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.