STAR OF THE NORTH.
W. It. JtCOBV, EDITOR.
moomsburs, Wsdncsday, Jan. !3T, 1858.
, JOB PR INTINQ.
Havincecently added to the office of the
Star of Ike Not Ik a new lot of Job Printing
materials of the leiy best quality, wo sre
ow prepared to execute all kinds of
<L7 c© Uq IP ir fl mHaen gy
In a neatness of style, both
{Unsurpassed by any office in this section of
the State.and on as reasonable terms—such as
BALI. TICKETS, BILLHEADS,
CIRCULARS, POSTERS,
CARDS, LABELS,
HAND BILLS, BLANKS,
And all other kinds of Job Printing. Busi
ness men will find it to their advantage by
Eiving ns a call. VVe keep constantly on
and a large supply of Blanks used by
Justices of the Peace and Constables, prin
ted on a good quality of paper.
Tht lmngural of Gov. Tatkcr at lfarrisbnrg.
'Gov. PACKER was inaugurated last Tues
day. It is 6aid that never before was there
eo large a concourse of people at Harrisburg.
The millitary, musicians and people turned
out by thousands.
The Stale Government is now fully demo
cratic. Let the party, in and out of the Leg
islature, look to its laurels; but let not a
morbid anxiety to do something great lead
3o hasty ar.d useless legislation. . Dema
gogues—men who wish to make a figure,
are prone to search for new subjects of leg
islative action, balancing the risk of exciting
the indignation of a sluggish people againbt
jhe chances of political preferment—a kind
of "duck or no dinner" game. Such are to
be avoided, or, if in the legislature, kept
down, by the conservative portion of that
body—those who are quite as willing to un
do bad things as to-do good.
But, honesty, it niuet be confessed that
i'we, the people," are a set of Mrs Caudles;
for, ere week we complain that the legisla
ture are not doing anything, and the next
week that they are legislating too much;
very much after the fashion of some folks
who take up a newspaper, and comp'ain
that it contains no news; just as though
newspaper publishers could make news.
The legislature lias as yet done but little,
but this should not disgust us. A "masterly
inactivity" is to be preferred to firing off
great guns simply because we wish to do
something. Great guns are useful at times,
but many a man's hand has been blown off
while using tliern out of season.
Our inclination to grumble because the
legislature do nothing arises from an indis
tinct and incorrect notion which most of us
have that we send our members there to
at// whereas their true mission is, to sgc
whether there is anything to da; all tlus same
a* we send our man to the garret to tee
whether the house is on fire. It is of course
■only in cases of necessity that action is re
quired, and each fifty or sixty thousand peo
ple ol the great State of Pennsylvania can
well afford to send a man to Harrisburg for
• few months in a year to watch these cases.
William duller,
The man who was convicted at Wilkesbarre
of killing the poor old gerroan, George Mat
thias,oommonlycalled the seven mile dutch
man, will without doubt be executed. Af
ter his conviction a motion was made in
court by his counsel in arrest of judgment,
and also for a new trial. These motions
were argued on Saturday last before Judge
Conyngham, and refused, lie is doomed,
and if the evidence can be believed he
richly deserves his fate, honid as it is. lin
agin a stout athletic man, with the eye of a
tigar and the tread of a cat, gliding up be
hind an aged roan who sits dozing belore
his fire, and with a noose such as a deamon
would shout to see thrown around the old
mams neck, jerking hint with one mighty
effort backward to the ground, and then
completing, if not already completed, the
work of death by out his brains.
It was after this fashion the murder is
•apposed to have been committed, for the
rope was found around the body when the
latter was taken from the well, so deeply
imbedded in the lieh that strangulation
must have immediately followed its first ap
plication. This noose or garrott is said to
be a curiosity of the most diabolical kind,
having contrivances which none but a devil
or a witch could imitate. A button is form
ed at the end of the rope by turning up and
interweaving the strands in so ingenious
snd incomprehensible a manner that one
involuntarily snuffs the air for burning brim
•tone while looking at it. Mullen is thought
to be an experienced assassin.
Dedication 01 l!'J M. £. Church.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church in
this place will be dedicated to the services
of God on Sunday morning at 10 o'clock,
February 7th, 1858. It is expected that Bish
op L. Scott, D. D., of Delaware, and Rev.
Thomas Bowman, D. Vf., of Williamsport,
Pa., will bo in attendanco and participate
in the religious services.
A protracted meeting will be held at the
new Church,commencing on Saturday even
ing, February 6th. Several Ministers from
abroad will be preseut, and the exercises
will no doubt be of the most interesting
character. It is hoped much good may be
done, and many souls converted. They
have the mateiial and all is wunted is for
them to get the work fairly commenced and
(their labors are rewarded.
The church is large and commodious, ca
pable of seating many people.
—A leading Harrisburg paper cop
ies our entire article of last week, on the
subject of Common Schools, without any
ether credit than saying "it is a well written
a journal in central Pennsylva
nia." Brothsr, be just!
An Awftl Caliraltj.
In Brooklyn, New York, on Monday the
18th inst., a school house in which were
over 600 children, caught fire, producing
great fright and. confusion among the in
mates ; seven children ore reported to
have been killed and a large number
more or less injured; the anxiety of the pa
rents for the safety of their little ones was
of the most painful and heartrending char
acter. The origin of the fire was from a
defective flue.
DTI'S WALL STRUT CHOKER SND NORTH
AMERICAN MONKV GUIDE has been received
regularly. The last number, for January
Ist, canr.e to hand as usual well printed, and
its detections accurate arid correct. It is
published every Thursday morning—sub
scription 83 00 per annum, including a Glass
and Coin Bvkfree. jDye offers as an induce
ment (and it is fair and liberal) to subscri
bers who will persuade their friends to be
come patrons—sending them S3 dollars
will receive a beautiful Swiss Magnifying
Glass , with the postage paid in the bargain,
for their trouble. It is just such a detector
as every Merchant, Hotel-keeper and busi
ness man should be in possession of. For
our part we would not do without it; al
though we get to see very little money, but
what we do get, with this detector by our
side, we are not easily "taken in."
CLOTHING. —It always affords us pleasure
to be of service in any way to our fellow
creatures, and we rarely let a chance slip
of doing a good turn when not attended
with too great inconvenience or expense.
Ii is in this spirit that we inform our
friends of the surrounding country that they
may save much by buying their clothing of
Mr. David Lowenberg of this place. He
keeps the only full and complete stock in
town, and is a gentlemanly and honest deal
er.
Now Mr. Loweuberg has not asked us to
write this, nor will he pay us for it, as we
should refuse to accept pay either direcdy
or indirectly. We give it an an item of use
ful information.
HORRIBLK MURDER—ROUBLE PARRICIDE
The Utica Telegraph gives the particulars
of the most revolting murder committed at
Thompson's Mills, Poolville, Oneida Coun
ty, by WHliam Comstock, who took the life
of his father and mother on Saturday night
last, and fiendishly ail their hearts out of their
bodies. There is no cause assigned further
than that the son was of intemperate habits,
and it was believed was laboring under an
effect of mania-a-potu nl the time.
In his own statement he said he was tel
egraphed to procure the hearts ol human
beings. After murdering his parents, Jarcd
and Clarissa Comstock, he went to his broth
er's house to perpetrate the same hellish
deed upon him and his wife, but they for
tunately were not at home. He is under
arrest. The Coroner's jury rendered a ver
dict in accordance with the above facts.—
Comstock is about thirty-seven years old
and unmarried.
BKNEPACTORSRV MANKIND —It is not he who
invented Brusseis Carp?t or Gold Brocade,
whom the masses have red sort 10 ' lo 'd in ra *
gard, but he who furnishes something use
ful to every-body. One of our government
officials lately returned from his mission in
Brazil, tells us an anecdote that among the
first* enquiries made of him about his ac
quaintance with our public men, was wheth
er he knew the American Chemist, Dr. J. C.
AVER, who invented the Cherry Pectoral and
Cathartic Pills. As these articles (more par
ticularly the Cherry Pectoral) are in general
use in the cities of South America, they are
the most prevalent representations of Ameri
can products, and as many thousands there
as well as here, owe to them the recovery of
their health from malignant diseases, it is
not Strang* they should hold.tho inventor in esteem,
but rather simplein them to suppose that the
Doctor is the only man of mark we have
among our twenty-five million people.
CiT In consequence of ihe many difficul
ties that have arisen with regard to the con
struction of the Relief law, passed by the
Legislature at the extra session, in October
last, Mr. Cofiey has introduced a bill in the
Senate to remedy the defect. It provides
that the Sixth Section shall bo so construed
"That the Slay of execution provided for,
shall extend as well to judgment entered
more than a year prior to the passage of
said.act, as to judgments entered within one
year from that dale."
THOMAS VV. SMITH, who was acquitted for
lite murder of Carter, was delivered over to
his sister; medical testimony having been
adduced that confinement in a lunatic assy
lum would cause speedy death, while care
ful attention would restore lum to health.
The sister was placed under bonds to the
amount of $6,000. Site has since taken her
brother and gone to the State of Delaware.
PCNNIIVLVANAN.— This staunch democratic
paper has been considerably enlarged, and
greatly improved in appearance by the new
type. It ranks among the leading journals
of the day, and has a wide circulation.—
Terms, six dollars a year in advance, or sev
en at the expiration. 6
DONATION VISIT. —It will be seen by card
in to day's paper, that REV. E. A. SHARIIKTTA
and his family will be happy to meet their
friends at the parsonge on Tuesday, the 9th
day of February, 1858. It is hoped that all
who are able and willing will call and re
spond.
AacNOWLEiMMisTs.—Hon. Paul Leidy and
Hon. Wm. Montgomery, Members of Con
gress, have placed us under obligations to
them for public favors received.
Ent and Smith, Esqs., members of the
House of Representatives, have our thanks
for legislative documents.
We call attentron to the advertisement
of C. E. TODD in anothercolumn. We have
every confidence in the firm, as they pay
their advertising bills in advance. We have
also some nice specimens of their pencils,
which are as good as those sold at the
shops.
Measnrea, net Men.
The enemies of the Democratic party are
everywhere predicting its disruption, and
rejoicing in the hope that it is soon to be
broken up and destroyed. Whilst we are
in no way surprised that such a hope should
fill them with joy, and can readily under
stand the grounds upon which their predic
tions are based, .we do not entertain the
slightest fears of their ever being realized.
It is true that prominent members of the
democratic party have seen proper to differ
with the administration upon its Kansas and
Central American policy, but it by no means
follows that iu so doing they intend to cut
themselves loose from the democratic par
ty ; and indeed, il such be their intention,
it would not necessarily, or even probably,
end in the disruption of that party. The
very idea upon which the democratic organ
ization is based, and on which it has invar
iably acted, will save it from such a catas
trophe. With measures and not men, as the
foundation-wall npon which it is built, it
necessarily follows that it can never be des
troyed so long as it adheres to this as the
fundamental doctrine of iis existence. Like
all other parties it has its great lights—men
to whom it is deeply attached, and whose
lead it delights to follow. But this attach
ment springs less from any partiality of the
party towards its leaders than from admi
ration of commanding abilities, coupled
with a long and consistent devotion to the
great doctrines upon which it is founded;
and whenever, therefore, we find one of
these, 10 matter how great his personal
popularity, deserting the leading measures
of t! a democratic parly, wo will stujly see
that party as promptly deserting him.—
"Men change, but principles lives forever,"
and immutably fixed as it is upon unchang
ing rock of principle, neither the demo
cratic party, nor any respectable portion of
it, can ever be made to lollow permanently
those who, misled by error or influenced by
ihe promptings of ambition, may choose to
depart from the great political chart laid
down for its government. We are not with
out many examples iu support of what we
have said. The merest tyro iu the history
of the democratic party is familiar with the
fact that attempts have again and again
been made to destroy its organization, by
men who had enjoyed its fullest confidence
and occupied its highest places of honor
and trust. All know the fate of those who
deserted their party and made war upon
the administration of General Jackson.—
Whilst he, for adhering firmly and unflinch
ingly to its great principles, was applauded
and sustained by the people, they, as a con
sequence of deserting them, were driven
into political exile, and stripped of their
power and influence. And lew there are
who do not remember the fate of one who,
after having spent the best years of his life
in the ranks of the democracy, and won the
highest honors in its gift, ingloriously buried
himself in a bold attempt to bury his old
party. We might give other instances of a
like character, but these are sufficient for
our purpose, and enough to show how vain
is the idea than any man, or set of men, no
matter how commanding their talents, or
how high their positions, ran, by deserting'
the principles of the democratic party, des
troy its organization, or materially damage
its prospects of continued and ultimate suc
cess. Such attempts have often been made,
and £.? ol'letl failed; and qgcli predictions
as our opponents are now putting forth have
always ended, as these will certainly end,
in idle prophecies anu unmeaning boasts.—
Wash. Union.
THE INAUGURATION. —The administration
of Governor VVm. F Packer commenced
Tuesday, under the most favorable auspices.
The day was clear, warm and delightful,
assuming more of the mildness of spring
than of the rugged asperity of winter. An im
mence pisplay of military aud a large assem
blage of ladies graced with their presence
the inauguration ceremonies. Thousands of
strangers and many ol the citizens of Ilar
risburg appear lo liavo boon present. Men
of a'l parties and opinions were there to
attest their cheerful acquisceuce in Ihe
decision of the majority, and pay a proper
respect to the new Chief Magistrate of a
great State Such a demonstration is a
gartifying proof of ihe benign influence of
popular govern ment, andsho ws wi h what ar
dent devotion tho masses of the people are
attached to establish institutions. To Gov.
I'ackor the reception which he was met, and
the bright dawn of his executive career must
have given cause for secret joy and the in
spiration of high hopes. We trust that his
administration will prove as prosperous and
useful BS it has been brilliant it its incep
tions.—JJanisburg Union.
N BWSPAPERS. —Judge Louisstreet, the new
ly elected president of the South Carolina
College, thus sets forth the value of a'news
paper:
Small is the sum that is required to pat
ronizo the newspaper, and most amply re
numerated is the patron. 1 care not how
humble and unpretending the gazette which
he takes, it is next to impossible to fill it
fifty-two times a year without putting into it
something that is worth the subscription
price. Every parent whose son is off from
home, at school, should supply him with ■
paper. 1 still remember what difference
there was between those of my schoolmates
who had and those who had not access to
newspapers. Other things being equal,
the first were decidedly superior to the last
in debate and composition at least. The
reason is plain; they have command of
more facts. Youth will peruse newspapers
with delight, when they will read nothing
else.
FIRE IN PITTSTON .—Piltston has again been
visted by another destructive fire—burning
the Steam Mill of Mr. Mott, near the river
bridge, together with the Store and Shoe
shop adjoining, on Monday evening. We
have not learned the particulars.
HT Cool Comfort —Courting a girl in a fros
ty alley after 11 o'clock at night. Wonder
if A—— don't think so.
CP* These are two hundred and fifty vos
eeisnow lying idle in the port of Boston.
"The Will tf th Majority." |
It is really amazing whet an immense
deal of humbug has been originated upon
this theme. The "will Of the majority,"
when justly considered, it is the pride and
boast of our naiion, but it becomes us to
know what we are talking about, when we
undertake to base arguments and draw con
clusions from this phrase, in its abstract
signification. We are governed by the u'ill
of the majority, but we do not thereby mean,
the will of the majority of the gross mass of
the peopl#. If this was required in all
cases, the government would very often
find itself at a dead stand still. If this ab
surd construction of the "will of the ma
jority" had been enforced, there would have
been numberless instances in the past his
tory of the country, in which our system of
government would have proven a most
magnificent failure. The instances are not
few or singular, where Statos, and even our
nation, have been governed by rulers, who
were not chosen by a majority of the peo
ple participating in the election, much less
by a majority of the actual voters entided
to participate in it. A President of the U.
States has held his seat for four years, and
shaped our national policy "for weal or
I woe," who received the voles of only a
minority of the voters at that election I A
; Virginia paper recently exposed this falla-
I cious, red Republican notion of the "will of
the majority," thns :
. "Itis a ridiculous and dangerous heresy
to mantain that an abstract majority rules in
this country. Our's is not a majority gov
ernment, cut a trcveroment of checks and
balances-i-a government of constitution and
laws—where the rights of the minority are
protected 110 less than the rights of the ma
jority. A majority of the members of the
House of Representatives, which is the pop-
I ular representative branch of the govern
ment, cannot pass a law. It requires a
concurrence, also, of a majority of the
Senate, and then the sanction of the Presi
dent—all of which together is more than
equal to a two-thirds vote. A majority of Ihe
people of Virginia is not required to elect a
Governor or to adopt a Constitution. A mi
nority may do either. Suppose at the next
Gubernatorial election the whole opposition
party in Virginia from any cause, were to
refuse to vote, would that invalidate the
election f "Suppose only 25,000 votes were
to bo cast, when we have seven times that
many in the State, would that render the
election less valid! The idea is simply ri
diculous."
At the late New York State election we
believe some one hundred thousand voters
took no part in the choice of State officers,
which would make the persons elected,
minority candidates, though no one dares
question, that they are legally and justly the
incumbents of the respective posts to which
they were chosen.
It is quite clear then that there is such a
thing as an incorrect and absurd construc
tion of this much-talked-of and equally
much abused "will of the majority." It is
apparent that men, for time-serving and
selfish purposes, can talk specious non
sense even about this sacred principle, and
that it becbrrirs us, when they become bla
tant and vociferous over a subject, whose
justice and sanctity no one thinks of ques
tioning, much less ot resisting, to scan well
their motives!
The will of the majority is only of effica
cy and value when ascertained in the legal
way, and manifested through legitimate
channels. The man who seeks his just
power in determining the government, un
der which he is to live, and exercises his
right by expressing his will at the ballot-box
—the C.nly modg known to our laws and
governmental system, by which his will
and that of the fJiajorifyi is to.be ascertained
—has a right to complain if his will has
been disregarded or rendered ineffective by
fraud or wrong. But he, who withholds
his influence, and refuses to participate in
the government through *' legal mode,
thereby to alt intents ana purposes, yields
his rights to others, and empowers those
who do exercise their elective rights, to
select such rulers, to confer such power up
on them, and to frame such government as
to them seems best. Whatever may be the
decision of his fellow citizens, he cannot
claim that any right of his has been viola
ted, or that his will has been disregarded.
He should have done as others did—ex
pressed his will by his vole—and must now
submit to the " will of the majority," as
legally ascertained.
If the public will apply these notoriously
just considerations to exisiing Kansas affairs,
we should soon be rid of much of the clap
trap and absurd nonsense which we are
compelled to hear about the "will of the
majority." There is just and fair ground
for a difference of judgment respecting the
matter of the acceptance of the Lecompton
Constitution. Let ihe discussion be con
fined to this, and not have the subject bur
dened with specious and threadbare devices
to tickle the fancy, and mislead the mind
from the true issues.
FHOM KANSAS—THE LECOMPTON CONSTITU
TION — St. Louis, Jan. 16. —The Republican
learns that General Calhoun has returned to
Lecompton, under Rn escort of United
States troops. It is also stated that he was
to leave Leavensworth on Wednesday last
for Washington with the Lecompton Con
stitution. The vote upon it at the last elec
tion is expected to arrive here to-night.
Ey The people of Bristol, R. 1., we see
it stated, are losing their hair, without
any known cause. The Phoenix says that
several have lost all the hair from their
heads and bodies, the whole disappearing
within two weeks, leaving not even an eye
lash. The doctors cannot .account for it.
ty The birthday of Daniel Webster, the
18th inst., was observed more generally
than it had been in years past in Boston.—
The Webster Association, as well as a large
number of private clubs, celebrated the day
in an appropriate manner.
IT IS estimated that 350,000 gallons of
native California wine were made during
the vintage of 1857, and 50,000 of native
brandy.
Public and Dome Education.
Do children, on the whole,learn more good
or more harm from mixing freely with others
of the same age t This is a question which
many of the wisest parents ponder over and
find it difficult to answer practically when it
comes to the case of their own children.—
Apart from the question of expense, is pub
lic or home education the best for tire child I
Those persons Who aro themselves unedu
cated are very apt to suppose that there is
no question about the matter, that every
thing commonly connected with the educa
tion, either directly or indirectly, is of course,
amongst the highest of blessings. Nor is it
until one child is found to have learned all
sorts of profanity and other vices at school,
and another son returns home ruined from
his college course, that they suspect the
slightest danger to be connected with the
usual means of education.
But those who know what education is,
who know the many dangers and difficul
ties that attend its pursuit, will sometimes
doubt whether public or home educatiop is
most advantageous for their sons. In Eng
land, many have declared on each side of
this important question. Dr. Arnold was in
favor of public education, because he
thought it fostered manliness, independence
and public spirit. On the other hand, one
of the profoundest thinkers in Great Britain,
and now a distinguished Professor in one of
her Universities, and the author of the
"Nitional History of Enthusiasm," has
written a work in favor of home educa
tion.
Cowper was ruined by a public school.—
His gentle nature was crushed, and he be
came so timid of public life, that he had to
throw up the lucrative post of reading clerk
to the House of Commons. On the other
hand, Lord Dudley, a man of profound
statesmanship, was quite disqualified for
public life by the retirement and seclusion
of home education. Not accustomed to mix
freety with those of his own age and stand
ing, his truly great powers were perfectly
useless to society. He used to talk aloud
to himself in whatever company, and had
to resign his position as Privy Counsellor to
the King on that account. Once, on return
ing home ftom the clubs, a friend asked a
seat in his carriage to a certain point. He
fell into a reverie in the carriage and said
aloud to himself, "Confound the fellow, I
shall be obliged to ask him to come home
and dine with me." His friend was a wag,
and he also meditated out loud in the samo
tone, saying, "Confound the fellow, he will
be asking me to dine with him, how shall I
get ofF?" This woke up Lord Dudley, who
then insisted that his friend should go home
and dine with him, and they became firm
friends. On another occasion, he, from never
having been engaged in any quarrel, was
anxious to try his own courage, and for, no
odier cause, grossly insulted a well-known
duellist, a dead shot. They met, and, by
some miracle, he escaped. Having cooly
stood lire, he explained the whole matter
! There can be no doubt that, whatever evil
he might have acquired at a public school,
it would at least have done much toward
| shaking him clear ofsucb serious foibles and
eccentricities.
Sir Robert Peel, who sat on the same form
with Lord Byron at Harrow, always declared
that it was a public education that had made
him. Lord Byron was in a great measure
morally ruined by it.
Different natures, then require different
modes of training, and what will develops
one will crush another. Public education
is found highly useful to English noblemen,
because they hare thus, for a time at lpast,
to take rank according to their merits, and not
their titles.
In the neighborhood of Boston, the feel
ing is decidedly in favor of p.ublic education
and opposed toprivale. Those whose wealth
would make expense no object, prefer their
children to graduate first at the public High
School and then at Harvard. The graduate
I who took the highest honors at West Point
last yeax was the son of a distinguished Uni
tarian of Boston, a young man who had pre
viously graduated with renown at Harvard.
This was one of the most thorough and suc
cessful instances of public education we
know of in this country.
Each of these systems, public and private,
has its advantages, and its disadvantages.—
Where there is sufficient strength of body
and of mind to overcome the necessary
dangers and difficulties, there are unques
i lionably the greatest advantages in a public
| education throughout. But education, like
physic, has to be adapted to the patient.—
j Physically, the rough and tumble, the
| shouts and plays of a lot of healthy boys on
being let out of school, do often as much to
make them men as the lessons they learn
while in it. Many a lad whose parents flat
ter themselves that their son is becoming an
intellectual giant, would be doing far better
for liim, if they would let him wear rougher
cloth aud knock about like and with other
boys of his own age, insteadof keeping him
at home a pale, intollectual youth to pass
through a feeble, sickly manhood to an ear
ly grave.
Mental robustness, too, depends more on
that of the body, than almost any other cir
cumstance, and a mere pigmy acuteness
without this, renders its possessor misera
ble, and enfeebles his entire system in pro
portion as such education prevails.
Morally, public education produces al
ways a very marked effect—ofton a very bad,
but in other cares an equally good result. To
those who hare sufficient strength of princi
ple to go through the ordeal firmly and well,
it strengthens everything good and makes the
whole character more manly, vigorous and
robust in virtue. Yet many of the best dis
posed youths have been utterly ruined by
being thrown, without sufficient care to
watch and correct evil effects, upon a pub
lic course of education.
Let, however, the end be carefully kept
in mind, i. e. to educate the body, the intel
lect, and moral character to a strong, healthy,
and well-proportioned development, let the
tendency and effects of each step taken be
often carefully watched and corrected, and
the youth only gradually exposed to each
evil and danger in propotion as he exhibits
strength to overcome h—then this guard
ed exposure is in no danger of being carried
too far. Without this watchfulness, how
ever, either public education or private will
only lead to ruin. School* can never per
form the work of pareut*.
GOT. PackerT Cabinet.
Secretary of State —William M. Hiester, of
Berks.
Deputy Secretary —Henry L. Dieflenbach,
of Clinton county.
Attorney Qentral —Hon. Jno. C. Knox, of
Clarion county.
Confidential Clerk in the Stc'y'i Office.—J no.
A. Innis, of Easton.
Wm. A. Porter, Esq., has been appointed
Judge of the Supreme Court, to supply the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
the Hon. John C. Knox.
CP* Henry Fife end Charlotte Jones, tbe
McKeesport murders, will be executed on
the 12th proximo. Monroe Stewart, con
victed with them, a fortnight latter.
tW At Havana three hundred men have
died in the Spanish war ships by fever, of
which there was considerable still at Ha
vana.
13T A Vermonter— Senator Douglas, by
birth. He is 44 years old. Mr. Douglas
learned the cabinet-making busines in his
youth, and afterwards studied law.
t#" Col. John F. Carter, fomerly editor of
the Lycoming Gazette, has been appointed
Cheif Clerk to Mr. Allen, the New Clerk ol
the U S. House of Representatives.
THE REV. C. S. BURNETT, while laboring as
a Missionary in Southern Asia, discovered a
simple and certain Cure lor 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, be will cheerfully send the
Recipe (free) to such ss desire it, with full
and explicit directions fnr preparing and suc
cessfully using the Medicine.
Address Rev. C. S. BURNETT,
831 Broadwav, New York City.
WII ITE TEETH, PERFUMED BREATH
AND BEAUTIFUL COMPLEXION—can be ac
quired by using the "Balm of a Thousand
Flowers." What lady or gentleman would
remain under the curse of a disagreeable
breath, when by ueing the "Balm of a Thou
sand Flowers" as a deotrifice, would not only
render it sweet, but leave the teeth as white
as alabaster J Many persona 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 FETRIDGE & CO., N. Y.
For sale by all Druggisla.
Feb. 18, 1867-flm.
aKAaataaah,
On Sunday morning, January 17th, 1858,
in Nescopeck, Luzerne county, Mr. HENRY
KERCHNER, and Miss MARIA HARTZELL, tioth
of that place.
In Berwick, on the 21st inst., by Rev. I.
Bahl, Mr. ADAM Sur.r, Esquire, Constable of
Briarcreek township for four years, and U.
S. Mail Contractor on route No. 3250, and
Miss SAVILLA SrrLER, of Briarcreek town
ship, Columbia county, Pennsylvania.
~ ~ AAAA&A
In Marion County, lowa, on the 28th of
December last, Mr. CHARLES M. ENT. aged
33 years.
The deceased was a brother of PETER EST, mem
ber of the Home of Representatives, and formerly
of this county. lie was afflicted by disease of the
brain whieh censed his death; and was a member
of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of Knox
ville, lowa, whioh met and appointed a Committee
to draft rosolntions expressive of the sense of the
Lodge, in relation to the death of their brother.
The Committee reported resolntions which were
unanimously adopted.
In Hollenback twp., Luzerne county, on
llth inst., Mr. JOHN YOH*, aged 3-1 yrs.
In Fishingcreek twp., Columbia county,
on ihe morning of the 6th inst., Mrs. MATIL
DA MEARS, aged 37 years.
"DONATION.
THE members of the Lutheran Evangelical Con
gregation design giving a donation to their
Pastor, I's A. Milll ic I.T IM, at his residence,
in Bloomsburg, on TUESDAY, TIIE 9th DAY OF
FEBRUARY, 1858. The members and the publio
generally are respectfully solicited at the donation,
where Sharretts will be happy to meet his
I friends. It is hoped that they who feel able and
willing may attend and make good and liberal do
nations. By order of the Committee.
Bloomaburg, Jan. 30, 1858.
Church Dedication.
|>Y Divine Permission, the Bloomsbmg
M. E. Church will be dedicated to the
worship of Cod, on Saturday February 7th.
Bishop L. Scott D. D., Re*. T. Bowman D.
D , and Rv. T. Mitchell, are expected to
Preach during the day.
Service to commence at 10J o'olock, a. m.
GEORGE WARREN.
Jan. 27, 1857.
DR. WALTON'S
AMERICAN PILLS.
JOY TO THE AFFLICTED.
YOUNG AMERICA VICTORIOUS I
i~hNE small box of Pills cures ninety-rine
cases oul ol a hundred. No Balsam, no
Mercury, no odei on the breath, no lear of
detection. Two small pills a dose; tasteless
and harir.lea* as water. Full directions are
given, so that the patient can cure himself
aa certain aB with the advice of the most ex
perienced surgeon, and muoh better than
with the advice of one of little experience
in ibis class of disease.
Sent by mail to any part of the Country
by enclosing one dollar to Dr. D. O. Walton,
No. 154 North Seventh St., below Race,
Philadelphia, A liberal discount to the trade.
Nose genuine without the written signature
of I) C. Walton, Proprietor.
Dr. W.'s treatment for Self-abuse, Weak
ness, &c., is entirely different from the usual
cnurae. Dr. W. has cured hundreds who
have tried others without benefit. The
treatment is ascertain to cure as thesur. is
tn rise. Enclose a stamp, and address Dr.
W. as above, giveng a lull history of yoor
case, and you will bless the day you made
the effort to ascure what is certain—A RAD
ICAL CURE. [Jan. 27. 1858- ly.
LIST OF LETTERS,
13 KM AINING in the Post Office at Blooms
•*-*' burg, Pa., lor the Quarter ending Jan.
9th, 1858.
Lloyd Thomas
Lemons Lucinda
Mosteller Jonathan
Mantle George
Philips Barney
Prentis Arthur
Peck Martin J
Sands J E
Sharkley William
Wagner Benjamin
Wagner C L
Wertman Henry
Wids Joseph
JohnY Lloyd 1
Thomas Lloyd | m
R Rowland 7
Thos Martin I
T. Saul Evans, j
Allgood Davis
Brown Joshua
Cramer Amos
Daily Daniel S 3
David Davis
Fox Charles
Greet Eater
Grie Adam
German John
Herring A George
Hill Rebecca
Hanman Michael
Hart Edwatd G
Joues William
Jones William H
Jonsor. James
Jamas Joshua
Lloyd John Y 3
Persons calling for the above letters will
please ssy they ans advertised.
PHILIP UN ANGST, p. n.
Bloomsburg, Jan. •, 1858. I
GOOD MEDICINES.
CHERRY PECTORAL,
FH (hi rapid Ore mt
COUGHS, COLDS, HOARSENESS,
BRONCHITIS,WHOOPING-COUGH,
CROUP, ASTHMA, AND
CONSUMPTION.
Ii in •Minuted the Ayer's Cherry Pec tor, I
and Cathartic Pill, hare done more Iff pre
mole the poblic health, than any other on*
cause. There can he no question that the
Cherry Pectoral hat by its :h ousand, on
thousands cures of Colds, Coughs, Asthma,
Croup, Influenza, Bronchitis Ac., very much
reduced the proportion of deaths from Con
sumptive disea.es in Ibis country. The PilU
•re as good as the Pectoral and wilt cure
more complaint,.
Everybody need, more or less purging
Purge the blood from it, impurities. Purge
the bowls, Liver and the whole viectral sys
tem from obstructions. Purge out the die
eases which fasten on the body, to work ite
decay. But for disease we should die only
of old age. Take antidotes early and thrust
it from the system, before it is yet too strong
to yield.
Ayer's Pills do thrust out disease, net only
while it is weak but when it has ttken a
strong hold. Read the astounding statement,
of those who have been cured by them from
dreadful Scrofula, Dropsy, Ulcers, Skin dis
eases, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia,
Internal pains, Billioua Complaints, Heart
burn, Headache, Gout, and manylesedan
gerous but threatening ailments, such as
Pimples on the face, Worms, Narvous Irri
tability. Loss of appetite. Irregularities, Diz
ziness in the head, Colds Fevers, Dysentery
and indeed every variety of complainis (or
which a Purgative Remedy ig required.
These ate no random atstemenis, but pre
authenticated by your own oeigbbonand
your own Physicians.
Try them once, and you never will be
wiihoot them.
Prepared by Dr. JAS. C. AYER, Practical
and Analytical Chemist, Lowell, Mas.~tod
sold by E. P. Lntz and all Dtuagisk iu
Bloomsburg, and by Dealers in Medicine
everywhere.
Jan. 11, JB5B-2m.
AGENTS ATTENTION!
rtO you wish to find good employmmt,
and make money with little or no in
vestment, and without interfering with voir
regular business 1 if you do, read this advar
tisement. .
C. K. TODD & Co., 392 Broome StnM,
i New York, are manufacturing and sellag
massive gold Pencils for 85 each, (wbb
are cheap at that price,) and they throw ii a
zifl or prize with each Pencil, worth fnm
$2 up to 85.510 , 815, 320, 825, 830, SO,
875,8100, $2OO and 8500. Don't cry lit
"Humbug! Lottery I" It is no-such the [.
The Pencils are sold at their cash value, qri
all the profile over the firel coat are thro II
into the gifts, which actually cost lha ft t
chaser nothing. The prizes are disiribn il
on a simple plan of drawing, which wo rt
take too moch room to explain, but w)*4fc
! has never failed io give complete satisfacti i.
. We have drawn and sent to purchasers I I
gold waichee of various prioes. 74 purse if
gold dollars, 238 gold lockets, 850 gold chat i,
and a corresponding numbers of other ptiAs,
wiihin two months.
THERE ARE NO BLANKS, but eaiy
purchaser draws a prize worth 82 certi i,
and it stands thousands of chances to b a
higher figure.
We want R good agent in every neighl
hood throughout the country, to solicit p r
chasers, and an. agent, to be aoccest I,
inusl have a Pencil and prize to exhibit. I a
pay agents $l cash for each purchaser ■
obtains, and the first person in any neighl r
hood who applies for a Pencil and gift, t It
receive the agency for that locality. Sho <>
an agent obtain a valuable prize to exb it
with bis Pencil, he would have little diflici y
in obtaining scores of purchasers, and mak. g
it a paying business.
A NEW IDEA I READ!! READiIt
We ask nobody to send their money till
they know wbai prize they draw. Any pet
rol, wishing to try their luck, can firat 4ml
us their name and address, and we trill mak*
•heir draw and, inform them by return jail
what prize Ihey draw, when ihey can send or.
and lake the pencil and prize, or not, what
ever they choose. We give this privilege
only onde to a purchaser. Afler lbs first
drawing, every purchaser will be required to
send in advance, through the authorized
agent. We will send with each drawinelhe
number taken out, with fnll description oflhe
plan of darwing. Address
* C. E. TODD & CO. .
Jan. 20. 1858. 392 Broom Street, N. Y.
EXCHANGE HOTEL.
PETER BILLMEYER, FrojtrJeUr,
fllakes pleasure in announcing to the pub
lie that he alill occupies ihis I rge and
commodious Hotel, in BLOOMSBURG, PA.,
and is yet, as ever, prepared to accomodate
his guests. The traveling public may de
pend on all comlorts at home, as his house
is entirely furnished and kept in order.
BIS TABLE
Will be supplied wilb the beet product* the
markets afford, and HIS RAU is furnished
with the choicest liquors. The proprietor ha*
in connection with his hotel fitted out in the
basement an
OYSTER SALOON,
where he can supply everything in the war
ol EATABLES. Fresh Oysters, Sardines,
Tripe, Beef Steak, Fish, Sic., Sic., will be
kept on hand for the accommodation of hie
guests and the pnblio in general.
He also has in connection with bis hotel
an excellent Omnibus Line, running regular
ly several times per day to and from lha
Depots on the arrival of the Cars, by which
passengers will be pleasantly conveyed lo
the Depot Stations, or taken from, ot con
veyed lo their residences, if desired.
BP" He will always be happy lo entertain
and accommodate his friend* to the utmost ef
bis ability.
Rloomeborg, Jan. 20, 1838.
LOST.
fhNE day last week a valuable Caste*
Breast Pin was lost between the rest,
dances of Robert Ralston and George Beidle
man, in the road near the Fishingcreek in
the Vicinity of the-iron Dale Furnace. The
finder will be rewarded by leaving it at ihia
offioe.
Bloomsburg, Jan. 20; 1858.
Ok HENRY ZIPPINGEI, QL
JCJ& BLOOMSBURG. jgfc
VfIFFICULT repairing warranted ; spec.
M - w lacles and glasses for spectacles; glasses
for hunting cased watches, and other watch
material for sale.
Ma roll 27, 1857 .<
LARGE assortment ol Iron, (Reel and Nail*
for sale at the Arcade by
May 27, '57. A. C. MRNSCH,