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Andrew J. Rhey, Editor.
EBENSBURG, PA.
Thursday, January 6, 1853.
Read tlie Advertisement of Tlank Road
Meeting; Valuable property for sale by Hugh
Dugan, Esq., Dissolution of Partnership.
Bg, For numerous public documents we re
turn thanks to Hon. Linn Boyd, Speaker of the
National House of Representatives, and to Mess.
Collins, Leech, and Evans of the Pennsylvania
Legislature.
ire direct attention to an able article on
the outside of this week's paper on the subject
of Commerce and Finance. It is the production
f n vntmir r-entleman of this county and is en
unrl attentive Derusal. The
tubject is treated in a masterly manner.
Latest From Europe,
The Stramship Asia has arrived at New York
with dates from Liverpool to 18th December.
The Derby Ministry were defeated on the reso
lution relative to the House Tax, and they have
resigned. Of the 82 Irish members, 30 voted
in favor of, and 52 against the Ministry. Their
v.0csai- liiwl not been announced. The Em
peror of France had left Paris for Berlin,
business was unknowD.
His
The Kbciilurg and Sisnielaimallailt
Road.
The agitation of this important projected im
provement has re-commenced, and under suclt
favorable auspices, that if the proper exertions
ore made, the road will be constructed. A meet
ing is called for Thursday, 20th January, at
which it is to be hoped there will be a large' at
tendance of those interested. Every one in this
community is aware that so far, the present win
ter, there has been but little business transact
ed with the northern portion of the county
caused by the absence of the snow. Last win
ter the trade with that section was very great
for the reason that we had good sledding and
plenty of it. A good plank road would enable
the farmer, the lumberman, and all others to
bring their products to market during any part
of the year, and would obviate the necessity of
depending upon the weather. When such a
road is built it matters little whether we have
enow during the winter or not, and contracts for
the delivery of lumber and produce can be made,
with the certainty of having the article at the
designated place at or before the time contrac
ted for its delivery. Good roads increase trade
and travel as is well illustrated in the case of
V. a TM o nlr Tina .1 tn Jefferson : the trade of
1 1 J V A. 1U11 i. - -
Ebensburg with that point (in our estimation)
its construction. .Plank
roads are the Farmer's Railroads. Their pecu
liar merit is, that the diminution of friction up
on them makes them akin to railroads, with the
advantage over railroads that every one can
drive his own wagon upon them. A horse can draw
t co or three times as much upon a plank road as
he can upon a common road, and a greater degree
of speed can also be obtained with les3 injury
vehicles and to horses feet than upon a common
road. Upon a plank road a two-horse team has
drawn six torn of iron, thus exhibiting the ad-
vfint;ir-e of such a road over a Mud road. Tim
her for clanks is plenty along the line of this
road and there are numbers of persons who will
Ruhscribe liberally in that manner : others will
subscribe the value of their labor in grading the
road ; others will subscribe cash. The road can
Ko tv,i,1 5f ntvmerlv undertaken. If the trade
nml increasing business of the county i3 to re
main within her own borders, instead of seeking
r market outside the limits of the county, the
.ncfrnftlnn nf this road will be the surest
moans to accomplish so desirable a purpose
with an earnest wish for that, we express the
hope that the meeting on Thursday week may
be largely attended, and the proper measures
taken to build the road during me coming bum
xner. "There's no such word as fail."
Accidents.
On Thursday evening last, at the Half-Way
House, Mr. Wm. Smith, Conductor on ine i
r.wl in attempting to iump on a car or boat-
truck, his foot caught between the cradle and le
ver nm he was dracrtred tor near a mue. ms
Lend nrul nrms were shockinslv mutilated. He
leaves a family to deplore his sudden loss.
On Saturday morning, Mr. Christopher Stnltz,
was killed at the Intersection below Plane No.
2. He was standing upon the front of the bag-
tffttro mr. when the car ran on the trace ana
btrikine another car crushed him between them
One of the workmen on Mesrs. Shuman's sec
tion near Jefferson, was killed instantly by a
mafs of earth and rock falling upon him.
Fire.
On Wednesday night, near twelve o'clock,
that part of the residence of our townsman Col
M. Ilasson. occupied by Mr. Thos. Rodgers,
iiiirht. fire from the stove pipe and before it
was extinguished part of the roof was destroy,
ed. The damage is not very much. Mra. "jr,
heard the cracking of the flames, rose from bed
and alarmed the neighbors, who labored faith
fully until all vestige of fire was removed. The
night was calm, otherwise, the damage
have been considerable.
might
Serious Affray.
On Tuesday evening Mesrs. James Wright
and William Hall, living near Jefferson, got into
a dinicuity concerning one oi tne "lairer por
tion oi Uod s creation, wnen wngnt drew a
knife and inflicted a severe wound in Halls neck
from which the blood streamed profusely.-
Wright was brought to this place next day and
lodged in jail by officer McCoy. Hall, though
severely injured, is likely to recover.
ROBBERY,
The house of Mr. Mark McLaughlin, who
keeps the Toll-house on the turnpike one n ile
west of Summitville, was broken into on Thurs
day night, January 7, through one of the win
dows, and about $400 stolen therefrom by some
person or persons. Ihere was no one in the
house at the time. The perpetrator of this out
rage has not yet been discovered.
Hon. Wm. It. King.
A Washington correspondent of the New York
Tribune savs : "The Vice President elect, Hon.
Wm. R. King, is still confined to his room, and
the fact cannot be disguised that he is alarming
ly ill. His most intinsate tnends entertain no
hone of his recovery, but his distressing cough
may be relieved, and bis life prolonged by ma-
king his contemplated inp 10 iue -ueeu vi me
Antilles.' Col. King is air amiable and courte
ous gentleman, and he has proved himself an
able, dignified and impartial presiding officer.
He wlil not take passage in a mail steamer from
Norfolk for Havana, as was contemplated, but
will go oa bourd the United States steamship
Fultun, at this jilace, which vessel will proceed
to Havuuj dirt-tft." ;
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Meeting of the legislature.
The State Legislature met at Harrisburg on
Tuesday. Wm. P. Schell, Esq, of Fulton, nom
inated in caucus by the Democratic members,
was elected Speaker of the House, having.re-
ceived 59 votes; C. W. Kelso, whig, of Erie,-received
31 votes. ' Mr. Schell returned thanks as
follows :
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : 1
feel deeply embarrassed in taking the chair. 1
am aware of the difficulties by which the posi
tion is surrounded. The duties pertaining to
the office are peculiarly embarrassing, onerous,
and responsible.
I will, therefore, ask in advance youi gener
ous aid and support in the effort I shall make
to discharge those duties firmly, faithfully and
impartially.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
accept my grateful acknowledgments for the
honor you have conferred on me in selecting tne
as your presiding officer the present session.
Mr- Schell is a highly talented and industri
ous gentleman, a steadfast and radical Demo,
crat, and will make a popular presiding officer.
The Harrisburg Union, Carlisle Volunteer, Pitts
burg Post and other journals, compliment him
nghly. The Cambria, Bedford and Fulton dis
trict is much honored by the selection within
three years, of two Speakers from its representa
tion.
Col. If m. Jack, of Blair County was elected
Clerk and appointed Tim. S. Picking, of York,
hi3 assistant. The Transcribing Clerks are Tim-
L. Gray, R. II. Adams, Il'm. Gillis and Chas.
Stockwell. Johnathan Grinder, of Armstrong,
Sergeant-at-Arms.
The Senate was unable on account of difficul
ty among the Whigs, to elect a Speaker until
Wednesday, when Thos. Carson, (whig,) of
Franklin county, was chosen on the 7th ballot,
the vote being for Carson, 16, Geo. Sanderson,
(democrat,) 14, Tho3. II. Forsythe, democrat, 1.
Clerk, John M. Sullivan, of Butler; Assistant,
J. C. Bamberger, of Cumberland. Messrs. Ba
ker, of Lancaster, Tf arden, of Union, and Barnes
of Somerset, Transcribing Clerks. No change
will be made in the other subordinate positions
in the Senate. Our young friend, Edward D.
Evans, will, therefore, be retained. The Gov
ernor's Message was read at 12 o'clock on TFed
nesday. It will be published next week.
Pennsylvania Railroad Company vs. the
Canal Commissioners.
The Supreme Court has at last rendered a de
cision in the case of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company vs. the C. Com'rs the decision being
adverse to the Company. The decision takes
the ground that the Canal Commissioners repre
sent the State, and have absolute control over
the works owned by the State. It seems strange
that there should ever have been any doubt
about so plain a matter. We presume the Com
pany will hardly rocognize the right of indivi
duals to attach to the locomotives running on
the Pennsylvania Railroad without the consent
of the President and directors; why, then, should
the State not possess the same power over her
improvements ? There is no good reason why
the State should not have a monopoly of the
business of carrying passengers on her own
road. If she can grant such a right to the com
pany, it would be strange if she did not possess
the power herself. Standard.
The U. S. Minister to England.
At a recent banquet given by the Lord (!)
Mayor of London, Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, of
Pcnn., the American Minister, delivered a short
speech laudatory of the Euglish and their gov
ernment, of which the Pennsylvanian justly
says :
"That he should have followed so closely inifhe water is
the "footsteps of his illustrious predecessor,"
the Hon. Abbott Lawrexce, in his sickening
laudation of England and the English, need ex
cite no surprise, as they both belong to the same
political faith. That Mr. Lawrence sometimes
disgusted even the aristocracy of England by
his over-strained efforts and his fulsome adula
tion of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, is a
well known fact. How generally he succeeded
in producing the same effect upon a largo por
tion pf the people of this country, is quite un
necessary for us to say. We had hoped for bet.
ter things of the Hon. J. R, Isgersoll, but
we have been disappoints J.
Few gentlemen of our acquaintance are held
in higher esteem for their social good qualities,
thfin our respected fellow-citizen. It is there
fore with deep regret that we are called upon to
repudiate and condemn the sentiments contain
ed in his late speech in London as anti-Republican
ami anti-American equally discreditable
to himself and to the country he mis-represents.
What was it to him that there was bo much
loyalty' to a jnonarchy evinced by those who
were assembled upon that occasion ? By what
authority does he declare that the people of this
country hold England in such "love and admira
tion," as not to be excelled by any other in the
world ? Because the old Federal city of Bos
ton recently chose, as he says, to bestow upon
an English aristocrat 'the honors elsewhere paid
to a conqueror,' is that any proof that the Amer
can people, generally, have become abject and
degraded sycophants at the footstool of British
power ? What was it to him, as an American
Minister, that such a gorgeous parade was made
at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington ? In
what possible respect was all that empty show
a 'gratifying spectacle' to a Republican Repre
sentative from the United States of America ?
What single act of that -leading tory's life enti
tled him to the grateful homage or remembrance
at the hands of an American freeman ?
But the crowning climax in the foreign ad
dress we are now very reluctantly examining, is
yet to come. It is in the following words :
'He (Mr. Inoehsoll) had seen to-day the
loyalty with which the throne was regarded, and
he, too, was willing to say with them all, 'God
save the Queen.'
There it stands. The record is complete.
Th6 cap-stone is fitted to its place. An Ameri
can (?) Minister is delighted with loyalty to the
British Crown, and prays that the English mon
archy may be providentially preserved. The
ultimatum has at last has been reached Feder
al sympathy for those who wear a diadem can
not well go beyond this.- We hardly know
which emotion preponderates in our bosom at!
j present whether that of pity or shame."
From the Cincinnati Nonpareil, Dee. 30.
THE FRESHET.
Continned Rise in the Ri-rerTestrnc
tion of Property Sinking of Plat Boats
Roads Inundated, &c, fcc.
The heavy rain storm last Thursday night,
appears to "have prevailed throughout all parts
of the West. We hear of floods in Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Tennesee, Kentucy, and our
own. State. The river continued to rise yester
day, at the rate of one and a half inches per
hour, but will probably commence recedh
this morning. The water was up to the second
story of Cassilly's Row, and also into the second
Btory of "Rat Row." The ferry boats find con
siderable difficulty in landing their passengers
on both sides of the river. We are informed
that the foundations of some three or four hou
ses on the levee, below the foot of Walnut have
been washed out, causing the buildings to fall.
Saw logs, rafts and lumber, of various kinds,
have been torn loose from their moorings, above
and below this city, and carried down the ri
ver.
Several flat boats, partially loaded, sunk be
low the foot of Vine street, night before last.
We learn from the drivers on various stage com
panies, that the roads are in some places com
pletelv submersed with water, owicjr to the
swollen creeks, and that fences and bridges have
been swept away. Several of the lines have
been compelled to stop running, thus cutting off
all communication with the towns within a few
miles of this city. The farmers on the several
roads, cannot come to market until the waters
crossing the roads have fallen, and the bridges
torn away, are repaired. No further damage
has been done, to either railroads, and the trains
are now running regularly as usual. 1 In our
perambulations, we visited tb.3 following
points : '
Fulton. Around the steamers on the stocks,
now building in Fulton, the water has partially
reached, but with the exception of washing a
way some little lumber, they have been secu
red. The extensive rolling mill just above the
Water Works, has suspensed operations ; also,
Gissedorf s cotton factory, Fagin's mill, and
McLean's oil mill. The planing mills hve also
been compelled to suspend work, while the hands
are engaged in saving the lumber contigious to
the mills. In the vicinity of the tan-yard,
above the railroad crossing, the vater in the
street is about two feet deep. A number of
those residing on the lower side of the street
have been compelled to seek other quarters.
The different coal yards are also psrtially sub
merged. Columbia and Pendletos. In diese towns
the water has reached nearly all thehouses, and
the citizens, night before last, left their houses
and sought shelter elsewhere, through feir that
they might be washed out during the n;ght.
Sheds, firewood, and lumber have been rashed
away. j
Jamestown, Kt. The place is partly iiunda
ted by water, but the citizens still cling" t their
houses, and obstinately refuse to leave, jlleging
that'the water will not rise much higher, and
that they will be saved the trouble and conse
quent expense of moving. i
Newport. On the river bank the watrjis into
many of the houses. The occupants as ageneral
thing, have not left. The rolling mil above
Newport, and the saw mill above the" larracks
on Licking river, have suspended opesition.
through several of the
streets in the back part of the city, an'tenants
of houses' have been forced to leave. The wa
ter in some places is about four feet dep, and
skiffs are used to travel from door to ooor. Se
veral buildings have been partially unilrmined,
and tears are entertained that when tie water
recedes, they will fall. About five fiet more
water, and the city will be enticly sur
rounded. Covisgtos. The water is into the bouses on
Front street, but the inmates have notremoved.
The rolling mills of Jordan "& Co., uj Licking
river, and Morrrell & Shoemaker, at tie foot of
Scott street, have been forced to suspend oper
ations. The saw mill below has stopjed. The
new steanilKat at Alexander & Co.'s ship yard
has been secured fxCJ any damage ; jonsidera
ble lumber has been carried off. In the lower
part of the city the water is running j-n several
of the streets, and has backed up .he" creek
about half a mile, cutting off all pnncction
with the lower river road. A mile ot two back
of Covington, near the Lexington turnpike, we
learn that a pen of about two hundred hogs
were drowned by the unexpected; rfee in the
creek. The loss will be several thousand dol
lars. Luplow. This small town is party inunda
ted by water, and many of the nhabitants
have taken refuge on this side of tic river.
The Queen City Race Course is partlj submer
ged. Sedamsville. Here the water has kist reach
ed the houses, and but little damage ii anticipa
ted, j
The water has backed up Mill Creek over two
and a half miles. The fioor has been removed
from the bridge at the mouth of this creek, ren
dering it impassible.
Eagle Engine House is entirely eurrunded
by water so that it is impossible to get tirough
the front door. The water is up to the imersec-
tion of Freeman and Fifth streets. Tie Mill
Creek bridge is overflowed some three feet, and
rendered impassible. In the several brickyards
in the lowlands of Mill Creek much damage has
been done. It is estimated that upwards of
eighteen hundred thousand bricks have been de
stroyed. Last evening at dusk the water had
reached to the height of the aqueduct over Mill
Creek, and the waters of the Whitewater and
fM.in bad eominffltd. Several of the mills and
factories in tt is portion of the city have also
been compelled to suspend operations.
All the hogs in this part of city are afloat
and the damage is extensive. Those desirous
of crossing over from tho west side of Mill
creek to this city are rowed over in boats, and
charged ferriage. Quite a number were employ-
fed in ferrying during yesterday. The water
backed the sewer on Main street yesterday, and
several cellars, as far up as Columbia, were fil
led with water.
The Water Works are in operation, although
the company are compelled to use the large low
pressure engine to force the water up into the
reservoir. By the mark on the building this
rise is within seven feet of the flood in 1847.
Those best cognizant of river matters say
that the river will commence falling by the morn
ing, and those recently deprived of houses may
soon regain possession.
The Prometheus California News.
Yesterday we announced the arrival of the
Steamship Prometheus, at New York, with one
days later news from California, since which,
we have received California papers from which
we glean the f ollowing news :
The Vallejo correspondence of the Alta Cali
fornia, says : The Electors for President and
Vice President, met at Vallejo, on Dec. 1st, and
cast the vote of California for Franklin Tierce
and William R. King. Afterwards, Hon. Thom
as J. Henley was selected to convey the result
to Washington. Eight ballots were taken be
fore a choice was made. On the first ballot Mr.
Gregory had two votes, Mr. Henly one, and an
other person one vote. On the two subsequent
ballots Mr. Gregory had two votes, Mr. Henley
one vote, and there was one blank. It was dc
cided that Mr. Gregory had cot a majority, and
the Electoral College proceeded to ballot the
fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh times unsuccess
fully, Col. Gift receiving one vote on the fourth
and fifth, and J. G. Brent, of Los Angclos, one
vote on the sixth and seventh balloting. On the
eighth attempt, the vote was : For Mr. Henly
Messrs. Sherwood, Pico and-IIenly ; fcr Mr.
Brent Mr. Gregory. So Mr. Henly received
the choice of the college for messenger, which
office carries with it a very handsome amount of
compensation in the shape of mileage.
There was a very fair assemblage of aspirants
for office, seeking for the recommendation of the
electors (in the event of election of Gen. Pierce,)
for such offices as pay. Among the applicants
are 6ome really good men and elegant gentle
men ; but quere, (with your correspondent who
is a mere outsider,) would it not be as well to
wait a few days, and ascertain who is elected
President ? If Tierce should, by some bare
possibility, fail of an election, those seekers for
the spoils of party, will have a terrible fall.
Execution. Tatman and Bates were to be
hung last Tuesday at Shasta for the murder of
a young man named Mitchell. Bates lately at
tempted to escape, but was detected and well
secured. Tatman has written a sketch of his
life, in which he confesses to several murders.
The Sacramento Qalifomian says that the
beautiful blocks of marble intended for the
Washington National Monument were destroyed
at the late ffre.
The snow is lying some five or six inches deep
upon the Trinity mountains.
The miners in Trinity county, we learn, and
believe, are almost universally doing well.
From Washington, fcc.
Coxcorp, N. H., Dec. 20, 1832.
No report that Gen. Tierce has fixed upon a
cabiuet, has been sent from the telegraph office
in this town, to Senator Soule, Mr. Brown, or
any one else. The Washington rumors are all
humbug, and not worth a farthing.
The general sentiments of the speech of Sen
ator Mason, of Virginia, in the United States
Senate, on the 23d inst., it is now well under
stood here, indicate the policy of the new ad
ministration. I have already written you that
Gen. Tierce will neither act the craven nor the
headlong fillibustcr. While Cuba remains a
province of Spain, he will not interfere, but if
any potentate attempts to take it from Spam,
either by rapine or treaty, he will interfere, cost
what it may.
Among the arrivals at the Eagle Hote to-day
were lion. John W. Forney and Mr. Martin of
Fa.; Hon. Charles Hughes, and Jas. II. Shemle,
of Sandy Hill, New York.
Washington, Dec. 30, 8 T. M.
The rumor that John A. Dix is to go into the
Cabinet, has created quite an excitement amongst
some of the Southern men, who prophecy that
such a selection would be fatal to the adminis
tration. There is some difference of opinion
however, as a distinguished Southern gentleman,
heretofore known as ultra in his views, remark
ed in special reference to Gen. Dix's going into
the Cabinet. "Did we unite in battle to be
separated in victory ?" Thus showing that he
would bear the infliction without murmuring.
Mr. Hunter arrived here yesterday, and, with
out venturing near the Senate, saw his friends
at his lodgings, and left for Virginia. The rea
son assigned by Mr. Hunter for declaring he
would not consent to go into the Treasury was,
that he would not allow himself to be the in
strument of the misery which so many remo
vals as he would be called upon to make would
cause.
Gen. Dix, when in the Senate, declared that
he would prefer going as full Minister to the
Italian States to any office in the government.
2?" A Clergyman. An old and valuable
subscriber has sent us a certificate from one of
his Tarishioners, which he wishes piblished for
the benefit of his neighbors, and the community
at large. It states on authority that needs no
confirmation, the particulars of a remarkable
cure by Ayer's Cherry Tectoral, an article we
have already taken occasion to notice, and which
we have reason to believe is worth notice. This
sufferer had been reduced very low from the ef
fects of a Cold and Cough, caused by over exer
tion at a fire, nearly three years since, and from
which it was evident to his friends that he was
fast hastening to a premature grave. Many of
the remedies of the day and the advice ot emi
nent Physicians had all failed to afford him re
lief, when he was induced to try the Cheny Pec
toral, which soon cured him. The crowded
state of our columns will not admit the full par
ticulars, but we earnestly invite the attention oi
our readers to the advertisement in another part
of our paper. Christian Chronicle.
FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
SCARCE ARTICLES.
A Tarson who practises all he professes.
ABenuty that never 'feels proud when the
dresses,
A Lawyer whose honesty, pleads. for his client,
A Brar2nrt whose courage is always defiant,
A sensible Dandy an actual Friend
Philanthropy publishing "money to lend"
A skilful Thysician regardless of self
A staunch Tolitician, forgetful of pelf
A sour old bachelor, neatly arrayed
And last, tho' not rarest, a cheerful old Maid.
Eg, The Cincinnati Commercial s.iys that the
estate of the late Fanny Wright, Darusmont,
who died in that city on the 13th ult., is esti
mated at one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. gy In London there are more Irish than in
Dublin , in Manchester and Salford more Irish
than in Cork ; in Glasgow as many Irish and de
scendants of Irish as in Belfast.
Ugy-We learn that the Hon. George W. Jones
at present a Senator in Congress, from the State
of Iowa, was, on the 27th ult., re-elected by the
Legislature of that State for another term of six
years from the 4th of March next, when his
present term will expire.
EgyThe Cleveland Herald says an Irish boy
r- ? 4 1 n f Ur Anlv CAV&nt0Dn v on ra r f o rrf Vina
iust welcomed his parents to a republican home.
He has been working for several years, part of
the time at four dollars a month, and from his
wages has saved enough to bring his father and
mother to live with him.
J6S5"Sal," cried a girl, looking out of the up
per story of a small grocery ; and addressing a
nother girl who was trying to enter at the front
door, "we've all been to camp meeting and been
converted ; so when you Vant milk on Sundays,
you'll have to come in the back icay.
gSSfWe cut the following advertisement from
the Boston Mail : "Lost, a hickory gentleman's
cane, with tne baric on tnat grows at 3lount
Vernon, with a gold head and steel fernile on
the end somewhere between the rostoffice and
Millikcn's."
JEgyA master mechanic named Whitney, on
the Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad, was
riding on a locomotive to render assistance to
the cattle train, which was unable to proceed
for the lack of motive power, when the engine
came in collision with the train, Mr. Whitney
jumped from the locomotive and broke his leg
short off just below the knee. A singular fea
ture of this accident was, that the leg broken
was made of cork, Mr. Whitney having previous
ly lost his own leg by accident.
IgfWe read that "somebody" in Indiana, af
ter two years labor, has perfected an instru
ment which enables him to see through the hu
man body. Flesh viewed through this instru
ment is rendered transparent as glass, and has
a pink tinge. Mr. Somebody must be a near
relative to Baron Munchausen.
EU'Ta, ain't I growing tall!" "Why,
what's your height, sonny ?" "I'm seven feet,
lacking a yard."
gjgIt is asserted that a New York house has
a vessel now on her way to New York, with six
thousand firkins of Irish butter, of first rate
quality.
TjjKAn old sailor, at the theatre, said he sup
posed that dancing girls wore their dresses at
half-mast as a mark of respect to departed mod
esty. C S?A writer in the Dcleware Republican
calls attention to an unusually large spot on the
sun, which may be seen through smoked or col
ored glass.
r5u.A man in Cincinnati had the p of his
nose cut off on Thursday by a barber, who while
engaged in shaving him, fell asleep, and the
blade of the razor which he held descended up
on the proboscis, shortening it about the six
teenth of an inch. The outraged customer im
mepiately knocked the darkey down, and might
have beaten him to death had he not been pre
vented. E,The Legislature of Illinois, which meets
in Jauuary, will have an U. S. Senator to elect
in place of the "little giant," Douglass, whose
term of office expires with this session.
ggyThe grand aggregate exported from San
Francisco for New York, on the 1st December,
is three millions two hundred and twenty-two
thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars.
SyA Rev. Mr. Cummings of Concord, N. II.,
has issued a parcel of flaming handbills announ
cing the end of all 6ublunary things in 1854.
He finds a number of deluded fodowers.
jg!An interesting correspondence in the
Lexington Express, in recounting the natural
products of Australia, says: "The climate is
first-rate, but the flies almost eat a fel'ow up.
I have not seen a tree, plant, herb, animal or
bird like any in the States, except domestic
ones. Plenty of kangaroos and kangaroo rats,
and the like ; the birds in this country are beau
tiful. , Every kind of parrot, roalloas, cockatoos,
magpies and the like."
BJ,IIenry J. Aston, a native of Lancaster
county, Pa and lormeriy a scnooi teacner in
Louloun county, Va., last week made his ap
pearance at ehe house of Mr. John Moore, in
Shenandoah county, Va., and asked for some
thing to eat, stating that he had eaten nothing
but apples and acorns since the second day of
September. Upon being questioned, he related
that he had lived in the woods m a sort of sink
since the time mentioned above, and had subsis
ted upon aeorns and applss, u4 had not tasted
a drop of water during th whole timeSv. Jle was
discharged from the insart Asylum at Staunton M
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in August.
B?B-The Cabinet m Ay are at sea airain
notwithstanding their"tve and repeated ,'
sertions that at least Frminent Dem
would occupy places0- Pierce's Cabinet 1' maJ' Jl
The latest report A1- ew York is tiat I -1
Hon. James Bit 18 to the SecretaJ ! f,
-rossin h.,., eiai7of from
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PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATlRP
SION 1853. SE-
8ENATE.
1. Thiladelphia city Waiiam A. Crall Ck
O'Xcill '
2. Philadelphia county Thomas II. Forsyth.
S. G. IIamiltok, Wm. Goodwin.
3. Montgomery Benjamin Frick
4. Chester and Delaware--7iry 8. ra,
b. Berks flm. M. Heister.
6. Bucks Edward K. Saeger.
nt.
i. t-ancaster and Lebanon E. C. Darlin.
Won,
E. Kinzer.
8. Northumberland and Dauphin John C
Hunk el.
9. Northampton and Lehigh Wm. Fry
10. Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne E W
Hamlin.
11. Adams and Franklin TJiomas Carson.
12. York Jacob S. Haldcman.
13. Cumberland and Perry Joseph Daily
14. Centre, Lycoming, Sullivan and Clinton
Jas. W. Quiggle.
15. Blair, Cambria and Huntingdon R. &
McMurtrie.
1C. Luzerne, Montour and Columbia C. R.
Buckalew.
17. Bradford, Susquehana and Wyoming
Geo. Sanderson.
io. noga, i otter, Mhean, Elk, ClearSel J,
anJ Jefferson-Byron I- Hamlin
iv. fiercer, cnango ana t arren John IIo
gle. 20. Erie and Crawford James Skinner
21. Butler, Beaver and Lawreuce J. Robert.
son.
22. Allegheny James Carothers George Bar.
sie.
23. Washington and Greene Maxwell Mc.
Caslin.
24. Bedford, Fulton and Somerset Hamilton
H. Barnes.
25- Armstrong, Indiana and Clarion Chrit.
tian Myers.
26. Juniata, Mifflin and Union EH Slifer.
27. Westmoreland and Fayette John MTtr
land. 28. Schuylkill John Hendricks
HOUSE or representatives.
Adams David Mellinyer.
Allegheny George F. Gilmore, Richard Con.
an, G. Appleton, J. M. Porter, C. Eyster.
Armstrong, Clarion and Jefferson J. Alei
andcr Fulton, Thomas Magee, Joseph B. Hutch
ison. Beaver, Butler and Lawjence J. R. Harm,
R. B. t'hamlerlir., J. D. Raney.
Bedford, Fulton and Cambria W. Y. Schell,
Thos. Collins.
Berks Geo. Dcngler, Isaac Yost, Daniel Zer
by, Jacob Wicklc in.
Blair and Huntingdon S. S. Wharton, J. L.
Girin.
Bradford Wm. E. Burton, John Passmore.
Bucks Noah Shull, Jonathan Ely, EdwarJ
Thomas.
Carbon and Lehigh DavidLaury, William R.
Struthers.
Centre Charles R. Foster.
Chester Jesse James, Wm. Chandler, Jotyk
Hickman.
Clearfield, M'Kean and Elk J. Arnold.
Clinton, Lycoming and Totter Joseph B.
Torbett, J. M. Kilbourn.
Columbia and Montour George Scott,
Crawford George Mcrriman, Ransom, anl
Kings! eg.
Cumberland David J. M'Kee, R. ii. Hender
son. Dauphin I. S. Waterbury, Jacob Landis.
Delaware J. P. Abrahams.
Erie C. W. Kelso, II. A. Hills.
Fayette and Westmoreland L. L. BigeloF,
Wm. A. Cook, T. U. Hook, A. M. Hill.
Franklin John Rowe, Charles T. Campbcl.
Greene Fletcher Brock.
Indiana Alex. M"Connell.
Lancaster Daniel Herr, John C. Walton, SI.
Povnall, John A, Ueistand, Henry Gray.
Lebanon John C. Seltzer.
Luzerne Truman Atherton, A. B. Punning.
Mercer, Venango and Warren L. X. McGra
nahan, John J. Kilgore, C. V. Kinnear.
Mifflin Henry P. Taylor.
Monroe and Pike H. S. Mott.
Montgomery Oliver T. Fretz, Curtis W.
Gabe, Henry Beyer.
Northampton Isaac Richards, Francis Barr.
Northumberland S. A. Bcrystresser.
Perry David Shaver.
Philadelphia City Geo. II. Hart, J. R. Flan
agan, Henry K. Strong, Wm. Sergeant.
Philadelphia County Isaac Leech, Daniel
Rubicam, Isaac C. Bryant, Rxtbcrt B. Knight,
Smith Skinner, Isaac W. Moore, George J. ri
per, Andrew Hague, lucuamson u. vtrigui,
John J. Meany, Solomon Demers.
Schuylkill John Horn, Jr;, Jacob Hammer.
Somerset Walker. 1
Susquehanna, Sullivan and Wyoming E. B.
Chase, J. W. Dennison.
Tioga James Lowrey.
Union and Juniata John Beale.
Washington J. X. McDonald, J. IT. Aleim-
der.
Wayne Richard Lancaster.
York James M. Anderson, Eiekiel Herbert,
David F. Williams.
Democrats in Roman Whigs in Italic
tives in small caps new members marker
thus
recapitulation.
Dem. Whig. Native.
Senate,
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62 38
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the 77 65 1
former 55
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