en to thia
city, but he never appeared to claim it. Af
ter the lapse of a considerable interval, the
fugitive, was arrested at a desolate pluoe in
the interior of the Stale.
After the District Attorney had concluded bis
opening remarks, the first witness, John Cal-
Mini, wascaHrd.
John Callahan sworn—l live in Logan
township, two and a half miles above
I Altoona; on tbe morning of the 16th of Janu
l ary last, as 1 was going to work about seven
o'clock, when I got into ihiscut, I saw a man
in the ditch oil bis knees; he was on his (wo
knees, wavering back and forward with his
back to Altoona; before I reached him 1 tho'l
it might be our watchman, when I gol close
I found his cap off his head; it was a kind of
skin cap; he waa uttering some words, but 1
do not know what he meant to say: I saw,
as he was raising his head, the cut across his
tlitoat; I passed but few retnaiks; it was a
pretty large cut, pretty near clear around the
throat; under his eor, about hia jaw there
were cuts, but I do not know whether one or
two; 1 did not remark which side of the head
they were on; Mr. McKenna and hia men I
informed of what I had seen, and my fore
man and hia men came up; a locomotive
came along, and we took the body to Altoo
na, and a party of tie remained at the scene;
one ol them found a razor and a club upon
the ground; after the razor was found (hey
wunted n.e to go to Alloana and take the ra
zor; I did so, and gave it to some one;
there was a travelling bag found also upon
the ground ; it looked like a fiddle with a
green cover on it; Ido not know what else
was found. [The razor four.d by Norcross'
body was shown witness, and be remarked
hat it looked like the one he had seen ] The
club, a stick about two inches in thickness
and (our f>et in length, the witness also
thought was the same. The carpet bag and
fiddle bag, to the best of Ids opinion, lie
thought the same; also a shawl that had been
around Norcross.
Cross-examined—No one wer.l with rne
to Altoona with the rszor. It was between
one uud two hours after I saw the body that
the razor was found. I cannot say that that
is the club.
Thomas MrKernan sworn—l am the fore
man of a gang of men on the Pennsylvania
Railroad ; on the 16th of January last I got
vvotd that a man was dead on the railroad;
I called on my assistants to see to the place,
and on my way I called upon Valentine Dil
lon to go along ; wo found the man about two
miles above Altoona : his throat was cut; it
was a very large cut —nearly all around. I
think it was on the chin, one over lite eye,
and I think one on the right side of the face;
his eye was broken in. When 1 first saw
litis man he was trying to get on bis knees,
but be either fell on his lace o; side, and thee
turned, and kept turning and exening him
self until we got him on the engine. Upon
the ground in the neighborhood of the man
I saw the laigest portion of a razor tcabbnrd,
a black carpet sack, a green ba>ze violin bag
and u club; about half an hour after this lime
we found a razor about filly or sixty feet
above where we found the body. [Witness
was shown rszor, and, to the best of his be
lief, thought it to be the same article. He
also believed the oilier articles tobethesame
that were found, including the club.] Nor
cro<-s was put on an engine for Altoona; 1
recognize the vest [vest shown him] as hav
ing been upon the person of the wounded
mail. It was a very cold fteezing morning.
There was blood on the rails forty or fiuy feel
above the murdered man, it was frozen and
had in it part of the wool of a red comforter,
Ike this now before me. [Red scsrl ol Nor
crosa shown him ]
Cross-examined.—l brlieve all the articles
before me to be tbe saone from their gener
al appearance; I am sure it was blood I saw
upon the rail; I picked up tbe club and ex
amined it; put il back where it came from;
I have not seen tbe articles since until ibis
week; I recognize the vest by the color and
the slufl: I recognize the razor by its color
and the blood upon it. (Razor shown him.)
I think it is still blood upon it. (Witness
dercribed dress of Norcross.) The shawl
was upon the man, across his breast, and
clasped in from; his boots I never saw, un
less I saw them on Norcross; Norcross I
should judge to have been about five feel
seven inches in height.
Valentine Diller testified lo the finding of
the body, its removal to AHona, and tbe
blood found on various parts ol the track.—
He identified all the articles except the coat
His cross-examination elicited nothing wor
thy of note.
Moses Dooly, Esq., sworn—ls e Justice of
the Pesce in Altoona; passing the Exchange
Hotel, beard of the accident or murder; went
in, and found the man lying upon the settee,
nusble lo articulate; took two letter! from
him, in order to ascertain who be was; aleo,
a stiver watch, breast pin, and porte monnaie,
containing a ten dollar gold piece, a gold
dollar, and a one dollar bill on the Fox Lake
Bank. Articles produced and identified.
John M'Charters sworn—Keep# the Eagle
Hotel in Pittsburgh; identified Fox Lake
Bank bill as one he had given in change <o
a man named Norcross in payment of hit
bill. [Hotel register of the Eagle Hotel pro
duced.] Norcrosa came lo my house on the
14ih, bad hit name registered, and, alao, as
he aaid, that of bis friend, Daaid McKinney,
of Philadelphia;-saw Nnieroaaand defendant
in company frequently; when former paid
the bill, saw a twenty dollar -gold piece in
hia possession, and other money.
Samuel M'Mastera, cleik of the Hotel, tea
tided to first seeing Norcrosa and defendant
at the hotel in the morning, after
out from breakfast. That McKim leaned
over the counter and and (did him, confiden
tially, rhat he had great trouble with Nor
cross; that he was subject to file, and at timet
it would lake two or three men to hold him;
that the night previous he, Norcross, had
' slipped out Of bed, and awoke him—the de
! fend ant—by attempting to beat his brains
| out against the wall. Witness was further
I informed by defendant that te was taking
NorcrOFs from the West to his friends in the
East, and that he had great trouble withhim,
as he made every endeavor to commit sui
cide white libormg under one of those fits.
Jacob Shimbro, the ostler at the Eagle Ho
tel, testified to taking the baggage from the
Pennsylvania and Ohio baggage room in Al
legheny! to the Pennsylvania depot in Pitts
bu'gh, and to seeing the men at the depot in
company. He does not recognize McKim,
but remembers the tiunk.
Joshua Cressod, sworn—On the I6th of
January, I was baggage master on the ex
press train on the Pennsylvania railroad; the
the first place that I ran identify these two
trunks is at Philadelphia, when they were
not claimed; that was on January I6th,the
train lelt Pittsburgh at 9J o'clock on the Istk;
the checks on the trunks are placed on bag
gage destined for Philadelphia; no owner ap
peared for these trunks that night; the trunks
being unclaimed, I delivered them into the
charge of the Baggage Agewt, Philadelphia.
T. E. Garret, sworn—l'was baggage agent
of (lie Pennsylvania llnilroad at Philadelphia
on January I6ilt inst ; I received the trunks
from Mr. Cresvon, baggage master of the ex
press train—(wittiqgs examined the trunks)
-r-one of them is marked on the bottom, "D.
McKim, Duntieth, Illinois;'" the trunks were
unclaimed; another trunk of Norcross' was
delivered by me to Mr. Poland, a relative of
the deceased, on the 25ih of Januatv.
On Saturday morning the trunk of Nor
cross was to be opened and examiued
The court then adjourned.
Counterfeit Detection.
Dye's Detector presents the following rules
for the detection of counterfeit bills. To per
sons of taste and judgment, they will be use
ful. f.el every reader of the ''Star" cut them
out and preserve them :
Firs:— Examine the form and features ol
all human figures upon the note. If the forms
are graceful and features distinct, examine
the drapery—see if the folds lay natural; and
if the hair of the head should be obsetved.
and see if the fine strands can be seen.
Second—Examine the letteiinac,the lide of
the Hank, or the round handwriting on the
face of the note. On all genuine bills this
work is done with great skill and perlectoess,
and there has never been a counterfoil bat :
was defective in lite lettering.
Third—The impiint or engraver's name. !
By observing the great perfectnes of the dif- '
ferent company names—in the evenness and j
shape of the fine leiteis—the counterfeiters
never get the imprint perfect.
Fourth—The shading in the background of i
the vignette, or over or around the letters for
ming the name of the bank—on a good bill I
is even and perfect—on a counterfeit irtegu- ;
lar and imperfect.
Fifih— Examine well the figures on other
parts of the note containing the denomination
also the letters. Examine well the dye woik
around the figures which stand for the denom
ination, to see if it is of the same character
ai that which forma the ornamental work
surrounding it.
Sixth—Never like a bill that is deficient in
eny of the above points, and if your impres
sion is bad when you first see it, you had
better be careful how you become convinced
to chacge your mind—whether your opinion
is not altered as you become confused in
looking into the texture uf the workmanship
of the bill. '
Seventh—Examine the name of the State,
name of the bank and name of the town in
which the bank is located. If it has been al
tered ftom a broken bank, tbedefecta can be
plainly seen as the alteration will show that
it has been stamped on.
ARRIVAL UF THE AFRICA.
ONE XVKKK LATER FROM EUROPE.
New York, May I The Conrad Steamship
Aftica arrived about 4 o'clock, this afternoon,
with Liverpool dptes to the 18lli ult.
The English papers announce thai Queen
Victoria has gives birth lo another princess.
The capital of the bank of France is about
to be doubled.
It ia reported that the F.mperor Napoleon
will soon visit Algiers.
There are continued rumors of Frenchcon
spiracies.
The steamship City of Baltimore arrived
at Liverpool, on tfce 14th ult.
FRANCE—The Republicans propose run
ning Catnot, Cavaignac, and otoera, for the
Legislature.
The demand of Turkey oc Persia for res
titution of territory has been referred fo
France and England.
The French Government has decided that
the introduction into Algeria of Indian and
Chinese field laborers shall be encouraged.
The French Repulicana have determined
to ascertain their strength at the approaching
election by pulling up MM. Carnol, Cavaig
nac, etc., as candidates for the Legislative
Chamber. They intend propoaing them in
Paris end in the Departments.
ENGLAND. —The English and Persian treaty
has not been conolnded.
Ins rumored that the foot Powers, weari
ed of the Neufchatel trifling, are about to
impose term* on Prussia and Switzerland.
It ia re-affirmed that France and England
are meditating in the Spanish-Mexican quar
rel'
W The President ha* appointed Christo
pher Carson, the " Kit Carson" of Fremont's
expedition, Indian Agent for New Mexico
OLD MR* 111 OLD TIHKS
WODI'SN DCOtNMtACT.
Modetn lustrry ie not favorable to long life
In the patriarchal tfta, W translators of the
ecripiure* are correct in (belt interpretations
of the Mosaic measurement of "time, an an
cient Hebrew was quite a yontb at fire -age
•f a century or so, and could aearcsly be
considered settled for life brfore he had
reached his second centennial epoch. Now,
however, a man is venerable at fifty, and
althongh Old Parr saw bia 159 th birthday,
and the oeurue occasionally brings a cente
narian to light, seventy is nsnally the ex
treme limit of human existence. The feet
is,wreinodems eat too much, drink toe much,
loaf too mncb, and work too little. We spoil
our stomachs with over indulgence, and the
result is impure blood, vitiated secretions, a
disordered system, and premature deoay —•
The root of half the fatel diseases of the
raee is dyspepsia, a complaint nnknown, it
te presumed, in the days of Moses and the
pTophets, when turtle soup, terrapin stew,
rich petes and champagne were uninvented.
As these, and hundred* of other indigestible*,
however, form an indispensable portion of
the enrfe of the nineteenth century, and
man nature or rather artificial appetite t7P
invoke dyspepsia with all its kindred hor
ror*, one of the great object* of medical
science should be to provide acnte for them
This we really rhink has tvwu accomplished
by Holloway. H. r '" B seem almost to real
ize rhe fabl the Elixir Vila. There can
be no manner of doubt, (unless we choose
to reject a mas* of testimony which would
be deemed conclusive by any court and jury
in Christendom) that they ere the most po
tent and unfailing remedy the world has ever
seen for indigestion, and all disorder* of the
stomach, the liver and the bowels. We do
not advise our readet* to tempt an attack of
these maladies by neglecting the coudition
of health; but it the mischief is done, we
most earnestly recommend this famous laxa
tive and stomachic—tor strange to sty, the
PtHs combine the two qualities—as the speed
iest, the safest, and the most infallible means
of cure. In so doing we simply act upon
our own convictions, founded on personal
observation, as well as on volume* upon vol
umes of unimpeachable vouchers Boston
"TiaveUr."
TIIE GOLD WORLD.—A new work just pub
lished, entiled 'Remarkable Facie,"contain*
the following statement :
" Estimate the yard of gold at £2 000,000,
which it is in tound numbers; and all the
gold in the world might, if melteJ into ingots,
be contained in a cellar twenty-four feel
equals and sixteen feel It gh. All ihe boasted
wealth ahead) obtained from California and
Australia would go into an iron safe nine feet
square and nine feet high—so small is the
cube of yellow metal that basset populations
on the march, and roused the whole woild to
wonder.
The contributions of the people, in the tima
of David, for the sanctuary, exceeded £6,-
800,000. The immense treasure David ia
said to have collected for Ihe sanctuary a
mounted lo £889.000,000 sterling (Crilo says
798 millio is) —a sum greater than the Brit
ish national debt The gold with which Sol
omon overlaid the "most holy place," a room
only thirty fuel square, amounted to more
than thirty-eight millions sterling.
ty The Commissioners of Cawrence Co.,
Pa., having subscribed $175,000 slock for
railroad purposes, on ihe recommendation of
the Grand Jury, ihe people ot Shenango,
Perry end oilier townships have called meet
ings, proiesling against any guarantee of Ihe
in'eiesl on Ihe bonds of ihe Commissioners,
and pledging themselves 10 "resist to the ut
most, by all lawtul means, the payment of
either interest or principle of said bonds, and
10 roniribuio funds to retain the services of
suitable legal counsel, to test their legality or
validity." The matter has kindled a great
exci'ement.
Pouiica IN THC PULPIT.—Ex-Senator Dick
inson, of New York, in one of his orations,
thus speaks of the effeot of introducing poli
tics into the pulpit: "It has done more to
demoralize the public mind than any other
social evd, for it has planted death in the seat
of life; it has done more to desecrate the
csue of religion than the worst opinions of
Paine—more to raise up an army of scoffers
than the writings of Voltaire—more to man
ufacture infidels than the seed sown in the
revolution of France: and when all these in
fluences shall have been exterminated or for
gotten forever, the plague spot of political
pulpits will rest upon society like a deadly
incubus."
A BORKR EXPELLED.—Sometime ago Spea
ker Geiz of the House ot Representatives ex
posed some corrupt attempt on tbe part of
H. F. Mcßeynolds to extort money from
some members, interested in the passage of
a certain bill. A commitue was appointed to
investigate Ihe matter, end last week Mr.
Lonaker the chairman reported to expel Mr.
Mcßeynolds from the bar of tbe House,
which report waa adopted by the House—
The person so expelled was in the winter of
18fS6 a correspondent of the Philadelphia
Ptnnsylvanian, but for some reasons that pa
par early last winter gave long public notice
that be was no longer in soy way conceded
with it.
INTERESTING.— The census of (he United
Steles shows that we base two millions and a
half of farmers, one hundred thousand mer
chants, sixty four thousand masons, and neat
ly two hundred thousand carpenters. Wa
have fourteen thousand bakers to bake out
bread ; twenty-four thousand lawyers to set
ua by the ear; forty thousand doctor* to "kilt
or cure,'' and fifteen hcndrad editors to keep
this motley mass in order by thepotent pow
er of public opinion controlled and manufac
tured through the press.
THE "HOG CHOLERA" is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Kentucky, Indiana, and
in faet, all aloog the Ohio river. In two pens
in Kentucky in less than a week some 400
hogs died, and we hear account* of smaller
numbers in other sections. The hogs that
thus die are converted into grease, and sold
to the atsarine candle makers at about 9 eta.
per lb. This it bringing hogs to I'ght: