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. CLEAKFIELD, PA., MAY 0, 1857.
. AMERICAN REPUBLICAN
COUNTY MEETING.
A meeting of the American Republicans of
Clearfield county will be held in tne luuh i
HOUSE in Clearfield Borough, on U twts
DAY EVENING. MAY 2th, (Court week.)
lion. James T. IIale, Samcel Lixs, Esq., and
others, will address the meeting. Many.
KANSAS.
Recent advices from Kansas state that Sec
retary Stanton, who is the acting Governor in
the absence of Mr. Walker, has issued an ad
dress to the people of the Territory, in which
Le says the Administration has recognized the
authority of the Territorial Legislature and
the validity of the Territorial Laws, and has
especially recognized the act providing for a
Constitutional Convention. .Notwithstanding
the people of Kansas were promised by the
present head of the National Administration
that they should have "a free, independent
and uninterrupted expression of opinion," yet
he thus seems to be following the path'of his
'illustrious predecessor," sanctioning the
frauds and outrages that have been committed,
and appointing the worst specimens of Border
Ruffians to fill tho important offices in the Ter
ritory. The direct tendency of all this is to
have a pro-Slavery Constitution adopted by
the Convention called for that purpose. This
convention will be controlled by the Border
Ruffians, as not half the Free State settlers, if
they were disposed to do so, could vote for del
egates, as is explained by tho following articlu
from the Herald of Freedom, printed at Law
rence, Kansas, a copy of which has been hand
ed us by a friend. The Herald says :
"To show how much voice the people are ta
have in the convention we will state the fact,
that in 'Johnson county' embracing the Shaw
nee reservation, and which is not open to set
tlement by the whites, and in which fifty bona
fide settlers do not reside, some three tiiois
axd names are registered. Theso names are
the members of a secret lodge in Missouri, who
have banded together for fraudulent purposes,
and who have prctewled to take claims on the
Shawnee reservation, continuing their actual
residence all the time in Missouri, and are car
rying on business there, as if they never had
been in Kansas, as nine-tenths of them never
have, save when here on their plundering or
Toting expeditions. These nou-residents form
the basis of representation in the Constitution
al convention, and are entitled to one delegate
in that body for each sixty registered voters.
The 3,000 names will entitle them to fifty rep
resentatives. With the view of silencing the
Lawrence district, it issaid we were detached
from Douglas county on the eve of the session
of the bogus Legislature, and attached to John
on county, of which the reserve is composed,
with the design of neutralizing our votes by
non-residents from Missouri.
"To show that these fifty representatives
from the Shawnee reserve district are to con
trol the Constitutional convention, we may
state anotj'er fact. In Shawn je, Brcckenridge
and sevaral other counties where a heavy Free
State rote would have been polled, if the peo
ple had chose to vote, the ollicers appointed to
take the census have resigned or declined the
appointment. In this way the voters of these
districts wiH not be returned in the census,
will not be represented in the convention, and
though they are the most populous portion f
the Territory in fact, they will be treated as
though they had no existence. What is true
of these we have no doubt will be true of all
the ini.tnd districts where thore is nothing else
than Free State voters.
"The pro-slavery parly were anxious the
people ol the territory should, to some extent,
participate in the election, knowing this fact
would strengthen their chances at Washing
ton j but if they do so they will do themselves
- very great injustice. The plan is one which
was designed to seduce Free State men into
action for the purpose of defeating them.
We were willing to join issue with the pro
slavery party, and would be glad to do so at
the ballot-box ; but we can never consent to
meet them while fraud and violt-nce charac
terizes every actien of theirs. Neither will
wo consent to be permanently enslaved by a
et of scoundrels who have committed every
manner of excesses to carry their villainous
plans into execution, and who are non-residents
of the territory."
With all the fraudulent demonstrations that
stare it in the face, and sanctioned as they are
by the President, the Herald does not despair
of Kansas becoming finally a Freo State. It
thinks rineteen-twentieths of the population
are in favor of a free State, and that this dis
parity is on the increase. It is true, that the
ultra measures adopted to make Kansas a slave
State, have produced a reaction, the direct
fruits of which are to be seen in the election
Of a Free State mayor in Leavenworth City ;
and the success of the entire emancipation
ticket in St. Lonis, in the slave State of Mis
souri, shows plainly that the feeling has spread
beyond tho Territory. Theso things are all
calculated to enliven hope, which "springs e
tcrnal in the human breast," and assure us that
ultimately Kansas will bo a Freo State no
thanks, however, to President Buchanan. The
- effect of the policy and course pursued by the
Administration will, we think, only postpone
the day of ditenthralment and freedom for tho
.people of that Territory.
Graham's Magazine. The May number of
this sterling periodical is on our table, and it
affords us pleasure to be able to say, that its
new publishers are rapidly redeeming the
promises made to their readers on entering
upon their work. There is a marked improve
ment in the illustrations, both in design and
' execution, whilst the literary matter is of that
order of excellence which will not fail in ren
dering it even more popular than it has ever
been before.
Correspondence of the "Bailsman's Journal.
Uabbisbceo, May ist, loot .
Ma. Editor : The Legislature have passed
an act to seperate the Superintendency of com
mon schools from the official duties hitherto
exercised by Secretary of State, and have
made the Superintendency ol common schools
a distiuct office. Under this law, the Gover
nor nominated Henry Q. llickok to this office,
and the nomination was unanimously confirm
ed on last Tuesday morning. Mr. llickok was
chief clerk of the school department, under
A. G. Curtin.
Let me tell you more about tho extraordi
nary snow storm of the 19th and 20th ult. The
greatest depth of snow that I have heard of, is
three feet and a half. No trifling affair for the
20th of April. This was at llazleton. . It was
40 inches at Janesville, upwards of three feet
at Beaver Meadows and two foot and a half at
Rockporte. In Jefferson county, Kentucky,
it was 10 inches deep.
No doubt your readers have seen repeated
notices ol an epidemic" that has been raging
among the hogs of the west. This is called
the "bog cholera." At Ingraham's distillery,
in two month's, ending 21th October, 1,300
hogs died; and at a distillery at Pitt3bur,
2,570 have died since the 18th of October.
Mr. Fate, of the Rising Sun, lost 500. Mr
Plumer, of Covington, 500. Messrs. Graft", of
Aurora, 4,5 1C Since the disease made its ap;
pearance, 10,43 have died at New Richmond
and 6,000 in the vicinity of Aurora. The
number of hogs that have died of this disease,
so far as ascertained, runs as high as 60,000,
and would equal, if fat, $050,000.
Now there are some remarkable similarities
between this epidemic of the four footed ani
mal of the west, aud the epidemic of the Na
tional Hotel at Washington. Can the causes
be the same 7 I clip the following from the
Pittsburg Er cuing Chronicle of the 27th :
"It is conclusively shown that that the 'hog
disease,' which has proved so fatal in the west,
is caused by the animals eating the grain lrom
which whiskey is made, after it has been used
at the distilleries. A chemist who lately
analyzed a barrel of Ohio whiskey, gave his
opinion that there was strychnine enough to
kill thirty men in that one barrel."
. See this, also :
"Dr. Hiram Cox, chemical inspector of nl
cohclic liquors in Cincinnati, states, in an ad
dress to his fellow citizens, that during two
rears li lia xuaxlo 210 inspections of various
kinds ol liquors, and has found more than
nine-tenths of them imitations, and a great
portion of them poisonous concoctions. Of
brandy he does not believe there one gallon
of pure in a hundred gallons, the imitations
havirg corn whiskey for a basis, and various
poironous acids for the condiments. Of wines
not a gallon in a thousand, purporting to be
sherry, port, sweet Malaga, &c, is pure, but
they are made of water, sulphuric acid, alum,
Guinea pepper, horse raddish, &c, and many
of them without a single drop of alcoholic
spirit. Dr. Cox warrants there are not ten gal
lons of genuine port wine in Cincinnati. In
his inspections of whiskey he has found only
from 17 to 20 per cent, of alcoholic spirit,when
it should have 4- to 50, and some of it con
tains sulphuric acid enough in a quart to eat a
hole through a man's stomach."
We know, Mr. Journal, that distillers use
many poisonous and deliterious drugs in the
manufacture of whiskey, in order to increase
the quantity to be obtained from their stock of
grain, so that the familiar name of modern
whiskey is "Rot Gut." Of those who died of
the epidemic of the National Hotel, it was
said, "their intestines were decayed." I make
no comments I draw no conclusions, but deal
simply in facts. There are immense profits in
the liquor traffic.
The New York Liquor Dealers Association
numbers over 5,C00, and has a cash fund of
000,000. The Legislature of New York pas
sed at its last session, a stringent liquor law,
and this Liquor Association intend to spend
this $300,000, in testing the constitutionality
of this law.
The House have reconsidered, the second
time, the vote on the bill securing three mil
lions of dollars to the Sunbury and Erie Rail
road. The bill was lost the first time by a tie
vote, 45 to 45. The s-jcond tima by 4G to 46.
After the reconsideration was carried, the fur
ther consideration of the bill was postponed.
During the discussion of this subject, it was
painful to hear members accuse each other of
being influenced by pecuniary considerations,
In their votes for Banks, the sale of the Main
line and the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Bill,
&c. It is not pretended even by the members
themselves, that money has not great influ
ence in controlling the votei cast on those
bills in which there is pecuniary profit to the
persons interested in having them passed. In
deed they charge each other sometimes, of
having a particular familiarity with those
members of the Third House, (walking arm in
arm with them to and from the capitol,) who
are the representatives of "bank schemes, Kc.
There was an effort made to-day to take up
tho loose log bill, but it failed. In order to
tako it up, a motion was made to suspend tho
orders of the day; this required a two thirds
vote, and was lost, by 40 yeas to 38 nays. It
may be that the enemies of the bill are supe
rior to its friends in their knowledge of par
liamentary tactics, and will, in the end, defeat
it by the cunning use of those legislative rules
designed to facilitate business. Logos.
E7Tbat portion of the public lands in Io
wa upon which the Indians have recently been
committing depredations, murdering the set
tlers and destroying their homes, have been
withdrawn from tho sale on tho 4th May.
TF"Secret Societies of all kinds are sai,d to
be increasing in France, the aims of which are
supposed to bo political, and their existence is
said to be very annoying to the peace of the
Emperor Louis Napoleon. The Government
officials find it impossible to follow them up,
and they are said to bo more rife than at any
period since the revolution.
OT"The Supreme Conrtof tho State of Illi
nois has recently decided that cattle running
at large, if found upon the railroad, are tres
passers, aud that, therefore, unless thcro is a
very decided proof of negligence on the part
of the employees of the company, there-is no
liability to pay for cattla killed.
: NICARAGUA.
The Illinois, which arrived yesterday, brings
tho wind-up of the filibustering operations on
the River San Juau not merely in the shape
of news, but bodily, in the persons (somewhat
the worse for wear) of a goouiy nuiuoer oi me
fillibusters.- Lockridge's men were all con
veyed to Asninwall in two British frigates,
whence they have been shipped much to the
relief of the inhabitants of that place, who re
tarded their advent with no little alarm some
to tins port anu some to .tcw-onvaua.
On the 12th of April, some days after the
departure of the Tennessee from Greytown, a
Costa Rican force from Castillo, commanded
by Colonel Canty, an Englishman, made its ap
pearance there in the steamer Charles Morgan.'
The fillibusters had already given up tneir
arms to the Mayor of Greytown on an assur
ance of being sent home. On C-olonel Canty s
appearance, Scott, the agent of tho Transit
Companies, both old and new, and a chief
leader in the whole Nicaraguan mischief, was
summoned on board one of the British frigates
to meet the commander, of the Costa Kican
troops, where an arrangement was made for
Scott's personal safety and the protection of
his (we suppose private) property, on condi
tion of giving up Tunta Arenas to the Costa
Ricans, who took possession' of the steamer
Rescue, and of a number of guns and a quan
tity of amuuition.' f
Col. Canty, having thus taken possession,
declared tlw river open, and communication
with the interior had once more been re-established;
Lockridge still remains at Greytown,
intending, perhaps, to go into partnership with
Kinney.
No direct accounts have been received from
Walker, though we have some further infor
mation by way of Costa Rica. It appears that
a battle teas fought on the 11th of March, near
St. George, which Walker attacked with all
his disposable force, throwing a large number
of shot into the town. In the afternoon he re
treated, ereatlv harassed by Gen. Jerez, who
subsequently occupied San Juan del Sur.-
The allies admit a loss of 22 killed and GO
wounded, but claim.'on the authority of deser
ters, to have inflicted a much greater loss on
Walker. They, however, can better afford to
lose fiity than Walker to lose one. the last
accounts, down to the 13th of April, represent
the Costa Ricans as established within 400
vards of the plaza of Rivas, and ready to open
fire upon it. Walker's men were said to be
suffering both from hunger and sickness. De
sertions were frequent, and the speedy end of
the enterprise was confidently looked for
Tribune, Jpril S0i.
Emancipation ix Missorni. The election
in St. Louis is certainly one of the most extra
ordinary developments of our political com
motion. That a city of one hundred aud fifty
thousand inhabitants, the commercial empo
rium of a slave State, too, the oppressor of
Kansas, and the peculiar patron of Atchison.
should deliberately have elected to Congress
Francis V. Blair, "an avowed Free Soiler, was
aeemeu curious enougn ; but mat this should
bo followed up by a victory of a party fighting
its haule upon a clear, explicit, and decided
anti-slavery platform is little short of marvel
lous. It might have been supposed that Mr
Wimcr wTOa,- was elected Mayor, succeded
through some personal or local causes, and
that hence the issue was not a plain one, but
the whole emancipation city ticket was also
elected, and the same party carried a large
majority in both branches of the City Councils
Platforms are said to mean nothing, but the
platform of these St. Louis emancipationists
certainly meant so much as to be the leading
feature of the canvass. It was unsparingly at
tacked by the pro-slavery newspapers and or
ators as purely "abolition" in character, while
on the other hand, theDemocrat, the Anzieger,
and all tho newspapers and personal organs of
trie 'party, openly and strongly advocated c
mancipation principles.
Brownso.v on Taney. Tho last number of
Brownson's Quarterly Review, ranch tho ablest
Roman Catholic periodical on this Ride of the
Atlantic, severely rebukes Chief Justice Tan
ey for his decision in the Dred Scott case.
Mr. Brownson castigates Mr. Taney not only
as a bad Judge but as a bad Roman Catholic,
and denounces his decision as subversive at
once of the Constitution, and of tho teaching
oi tue ltoman.UatliolicChurch, anauch. there
fore as no true son of tint Church either could,
would, or should have sanctioned. He char
acterizes the decision as at war with the au
thoritative teachings of the Popes for nearly
four centuries, and therefore at war with the
tenets of the Church, lie holds that the Chief
Justice, in giving a decision upon the Supreme
Bench, should look beyond the law and the
Constitution of the United States should
look to the doctrines of the Church and de
cide in conformity .with those doctrines.
A etc j.
Exulting. Some of the Democratic leaders
arc exulting over what tliey affect to believe
an alarming disaffection in theAmerican ranks.
when they know, as everybody else does, that
it is confined to a little ciique of trading poli
ticians, chiefly in the East and the South, who
are not recognized by the American Republ
can party, but are generally regarded as awing
ot tne democracy, sailing under false colors.
They are not of that sort of "bosses" on whom
the "handkerchiel experiment" could be prac
ticed successfully, but belong to that other
class wlo are commonly influenced in their
movements by "oats," and always pull best
when attached to a Democjatic cart, as some
of the drivers of that party might perhaps be
able to certify. Indiana Pa., Register.
Cattle Star vi no to Dfatii. We learn
from a gentleman who came in from Concord,
on Saturday, that many cattle are dying from
starvation in that town. The hay is entirely
consumed, and none can be purchased in the
vicinity at any price. Some of the farmers
have come into the city for corn to keep their
stock alive. In several towns in Cattaraugus
county, cows are said to be dying for want of
food. The snow still lies upon the ground,
the roads are almost impassable, and as the hay
and straw, are exhausted, there is no alterna
tive foi the farmers but to suffer their cattle
to die. This is a sad state of things for this
season of the year. Buffalo Courier.
Tub Mormons. News from Utah has been
received from Salt Lake, up to tho 23th of
February last, by which we learn, that the Leg
islature of the Territory has passed an act for
the government of tho militia, and that a
school has been opened to teach infantry and
cavalry tactics. There are indications of a
warlike spirit. The leading newspaper tho
Deseret News denies the right of the Presi
dent to appoint officers for the Territory.
Our billingsgate neighbor of the Gazette ac
cuses us of quackery, because we publish Dr.
Ayer's advertisements. Now this same editor
knows the Pharmacopeia itself is not moro
free from the suspicions of quackery than his
medicines. He knows they are endorsed by
the medical Journals of this country, nre used
and preseiibed by our best physicians, and
have the commendation of professors and em
inent men of character too exalted for his
comprehension, and he knows too that they
have' done and are doing in this community an
amount of good which tho utmost stretch of
his ability can nevsr hope to eiual. Berks Co.
Frtts, Heading, Pa.
CLIPPINGS AND SCRIBBLINGS.
CP"Major Benj. McCullough, of Texas, has
been appointed Governor of Utah. , y
' C7"Queen Victoria has another baby, which
makes the ninth.
tHT"In town the young man with tho brass
coat and blue buttons. He looks fine.
OSuperfluons to put a spittoon in a
church pew for a man that doesn't chew tobacco.
D"Run out the oats, hay and other fodder
in this region. Horses and cattle will have a
hard time of it until they "get into clover.'
EpTJonnubial felicity a male biped whip
ping his wife and then making her kiss him to
get her in a good humor.
t7"Started for Kansas Hon. A.K. Wright
of this place, on Monday. We believe he con
templates making investments in lauds.
H"Gen. Walker's career in Nicaragua it
seems is at an end, and the only question now
appears to be how he can escape with life.
D"Mr. Wm. Gillis, of Elk county, a trans
cribing clerk in tho House of Representatives,
died in Harrisburg on the 22d April. .
K"One hundred and ninety millions of dol
lars of bank notes aro in circulation in this
country. A pretty snng sum that I
C-Eight hundred aud fifty Mormons arrived
in Boston on Monday week,'' from Liverpool,
on their way to Utah territory.
CF3idney Smith compares the whistle of a
locomotive to the squeal of a lawyer when Sa
tan first gets him.
T7Elected Rev. L. L. Still, of Curwens-
ville, as Superintendent of Common Schools
in Clearfield county. Salary fixed at $000.
QvIn our advertising columns will be found
a notice to subscribers to the Baptist Church
Building in this place, to which the attention
of those interested is directed.
H7A fire occurred at Angusta, Florida; on
the 23d April, which burned 2000 bales of cot
ton, the post office buildings, with many stores
and dwellings. Loss $200,000.
C5"Coleman J. Bull, Esq., who withdrew a
few weeks -since from the editorship of the Co
lumbia Spy, died suddenly on last Thursday
morning, after a very short illness.
C7The disease known as hog cholera, it is
said, can be effectually and speedily cured by
a tcaspoonful of coperas, dissolved in watr,
and mixed wi'h the animal's food.
rx?A ohrcwd Utile fellow, who had just be
gun to read Latin, astonished his master by
the following treatment : "Vir, a man ; gin, a
trap. Virgin, a man trap."
ttjForty thousand hogs have died within
the last few months in the West, of cholera.
These hogs were valued at $300,000, and when
fat.would have been worth $050,000.
rE7Budding can be done on the pear, apple
and cherry, in June and July, and on the peach
to the middle of September. Those who have
failed to graft, and have stocks large enough,
should avail themselves of budding.
!T7"Thc Mint will begin on the 25th of May
to pay out cents of the new issue, in exchange
for Spanish and Mexican fractions of a dollar,
at the nominal rates, or in exchange for the
copper cent now in circulation.
rryThc old feud between the two wings of
the New York Democracy has broken out a
gain with renewed fur-, and the party leaders
are far apart as ever, notwithstanding the trea
sury pap recently administered by the Admin
istration to the afflicted parties.
C7Mrs. Cunningham and her Alleeed Mar
riage. The N. Y. 'Commercial Advertiser'
says that the general impression now is that
the marriage of Mrs. Cunningham with Dr.
Burdell will be proved to the satisfaction of
the Surrogate.
7"A Splendid Donation. David Hunt,
Esq., ot Mississipppl, recently gave $30,000 to
the American Colonization Society. On Fri
day last, he sent a check to the society for
$20,000 additional, to be applied to the purpo
ses for which that society is organized.
trpMatrimony by the Wholesale. The Lou
isville (Ky.) Journal says: In the Catholic
Church at Lafayette, Indiana, ou Easter Sun
day, ten couples were married, and each of the
brides was named "Hannah." A cockney
would call this a Hannahmated scene.
K7"Fcncing a Town. The last Clarion Dem
ocrat says the town council have given con
tracts to fence the south of the diamond, and
hopes they will fence and plant the public
grounds, &c. As soon as it is completely
fenced, it needs only white-washing to make
Clarion a finished town.
mThc Detroit Tribune says there is a dem
ocratic conspiracy to drive Gen. Cass from the
Cabinet, and to substitute Robert J. Walker
for him. The Detroit Free Press has opened
up on the old gentleman, the nominal reason
being the Detroit appointments, and other
Democratic presses aro expected to follow.
CrA Missouri astronomer makes ilia start
ling announcement that the great comet, which
is now pursuing its erratic course through the
fields of space, will strike the earth on the 10th
of June, at 20 minutes past ten o'clock in the
morning, at a point near Carondelet. So look
out for a smash up of things in general.
K7"We heard that a desperately enamored
young man, in a neighboring town, threatened
to shoot himself if a pair of blue eyes, a head
of brown hair, and a set of pretty habiliments
from a mantna-maker, refused to put on a plain
ring ot his purchasing, and allow him to pa
for their board and lodging during the rest of
their natural existence. The desperate fellow
ought to be looked after.
C7The editor of the Iowa Reporter calls
with a stentorian voice for Ladies to come
West. He says "the last census report shows
that there are 33,010 more males than females
in Iowa. This was taken in June and does not
include the Spring or Fall emigration. We
are now minus at least 60,000 ladies, to make
up our quota." There's a chanco lor calico
that is matrimonially inclined." -.'-
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. ,
LyctIminq County. There were twenty
thousand logs in the boom at Phelp's Mill on
Tuesday evening a week.
Jrffebson County. Jonas Irely, who was
confined in the Brookville jail, on a charge of
burglary, broke out on the night of the 12th
April. P. P. Blood has been appointed
postmaster, vice K. L. Blood resigned.
Cambria County. On the lGth April, a
voung man named Fox was instantly killed at
Plane No. 8, Allegheny Portage Railroad, a
short distance above Jefferson, by the caving
in of a portion of a coal bank in vhich he was
working.
Montour County. Hon. John G. Montgom
ery, of Danville, member elect from the Lu
zerne district to the next Congress, died a few
days since from the now prevailing complaint
contracted atthe National hotel, Washington.
Dauphin Cousty Several cases of small
pox have occurred among the negroes in Mid
dletown. The Middletown Jonrnal says buy
ers of lumber are very timid this springs but
what has been bought has been at advanced
prices.
Erie County. The Dispatch says cattle arc
actually dying for want of feed in that conn
fy. Water has been lot info the canal at E
rie. The residence of Mrs. Williams, in
Elkcreek township, near Albion, with its con
tents, was destroyed by fire on the I7th.
Mifflin County. A meeting was held at
Lewistown on the 23d, at which resolutions
were passed against the sale of the Main Line
for a sum less than $11,000, against releasing
tho Tenna. R.R. Co., or any other company
P'rchasing, from paying taxes, and disappro
ving of the proposed appropriation of five mil
lions to the Sunbury & Erie Road. The 'Ga
zette' says the meeting was "a small and one
sided affair, (Locofoco, as a matter of course.)
Dr.W. A. Moss, a young and much respect
ed physician, died suddenly on the 24th, of
conjestion of tho brain. A number ol the
citizens of Lewistown have been pulling up
stakes and going West.
Blair County. Mr. Joseph Ake, residing
near Williamsburg, while engaged in bathing,
felt unwell, and calling for his wife, told her
he thought he was dying, and soon after ex
pired. Col. F. Holliday had his hand shock
ingly torn by a circular saw in McCauley &
Co.'s planing mill at Tipton, on the 24th.
Messrs. Ettinger & Co. are about establishing
a steam tannery at Tyrone. Mr. Nathaniel
Brua, of Frankstown township, died suddenly
on the 21st April, just eight days after he had
been married. Tho citizens of Tyrone are
applying for a charter of incorporation as a
borough. The house of Mr. John McMahon,
near Tunnel Hill, was destroyed by fire on the
24th. The trial of McKim, the murderer,
commenced at Hollidaysburgxfh tho 25th. A
IwUer, -written by McKbiu-Tated at Hollidays
burg jail, has been--fttund in the possession of
a man named Bonner, in Delaware co., to whom
it was written, in which McKim almost admits
his guilt, and develops a jdnn for his libera
tion, by proving an alibi that he was some
where else when the murder was committed.
Bonner was arrested, and the letter sent to the
District Attorney
LATEST FU0M HAESISBTJBO.
Harriourg, Monday, May 4th, 18-37.
S. B. Row : Dear Sir': The prospect of
passing the bill compelling the raiting of saw
logs and the manning of the same, is in a
flourishing condition. I think it-will pass to
morrow, if there is not too much money
brought to bear upon the thinking men who
are here. It is the only thing that can defeat
the bill. Tho opposition has offered every
thing as a substitute for the present . bill, viz :
to pass the amendment to license them to float,
and to prohibit the floating above the mouth of
Mushannon creek ; but I say, "whole hog or
nothing." What say our people to this J I
think it the true policy lor us. I may be
wrong, but hope not. We have frightened
them until their bristles stand erect, and if we
fail we can say wo made them very uneasy.
Bill for sale of Public Works passed; also
bill to appropriate 3,000,000 to Sunbury &
Erie road. . Pro Publico.
New Advertisements.
CAUTION. All persons are hereby cautioned
against harboring or trusting my father.
Charles Terpe. on my account, ns I am determined
to pay no more debts of his contracting after this
dato without an order from me.
JULIUS A.TEItrE.
Luthersburg. May 2, lS5-3t.
THE BAPTIST CHURCH BUILDING
in Clearfittld (own. id now in progress, and the
liuiMing Committee gives notice to the subscribers
thereof that their subscription is wanted by the
2nth of May next, for material!) and workmen.
Tbe subscription book will be at Thomas Robins'
store, iu Shaw"s Row. Court week, and those sub
scribers in the South part of the county will find
their names and sums subscribed correctly copied
and left with Brother II. Swan, of Jordan town
ship, who will receipt orcross tbesatnc, which will
be acknowledged in tho pnpers.
mayO MARTIN N1C1IOLP, Sr., Trcas'r. .
NKW GOODST
(REDOES, M A II S IT & C O.,
M would respectfully announce to their custo
mers and tho public in general that they are re
ceiving from the East, and opening at their store
house at Pucna Vista, in Hell township, Clearfield
county, a largo and well selected stock of
DR Y GOODS, GROCERIES. 1URD
niRE,QUEEXSrlRE,4c, which they will sell hs cheap as the cheapest. All
kinds of country produce, boards, (mingles. Ao
taken in exchange for goods, and Cash not refused.
tuve us a call and csamiuo our stock. No
charge for showing goods.
Hell Township. May 6. 1H5" tf.
LIST OF JITR0RS, FOR MAY TERM, 1857.
tRAsn JuitoRS. Clearfield Lorough. L. R.Mer
rcll Huston Arnold Hliss. liell Jos. Nichol
son, Timothy Sundurlaud. Curwensville John D
Thompson. Covington John B. Burmoy. Brad
ford illiam Hoover, KJ ward Dale, tioshen
Kobert Leonard. (i rah a in John W. Willhelm
Boggs Wm Wilson. Karthans Daniel Moore
V illiam Uumaulus. Chest Emanuel lliltehraud
Ileoutir Joseph Millwood. Brajy Elias Kishel.
John l legal, Levi Druuckcr. Bccearia S. K. Jle
garty, Jeremiah Cooper. Pike Ueorge C. Pass
more. Wood ward Lisle McC'ulIy, Hugh Houdor
son. Burnsido Elias Brickley.
TRAVERSE JURORS.
Lawrence Matthew Ogden. jr., Andrew Addle
man, Jacob S. Cole, Abraham High. Burnable
John Patchin, Lewis Rose, Wm. Keath. Huston
Josiah ashburn. Beccaria-John Weld. jr.. B
ILfcS5 ' Jam,?8wt, Joseph M. Smith, Jo
seph Stewart Brady-Samuel Postleth waite. A
oxander Dunlap, Edward (lelnett. Wm. S Tay-
t.hee F.U. Miller. Pcnn-Thomas Martin, Jacob
Douchman Chest-John Klinger. Daniel Jor
man. is. J. Torcr. D.oatur Wui Hughes. Thos.
faring. Morris-Jeremiah Hoover, John B. Ky-
C Sn'"!,cl Men-ell. John ILx-konbury. (lirard
John Nelson. Pctor Lamm. Thos. Leonard. Cov
ington John Mulson, James Allen, Jacob Mau
rer Lrudford-Johu Phirev, sr. Clearfield J.
W Miugurt. Union John llollopeter. Fergu
8onr,,08,"i,n Straw. Alex. Ferguson. Woodward
11. Jlegarty. Pike Irvin Thompson. Kart
naus in. II. Michaels. Graham JobuW.Tur
oer. Curwniville Edward Hippie.
TVOTICE. Tho ttocUolders.of thcTvrone nl
11 Clearfield Railroad are hereby notified that
the second instalment of five dollars a share wa.
payable on the first of March last. A thi d Instal
ment of fire dollars a share will be due on the Ut
of May next; a fourth instalment of fir dollar a
share on tho 1st of June nett; a firth icftnlment
of five dollars a share on the 1ft of July next, a
greeably to resolution of the Board of Manager!.
As the company have now a large force of man at
work, it is absolutely essential to the prosecution
of the work that the stock be regularly paid.
JAMES T. LEONARD,
Clearfield. April 23 1SS7. Treasurer.
LOOK HERE !
ITl II E STOCK OF GOODS
JL in the store lately owned by II. D. Fatton,
has been purchased by the subscriber. The store
will be continued at the old stand at the corner in
Curwensville. where a general assortment of Gro
ceries and other Goods may be found.
25th April. 1807. WM. IRVIX.
BACON, FIUR. and SALT, just received and
for sale at tbe Corner Store.
Cnrwensville. April 2i. WM. IBVIX.
B
AH IRON and CHAIN
chcap at the Corner.
PUMPS, for sale
WM. IRVIN.
A NEW SUPPLY of C'.'FFEE. TEA, P CO Alt.
aud BEST SVUUP MuLAaaES. frrsale at the
corner. laplJ-i . - WM. IRVIN.
s
O 31 E T II I N J "NEW!
LEATHER AND HIDE STOKE,
West End o f priu Crctl Bridge, CLezpsidr.
The subscriber respectfully informs the public that
be haijust opened a Leather and HidcStore at hi
Tannery establishment, in Bellefonte, where ho
will keep constantly on hand a good aisortment of
Leathers. Ac, as follows : Oak Tanned Zjhinis.'t.
Sole leather, Hf.ut.lncL Spanish. SoU ljimlhrr.
French Catf-slius, Bellows lstallttr. Oil Tanned
Isaciiir Leather, Sjitit Lralhel, Patent French
Ctilf-lis. Madnis Boot Situs, Jieti lie it us aud
Pink L'.niur, Cape Biiviiiits and Gaiter Kid, '
Twiners' Oil. ALSO: Plastering- hair ; Copper
Rivets ami Burrs ; Threat. Bristles fiiiJlVax.atiJ
alt kinds of Tools, Lift, !rc.,fur Slinemrrlcrs.
TO MACHINISTS. For the convenience of Ma--ohinista
of all kinds he will keep on hand a (rood
supply of Patent Riveted Stretched Leather Belt
ing Straps fp'n 1 to 24 inches wide, which be will
sell at city prices.
CASH paid for all kinds of Hides an l Skin.
IT'i'be above articles have been carefully se
lected, and are the very best quality; butealian-I
examine, and judge for yourolve.
THOMAS BUP.NSIIE.
Bellefonte. April 20, 1857-tf.
rp O R l V E R M E N THE COLIMUIA
JL PIER COMPANY has erertcd a Pier in the
River, opposite Columbia, about 400 feet in length,
200 yards from the shore, and 2D0 yards below the
Columbia Bridge, for the hitching and securing of
Rafts. Aiks, Sic, and of capacity sufficient to bold
securely, and at any stage of water, any nctuber
of crafts likely to stop here at any one season.
The depth of water immediately around and at
a g-.eat distance in every direction from this I'i.-r,
nt a low stage, is seven feet; so that there is not
the slightest danger of becoming fast aground at
any time. By running in the usual course to the
oridge. and then heading out. the Pier can Le
reached by crafts without the.slighte.--t difficulty.
A second Pier is alxmt being erected a short dis
tance below the present one. and isexpvcled to be
so far completed as to be ready fox C during this
Spring's business.
One or more competent persons will be employ
ed by the company, to receive and take change cf
Rafts, Arki. Ac, delivered to them; and strung ca
bles provided, to secure the fleet h-ft in their care.
The charge for fastening to the Piers, the previa
season, will bo One Dollar fur any tune not ct
eeediiig one u-ect ; and Fily cents for each addi
tional treek or portion of a ireel.
This, the company feci assure. 1. will be the very
best and most advantageous landing on tbe river.
No property landing here need be molested, or t
aground and be sacrificed on account of a su idea
falling of the water; but can remain hero secure,
whilst the owner may be trying to sell iu the va
rious markets to which he has access ; and he can
leave here at any time, and at any stage of water,
with his property, if he can do better in ano'licr
market, either by river, canal, or railroad for
Baltimore, Philadelphia, or any of the various
markets elsewhere having his own tims in whi-L
to do so. . liKOilUE BOLE,
Columbia, April 29, 1S."i7. Superintendent.
tA'O W I T X E S S E S;
o THE FORGER CONVICTED.
; JOHN S. DYE IS THE AUTIT i-V
Who has had 10 years experience as a B.iiikr
m and Publisher, and Author of
cj A seriex of Ierttre. at the Brot lifi i 'Pahrmycle
p, when, for 10 sunccsive nights, over
al"&o0.(KHl Teople J
Greeted him with Rounds of Applause, while ho
exhibited the manner in which Counter
5 feiters execute their Fran Is and the
q Surest and Shortest Means of
q IVtectins them !
q The Bank Xnte Ens-r.ivrrx aU x.iy t.-.tt he is the
H jcrejirxt J ndge of Pater Money living.
. GREATEST DISCOVER V OF THE
O PRESENT CENTURY FOR
Detecting Counterfeit Bank Notes.
Describing Every Uenuitfe Bill in Existence,
cj aud Exhibiting at a glance every Coun
O forfeit in circulation ! !
3 Arranged so admirably, that RcrEiiENce is easy
5 ttU'l DETECTION ISSTANTAEOIS.
2 Lr"No Index to examine! No pajcs to hunt
2 up! Bnt so simplified and arranged, that
the. Merchant, Banker and Busiccsj
w Man can see al at a Glance.
ENGLISH. FRENCH AND GERMAN.
.Tnrs Each may read the same in his ows Na
rt tivp Tosgce.
O M.,st Prrfert Bink Xote List Polished.
Also a List of all the Private Bankers in America.
A complete summary of the Finance of Europe-
and America will be published in each edi
ttion. together with all tho Important News of
S the day. Also
o A SERIES OF TALES
pFrom an Old Manuscript found in the East. It
furnishes the most complete history cf
g ORIENTAL LIFE,
"describing the Most Perplexing Positions in
w which the Ladies and Gentlemen of the country
hav been so ofien found. These Storit wiil
gcontinno throughout the whole year, and will
.2 prove the most entertaining ever offered to flje
public.
t.r Furnished Weekly to Subscribers 0SLT,at
cjSl a year. All letters must be addressed to
j" JOHN S. IYE. Biioh'KK.
3 Publisher and Proprietor, 70 Wall Street, Jf. Y.
M April 29. is37-ly
4 MONEY MAKING TRADE FOR
XJL fhVf HOLLA li.
JEFFRIES'! MANUAL F PROFITABLE
USEFUL TRAPES. ARTS ANI OCCUPATIONS.
WITHOUT A MASTER. IS NOW READY FOR
SALE. T his is one of the most valuable little hooka
of tho times, to all persons out of employment,
as a number of money making trades and arU.can
be learned without a master, beside all ihe genu
ine and popular receipts, and instructions of the
day, for tbe manufacture of the most beneficial,
and saleable article, now in common use. Any
pcrt-on forwarding one dollar post-paid, toC.JE I
FRIES, Jeffrie. CI "sr. field Co . I'a.. OT to A. If.
Dmiman, Tyrone, Blair Co., Pa., will receive a
copy by return mail.
And any person forwardinsr twenty-five cent?,
post paid, to C. Jf.pfkikh, will receive by return
mail, one of the thrco following instructions :-r-
How to make the celebrated artificial I'oxet.
How to raise double crops, of all kinds of vegeta
bles, with little expense, and how to cat-h all the
Wolves, Foxes, Minks and Muskrats in the neigh,
borhood. Any person forwarding fifty cents, will
receive the w hole Ibrce by return mail.
June 4. ISMi ly.
CAIITION. All persons are cautioned against
meddling with one yoke cf niulev xen now
in possession of Wm. W. Cathcart. of Vi? ,- t0wr
ship, as the am belongs to mo and onlv loft with
the said tat heart on loan.
, . . WM. M. CATHCART.
rwiu lownsnip, April 18, lS57-Rp2J-j!t-
HOLLO WAY'S PILLS AND OINTMENT,
r for taU.at TU0S. UOBBlf.'.
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