STAR OF THE NORTH R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. 11 loom*bar?, WetlacMlaf, August 10, 1857. Democratic Nomination)*. FOR QOVERNOR. WILLIAM F. PACKER, of Lycoming County. FOR JUDGES OF THK SUPREME COURT, WILLIAM STRONG, Of Berks County. JAMES THOMPSON, Of Erie County. FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER, NIMKOl) STRICKLAND, of Chester County. NEXT RIONIMV A WEEK The County Convention is to be held in Ibis 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 funess of men for the place they seek ; and this fitness ought to include every element of character. In this country (or more espe cially in the Northern Stales) men seem to act a little too much as if statesmanship and a knowledge of political economy came by instinct or intuition. In the Southern Slates (herd may not be so much general infoima lion, but only the very best men are kept in places of public trust, and a man must I ave unquestionable capacity before he enn aspire to honors. The campaign this fall will be an important one, as a Congressman, Senator andjtwo Representatives are to be elected; and for the success of the whole ticket every part of it ought to be strong, and each of the counties in our clumsy district must exhibit a spirit of ha-mony and union. Our county has a character for steadfast and soßnd po litical faith for which wo may well be proud, and nothing but foolish divisions in our paity ran defeat any one of the nominations. True we have a few men still seeking office who did the dirty work for the Know Nothings in 1851, and aided the Opposition in defeating Democratic nominations before, but llicy are so few, and mostly so penitent, that we ap prehend no danger to the ticket from 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 comity has been exceedingly, fortu nate in its public officers. It has sought for men of sound common-sense views rather than for dashing or magnificent men, and its affairs have been managed with as much safety, prudence and economy as those ol any sister county. With the exceptions of a single defalcation, by which the public lost nothing, and a few uncorrected errors of the late Treasurer, the whole business has been well done and exhibits a clear and creditable record. • None but soitiejimpcrlinent or ignorant ad venturer who may have been snubbed in some "smart" project of leeching will ever complain. The tax paying citizens of the county have reason to he well pleased ; and while there are many objects (some merito rious) desiring a largerj appropriation of the public money, the toiling yeomen of the county who pay the taxes leel that these are ulready heavy enough, as is evideut from the difficulty of collecting litem. Agricultural Society. The Agricultural Society met at the Court House on last Saturday but us the proceed ings which would make a column wore not handed in until Tuesday morning we can only give an abstract. Wc would otherwise give them in full. E. I'. Lulz 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 outitle (hem wfih their wives and children to attend the coming Fair, and to exhibit articles without the payment of any en trance fee. Elias Hicks and Dr. H. C. Ilower werq. appointed to assist the Presi dent in making out a list of premiums.— The next nnnual Fair is to be held on the 22d and 23d of October RO.vt. The Society is to meet next on Monday evening of Court, September 7th. Caleb Barton, jr., J. W. Hendershot and Conrad Bittenbender arc the Committee to select grounds for holding the Fair. Cy The Governor has not yet sent any di rection to the Sherifl of this county to adver tise in his proclamation for a Congressional election on the second Tuesday ol October. Some persons nre under the impression that the Speaker of the House must first notify the Governor of Mr. Montgomery's death be fore the Executive can know that a vacancy caists. G >v. Pollock may take this view of the case. t3F The editor of the Montour American get* cross because we call his a Know Noth ing paper, and spite out all the Hastiness he can at one effort. Tfiat attempt to get notori ety by abuse looks very much like Know- Notliingism, or perhaps is a cross between a Plug Ugly and a Hydraulic ram. It wont succeed here. %3T We have a beautiful, substantial and cheap specimen of book-binding done in library style by Mr. Charles Siahl of this place. It is equal in every respect to the best wo have had done in Philadelphia, and •och work must iiisuro the workman patron age. MONTOUR COUNTY. —The Democratic Con vention Of Montour county was held on last Mm I .Jay, and instructed for Paul Leidy Esq., as the choice of that county for Congress. Mr. Leidy received the vole of all the townships except three which were for V s . Bestr OT Governor Pollock has appointed Dari us Bollock, of Bradford coanty, President Judge of that District io the place of Jadge Wilmel toetgned sTi/nrinc TUB STATE- The Philadelphia Sunday Dirfalch (an in dependent journal,) under dale of AeguM 2d, makes the following gourd observations upon the late letter of the Democratic Slate Committee to Gen. Packer against adopting the plan of a joint canvass with the Repub lican candidate : ''The Committee say very correctly that it is possible that very good candidates may be chosen who havo not ''the gift of the gab;" and they instance Benjamin Franklin, Simon Snyder and F/aOcis R. Shuuk, as examples of Governors who wie not happy at making public speeches. For the reason, and be cause the Democrats may hereafter desire to nominate somebody not fluent at mass meet ings, they suggest to Mr. Packer to decline the challenge. The Committee are, wc 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 motise reputation for oratorical talent, but who really havo no moro brains, compara tively speaking, than parrots. The effect of adopting the slumping custom of the South would be to give these noisy, frothy, super ficial spouters, an eminence to which they are not justly entitled. Good common sense, administrative ability, information and judg ment, would bo entirely 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. The action of the Democratic State Committee is a wise one. The day has 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 ar.d experience." These are the views of a journal not politi cal, and like those ol the Philadelphia Ledger on our first page to-day, they are doubtless those of intelligent and independent men generally in this State. To show how this ! system of joint stumping operates in some of the Southern States where it has been in troduced , we cut the following extract from the Weekly Stales of June 27ih, a paper pub fished at the city of Washington : "AN KxciTiNo CONTEST. —The political con test in Tennessee, between the candidates | for Governor, is becoming very excited.— At Fayotieville, a lew days ago, General Harris, the democratic candidate, and Col. ilatlon, the American candidate, carr.e into personal collision during a debate on the , political topics of the day. The Nashville I Union, iti referring to the difficulty, stales ' that ''Mr. Hatton, near the close of iiis lust i speech, said: "If one Stale has the inherent | power claimed, then each State in the Union j has. In the exercise of this power, they j could confer the right ol suffrage on free lie- j grocs and aliens. In this way, persons j breathing the spirit of tyrannical govern ments might control our institutions. -This doctrine,'said Mr. Ilatton, '1 pronounce in famous.' '•'At this moment General Harris arose, in a manlier calm and collected, and said: 'Mr. Mutton, do you intend to apply the word in ft mom to me V llation, under considerable excitement, replied: 'General Harris, do you wish, by arising in that manner, to intimi date ni" V 'Certainly not, said General Har ris, 1 do not wish to intimidate you or any other gentleman; but 1 think 1 am entitled to an explanation of the language which you have used.' 'I suppose, IIIPH, it is an expla nation of the language that you want,' said Mr. Halton, in a manner highly excited. '1 say again, that the doctrine is infumous; that it is rank, and smells to Heaven, and that its advocates are' Here General Harris slruok Mr. Halton, and knocked him off the platform amongst the audience in front ol it, following him as he fell. A scuffle en sued, and the parties were separated with out injury." TIIE NEXT HOUSE OF CONGRESS. —The re cent elections Tor Congress give inc lotlowing 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 parlies in the House in full Congress: Democrats, 125; Republicans, 91; Ameri cans, 16; vacancies, 2. The House of Rep resentatives consists of 234 members—llß members constituting a majority. As the case now stands—allowing no change in the four Stales where elections are to be held— the Democrats will have a majority of sixteen in the next House.— Ledger. GREAT DRAIN OF SFECIE. —The shipments of specie from England to India, China, Mal ta and Egypt, for the half year just ended, reached X 8,760, 641, while from the Medi terranean ports, an additional sum ol XI,- 815,399, was sent making an aggregate of X 10,606.040, or over 853,000,000, all of which was silver, except X116,u00. [7" We observe the teams passins our of fice with large boxes marked for " D. Lote tubers." Something new and nice will no doubt come out at his (wo clothing stores. P. S. There is quite a display of new cloths, enssimeres. vestings and jewelry at his establishments of which the public will take due notice if they want cheap bargains. VST The Democratic Convention of Sulli van county last week suggested Blooms burg as the place and Friday the 4th of September as the time for holding the Rep resentative conference. EF* The butcher shop of Messrs. Kip & Rockefeller at Danville was burned down last week. The loss will be some S6OO. tsF The Danville Drmociat says that the Montour Company's Ssore in that place does a yearly business of between 2250,000 and 8300,000. if The Democratic Standard is the title of a new weekly paper just established at Polls ville by H. L. Acker, Esq. It is ne;ly print ed, and ably edited, and looks as if n might command success. The Star Congress* The administration of Jaclcsoi, during its second term particularly, was coiemporary with the most brilliantly intellectual Con gress wc ever'liad. A correspondent of the Lowell Journal, calls attention to the compo sition of the twenty-third Congress which commenced December 2, 1833, and termi nated March 3, ]S3S, and it surprises us by the number of members who havo filled high positrons under our government. Six of litem, J. Q. Adams, Tyler, Polk, Fillmore, Pierc.o, and Buchanan, have occupied the Presidential chair. Five members, Messrs. Calhoun, Johnson, Tyler, Fillmore and King, have been Vice Presidents; and no less than eight members, Messrs. John Q. Adams. Henry Clay, John Forsyih, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, James Buchanan, John M Clayton, and Edward Everett, have filled the office of Secretary of State. Thirty-two members have been Governors of States, and twenty-three members of the House have since served in the Senate. DEATH OF JUDOF. M'CAI.MONT. —We loam from the Venango Spectator that the Hon. Alexander M'Calmont died at his residence in Franklin, on the 10th inst, in the 72d year of his age. He was one of the early settlors 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 connectod with a democratic newspaper, lie subsequently studied law, and soon rose to eminenco at the bar, both as an advocate and counsellor. Receiving the appointment of President Judge of the Courts ol the Clarion District, lie served with distinction on the Bench, and at the close of liis tortn resumed the practice of tho law. Upon the elevation of his son, Hon. J. S. M'Calmont, to the Bench, lie retired from his profession and has confined himself since to the enjoyment ot private life. In all the relations of life ho was highly esteemed, and his loss will be severely felt in the community. A STRONG DENUNCIATION —The colored cit izens of Toronto Canada West, having had a meeting to denounce Col. John Prince, a inomher of the Canadian Parliament, for speaking against them, ho publishes a re ply, in whicji he says: "It has been my misfortune and the ruis fortuno ot my family to live among those blacks, (and they have lived upon us,) for twenty-four years. 1 have employed bun -1 drcds of them, and with the exception of j one, named Richard Hunter, not one has I ever done for us a week's honest labor. 1 have taken thorn into my servico, havo fed and clothed them year after year on their arrival from the States, and in return have generally found thorn rogues and thieves, and a graceless, worthless, thriftless, lying set of vagabonds. This is my very plain and very simple description of the darkies as a body, and it would be endorsed by nil j the western white men, with very few ex ceptions." More Ikon Two Hundred Million Dollars for Education. —At the last monthly meeting of the Connecticut Hisloiical Society, Hon. H. llernard, the President, presented an interest ing paper relating to die amount of donations, bequests, (cc., made for educational, literary and scientific purposes in the United States. The whole amount of land appropriated by the General Government for educational pur poses to the first of January, 1854, was sla ted to be 52,070,221 acres; which at the min imum price of such lands when first brought into market, represented the magnificent sum of Slit), 000,000, but which at this timo, 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 Slate Legislatures. Mr. Bernard read from a table exhibiting the donations and bequests made by citizens of Boston within the 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, a', the lower police court, New York, on Monday, on charge of embezzling from time to time some $20,000 from his Ptnployer. The accused kept fast company nnd fast horses, all off $25 per month and found. Mr. Lamb, the proprietor, wondered much at this, but could not bring himself to believe that his bar-tender was playing him false. At length, he em ployed a 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 S2O was discovered between the nnrnber of drinks sold and the Teceipts ac counted for. Ex-police officer Farley was then sent to watch Adams, and soon ascer tained that he associated with sporting men and fast women, and that fie frequently spent at houses of ill-resort more than his month's salary. Go" British iron is, for all ordinary prac tical purposes, not exceeded by any that is found elsewhere, in the variety of its adap tation. Peroxide of iron—consisting of 56 parts by weight of iron, combined with 24 parts of oxygen—constitutes the mineral called red haematite, of which great quanti ties exist in parts of England. This ore is used there principally for mixing with other ores, hut in Sweden and Russia iron is made from it direct. In France, brown haematite —a hydrated peroxide of iron, a mineral of the same composition as the last described, but containing water—is much used in tha manufacture of iron. But it is the clay iron stone which yields the enormous supply of iron produced in Great 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. The pure carbonate of iron is in clay, iron ore mixed with clay, oxide of manganese,lime and magnesia. ty According to the Miners' Gaselteer, Ashland, in Schuylkill county, has four mil itary companies, two Brass Bands, eight churches, and one beneficial society. j A Vaterpoul inloWer Canada. j Mr. Proulx, parish l'rjest of St. Elizear, in i the county of feeauce. writes to the Journal i de Quebec a vety lively description of a wa terspout, which'burst near the village church on the 18lh of }uly. He says it made its ap pearance half p>*l ten o'clock in the morning of that day, st first in the form of a cloud of the bldekest kind, which was fivo degrees abo*®. tb® church. This <!loud ap peared to bo aheuC Mt aero and a half in ex tent, judged by Sic eye,-and pressed against by other masses of grayish chuds, which rolled in all directions about its Hanks, with a sinister noise like the distant tvurmuY of the sea in a tempest. Shortly lite seemed to be torn in two, and a large column was seen to descend from the opening to te earth like an avalanche precipitated fron a mountain top. Distended above and suck ig the cloud, the column, like an immense a r pent, twisted itself about with frightful a pidity, and balancing itself tn the water Mre •lie tail of a paper kits, rushed to tho ofrlh with a hissing noise resembling the esfape of steam. It plowed up the ground, swept away everything within reach, and pjanks, poles, and ruins of buildings mounted into the air like the rubbish out of a volcano. The house of William Grenier, al the dis tance of a few acres from the church, was twisted, broken, the chimney beaten down, and the roof carried off into the air. A barn belonging to the sarae person, wis beaten down, and the fragments scattered about.— The roof oil the house of Joseph Boulangce, situated in a hollow, and then dashed to atomy. The barn and the stable of Kleazer Boulangee wore destroyed, and ono of the timbers was thrown thirty feet in length, and carried across a ten acre field. A horse belonging to Thomas Quelle! was raised to the height of thirty feet from the ground, and than, after the ascending force had exhausted, fell covered with tniui, leaving 1 a deep impression on the spot which he shuck. Three cows were similarly raised, and were covered with mud when they fell. Two earls were lifted from in front of the de molished house of William Grenier, to a pro digious height, and were carried furiously ! over the neighboring fields into the woods, where they were smashed to atoms. More than one hundred acres of fencing were torn up, together with the pickets, rais ed to the clouds, and after some time scatter ed over the neighboring fields and woods ; a 1 good number falling straight were buried so deep in tho ground that they could not be pulled out by one man. Fields of grain were destroyed as il a heavy harrow had passed and repassed several times. Three sugar bushes were beaten down, anil the trees were broken and interlaced like a field oi grain, which had been beaten down by Itaii. A maple treo of considerable diameter was plucked up on J carried a distance of 5 acres. An enormous cherry tree was burled through the air in the same manner. The Priest adds that lie 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. CiT A yoijng man uamcd Noon wns stab bed and killed by his brother at Ashland, Schuylkill couniy, last week. tP* In Miner svillo last week, a man nam ed Martin Lafferiy was slabbed while sitting in his own house, by an unknown assassin. Pi?" P. S. Miller, Esq., has peen elected President of the Siroudsbnrg Bank, and Jas. H. Siroud, Cashier. The Bank will open for business on the 17th inst. LOOK OUT FOR COUNTKRFKITS!—A number of counterfeit $5 bills on the York Bank, I'enna., are in circulaiion at Harrisburg, and will doubiless soon find their way up here. They are said to be well execuled, and lia ble to deceife even cxperinced judges of Bank paper. SOLD. —Theeslablishment of the Fcnnsyl rania Farm Jaurnt.l has been sold 10 Orange Judd, editor d ilia American Agriculturist, published In* New York. Subscribers to the Journal will be furnished with tho Agricul turist for the term for which they have paid. A CANDID ADMISSION. —The Columbia South | Carolinian refuses to join in the assault upon Gov. Walker, for his Kansas policy. It can didly admi'.ts that tho attempt to make Kan sas a slave Slate is a failure, and for the rea son that Providence has interposed an ob- j jection. The South fighting lor Kansas, was like fighting against the winds of heaven j and the power of the elements. Climate seems to settle the quec.iou belter than the politicians. A Naw COUNTERFEIT. —Spurious s2o's, on the Drovers' Bank of Waynesburgh, Pa., have made their appearance here. The en craving although executed with a considera ble degree of skill, is coarse; and by this, an expert judge can easily detect thein from the genuine note. ENTERPRISE'AND F.NF.RGY. —The Union Fur nace at Connellsville, Fayette county, l*a., which was totally burned up on the 2d of June, has been re-built and is now in full blast. The timber used in Ihe construction , of this building was standing in the lotest six weeks ago. MORTALITY AMONG U. S. SENATORS. —Out of ; the fifiy-nine members of the Senate during : the last Congress, no less than five hare al ! ready passed away, viz : Messrs. Clayton, of I Delaware ; Bell, of New Hampshite ; Adams, | of Mississippi; Buller, of South Carolina, and | Rusk of Texas. CP" A German Chemist is said to have discovered a means of obtaining crystallized sugar from birch wood. This is doubtless a perfectly practicable revult, chemically considered, bht, like too many of the ''dis coveries" of the day, of but little if any available good, frantically considered. ty At Stockton, California, enormous wagons, costing <®oo or Stooo, arc 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 of 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, of goods to the mines, weighing 18,160 pounds. j What Is Vulgar, and What Not. "What vulgar people t" said a boarding school miss, superciliously, the other day, as an honest farmer and his daughters look their seals near her in the drowing-room of a watering-place hotel. Yet of the two parties, she was really the more vnlgsr, if words are to be used in their true signification. For the farmer, though plain in his attire and speech, was kindly-hearted, sensible, and a good citizen, while the fashionable miss was pert, an idler, a possip, extrnvagsnt and-fool ish. It wae because the former, like the great mass of Americans, labored for his livelihood, and bore about him, in face and dress and manner, the unmistakable signs of liis calling, that tie 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 man is vulgar because he is not a drone, but performs well and sturdily his task in life, then tho wisest statesmen, and greatest heroes, in common with the hum blest peasant, have been vulgar. It ia a mis nomer to call those who laber vulgar, be cause of that labor. It is more, it is an in sult to honest toil. 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 the com mon people, by u race of insolent, supercili ous and cruel conquerors. If we had here, as Saxon England had, a small body ol victorious soldiers, who had subjugated the inhabitants of the soil, and had parcelled out the lands between themselves, there might, perhaps, be somo appropriateness in the use of the word. The mass ol the peo ple would then be vulgar, in the sense in which the Saxon chutl was vulgar in lite eyes of his Koman oppressor. What Gurth was to the Templar, what Cade was to Richard the Second, that the operative or day-laborer would be to the wealthy and supercilious lord of tho soil. But no such relations exist between man and man in our Northern Stales. Before the law all are equal. Abstractly, 100, he who works, whether with hand or brain, and so adds to the wealth of the community, is more wor thy than he who does nothing for the gen eral weal. If all wero consumers, and none producers, 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, il should be 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 I true, and quite another to reduce that truism to practice. In spile 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 northern sections of these United Stales. It is a colonial habit, imported origiually from England, from which society has never entirely emancipa ted itself. Men, who would be the first to repudiate in theory such a belief, practically look down upon all who ea'n 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 or those, who figure in fashion able life is pronounced well-bred. Yet, be fore (he impartial tribunal o( truth, that is really vulgar which is false and hollow. 1' is the frivolous, idle drones of society, not 1 the sturdy and honestly toiling mass, who ought lo be considered vulgar; and the soon er Ihe epithet is thus applied, the more con sistent will be its use, and the better and purer will be the republic.— Ledger. ty Tho "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 feet long, seven feet deep below the bed pieces, and five feet wide. The main shaft is threfe 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 three feet in diameter ; tho pitman is of irou, four feet long, and is connocled with the saw by an oscillating cross-head. This arrangement of the slides and cross-head is new, and enables the saw to play up and down with the desired rapidity, without gra ting and heating. It also secures a uniform bearing on all parts, without regard to the position of the saw. WANTS TO SEE MCKIM HUNG.—A gentle man who occupies a house which ovetlooks the yard of the jail in which McKim, the murderer, is confined, recently received the following singular application from a man who wishes to engage two seats upon the roof, that be may take his wife to seethe ex ecution. The letter appears in the Holli daysburg Standard, and reads thus; frauketown jttlie the 29th 1857 rispecled sir aftor my rispects 10 you i wante to kno ef you ar goin to hire out the rufe of your hous on the day that Mackim is to be hung, i hear you ar so i want to engage 2 setes beforebands for me and my wife as she sase that she never saw a man that was hung and i wants tier to be satisfied oncst. pleas let me kno if i can depend on the setes and how much they will tie apiece, rispectfully yourn lilldeih. THK MISSOURI EI.CCTION. —The St. Louis Leader of last Wednesday says there were seventeen counties yet to be heard from, which gave Buchanan 2,815 majority, and that if thoy give Stewart only 1,200 majori ty, he is elected. The Leader does not yet acknowledge the election of Rollins, but says, "the Bentonites have coalesced with the Know-Nothings to defeat the National Democratic party—if we beat them it is a glorious victory, were it by a single vote." What is Life without Bojoy meut I FACTS OF VITAL IMPORTANCE. The beautiful semi-transparent envelope in which Netore has enclosed the wonderful mechanism of the human body, is particu larly sensitive to the subtle influences whioh for the lack of a more speoiflo term, we call infection and contagion. Many eruptive dis eases are communicable by the touch, and salt rheum, one of the most common cutane ous roalttfies in this country, is generally considered contagious. It is a painful antl disfiguring disorder, and in its chronic form is apt to become hereditary. But in whatever shape it may appear, however exaggerated the symptoms, and whether contracted by accident or derived from an inherited taint in the blood, it may be extirpated by the appli cation of that peerless external curative, Hoi loway'a Ointment. Science had been grop ing for ages after something- that would re store to the diseased skill, its purity, fresh ness, smoothness and inflexibility, when Professor Holloway introduced this inestima ble preparation, and in no superficial disorder have its eflects been more salutary than in Salt Rheum. We have seen it applied after the Lebanon waters, sulphur baths, and every prescription in the pbarmacopcea bad been tried without the slightest benefit, and have known a perfect cure accomplished through its agency, in six weeks. Sometimes the disease, after having passed through the ear tier stages of a watery eruption and a vis ciotts suppuration, assume a scabious form, and is not unlike certain species of leprosy. In cases of this kind the itching is almost maddening, aad it is generally increased by warmth, the bed of tho sufferer is only a bed of torment. Most physicians pronounce litis phase incurable. Holloway has no such word in his vocabulary; and it is when the scourge has reached the extreme point of virulence, that the ointment achieved its most marvellous triumphs. A teac'ion at once commences. The external vessels recover their tone and vigor, the irritated nerves that torment in lite skin arc soothed, the pores resume their healthful 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, "Il droppeih like gentle dew from Heaven upon itie place beneath," eradicating by its balmy, ; et searching influ ence, every kind of exterior inflammation. We have dwell more particularly upon its operations in Suit Rheum, because the com plaint is so general and we are cognizant of the fact here staled. The ointment, and evaporant ordinarily prescribed for it, arc 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 lunge or brain. Hnlloway's Ointment, on the other hand, extinguishes instead of transfers. Like his equally cele brated internal remedy, il has a reputation founded on twenty years uninterrupted suc cess.—N. Y. Sunday Mercury. AN IMMCNSE ORGAN.—The great organ pla ced in the Tower Hall at Liverpool, is one of the marvels of musical mechanism, li con sists ol four rows of keya, sixty-three notes; and two octavoes and a half of pedals, thirty notes. There are 10S stops and 8,000 pipes, varying in length from thirty-two feet to three eights of an inch, ten octavoes apart. The grand sourco of wind is from two immense bellows, each having three feeders, placed in the vault below the floor of the hall. These are blowu 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 which it supplies. The pneumatic lever is applied to each of the manuals distinctly or separately to manual couplers. To (he pedal organ there is a doub le set of pneumatic levers ; but the most elab orate use of the power is found in its applica tion to the combination of stops —it beir.g exhibited in a compound form to each organ individually, to and the whole collectively, where by one operation the player is enabled to produce a combination of stops upor. the eutire instrument at once. Au Active "Business Flace." —At the city of Keokuk, IOWA, 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 thst the consumption will reach 25,000,000 feet of lumber, 20,000,000 of shingles and 20,000,- 000 of laths. The business, so far this sea son, has doubled that of last. Thirteen hun dred carpenters and constant employment in the carpenter shops of lbs city ; brick kilns keep a hive of nine hundred men as busy as bees, and there are 30 brick-kilns, which have already manufactured and sold 6,000.- 000 bricks. The amount will reach 60,000,- 000 for the season, all of which wilt be used. THUNTSR 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 was clear and there was no appearance of rain. A house was struck by lightning but no 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 same shock threw two men off their feet, without serious injury to their nersans. t3T A farmer in Illinois who had a quan tity of Chinese Sugar Cane in his 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. Iter* Elizabeth Cordell, a young woman re siding at Wataga, Knox County, lllinoi*, had two pina in her mouth, and suddenly sneez ing, swallowed both; one was extracted by opening the windpipe, and the other entered ber lungs and caused her death. THIMBLE HAIL STORM. —The Front Royal, | Va., Gazette says the upper end of that county, and the lower end of Pago county, were visited by a destructive hail storm the 224 ult. The loss is estimated at lrom , 515,000 to $20,000. "f, H" ■!!■ It' 1 1'■■ WniTR 'r*KTH, PsilFßilE# RRKATH AND BEAOTIFWI. COMIMLKXION—CAN be ac quired by usiuig Ilia 'Bnlm of a Thousand Flowers." Wbai laity or gentleman would remain under the ctitse of a disagreeable breath, when by Using "he ' Halm of a Thou sand Flowers" a* a d wrifice, would not only render ii sweet, but leave the teeth as white ns alabaster ! Many persons do not know their breath is bad, and the subject is so deli* cate their friends will never mention it. Be* ware of counterfeits. Be sure each bottle Is signed FKTRIDGK & CO., N. Y. For sale by all Druggists. Feb. 18, 1867-6ra. THE REV. C. S. BURNETT, while laboring as a Missionary in Southern Asia, discovered a simple and certain Cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bronchitis, Coughs, Colds, Nervous Debility, and all impurities of the blood; also, an easy and effectual mode of Inhaling the remedy. Actuated by a desire to benefit his suffering fellows, he will cheerfully send the Recipe (free} tosuoh as desire it, with foil and explicit directions for preparing and suc cessfully nsing the Medicine. Address Rev. C. S. BURN ETT, 831 Broadway, New York City. £2SA.AAIASAI& A In Blonmsburg, on last Thursday morning, by Rev. D. J. Waller, Dr. JOHN S. REDFUI.O, of Janesville, Luzerne Co., to Miss MARIA H. BARKLEY, of Bloomsburg. In Benton, on the 6th inst., by F.ld. E M. Alden, Mr. ISAAC HACENBUCH, nttd Miss HAN NAH KI.INE, both of Light Street. On the llth inst., by Rev. Geo. Warren, Mr. JACOB SHOEMAKER, of Madison township, to Miss MARY VANHORN, of Hemlock twp., Col. county. t At Newberry, June 10'h, by Rev. P. W. Melick, Mr. NICHOLAS FUNSTON, and Miss LIZZIE RAMSEY, both of Newberry, Lycoming county. S&AIAJIH," In Bloomsburg,on the 3d inst., JOHN LEWIS son of Joseph L. anil Anna M. Shannon, aged IS months and 21 days. Fit this town or, last Monday morning, of consumption, Miss REBECCA WARWN of Phil adelphia, aged about 24 years. Administrator's Notice. NOTICE is hereby given that letters of ad j ministration upon the estate ol John Welliver j late of Madison township, Columbia county, I deceased, have been granted to the under-'' l signed residing also in the said township of Madison. All persons indebted to the estate are requested to make payment without do lay, and those having accounts for settlement to present them to JOHN A. FUNSTON, Administrator. - Jerseytown, Aug. 14, 18b7. List or Letters REMAINING IN THE FOSTOFFICO AT Bioom*- btirg, Pa., for the Quarter ending August 16th, 1857. Brommer Adam Mcßride RI Bridge George Pheolin Michael Keddow IVm Paitride John A Bacon Septimus Smith John Cornell Rebecca Souder W m F Davis Isaac Shaffer Frederick Essex Balser Shultz E P Kreelnnd J C Tombiinson P B Grammes Jonathan Wilson Sl. Hill E SRI Webber Simon Hulier John Worthington Win Klink A C Wax Casper King George M 2 Wertman Henry Long George J Richard Griffith ) I.ervis H Morgan Price I 2*. I.umbard Frank Millet Bernard ) ? Persons calling for the above letters will please say they are advertised. P. UNANGST, P. M. August 17, 1857. TUE STOAKD sls SINGLE & DOUBLE THREADED EMPIRE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE: AN Agency for the sale ol these Machines for this and the adjoining counties can be secured on liberal terms by a personal appli cation to the subscribers, tilh 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 possitively assert that these Machines, for all purposes of FAMILY SEWING, are in every respect superior to any Sewing Machine in market, (no matter at WIIBI prices they are held at) and will wherever offered for sale command a ready and un limited demand. JOHNSON & GOOBELL. Philadelphia, Aug. 14, J857.-lm. CANDIDATES. PETER EKT, OF Scott township, will be a candidate for ASSEMBLY belore the Democratic coun ty convention this fall, and will abide by its decision. JACOB EYERLY, OF Bloom township, will be a candidate for I'ROTHONOTARY before the Dem ocratic county convention this fall. A. W. KLINE, ESQ., OF Orange township, will be a candidate for I'ROTHONOf AUY before the Dem ocratic county convention this fall and will abide by its decision. DANIEL LEE, OF Bloom township, will be a candidate for REGISTER AND RECORDER be fore the Democratic county convention this faff WILLIAM T. SIKIIHAN, Esq., OF Maine township, will be a can didate for COUNTY TREASURER be fore the Democralio County Convention line fall. JAMES S. McNINCII, OF Catawissa township, will bo a candidate lor COUNTY TREASURER belore the Democratic county convention this fall, and will abide by its decision. WILLIAM COLE, OF Benton township, will be a candidate for COUNTY TREASURER before the Democratic coun>y convention this fall. ELI AS DIETERICK, OF Montour township, will be a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER before the Democratic county convention this fall. JOHN KIEFER, OF Calawissa township, will be a candi date for COUNTY TREASURER before the Democratic County Convection tbia fall, and will abide by its decision._ SAMUEL KISNER, ESQ., OF Madison township, will be a candidate lor County Commissioner before the Democratic county convontion this fall. BENJAMIN WTINTLHSTEEN, township, will be a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER before (be Democratic County Convention ihis fall. JOHNATFINSTON, OF Madison township, wiil be a candidate for COUNTY COMMISSIONER before I the Democratic County Convention this fall, ' and will abide by it* detitiuu.
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