STAR OF THE NORTH. a. w. WEAVER, EDITOR. Htbemaiwar, Wedaesß*?, July 3fl, 1857. Democratic Nominations. FOR COVERROR, WILLIAM F. PACKER, of Lycoming County. TOR JUDGES or THE SUPREME COUNT, WILLIAM STRONG, Of Berks County. JAMES THOMPSON, Of Erie County. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, . MMROD STRICKLAND, of Chester County. JOHN G. FREEZE, Esq., IX AS resumed the practice of the Law in Bloomsburg, Columbia county, Pa.; snd will give bia prompt and rarefhl attention to all business entrusted to him in this and a-J --joiring counties. He can be found constantly in his office, in Robinaqn's Row, near the Court lionse. Abolitionism In Old Knglund and New England. We publish >o day a very significant arti cle from the London Jimcs, which 'reflects the prevalent sentiment of British states men on the question of restoring shivery in the British colonies of the tropics. For years the British aristocracy have instigated all manner of mischief in the United States by violent appeals to the mock philanthropy of the abolitionists; and have used every means to inflame a spirit of disunion. Now they are compelled to defend slavery, not as a necessity but as a choice. In this country the prevalent feeling is to devise a remedy for the evil—in England the ques tion is how to open anew the traffic with some semblance of decency, and without giving too blunt an offence to the moral sense of the world. It is therefore proposed that some sort of free contract ghall exist between the negro and his master, but it would very evidently be suqh a free con tract as the wolf makes wjtJl tho lamb—such as the French Emporor makes with his peo ple—or such as England herself makes with her degraded serfs of India. It is very late in the day for British states men to manifest conscientious scruples on this or any other subject. Sho stocked the Western World with slaves, and tho jnfa mous opium trade which she forces upon China at the mouth of the cannon is not jot less nefarious than the slave traffic. But we have adverted to this subject to point out the fact that the hypocritical cant of New England is just like that of Old Eng land. In the olden time it was the men of New England who grew rich upon tho trade in human flesh and blood; and it was their representatives who, in the formation of the national constitution, voted to continue the slave trade 21 years longer than was the wish and vote of such States as Pennsylva nia and Virginia. Now the degenerate sons of New England come among us with the price their fathers made out of this unholy traffic rattling in their pockets, while with sanctimonious cant they try to teach Penn sylvania and Virginia the law of rectitude and humanity. Some of the facts in the article from the London Times are too true, and it furnishes matter for serious reflection. School Exhibition. The public exhibition of Mr. Eaton's Se lect School took place at the Court house on last Thursday and Friday evonings. The achoUrs conducted themselves well, and thore wore crowded and interested audiences on both evenings. On Thursday evening Stoea' Cornel Band enlivened the exercises with good music. On Friday evening Caleb E. Wright, Esq., of Wilkesbarre, delivered a finely finished address to the gratification of the on lira audience. OF* We notice that some of our colempo rsries steal our items by the half dozen with out credit. Well, where brains are scarce nothing better could be expected. These offenders stand mncb in need of a co ven lion of some sort to absolve them from the penalties ot their transgreseiona. LEGAL DECISION.—' Tha Supreme Court of tbia Stale recently decided that a division /•ace of more than twenty-one years stand ing. thongh crooked, constitutes the line be tween adjacent land owners, even though the deeds of both partiei call a straight line between acknowledged land marks. HT A new Poetoffice has been establish ed in the southern eud of Locust township, called Rhpadstown, and Mr. Isaac Rhoada appointed postmaster. This is a good ap pointment. OT It is not true, as was published in many papers, that notice of the meeting of road viewers most be given by advertise ment in a newspaper. The la wit not changed in tbit respect. t3T Since the opening of navigation in February, there are said to have been at least two haodred persons drowned in the Ohio river between Wheeling eud Pittsburg. Of It is elated that out of fifty of the largest manufacturing establishments in New Eng. land, tha stock of only sic companies will at the present lime sell above par. t3f Dt. Elder's life of Dr. Kane, wbiob ij now ia presa, promises u> prove as popular as the narrative of the Expedition. Herr Dieisbaob is now t raveling in Illi nois with hie menagerie connected to Stiok noy'e Circus. OT Tbo titla papers were to be delivered to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, for Ibo Main Lino, last weak. Of There are only S eases on the trial list of Monlour county for September terra. Proposed National DUnnion Convention. The Committee of the Massachusetts State Disunion Convention, which waa held at Worcester, hairing circulated for signature! a call for a National Disunion Convention, to be held at some plsce not yet named, in Oc tober, "to consider the practicability, proba bility and expediency of a separation be tween the free and the slave States, and to take such other measures ss the condition of the times may require." (h their circular let ter eccempar.yieqj tho call, the committee, coniieting ol Thomas Wentworlh Higginson, We nil a# Phillips, F. W. Bird, Daniel Mann, and Wm. Lloyd Garrison, say: " From mere politics, there is little to be ex peoted. The slave power baa always com mended just votes enough to carry its meas ures, and, under our present organization, always will. If the Republican party told truth, last November, the Presidential elec tion transferred the balance of power, more than ever, to the side of slavery. It has four years of corruption, conquest and annexation before it, and it remains to be proved that any purely political combination can defeat it. On tho other hand, the attitude of Repub liean leaders is now, as always, one of timid ity and compromise. They depreoaie, with profuse caution, the charge of any disposition to inietfere with slavery, as it is, and claim the support of Southern men, for their nomi nations, as affording undiminished security to (the slave properly. It is evident that the mass of RepublintA voters, in many States, are becoming more radically anti-slavery.— And cothing will do so much to promote that desirable change, as the fearless discussion we propose. Undoubtedly the first object is to created an united and determined North Butil there is even a chance that the ulti mate result of that effort is to be Disunion, every one must admit the necessity of being prepared for it." SLANDER ON JODGE THOMPSON. —The editor of the Clinton Democrat repels the low abuse of the Rellefonle Know Nothing organ, which denounced Judge Thompson as a drunkard, and says had it charged the Judge with hav ing been the companion of Cain in the mur der of Abel, it would not have been farther from the truth. Now hear the Erie Dispatch, published at Judge Thompson's residence: "Judge Thompson is a Democrat— we are a Republican. In his political conduct we have not always approved of bis course, but as a man and a jurist he has ever had our admiration and shall have our support for the office to which he has been nominated. We know the man and do not know his oppo nents —henco we are not grappling in the dark. The legal ability of Judge Thompson is of high order—socially he commands the respect of all, and as n friend to the oppress ed, he has hoß's of friends who are politically opposed to him who u ill give hirn their sup port, becuuse they know that he, as a jurist, will know no parly, and that he has no friends to reward or no enemies to punish." IV The Muncy Luminary goes into hys terics because of the appointment of William Michael as Postmaster at Muncy, in place of Whitlock, removed. Mr. M. held the office under the administration ef President Pylk, and was a very Excellent and popular officer. He was removed, however, by ihe prescrip tive administration of Gen. Taylor, and Mr. Whitlock was appointed. Now the tables are turned again, and much loss is made, if the Luminary informs us correctly, about the re-appointment of man who was removed only because he was a Democrat. The op position never did relish the displacement of their friends and the appointment ol Demo crats to fill their plaoes. Mr. Michrel is a hard working and induetrioua mechanic, an honest, man, and a faithful and efficient of ficer. ATTEMPTED ESCAPE— Dav>d S. M'Kim re cently convicted of the murder of Samuel T. Norcroes at Alttioni, and now in jail at Hol lidaysburg under sentence of deslh, came nsar making his escape on Monday or Tues day night of lapt week. Although closely watched since hi* confinement, yet he man aged to get possession of a case knile with which he saned through ths manacles upon his feet and had it riot been for its timely discovery by the jailor, be would doubtless have escaped. SURVIVING GOVERNORS. —Pennsylvania has only four surviving Ex-Governors, Kilner, Porter, Johnston, and Bigler, while there are eight of New York, viz.: Ven Buren, Throop, Seward, Bouck, Hunt, Fish, Seymour and Clatk, and Massachusetts has six, viz.: Ev erett, Morton, Briggs, Boutwell, Clifford and Washburn. The difference in the number is owing to the duration of the term of office in a great measure. ELECTIONS IN AUGUST. —General elections are held nezt month, as follows:—On the Ist Monday, in Alabama and Tetan, for State Officers and Members of Congress; in Ken tuckey, for Members of Congress; in Mis sour, for Governorend Judge of the Supreme Court; in fowe, for the new Constitution and County Officers. On the first Thursday, in Tennessee, for Governor and Members of Congress. SUSPECTED MURDER —Last Saturday night the lightning train, bound West, ran over the body of a man on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Allonna, Pa., cutting off the bead and one arm, and mangling the body. The re main* were recognized as those of a man named Cobley Rush, and from his being knofn to have some money on bis person, tl is believed he was murdered, and the body placed on the track. fefc" The mob spirit seems rampart in lowa, and appears to *av taken authority entirely from the legal officers. A few days ago, at Poweaahieek, a man suspected of morder was taken from jail by a mob and hong opon the limb of a tree. The mob then, being distal itfied with the oonduet of the prosecuting at torney in the oase, resolved to hang him al so, bot were indoced to defer aotion for a few days. The Attorney General no doubt appro orated thie clemency. What kind of legal antboiities do they have in lowa, where these things car. occur with impunity 1 Thomas Jefleison on Haas echo setts. In 1815, Thomas feffereon, the great apos tle of American Democracy, wrote a letter tos General Dearborn,of Massachusetts in which occurs the following paragraph : "Oh, Massachusetts 1. how I lament the degradation of your apoalacy! Let ue look forward, then, to the act of repeolance, which, by diminishing her venal traitors, shall he the signal of return to the bosom snd to the prin ciples of her brethren ; and if bar late humil iation can jest give her modesty enough Jo, suppose that her-Sdulbern brethren are some what on a par with her wisdom, in informa tion, in bravery, and even in honesty, altho' not in Psalm singing, she will mora justly es timate her own relative momentum in the Union. With her ancient principles she would really be great if she did 00l think herself the whole." Tristram Burgees, in a speech in Congress, once declared that he thanked God that "the father of lies oquld never become the father of lirs," and it is to be regretted that he oould not thank the same authority for a par allel blessing: that the mother of humbugs could never become the mother of humbug gers! Were such the fact, ere this Massa chusetts and all her humbugs, her fanaticism, her bigotry, her unrelenting malevolence, her facetiousness, her tyranny and frauds, her blind hate and insane raving against the I South, against the Union, against liberal in stitatlons and popular righlr—all her foflj and all her wickedness—her vices and her Sensu ality, her base pandering to wealth and wor ship of self, her arrogance and stupidity—all those would be gone—Massachusetts would no longer be hersell—the Union would be I rid of a devil—and then, indeed, she might be "really great." Great Jefferson knew tier well, watched her closely—always persecute by her because he detested her bigotry, her illiberally, and her proclivity to tyranny and to the vain things of monarchy—he knew the evil of her heart, and, in the fitting language we quota at the head of this article, be warns his countrymen agaiuat her principles.—Clin ton Democr.it. Susquehanna River, N. and \V. Branch Telegrnph Company. At an eleotion held on last Tuesday, for officere of this Compsny for the ensuing year, Uie 101 l swing gentlemen were duly chosen, viz: President— Dr. A. G. Goell. Treasurer and General Superintendent.—M. C. Grier. Secretary —R. M. Catbcart. Directors— W. Jennison, E. W. Conkling and A. F. Kussrl, of Montour— H. A. Funds of Lycoming—E. C. Humes of Cenire—L. A. Mackey and Geo. Furst of Clinton—Thomas Hays, ol Union—H. W. Shuman, of Perry— J. G. L. Shindel, of Snyder—L. B. Rupert of Colombia—J. E. Barnes ol Schuylkill—M. B. Prestley and S. R. Wood of Nonhumber laod. A dividend of 2 perceul. for* the last jeer, payable on the Ist September, was declared by the Board of Directors. Vote on the Purchase of the Maiu Line. PHILADELPHIA, JULY 23.— The hxlioting of the stockholders of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company on the question of confirming (he purchase of the Main Line by the Presi dent and Directors, closed at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The vote stood 144,151 shares in favor of the purchate, to 605 against it. A large majority of all (he stock having voted lor confirming the purchase, the question is now settled, and the transfer of the line will soon be made. W " Dr. Darwin informs us (hat the res son why the bosom of a beautiful woman is an object of such peculiar delight arises Irom hence—that all our first pleasurable sensa tions of warmth, sustenance and repose are derived from this interesting source."— Boston Post. Dr. Darwin's theory was considered very satisfactory till a lough, hard-brained, practi cal Scotch metaphysiciansuggested whether the same sensations of delight would be pro buced in one who in bis infancy bad been "nursed with a bottle." This confounded the doctor, and upset his theory. ARRIVAL or BLOODED CATTLE. -/The ship Georgia arrived at Philadelphia on Sanday, from Liverpool, having on board 32 head of cattle, two horses, three ponies, 23 pigs, and 25 sheep. Lost during the passage one horse and some of the smaller stock. The stock consists of lh6 beet samples which could be purchased in the British markets, and ate in tended for breeding purposes—having been selected by an association of farmers. t#" One of the greatest novelties of this "progressive age" was the celebration of the anniversary of Independence within the walls of the Indiana State prison at Jeffersonville, on the 4lh- Speeches, toasts, dances, foot races, and singing were enjoyed restraints, and the orator of the day confined himself to his subject and the prison walls. DON'T WANT THEM NEAB NEIGHBORS. —The lmaum of Muscat and Zanzibar has remon strated againat the English having taken pos session pf the Lland of Pertm, at the en trance of the Red Sea. The proparty of this island has long been claimed by both the lmaum and the Shah of Persia, and these two sovereigns bad, in a certain manner, di vided the nominal possession. The "appro priation" by the British government will set tle all disputes about possaasion, for England never gives up voluntarily an inch of ground that she once sets her foot opoo. COMING ALONG. —M. Vernet bus calculated the orbit of the comet recently discovered by a Berlin astronomer. He appears to be ap proaching the esrtb so rapidly that it will aoon present a fine object to the naked eye. At present it it belioved that it is not Charles the Fifth's comet, of which there has been so much talk, and destined to come into collis ion with the earth oo the 13th of last month. Its portion is in the constellation Perseus.— The oomet wonderera can now start a fresh excitement. t3f The borough of Danville pays near thirty thousand dollars annually in Taxes. Geographical Phenomenon. Russia and Persia present us with a geo graphical,phr tomenon truly extraordinary. There is in t ese countries a vast region, covered with popnlous towns, great com mercial eatal lishments, and fertile lands, which is nevi rtheless muoh below the level of the ocean. The extent of this low region is said to be tome one hundred thousand square mfa. Ip illustration of this depies- B ' on the level of the Caspian Astracan, is more than ltheired feet below the level ol the Blaclrßea or of the Ocean. The enor mous sink in) of a whole country—a phe nomenon whi ih is believed to bo unexam ! P letl —being ,1 ary difficult to explain by the operaiidn of nown causes, has led some persona to attribute it to the action of a com et. I a.ricochet firing it is evident that the spot strsek by the ball is somewhat depress e(l' T t' accor