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BY 8. B. ROW.
VOL. B.-W. 32.
CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1857.
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JCLEARFIELD,PA., MARCII 25, 1857.
Resionatio.v of Got. Geart. It Is now a
matter of undoubted fact that Gov. Geary, of
Kansas, has threatened to resign unless de
cisive steps are immediately taken to sus
tain him. He complains that President Pierce
did not sustain him as he had been led to be
lle vo he would, asserts that at least fifty men
trere under oath to assassinate him if li is offi
cial career did not pleas them, says that not
one-half has been told about the outrages com
mitted by the pro-slavery men. and thinks the
adoption of a Blavery constitution inevitable.
Geary is a Democrat, was appointed by Pierce,
and bis statements cannot therefore be pro
nounced "Abolition lies." lie is the third
Governor of Kansas, and when this fact, his
political views, his statements and those of his
predecessors about the condition of affairs in
the Territory, &c.,are all considered together,
we think every individual will be forced to ac
knowledge that there must be something rad
ically wrong in Kansas, and good cause of com
plaint on the part of the Free State settlers.
Last Friday, whilst Sheriff Reed and one of
his sods were in one of the prisoner's rooms
in our county j ail, the latter discovered in a
hole, three keys, made of wood, so perfectly
abaped that they would open several of the
locks. - Upon further examination it was also
discovered that the heads had been sawed off
of some of the lock rivets, and one or two bars
sawed through. The keys were evidently
made out of the jil, and it is generally be
lieved that the horse-stealing, counterfeiting
and thieving scoundrels who are prowling over
the country, have accomplices in the neigh
borhood to supply them with keys and other
means for effecting their escape from the pris
ons in which tbey may chance to be confined.
We trust that measures will be adopted for de
tecting them and bringing them to justico.
Rafting. Several raffs. have passed this
place within the last few days. The river is
iitili too low tlu (Tuesday) nitrning, for safe
runnicg, although some of the light timber
may pass duwn. Some little rain is falling,
and should it continue for several hours, with
the present stage of water in the river, we will
have a good rafting flood.
Ths epidemic at Washington, or, the mys
terious sickness which attacked everybody
who put up at the National hotel, just previous
to the inauguration, and the cause of which
has been traced to the water taken from the
cistern of the house, into which a number of
rats, who had partaken of arsenic had plunged,
is of a more serious character than is genial
ly supposed. Mr. Lenox, of Ohio, died last
week from, its effect, and we see by the New
York papers that the wife of Mr. Jay L. Ad
ams, who stopped at the hotel on her way home
from Savannah, has also died from the sick
ness contracted there. A post mortem exami
nation of Mrs. Adrnjs revealed the fact "that
the stomach had been partially eaten away ;
the bowels manifested symptoms of violent in
carnation ; the lungs were congested, and the
kidneys severely affected." These appearan
ces indicate the presence and action of aisenic
in the stomach. Mr. O. 3. Matteson. member
of Congress, is suffering severely. Many oth
er pcrsoT' in New York, Newark and in Phil
adelphia, beside the President himself, are
much enfeebled by the attacks of diarrhoea,
having their origin, as is supposad, in the poi
soned water which thev drank.
Tee Taeiff. As usual, the important bills
of ths session were rushed throug'i both Hou
ses of Congress during the last day when all
was uproar and confusion. Among those pas
sed is a hew Tariff bill providing for a consid
erable reduction of duties. Iron, sugar, lead
and woolen manufactures are reduced to 2 1
per cent, instead of 40 as now. Cotton goods
are reduced from 2t to 19 per cent. Wool
costing under 20 cents is free ; over that, 21
percent. "Wines and liqours will pay 21 per
cent., blankets 15. Linen fabrics of all des
criptions, 15. Dye-stuffs, spices, and a long
list of articles of less importance, which have
heretofore paid from 10 to 30 per cent., are
added to the free list. These are the main
features of the bill. It will fall most severely
upon tbeiron and woolen manufacturers.
What was cut oct? The Boston Jtlas
ays that the Inaugural Address of President
Buchanan was written on a large roll of blue le
gal paper, which was whole on March Sd, but
on March 4th, after the first interview of the
Presidentelect with the gentlemen he selec
ted for his Cabinet advisers, exhibited many
signs ofthe use of scissors and the gum-pot,
and was read in its patched condition. The
erasures were at tho beginning and the end of
the roll. The Alpha and Omega of the Ad
dress were squatter sovereignty and flllibuster
ing. What was cut ont 7
CWe tender our acknowledgments to Por
ters Spirit of the Times, New York, for a
picture of Flora Temple, the animal that made
mile in 2.21, on Union course, Long Island,
From the Philadelphia North American.
THE LATE DECISION OF THE COTJET OF
NO AUTHORITY.
In do country does there exist a more gen
eral desire and determination to render obedi
ence to the government and laws than in our
own ; and the philosophical observer must pro
nounce ns a law abiding people. We have res
pected the decisions of our higher courts, as
though they were oracles of divinity, and have
regarded their adjudication of a question as
the end of all strife. We. ourselves still ad
here to the doctrine of the supremacy of the
law j and if the recent decision of tho Su
preme Court on the constitutionality of "the
Missour'rtompromise and kindred questions is
a lawful and binding decision, wo see no alter
native but to treat it as the law of the land,
while it remains unreversed, unless we are pre
pared to revolutionize the government. But
the question has arisen a question full of mo
mentous consequences whether the decision,
after all, is actually bi nding in law, or is noth
ing more than the mere unofficial opinion of
the majority of the judges. Judge McLean af
firms in unequivocal language that it is not
binding ; and Judge Curtis fully coincides with
him. This is high authority ; and they estab
lish their conclusion by the most cogent and
obvious reasons. If these two associate judges
are correct in their position, then the whole
subject stands just where it stood btfore the
decision was announced Congress still has
the power, which it has always exercised, to
Ifgislate on the slavery question in the terri
tories, and the Missouri Compromise, founded
on that power of Congress, is still constitu
tional ; nor has the slaveholder a right to keep
his slaves with him in any part of the national
domain where the institution has not been es
tablished by law.
We are particular in quoting the language of
these two justices, that wc may not appear to
attribute sentiments to them which aro not ful
ly and clearly expressed in their own words.
Our first extract is from the opinion of the ven
erable Judge McLean. "In this case," he says,
"a majority of the Court have sjid that a slave
may be taken by his master into a territory of
the United States, the same as a horse or any
other kind of property. It is true this was
said by the Court, as also many other things
which are of no authority. Nothing which has
been said by them which has not a direct bear
ing on the jurisdiction of the Court, against
which they decided, can It considered as au
thority. I shall certainly not regard it as such.
The question of jurisdiction being before the
Court, was decided by them authoritatively,
6a nothing beyond that question." The only
question which the Supreme Couit consider
ed, in refeience to the case of Dred Scott,was
the question whether that case, legit imately
fell within the jurisdiction of the DistrictCourt
of the United States, from whence it was then
appealed to the Supreme Court in full bench ;
in other words, whether any United States
Court could take judicial cognizance of it.
On the ground that this" Scott was not a citi
zen, because of his African descent, the ma
jority of the bench decided that the case did
not legitimately fall within the jurisdiction of
a United States Court. This was the question
which they considered ; and this was the man
ner in which they settled it. Holding that
they could not lawfully adjudicate upon a case
in which one of the parties claiming to be a
citi2en was yet in restlity no citizen of the U
nited Status, they dismissed it ; and so far
their decision is binding, carrying with it the
highest legal authority.
The position of Judge McLean is, that when
they had settled this matter of jurisdiction,
the case was ipso facto terminated, and they
had nothing more to do with it. But when they
have decided the question before them, they
are not disposed to stop there. They go on
much farther. They take up a series of ques
tions relating to the subject of slavery in gen
eral, questions which have entered deeply into
tho politics of the country, and give their o
pinion upon them in all the forms of a judicial
decision, intending to settle them forever.
But as this whole procedure is without any
bearing on the question of jurisdiction the
only subject matter before the Court, ns they
themselves judicially affirm the judge pro
nounces it of no authority. It is not binding
in law. It is not to be referred to hereafter in
the settlement of any practical question. It
is not to be consulted as a precedent. Their
opinion on the power of Congress to legislate
upon slavery in the territories; on the consti
tutionality of the Missouri Compromise; on
the nature of slave property as compared with
other property, being founded on no case ac
tually before the court calling for a decision,
is extrajudicial, and is nothing more than the.
opinion of so many private men. "It cannot
bo considered as authority. I shall certainly
not regard it as such." This is the language
of Judge McLean, who has occupied a scat on
the bench of the lederal conrt for a long term
of years, whoso profound legal and judicial at
tainments, whose ripo experience and calm
wisdom, whoso pure character, tried through a
long life, and never found to bo other than
gold unalloyed, hav won for him the respect
of his countrymen, a thousand fold greater
than that which tho mere office brings. This
venerable judgo.with all the responsibility that
attaches to him, declares that tho decision of
the Conrt on these foreign questions is wlthon
authority, and so he himself shall treat it.
ne is not the only member of the Court who
holds this opinions. Judge Curtis, a younger
man and a younger judge, but of a profound,
comprehensive and discriminating mind, en
riched with all stores of legal learning, who
has hitherto been classed among those ultra
conservatives who lean wholly to the South,
coincides with Judge McLean, both as to the
conclusion that the judgment of tho Court on
those points lacks authority, and also as to the
grcunds of this conclusion, ne says, "I do
not consider any opinion of this Court or any
Court binding, when expressed on a question not
legitimately before it. I dissent, therefore, from
that part of the opinion of the majority of the
Court, in which it holds that a person of Afri
can descent cannot be a citizen of the United
States; and I regret I must go further, and
dissent from what I deem their assumption of
authority, to examine the constitutionality of
the act of Congress, commonly called the Mis
souri Compromise act, and the grounds and
conclusion announced in their opinion. On
so grave a subject as this, I feel obliged to say
that, in my opinion, such an exertion of judi
cial power transcends tho limits of the author
ity of the Court, as described by its repeated de
cisions, and as acknowled in this opinion of the
majority of the Court." Judge Curtis does
not consider any opinion of a court as bind
ing, when expressed on a question not legiti
mately before it ; and he affirms that the Su
preme Court, according to his own repeated
decisions, has transcended tho limits of its
authority in so exercising its judicial power.
We doubt not that his view exactly tallies
with that of the great body of our citizens who
are not versed in the peculiar lore, and langu
age, and mysteries of the courts of law, but
who are intelligent, educated, ond endowed
with common sense. It stands to reason that
a court should not pronounce upon a case that
is not actually before it for decision. - Other
wise itcan settle all disputed questions over
the whole land, whether brought to its bar or
not. It.can put to rest every political topic of
the day, so as to tie the hands and tongues of
tho whole nation. An administration would
find such a court (if the court had the same
political bias with itself) a very convenient
instrument for its purposes one which would
have admirably suited a Charles the First or a
James the Second. But this puts all our inter
ests, life and liberty included into the hands
of an unrestricted judiciary. Every one sees
that the Court has ample, yea, a fearful author
ity, even when confined to its legitimate bus
iness of deciding upon cases that are brought
to its bar. And when, as in tho present in
stance, it has given its judicial opinion on ca
ses not legitimately before it, it has gone be
yond the bounds of its jurisdiction; it is out
on the public arena, where its opinions are no
more flian those of private men. not so weigh
ty indeed as the opinions of the Attorney Gen
eral, who is the law adviser of the government.
So Judge Curtis and Judge McLean have de
cided. But how is the matter to be tested 1 The
present Congress or the next Congress may
try the validity of this decision. The differ
ent departments of the general government
have a self-defensive right, which justifies each
of them in examining and repelling aggres
sions upon its own prerogatives and bounds.
Congress has always exercised" the power
which is now for the first time denied to it by
the court. And certainly if the court has
transacted the limits of its authority in the
manner and from of its decision, the Congress
of the nation will find a method to set their
illegitimate opinion aside ; we do not say the
present, but some future Congress which tho
people will elect in reference to the momen
tous issues involved in these questions upon
which the court assumed to pronounce. But,
if those questions the right of the slave-holder
to take slavery with him into any territory
of tho United States, and others that we hare
mentioned should hereafter be legitimately
brought before the Court, and decided in the
same way what then could be done? Per
haps we might answer : sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof. Congress will know how
to discharge its own duties when the emergen
cy comes. But the people are the fountain of
power. They can change the character of the
judicial department. They can amend the e-
normous inequality of southern representation
in it. They can choose a national administra
tion and anatioual legislature of apolitical
complexion wholly diflerent from that which is
now in the ascendancy. They can thus ulti
mately change the judiciary itself. We may
be well assured that the mass of the people will
not slumber over the questions of such un
speakable import, involving in their appre
hensions not only the liberties and destinies
of this great republic, but also the onward
march of the entire human race in the career
of moral and mental, as well as material im
provement a noble march in which we have
hitherto boasted ourselves to be in the van,
leaders and exemplars, but in which we are
now ordered to retrace our steps and set our
faces toward the darlfness of the middle ages.
"Chaos is come again." But out of chaos,
light, order, beauty and lasting peace may
arise. ''
rrr-Three hundred thousand persons in
Franco are engaged in mining, and their oper
ations show an annnal rains of SSQfiOOflCQ.
KANSAS A 8Z.AVS STATE.
"Buchanan, Breckinridge and Free Kansas"
was the false rallying cry of the Locofoco par
ty in this State in the late contest. The
scheme succeeded in securing the vote of
Pennsylvania and the election of Buchanan.
Its object was to deceive the honest anti-Slavery
voters in the Locofoco ranks, and in the
face of solemn warning from the Fremont jour
nals, the people trusted to this promise. The
day of judgment has arrived, even earlier than
we predicted. Mr. Buchanan is President,
and now we are startled with the first rumb
ling of the storm from Kansas. While Bu
chanan is being inaugurated the bogus Legis
lature of Kansas passes a bill, over the veto
of Gov- Geary, authorizing the election of del
egates to a State Convention to form a Con
stitution in next September, and proriding that
no one shall vote for the delegates who has not
been in the Territory previous to the first of -ipril
next. Now how does the case stand ? The
obnoxious laws still exist in full force prescri
bing the qualifications of a voter. The return
of Whitfield last fall proves that the Slave
Power, by fraud and force, can carry the elec
tion. The Missouri river is not yet open ; em
igration cannot enter the Territory before the
first of April, thus ensuring the election of
delegates favorable to a Constitution with Sla
very as its chief feature. In order to make
'assurance doubly sure," the act of the Leg
islature provides that the Constitution shall not
be submitted to the people for their approval, but
shall be at once presented to Congress and the
admission of Kansas demanded as a State. The
doctrine of "squatter sovereignty" proclaimed
the law of the land in the Kansas Nebiaska bill;
the Cincinnati platform and Buchanan's inaug
ural will make a Locofoco House, Senate and
President cry "Amen :" "Let thy will be
done, oh ye immaculate saints of Kansas,"
will be their response. "Popular Sovereignty"
will then be practically witnessed in all its
beautiful phases, and the credulous voters of
the middle States, whose eyes longed to view
the lovely Tallies and plains of Kansas, will
have the choice of an eternal disappointment,
or being placed on a level with a servile race,
lorded over and ruled by the lazy but tyranni
cal chivalry of the South. Gov. Geary, who
sees the inevitable event, has resigned his of
fice, determined not to witness tLe perpetra
tion of so horrid and wicked a crime as doom
ing that Paradise to the curse of human Slave
ry. Where are the Locofoco politicians who,
before the late election, boasted and promised
"that Kansas would be a free State 1" Tbey
have an awful sin to answer to an outraged and
deceived people. The iniquity will recoil u
pon the heads of its authors, and the overthrow
of the cohorts of Locofocoism will as surely be
the result. There is now no hope left for Kan
sas ; the fiat has gone forth, and she is now
virtuallychained to the black car of Slavery ;
and upou President Buchanan, the next Con
gress and the Locofoco party, let the rcspon
sibility and treason to promises forever rest
llarrisburg Telegraph.
AFFAIRS IN KANSAS,
CAUSE OF GOV. GEART'S RESIGNATION.
St. Louis, March 17. The St. Louis Demo
crat publishes a statement relative to affairs
in Kansas, given by Gov. Geary. The cause
of the resignation of Gov. Geary is said to
have been the failure of President Pierce to
fulfill the pledges made at the lime the appoint
ment was conferred to support him (Gov. G.)
with the power of the army and militia, ami
tho means of tho Treasury, if necessary ; but
instead of receiving this aid, he has paid 12,
000 out of his own pocket to meet the expen
ses of the administration, has been refused the
aid and support of the military under the most
urgent circumstances, and thwarted by the
Judiciary of the Territory in every possible
manner. The Governor states that not less
than fifty men were under oath, fiorathoday
he entered the territory until ho left it, to as
sassinate him, provided bis official career did
not meet their approbation.
Tho Governor regrets the step he has been
obliged to take, and feels confident that had
the promised assistance been rendered him, he
could have had administered the affairs of the
territory in a manner acceptable to the honest
settlers of both sides. In relation to the out
rages committed by the pro-slavery men, he
says one-half his not been told, lie pronoun
ces the murder of Baffum by Hays, as the most
cold-blooded and atrocious afluir ever witnes
sed, nis version of the Sherrad affair is sim
ilar to those already published. He says, how
ever, that the account published in the Repub
lican over the signature of "Jones," is a tis
sue of falsehoods.
The Governor complains mnch of the ob
structions and multilations of bis official cor
respondence. He says the mail bags were con
stantly opened, and all objectionable matter to
or from him, extracted, ne thinks the estab
lishment of a Slavery Constitution in Kansas
inevitable.
D7"A party hunting recently in Angelina
county, Texas, found two hundred bodies in a
cave, entirely petrified, and dressed in a style !
neither European nor Indian. On the waist of !
one was found a buckle of gold, almost three !
inches in diameter, embedded in the body.
The features were not much sunken, the eyes
partly closed, and even traces of the eyebrows
could b seen plainly.
Thk Teachers' Association of Penn town
ship, met at the School house in Lumber City,
on Saturday evening, March 7th, 1857. The
meeting was organized by William Martin, Sr,
President, taking the chair. In the absence
of the regular Secretary, on motion Eli n.
Moore was appointed, pro tem. William Mar
tin, Jr., William Martin, Sr., David W. Uoyt,
aiid William A. Campbell, addressed the meet
ing on the subject of education and school
government in general, and more particularly
on the method of teaching English grammar.
After the speakers had closed, twenty-one new
members joined the association. On motion,
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meet
ing be published, and that the association ad
journ to meet at Pennville on the first Satur
day of April, at early candle light.
E. II. Moore, Sec. pro tem.
Political Romanism. A secret conclave
was held at Rome, in December last, at which
the state of the Romish Church in Mexico and
South America was considered, the result of
which was the issuing of a document of the
Pope, in which he complains bitterly of the
doings of the new Goverrment of Mexico, de
clares all the Measures taken by it against the
Papal Supremacy, to be null and void, denoun
cing thePriests who obey the laws ot the coun
tries in which they live, instead of the instruc
tions forwarded them from Rome. Here we
have the essence of Political Romanism. The
plea of this Jesuit Policy, is, that the Church,
of which the Pope is the head, is superior to
all other authority on Earth, and that every true
Catholic owes and must acknowledge supreme
allegiance to Rome nay, that when the Pope
commands, he must resist tho law of the coun
try of which he is a citizen, and at !1 times,
under all circumstances, obey instructions for
warded FROM ROME !
The Latest Fraud. We informed our rea
ders months ago, that Mr. Strickler, a Demo
cratic Collector of Tolls on the State Railroad,
was a defaulter to the amount of $55,000. lie
took it to speculate with, in conjunction with
John M. Bickel, late Democratic State Trea
surer. He was a defaulter to tho amount of
$20,000 when reappointed by the Democratic
Canal Board, and Bickel knew it. His bail
paid $20,000 of the $55,000, and now the Dem
ocratic House of Representatives have passed
a law releasing his bail Irom the payment of
$35.000 the balance. The taxpayers will see
how the Democracy are paying off the Stte
debt! This is robber Democracy, and it will
always be so until the Public Works are sold.
Perry County Advocate.
Post Office Orders. It has been recently
stated that the British system of sending mon
ey orders has carried the equivalent of $50,
000,000 from place to place by mail, without
the loss of more than $2,00, while our system
of "registering" letters is so notoriously inef
ficient that all well informed persons now pre
fer not to register them, as tho act does not
make the department responsible, but only
eerves to point out the money letters to thieves.
In England no sums greater than 10 can be
sent by Post Office orders, but in Canada as
large sums as JC25 can be sent, and under both
conditions the plan is believed to have proved
itself perfectly successful. The charge for
each order is threepence or sixpence, and if
larger sums than the limit prescribed are to bo
sent, it is only necessary to purchase two or
more ordeis. It should be introduced here.
Senator Bigler, says an exchange, was can
did enough to admit that he agreed with Mr.
Brodhead in the belief that the effect of the
tariff bill for which he voted, would be disas
trous to the great coal and iron interests of
Pennsylvania, and sought to justify his shame
less betrayal of those intercuts by the flimsy
plea that, "as a Senator he felt it his duty to
look beyond the interests of his own State to
those of all the States." The industrial in
terests of his own State shculd first be taken
care of, before he takes the interests of other
States under his special protection at the cost
of an entire sacrifice of the former. .
noLLOWAT's Ointment asd Pills, are the
finest remedies for Bad Legs. Francis Tom
kinson, of Ottova, Michigan, had the misfor
tune, six years ago, to brak his leg, which was
imperfectly set by the doctor, the consequence
was, that it formed it self into an angry
wound, and despite of the various remedies he
tried he could not get any thing to cause it to
heal, and it was feared by all who knew him,
that he would be lame all his life. About
four months ago he commenced using JTIollow
ay's Ointment and Pills, which soon caused an
improved appearance in the leg, he continued
them for nine weeks, and the leg is sound, to
the astonishment of all who know him.
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he foots up to $300,000. The present Cabinet
Drobablv controls mora ducats and corner lots
than any Cabinet we ever had.
A bridge to cost $50,000, is to be built over
the Missouri, at Florence, Nebraska, a few
miles above the Omaha, and some eight hun
dred from the Mississippi. -
The shipWallace, recently cleared in Savan
nah for Liverpool, with a cargo of cotton rai
ned st $23,000.
CLIPPINGS AND SCRIBBLING.
jyAbsent the editor.
tCIn town 'brimstone' and 'poker.
VJTBig business an overgrown "luromfx"
acting pimp for a certain gentleman. ()
CTn 1819 there were produced In Franco
925,000,000 gallons of wine.
E3pNew corn In the vicinity of New Or
leans is said to be a foot high.
C7"The majority of the Mormon" children
are said to be girls.
E7"Appear a number of new adrertise
rnenis in to-day's Journal, to which we direct
special attention. '
E"A good improvement the board-walks
that are being made from Lewis II. Carter's
down to the borough.
CyThe yearly consumption of tobacco in
Great Britain and Ireland amount) to 26,000
tons.
EF"In France there are thirty six coalfields
in thirty departments, and the annual produce
of coal exceeds 3,000,000 tons.
C7"Becoming fashionable here the Buffalo
system of garroting. A pair of white arms
were seen around a young chap's neck the oth
er night. Didn't hurt him much !
C7"An invisible cement, it is said, can be
made by dissolving isinglass in spirits of wine
by boiling. It will unite broken glass sj as to
render the crack imperceptible.
C3A good book and a good woman are ex
cellent things for those who know how Justly
to appreciate their value. There are men,
however, who judge both from the beauty of
their covering.
T7Thc King of Bavaria, who is a Roman
Catholic, has authorized theProtestant pastors
in his king lorn to raise subscriptions for a
monument which is about to be erected to the .
memory of Martin Luther, at Worms.
E7Straws. The Pope has sent a present to
Louis Napoleon's infant son, of an emerald
formed of two parts, fitting together, which he
pretends incloses a straw from the manger of
Bethlehem, which he has blessed.
?To he still and motionles in bed with an
ins movable rheumatism, and have some very
particular friend call in and suggest the pro
priety of your taking a walk to the window
the air is so refreshing and revivifying is the
height of enjoyment over the left !
(jyA man says, the first thing that turned
his attention to matrimonyi was tho neat and
skillful manner in which a pretty girl handled
a broom. He may see the time when the man
ner in which the broom is handled will not af
ford hira so much satisfaction.
EJ-The Erie Dispatch says a lady In that
county is about applying for a divorce because
her busband will persist in washing his feet in
the frying pan. We heard of a lady who was
about making a similar application becaoBe he
had no frying pana which he could wash his
feet
Died On the ISth, an infant son of Thomas
Mills of this borough, aged about 9 months.
PVT. BARRET T, jrSTICE OF THE
rEACE.Luthersbur?, Clearfield xsounty, Pa.,
will attend promptly to all business entrusted to
him. mnr23-tf
PAY IT. As tho undersigned is certainly go
ing West in the spring, all persons indebted
to him are urged to pay up o! or before the 1st
day of Mry. SAMUEL B. DILLER.
Boggs tp.. March 25, !So7-2tp
VOTICE. THE LUMBER CITY HOTEL
J. l has been reopend and reStfed by the under
signed. who respecttully informsthe publie at large
that he is well provided with house retni r. sta
bling, lie flatters himself that he citn reuuer gen
eral satisfaction to all who may patroniie him.
EXOCIi MoMASTER.
Lumber City. March 21. 1857.
CAUTION. All persocs are hereby cautioned
ngaiDst taking nn alignment of m certain note
piven bv me to Joseph Warner, on the 13th day of
March. A. I. IS57. calling for fifteen dollars, pay
able on Monday tbe Irtth of March, as above. Aa I
have not -received value for the same. I an deter
mine! not to pay said note, unless compelled ao to
do by law. JOHN SULi'iilDGE. .
Mar-h 25, 1357 3t. 4
"I Of. ACRES OF LAND, on the Erie Turn--I
" pike, about 7 miles west of Curwensrille.
and 135 ACKES OF LAND, adjoining the same,
will be sold on accommodating terms: The land
lies well, is all susceptible of cultivation, and is
..j : . i. - L. . : ; . .- u
shingles, sawing or square timber. A saw mill
near :,y. Apply to L.j.tKiss.
mar'25 Clearfield.
iiiuu o , L t a larm ot ti'u acres on me rive.
A above Cnrwcnsville : t,
A farm of 04 acres in Penn township ; t
A farm of 100 acres in Ferguson towr.shfp
A farm of 100 acres in Penn 'ownship ;
2 farms of 103 acr3 each, 'adjoiutng.) in Fergu
son township ;
300 acres timber land in Hell township l
233 acres timber land in Ferguson township.
For description and terms apply to
mar25 L.J. CKAXS, Clearfield. -
TTEXDCE! BARGAINS !! BARGAINS '
V April 21. 1857
There will be sold at public outcry, on the pre
mises of Georirs Wilson. Sr . in 1. l-
Clearfield co., on Tuesday, the 2Iitdayof April)
' t a v w a. ji.. me following DTODertT
Horses. Cattle, and Hos. F p 7 '
Poul i ry. Bacon, and Dees,
Saddles. Bridles, Carriage, fsleigh,
Carriage and lii liar,,... a.
ALSO, farming uten 1I9. such as '
nows. narrows. v aeons. Sleds. " - -Threfching-maehlne.
Cultivator,
CiJer-mill.Wicd-reiVi.Cur.'Tis-box
. Log chairs. Fly nets, VTVgoa sii
Plow harness.' Ao.,
Besides a variety of household goods. Terms toads
known on day of sale by
WILLIAM L. WILS0JT. " "" 1
Maxeh nth. vmT" "