STAR OF THE NORTH. H. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. Illoointiliiug, UidiirHdJi)', Oct. 28, IRV7. TUB KtKC'HON. Gen. Packer's majority in the State over Wilmot is about 40,000! and over the vote ofWiltnot and Hazlehorst combined, 12 000. The Hazlehorst vote i-about 28,000 am* one half of it in Philadelphia. In that city Wil mot gets but one vole in Jive, and he gets no wore in Northampton—ln this county Bigler had a majority in 1854 of7Bl,nnd Plumer for Canal Commissioner in 1855, a majority ol but 652. The majority lor Pterco in 1852 was 937. Tanker's majority of 1266 over Wilmot is therefore a fine increase over ma- j joriiies given prior 1556. In that year, Bu chanan's majority over all was 1398, upon a total vole polled iu the county of 4380. The total vote this year is 3580, upon which our majority would be hut 1142 if it ran in the same proportion to the whole vote, that it did last year. That is elegant voting—9llo to 1171 for all opposition— more than two to one, and that without much effort by us, and in spite of effort against us. Our friends may congratulate themselves upon this great and decisive victory over the opposition, which is a sort of supplement to the Presidential triumph ol last year, and fitly concludes the work than so well begun. The Democratic party lives becaas it de serves to live; because the sah-ty and pros perity of the country depend upon its sucee-s. And at this time, when the people are heart ily tired of negro harangues, and of the men who concoct them, litey have given black Republicanism "a settler," and pronounced emphatically lor Peace, ami "the good old cause," against Agitators, Demagogues and Fanaticism. Chinese Sugar Cnnc. A greal deal of pufling has lately been done for the Chinese sugar cane, and vari ous experiments have been rmule lo extract sugar and molasses from it. These all suc ceed; but the article can evidently be raised in this country only at a disadvantage. The higher price of labor here over China would of itsefl prove an insurmountable check to its cultivation; and weTfedicl that the enier prize will turn out a motus multittaulus fail ure. Theoretically the United States seemed perfectly adapted to the raising of silk b; its soil, climate, &c., just as ii does for rais ing sugar from Cliinose cane. But the prac tical operation of the matter is a very diflTei ent thing; nnd then it, too late, appears that some of the most important considerations have been left out of the calculation. You can try It. Our readers will observe in our columns the advertisement of Duane Kulison, offer ing gibs in connection with books; while they sell the books at publishers' prices.— Last week we seni lor three books 10 this es tablishment, and they came at the regular price, one accompanied wiih a riant gold pen and bolder, another with a gentleman's breastpin, and the third with a ladies' breast pin. Whether every body will have as good luck wc cannot tell, but some kind of gilt ac companies every book worth SI, according to their terms. Wc do not know now the thing is done, unless it be that the books are bought very cheap nt trade sales, which we suppose is a solution of the mystery. If you 6ed, you will at any rate get a book which you can select Itom their catalogue, that will be worth your money. 1 ho Agricultural I'nlr Lost week brought to town on the second j day of i s exhibition more people than were ever gathered here before, and all of them seemed content and satisfied, except some who thought they had reason lo expect pre miums, and did not receive any. But this cannot frnl to be the case on such occasions. The principal attraction seemed to be the horse-races, which were kept op nearly all the time. The public dealt very liberally v*ith the society making its income during the exhibi tion • mount to some S-100—a sign indicating anything else than bard times among our lar more. tF Dr. John makes op the table of the official vole of the county for his last paper to read from right to left. He must have been studying Hebrew! And, by the way. his statement of the vote in this Senatorial district does not give the vote of cither can didate in this county correctly. Mr. Em's vote in Montour is also staled wrong. We are afrsid our neighbor is not well enough tailed with the returns lo bestow much care upon their publication. ST In rottsville farmers come armed to (he market. Tbo euilor of the rottsville .Imertkanishrr li*pnblekaner, sayf, that on Monday last he met a country friend at •!,• beef market with a loaded doubble barrel,. gun lying OTI bis stand. Things ore really doming to a desperate point, when out peo ple are obliged to go armed to protect them selves from being plundered on the public j highway. To isc Sou>—The Philadelphia and San bory RaihoaJ will be sold at Sfcerill's sle, in thai c'ty, on ihe 2nd of November. The lifitoia Central Railroad, the most extensive single railway improvement i.. the couurry, Blade an assignment on Sunday. The same day the New Vorit ami trie Railroad also assigned. Their great financier President, at • Salary of £25,000 • year could net save it RTUIUITU RESTOSSTISX —In Verdiers- Tillo, Orange county, Vs., a liitlo girl, deaf and dumb and puny, haa lately had the typ hoid fev-er, and when she recovered, her speech ud hearing were restored. IMS I KIC I fIKI'URNN. Tne following are the official returns of our Congressional, Senatorial and Represeuta. tive Districts. CONGRESS: Peidy. Thompson. Columbia. 2410 1108 Montour, 1057 645 Luzerne, 5169 3677 Wyoming, 1200 864 Total, 9836 6294 6291 3542 majority. SENATE Bnekalew. Bound. Columbia, 2405 1037 ' Montour, 1069 SSS (Northumberland, 2807 11 Snyder, 970 1022 Total, 7251 2608 2608 4643 majority. Tickets were not circulated lor Bound in Northumberland, which will account for the übsence ol voles lor him in that county. REPRESENTATIVES. Km. Smith. Brower. Mwcalf. Columbia, 2364 2365 1670 1091 Montour, 1069 1070 572 574 Sullivan, 524 354 126 363 Wyoming, 1174 1179 832 823 5131 4968 1600 1861 1600 1861 3531 3107 ABOLITION—The Ex-Rev. Henry C. Wright in a letter to the Boston Liberator, dated Smyrna, Chenango county, New York, Son day, Sept. 27th, says among other things of the same sort, —' Treason, rebellion against j the American Union, moral, social, political and religious treason, is the one paramount duty of tne Northern States at this hour The man who sustains the American Union, and becomes or continues a parr of it, be lieving it to be the ally and bulwark of sla ver) , is n traitor to liberty and humanity, the I deadly enemy of his kind." Resuming Work— -The Allentown Lento• ■ erul eoys that operations are about to be re- j siimed at many oi' tiio iron works in Lehigh ! county, which had suspended a few weeks ! ago. The Thomas lion Company and the | Crane Company, it is said, will both contin- ! tie their furnaces in blast during the winter. > The Allentown Iron Company are going on i uninterruptedly. This will afford employ- j rnent to many a man along the Lehigh who I would otherwise have an idle dreary winter I belore him. The Rhode Island Banks have fifteen dol- | I trs of p. per circulation to one ol specie ; tlte ] New Hampshire hanks thirteen; the Corn ec licut nine; Maine, Vermont and Mvsni-hn setts four and a half; and those of New York i only three. Of the sixty millions of specie ir. the banks of the United Status, about one- j third is in the banks of the cities of New j Yurk, New Or'nuns and Boston. Rnode Is- ! land bis ninety-tigf,N Oittihs nmt eigltiy-sc;* t en towns. It* Tiie Doiroit Free Press of Saturday, 10th, states that a young lady passed through ihat city on the day previous, who was raid to bo Miss Augusta Cunningham, of N. V.— She arrived on the l'iy mouth Rock Irotn Buffalo, and passed on over the Michigan Central Railroad to Chicago. Her appear ance attracted a lame crowd on the uoek, as soon as it was noised around who she was Sl.o was 011 a business tr-p. CAN A MINISTER MARRY A DIVORCKD WO MAN — Rev. Mr. Shields, of lows, having been silenced by the Presbyterian of Pes Moines, lor marrying a woman who had been divorced by the laws of lowa, appealed to the Synod, and his appeal was sustained. The Synod expresses its opinion that the ac tion of the Presbyterian was correct in form, ami suggested by a laudable zeal in I lie ser vice of the church ; and, til'hough reinstating Mr. Shields, does not approve ol Ins marriage. MAYOR Wool) has been re-uomina'ed by the Democracy ol New York- WILLIAM CARPENTER, R democrat, lias been ! elected Proibotunnry ol Lancaster County. TIIK St.i'e Senate will tie largely democrat ic— mine s<> than ii lias been lor years Judge Hei.l., the demount ic candidate, is elected Senator in the Cheater and Delaware District. 1 GEN. PACKER will have a larger majority ! than has been gven to a governor of Pentt j sylvania in many years. To make limes good, rt'pechtblc (?) people 1 mtisl work more, spend less, and mind their own business. Geiwra! JACKSHS once told a man who came to hitn to complain ol hard times, "go home and talk less, spend less and wuik mine. ' tV Al the suspension in 1837, gold sobl in New York at 13 pet rent, premium—but tt is now sold as low 1 per cent. ty An original minaturc of Napoleon, said to be one of the 01.lv three in existance. is advertised for sale hy the executors ol the late Andrew Sieven-on, of Virginia. IRON senecs are being made to leplace be pew> in IlenTy Ward Bee titers church, at Brooklyn. THE proprietors of the Gitatd House have reduced the puce ol board from £2,50 to £2 per day. ry There is more silk consumed in the United States than in any other country on the globe. Last year there was imported into this country and consumed here £32,- 553,013. IT A yonng man named While, who at tended a wedding party in Lancaster county, Fa , last Thursday, drank too much and was fouud dead on the premises next morning. ry The population ot California is estima ted to be 400.000 ot whom too 000 are Chi nese, and too 000 native Califnmiane and European immigrants,leaving 200,000 Amer icana. There are 2uo Pots*iam clergymen of ail denominations, or ou minister to eve ry 1009 of the American population The Mote l>ebt- The public mind has been so engrossed by more pressing iopios, that e<>mparilively lit tle has been said or thought ol the amend ments to the ronstiiution submilted'to the Constitution submitted to the people ill the election a day or two ago. Asa general rule, It is true that little is gained to the peo ple by much tinkering of ike Constitution. But all will feol the importance of any mea sure that can effectually restrain the Stale from the possibility of ever again having another State debt. I As to the question of the best WHy of get ting tid of its present obligations, that need [ not here be discussed. The great objection to a Stale debt may, in part, be thought to apply to the complicated mechanism of a sinking fund, hut only in part. It cannot be counted that all public funds, no matter to whom committed, are the greatest source of corruption imaginable. It is a putrid carcass that draws the eagles together. It is always dangerous for even the best men lo famil arizo themselves with handling and negolia- . ting large sums of money not their own. On-' ly men of great metcantile intellect and skill can be tru-led is such matters, and these sue at once a thousand openings by which such money can be turned to private advantage while no one has sufficient personal interest in looking after such funds, to see that they are managed with the most implicit honor and fidelity. The recent embezzlement of the State funds iu Ohio amply illustrates this point. j Then, too, the State patronage which pub lic works and extensive accounts confer, is a constant source of corruption. If a vote on any money has In pass lite Legislature, not a few ol the members will seek how it can be made to turn lo their personal advantage. If an officer is lo he elected to manage these funds, the one question with many is, how he can serve them in return. Iu some States which borrowed money largely lo go into the bunking business, the members of ihu Legislature contrived to elect such bank offi cers as would discount their notes wi'lt men of straw for security. Millions were thus squandered belore the bunks was stopped. The rin/i/ Legitimate objects ol a government are much fewer and simpler than are com monly supposed, ami the more closely S:;t es coi line themselves to these, the greater will he their prosperity. The chief object of gov ernment is simply to defend the weak fiotn the regressions of die strong, by maintaining the equal right of nil. It is noi for a govern ment to make ilst'll into a bank, or canal, it railroad company, or all combined, any more than it I? to assist one sect of religion to es- lablwh it-ell at tlte expense ol all others. But its umi stieuhl be simply to remove all (ib-trticliniiN and allow every giitnd and use- itil iiiftiluiiora 10 devolope itself and grow treely l<y iu own inherent energies onino tested. Wha'ever really tends .o promote die interests ol the cmnmuuiiy will have llii kind of vitality of i|a own. But whatever has rol got Ihis self-sustaining power is lici wanted by il:o community at (Sat sttittv ol i existence. Improvements tlial will ooi pay lor themselves under private companies, where sell interest waleb.es 11 gainst Irandn lent ami extravagant expenditure are certain to be only sources ol debt ami disaster, where paiil lor out of the public purse. No one lias any Million nt interest to watch in there ca ses. ami there must even be a thousand sour ces of leakage, extravagance and defalca tion. Nor I- there any source of public gain thai private individttalscannnl secure. Even in the tree school system i) will be found to prosper best exactly in proportion as the as. sisinncc afforded by the State is so conlerred as to stimulate llie citizens oi each pioeinet or township 10 cherish education earnestly among themselves. lii absolute government*, everythii 5 is un dertaken by the Btatn power, from the sale of lobaeco 10 the construction ol a railway. 11111 ii'ufer sueli a sj ram, the people invariably 10-e liieir (merest 011 such tilings and their enterprise of spirit, li there i< a religion es tablished by law. all duties are performed in a hireling and per functionary manner, and that universal self culture of the religi ous spirit dies out—although upon the uni versality of this hangs die life of nations. So if government taxes the people to construct railroads or ranals, the people will leave these things to the government, and lose the energy and enterprise so necessary to carry these works on siiccesfe.ll v. Low PRICE OF WIIVVT IN Inw.v—The lowa City Republican states that farmers are offer ing w heat in the city for lor:y cents a bushel and cannot find purchasers. The Republi can odds: "The same state of facts is repnr led cf the Muscatine and other river markets, and indeed we say of the markets generally of the state." Poos COMFORT FOR OUR COUSINS. —The seamer Ainbia, which left lasi T.mrsiUy (or Liverpool, took out 102 pisaerisers ami fiftcm iinndri.l dollars in apecie ! and bad news enooHh toiuk a man of war. Bit John Hull mti-t grin and bear it, as ive have done. TIIK LAST FINANCIAL PANIC. —The lat CRS' fiui.ticial revulsion was begun in '3~. won i the suspension of the United Suites Hank | and ended in 1840. the very one that began , :he war. Within those yeats 30 000 hou-es broke and took die benefit ol the harkm.v law of 181!. Tbeirdebie amounted lo £IOO | 000.000—ilieir ss*e;s 10 a lino-1 nothing. I GT*A Wisconsin correspondent of rhe Uo i chee er Union slates that, in going Irom Prai rie du Clnen to La Croose, a lew days ago, a j singular scene was presented on the steam- I host. At one end of the ioi.g salaou a cler ' j) man was preaching 10 a small croud galli < end around hnn; ia the middle, gambiing 1 was in busy progress; and at the oilier extra- I itiiiy of toe saloon there was muse and dan | ring! G>or CUT OF Evil.—The panto han it ad one 1 good resoli. at all events. The Convention which was to meet at Cleveland on the 26di for ihe purpose of dissolving the Union, hs been postponed oa account of the financial difficulties of the country. Whether they leard they .would be anabla to raise money 10 carry oet their scheme of dissolution, or to pay their Railroad fare, we are not in formed. The Result In Kanius. During the excitement attending our own 'Statu elecion and the financial trouble*, the 1 public almost lurt sight of the (act that a peace ) able and quiet ( lection ha-< at last been held ( in Kansas and that that eleslion baa resulted in favor of what Ihe Black Republicans call " freedom." Mr. PAHROTT, the free state candidal*, elected to Congress by over 4000 | majority. And ibis under lite tunc It-abused I Kaunas and Nebraska bill. And yet, strange to say. th Refublic.au papers have scarcely a word to ssy about it, they seem so disap pointed. Ifbey persisted that Kansas would be a slave State—that Douglass and Buchan an designed to make it a Slave Slate and that there was no hope at vll for "freedom." Thus is this vexed questiou, which has convulsed the I'nion fro K Main to California and some times llirealet ed to dash it to pieces, perma nently and peacefully settled by the quiet but effectual workings of popular sovereignty. And thus does tbe much abused measure vindicate itseif helore the country and te es tablish the grand democratic doctrine that in a government like ours all power can be safe ly entrusted into the hands of the people. What now becomes of the Republican party and its predictions ? What will be their next hobby, now that bleeding Kansas is virtual ly disposed ol J" How PROPHETIC.—The following is an ex tract from a speech made by President Bu chanan, when in Congress, o:i the inde pendent treasury bill: "The evils of a redundant paper circula tion are manifest to every eye. It alternate ly raise? and sinks the value of every man's property. It makes a beggar of the man to motrow who indulges in dreams ot wealth io-day. It converts the Business of society into a mere lottery, whilst those who distrib ute the prizes tiro wholly irresponsible to Ihe people. When the collapse comes—us come it must—it casts laborers out of employ ment, mushes manufacturers and merchants, and ruins thousands of honest and industri ous citizens." THE SijcacT or PREACHING.—It is no dero gation from an orator's genius to say his pow er lays much loss in what he says, than how tie says it. Manner makes the entire differ ence between Mac ready and the poorest strol ler that murders Shakespeare. The mailer is the same in the ca*e of each. Kach has the same thing to say; the enormous difler ei.ee lies in the manner in which he says it. Hugh Miller tell* us dial ho heard Chalmers rea l a piece which he (Miller) had himselt wti ten. In. author never knew how line it WHS ml then, Ail this is the result of that fine gift of genius—to fee' with the whole soul, and utter with the whole soul— English Paper. RR DIM IXSIONS AND OTHER DATA OP THE ritorosiDSlHP CANAL ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA—Length from slp'Tl to shore, 45J miles. Length from five fathoms water in Ntivy Bay, on the Ail untie, to thiee [.idioms water ill Panama Ray, oti the Pacific, 48| miles. The prism ol water to be 15U leet w ide at the bottom, 270, (eel wide at surface, and 3J feet deep. The locks to be 400 feet in clear length of chambis and 00 feet it; clear width. The summit level will be 150 feel above menu tide of the Atlantic and Pa cific ocean. The summit cut will bo about 4 miles long. The deepest cutting Oh this level will be 130 feet, and the average depth ol the cut will be 49 feet. The rivet Cha gtes yields an am,.la supply of water for the canal at all sut ms ol the year. The summit level will be supplied by a leeder about 24 miles long, which will tap the river Chagros about 21 miles above the town of Cruoes, wholO the levclof the river is about 185 feet above mean tide, and about 35 feet above the summit level. The cost of this canal, including the requisite harbor improve ments at each end, will not exceed $80,000,- 000. fyTlie superiority of American incentive genius, not only over that of our English pro genitors, but in dee;! of nil other nations has become too tangible to be disputed. It was notorious at the World's Fair in London, that the American's far outstripped all others in the useful it volitions which they supplied. We beat the Kt.glish in vessels, railroads, and manufactures by power. We are beating them in the scientific arts of Chemistry and Medicine, B< we have long beat the rest of mankind. A new and practical proof of this assertion is shown in the fact that the princi pal remedies of the aided armies of the Ka*t are furnished from the Üboratory of our own countryman- Or. J. C. Avut of Lowell i fill ntg orders forimrnet.ee quantities of his Cher ry Pectoral and Ca.h.trtie Pills, for both the land and 4* forcos iu Turkey, etis medi cines have been tried and approved by those in power who have found them the most re bat.!e which they could procure for the exi- geneies in which they are to be employed N. Y. HHy Times. THE VAIVE or SPECIE.— Nothing shows; rrr-.-e cleat ■ the comparative soundness of the fi >a"Cfs of the country at this time, than the tact th it the price of soltt has already fallen from about six to on" aid tnctper cent. In some cases in New Yo'lc, the gold drawn in Itnge sums finm the banks, has been already deposited again—there being no sale for it, at a price worthy the mention The rate of exchange sidl continue* against F.orojw, and specie is flowing in npnn tt9. — The last steamer Irom California, it will be rimrrsd, also brough over a million and a half in specie. 1" 1837, the rate of exchange with Europe was heavily against us, and coin was shipped out cf the 'country by the millions. The more the present distress is looked into, the more it seems to differ from a grrat financial revolsion, reaching down to the basis of things. The foundations of the great fabric of tratfe seem as sound and strong as ever. Everything betokens fair weather not very far ahead. TY URAI* AT CHICAGO.— It is elated that there is no teae than 28.000.000 bushels of grain in store m Chicago, but not more than 1,000,000 will be brought forward previous to the doting of the canals, for want of mo ney to send it on. Tbe TforopeHn News. The dates by tbe Europa, as to the ]Oth inst. There is nothing new or startling from India. The London Morning Chronicle pro fesses to have good authority for staling that steps have been taken for proclaiming Queen Victoria Queen of Hindoston. This move ment, if attempted, will be an open attack upon the East India Company, and its an nouncement has therefore created some in terest in London, In Ireland a proclamation li.ts been issued by the authorities extending the limits of the proclaimed district around Belfast, informa tion having been received that the people instead of delivering up the arms were con cealing outside the original limbs, so that they would be available in case of fresh dis turbances. WHO WANTS MONKV?—Uncle Sam has got a plenty, and is anxious to gel rid of it. He offers from six to sixteen per cent, premium for his own six per cent, stock, and will pay for it in specie.— Exchange. Alt, yes; all well enough. Ihit, "prat catch your fish," as Mrs. Class advises those who want to follow her recipe for cooking trout, first get hold of the stock, if you can. It is not quite as plenty in the market as railroad stocks, and those who own it don't uppear to be tempted by the bail of 6 to 16 per cent, premium offered for its redemption. Uncle Sam's credit is so good, that everybody is glad to trust him.— Heading Gazette. WILMOT'B DISTRICT.—Among the gratify ing events of the election just past is that of the vote in Wilmol's District which has large ly fallen off from the Fremont's vote last fall. In Susquehanna eounly, his majority is only £BOS, which last fall Fremont had over 1300. Some of the comity ticket runs as low as 539. It would thus seem that the people there Hre returning to their reason and probably falling back to their ancient parly fidelity. It will be but a little while belorc a white man will be as good ss a ne gro in Ihe Wilinoi District. Low BIRTH AND IRON FORTUNE.—Hon. AN j drew Johnson, who has jnsl been elected Jo I the U. S. Senate from Tennessee, to succeed j Hon. James C. Jones, presents in his own per | son one of the most remarkable examples ol ; what proper ambition may attain under lie ! publican institutions. His origin was very ! obscure, and ol educational advantage* in j early life bo had none. ' A'ter be married. h's wife taught him bis letter, and while be ' t prosecuted bis calling as a journeyman tailor, to support bis family he acquired the simp j lest rudiments ol education. But advancing ; step by step, reading with avidity, studying | closely, and striving constantly to improve i b s condition, be bus at last attained one of i lite most eminent positions in the gift of his countrymen. It will be remembered he i serveJ in the U. S. House of Representatives 1 several years ago. As a legislator he was indusirbius and practical, ra her than brilliant; but wielded a powerful influence in the de ' liberation* oT the body. His faults probably ; consi*t in excessive paMizaitship, and that tendency to illiberalny in the public expendi -1 tures which oftentimes under lha nnma of ; "economy," is disastrous to the interests of the country. In the higher aid broader j sphere to which he is now elevated, these faults may be modified and softened : but in j any event, Mr. Johnson can haully fail to be a most useful and laborious public Servant. j THE VICISSITUDES OV COMMERCE.—A few ! months since the partner of n commercial I house in this city was taken to a lunatic as : sylum, utterly deranged, as was said, by his unparallcj prosperity in business. During ; the year previous his firm had cleared St,- I 000,000. He died in the aesylum, and his own estate was valued at §2,500,000, all in | vested in the concern of which he was a j partner. The firm itself failed the other day, ' and is now said to be utterly insolvent. One ! item of the assets of the deceased's estate was a thousand shares of the Illinois Central railroad stock, which was selling t the lime .j of his decease at 6140 a share, and was worth, after paying up the instalments, SSOO - The same property sold yesterday at ; pnblic rale at 550.000. All this oecuried within eighteen months —the prosperity, the insanity, the decease | and the insolvency.— Post. "WHAT IS A TON F'— Chief Justice Lewis, of litis State, has given an opinion deciding that the law of Pennsylvania making 2000 pounds a ton was constitutional, that although the United States Constitution had given Con gress the power to regulate weights artd tries sores, making a uniform law throughout the United Slates, yet, until they did exercise the power, each State had joriedicltoo over the subject within her own borders. Thus Judge Grier's decision that nothing less than 2240 pounds could form a ton, is overset. A NEW TERRITORY.—A movement has late ly heen made by the inhabitants of Carson Valley, for the formation ol a new territory o( the United States, out ol part of Utah and New Mexico, The white population of the proposed territory is about seven thousand, the coudry is rich in mineral wealth, and capable of producing graiu iu abundance.— The new territory is to be called the "Terri tory of Carson. ANOTHER ASTEROID —By the English pa pers which arrived yesterday, we learn that on the 15th of September, Dr. R. Luther, at Bilk, near Dusseldorf, discovered a new planet, of the eleventh magnitude, the fifth seen in 1857, and the 47th now known to ex ist between Mars and Jupiter. It was stated in the Washington Union of the sth October, that on the preceding evening, Mr. Fergu son, of the National Observatory, discovered yet another planet, also of the eleventh magnitude, which, if hitherto unknown, will be the forty-eighth of the Asteroids. The size, however, of these planets is very small the diameter of the largest being supposed to be but forty miles, and of the smallest only four! ty Hazlehurrt, the Straight-oot condidate for Governor, received 71 votee in Montoor county. Pennsylvania Lcglslature—lbSS. The Sisie Legislature, for the next session, will probably stand as follows : SENATE. x I Dist.—Philadelphia—Harlan Ingram, R. ( L. Wright, Samuel J. Randall,* Isaac N. Mar- ( selis,* Democrats. 11. Dist.—Chester and Delawara—Thos. S. _ Bell, * D. t ! 111. Dist. —Montgomery—Thos.P.Knox,D. i | IV. Dist.— Bucks—Jonathan Ely, D. V. Dist.—Loltiglt and Northampton—Jos. j La it bach, O. ( VI. Dist.—Berks—John C. Evans, D. ! VII. Dim—Schuylkill—C.M. Straub, D. , VIII. Dist.—Carbon, Monroe, Pike and j ( Wayne—Thomas Craig, Jr., * D. II IX. Diet.—Bradford, Sitsqnehannn, Wyo- ! nting and Sullivan— E. Reed Mytr > Opp. j t X Dist.—Luzerne—G. P. Steele, D. j < XL Dist. Tioga, Potter, M'Kean and War. j ren— Henry Souther, Opp. XII. Dist.—Clinton, Lycoming, Centre and 11 Union — Andrew Gregg, Opp. j, XIII. Dist.—Snyder, Northumberland, Co- ; ( lumbia and Montour, Chas. R. Bnckalew ,*D. , XIV. Dist—Cumberland, Perry, Juniata ! | and Mifflin—Henry Fetter,* D. !., XV. Dist. Dauphin and Lebanon— J. B. | Rutherford, * opposition. j; XVI. Dist. —Lancaster— BarttamA. Shafler, j t * Opp., IP. B. Marshall,* Opp. XVII. Dist —York—Wm. H. Welsh, D. j, XVIII. Dist.—Adams, Franklin and Fulton j , —Geo. W. Brewer, D. * 11 A'lX. Dist—Somerset, Bedford and Hunt- , ington—William P. Scheli * D., j ] XX Dist— Bla'r, Cambra and CloarfielJ— j f John Ciesswell, Jr., D. ) t XXI Dist.—lndiana and Armstrong— T. J. j | Coffey Opo. XXII. Dist—Westmoreland and Fayette— j ] Jaenb Turney,* D. |, XXIII Dist.—Washington and Greene—G ' { W. Miller* D. 1 j XXIV. Dist—Allegheny—Wm. Wilktns | I D., Edward D. Gozsnm, Opp. I ( XXV. Dist—Beaver und Butler— John R. j j llutris, Opp. 11 XXVI. Dist.—Lnwrence, Mercer and Ve- | nango—(Two opposiiion[Senators.) 1 ( XXVII. Dial.-—Erie and Crawford — D. A. j , Finney. Opp. I , XXVIII Dist —Clarion, Jefferson, Forest and Elk— G. IP. Scoficld, Opp. RECAPITULATION. Tern. Oppo. , 1 Holding over, 13 8 Now members, 8 4 Total, 31 13 It lias been many years since tho Demo-' etHts IIHVO had so largo a majority in the Somite of Pennsylvania as thoy will have at the next session. And our representatives in that body ate not only numerous, but among the new us well as the Old Democrat I in members, there are a number of gomlo ! men ol very fine talents. lIOUSE OF RKPRKSKNTATTVES. ' The probable complexion of the House of Representatives is as follows: Pern. Oppo. Philadelphia city, -I j Philadelphia county, 13 | Delaware, 1 I Chester, 3 1 Montgomery, 3 Bucks, 2 | Northampton, 2 i Lehigh ami Carbon, 2 1 Monroe attd Pike, I , Wayne, 1 J Luzerne, 3 Susquehanna, I j Bradford, 2 : Wyoming and Sullivan | „ t Columbia and Montour j * Lycoming and Clinton, 2 j Centre, 1 j Mifflin,' 1 J Union, Snyder, Juniata, 2 Northumberland, 1 j Schuylkill, 3 i Dauphin, 1 1 i Lebanon, I ! Berks, 3 ! Lancaster, 4 I York, 2 j Cumberland and Perry 2 j Adams, 1 | Franklin and Fulton, 1 1 ; Bedford and Somerset, 2 prob. j ! Huntingdon, 1 ! Blair, " 1 | Cambria, 1 I Indiana, I ' Armstrong and Westm'd. 3 | Fayette, 1 j Green, 1 j Washington, 2 | Allegheny, 1 4 | Beaver and Lawrence, 2 I Bailer, 2 I Mercer and Venango, 2 ; Clarion and Fores', 1 Jefferson and Clearfield ) „ F.lk and McKeati, j Crawlord and Warren, 2 Erie, 2 1 Potter and Tioga, 2 | Total, 60 3! i RECAPITULATION, Dem. Opp. Senate, 21 12 1 House, 69 31 90 43 ! Democratic majority on joint ballot, 47. | SOME OF THE BEAUTIES PF BANKING —The I following rich revelations are furnished by a : correspondent of the St. Loud Rc/mhI >CIIH: "111 conclusion, I will depict tor you an i Illinois bank. A frame house, a counter so ; high iliat you can barely lay your wriM on ihe sharp edge* of it, and so narrow that bill or.e man ca • approach at a lime. The spe cie scoop hangs high np, like ihe laws of Ne . ro, bat unlike litem, covered with cobwebs. [ i Your check is conceited in deadly silence. . j You hear some fumbling behind a green j | screen. A package of shin plasters, as thick i as a bull,s horn, and twenty-five cents in sit- I j cer, are handed you for your inconsiderable check. The bundle istighlly laced,the notes . ; are inside, so that, with the other incoiiveni- I I ences, you can hardly count them. You ! open the bundle and sift out the tinkhams, I almond trees, and Wisconsins, and you are peremptorily told, 'No use in assorting; that is all you can get.' You say:'l'lease, iltea, return my check.' Answer: 'Your check is j already cancelled.' This is the return made j you by the best of them for gold advanced -on grain. Had the grain gone down, you would have bad it, but, gone up, r j they return you oeh abinplaslers [forjyour ' advances in gold, or stand euit, The fntejol those .Hcmhrra nh<;Votod|forr the of the Muln Line- No! tha least gratifying fonturo in the re sult of tho election is the rebuke received by tho j'arty and tho individual members that passed the iniquitous bill for the sals of the Main Lino. Tho Opposition with scarcely an exception espoused tbo bill as a good card that would tell upon the elec tion. This bill we strenuously opposed while distinctly declaring that opposition to an unconstitutional bill, did not moan oppo sition to a sale upon fair lerms ; and we cheerfully acquicsred in the decision of tho Supreme Court, which gave the Pennsylva nia llailroud possession, expressing an earnest desire that it would redound to the benefit of all concerned. But how tho Re publicans bartered away the sovcrignty of the State for trivial consideration; how the Supreme Court was compelled to interpose its authority betweon a venal Legislature and the offended law, is fresh in the recol lection of everybody. It seems that tho voters of the State kept the matter fresh In their memories when they came to cast their aulfrages at the late election. Not only has tho party that bouslfully took the credit and the responsibility of this bill, been de feated most signally, but the instances of individual retribution aro too maVked atti decided to escape notice. .In looking over tho vote on tho final pas sage of the bill for the sale of the Main Line, we see that the following naraod Democrats voted with tho Opposition, and by thoir votes secured the passage of the bill, via : Messrs. Backus, Campbell, Handoock, John son, I.ebo, Manear, Mangle. Tolan, Vail and Wagonselier. None of these members have been re-elected. Of the Democrats who voted against tho measure a very fair proportion have been returned to tho next House of Representa tives. Messrs. Arthur, Calhoun, I.ongaker, Nunitemacher, Ramsey, Philadelphia, Geo. N. Smith, Westbrouk and Wharton, all vo ted against lite bill from first to last, and have been re-elected by largely increased majorities, and there are probably several others whose names we are unable to re call. Wo nra not aware of the defeat of a single titan who opposed the bill, and who was a candidate for re-election. When we look at the ranks of tho oppo sition we see a very different record. Tho popular verdict of condemnation has strick en down some of those who were foremost in engineering that measure through tho House—the lenders who did the deed with a swagger, as if they held the destinies of the Slate in their hands, and were sore of an approving consti'iteney to back thorn,— Messrs. Itishop, Dock and Thome of Phila delphia, Dickey, Penrose and Vickors of Chester, mid Cleaver of Delaware were all candidates for re election—all resided in district were the opposition have hereto fore had a majority, and have all-been large- Ily defeated. 01 all the members who voted for the passage of the bill for the sale ol tho Main l.itio but 2 or hreo have been return- I ed to the next house. There is something retributive in this.— It is a lesson that these recreant members can read to their Own prolit. It is an exam ple to warn others against incurring their fate. Whatever opinion the people may hold on tho abstract question of a sale of the public works, i' is very clear that they are not in favor of selling the powor of tho Slate to levy taxos for a price, nor to barter State sovereignty for a paltry consideration. We have now done with this subject and the past.— Harrisburg Patriot. flow Kngliiud expects to reconquer hullo. The London Times begins to appreeiste tho magnitude ol the wutk which has been carved out for the English gnvernmenr in India, end now adiuiis'itiat tho revolted pro vinces will have to be reconquered at greater i expense than that at which they were ao * quired. "The Bengal army is no mora. A hun dreil thousand men are Iot (o iand the greater pari are in arms agaiust us. That noble body of born and bred soldiers, by the aid of which we hare conquered and annex ed so many rich territories and warlike tribes, and which dissipated in a few days the dark cloud from the Punjab, to which our Europe an neighbors had long pointed with expect ancy, is now sternly bent on numbering Englatd in the long list of its conquests. "If it wetc ever true that the native army was the whole, nr nearly the wt 010, of our strength in India, then our empire would in deed be now in its last hour. But the world will shortly find they must give us credit for other resources and a stronger hold upon In dia than this one has proved to be. It is now; said wo hare to conquer India. That ex presses the very .nature of lite task, though only hail of it, for we have to reconquer India organized, disciplined, trained, armed, provisioned, fortified, emboldened -by our selves. It is a task far greater man that which offered itself to us a century ago. We can only now succeed by the extraordinary prowess ol the British soldier making up for the most featful odds; and even that would | now be utterly unavailing, but lor another I means equally the subject of invidious skep- I tirism. We could not now march 1.500 | miles right through India with a handful of I men, opposed everywhere \iy a magnificent | army of our own creation, and with every j advantage of possession, unless we enjoyed I the confidence and good wiU of the native j population. When we resume our position there, will our neighbors, who now (ell us candidly bow we have recovered it 1 ft can only be done by viiiues which must then be conceeded to ns, with whatever reluctance. We must be a nation of soldier- 5 ; and, what is more, we must have the qualities for at taching to us those less powerful nations whom the loitune of war throws upon our bauds." Low PKICR or WHOTI" IOWA.— -The lowa Ciiy Republican Mates that larmersare olfor ing wheat io that city foe 40 came a bushel, and cannot find purba&e/. Tha. Republi can adds.—The same 6iate o( facte is repot led of the Muscautiue and oilier river sna:- : kets, and indeed we may say o( the markets • 1 generally of the State.
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