siciiabd wuitb:::: ::::::usm.t o. dsvimc WHITE & DEVIHX, ZAiUrt aad Proprietors. EBENSBURG. WEDNESDAY MORNING::::::::::::::JAN. United State Senator. One of the first and moat important duties that tnust be performed by the Legislature which met oa yesterday, at LTarrisbrg, will be the election of a United States Senator in the place of Hun. Htchard Brodtntai, whoie form of offico will expire on tha 4th day of next March. The election will take place on next Tuesday the 13th inst. The proiuinmt candidates for the oflSce are Otn. Henry D. Foster, Juihje Jeremiah. &. Blade' Jon TV. Forney, Hon. John Hohiins and Charles R Budcalcw. All of these gen tlemen have their friends and supporters, and they will all bo urged in caucus, with great aeal and animation.--- We are disposed to give each ouc a fair chance. They arc all men of eoncoded ability and great personal worth, and we presume that the election of either one of theui. would give very general 69 tl& fac tion to the democracy of the State.- We have frequently expressed our preference in refer ence to tho candidate for this important posi tion We repeat once more, and for the last time, that IlEsur l. Foster, is tie choice of Wcs crn Pennsylvania. That he is a man of distinguished ahil tj is universally conceded. His pure and spotless character amongst those who kmiw him well, is his lest recommenda tion His nomination and election would give universal satisfaction to his friends, in West ern Pennsylvania where he is well known and we think no man could be nominated whose election would bo more satisfactory to the Democracy of tho whole State. The Next Democratic State Convention. On the second day of March next a State Convention will assemble at Ilarrisburg, for lht purpose of nominating a candidate for Governor, one Supreme Court Judge and also a candidate lor C;ual Commissioner. It will therefore, be one of the most important con ventions which has been hold for several years. It will be necessary that the greatest i-iiuiion bo exercised by the delegates in the selection of the various candidates. When it is recollected that at tho recent Presiden tial Election, tho majority for James BucJtan u did not amount to one thou at nd votes, the necessity is apparent of presenting to the pcrr-le for their sucraces our best and strong- ; ttt men It must not bo hupposcd that be cause the enemy was defeated in the late con gest, that he will surrender in the approaching conflict without making a vigorous, and uni ted struggle. The most prominent candi dates for Governor are Ctn. John L. Dawson Hon Win. F. 1'ttclcer, Hun. Charles It. Bnckulcir, Jfon. IVMutm H. Yitte and Col. Samuel Blade. All of these gentlemen are pouud, orthodox democrats and possess dis tinguished ability. Wc arc not prepared to pay which of them would make the strongest candidate That question can onl' bo settled by the delegates, who will represent the peo ple of all sections of the State, and who will come fresh from their midst. With able and competent candidates for tho three important offices referred to above, we believe that the democracy of the State will again be victori ous. Wo repeat that, in orlcr to insure suc cess, the Convention must act with great pru dence, and when the nominations arc made, every democrat must do his duty. , Death of Col rKA7.tn.-Col Keah Frazer, of Lancaster, died of Tuesday last at the State Lunatic Hospital, in Ilarriurg. Col. Frazer has for many years occupied a high position at the Lancaster Bar, which he attained by an indauiitabU energy, application and perse verance. He possessed mauy excellent traits of char: c cr wis an ardent friend, and a de cided enemy ; and he never compromised his 2rincipk's to make the one or satisfy the oth er, By thirty years' application to the pro fession cf the law, and by a prudent foresight and sagacity, he had accumulated a handsome estate. He was for a long time considered the leader of tho Democratic party in this county un 1 he certainly proved himself a gool General It is thought that the winding up of the Lan caster Savings Bank Grst affected his mind and caused the subsequent aberration. He was a heavy stockholder in that institution. He has left a young and estimable family, who must deeply feel the lo3 of his wisdom, ex perience, and affectionate care and protection. 'L'oluiulitt fry- Ju'Igo Taj lor and his associates, Ju ices Jours ni ;d Kashj, commenced h Ming an argu liic'.it Court'on last Monday. A vast leal of bus iness 1 as I evn t'isposcd of. The motion for a new trial in the impoi tant case of Chancellors vs. Kib lr aiul others!, wl.uh was tried at the December Term,, was not argued; f .r the reason that Mr. Jllt'Us who made the motion, was compcllel to . leave on Tuesday morninpr, to attent the sick bed of his fiisier. Mrs. Blancliardt the widow cf the lat.' JI:i. Itlaif.hard of Dt llt fonte. .Thomas C. M'Dou tll, lq., of Hollidaytlnrg, lias ln;como cotmectid with the cditorifj manage tamt of r'v R: risburg JZeystcze. The Meet ing of the Legislature. The Democratic members of the House of Rep resentatives, have nominated J. Lawbence Getz, of Berks county as their candidate for Speaker. We presume he was elected on yesterday. It was believed thai Jacob Ziegler of Butler, would rccieve tie unanimous nomination foi Clerk of the House and would of course aeekcted. Both these gentlemen are competent, and will discharge their respective duties, with ability and fidelity. Ia the Senate, whe the Know Nothings and Black Pepubhoaoe have a majority of thrae, it was believed tht Dm id Tmggart of Nothumber lane county, would be elected Speaker, and Gta. W. Hammer sly of Philadelphia Clerk. Our information from Harrisburi? ia relation to thejgection of United States Senator, widch take place on neat Tuesday fc&ca. 'cigh de gree of exciteaacnt on that question. The demo crat members from it West. unanimous for MUr end, ,'VILSOjf Jt'Caw.9S. the war hor of tU denoowr of Allegheny u at . Harrwburg, WiUtfullj Sighting for Gem. Foster. ' Wesinoerely hope that Ifr. Faster will le nominated aod elated- If the democratic members of the Legislature are, wis?, and if they will consult the popular tvoure they will do so. Our advioc also inform U5, that Corner n cannot unite the vote f the Know-Nothings and Eepub licms a ril tV t mi-t,-') r.t 1 "VI . , ii.(m v, hi: nmau 'rA4t4?$ of the opposition declare, that in ih evet of his nominatiou, they will not consider thswwelres bound by it. In the present contest, we are de cidedly of the opinion, that Simon vill net point up. In our next paper, we will give full intelligence oi tne proceedings of the Legislature, up to the day of issue, which will embrace the result of the election of U. S. Senator and alio the Governors Message. Meeting of the IState Legislature Caucm .Ifominatiens. nARRiSBCTQ, Jan. 5. The Caucusses of both parties in the House met this evening to select officers for the organisation, to-morrow The Democrats nominated J. Lawrence Get , of Berks, for Speaker, unanimously, all the others having been withdrawn, and then ad journed. There were 53 members present Capt. Jacob Zeigler, the Assistant Chirk of the last House, will be nomiuated by the Democrats for Clerk of the House, and Mr. Picking for Assistant Clerk, these gentlemen having do opposition. The Republican caucus to-night nominated S. P. McCalmont, of Venango, for S-eaker ; A. W. Benedict, of Huntingdon, for Clerk; Wm. I. Backhouse, of Allegheny, for Assis tant Clerk ; S F. Gwitner, of Bucks for Ser-geant-at-Arms ; II. B. Hoffman, of Dauphin, for Doorkeeper, and S C. Hill, of Washing ton, for Messenger. There were 45 present. The Senate caucusses will meet in the mor ning The Republicans will probably nomi nate David Taggart, of Northumberland, for Speaker; Geo. W. Hammersley, of Philadel phia, for Clerk, and J. Ilalcomb, of Brad ford, for Assistant Clerk. The Democrats of the Senate will nominate N. B. Browne, of Philadelphia, or J. H Whalton, of Monroe, for Speaker. Mr. Benson, the Republican representative from Potter, is siek and is not expected here at the opening of the session. COUNTERFEITS, Bickncll's Detector gives a description of three dangerous counterfeits ; j Ilarrisburg Bank 10's ppuriom. Vignette female, shield, figure 10 above, male and fe male on the right, canal on the left. Columbia Bank 5's spurious. Vignette, three female figures on lower right end medallion head of Washington; on left end, fivo large female figures. Girard Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. 10's I general appearance good ; can be detected by noticing on right end two figures, male and female, embracing on the "genuine, there is a medallion head of Girard j also on the good notes, the word Ten around the margin 13 in large letters on tho counterfeit they are quit small. AN APT REPLY In reply to the sneering remark of the New York Herald, that the southern demo cratic press had become more moderate in their tone, the Mobile Register says : " The democratic press of the South have grown more moderate in their tone because they feel satisfied jthat the election of Mr. Buchanan has secured to the countwj a firm and impartial supporter of the constitution and the individual rights of the States. They have confidence in the man. They know him to be a true lover not only of the Union, but of the constitution, those Siamese twins of liberty which, if one is stabbed by fanaticism, the other di?s of despair." 1 -T r -Tbe grandfather of William II. Pres cott. tho hi.torian, commanded the American forces at Bunker Hill, while the grandfather of his wife commanded a British ship of war, which bombarded the American works in the same action. The historian has the swords of each at his residence in Boston. Mr Pres cott ought to be able to write an impartial ac count, of the Revolutionary struggle, bound as he is by precisely the same anccstrial ties to bolh paties. Gcbern-atoiual CaxDidates. The follow ing named gentlemen are spoken of in con nexion with tho Gubernatorial nomination viz Gen. William F. Packer, of Lycoming. Col William Hopkins, of -Washington3. Hon. William II Witte. of Philadelphia. Col. Samuel W. Black, of Allegheny. Hon. John L. Dawson, of Fayette. Hon. Charles . 3ucUlew, f Coloalfc. Startling Development If anything is calculated to arouse the peo ple of the North to the mischievous and alarm ing consequences, that inevitable result from a desettton of sobriety and reason, it must be t. j . sucu aisgusung extravagauces as are well de- pictedisi the following article in the Chicago luues. Ike eociptv tt J vuuuKUiMIVa a proceeding like tht described, must be rot ten to the core. 'vVill not these daily exhibi tions of abolition madness and iofamy open the eyea Uiq the Northern people of the volca no of r-jia upon which they stand, and force the t0 repudiate the Black Republican lea ders who aim at the destruction not only of Southern institutions but of the nocial fabric of the 3 rth also ? They should be regarded as outlaws asd disoraauers, and scorned and rejected by the masses of all parties at the North, Here is the article of the Chicago Tiiues : the orator T " . "ulJa waa tne orator., i toaDf wios8 fa empIojed b tne lieciiean oratorg to pti insurrection atu murder, who obtained applause from his audience by denying God's justice in allowing Mich men as Cass and Preston to address the people acd proclaim the doetrine of self-gov-ornment this man is perambulating thr State of Illinois, in company with John P. Hale, General Nye, and other renegade Democrats! seeking to overturn the Constitution of the land. Metropolitan Hall presented a singu lar scene on Sunday afternoon. There were white men and sooty wenches", and black men and white women, all listening with open mouths to this negro, who boasted that white and black people were disappearing. He re joiced that this amalgamation wis progres sing, and his white and black audience re sponded with cheers and tumultuous applause to the disgusting sentiment. Fair white mai dens were there, smiling upon the champion of freedom and Fremont, and applauding with their gloved hands his earnest wish that the distinction between the white and black races would be lost, and that, instead of them, there would soon be but one race the descendants of white woman and black men, black women and white men. He thanked God that tbc mullato race was on the increase iu Chicago, and his audience cried amen. c Let us do this speaker justice ; he .p ke to no idle rabble ; ho spok not alone to uc;rro men aud negro women ; wlrose grosser in wu. u..gull w urauauu dv ttie na nn ,f wl, r. i...V,!in,Ja T;.. . . . . . ch.Idren, bespoke not alone to men of i ? nu.A n,.t;. i. ' 1? .: f -ufat" .UUUv.o, nunc nut's auu iniToi r. An, i tt- V ""M" Ul uurjaa lib erty. Uis audieuce teas the ven, . ,y - iu vuitago. lenofhifh aocia . posmon were therewith their wives and daughters : merchants from Lake street and U atcr street, whose names inr ously upon Fremont calls and Republican subscription lists. Michi-an avenue. Wa. basb avenue, and the palatial residences of uieu wuo caruea their present wealth upon mechanical pursuits, and who nw k satins diamonds, hoops, feathers and broad cloth, crowd out of all places the laboring man and the mechanic, (we quote the Dem ocrat.) were represented there. Thee rep- rACilit.itirAn v l il . . . . . iflu'6 mo sooty .beauties aud ojrled by the eolored dandies iu return ; theso persons, embracing the wealthy and ton of Chicago society, were there, listening with uehghted hearts to treason, and tbreata'of murder and.civil war. There were merchants and their wives Fremont merchants and their Fremont wives whose cheeks did not blanch, whose hearts did not swell indiguantly when a negro stood erect in their ornson on a Sunday afternoon, and proclaimed that 'ie monana women, that fathers and moth ers and little babies American citizens should be made to dream of death in thoir sleep, should fear death at their meals, should be met by fire in their beds, and poison in their bread ! The atrocious sentiment caused no horror in their hearts. On the contrary, this terrible invocation, in the name of "Fre mont and Jessie," elicited enthusiastic ap plause. This is Fremontisni in Chicaga. Sir Jon.v FitA.VKU.v axd Crzw. An old 1 . arctic seaman, a pensioner iu Greenwich Hospital, whose intelligence and good char acter are endorsed by the.Goveuor of that institution, has addressed a letter to Sir Rod erick Murchison. in which he holds out the idea that some of Sir John Franklin's crew may have voluntarily joined themselves to the Esquimaux, aud might yet be discovered,-, The old tar says I well recollect the Esquimaux from time to time whon they observed me at work on the ice off Winter Island, repairing a boat, aud their nonce of the tools. They were re peatedly motioning by. gestures, and thev made me understand they wished me to re main with them, and as it was my heart's do sire' I took more notice of the occurrence And often did I wish I could muster cour age to ask the captain, or mention my desire to our first lieutenant (Nias) to intercede for me to be allowed to remain behind. I studied their mode of living, being daily with them for many mouths. I considered their recources in clothing and food, and the effect it would have on me. and came to the conclusion that, from the experiments of eat ing seal, seahorse, birds, deer, fish &e I should soon become inured to them, particu larly as it would be my own choice As to clothing, the deer and seal skins would be more suitable for that climate than our own, and we could couvcrt the birds' skins also. The snow huts for Winter and skins for bummer wouli do very well and no rent to The disposition and friendly manner of tho natives vi as satisfactory. I beg, sir, to state, that I have consulted my old shipmates about here, aud they are of the same opinion as myself, that some could hold out till this time, and if the ships were drove on shore (same as the Fury) they would Anxivebsart of Washington's Death. Gen Washington died bo the evening of the 31st December, 1799. It is a fact not gen erally known, that he drew his last breath in tne last hour in the last day of the lost of th last oottary. 7esr i AMALGASiATlox AIeetuq os Scxdat. -inuity at large, who deeply sya.-palLbo with ithout eaception, the largest Fremont flCo- the Judge in his bereavviaeut. ting ever held in Chicago Was mt !,.f. ?: The Steamer Columbus will hrnftr tan Hall ou Sunday last. "Pr- nl-i. vev the mails from Pa 11:11)1. tn T'llntn AAnr. Washington Items. Washington City, January 4 The wife of Judge Daniel, of the United States Su preme Court, was burned to death last niht. by an accid2ut, at the residence of her hus band in Franklin How. The J udge and his wile naU been out, and cn returning home, he went into the Library, and bhc retired to uerieepiug apHrtiuent ana couimeuced dis robiug, preparatory to retiring for the nicht. Being very near sighted, she did not per ceive a candle sitting on the hearth, nor the flames that had communicated to her cloth ing, until they completely enveloped her. She died this morning, after lingering eiht hours in dreadful agony. Mrs. Daniels was a most estimable lady, about thirty-five years of age, aud leaves two children the youngest being only sin or eight months old. She was a daughter of the late Dr. Harris, of Philadelphia, formerly chief of tho Buruea of Medicine ana Surgery attach ed to tne Navy Department. Thia to-riVU i ' i , . .v. uulc cAuiuuiy ias causeu mucu re &ruf I 1 . .1 el friends, and the couj- La Unia, Acapulco aud Saa Jose de Guate uiaia leaving 1'anama immediately on the ar rival of the mail from New York A mail will go forward by the Illinois to morrow. The single rate of letter postage will be 20 cents repaid, which will carry let ters to their destination. The Hon. John Applet'on, of Maine! has arrived. His coming i3 presumed to have reference to tl e conduct of tho official" oran under the new Administration a Washington Citr, January 5 The Su preme Court, sympathizing with Judge Dan iels in his severe domestic affliction, and as the funeral of his wife takes place to morrow adjourned uniil Wednesday. The Court of Claims observed a similar mark of respect. The Land Office has withdrawn from sale about one million acres of laud in Louisiana which weie found to fall within the grant of the New Orleans, Opelouses and Great Wes tern Railroad, between Opelouses and Sabine River, ou tho Texas. Hue Kansas Affairs. Nbw York, Jauuary 5. Mr. Ilogeland, who passed through here yesterday, is uuder ftood to represent the views and wishes of Gov. Gtary in regard to sundry legislative measures of importance to the welfare of the territory. Mr. II. states that, although it is not easy l "agcraic me outrages ana disorders which W r.:iJ ;,. ir.' i- i"u uuiu a lew montns now assuming a much mo:e P"1- ad promis.ng aspect. ... The Free State legislature meets to-d.-iv the other one meets on Monday of next week. Tha steamer Cahawba, from New Orleans, via Havana, arrived here yesterdav, bavin" left the latter port on the 30th. The United States steamer Wabash arrived at Havara from Aspinwall on the morning of the lii)th. Her officers and crew wereall well. She would leave for NeT York in a few days. The English brig-of-war Atalanta also ar rived on the 29th. The Insurrection in Tennessee. LocisviLLE. January 5. The Memphis Appeal, cf Tuesday, says considerable ex citement prevailed at St Francis county, by rumors of a rising of the slaves on Christ mas. Several negroes hid been whipped, who confessed to a plot similar to the 6tory at NapoleonviJle. Louisiana. The committee appointed by 'the Mayor of NashvIc, and the Judge of Davidson county to examine charges of insurrection against certain negroes, report no evidence and re commend their discharge. The Mississippi papers ridicule the tele graphic reports of the negro disturbance in Jackson, and say there is not a shadow of foundation in them. Fhom WliBAttASi). The Washington Star under the. above head, ha? the following. e give them for what they are worth : We have a few items of information from Wheatland, on which we havo reason to rel y : First Mr Bnchr-nan ha 3-et invited r.o one to become a member of his Cabiuet, and has not made up his mind with reference to a sinsle member of it . : Second. 31 r. John Appleton, of Maine, is to bo the editor of the Washington Unh'A Third Mr. Bunhanatl Js aq carDeit ad'vo. cate of tue election of John W. Forney. Esq. to tho Senate of the United States. Fourth. Ho will leave Wheatland for "this city shortly before the 1st of February. SoMETinxo Remarkable The most re markable feature (says the Philadelphia Ar gus') in the financial transactions of the gov ernment is the fact that, in order to redeem the portion of its debt which has extinguish ed, it has absolutely paid a premium of up wards of ten per cent. To the govercmcnt this has been a profitable operation in the saving of interest, which would have had to pay for a large number of years. But no government in the world has ever before done such a thing, or been able to do it. Such is the result of Democratic policy, faithfully ad ministered by Democratic men. Guy. Packexuam A Curious Fact. We copy the following from the New Orleans Picayune vf the 11th ult : We were yesterday credibly informed, by a gentleman who resides near the spot, that in September last the well kuowu pecau tree under which the remains of General Packen ham were buried, a few miles.below this city, was broken off, thirty feet above ground, by a gale of Wind, and a cannon fired from the British lines during the battle; was foundSm bedded jut where the trunk broke off Thus it was that the brave Briton slept under one of his own missiles as lm monument A Nuisance" Defined. At a trial for "maintaining a nuisanee" recently at Exe ter, England, it was- shown on the part of a Mr. Abraham that his neighbor, Mr Minty, hid a cock which crowed one hundred and fifty times in 20 minutes. The learned Judge t hought this was an amount of crowing which 'human nature was not bound to nut up with, ind twarded tother plaintiff 1. dam- SUMMARY OF MEWS 1 The Woodburn Gazette calis down East girls corn fed rotes." What a sweet simile ! One hundred large ships, averaging 1000 tons burden, were built in Slaine iu 185C. Cranberries are grown in great abundance at all the towns along the Upper Mississippi. ' The Electors of Wisconsin, failed to arrive in Madison in time to cost the vote of that State ft;r President, owing to a snow-storm. The crew of tho wrecked packet New York,, who nearly killed tLe captain, have teen arrested at Freehold X. J. - A man for bein told the truth, tlmnks you the first time votes you abore the secondand quarrels with you the thI7d. The wheat crop in Tennessee is said to pre: ent an unusually promising prospect. A much larger auiouct of Ltud is sown ia wheat than heretofore. The- flour and meal inspected in Philadelphia, on tho week preceding Christmas, amounted to nearly twenty thousand barrels. A new conference of European powers b soon to be held in Parut, to decide w hat the last treaty means. At Trenton, on Friday of latt week, twenty thousand people assembled to witness a aham bat tle, which came otf without accidtnt. Forrest has sol i his Fonthill country seat, on the Hudson, to the New York Sisters of Charity, for a huudred thousand dollars, about its cost. Capt. J. D. Wh:te,has been nominated by the Democrat of tha city of Pittsburg, f,r tLe cfilce of Mayor, The Sheriff cf Uadaon couaty, N. Y., treated the prisoners in j-i.il oa Christmas day, some fifty in number, to a dinner of turkeys, chickens, ic. Winslow J. EJ!y was convicted of the wilful murder of his wife, Sarah Jane, on the 21st of June, I806, in Boston, last wek. - What is the difference between a confirmed sin ner and a Leg.ir?- Oue Lj a ndicant and the other is a meud-i-wonrt. A Tennessee paper says that Senator Ee!l will lose about ten thousand dollars by the insurrec tion panic. At an auction sale at the fair of St. Paul's church, Buffalo, a Larrl of flour was sold f.-r $73 50. and tl.cn presented to the rector, Dr. Shclton. A family cf eight persona In Ilardin county Ky., have been poisoned by a negro cook. Six of them died, and the others were not expected to live. At Treston, Minnesota, on tho 14th ult., there was snow on the ground to the depth of three feet, and the mercury in the thermometer incica ted thirty two 9egree3 below zero. A suit in Cooportown, X. Y. hy Marth Jane Drake against William Waterman, for a breach of promise of marriage, resulted in a verdict of 2,000 in favor ot the fiur plaintiff. C3- How is your hi-sl arLU uftcrncon, Mrs. Squids ? Why. the doeWfeavs as how as, if he lives till mornin', he shall hv some hopoa of him : but if he don't he must give htm up. Mr. Dan Showaltcr, formerly of Litioho Pa has been elected to the Assembly by the Demo crats of Merceed and Maraposa counties, Califor nia. John A, Galligan. an Englishman tn New York denies having committed suicide. This raip a question of veracity between him and twelve sworn individual, who composed a recent coro ner's jury in that city. Thejiww marriage laws which h.-we Just been published in Austria, recojmize " the marriage of a boy of fourteen with a girl of twelve, ni valid," but the parties are to Ic separated until ther are or ape. At the recent election In Cilif rnia, two women vor elected to fill offices In Placer county one ,TuHee of the Pace, and the other as Cmsta Each re rod one vote In the precinct, aud there was no opposition. A Ocrn-.fin yrith whom Bayard Taylor formel a friendship has conveyed to him as a'free gift, an estate near the Tfcurinsian forest. It contains a beautiful residence built in 1760 by one of the ministers of Ernest II. Lneky traveller. An unmarried lady on the wintry nlde'of fifty, hearing of the marriage of a yonnr lady, her friend, observed with a deep and sentimental sigh, " Well, I suppose It is what we all must come to." Life or Death Which ? A doctor advertises in a country paper that whrvever uses the Veg. etable Compound Universal Auti-Purging Aroma tic Pills once will not have causa to use them again." We rather think they won't. Eleanor liana. a native of the county cf Mcn aghan, Ireland, for the past fifty years a widow and resident of Xew York city, died two or three days since at the ago of one hundred and twelve years. A bill before Congree propose to depreciate Spanish coin twenty per cent., a Toss to present holders of a million and a half of dollars unless, indeed, the coin is sold to pilverfmiths, at its real value when the loss would not average ten per cent. Mrs. Thomas Norsworthy, whose death in Salem, at theatre of nearly ninety-nine years, has been mentioned, had been married six times and had thirty-three children. A termagant is a dreadful bad piece f fur niture in a man's bouse, but thero is one re deeming trait about them ; the more they scold the harder they scrub, usually. A fit of ug liness, with such women, generally ends in a breaking out of slop cloths, white wash brush es, and oust pans. The muscles of the human jaw produce a power equal to four hundred and thirty-four pounds. Thi3 is what science telbi us, but We know the jaw of some our lawyers is equal to s good many thoueand dollars year to tbew. Heavy Storm-A Train of Cars Buried in th9 Snow. A passenger gives us some items uf hi". journey from Frarie du Chin. on the Mil waukicand Mississippi railroad, during th late heavy storm. Ili3 party left Prarie d thien two weeks ago, arrived the same niLt at Boscopel, 21 miles this side, bciQfr fbe first station on the railroad- The snow drift were deep, and no trains could get away Getting a fair start on the shovelled track and after two or thren days' delay, the traia brought up in a deep drift some six miles thu side Boscopel, and thou commenced the work in earnest. The train would plunge into the drifts, tbe snew being sometimes as high as the tops of the cars, and coming to a dead halt, wait till the shovelcrs pa-scngeis and all amusing themselves that way could clear the wheelt and then running back, dash in again So they ttruggled, but three days and three nights passed in making a dozen miles pro gress. Provisions were all gone ; only scan ty supplies could bo obtained from the few farm houses aceessiblo Parties were detain ed to cut and bring wood for tLe engines, and they kept up steam with difficulty in tbe four locomotives. At length after almost despair ing of being thawed out till Spring, one of tie workmg parties returbed to the train about two o clock one morning, with the joyful re port of having heard the whistle of engine, coming from the eastward, and the excitement was intense till, just about daylight, the re lief tram from Madison, with four engines which had been working for several days from tbe eastward broke the drifts, and hit.hin? on" the whole train to Muscoda. They would not Batce. The Bay State Democrat, i tL court, of a well written article in relation to tbe mid antics cf the political piickts of New EnglLd remarks : m " Wo entertain a very high r spect for them ia their appropriate ephtre of action. But they saw fit to btep aside from approp iai duties and enter the political field. llti they Lave suffered dtfect We regret mt uw mi-j, were ueieaiea. cut tuat they made & great miscalculation, and took the wronff sij. where tbe Lord could Lot bless their efforti A friend at our elbow hints that, in consider ation of thir efforts and the results, they might now very properly adopt the language of the Kpiaeopal liturgy : We have done O Lord, those things which we cugbt not to have done, and left undone thoie things which we ought to have done I'' But we re-ptci-fully suggent that there is a parage bcui where, w thitk. in the Bible, more arpropri ate. lt " It reads, if we recollect aright. som what in this wise : "We have piped, aud y have not danced ; we haven. uned and have not lamented." There Las been pipit and mourning enough, but somehow the pec- ple nould not dauce to that kind of j.jp-,,. They would not weep, even, over the hudet shrieks for bleeding Kansas?" .New Eng land and Xew York did. indeed, dance to tU ministerial piping, but the uorthern peopU remained unmoved in stifiriett numbers t defeat the piper.. Shall we esy that Xw England is priest-ridden 1 If it were Cathi -he priests who had done tue same tLing wlat along and angry, piteous and hearl-re'i.din,-howl wcuIJ have hwn ra;te(j a,n.nt tJ e , Ths - poor, priest-ridden Irish " would ha. been denounced in the severest terms they are even now by a class of men who deenl it a very great recommendation that the clei gy and the religious portions of the comu.u- ijr oin uu iiieir sine. SoMETinxu or a Changs It is 8aM tLt "n; .S' A- Douglass, when he set out for Washington, was not allowed to pass a station between Chicago and Cleaveland without Ls mg called out. While acknowledging tL. compliment of an impromptu demonstration at Toledo, he said, "it was but a short time since, he might have traveled from Boston t Chicago by the light of his own effigies burn ing in every village where abolitionism could muster courage cnouch to attempt the dis graceful act the sole provocation fr which was, that he had dared to introduce a bill al lowing the people of every State and of erery Territory, to regulate their own affair iu their own way; but he congratulated hi. hearers that the just principles of that bill had made a fundamental principle of our gov ernment; and he felt a proud satisfaction iu the approval and endorsement of his own course, and that of his gallant colleague. Cren. bhields, embodied in tie triumphant o'ecticn of the veteran statesmen, James Bu chanan, to the Presidency." Tub Great Lakes. The five great lakes of North America havo recently been survey ed, and it is found that they cover an area of 90,000 square miles. The total length of the five lakes is 1534 miles. Lake Superior, at its greatest length, i 355 miles ; its great est breadth is 1G0 miles; mean depth 9SS feet ; elevation above the sea C27 feet ; area 32.000 square miles. Lake Michigan is 360 miles long, its greatest breadth i 108 miles; its mean depth is 900 feet; elevation 687 feet; area 20,000 square miles. Lake Huron, is its greatest length, is 200 miles; its greatest breadth 160 miles; mean depth 300 feet; elevation 574 feet area,. 20,000 square miles. Lake Erie is 250 miles long ; great est breadth 80 miles ; mean depth 200 feet; elevation 555 feet ; area 6000 square miles. Lake Ontario has a length of 180 miles ; and its mean breadth is 65 miles ; mean depth 500 feet; elevation above the ocean 262 feetj area 6000 square miles. Pennsylvania clains the honor of origina ting the first Agricultural Society in this country after the Re volution. It was found ed in 1785. and Judge Peters was iu Presi dent and active promoter and patron. Darmoctii College has recently refused to aecept a donation of lands bequeathed it in tho West, because their acceptance would de prive a poor widow of the property, who would otherwise receive it. This is a very commen dable procedure, and does honor to thtt insu-tutioQ- A Insurrection ix Alabama. A dis patch has been received at Mobile, from Se lani, which states that a negro insurreetion has been discovered in Smnter, Marion and Perry counties that one hundred negroea have been arrested that one white man ws engaged in the plot, and that inter.? Trtt ftrl4,
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