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8. B. ROW, EDITOR A3D PBOrRIETOR.
CLEARFIELD, PA., SEPT. 15, 1858.
FOB. JUDGE OF SUPREME COCET,
JOHN if. KEAD, of Philadelphia City.
FOR CASAL COMMISSION EE,
"WILLIAM E. FEAZER, of Fayette Co.
FOR CONGRESS,
CHAPES' HALL, of barren Connty.
POLITICAL ITEH3.
The following are the People's candidates
for Congress in Philadelphia: 1st District,
John VT. Ryan ; 2J, Edward Joy Morris ; 3d,
John P. Verree : and 4th District, TVni. Mill
ward. In the Chester district, lion. John Hickman
is the candidate of the anti-Lecompton Demo
crats for Congress; Mr. Landy, of Delaware,
is the Lecomptoa candidate, and Mr. Broom
all is the candidate of the Republicans.
In the Somerset, Cambria and Blair district,
Steele Blair, Esq., of Iloliidaysburg, has re
ceived the nomination ot the People's party
for Congress. Thad. Banks, Esq., is the choice
of the Democracy of Blair county, zs tLeir
candidate.
Hon. James T. Dale, of Bellefonte, has been
Dominated in opposition to Allison White.
Col. Andrew Gregg, of Centre connty, has
been again placed in nomination for Senator.
A. J. Dietrick is his competitor.
Hon. Galusha A. Grow, has been nominated
for the fifth time, by the Republicans ot Sus
quehanna connty, lor Congress.
John VT. Bear, the "Buck-eye Blacksmith,"
has announced himself for Congress in the
Fourth Congressional district, PLila.
Hon. Paul Leidy has been renominated for
Congress by the Democrats of the 12th Con
gressional District of Pennsylvania.
Wm. R. Morris, of Dover, has been nomina
ted as the people's candidate for member ot
Congress from the State of Delaware.
The three Washburne's all Republicans
have been re-nominated in their respective
districts, for Congress.
The last Clearfield Republican says :
A sort ot informal .meeting of the leaders
some of the 'Simon says wig-wag' portion of
the aop-pos;tion party of this connty, (ot course
entirely accidental,) took place in town on
last Monday evening. Ot the object of this
caucus some idea can be formed by reJerring
to the cards of certain candidates for assem
bly and Sheriff which appear in our advertis
ing columns this week."
The object of this paragraph is too apparent
to require comment. There is another mat
ter, however, concerning which we will say a
few words. On the Jay named, the editor of
the Republican, personally asked us if there
were not some arrangements for a meeting,
and we informed him there were none. Ask
ing us as a gentleman, we gave him a candid
answer, and as a gentleman he should have
believed us. His allusions, in the article we
quote from, to " 'innocent Abigail' expres
sions worn by the 'knowing ones,' "we there
fore consider uncourteous, and as casting re
flections upon our individual veracity. We
tell him notr, that no such meeting, as he as
serts, was held, his statements to the contrary
notwithstanding. Truly,
'Optics sharp have they. I ween,
Who see what is not to be seen."'
News from Europe to the 2Sth u'.t., have
been recieved by the steamship Asia, which
arrived at Halifax on the 8th. A telegraph
Congress, in which France and other parts of
the continent were represented, had been o
pened at Berne. A new French Naval Station
is to be created for the eastern coast of Africa.
The reported reconciliation between Austria
and Russia has been formally denied. A
military expedition is being prepared at Mad
rid, the immediate destination of which is
Havana. Naples is said to have accepted the
conditions of England and France. Further
riots had taken place in Candia, in which ten
Christians had been killed. The Porte had
demanded the recall of the Greek Consul at
Candia. Later advices from India contain noth
ing noteworthy. TheBritish troops are engaged
in hunting np the Oade rebels and in destroy
ing their mud fortifications.
Kansas. Governor Denver, of Kansas, has
published a letter, by way of reply to various
petitions presented to him, by residents of that
Territory, requiring bim to convene an extra
session of the Legislature. The Governor de
clines to call this extra session, showing that
at the present time there are no members of
the Legislature, whose official terms have not
expired. He also expresses the opinion tLat
the next election should be held under the
last apportionment, according to the act of
February 20th, 1857. He concludes by saying
that he has consulted the President and the
Attorney General ot the United States on
this point, and both agree that the next elec
tion should be held under this apportionment.
The Wrightsville, Pa., Star notes consider
able activity in the lumber trade at that place,
cd, what is most remaraable in these days of
railroads, says a large number of wagons,
draw by mule and horse power, and ladened
with lumber, are daily leaving for different
points, including Harford county, Md.
At the election held in the State of Vermont
last week, Hiland Hall, Republican, was elec
ted Governor, and the rest of the ticket on
ivhich be ran was also successful. '
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FOBSEY OX BTCHASAIT.
Col. Forney, editor of the Press, attended
large and enthusiastic anti-Lecompton meet
ing at Tarry town, New York, and assisted Lis
friend, Hon. John B. Uaskin, by making a
speech, which is said to have caused a Sutter
of excitement at Washington. Mr. Forney's
disclosure possess a historical significance,
and show up the President in his true colors.
The following quotation from the speech lit
erally impales Mr. Buchanan, and must con
vince his most partial friends that his whole
course in reference to Kansas has been marked
by treachery and deceit. The demagogue may
be traced in every word attributed to the Pres
ident, in this extract :
"I did not for a moment believe that the
Administration had concluded to abandon the
principles which had put them in power; that
they were resolved to make their policy a test;
so when I went to Washington and called up
on my old friend, I said to him, 'Mr. Buchan
an, for the first time ia our lives we are at va
riance; I find myself standing by one princi
ple, having followed your lead, and you have
deserted it. 'Well, said he, 'can't you change
too? Laughter. If I can afford to change,
why can't you afford to change? Renewed
laughter. If yon and Douglas and Walker
will unite in support of my policy, there will
not be a whimper of this thing ; it will pass by
like a summer breeze.' I tcld him it was well
with an Administration surrounded with office
holders, and living all the time in the atmos
phere of flattery, that was followed by thous
ands of gentlemen who expected place ; that
they could come to bim and say, 'You are
right, Mr. Buchanan ; we are down on our bel
lies; please to walk over us please trample
upon us and we will be happy and content, and
hope you will believe your policy is right.'
" 'Bet I tell you,' siid I, 'there is a still
small voice in the people that instinctively re
jects frauds, and this is not only a fraud but a
dishonor. I do not claim to be more honest
than any other man. I have done as all poli
ticians have some things which may not
square exactly with the rules cf religion and
right, and which, it 1 have, I regret them, but
this thing will not do. Loud cheers. I have
reached the stature and years of manhood and
I cannot go back to Pennsylvania to cat my
own words and become the slave of power.
Renewed cheers. I cannot. But then Mr.
Buchanan, you must tolerate this difference of
opinion. Gen. Jackson tolerated differences
of opinion in his friends. Col. Polk tolerated
differences of opinion, and you differed with
hirn in his views on the tariff, and yet you re
mained in his cabinet. Mr. Pierce tolerated
differences of opinion. But here yon are.
Men who put you where you are who ask
nothing at your hands who have refused your
favors have trampled all the patronage that
has been offered them under foot ; here they
are, asking to be tolerated in the indulgence
of an honest opinion. The reply to that was,
'Sir, I intend to make mv Kansas policy a
test.' 'Well, sir,' sail I, 'I regret it; but if
yon make it a test with your officers, we will
make it a test at the ballot-box.'" Loud
cheers.
This is a portrait of Mr. Buchanan which
will have its influence with the people, who
will discover that instead of having a States
man at the head of government they have a
paltry demagogue, who manages public affairs
with a view to political effect rather than for
the public welfare; We are not f nrprised that
his political friends are ashamed to endorse
Lis public actions.
Proscription. Those who have control of
the Navy Yard and Post Office at Philadel
phia, are dismissing their employees and clerks
because they happen to favor tho election of
George W. Nebinger, anti-Lecompton, to that
of Col. Tom. Florence, who sustains the Pres
ident's Kansas policy. This petty proscrip
tion cannot certainly benefit the Administra
tion, but it is on a par with Mr. Buchanan,
who has never tolerated a difference of opin
ion in a political friend, when he Lad the
power to punish him for his contumacy. 1I
was elected by slavery propagandists for a
particular purpose, and that purpose, he must
carry out, or he will get no reliable support
from his Southern masters. If proscription
is necessary to effect the object, the President,
like all other men of small minds, is ready to
resort to it, to its fullest extent. The office
holders of the present Administration Lave
no warrant fur their political acts unless those
acts square fairly with the opinions of the
administration.
Much excitement has prevailed in Xew YorK
city during the last two weeks in consequence
of the burning of the Quarantine buildings or
Stiiten Island, by a mob. The rebels have ta
ken a bold stand, 'and a number of arrests
have been made. Gov. King, has proclaimed
the county of Richmond in which the Qaaran
tine is located, in a state of insurrection, cal
led out the military to protect the establish
rnent, directed the authorities to rebuild the
hospitals, and ordered the District Attorney
to prosecute the rioters, and sue the county
of Richmond for damages. The recent spread
of the yellow fever is the incentive which
prompted the mob to burn the quarantine
buildings.
The Wealth op Gex. Cass. The Wash
ington correspondent of the New York Times,
in noticing Gen. Cass, says: "His whole
life has been luck. When he left Detroit to
take the War Department he gave orders to
his agent to sell a large tract of land adjoin
ing the town. He was to sell it for $30,000.
After some time the agent wrote he had been
offered $33,000. Gen. Cass instantly replied:
Don't sell till further orders.' He would
havo quickly taken Lis own flxed price, but,
being offered more, be must look further.
The property is now covered by the best part
of a flourishing city, and is worth $3,000,000."
Life in New York is graphically described
in two local items in the Tribune of the 7th
inst. one recording the performances of a
Mr. Mulligan, a member of the common coun
cil, in knocking down a girl at a bawdy house,
whom he charged with stealing his watch
and the other the robbery of a poor working
girl, named Henrietta Clendon, from New Ha
ven, who was on her way to California, and
fell into the hands of some scoundrels, who
sold her a spurious ticket for $110,00.
The Louisville Journal states that heavy
rains have fallen recently in Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, and Ohio, greatly benefiting the corn
crop, which now promises an abundant yield.
More IJascalitt. The Chief Engineer of
the Washington Water Works, under whose
supervision the contract lor water pipes was
sent to Scotland to fill, has been engineering
the government into another scrape. The
correspondent of the New York Times gives
the details as follows :
A very curious and suspicious proceeding
has just reached one stage of its development
at Rockville, the county town of Montgomery
connty, Maryland. By a pure oversight, of
course, of the Superintendent of the Wash
ington Aqueduct, on which five millions of
dollars, more or less, have been expended, has
gone on spending the money of the Govern
ment without having condemned, according
to law, a strip ot land two or three hundred
feet wide, belonging to the Little Palls Manu
facturing Company and to other proprietors.
At the rate at which Capt. Meigs Las paid for
other land on the line of the works, the ex
pense cf extinguishing title to the strip in
controversy would have been one thousand
dollars. But the Government did not choose
to- proceed in the regul.tr and usual mode.
The work is so far advanced that no other route
can betaken, and the interests of the public
are completely within the power of the spec
ulating confederates of the land owners.
What common prudence would have foreseen
has taken place. The Governmcnffeiust stop
the work or pay two hundred times more than
the property is worth. Atrial has been had
tinder a concurrent law of Maryl.ind and of
the United States, at Rocivi'la, and a verdict
has been rendered of S 1-30,009 as damages.
Some of the Jury thought the actual damages
nothing, others "from Sl'W to $300, others
?2'0.X0, ethers $300,009. A general aver
age wa3 struck, resulting in $1-30,000. A vast
array of counsel was engaged for the specula
tors, whose united fees will be over $2-3.009.
Two noted operators in private claims watched
the proceedings with deep interest, and came
down to the city in high glee, ia the assured
confidence of mint-drops."
A Vert Singular Incident. The Lancas
ter Times ot Thursday the 9th says: "Yes
terday evening, at a qnarter before seven o'
clock, a young man was riding down Lime
street on a grey horse, and just as he got op
posite to a large maple tree, in front of Mr.
Baldwin's door, the tree fell, with a sudden
crash, on the horse and rider, enveloping the
twain with its branches and foliage. Iu an
instant afterwards the horse jumped out and
over the limbs of the f.illn tree, and made
down Lime street at the top of his speed, un
til the rider reined him tip. This did not end
this singular incident, inasmuch as the young
man rode back very leisurely and looked at the
miraculous escape he had made a moment be
fore. The horse did not look quite so com
posed upon the retrospect, but showed a strong
disposition to leave the scene of his unexpect
ed adventure. The tree is two feet across the
stnmp, and the main outspreading branches
were so farmed as to spread enough to admit
the horse and rider between. The atmos
phere was perfectly calm at the time, and the
whole affair seemed more like romance than
any ordinary incident.
The Chinese and their Treaties of Teace.
An eminei.t officer oftheUnited States navy,
who has spent many years in China, gives it
as bis deliberate opinion, that no diplomacy
and no hostility, no treaties and no armed
ships, will ever make an impression upon Chi
ns, and that after millions have been squan
dered, the civilized nations of the earth will
find that the semi-barbarians have been' tK
much forthem too wary ,too skillful, too mys
terious. It is stated that long after Mr. Cush
ing had made his great treaty of 1810, and
bad had it duly ratified, it was found with the
seal unbroken, and in the package addressed
to the Emperor himself, lying amidst the rub
bish in the desk of one of the many gold-bnt-toned
mandarins, thousands of miles from Pe
kin,on the coist where it was origina'ly made !
How to deal with such a people is, alter all a
difficult problem.
WhatCksars are HADE of. An invoince
of foreign cigars, "real Havanas," were re
cently appraised at the New York Custom
House at S3 per thousand, but the importer
being dissatisfied, a new appraisement was
made, which resulted in the admission of the
cigars at SI 50 per thousand. The evidence
under oath, by which the change in the ap
praisement was made, was this that r.ot a
particle of tobacco entered into the composi
tion of said cigars bnt that they were compo
sed of oak and other leaves soaked in a strong
tobacco lye.
The Illinois Sesatobship. From present
appearances, we think there will be no election
for an U. S. Senator by the Legislature to be
chosen in Illinois this fall. The two Houses
act separately in balloting, and the Senate can
hardly fail to attain a majority of the friends
of Douglas ; thirteen members hold over, most
of them anti-Lecompton, and the opposition
must elect eight of the twelve to be chosen
this fall to secure a majority. If no election
takes place, there can be no choice before
1801, as the sessions of the Legislature are bi
ennial. Louisville Journal.
A boy aged eleven years met death ia a
most horrible manner, recently, in Illinois,
Mr. Burnaphad been reaping with a machine,
and left the boy seated on the machine, in
charge of the team. While thus seated he
observed a snake close by, and called out to
his companion, (another boy.) at the same
time cracking his whip, this started the
horses, and he was jerked off and thrown in
front of the sickle. Almost instantly the boy
was completely cut to pieces. Both legs and
one arm were severed lrom the body, and the
heart torn out.
A Speculation. It is stated that the Wash
ington aqueduct has already cost the govern
ment five millions of dollars, and is not half
completed, nere is one item of the expense :
"There was a little strip of land in Rock
ville, Maryland. It was worth less than $100,
being made up of nothing but a swamp, with
bull frogs to cover it. It had to be taken for
the aqueduct, and to make things right all
around, the sum of $150,000 was paid for it."
The Philadelphia Sews suggests that, inas
much as the Government has contracted with
"Scotch parties" for water pipes for the Wash
ington aqueduct at an advance of eighty-five
cents a ton over American prices, it should
also contract with the same parties for the
snpply of water, instead of paying one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars for the use of
Potomac water, as it is about to do. The ad
vantage would be that the pipes could be
brought over ready filled.
Our friends of the wild-cat Congressional
District, composed of Venango, Warren, Elk,
Jefferson, &c, on the 1st hist, nominated Hon.
ChapinUall, of Warren county, for Congress.
A better man could not have been selected.
Jleadcille Journal.
Susan J. Lane, a girl cl 15, residing at Hol
ly Springs, Miss., about a week azo took a
dose of strychnine and died, because her
mother had punished her for some act of disobedience.
PEJTKSYLVASIA ITEMS. -
PREPARED TOR THE "RAFTSSIAS's JOURNAL."
Cambria Cocxtt. The Sheriff of Cambria
county offers a reward of fifty dollars, for the
arrest of James Willett, the lad who commit
ted an outrage upon the dangttcr ot Mr. Pick
worth, near Johnstown, and who recently es
caped from the jit at Ebensburg. Willet is
in English by, abo"ht eighteen years of age,
fat facud, and heavy set. nis hair is long and
bushy, and bis general appearance is rough.
. . . '. The Cambria county Agricultural Fair
w ill be held at Ebensburg, on the oth, Cth, and
7th of October. . '. . . A number ot atlrays
have recently occurred in Johnstown. On Sun
day evening a riot occurred at a drinking
house, in which the assailing party struck the
proprietor several times on the head with a
hatchet. On the same evening, a man was
shockingly beaten near the Iron Bridge, by
some person unknown. The wounds inflicted
are said to be quite serious. Several other al
frayshad occurred, in one of which the gent
ler sex figured conspicuously, but from this
no serious results are anticipated. .... At a
dancing party on Saturday night, a difficulty
between a man named Errenstreeth and anoth
er named Beamish occurred. The loruier
followed the latter from the bouse ands tabbed
him, canning instant death.
IIcxTiNGrtosCocsTy. Thelluntingdon Jour
nal says "a dreadful accident occurred to David
Myerfey and bis two daughters who resided
near Cassvi'.le, in this coutty, on Monday the
Cth inst. They had been at Huntingdon on
business and when returning home in their
two horse wagon, encountered the emigrant
train of cars at the crossing about two miles
be!ov.IIuntingdon. The crossing is so situat
ed that neither party could see any distance,
the wagon was just cleverly across the road
when the train cam in sight, and the horses
becoming very much frightened, pranced and
backed the wagon on the track just as the train
came up, the engine "truck the wagou with
such foice as to throw Mr. Mycrley and eldest
daughter to the ground and the younger daugh
ter was thrown upon tLe cow-catcher, tiic force
of the train by some means disengaged the
horses, and the ivagon was precipitated into
tuecitial. Mr. Myerley lingered about twen-ty-eigi.t
or thirty Lours, and died. He was a
bout sixty-two years of age. " The elder daugh
ter is a widow, and although severely injured,
w iil probably recover. The younger daughter
is able to be about.
Bctlfr CorsTr. As the wife and son of
Captain Jacob Walters were returning from
carap meetiDg, on the Cth, in a one horse bug
gy, the horse ran down the hill, when within
about one and a half mile from Butler, and
taking a short turn in a lane, the buggy upset,
and threw both to the ground. They were se
riously injured There was a frolic at the
honse of Mr. Wolf, in Summit township, on
the 6th. It broke up about twelve orc!ock.
Two young men by the name of Greenert and
Swabel were going home.Greenert shotSwabel,
who was a Kttla ahead of hita. in the stnhll of
the back, wfth a pistol, the ball entered the
kidneys supposed to be fatal. Greenert has
not been takeu yet.
Northampton County. A woman named
Btidd, was drowned at the Chain Dam, a short
time since, being thrown by the tow-line on
her husband's boat, where she was, into the
river. The husband, half frantic with grief,
lumped in immediately and caught hold of her,
bringing her up twice, but her weight being
too much lor him, he was compelled, the sec
ond time, to let go Lis hold ot her, when she
sank and drowned, and he weakenkd and ex
hausted by the efforts be made to save his wife
was only saved from death himself by the time
ly assistance of some boatmen, who threw a
rope to him, which he took hold of and was
drawn from the water.
Somerset County. Mathias Bowman, of
Greenville township, shot a wild cat on the
1st August near his residence. It was one of
the largest ever killed in that section of coun
try. .... The saw mill of James O'Coaner,
Esq., in Jenner township, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 7th, supposed to be the
work of an incendiary. ... The shops of Messrs.
Kimmel, Bentford 4i Co., and of Jersey Fisher,
in the town of Somerset, were recently entered
by burglars, but fortuuately all the money ex
cept a few dollars had been previously removed
from the drawers.
Westmoreland Cocntt. Hon. James Todd
of Groensburg, recently met with an accident
that came near terminating fatally. His wrist
came in contact with a scythe, which he was
carrying, severing an artery. Before a physi-
hcian could be summoned, he had nearly bled
to death. Hopes of his-ecovery are enter
tained. .... A son of Wm.Meching, of Hemp
field township, severed a blood vessel while
cutting corn, last week the knife cutting his
leg and inflicting a deep wound.
CrMBERLAND CorxTT. A youth named John
Reed met with a shocking death in Carlisle
on Saturday last. He was employed in a
grocery store, and was sent to the cellar to
draw burning fluid, when the fluid took fire
from a candle which accidently upset, causing
an explosion and dashing him against the wall.
When taken out his skull was fractured and
portions of his body burnt to a crisp. He
died the same night at 11 o'clock, after the
most excruciating agony.
Lebanon Cocntt. A young lady named
Catharine Light, daughter of Mr. John Light
of Swatara township, was instantly killed at
Jonestown, on Thursday, 2d inst., by jumping
from a carriage while the horses were running
away, and falling with her head upon a pile of
scantling near the road. A younger brother
and sister, who were with her in the carriage,
were thrown out before she jumped and escap
ed without serious injury. The unfortunate
girl was about 18 years of age.
Armstrong Cocntt. On Friday morning,
aweek, a young lad named John Quigley, be
came entangled in the machinery connected
with bis father's saw mill, just opposite Kit
tanning, and was shockingly mutilated. A
piece of timber struck him in tho abdomen,
completely disboweling bim. He lingered in
terrible agony till Sabbath morning, when
death relieved him from his sufferings.
Beaver Cocntt. The cotton factory at
Economy was struck by lightning last week.
The shaft struck the second story doing some
damage. The building is five stories high ;
how the electricity should have strnck the
second story without apparently touching
those above or below it, is a mystery.
Franklix County. An affray occurred, on
the l-3th, near Waynesboro', in which a man
named Osborn, was shot dead by two brothers
Daniel and David Funk. The dispute arose
from Osborn carrying water from Funk's well.
Both the brothers have been arrested, and are
now in prison.
Lancaster CorxTT. On the 7th inst. Mr.
George Goruer, aged about 60 years, fell from
the roof of Messrs. Miller & Musser's tobacco
shed, at the upper end of Marrietta, and had
his arm and three ribs broken and his heal
badly injured. He died from the injuries on
Thursday evening.
York County. A little boy named Scbott,
was playing among a lot of cars standing on the
siding, at York, on Saturday the 4th. They
were unexpectedly started by the locomotive
whilst he was between them. lie was run over,
cut in two, and of course instantly killed.
Read new advertisments.
Bayird Taylor's last letter to the Tribune
contains the following:
"What more interested me than the speed
of the horses, was the beauty of tho Polish
Women of the better classes. During two
years in Europe. I have not seen so great a
number of handsome faces as I saw in an
hour yesterday. It would be difficult to fur
nish a larger portion from the acknowledge
loveliness of Philadelphia, Baltimore, or Lou
isville. I heard of an American marrying a
Polish lady at Dresden, the other day, and I
must commend his taste. These maids of
Warsaw are not only radient blondes, whose
eyes and hair remind yon of corn flowers a
mong ripe grain, but also dark-eyed beauties,
with faces of a full Southern oval, lips round
and delicate as those of an Amoratte, arid a
pure golden transparency of complexion.
The connoisseur of woman's beauty can no
where better compare those rival styles, nor
Lave so great a difficulty in deciding between
them.
Wandering along the streets with throits
full ot dust, we were attracted to the sign of a
Bavarian beer shop. The proprietor soon
learned that we were strangers. He was very
desirous of importing a negro girl from A
merica for a bar-maid. "I should have all
the nobility of the city here," said he. "She
would be a great curiosity. There is what to
man Pastrana, with the hair all over her face
she made a great fortune, they say. There
are not many of the kind, and if I could get
one quite black, with a woolly-head, I should
make more money in a day, thn I now do in
a month." He wished to engage roe to send
him such an attraction, but I resjectful!y de
clined. Tue Saniw of EarrT Sold for Mcmxy
Rags is Bostos. A singular fraud was dis
covered by a paper manuiacturing company in
Boston a short time since. The company al
luded to purchased of a New York. firm. about
sixty bales of linen rags, said to Lave been
taken lrom Egyptian mummies. The New
York house imported them from Alexandria
and say that they sold them to the Boston
Company as they received them from Egypt.
The rags were observed to be exceedingly
gritty, and an examination w-as made of each
of the sixty bales, which, together, weighed
forty thousand pounds. The examination,
which was accomplished chiefly by threshing,
resulted in procuring 13.000 His. of clear sand
from the sixty bales ! J I was evidently mixed
in as the rag were packed. Large quantities
of sand have threshed out of wool wb.ich.has
been imported into this country from Alexan
dria tl ithin the past year.
Another Yankee Invention. A strange
car passed through New Haven, Ct., on Thurs
day, built in Loweil, Mass., for some western
concern, and it is to establish a ucw era in
trade. It was cighty-Cve feet in length by
eighty feet wide, arranged with counters and
shelves, like a common dry goods itore, and
is so constructed that its width can be tegu
lated by machinery, so as to be made twice
the ordinary width of a rail car. There are no
windows in the side but the end and top are
furnished with lights. The height of the car
is such, that it interfered seriously with some
of the bridges over the old canal bed, and in
one instance resulted in some damage. It is
supposed to be the intention of the proprietor
to make a traveling dry goods store of it, and
'switch oil" where he pleases.
Much excitement is growing up in New
York, in consequence of the mysterious dis
appearance of Mrs. Brennjn, daughter of the
Lite Col. Cane, of the army, and wife of
Captain Brennan, also of the army. Mis. B-,
with her mother and brother, on the 20th of
July, came to New York City in a ferry boat
from Stateu Isiand, and when they paited, a
greed to meet at 4 o'clock on the boat. Since
that time nothing has been heard of Mrs. B.,
although every possible effort Las been made
to find ner.
Deportment in a Railroad Car. A trial
took place a month ago at Rouen, in France,
that afiords a good precedent for judicial ac
tion the world over. To fellows, pretending
to be gen:lemen,were pleased to tali indecent
ly in a railroad car, even after n angry remon
strance of a worthy farmer, who happened to
be with Lis daughter in an opposite seat. He
denounced thoni to the public prosecutor ;
they were tried by the Correctional Court;
the sentence passed on each was imprisonment
for two months and a fine of 20i) fiancs.
Taking a CorrE Cent from a Child's
Stomach. On Monday last, a little girl a!ut
three years of age, daughter of Mr. Philip
Potsdam, living near the" corner of Fifth and
Sycamore street, swallowed a copper cent, ct
the old coinage. The child suflered consider
able pain, but all efforts to remove the cent by
cathartics or emetics proved unavailing. The
coin, however, was skillfully taken from the
stomach by a physician, by the use of an in
strument inserted in the mouth. Cincinnati
Gazects.
The Government at Washington has con
tracted with the AmericanCoIonization society
to take care of the captured Africans, ou their
arrival at Liberia, and subsist them one year
for $30,000, and, in the nieautiiiie, send tliera
to school, and teach them Low, by industrial
pursuits, to support themselves after the expi
ration of that jwriod. The Secretary of the
Interior will forthwith authorize the purchase
of the necessary clothing and blankets to in
sure them a comfortable voyage.
The Keokuk Pott gives an awfiij picture of
tho state of affairs in Iowa. It compares their
condition to the "doomed city ot Jerusalem."
They Lave creditors without and creditors
within. "Every third man is a lawyer, (Heav
en help them !) every other man virtu illy a
pauper, and ail standing in listless and unpro
fitable idleness," except the police and con
stables. Three millions of dollars are to be
sued for in tho courts of one city, and "ruin
and degradation" is given as the probable
result. '
Would Know More tuas tueir Masters.
A Virginia editor declares himself opposed
to having niggers taught to read. There is an
objectiou to their being thus taught in the Ac
comac and some other districts of Virginia
the niggers would Lave the advantage of their
masters. And perhaps many a white man in
these districts would have the nnsophisticated
innocence of his soul polluted by the newspa
pers, if be Lai only a schooled nigger to real
them to him. Losucille Journal.
A Heavy Loss. A Mr. Michael Betz, a
drover, lost a pocket-book, containing between
$3,000 and $4,000, between Fasig's Tavern,
Reading, and Sinking Springs, Berks countv,
on Tuesday night of last week. It was nearlv
all in large notes of the Lebanon Bank.
On Sunday morning the Cth inst., two pris
oners confined in the Western Penitentiary,
escaped, by means of a ladder, which thev
had constructed, by stealing a minute now
and then, when the eyes of the keepers were
not upon them.
Mercer County. A lad named M'Curdy
son of Mr. J. P. M'Curdy. of Adamsvillc, fell
frcm a stack of hay, on Wednesday last, and
the prongs of a pitchfork, which he had in his
hands, passing thro' bis head, he died almost
inttantly.
We take the following from the circular ol
Beidciman & Ilayward, Philadelphia, dated
Sept. 11th, ISoS:
Flocb. Sales to-day of Superfine at 5 23 a
5 02, Extra at 5 50 a 6 09, and Extra Family
at C 00 a 7 50 per bbl. Rye fionr at 4 00.
Corn meal, 4 09 per bbl.
Grain. Sales to-dav of 4000 bushels Red
Wheat at 1 29 1 39, and White at 1 49 a 1
4-3 per bushel. Oats 200U to 3000 bushels sold
at 43 a 41 c. Rye, sales of new at 70 and old
78 c. per bus. "White Beans, prime quality,
small and clean, 1 39 1 30 per bus.
Provisions. Smoked Bacon Sides are worth
7J a S c. Shoulders 5 a 6, and Hams C a 9 c.
per lb. for well trimmed ai.d cured Country
lots, Dry Salted meats are to c. Der pound
less. Butter, Solid Packed in bbls. at;d kegs
or tubs, is worth 11 a 12 for prime yellow,
10 lor ordinary white, Roll Butter is unsalea
ble, and common grease Letter 7 a 7 j per Ibv
Eggs are arriving freely, and svll at 14 a 15 c.
per dozen.
3TW ADVERTISXHEJTTS.
DENTAL CARD. -A. M. SMITH, offers hU
prife4:.osal services to the Ladies and
tientlemen of CleerSeiJ and vicinity. All opera
tions upon the teeth executed with ceatne'j and
de?patcb. lein familiar with all the late im
provements he is prepared to make artificial teeUi
in the be-t n-.ar.Efrr. Office in Shaw's New Kow.
Clearfield. I'a.. September 1 5. 163.
G.W. LO;JAN, ) AND NOW THE 2fftT
v. J PAY OF Al.U;T. I sis,
T. A. M tWIEE CO. ) Plaintiff, by his Attorneys.
Larrimer & Test, in the above ease, ask an order
on the Sheriff, to bring the proceeds of the sale cf
T. A. M Ghee irito Court, and the appointment of
an Auditor to dUtribcts them amiin' tae judgment
creditors. Order granted arid Kobert J. Vilce,
E;q.. appointe-l Auditor, l'rr Curiam.
Ail per5oc interested in the abore distribution.
wi!l take notice that the undersigned will attend
to the dntiesof the at-ore arj-ointuiect at bi oSLev
in CiearGel l. on the i"Ui Oct. ISoo. where and when,
they can attend. li. J. WALLACE,
September 15. lS5.S-4t. Auditor.
CLOVER II UL.LEK.S. The subscribers take
this method of informing the i'ruieri of
Clearfield county, that they manufacture at their
.'hop in Mill iSfim, Centre county. Pa., the etim-V-ratC'l
JJ 'Ltr?lr '. J mryorrt premium Ctowr
lluUrr. ibtse If nllers can be. attached to aoy
power for ti:ber 2 or 4 borsre, or water power in
mil's; are warranted to work well, and with good
see j will clean fruin 2 j to 30 bu&hels per day. Any
person wishing to see one of tbee maahines. aud
learn more particularly of itsoperation-wiM pleaae
call with iir W'm. A. Jieed. farmer. 3 miles tut
of Curwensville, who purchased and had ore ia
uie laft season. M.vhicei will be delivered at
Curweusviilc. if desired. For farther particular
inquire of W'a. A. l'.eti. ClearSel J P. O.. or the
sul.orilers. S. A S. IIAUPT.
Jlili lieim. Centre co.. Pa , Sept. 15. tcis-.m.
N. I. All orders promptly attended to.
SHERIFFS SALE. Ey virtue of a writ of
YeuAitioni E.Tjvum i?ued oci of the Court
of Common I'lea? of Clearfield conuty. and to tno
directed there will he exposed to public sale, at
the Court Koufe in tie boroueh cf ClearfiM. ou
THURSDAY. S3PTE.MBER. ZV. lo3, the follow
ing described real estate, to wit:
A certain tract of land situate in Ferguson town
ship, the first beginning at a beach tree by lajidi
of 'A', li. 1'avis, N." 0 d. W. 213 perches to post by
lands of John Ferguson. S. 09 d. V. 7j perches U
post thence by land? of Mattheiv Elooin S. 21 d.
L". 29 perches to Ilickorv. thence by lands of Mat
thias Slouch. S. 40 d K. 14S to Irnwocl N. 40 d.
E. T2 perches to jlae of beiuG:u. containing
100 acres and with about 40 acres cleared. ,nd log
bouse, barn and blacksmith shop thereon erected.
1 he second beginning at a sugar, thence by land
of Matthew bloom South 40 d. Fast His perches l
l-each. thence by lands of John Ferguson X. 21 tl.
W. 10il perches to beech, thence bv lands of Vm.
P. MeClay N. 60 d. W. 10 perehes'to tin.-h. 50 d.
W. 42 perches to place of beginning containing 16
acres, bein? srtme premises conveyed by T. B. la
vis as per deed recorded in deed book M., pa?
212, to Andrew Davis. Seized, taken in execution
and to be sold as the property of Andrew Pari.
JOSIAU R. KF.ED, Sheriff.
Clearfield, Sept. 15,
HAM.MOSTOX LANDS. AVi.- England
SrfJemtnt. Hare Vfftortnniiij. To all
ir.tntiiiar F.irM-t in a healthy place, tirrnty-fir
miles from Philadelphia, on the Ccnvlen and At
lantic Railroad. Xev Jersey. An old estate has
recently lcen opened fjr sJe. and the" first divi
sion of 10.000 acres divided up into farms of 20 -cits
and upwards. The soil is of the Lett qualitr
fur the production of frnii.-, grains, .tc. The price
isSlotu 520 per acre, payable in easy quarter
yearly instalments, within a term of four jeara.
with interest. The term. are made easy, in or ior
to insure the rapid improvement of the land, by
enablinz tvrry m Juxmots umm to Ay a farm, it
is row being estenivcly improved by good roads,
aud'some ot tho best citizen from New Ensjlaud
and the Middle States are erecting large improve
ments. It is a scene of the greatest improvement
out of Philadelphia Sevcuty-five bou.e hare
been built in 4 months. Practical farmers and bu
tir.ess men from the length and breadth of the L'
nion are settling there. .It is an important busi
ness plaee. on aeeoctt of its bein in the midst of
a great market. Every article raised on this land
finds an immediate saie. The water is excellent,
and no such :'uir.g as fever is known. The soil is
a sandy or clay loam, with a e.jy bottom and rtr
teutire of manures. It is free of stones and easilr
worked. It abounds larvly in the phosphates,
and such is its fertility that from the crop. pro
dueed both upon this laad and the area adjoin
ing under cultivation, it wiil be found not to be
excelled anwhere in the production of crops most
adapted to its market. The reader mav be well
aware that the eariit and the best fruits aud veg
etables eoiae from New Jers;v. which are annual
ly exported to the amount of millions of dollar?
1 he land, besides being accessible in every war
for fertilizers, has an abundant supply of the be -I
quality of muck manure.
Lumber and building materials can be bad oa
the spot at a cheap price, from the mills Other
mills are now bei&g opened, and brickyards being
started on the ground. A person ca'n put ap a
framo tenement f-r present convenience f.ir ono
hundred dollars. On aecountof the extensive em
igration, this is the best course to pursue in order
toget a place to live in at first. Carp entersand buil
ders a re on hand to put up bouses on the best terms.
In settling here the emigrant has many advan
tages, lie is aiihin a few hours" rile of "the great
eiues in the Middle States and New England ; he
is near his old friends and cssociations; he is in a
settled country, wh re everv improvement and
comfort of civiliiation is at band : he is in a heal
thy place, and is tot subject to the certainty of
losing the greater part of his familv and bis own
heaith by those maJignant fevers which make tho
graves ot" so many millions of the young and bar-.
dy m far off regions away from homo and friends,
besides, ue has a mild climate and an onen winter
There arc three trains duilv to Philadelphia,
and to all those who improve the railroad curapa-.
ny gives a free ticket
The reader will at once be atrnek with the ad
vantages here presented, and ask himself why the.
property has cot been taken up before. The rea-.
sou is. It wa never thrown in the market ; and un
less i these statement were correct no one would bo
invited to examine the land before purchasing.
This ail are expected to do. They will see the lai
under cultivation ; they will meet persons,
doubt, from their own neighborhood ; thev will
witness the improvements, and can judge of th
character of the population- Persons should come,
prepared to purchase, as many are locatin". and
locations arc not nei.i on reiusai.
The Hatnmonton Farmer, a monthly literary
id Agricultural sheet, containing full infnt;.
of Hamraonton. will be sent to esch inquirer and
can be obtained at 25 cents per annum '
Title indisputable. Warrantee deeds gives,
clear of all incumbrance, when purchase moiiev is
.?'.?' . lu'ac'"a :-JLeave Vine street wharf.
frlti Shla- MP "d isiormatim eheerfully
famished. u ls.3m r
i'
x t 3u .inonion ly railroad at 71,
bvrnes. Boarding conveniences will be found,
rfirr fit rV'iH1'0' can ba addressed toS B.
rni nhi4 it.. . .