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.