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fact that event
siatippi at that ,
noon, with part
regions.
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SIS. Marshall
murdering his -
ophew, at Lee, pre , ag
fire to their dwelling. Whiskey and a
Wilily quarrel were the instigators.
IBM. A New York letter relates that Mr.
.Win. B. Astor, who is worth sixty millions
of dollars' recently requested the Rev. Dr.
Chapin's society not to anticipate the pay
ment of a debt of $90,000 due him, as they
desired to do. but coma-nueparing only the
interest as it became due. said he had
more money than he could take care of.
le 1.. The Media (Pa.) Adrerfuirr, states
that a on of Abram Janms„ aged 23, who
resided near the Star Tavern, in Chester
county, hung himself last Monday, because
his father refused to sanction his marriage
with a young lady in that neighborhood.—
The young guly, on hearing of the suicide
of her lover attempted to kill lter.t.ll. hut
Was pret•ent
sir The Canadian Parliament ha, before
it a project for the establishment of a talia I
colony somewhere along the northeastern
coast of Lake Superior. The valle% along
the river ii.techipieton. tak mg its rise in the
Missinabee, and other large lakt., at the
distance of about ltN) miles in an air line
from the shores of Lake Superior, is as
eligible locality for the proposed colony.
161,.. A company of colored gentlemen.
from Liberia, have recently bought a ship.
which the intend for the commerce of the
African coast. The Hon. J. D. Johnson.
of the Legislature of Liberia. formerly a
poor• barber in New York City. i, one of
the principals. The shipnilltakeout from
New York some forty emigrant, to Africa
She will sail in a week of tno.
lam. Mrs. Mutland, of Boston. quarrel
ed with her husband, and in order to be
revenged on him,•' went to the wharf.
offered a brief prayer. and - threw herself
in. The cold water had an instantare..us
effect upen her, and a., she came to the
surface she clung to a pile near the wharf,
and cried lustily for help. l'nfort Uri ately
her cries were heard. and she lives to tight
her husband another day.
" I am % - err ,orry," saiil a learnol
judge to a young female, who hesitated
much in giving some very unpleasant evi
dence, " 1 am very sorry to have to encore,-
such an examination in , this; it must, of
course, be painful to any (keen. pk-r , on,
but the ends of justice require it: and n,,t
only so, but all the %yell dressed females
you see on either side of me, have come a
long way to hear that uhiCh pains you much
to utter."
lif@a. At Columbus, ithio, last week. a
lunatic, whose insanity was of a wild type,
killed a comrade who roomed with him,
cut him up into small pieces, ornamented
them with bits of ribbon, and then proceed
ed to dispose of them to the other occupan ts
of the ward as Christmas beef." When
the terror-stricken keeper entered the room
several of the lunatics were eating the re
mains, and the butcher told him with a
leer that the next time he killed he
reserve him a choice cut.
M.. Luke Nolan was triM,saysThe Rou t .•
,Sentinel, at the Court of SeN.ions,,; uI Via a,
on Tuesday for burglary and larceny.--
While the jury were retiring trout the - Court
room to deltherate on the erdiet the
should render, and while confieqon
prevailing in the Court House the prisoner
walked deliberately to the door and the
prisoner went out, and that was the last
seen of him. In the course of a few momenst
the jury came into Court with a verdict of
guilty, but as such a verdict could not be
rendered in the absence of prisoner, none
was rendered.
SR L. The well-known Ned Buntline n rri% -
ed in Troy, N. Y., on Saturday afternoon.
and amused the passengers by his singular
conduct. lle bought out the orange dea
lers and maple sugar pedler- on the car..
and divided the things freely among bi
fellow travellers. (in his arrival in 'fret
he collected a crowd of over a hundred
boys and marshalled them about the street
in the vicinity of the depot. to the amii-e
-mept of citizens. He made them a patriot ie
speech, fed them with apples, and gave
three cheers for WAsniNcroN. Ned finally
jumped into a carriage, and seen no more.
IPS.. A Married couple in Columbus, t ) ,
having for a long time lived a very di-agree
able and unhappy life, resolved to terminate
all their troubles by a joint suicide—the
Scioto river being the place, and drowning
the means. The night selected fir the
suicide was a cold and disagreeable one,
but the two marched boldly to the bank
and jumped, hand in hand, into the roll
ing deep. The man could swim and a.
soon as he robe to the surface, he thought
of striking for the shore, but waited to see
what his wife would do ; -that lady. upon
coming up, and, after sputtering and Moo
ing. under the impression that her husband
was drowned, called loudly for help. and
then sunk. The husband, hots ever, a hen
-he came ul again, seized her and ttirriei
her to the slime. They wei e both heartily
ashamed, and have concluded) to try to
make home more agreeable to each,o:her
for the future.
NM. An extraordinary ease of wife
poisoning in Canada has jultesixestilted in
the conviction and sentence to death of
the husband. Dr. King, of Brighton. was
chaxgedwith poisoninghis wife. Dr. King
was a graduate of three of the Medical In
stitutions of Philadelphia, and commence. I
practice in Brighton in lissB. He w as
promising young physician, of outward
Moral habits, a regular attendant of Church,
was much respected. In IRA, King mar
ried Sarah Anne Lawson. and while he aas
in college his wife resided with her parents
The testimony disclosed that they did not
live happily together, and that Dr. King
visited and exchanged letters with a Miss
Garrett. On one occasion he sent her a
note to the effect that his wife must soon
die, and asking Miss G. to hC.Id herself in
readiness to take Mrs. King's place. It
was in evidence that as a physician he
u
cruelly and persistently I his skill for
the destruction of the life of his wife under
thepretence of saving it—that he stood by
the bedside o f hi s dying wife, and while
speaking words of comfort, was betraying
her to a gradual and painful death. King
was sentenced to be hung on the 9th of
.Icne.
mi. We learn from passengers who ar
rived yesterday morning from the Cleveland
and Pittsburgh R. R. that a desperate and
bloody rencontre took place on the flight
train, a short distance above Wellsville, in
which one man was shot in the leg and
another beaten so badly that he had to be
carried out and medical aid called. It
Seems, from all we can learn, that Capt.
oore was occupying a seat by himself,
*hen a farmer, Irving in the vicinity of
Sloan's Station, came up and either trod
von or kicked his leg, probably uninten
tentionally. Mr. Moore raised upend made
steno offensive remark, to which the other
replied in the same tone. A cross-firiug of
words continued until the farmer, in an
swer to some epithet strucki Mr. Moore,
when the latter drew a pistol and fired
twice at his assailant, lodging two balls in
his thigh. At this point one or/two of the
passangers, including the tidan that was
shot, pitched into Moore and'beat him most
unmercifully, mutilating ,his face and per
son without stint. The ezeitedient on the
train was the most intense during the fight,
and the occurrence Was much regretted by
the conductor in /Charge, as well as the
officers of the railroad company, who know
the affair to have been as rare ati it was un
avoidable.
■
r HE OBSERVER.
B. F. S LOA N, Editor
TERMS: $1 50 PEE YEALII. IN ADVANUN
t;.I*IT 1).1 Y 11ORN11, APRIL 23. 1859
State Demociatie Ticket
FOR ACDITO iiENRRAL,
BiICHARDI3Oii L. WEIGHT.
i - POR 14CRVRTo. nExigg,u,
JOHN ROWE.
THE CONVENTION of BOLTER&
--.4.-- - •
.
- The to Convention of bolters, under
the lead. of Kxox, Foaser 2 -44 Co., met at
HarrisbUrg last week: and jt resulted prac
tically iit a fr.:h. The Patriot 4( Unit,l says
there were not over three hundred present,
sixty six of which number were professed
delegates, and ithe balance idle spectators.
This aceount of the Cent ention is confined
by those who !were eye witnesses to the
scene. Fmm ibis County there were on
hand .1 W. Douglass (voted for the Re
publicaeanaidate for Supreme Judge
last fall Henry, Gingrich (a bolter of part
ii
of our ticket nt 18661 Irvine Ciunp (S. A:
-E. Railroad ('ontraetor) James Worrell
and Henry Rawl (s. & C. Railroad engi
iieurs , l'ioui this exhibit of the represen
t:awn foi this County the reader can form
a pretty ta'rge't idea of the political
charaetor of the Convention. And as to the
Proceedings, it does not take a iery acute
obserx er to discover that tliey are the vain
and imp orentconclusions of the di,elppoint
ed office-seekers, in whose discomfiture,
and unworthy thirst for revenge upon the
party which has ignored their mercenary
and ambitious claims to rule, the public
lime little interest and no sympathy. The
I'ont ention ea:, temporarily organized by
the appointment of 1)1. George McCook,
of Allegheny. as Chainnan. On motion of
Mr. `zallatie, of Berks, a yoknmittee of one
from each Senatorial distriettas appointed
to nominate permanent officers. Dbring
their ahz.enee. the Hon. John a irkman, of
Chester county - , made a .pijetth, endorsing
the policy of lioverrior Packer 'luring his
()Wed carer,.. II.• spoke at some length
on the ..ul t ieet. ot slavery, awl re-ass‘erted
the doctrine ~f William H. Seward. in re
gard tt, the eternal antagonbon existing
_bete een -laver) and freedbm. lie then
took up national affairs, and denounced
the administration of President Buchanan
as weak, incompetent anti corrupt. The
speech was quite lengthy, and in the vio
lent e it its abuse of the President and the
Demoratic party generally, could hardly
have been exceeded by the most bitter and
uncompromising enemy of the party. The
Committe un permanent officers, reported
Alexander McKinney, of Westmoreland,
as Pre4ident, with some thirty Vice Presi
dents 4ntl twenty Secretaries. The selec
tion of; McKinney was truly appropo, as,
according to our recollection, he was the
only ti4degate in the Convention that unini
tiated 14 iov. Pit kElt .the Vt , tol against the
resoludien to make the nomination un
annnols. His remark, therefore, upon
taking4the eleur that he Felt " flattered in
I - ,•ing Hie Presp lent of a meeting of such
rt , i.,,..!; v. a, decidedly bi the point. I)oubt-
I ,
letss tile '• rebels." were equally flattered
by suet a presiding officer. Forney, who
was t 4 mater-spirit of the whole affair,
made the motion for the appointment of a
Committee on Resolutions, and of course
WO. p1it44.41 at its head ,is I'hairman. ( tur
Comity was repre,t-nted (Toll this com
mittee 1,..1. W. liongla,-.. Er.q.
fhel'onvenLion adjourned until :2,i'clock.
P. NE.. iNlien;col. Forney reported an ad
dress un l n•jolutions, which were adopted.
They denounce President Buchanan and
the Nat aortal A.lnutti,stratiott, with the tunstj
Evrßeq,4ll (a It mean llw4intnit) virulence;
land t ;fwerilor Parker a- one of the purest
G. 'cern r, Penn 1 . % ail ia has ei er hack .
eulogise Senator Douglas as " die heroic
statesman," and repudiate the platform
and candidates of the Democratic Conven
tion of the 16th of March.
The rescilution, wind up with the folLuw
ing one, which may be regarded as a deciara
tion that • the malcontent, have finally
.eparated ft out the belt of the Democratic
party, and'intend either to set up for them
.elves, or unite ant) the Oppiasilion. as
they did lint t kit iber. just as circumstances
or policy may suggest:
.8. ,'4.4, That we recommend the ap
pointment I t the Preaiidcntof thus Conven
tion of a Democratic State Committee, to
euieusOif fifty-et' members; and that the
question of nominating a I,l,emocratie State
ticket, and the call ut another Democratic
State Contention ut the earhe,t pikssiblu
day. be reeerred to that Committee ; and
that a meeting of tcaiil Central Committee
may be called by the chatrman, or any five
mem her. thereof.
After the adoption of the resolutions the
4 ',attention was addressed by .1. W. Forney,
of Philadelphia, Attorney General Knox,
T. P. Campbell, of liuntingdon, W. W.
Reading. of Fayette, L. R. Cantavell, of
Artn.trong, r. S. Wingfield, of Allegheny.
and Me , ses. Northrop, Nebinger, imd Leh
man, of Philadelphia. At six o'clock. P.
M., the motley gathering adjourned sine
,Its. Its I.riveeding.s will soon pass into
forgetfulnes.i, or be remembered only to
plague the inventors. The Democratic
party has survived more formidable seces
4ions than this, and its every successive
triumph has been greater than the otie
that preceded it. So it will again. Its
vit4lity remains, although its power, for
thetime, may be curbed. It may be com
pelled to suffer from distractj,onfi and de
feat; but while popular institutions survive
an earth, it cannot be destroyed.
&a- A lad named Weaver, died a few
days ago' at Harrisburg, of that horrible
malady. hydrophobia. lie was bitten about
nine weeks ago by a dng belonging to Mr.
Kembell, and since that time had been
under the treatment of a Lebanon physi
cian, who is said to have cured several
cases. In this instance, however, his
medicine was of no avail. The poor lad
was in spasms for forty-eight hours, and
then died a terrible death.
sir Theodore Petit, who was shot in
CinCinnati on Tuesday evening. was for
merly ti printer. In an evil hour he aban
dbned the "shooting-stick" and opened a
drinking saloon, to fall before a mwdy's
"shooting-iron."
Ilir The recent elections in New Jersey
babe malted very favorably to the Democ
riaty. In Trenton, Patterson, Beverly and
Princeton, candidates of that party were
triumphantly elected. Throughout East
Jersey the same sncreigs has attend the
Demixtary.
711 7 1F rr
War The Amity Convention of bolters
and discwganizers adjourned without ma
king any nominations for fitateiofficars.
True; 'tbey- aPPoluted t a State Qiituniitee'
empowered to calla noinisiatisticon!en
tian, thtt the Aesign is Widalittlylo friflisr
nbe with the Republicans& iMey ean get
the slightest encouragement. Having ar
rayed 'themselves against the men and
measures of the Democratic organisation,
and knowing that they can make no terms
with the Nationel Democracy, they hope
to strike a bargain of some kind with the
opposition. They expect through the
txickery of Fbracy to make an arrangement
with the Republicans by which each may
have one of the candidates for State offices.
Disappointed in their hopes of preferment
at the hands of the Democracy, they fly to
our enemies, and hope to get a crumb of
comfort by playing into the hands of the
opposition. Like as not they may succeed,
too, for the Republicans have been guilty
of so many stupid blunders that we are pre
pared to believe them capable of joining
in any conspiracy against the Democracy.
But, really we would like to see these dis
organizers play a lone hand and show their
strength. As they claim to represent the
majority of the Democracy of Pennsylva
nia, nothing is easier than for them to show
how much truth is in their claim. Just
let them nominate a State Ticket of their
own, instead of skulking into the ranks of
the opposition to carry on their guerrilla
warfare against the Democratic party. Let
them have a distinctive ticket and support
it to a man. The result will show that they
are as meagre in numbers as they are want
ing in principle. It will prove them a set
of boasting braggarts without numbers or
political respectability. They dare not
nominate and run a ticket of their own.
The returns would render them the laugh
ing stock of the country, and clearly dem
onstrate that they are a pack of arrant im
posters without influence or numerical
strength.
sir The editor of the , Express" is re
sponsible for what appears under its edito
rial head, and it into say the least, in bad
taste to make hasty and ill-natured re
marks concerning those private individuals,
who are in no way to blame for what ap
pears in its columns.—Express.
The Erpress is rather llte in the day in
advancing the idea contained in the above.
Two weeks ago it attributed an editorial
article in the Obstruct to the pen of a friend
who had nothing to do with it. It even
went so far as to designate the alleged wri
ter by name—a discourtesy in utter viola
tion of the rules of the profession, and en
tirely unwarranted by the facto. After such
an act, that paper has no right to complain
if we indicate who are the writers of Its
fulminations against us—especially when
we happen to know beyond the possibility
of successful contradiction that most of its
leading atticles denunciatory of the editor
of the Observer were penned by persons not
connected with the press in any way, and
who are actively engaged in misrepre-ent
ins u, publicly and privately.
air We stated last week that the Wash
ington Union had lased into the hand of
its new proprietor, Gen. Bowazy, t and had
b ec o me the const,tant.h. The first number
contains a statement of the general policy
of the paper. It is to be a thoroughly
Democratic organ, and, is to advocate only
such principles as the whole party can claim
for common property. The editor upholds
the administration of Mr. Buchanan, which
lie believes has done nothing to forfeit the
confidence of the National Democracy;
but while avowing his intention to support
the present administration, he declares the
entire freedom of the 'onstehlienn from the
influence of faction and the control of
power, and says that he has voluntarily
resigned an office of trust and emolument
under the government, in order to he free
from the imputation which malice might
suggest of a slavish or a selfish interest in
upholding the administration. Ile pro
poses to make the Cbsolottiort emphatically
a news-paper, and to give truthful and early
information concerning all matters of in
terest. lie considers the Mexican war to
be " one of the brightest among the many
bright links of our national history' . and
cites that as one instance, among a hundred
others. of a measure met originally by (he
bitterest opposition, but afterwards " recog
nized and appropriated by the whole count) .
as part of the national stock of political
wisdom."
par Roamer H. KERR, Esq., of Allegheny,
has addressed a letter to the Harrisburg
disapproving the action pursued by
the leaders of the recent bogus Convention.
This is significant. Mr. K. was the Harris
burg correspondent of the Pittsburg Post,
and did as much in that capacity as any
other man in the State to give the move
ment chameter in the State. Isiotwitle
standing this, however he repudiates it in
tuto. lie says that in his participation in
the Convention he in no instance or in no
way sanctioned opposition to the regularly
nominated candidates. He regards it as
the duty of all Democrats to support the
nominees of the March Convention. He
was willing that Gov. Packer's administra
tion should be fully endorsed, but the
address and resolutions are of such a nature
that he he cannot sanction them.—
" Benton," like every true Democrat,
wishes to see the party united and har
monious.
sir The best political joke we have seen
lately is the standing invitation in the Ex
press, whose Editor was a candidate before
the Republican Convention of Warren
county less than a year ago, "to the Dem
ocracy who desire to re-establish the
Democratic party, to come forward and awitain"
him. His position reminds us very much
of a conversation said to have taken place
between a fond "parient" and a hopeful
eon:
" Edmund, how is it that the buttons
are on the inside of your shirt collar?" "I
don't know-z-isn't that the way, mother?"
" No, my son, you have disobeyed me, you
have been in swimming." The boT was for
a moment silent. However, a satisfactory
explanation, as he thought, soon occurred.
With a triumphant look, and a bold voice,
he exclaimed:—" Mother, I—l gums I turn
ed it getting over the fence."
Our "Edmund" doubtless •turned" his
political shirt in getting over the line be
tween Erie and Warren I
Arreartsr 0113rUAL BLAME, after an
absence of two weeks, returned to Wash
ittgton city on Saturday morning, and ro•
Homed his official duties on Monday. He
went by sea to Charleston, thence by way
of Columbia, Raleigh, and Richmand.—
Ife is delighted with the climate, as well
se the people of the " sunny South."
goat out gittrarg.
• .
SR.. The bk week by the Ldler
Coultoolei with Ike presoan! Ibrangelloal St.
Paul's lberbroglisFilbo bastlimmt sum of
020. tlf
OW^ The peaoh and &Float trees are in flan
blossom in the vicinity of Harrisburg. It is
different hare—the cold east 'triads now pre
vailing is not lavorabla to early blossom.
itulditor is Illinois has beed - eleeted
Ovetreser of the Poor. Down here an election
is 014 unnecessary, u they generally till the
Post whether they desire to do so or not.
sir 01111. Wusu.os returned to this city on
Monday, He looks well, and feels u "com
fortable as could be expected" altar his Cali
fornia trip.
lel. Look at the advertisement of the
Calm= Itscrriaas, and if you want good
groceries, and at a low figure, give them a
call.
ffiiir We call attention to the advertisement
of Dr. Luce, Dentist, in another column. We
were in his office the other day, and took a look
at his new style of work, and it appeared to us
very superior.
11184.: Rev. W. FLINT, formerly Rector of
St. Paul's Church in this city, died at Green:
field, Maas., on the 12th inst. He wan a man
of talent., and his ,ath will be regretted by
many friends.
MS. J. G. BARR has returned from New
York and Boston with the largest assortment
of Boots, Shoes, and leather, ever brought
to this city. For particulars see advertisements
next week.
101)... A great lie, says the poet Crabbe, is
like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and
fling, and make a frightful bother, but it can
not hurt you. You have but to keep still, and
it will die of itself.
sir Sufficient subscriptions have been se
cured by the Committee appointed for the pur
pose to warrant the proposed erection of a new
Methodist Church in this city. Mr. Wilcox, of
Buffalo, is to be the architect.
ser Although May is still some days iu the
future, still we have Qodey's excellent maga
zine prompt upon our table, and full of choice
articles, pictures, and other luxuries, the ladies.
so dote upon in a magazine.
aer• A young man named ()Ross, living at
at Wesleyville, four miles below this city, was
accidentally run over by the Cincinnati Ex
press, on Saturday evening and killed. Hewss
a day laborer, and leaves aged parte6- who
were mainly dependent on him for sutiritr---
sik.. The borough of Franklin recently pas
sed a resolution requesting every citizen living
about the public square to set out a certain
number of trees therin. The number that
fell to the lot of our friend of the Spectator was
four. We are glad to record that he accom
plished his "stent" without accident.
oar The Harrisburg Telegraph says the
"croakers" can now shut their mouths. From
every section of the country we have reports
that the peaches and other early fruits have
escaped injury. The prospect now is that the
fruit crop of 10459 will he such as to gladden
the heart of growers and consumers. In this
county there will be a profusion of all the dif
ferent varieties of fruits. Let us give thanks.
Ber The Strakoech opera troupe have been
delighting the denizens of the "Smoky City"
during the past week. Among the Artistes
whose performance has elicited the unanimous
approbation of the Pittsburg press, is Mr.
Hsway &minas, brother of Mrs H. W. BOOTH,
of this city, His musical icquirements are of
the highest order, in addition to which the
Pool says he is a genial and social companion
and a gentleman in every sense of the term.
ter We do not know how it may be farther
south, but the weather here fur the past week
has been an, thing hut steady. It has been
warm and cold, rain and even snow, clouds
and sunshine: but then—
April is a fitful child,
Full of wayward fancies,
Laughing, weeping, sober, wild.
Sunny, showery, frantic, mild—
Anything that chances.
air A fashionable music teacher named
Louis Dion, was arrested, convicted and sen
tenced to four mouths imprisonment in Buf
falo, this week, for the larceny of a coat from
one of his patrons. He was a Frenchman, and
hati ingratiated himself into some of most
aristocratic "upper ten" families in that city.
There wait a terrible flutter among his fashion
able friends when the crime was brought to
light.
Mtn Water is performing some curious
freeks in the vicinity of Harrisburg. eccortling
to the Telegraph. That paper says, "The Sus
quehanna, and the streams tributary to it, are
g.aig up." Up in this "neck of the woods,"
as the Collector at Mobile said of the Tombig
bee, the streams don't "go up" at all—they all
run downhill. But then Harrisburg is a queer
place. Nothing but whiskey goes down there
we believe—when the legislature is in session.
ERIN CITY RALLROAD.—We are pleased to
announce to our readers that there its fair
prospect—we may say a good one—that this
long delayed improvement will, ere many
months, be put under contract sad built as
soon as men and money can accomplish it.—
During the week Mr. Milroy, formerly Super
intendent of the New York & Erie Road, and
Messrs. &balms and KING,_ representing capi
talists interested in that road, have been here
and had a long and free consultation with the
Dir e ct o r s of the Erie City project. While we
are not authorized to say that an absolute con
tract has been mads with these gentlemen for
the aonstruction oil the road, we can say with
confidence that there never was so good a pros
pect that the road will be commenced and fin
ished as at the pre4ent time. Let our citizens .
act prudently and! wisely, and the dream of
former years, of becoming the actual terminus
of the New York and Erie road, will be realized.
ofg., Advertisers, should recollect that the
circulation of the Observer is now over 1200,
and is constantly increasing. Besides this it
may be safely estimated that each paper is
read by at least ve persons, this bringing
the favors of those who avail themselves of its
columns before at least five thousand readers
each week. Shrewd business men understand
this ; they can teadily sec that to advertise
offoctively, so as to reach all classes of custom
ers, the mediums ideated niust be of opposite
politicai ecothaeMik—und balm to advertise
in two papers of the same polities in the same
town is a good deal like buying two copies of_
thesame book, or paying twice for admission
to the same entertainment.
Ma. We took a look the Other day at one of
" Schooky . a Patent Pregtervatoria," manufactured
sad put up by our Mend 7. Goonwts, of the
Half Way Home, Harbororeek, who has the
patent for this section. We think It one .of
the best and necessary Inventions of this in
ventive age. Various means bare been tried
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heretofore to preserve the perishable commo
dities. of the garden and the,orchard, but no
invention
. until this big inicieti to perfection.
The simple will preserve moats of
oil kinds; "getable's; milk, butter, egge;
iltd . f, puke_ absTjattltry, atui.jp fact anytbilt...4
theraanuiperitikable zutturei - iirithout damag4
an entire . seakM. 4 It is simple, yet scientist iii
operation, easy of management, and cheap in
construction, varying in size, from the small
portable , chest for family use to the largest
stretetare. - As an adjunct to the dairy, we
skohld think It would be indispensible, as it
will keep milk rweartwanty days, and patentee
assert that milk kept in it will produce from
one-third to one-half more cream than when
kept in a common house. For particulars en
quire of T. GOODWIN, Harborcreek, Erie
Co., Ps.
J The following, related to us by a legal
friend, is too good to be lost. He said he had
a client the other day, who came to consult
him about a neighbor who he wished to have
sent to the Poor House. "State your case, ' said
Blaekstone ; whereupon the client entered into
the detail of a long list of grievience4, and
among-others that the candidate for the poor
house was in the habit of abusing his family,
brating his wife and ctildren, &c., tv.c. "
the the man compos mengs‘?" said Bhickmune.
"La he what?" said the client_ -I mean, is be
sane or insane?" "Well, I tiunno; I guess he's
neither—but he's had the rheumatis awful!'
Our Mend- thought that a man who was neither
sane nor insane, but had "had the rheumatis
awful," was a It candidate for the Poor House,
and advised accordingly.
Per " The price paid fore good newspaper
is like seed sown in the groundit brings
back a thousand fold its value." Thus remarks
some one who evidently has investigated the
matter. Some people, however, do not believe
it. They think a dollar and a half, or two dol
lars a year paid for a paper is just so much
paid for a luxury, whereas the truth is it is so
much paid foraprinienecessity. A family with
out newspapers—children brought up ignorant
of the ...world and its va,t concerns"—is
family where the light of this —full ortied
century has not yet penetrated. Would it not
be well for such families to be pointed out to
the missionary as proper subjects for their
benevo;ent labors We make the suggestion
NW The County Auditors of Crawford
county objected to paying the fee ~ f , 0111 C
$5,000 to 8. N. PETTIS, Esti . for ierrice. in
the County Bond suits. whereupon it suit wits
inatftnted against the County Commissioners.
The case was tried hot week before Judge AL
saArrn, and occupiisl three or four day, The
jury after being out three or four hours ren
dered a verdict for the defendeno. S)) oar
friend Parris gets his fee and in addition is
endorsed by a jury of his fellow citizen.
sir As the season for planting and sowing
is at hand we venture to make a few suggestions
to our reades in town and country It is with
in the means of every family to have a garden
patch, except at occasional denizen of the city
The pleasure of cultivating vegetables and
flowers, to say nothing of the profit, will ant
repay every one for any labor, time, or money
expended. But great numbers of town people
neglect this, although they have ample grounds
on which to exhibit their to-te and skill This,
to say the Imist; is a great oversight. Although
they might raise but a small , tuuuttit. yet the
dish would he all the more dainty because of
its freshness, and the fact of its being the pro
duct of honie labor. lint if the negiert on the
part of those living in town to hate gtralcus
i s at all excusable, there certainly can he no
excuse for those who live in the country, and
yet we presume the statistics will bear us out
in assuming that not more than one-fourth of
our farmers—perhaps not so tuany—havejootl
gardens. The majority of them seem to think
a garden of small consequence, or no conse
quence whatever, and consider ganlening a
small business for large farmers, and if they
have any garden it is left to the charge and
Libor of their wives and daughters. Now there
cannot be a doubt that the more well cultivated
gardens we have in the rural doitricts the het t er
will he the farming, Gardening may in one
sense be termed the perfection of farming It
dimonsvates the great advantage of thorough
cultivation. It teaches men how to produce
more on a garden spot of a quarter of an acre
by.careful culture than can he produced on
three or four acres 1) ortlinar . i, means It
saves labor and increases the profits Anil,
what is of still greater consequence, good gar
dening to a great extent counteracts the distis-
Irons effects of very dry or very wet .Cason..
The sea-son for transplanting fruit trees has
gone by, but we trust it has lie,•n improved
This county ispectiliarly adoted to the profit
able raising of fruit—especially tipples and
plume--and 'too notch care cannot be taken in
the selection of trees and- the planting of
oreharils. Along the ridge and lake basin it
is very rarely that the fruit crop is a failure.
and there is no other branch of industry that
will yield a more certain and profitable return.
In a very few years, by proper effort, every
farmer cif have a large and thrifty orchard,
producing more nett profit than all the rest of
his farm. This fact has been fully demon
strated in other localities, and, indeed, by a
few of the farmers in our vicinity
And last, but not least, every family can
have, and ought to have, a collection of house
plants and Sowers. The expense and the labor
is very trifling, and they are ever fresh and a
pleasing ornament to our homes. They give a
more cheerful look to every thing The cost
is.not to be thought of in comparison with the
pleasure enjoyed. Farmers and town people.
el4 , rybody, can have choice Bowers and house
plants, and after cultivating them for a short
time no family will be without them, no matter
what the expense.
SO. The Lovers pf fun, and of DAN Ru•c,
which_ in this country is synonimous, will he
glad to see that he is about to "break loose**
for the season, and will give them a touch of
his genius on the ad of May, in this city. It
is quite useless for us to tell everybody to go
and see him, for everybody will do that cer
tain. Where " DAN" is there is always a
crowd, and men do "laugh and grow fat."
111§6 A meeting of the - one!" of property
on State Street and the Publn Spuare wits
held at the Co uncil Room on Thursday evening.
Mayor Smith was called to the chair, and
Wet. A - . Galbraith appointed Secretary.
After the reading of that portion of the
amended charter which relates to the paving of
streets it was on montion
Readvad, That a committee of five be ap
pointed to WA with the Committee of Councils,
and to ascertain *roost and relative value of
the several plans fir the proposed improvement,
together with any other Information relating
to the same, and ,to report thereon at an ad
journed meeting le be called by the Committee.
on . motion of Judge Sterrett, it was Resolved
that the Committee be instructed to prepare a
petition to the Councils, in accordance with the
9th section of 14e amended charter, praying
for the pairing of State Street, to the North
aids of Fourth Street.
On motion . of if Beatty, it was Resolved
that the street surrounding the Parks ought
to be of the tudibrm width of one hundred
feet.
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13y, Wirrawn de Wortle.
The Old'papeik of our attic,' published one
harm; years no, are quite like those of onr
deb, 'inept thig like the letibr a, they were
motally t not so. Crooked, and were of a higher
tone. Our a ire same upsidb-down, and so
are too many of our papers, so far as real value
is concerned. Looking over the old London
chronicler of one hundred years ago we find
the following curiosities : April 22. 1769. A
sturgeon, eaten feet and a bald loaf, naighing
200 wt., was naught and presented to His
Majesty, the Bing. ' , Never such a dainty
dish," &c.
About the same date this record is made in
Dodsley's An. Beg. "We iqtve an account
from Providence, in America, dist no leas than
11683_ squirrels had been lataly shot in that
country within tan days, and that at producing
the heads, 1.500 horses were atltbe tavern. 'flte
heads of the said squirrels) measured 2/94
bushels." A Norfolk-turnep grew to 29 pounds,
and a Chester-potato weighed ill pounds, ettm
38 inches in circumference, anti 474 inches
long. These one hundred years ago!
Capt, Tyrrell, writing of a u 7 e val engagement
usi
with the French. off Gcial , says:—" Be
fore I conclude, I cannot help !representing ito
you the inhuman, ungenerouisi and barbartlus
behavior of the French durin the action. No
rascally piccaroon, or pirate cpuld have filled
worse stuff into us, than thOy"did, such as
square bits of iron, old rust nails, and lin
short, every thing that could! tend to the de
struction of men." In the War of words,, at
the present day, there is "wqrse stuff - thbn
these fired in_an ungenerous wwy.
Feb. 28, 18,59. An old English woman Was
accused by her neighbor of Witchcraft, "for
bewitching her spinning whe'el, so that she
could not make it gu round.' l ' The accused
Was taken so the parish churl, and her hus
band insisted upon her beini tried by the
Church-Bible. The licensed was present. The
scales were adjusted. The bible was put in ore
settle, and the accused in the other, "when to
the no small mortification of the accuser, she
outweighed it, and was honorably acquitted of
the charge." N. B. The sensation-papers can
make a story of this, entitleilt The witch of
the wheel that woulden't buzz
Modern exploit-performers tire at least one
hundred years behind the tirnes. -A young
hitly, who at New-Market het that she could
ride 1,0(5) milts in 1.000 hours, finished her
match in a little less then trio-thirds of the
time. A Birmingham-pedestrian, walked, fur
a wager, :•1,000 miles in 2S days, with great
ease." In less than thelast tut, days he walk
ed 10. t - miles. P:ite-fighting,.however, seems
to he a later delicacy
Advertisement. for InishandS and wives are
not a new idea. A ming geld. in 1759 Aked
the attention of any one -wko would think
herself rather happier in her husband's com
pany, than at public places " This was rather
a 1,41 requirement at the out stet
The late irmoculetor for the measles IrftS pro-
ceded one hundred years, by Dr. Francis Hume,
who thought he hal - produced a tliseaai free
from all alarming symptoms That remedy
must he now among the -lost a nti."
The story, publi-hed a few years si nce , of a
lighttling-stroke which ;Oliver...l a comb to it
lady's hand while she wan at her to !Tette. and
initiretrum a hair of her head, nor a nail of
her hand, is found in a London paper itt 1759,
are nut questioning the fact, hut only the
recency of ti
The premiuMS gis en by agricultural soeiet;,t
arc not of bite origin. The Hat otferea by the
"eueiety for the encouragements of arts and
commerce. ' and dated April Vt. 1759. would
be it model for the present , lay The ohject of
many of the premiums was not temporary, e
g. the planting of Chestnuts, Elms. Pines. and
Logwood-trees. It would he wise 111 our gov
ernment to adopt methods for cultivating such
tre e s as a ill be needed „it the next century fur
timber and.lutuher. It is curious to note the
attention paid to the colonies. Premiums were
otTer,d for planting olive-trees on the lands
••;•olli6A.:1 , l of the Delaware river. - and for
producing eoa hineal, cocoons. wine, raisins,
50.1,0110 n in the earolina.. toneot the Judge.
appoinle.l .tt raw-silk was Benj. Franklin,
L. L. D.
Sept. 1;:".9 The socivy for propoga
ting the gospel in foreign parts gave :AM/. ster
ling to the infant college at Sew York They
had an eve on the email town.
Two Mohawk Indians were at York, t /et
1759 tine of them bore the attractive mime
of Rattlesnake Rent. They had been in I . in
wht, endeavoring to persuade their rvlai es
to ••leave the French in gout Thy
told them -that the Em•li.h, formerly w.miem
were now all turned into men, anil were as
thick all over the laud as the trees. They ha‘e
taken the I thni, Niagara, Ticonderoga, and late
ly Quebec, and will soon eat up the French 111.1
!nailing in Canada. - The reply was—
•• Brethren you arc deceived. The English
cannot eat up the French - . Their mouth is too
little, their jaws too weak, and their teeth not
sharp enough. Our Father ! the Ouvernor of
Canada) has told us, and we believe himlhat
the English, like !hie'', have stolen Louisburg ,
and Quebec from the great King. while his
hack was turned, and he was looking another
way. But now he has turned his face. and ACC ,
what the English have done. He is going into
their country with a thousand great canoes.
and all their warriors. lle will take the little
English King. and pinch him till he cries out.
and gives back what he has stolen, as he did
about ten slimmer. ago. This your eyes will
soon see!"
MR EDITOR : —Hare we a High Constable
among us' If we have, has he any ditties to
perform" If he has, is it any part of those
ditties to look after. apprehend. and bring to
justice vagrant swine" If this is not a partof
his duty, whose duty is it ° The hog is a very
offensive animal. Ile is of the lowest order of
beasts. Mohammedans and Jews loathe him.
and shut their eyes and turn up their noses
mountain high at the very eight or smell of
his flesh. Christians eat the same flesh t and
contract incurable scrofula from it. But ahog,
or many hogs, walking through the parks of a
city, eating the tender grass, ploughing the
sod, and delving deep for possible or impos
sible roots—.this is ineffably disgusting, offen
sive and irritating alike to saints and sinners,
Jews, proselytes, Greeks and barbarians, and
should at onoe be forcibly terminated by whom
soever is supposed for the time being to wield
the strong arm of the law. Fiat Justitia, &o.
Our correspondent's complaints are just—
they are reasonable--they appeal to "Case in
authority" trumpet tongued for redress. We
see daily, in our walks about town, this hoped
nuisance—nay, more ; we have felt. this nui
sance in our purse and in 'Lour estate." Listen !
We have a small domain—it Is not large--but
it is our all, our hearthstone, where we endeavor
to cultivate the social virtues which bloom for
ever. and in addition a few shrubs and plants,
fruits and dowers, which, when summer comes,
are so pleasing to-the eye, and soothing to the
weary man of business when his day's labor is
over. We do not cultivate hogs—we have no
passion for pet pigs—in fact, we have no taste
for pork in any shape—and yet ,
. we cannot
leave a gate ajar, a neighbor cannot call and
forget to make everything secure behind him
irbealse cramp our threshold, ern s ,i r
swine, from the old —grunter," that a.igi e
have been made into lard and qterine lon g , t ,
down along the intermediate grade. to 1„.
squealing pig, rush to that open gate nn.l
we are aware of it there is neither •hno,
plant, fruit nor flower, to gladden the ey
tickle the palate; - Shedd this be so • K, at
/on, great and !nighty "City Father, ,„,
our flower garden, our rose buithem, our ,tree
berry patch, our trim front yard, h e st.ui
uponand made &pig-stye by every roaming Fin
er that perambulates the streets and wallow,
the glitter What if we have gates, and r eel ,.
and locks, and bars, and bolts—they sr , t
protection against the marauding foray,
drove of swine with a city education. F,.
• these reasons, and many more not necessat 7
01111IIIIIZIVAI, we repeat with OUT oorrespondet,
Have we a High Constable among us 7t.
•if wet have, is it not part of his duty to brzt
to justice and the block the vagrant seine to,
so tempt one to break that command wh,,,
prohibits the use of protium language •
sr A new source of difficulty betw,...- 1
our Government and that of Great Brits r.
exists in reference to the Nortb-W...
boundary question. It seems that
parties claim certain waters and Wahl
bordering on Washington Territory, winet.
by the recent gold discoveries, have bci
rendered very valuable.
as. In noticing, a few weeks sinee, tt
very interesting Book of Dr. WOOD, men.
published by the Haerna's, entitled "Fonks,
we took occasion to say that it had met a ttr•
favorable reception at the hands of the press
few of these notices, which have come mil..
our observation, we append as a matter of t
tercet to the numerous friends of the 'ult.,
in this city :
Prom ate Baltimore &m
• }lnv ing read with delight former product ,oe.
of the author as the fruit of his "tray.",
lore,".we entered upon “Fankwei" with I ter
that was most agreeably sustained. The
ume is a spirited and intensely interestmgau
rative and description of scenes, incidents at,
people jr hi c h the intelligent and spprecir.,.
author personally encountered in his traTe..
with a vast find of information acquired fr.a
all available sources. It is a welcome enirr
bution to history and literature.
Fl , om the Baltimore CArnaturis Advocate
"We took up the book, therefore, with to.
expectation of enjoying an unusual treat, so:
we were not disappointed. We do not kw
where such a variety of agreeable and usef4.
information can be fount d in so small a spur
We are particularly pleased to notice Dr. W 0,4 •
remarks upon missionary operations in tht
countries he visited. His views are as souk:
as they are encouraging. We will give then
to our readers as soon as we can.
From tik. -Veto York Century
66 He hat an evident liking for the use qt the
pen, and writes with zest and a *wain Ameri
can off-hand ease and familiarity. He Tint"
on the voyage out, Mader* the Cape, with
pleasant descriptlica of its society and win.
producing region of the Cowdenlie. Ceylus
Patton it. the "gem of the Indies." Siam, Irl't
detailed observations of its Court and pert.
Front the Buffalo Express.
He first gives an account of life on 0, 1
board, in the course of which the red tape
tern of our Navy receives some very sharp •Ist•
then he takes us to Maderla, among the 1.t,•
yards. and tells us all about the wine, as n
a scientific man can tell us; after this we f ,
I.)w hint to .Iscension, among the green tnr..•
.i.tiatn, to Ilong Kong, Canton and dal
forming really une of the most enterath.r,
hooks which has been issued ^ruin the per—
a long time.
I. row rA- .Yrtr York Erang , '
"Bating the tune of dissatisfaction t i t so,
the writer speaks of the neglect 1.. I
own profession is sobjeetesl in the titters st,
navy. this is a cheerful and pleasing. te ,
i n ..t met ive volume. Evident I) • lit
travelled with his eyes and ears open, anti Its
has prove.' himself a careful and candid .1 ,
server. Ills remarks upon missionaries
muntionary labor show a genial appreciatit, •
theirsself-denying and noble work, aml,l„. •
witness to the fact that it had nut beta .2
vain.
WIN, Some boys who were fishing ales _
the banks of the Canisteo River. nest
bridge on the Hornell...vine at,:
Attica Railroad, recently, discovered:h. ,
the edge of the water, several musket kt..-
and upon digging into the hank, they fmn
about three hundred in all, These bu,lt•
were '22 to the pound, the same size, we !-
neve, as the old Queen's Arm musket
m the Revolutionary war. It is ..tuppo-4-:
by Dimly that some of the Indians wh
participated in the ?simmer* , of Wyofmnz
.Iseen,l, - ,1 the 'ani , teo River, and it hilt 7%
prt,i,al , l.. that tho , e relic , were lost Burt
the expedition.
TONlC.—Every one, at times, feels ii,
ne e t ,... i ty ..1....nie reuorative of the vital powers
.lepre•se‘l I.y mental or bodily exhaus tiun -
ui,, A
In I twit conditions let every one,
Wide*
tl ing t., the alcoholic or medieinalstim I •
whirli oust be followed by depression 114
t,. their ezeitenieut, reinvigorate his delimit ,
. 3 ,1.,, n by the natural tote elements of .1..
I'EIIUVI 1N SYRUP .
toir It iv rumored in Washington that
or more of the counsel for Mr. Sickles inia
calling I ill? Mr Ould, the prosecuting atterneN
for certain per.onal remarks made by 11,
gentleman in the course of the trial
Thursday
I=l
be' An Arkan4a.s paper gives an aocoon
of a marriage in the jail of St. Francis count
of a beautiful young lapy, to one of ,thr,
brother. who have recently been convinted
murder to the first degree, and sentenced
be hung.
MAIMAGBS.
In Spirit Lake City, on the 27th ult., by B
Leonidas Conglet on, SergentC. C. STRATI! IN
to Miss ERIANNA JUDSON, both of Wel.sle
City, lowa. formerly of Waterford, Pa.
In this City, on the If+th inst., by Rev. J 1
Forrester. Mr. GEO. W. ARBUCKLE, and
IDA 8001, an of this City„
On the 12th inst., by the Rev. D. Miscue! .
Mr. BENJAMIN F. STERRETT to Miss PAZ%
BETH GLAZIER, both of-Idel{ats.
On the 12th inst., by Bev. D. C. Wright, Nlr
DELONI M DIGHTON, of Erie. andi
MELISSA E. HEATH, of St. Joseph County
Michigan.
p.):./N41:6.1
In this City, on Monday the 18th irist . vt
Apoplexy, MARY ANN, wife of J. 8. Lev".
and daughter of Joseph Monte, of Hamburg
Berks county, aged 28 years.
In Summit township, on the 18th last, Mr
A. VINCENT RAMOT, aged about 46 year
In McKean township, on the 14th last
consumption, Mr. GEORGE WELDON, son of
Joseph Weldon, aged about 28 year.
In Millereek township, on the 9th hut., Mr
JACOB MIIBBELMAN, aged 96 years 11 month
and 14 days.
In Springfield, on the 7th inst., Mrs. BETSE
WALBRIDGE, aged 69 years.
On the 6th inst., in West Girard, EMMA . 1 .
daughter,pf Richard and Nancy J. Phillips
In this City, on Monday the Ilth last ,
ANNIE MIRANDA, infant daughter of Tbeopht•
lug and Miranda Carter, aged II months.
In this City, en Sunday morning the I,:i
inst., MARY RIDDELL, daughter of Rel.
James mid Elizabeth A. B. Abercrombie, err
12 years.
Departed this life, Varela 25th, 1859, a.
Wellsville, Ohio, Mrs. MARGARET R. MACK
INTOKH, in the 32d year of her age The
deteased was the wife of P. 8. Mackintosh.
Esq., of IfellsQle, and the• daughter of Mr
Thomas and Mrs. Mary Mehaffey, of Erie, r,
Er BALDWIN'S CATHARTIC TlLL " roat bomilll to potions of habeas hate,.
L erp oomMonal am to small dome Oar robot o r
drat Iftir l otivia . l ' i thi bearthots. 6"lach X d r:" °l
w lek *Atlas too heartily. y should betaken in
small doers of from Goo to two after Wm,