Raftsman's journal; 8. B. ROW, EDITOR A5B PROPRIETOR. CLEARFIELD, PA., JULY 14, 1858. THE "WORK OF CONGRESS. . -TTe find In one of our late Washington ex changes a full list of all the acts and resolu tions, public and private, passed by the late Congress, which sat from December to the middle of Jane six months and a half. There are about two hundred in all of them. Fifty three acts and twenty-five joint resolutions were what is called public acjs. Of the fifty three public acts nineteen were appropriation bills, and two loans on Treasury note bills; leaving thirty-one of a general character. But of these four were to alter the times of hold ing the courts of the United States in various States; thirteen were on subjects connected with the Land Office, land, warrants and land districts. This leaves fourteen acts, of which a majority were for insignificant purposes; cor rectmg enrollments, altering collection dis tricts, providing for the keeping of public archives which might bo classed with appro priations and miscellaneous relief bills, &c. In fact there is little of any importance except the acts for admitting Kansas and Minnesota into the Union as States, and the bill for rais ing a frontier regiment for the protection of Texas. This is pretty much all there is to show in the way of business for six and a half months' session, and $3,000 a year to two hun dred and ninety -six gentlemen of public spirit. , A Costly Moxumext. The Legislature at its last session appropriated six thousand dol lar to erect a monument at llarrisburg, to the memory of those Pennsylvanians who fell or died in the Mexican war. Commissioners were appointed to decide upon the plan, aud perform such other duties as were necessary to carry out the object of the law. These 'Commissioners met at llarrisburg, last week, and after consultation, adopted a design pre pared by a gentleman of Philadelphia, provi ded it would not cost more than thirty thous and, dollars. We presume it was the object of the originators of this. project, that a plain and befitting monument should bo erected to the heroes of the Mexican war, and the action of the Legislature in appropriating six thous and dollars is evidence that such was the case. The cost has now got up to thirty thousand dollars. The six thousand dollars will soon be expended in traveling, and other expenses, so well understood by some of the gentlemen composing the commission. The foundation of the monument will probably be laid, and the Legislature will be bored year after year to appropriate funds to complete the struc ture. There are different ways of leeching the State Treasury, and this is not one of the least ingenious. A Shrewd Dog. The Portland Mrertiser notices a very shrewd dog on Peak's Island, that with much sedateness watches from day to day the arrival ot the pleasure parties, and attaches himself for the day to the party that carries the largest basket. He has been ob- (jtryja iu uj mis on several occasions, a- mong Several parties a short time since, he saw but ou with a basket, and he took to that as readily as' a duck does to water. lie goes In for the largest supplies. There are a large number of political dogs who are now determining the party which will have the largest basket; that one they will join. Hence the policy of the Administration of rewarding new recruits to the neglect of the old stagers, and here j tlio enormous ex penditure of $85,000,000 by the Federal Gov ernment in one year among its flunkies. We believe as much as we believe any thing that a portion of this immense sum of money will be sent into each Congressional district in Indiana to carry the elections against the peo ple. Mark the dogs as they follow the feder al baskets ! A private letter received in New York from one of the most distinguished physicians of France, says that upon consultation by the leading doctors in that empire, relative to the case of Senator Sumner, who is now in Paris, it has been decided to perform an operation upon the back, for the purpose of producing a counter-irritatron. The operation is that of cauterization the burning of the - flesh and muscle to the spinal column. While this op eration is Tery severe, usually, it is said that it can now be performed, by the aid of ether, without producing the slightest pain. It is believed that the operation will prove of the greatest advantage to the patient. Military Encampment. It is estimated that the proposed military encampment at Williarasport, will cost the State one hundred thousand dollars. As there are only fifteen thousand dollars at present in the militia fund, it has been suggested that it would be better to postpone the encampment until finan cial affairs are in abetter condition. It is hardly worth while to run the Commonwealth "Ml further in debt to learn peaceable people the art of war. ? - ' . Folet TCrsed Loose. Mr. Foley, the Ohio member of Congress who "rit a letter " expressing an ardent . desire to be "turned loose" in his district, has been gratified in that wish. The democratic convention to w&ich Mr. Foley looked for a ro-nomin,,. F0mPton democrat was nominated. Bill Montgomery axd Old Bcck. The Brownsville Clipper says that it has obtained the following. letter from the gentleman to whom it was addressed : I - Washin-gtox, Pa., May 2t, 1838. : Enoch South, Esq. My Dear. Friend: I hoped to have visited you prior to the primary election ; but it is now more than probable that I cannot do- so. I wanted to converse with you and to ask your advice and assistance in the contest now going on for nomination. I have learned from others that you were still my friend, and that you considered it un fair to deny me a second term, and you do not know how profoundly grateful I felt when I beard of it. You have been my friend so long, that I wanted to see yon, and to grasp once more your hand, aud to thank you from the core of my heart. , ...,. It is now fifty-six years since the custom of giving a faithful democratic representative two terms, began. To deny this to me, would be a reflection on my conduct, and .would dis grace roe forever. Let Gen. Lazear await his time, and he shall have his two terms without opposition from me or from our county. I only ask one more term, and then I will with draw from the field. ' ; Please speak to your neighbors for me ; do not let them strike me down. All you do for me shall be treasured up in a grateful memory. , I remain ever, sincerely your friend, . , . IVm.. Montgomery. , P. S. President Buchanan drinks nothing stimulating except old rye whiskey. " I told him that yon used to have the best that was ever distilled in our region, and he made me promise to see you and get him some if -yon had it. ' ' " Could you let mo have a barrel, or even a half barrel, of the best you ever made 7 Write me. " I will send a keg of it to the old chief, if I can get it. ; VT. M. ; It may be interesting to the world to know that Old Back "drinks nothing stimulating ex cept old rye whiskey;" His choice of pota tions is a better evidence of his taste than his familiarity with such a fellow as Montgomery would seem to indicate. We may be consid ered inquisitive, but we would like to know whether Old Buck ever got the whiskey so kindly ordered for him by Montgomery. ' ' The Xew York Evening Pcsl has a Buffalo correspondent who thus delivers himself: "Buffalo, with all the natural advantages and position for a great city, with low rents and very cheap living, is just like every oth er large city now, a place of semi-collapsed trade. Some of its large foundcrics and work shops are. either shut up or doing half work. And, what may seem strange to tue high Pro tectionists, those trades sutler most that have no foreign competitors." .'- i There is not a single high Protectionist' in America who does not bold and teach the essential Harmony of Interests that ali must flourish or suffer together that Protection benefits those baanches of industry which are not immediately affected by foreign competi tion quite as much as the other sort. We have affirmed, argued, explained all this at least a hundred times. What The Post's cor respondent supposes "may seem strange" to us, is just what we have constantly aUirmed and predicted. If we close our Iron and Coal Mines, our Factories and Furnaces, we injure our Farmers, Mechanics ' and Day Laborers quite as much as our Manufacturers, even though the former should never work in Mines or make Iron, Wares or Cloth. Why is it that the Free Traders persist in utterly mis understanding us? Tribune. ' i How Did he Get it ? A Democratic mem ber of Congress, from a certain district in Pennsylvania, presented in Pittsburgh the other day, $4000 of Russell & Major's paper at 60 days, to be cashed. Russell & Major have the contract for furnishing certain sup plies for the Utah Army. It is understood in well informed private circles at Washington, hat the contract was given them at an enor mous price, with the understanding that a portion of the profits was to go into the "pri vate contingent fund" of the Administration, to be used for sundry party purposes among others to secure the passage of the "English"! bill." The M. C. above referred to, voted for that bill. Our readers, especially those familliar with commercial transactions, can inferentially connect these incidents, and ac count for this M. C. having that paper, as easi ly as they can add 2 and 2. It would be har der to sav bow it came he offered it so near home, unless you call to mind the old saying that "Murder will out." Greensburg (Pa.) Herald. . ' Life must be exceedingly pleasant in Kan sas. We observe in a recent number of the Leavenwoith Daily Times a statement by Mrs. Pensa Clay well, to the efleet that her son War ren was arrested by the sheriff of Burlington county, on tho 1st of June, charged with hav ing stolen a horse on the first of May in Ly kens couuty. He was taken to Leroy, Coffey county, and hung up three times, till he was apparently lifeless, in order to make him con fess. Rather than endure the torture longer, he did confess to whatever they required j though the mother told them she could prove by respectable witnesses that her son was at home at the time the horse was stolen. JN eith er she nor her friends were permitted to say anything in the young roan's behalf, under penalty of summary punishment, and without allowing the mother a parting word with her son, they procured a rope and hung him to a tree. It must be exceedingly pleasant to live in a country were you are at the mercy of brainless and heartless mobs. , . Missouri Politics. The Republicans of the St. Louis Congressional district, in conven tion on Monday July 5th, nominated the non. Frank Blair, jr., for re-election to Congress by acclamation. Resolutions were adopted re affirming the doctrine of Thomas JefTorson, denouncing the action of the administration, opposing negro equality, advocating the ex tinction of Slavery in Missouri, and the remo val of negroes from the State. Three full tickets are now in the field: American, Re publican, and Democratic. . There will be Re publican candidates for Congress in nearly or quite every district in the State. For President A Pittsburgh paper says that Vice President Breckinridge is prepar ing to enter the field as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency at the Charlestown Convention. " . SUMMARY OF NEWS. Kansas. By late advices from Fort Scott, it appears that the visit of Gov. Denver and Charles Robinson to that locality has resulted in restoring peace, at least for the present. Gov. Denver called a meeting of the citizens of Fort Scott, which was addressed by himself and Gov. Robinson. Gov. Denver said he had come as a peace-maker, and proposed that by gones should be by gones, and all past offences be left to the Grand Jury ; that all good citi zens should refrain from violence, and assist in the enforcement of the laws ; that obnox ious officers, if reported to ' the Governor, would bo removed o that others might be o lected by the people. The plan met with gen eral approval. The Sheriff of the County was reported as obnoxious, and was at once remov ed, when tUe people elected T. R. Roberts, a Free State roan, in his stead." The Governor announced that the United States troops would be removed from the Fort, and that he would commission a company of GO millita, under Major Weaver, a Free-State man to protect the settlers in the vicinity! lrom marauding Missonrians. If Gov. Denver is. correctly re ported in regard to the Port Scott difficulties, his action would seem to confirm the recent announcement that he intends to resign the Executive Chair, as; it exhibits a degree of fairness toward the settlers in Kansas that will not be tolerated at Washington. . ' ' ' " A Speck or War. A la;e . London ' paper says: . "It is a strange feature in the political history ot Europe at the present moment, that every State is arming and fortifying it self against some imaginary enemy, and that the works are being hastened, according to their own words, 'in the provision of events that may scon arise.'" What events? Who can tell ? Our brethren on the other side of the Atlantic are utterly at fault. - Even little Belgium is about to fortify one of her towns, at an expense of 40,000,000 of frances ; while the naval equipment and fortifications of Cherbourg, now the principal French naval station in the Channel, are said to border on the marvellous for their perfection and mag nitude. What does all this mean,' and what is Louis Napoleon preparing for? -. i Naval. Commander Page, who is designa ted to command the naval force to be dispatch ed to Paraguay, has had an interview with the Secretary of the Navy on the subject. That Government, it is said, has three ellective war steamers, and the fort which commands the navigation of the Parana River is of great power, and under French engineers. Hence it is deemed important to the success of the mission that the United States shall be prepar ed for all possible emergencies, the President having been clothed by. Congress with ample power to enforce all the just demands of our Government. - .'" . Damages by tue Recent Floods. The par tial subsidence of the water of the western rivers begins to reveal the extent of tho dam ages which the great floods of the spring and summer have effected. The American Bot tom below Alton presents an unwonted appear ance. The bridges are wrecks, plank roads washed away, and the embankments gone. Acres and acres of crops are destroyed, peach trees ruined, wood boated away, corn and po tatoes inundated' to death. The water is now falling on the Bottom very fast, and some of the farmers are planting again. - Utah. Advices lrom Camp Scott states that the Peace Commissioners reached Salt Lae City about the 10th June, but no report had been beard of their reception or proceed ings. General Johnson moved from Camp Scott for Salt Lake City on the 12th, in three divisions ot 1,000 men each, the first taking up its line of march on the 12th, tho second the 13th and the third on the 14th. Gen. John son was in good health and looked very well ; he was cheerful, - and would soon settle all difficulties with the Mormons if nobody inter fered with him. Ma. Douglas at Toledo Ohio. The Hon. S. A. Douglas arrived at Toledo July 7th, and was enthusiastically received by upward of 3,000 citizens, and escorted to his hotel amid the firing of cannons, bands of music, He was addressed on behalf of the citizens by D. O. Morton, to which Mr. Douglas respon ded in a happy manner. A great display of fireworks concluded the festivities. It was one ot the greatest demonstrations which ever took place in that city. Foreign. Some uneasiness is manifested by a London journal at the announcement in the French papers that a Russian fleet of twen-tv-two vessels will appear in the English chan. nel in the course of the summer, and that this fleet is to put into the French and friendly port of Brest to refit. :A demonstration of this kind, coupled with the Cherbourg, is thought suspicious. The increasing intimacy of the French and. Russian governments es? cites jealousy in England.tr-: ; :."-: Democracy in Iowa. The Iowa State Dem ocratic Convention met last week. They nominated a half-and-half ticket but split badly on platform. A resolution endorsing Buchanan and Lccompton was rejected by a vote of 1G3 to 105, whereupon the Buchanan minority withdrew and organized another convention, when they passed resolutions to their hearts' content. ."" Treaties of Peace. The Superintendent of Indian aflairs in Utah has succeeded in ne gotiating a number of treaties of peace with Indian tribes who have been at .animosity for years. This pacific 'settlement is infinitely more valuable to the country than any honor of victory purchased at the cost Of bloody war. Killed by Lightnig. A young man by. the name of Rudolf Cotton, was killed by a stroke of lightning, at the house of widow McKay, in Indiana, noar Carrollton, Kentucky. The electric fluid struck a scythe in the hands of a person near by, and glancing along it enter ed the hat ot Cotton, -and passing through his body shivered a stone on which be was standi ing into a thousand fragments, .lie fetl dead. Two daughters of Mrs. McKay were struck insensible by the shock at the same time, and the ear-rings of one of the ladies were melted from her ears. Tho girls are not expected to recover. Cotton and one of the ladies were to be married shortly. ' . .; - . PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS , prepared for thk draftsman's journal." Schuylkill County. The 'Miners Journal of July 3d says: Wo are pained to announce the occurrence of a sad catastrophe, the result is to be 1 feared, of carelessness. It appears that about noon on Tuesday last, five men aud two boys ascended the shaft at the Thomas town colliery, in a car resting on a cage. When within a few inches of the tep, a pin upon which the cage rests when it reaches the top, was pulled out too soon,and the car was uot on a level with the platform sufficiently to per mit it to be rolled off the cage. In this posi tion two of the wheels of the car were rolled off the cage ; but it was impossible to get the other wheels off". ( IA signal was. then given to the engineer, w ho could not - see the position of the cage, to hoist it a little. Unfortunately, it was hoisted too- high ; tho car- tilted, -was freed entirely from the cage, and tho next in stant, with its freight of precious lives, con sisting of four men and two boys, was dashed down the shaft, a perpendicular depth of tu o hun dred and fo-ty feet. The remains of the un fortunate men and-boys were after the occur rence, removed to the surface in a shockingly mutilated condition. Two of the men killed named Sullivan and Kerwicb. leave families. The other two, one of whom was named Bren nan, were unmarried. The names of the two boys we have not learned.' This is one of the most terrible mining accidents which has ever happened in this county, and we grieve to say that it is attributable alone to carelessness. It miners themselves, would only ns a lody, be as careful of their lives, as their employers and bosses are ' solicitous for their safety, we should not be called on so often to note these distressing casualties. '.' '' Berks Cocxty. Oh Sunday the 27th ult:, Mr. David Wagner, of Union . township, with his wife and a boy living in the family, were taken seriously ill from drinking coffee which contained poison. They had been at church, and partook of the coffee at dinner on their return, Mrs. Wagner drinking three cups, the husband two, and the boy one. They were soon seized with illness, the symptoms being of a severe and alarming character, and pro portionate in violence to the amount of coffee drank by each. Drs. May and, Tobias were called in, who administered antidotes. The coffee, unlortunately, had all been thrown away before the arrival of the physicians, " and the precise nature of the poison, and how it got into the coffee, was not ascertained. That the illness was produced by the ingredients of the coffee, is evident, however, from the fact that other members of the family, who dined at the same time, but did not drink of the cofloe, were not aflected. At the latest accounts the patients were recovering, and no serious re sults were anticipated A horse was sto len on Monday nighty July 5th, from tho sta-. ble of Mr. George Hill, at the Black Bear Tav ern, in Exeter township, a few miles below Reading. As soou as the theft was discover-, ed, pursuit of the thief was made, and the pur suers were fortunate enough to catch him in the neighborhood of Pottstown. . His name is William Thompson.'. .". . The Clothing Store of Mr. M'Farlin, South East corner of Penn and Seventh streets, Reading, was broken into on the night of the 5th, by some daring scoun drels, and robbed of goods amounting to nearly S1000 in value. Cuester Cocxty. Another Cain and Abel affair. We learn from a communication in ane of the Lancaster papers, that one day last week, "Thos.- P... Snodgrass, residing near Steeltisville, Chester county, met his brother Samuel, who resides in Little Britain township, Lancaster county, on the Noble Road near King's Bridge, when an altercation took place between these worthies, which resulted in Samuel being left by his noble brother lying bleeding and senseless by the wayside. After Thomas had thus succeeded in quieting the fighting propensities of his brother, by apply ing most vigorously the loaded end of a heavy horsewhip to his cranium, he left him and cai led at the house of another .brother, stating that he had met Samuel on the road, and that he (Simiiel) wished to see his brother; after which he called upon Samuel's wife with the same pleasant intelligeuce, and then quietly proceeded on his way. Truly, judging-from the above, a person would be. led to suppose that the days of buibarism had again visited us, when brothers become so dead to all feel ings of humanity as to thus brutally assault and leave each other weltering iu blood on the public highway." Lehigh Countt. Mr. E. t. Bu'z, of South Whitehall, has raised a flax stalk on his farm, measuring3 feet 11 inches Mr. Solomon Lichtenwalter has left, an egg aithe "Friedens bothe" oilice, Allentown, measuring 8 inches lengthwise, and 6J in circumference. ... On Wednesday, a two year old child fell over the wharf at the Allentown Furnace and drowned. .... On Sund.ty 4th inst.. some person broke open a trunk belonging to Miss Alary Wall, in the house of Mr. Henry Gorr, in Upper Mil ford, and stole therefrom $40 in ten dollar gold pieces On Tuesday, 2Gth ult., a young man named Edward Rothrock, was sun struck while at work in a hay field in Saucon township. He was taken to his home and died in three hours afterwards from tho efTects. He was about 18 years old The dwelling ot David Eberhard, in Lehigh county, was robbed of between $1,500 and $2,000 in gold, silver, and bills, on Thursday morning the 25th ult., while all the members of the family were out in tho field making hay. ' Luzerne County. A house in Union town ship was struck by lightning on Saturday even ing and a child killed. Thend of the house was shattered and several inmates knocked down. .... The Captain of a boat from Beach Grovo.was killed by lightning as he was enter ing the lock at Oourtright's Grocery. "Ho was a young man named Hiram Remaley. . . . An Irishman is reported killed by lightning on the back road. .... The storm was terrible at Pittston, and the large tent under which tho celebration was held, was very little protection. The lightning struck several trees on the other side of the river, and the rain caused damage to cellars. A little child was picked up out of a puddle after the storm, probably lost his way and cried himself to sleep. .... The', heavy rain of Saturday caused a slight break in the Canal at Pittston Tho grass and grain crops in our valley never looked finer- Since the showers of last week the corn has: grown wonderfully. July and August xu.ake corn here. Cumrerland County. A severe hail storm passed over Carlisle, Pa., and its vicinity, on Wednesday evening of last week, blowing down fences, trees, &o in its course. At Sterrett's Gap, and along both sides of the North Mountain large quantities "bfliail fell, which destroyed" considerable grain and other growing crops. :The windows of the houses at the Oap. were -completely riddled. - Fortu natelythe hail did not extend far on either side of tho mountain, else the destruction of grain would have been immense. The roof of the bark honse at the tannery, near the Carlisle Springs, and that of a barn in the neighbor hood, were blown off." A portion of the gible end of tho church belonging to the Evangelical Association on the Poor House road, near Kutz'Sj was also blown in. Washington County. Mr. George Warrick, Carpenter, of Monongahela citv, while engag ed on Monday last, in pulling down an old building some three miles west of town, was. so severely injured as to remain insensible for some time. He was standing close by, when a portion of the building fell upoh the end of a rail or stake, which flew up and struck him on the breast with such force as to deprive him of all consciousness for a considerable time. .... A cow, the property of Dutton Shannon, Esq., of Fallowfield tp.. Valued at $40 was ki.led during a thunder htorm on the 2nd inst. . Indiana Ccunty. During a thunder-storm, on Sunday evening a week, a house a short dis tance west of Indiana, occupied by Mr. Jacob Long, was struck by lightning, stunning the inmates and knocking off a portion of the chimney, but doing no serious injury. ... On the 3d inst., two men named Sbruro aud Creigh ton, whilst on parade, were so overcome by heat, that they were obliged to leave the ranks. They are now convalescent. "Bucks County. A few days ago a young man named Healy, residing near Faisington, was sitting in front of a mowing machine, fix ing the knives, when the horses started, cut ting both his legs off, and causing his death in a few minutes. ' Fayette County". During . the thunder storm at Brownsville on the 24th ult., the light ning struck a house occupied by Mrs. Gans, knocking her insensible. She is not expected to live. - Montgomery County. The dry good store of Spencer Thompson, in Norristown, was en tered by burglars on Monday night, and robbed ot about $0000 worth of silk goods. A Uroine. We have already stated that several vessels have put into Quarantine, at New York, .within a day. or two, with the loss of their officers and most of their crews, cith er dead or ill of fever. . The Commercial Ad vertiser, in connection with one of these ves sels, says that Mrs. Nichols, the wife of the unfortunate captain of the Grotto, accompa nied her husband on his voyage, and notwith standing the shocking fact of her partners unexpected demise, finding it imperative that her aid must be rendered in navigating the vessl for all but two of the crew were strick en with the plague she nobly smothered the anguish which she felt, and lent her services in working ; the ship. When the vessel was spoken by the steam-tug off Fire Island, this heroic lady was at the wheel, performing work far beyond what ordinarily could have been expected of any woman. She cared not for her own life, but for the safety of the husband's charge ; and the lives of the two well seamen called her to action, and she nobly obeyed the summons. , Mrs. Nichols was transferred to eoiufoi table quarters at Quarantine, where she now remains. Rights of the Post Office Department. Seme time ago, when Mr. Tiemann, of New York, with commendable zeal, commenced his war upon lottery, gift, and other pernicious establishments, with which that city swarms, and succeeded in closing many ol them, the Post Master General directed the city post master to forward to the dead letter office, at Washington, all letters which should herc af:er come to his oflico addressed to such firms or establishments. A tew days siuce, one of the parties to whom a large amount of letters are thus detained, conceiving that the Depart ment was transcending its legitimate authori ty, in issuing such orders, applied for an in junction to one of the city magistrates which was granted. Thus we may expect that short ly the question about "post office rights," about which, we confess, thero is too much vagueness and uncertainty, will be finally set tled. , An Ocean Thip in a Balloon. J. Stciner, of llarrisburg, proposes to cross the Atlantic in a balloon 100 feet in diameter. He says in a letter to the T'elegraph: I am satisfied in my own mind that with such an apparatus I could cross the Atlantic in 75 hours, and the whole cost would not be more than $20,000. The balloon, net work and valve would weigh a bont 2,000 pounds, and the boat and rigging 3 ton and a half this will leave about three tons ascending power, for provisions, passen gers, and ballast. It would require three good ocean navigators, and one astronomer, besides myself. I would suggest New York as the starting point, and am certain I would strike within 200 miles of any given distance in Eu rope. I would suggest May as the time for making the experiment, and would make the attempt in 1850, if I could get the government or others to assist me. Important Decision. The Secretary of the Interior has decided the great contest for the tHle to "Superior City." The claim of Bris sett, Warren, Dennis and Ray is rejected be cause it is shown that they are Chippewa In dians of mixed blood, and have no right to pre-empt. The adverse claim of the alleged proprietors of Superior City is also rejected, because it is not shown that these proprietors are occupants of the tract, as required by the pre-emption laws. Who then awns Superior City? A similar decision isalsomadu against the proprietors of Waverly, in Minnesota Healy, the contestant-, is allowed to show that his settlement was made.i,n good faith. Two-headed Girl They have a . tworhc.ad, ed girl in Louisville,' Ky." From the-dosetip-tion given by the papers of that city, she must be a young lady capable of getting up a pri vate party on her own individual resources. A, late number of the Louisville Democrat says : "isho is the embodiment of all that is extraor dinary and strange, having' two finely formed heads, very intelligent, and of a most lively and amiable disposition." She sings prettily, and with both months, talks and walks well, and always interests her visitors to a great de gree. There i,s no. chance of a doubt but that she is the greatest curiosity ever witnessed, and should bo seen by everybody." A Heavy Charge. The Laporte (Indiana) Time says that the Prairie Horse Guards of that place, at a public drill one day lately, in dulged in the luxury of a "charge," made by one division of the company upon the other. In one of their evolutions, two horses came together breaking the necks of each, and, kil ling botu animals instantly. .The riders were thrown fifteen or twenty feet, one of whom -young Donnely was severely injured. His life was for awhile despaired of, but he is now convalescent, and will probably recover. ACQUITTAL OF GEN. LANE. The Leavenworth Daily Ledger of the 2d inst., announces the acquittal of General Lane of the cliarge of killing Jenkins. Tho decision of the Court was to this effect: "In making out a case against the defendant, it was necessary, first, to prove that a murder bad been committed; and, secondly, by Gen. Lane. The court- were on mimously of th opinion that no murder had been committed; and the Territory having failed tocstAiish this primary fact, the only charge contained in the affidavit, the defendant, General Lane, was accordingly discharged." A correspondent of the Ledger, writing from Lawrence where the trial was held, says: "The decision, though generally expected, is not universally approved.1 Col. ' S. - W. Eld ridjre denounces it bitterly. He told Justice Ladd, just nfter the decision, that if jie (Eld' ridge) was ever brought before him, and con victed of any crime, he would 'shoot him as true as fate. There is nothing in the decision to prevent the Grand Jury indicting Lane, If so disposed. By express statutory provision, the evidence, together with the decision, must be submitted to them by the Clerk of the District Court. The examaintion having been so full, and, withal, so fair, it is very doubtful whether the Grand Jury will ever cause another proceeding, on the saaic charge y to be instituted." The Ledger further remarks, editorially: 'The Court ere unanimous in their opinion, and wc feci fully justified in sifying that the evidence adduced for and against the prisoner warranted them in arriving at the conclusion they did. We have read the entire testimony carefully and impartially, and arrived at the same conclusion several days siuce. We de fy any lawyer in the country to come to any o'ther conclusion ; after a careful and impar tial reading of the testimony. We are no po litical friend of General Lane's. We despiso every political sentiment that he ever uttered, at the same time, as a public journalist, wo feel it incumbent upon us as a public duty ti assent to the ; judgment of the examining; Court, and to accord to them all praise. Col. Jenkins was a particular friend of ours, an ! we are free to confess that our sympathies arc in that direction, but we determined to hear the final result ere wc spoke one word. Tin testimony proves conclusively that Col. Jenk ins was the aggressor, accompanied by three friends, all armed; and that the party wert closing in on General Lane, and actually shot at him twice ere he showed signs of self pro tection, and the man who would not protect himself, if in his power to do so, would prove to the woild that he was unfit to live, and too contemptible to die. Gen Lane acted Just aa every man should act under like circumstan ces, and public opinion will sustain him. We dismiss this subject from our columns with the remark that, let the man be a friend or foe of ours, in a case of life and death, we will eri 1 javor to do him justice, "though the heav ens fall." New Advertisements. NOTICE. Strayed from tho pubseriber in llurr.side township. Clearfield County, about the 26th of June, a small black cow with soma white in her face ; hittl on a bell and has one horn broken off. Any person returning aaii cow or giving information of her whereabouts to the sub scriber shall be suitably rewarded. Hurnside tp., July 1 1, 1S08. S. C. PATCIIIX. REGISTER'S NOTICK Notice is hcra by given, that the following accounts hava been examined and passed by me, aud remain filed of record iu this office for the inspection of heir, legatees, creditors, and all others iu any other way interested, and will be presented to the next Or phans' Court of Clearfield County, to be held at Uio Coart House in the Boronh of CiearfieM, commencing on the third Monday of AUGUST, 1S."S, for confirmation and allowance: The final account of Jane Clarke, Administra trix of tho estate of William Clarke, late of Peuu township, Clearfield county, decensed. The final aocouut of A. Xc'son Young and EIhIi Johnston. Administrators of the estate ot Samuut Young, late of Bell township, deceased. JAMES WKKiLEY. Clearfield, Pa.. July 14. ISiS. Kezixler. G UAIX CRADLES A few of Fccrer's grain ent iles for sale by JIL'KKELL CAKTKIL July 7, 18.'t. Clearfield. JVOTICE. All persons having- accounts wilh 11 tieorge J. 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