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 <jf the prisoner, returned
from a visit to and became sick
a tfaty or two after. She took some magnesia
and a neighboring female acquaintance gave
her some oil with whiskey. She continued
to grow worse, when Dr. Simington was sent
lor, who treated the case as inflammation of
the stomach and bowels, all 11ie symptoms
indicating that disease. On Saturday even
ing, the 9th of May, she died; During her
illness she was principally nureert by her
husband and the other prisoner, Mrs. Twiggs,
who resided in the sameftonse. Soma mya
terions conduct of these two nurses, their
intimacy, &c. together with the unusual vto.
lence of Mrs. Clarke's death—her vomiting,
nervous twitchings, &c., aroused a suspicion
of tool plsy among the neighbors, in conse
quence of which Clark and Mrs. Twiggs
we re irreeted on last Monday, and a Coro
ner's Jury summoned by Win. Kitchen, Esq.,
to hold an inqoest over the dead body. They
caused a post mortem examination to be
made by Doctors 0?gill, Slrawbridge, and
Frick, who took ol tbe stomach and a portion
of the intestines. The body was much swol
len about the facetand very much discolored,
features distorted, with oper. mouth, filled
with s most offensive dark liquid; the abdo
men was also mveh swollen and distended
with gas, liver ve/y much enlarged and very
dark, &c. The resultof a partial analysation
of the contents of tbe stomach, (which of
course, must be somewhat imperfect, for
want of pure re-agents and apparatus) the
physicians all agree, justifies a strong suspi
cion of poisoningby arsenic and Dr. Straw
bridge gave it as his opinion, that her death
was caused by poisen.
It was further ascertained, on examination,
that Clark had bought at Chalfanl & Hughes'
drug store one ounte of arsenic abont the end
of March, one ounce of arsenic about the be
ginning of April, one half onnce of arsenic
about ThnrsOay iffast week, and four grains
or strychnine about the Ist of April, and four
grains of strychnine abont 4 or 5 days after
that—all for killing rats, as he alleged. Mrs.
Twiggs also bought a quantity of trsenio at
the same store from another clerk.
An infant child of Mrs. Clark, having been
nursed by her up to within a few days of her
death, is not expected to live, and shows all
'.be symptoms of the same disease of which
its mother died.
Mr. Twiggs, the husband of Mis. Twiggs >
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 <he bill for the.
sale of the Main Line, and >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.