The Country dollar. (Clearfield, Pa.) 1849-1851, April 13, 1850, Image 2

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.Ige. • Thay!hro sent in ttir, tight boxeb.
He his flowars often sent to lum fromPay
al. Don't rvmumber - whether my moth.
kvao preparing an'S , thing to st3ncl .t 6 Fay.
at at that titna. • •
Croas.examination of titia witacss -,dc.
Joseph Kedden, sworn--4 . am n drug
; in Court street. I saw. Dr. Webstor
~ bout 5 o'clock, Friday Nov. 23d, or a
5.
: He
,entered, at my shop.
CriJes-examined--1 - 10 bought ft boX of
c.)l-,gne-5 bottles did not ray tier
it with .liiiriay:Af homi: curing that
oven:az. Ott Friday .I.,saw inni.at break-
focat, nr.d then again at tha, at ,5 j
I recollect some things being sent home
from the laboratory, the day after the ar
rest—among them were a eap, and a pair
of overalls. (These young ladies, one ap
-o.tently about 10, and the other 18, be
hayed with exceeding fortitude • and pro
-prietr, in . their trying situation. They
• spi?ko . "-in s-low; hut. remarkably 'distinct
voice, andlippareinly with' an intelligent
and conscientious regard to the exactness
of their statements. Their delicacy and
shiinking timidity were sufficiently man
ifest to cause every one to. admire the
strength of mind with which they over
came and controled the feellings that
• were evidently keenly alive to the situa
tion of 'n beloved father.) •
' Ann Finnigan; sworn—l hie at
Webster's. I went there on the 16th of
November, I went there on Friday.—
Dr.. Webster breakfasted at half past 8,
dines at 3. Dr. W. came from Boston
earlier :than usual on Wednesday, before
Thanksgiving. He came into the kitchen,
and I thought I was belated about dinner.
I loblted at the clock and it was only 12.
He went into the garden. I recollect that
he breakfasted at home every morning
while I was there, till the morning nfter
he was arrested; . •
• Catharine P. Webster, sworn—A m a
daughter of Dr. Webster. Friday, Nov:
23d, between half past 5 and 6, I saw my
father at home, at tea. He acconWanied
us to Mr. TreadwelPs at 8. I did not see
him again till hall-past 12. We returned
at same time.
On Wednesday evening, the day before
thanksgiving, he went wit hus to a family
party at Mr. Cunningham's. We returned
to Cambridge at half past 10 or eleven.—
We walked down to the toll-house, we
'saw a notice pasted up of Dr. Parkman.
My sister pointed it out, and •my father
to us. On Sunday I fi rst saw my
after breakfast; he had his hat in
his hand to go to Boston ; my mother ask
ed him to wait till afternoon ; he went to
church with her. I saw him leave the
house with her with the purpose of going
to Boston ; I heard his voice soon after
- dark that evening ; 1 saw him between 9
and 10 o'clock.
v.Mr. Sohier hero said—May it please
the court, this closes our evidence ; but
we should like the privilege of looking
over our memorandum, to see if any wit.
Less has escaped us.
The Court .adjourned.
Eleventh Day—NiAnon 30.
Attorney General Clifford, this mor
ning simined up at length, the testimony
given on the trial, and having concluded
his remarks, which were listened to with
no less attention than those made by the
defence. Chief Justice Shaw, with much
emotion, stated to the prisoner that it was
.privilege now to address the jury, if
he had anything to.say, or any explana
tion to make.
• Professor Webster rose, and in a very
distinct voice, made the following remarks.
• ' I have desired to enter into an explana-
tion ofthe complicated network of circum
itinceO which, by my pecnliar position,
the government has thrown around me,
and which, in nine cases out of ten, aro
completely distorted, and probably nine
tenths of which could be satisfactorily ex
plained. All the points of the testimony
have been placed in the hands of my
' counsel, by whom -my innocence could
have been firmly established, Acting en.
lirely under their direction, I have sealed
•my lips during the period of my confine
meat, trusting myself entirely to them.—
They have not deemed it necessary, in
their superior wisdom, (this was said in an
ironical tone) to bring forward the evi
dence which was to exonerate me from
a'variety of these acts. The government
haid brought whatever consummate inge-
nuity could suggest against me, and I
hope it will not have an undue influence
upon my jury. I will not• allude to many
of the charges, but there is one which 1
touches me ' and that is the letter which'
has teen produced. It is not the first I
- .had read in the daily .prints which have
b4.n distributed in my appartments,•and
various publications which have .been
made respecting them. Ono statement
' was' that I Lad, after the disappearance of
Doctor Parkman, purchased a quantity of
Oxalic acid to remove the stains of blood,
and it instantly occurred tb ino that this
ptircel might be saved and produced when
necessary. For several days Mrs. Ntreb' 7
ster had requested mo to purchase some
• acid for domestic use, and as my - wife had
repeatedly laughed at me because I had
. hot-1, 'pythasedV ._ I had boar , , 'it.in My
•. 5 %.74: ti„44afteilarted ' iCrlarriealo - into
.., - - veal' 'og Shii had made, , # .3 . ! : it witi - tutc,
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gas. A gallon jar was filled with gas, in
order to produce the changes from dark
color to Orange, and also in air. One
great heat being 'applied to the jar the gas
was drawn through the water. As to the
nitrate of copper spilled on the floor of
the laboratory, it was spilled accidentally,
from a quantity and by me, in my lee-%
Items between the day,of Dr. Parkman'S
disappettrance and ,t . tly'own arrest. So I
, might go on tlxplaitung a variety of cit.-
le umstanced which have been distorted.—
My counsel have pressed me to keep calm.
My very ellniness has been made to bear
ny,ainst rnb ; but my trust hatt ! been in my
God and my own innocence. In regard
to inoney,.l must say a word. The mon
ey which I paid Dr.. Parkman on theafter
noon of Friday, November ?.ad, 1 had sa
ved up from time to time, and kept it in a
trunk in-my house in Cambridge; but uri
antunately, no one ever saw .me take it
out--therefore, I•can only give my word
that such is.the fact. Several years ago,
I had Students who were in the habit of
being in my laboratory, and who injured
my apparatus ; therefore, I prepared every
thing for my own use in my lectures with
my own hands, and that is the reason
why I excluded persons from my Inborn-
tory.
As regards my whereabouts from the
hour of Dr. Parkman's disappearance, I
have put into my counsel's hands satisfac
tory information, which will account for
every day I spent during that week—for
every day and every hour. I never was
absent from home. As to being seen by
Mr. Sanderson, I was at home every-eve.
ning. One thing that has been omitted by
my counsel was, that on the Friday on
which the alleged murder was said to
have been committed, I had purchased
Humboldt's hew work' "Cosmos," and
while waiting for an omnibus, stepped into
Brigham's to take a mutton chop, and, in
coming out to take tho omnibus, had for
gotten my book ; but after-my arrest re
membered the place where I had left it, and
mentioned it to my counsel. They had
sent to Brigham's, and the book had been
found."
The Professor here Sat' down, but al
most instantly arose and stil4 "I will
say ono word more. I have felt very
much distressed by the production of
those anonymous letters, more so than by
anything that had occured during the tr►-
al. I call my God to witness, that, if it
was the last hour of my life, I never
wrote those letters. Since the trial corn-
menced, a letter has been received from ,
this very 'Civis' by one of my counsel.—
If this person has any spark of humanity
I call upon him to come forward. A no
tice to this Abet has been put in the pa
pers."
Dr. Webster again took his seat, hav-j
ing evidently made a deep impression
upon all present, by the seriousness of his'
remarks, and the earnestness of his man
ner.
THE SENTENCE.
Bosrox, April 1
The court room this morning was dense
ly crowded, to hear the awful sentence of
death passed upon Professor Webster.—
Shortly after 9 o'clock the prisoner was,
brought into court, when Attorney Gen
eral Clifford moved that the Court should
pass the final sentence of the law upon
the prisoner.
Professor Webster looked gloomy, but
calm and collected. When asked by the
clerk, whst he had to say why sentence
of death should not be pronounced against.
him, he bowed his hand in silence,_and
took his seat.
Chief Justice Shiiw then addressed .liirn
in the following words
JonN W. Wenerea.—ln meeting' you
hero for the last time, to pronounce that
,sentence which the law has affixed to 'the
high and aggravated offence of which you
stand convicted, it is impossible, by Inn
, gunge, to give utterance to the deep con.
'sciousness of responsibility, to the keen
sense of sadness and sympathy with which
we approach this solemn duty. Circum
stances, which all who are hero may duly
appreciate, but which it may seem hardly
fit to allude to in more detail, render the
performance of his duty on the present oc
casion, unspeakably painful.
At all times, and under all circumstan
ces, a feeling of indescribable solemnity at
' Inches to the utterance of that stern voice
retributive, which consigns a fellow being
to an untimely and ignominious death ;
but when we consider all the circumstan
cesbf your past life—your various relations
in society-the claims upon you by others
—the hopes and expectations you have
cherished, with your present condition,
and the ignominious death which awaits
you, we are 'oppresSed with grief and an
guish. Nothing but a sense of imperative
duty, imposed on us by the law, whose of
ficers and ministers we are, could sustain
us in pronouncing snch a judgment. A
gainst thecrimc of wilful murder, of which
you stand' Convicted-' , --a crime at which
humanity shudders—a crime every Where,
and under all forms of society, regarded
with abhorrence;--tho law has denounced
its severest penalties in these few, siMple,
but and impressive words :—"F.V.
ry person who 'shall commit the crime of
murder,. shall suffer. the punishment of
death ;for the sameY •
The Manifest object of this law is the
Irotection rind security Of human, life, the
sstimpartantofir just Mid paternal goy.
.. 3 / 4 en?. .It is made' the duty of this
edam this penalty, against any
N IL 13 ll - have been found . 'geilty, in
4 ` i „ 'of the adminititration-ofiustice,
0 , 1% , - olattd this law:. It - is one of
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'of all rights, may be more effectually
cured.
; By the record before us, it-appears that
'you have been indicted by the Grand Jury
of this county, for the crime of murder;
last,ing the t• on the 23d day' of November
you mnde.an assault on the person of
Dr. /George Perkinan, and by acts of
olence,.you deprived him of life with mat
ice aforethought. • This,ip alleged to have
been, done within the apariments.of a pub-,
tic institution, 'in this city, the Medical
College, of which you were a Professor
land instructor, upon the person of a man
ofinature age, Well ,known and of exten..
sive connections in this community, and a
benefactor of that institution:
The charge ofan offence so aggravated,
in the midst of a peaceful community,
created an instantaneous outburst of sur
prise, alarm, and terror ; and was follow
ed by universal end intense anxiety to
learn, by the reeults'ef a judicial 'procee
ding, whether this cha pee was true. The
day of trial came. A Court was-organ
ized to conduct it. A jury, almost of your
own choosing, was selected in the manner
best calculated to insure intelligence and
impartiality. Counsel were appointed to
assist y i p in conducting your defence,
who have done nil that learning, elotitienee
and skill could accomplish, in presenting
your defence in its best aspects. A very
large number of witnesses were carefully
examined; and, after a laborious trial of
unprecedented length, conducted as we
hope, with patience and fidelity, that jury
have pronounced you guilty.
To this verdict, upon a careful revision
• of the whole proceedings, 1 am constrain
ed to say, in behalf of the Court, that they
can perecive - no just or legal grounds of
exception. Guilty ! How much, under
all these thrilling circumstances, which
cluster around the case and throng our
memories in the retrospect, does this sin
gle word import! .The wilful, violent and
malicious distruction•of the life of n fellow
man, in the pence of God and under the
protection of thelaw—ves, of one in the
the midst of life,with bright hopes, warm
affections, mutual attachments, strong.
extensive, and numerous—making lifb a
blessing to himself and others. •
We allude thus to the injury you have
inflicted, not for the purpose of awakening
one unnecessary pang in a heart already
lacerated, but to remind you of the irre
parable wrong done to the victim of your
cruelty, in sheer justice to him whose
voice is now hushed in death, and whose
wrong can only be vindicated by the liv
ing action of the law.
If, therefore, you may at any moment
think your case a hard one, and your pun
ishment too severe—if one repining
thought arises in your mind, or murmur
ing word seeks utterance from your lips,
think, oh think, of him instantly deprived
oflife by your guilty hand. Then, if not
lost to all sense of retributive justice—if
you have any compunctions arising from
your conscience—you may be ready to
exclaim in the bitter anguish of truth, "1'
have sinned against Heaven and my own
soul. My punishment is just. God be
merciful to me a sinner !"
God grant that your example may af
ford a solemn warning to all, especially
the young. May it impress deeply upon
every mind the salutary lesson it is inten•
ded to leach—to guard against the indul
gence of unhallowed and vindictive pas
sion—to resist temptation to every selfish,
sordid and wicked purpose—to listen to
the warnings of conscience, and yield to
the. claims of duty ; and whilst they in
stinctively shrink with abhorence from
the first thought ofassailing the lila of
nether, may they' learn to reverence tl
laws 'of God and society, designed to se
edo the protection of their own.
We fOrbear, from obvious consideartions
from adding such words of advice as may
be sometimes thought appropriate on oc
casions like the present. It lies only with
in our province, on occasions like this, to
address the illiterate, the degraded, the
outcast, whose early lile has been cast
among the vicious—the neglected, the a
! bandoned, who have been blest with no
means of moral and religious culture ;
who have never received the benefit of
cultivated society, nor enjoyed the sweet
and ennobling influences of home. To
such an one, a word of advice, upon an
occasion so impressive, may be a ;word
fitly spoken, and tend to good; but in a
case like this where these circumstances
are all reversed, no word of ours could bo
More eflic ncious than the suggestions of
your own better thoughts to which we '1
commend you.
But as we are assigned, this last sad
duty of pronouncing sentence, which is
indeed the voice of the law and not our
own, yet in giving utterance, we cannot do
it with feelings of indifference, as a formal
and official act. God forbid that we should
bo prevented from indulging and express
ing these irrepressible feelings of interest,
sympathy and compassion, which arise
spontaneously in our heart.
We most sincerely and cordially de
plore the distressing condition into which
crime has brought you ; and though we
,have no word of present consolation or of
earthly hope to offer you, in this hour of
your af fiction. yet we devoutly commend
you to the mercy s of our Heavenly Father;
with whom, in his abundance 'of mercy,
and from VvLoni; we .may all hope for par
don arid.perice.. . •
•.:. And now, nothing remains but the sol
emn -duty . of preinouncing the sentence,
which the law fixes for the 'dime of mur
der of which you stand convicted • which
sentence; is, ;that you . John W. Webster
be removed froni Aids. place, and be de,
&lined in . clOse:cuitody in the 'prison of
:this !county, .and. thence taken nt — euch
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THE DOLLAR,
C I o'n rfic l d, PA,, April 11,
PosTrorim—We have received anoth
er communication from "A Friend to Pie.:
Inanity," but owing to the crowded state
of our columns we , are compelled to post
pone it .until ou: next.
Armpit NMEIIT.—The Stater - Legislature
has agreed to adjourn on next Tuesday.—
'But, as the Governor has vetoed "the Ap
portionment bill, they may rescind the res
olution. •
GOING TO TRIAL.-ALEX. IRVIN, Mar
shal of the Western district, returned
home the other day, having in charge a
Mr. Gearhart, arrested on suspicion of
purloining money from the Post-office in
Danville, Pa. Ile left again on Wednes
day lust, to deliver him in the jail at Wil
liamsport, where he will ho tried by the
U. S. Circuit Court at its next term.
Democratic Mato Convention.
The next Democratic Mate Convention,
for the nomination of a candidate for Ca•
nal Commissioner, will be held at \Vit.
liamsport, on the 29th day of May next.
THE TRIAL OF WEBSTER.
This paper contains the conclusion of
the evidence in the trial of Professor Web
ster, together with the address of the pris
oner and the sentence of the court.
Our readers are now in possession of
all the facts connected with this inhuman
murder, and they will see that the result
is a conviction entirely upon circumstan
tial evidence, though of such a clear and
unmistakable character as to, force con
viction upon the m'nds of any jury. There
are others, however, who think differently,
and who frankly express the opinion that
there was not sufficient evidence to war
rant a verdict of guilty. Whilst there are
still others who seem to think that Webster
has been the victim of a deep laid, damns
hie conspiracy, and that be is a perfectly
innocent man. Time may remove the
veil.
TILE APPOUTIONIat BILL VETOED.
Governor Johnston, on Wednesday last,
sent to the House of Representatives a
message vetoing the Apportionment bill.
We have not seen a copy of it, but under
stand it is quite lengthey, and particularly
severe upon the Democratic majority of
the Legislature. Whilst we disliked the
bill because of the unwieldy representa
tive district which it gave us—Clearfield,!
McKean and Elk—yet we are free to de
dare it as our opinion, that, viewed with
regard to its political bearing—and in
which character it was most probably
viewed by the Governor—its fairness and
liberality is not.to be complained of, and
that it is quite ns much so as any other
that is likely to pass the, present session.i
lion. JOB BIGLER
By the last advices from California, we
learn that this gentlman—who many years
ago published a paper in Bellefonte, and
some ten or twelve years ago communica
ted the "Doings at Washington" to the
people of Clearfield county, and who is a
brother of Col. Wm. BIGLER , cif this place
—was unanimously elected Speaker of the
house of Representatives of the State of
California. Mr. B. is a man of fine tal
ents, and we may expect to hear more of
him. If we are not mistaken, he only
reached that country last summer.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION. \
The recent election in Connectictit has
resulted highly favorable to the Democrat.
is party. There was no choice for Gov
ernor, by the people, SEYMOR, Democrat,
lacking some 1800 votes of a majority
over both the other candidates ; but the
Legislature having the election of Gover
nor in such case, both branches of which
are largely democratic, Seymor will no
doubt be chosen. A Senator of the U. S.
is also to be chosen by this Legislature.
What makes the result of this election
particularly important and significant, is
the fact that thO Democratic parts, through
out the campaign repudiated the Wilmot
Proviso.
H. P. THOMPSON, M. D.—The Annual
commencement of the
of
Depart
ment'of the University of Pennsylvania,
took place at the Musical Fund Hall, Phil
adelphia, on Saturday last, on which oc
casion the degree of M. D. was conferred
on 1-78 Students. Among the list 'we are
pleased to see the name of our fellow-citi
zen.H. P. TnoursoN, who, it will be recol
lected,first graduated in this office.
Senatorial Delegate.
The. Democrats of. Indiana county;' at
their late county meeting, passed a resely
tion extending to Cambria , the right to the
Senatorial delegate to the Williamsport
_Convention. , • We believe. Armstrong did
likewise.- -, Cambria now' asks'• the ooneur
4. , :0 of. Clearfield.
. _
NEXT CANAL COMMISSIONER.
Among the gentlemen most prominent.,
ly spoken of as candidates of the Demo- .
cratic party for Canal Commissioner next
fall, is the lion. EDWARD B. HVDLEY, of,
Becks county.
NEARLY 51'13,060,000.—Tw0 vessels ar
rived from California, dbring the lust weelt!
bringinktogetlier nearly three million of
dollars of gold dust.
INDEPENDENT, IF , NOT RICII.-001. J.
C. FREMONT, -U. S. Senator from Califon.'
nia, it is said owns several thousand acres
of laud in California, containing a very
rich gold mine, and that a large.s . quantity
of this land is, worth six millions of dol
lars per acre!' •
Mr. WarotiT, One of the members of
Congre's from California, confirms this
story, and says that 'the government /awns
many acres of the same value.
Ozi - Look out for counterfeit *5 bills on
the Harrisburg Bank. We have had u
sight of one of them, and 'certain it is that
they are so well executed, that it is only
after the closest scrutiny that they can be
distinguished from the genuine.
Religious Welling.
At a meeting of the Trustees of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Clear
field, held April 6th—
It was resolved to commence the ercc.
tion of a church edifice in the village of
Clearfield, Pa., during the ensuing ,sum
mer ; and notice is hereby given to under.
takers that there will be a, letting of said
edifice on the 30th instant, at Mr. Jacob
(Mich's, near the village, at 1 o'clock, p,
m., when proposals will be received, and'
contract be made, for the building of said
edifice.
Information in reference to the plan,
dimensions, &c., of the bililding will be
given by the Rev. Peter P. Lane, Cur
wensville, as also by Mr. Jaeob Gulich,
Clearfield. The Trustees would also
hereby give notice to all persons who have
subscribed to the above named building
that they will call upon them for the mo•
ney, &c. they have had the kindness to
subscribe, after the first day of May next,
and will be grateful if they be prepared to
cancel their subscriptions.
'Great Fall of Blood null Flesh.
Eztraordinary Phenomenon in Samp
son (minty, N C.—Wo received on Wed.
nesday last the following communications
from Mr: Clarkson, through Mr. Holland,
of Clinton, and take great pleasure in lay
ing the astonishing particulars before our
readers.
On the 151 b Feb., 1650, there fell with
in 100 yards of the residence of Thomas
M. Clarkson, in Sampson county, a show
er of Flesh and Blood, about 30 leet wide,
and as far as it was traced, about 250 or
300 yards long. The pieces appeared to
be flesh, liver, lights, brains and blood.—
Some of the blood ran on the leaves, ap
parently very fresh. Three of his (I'. M.
C's) children were in it, and ran to their
mother exclaiming, "Mother there is meat
falling!" Their mother went immediate
ly to see, but the shower was over; but
there lay the flesh, &c.
Neill Campbell, esq., living close by,
was on the spot shortly after it fell, and he
pronounced it as above. One of his chil
dren was about 150 yards from the show
er, and came running to the rest saying
he smelled something like blood. During
the time it was falling there was a cloud
over head—having a red appearance like
a wind cloud. There was no rain.
The above you may rely on, and by
Mr. Holland you have pieces of the flesh,
which are reduced. by being kept so long.
Yours, 4-c. 'l'. M. C.
The piece which AV us left with us, has
been examined with two of the best micro
scopes in the place, and the existence of
blood well established; but nothing was
shown giving any indication of the charac
ter of the matter.
It has the smell, both in its dry state
and when macerated in water, of putrid
flesh; and there can scarcely bo a doubt
that it is such.
It is astonishing, and we may say pro
; yoking also, that an occurronce of the kind
should happen within 13 miles of a Nil-
Inge (13 miles southwest 'of Clinton) of in
telligent persons, and no - one felt interest
enough in it to go and get information'a
hout it. It is three weeks after it occur
red before any account of it is sent to the
press. An occarence that is calculated
to strike men•with' awe ;'and we are told
that some persons listened to the relation
of it, and looked upon it as an . idle tale,
deeming it 'impossible that such a thing
could have occurred
The cloud from which it fell is said to
have been of a red appearance, which is
ascribed to the clouds in former cases of
this kind.
• . 'Although by no means freqUent, this is'
not the first time such an occurrcnco has;
taken place, even in this country. But
as yet, the most learned aro unable to give
any rational conjecture as to the cause of
such a singular phenomenon.—Fayett
viilc [N. a] Carolinian, 45111 inse; • 1
HORRIBLE MURDER IN OIIIO.—The
Richland (Ohio) Shield gives an account
of a horrible murder and robbery commit
ted in Planktmvn , in that county on the
18th ult :
Mr. • Hall, a groeer, had his house enter=
ed . by two men in the' night, while he was
engaged in tying up groceries. One of
'them, wits an axe, struck' him over the
head. • He' reeled off, - advanced several
feet, and was then kticieke!l'dmin "kry sevl
INII
G. P. GULICH,
AB'M OGDEN,
JACOB GULICH,
.th6'siOe bp i ck,44
head with a heavy, blodgcon, atd - thci
ijappled,a,t the throat by the murd,crer
iyife was exlinet, the marks orlifitot
{tibia? Mid fingers were plainlyleft‘ ,
)his unsuspecting victim. The body.'
then dragged by the feet2To thec,nd dale'
oun'obr, and theta left. pie 'store *it
rifled ofull the money, but blow much ch.
not be ascertained. It is supposed tbe
murder was committed- in the early pi l e
of the night, or between 9 and 12 o'clock,:
Two men; Daniel A. Myers, and Them al '
IVl'Carvy, half ,brothers, the former livitir
in Planktown, and the latter in Lafayett e ;:i
have been arrested 'on suspicion arld'am.
mitted to jail for trial at.the-bext Court:'w
MR. KING'S CALIFORNIA REPORT:
Mr. Thornits Butler King's Report oi l '
California luta at last appeared in print...,
It occupies several columns fine..tyPe of
the New York 'uibunc.l presence
very flattering account of the country,:its
soil, climate, productions,
(Sze. sheik..
ricultural .resources of the territory aril .
represented as immense, adapted'to . iap '
t urage and wool gT,pwing. Cattle misfit •
is a great element of 'wealth ; theyiere,
formerly' killed for their hides, and wank
only about $4 per head ; now iheyititt
worth $2O or $3O a head.
The gold region 'is set 'down as rextca
ing about 600 miles north and south; az i 4
about 60 miles east and west, giving an
area of 36;000 square miles, or 2 3,040,000
acres. The streams and the territoty
the north is rich in gold, and Mr. .King
believes the whole quartz plain, equal to•
3,000 square miles is full of gold, lidd4
in the quartz, and that therein lies thii
greatest mineral wealth of California.
Mr. King recommends that the. Oa
lands be retained as public propertylet.
ever, as a source of national revenue.
To workers and diggers of gold, he pro,
poses to grunt permits at the rate Of one
ounce for each pound. For the mew.
arrement of.regular mining, ho propos
leases of a limited number of acres to Or.
sons or companies, at a small per coots
g
on the gold procured.—Danrillc (4)
,
North Star.
rum, I),r• y. Adv. April 6.
SIR JOHN FRANKLIN—REPORTOF
MS SAFETY
We me indebted to Mr. John Randall,
fur merchant, in Water street, for thefol.
lowing information forwarded by hisagent
or correspondent at St. Paul, Minnesota
territory :
"ST. PAUL. Minnezota, March 18.7—A
dog train arrived here yesterday, from
some distance above Lake Superior, bring.
ing news that an American vessel bad
been seen by some of the Indians, and hid
sent letters, saying that Sir John Frank.
lin was found. '1 he particulars I. cannot
learn. However, they say he is safe."
The writer of the letter is the brotherof
Mr. Randall, and we have seen the lotto
containing the intelligence. Both are gtn.
tlemen of high respectability.
The Pennsylvania Railroad.--It iFdl
be gratifying to the friends of the Penrisyl.
vania Railroad to learn that the passea.
ger traffic alone has already exceeded the
estimates. The income on that portion of
the work which is open for use, during tbs
last ten days, exceeds $10,000 ; beings•
ver $1,050 per day; with every prospect
of an immense increase, when the corium.
tion with the inclined plane at Holliday*.
burg is completed. We understand it is
in contemplation to open the road toHttti•
tingdon in the course of a few weeks,
which will not only ado to the receipts,
but shorten the time several hours.—Pha
.Daily Arms.
Krln England, there is a population of
7,000,000 who can read and write, and
the letters which passed through the POt
Office last year, were 336,000,000. - In
the United States, with a populatianofbe
000,000 capable of reading and writing,
there were only 62,000,000 letters dtfriti
the saine period.
%VISTA WS BA LS.M Ot , WI LD CBERRY.4
WILL Mtarict.r.s NI VER CEASE? MORE ItliaNC!
OP ITS liEALTII Iit'STORATIVE.--We with it merit'
distinctly understood, that every certifiesta rnl
statement of cures performed by %Vistaed Balinds4
Wild Cherry, is strictly true. %Ve give namest4"
dates and invite the closest scrutiny. and chreilattt
the mast rigid inquiry as to the anibenticilY of 04'
statements—Jr:liming fiff vt ell that a knowledti,c4
facts as to the great superiority of this trietheldit
alone neeesiary to itistire its prescripileM-gtrft
CURES !„,taj %Vberever %Vistaed Balsam of %V
Cherry is intnsinead, it at once attains that feet*
putstinn which , . it so richly deserves. Whitt Ali
stop its sale when on every hand can ho wildcat'
its wonderful cures? The norm crises of :MOP,
recent but dangerous Coughs, and also Ihdr4,
are of long standing, Bronchitis and Conaq l l 3 4:
(in its early stages,) are always cured by tbittf7.
mart:able medicine. NO urifEit CAN 1I Litr
rr. See advertisement
MARRIED--On the 11th day of/Wil t
1850 by Benjamin F. Sterling,'Es(l.l 4
GEORGE MCCRACKEN, to MISS. MARGA RZ I
E. TEMPLETON, formerly of BrookOlit
Jefferson county, Pa. •
• Democratic County - Meeting.
The Democratic voters of Clearfield
county, will take notice that a gette -
County Meeting will he held in_the C4llO
house, in the borotigh - of Clearfield,.4
Tuesday evening tlie Ist of May next, fir
the purpose of appeinting delegates . feta
illiamsport . convention, and, to maks #
er arrangenlents, and do stiChtther ins
ters as may be deemed important
success of our principles. - • •
By order of the
Standing Cointnittee-
. •
ESTATE OF . CHARLES LlTTLE,DecevAdit
NO'fla is hereby given that Letlerit.Teguigitt .
hill; have been granted to t ie .tibseri.
he • (mate Charlete 'late it! tlecestitl'
ship, Clearfield ,count, dee'd,:and -that. biro
indebted thereto arthronrsied, to, turtlie ; .pit ."
witttui•dylay, ang,those,pivieg'eltitine egatryl
tiettie preienuth6ui7illl:l-robilft r alledled'fot
fifinient4 f j , .. MAIO/k..,LITTLE.:, Real;
4C(lrill '‘lplit 9, 30,50. , —pc1 - ik; tDu
tti