STAR OF THE MOffiHr R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. UloonwitßrK, WoHqeatUr, May 2Q, |BST Democratic Nomination*. FOR — William r. packer, ~ **f Lycoming Ooonty. rOR CA!|AL 1-PM MISS lON ER, I4L* L AIID, Coumy. JUI I- MtP ItraucrMic of 1857. of a adopted by State Committee of Penn ■K the delegates to the State Convert- March 2d, 1857, are requested to as- the Capitol, at Harrisburg,on Tuen , the 9th day of June, 1857, at 10 o'clock, Mi for '.be purpose of nominating candi dates to complete the State Ticket, and tran sacting all other business pertaining to the original authority of the Convention. CHARLES B. BUCKALF.W, Chairman. J. N. Htrrcwiyoa, I R. J. HaIOEMIN. ] Wilmot 1 * Letter or Acceptance. Judge "Vilnt has accepted the Republican nomination fot in a letter which reads as if beulropght he was a candidate lor the GovemorAip of Kansas, but an entire stranger to Per tsylvania. It is for the negro from beginning tognd, and has not a word S for the utile :ilizen, except an incidental, illiberal fling a the foreigner. Thia was re membered to le necessary to reconcile the fractious lempii of Kaow-Nothingism, but was forgotten until neatly the end of the epis tle. Them is no aspect in which the letter can have any fi'nesa or pertinence to a candi date for Governor of Pennsylvania, unless its author has misty visions of slaves floating up lfta Susquehanna. Rut it snaps and snarls at the South in a api-it better becoming rival back drivers than the dignified Governor of * fiatarnal Stale. If he does not intend to interfere with the institutions of Southern Sta'es why this tirade against them ? Certain it Is that if the Governors of all the States showed a like hostile ipiril the Union would not bold together six months, and we would have civil war in iesa than a year. But why is there nothing in this letter upon questions of State policy ? Has tie no bowels of compassion for the 2,000,000 t chilee who live in Pennsylvania 1 He talks piteously for the emigrant. But if he would take care first to relieve our debt-ridden and lax-ridden Commonwealth of her heavy burthens her industrious children would not so olten be driven to the rough frontier lile of Kansas.— We have delicate and difficult questions of slate finance, of banking, of state debt and Alate improvements which have been qaite enough for all our Governors; and look as if they would yet furnish abnndant employment for ill the wisdom of the next five or six in cumbents—and for that of all their constitu .. pots. , Wilmot is like the sentimental lady whom John Randolph found sewing for the Greeks while her own children rolled in dirt and rags in the street, until the eccentric Virginian was constrained to cry out: " Why madam, the Greeks are at your door." Wilmot will find the cool-minded people of Pennsylvania more anxious to know what he w.ll do with such corrupt projects as the one lately bought through the legislature for the sale of the Main Line, than what he thinks on the ab stract question of slavery. They want his position on practical home questions,and feet thai Pennsylvania has quite enough to do to mind bar own business. Our people are se cure in ■ Ktßte of Ireedom, they are not secure from the thousand projects of specu lation and plunder that every year afflict them and eat out their substance. The Antl'Stuvery I'arly. The Abolition or Ami Slavery Sooiety, which is only the most ultra branch of the Repubhusa party, has for some lime Been in session at New York. Passmore Williamson and hie sympathisers belong to thia Society. We give the lollowing extracts from its proceedings to show its oharacter. "Rev. Mr. Frothhtgbam thought civil war or a dissolution of the Union was the only hope of emanpating the slave. Rev. Mr. Rosa said George Washington was a traitor, Jesus Christ was a traitor, every HIM was a traitor to a tyrannous government and an infidel to a pro slavery religion. The Traet Society was in league with the devil, if there is toy Doctor Spring has stood up in his pulpit and said just what a rowdy asya in • bar-room: "D—n a nigger!—die is only fit to be a slave!" Dr. Spring has said precise ly this, only he baa said il in different words. He loved to denounce auch hypocritical men. They bad plunged down to the lowest depths ol Milton's hell, and were trying to dig ar ticle in the bottom of it to crawl into." Death of John lU. B. Petiikif, Esq. John M. B. Petrikin, Esq., the member of the Legislature from Lycoming county, died at Harrisburg last Friday of the National Ho tel disease. He was a young man of energy, industry and talent, which gave fair promise of a life of usefulness and honor. He bad strong but generous impulses; and had im proved bis mind by reading and refleotior. until he was a lawyer in fair practice, end one of the mess intelligent members ef the present legislature. His death it a publio lose, a heavy calamity to hta family, and e load of sorrow to his respected father—Gen. W.m, A Petrikia ol Maucy. "if" '. ' u W W#-design to publish next week the etsar and able .report of Senator Welsh on the Dred Scott pais. Iljs a powerful docu ment which everybody ought to read if ffley wish to talk ot listen intelligently upon this ap much abused subjeot. f• " ! OT Messrs. Steele and Bnt from Ihts dis trict have manfully voted against the Main Line b!U In every form add at every stage. Mr. Steele made aome pertinent remarks against the bill in (be Seeate. * ■f THE HAM Line BILL. the men who have votag fo sag the Main Ufie will have a heavy judgment to meet with the people. Except those who live un der the shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, not one will be fikely to be return-* eilnext winter. Sensible men of the Oppo sition ate beginning to see this, and many are turning from the error of their first parti san impulse. Even their newspapers turn ridiculous somersaults, for the diversion of bonast and aensible men. Along the North Branch the ptsblio senti ment on this subject was always healthy, and neither speculators, demsirogues nor fanatics evil gained—much encouragement in their |attemplß to debanoh public virtue. We have within the past two weeks beard scores of men give vent to their honest indignation against the iniquity of thus robbing the Stile, and imposing still heavier burthens of taxa tion. Aa a specimen of the provisions of the bill take.lhe followirg The minimum price of the Line is 19,000,000 if the Pennsylvania Railroad becomes the pat-chaser, but $7,- 500,000 if sold to any other Company or in dividual. The third section provides ifcat if individuals become the purchaser they may transfer the works to any Corporation, It is evident that the borers put this "snake" into the bill, so ar to give them a chance to make 1 $1,500,000 for themselves, which they may do by putchasing at $7,500,000 for the Rail road Company'; since il is understood to be willing to pay $9,000,000. So the Slate is not only robbed of her "backbone," but will be actually made to pay the borers for their nefarious work. Case ol D- 11. Vondersmlth. Deputy Marshal Jenkins arrived in Phila delphia on Tuesday evening, from Lancaster, Itaviog in custody D. B. Vnndersmith, charg ed with having committed pension frauds ! upon the general Government, some three i years since. He was brought beforo Judge ! Kane, of the United Slates District Court, and, in the absence of the District Attorney, the case was postponed until Friday next.— Vondersratth was one of the Associate Judges of the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster, and is charged, with Geo. Ford, one of the most praminsnt members of the Lancaster bar, with obtaining fraudulent pensions to the amount of $50,000. He gave bail and fled the country. Tired, however, it would seem, of being longer an exile, he last fall returned to his home in Lancaster, where he has kept himself closely and unexposed until recent ly, when he allowed himself to be seen more publicly, probably thinking that the eyes of the officer were not in search ot him. But in this he was mistaken, for a rumor of his being here had been conveyed to the Mar shal in Philadelphia, who with the assistance of Mr. Connor, proceeded, early on Wednes day morning,to Mr. Vondersmith's residence, l and finding that he was engaged at work in | his garden, they arrested him. i Since Mr. Vondersmith's return to his home, I he has been engaged in restoring his garden ' to its former beauty; and, being in less afllu- I ent circumstances than formerly, Ire had in- J tended, il PTsaid, if Itffi- rfnilistiirtrei' lohavel added to his means by pursuing the culture I of flowers. His own relatives made Marshal | Yost acquainted with his whereabouts, and ! led to his arrest. The facts are said to be I strong against him. In the United States I Court he will be likely to meet with his de- j sens. OCEAN STEAM NAVIGATION. —Now York, with all its pretensions to commercial enter- ' prise, is losing considerable of its carrying trade through Ihe competition of British steamers. Steamships now engross more I than two-fifths of the Allsntic commerce, and the humber of such vessels Is constantly in- ' creasing. There are thirty' steamships run ning between New York and various Euro- I pean porta. Only ten of them are American steamerV. The whole number of steamships ; crossing the Atlantic between ports ol the . United States and those of Europe, is fifty one; thirty-four are sciew propellers, with iron hnlls, and all European—making quick passages and generally prelerred for carrying goods. A majority of the foreign steamers were built in Glasgow, and are owned by merchants in that city. The Scientific Amer ican calls the attention of New York mer chants to these facts, as likely to take the ahipping business from them unless they en deavor to gain their lost ground by building propellers. NEWSPAPER have heard it slated that upon the completion of the At lantic Telegraph the leading New York dai lies propose to take a thousand words of news each day. This will cost them from $6,000 to $7,000 per week, and (he price of the papers will be increased in proportion.— Indeed, il it already rumored that the Herald will be fire cents a oopy after the arrange ment begins. Of course the Tribaru, and Times, and others will follow suit. THE BANK OP EROLAND.— The business of the Bank of England is conducted by about eight buodred clerks, whose salaries amount to sbout £190,000. i'tia bank in 1850 bad about twenty millions of bank notes in cir culation. In the same year there were about five millions deposited in the savings' bank ef the metropolis. THE POISONING.— A Washington despatch say*: —"The Merchants and business men in thia city are taking up a subscription of ten thousand dollars, which will ba paid to any person or persons ascertaining the cause of the poisoning cases at the National Hotel. The developments that have recently come to light have oaaaed much excitement here." HP* The officers of twelve lottery ticket dealers were overhauled by Ihe police io Boston last Tuesday. In six of them, tiokets of-the Delaware State Lottery were (oend, and the proprietor! arrested. At Myrick's office, ovar thirteen hundred tickets were (ootid and seized. , j QT Lebo, Wagouseller and Man ear voted for the sale of the Main Line. ...Nothing also could be expected from them. Ibe Baabarr and Stfe Railroad Bill, j The bill giving this company THREE MILL IONS or DOLLARS of (be proceeds ef the sale of the public works, inlheavsnt that the Penn sy lvan ia Railroad company should buy tbem, > has finally passed the House of Representa tives by a majority of six votes. This resell was totally unexpected to persona at a dis tance, but not so to those who have watohed ihe outside manmuvres of the men who have (he bill io charge, and who are deeply inter ested in the passage of this infa rnous scheme. The bill baa been bored through the House ' by such men aa John A. Gamble, ex-Canal Commissioner; Israel Painter, ex-Ctmal Commissioner; James Burns, ex-Canal Com missioner; James Jackman,anda few others of a like stamp. Theoe men have over orfe hundred miles of tho road under contract.— Tbis contract, which amounts to FOUR MILL- 1 lONS of dollars, was obtained by no very hon orable means, at rates so high thai il is con fidently asserted, by men who are acquaint ed with the making of railroads, that they will make ONE MILLION or DOLLARS CLEAR MONET by ihe operation, and thai it can be made by sub-letting, without even turning a band. We shall not slteropt to censure Ihe mem bers who have taken an active part in Ihe passage of the bill, particularly those whose I constituents are immediately benefited by the road; bnt we do think that those who live remote from the road have taken a bold step, and brought upon themselves a responsibility which we would not like to incur. A reasonable amendment was offered to the bill, providing that all the .present con tracts should be rescinded, and that the work should be re-let to the lowest and best bid drr; but this was not acceded to by the friends of the road, because it would defeat the object of the present borera now at the | capital. We are friends of the Suubury and Erie j Railrord, and want it made; but when such | men as we hsve above named are engaged in the project of turning the making of the rord to their own individual advantage, then let us pause and reflect. We annex the vote so that our readers may know who voted to squander Ihe people's money: YEAS— Messrs. Babcock, Backus, Ball, Bish op, Brown, Benson, Carty, Cleaver, Dickey, Dock, Eyster,Gibboney, Hamilton, Hancock, Hiesland, Hine, Hoffman (of Lebanon,) Housekeeper, Imbrie, Jenkins, Johnson, Kerr, Lebo, Manear, Maugle, M'Calmont, M'llvsine, Mumnia, Nichols, Nicholson, Penrose, Pelors, Pownall, Ramsey, (of Phil adelphia), Reed, Shaw, Sloan, Slruihers, Thorn, Tolan, Vail, Vanvoorhis, Vickers, Wagonseller, Walter, Warner, Wintrode, Wright, and Yearsley—49. NAYS— Messrs. Anderson, Arthur, Back house, Beck, Bower, Calhoun, Campbell, Crawford. Ent, Foster, Gildea, Hamel, Har | per, Heins, Hill, Hiilegas, Hoffman (ofßerks), | Innes, Jacobs, John, Kaufman, Knight, Leis enring, Longaker, Lovett, Moorhead, Nunne macher, Pearson, Purcell,Ramsey (of York), , Reamer, Roberts, Rupp,Smith (ofCamb-ia,) I Smith, (of Centre), Stevenson, Voeghtley, [ West brook, Wharton, WiUiaton, Whherow, [ ZiniftiOTmsil *a.r GaJl s;l—St I J * We have been living at the seat of Govern ment for twenty years past, and have been about the legislature yearly, but never before I have we observed such a set of corrupt bor ers. We would rather 6ee the sale of the ! Public Works postponed another year, until the amendments of the Constitution are adop ted, which will prohibit the State from sub scribing to any project of this kind, than to see this bill pass. , . It becomes the duty of the lax-payers at once to arouse in their might, aua stay the progress of the bill in Ihe Senate. VVe have an abiding faith in that body, and look to ' them to rebuke corruption and fraud. But ' if it should pass, we have still another hope, ' and that is ihe Governor, who will never, > never affix his signature to any bill, if he can I be convinced that it is wrong in principle, | and particularly if he is satisfied that corrupt means have been used to effect its passage. —Harrisburg Telegraph. . Bute or the Main Line. The Act providing for the sale of the Main Line of the Public Works, makes it the duty of the Governor to aJvertise the sale within te.-t days after (he approval of the Act. It declares that the sale may be made for a sum not less than $7,500,000. No bid to be accepted unless the sum of $lOO,OOO is de posited with the Governor, in cash or Stale bonds, to be forfeited if the terms of the sale are not oomplied with. If the Pennsylvania Railroad Company purchase it, the price ia $9,000,000, the whole ampunt of sale to be paid in the five per cent, bonds of the Com paoy. Of theaa bonds, $lOO,OOO will fall due July SHI, 1858, anil $lOO,OOO annually thereafter until July3lat 1890. when 81,000- 000 will fall due, and $1,000,000 annually thereafter till the whole is paid. The Com pany and its connection* are released from lbs payment of all other taxes or duties on its capital stock, bonds, dividends or proper ty, except for city, borougb, connty, town ship aud school purposes. It may purchase or leas* the Harrisburg and Lancaster road, and il may straighten and improve the Phil adelphia and Columbia Railroad, and extend it to the Delaware. The purchaser of the works i* to have a perpetual corporate suc cession, but the Legislature may revoke the privileges granted for abuse of them, a judi cial decree of abuse being previously bad, and full compensation being made to the stockholders, if the State decide to resume the franchisee. The purchasers are prohib ited Irom making any discrimination io tolls, or fcharges, or any priority of passage through locks passing to or from the Susquehanna di vision. Ttrer •bull *t ell times keep open the present connection at Colombiaud Mid dlelown with (be Susquehanna, Tide Water and Union Canals, and (ball at no time die i criminate against the trade or tonnage passing , to or ftom the said osnals; neither shall they i at any time chatge more for boats or other i orafts passing the outlet Iqcks at Columbia and Middlaiown, than il now charged for the passage of boat* ot eimi|ar crafts ibrongh I other looks owned by this Commonwealth, i The Act it now in tba hands of the Govern or for hia approval.— Ledger. MURDER BY eoisolv. A horrible oaae of poiioniOg hu been in cotmre of investigation before Eaqoire Kitch en and the Coroner'* Jnry daring this week, and Molted in the commitment of William J. Clark, a pndler, working at tbe Montour Rolling Mill, and a Mrs. Mary Twiggs. The circumstances of the case as develop ed by tbe testimony, are simply these : On Tuesday, the 2th of April last, M rs. Catha rine Ann ClarkyjoMe the supposed paramour of Clark, died about a montluago, under very auspicious circum sßnces, complaining ot great pain in the stomach and bowels, and nervousiwiichinge, vomiting, &c. He lived in the same house with Clark, and his body was disinlered yea terday'afternoon by the direction of the Dis trict Attorney, Paul Leidy, Esq., and an in- a t._i-i AMiHf RILm Haafl. - * The stomacu wasuken out by Drs. Sim ington and Sohnilzler, for the pttrposeof hav ing its contents analysed. Both Juries ol Inquest have been adjourn ed until Thursday. May 28ib, when they will meet to hear the result of a more thorough analyzaiion now in progress by several of our most eminent physicians. The excitement in town is intense, and the verdicts of the Juries are looked for with the greatest anx iety. The parties implicated we believe are all Irish Protestants, and Clark is a prominent member of the "Protestant Association" of this plaee.— Danville Democrat. The Slute Stoking Fund. From a short statement made by the Com missioners of the sinking Fund, and publish ed in the Harrisfeerg papers, we learn that the Fond is virtually a nullity—not a dollar having been paid into it for the last 2 year*. The means set apart by statute to create a Sinking Fund for the gradual liquidation of the State Debt, consisting mainly of tht Ton nage Tax collected off the Pennsylvania Railroad, which for the past eleven months amounted to $221,248. This sum together with other resources, has been consumed to meet the increased expenses of government —extra pay to legislators, salaries of judges, etc. The bill for the sale of the Main Line, which is likely to pass both branches of the Legislature and become a law, does not real ize to the Treasury one cent above the pres ent income, while it withdraws the Tonnage Tax, wbioh is annually increasing in mag nitude, from the payment of the State debt. Our legislators raited their salaries two years ago some twenty-five hundred dollars, and depleted the Treasury to that amount At the present session they have raised the salary again of each member two hundred dollars more—making an additional drain on the Treasury of $26,000 I At this rale of fi nanciering, can any one tell when the public debt will be paid or the taxes reduoedf—Lan caster Intelligen eer. MONTOUR RAILROAD IRON.—The quantity of Railroad Iron shipped from the Mor.tour Iron Works by the Catawissa, Williamsport and Erie Railroad during the present year is as follows: 1157. RAILS. TONS. January, 7,694 T 1,700 February, 9,357 . 2,039 March, 9,097 1,817 April, 13,214 2,629 Total, . 69,262. 8,158 In presenting these facts the Danville Dem ocrat ssys at this rate, felly 25,000 tons of Railroad Iron will be sent to market by these works alone daring the present year. Add to this the rails made at the Rough and Ready Works, which have already been, ahd will be shipped this year, we will have, at least 30,000 tons of Railroad Iron to be for warded from Danville in 1857. TV In Philadelphia since the first of the year, there have been 17 auioide*. Philadelphia Baek Again. It is highly plesslng to the Democratic par ly, and any thing but gratifying lo thetoppe aition, lo aee one after another of their etrong holds give way and wheel into tbe Demo cratic ranka. New England tbe very bot bed of fanaticism, sbowa a great disposition to ere long we will hear such glorious news from that seotion that will make the bean of any true patriot rejoice.— Old Connecticut has taken the lead, and where but a year ago there were heavy ma jorities against us, the Democratic party have come out of the contest covered with victory, and now Philadelphia comes on with a clear majority of five thousand over the candidates of both the other parties, and a plurality of nine or ten thousand. We remark this to ahow that all the elementa opposed to the Union parly are becoming settled, the fevtr of young Sam has received a qoialua, and the whining, canting hypocrites, who chant Dred Scott and Bleeding Kansas ere being left behind to mingle their voices among the sigha of nervous women and the cries of amill children. Kanras, that garden of the western world, will soon be admitted as a free State, the thing is inevitable, blood has already ceased to flow, even in the imagina tions of Beecher and Greeley, and where will republicanism find a foothold. "O where! for the red eye of Kansas is shut in despair. Scranlon Herald. Farther from Californla—A rrlval of the George Law. New YORK, May 12.—The steamer Geo. Law, which left Aspiowall on the evening ol the 4th inet., arrived at her dock this evening shortly after 7 o'clock. The George Law biings advices from Cal ifornia lo the 20th ult., and $1,700,000 in treasure. A bill has passed the California Assembly sppuiriting a Board of Examiners to fund the indebtedness of San Francisco accruing pre vious lo July, 1856. Tbe Assembly Judiciiry Committee, by diteciion ol the Assembly, reported a bill pre venting the immigration of colored persons. Tbe bill will probably pass. A bill bas passed the Senate, submitting J tbe question ol paying the State debt lo tbe people. Tbe Legislature ha* passed a resolution to adjourn on the 27tbof April. The news from the mines was very favor able. Business at San Francisco was very dull. OREGON. _ It was generally thought that the people of Oregon will adopt the State form of Govern ment, and a constitution prohibiting slavery. The winter in Oregon has been more stormy and the snow deeper than ever before known. UTAH. Brigham Young waa compelled to flee from Salt Lake to save himself from the fury of hra flock. Washington Allaire. Washington, May 16.—The Secretary of War, to-day, examined the bids for the ma- V..:_*a and construction OV tna wasmngtotv Aqueduct. The awards will probably be an nounced on Tuesday. Walter N. Halderman, of Louisville, has been apptvinted Surveyor of Louisville, vice Mr. English, removed. E. S. Hough has been re-appointed Collec tor of Alexandria, Virginia. Senator Wilson is here on his way to Kan sas. Past Assistant Surgeon Horner, of the U. S. Navy, has resigned his office. Dr. Ezra Partcenler has been appointed Special Inspector of Drugs and Medicines at Boston, vice Joseph H. Smith, removed. The salaries of tbe Superintendent* of the wagon road routes, have been fixed at $3,000; of the Disbursing Agents and Engineers, at $2,000, and 'be Physicians at $1,500 per an num. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS.—Tho following statement exhibits the value of foreign im ports and exports from and to this port;— The exports from the Ist tothe 13th ofMay amounted to $221,061, the principal arti cles being 7330 barrels flour, 1400 bushels corn, 6257 barrels corn meal, 800 do of rye, 17,748 pounds hams, 48,063 do of lard, 12,- 172 do of butter, 65,600 do of soap, 15,060 do of candles, 23,114 codfish, 44 tons gu ano, 780 barrels ship-bread and 3600 pounds tobacco. The imports for the week ending the 14th instant amounted to $398,679, di vided as follows : —Dry goods for consump tion, $4159; miscellaneous, $133,647; ware housed dry goods, $15,013; miscellaneous, $245,860— making a total since the first of January, of s6,9o2,l3l.—Ledger. OT The Slate of Michigan has establish ed a College of Agriculture, on a farm of seven hundred fertile acres, near the chy of Lansing, where tbe State Capitol ia located. Joseph R. Williams, late editor of tne Toledo Blade, ia President. It baa an endowment of $56,000, the proceeds of the Salt Spring lands originally donated to Miobigan Terri tory by tbe Faderal Government. The Leg islature bas appropriated $20,000 per aonura for two yeara to the support of the College. There are already accommodations of eighty student!. No charge ia now made for tuition bnt each student is required lo work three hours per day, for which he ia paid. This we believe will be the firai Slate Agricultural College actually ia operation in Amerioa. THC KANSAS AID FOND.— Vermont having utterly refused to pay over her $20,000 to ihe snfferersol bleeding Kansas, the New York Legislature followed suit, turning the cold shoelder upon the recommendation of Governor King, to appropriate $lOO,OOO for the same objeot, and now the old Bay Slate pauses. Massachusetts, during the first day of the session* of ber august Legislature went zealously to work on anothar $lOO,OOO appropriation, bet her Solon* have halted and higgled, adopted and reconsidered, play ed possum during the whole Winter and Spring, and have at last fallen back on a $BO,OOO fhnd to be raised for the sbrleKers.— But doubts and inuudoe* are interposed in reference to this mm, and the whole thing is 1 likely to fizzle out.'' Ike Mala Mae Advertised 10 be SoM. The Governor has signed it is advertised to be sold at public auction, in the Mer chants' Exchange, on Thursday evening, the 26th day of June. The lowest price for which it may be purchased is (7,500,1)00.— ■ Those who have that much loose change about them have a chance for a profitable : speculation. The Stale debt will be re i duced to that amount by the purchase man ey, if the Legislature, in a fit of liberality of a most questionable character, does not hand over the proceeds to the Sunbury and Erie Railroad.— Ledger. LEFT IN DISGUST. —The New York Evening Pott announces that its editor, Mr. Bryant, has sailed for Europe in the ship William Tell, accompanied by his wife and youngest daughter. The period of his absence is not determined npon. Mr. Bryant, it is said, leaves the country broken-spirited and in disgust. Over peisua ded by those with whom be was associated, he forsook the party with which be had been so long indeutified, to link himself to Black Republicanism; and when it was too late, discovered himself hand in hand with those political profligates whose dishonesty be had spent half a life-lime in exposing and de nouncing. His proud and independent spirit labelled against concealing, and his honesty forbade his approving the reckless schemes of plunder and usurpation into which the Black Republican leadera plunged upon their first success; and despite the blandishments or threats of his new associates, he held some of those measures up to public scorn. So says the Albany Statesman. DEATH FROM STARVATION IN MICHIGAN.— Detroit, May 16.—Reliable information was reoeived here yesterday of great detuuiion existing in Gratiot county, and other secluded localities in the northern part of this Slate, several persons having already died from star vation. Many cattle are also dying for want of food. A meeting was held last evening at the City Hall, to consider the proper means for the relief of the destitute people in the north ern part of the State A citizen of Gratiot county was present, whore wife and three children died of starvation. He gave a gloomy account of the suffering in that region of the people dying for the want of the most common food. It was resolved to raise (6,000 in the city for the pttrohase of prdVisions, (1,000 of which amount was subscribed at the Hall. Loss BY THE STORM IN MISSISSIPPI.—' The Sea Coast Democrat, published in Mississippi City, thus sums the losses in that vicinity by the recent storm: Whole loss not less than (100,000. The largest losers, whose nameß we have heard, are: Hon. R. C. Scaffold, (10,000; Messrs. Mcßean & Henry, (8,000; Messrs. Taylor & Myers, (2,000; Col. Humphreys, (1,500 Some mills lost as much as 200,000 feet of lumber each. Every man eneeged in the log and lumber business in this district has lost -11 ho invrtstml in limber. _ JM 1 ' I '"'HZ the obtef industrial pursuit of /he people, trade is completely paralyzed for the present. None of the mills can be started to work very soon, because of the damage sustained by their machinery, and of the vast amount of drift accumulated about the buildings; and even when the machinery can be righted again, they will have to wait some lime be fore a supply of logs can be bad. SMALL Pox AT THE SOUTH.— Many districts of the Southern Stales have been more or lest afflicted by small pox, the present Spring- Virginia has especially been rife with rumors of ita presence in some of ber rural regions, and we observe the Columbus (Ga.) Sun says, that the best information it can obtain, the small pox is slowly but gradually extend ing at ihe'poinls where it baa broken out in that State. In Warren connty the disease has extended to ten cases, all from one par son having come from a distance with the disease in bis system. iy General Cass, it it is said, exhibits sur prising vigor and industry and endurance in hia official labors. He rises and commences work at five, and is continually engaged, with small respite, till eight or nine at night. His diet is, however, very sparing, and he sticks still to cold water. - Now and then he indulges in a cup of coflee, the only exhilara ting beverage which be nan use. OHIO ELECTIONS.— The town and ronnioi pal elections in Ohio, have resulted more favorably for the Democracy Iban they have for many years. The Kansas excitement has about burnt itself out, and there is every indi cation that, if the Democracy nominate a good State ticket, tbey will elect it triumph antly, despite the oppoaition of the factions. FOREIGN EXPORTS. —Among the exports from Philadelphia to foreign ports, during the past week, were 7,330 barrel* flour, 2,230 of corn, meal, 821 of rye floor, 732 of bread, 19,- 448 bushels of corn, 249 bbla. of pork, 490 ions of ooal, 17,748 lb*, bacon, and (200,000 in specie. Of The New Orleans Tunes dates thai a young gentleman in that city lost some (47,- 000 at a fashionable game a few days since. He paid every dollar of it the next day, and immediately left Ihe city a ruined man. HT Mr. Benj. G. Dey,of Currituck county, N. C., while ploughing in hia field a few days ago, dog up a pila of old Spanish gold and silver coin lo the amount of six thusind dollars, ft is supposed to have been boried during the revolution. I3T Palmer, sentenced to tbe penitentiary •ome months since, for a term of two years, for the manslaughter of Grant, in Indiana oounty, near Bleiraville, daring the Presi dential campaign, ha* been pardoned by Gov. Pollock. OT The Havana correspondent of the True Delta aays that a private letter has been re ceived staling that General Walker had evac uated Rivae, and had taken refuge on board I a British man-of-war at San Juac dol Sur. MEDICAL nCIENCK, One of the most eminent British physi cians has lately published a work, in which he falls back on what was substantially the theory of Hippocrates, more than two thou sand years ago. Tbe theory i9that modem practitioners have been in the habit of giv ing too much medicine; that nature needs only to be assisted, at critical points ami' cannot be forced; and that, in many cases, where the disorder is fatal from the first, medipine is wholly useless. The old Greek divided diseases into cura ble and incurable, Which is much the same theory as that of the modern Englishman. If these views are correct, they prove that what is called medical science is hardly a science after all; for that cannot be a sci ence, which, at best, is merely experimen tal and empirical, and which cannot tell, till too late, whether an attack is to be fatal or not. We should hesitate, therefore, to admit the premises of this British author, if we were a physician, for we would be too honest to deny the conclusion, and we should shrink from admitting that to cure or kill was "hit or miss." It canuot be denied, however, that medi cine is less of a science than men with that it Bhould be. Many diseases wholly baffle the schools. Nor is this all. Often, when a disorder has raged for a generation or two, and, by long study of it, doctors have come to think they understood it, lo! it disappears almost entirely, to be succeed ed by some new disease, as subtle, as fatal and as widely extended as it was in its fiercest fury. The plague, the small-pox, and the Asiatic cholera have devastated the world in this way, by turns. It wouldseom as if there were some secret law of nature, which demanded a certain percentage of annual mortality and which brought new epidemics and unknown disorders on the scene, in order to gather the necessary vio tims, as fast as human skill learned to mas ter the older types of disease. Ventilation, cleanliness, exercise, wholesome food, and freedom from harassing cares, would seem to be moro potent than all the phys ic iu the world. The experience of the wisest men and nations leans to the conclu sion that we may do something to prevent, but little to arrest disease. Nor is it strange that medical science has learned so little. When we consider the delicacy of the human frame, its complex character, and the many disturbing influ ences to health, the wonder is, as Sir Thom as Browne quaintly remarks in his "Religio Medici," not that we live so few years, but that we do not die every day. The body, the diseases to which it is subject, the ef fects of medicines, and the control exercis ed by atmosplftic changes over it, togeth er makes a problem only less intricate than that even mightier one, the conditions of immortality and the position of the soul af ter death. Perhaps it is as well that this should be so. It is doubtless a part of God's providence towards men, that even the pro foundest human intellect should feel, in re lation to some subjects, that beyond a cer tain point its knowledge should not go, that 0 f life death were hoyond its ken, that, in & word, man was finite and only the Creator infinite. We are, at best, but creatures of the dust, insects of an hour. There is a mightier power iu Nature than ourselves. It is a reflection before which infidelity grows dumb, and at which the humble christian becomes humbler— Ledger. Tbe Former's Daughter A few years since, ■ farmer !iving near Easton, Pa., sent bis daughter on horseback to that town, to procure from tbe bank, small noies for one hundred dollars. When aba arrived there the bank waa closed; and she endeavored to effect her object by offering it at several stores, but could not get ber note charged. She had not gone far on her way, when a stranger rode up lo her and aocoeled her with so much politeness, that tbe had not tbe slightest suspicion of soy evil iuten lion on his pait. After a tide of A mile or two, employed iu a very social conversation, they came to a retired part of the road, and the stranger commanded me to give him the bank note. It was with some difficulty that she could be made to believe bim in earnest, as bis de meanor bad been to friendly; but the pre- I aentalion of a pistol placed tbe matter beyond 1 a doubt, and she yielded to necessity. Jus# as she held tbe note lo bim, a sudden puff ol wind blew tbe note iuto the road, and car ried it gently several yards from tbem. The discourteous knight alighted lo overtake it, and the iady whipped to get ont ot hia pow er, and the borse which bad been alaading by ber aide, started with her. Hia ownet fired a pistol after her, whicb only tended to increase the speed of all parties, and tbe la dy arrived safe at home with tbe hone of the robber, on wbiob waa a pair of saddle bags. When these were opened, besides a quantity of counterfeit bank notes, fifteen hundred dollar* iu good money was found- The horae proved to be a good one, and when saddled and bridled, was thought to be worth at least aa muob a* the bank not* that was stolen. The Wheat crop in Illinois promises badly, especially in the Southern and Western coun ties. Tbe hard, nnateady winter, and cold, wet spring have frozen out and wimar killed a great deal, and pravented sowing thie spring. Corn baa been eaten op by eattle in default of bay. Tbe prospect for a bouuteo us harvest i* gloomy. OT One firm in Cincinnati baa shipped to tbe Western territories one hundred and fifty ready-made bonaes. They are of tbe cottage style, transported m pieces, but ran be pnt up ready for occupancy in a litde over half aa boar. OT Mr. James G. Campbell baa been ap pointed U. S. Marshal of the Western Dis trict of Pennsylvania, vice Frost, whose com mission has expired. A PASTON CuoaEN.-Tbe Hagerstown Chron icle aeya lh*Rev. Dr. Sleek, of Pottevilla, Pa., baa been elected pastor of tbe Lu'hetau Cburoh in that town.