STAR OF THE NORTH. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Nlooinsharg, Wednesday, July 8, 1837- Democratic Nomination*. FOR GOVERNOR, WILLIAM F. PACKER, of Lycoming County. FOB JUDGES OP THE SUPREME COURT, WILLIAM STRONG, Of Berks County. JA MES THOMPSON, Of Erie County. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, HIMROD STRICKLAND, of Chester County. JOHN G. FREEZE, Esq., HAS resumed the practice of the Law in Bloomsburg, Colombia county, Pa.; and will give hia prompt and careful attention to all business entrusted to him in this and ad joining counties. He can be found constantly in his office, ill Robinson's Row, near the Court House. The Fourth la Uloomsburg- Last Saturday's fins weather was enjoyed by ou; townspeople iu very lively spirits— some fourth proof and from that down to sour beer. The Light Street Columbia Artil lariats visited our town and paraded in good style. Their appearance and general con duct was much to their credit. Secliler's Danville Band also visited the town, and gained credit for discoursing ex cellent music. With them were the Herman Riflemen of Danville, a new Volunteer Com pany recently organized there. The Presbyterian Sunday School Celebra ted the day in their Church witn a large at tendance and interesting exercises. Early in the morning the Fantastic, gath ered in a motly group and paraded until noon to the delight of all ''Young America," and even many children of a larger growth. In the evening Bad Whiskey and Col. Phreepbile produced several "knock-downs" and belligerent demonstrations; so that they tfdra'veen laying loosely aiopnd on several bmtU ol htiek and stoee. More Ranks. The following late bulletin from the office ol Dye's Wall Street Broker illustrates the virtues of bsaking, and the great blessing of paper money and stock speculations to the publio. Tbe Bank of Sooth Royalton, SouthJßoy allon, Vt., has failed this day at 10 o'clock. A dispute among the stockholder has caused a legal investication, Thus the Bank baa been enjoined. The notes are secured by deposit of Virginia Slate Stocks and bonds End mortgages. Oor advice is not to sacrifice on the bills, as we think them worth near par. Also the Seoeca County Bank, Tiffin, Ohio, has failed. All tbe securities of this Bank have been |aken, and used by the defaulting ire,surer; the bills mty be set down as worthless, un less the Stale makes up the defalcations of its treasurer, which amount to 3800,000 We think the people of the great Stale of Ohio will make up the Deficiency. Also, the Zimmerman Bank, Elgin, Cana da, bas closed its doors. The great bribery sod corruption bas cast a dark shadow over it. It was conceived in sin, ar.d has died ol its own poison. A package of SIOOO has been lost or sto len of tbe Meiacomet Bank, and ii adver tised as being fifties u umbered from 414 to 432. GT The Lewisburg Bank was organized on Saturday last, when a meeting of the stockholders assembled at that place elected the following board of directors viz; John Walls, Joseph Meixell, W. Frick, Wm. Cameron, Gideon Biebl, James Mc- Creight, John D. Bogar, J. G. L. Shindel, John Datesman, R. M. Frick, John Gundy, Byers Amnions and A. B. Warford. On Thursday the 2d inst. at a meeting of the board, Wm. Cameron, Esq., was elect ed President and F. W. Pollock, Esq., of Milton, Cashier. WOULD NOT STAND — A Hieksite Qoaker re cently bequeathed *60.000 to the Weatlown School in Bocks coonty; but as the will was not made thirty days before the death of the testator, the bequest was not valid, and the Supreme Court decided that it goaa to the heirs at law of the deceJent. LOSSES BY FIRR. — Within the past year the Lycoming Insurance Company have paid out the following sums for losses to persons in this county: John Ramsey & Co. *640 00, John J. Stiles *l3 DO, Tboa. Treaoh *3OOO. 00, Joseph Shir pleas *2500 00, Alfred Mood *23 75, John Ramsey St Co. *193 00, F. Nicely *25 00, Jacob Gerard *2 00, B. F. Colo *l9O 00. NEW BANES.— The Harrisburg papers eon tain notice* of applications to be mode to the next Legislature of Pennsylvania for the charter of thirty-nine new banks, with an aggregate capital of about nine millions, and eight applications for an increase of capital, making the whole addition to the banking capital of the State asked for about ten millions. ST On Wednesday el last week, a pas senger (rain going Bonih waa run into by a coal train jasi above Northumberland. No great damage waa done, as the passenger t train was going slow. The coal train was io .leak. OT The Pennsylvania Railroad Company can obtain possession of the Main Line at any day by exeeuting sad filing the bond* for lbs purchase money. Matthew T. Miller, who published the Philadelphia Bicknell's Reporter about 20 years, announces the suspension of that paper. , MAP or BLOOMSBURC —Messrs. Hurley & Lloyd offer to make a map of our town if our oitizens will give them reasonable en couragement. The same gentlemen have heretofore made a map of Eaaton, and quite recently one of Danville. We hope to see our town get its likeness taken. lAr The Commissioners and Treasurer will meet at their offices on the 20th inst. to meet such collectors as wish to pay tax in time to secure the abatement of five per cent., and in time to reach the State Treas ury for the payment of lb* semi-annual State interest. Hf The weevil, we are pleased to find, is not doing as serious execution in the wheat as was at first anticipated. The grain was in many casos 100 fully formed to suffer from the insect. THE WEATHER OF Jußa.—The mean tem perature of June, as entertained by tbe ther mometer at the Pennsylvania Hospital, was 69j degrees, which is two degrees below the average for tbe last 32 years, and is tbs cool est June sinre 1846. Tbe mercury indicated a temperature of 89 degtees on the 26th, which wag the highest of the month, end of 53 degrees on the 6th, which was the lowest. Tkm amount ol rain wa 7* imahmm. In Juno, 1855, there fell within a fraction of 8 inches, viz: 9.94 inches, which is the greatest amount on record at the Hospital, for June. The av erage amount of rain for June, for lit* last 20 years, is 3j inches. . W The New York Time) predicts a fall in the price of sngur. Just now, there it a concerted movement among the speculators to keep it up,—but it will not ava'.l. "The prospects for a full crop sre highly encouraging. The high prices which have ruled the past two years have stimulated production, whilo they have caused a dimi nution of consumption, and the natural con sequences are, increasing stocks and a ten dency to low prices. Besides, the crop of Louisiana promises to be nearly four times greater than it was last year, and the yield ol Maple Sugar haR been much larger than it ever was before known." THE WASHINGTON RIOTS—JUST SENTENCE - Three ol llie persons engaged in lha late elec tion riots in W-aabingtou City, bare been tri ed, convioled, and each sentenced to pay a fine ol twenty dollars, and to undergo an im prisonment in the county jail for the terin of one year. Such punishment as this will bung election riots into discredit, even with l'lug-uglies. The courts about the country should mako such scamps feel that there is a higher law than mob violence, and one which oan always protect tbe citizens in their oivil and political rights. CANADA WHEAT —Mr. P. Baldy, Jr., re ceived last week a cargo of 1500 bushels of excellent Canada wheat,superior to the wheat generally in thia neighborhood, at a leu price including freight, than it can be bought for of our farmers, who seem to hold on to their crops, not considering ST 80 per bushel high enough. Should tbe weather prove favorable, the new crops will soon bring down prices to a living standard, and some of our farmers will then learn, to their sorrow, that Hold-foil is not always the best dog. MULES INSTEAD OF HORSES. —In Cincinnati, Ohio, mules pre taking the place of horses in omnibus lines, express wagons, &c. The Commercial, of that city, says they are equal ly tractable, cost less by 20 to 40 per cent.; they consume 40 per cent, lew food, are 33 per cent more durable, and move with a steady unyielding celerity, that recommends them to ail who have tested their merits. A DILZMMA.— The Cumberland (Md) Coal Company, having recently purchased 100 Canal boats of the Erie Canal Company, towed 49 of them around to the mouth of the Chesapeake end Ohio Canal at Alexandria, Va.; last week, when they were all found to be too wide by three inches to pass the lock gates. The moral of all thia ia, "Never buy a pig in a bag." ' CROPS IN THE WEST. —The editor of the Cincinnati Gazst'o has examined a large number of papers from tbe West, published within the last few days, and found from every section most flattering accounts of onr prospects. Wheat is maturing finely, and corn is growing rapidly. Tbe corn crop of the Wabash valley promises to be immeuse. IRON CARS.— There is now nearly com pleted in Paterson, N. J., a first class pas senger car, a little larger than the ordinary size, constructed almost entirely of wrought iron. The material is employed tu great strengih, with less weight than usual, and to avoid the injury to passengers by the destrnotion of ordinary cars in any kind of collision. Iron cars have been nsed on the Boston city Railways, but have not, we un derstand, proved satisfactory. beration of a longer passenger car will be found almost deafening. It will be as noisy as "the harp of a thousand strings." AUBURN AND ALLENTOWN RAILROAD.— The subscription of $1,000,000, necessary to put this road under contract, has been sub scribed, and all the sections, except two at Auburn, which interfere with the Schuyl kill Canal, are in the hands of contractors. ! BURNING OF A COAL BREAERR AT SCRANTON. The Coal Breaker of the Union Iron & Coal Company, valued at *30,060, was burnt down on Wednesday. This is the eocond | Coal Breaker burnt down in that region within the last two weeks. OT It is announced that the Portsmouth and Concord RailtOad will be offered at auction on the first day of .September next, at tbe Court House, Portsmouth, by the Trustees, acting in bebalf of tbe bondhold ers. We notice that the Penneglvanian on the Ist inst. changed its form to its formerly fo lio size. Ripe peaches are among the luxuries at Mobile aud New Orleans. Death of lion. Wa. L. Merer. A despatch from Balsion, N. Y., announ ces the sudden.death, on the 4tb, of the Hon. William L. Marcy, late Secretary of State in President Pierce's Csbinet. Mr. Marey had just returned to New York from tbs labors Of his exslted post at Washington, which he had performed ao ably and so creditthjS'D the chancier of his eocctry. Few men bare stood higher in public estimation for the judgment and skill be evinced in the conduct of publio affairs, especially in onr diplomatic relations with Great Britain. He was a states man in the fullest sense of the word, patriotic, sagacious and comprehensive. His clear in tellect embraced all the relations and connec tions of important questions under consider ation. His power of forcible illustration was rarely excelled, and there was an honest di rectness of application which seldom failed to reach the object be aimed at. It was the influence of his commanding qualities in the Cabinet that averted the mischiefs of weaker or mora arduous counsels. The power he held he exeroised for the good of his country, and that is the noblest epitaph to commemo rate his name.— Ledger. ur Tbs Phenomena of cold forms the sub ject of some interesting statements by a wri for every mile we leave the surface of onr earth the temperature falls fiva degrees. At forty-five miles' distance from the globe we get beyond the almosphoiE, and outer, atiiet ly speaking, into the regions of spaos, whose temperature is 225 degrees below zero; and here cold reigns in ail its power. Soma idea of mis intense cold may bo formed by stating thst the greatest cold observed in the Arctic Circle, is from 40 to 60 degrees below zero ; and here many surprising effects are produc ed. In the chemical laboratory, lha greatest cold that we can produce is about 150 degrees below zero. At this temperature, carbonic acid gas becomes a solid substance like snow; if touched it produces just tbe same effect on the skin as a red hot cinder; it blisters the finger like a burn. Quicksilver, or mer cury, freezes at 40 dagreec below zero—t. e., 72 degrees below the temperature at which water freezes. The solid mercury mty then ba treated ai other materials, hammered into sheets, or made into spoons, sncb spoons, however, would melt in water as warm as ice.— Ledger. WHAT NKXT? —Passing along the wharf yesterday, in front of Allen b Needles' place of bosiness, we observed a barrel filled with something ibat looked like e mixture, of wheal bran and smashed cockroaches The article proved to be a newly newly discov ered fertilizer, very appropriately called Can eerine. The utility of this article is a weigh ty argument on the side of those who main lain that Nature has produced nothing with out a wise purpose. It is made from the king crabs, or "moss bankers,-' which are found in myriads ou the Jersey beach. They a-e repulsive in appearance, consisting main ly ol a shell, legs and tail. The shell is of a horse shoe shape, and is shoot the siza of a large dessert piste. At the town of Dennis ville, N. J. they abound to such a degree that a firm have erected an extensive factory for the purpose of eqnverting them into manure. When the tide leaves the shore ory, the animals are gathered into heaps. They are laid upon their backs; when being unable to turn over, they soot die. They are then put into a mill and ground to a coarse powder. The ammonia evolved during the prooess is extremely pungent, snd in order to fix it, the preparation is decodorized by animal char coal. It is then in merchantable order, (and whenjpacked in barrels, sells readily at thirty dollars per ton, just half the price of Peruvian guano. The shell of the king crab ie not of sn osseous character, bo: possesses tbe pro perty of horn , and as we have said, contains a large proportion ot ammonia. We learn that the demand at present is greater than tbe supply. We repeat, whatnovelty comes next?— North American. SLAVERY ID ENGLAKD. —We copy below a few advertisements taken from an old English newspaper, showing some of the peculiari ties of slavery in England a hundred years ago, and earlier. Just imagine a lot of negroes running about with brass collar*, fastened with a padlock, about their necks like so many dogs. "A black boy, of about 15 years of age, named John White, ran away from Colonel Kirke the 15lb instant; he has a silver collar about his neck, upon which is the Colonel's coat of Arms and Cipher; be has upon his throat a great scar, bare in habit. Whoso ever brings the aforesaid boy to Col. Kirke's house, the Privy Garden, will be well re warded."— London Gutetle, March 1685. "Tu l lutit, * ugio hojr. about Id years old, warranted free from any distemper, and had those lalal to that color; he has been used two year* to all kinds of bouseholJ work, and to wail at table ; bis price is 261., and wonM not be sold but the person be be longs to fsleaving off business. Apply to the Bar of the George Coffee House in Chancery Lane, over against the Gate.— London Adver ser, 1766. " Matthew Dyer, working Goldsmith, at the Crown in Duck Lane, Orchard Street, Westminster, apprentice and euocessor to Mr. John Redman, corkscrew-maker, deceas ed; continue* tlie*basinass of bis late master, in making allVort* of gold and silver cork screws, tobacco-steppers, silver pad-locka for blacks or dogs, collars, silver claspknives, &0., where merchants and shopkeepers may be supplied on the least notioe, and at the lowest prices. An assortment of the above work kept by him."—lbid (dT The "quaacki"c went ioto operation—say 1 six years ago—there were not one fifth as many grogshops, or one fifth as many drunkards in the Stale as there are to-day. There were then seven towns where liquor was not sold openly or slyly. There were twelve or fifteen in which it was riot sold openly; and there were only five in which licenses were granted. Now it is sold openly in every one of the thirty-two towns; end in Providence there are at least thrse times as many (peg shops as there were then. In the town of feurrillville six years ago, there was not a single 'grog shop. We have had the Maine Lam.Ave yeara, and now there are twenty-five grog ahope in Bnrrillvill*. " What is trag of lihode Island is nearly true of Connaoilbut, neatly true of Vermont, nearly true of Maioe and New Hampshire, true to the vertr letter of the whole of Massa chusetts, and Atas to a great extent of New York. iirtsein features of srery State wher-Ae Maine law has been tried. In every one, the law bss proved a failure. Mr. Dow knows belter than to say that Ihe law is eefoiced in Vermont and New Hampshire. In the former ii does little or DO good. In Ihe Isttas it is everywhere a dead letter. He knows better tbsn to say that the Maine Law carried Maine last felL The Re publicans cartig the State, it is true; but Ihey did it by-{poring the Maine Law ques tion, and taking into their service the only papers in the Slate—the State qf Maine and JExpositor —that were recognized organs of the rumsellerv." BBS—We have always been slow te believe the wonderroi cures which one medicine afier mother pretends to have made,—but slow as we are we will own up, when we are fairly convinced.— with the SMSSWMM! Beaeb and Mr. Far well, wiH not think us lightly turned, when we confess our belief that Ayer's Cathartic Pills here virtues for porilying ihe blood which eaeel anything within She range of our acquaintance hitherto. For those who are net rognixdst of the facta, ws will say; the has been afflicted for over eight years with aetoluia which only grew worse in spite ol all the leessdies she ootid employ, until shertoofc Acer's Pills. Under their in fluence one after another of bar sores have healed, nnlil she is apparently as free from the romplsml.st onrsslres. He has had liv er complaini WMTpaia in bis aide that disa bled birti frsiljtseik /or a long time;all other medicines b*d failed to afford him any per- manent relief) bet a lew doses of Ayer's Pills oared him and he Is tow steadily at his old post, of cea4 ester oo the cars.— Viddletown DaUy A western man, rather a novice in Euro pean travel, oneL visited Powers' studio at Florence, and yfar gazing upon its array of busts suid figuresawhile, inquired the price of a statue which caught his fancy; upon being told (3000, he gave a long whittle, raised his eyebrows, buttoned up his pock ets, nod strided away, exclaiming "aculp ! tur'a riz 1" Aa Awful Calamity—3oo Lives Lost I Tha steamer Montreal, pi j Ing between Ihe I city of that name, end other ports on tha 81. [ Lawrence river, was homed-on Friday eve- I ning last, attended with a fearful lorn of life. The following deepatob gives soma idee of the frightful catastrophe. SiipMTacaL, June 27.—The lope of the ales onr Montreal has been reported here, and the excitement ie grhet, ee amy be sop posed. I The steamer contained no lose than five hun dred passengers, generally emig rents from Seoiltnd. The scene ie described as most frightful opon tba berating oat of ibe flames. The devouring element spread rapidly, aad, as a large number of the passengers were women end children, few precautions of e eharacter to save life eould be adopted.— Amidst the awful horror ef the scene, many persona laaped overboard, a large nomber of whom were drowned almoat immediately.— Crowds of others ware roasted to death be fore tbey could attempt to escape. The boat was off Cape Rooge at the time of the disas ter. Persons on shore exerted themselves to save Ihe unfortunatee, but the rapidity with which the flames consumed ell in their track and the intense tenor of those on board the ill-fated steamer operated against all efforts to rescue the unhappy passenger*. As far a* we can leant at Montreal, only one hundred and seventy-five persona were saved from the burning wreck, but it is probable that other* may have reached the shore who have net reported themselres. It ie certain that over two hundred passengers were drowned, aod that very many otbsrs ware burned to death. The allocking calamity ha* thrown a gloom over our whole community. Still later advice* say that the number of those who are lost will probably exceed thru hundred and fifty touit I People must go to Work. "The Chicago Tribune says that grocers and produce dealers in that city, are Import ing pickles from Cincinnati, potatoes from New York, by thousands of bushels, and white beans from New Hampshire, in quan tities to suit purchasers. This is disgraceful, with millions of acres of the richest soil the sun shines upon, lay ing waste and uncultivated, the West im ports produce from the East. Onr only sur plus ia wheat. Farmers cultivate this to the exclusion of other crop*; and the result is that, as we are credibly informed, bran and "shorts" for feeding cattle, have actu ally commanded a higher price in this city, the present spring, than good wheat. This is partially the result of too exclusively growning a single corp, and partly of the mania for land speculation, which has with drawn large numbers of men from produc tive industry in order to acquire sudden af fluence. Tiie solemn truth is that more men have to go to work, before the time will be better. The people of the West will find themselves obliged to do something with thejr £yjaea!rte.beeidMjmving. They must not-only produce ft ißtplus fl! 'wfifnt but must at least, cultivate a sufficiency of the necessaries of life, for home consump tion. It will not do to depend too perma nently upon the rise of real estate, or a speculation in City Lots, exhorbitant Rents, or exurous Joans, for subßislance. Go to work; use the advantages so beneficently tendered; plough, plant and reap and you will be tho most independent people on the earth. A GOOD COW. —The Isst number of Ihe Chester County Times, gives ■ statement ol a cow which is owned by Jeffries Williams, of said county, and which yielded a week or two since the extraordinary amount of twenty pound) of butter in seven days. We doubt whether this can be beaten, in or out of the State. Our colemporary thus nolioes her: "She is 6 years old; weight 950 pounds; color, brindle; her feed was six quarts of mixed feed per day; the average yield of milk fifty-one and a half pounds per day; amount of butlsr per week, twenty pounds. The Media Advertiser notices a cow, the properto of William Dunwoody, of Delaware eounty; that yielded seventeen pounds of but ter in one week. What is die best (bat "Old Berks" can do 1 PICKINGS AND STEALINGS. —The Cincinnati Inquirer states that Gibson, the defaulting I State Treasurer, of Ohio, has recently been to St. Paul, investing some of the Slate funds in lands. Tom Ford, the Slack Republican Lieutenant Governor, had been there ahead of him, with the profits of his Know-Nothing campaign In Pennsylvania, with wMch be intends as a refoge and asylum for the fugi tive Black Republican officials of Ohio after the October eieetioos. OT The people of Dusbore, Sullivan Co., tiaru been g really excited doting the past week or two by the supposition that three "jail-birds" ware lurking sround or near that place, one of which is said.to answer vary nearly-the description of Kbloffe, the notori ous murderer, who escaped from ltbaoa, N. Y., some time sinee. OT Iron Churches, 70 feet long, 40 feel wide, and 20 feet high, capable of accom modating 700 persons, and costing about (5,000 each, have been erected, recently, in the neighborhood of London. They are lined with wood, which is covered with can vass and papered. They can be taken down and moved to other locations, if desired. par Gen. Cass is strict in his personal habits, will not dine out if he can help it, and goes to bed at 10 o'clock, P. M. • When at Paris, at balls at his own house, he would qpietly slip off to bed at the above hour, leaving his wire ami daughters to en tertain the company. The Lehigh and Penna. Ziac Company have purchased the patent right of Messrs. Gilbert & Wether ill, for Manufacturing Zinc paint, for the price of M,OOO. Mr. and Mrs. Dalton, in Boston, after be ing forced by meddlesome friends to figure in divorce case, have eloped with each other, and disappointed the lawyers. The whole number of newspapers pub lished in the United States is 3,(34; some 4J9 of which are in the State of New York. From the Kanni Herald of Freedom. The CiMklii PoHcr. Eastern joareale yntioue to predict Ibal Kansas will be a a bra Stat#, evidently with the intMtion of ration 10 tb# Territory, and making it ■ alar# Sutt#. If Kansas ia not a alar# Statq Si will not b# tb# fault of, demagogues throughout the North, who, w#' honestly Mian, desire it to b# made aaeh (bat tb#ir predictions may b# ver ified! We aay again and again that Kanaaa eaa never b# mad# a alare Stat#. Nineteen twentieths of lb# population of that Territory, at tb# present rat# of iueraaa# from iti# North, are, or aoon will b#, in favor of freedom, and will n#rer conaant to be ent laved. It ia an outrage upon the penpl# of Kanaaa, tboae who hare borne tha fight in parson in the pact; to ba thoa miarapreaented in the East, and throogb political joornala. Trarel orer the entire length and breath of Kanaai, and it ia almost impossible to And a man of either party eo lost to troth as to ex press a doubt aa to the ultimate reaoll. Lai our friends in the States instead of de apondiug, send ns words of ebeer and hope. A cause waa nerer benefitted by laboring continually to diecmtragt and dishearten its ad vocates. Partisans may hope to gain position by poreotng ttra com— iKsy do, hot their tU omph will ba ahort-lired. We ar# disgusted, almost angered, at the oroaking policy of some of oar exehanges, and wish they wopld clip oar acquaintance. A Good Thing wall AppMad. The acieolifia discoverer end the soisntific inrentor are diatinot and differant character!. It ia rarely that be who diaeorere a great principle appliea it auccesefully and thorough ly. Sometimes, bowerer, this ia the case. Prof. Holloway was among the first to broach the theory that disease was lha result of the introduction of morbid matter into the circu lation. Bnt of itself this theory, however troe, waa use leas. It could not subserve auy ben eficial purpose to poiot oot the loealily of tha babe unless the discoverer were provided with an antidote capable of reaching it.— Prolessor Holloway cam a up to the good work doubly armod. Ha had not only traced the symptoms of diabase to their genniue cause, but bad, afiar long research and innu merable experiments, produced two reme ien on# of tha SODS aod devisesa of tha paid John Allen deoeaaed was presented fa tb#. said coon praying for the eels of the Mow ing real estate of tbe said decedent to Wit: A lot of ground in Jerseytown in Madison township, situate on tbe Main road or street, of said town adjoining lot of John Swisher, lot me lose belonging to Dr. ROSSSt rartw w