STAR OF THE .VOKTH.
R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR.
Hlnoniftbnrgj UKept. IG, 1857*
Democratic Nomination*.
-TnTiTirrCTicKxtir
run SVDHES or THE SUPREME COURT,
WILLIAM ST It ONG,
JAMES THOMPSON,
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
MM ROD STRICKLAND,
DISTRICT AND COUNTY TICKET.
CONOR E"S,
JOHN M'REYNOLDS,
Su> jret to the decision of the Congressional Con
ference.
ASSEMBLY,
PETER ENT,
JOHN V. SMITH.
PROTHONOTARY,
JACOB ETE KL Y, )
REGISTER AMI RECORDER,
DANIEL LEE,
COMMISSIONER,
ELI A S DI ETE RIC K ,
TREASURER,
JAMES S. McNINIU,
At 1)1 I'll It,
jom iv it. r o nn.
The Opposition Ticket.
On last Thursday all the elements of op- |
position to Democracy met in the Court
House in this place lo form a district and
county ticket. The following gentlemen
were appointed conferoes:
Congressional Conferees—S. E. Walton,
Jacob Melick.
Senatorial Conferees—Thos. E. Eves, J. P.
Tajjgarl.
Representative Conferees—Benj P. Port
lier, Andrew Madison.
There were no instructions for any candi
dates, though a motion was made to instruct
for Dr. George W. Lott for Congress. It was
voted down l>y a vote of three to seven, as
we are told, for we were not there. This
-was unkind to the Doctor, but probably arose
from the fact that he lias occasionally voted
the Democratic ticket, and so far as wo can
learn, would not go into tho foolish Know
Nothing organization. Tho time fora meet
ing of tlw conferences was fixed for the 20th
September, which will be next Sunday.—
This mu3t be a Hindoo performance. The
following persons were nominated as a coun
ty ticket, by an indiscriminate vote of any
person who chanced to bo present, for there
was no pretence that the voters represented
the sentiment of the people.
Prothonotary—B. F. Hartman.
Register and Recorder—S 11. Bowman.
Commissioner —Elisha 11 ay man.
Treasurer —S. B. Dienier.
Auditor--Gilbert 11. Fowler.
Some, and perhaps all, of these men would j
make competent officers, but as much can :
be said of the Democratic nominees. Though J
one of tho Democratic nominees may have |
bc6n misled into the camp ol the political
enemy on several occasions, his opponent, like j
nil the above ticket, is a Ifc long opponent j
of Democracy. So nothing is to be made by J
any Democrat supporting a single nominee ,
of the Opposition, and the line ol principle •
is tho only safe one.
The lteiictlon
Every body went into business beyond his I
means, and the result is a general explosion j
in the money market. Banks break by Ihc .
score, and merchants and manufacturers are ]
involved in the general crash. Iron manu- |
facturers sold rails to Railroad Companies al j
double profits, but for slock as pay. The
market is now gluited with such stocks; and j
the manufacture's have no money, while, the j
Rrttroad Company has a waUH debt hum- ,
ing over it, for die h : gh prices it paid for ev- j
ery thing lit stock. *i
Prices of all things went up to an unnatural
pouil, because credit was cheep. The ex pan- ■
eion benefited no persons except a lew shrewd J
epeculators, but the depression will squeeze
many a man to tuiti. The banks now refuse ,
lo discount, and the heads of the commercial |
interest have their paper protested. This is >
all the necessary and natural result ol a dc- j
patture from sound principles, and the 100 j
free use of credit. The lesson is an old one,
au impressive one; but in many cases a dear- ■
bought one.
The New York Posf says: "Tho amount j
of floating railroad debt piled on the city ol
New York is siaied, we know not on what j
authority, to be quiieas much as twenty-four ;
millions of dollars. This is niody at enor- j
raous rates of interest —from two to four per,
cent, a month. There is, ns there ought lo
be, a preity thorough collapse in railroad
stocks ot lite speculative class, including j
some that have hereiofore paid rego'ar divi- '
dends. The probability is, that many ol them :
will disappear entirely from die market fn j
the course of a law monihs. The bsokbone
of our stock exchange is growing weaker
every day, and when it can no longer carry
its inflations by duping outside capitalists,!
many will fall never 10 rise again. '
">Ve are lold, on good authority, that the
Reading Railroad Company is now paying
four per cent, a month on a considerable pro
portion, if not all of its floating debt. Tried
by the standard of moral rectitude, this is no
better than (read. Many other companies are
in in equally bad or worse condition."
A Sew )Vny to Sell Books.
A fashion has slatted in the cities, which,
though perhaps more honored in the breach
than the observance, sometimes betides hick
to some fellow. It is to sell books at ilio
publishers' price and give the purchaser a
chance to draw some gilt worth front 25 cts.
teSKR>. Aa tho book® ai* offered at trade
sales, the vendors can afford to distribute
gifts with them, and really Jo so. They are
not such irresponsible vagrants as origina
ted tbe gift concert humbug. Recently we
published an advertisement fot A. Ramiey
-of New York, for which we ordered a copy
of Dante as pay, thinking nothing about the
gift. The book caine, and alter reading
eonoeighty pages in it, there fell out from
the leaves \bree fine gold shirt studs worth
advertisement of Duane Rulison,Phil
adelphia, is for an enterprise of the same
sort
Court Proceeding*.
In the cases of Adam Stroup, Jr., for use vs.
Rupert StKoons for several instalments on an
ore lease, tne defence alleged ibat the plain
tiff had rescinded the agreement immediate
ly altar making it by his other lessees tres
passing on tl e premises leased to the defend
ants, and taking out some ore. But it did not
appear clearly whether this trespass was be
fore or alter the lease here in suit, nor that
Stroup knew of it. There was no wilful in
terference in bad faith, and the defendants
did not complain of it until suit brought. The
verdicts were for the plainti/f in one suit for
$387 Id, in the other for $ 199 06.
On motion of Mr. Kuckalew, Ctnttuts M.
BLAKER, Kq., was sworn and admitted to
practice as an attorney in iho several courts
o! this coun<y. pt e had previously boen ad
mitted in the Supreme Court for the State of
Illinois, and was admitted on the principle of
reciprocity.
The case of Com. vs John Mason for for.
and bns. was settled by the parties.
The Grand Jury returned the following in
dictments in addition to those wo noticed last
week:
Com. vs. Samuel Kostenborder: for selling
liquor on Sunda). Not a true bill—county to
pay the costs.
Com. vs. Henry Fuus and John Coiner: (or
not repairing roads, a true bill.
Com. vs. Hendrick V. YV. Vanacker: for
selling liquor without license, a true bill.
The case of Ckdutir* r
Weaver was next tried. It was an acltoti for
a breach of promise of marriago, and though
it was not proved in express words, the evi
dence clearly proved by all the facts in the
case that a promise existed. The defendant
hadconrted the plamtifl for some eighteen
months, and letters were given in evidence
which indicated the most tender relations,
consistent only with a premise of marriage.
It was, however, proved it: defence that Miss |
Tanner, after the alleged promise of marriage,
denied (hat it existed. Other witnesses tes
tified that after the suit was brought the de
fendant said she would not have suod Wea
ver except to spite Mrs. Uomley, his mother.
This was what the defendant's counsel relied
on, but in the opinion of the conn and jury
it did not excuse his conduct, and the plain
tiff obtained a verdict of SSOO, which was all
she claimed. The parlies live in Madison
township. Loidy and Cotnly for plaiutiff,
Clark and Freeze for defendant.
The following add it iottul indictments were
returned :
Com. vs. Mary Sullivan : for selling liquor
wilhout license, a true bill.*
Com. vs. Isaac Leidy and Elisha Hartman:
for not opening a road, a irue bill.
Coin. vs. John V. Cresswell, Daniel Dull,
and James Dull: for nuisance, a true bill.
Com. vs. John Lew is and George Dills,
for not repairing roads, a true bill.
Same vs. Same: for not repairing road, a
irue bill.
The case of Adam Gable vs. the Adminis
trator of Knglo Fox was next tried. It was
a claim of over MOO for boarding and attend
ing Engle Pox in his last illness. It was prov
ed that for soir.o six or eight weeks before
his death Fox required very much attention
and careful nursing, for which Mr. Gable
claimed $25 per week. For boarding ho
claimed $3 a week, while the Administrator
proved that there was a contract by which
Mr. Gable was to board Fox, while well, for
Si per week. The jury rendered a verdict
for the plaintiff for sll7 71.
Jonathan Moste'der vs. Stephen Bahly was
a daim of some $l5O for building a stable,
an J oilier work. The evidence as to the sta
ble made out that part of tho case, but the
plaintiff (ailed to prove that IDldy agreed to
pay for a:iy of the other work, or ordered it
to be done, So dial pail fell. Verdict for
plain tiff for $77 50. Clark and Freeze for
plaintiff; Haldy for defendant.
The case ol James Ralston vs. the admin
istrator of James Ralston, Jr, was noxt tried.
Claim lot buatding defendant in his last ill
ness. VerdteV for defendant.
The following is the report of the Grand
Jury as presented on Wednesday:
To the Honorable the Judges if the Court of
Quarter Sessions cf the Peace in and for tlic
County oj Columbia:
The Grand ltiquesi of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, inquiring lor the body ot the
Count) ol Columbia, respectfully REPORT:
That they have examined die public build
ings belonging to die said county ami lind
them in good condition, the jail particularly
being mat and clean. We would respectfully
recommend the Commissioners of the county
to appropriate $l5O of tho Conwy funcis for
the purchase of a Clock to be put in the Bel
fry or Steeple ol the Court House provided
die citizens of Blosmsburg satisly them that
they will pay die balance of said purchase
money of said Clock. We would also rec
ommend thai the Supervisor: of O-ango town
ship be notified as soon as can be. lo open
and make a read which is already laid out,
leading from Matthew M'Dowell's Fnrnanee
around the hill to Stony Brook. Allot which
is tespeci.'ully submitted this hth day of Sep
tember. A- D 1857.
CHARLES KAHLER, Foreman.
The indictments were mosily found on the
return of constables ; and, tha defendants not
being ready for trial, were continued lo the
next term.
ty Ttia extensive Iron Manufacturing
Firm of Col well fc Co. have suspended.—
They own the furnaces and iron foundries at
Conshohocken. In the department of Iron
pip# for waier and g3fs purposss, they have
no superiors in the United States. But a few
years ago ibev furnished a lot of new pipe
for the city of Boston, some of the pipe be
ing thiny six inches in diameter. And they
were, we have understood, lo supply the city
of Brooklyn. Their difficulties were occa-
sioned, it is said, by too liberal investments
in railroad enterprises.
New Vathst. —Mr. Hiram F. Everiit, ol
Benton, in ibis county has lately obtained a
patent for an improved washing machine
which we have heard well spoken of by
those who have tried it.
I3T The Sapreme Court has recently de
cided that money due from solvent debtors
is not taxable for borough purposes.
ty James A. Fitzsimraons, of Fottsville,
was robbed of jewelry, kc., to the amount of
Si,ooo, • few days since by his SOD, w ho has
been arrested.
Columbia County Democratic Meeting.
The Democrats of Columbia county, in
attendance at Court, on Monday evening
last, met in the Court House, and organized
by the appointment of the following-officers:
Hon. PETEH KLINB, President.
A. Young, John Doak, Wm. Howell, Jones
j Fahringer, C. F. IHaun, Geo. Mack, L. B.
I Rupert, Johnlßobison, Thos. J. Vanderslice,
! mid Jacob Evans, Vice Presidents.
L. L. Tele, R. W. Weaver and L. F. Irwin,
Secretaries.
The meeting being duly organized, on
motion, Col. John G. Freeze, was called up
on, and in response, made one of his thril
ling, argutnentive and spicy democratic
speeches. - ,
On motion I,. Tato, the following
Resolutions were introduced, and unauif
rnously adopted:
Resolved, That the course of the present
national administration meets with our ap
proval, and that the Democratic State nomi
nations being in all respect worthy and fit to
be made, will receivo our earnest support.
Jlcsclvcd, That our local nominations will
also receive our cordial support and we re-
them throughout to the people j
for their endorsement.
Resolved, That the conduct and votes of
our Senator and Representative at the last
session ol the Legislature, were such as to
deserve our confidence, especially their voteß
auainM jacklasb leilialaliOll uud lluiir eunM
of regular nominations.
Resolved, Thai we are confirmed in our
devotion to Democratic principles and policy
when see the inconsistent and reckless
conduct of opposing parties, and will give
increased exertions (or the future lo sustain
''the good old cause" of equal rights and
good government inaugurated by Thomas
Jefferson the founder of our parly.
Resolved, That the Democratic parly of
Columbia Comity, hereafter hold an Annual
Meeting in the Court House, ou the Monday
evening ol the September Court.
(Vriunibiu County Agricultural Society.
This Society met on Monday the 7th of
September, in the Court House at 1 o'clock,
I*. M. Dr. i'. John in the Chair. The Sec
retary read the minutes of the last meeting
which wero adopted.
Tho next business in ordor being the elec
tion of new members, a number tame for
ward and paid the annual fee, and received
certificates of membership. The President
distributed among the different Vico Presi
dents pieseul, the certificates ordered at the
last meeting, authorizing them lo solicit
membership, receipt for fees, &o.
The Committee lo select grounds for tho
Annual Fair, reported that lliey had selected
a very suitable lot, of Major W'm. Sloan,
lying between this place and Port Noble, j
which was accepted.
On motion of Dr. J. P. Taggart it was j
Resolved, That all persons entering articles )
for premiums at the coming Fair, be required
to enter thorn on the first day.
On motion tho following named gentlemen
were appointed a Committee of Arrange
ments to prepare the ground and make the t
necessary arrangements for the accommo
dation of the Fair, to wit:
A. C. Mensch, Peter Billmyer,
John Leacock, H. S. Cary,
1. \V. Boone, J. M. Barton,
A. J. Sloan, Caleb Barton, jr.,
E. Mendenhall, EliasHicks,
J. I'. Taggart, I. \V. Hartman,
M. C. Sloan, N. S. Prentiss,
Jacob Dielil, G. H. Brown,
T. J. Thornton, Thomas Dollman,
VYm. N'oai, C. Bitteubeuder.
On motion the Corresponding Secretary,
W. Wirt, was authorized to correspond with
and make efforts to secure some distinguish
ed patron of agriculture to deliver ail agri
cultural address al the coming Fair.
The hour of Court approaching, the Soci
ety adjourned.
CST" VVrxieatet to have to rpitioune.n tho
suspension of the firms of Reeves, Buck &
Co., and Reeves, Abbott & Co., manufactu
rers of railroad iron, which look place yes
terday, in consequence of inability lo
realize the necessary means to aioet their en
gagements. suspended payment ,
three years ago, and obtained an extension
from their creditors upon a favorable exhibit
of thcir.assots, every dollar of which, princi
pal and interest, as we arc assured, was paid
promptly at maturity. They were in a fair
way to recover themselves, and to continue
in operation their extensive works, which
employ over two thousand workmen, when
tho panic in railroad securities, and the con
vulsion in the money market, cut short their
orders for rails, upon the sales of which they
relied for means to meet their rurrent en
gagements. They are represented to have
made large profits in the last two years, and
we are assured havo raw materials enough,
when worked into shape, to pay all their in
debtedness, and real estate in addition, at a
fair valuation, for double the amount, all of
which can be made available upon the return
of confidence, and a renewal of the demand
lor railroad iron. FinJing it impossible in j
the present condition of things to procure i
funds to pay their notes, even at enormous
sacrifices which they have made, they have
been compelled to suspend for the present.— i
It is to be hoped that this suspension may be
only temporary, and that the extensive works
operated by these firms, so important to the
general comiuuuhy, may continue in opera
uou.-Ledger.
Double Tragedy.
CatUon, Bradford County, Pa. Sept. 12.
: W. 11. Greeman Esq., a lawyer of this State
[ committed suicide to day, by cutting his
1 throat, while laboring under a fit of delirium
| tremens. Mr. Spaulding, the proprietor of
the Canton Hotel, fell in a fit on seeing Mr.
j Greenman's corpse, and died immediately,
i There is the greatest excitement prevailing
j here, as the parties were widely known and
; respected.
Ran of with a Circus — Two young girls of
Harrisburg eloped with some of the men
connected with Eldred'e circus on Monday
last, and have not since been heard ftom, to
the great distress of their parents.
"jbe SI nine Law a Failure.
Everywhere, the experiment of the Maine
Liquor Law fas proved a failure, and those
who its most zealous advocates
are confessinf 'heir mistake, and repudiating
the idea of cohpulsory abstinence upon which
it was based, as a cure for lite evils of in
temperance. The latest instance of a con
fession of tbs kind, has just come under our
notice, in a Utter from Hon. Henry Wilson,
one of ihe foiled Slates Senators from Mas
sachusetts, le John B. Gough, the great tem
perance ofator; who, we believe, has himself
publicly proclaimed bis loss of faith in the
Maine Law. An extract from Ihe letter has
been heretofore printed, but it was not until
within the last few days that it appeared en
tiro ;
"NAVICS,'MASR., June 20, 1857.
"Dear Sir : —ln response to your inquiries,
I have to say that the Maine Law in Massa
chusetts has not met the expectations ol its
Itiends. 1 advocated and voted for the law
in the Legislature, and I have supported it
before the people, aud I intend to continue to
do so. But the law has accomplished fat
less than its friends expected when they pass
ed it. In the first place tho law tins not been
fairly tested, owing to the embarrassments
thrown in its way by the courts and juries.
They may be correclod in process of time.
At any ralo, I hope so. Another cause of
failure is lhn| its friends depended 100 much
linn iW* ' ii m i-' 1 -
lion. Work that ought to have been done
has been neglected, because the friends of
ihe cause have placed too much reliance up
on ihe force of law. 1 think they begin to
seo this, and am confident that they will
hereafter not only sustain and force the law,
but u[ftiold it by appeals to the moral senti
ments of the people. My idea is that we
want laws—such laws as can bo enforced,
and that appeals should be continually made
to the heart, conscience and reason of the
people, to abandon the use of what the law
proscribes. Yours truly,
"HENRY WILSON."
a
Admirably Muted.
The following description of the kind of
men who made the Kansas trouble, is as good
as we hare seen anywhere. The idea is not
at all new, for it has been constantly repeated
by tho Democratic press, but never in clear
er or more marked language. And yet this
is the tardy confession of an able and leading
Fremont papfcv, the Providence Journal. All
the more respectful opposition journals of the
country are beginning to feel that they must
now own up to the truth, which can no lon
ger he concealed, and hence such conlessions
as the lollowing. After describing how Kan
sas might have been peaceably eoltled, the
editor adds:
" But this peaceful proceeding woulJ not
have met the American requirement for ex
citement ; so men from the south, who had
never owned a negro, and never had money
enough at any one time to pay for a negro's
suit of summer clothing, inarched to Kansas
to vindicate the ir (uresisand honor of ttie in
stitutions vt the south; and men from the
north, who tgeuld have beeu quiiu as likely
to join Walkpr in Nicaragua, or shipped on
board some Jotluguese slaver, started, on '.he
other hand, ind upheld freedom. And there
they meet, fight, and speculate, and when
the country ii really settled, and quietness and
order succeed the disturbance and trials of
pioneer life, half of them will find the place
too dull, an{ will seek sorno new field ot ex
citement, where danger and turmoil and con
tention will }ay for existence aud take from
life itseunui."
fTlie Sub-Trcnsury.
In "making change" at our desk tho other
day, says |he New Haven Register, there
tnrneil up oiyo of the old copper devices got
up by the opponents of the "Independent
Treasury" aystsin in 1837. It is in the form
of a penny—and has upon it the figure of a
ship caftfrt 'Hiassilmssi," wSnce spars
are all going by the board, while the light-1
ning is represented as giving it the strongest
kind of lick! Surrounding it are the words,
"Van Buren's metallic currency."
Twenty years had gone by—and to those
of us who remember tho warfare of those days
—how the Independent Treasury was inces
santly denounced, ridiculed and scouted;
how vehemently tho great statesmen of the
opposition, predicted ruin to all business inter
ests, if it was adopted ; how the timid Irem* -
bled, and the Democracy 6tood firm in faith
of tho measure which they had proposed;
how the * who'.o country was convulsed by
mass meetings and violent harangues, how
fear paralyzed business, and self protection
closed the avenues to credit; bow its friends
breasted the 6iorm and strove to convince its
opponents ol the folly of their madness ; and
how the Democratic party, in 1840, were
overborne by a panic at once resistless and
ridiculous, growing out of the success of that
measure ; to such, now that the Independent
Treaeufl 1 hia long been conceded one of tne
wisest plans ever adopted by our Government,
there is "a sermon" ftuitful of pleasing re
flections.
It tell* of Democratic wisdom, its strug
gles, its oodurance, I a "d it gives
to Democratic faith in the intelligence of the
masses a firmer hold and a more vigorous
growth. Millions of these little scoffers at the
"Slate TVeasury" wero dropped into the cur
rents of trade to prejudice that measure ; and
they are occasionally "turning up," to remind
ns of in usefulness, and the mistaken vio
lence that opposed its establishment.
QT Eleven persons, men, women, and
boys were arrested in New York on Monday
for passing a new counterfeit S3 on the Hud
goo Couoty *••*( Jersey City.
0e In'Nefv York the notes of the Ontario
County Bank and the Bank of Orleaus, at Al
bion, N. Y, have been thrown out by the re
demption bank—both having failed.
Schuylkill County Agricultural fair.- The
sixth annual Exhibition of the Schuylkill Co.
Agricultural Society, will be held at Orwigs
' burg on the 201h,1215t and 22d dsys of Octo
| ber next. Horace Greeley will deliver the
; address on the third day of the Fair, which
1 will be Thursday, October 22
Broken Banks.
The following is a list of banks that are
said to hive either failed or suspended, which
the pnblia would do well to refuse until some
thing more definite is known about them:
Rhode Island Central Bank, East Green
wich.
Tivrrton Bank, Tiverton, R. I.
Farmers' Bank, Nickford, "
Warren Co. Bank, Warren, Pa.
Kanawba Bank, Virginia.
Hancock Bank, Maine.
Waverly Bank, Waverly, N. Y.
Winsiead Bank, Winatead, Ct.
Farmers' Bank, Saratoga, N. Y.
Honesdale Bank, Pa.
Mercantile Bank, Ct.
Perth Amboy Bank, N.J.
Wooeters Bar.k, Ct.
Chemung Co. Bank, Horseheads, N. Y.
Hollister Bank, BufTaloe, N. Y.
Owego Bank, N. Y.
Buflnloe City Bank, N. Y.
Reciprocity Bank, n
White, Oliver, Lee & Co.'s Bank, BufTaloe
N. Y.
Farmers' Bank of Providence, R. I.
13T Wm. J. Clark, confined in the Montour
county jail on a charge of poisoning his own
wife and one Wm. Twiggs, attempted to es
cape on last Sunday morning between eight
and nine o'clock. The Sheriff, Mr. Edward
Clark's room about that time
with his breakfast, when the prisoner, partly
concealed behind the door, suddenly pushed
him violently against the wall, and then run
out aud quickly shut the door and bolted it.
Al the same time, Mrs. Young, the Sheriff's
wife, WHS taking breakfast lo Mrs. Twiggs.
Clark's accomplice in the poisoning afiair.—
Clark quickly shut that door also and bolted
it, thus preventing the Sheriff and his lady
from immediate pursuit. He then picked up
ihe keys the Sheriff bad left on the floor,'ran
down stairs pushing before him a young ladi
eon of the Sherifi, who was coming up stairs;
unlocked the outer door of the jail, and es
caped through the garden into an alley, and
from thence into un out-lot of Mr. Deen,
along the river bank, from whence it was his
intention to wade through the river to the
Blue Hill and conceal himself in the woods
auiil night would aid bim in his further Right.
In tho meantime several of the other prison,
ers, hearing the noise, ran up stairs and lib
erated the Sheriff and his lady from their in
voluntary imprisonment. The alarm was
then instantly given, and before Clark had
crossed half the field, lie was overtaken and
brought back to his cell where he now is se
curely fastened by a chain to the floor, being
both handcuffed and hoppled.
In ;he night before his escape he had at
tempted to break a hole through the flue of
the chimney with a bone, but finding the flue
too entail for hint, he took the other alterna
tive related above. He had contrived to un
lock hi* hopples with a nail, on the head of
which he had ingeniously cut a thread with
a piece of glass. They were tied into a pil
low-case in the form of a slug-shot, and found
in his room. •
Clark still alleges his innocence, but says
that since the conviction of McKim, whose
dying speech he hus read, he is fearful that
people will swear anything against him, anJ
that he, therefore, thought it would be bettor
for him to effect his escape if possible, before
the trial, which will take place at the Septem
ber session, commencing in this borough on
21st inst .—Danville Democrat.
riillntlelphiti Nominations.
The Democratic Delegate Convention of
Philadelphia, maiie the following nomina
dots on Wednesday:
OLD CITY.
For Senator —Samuel J. Randall.
For Assembly —-.Fourth District, J. C. Kirk
patrick; Fifth District, C. M. Donovan; Sixth
District, Geo. H. Armstrong.
COUNTY.
For Assembly —lst District, J. 11. Dor.uelly;
2d, John H. Wells; 3d, David K. McLano;
Bth, Henry Duttlnp; 9th, John H. Donhert;
10th, Towneend Yearsley; lllh, John M.
Mulley; 12ih, John Wharton; 13th, James
Donnelly; 14tb, Oliver Evans; 15th, J. H.
Askin; 16th, Joshua T. Owens; 17th, Abra
ham Arthur.
CITY AND COUNTY.
For Senator —Dr. Isaac N. Marselis.
Judge oj Common Pleat —James R. I.ud
-1 low.
Recorder of Deeds —Albert D. Boileau.
Prothonotary— John P. McFadden.
Of the nominees for the Legislature, Messrs.
Ramsey, Wharton, /Vbur and Yearsley,
were members of the last House.
Tists's Changes.—The inventors of Steam- J
power, Railroads, and machinery have dur
ing this ceDtury changed the means and
courses of living, while the discoveries of
science have done even more for the ad
vancement of human happiness and tbe a-1
melioration of human suffering. Our fore
fathers when they were sick, drank their
bitter drugs that did not cure, and bowed
them down under diseases that are now easi
ly broken. They tried crude roots and herbs,
which failed them. Now scientific researob
hae discovered that this peculiar property of
one root and that of another was required.
It is through this light, and on this principle
Dr. Ayer has compounded his two great rem
edies—Cherry Pectoral and Cathartic Pills.—
He has concentrated the curative virtues of
our best vegetable remedies. The result
shows their origin and their results are known
in this community. Mark the difference to
a patient, in the lapse of fifty years. Then
he swallowed his bitter pill in vain—now
the sick man takes his sugared Pill or honied
Drop and soon is well agsin. These adap
tations of the sciences which bear upon tbe
security or the comforts of human life are
after all the tangible poiuts of their vantage
to men. Without ihem H matters little how
much may be discovered, or what we know
since it is unavailable to our necessities and
use.— Eastern Literary Review.
SMALL WlT— The Republican papers call
ing Gen. Packer, Backer; and Messrs. Hazle
hurst and Swope, Hazlenut and Soap. How
smart!
How the Law l VUdlMtn In fcii#tafld.
A ship lately sailed from England witb a
remarkable freight. It was a convict ship.
■lt bore as condemned prisoner® Sir John Dean
Paul and hia two partners, Bate* and Strahan'
Redpath, a wholesale forger; Robson, the
Crystal Palace swindler; and Saward, a bar
rister, who, after a successful careet of fraud,
that had lasted for more than twenty years,
had been finally delected. These men were
all educated, had enjoyed good social posi
tions, and were apparently above the reaoh of
suspicion. " The imputation-©! ■ natty false
hood, or a moan shuffle," to quote the words
of a London newspaper, "would have filled
litem with indignation ; and yet, at this mo
ment, they wear the convict's dross, and herd
with the common mob of vulgar criminals,
the touch of whose passing garments would
once have been held a foul pollution."
It must be acknowledged that, whatever
other faults England may have, she at least
vindicates the Uw, irrespective of rank and in
fluence. This lias been her boast for gener
ations. From the limos when Bacon was
stripped of his dignities—when Strafford was
brought to the scaffold—when Karl Ferrers
was hung for murdering Ills steward, down to
our own day,no station has been high enough
to protect a criminal from the justice of an
outraged law. Neither rank, nor wealth, nor
political importance—neither the friendship
of the judges, uor a connection with the high
•M mrtvWfcy, has term able to screen the of
fender. The court* stand above suspicion.
Juries aro free from the-imputation of being
bribed. The freight of this convict-ship is a
now proof, if one was wanting, that justice,
in England, is inexorable as well as impar
tial. Fratal itself—that vioe of modern civ
ilization, which so many consider compara
tively venial—cannot escape.
The commonwealths ol these United States
might take a lesson from England. Politicsl
liberty is here in advance of what it is in
Ureal Britain, especially political liberty in
tho Northern Slates; but personal rights aro
hardly as secure, and crime is assuredly loss
certain of punishment. Wo could, if neces
sary, quote numerous instances where men,
guilty ol ctimes similar to those of Sir John
Dean Paul have escaped punishment. The
recbrds of tho Courts, in this as well as in
other Stales, show how frequently justice
winks at the Teloaso of offenders who have
wealth or political influence. Vainly may
we boast ol our progress, vuinly compare
ourselves triumphantly with other people,
while these things continue among us. In
republics, even more than in monarchies, tho
law must be vindicated; for the law, in free
govorttmenls especially, is the foundation of
order and prosperity. Laxity in administer
ing the law leads to indifference ; indifference
(o anarchy; anarchy to ruin.—Ledger.
New York Commission Agency.
The V. B. PALMER &Co., have established,
in connection with their office, Tribune
Buildings, New York, a Commission Agency,
through which persons residing out of the
city, and in any State of the Union, will be
enabled to purchase goods at thelowost mar
ket prices, and with every attention paid to
style, quality, &e. They have associated
with them, gentlemen who have had great
experience in purchasing and soiling goods,
of every description, and will doubtless give
satislaction to all who may transact business
through their agency. They will execute
orders of any amount, large or small, and
for any article that can be purchased in that
city.
The necessary amount of CASH must ac
company all orders—excrpt when payment
can be made on delivery of the goods, which
is usually the case if sent by express—unless
the parties of whom the goods are purchased
assume the responsibility.
To avoid delays and perplexing mistakes,
great care should be U6cd in making up or
ders, that they may be clear anu perfectly
intelligible.
Their commiseion charge on orders amount
ing to S5 and less, is 25 cents; exceeding $5,
and not above 810, five per cent. On orders
of a larger amount, five per cent is charged
on $lO of tho same, and 2J per cent on the
balance.
17* Our Black Republican contemporary,
tho Lewisburg Journal, has grown immensely
eloquent over the vote lor Rollins, of Missou
ri. It says. ;
" Let the cannon's peal awaken every heart
to this truth : that the murders and outrages
committed by Missouri Ruffians in Kansas,
under the protection of the Democratic party,
which the party in Pennsylvania pronounced
all a lie, 47,000 hones', voters in Missouri de
nounce and manfully condemn where the
effec of their noble couduct will be most ap
preciated—at the Ballot-box."
The beauty of the matter about all these
hallelujahs sung over Rollins is, that while he
is trumpted as the Republican candidate, he
is the owner, as he says himself, iu one of
his letters, of between tttehty and thirty
slaves, and has tbe control of as many more
inat he does not own ; while Stewart, the
Democratic candidate—now Governor elect—
never owned a slave in bit life. No doubt
Rollins is as good a Black Republican as any
of them, and quite as sincore. Every one of
tbe leaders of that party, for aught they care
about the negro, would just as soon own him
as any other property, if ibeir own State laws
would perm it tbem. But since they dare not
own him, they put him to the next best use
they can for themselves—they make an in
strument of biat to put themselves in office.
Rollias had ibis advantage over (he Republi
cans of tho free States, he owned the negro,
and made a political hobby of him beside.—
Wdliamsport Gcztlle.
EV Chief Justice Ellis Lewis was in Potts-
Tills last week, and heard and determined a
number of cases. In one case, involving
$40,000, which had been brought before
him on a writ of error, he ordered the Sher
iff to stay proceedings on the mortgage, de
ciding that a Judge of the Supreme Court, at
Chambers, has the power to control process
in the hands of a sheriff pending a writ of
error, and that the case before him was a
proper one for the exercise of that power
Serin rI ion try u Clergyman —The Trenton
"Stale G2tte" of 'Monday'relates lha par
ticulars of a case ol seduction ilnH occurred
in Burlington, New Jersey, on Friday last.
The perpetrator of the crime was the llev.
Wm. B. Sutherland, a clergyman and a mar
ried man, and the victim a young lady only
fifteen Years of age, of a respectable family
and a member of hia Church.
Special Notices.
THE REV. C. S. BURNETT, while laboring as
a Missionary in -Southern Asia, discovered a
simple and certain Cure lor Consumption,
Asthma, Bronohitie, Coughs, Colds, Nervous
Debility, end all impuriliesof the blood;also,
an easy and effectual mode of Inhaling the
remedy. Actuated by a desire to benefit bis
suffering fellows, he will cheerfully send the
Recipe (fiocj to such os desire it, witb full
and explicit directions for preparing and suc
cessfully using the Medicine.
Address Rev. C. S. BURNETT,
831 Broadway, New York City.
WHITE TEETH, PERFUMED BREATH
AND BEATJTIFUL COMPLEXION —can be ac
quired by using the "Balm of a Thousand
Flowers." What lady or gentleman would
reinuiu under the curse of a disagreeable
breath, when by using '.he "Balm of a Thou
sand Flowert" as a deutrifice, would not only
render it sweet, IHII leave the teeth as while
as alabaster ? Many persons do not know
their breath is bad, and the subject is so deli
cate their friends will never mention it. Bo
ware of counterfeits. Be sure each bottle is
signed FBTRIDGE & CO., N. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.
Fob. 18, 18G7-6tn.
ags&Sßffi&ai&a
lo Fisbingcreek township, September Bth,
by Elder J. Sutton, Mr. PBRHV LAVENBURY,
of Vattdalia, Mich , and Miss PRISCELLA 11A
BKK.
On Sunday. Sept. 6th, at Berwick, by the
Rev. I. Haiti, Mi. SAMUEL MAHTZ, of Briar
creek, Columbia couuty, to Miss BERUND.V
REMALV, ol Salem, Luz. Co.
On the Ist inat., in Bioomsburg, by Rev,
E. A. Sharretts. Mr. GEO. A. BEAM, of Ber
wick, to Miss CAROLINE HAOENDUCH, of Cert*
tre twp., Columbia co.
On tho 20th ult., by the Rev. G. W. New
all, Mr. JOHN C. LEMON, to Miss SARAH C.
PATTON, daughter of Joseph R. Patton, all ol
Greenwood, Columbia county.
In Hlonmsbnrg, on the Blh insl., HORACE
L. PRENTISS, youngest Son of Capl. Noah S.
Prentiss, aged 2 years and 1 month.
Public Sale ot* Real Estate*
In pursuance of an order of the Orphan's
Court of Columbia County, on SATURDAY
the 21st day of NOVEMBER next, at 10
o'clock in the forenoon, Mathew McDowell,
administrator of Abner McDowell, late of
Scott township, in said county, deceased,
will expose to sale by public vendue, upon
the premises, a certain tract of land situate
ir. Orange township, in the county of Colum
bia, adjoining lauds of William White on
the East, Peter Schug on the North, ami
lands of Mathew McDowell on the South
and West; containing eight acres more or
less. There are erected on the premises a
two story log house, and Stable, u
POWDER MILL,
Glazing House, Dry House, Slack House, &c ,
and a water power appurtenant. Late tho
estate of said deceased, situate in the town
ship of Orange and county aforesaid.
Any person inolinod lo go into the busi
ness of making powde' can find no property
better calculated for the business.
JACOB EYEULY, Cl'k.
September lfi, 1857.
"ottsi GIFTS i
A. KANNIiY, PUBLISIIEB,
393 BROADWAY, NEW YORK,
offers for sale
500,000 BOOKS & MAPS;
OF all kinds, at Publishers' prices, to he ac
companied with 500,000 Gifts, worth from
25 cents to S2OO each; consisting of Gold and
Silver Watches, Gold Lockets, Gold Chains,
C unco Pins and Drops, Gold llracoio's, Gold
Pencils, Sewing Birds, in short Jewelry of
every description; Ueticu'es, Ladies' Purses,
Portmonaies, &c, $l5O worth of gifts distrib
uted with every 600 books. A gift will be de.
livcrcd witbrverv book sold for one dollar or
more- Although no book or article will be
sold far more than the usual retail price,
■naliy will ne sold for less. IVRAONA MIAHING
any particular book, can order at once aid
will be forwarded with a gift. Persona order,
ing books with gifts should forward the amount
of postage, as it must invariably be paid in ad
vance, I'ho average | osltgo for $1,35 books
is 16 cents, and for $1,50 and $2,00 books, 21
conta.
INDUCEMENTS TO CLUBS & AGENTS:
A BOOK AND GIFT WITHOUT MONEY.
Any person, by forwardiug an order for
Books, with money enclosod, will receive an
extra Book and Gift with every Ten Books
to be sent to oue address.
This method of forming Clubs saves post,
age, as the package goes Iy Express.
Full information respecting this great gift
enterprise, togelhet with a complete list of
Books, and gifu will be furnished in our Ct>
atoguo, which is sent post paid to any address
on application.
Address. A- RANNEY,
No. 393 Broauway, New York.
DEDICATION.
ST. MATTHEW'S Evangelical Lutheran
Church, at Bloomsburg, Col. Co., Pa , will
be dedicated to the worship of the Triune
God, (God willing) on SUNDAY, the 2oth of
September inM. Divine Services may bo ex
peoted on Saturday evening previous. Serv
ices on Sunday to commence at 10 o'clock,
A. M., precisely. Several ministers from a
distance are expected to be present, and
preach on the occasion. The friends of Re
ligion generally, are invited to attend.
E. A. SHARRETTS, Pastor.
Bloomsburg, Sept. 5, 1857.
TOLLS AT BEACH HAVEN.
Coi. LECTOR'S Otrtcß, I
Beach Aug sxt, '57. J
MR. EDITOR:—The amount of tolls receiv
ed at this office are as follows:
Previously reported, . . . $60816 15
July, 27158 71
Total 487971 86
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN S. FOLLMER. Collector.
ARGE lot of No. 1, 2, & 3 Mackrel, also,
White Fish, Cod Fish ahd Herring, just
received and for sale by
May 27, '57. A. C. MENSCH.
LARGE assortment of iron, Steel and Nails
for sale at the Arcade by
May 27, '57. A. C. MENSCH.
A LARGE LOT of Thibet Shawls just re
ceived and for sale by
I A; C. MENSCH
A' FULL ASSORTMENT of Ladios' Dry-
Goods at the Arcade by
May 27, '57 A C. MENSCH.