jm Mr? SIMM'S 6 Jiaftsnmn's $mtnwl. - - - B. B.-BOW, EDITOR ASD PROPRIETOR. CLEARFIEIA?,PA., MARCTI 9, 1859. . ' THE E.EIGJT OF COERUPTIOIT. The Administration oi James Buchanan will, through all future time, be regarded as the most corrupt that has ever had the control of oar Government. Recent developments force the conclusion upon us that nearly every act thus far has been marked with the most outra geous favoritism and reckless squandering of the public treasure. The- reports of the In vestigating Committees appointed by Con gress expose some of these disreputable trans actions, and, startling as the assertion may be, show that the President himself, as well as his Secretary of the Navy, countenanced and en couraged the corruption. The Naval Investigating Committee report that the Navy Tards are stocked with political favorites, whose appointment is dictated by democratic members of Congress as a politi cal reward, and that men are employed in them by the hundreds, jnst before elections, to se cure the election of particular men to Con gress ; that contracts arc awarded to the high est and not to the lowest bidders, the recip ients being always political favorites, and in some instances relatives of the Secretary of the Navy ; that a contract for furnishing live oak, at extravagant prices, was given as a re ward to a man named W. C. N. Swift, a whaler of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who was an old line whig, and contributed 16,000 towards carrying Pennsylvania for Buchanan in 1850, and that a creature of the Presidents, ono George Plitt, of Philadelphia, was to re ceive ten per cent, on the gross amount of the contracts that he should procure for Swift, and that in 1857, contracts were awarded to 3Ir. Swift to the amount of S2G2.910, and in 1858, by a series of artful and fraudulent ma noeuvres, it was contrived that Mr. Swift should get a further contract for 150,000 feet of tim ber, amounting to $166,700, about 25,000 more than it would have cost the Government if the contracts had been honestly and prop erly offered to competition without the dis graceful favoritism disclosed. The Coal A gency was given to Dr. Charles II. Hunter, of Reading, Pa., a man w ho neither knew any thing about his office nor did anything in it, bnt allowed outsiders to buy the coal at exor bitant rates, the arrangement being that the emoluments of the olb'ce, which reach nearly 15,000, should be divided between Hunter, John F. Smith and J. Lawrence Getz the latter subsequently declined to have anything to do with the matter. The President, accor ding to the testimony, was fully aware of this corrupt arrangement. Proposals having been invited for the machinery of the steam sloops of-war directed by the act of June 1S58, seven bids were made for that of the large sloop at Philadelphia. The lowest was 98,000, but before the Secretary of the Navy had passed upon the bids, Col. W. C. Patterson, of Phila delphia, wrote a letter to Mr. Buchanan, set ting forth that Merrick & Sons' was the only establishment in Florence's district ; that they employed a large number of hands ; that their influence was valuable, and with the aid of this firm the result in the 1st district would be placed beyond a doubt. The President sent this precious document to the Secretary with the following significant indorsement : The inclosed letter from Col. Patterson, of i nuaaeipnia, is submitted to the attention of the Secretary of the Navy. J. B." And, presto ! the contract is given to Mer rick & Sons for 102,000, being 4,000 more than the other bid ! It is also shown that J. Clancy Jones, while a member of the House, received five per cent, upon the contracts ho obtained for others at the navy department. The report of the House Committee on the case of John A. Searing, a Democratic mem ber from New York, shows that he refused to report, as a member of the Committee on Claims, upon a eertain claim or allow it to be paid, until ho had been allowed a certain jer centagcupon it. The report in the Seaman investigation es tablishes a collusion between the superinten dent of public printing and the public printer, by which the engravers, lithographers, con tractors for paper and the like, were syste matically black-mailed and the government as systematically plundered. So far as the in quiry extended, Seaman had pocketed about 30,000, and Wendell about 40,000, from these sources. The debate in the Senate on Monday a-weck shows that a contract amounting to $50,000, which ought not to have cost over $5,000, was given to the office of the Philadelphia Penn sylranian, in which a certain Senator has, or had at that time, an Interest, and that it was a part of the consideration that one-half of the profits should go to sustain tho President's or gan, the Washington Union, and that the As sistant Secretary of State also came in for a share of the spoils. The President is well un derstood to be a party to, or cognizant and ap proving of this corrupt bargain. And this is but a beginning of the develop ments. Tho next Congress will have tho chance of ferreting out many other instances ; of villainy. These, however, are enough to ! make any man whose luve of honesty and fair dealing yet remains, detest an Administration that permits and countenances such wholesale corruption and peculation. . LETTEE FE0M HABEISBITSG. Special correspondence of the Raftsman's Journal March 5, 1839. is. B. Row, Esq. Dear Sir: The local legis lation amounts to very little. The Clearfield Gas Company has passed finally, and I notice that Dr. Boyer read a bill in place on Thurs day to incorporate the Clearfield Water Com pany. Are these two sepcrate and distinct institutions? An act has passed incorporating a company to build a bridge over Clearfield creek at A- lexander's Fording. Mr. Blood has introduced a bill to vacate and take from the Company the charter of the Susquehanna and Waterford turnpike. This is the old "Clay Pike," which was an institu tion in its day, but latterly it has not yielded sufficient toll to keep it in repair, and the townships through which it passess refuse to improve it. It has become a regular Jordan, and the sooner it gets into the hands of those who will repair it, the better for those who re side along it. The Farmer's High School is an institution, Simon, in which I do not believe. I think it is a kind of a private speculation got up for the benefit of a few at the expense of the many, and that the whole arrangmcnt is being funned advantageously by somebody, is evi dent from the fact that a supplement is now before the Senate, asking for an additional ap propriation to finish the building. It appears that 56,000 have already been expended, and the wings are unfinished. It is said too, that everything indicates that the School is not likelyto be what it was originally intended. Instead of being a school to educate practical farmers, it is likely to be an institute to edu cate rich men's sons in the theory of farming, and the science of making money. But then, there is no danger, whatever, of the bill passing. The Governor has appointed C. D. Ilinelinc, Superintendent of Public Printing, in place of O. Barret, removed, and the Senate has u nanimously confirmed the appointment. This is a good appointment, and gives very general satisfaction. Mr. Barret is not a practical printer, neither is he on the same platform with the Governor on the great issues of the day. A bill to increase the salaries of the Judges of the State was killed in the Senate to-day by a close vote. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has a nice little tax bill to settle evidently, as ap pears by the following extract from a commu nication lately made by the Auditor General to the Senate : "For tax on capital stock, per act of April 29, 1844, from September 1, 1819, to the first Monday of November, 1857 ; the said tax es timated under the provisions of the fourteenth section of the act of March 30, 1811, except the. year 185G, for which the company furn ished the necessary data to determine the proper amount of tax. Cap. st'k pd. in. Mills. Tax. 1849 $3,322,035 0 $1,811.01 1850 5,S22,210 3 17,460.63 1851 8,103,465 3 21,310.39 1852 9,768,155 3 29,304.46 1853 11,228,C20 3 33,684.06 1831 12,104,820 3 CC,314.46 1S55 12,300,000 3 . 36,900.00 1837 13,206,625 3 39,619.87 219,410.87 10,970.88 50,346.00 Add five per cent, under said net of 1811 1856 dividends eight per cent, on $12,586,625, tax 4 mills Total, .... 280,727.92 Credit. By payment to treasury, Jan. 31, 1857 42,065.32 By payment to treasury Dec. 17, 1857 31,597.62 73,6G2.94 Balance due Commonwealth, $207,064.98 . How would you like the handling of that a- monnt of the ready ? Wouldn't mind "hand ling" it into our own pocket, thank'e. Ed. This sum they are not over anxious about paying, and have a kind of supplement to give a construction to the act chartering the Com pany, to wit : that the tax is only to commence from the time dividends were first declared. The supplement will pass over the left ! Quito a number of small corporation bills have passed within a week past.as for instance, the Newry Railroad Company, the Quakake Railroad, the North Branch Railroad, the Ma hanoy Railroad, the Philadelphia and New Or leans Steam Navigation Company, the Phila delphia & Manayunk Steamboat Company, the East Danville Iron Company, tho Bedford Gas Company, the Evangelical Lutheran Church Company of York, the Towanda Gas Compa ny, etc., etc. Gen. Duff Green is hard to kill. Although the Senate unceremoniously slaughtered his great " American Imyrovement and Loan Com pany" bill, ho still lives. He has obtained th eUall of the House, and delivers a lecture there on his great financial arrangement on Monday evening. The Fry divorce case was argued before the House committee and a large and fashionable audience on Tuesday evening last. The Hon. Thomas Corwin, counsel for the lady, made a very stirring appeal in her behalf, and Whar ton went in for the husband. There is no knowing how this quarrel in high life will terminate. The House passed a bill to-day divorcine a daughter of Capt. Blair, of the Commercial HotelThiladelphia, from the bonds of matri mony, into which she had entered without the knowledge or consent of her parents, with one Priestly, her father's bar-keeper, who is rep resented as being a gay youth of thirty, while she has reached the ripe age of thirteen years and nine months! Tho marriage was the re sult of a conspiracy, quite discreditable to those engaged in it, and especially so to the Reverend gentleman who performed the cer emony. A grand legislative ball comes oil at Cover- ly's on Tuesday evening, which is to be, ac cording to common rumor, a reekerche affair. Your correspondent is not likely to be in the ring, bnt he will probably hear what takes place. - There is a bill before the Senate to increase the pay of Adjutant General Wilson to $1,400 per annum. Death certain death, stares it in the face. ine memoers oi tne nouse votea to sus tain the 700 per session system. I glory their pluck, but some of their constituents will givo them rats about the latter part of next summer. Yours, - SrEcut Ccsti, March 4tu, 1859. Ma. Row: A svstem of rafting, known as "splashing," has been introduced on the river In other words, some of those who own dam retain the water until their dams are filled, and then suddenly let off.the water, which enables them to float what lumber is in or below the dam, some distance down the river. This may be tun to those who are engaged in it, but is death to us, who, when we have partially rafted in a raft, find it by the sudden rise and fall ol the water left high and dry, and w compjKed to cut it apart to get it into deep water, sometimes we, having no knowledge that a snlash-nood is to take place, leave on rafts or timber iusecurelv tied to go some dis tance from the river and on our return find that the water has been let off above, and that our unfinished raft has floated some distance down stream, or if it was well secured, the lash poles which projected over the raited sticks broken off. Have the owners of dams right to do so ? A Sufferer. From a letter accompanying the above com munication, it appears there are more incoc veniences arising from splash floods than we thought there were. The Legislature has giv en owners of land on navigable streams the right to erect dams, but they must be so con structea as not to impede the navigation or prevent fish passing up the river. We have always understood it to be the law that such owners have the right to use the water passing over their land, but that they must let It come to those who own below in quantity as it would naturally flow. If we are right, no one can confine tho water and then let it off suddenly without being liable for damages. We believe no one has a right to put splash-boards on their dams and close their schutcs : but when this is done merely for the purpose of increas ing the head, and at a timewhen there is not sufficient water to use the navigation, and it can be done without resulting in injury to others, it should be tolerated. Beccaria Towxsnir-, Feb. 25, 1S59. Mr. tniTpa : I am a stranger to you. vet I feel as if I should like to form your acquaint ance. Having lately come to Clearfield coun ty, as a Presbyterian minister, in this town snip, i nave seen -several copies, of different dates, of the Raftsman's Juurual, and mu say, that on the whole, I am much pleased with a 1 T ... u. Ana now i wish to become a subscriber ; for I ought to do everything in my power for tho prosperity of the county in which I live. and not the least way to do this, is to take voir paper. Please .find within, my subscrip tion. Nor will this satisfy me ; whatever in fluence I may have, shall go to circulate your journal as wiaeiy as possible. At a meeting held here'tbis week for Edu cational purposes, several short speeches were maae ; all tending to awaken a deeper inter est in ine education not only oi the young, but aiso oi tuose oi riper years. 15c lure the meeting was over, a committee of three was appointed unanimously to take subscriptions for procuring a Library, treating in a scientific manner, of the various branches of industry carried on in tne community. W hat is more a gentleman present has offered to add one- fourth to whatever sum may ba collected ; be sides, the proceeds ol the exhibition of a cam era obscura, which he will send from Phila delphia. We therefore expect shortly to have about a hundred vols, on Agriculture, Physi ology, Mineralogy, Mining, Metallurgy, Zool. ogy, Botauy, Astronomy and other branches or Practical Philosophy. The duty and privi lege of taking a newspaper was urged, as what no imagined obstacles should hinder them lrom performing and enjoying. An excellent spirit seemed to be awakened, which, if con- : .1 t i i . ... . uuueu. iu auu tiiei isueu uy mem, will only tend to produce in the township of Beccaria, in a lew years, a population second to none in the coutuy, in intelligence, public spirit, ad vancenient in the arts and sciences, and I hope in every good work. l suau let you know how this good spirit woms. in me meantime, I am, dear tditor, Respectfully yours, Lojied. Ve tender Lonied' our thanks for his good opinion ana wishes, and shall be pleased to hear from him at any time. We think your plan a good one worth a trial, at all events During our visit to Lowell wo were shown through theLaboratory of our celebrated coun tryman, Dr. J.C. Ayer. Scarcely could we have believed what is seen there without proof beyond disputing. They consume a barrel of solid Pills, about 50,000 doses, and 3 barrels of Cherry Pectoral, 120,000 doses per diem. To what an inconceivable amount of human suffering does this point ! 170,000 doses a day ! Fifty million of doses per year !! What acres and thousands of acres of sick beds docs this spread before the imagination ! And what sym pathies and woe ! True, not all of this is ta ken by the very sick, but alas, much of it is. This Cherry Drop and this sugared Pill are to be tho companion of pain and anguish and sinking sorrow the inheritance our mother Eve bequeathed to the whole family of man. Here the infant darling has been touched too early by the blight that withers half our race. 4- Its little lungs are affected and only watching and waiting shall tell which way its breath shall turn. This red drop on its table is the talisman on which its life shall hang. There the blossom of the world just bursting into womanhood, is also stricken. Affections most assiduous care skills not, she is still fading a way. The wan messenger comes nearer and nearer every week. This little medicament shall go there, their last perhaps their only nope, ine strong man has planted in his vi tals, this same disease. This red dron bv his side is helping him wrestle with the inexora ble remedy; the wife of his bosom and tho cherubs of his heart are waitins in sick sor row and fear lest the rod on which they lean in this world, be broken. OJDoctor! Spare no skill, nor cost, nor toil, to give the perish ing sick the best that human art can give. Galveston, Texas, JVeic. Richard Cobden, the celebrated English re former, and Wm. Smith O'Brien, the equally celebrated Irish patriot, are the most recent arrivals of foreign notabilities. Both come with the same purpose in view to travel throughout the States and study the nature and influence of our political and civil institutions. J PEITITSYLVAHi'A ITEMS. , " prepared for the "raftsman's journal." Dacfhis Coustt. On the 23d Adam Smith, fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Bailey's Station, died under circumstances that led the neighbors to think he had been poisoned by his wife. The previous Friday she left home for Uarrisburg, telling the girl if Mr. Smith took sick that day, to give him laudanum ; be was then in sound health. At Newport Mrs. S. asked for arsenic to kill rats, but was relused ; she had purchased some there before ; she also sought for it at Uarrisburg. She started for home the night of that day, at Duncannon offering a premium to any one who would drive her home, as her husband was very sick. .Failing in this, she went on to .Newport, and on Saturday arrived at home, and found her husband very sick, purging and vomiting, in which condition ho remained all the following Tuesday. She then telegraphed to a Doctor that her husband was very sick," and at the same time to her father in Philadelphia, that be was dead. The Doctor arrived too late. After Smith's death, an inquest was held, and the stomach taken out and sent to Philadelphia for analysis. Mrs. I-'mith was held in custody. Since then she has attempted to poison herself. - Indiana Count. Mr. J. P. Carter, of the town of Indiana, has obtained a contract from the National Government to deliver a lot of mules for the western service. ... On the night of the 23d Feb., a valuable horse was stolen from Mr. Johnston Keener, near She Iocta. . . . Mr. John Kinter, of Rayne town ship, week before last, lost two or three valu able horses, that were attacked by a malignant disease that is prevailing among the horses in various parts of the county. . . . On the 22d Feb., the house of Peter Freeh, of Rayne township, was destroyed by fire, with all its contents, as well as 200 bushels of grain and a lot of pork, during the absence of the family. .... On tho night of the 23d, some provisions were stolen from the "Indiana House," and several persons in the town had clothes that were on the lines drying, carried off. . . The post office at Carter's Mjlls has been removed to the Blacklick station on the Railroad, and J. Gardner appointed postmaster. . . . Mr. Samuel Howe and lady left Indiana for Leav enworth, Kansas, on the 1st inst. ... Messrs. Alex. Montgomery and Gil. Woodward ship ped, on the 28th, a car load of fine horses, for tho Philadelphia market. Yobk County. The new bridge over the Susquehanna river, at Conowingo, 30 miles below Wrightsville, is completed, and was thrown open for public use on the 17th ult. . . A dog, supposed to be rabbid, was killed in Wrightsville a lew days since . . . The typhoid fever prevails in Hopewell township, and deaths are numerous. ... A few weeks ago, a powder mill went into operation about 3 miles south of York, and already it has bad ono blow-up; fortunately little injury was done ... Religious revivals are in progress iu various sections of the county. . . . The sup ply of lumber at Wrightsville, the Star says. is short, and prices have advanced a little ; culling boards are now selling one dollar higher, and bill stud two dollars per thousand higher than formerly. Jefferson County. On the eveninjr. of Feb. 25th, about dusk, the dwelling house of Jacob Smith, two miles North of Punxstitawnry, took fire from a stove pipe, and was burned to the ground. Bedding, household furniture and clothing were saved. Ho lost flftv bush els of buckwheat. His loss cannot be less than 1500. . . . On the 26th, Mrs. T. K. Litch, near Brookville. . made a narrow escape. Whilst in the woodhousc picking up chiis one of the laboring men about tho mill, not perceiving her. carelessly tossed a double uiuea axe into the wooanouse. ibe axe struck Mrs. L. on the back, but-fortunately glanced down, cutting her dress and injurin her only slightly. Centre Colxty. A cumber of thefts have recently been committed in Bellefonte. On the night of the 26th Feb., six or seven bams were stolen from the smoke house of Henry Vandyke, Esq. . . . The Democrat says Mr. Jonathan Kreamer, of Penn to., two vears ago, bought a heifer for which he paid sixty nve dollars. Within the last two jcars this heifer has had five calves. About two weeks ago she had two calves, and when they were a week old one of them weighed 85 and the other 14a pounds. When they were three weeks old, Mr. Kreamer sold the cow and calves for one hundred and fifty dollars. Cumberland Coi nty. The stable of Mr. A benseman, ot Carlisle, with six new sleichs. and a quantity of hay and straw, was destroyed by nre on the zaa t eb Catarrh fever is prevailing among the children in the neighbor hood of .Newville. . . . Mr. Wm. Eakins. acred about 70 years, residing near Oakvillc, went to his barn on the 'otn, to harness a horse, and shortly after was found lying on his face, near tne norsc. dead, the cause of his death is not stated. . . . Mrs. Crissinger, of Fraukford township, was thrown from a horse on the 13th and had her right ankle dislocated and the bones of her leg broken. .u it t us uotATt. i lie oarn on the urcmiscs C m . of T. L. n illiams, Esq., in Reedsville. known as Brown's Mills Hotel, was destroyed by fire on Monday night, Feb. 2Slh. The stock was all got out in safety, but about 400 bushels of corn, 100 bushels of oats, four or Cve tons of hay, ana a quantity of straw, &c. worth lrom 300 to 400, the property of Mr. Moatgome ry, tenant of the hotel, was all burnt. Tho barn was a good one, having been nut uo at a cost of 800 or 900. Insured for about one half, we believe, in the West Branch Company. Clarion CorNTY. Mr. Samuel Lcbaush. residing near the Narrows on the Kittanning road, in Bethleham township, was killed on the Joth teb., by the trunk of a tree, which ne cut down, falling across him. His wife alarmed at his remaining absent too Ion?, sent aiaaaner mm, who soon returned and re ported that his father was Iviiiff in the woods. The passengers of the Kittanning stage, which came past the place at the time, raised eleven aonars ana gave it to the afflicted woman. Washington County. On Satnrdav last. Mr. Edward Ross, of Buffalo township, was up at Taylorstown in his apparently usnal health. and, after having started home, fell from his norse, aoout a halt a mile below town, and im mediately expired. Mr. Donahey, who was riding some fifty rods behind him, came np in time to see him draw his last breath. He is supposed to have died of apoplexy. He was about forty years of acre. He learea a. and seven small children to mourn his untime ly ena. Mercer County. On the mornfcir of flm 15th Feb., at the door of his residence. Gpo. D. Keck, of.Snar Grove townshin. found box containing a living boy babv. about s.W weeks old, snugly packed ud in flannel to protect it from the cold. A letter, with di rections how to take care- of the child. wa left in the box. The affair is a mystery which the letter promises to solve in a few weka from its date. Franklin County. A. B. Winzerd had six. ty-seven sheep destroyed in one night; not long since, by dogs. ... A man namil .T,la..n!, Ickes was found dead in tho kitchen of Abra ham Hossler, on the morning of the 16th Feb ruary. . . . David Funk, recently convicted of murder,, was taken to the penitentiary ou tho COJTGEESSIOXAL PE0CEETJI?G3. Feb. 26-. In the Senate, the Army Appi'o priation Lilt was taken up, and Mr. Slid improved the occasion to abandon the Thirty Million Cuba Buying bill. After a long debate the Army bill was adopted. 24 to 15. The ap propriations amount to 15,000,000. In the .House, the report of the Committee of Con ference on the Indian Appropriation bill was agreed to. A bill was passed to protect tim ber on military reservations. Steps were ta ken for the punishment of a witness who had testified before tho Printing Committee to certain untruths. The Post-Office Appropria tion bill was amended by putting in money .lor new posf-office buildings, and then passed by four niaioritv. A determined effort Mas made to introduce a Tariff bill by Mr. Phelps Chairman of the nays and Means Committee but, by a vote of 128 to 88, the House refus ed to suspend the rules. The President's ve to to the Agricultural bill was received, and on a vote the count was, Yeas, 105 ; Navs 90 not two-thirds for rt and so the bill was rejected. In Committee, the House took uj the JN aval Appropriation bin, and taiKed a- while about the recent disclosures by the In vestigating Committee. Without further ac tion on this bill, the House concurred in th Senate's amendments to the Consular, the Legislative.and the IndianAppropriation bills Feb. 28. In the Senate, the Post-Office Committee reported adversely to a large num ber of requests for new Post-Routes. On a motion to take up the Homestead bill, the vote was : Yeas 20 ; Nays 29. Senator Hons ton made a farewell speech. Conference Com- mittees were raised on the Executive and Diplomatic Appropriation bills. The Post- Oflicc Appropriation bill was then taken up. The third section was stricken out, and in its place six millions of dollars appropriated for deficiencies of the fiscal year. A long and uninteresting debate ensued. In the House the two Representatives from Texas wasted considerable time in a personal quarrel. Th Naval Appropriation bill was amended (as a greed to in Committee) bv cutting down the 3.100,000 for repairs to 1,900.000, and the $1,192,010 for navy yards to 130,000 and the bill then passed. Mr. Phelps moved a sus pension of the rules to introduce a bill to ex tend the issue of Treasury Notes for two years, but the House refused, 93 to 108. In Committee, the Miscellaneous Appropriation lull was taken up. A motion to strike out $250,000 for continuing the Coast Survey was negatived. March 1. In the Senate, the Tost-Office Appropriation bill being under consideration in Committee, Mr. Yulee moved to raise 1ft ter postage to five cents and abolish the frank ing privilege, which motion prevailed i eas, 29; Nays, 28. Mr. Wilson got in an amend ment that the Post-Office advertisements here after be printed in two papers having the lar gest circulation in each State and Territory. An amendment, giving the overland mail con tractors the privilege of choosing their own route, was lost, 19 to 32. During the debate it was stated that the cost of each letter con veyed overland was fropi tmrty-nve to si sty -dollars. It was then moved to make the trips once a week, and reduce the pay to 130,000 nstead of 600,000.wlnch was agreed to. Mr. Broderick moved that the weekly mail be tween St. Joseph and Placerville be int through in twentv-five davs, and the pav le $110,000, which was agreed to. Mr. Rice moved a weekly mail from St. Paul to Puget Sound, at 20030OO,which was Carried,33 to 4. The bill being reported to the Senate, most of the amendments were adopted that concern ing the Buttcrfield contract by 32 to 16. The section raising the rates of postage and abol ishing the franking privilegj was also adopt-. ed. on a nnal vote, the bill, as amended, was adopted Yeas, 29; Nays, 22. A motion to recor.sider was lost. The Senate then took up the Naval Appropriation bill. In the House the amendments of the Committee of the Whole to the Miscelaneons Appropriation bill were acted upon. The $350,000 for con tinning the Treasury Extension was cut down toS50,000; $450,000 for Custom Houses in Charleston and New Orleans were stricken out. The bill was finally passed, and then the Ocean Mail Appropriation bill was taken np in Committee. When the Committee rose the till was laid on the tabic by 11 majority. The House in Committee then tcok up the Senate's amendments to the Army bill, adopt ing the appropriation of 227,000," balance due Massachusetts lrom the war of 1812. The amendments were disposed of, but the bill was not finally acted upon. After voting 10,000 to pay the expenses of the Investigating Com mittee, the House adjourned. March 2. In the Senate, the bill to carry into effect the treaty with China was passed". The Miscellaneous Appropriation bill was ta ken up. It embraces a total amount of 2, 345,000. Mr. Simmons moved an amendment providing for a home valuation of imports, but after debate it was lost. Mr. Hunter mov ed that the President be authorized to issue Treasury Notes for twenty millions at six per cent interest, which was adopted, 21 to 10. An amendment of 330,000 for the New Or leans Custom-IIoiise was lost, 15 to 9. Also $250,000 to complete the Washington Aque duct. In the House, the Senate resolutions authorizing the President to confer on Com modure Stewart the commission of Senior Flag Officer of the Navy was adopted. The House then took up the Senate's amendments to the Army bill, and disposed of them accor ding to the discretion of the Committee of the Vt hole. The bill extending the laws and judicial system over Oregon was adopted .Mr. Darisot Indtana asked leave to introduce a bill repealing the restrictive clause in th ivansas act. Air. .ngnsli thought it was tnn late in the session- 3Ir. Davis' moved a. sus pension of the rules, on which the vote was luti tob ; but, not being two thirds in favor, the rules were not suspended. The vote on the Mail Steamer bill was reconsidered, and the bill was again rejected 66 to 91.' The House concurred in the report of the Confer ence Committee on the Execufive Appropria- iiuu uiu. juv vi luese. amenaments restores the mileage lor the next Congress, which had been stricken out by the House. Mr. An drews wanted to get up the River and Harbor bill, but finally withdrew bis request. During the evening session, there was a irood rii-al f comusiou aooui tne right to the floor, in the midst of which Mr. Barksdale got a single private bill passed. The House then took up the Senate's amendments to the Naw'i.iM ;n Committee, when there was some talk about the Paraguay Expedition, particular as to the right of the Secretary ot War to "charac ter vessels, and in general as to tho power of the Executivc!to make war. Finally the Senate's amendment concerning the Pnrn,,, affair was concurred in 83 to 78 ; and all the other amendments were adopted. The report of the Conference Committee on th rv.i.r. lar Appropriation bill was agreed to. -iiAKUH a. in tne Senate, the Ilmno nw priation of $10,000 to pay expenses of the Investigating Committee, was adopted. The Miscellaneous Appropriation bill wn, ,!.- up. Mr. Yulee wanted the Postmaster-General to increase the Atlantic and Pacific mail facilities to the extent of S''f,o rv adopted. Another amendment gives 1"0 -000 a year, for fonr vn in . Z '. - . .. . - "in oi a line oi steamers to Mexican Gulf ports. r ti-; got in $500,000 instead of sr.n nnn the Treasury buildings. Mr7 Sinrt jeet for home valuation of imported goods was lost by four majority. The reistua of I Treasury notes was authorized, 30 to 22. The ' amendments added are to abolish the frank ing privilege and to increase the rates ol post age. In the House, in thn case of Mr. Star ing, charged with accepting $400 to engineer a claim, the committee's resolution that tho evidence would not warrant a conviction, nor subject him to an expulsion, was adopted. Mr. G row rose to a privileged question, and offered a fesolutron that the Post-Office blli. with its amendments, be returned to the Sen ate, as the thirteenth section thereof proposed to increase the rate of postage, which is iu the nature of a revenue bill, and according to the Constitution can only originate in the House. This motion was carried, 1 17 to 76, and the bill sent back to the Senate.1 The rule requiring bills to be read before final passage was suspended. The House 8grced to tho leport of tho Couferencc Committee oi the Naval . bill, wherein 289,000 are given for the purchase of the vessels chartered fur the Paraguay Expedition. The bill to carry into effect the treaty with China was passed. After recess, some time was spent in talk a bout remodeling the arrangement of seats and desks for members. Tho session was kept up until Friday noon, when the final adjournment took place. Before doing so. the bill author izing there-issue of Thirty Millaons iu Trea sury Notes was passed and tho Tariff revisiou sacrificed. THE "GOLD DIGGHTS." ncrc is something taken f rom the Shelbys ville Patriot, on the gold mines: Pike's Peak, Nov. IS, 1858. Mr. Editor: Me and my wifo left the old Sucker State on the first of last September, and arrived here on Pike's Peak on the 17tli of the same month, being just 17 J day on tho road. Short trip, say you. But the route tra velled was not by the Arkansas, neither that of the Platte, but just midway between tho two, uniting the advantages of each, without the drawbacks of e ither. The route was nev er traveled till me and my wife passed along ; it tuins neither to the right nor to the left, but goes straight along, right to the mines, and liu iiisbes an abundance of grass, wood ami wa ter; so nutritious is the grass that when me and my wile got hero our cattle were "butter fat." At the urgent request of the hall starv ed miners, me ami my wife killed them and sold the shanks at thirty-three and one-eighth cents per pound ; the fleshy pieces we swapped for gold nuggets pound for pound. But aint we rich ? Tell all your folks to coma my route ; no difficulty iu finding it, as me and my wife took pains to blaze all the trees. We think of putting up atoll-pole; my wife can tend it while I work in tho mines! There is truth in all the exaggerated accounts about gold. Just now my youngest child (a year ling) brings in a shirt-tail full of very rich dirt which my wife will wash and send you tho yield. I supply me and my wife with meat by my gun. Buffalo, bear, deer and antelope are. in abundance; yc.-terday I killed an antelr.mt 320 yards. A gun will kill further here than any place I ever saw. Strange as it may ap pear, right on the peak and close to our houso is a little lake filled with honey ; a few yards from this is a gushing spring of pure aii.K ! There is a peculiar hpecies of tree here, tho fruit ot which is better than the lest buck wheat cakes von ever saw. My wile thinks she has discovered indications ot" a soap mine ; Tom Trousers has discovered a rosin mine; and Joe Boottee is making preparations to manufacture turpentine. The boys are all do ing well ; I have 90 or 100 pounds of gold which I intend sending back to my wife's poor relations the first express. Sickness and sor row, pain and death aro strangers here. hen me and my wife left Punkin Hollow, iu Illi nois, she was a poor, little, scrawny, wasp waist creature, weighing 82 pounds ; now sh weighs 240, and locks like a huge molassex hogshead, only when .she wears hoops arid then and then. The color of my wi!c'a skin has changed to a dec) yellow ; some peculiar property of the atmosphere communicate this shade to the cuticle. This is taken as an indication of the abundance of gold. . ' .My wile stops tne to say the shirt tail .f earth was not very rich, onlv making $15 t'9 cents, 9 mills and a fraction over. Mv wlio sends her respects to yon, and says you must send the Patriot to the Peak. My second hiv just brought in the point of a two-edged sword. doubtlvss the one that guarded the garden of Edon. There is an old Indian hero who says he well remembers Noah and the ni k. My twelve sons are all heartv, and my two daugh ters are fine looking girls. Farewell. Amabiau Billdap, ani his Wife. r We Judge there is about as much truth in this burlesque as in many of the accounts that arc written in sober earnest. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. I PUBLIC IlOrSE. The undersigned pcctfullr announces to the traveling mil.lia i general that he eow occupies thcTnvtru hoa.e mile east of S. J?au.ler"s old stand, in Onvino-tnr. township, where he prepared to accommodate all who may favor hiru rfth their custom, lilt house is commodious and well adapted to tho or. -tertainment of travelers, and his table will alwava be provided with tho best that tho market ran uV. ford. His stable is aUo cir.venient ai.it frnnit March 9, ISo9. BKNJAMIN SXIDEK. EXLCrTOltS' mcntary on the .NOTICE.-Letters Tcst. cntary on the Estate of rsam- Rl of 1 ike township, Clearfield county. Pa. deceased haviug been graufed to tho undersigned ; all per sons indebted to said .estate arc required to make imincuiaie payment, and those having claims a gauist tho same will present them duly authenti cated to our Attorney, L.J. Crans. Esq., Clearfiold, or to wf: JOHN BfAKiM. . JAS. A. BLOOM. Pike tp., March 9. 1 SiS-Rt Liecutors. 4 BBEY&XEFF, X0. SOS North 3d 8tr rf,. (,,hr,e doors above Vine.) Philadelphia I OLD HARDWARE STANi, (Established i we. rnur 1 pan ,r . . : t . . - reel. T1IK i'wentv- cltanc,l,Far,runz(.,d Household Hardware it now m More, and will be offered at the lowest mar J.ct prices to Cash and prompt Sir month l,ui. ers. ails at Manufacturers prices for Cash Or ders from new customers will receive strict and ac- ,-u.vuHseM nre cor.uaiiy invited to call and ejtaui ine their block and Prices before Purchaiing. Philadelphia, Pa., March 9th, lS53-3u, CROItGK l. ABI1EV. jon A. SKFf. nPHE CLEARFIKL1) ACADEMY" WILL be opened on the FIKST TUESDAY OF MAY, under the general supervision of the Rev. J. M. li allow j, and the immediate care of a competent teacher. .TERMS per session of twenty-lwo weeks. Orthozranhv. Rending w i.. A... . a nthmetio and Geography, S3. Higher Arithmetic and Geography, Enzlisb. Grammar and History, S3. AlgcbraPhvsiolo7v.XatnrJPhilosniiiiW Jfru ?k Keeping. "Botany, Geology, Ev'idencea oi Christianity and Biblical AntiquiUcs.SS l ...... 1 1 r ... th -1 . - . , . ' " Jicuuuiauusopny, lUietorio, Loxid and Astronomy, $10. The Latin and Greek Lanimtroa io Exercises in Composition and Declamation will be required of all the pupils, according to their abih ies So deduction will be made when the pupil enter within two weeks of the commence ment of the Session, or tor absence, unless occa sioned by protracted sickness. Xo pupil r" eh ed for les, than half a senion. Tuition to be Lid at me cio-o ot the lirst eleven week of th iiearueld. March 8th.1853.-it ;"c """""on, aa gnoas sent from thu houjj will be as represented. Country merchant, on tneir next visit to our ntvlnm.u ,:- T V TAST A GOD PAPER. SUB i lEvnr ;Rsn'' Journal." hi XT ANT,A U00D rAPi:K- utoriWfrr ' ine Hart.nian s Journal." ii ftF' rnr - IT- -ITUif w
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