s 3 cffc vs o nt aw Tlcpublicau. TInTrs!ay, 32 ay 15, 1851. J'Vcc Soil Convention. The Cleveland papers contain a call for a National Conven tion of the friends of Freedom, without dis tinction of party, to be held in Cleveland on tiie 4th of July next, for the purpose of ta king appropriate political action against the Fugitive law. The Easton- Gas Company has been or ganised, and .$11,000 of the stock subscribed by the citizens. Rhode Island. The Legislature of this State met at .Newport on Tuesday. In the House Alfred Bosworth, (Whig,) of Warren, was chosen Speaker. The votes for Gover nor and Lieutenant Governor were counted, and Philip Allen of Providence, and Wm. Beach Lawrence of Newport, declared elect ed to those offices respectively; the same was done with the remaining State officers, and the Opposition nominees were duly inducted into them. Specie asfid its Exportation. The exportation of specie from New York during the month of Aprila mounted to $3, 482,182. Since the beginning of the pres ent month the flow of coin to Europe has gone on with increased volume. The Asia which sailed on Wednesday, took out about $870,- 000 ; the Humboldt, on Tuesday, took out J8oS,031 ; and the Pacific, which is to leave , for Liverpool to-morrow, has 6325,000 en ffasred making a total of nearly two millions of dollars a larger amount than was receiv ed from California by Georgia. The importations of foreign merchandise nt New York for the month of April amount ed in value to 10,330,883, while the exports of domestic and foreign goods and produce a mounted to 4,847,600. With such a bal ance of more than five millions against us, in the business of one month, it may be easi ly seen why specie is exported to Europe. Thomas II. Suymouii, the present Govern or of Connecticut, was re-elected to that sta tion on the 9th inst., by the Legislature of iiis State, which met in annual session at Hartford on Wednesday. This may be re garded as settling the question as to which of the parties has a mnjority in joint meetingof the Legislature. They are nearly equally balanced, but it would seem, from having re elected their Governor, that the Democrats can command a majority. Other State Offi cers are to be elected, (the people having failed to elect them,) as well as a United States Senator. fcA majority of the delegates to the Dem ocratic Convention at Harrisburgjfor the nomination of Judge of the Supreme Court, aro lawyers. IT! an si fact lire of Jewelry in New Jersey. Few persons, says the ??cwark Aducrtiser, have an adequate idea of the extent and val ue of this branch of manufacture in New Jersey : " A recent estimate puts the number of manufactories at IS, employing 6000 hands, t hose average wa gas, including boys, amounts to 12 a week. The weekly product of man ufactured articles is about $35,000, or 1, fcf20,000 a year. In the manufacture of watch cases alone, about 50 hands are employed. In some manufactories chains are made, in others; principally rings, while in others, al most every article yet invented for the adorn ment of persons of both sexes, are manufac tured. - The gold used for a year past, has mostly the product of California, brought here assayed, and in bars ; the precious stones for ming a part of the ornaments are imported from Europe ready cut for use. An errone ous idea, we understand, is prevalent in re lation to the increase of value of all the gold manufactured into jewelry. A large number of articles prove to be unsaleable and out of fashion, and when that occurs, they are re melted and sent to the' mint for coinage." Barnxm Outdone. The Madison Journal relates the following piece of financiering : 'M'Elvey, the tailor, who bought tfie prize ticket to Jenny Lind's first concert in Cincin natti, is one of the few men in the world who -jure sharp as Barnum. The way he -worked things was this for some days before the concert he went around among his friends, betting ten dollars with this one, twenty dol lars with that one, and so on, until he had a thousand dollars bet that he would buy the prize ticket. The ticket was knocked down to him slI 8575, thus leaving him -125 in pocket. Twenty-four Cities, The New Orleans iu.j, ou.MOUCu mat ciiy. xiie uuueim says ujau iu xotu the population of New Orleans and Baltimore was within a fraction of being alike, New Orleans then numbered 102,000 souls, and Baltimore 102,313. Boston then had a popM ulation of 93,382, and Cincinnatti 46,68: Mnnatti 4668 I Now the relative position is as follows: Bal timore 169,025, Boston 138,788, New Or-' dollars, and thus- extinguish the fires that jeans 116,407, and Cinciunatti 116,168. Of have been burning for thousands of years J 'twenty-four cities, each with a population of It js said that the fine lands thus to be re over 20,000, we -find that the rule of increase : clainmed will more than ten times 'pay the has been less in N. O. thah'm any one or the - . a... it . , o rprrianinT 5 Elcphauts, Snakes & TheJjribunc, -of Monday, announcesthej arnvaljaLtNew-York on the previous day, or thcbafkiRearetta.from India, freighted with nmmm elephants, a .zebue, or Burmese -i ?-.y .1J n n ' i -..-.fr. ;1.1ri;nrr n 1 umi, bixurcii eiiunuuua b-, mu.6 - brace of boa-constrictors of 24 and 16 feet m length, besides a Vilderness of monkeys, the , fretted porcupine, and other live varmints, 1 all consigned to Messrs. P. T. Barnum and , Seth B. -Howes, intended for the great Muse um Caravan, now on exhibition in New-Jersey. One of the most curious features of this Noah's Ark collection is a calf elephant, about nine months old, and weaned from its dam on the passage from Ceylon, being but three feet high, and as docile and playful as a kitten. Another is one of the native chiefs of Ceylon, who accompanies the show in charge of the elephants. This enterpise, the greatest probably, since the day of the Flood, has been conducted and brought to a success ful issue by Messrs. Stebbins, June and Geo. Nutter. The elephants were hunted and caught in their native jungles by Messrs. June and Nutter, accompanied by 160 of the natives. Their capture was effected by driv ing 250 of them into a kraul, or rude pen, constructed in the jungle, out of which they succeeded- in securing thirteen two having died on the passage and another being stolen from the drove. The Regetta has made her passage home (13,000 miles) stopping at the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of St. He lena, in 112 days. The elephant hunters were three months and four days m the jun gles before they effected their object. A Monster Balloon. Mr. Wise, the A merican aeronaut, the Philadelphia Ledger says, has now m preparation a monster bal loon, holding fifty thousand cubic feet of gas: and capable of carrying up sixteen persons of 150 nounds each. He expects to have it ready for ascension from Philadelphia about the 1st of June. " Lady Suffolk," the celebrated trotting mare, has won purses and stakes to the a mount of 50,000. It is said that Mr. Bar num has agreed to give one thousand dollars for her body after death, to be stuffed and placed in his Museum ! Mr. Barnum has purchased Micholas Bid die's countrv seat as a residence. The New Mexican Indian Com mission. It is some time since we and our readers have had any information of the whereabouts of the Commission appointed by this Govern ment under the act of Congress of 28th Sep tember last, for investigating and reporting to the Government all the information to be ob tained regarding the Indian tribes in New Mexico, the practicability and expediency of negotiating with them, &c. We were agreeably surprised yesterday by meeting with Col. C. S. Todd, one of the three Members of that Commission, who has just arrived in this city pn business connected with its objects. He left the two other Members of the Commission, Gen. R. B. Campbell and O. P. Temple, Esq., at San Antonio, in Tex as, where they had been in winter quarters for some time, and are now waiting for advi ces from the Government. Col. Todd will, we understand, return with in a very few days to rejoin the Commission. Natio7ial Intelligencer, 10t. Receipts and expenditures of the United States, from 1st January to 31st March, 1851. RECEIPTS. From customs 14,448,379 17 From sales of public lands 827,076 79 From loan of 1847, (Treasu ry notes funded) 9,400 00 From miscellaneous sources 319,261 15 $15,604,117 11 EXPENDITURES. Civil, miscellaneous, and for eign intercourse 4,354,241 49 Department of Interior, (Indi an Departmentand Pensions) 1,127,592 93 Army proper," &c, and fortifi cations 3,049,278 87 Navy 2,298,462 05 Interest &c. on public debt and Treasury notes . 7,996 16 Reimbursement of Treasury notes 9,600 00 Redemption of Treasury notes per act 4th February, 1819 527,00 10,847,698 50 Treasury Department, Register's Office, May 1, 1851. TOWNSEND HAINES, Register. Ornithological Curiosity. The Cincin nati Enquirer describes a mammoth bird, closely resembling the famous stork, which was captured on the plantation "of Mr. Grif fith near Vernon, (la.) The night was unu sually stormy, when, this feathered stranger came hovering about the trees, and finally lighted on a branch near the ground, when it. was attacked, and engaged in a very singu lar light with a couple of watch-dogs. Their loud and repeated barking aroused Mr. G., who managed with difficulty, to run the bird into a smoke house, when it was secured, It measured five feet when standing erect, and eight feet six inches from the. tip of one wing to the other, when spread. A Wonderful Project. We have it on the authority of Mr. McLaughlin, recently returned from abroad, that thfrn ia n nrmpr.t on foot at Naples to extinguish the fires of Vesuvius ! It is understood that the bottom of the main or grand crater is several thou sand feet below tile level of the sea. The i w c a vn uu iawi) uic ca- pense of which, will not exceed two millions of .expense of executing the grand desjgn,T-Lar rr From the Honesdale Democrat. iWIiiSConHly . CoiivcnlBOii. Iipurfuance of the' call of the County Committee, a Whig County. Convention was hcldjt the Court House m .this borough, on. MnrtAniT ananinrr flia.MRf h inst. TOf tile at)-1 ATrmflnVr avnnlnrr fVio Fif IT inst-. for the aD-I ....s, , . pointment of delegates to the btate nven- tion at Lancaster. Owina- to tlie mclemen- cy of the weather, the attendance was not v , . - - - , large Charles P. Waller was chosen Chair man, and Henry Peet, Secretary. The Committee on Resolutions, reported, through Charles S. Miner, the following, which, after some discussion, were adopted: Resolved. That in the administration of , President Millard Fillmore, and his able and distinguished constitutional advisers, the peo ple of the United -States have a guarantee that the great interests of the nation will be cherished; and that, while there may be an honest difference of opinion among whigs on some points, we have an abiding confidence that in the next presidential election, the old whig fire will warm and cement the hearts of all whigs, from the bleak hills of Maine to the golden shore of California. Resolved, That ive cordially approve the administration of Governor William F. John ston marked as it is by a wisdom that sel dom errs a courage that never falters a courage that none question and an ability that excites admiration and convinces the judgement. Resolved, That General Windfield Scott the great Captain, the profound statesman, and the good man whose deeds and whose glory are a rich legacy to the country, de serves at the hands of a free and grateful people their warmest affections and their highest honors Resolved, That in him we recognize all the qualities of a great historic character that whether we view him bleeding on the terrible field of Niagara or conquering on the plains of Mexico or maintaining the in tegrity of the Union when South Carolina, in her madness, was about to set at defiance the authority of the Constitution we see in him those traits of head and heart which em inently fit him to preside over this extended republic. Resolved, That his history is not merely the history of a scar covered and successful general, but the history of a noble self-sacrificing and devoted patriot, whose only aim is his country's prosperity, honor, and renown. Resolved, That with him as our leader in the presidential campaign of 1852, we will go into the contest with a confidence that in spires hope, and a zeal that wins victory. Resolved, That our delegates to the Whig State Convention be directed to urge the nomination of Hon. P. S. Preston as the whig candidate for Canal Commissioner. On motion of Eral Wheeler, the County Committee were empowered and instructed to designate and commission delegates to the State Convention. In accordance with this resolution F. B. Penniman was appointed Senatorial Dele gate, and Charles S. Minor Representative Delegate. The Whigs of Monroe and Car bon counties having conceded to the whigs of this county the privilege of naming the Sen atorial Delegate, this action is of course fin al. Terrible Storsii. A storm of most extraordinary and alarm ing violence passed over a portion' of Raleigh (N. C.) on -Sunday evening last, spreading rqin and devastation before it. We have no knowledge of any such remarkable occurrence in this latitude before. In the irresistible fu ry with which it bore down ever thing, even to the " proudest monarch of the forest," be fore it, it was like those tornadoes of the trop ics of whose desolating ravages we read It seems to have been confined within a belt of a hundred yards, or perhaps more, in width, and, passing through the city from southwest to northeast, trampled every obstacle to its progress within that compass under foot, with the velocity of lightning and the power of an army of giants, uprooting the largest trees, overthrowing chimneys and fences, unroofing houses, and in three instances actually lifting the houses themselves from their foundations and shivering them to the earth, besides doing, in other ways, very considerable damage to property. Fortunately most miraculously and providentially, we should say there was not, so far as we have yet learnt, a single in stance of serious personal injury. We have heard of several remarkable escapes, and one or two bruised limbs, but how there should have been no one killed is almost unaccount able. We can only ascribe it, with thank fulness, to that Omnipotence which 'rides up on the whirlwind and directs the storm.' The track of the hurricane, after the storm had spent its rage, presented a scene that may be more easily imagined than described. It was indeed an appalling and a dreary spec tacle. Raleigh Register. Sugar. The sugar crop of Louisana for 1850, was 211,203 hhds., equal to 231,194,- 000 lbs. There are 1,495 sugar mills, 908 worked by steam, 587 by horse power. The product of molasses is 10,500,000 gallons. Immense Receipts. The New York Mirror says that the receipts on the Erie Rail-road on Friday, the 25th ult., are believed to be the largest ever before re ceived on any railroad in the world they are said to have exceeded three millions of dol lars ! This fact unexplained, will appear extraordinary, but it is easily accounted for. When the road was commenced,the State loan ed its bonds to the amount of three millions. An Act of the Legislature passed subsequent ly, provided that if the Company laid a sin- gie track rrom tne liuason river 10 juaije n rie, and ran its engines over it before the middlfi nf Mn v. the road will be released Irom the lien held upon it for the amount advanced. On the 25th ult, the necessary affidavit was' filed with the Comptroller, that the condition : had been fulfilled, and consequently the re- icttoc ytiB granted: nencetne receipts on mat day were equal to three millions of doljars. iinrnnrrir r From the Harrisburg American. Testimony! an,. Opponent A Change of Tactics. T-i ;Since the election of Governor Johnston": to tlif Jhirrh andTexalted trust he has so ably and o . t-wwhil ,alw11" J Li.,!,; nf Mm onnnsition nress have occa- " 1 nf ,th nnA n- sluIiaiv i cy, and all self respect, by charging him with .... . ! 1. l.V;f.,ol nnrl PYCPSS1VA 11SO nt lntfiXlflJltinfJ" l tUU liauivuui u,4.v o liquors. To all who have been in daily In tercourse with Govervor Johnston, and who, are, consequently, able to detect and expose the lie by their own personal observation, no other refutation of this base slander is neces sary the common "walk and conversation," the whole lifeand character of the man stamp the charge a falsehood upon its very face. With those, however, to whom he is person ally unknown the case is very different ; not having the means of information immediate ly at hand, they are in a position to be easily misled and imposed upon. For this reason we take some pleasure in copying the follow ing article upon this subject from the Dem cratic Union of this place, a paper which, if not to maligcant in its opposition as some oth ers, is certainly one of the most inveterate of its kind, and may be seen from the fact that it contradicts the slanders of the 'Gazette' from motives of policy, rather than from" any par ticular desire to do justice to a political oppo nent: 'From the Dem.. Union, Wenesday. Ap. 29. PERSONAL ABUSE OF A POLITICAL OPPONENT. We would suggest to our friend of the Bedford Gazette, that there is nothing to be gained in a political or other point of view, by his representing Governor Johnston to be in the constant habit of drinking in the public bar-ronms, and bearing upon his forehead the evidences of habitual intemperance. We never knew anything of the Goverpor's hab its previous to his making Harrisburg his res idence; but we will do him the justice to say that we have never seen him take a drink in a public bar-room; and although we meet him almost every day when he is in Harrisburg, we have never witnessed any evidences of intoxication, either in his appearance or con versation. We say this much as an act of justice to Governor Johnston, and by way of preventing the Democratic press of the State from pursuing a course of personal detrac tion, which almost always recoils upon the Dartv resortinsr to this disgraceful kind of 4 C3 W warfare. We presume Governor Johnston is to be the Whig candidate for Governor, and we have no fears of meeting him on the prin ciples that divide the Democracy and modern Whiggery, but we do trust that the Demo cratic press of Pennsylvania will have too much self respect to fall into the course pur sued against the Democratic condidates in 1838. Horse Stealing a Bid Killing. - An article in the New York Courior and Enquirer makes the following statements: There sitll exist and thrive in this city the remnant of a body of men who figured largely, till within some few months since, as horse stealers and killers, and who nothing having lately been heard of them are com monly supposed to be extinct. Their busi ness is to drive stray or unwatched cattle to vacant lots of ground in the Northern and Eastern parts of the city, and there watch an opportunity, when the policemen on duty is out of sight and hearing, to fell the animals dead, strip off their hides and which are disposed of by contract to some tanner and cart off the flesh to the vicinity of some butch er's shamble. Six months ago, the depredations of these men had extended so far that it was calcula ted that no less than five hundred horses were clandestinely disposed of each month. The energetic measures then taken caused a num ber of these snatchers to be beaten back to New Jersey, and a good portion of the re mainder to pursue some more honest and less vile occupation. But it would seem that those now in the traffic are " masters of the trade," and more desperate and high-handed in their measures than in its palmiest days and have so organized themselves, and can so concert their schemes, as to make prelimina ry measures for their conviction futile, and the taking them in the act next to impossible. Rapidity of operation in this business is the first condition of success. In dangerous localities, children are found to be of service, and troops of these are brought up to skin and to lie. If found near a carcass, they are sel dom suspected ; and they arc adepts in eva sive answers. They are usually dressed in , squalid clothes, and keep on their countenance a studied absence of all marks of intelligence. One lawless operator lately offered to bet with one of our civic functionaries that a lad he had with him, a mere child, would skin a horse in fifteen minutes. The dead carcass was then before them, and though the bet was not accepted, the thing was done ! The history of some of these children would read like romance. We need not remind our readers that a city ordinance is in existence which makes it penal to retain dead animals within the city limits ; and that proper meansare provided for their removal. Director of the Mint. Dr. Patterson has resigned his office as Director of the Mint in Philadelphia. Dr. George N. Eckeiit, of Reading, formerly member of Congress, is a candidate for tlm vacant place. The salary is $3,500 per an- num. JTT 9?? i8land iav Tfxed Gov. Dorr to all his rights as a citizen-though not to his official bcc mi- T - n T. 1 1 -r . oi"uu wuvwiiw. num wmcn lie rin away "at the, time of the war." . -1- - 'm-ri' firiii Arrest on Charge of Robbing the PiTjsBURa, May 9. Last eyening.Mesers. Shallcross and Ottinger agenifsof the Post- office Department, brought in a?stage driyer, Gained R. J. Rennett, ' charged with haying .......-... nr -V robbed the United States man uu wuuu- tains. After an examination, lie was com- mitted. ... IU am moth While Ash Coal Vein. Many of our readers are aware that the Delaware Coal Company, at their Mines just north of this borough, have been engaged for months past in sinking a Shaft with the view of reaching the Mammoth White Ash Coal Vein, which according to the theory of Mr. E. W. McGinnes, underlays the Red Ash throughoutthis entire basin. Mr. McGinnes, who has charge of the work, sunk a Shaft a bout 65 feet, and their bored some 435 feet, when on Thursday last, at a perpendicular ueptll or OUU icei, as -ne anuria m, uiey . n -nn . . t - f .1 .. .1 struck the White ash vein ana urougnt up Coal, specimens of which he showed us. The value of this discovery, not only to the Company but to the contry at large, cannot be estimated. Pottsville Emporium. UXrs. Swisshelin on Slave Catch- Mrs. Swissheim is severe on the slave- catchers of which creatures they have had saniDles in Pittsburg for she regards them 47 O o with true womanly scorn. Hear her : " We do not say one-half that we feel we should say if we were a man. If we were, and any fellow who has acted hound and aid ed in capturing a fugitive, should offer us any of the courtesies of life, proper between man and man, we would spit upon him. As it is. it one such should enter the room we were in, it would require a strong muscular effort on our part to prevent" Get out dog !'' j " Get out !" from escaping from our lips. To us they appear like dogs, and nothing else. ' Their faces and forms assume the outline and expression of a dog. Their whiskers look like 'smellers' or 'feelers.' " We would not rank amongst our list of friends the man who needlessly sets his foot upon a worm! and one who, for ten or twenty dollar fee, would aid to tear a man from the bosom of his family, and consign him to the condition of a brute, ought to be held with out the range of all human sympathy. We would not let any such biped sleep within our barn, or take a drink at our pump. We would not take his name as a subscriber, and could not write ediatorials for a slave catcher to read, and if there were a hundred people of our mind in Pittsburg, it would be hard for a Comraissione'r to live in it. We would hire little boys to halloo at him on the streets, and chambermaids to throw dirty water on him out of the upstairs windows and like the Yankee boy's companions, we would keep a pinchin' and poundin' him all the while," until he would be obliged to leave or repent. " Get out dog! Get out! should meet him him at every door which shelters family ties, Every husband and every father who values ( which was an insurance of 1,500. Mr. his right to live with his wife and children, Streeter's loss is about 400, no insur should spit upon or thrust such an auimal ance. Mr. Bentley's from two to three from his path every wife and mother who hundred. feels the value of a husband's love, should ! ?he fi.e was undoubtedly the work of ,. c j ..a, ...... an incendiary. A dark lantern was found piiiiiiii iiiiii i nun iiri in ii ii. v t i v i -1 1 1 1 1 wiiii love its father, should taunt and mock him when he shows his face. 26t ult. -Saturday Visiter, New Project. We understand that there is quite a spirit of rejoicing among the people along the Delaware, at the prospect of haying a steamboat to ply regularly between Easton and Lambertville. It is said that sevcral Philadelphians have undertaken ; Ces of that State are in excellent condi the project, and are about to build a boat tion. The balance in the Treasury on to carry three hundred passengers, and the 31st of March, 1846, was 21,324 86. araw oniy eleven incnes or water ; ana that upon investigation, they are satisfied of the feasibility of the scheme. It is designed to connect a line with the rail road from Lambertville to Trenton. Go ahead ! This is the age of progress. Bucks Comity Intelligencer. The Cuban Expedition. . Washirigtoji. May 9th. Official des patches have been received here from the South, which state that the expedition has entirely broken up,.and that the in- vauera are returning to tneir respective A Fast Funeral. A Race to the Grave. On Saturday last two Funeral processions, of unusual length, on their way to the Catholic Cemetry in Cam- YgG n-ar?d e?ch oiCV ?bove Voxifa H- P1' A"1. drivers or tne nearses, to see wntcii should reach the gate of the Cemetry first ! By a great application of the whip a sample of fast driving developed itself but the race was of short duration. The coffin in one of the hearses was thrown out on the ground, and , before the cortege following ronM iImw nn it was run over by three or -four hacks, and seriously mutilated. This accident suddenly P"1 an end to the mad career of the Jehus. Aue uuuy wus rcsiorea to its proper place, and the two funerals preceeded in order. Fast driving to the grave often occurs in Cambridge. Boston Mail. Ikj Scott Meetings have recently been held in the borongh of Erie, and Harris burg, and at Safe Harbor, near Lancas ter, at which strong resolutions favorable to the nomination of the Hero of Mexico were passed. There are three preachers of the gospel in the Indiana State prison con victed for horse stealing. Hjtt'Tljq , potatpc rot .has neyer ap peared west, of the -Rocky .mountains.' M Foreign News. & Byvthearrival of the Europa at New Torky on Thursday morning of last week t. t: V J.-i l i.r .1 nu uuvu -Luvtupuui uatca lu tue otU Hit The news from Europe is not of much importance. Cotton had declined fully three-eighths of a penny per pound ; and bread stuffs were also lower the supply greatly exceeding the demand. Flour was worth about 20 shillings per barrel and grain in proportion. The Exhibition or Wprld's Fair appears to absorb public attention almost entirely. Later. The Arctic arrived at New York .on Sunday morning last, with Liv erpool dates to the 30th. Cotton had still further declined. There is no news of importance. Great Fire at Montrose. One-third of the Business part of the Toicn Destroyed. Loss from 40,000 to 60, 000. Tuesday morning (6th inst.) a few min- JL UCPUUl . utcg ft fir(J discoy ered in the out.buiidings attached to L. searies Hotel. When first discovered it . had just broken through the roof. Th.c 1 wind was blowing a steady breeze from the West, and in a few minutes it com munifcated to the rear of the large store houses fronting on Public Avenue, which were soon enveloped in a sea of flame. Our citizens were on the spot en mass, and put forth every exertion to stay the ' nrocrress of the destrovincr element. The 1 X O w i-,- , fire swept on towards the Court House, and in two hours the whole West side of Public Avenue, from Searle's Hotel to the dwelling house of H. J. Webb, on the corner fronting Hatche's hotel, was a mass of ruins. The following are the names of the suffers: L. Searle, all the out- houses attached to his Hotel, with large ouantities of hay, and several thousand bushels of oats, together with several coaches and other carriages, harnesses,&c. and eight horses, five of which, however, belonged to travellers and others who were stopping with him. A Mr. Grego ry, of Auburn township, lost one span of horses and a load of wheat. The large store building of Mr. Searle, occupied by R. Searle, Dry Goods merchant; George Fuller, Book and Clothing dealer ; Win. W. True, Jeweler ; J. Warner, Grocer ; Dr. E. Park's office ; J. Groves, Tailor ; and L. 33. Hinds, Boot and Shoemaker, was wholly consumed. The losses of these different individuals we have not yet as certained, though but little comparative ly, was saved. M. Searle's whole loss will reach nearly 810,000, of which about $2,800, we believe, i"s insured. Next, the store of J. Etheridge, with nearly all its contents, was consumed. It is thought that Mr. Etheridge's insurance will near ly cover his loss. The shop occupied by Mr. 11. Jameson, Tailor, was burned. nis loss we have not ascertained. The j large store, sheds, stove and tin shops of S. H. Sayre & Co., with nearly all then contents, together with the dwelling house of B. Sayre, the law office of F. B. Stree ter, Esq. and carriage house of B. S. Bent- , lev, Esq. were consumed. Mr. bavre s j oss ;s estimated at about SI 5,000, on near where the fire was first discovered. Mr. Sayre is the greatest sufferer of all. The whole loss of our citizens is various ly estimated, from 40,000 to S60,000. The insurance on this sum is small. Our beautiful town is now a melancholy spec tacle indeed. Montrose Democrat. Connecticut. It appears from the Message of Gov. Sevmour to the Legislature, that the finan- The receipts for the year were 148,259 83. making a total sum of 169,584 54. The expenditures for the year were 110,- 214 47, which is over eleven thousand dollars less than the previous year. In addition to the ordinary expenses, 25, 000 have been paid on the debt to the school fund, which reduces it about one half. The balance remaining in the trea- ' sury on the 31st March, 1851, was 26, 266 22. The receipts of the school fund for the last fiscal year have been 13: 060 63: during that time there has been v to 92,220 scholars, the sum of 129,- and forty cents each; this leaves a surplus on the 31st March last of 5,676 15. The Governor, among other things, re commends the abolition of tfre death pen- I n Alsn to limit the hours of lahor. and in cases of children under 14 years in factories, to reduce them to . , , 7 , nours per aay. xo exempt ux homestead from sale on execution. Al so, to arrange a general DanKiug ayaiom on the plan adopted in New York. He is also in favor of carrying out the Com promise measures of the last session of Congress. The following sign appears over the door of a Restaurant in San Francisco : Within this shell where Yankees dwell, We keep the best of liqour. If you are dry, stop in and buy, ' For fifteen cents a nipper. 3IAKRIED, In Stroudsburg, on the 7th inst. by M. M.Burnett, Esq. Mr. Maddison Smith and Miss Maria Cosier, both of M. Smithfield. In Stroudsburg, on the 10th inst., by Rev. John A. Watson, Mr. Daniel Staples and Mis3 Anna Eliza Eckert, both of Stroudsburg. - . On the 11th inst., hy.the .same, Mr. .Daniel B. Williams ana. Miss Margaret Rh W. hofh o'f Hamilton. "-Oil 1
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