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THURSDAY MORNING:::::::::FEBRUARY 1.
Hon. John L. Dawson, M. C, w ill please ac
cept our thanks for valuable pub. doc.
We are indebted to D. A. Magehan Esq., for
late city papers.
-'We learn from the Johnstown "Echo" that
John Mathews Eq , and family have left that
place for a new home in Iowa.
Gbaham's Magazin'a. The February number
of this excellent monthly came to hand in due
time. It is embellished with numerous engra
vings, and well stored with useful reading matter.
Pine County.
Mr. King from the Committee on New Coun
ties, has reported a bill for the erection of Pine
county, out of parts of Clearfield, Indiana and
Cambria. As there appears to be such a desire to
cut up Cambria both iu the North and South, we
respectfully suggest whether it would not be as
well whilst they are about it, to make the Turn
pike the dividing line, throw all North of it into
Pike, South of it to Coxematjgh, and extinguish
Camekia from the map of the State altogether.
Conemaugh County.
We perceive by the Legislative proceedings that
Mr. Kii.g from the Committee on "New Counties
and County Seats," has reported a bill to the
House for the erection of Conemaugh county, and
it is asserted that it will be passed by the present
Know Nothing Legislature.
As it is proposed to take Fairfield township from
Westmoreland to form the new county, a very
la'gc meeting of the citizens of that county was
recently held, at which Col. Amos Ogden of Fair
field presided, "to take action in regard to the
unwarrantable means which are now being made
in the Legislature to dismember "Westmoreland
county." The following among other resolutions
was adopted : ' . '
Resetted, That we deny the right of the citizens
of Johnstown to invade by design or actien our
territory, and in direct opposition to the expressed
wishes of the inhabitants of Fairfield township,
attempt" to separate it from its connection with
the other parts of Westmoreland county. Such
an effort is neither in itself just, nor in accordance
with the spirit of our Republican government.
The people, in all mattors affecting their inter
ests, should be fully consulted and fairly heard.
A meeting was also held to further the project
In Johnstown on Saturday last, the call for which
w clip from the Johnstown Tribune.
The Friends of a New County are requested to
meet at Fronheiser's Hall this evening, for the
purpose of considering ways aud mean to further
the measure. Let there be a general turn-out.
The present time is propitious for action, and it is
vitallv important that wc ttrike while the iron is
hot, ' Notr or necer. MANY CITIZENS.
Sale of the Public Works.
The object f selling the public works appears
to le leaking out, by which the speculators and
banking people expect to reap a rich harvest.-
The following petition is being circulated along
the line of public works and perhaps elsewhere.
In alluding to it, the Lancaster Examiner says:
We have not heretofore deemed this petition of
sufficient importance to be noticed not supposing
any member of the Legislature would for a mo
ment entertain the idea of voting for such propo
sition : but since the introduction of the bill to
confer on negroes the right to Tote there is no tel
ling what may happen."
To the Senate and Ilqttte of Representatives of
trennsylcama.
We the undersigned citizens of said Common
wealth, most respectfully, yet earnestly represent
to your honorable bodies : That you pass a law
directing all the public works now had and held
by the said ' Commonwealth, to be sold at public
sale, unconditionally, to the highest and bcsbid
der. Giving and granting unto such person or per
sons, company or companies, the right and privi
lege of banking : with, say one-fifth of the nett
amount of such part or parts as shall be sold in
pursuance.of said law : And we would also, most
respectfully suggest, that one-third of said fifth be
located in the city of Philadelphia : one-third of
the same be located in the city of Pittsburg : and
the remaining third in such place or places as
your honorable b dies may designate.
, Ohio Newspapers on the Cash Flan.
At the Convention of Chio editors held last
week at Zanesville. the following resolution was
adopted : . . -
Resolved, That from and after the first of
March, 1855, we will conduct our business ouly
upon the cash principle. AH subscriptions, ad
yertinemeuts and jobbing must Le paid lor strictly
in advance, except where wc have mutual deal
ings with business men."
We should like to see the cash system adopted
by the Prcs generally. We know of no class
of men in business, that suffers as much as io the
publishers of newspapers. Sooner or later the
cash system will have to be adopted, and we
should like to see a move made by the publishers
in this county. There U scarcely a mail Teachers
us that we do not receive a paper returned, and
the subscriber owing ns from four to six dollars.
Few are aware oi the trouble, expense and loss
that printers are subject to. We see by the last
Blair County Whig, that it is publishing a list of
its delinquent subscribers, with the amount due
set opposite their names. We have the names of
a number who have stopped the Democrat & Sen
tinel, who have net paid one cent from the time
they first subscribed; these we intend to sue for
the amount due us , and if we cannot reach them
we will adopt the plan of the Blair County Whig.
C7"Mayor Wood of New Fork has astonished
the whole city by his promptness and activity in
"t losing up the drinking saloons on the Sabbath,
and otherwise enforcing the laws. There was no
drunken men to be seen, and only one prisoner in
the sixth ward station house on Sunday last. The
people are all amazed to think how easy the laws
au be enforced, in the great city of New York.
. A Capital Hit
John Rowan, Esq., of Kentucky, having
been called upon from several quarters to be
come a Democratic candidate for Gevernor of
that State, declined to assume the position for
reasons alleged io a letter to the Louisville
Times, lie says: r
I am unwilling to peril the fair prospects
of the party by becoming their standard-bearer
in the next contest, for the simple reason
that my wife is a Catholic. I see that a
highly respectable Whig paper (the Common
wealth") estimates the number of Know-Noth-ings
in Kentucky at fifty thousand; and, as I
have becu informed by good authority, that
no man who has a Catholic wife can be a
member of that society, it is fair to presume
that they would not- vote for a man so eir
cumetanccd. If this be true, fifty thousand
citizens of Kentucky would say to me.
"What though you are a native of Kentucky,
and your ancestors were among the pioneers
of tLia fair land; what though your grand
fathers, Lytle and Rowan, lost ihe earnings
of their lives the first by the torch of the
Indian, the last by the moneys of the Conti
nental Congress what though they did toil
on fighting the Indian and felling the forest,
and under all these difficulties educate a por
tion of their families, and that portion not
unknown or undistinguished in the histories
of Ohio, Kentucky, and the nation; and what
though you may be qualified to discharge the
high duties of the olfice you aspire to; we,
fifty thousand citizens of Kentucky,' liviDg
happily around our hearthstones, won for
us by the daring of such men as you spring
from, are determined that yon shall not be
Governor of Kentucky Mr. Rowan, because
your wife, excrcising the right guaranteed by
the constitution of the United States, and the
constitution of every State in the Confederacy,
to worship God as she pleases, is a Catholic
It matters not to us that the ancestors of thatj
wife were of those who landed with Lord
Baltimore, and established the good old colony
of Maryland (to this hour the home of refine
ment and hospitality), the first to invite the
Religionists of Christendom to come and wor
ship God according to the dictates of their own
consciences,"
Chief Justice Taney.
Senator Badger, of North Carolina, on intro
ducing in theU, S. Senate a bill to increase
the compensation of the J udges of the Su
preme Court, fcc, spoke sentiments marked
with truth and magnanimity. When Chief
Justice Taney was recommended by Presi
dent Jackson for the exalted position he has
so long fiilled, the Whig press generally, says
Wurrenton (V. C) Keurs. 'were lavish in
their abuse of the man and held in low estima
tion hia attainments as a jurist. It is pleasing
to reflect that justice is finally duly awarded
to virtue and talent, especially when united
in the same person; and that after the storm
of passion has passed by, and feeling give way
to reason re-establishe d npon her throne of
light, men of sterling worth and liberal views
will at last come forward to award the tribute
that is due to eminent worth. , To those of
our Whig friends, in whose bosoms the rancor
of partizan bitterness still usurps the place,
corrodes the lustre of their better - nature, we
would specially commend, for their just admi
ration,' the following beautiful compliments,
to the high character and eminent services of
the chief justice of their country, from the
lips of their own most gifted and honored
statesman."
But who are the men sir, in whose behalf
I make this appeal to your justice and mag
nanimity? I may instance one or two without
fearing to be invidious. There is the venera
ble magistrate who presides in that court,
lie deserves to have applied to him the de
scription which my Lord Coke gives of Chief
Justice Wray. lie is emphatically "a most
reverend judge, of profound and judicial
knowledge, accompanied with a ready and
singular capacity, grave and sensible elec
tion, and continual and admirable patience."
lie is a noble specimen of what the judicial
character should be. Every senator knows
that he has discharged all the duties of high
office with, an integrity unimpeached, with
unsurpassed learning, and with a decorum, a
courtesy which has never, in a single instance
been swerved from its propriety. lie has
labored on without complaining; he has askod
nothing; but, there looking only to his country
and his duty, and meeting increased demands
npon his time and strength with new exertions
of energy and perseverance, he continues to
preside in that high court which is the sheet
anchor of our institutions, a worthy successor
of that illustrious man who immediately pre
ceded him -
Yet, it is such men whom the intolerant
secret order would persecute and proscribe
from office, because, in the exercise of reli
gious freedom secured by the Constitution,
they worship God in a form distasteful to the
Know Nothings, according to the dictates of
their honest conscience! . r :.
The Democratic Party. .
,The Indiana State Sentinel has the follow
ing advice and encouragement for the Demo
cratic party, to which all good friends of that
party will cordially respond :
" Let the Democratic party itself remain in
tactlet it but preserve its integrity main
tain its unity, and pursue tteadily and faith
fully its well defined and republican policy
and its progress will be onward its ascendan
cy certain. Joined to no faction, and united
upon the cardinal principles of its faith, it
stands to-day the most powerful organization
iu the land. There have been and are tempo
rary estrangements, bat these are in , may in
stances owing too, and are to bo placed to the
account of temporary measures and proce
dings. Notwithstanding, as we have confi
dence in the people, . we cannot doubt, that
with the passing away of the exigencies which
gave rise to them, and with the dcvclopcment
of new issues involving the fate of Democrat-
ic principles, the standard of Democracy will
be again elevated, high over all others, the
Sea of the people directed to it. and the an
or loosed from its hold for the time being,
will be imbedded deeper than ever before in
the great popular heart." .
fry-It is said that the .Russian war has already
made H,000 widows iuEnglaud..
SUMMARY OF NEW Si
TJ. S. Sekatob. Somebody, in a late number
of the Pennsylranian, suggests the name of Ccn.
Seth Clover for the dignified office of U. S. Sena
tor. - - - "
''. .
OO-The Litest advices from Ilarrisburg leave no
doubt of the election of Gen. Simon Cameron to
the U. S. Senate.
' OCJ-Col.. Doniphan, one of the heroes of the Mex
ican war, was thrown from a stage near Jefferson
Gty, Missouri, a few' days ago, and so badly in
jured as to render his recovery doubtful.
"jjO-A young man named James Gallagher, was
caught in the rollers at the Great Western Iron
Works, above Kittanning, one day last week, and
drawn through them. lie is probably dead. .
- Q&Ijoc& politics run high in the Western coun
try. A candidate for county clerk in Texas, offer
ed to register marriages for nothing. His oppo
nent, undismayed, promised to do the same and
throw a cradle in.
03-Brigham Young,, the present leader of the
Moiwnons, is a native of Oxford county, Maine.
Orj-Robert G. Simpson, late County Treasurer of
Philadelphia, who was indicted for embezzlement,
has been acquitted by verdict of the jury.
03-A "Matron of Virginia," appeals through
the Richmond papers to the ladies of that State,
asking them to petition the legislature to contract
for the purchase of Mouut Vernon, reserving to
itself the title, but allowing the women of Ameri
ca to pay for it.
. OS-Hon. John Slideil was a few days ago elected
U. S. Senator by the Legislature of Louisiana, for
six years from the 4th of March next,
O-Hon. John 13. Wells has been appointed U.
S. Senator, by the Governor of New Hampshire,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr.
Norris.
tC7"The Regular census of the Philadelphia
Almshouse shows a population of 2,543, being
an increase of 427 over the same time last year.
C7Tliere is a gentleman living in New Haven
aged 44 years, who is the youngest member of a
family of ten children, all of whom are living.
The oldest is 66 years old, and their united ages
amount to 583 years.
03-During the year 1854 no fewer than 7C,C87
persons died in London out of a population of two
millions and a half; 4765 more than died during
the disastrous cholera year 1849.
OO-The prohibitory liquor bill has passed the As
sembly of New Jersey, by a vote of 3 5 to 22, three
members keing absent. It h;is yet to be acted on
in the Senate, and if successful there, will be sub
mitted to the people in October next.
" QC7"A landlord in New York city, who sued his
tenant for house rent, has been non-suited, be
cause the house was overrun with roaches.
C0-A few years back, according to the Lynch
burg Republican, the Whig party claimed to have
all the intelligence of the country. Now, they
are satisfied to be Know Nothings.
ficj-It is said that the people of Grey town are
under the impression that the English government
still protects them, and it is a generally received
idea that the British Commodore on that station
is the executive magistrate of the place. r
C7The contributions to the Washington mon
ument during 1854, amounted io $31,763,93, all
of which was expended, with be exception of
$272,62.
GCr-The St. Louis Intelligencer publishes the
names of a jury, who, after they had acquitted a
man tried for murder, adjourned . to his cell, hav
ing been invited to do so, where they indulged in
a regular carousal, one half of them becoming
beastly drunk.
(fcH3ommandcr Jolly, of the British war scoon
er Bermuda, the same who protested against the
bombardment of Greytown, Is dead.
03-Hon James Miles, of Erie, has offered to do
nate to the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society,
two hundred acres of land, situated in Girard town
ship, Erie county, provided the organization lo
cate an agricultural college on said land.
(C7The New Hampshire Know Nothings hold
another Convention on the 30th inst., to nominate
a candidate for Governor, the Rev. Mr. Moore be
ing ineligible. -r
OO-Thero is six feet of snow in the Northern
towns of New Hampshire. , .
03-A bill has been passed by the United States
Senate appropriating $300,000 towards extend
ing the edifice of the Post Office Department in
Washington.
QOA bill for the relief of the heirs of Baron De
Kalb, passed the United States Senate on Friday
last. OO-Advices from the Sandwich Islands, bring
information of the death of King Kameliameha,
and that his son had been declared the successor
to the throne.
, C-Petitions are in circulation in the neighbor
hood of Pottstown, for the repenl ef the School
Law establishing the office of County 'Superin
tendent. , " -
(fcr-Corns may be cured by simply walking away
with them. To make the cure permanent, don't
come back yourself. . .
&J-A returned Australian objects to the mode
of sleeping in that country. Ha says for sleeping
three nights on a bed stuffed with clam shells and
broken crockery, he was charged $13. -
(fcJ-Not correct the statement that all letters
have to be pre-paid since the first of January.
The bill of Mr. Olds, containing 6uch a clause,
passed the House but was lost in the Senate.
CO A man says, the first thing that turned his
attention to matrimony, was the neat and skillful
manner In which a pretty girl bandied a broom.
He may see the time when the manner in which
the broom is handled will not afford him so much
satisfaction. . . .
Ocj-Robert Dale Owen has tamed up in London,
with a proclamation to all nations and people to
meet him there next May, and hear glad tidings
of great joy. . He has already regenerated the
world several times, and this last enterprise is
based on the rappings. - . - , .
03-A coal boat at Mauch Chunk was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday night, and two persons, the
captain and his son, who were asleep in her, were
burned 4to death.
ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA.
OWE W1EK LATER FROM EUROPE.
Halifax, January SO. -The
steamer Africa arrived to-day, with
Liverpool dates to the 20th, being one week
later.
; The war news is entirely unimportant.- -Nothing
decisive has occurred before Sevasto
pol, and affairs remained unchanged. Nego
tiations are still in progress, but nothing is
certainly known respecting them. : . .
The chief interest of the news centres in the
Eroccedings of the Congress of Vienna. The
opes of peace and fears of war are of vast
magnitude, eqaally balanced.
The French and English Ministers at Vien
na have received the necessary power o re
open negotiations. Gortschakoff, it is under
stood, has received written instructions from
his government, which, it is rumored, is anx
ious for peaces
There are conflicting statements, as usual,
about Austria, but it is generally understood
that she leans towards the allies.
Prussia complains of Austria's actions.
Efforts are making to obtain the consent of
the allies, especially by the Prussian cabinet.
The approaching Congress of Nations is
more and more talked of, and the Daily News
looks for good results of the Congress, if the
United States takes part.
' Bavaria had almost completed the comple
ment of her army.
Letters say that the Swedish army would
immediately be placed on a war footing, and
increased to G5.000 men. ' ," '. , .
Russia is preparing for the spring campaign;
and the Baltic army is organizing.
The latest dates from the Crimea are to the
10th. Affairs were precisely as before.
Omar Pasha arrived at the camp on the 5th,
and returned to Varna on the 6th.
Reinforcements were constantly reaching
the allies. Lord Raglan has sent to India for
the 10th Hussars, and the Turks in the Cri
mea arc to be made up to sixty thousand men
during January. -,pThe
Russian reinforcements were advanc
ing by forced marches. , .
The weather was frosty, with some snow,
which retarded the besiegers.
The Picdmontese troops embark on the 28th
of February. '
Private Vienna letters say that Gortscha
koff is instructed to accept any terms except
the reduction of the Russian fleet, and the oc
cupation of Russian territory.
There is nothing further about the invasion
of Dobrudscha.
The Russians, after the affair at Fultscha,
re-crossed the Danube.
A Vienna despatch, says that Buol has de
manded an explanation of this affair from
Gortschakoff.
The Turkish force at Dobrudscha is estima
ted at 30,000, mostly recruits.
The fleets in the Black Sea have sustained
no damage.
t - GREAT BRITAIN.
Cobden has addressed his constituents at
Leeds, stigmatizing the attack on Sevastopol
as a colossal mistake; the question being how
to get out of it. Other speakers favored the
war.
There are malicious rumors afloat that De
Lacy Evans has been offered an Indian ap
pointment, in order to frustrate his contem
plated disclosures iu Parliament.
Four hundred London ' dock laborers had
been sent to tbe Crimea to unload ships.
. The fate of the British ship Beernice, which
has been missing since 1852, from Shanghai,
has been discovered. The Europeans on board
were murdered by Lascars, and the crew of
the ship burned. The assassins were captured
and executed.
FRAXCE.
Baring & Brothers announce that they will
repay the English deposits on the French loan,
the whole amount of which will be taken in
France and Spain.
The new constitution has been submitted to
the Chambers. Its main features are that the
sovereignty emanates from the nation. The
religion of the nation is Roman Catholic, but
toleration is allowed. The press will be free.
The confiscation of property and the death
penalty for political offences are abolished. A
national guard is established. The legisla
ture is to consist of two chambers; the Sena
tors to be elected for life, with property quali
fications. There is to be one representative
out of every 50,000 citizens. The Courts to
meet annually. The Courts to regulate the
strength of the army and give assent to royal
marriages, and appoint the regency when oc
casion requires.
BWITZFBLAXD.
The Swiss conference is about to be open
ed, with a view of adjusting existing difficul
ties between Austria, Switzerland and Den
mark. The bill altering the constitution passed the
first reading in the Legislature.
RUSSIA.
A six-fold land tax, payable in twenty-four
instalments, is to be imposed on Polish pro
priecors. ' " . "
. Latest From California.
New York, January 30. The Star of thej
vv est amveu witn zuu passengers ana ou,
000 in specie. Consigned to Duncan & Sher
man, $102,000; Adams, $107,000: Wells &
Fargo, $51,000 Drexel d? Co., of Philadel
phia, $25,000; Newhouse & Spartz, of Phila
delphia $13,000 - -. Vr
; : The Sierra Nevada arrived at San Francis
co on the 6th. - "
Copious rains prevailed throughout the
State, and the miners and agriculturists were
rejoicing' under the improved prospects.
The storm of the 1st had done much
damage in many places.
The Legislature assembled on the 2d.
Stone, Whig, has been elected Speaker of
the Assembly for the Territory acquired un
der the Gadsden treaty.
There are reports in various shapes of the
diseovcry of rich "mines of gold and copper,
and the emigration is tending towards the
New Purchase, which will soon be filled with
an active population. :
The majority ot the prisoners who escaped
from the Penitentiary have; been recaptured.
Measures are on foot to fund the city debt
of San Francisco.
Mciggs, the defaulter, has turned up at
Tahite. Oa the 19th of November he was to
sail for Aitutadi. . - ;
From the Sandwhich Islands we learn that
a disturbance took place at Raiatea Island,
adjacent to Tahiti. One of the Chief revolted
against the King; a battle ensued which
lasted five hourtf- and resulted in the disper
sion of the rebels, The loss of the Govern,
mcnt troops was four, and the rebels had
eight killed. .
From Philadelphia.
- Correspondence of the Democrat If Sentinel.
Relief of the Poor Price ,of Building Lots Ac
quittal of a Defaulter A Snow Storut Reno
vation of Independence Hall A Comic Dud
Arrest of a man for Eloping tcith his own wife,
In olden times Philadelphia was called the "City
of Brotherly Love," but the spirit of rowdyism
and riot became so predominant that this name
was only applied to her iu derision. ' Within the
past few weeks, however, she has been doing much
to regain her old reputation, by the prompt and
generous liberality with which her citizens have
responded to the appeal made to them on behalf
of the suffering poor. Bravely have they battled
with the fiend poverty, and if they have not
driven him from all his haunts, they have at least
bound up all the wounds poignant arrows have
inflicted, and provided antedotes against his sharp
strings in many quarters, where but for this time
ly aid they would have inflicted terrible, if not fa
tal pangs.
Some time ago the NationalGovernment ad
vertised for proposals for a site fir the erection of
a post office and U. S. court buildings In this city,
and the bids are published in one of our morn
ing papers, from which a tolerably fair idea may
be formed of the price at which real estate in good
business locality is held. The rates ranged from
$6 np to $30 per square foot of ground the com
petitors generally demanding $l0al2.
.The trial of our late County Treasurer, Robert
G. Simpson, for the embezzlement of the funds of
the State on a criminal indictment has just bocu
concluded, to the surprise and amazement of al
most every body, by a verdict of " not guilty."
The case was very clearly and strongly made out
in a manner, that it was supposed, under tl.e ex
isting laws of our State, would have insured con
viction. The plea of the defence consisted mainly
in an affirmation of his utter ignorance of what
was transpiring in the office he was elected to dis
charge the dutis of, and an attempt to throw all
responsibility upon his subordinates.
We had a slight fall of snow here on Thursday
night which excited Lively hopes of sleighing, and
actually enticed some few individuals into a trial
of it, but they were served almobt as shabbily as
poor Cinderella when her brilliant coach horses
were converted into mice, for a few stray g'eams
of the sun and the multitude of wheeled vehicles
traversing the streets, transformed the pure white
drapery into dingy slushy mud by an early hour,
and they were left to find their way home over the
rough stones as best they could.
Old Independence Hall, around which richly
cluster so many memories dear to the American
heart, has recently undergone a thorough process
of renovation. The room in which the Declara
tion of Independence was sigued, has been hand- !
6oinc!y furniihed, and its walls adorned with the
portraits of a number of the heroes and sages of
our Revolutionary era. It also contains a variety
of interesting relics, prominent among which is
the old bell, cast nearly a hundred years since,
which first announced the birth of the Nation, aud
yp'hich was with such remarkable appesitcness in
scribed with the wonls " Proclaim liberty to all
the land, and all the inhabitants thereof," The
second story baa been elegantly arranged as a
place for the meeting of our City Councils, which
now forms a bjdy quite large, if not very " re
spectable." The eteeple or cupola is now ur.d? r
going a process of repainting, and the ever pres
ent business committee of idlers which congre
gates around lab.TiS when there is the slightest
novelty in their proceedings, has been eagerly ga
zing at the busy workmen who are perched so
high np in the air that their size appears quite
diminutive.
A couple of our young (milk and water) bloods
recently conclmiud to enjoj' the (unusual in this
locality) luxury of a duel. Like nearly all simi
lar effairs in this region, it partook far more of a
comic than a tragic character. The be'l:gcrent
spirit of our people seems to find its avenue fur
development, principally if not entirely in riots,
or street lights, or reneontcrs of a more or le-s
bloody and fatal character, while the passions
were in full activity and the original cause f
quarrel still held in keen remembrance, but cither
because time cools their rage or causes their cous
age to oozo out, or on account of the strong
public sentiment here in opposition to duelling, it
has become an utterly obsolete idea, so far as re
gards bona fide meetings, where both parties seri
ously entertain deadly intents upou each other,
and in the public mind the idea of a'duel is al
most inseparately connected with that of a farce.
The two gentlemen who htve just made their
first and I presume last appearance in the comic
duello characters are., both in the spring tide of
youth say about eighteen. An altercation en
sued between them on some exciting topic, a lady,
I presume, ' when Mr. A. called Mr. B. ' a cow
ard," whereupon Mr. B. duly sent him a chal
lenge, which was accepted. A grove, near Cam
den, was the scene of action. " Fire," after the
words " one, two, three" the signal for the com
mencement of the action. The parties were
prompt to their appointment, and both'paled with
fear while the seconds were enjoying the scene
hugely, for you must understand that they had
been very careful to take the humane precaution
of loading the pistols with nothing but powder.
At the word one" Mr. A. was observed to trem
ble violently, the word "two his teeth chattered,
his knees beat a revillc upon each other- at the
word three" his supcrabundent instinct of self
preservation obtained complete mastery over all
other considerations, and he incontinently fired.
It is somewhat doublful whether he will ever
apply the epithet " coward" to Ids associates
again. .
A funny affair took place in the outer part of
our city a few days ago. You may recollect that
a short time since, the young wife of a commis
sion merchant in New York, eloped from that
city with a Southern gentleman. The outraged
husband telegraphed to the police in the differert
Atlantic cities, to arrest the guilty pair. A gen
gleman and his wife who had been out riding,
were on their return from Bustleton, in a hand
some little carryall, drawn by two spanking bay
horses. A couple of policemen stopped the
"team" and toted the gentleman off nolens toUna
to the nearest magistrate. "For what am I
brought here?" indignantly asked the gentleman.
The Alderman looked as grave a an owl in a
gooseberry bush, and turned to the officers for the
complaint. ' I arrested him on the charge of an
ekpement. said the foremost officer. " And so
did I, too," ;hime4 in the other officer, pompoua-
ly, opening hia coat and displaying a glittering
tar." " Elopement!" exclaimed the wife, burs
ting into a flood of tears. Elopement !" respon
ded the husband bursting into a fit of laughter.
"Elopement!" ejaculated the magistn te, shut
ting up his big book and wiping his spectacles.
" Well ! this is the first time J ever heard of a
man running away with his own wife!" The
policemen received a severe 'reprimand, and the
gentleman and wife, being content with the ex
planation of the caie of the arrest, drove off in
perfect good humor for liome. Yours, Pf
Minnesota and Oregon.
Letters from Oregon state that the increase of
population this year by emigration does not ex
ceed fifteen hundred. Tbe St. Paul (Minnesota)
Pioneer says. From all that we have seen and
heard relative to the number of persona who have
settled in Minnesota the past season, we rtiould
judge that no less than twenty-five thousand actual
settlers have pitched their tents with us since the
opening of navigation. They have not settled
with us in any one particular locality, but dis
persed themselves all zver the terriV Next
season the number will be much increased."
Counterfeit Gold Dollars. There is at pres
ent in circulation counterfeit gold dollars. It is
made of pure brass gilt. It differs but slightly
from the genuine coin, in its appearance ; though
a close inspec tion of the wreath, on one side, will
show they are not exactly the same. The weight
of this counterfeit is only 16 grains, while that
of the genuine is 29. - The difference in weight is
such as to be plainly perceptible, on comparing
tbe two, notwithstanding the diminutive siza of
the coin. The conutcrteit is a dangerous one,
from the fact of being so small, it L not apt to Le
closely scrutinized as would be a larger com.
As there are many of the Utile shiners in tbis
neighborhood, our citizens cannot be too careful.'
(fc-The ".seventeen year" locusts, according to
Dr. Gideon B. Smith, of Baltimore, who has paid
much attention to the subject, will appear this
season in very small numbers on the whole East
ern Shore of Maryland, and on the Western Shore
along the old Liberty and Windsor Mill roads,
commencing about five miles from Baltimore, and
extending to Carlisle, Pa, In Virginia they will
appear in Kanawha county ; iu Kentucky, about
Lexington, Frankfort, Flemingsburg, and extend
ing to Meigs, and Gallia counties, Ohio; and in
Massachusetts, about Barnstable, and adjacent
towns. He says tLey may now be found in tlue-e
places buried a font or two deep in the earth,
wherever trees, shrubbery or woods grew in 183(.
Judges Get. in a Sessibl-. ox the Law or
Libel. J udge Oakley recently expressed an
opinion that, when an editor of a newspaper
merely states a rumor that is abroad such.
for example, as that a certain person, naming
him had issued stock illegal and absconded
he should be exhonerated, provided that i
was fact that the rumor existed, although not
true. In such a case there is no intent to do
injury, and there is no malice. A circum
stance that is commonly spoken of in business
circles, as a matter of public interest ought not
be regarded as libellous when an editor state
it. Detroit Times.
Facta of the Year.
The,. entire loss from fires in the United
States for the year, is estimated at about
twenty-five million diii-ars. There were also
eighty-three fires, in which loss of life ensued,
the number of victims being one hundred and
seventy-one.
The number of railroad accidents was one
hundred and ninitg-tJirie, killing one hundred
and eighty-six persons, aud wounding five
hundred aud eighty -nine. In 1853, thero
were only one hundred aud thirty-eight simi
lar accidents, but attended with the loss of
iwo hundred and thirty-four lives, besides
four hundred and ninety -fcix wounded.
The steamboat accidents of the year have
alarmingly increased, the total number reach -ingfoity-eight,
with the loss office hundred
and eight j -scrtn, souls, and two hundred and
twenty. live wounded, against thirty-one acci
dents, three hundred aud nineteen killed and
one hundred and fifty-eight wounded in 18
53. Crime, too, of every grade, foots up a fear
ful catalogue. There were six hundred and
eighty-two murders, and eighty-four execu
tions during the year.
The list of mortality for the year includes
the demise of eighteen men, and twenty-seven
women who had attained the age of one hun
dred years and upward. One (a colored
woman) was said to be one hundred and forty,
six, and another (au Indian woman) one hun
dred and forty-two years of age. Tho oldest,
white man was one hundred and seven, and
the oldest white woman, one hv-ndred and
ticenty-tcven years.
A Good Deed. Judge Jessup, of Mon
trose, Pa., has induced some thirty boys to
leave the city of New York and go into Penn
sylvania, where places are provided for them
among the farmers. - These lads were sent
out on Tuesday, all embarking together, un
der the care of a son of their benefactor. The
Tribune says that among this interesting par
ty was one pale faced boy, of about 15 years,
born in that city, of once well-to-do Ameri
can parents, who had been reduced to want,
and now out of work and most starving. The
boy was glad to go, but it had been a bitter
pill to part with his fond mother.
EvR. G. Simpson, late Treasurer of Philadel
phia county, tias been acquitted of the charge of
embezzlement of the State funds by the jury, to
whom the case was given in the Court of Nisi
Prius. The jury consumed two days in arriving
at this remarkable verdict.
Importaat Kw for the Shareholders la Foraam'a
Third G 1ft Enterprise.
It will be seen by refereucc to advertisement in
our paper of to-day, that the Conunittee appoint
ted by the Shareholders at their last meeting,,
have issued a call for a final meeting of ali inter
ested, to get their instruction in reference to the
distribution of the Gift property. We are pleased
to find the matter so near a consummation, and.
hope that Mr- Perham will receive the patronage
he so well deseryes. for the liberality aud energy
displayed in getting up and prosecuting this stu
pendous enterprise. Orders for ticket should be
sent in Immediately. There are fortunes In re
serve for aomebody.