STARJfFTfIE JVOBTJ. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Illoowsburg, Wednesday, Slay 20, 1807. Democratic Nominations. ' FOR GOVERNOR, HILLIAJI F. PACKER, of Lycoming County. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, HI M ROD STRICKLAND, of Chester County. KeoMeiablioK of the Mate llewocialtc convention of 1837. In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the Democratic State Committee of Penn sylvania, the delegates to the Stale Conven tion of March 2d, 1857, are requested lo aa sembleat the Capitol, at Harrisburg, on Tues day, the 9th day of June, 1857, at 10 o'clock, A. M., for the purpose of nominating candi dates to complete the Slate Ticket, and tran sacting ill other busineea pertaining to the original authority ol the Convention. CHARLES R. BUCKALEW, Chairman. J N. HUTCHINSON, ) SEERTTARITL _ ii. J. HAI.DE, MAN, J Wllmol'* Letter of Acceptance. Judge Wilmol has accepted the Republican nomination for Governor in a letter which reads as if lie thought he was a candidate lor the Governorship of Kansas, but an entire stranger to Pennsylvania. It is for the negro from beginning lo end, and has not a word for the while citizen, except an incidental, illiberal fling at the foreigner. This was re membered to be necessary to reconcile the fractious temper of Know-Nothingisin, but was forgotten until neatly Ibe end of the epis tle. There is no aspect in which the letter can have any fitness or pertinence to a candi date for Governor of Pennsylvania, unless its author lias misty visions of slaves floating up the Susquehanna. But it snaps and snarls at the South in a spi-il bettsr becoming rivul hack drivers than the dignified Governor of a fraternal Slate. If lie does not intend to interfere with the institutions of Southern Slates why this tirade against them ? Certain it is that il the Governors of all the States showed a like hostile spirit the Union would not hold together six months, and we would have civil war in less than a year. But why is there nothing in this letter upon questions of Slate policy 1 Has he no bowels of compassion for the 2.000,000 whiles who live in Pennsylvania 1 He talks piteously for the emigrant. But if he would lake care first to relieve our debt-ridden and tax-ridden Commonwealth of her heavy burthens her industrious children would not so ollen be driven to the rough frontier lile of Kansas We have delicate and difficult questions of slate finance, of bankinc, of state debt and Hate improvements which have been qaite enough for all our Governors; and look ns il they would yet furnish abundant employment for all the wisdom of the next five or six in cumbents—and for that of all their constitu ents. Witmot is like the sentimental lady whom j John Katidolfih found sewing for the Greeks j while her own children rolled in dirt and rags in the street, until the eccentric Virginian j was constrained lo cry ont : "Why madam, j the Greeks nre at your door." Witmot will - find the cool-minded people ol Pennsylvania more anxious to know what lie will do with •uch corrupt projects as the one lately bought through the legislature (or the sale of the Main Line, than what he Ikinki on the ah- j alrant question of slavery. They want his ) position on practical home questions.and feel i that Pennsylvania has quite enough lo do to | mind her own business. Our people are se- j cure in a stato of Irccdom, but they are not j secure from the thousand projects of specu- ! lation and plunder that every year afflict j them and eat out their substance. The Antl-Mavcrr Tarty. The Abolition or Ami Slavery Society, which is only the most ultra branch of the Republican party, has for some time been in aession at New Passmore Williamson and his §ympathisers*belong to this Society. We give the following extracts from its proceedings to show its character. "Rev. Mr. Frothingham thought civil war or a dissolution of the Union was the only hope of emanpating the slave. Rev. Mr. Ross ssid George \\ ashington was a traitor, Jesus Christ was a traitor, every man was a traitor to a tyrannoos government and an infidel to a pro slavery religion. The Tract Society was in league with the devil, if there is any Doctor Spring has stood up in bis pulpit and said just what a rowdy says in a bar-room: "D—n a nigger!—ha is only fit to be a slave!" Dr. Spring has said precise ly this, only bo has said it in different words. He loved lo denounce such hypocritical men. They had plunged down to the lowest depths ol Milton's hell, and were trying to dig a hole in the bottom of it to crawl into." Heath of John M. It. (Vtiikia, Esq. John M. B. retrikin, Esq., the roembe: of the Legislature from Lycoming county, died at Hartisburg Ust Friday of the National Ho tel disease. He was a young man of euergy, industry and talent, which gave (sir promise of a life of usefulness and honor. He had atrong but generous impulses; and bad im proved his mind by reading and reflection until he was a lawyer in fair practice, and one of the most intelligent members ol the present legislature. His death is a public loss, a bevy calamity to bit family, and a load of sorrow to his respected father —Gen. Wm. A Fetrikin ot Money. tW We design to publish next week the clear and able report of Senator Welsh on Ibe Drei Scott case. It is a powerful docu ment which everybody ought lo read if Ibey wish to ulk or listen intelligently upon (his 00 mnch ibofed subject. py Messrs. Steele and Em from this dia irigt gat* manfully voted against the Main Line bi in every form aed at every stage. Mr. Steele ®ade some pertinent remarka again* the fciU in (be Senate. TUB MAIN LINX BILL. The men who have voted lo cell !lia Mitn Line will have a heavy jadgmeni to meal wih (he people. Except those who live En demic shadow of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, not one will he likely to be tetorn ed next winter. Sensible men of the Oppo sition are beginning to see this, and many are turning from the errnr of their first parti san impulse. Even their newspapers turn ridiculous somersaults, for the diversion of honest and sensible men. Along the North Branch tho public senti ment on this subject was always heahhy, and neither speculators, demagogues nor fanatics ever gained much encouragement in their attempts to debauch public virtue. We have within the past two weeks heard scores of men give vent lo their honest indignation against the iniquity of thus robbing the Stale, and imposing still hravier burthens of taxa tion. As a specimen of the provisions of the bill lakedhe following :—The minimum price of the Line is $9,000,000 if tho Pennsylvania Railroad becomes the purchaser, but $7 ( - 600,00g if sold to any other Company or in dividual. 'The third section provides that if individuals become the purchaser lliey may transfer the works to any Corporation. It is evident that the bonus put this "snake" into the bill, so as to givo them a chance to make 51,600 000 (or themselves, which tltey may do by purchasing at $7,500,000 for the Rail road Company ; since it is understood to be willing to pay $9,000,000. So the Slate ia I not only robbed of her "backbone," but will j be actually maJe to pay tho borers for their j nefarious work. Cose of D- 11. Vnndersmllb. Deputy Marshal Jenkins arrived in Phila delphia on Tuesday evening, from Lancaster, having i:i custody D. B. Vondersmilh, charg ed with having commuted pension frauds upon tho general Government, some three >ears since. He was brought before Judge Kane, of the United Stales District Court, and, in the absence of the District Attorney, the case was postponed until Friday next. — Vttiidersrnilh was one of the Associate Judges of the Quarter Sessions of Lancaster, and is charged, with Geo. Ford, one of the most prominent 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 I.aiicaster, where he has kept himself closely and unexposed until recent ly, when he allowed himsell to be seen more publicly, probably thinking that the eyes of the officer were not in search ot him. But j in this he was mistaken, for a rumor of l.is ; being here hud been conveyed lo the Mur- | shnl in Philadelphia, who with the assistance i of Mr. Connor, proceeded, early on Wednes- j day morning,lo Mr. Vonderemilh's residence, and finding that he was engaged at work in his garden, they arrested him. Since Mr. Vondersmith's return to his home, he has been engaged in restoring his garden to its former beauty; mid, being in less a til a-1 ettt circumstances than tormerly, he had in- j tended, it is said, if left undisturbed, to have added lo his means by pursuing the culture j of (lowers. His own relatives made Marshal 1 Yost acquainted with his whereabouts, and t led to his arrest. The facts are said to be ; strong against Ifim. In the United Slates | Court he will be likely lo meet with his de- I sens. OCSAV STEAM NAVIGATION. —New York, | with all its pretension* lo commercial enter prise, is losing considerable of its carrying, trade through the competition of British steamers. Steamships now engross more than two-fifths of the Atlantic commerce, and the number of such vessels is constantly in creasing. There are thirty steamships run ning between New York and various F.uro pean pons. Only ten ol them are American steamers. Tbe whole number of steamships crossing tho Atlantic between ports ot the United States and those ol Europe, is fifty one; thirty-four are sctew propellers, with iron hulls, and all European—making quick : passages and generally preferred for carrying goods. A majority of the foreign steamers ! were built in Glasgow, and are owned by 1 merchants in that city. The Scientific Amer j ican calls the attention of New York mer i chants to these facts, as likely to take the i shipping business from them unless they en ' Jeavor lo gain thoir lost ground by building I propellers. NKW-SPATKR KSTSNRRISB -We have heard it slated that upon the completion ol the At lantic Telegraph the leading New ork dai lies propose to take a thousand words of news each day. This will cost them from £6,000 to 87,000 per week, and the price of Ihe ptpers will be increased in proportion.— Indeed, it is already rumored that the Herald will be five cents a copy after the arrange ment begins. Of course the Tribune, and Times, and others will lollow suit. THK BASK or ENCLASP —Ttie business of the Bank of England i conducted by about eight hundred clerks, whose salaries amount to'about iTi90 ; 000 fbe bank in JBSO had about twenty millions of bank notes in cir culation. IN the fame J MR LHFR * WERE ALIPNL five millions deposited in the savings bank of the metropolis. THK PoasoMNC A Washington despatch M y g: '-The Merchants and business men in this city are iakin up a subscription of ten thousand dollars, which will be paid to aoy person or persons ascertaining the cause of the poisoning esses at the National Hotel. The developments that have recently come to light havs caused much excitement here.' gy The officers of twelve lottery ticket dealers were overhauled by tbe police in Boston last Tuesday, lo six of them, tickets of the Delaware State Lottery were found, aod tbe proprietor! arrested. At Myricks office, over thirteen hundred ticketa were found and seized. IT Lebo, Wagonseiler and Manear voted for the sal* of the Main Line. Nothing elae could be expected from tbem. !1 he Banbury and Rale HaUeoad BUI. The bill giving this company THREE MILL- I | IONS or DOLLARS of I|ie proceeds of the saleof . j The public works, id the event that the Peon- I sylvan ia Railroad company should buy tbem, ■ j has finally passed the House of Represenia - lives by a majority of sis votes. This result j was totally unexpected to persons at a dis j lance, but not so to those who have watched | the outside manceuvree of the men who have | the bill in charge, and who are deeply inter j esledhi the passage of this infamous scheme. I The bill has been bored through the House ! by such men as John A, Gamble, ex-Canal j Commissioner; Israel Painter, ex-Canal i Commissioner; James Rurns, ex-Canal Com < ! misMoner; James Jackman, and a few others :of a like stamp. 7'hese men have over otic ! hundred miles of the road under contract.— ! This contract, which amounts to FOUR MILL j io*s of dollars, was obtained by no very lion | orable means, at rates so high that it is con ; lidently asserted, by men who are acquaint ! Ed with the making of railroada, that the) i will make ONE MILLION OF DOLLARS CLEAR , I MONEY by the operation, and that it can be | made by sub-letting, without even turning a I hand. We shall not attempt to censure the mem ' bers who have taken an active part in lha ! passage of the bill, particularly those whose ; constituents are immediately benefited by the I road; but we do think that thoso who live remote from the road have taken a bold step, ! and brought upon themselves a responsibility i which we would not like to incur. I A reasonable amendment was offered lo 1 the bill, providing that HII the present con tracts should be tescinded, and that the work should be re-let to the lowest and best bid drr; but this was not acceded to by (lie friends of the road, because it would defeat the object of the present borers now at the capital. We are friends of the Sunbury and Erie Railrord, and want it made; but when such | men as we have above named are engaged I in the project of turning trie making of the ro?d to their own individual advantage, then let us pause and reflect. We annex the vote so thai our readers may know who voted to squander the people's money: YEAS—Messrs. Baboock, Backus, Ball, Bish op, Brown, Benson, Carly, Cleaver, Dickey, 1 Dock, Eyster.Gibboney, Hamilton, Hancock, Hiestand, Iline, Hoffman (of Lebanon,) Housekeeper, Imbrie, Jenkins, Johnson, Kerr, Lebo, Manesr, Maugle, M'Calmont, 1 M'llvaine, Mumma, Nichols, Nicholson, Penrose, Peters, Pownall, Ramsey, (of Phil- 1 adelphia), Reod, Sltaw, Sloan, Sirnlhers, Thorn, Tolan, Vail, Vsnvoorhis, Virkers, 1 Wagotieeller, Walter, Warner, Wintrode, ' Wright, and Yearsley—49. NATS— Messrs. Anderson, Arthur, Back- 1 house, Beck, Bower, Calhoun, C'ampbal!, Crawford. En!, Poster, Gildea, Harriot, Har- ' per, Heins, Hill, Hillegas, Hoffman (of Berks), 1 Inncs, Jacobs, John, Kau'fman, Knight, Leis- ' miring, Longaker, Lovett, Moorhead, Nunne- 1 machvr, Pearson, I'urcell, Ramsey (of York), ' Reamer, Roberts, Hupp, Smith (of Cambria,) ' Smith, (of Centre), Stevenson, Voeghtley, 1 Wesibrook, Wharton, Williston, Witherow, ' Zimmerman and Gefz, Speaker—43. We have been living at the seat of Govern ment for twenty ypars past, and have been about the legislature yearly, but never before have we observed such a set of corrupt bor ers. We would rather see the sale of the Public Works postponed another year, until the amendments of the Constitution are adop led, which will prohibit the State from sub scribing to any project of this kind, than to see this bill psss. It becomes the duty of the tax-payers at I once to arouse in their might, ana stßy the ' progress of the bill in the Senate. We have an abiding faith in that body, and look to 1 them to rebuke corruption and fraud. Bui | if it should pass, we have still another hope, and that i* the Governor, who will never. 1 never affix his signature to any bill, if he can be convinced that il is wrong in principle, and particularly if he is satisfied that corrupt | means have been used to effect its passage, ; —Hanisburg Telegraph. . Nate of the Alma Line- The Aci providing for ihe sale of the Main Line of the Public Works, makes it the duty of the Governor to advertise the sale within ten days after the approval of the Act. It declares that the sole may be made for a ' sum not less than £7,500.000. No bid to be ! accepted unless the sum of SIOO.OOO is de posited with the Governor, in cash or State bonds, to be fotfeiied if the terms of the sale are not complied with. If the Pennsylvania Railroad Company purchase it, Ihe price ie £9,000,000, the whole amount of sale to be j paid in the five per cent, bonds of the Com- j party. Of those bonds, £IOO,OOO will fall j due July 31st. 1858, and £IOO,OOO annually ' thereafter until July 31st 1890. when 81,000- j 000 will fall due, and $1,000,000 annually thereafter till the whole ia paid. The Com- i pany and in connections are released from the payment of all other taxes or duties on ] ' its capital slock, bonds, dividends or proper- 1 ty, except for city, borough, county, town- j ; ship and school purposes. It may purchase or lease the Harrttburg and Lancaster road, and it may straighten and improve the Puil ' adelpbia and Columbia Railroad, and extend 'it to the Delaware. The purchaser of th works is to have a perpetual corporate sue- ] i cession, but the Legislature mey revoke the ! privileges granted tor abuse of them, a jodi j rial decree of abuse being previously bad, i and full compensation being made to tbe i stockholders, if tbe State decide to resume | the franchises. The purchasers are prohib ited trom making any discrimination in tolls, i or charges, or any priority of passage through locks passing <o or from tbe Susquehanna di vision They shall at all times keep open ! the present conneciioo at Columbia and Mid ' dletown with The Susquebsnna, Tide Water and Union Canals, aDd shall at DO lime dis crim mate against tbe trade or tonnage passing to or ftom the 6aid canals; neither shall they at any Ume charga more for boata or other crafts passing tbe outlet locka at Columbia and Mtddtetown, than ia now charged for tbe passage of boats or similar crafts through other locka owned by this Commonwealth. j Tbe Act ie now in tbe hands of the Gorero 'or for hie approval Ledger. i MURDER BY POtfOK, A horrible ease of poiionliig hu been In coaree of investigation before Enquire Kitch en and the Coronet's Jury daring this week, and resulied in the commitment of William J. Clark, a pudler, working at the Montour Rolling Mill, and a Mrs. Mary Twiggs. The circumstances of the case as develop ed by the testimony, are simply these : On Tuesday, the 28th of April last, M re. Catha rine Ann Clark, wife of the prisoner, relumed from a visit to Philadelphia, and became sick a day or two after. She took some msgneeia 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 the symptoms indicating thai disease. On Saturday even ing, the 9th of May, she died. During her illness she was principally nursed by her husband and the other prisoner, Mrs.Twiggs, who resided in the same house. Some mys terious conduct of these two nurses, their I intimacy, &.C. together with the unusual vio ! lence of Mrs. Clarke's death —her vomiting, [ nervous twitchings, &c., aroused a suspicion I of loul play among the neighbors, in conse quence of which Clark and Mrs. Twiggs were arrested on last Monday, and a Coro ner's Jury summoned by Wm. Kitchen, Esq., to hold an inquest over the dead body. They i caused a post mortem examination to be made by Doc|ois Magill, Sirawbridge, and Frick, who took out the stomach and a portion of the intestine). The body was much swol len about the face and very mucti discolored, features distorted, with open mouth, filled with • moet offensive dark liquid; the abdo men was also much swollen and distended with gas, liver very much enlarged and very dark, &o. The result of a partial analysaiion of the contents of the 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 poisoning by arsenic and Dr. Straw bridge gave it ts his opinion, that her death was caused by paitun. It was further ascertained, on examination, (hat Clark had bought at Chalfant & Hughes' drug store one ounce of arsenic about the end of March, one ounce of arsenic about the be ginning of A pril, one half ounce of arsenic about Thursday of last week, and four grains of strychnine about the let of April, and four grains of strychnine about 4 01 5 days after that —all for killing rats, as he alleged. Mrs. Twiggs also bought a quantity of arsenic at the same store trom 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 the symptoms ol the same disease of which its mother died. Mr. Twiggs, the husband of Mrs. Twiggs, the supposed paramour of Clark, died about a month ago, under very suspicious circum stanoes, complaining ol great pain in the stomach and bowels, and nervous twiloliings, vomiting, &c. He lived in the same house with Clatk, and his body was disintered yes terday afternoon by the direction of the Dis trict Attorney, Paul Leidy, F.sq., and an in quest hsLt ot it by Coroner Kline Haas. The stomach was taken out by Drs. Sim ington and Schuiizler, for the purpose of hav ing its contents analysed. Both Juries ol inquest have been adjourn ed until Thursday. May 28th, when they will meet to hear the result of a more thorough atialyzation now in progtesa by several of our most eminent physicians. The excitement in town ia intense, and the verdicts of the Juries ate looked for with the gremest anx iety. The parties implicated we believe are all Irish Protestants, and Clark is a prominent member of the "Protestant Association" of this place.— Danville Democrat. The Stale Sinking Fund. From a short statement made by the Com missioners of the sinking Fund, ar.d publish ed in the Hariisburg papers, we learn that the Fund is virtually a nullity—not a dollar having been peid into it for the last 2 years. Ttie means set apart by statute to create a j Sinking Fund for the gradual liquidation of | the State Debi, consisting mainly of ihs Ton nage Tax collected off the Pennsylvania Railroad, which for the past eleven months amounied 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 ixe to the Treasury one cent above the pres ent income, while it withdraws the Tonnage Tax, whioh is annually increasing in mag nitude, from the payment of the State debt. Our legislators raised their salaries two years ago some tweoty-fivs hundred dollars, and depleted the Treasury to that amount At the present session they have raised th 6 ' salary again of each member two hundred dollars more—making an additional drain on the Treasury of $26,000 ! At this rite of fi nanciering, can any one tell when the public debt will be paid or the taxes redoced?—Lan caster InUUigtn ttr. MoNTOca RAILROAD IRON. —The quantity of Railroad Iron shipped from the Mor.ioot Iron j Works by tbe Catawissa, Williamsport and , Erie Railroad during tbe present year is as 1 follows: RAILS. TONS. January, 7,594 February, 9,357 2,039 March, 9,097 1 817 April, 13,214 2£29 Total, 59,262 8,158 In presenting Ihese facta the Danville Dem ocrat says at this rate, fully 25,000 tons of Railrosd Iron will be eent to market by these works alone during tbe present year. Add to this the rails made at the Rough and Ready Works, which have already been, and will be shipped thia year, we will have, at least 30,000 tons of Railroad Iron to be for warded from Danville in 1857. CT In Philadelphia since the first of the year, there have been 17 suicides. Philadelphia Back Again. It is highly pleasing to the Democratic par ty, and any thing bnt gratifying to the oppo sition, to see one after another of their strong holds give way and. wheert into (he Demo cratic rinks. New England tha very hot bed of fanaticism, shows a great disposition to reform,'and ere long we will hear such glorious Dews from that section that will make the heart of any true patriot rejoice.— Old Connecticut haa taken the lead, and where but a year ago there were heavy ma jorities against us, the Democratic parly have . come out of -the contest covered with victory, and new Philadelphia comes on with a clear I majority of five thousand over the candidates of both the other parties, and a plurality of nine or tan thousand. We remark this to ■how lbal all the elements opposed to the Uuion party are becoming settled, the fever of young Sam haa received a quietus, and the whining, canting hypocrites, who chant Dred Scott and Bleeding Kansas are being left behind to mingle their voices among the sighs ol nervous women and the cries of small children. Kanrae, that garden of the 1 western world, will soou be admitted eg a 1 free Slate, 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. "0 where! for the red eye of Kansas is shut ill despair."- Scranton Herald. Further Dora California-* Arrival of the Ucorte Law. Ntw YOR*, May 12.—The steamer Geo. haw, which left Aepinwall on the evening oi the 4th inst., arrived at her dock this evening shortly after 7 o'clock. The George Law brings advices from Cal ifornia to the 20th nil., and 81,700,000 in treasure. A bill has paused the California Assembly appointing a Board of Examiners to fund the indebtedness of San Fraocisoo accruing pre vious to July, 1856. The Assembly Judiciary Committee, by direction ol the Assembly, reported a bill pre venting the immigration of colored persune. The bill will probably pass. A bill has passed the Senate, submitting the question ol paying the State debt to the people. The Legislature has passed a resolution to adjourn on the 27th of April. The news from the mines was very favor able. Business at San Francisco was very dull. ORKOON. 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 was compelled to tlee from Salt l.ako to save himself from the fury of his flock. Washington Aflalrs. Washington, May 16.—The Secretary of War, to-dsy, examined the bids for the ma terials and construction of the Washington Aqueduct. The awards will probably be an nounced on Tuesday. Waller N. Hsldtrman, of Louisville, has been appointed Surveyor of Louisville, vice Mr. English, removed. E. S. Hough has been re-appointed Collec tor of Alexandria, Virginia. Senator Wilson iahere on his way to Kan sas. Past Assistant Surgeon Horner, of the U. S. Navy, has resigned his office. Dr. Ezra I'arrcenter has been appointed Special Inspector of Drugs and Medicines at Boston, vice Joseph H. Smith, removed. The salaries of the Superintendents of the wagon road routes, have been fixed at $3,000; of the Disbursing Agents and Engineers, at $2,000, and 'he Physicians at $1,500 per an num. EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. —The following statement exhibits the value of foreign im ports and exports from and to this port:— The exports from the Ist to the I3th of May amounied to $221,061, the principal arti cles heing 7330 barrels flour, 1400 bushels 1 corn, 6257 barrels corn meat, 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 $6,902,131.— Ltdger. 13T The State of Michigan has establish ed a College of Agriculture, on a farm of seven hundred fertile acres, near the city of Lansing, where the State Capitol ia located. Joseph R. Williams, late editor of tne Toledo Blade, is President. It has an endowment of $56,000, the proceeds of the Salt Spring land* originally donated to Michigan Terri tory by the Federal Government. The Leg islature has appropriated $20,000 per annnm for two years to the support of the College. There are already accommodation* of eighty student*. No charge is now made for tnition I but each student is required to work three | hours per day, for which he is paid. This j we believe will be the first State Agricultural . College actually in operation in America. THB KANSAS AID FCND.— Vermont having utterly refused to pay o*ei her 520,000 to the sufferers of bleeding Kansas, the New York Legislature followed suit, turning the cold shoulder upon the recommendation oj Governor King, to appropriate <IOO,OOO for the same object, and now the old Bay State pauses. Massachusetts, dnring the first day of the sessions of ber august Legislature went zealously to work on another <IOO,OOO appropriation, but ber Solons bave halted and higgled, adopted and reconsidered, play ed possum during the whole Winter and Spring, and have at last fallen back on a <50,000 fund to be raised for the shriekew.— Bat doubts end inundoes are interposed in reference to ibis earn, end the whole thing is I likely to fizzle oat. ! Ihe Mala Line Adrertlaed 10 be SoM. Tlie Governor ha# signed thq bill for the sale of the Main Line, and it Is to be sold at public auction, in the Mer chants' Exchange, on Thursday evening, the 26th dy of June. The lowest price for which'it may be purchased ia 57,600,000. — Those who have that much looso change about them have a chance for a profitable speculation. The State debt will be re duced to that amount by the purchase mon ey, if the Legislature, in a lit 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 Eutning Pott announces that its editor, Mr. Bryant, has sailed for Europe in the ahip William Tell, accompanied by his wife and youngest daughter. The period of bis absence is not determined upon. 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 he bad been ■o long nidentified, 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-time in exposing and de nouncing. Ilia proud and icdspendent spirit tebelled against concealing, and hia honesty forbade hia approving the reckless schemes of plunder end usurpation into which the Black Republican leaders plunged upon their I first success ; and despite the blandishments | or threats of hia new associates, he held some of those measures up to public acorn. So says the Albany Statesman. PSATII FROM STARVATION IN MICHIGAN.— Oelroil, May 16.—Reliable information was received here veaierday of great detituiion existing in Gratiot county, and other aecludrd localitiea in the northern part of tbia State, aeveral peraona having already died from atar vaiion. Many cattle are also dying for want of food. A meeting waa 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 ef starvation. He gave a gloomy account of the suffering in that logion of the people dyir.g for the want of the moat common food. It wss resolved to rsise $5,000 in the cily | for the purchase of provisions, SI,OOO ol I which smouni wss subscribed at the Hall. Loss NR TUT STORM IN MISSISSIPPI. —The &ri Const Democrat, published in Mississippi City, thus sums the losses in that vicinity by I (he recent storm: Whole loss not less than SIOO,OOO. The largest losers, whose names we have heard, are: Hon. R. C. Scaffold, $10,000; Messis. Mo Bean & Henry, $8,000; Messrs. Taylor & Myers, $2,000; Col. Humphreys, $1,500 Some mills lost as much as 200,000 feel of lumber each. Every man engaged in ibe log and lumber business in this district has lost sll he bed invested in limber. And it being the chief industrial pursuit of the people, trade is completely paralyzed for (lie present. None ot the mills can bo slatted 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, (hey will have to wait some lime be fore s supply of logs can be had. SMALL POX AT THS SOOTH. —Mny districts of the Southern Stales have been more or less afflicted by small pox, the present Spring Virginia has especially been rife with rumors of its presence in some of her 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 the points where it has broken out in that KIMO. In tVarrnn county the disease has extended to ten cases, all from one per son having come from a distance with the disease in bis system. IVGeneral Cass, it it is said, exhibits sur prising vigor and industry and endurance in his 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 coffee, the only exhilara ting beverage which he nan use. OHIO ELECTIONS. —The towo and munici pal elections in Ohio, have resulted more favorably for tbe Democracy than the) have for many years. The Kansas excitement has about burnt itself out, and tbere is every indi cation that, if ths Democracy nominate a good State ticket, they will elect it triumph antly, despite the opposition of the factions. FOREIGN EXPORTS.— Among the exports from Philadelphia to foreign ports, during the past week, wete 7,330 barrels flour, 2,230 of corn meal, 821 of rye f100r,732 of bread, 19,- 448 bushels of corn, 249 bblt. of pork, 490 tons of coal, 17,748 Iba. bacon, and $200,000 in specie. OT Tbe New Orleans Timet states that 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 the city a ruined man. XW Mr. Benj. G. Day, of Currituck county, N. C., wbile ploagbing in bis field e few days ago, dug up a pile of old Spanish gold and silver coin to tbe amount of six tbussnd dollars. It is supposed to have been burivd during tbe revolution. tW Palmer, sentenced to (be penitentiary some months since, for a term of two years, for the manslaughter of Grant, in Indiana county, near Blairsville, daring the Presi dential campaign, has been pardoned by Gov. Pollock. Df The Havana correapondent of (be True Delta nys that a private letter baa been re ceived elating that General Walker bad evac uated Rivae, and bad taken refuge on board g Britiab man-of-war at San Jnac del Bur JUGUICAL SCIENCE. 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. The theory is that modern practitioners have been intho habit of giv ing too much medicine; that nature needs only to be assisted,' at critical points and cannot be forced; and that, in many cases, where the disorder is fatal from tho first, medicine is wholly Unless. The old Greek divided diseases into euro ble and incurable, which is much the same theory as that of the modem Englishman. I 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, ami which cannot tell, till too late, whether an attack is to bo fatal or not. We should hesitate, therefore, to admit the premises of this British author, if we were a physician, for we would ba too honest to deny the conclusion, and we should shrink from admitting that to ouia or kill was "hit or miss." It cannot be denied, however, that medi cine is less of a science than mon wish that it should be. Many diseases wholly baffle tho 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, lot it disappears almost entirely, to be succeed ed by some new disease, as subtle, as fatal and as widely extended as it was in it* fiercest fury. The plague, tho small-pox, and the Asiatic cholera havo devastated tho world in this way, by turns. It would seem as if there were some secret law of'nature, which dcntandod a certain percentage of annual mortality and which brought new epidemics and unknown disorders on tho scene, in order to gather the necessary vic 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 more potent than all the phys ic in tho world. The experience of tho wisest men and nations leans to the conclu sion that we may do something to preveut, but little to arrest disease. Nor is it strange that medical science haa learned so little. When we consider the delicacy of the human framo, its complex character, and the many disturbing influ ences to health, tho 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. Tho body, the diseases to which it is eubjoct, the ef fects of medicines, and the control exercis ed by atmospheric changes over it, togeth er makes a problem only less intricate than that even mighljer one, the conditions of immortality and tho 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 foutulest human intellect should feel, in re lation to some subjects, that beyond a cor tain point its knowledge should not go, that the issues of iifo and death were beyond it* ken, that, in a word, man was fiuite and only the Creator infinite. We are, at best, but creatures of the dust, insects of an hour. There is a mightier power in Nature than ourselves. It is a reflection before which infidelity grows dumb, and at which the humble christian becomes humbler— Ledger. The Farmer's Daughter A few years since, a farmer living near Easton, Pa., sent his daughter on horstbaok to that town, to procure from ths bank, small noies for one hundred dollars. VVheu she arrived there the bank was closed; and abe endeavored to effect her object by offering it at several stores, but could not get her note charged. She had not gone far on her way, when a stranger rode up to her and accosted her with so much politeness, that she had not the sugrnem suspicion or uj aril in>— - (ion on his part. After a ride of a mile or two, employed in a very social conversation, they came to a retired part of rhq road, and the stranger commanded me to give him the bank note. It was witb some difficulty that she could be made to believe him in earnest, as bis de meanor had been so friendly; but the pre | sdilation of a pistol placed the matter beyond ■ a doubt, and she yielded to necessity. Just as she held the note to bim, a sudden puff of wind blew the note into the road, and car ried it gently several yards from tbem. The discourteous knight alighted to overtake it, and the lady whipped to get ont of bis pow er, and the borse which bad been standing by ber side, started with her. His owner fired a pistol after her, which only tended to increase the speed of ell parties, and the la dy arrived safe at home with the borte of the robber, on which was a pair of saddle bags. When these were opened, besides • quantity of counterfeit bank notes, fifteen hundred dollars iu good money was found.— The horse proved to be a good one, and when saddled and bridled, was thought to be wortb at least as much as the bank note that was stolen. The Wheat crop in Illinois promises badly, especially in the Southern and Western coon ties. The hard, unsteady winter, and cold, wet spring have frozen out and winter killed a great deal, and prevented sowing this spring. Corn has been eaten np by cattle in default of bay. The prospect for a bouoteo us harvest is gloomy. OT Oce firm in Cincinnati has shipped to the Western territories one hundred and fifty retdy-made booses. They are of the cottage atyle, transported in pieces, hot ran be pot up ready for occupancy in a little over half an hour. OT Mr. James ti. Campbell bat been ap pointed U. S. Marshal of the Western Dis trict of Pennsylvania, vice Frost, whose cam mission has expired. A PASTOR Hsgerstown Chron icle says ths Rev. Dr. Steck, of Potiavilie, I Pa., bat been elected pastor of the Lq'beratj Church in that town.
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