STAR OF THE JNOgTB. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR, llloonutiurgi Wednesday, August 10,1857. Democratic Nominations. ' FOR'GOVEHNOR, WILLIAM F. PACKER, of Lycoming County. FOR JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT, WILLIAM STRONG, Of Berks County. JAMES THOMPSON, Of Erie County. FOR CANAI. COMMISSIONER, NIMROI) STRICKLAND, of Chester County. NEXT MONDAY A WEEK The County Convention is to be held iu this place, and on Saturday preceding the delegates are to be chosen in the respective twps. The whole aim in the nominations ought to be the fitness of men for tbe place they seek ; and this fitness ought to include every element of character. In this country (or more espe cially in the Northern Stater) rner. seem to let a little too much as if statesmanship a.id a knowledge of political economy came by ioilinct or intuitioo. In the Southern Slates there may not be so much general informa lion, but only the very best men are kept in places of pablic trust, and a man must have unquestionable capacity before he can aspire to honors. Tbe campaign this fall will be an important one, as a Congressman, Senator and,two Representatives are to be elected ; and for the success of the whole ticket every part of it ought to be strony, and each of the counties in our clumsy district must exhibit a spirit of harmony and union. Our county baa a character for steadfast and soand po litical faith for which we may well be proud, and nothing bat foolish divisions in our party can defeat any one oi the nominations. True we have a few men still seeking office who did the dirty woik for the Know Nothings in 1851 t and aided the Opposition in defeating Democratic nominations before, but they are so few, and mostly so penitent, that we ap prehend no danger to the ticket Irom them. The Convention will not be so wild as to nominate any such person, and there are on ly two of them, we believe, on the list of candidates. This county has been exceedingly fortu nate in its publiu officers. It has sought for men of sound comtnon-eense views rather than for dashing or magnificent men, and itR affairs have been managed with as much safety, prudence and economy as those of any sister county. With the exceptions of a single defalcation, by which the publio lost nothing, and a few uncorrected errors of the late Treasurer, the wbole business has been Well done and exhibits a clear and creditable record. None but some impertinent or ignorant ad venturer Who may harm been snubbed in some "•faofl*' project of IpeoV'S will eve* complain. The tax paying citizens of the county have reason to be well pleasod ; and while there are many objects (some merito rious) desiring a larger appropriation of the publio money, the toiling yeomen of the county who puy the taxes feel that these are already heavy enough, as is evident from the difficulty of collecting them. Agricultural Society. The Agricultural Society met at the Court House on last Saturday but as the proceed ings which would make a column were not handed in until Tuesday morning we can only give an abstract. We would otherwise give them in full. E. P. Lutz resigned as Recording Secretary and J. C. Stokes was elected in his place. Several members paid in their annual fee of membership—so cts. and all are reminded to do so. This will entitle them with their wives and children to attend the coming Pair, and to exhibit articles without the payment of any en trance fee. Elias Hicks and Dr. H. C. Hower were appointed to assist the Presi dent in making out a list of premiums.— Tho next annual Fair is to bo held on the 22d and 23d of October next. The Society is to meet next on Monday evfeningof Court, September 7th. Caleb Barton, jr., J. W, Hendarshot and Conrad Bittenbeuder are the Committee to select grounds for holding the Fair. IV The Governor has not yet sent any di reciion to the Sheriff of this county to adver tise in bis proclamation for a Congressional election on the second Tuesday of October. Soma persons are under the impression thut the Speaker of the House must first notify the Governor of Mr. Montgomery's death be fore the Executive can know that a vacancy oxlste. Gov. "Pollock may take this view of the case. (7 The editor df the Montour American gels cross because we call his a Know-Noth ing paper, and spits out all the navtiness he eau at one effort. That attempt to gel notori ety by abuse looks very much like Know- Notbingism, or perhaps is acrosß between a Plug Ugly ami a Hydraulic ram. It wont etioeeed here. BT We have beautiful, substantial and cheap specimen of bonk-binding done in library style by Mr. Charles Stalil or this plaoe. It is equal in every respect to the best wo have bad dono in Philadelphia, and such work mnat insure the workman patron *g- , MOKT'OUR CotntTfe— 'The Democratic Con vention ef Montour county was held on last Monday, and instructed for Paul Leidy Esq., 8B the choice of thai county for Congress. Mr. Leidy received the vote.of all the townships except three which were fqeV. Seat. t3f GhVeruor PoMock has appointed Dari us Bullock, of. Bradford county, President Judge of that Distrktht the jdace of Judge Wilmot resigned. *:r :■ - .X • STIIMPHr. TUB BTATE- The Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch (an in dependent journal,) under date of August 84, make* the following aour.d observations upon (be late letter of tbe Democratic State Committee to Gen. Packer against adopting the plan of • joint oaavass -with the Repub lican candidate : "The Committee aay very correctly that it is possible that very good candidates may be chose? who hate not .''the gift of lhe,gab;" and they Benfnmin Franklin, Simon Snyder and Francis K. Shunk, as examples of Governors who were riot happy at making pnblic speeches. For the reason, and he- cause the Democrats may hereafter desire to (nominate somebody not fluent si mttss meet ings, they suggest to Mr. Packer to decline the challenge. The Committee ure, we think, sensible in their conclusion. There are plen ty of windy orators who go through political campaigns, each delivering the same speech over and over, who acquire thereby an im mense reputation for oratorical talent, but who really have no moro brains, compara tively speaking, than parrots. The effect of adopting the stumping custom of the South would be to give these noisy, frothy, super ficiol spoolers, an eminence to which they are not justly entitled. Good common sense, administrative ability, information arid judg ment, would be entirety overwhelmed by "clack," and very inferior men would be thrust into public stations merely because they had a facility of talking fluently about nothing, and expanding a few unimportant ideas into a multitude of words. Tbo action of the Democratic Slate Committee is a wise, one. The dsy ha 9 gone by when a ten or fifteen minutes' speech on a political plat form, at a noisy mass meeting, will be ac cepted as proof that the speaker has ability, judgment and experience." These are tbe views of a journal not politi cal, and like those ol the Philadelphia Ledger on our first page to-day, they are doubtless those ol intelligent and independent men generally in this State. To show how this system of joint stumping operates in some of the Southern Slates where it lias been in troduced, we cut the tollowing extract from the Weekly States of June 27th, a paper pub lished at the city of Washington : "AN KxciTiNoCoNTEsT.—The political con test in Tennessee, between the candidates for Governor, is becoming very excited.— At Fayelieville, a lew days ago, General Harris, the democratic candidate, and Col. Nation, the American candidate, came into personal collision during a debate on the political topics of the day. The Nashville Union, in referring to the difficulty, stales that ''Mr. Hallon, near the close of bis last speech, said: "If one State has the inherent power claimed, then each Slate in the Union has. In the exercise of this power, they could confer tbe right of suffrage on free ne groes and aliens. In this way, persons breathing the spirit of tyrannical govern ments might control our institutions. -This doctrine,' said Mr. Hutton, '1 pronounce in famous.' '•'At this moment General Harris arose, in • manner eatm and collected, and said : 'Mr. Hatton, do ytlO Intend Id apply the word' in-' famous tome?' Hatton, under considerable excitement, replied:' General Harris, do you wish, by arising in that manner, to intimi date me V 'Certainly not, said General Har i ris, 'I do not wish to intimidate you or any othor gentleman; but 1 think I am entitled to an explanation of the language which you have used.' 'I suppose, then, it is an expla nation of the language that ynu want,' said Mr. Hatton, in a manner highly excited. 'I say again, (hat the doctrine is infamous; that it is rank, and smells to Heaven, and that its advocates are' Here General Harris strnck Mr. Hatton, and knocked him off the platform amongst the andience in front of it, following him as he fell. A scuffle en sued, and the parties were separated with out injury." THE NEXT HOUSE OF CONCRESS. —The re cent elections for Congress give the following political complexion to the House: Demo crats, 110; Republicans, 91 ; Americans, 8 ; vacancies, 2. Four States are yet to elect; but making allowances for accidents, the following is likely to prove to be the true state of parties in the House in full Congress: Democrats, 125; Republicans, 91; Ameri cans, 16; racancies, 2. The House of Rep. reeenlalivea consists of 234 member*—llB members constituting a majority. As the case now stand*—allowing no change in the four Slates where elections are to be held— the Democrats will have a majority of sixteen in the next House.— Ledger. GREAT DRAIN OF SPECIE. —Tha shipments of specie from England to India, China, Mal ta and Egypt, for the hglf year just euded, reaohed X 8,760, 611, while Irom the Medi terranean ports, an additional sum of XI,- 845,399, was sent making an aggregate- of X 10,606,040, or over $53,00Q,f>00, all at which was silver, except CI 16,u00. E7* We observe ibe teams pasping our of fice with large boxes marked for "V. Low enberg." Something new and nice will no doubt come out at his two clothing stores. P. S. There is quite a display of new cloths, cassimeres, vesting* and jewelry at his establishments of which tho public will lake due notice if they want cheap bargains. EF" The Democratic Convention of Sulli van county last week suggested Blooms burg as the place and Friday the 4th of September as tho time for holding tha Rep resentative conference. IV The butcher shop of Messrs. Kip & Rockefeller at Danville was burned down last week. -The lass will be some $6OO. 17 The Danville Democrat says that the Montour Company's Surra in (bat plana does • yearly business of betwaea >250,000 and 8800,000. E7 The Democratic Standard is the title of a new weakly paper just established el Potts villa by H- L. Acker, Esq. It ie neatly print ed, and ably edited, end looks as if it might command success. I . The Star congress. ' The administration of Jackson, during its second term particularly, was cotempOrary with the most brilliantly intellectual Con gress we ever lad. A correspondent of tbe ■Lowell Journal,cills attention to the compo ahion ol the twenty-third Congrece which commenced December 2, 1833, and termi nated March 3, 1835, and it surprisea us by the number of members who have filled high positions under our government. Six of .them, J.,Q. Adams, Tyler, Polk, Fillniore, Pisroe, and Buchanan, have occupied the Presidential chair. Five members, Messrs. Calhoun, Johnson, Tyler, Fillmore end King, have been Vice Presidents; and BO less than eight members, Messrs. John Q. Adams. Henry Clay, John Forsyth, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, James Buchanan, John M. Clayton, and Edward Everett, have filled the office of Secretary of Stale. Thirty-two members have been Governors of States, and twenty-three members of the House have sinco served in the Senate. DEATH or JUDGE M'CALMONT.— We learn from the Venango Spectator that the Hon. Alexander M'Calmont died at his residonce in Franklin, on the 10th iuat, in the 72d year of his nge. He was one of the early settlers of Venango county, and extensively known as a lawyer and politician, through out the State. In early life he filled several county offices, and was connected with a democratic newspaper. He subsequently studied law, and soon rose to eminence at the bar, both as an advocalo and counsellor. Receiving the appointment of President Judge of the Courts oi the Clarion District, he served with distinction on the Bench, and at the closed his term resumed the practice of the law. Upon the elevation of his son, Hon. J. S. M'Calmont, to the Bench, he retired from his profession and has confinod himselt sinco to the enjoyment ot private life. 11l all the relations of life he was highly esteemed, and his loss will bo severely felt in the community. A STRONG DENUNCIATION —The coloied cit izens ol Toronto Canada West, having had a meeting to denounce Col. John Prince, a member of lite Cauadiau Parliament, for speaking against them, he publishes a re ply, in which he says: "It has been my misfortune and the mis fortune ot my fumily to live among those blacks, (and they have lived upon us,) for twenty-four years. I liave employed hun dreds ol them, and with the exception of one, named Richard Hunter, not one has ever done for us a week's honest labor. I have taken them into my service, have fed and clothed them year after year on their arrival from the States, and in return have generally found them rogues and thieves, and a graceless, worthless, thriftless, lying set of vagabonds. This is my very plain and very simple description of tho darkies as a body, and it would be endorsed by all the western white men, with very few ex ceptions." Mure Hum Two Hundred Million Dollars fur Education At ibe laai monthly mooring of the Connecticut Histoiical Society, Hon. H. Bernard, the President, presented an interest ing paper reluting to the amount of donations, bequests, &0., made for educational, literary and scientific purposes in Ihe United Stales. The whole amount of land appropriated by the General Government for educational pur poses to the first of January, 1854, was sta ted to be 52,070,221 acres; which at the min imum prico of such lands when first brought into market, represented the magnificent sum of 866,000,000, hut which at this time, could not be worth less than 8200,000,000. — The amount of donations and subscriptions by individuals far exceeds all that had been given by State Legislatures. Mr. Bernard read from a table exhibiting the donations and bequests made by citizens of Boston within Ihe last half century, amounting to upwards of 84,000,000. A FAST YOUNO MAN. —The barkeeper ol of the Howard Hotel, who has been living like a prince for the last seven years, was brought before Justice Walsh, at the lower police court, New York, on Monday, on charge of embezzling from time to time some *20,000 from hi* employer. The accused kept fast company and fait horses, all off *25 per month and found. Mr. Lamb, the proprietor, wondered much at this, but could not bring himself to believe that bis bar-tender was playing him falHe. At length, he em ployed H person to remain one day in the bar-room, and keep a record of the number of glasses sold. The result was, that a dis crepancy of *2O was discovered between the nnmberof drinks sold and the receipts ac counted for. Ex-police offieer Farley tva then sent to watch Adams, and toon ascer tained that he associated with sporting men and fast women, and that be frequently spent at housea of ill-resort more than his month's salary. W British iron is, for all ordinary prac tical purposes, not exceeded by any that is found elsewhere, in the variety of its adap tation. Poroxido of iron—consisting of 56 parts by weight of iron, combined with 34 parts of oxygen—constitutes the mineral called red hicmatite, of which great quanti ties exist in parts of England. This ore is used there principally for mixing with other ores, but in Sweden and Russia iron is made from it direct. In France, brown haematite —a hydratod peroxide of iron, a mineral of the same composition as the last described, but containing water—is much used in the manufacture of.iron. But it.is the clay iron stono which yields the enormous supply of iron produced in Grhat Britain. This ore is an impure carbonate of iron, containing about 20 per cent., on an average, of pure iron. Pure carbonate of iron consists of 28 parts by weight of iron, and 8 parts of oxygen. Tho pure carbohate of iron is in clay, iron ore mixed with clay, oxido of manganese, lime and magnesia. UT According lo the Miners' Gazetteer, Ashland, irt Schuylkill county, has four mil itary companies, two Brass Bands, eight churches, and one beneficial society. A Waterspout in Lower (aundu. Mr. Pyoolx, ttrisk Priest MSt. Wizear, in the couifly of Benin, writes lo ibe JouMfcl d# Quebec ■ vet ■ lively sleteripiioa-of a wa terspout, which Jurat near the village church oa (he 18th of J|ly. He saya it ihade ita 4p pewapce aboutiaif past tea o.'cloek in ihe morning of tbatllay, at drat in the form of a cloud of the blckest kind, which was five degrees abooa (ha chnroh. This cloud ap peared to and a half in as tent, in'aye, and pressed ogainst by other musses of grayish clouds, which roiled in all directions about its flanks, with a eiulster noise like Ihe distant murmrlr of the sea in a tensest. Shortly the clond seemed to be torn in two, and a largo column was seen to descem from the opening lo the earth like an avalmche precipitated from a mountain lop. Dujended above and sucking the cloud, the column, like an immense ser pent, twisted itsolL about with frightful ra pidity, and balancing itself m the water like the tail of a papet,kite, rushed lo the earth with a hissing noire resembling the escape of steam. It plowpd up the ground, swept away everything within reach, and planks, poles, and ruins o( buildings mounted into the air like the rubbish out of a volcano. The.Jiouso of William Granier, at the dis tance of a few actes from the church, was twisted, broken; the chimney beaten down, and the roof off Into tbe air. A barn belonging lo fbajsame person, was beaten down, and tbe figments scattered about.— The roof was toig off the house of Joseph Boulangce, situated in a hollow, and then dashed to atoms. The bam and the stable of Eleazer Boulangee were destroyed, and one of the timbers was thrown thirty feet in length, and carried across a ten sere field. A horse belonging to Thomas Ouellet was raised to the height of thirty feet from the ground, and then, after the ascending force had exhausted, fell covered with mud, leaving a deep impression on the spot which he stiuck. Three cows were similarly raised, and were covered wiih mud when they fell. Two carts were lified from in front of the de molished house ol William Grenier, to a pro digious height, and were carried furiously over the neighboring fields mm ihe woods, where Itiey weie smashed lo atoms. MUM Uuqjjjrnt. Iftiodjed aiie- jil fencing were torn up. together with i(|e pickets, rais eil 10 ihe elou'da, a"d after some limescirtier ed over the neighboring fields mid woods; a good nnmher falling straight were buried so deep in the ground that they could not be pulled out by one map. Fields of grain were destroyed as il a heavy harrow had passed and repassed several times. Three sugar bushes were beaten down, and the trees were broken and interlaced like a field of grain, which had been beaten down by hail. A maple tree of considerable diameter vras plucked up and carried a distance of 5 acres. An enormous cherry tree was burled through the air in the same manner. The Priest adds that be witnessed these ravages of the tempest with his own eyes, and that the facts stated by him can be attested by hundreds of other persons. bed and hie brother at Ashland, Schuylkill county, last week. EF" In Minersville last week, a man nam ed Martin LafTcrly was slabbed while silting in his own house, by an unknown assassin. W D. S. Miller, Esq., has peen elected President of the Stroudsborg Bank, and Jss. H. Stroud, Cashier. The Bank will open for business on the I7th inst. LOOK OUT FOR COUNTERFEITS!—A number of counterfeit #5 bills on the York Bank, Penns., are in circulation at Hartisburg, and will doubtless soon find' their way op here. They are said to be well executed, and lia ble to deceive even experiticed judges of Bank paper. SOLD.—The establishment of the Pennsyl vania Farm Journi.l has been sold to Orange Judd, editor of the American Agriculturist, published hi New York. Subscribers to the Journal will be furnished with the Agricul turist for the term for which tbey have paid. A CANDID ADMISSION.—The Colombia South Carolinian refuses to join in the assanlt upon Gov. Walker, for bis Kansas policy. It can didly admitlsthat the attempt to make Kan sas a slave State is a failure, and for the rea son that Providence has interposed an ob jection. The South fighting lor Kansas, was like fighting against the winds of heaven and the power of the elements. Climate seems to settle the question belter than the politicians. A New COUNTERFEIT.—Spurious #2o'*, on the Drovers' Bank of Waynesburgb, Pa., have made their appearsnc* here. The en craving although executed with a considers bl degree of skill; is <-oare; and by this, an expert judge can easily detect them Irom the genuine ne'e. ENTwmneMimrSh.rßOT.—Tne Union Fur nace at Connelleville, Fayette oounty, Pa., which was totally burned up on the 2d of June, has been re-built and is now in full blast. The timber used in the construction of this building was standing to the forest six weeks ago. MORTALITY AMONO U. S. SENATORS.—Oat of tho fifty-nine members of the Senate during the last Congress, no less than five have al ready passed away, viz : Messrs. Clayton, of Delaware; Bell, of New Hampshire; Adams, of Mississippi; Butler, of South Carolina, and Busk of Texas. EF A German Chemist is said to have discovered a means of obtaining crystallized sugar from birch wood. This is doubtless a perfectly practicable result, chemically considered, but, like too many of the "dis coveries" of the day, of bat little if any available good, practically considered. CAt ISricWin, Chllfdhila, onormons wagons, costing $9OO or $lOOO, are built to run between that place and the mines, the iron-work of which is of the best Norway iron, and polished like the frame work of a fire engine. A load "oT 12,000 pounds was recently carried in one of them from Stock ton to Mariposa; another of barley, weigh ing 19,600, was brought into Stockton, and a third, ot goods to the mines, weighing 18,160 pounds. Wk*t Is Tatar, and What Not. "What vulgar 1" said a boarding. school miss, superciliously, the other day,- as an honest farmer and bia daughters took their seats jgetsr her In the dnaviag-room of a watering plate hotel. Yeref tbe t(bo partis*, •he was (oaJly the more vdfear, if lords are to be nsed in their true aignifieation. For the farmer, though plain itr bia attire and speech, wae kindly-hearted, sensible, and a , good ciiiaen, while the fashionable mist was pert, an idler, a posaip, extravagant and fool ish. It was because the former, like tbe great mass of Americans, labored for bis livelihood, and bore about him, in face and dress and manner, the nnmhtakable signs of bis calling, that be was called vulgar. But are things vulgar because they are common! Then are light and air and water vulgar, the trees and mountains, the everlasting ocean. Or if a mtn is vulgar because he ie not a drone, bnt performs well and sturdily his task in life, then the wisest statesmen, and greatest heroes, in common with the bom blest peasant, bave been vulgar. It is a mis nomer to call those who laber vulgar, be cause of thai labor. It is more, it is an in sult to honest tbil. We are left in no difficulty, however, as to the origin of the epithet. It had its birth in a different state of society from our own. It is a relic of a dominant caste. It waS a terms of opprobrium, applied to tbe com mon people, by a race bf insolent, supercili ous and cruel conquerors. If we bad here, as Saxon England had, a small body of victorious soldiers, who had subjugated the inhabitants of the soil, and had parcelled out the lands between themselves, there might, perhaps, be tome appropriateness in the use of the word. The mass bf the peo ple would then be vulgar, in the sense in which the Saxon churl was vulgar in the eyes of his Roman oppressor. What Gurtb was to Ihe Templar, what Cade was to Richard the Second, that the Operative or day-laborer would be to the wealthy and supercilious lord of the soil. Bui no such relations exist between man and man in our Northern Stales. Before the law all are equal. Abstractly, too, he who work.', whether with liand or brain, and so adds to the wealth of the community, is more wor thy than lie who does nothing for the gen eral weal. If all were consumers, and none produrers, society would perish, self-de stroyed; and consequently the producer is really superior to the mere consumer. If either is to be called vulgar, in any appro brious sense of that term, it should he the latter. We may seem to treat this matter too se riously. We may appear to enlarge, over much, on what is self-evident. But it-is one thing to admit, intellectually, that a thing is true, and quilo another to reduce that traism to practice. In spite of its being in contra diction to the whole spirit of our republican institutions, the prejudice against labor, as contrasted with a life of opulent idleness, lingers yet even in the norihern sections of these United States. It is a colonial habit, Imported originally from England, from which society has never entirely emancipa tad ittfeir. men, who worrra no itniimw repudiate in theory such a belief, practically look down upon all who earn their subsist ence by mechanical or manual arts. To be a lawyer, doctor, preacher, office holder, or merchant, is considered genteel, while to be a farmer, an eperative, or a day-laborer, is regarded as vulgar. The blunt yet sincere, manners of the yeoman, by the same vici ous rule, are called vulgar, while Ihe dis simulation of those, who figure in fashion able life is pronounced well-bred. Yet, be fore the impartial tribunal of truth, that is reaHy vulgar which is false and hollow. I* is the frivolous, idle drones of society, not the sturdy and honestly toiling mass, who ought to be considered vulgar; and the soon er the epithet ie thus applied, the more con sistent will be its use, and the better and purer will be the republic.— Ledger. UF The " Combination Saw-Mill," is an ingenious machine of its class, composed of a single frame, the timbers of which are about eighteen inches square, either of oak or other hard wood, securely fastened to gether by strong iron bolts. The framework is described as soven foet long, seven feet deep below the bed pieces, and five feet wide. The main shaft is throe and one-half inches in diameter, and the driving-pulley twenty-two inches in diameter and nine inch face. The pitman wheel is of solid iron, and is threo feet in diameter; the pitman is of iron, four feet long, and is connected with tfio saw by an oscillating cross-head. This arrangement of the slides and cross-head is new, and onables the saw to play up and down with the desired rapjdity, without gra ting and heating. It also secures a uniform bearing on all parte, without regard to the position of the saw. WANTS TO SEE MOKIM HUNO.—A gentle man who occupies a house which overlooks the yard of lbs jail in which MeKim, ibe murderer, is confined, recently received the following singular application from a man who wishes to engage two seats npon the roof, thai be may take bis wife to see the ex ecution. The letter appears in the Holli daysburg Standard, and reads thns: fraoketown jnlie the 29ih 1857 rispected sir afior my risperts to you i wanle to kno ef you ar goin to hire out the rule of your'hous on the day that Mackim fa to be hung, i hear yoe ar so i want to engage 8 notes beforebands for iqe and my wife as she ease thai she never saw a man that was hung and i wants her to be satisfied oncst. pleas let me kno tf i can depend on the setes and how muck they will be apiece, rispectfully yourn till deth. THI MISSOURI Ei.icrftiN.—The St. Louis Leader of last Wednesday says then were seventeen counties yst to be hoard from, which gave Buchanan 2,815 majority, and that if they give Stewart only 1,200 majori ty, he is elected. The Leader does not yet acknowledge the election of Rollins, but says, "the Bentoniles have coalesced with the Know-Nothings to defeat the National Democratic party—lf wo beat them it is a glorious victory, were it by a single vote." What is Life without Enjoyment! I ""4 FAfcttl OF VITAL IMPOSFAMCE. The beautiful semi-transparent envelope in which Nature has enclosed lie wopderful mecheeiam of the human podj, it parties larly sensitive to the subtle influences which for it* lack of, more apecifio term, we call infection and contagion. Many eroptivedis aaaea are communicable by the touch, and salt rheum , one of the moat common cutane oua maladies in thia country, ia generally xoniaainrta Jt ia a painful and disfiguringdiaorder, and ia its obronio form is apt to become hereditary. Bat in whatever shape it may appear, however exaggerated the symptoms, aud whether contracted by accident or derived lroman inherited taint in the blood, it may Le extirpated by tbe appli cation of that peerless external oorative, Hol loway'a Ointment. Science had been grop ing for ages after something that would re store to the diseased akin, it* purity, fresh* new, smoothness and inflexibility, when Professor Holloway introduced ibis inestima ble preparation, and in no superficial disorder have its eflects been more salutary than in Salt Rhenm. We have seen it applied after the Lebanon waters, sulphoi baths, and every prescription In the pharmtcoposa bad been tried without the slightest benefit, and have known a perfect cure accomplished through its agency, in six weeks. Bometimes the disease, after having passed through the ear tier stages of hi watery eruption and a vis clous suppuration, assume a scabious form, and is not unlike certain species of leprosy. In cases of this kind the itching it almost maddening, aad it is generally increased by warmth, the bed of the sufferer ia only a bed of torment. Most physicians pronounce this phase incurable. Holloway has no such word in his vocabulary; and it is when the scourge hat reached the extreme point of virulence, that the ointment achieved its most marvellous triumphs. A reaction at once commenoes. The external vesself recover their tone and vigor, the irritated nerves that torment in the skin arc soothed, the pores resume their heahhfnl functions, and the vir us of the disease is expelled from the exte rior circulation and exhaled from the system. In fact it may be said of Holloway's ointment as Portia said of Mercury, "It droppeth like gentle dew from Heaven upon the place Beneath,*' eradicating by its balmy, yet searching influ ence, every kind of exterior inflammation. We have dwelt more particularly upon ita operations in Salt Rheum, because the com plaint is so general and we are cognizant of the fact here stated. The ointment, and evaporant ordinarily prescribed for it, are at the best mere palliatives, and in many in stances they throw back the external fire up on the vital organization producing serious affection of the lungs or brain. Holloway's Ointment, on the other hand, extinguishes instead of transfers. Like his equally cele brated internal remedy, it has a reputation founded on twenty years uninterrupted suc cess.—Af. F. Sunday Mercury. AN IMMENSE ORGAN.— -The great organ pla ced in the Tower Hail at Liverpool, is oua of sirts of four rows of keys, sixty-three notes; and two oclavoes and a half of pedals, thirty notes. There are 108 stops and 8,000 pipes, varying in length from Ihiity-two feel to three eights of an inch, ten octavoes apart. The grand source of winu is from two immense bellows, each having three feeders, placed in the vault below the.floor.of the hall. These are blown by a steam engine, consisting ol a pair of oscillating cylinders. There are beside twelve other bellows or reservoirs, each giv ing its own appropriate pressure of air to those stops or pipes whiob it supplies. The pneumatic lever ia applied to eaob of ihe manuals distiootly or separately to manual oouplars. To Ihe. pedal organ there is a doub le set of pneumatio levers; but tbe most elab orate use of the power ia found in its applica tion to the combination of stops—.it being exhibited in a compound form to each organ individually, to and tbe whole colleotively, where by one operation the player is enabled to produce a combination of stops upon tbe entire instrument et once. An Active "Business Plate." —At the city of Keokuk, lowa, since the commencement of the present season, 8,000,000 feet of lumber, 2,000,000 shingles, and 4,000,000 laths have been used. The calculations are that the cownmption will reach 25,000,000 feet of lumber, 20,000,000 of shingles and 20,000,- 000 of laths. The business, so far (his sea son, has doobled that of latl. Thirteen hun dred carpenters and constant employment in tbe carpeuter shops of tbe oily ; biick kilns keep a hive of nine hundred men as busy as bees, and there are 30 brick-kilns, which have already manufactured apd sold 6,000.- 000 bricks. Tbe amount will reach 60,000,- 000 fot the season, all of wbich will be used. THUNMR WITHOUT CLOUDS. —We notice several instances of this unusual phenome na in our exchanges this season. At Spring field, Mass., on the 11th, a startling clap was heard, at a time when the sky waa clear and there was no appearance of rain. A house waa struck by lightning but nd person injured. A ball of fire was seen to burst over an elm. The forked flame played among the branches, and girdled the tree in a cork-screw fashion. The satne shock threw two men off their feet, Wifhorn sorions injury to their persans. 17 A farmer in Illinois who had a quan tity of Chinese Sugar Cane in hit field last year, was surprised this] summer, to see an other crop growing although he had planted none. It must have come from the seed which fell from the stock last fall. ET Fligbqtb f-prd'U, ■ young woman re siding at Wataga, Knox County, Illinoi*, had two pins in bar mouth, and suddenly sneez ing, swallowed both; one wax extracted by opening Ike windpipe, and tbe other entered her lungs and caused her deeth. TIMIILE HAIL STOHM. —The Front Royal, Va., Gattette says the upper end of that county, and the lovter end of Paga county, were Waited by a destructive hail worm on the 224 till. The lose is estimated at from 815,000 to 820,000. WniTK TEF.TH, PEKFCURO BREATH AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION— can be ac quired by using llie "Balm of a Thousand Flowers." What lady or gentleman would remain under the rtfree of a disagreeable breath, whon by n-inir 'he 'Jlutm of a Thou sand Ptou>ers" as a d riirifice, would not only render it sweet, but leave the teeth aa white aa alabaster? Many persona do not know their breath Is bad,'and the snhj-ot is so deli cate their friends will never mention it. Be ware of counterfeits. Be sure each bottle ia signed FBTRIDGE & CO., N. Y. For sale by all Druggists. Feb. 18, 1807-flm. THE REV. C. S. BUBNETI, while laboring as a Missionary in Southern Asia, discovered a simple and certain Cure lor Conrnmption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, Nervous Debility, and all imparities or the blood; also, an easy and effectual mode of Inhaling the remedy. Actuated by a desire to benefit bis suffering fellows, be will cheerfully.eeod tbe Recipe (free) to snoh as desire it, with full and explicit directions for preparing and suc cessfully nsing the Medicine.' Address Rev. C. S. BURNETT, 831 Broadway, New York City. In Bloomsbnrg, on last Thursday morning, by Rev. D. J. Waller, Dr. JOHN S. REDFIELD, of Janesville. I.nzerne Co., to Miaa MADIA H. BARK LEY, of Bloomsbnrg. In Benton, on the 6th inst., by F.ld. E. M. Alden, Mr. ISAAC HAGEKBUCH, and Miss HAN NAH KLINE, both of Light Street. On the 11th inst., by Rev.Geo. Warren, Mr. JACOB SHOEMAKER, of Madison township, to Miss MART VANHORN, of Hemlock twp., Col. connty. At Newberry, June 10th, by Rev. P. W. Mel'tck, Mr. NICHOLAS FUNSTOH, and Miss LIZZIE RAMSEY, both of Newberry, Lycoming county. In Bloomsbnrg,on the 3d inst., JOHN LEWIS son of Joseph L. and Anna M. Shannon, aged 18 months and 21 days. In this town on last Monday morning, of consumption, Miss REBECCA WASDIN of Phil adelphia, aged about 24 years. Adrainietralor's Notice. NGTICF. is hereby given that letters of ad ministration upon the estate ol John Welliver late of Madison township, Colombia county, deceased, have been granted to the under signed residing also in the said township of Madison. All persons indebted to tbe estate are requested to make payment without de lay, and those having accounts for settlement to present them to JOHN A. FUNSTON, Administrator. Jeraeytown, Aug. 14, 1857. List of Letters* O EMAI.NING in the Post Office at Bloonas * •'burg, Pa., for the Quarter ending August 16th, 1857. Brommer Adam Mcßride M Bridge George Pheolin Michael Heddow Wm Paitride John A Bacon Septimus Smith John Cornell Rebecca Souder Wm F Davis Isaac Shaffer Frederick Essex Balser Shultz E P Freeland J C Tumblinson P B Grammes Jonathan Wilson S L HiIIESM Simon Haher John Worthitiglon Wm Klink A C Wax Caspsr King George M 2 Wertman Henry Long George J Richard Griffith 1 M Lervis H Morgan Price > S". Lumbar J Frank M.llsr Bernard ) V Persons calling for the above letters will please say (bey are advertised. P. UNANGST, P. M. August 17, 1857. ! TUE STO AM) $l5 SINGLE & DOUBLE THRESHED EMPIRE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE: AN Agency for the sale ol these Machines i for this and the adjoining counties can be secured on liberal terms by a personal appli | cation to the subscribers, 6th and Arch Sts., Philadelphia. No one need apply without capital sufficient to conduct the business properly, and without references as to relia bility and capacity. We positively assert lhat these Machines, for all purposes of FAMILY SEW IN Q, are in every respect superior to any Sewing Machine tn market, (no matter at what prices they are held at) and will wherever offered for sale command a ready aud un limited demand. JOHNSON & GOOBELL. Philadelphia, Aug. 14, 1857.-I*. CANDIDATES. PETEK ENT, Scott township, will be a candidate for ASSEMBLY before the Democratic coun ty convention this fall, and will abide by its decision. JACOB EYERLY, OF Bloom township, will be a candidate for PROTHONOTARY before the Dam ocratic county convention this fall. A. W. KLINE, ESQ., OF Orange lownsbio, will be a candidate for PROTHONOTARY before the Dem ocrat ie county convention this fall and will abide by its ueoision. DANIEL LEE, OF Bloom township, wjll be n candidate for REGISTER AND RECORDER be fore the Democrat* county convention thia fall. WILLIAM T. SHUMAN, Esq., OF Maino township, will be s can didate for COUNTY TREASURER be fore the Democrat* County Convention tbi* fall. JAMES S. McNINCH, OF Catawissa township, will be a candidate for COUNTY TREASURER belore the Democratic county convention this fall, and will abide hy its decision. WILLIAM COLE, OF Benton township, will be a candidate for COUNTY TREASURER before the Democratic county uonvantinn this fall. ELI AS MIETEftfCK, OF Montour township, wHI ba a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER before Ihe Democratic county convention this fsll. JOHN KIEFER, OF Catawissa township, will be a candi date for COUNTY TREASURER before the Democratic County Convection Ibis fall, and will abide by it* decision. ffAMIJEL KIBNER, EBQ>, |~|F Madiaon township, will be a candidate for County Commissioner before tbe Democratic comity conventipn this fsll. BENJAMIN WINTKKSTEEN, OF Pine township, will be a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER before the Democratic County Convention this fall. JOHN A. FUNSTON, OF Madison lownship, wiil b a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER before the Democratic County Convention this (all, 1 and will abide by its decision.
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