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HUNTINGDON JOURNAL,
Wednesday Morning, March 8, 1854.
WILLLS3I BREWSTER, Editor,
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Notice.
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end all moneys now due for subscription
have been transferred with it, and are pay
able to me. For advertisements inserted
for a limited time, if one half or more than ono
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one half of the time has not elapsed at this
date, settlement is to be made with me. This
notice is given to those having accounts in the
books, so that they may know with whom set-
tlement is to be made.
WILLIAM BREWSTER.
Feb. 24, '54.
Its- The Schools under the charge of J. S.
Barr and Miss C. T. Benedict intend giving
an exhibition on Tuesday evening next, the
14th inst., at the Town Hall. The Huntingdon
Brass Band will be in attendance and inter:
sperse the exercises with music. Tickets of
adinispion 12} cents.
The Financial Prospects of the Country.
It is well remarked by the Boston Courier,
that the financial prospects of this country at
the present time are highly encouraging to in
dustrial interests, and to useful enterprises of
all kinds that require the employment of capi
tal. The aggregate of the precious metals is
larger than ever before, and constantly increas
ing, while the shipments of specie are diminish
ing. The Banks are well supplied, and the'
general government holds on deposit about
$24,000,000. The great crops of the last sea
son have been good and abundant, so that the
foreign markets can be advantageously sup
plied and profitable freights secured forrailroads
and ships, besides furnishing the exchange
market with a good supply,of low-priced bills.
Whether foreign nations conclude to keep or
break the public peace, the intercourse between
the Eastern and Western hemispheres must in
evitably contribute to the advantage of the
latter.
Gubernatorial.
A Correspondent of the American Banner
brings out Mayor Kieffer as a prominent can.
didate for the Gubernatorial chair. In his
Communication he states that Christian Keif
fer, Esq., is a native of Franklin County, Pa.,
and for 35 years a citizen of Lancaster, and
now Mayor for the third time, against all the
power of "regular candidates," each time with
immense majorities over those who were "set
tled" by the "majority party."
He furter states "that Hon. C. Kieffer learn
ed the trade of a coppersmith, and he is as
durable and useful as the metal so long ham
mered into shape and useful forms. He is a
man of irreproachable morals, full of energy,
decision of character, a tried legislator, with
the seal of God's noblest work stamped on his
silvery locks; and imbued with all the moral
and social amenities of life."
661 - • A number of Town Lots situated in the
town of West Huntingdon, adjoining this Bor.
ough, were sold at public outcry on last Wed.
nesday, as follows, to wit:
No. 1 sold to Daniel G. Nash for $2lO
" 5 " James Hi ht, 189
N 6 14 151
" 7 " Tomas Knode, " • 149
" 8 " Henry Miller " 160
" 9 Theo. H. Cromer " 165
,4 10 II 44 14 14 140
" 11 " " 14 14 152
120
120
115
1221
125
125
115
110
105
85
60
95
51
" - 12 - " N 14 U
13 14 11 N U
" 14 11 u N u
U
o 1 6 a
"17 " John Fockler i , "
" 18 " Jackson White, "
" 19 " Wm. Sturtsman, gg
" 20 " S. M. McMurtrie,"
"21 " Joseph Hawn, "
"22 " James Saxton, "
" 23 ' 1 Abm. McCoy,
"24 " " 11 14
21 Lots. Amnnnt, $2,6541
Average amount per lot, $126,38
[Banner. •
Former Opinions of Mr. Pierce,
The following opinions, formerly held by
President Pierce, will be read with some inter
est at the present crisis :
"Ho had only to say now, what he had al-
ways said, that HE REGARDED SLAVERY AS ONE
OF THE GREATEST MORAL AND SOCIAL EVILS-A
CURSE UPON THE WHOLE COUNTRY, AND THIS HE
BELIEVED TO BE THE SENTIMENT OF ALL MEN,
OF ALL PARTIES, AT TIIE NORTH.
"He was free to admit that he had himself
approached this subject of annexation (of Tex.
as) with all his prejudices and prepossessions
against it, and ox ONE GROUND ALONE—ITS
SLAVERY FEATURE. His eonvictiocs on this
subject were, as had been stated, strong—not
the result of any new light, but deeply fixed
and abiding. TOE ONLY DIFFICULTY IN lIIS
MIND EVER HAD BEEN, THAT OF A RECOGNITION
WY ANY NEW ACT OF OUR GOVERNMENT OF THE
INSTITUTION OF DOMESTIC SLAVERY, and he
Lad found it extremely dif f icult to bring his
mind to a condition, impartially to wejgh the
argument for and against the measure."—(Hen.
Pierce's Speech in reply to John P. Hale, at
the North Church, in Concord, June tith, 1845,
as reported in The N. IT. Patriot of June 12,
1845,
"The Democracy of the North NEVER DID
endorse the doctrine (of Case' Nicholson letter)
and they NEVER WILL. The Democracy of this
State are UNANIMOUS in the opinion, so fur as
we know, that COkGRESS HAS AND SHOULD EX-.
ERCISE THE POWER AND EXCLUDE SLAVERY
FROM CALIFORNIA AND. New Menco."—[Neso
Hanapaliire Patriot, July 27, 1840.
"I WO&LD TAKE THE GROUND OF THE NON-EX
TENSION Or SLAVERY—THAT SLAVERY SHOULD
NOT BEOOME STRONGER. But Congress have
only re-enacted the old law of 1793. Union-lo
ving men,-desire peace and loving their coon
try, conceded that point—uswituNour CONC.
DED IT, and planting themselves upon this law
against the outburst of popular feeling, resist
ed the agitiition which is assaulting all who
stand up (or their country. But the gentleman
says that the law is ObIIOXiCHIBI WHAT SINGLE
THING IS THERE CONNECTED WITH SLAVERY
THAT cc NOT onsoxioes 7 EVEN THE GENTLE
MAN FROM MARLBORO, r Dr. Batcheller, an ul
tra Abolitionist] CANED TEEL MORE DEEPLY
THAN I DO ON THIS SUBJECT," dre.—VlODeral
Pitrce's Speech in the New 'Hampshire Con
stientional Convention, Jan. 1, 1851.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
DILLS ON rRIVATf CAT,NNDER.
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1854.
A supplement to an act entitled "An Act to
appoint commissioners to run and mark the
county lines between Bedford, Fulton and Hun
tingdon, passed the 20th day of April, A. D.,
1853.
An act to review part of a State road in Tell
township, Huntingdon county.
Wednesday, March 1, 1854.
Mr. Cresswell (Estates and Escheats) report
ed as committed, the bill relative to Geo. Sho
enfelt, of Blair county and to authorize the
sale of his real estate.
An act repealing An net granting in State
road in the counties of Huntingdon and Mifflin.
Thursday, March 2, 1854.
Mr. Daugherty presented a remonstrance of
citizens of Bedford county, against the passage
of a law in reference to toll gates; also, a peti-
tion of citizens of Cumberland Valley township,
Bedford county, praying for the passage of a
law regulating physicians charges, dr.c., also, a
petition of citizens of Dublin township, Hunt
mgdon.tounty, praying that port of said coun
ty be annexed to the county of Fulton; also, a
petition of citizens of Londonderry township,
Bedford county, praying that the place of hold
ing elections in said township be changed.
Mr. Barnes called up House bill No. 297, a
supplement to the act appointing commission
ers to run and mark the county lines between
Bedford, Fulton and Huntingdon counties,
which passed finally.
Friday, March 3, 1854.
Mr. Mellinger reported with a negative rec•
ommendation, House bill No. 214, to incorpo•
the Hisbacoquillas seminary.
SALE OP TIIE PUBLIC WORKS.
On motion of Mr. Evans, the bill providing
for the sale of the public works, and the reduc-
tion of the State debt, was taken up on second
reading.
The price fixed in the first section, for the
main line from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, is
twelve millions of dollars.
Mr. Kunkel moved to amend, by striking out
twelve millions, and inserting instead the sum
of ten millions.
Mr. E W. Hamlin moved to nmend the
amendment, by substituting fourteen millions.
Mr. Evans, of Chester, said he hoped the
amendment of the Senator from Wayne ]Mr.
E. W. HAMLIN] would not be adopted. We
have in the original bill fixed the price at $12,-
000,000; but he would vote for a lower price,
but not a higher price, because, in his opinion,
if a higher price was demanded, it would defeat
the sale. He, therefore, hoped the amendment
would not prevail.
TIIE..PROMMTTORY LIQI7OR DILL.
The House then proceeded to the considera•
tion of the bill to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors in this Common
wealth, the question being on the amendment
of Mr. Hiestand, to strike from the first section,
the words, "manufacture or."
Plank Road Meeting.
Orbisonia, Feb 28, 1854.
On the day above mentioned, pursuant to a
call issued by several citizens, a large and en
thusiastic assemblage of the citizens of Dublin,
Cromwell and Shirley townships,
convened in
Orbisouia at the public house of Mrs. Maclay.
The meeting was organized by calling Thos.
T. Cromwell, Esq., to the chair, and electing
Messrs. Jno. Lutz and Brice X. Blair, Vice
Presidents, and H. J. Campbell Secretary.
The President being called upon, stated that
the object of the meeting was to discuss the
propriety and practicability of some improved
road between Mount Union and Shade Gap,
and to devise ways and means for accomplish
ing this object.
The different plans of a Turnpike and Plank
Road were severally discussed, by Messrs. Leas,
Wigton. Lutz, Cornelius, Shade, McVity, and
Ahl. On motion of Dr. Baldwin, a Committee
of two from each township and two from the
borough of Shirleysburg was appointed to re
port resolutions to the meeting.
The Chair appointed Dr. J. Shade and Brice
X. Blair, Dublin township; B. R. Wigton and
Daniel Teague, Esq., Cromwell tp.; S. McVity,
Esq. and George Eby, Shirley tp.; and Wm.
B. Leas and Dr. Baldwin, borough of Shirleys
burg. The Committee, after a lenghty deliber
ation and discussing the cost of the several
plane t and the natural facilities for each, af
forded by the country, reported in favor of a
Plank Road, which report was unanimously
adopted.
On motion, a Committee was appointed to
draft the form of a charter to present to the
Legislature, and take such other measures for
the furtherance of the object of this meeting as
may seem advisable. The Chair appointed
Samuel McVity, Esq., George Eby, Wm. B.
Leas, Jno. Lutz,B. R. Wigton. David Etnier,
Dr. James Shae, Brice X. Blair, Gen. A. P.
Wilson, and David Blair, Esq., Huntingdon.—
The committee appointed their meeting at
Shirleysburg, on Monday March 6th, at 10
o'cloCk, A. M.
_ _
On Motion, it was resolved that the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the county
papers.
On motion, the meeting adjourned sine die,
THOS. T. CROMWELL, Prest.
HuOu J. CAMPBELL, Sec.
Singular and Extensive Claim,
Suits have been issued in Philadelphia, by
parties in England, to obtain possession of sev
eral squares of property in that city. The suit
of course creates much excitement. The News
makes the following mention of the matter
We understand that during the last week
writs of ejectment were served on a large por
tion of our citizens resident and owning proper
ty in the western part of the city, at the suit of
parties claiming property to the amount of sev
eral millions of dollars. The claim, as we un
derstand it, is made to embrace a number of
blocks or solid squares, in the city, upon which
are erected some of the finest and most costly
buildings in it. The square from Tenth to
Eleventh and from Walnut to Chesnut streets,
inchuling the Assembly Buildings; that from
Seventeenth to Eighteenth and from Chestnut
to Walnut streets, embracing the most costly
block which is to be found on the entire length
of Walnut Street—and that from Nineteenth to
Twentieth and from Chesnut to Walnut streets
1 which takes the splendid palace of Mrs. Rush,
constitute as we learn, the blocks claimed in
the southern section f the city proper. It is
also understood that corresponding blocks north
of these, within the city limits, are claimed by
the same parties, with various properties in
other parts of the county.
The parties claiming as plaintiffs in the writs
are Wm. L. Bostwick, Wm. and Frances Mary
Kirland, David a%l Margaretta G. Moore,
Theodore Glentworth, and some twenty others
as heirs of the original proprietor. It is said
that the parties clean as the heirs of a person
named Budden, who is said to have received
title under Wm. Penn, who died something
more than a century since, leaving a widow as
his executrix. The widow, it appears, accord.
ing to the allegations, had no power given her
to sell any part of the estate of the deceased,
and therefore made leases for ninety--nine years,
the longest period permitted by the law. These
leases have now expired, and the heirs claim
that no conveyance has ever been made by any
party having absolute right to convey-and that
therefore the right of possession title in this
vast amount is in them, and not in tie parties
wino hold it. What is likely to he the result of
the matter, it is of course difficult to determine.
The Cenau&
The time occupied in taking and completing
the census of 1860 was three years and Ova
mouths. In 1840, it was published is one
year after it was taken. The expenses of ta
king the census. is 1790, were $44,377. In
1800, $66,109.. In , 18i0, $17%444. In 1820,
$208,525. In 1830, $3711,045. In 1840, $833,-
376. In 1860, $1,318, 027. The latter sum
iscludes only the expenses incurred previous
to the recent orders by Congress ofseveral hun
dred thousand copies of an abstract of the cen
sus, which must increase the cost of the whole
work to over a million and a half of dollars.
Arrival of the Northern Light.
FOURTEEN DAYS LATER FROM
CALIFORNIA.
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—The steamship Nor
thern Light arrived at half-past five o'clock
this afternoon, having left San Juan on the
kith instant, and bringing dates - from San
Francisco to the evening of the 31st ultimo,
making the time through in twenty-one days
nineteen hours—the quickest trip on record.
The Northern Light connected With the
steamer Cortez, which reports passing the
Brother Jonathan going into Sal!!rancisco on
the evening of the - Ist - inst., and the steamer
Sierra Nevada on the MI, off Cape St. Lucus,
bound up.
The mail steamer Columbia left San Fran.
cisco for Panama on the lot instant.
The Northern Light brings four hundred
passengers, and $806,000 in gold on freight.
The principal consignees are Duncan, Sher
man & Co., 300,000; American Exchange
Bank, $120,000; Adams & Co., 147,000; Drex
el S; Co., $75,000; Wells, Fargo & Co., $55,000.
Among the passengers are the Hon. Win
slow Pierce, Colonel Neely Johnson and fami
ly, Judge Tracy, and Lieutenant Maynard, U.
S. Navy.
This morning the Northern Light fell in with
the schooner Feron, from Cape May, Captain
Horner, of Philadelphia, with coal for New
York, in a sinking condition, and took off all
hands. Captain Horner states that one of the
Parker Vein propellers refused to render him
assistance. _ _ _
The steamer Golden Gate was stranded at
the entrance of the harbor of San Diego on the
morning of tho 18th. She had previously bro
ken her shaft, when ten days out from Pana-
ma. The passengers and mails were all saved.
Four hundred of them took passage on board
the Southerner and Golirth, the latter arriving
on the 22d ult. T!. steamer Columbia was at
San Diego, and it was thought would get the
Golden Gate off. _ _ _
The Golden Gate got off on the morning of
the 15th, less injured than was expected.—
She was lying at San Diego, awaiting the ar
rival of the steam pumps. The remainder of
her passengers had proceeded to San Francis.
The winter was unusually severe in Califor•
nia. In grass Valley and other places the
snow was two feet deep.
The rain storms in Grass Valley and El Do-
rado had done considerable damage.
In the mountains, near Stockton, the rains
had been violent. The gulches were filled,and
the miners busy.
The steamer Helen Hensley exploded one of
her boilers while lying at the wharf at San
Francisco, killing Thomas Norris, the third
engineer, and Hugh Fitzsimmons, and' badly
scalding several passengers.
It was falsely reported at San Francisco that
Messrs. Adams & Co., had failed. They paid
out to depositors nearly half a million of dollars
on the 22 'ult„ and satisfied every demand.
The breach of promise ease of Gates vs
Buckingham has been decided—damages $.1000.1
The Shasta Indians had commenced hostili
ties in Klamath, and had attacked a party of
whites and defeated them. The whites had
four killed, and a number wounded.
Mining had been suspended in Coloma and
other places, on account of the weather.
The sloop•of-war Portsmouth and the Gov.
ernment mail steamer were to sail from San
Francisco for Lower California to look after
Captain Walker and his party.
Advices had been received at San Francisco
from the Walker expedition to the effect that
the bark Caroline was captured in the Gulf by
the Mexican cutter Guerroros.
Late intelligence from Captain Walker's ex
pedition states that matters were apparently
going on prosperously. President Walker had
issued a decree dividing the Republic into two
States, named respectively the State of Lower
California and the State of Sonora. Another
decree changes the name of the Republic from
Lower California to that of Sonora.
Dates from Honolulu to the 7th of January
bring nothing of special interest.
The clipper ship George E. Webster, arrived
at San Francisco in 45 days from Hong Kong,
bringing dates to the 13th of Dec., but nothing
of special importance.
DfAIIKETS.—San Francisco, Jan. 3l.—The
markets during the past fortnight had been
stagnant, and prices lower than for months
' previously, while the large number of arrivals
had materially increased the stock.
Flour; Haxall was selling at $l2 per barrel;
outside brands $9, with more animation in the
market at the dose. Sales of the latter during
the fortnight 3,000 barrels, ranging from $8 to
$3.
Clear pork $l7 per barrel; choice hams,
cents; choice butter, 233 e. Coffee is depressed
—small lots at 13g15e. Sugar was unsettled
—crushed, 11 te. Rice, at auction, 41( 7 / 1 5e.
Spirits of turpentine, $1 40041 45. Liquors
were in moderate request; whiskey lower. To
bacco, every description lower.
ARRIVAL OF THE ANDES
At Boston.
Three days later from Europe.
The &camcr Niagara withdrawn to carry
Troops.
BOSTON, March I.—The Steamer Andes, from
Liverpool, with dates to the 14th ult., arrived
here on this morning, being duce days later
than last advices.
The steamer Niagara has been withdrawn to
carry troops to Malta.
The Cunard Company advertise, that in con-
sequence of the steamer Niagara being taken
by the Government, the propeller Alps would
take her place on Saturday, the 18th.
The Andes is to proceed to New York, after
discharging her cargo.. She will return to
Boston again, to take the Mails to Liverpool.
ENGLAND.—The British Government has
chartered thirteen steamships to convey troops
to Malta.
Theiollowin g is a list of the steamers that
have beon taken by the British Government
for the conveyance of troops :
From the General Screw Steamship Compa
ny—The Propentis, Cape of Good Hope, Gold.
en Fleece, and the Jason.
From tho Oriental Cothpany—The Ilimaln.
ya, Manilla, and Ripon.
From the Cunard Company—The Niagara
and Cambria.
From the Australia Company—The steamer
Victoria.
The steamers Harbinger, Hydaspes, and
Queen of the South have also been chartered.
It is reported that Lord Raglan is to have
the chief command of the British forces.
A new reform bill wan introduced by Lord
John Russell, on the 13th, in the House of
Commons. The details of the bill are distaste
ful to both the Conservatives and Liberals.
Lord John Russell stated in the House of
Commons, that arrangements had been made
between the English and,French Ambassadors
ns to the• course to be pursued by the combined
fleets.
He also said, that the British government
had no reason to be dissatisfied with Count Or
loff's mission to Austria. The object sought
for by Russia, wns to secure the neutrality of
Austria„ lest it had entirely failed.
FRANCE—The report that the Emperor of
Austria had declared that he would make coin.
mon cause with the Western powers, if the
Russians crossed the Danube, had produced an
important rise in the funds. Three per cents
closed at 69f. 75c.
ITALY.—Great excitement prevails in Lom
bardi; indeed, throughout Italy. Iladctski has
issued 4 proclamation ordering the arrest of all
persons spre,lding false reports.
RUSSIA AND TURICEY.—It was confi
dently announced that a manifesto, signed by
Count Neaselrode, was shortly expected at
Vienna, in which the Czar will state to the
world his final intentions.
A camp of 40,000 men was being formed on
the borders of the Sea of Marmora, near Com
stantinopTe.
General Gui.jon had commenced offensive
operations in Asia against the Russians.
Kalafat was ins ester! by 60,000 Russian
troops.
The Czar had given orders to every . fort to
drive the Turks out of Lesser Wallachia, with
out further delay.
Advice. from Trobizond remelted at London
on the 14th, state that Schamyl was marching,
with 10,000 men, against Seakatila, firmer
taut military post occupied by the Russians,
Advices from Kiajera, state that bad wee&
or had alone prevented the Russians from at
tacking Kniafat.
VIENNA, Feb. 18.—The details of the con
flict at Guirgevo, on the bth of February, have
reached us. A detachment of 800 Turks, in
eight gun boats and four sailing vessels crossed
the Danube early in the evening, and were
landed near the Quarantine building, arrang
ing themselves in line of battle. Two battal
ions of Russians opposed them, and opened a
murderous fire, winch was continued for three
hours, forcing the Turks finally to retreat to
Rutzcheuk. The Russians also suffered severely.
ARRIVAL 'OF THE NASHVILLE,
LATER FROM EUROPE.
Preparations for War.
NEW Yontr, March s.—The steamship Nash
ville, of the Havre line, arrived here this after
noon. She sailed from Havre on the 14th, but
did not leave Cowes until the 16th, bringing
London papers of the 15th.
This morning the Nashville got ashore off
Egg Harbor,
by her pilot mistaking Barnegat
Light for the Fire Island light. She, however,
got off without injury.
When off Portsmouth, the Nashville passed
through the English fleet, about to sail for the
seat of war.
ENGLAND.—The preparations by England
for the impending war are still going on. It
is stated that the Government, in addition to
the steamers already taken, had decided to
take the remainder of the Cunard steamers as
fast as they arrived, leaving the company to
carry the mails in their smaller steamers.
liany of the East India sailing ships had al.
so been taken by the Admiralty for the purpose
of carrying stores, troops, etc.
At all the naval stations the preparations go
ing on are on the most stupendous scale.
The Paris CorreErpondCnt of the London
Times sayS that fresh negotiations are on foot,
and hopes are generally entertained that they
would be successful. New propositions are
said to ho adopted by the four powers, which
make a concession to the Czar, viz: the liberty
of treating to a certain extent alone with Tur
key, the latter power to have the right of con
sultation with allied powers. It is also propos
ed that the evacuation of the principalities
shall take place simultaneously with that of
the Black Sea, and the allied fleets to re-enter
the Bosphorus when the Russian troops cross
the river Proth.
The Correspondent of the London Times
' states that the Russian troops in Wallachia are
committing the most dreadful excesses upon
the peasants, who had raised to submit to the
burdens imposed upon them. The women
and children of three villages are reported to
have been massacred.
FRANCE.—The autograph letter of the
Emperor Napoleon to the Czar, proposes a
treaty of peace on the basis of the Vienna note
modified by Turkey, and that the negotiations
should take place direct between the Russian
and Turkish Plenipotentiaries.
The French squadron under Admiral Brunt,
was to take on board, 12,000 troops and pro.
coed to Toulon to join the English squadron.
There 40,000 more troops will be taken on
board, when both squadrons will sail fur the
Levant.
The Will of the late Elliott Cresson,
The Will of the late Elliott C. Cresson, who
died on the 20th ult., was recorded yesterday.
Among the bequests, all of which give evi
dence of his liberal spirit, will be found a num
ber that will add to bin fame as a philanthro-
pist and a Christian. The following are the
principal of his bequests:—
let. "To the American Sunday School Uni
on for a permanent fund, sio,ooo.
2d. "To Jos. R. Ingersoll, Eli K. Price, J.
W. Claghorn, E. F. Rivinus. Frederick Fraley,
Wm. P. Foulk, Thos. S. Mitchell, Dr. Kirk
bride and Joseph Harrison, Trustees, and my
executors hereafter named, my lands in Clin•
ton county, in trust for the foundation and sup
port of a home for the aged, infirm or invalid
gentlemen and merchants, where, they may
enjoy the comforts of an asylum, not elemosin
ary, but as far as may be by the addition of
their own means, and by reference to the Pry
taneum of ancient Athens, an honorable home,
with the hope that it may be perpetuated and
enlarged by the bequests of its grateful inmates
until it shall become worthy of the city of Penn,
and a blessing to all whose wants have hitherto
been overlooked, leaving to my said trustees
full power to conduct and carry out this insti
tution, on the best polsible plan, and to provide
for its permanent usefulness, in or near my na
tive city.
3d. "To the Mayor and Councils ofPhiladel
phia,
the sum of five thousand dollars in trust
as a perpetual fund, the income of which I de.
sire shall annually . forever be expended in
planting and renewing shade trees, especially
in situations now exposing my fellow-citizens
to the heat of the sun; desiring that due care
be taken to select the best varieties, and.exclu
ding such foreign trash as the Lombardy Pop
lar, Alanthus, Paper Mulberry and sinnlar ex
otics.
4th. "To the Pennsylvania University, at
Philadelphia, the sum of $5OOO, to endow a
professorship of the fine arts, so that the ele
ments of drawing and sketching from nature
shall form part of the course of instruction of
its alumni. .
sth. "The sum of $lO,OOO toward the endow
ment of the Philadelphia School of Design,
(corner of Eight and locust streets.).
6th. "To my said executors the sum of $5OOO
in trust, to he applied towards providing a
School of Mines for developing the mineral
treasures of my native State.
sth. "To the Pennsylvania Agricultural So.
eiety, the sum of $5OOO in trust, to be by them
applied toward the erection and support of an
Agricultural College within the said State.
Bth. To his "raglanl friend and Secretary,
Wm. Coppinger, $5OOO.
9th. "To the Penneylvanin Historical Socie
ty, $lO,OOO, provided they shall apply the same
to the purchase of Penn's Mansion, in Second
street, and preserve the same as a memento of
love and regard for the memory and services
of the illustrious founder of Pennsylvania.
10th. "To the Seminary of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, near Alexandria, the sum
of $5OOO, in trust, for the entlowhient of one or
more scholarships in that institution.
11th. "To his friend and pastor, Rev. Wm.
Bacon Stevens, $5OOO.
12th. "To the following Institutions $lOOO
each t Athenteum, Widows' Asylum, Cherry st.,
Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, House of Re
fuge, Colcired House of Refuge, and the Ref
uge for Decayed Merchants.
13th. "The sum of $lO,OOO to erect a monu
ment to the virtues and noble actions of Wm.
Penn, on the site of the treaty-tree at Kensing
ton, or within the city itself.
By codocil to the will, the following Additio
nal bequests are made.,
"To the Mission and Schools of the Episco
pal Church about to be established near Port
Cresson, the suns of $5OOO, in the disbursement
of which, as well as in the application of the,
fund bequeathed to the Seminary near Alexan-,
dria, I desire that the Pastor of the Church of
St, Andrew, for the time being, shall enjoy a
full equal voice, and should a Collegiate De
partment, for the benefit of the natives and cit
scene, be added to the mission and schools, I
hereby add a further sum of $5OOO.
"To the Pennsylvania Colonization Society,
$lOOO.
"To the Pennsylvania Hospital, $5OOO, for
the use of the insane department, in 13lockley,
The residuary estategoes to the t!‘.:iltiren of
Warder Cresson, and Messrs. Jacob CrPsson
(lee. V. Bacon, andli • -
uarn•
cd as executers,
' ,t or the Journal.
Intellectual Improvement of the Farber.
Crushed beneath the supposed superiority , of
the learned professors, and the ilea lth and lux
uries of trade and commerce, it has been the
lot of the farmer, for many years, to find him
self looked upon as an inferior man.
That farmers, as a class, have given grounds
for being thus looked upon by the community,
cannot be denied; for let any candid mid truth
seeking man look around him among the moss
of the agricultural population of our country,
and he will find an amount of ignorance that
is wholly inexcusable, I mean no offence to
my brethren of the plough, who, like myself,
earn their bread by the sweat of their brows,
for I know full well, by experience, how hard
it is to earn one's bread, and make any pro
gress in literary pursuits at the same time; but
I know as well that many, very many, hours
are wasted which might be spent in storeieg
the mind with useful knowledge. There is, in
truth, a shocking indifference among farmers
as a mass, to the acquirement of intelloctual
knowledge, and the quicker we are aware of,
and acknowledge this tact, the more likely will
we be to correct our error. But if farmers are
ignorant, it is not the fault of their vocation.—
There is no life that meet lie made more emi
nently a life of reflection than that of the agri- '
eultunst. Living, as lie does, in the very "tree
sure-house of wonders," is there not enough to
awaken thought and reflection in him ? But
alas I too true is it that things so common and
fitmiliar as the operations of nature, cease to
excite our wonder and admiration. The green
grass grows beneath our feet—the bright blos
som bursts forth in beauty—the forest waves in
rich luxuriance—sunshine and shade are upon
our path, and yet we toil on, toil ever, in the
pursuit of worldly gain, passing the beautiful
unheeded by; and if, perchance, there is now
and then, one man amid a group of farmers,
who has a soul to look upon the beautiful in
nature or in art, those wise men shake their
beads, speak with a sepulchral tone, and pro
phesy the downfall of him, so recreant to his
interest, who dares to let a flower grow upon a
spot that might have grown a blade of grass or
grain I But let us hope that the dark night is
passing away—let us hope that a bright day is
dawning upon us and upon our children, and
let no prepare for them, at least, if it be too
late for us, a wider range of education—finer
tastes and deeper sensibilities. The good work
has begun—there seems to be a general stir
upon the subject of educating the farmer—the
text is in every man's mouth; let it go onward
—let ways and means be devised for educating
the mass of farmers, and let it no longer be
necessary for lawyers, doctors, ministers—any
body else but farmers, to deliver addresses, or
make speeches upon the subject of agriculture.
Let formers understand their own business,
both theoretically and practically, and let them
be able to tell what they do know, when it is
required of them.
I do not say this because I think it so envia
ble a lot to give an address, or make a speech,
but I say it in sorrow for that ignorance among
those who are strictly called practical femora,
that caused the necessity :or calling in the
aid of others to do What they themselves felt
their inability to do. Truly bath it been said,
that the farmers have done everything for oth
ers, and nothing for themselves. Had it been
done with a noble and benevolent spirit, we
might be joyful fin the goodness that led to it.
Were it a noble sacrifice of selfishness for the
benefit of our fellow man, we might glory in
the disinterestedness that prompt it.
But alas! Call we plead this? Oh no; igno
ranee, ignorance—nothing but ignorance of
the grossest kind has caused their elevation
and our shame. It is only by a thorough sys
tem of education, both moral and intellectual,
that we can attain the position which of right
belongs to us. We call, too, upon all good ci
tizens to aid us in this endeavor. The educa
tion of farmers is not a thing that alone con
cerns him; it concerns the welfare of the whole
country. We are hero now in the midst of
peace and prosperity, but still wo think that he
who has looked far into the future, may discov
er upon the horizon some clouds, which, though
now "no bigger than a man's hand," are desti
ned to gather and burst in fdry over our own
beloved homes. Perhaps no sagacity of any
party can prevent the storm, but it is better to
meet it well prepared than not to be prepared
at all. And what most that preparation be?
I answer—the universal education of all classes
in the community. In a republic, if anywhere,
we must have an intelligent peop le.
Monarchies and aristocracies may support
themselves through the wisdoni and tact of
their rulers, kings, and princes, without the
education of the common people, but a republic
must look to the virtue and intelligence of its
community for support, or it will fall a prey to
scheming men and heartless demagogues--
The farmers, from their numbers, hold the bal
ance of power in their hands in this country,
and insist continue to do so for years and years
to come; educate them. and our republic will
statist, the model and the glory of the world;
let them remain ignorant and uneducated, and
who shall dare to solve the enigma of the fu
ture ? D. P. K.
For the Journal,
Mn. EDlTOR :—Permit me through the col
umns ("he 'lemon]," to make a suggestion
to the friends of temperance. For some places
it may be too late to be of any nse, but in oth
ers it may not be too late to be of noose
fit, if carried out.
It is known that petitions am again in circa
lotion, praying the Legislature to pant us a
prohil;itory-liquor.law. Now what the best
and speediest way to get the most Signatures to
these petitions? When they are received in a
township, a meeting of the temperance society
of that township should be immediately milled,
and measures taken to have them as unmet ,
ously signed as possible. Four or five of the
most energetic and ardent friends of temper.
once, should be appointed to canvass the town
ship, and visit every family. The township
could be divided into as many districts as there
are persons appointed to canvass, and a dis•
trict assigned each one. Were this done there
ire few that would fail to discharge the duty
enjoined; and thus many men would be seen
and their signatures obtained who are now un
called upon, and no opportunity afforded them
to give their names. In most cases the duty
would not need to be imposed upon any one.
There would be men enough no doubt willing
and ready to engage in it, if the matter were
only presented to them.
These petitions are frequently sent to men
who do little or nothing with them to secure
names. Sometimes they are sent to others
who are good temperance men; but press of
business and eiscumstances prevent them from
properly attending to it. These men often
then hand them over to others who neglect to
circulate them. There is no doubt in our mind
if this plan was strictly carried out, one half
more, it not twice as many names could be got
as are usually obtained. Who doubts that in
many townships these petitions are not cireula.
ted as extemevely as they should ? At this
juncture of affairs it is necessary that we have
all the names we can get—hence the great ne
cessity of taking some such active measures to
secure them to our petitions, which will soon
be sent in such showers upon our Legislature,
as will totally disrobe them of ono evasion at
least; if not compel them to grant us the law
we want. A MAINE LAW MAN.
March 6, 1854.
war We learn &idle Hagerstown papers
that Robert Swan, lately tried for the murder
of Sprigg, has been appointed by the President
an Assistant to Col. Jack Hays, Surveyor of
California, and that he will soon leave for Cal-
Hernia to enter upon the duties of his office.—
His pay will be $B,OO per day. Next to bang
ing, we think this disposition of Mr. Swan is
about the best that could have been made. A
little of the first family chivithy in that region
would be likely to introduce him to a Mehra
fed judicial officer 'town as Judge Lynch, un•
des whose r tdr.! a court jurors can neither be
or blunted with forty odd bottlea of
ringoiingo, at the expanse of the public. hi
view of tho facto we aOe inclined to commend
the sagacity of:President Pierce in making the
appointnient.—Clmikroburg Whig. •
[Correspondence of the Milford ftencond
THE GREAT STORK. • •
Terrible Disaster—Great Destruction of
Vessel Property—Several Lifts Lost:—
The Coast Strewn.with Wrecks.
Friday Afternoon, di o'clock.— , The mail
from Lewes, the first tier the week, has just ar•
rived, and brings us the folloviing• sad account
of the doings of the storm in that nei• hbor.
hood, which has been kindly forwarded to us
by Hudson Barr, Esq., proprietor of the U. S.
Hotel, of that place:
Lewes, Dcl., Feb. 21.—We have been visited
with one of the most disastrous gales that woo
ever known here—the bench is strewn with
vessels for two miles.
The schooners Ames Maull, Gen. Scott, M.
Clotts, Cornelia, Minerva, Charles Moore,
Charles Parker, Rachel Jane, J. Vail, Mary
Parker, and Sussex, are all on the beach.—
The schooner Mary Jane, is in the 'harbor
with both masts cut away. There are, also,
two or three others on the other bar that will
be aground When the tido falls. Two of 'the
hands of the Mary Parker perished in
the rigging, n boy on board the James
Maull, and a colored boy named Tom Russell,
it is supposed that several others are lost as
wo can hear no tidings of them, but are in
hopes that they aro one tho Breakwater.—
There is such a heavy sea at this time that
none of the whale moats can get there. It is
still snowing and blowing very hard, and we
cannot see us far as the Breakwater, or per•
haps we should sea more, but in the name of
all that is great,it is terrible enough. It is the
most heart•readering eight I ever saw.
SECOND LETTER.
Lewes, Feb. 22, 185.1.—When I wrote you
yesterday, I gave you but a taint description
of the gale on Monday.
About three o'clock in the afternoon ' (Mon.
day,) the schooner Mary Jane drug into the
Rachel Jane, and she parted her cables and
came ashore just below the old mole. Two of
the.passengers of the Mary jumped on board
the Rachel. One of the passengers of the
Mary Jane was a lad 17 or 18 years of age,
who stripped himself of all his clothes except
his shirt and drawers before he left the Mary;
but when lie discovered the Rachel had parted
and was adrift, skinned himself to the buff and
plunged in, and when the crew lauded they
brought him ashore he immediately struck a
trot, and would have come in town, just as na.
Iced as he came into the 'World, bad it not have
been for some one that met him and gave him
an old cloth coat. It was a long time before
he came to his right mind.
There were three men on board the Rachel
all night, as it was impossible for the whale or
surf boats to reach her. The schooner James
Moult struck about 10 o'clock, soon after the
Sussex struck the J. Maull's stern, carrying it
away, and the hands of the Sessex jumped on
board the Maul! and had to take to the rigging,
where part of them remained all night, (four
in number.) One, a boy, was frozen to death,
one was drowned, two were taken off early
next morning. Those who jumped overboard,
and succeeded in gaining the shore, from
whence they proceeded to the town, which they
'reached about three o'clock in the morning
with the exception of Tom Russel,eolored, who
perished in the storm.
Ten of the vessels on the beach aro all in a
heap. it being not over two hundred yards from
the farthest south to the farthest one north,
some of them broken all to pidees,
Of those dead there are Ames Penn, a boy,
Edward Day, Theodore Layton and Thomas
Russell, (colored.)
Awful Death.
A most tragical tale is told of the sufferings
of three soldiers of a detachment of the 60th
regiment, now stationed at Toronto, and a
black man, who got into a boat, the soldiers
with the intention of deserting, and getting
over to Crab Island, and from thence, as op
portunity offered, to America. After a while,
the wind arising, they were driven out of their
course, and so remained in the open boat for
several days, without food or. water. At length
one of the soldiers proposed to draw lots that
ono should be killed to furnish food for the oth
ers. They did so, and the lot fell upon Thom.
as Buckley, one of the soldiers, who forthwith
bound up his arm, and opened a vein to bleed
himself to death; one of the others, and the
black man, sucked his blood, nod afterwards
went raving mad, and jumped into the sea.—
Buckley also died; and there remained only
one soldier out of the party in the boat. Win.
Lennon, who threw the dead body into the sea,
lashed the helm, and left himself to his fate.—
He bad not tasted any of Buckley's blood be.
cause, according to his siwn statement, be had
felt a scruple at doing so, as he had been his
comrade. After eleven days drifting, the boat
was driven on the coast of St. Domingo, and
the roast-guard found the Survivor, and after
giving him some refreshments, carried him to
Jaemel to the English Consul, before whom lie
made relation of the facts as above, and lie was
sent bock to Toronto in the steamer.—Burbo
cieee Paper.
Franklin - County.
An old German residing in Lancaster lately
"dreamed a dream," as we leant from the
Chambersban , Transcript, in which was re.
vented to him the location of large and rich de.
posits of gold near Chatnbersburg. Led by the
directions revealed in his dream, although ho
had never been either in Cumberland or Frank
lin Counties before, he commenced his pilgrim
age to the spot, and found it as indicated. He
solmnly declares that every scene along the
route was as familiar to him as if he had been
in the habit of traversing it for years, and that
the place of deposit was a perfect daguerreo
type of his mind's picture. Ho commenced
the search for treasure and found some "shin
ing stuff," but which did not prove to be gold.
He then returned to Lancaster, and after some
time succeeded in interesting Mr. Miley, of that
place, in his enterprise. Mr. M. at first thought
him insane, but was finally persuaded to ne.
company him to the place of hidden treasure.
Mr. Miley then purchased five acres of the
• ground, and digging.operations were commen
ced. An ore was soon obtained which seems
to have been more satisfaclory than that at
first obtained, and which has since been taken
to Philadelphia for analysis. The result is not
yet known. Meantime the matter has prods
cod no little sensation in the neighborhood.
tor. One of the most telling and conclusive
speeches yet delivered against the Nebraska
bill is that by Senator Smith of Connecticut.—
It is bard to understand bow any man can have
the face to vote for the bill after such a demoli
tion of it. Mr. Smith does not touch upon the
Slavery question, but confines his discussion to
the propriety of organizing the Territory at all.
He shows that there are,
properly speaking,
no inhabitants there: that there are already
more Territories than are wanted; that there is
no occasion for the expense of instituting an
other, and that, by solemn pledges, the region
now in question belongs to the Indian tribes
which have been removed there. Many nets
of Congress stand in the way of the proposes!
measure, and to effect it requires not only the
abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, but of
a great deal of our existing legislation beside.
The speech is seasoned with a very hearty and
racy wit, which adds to its effectiveness.
INTERMARRIAGE OP BLOOD RELATION 3.-1110
Fredericksburg News says:—ln the count• in
which we were raised, for twenty generations
back, n certain family of wealth and respecta
bility, have intermarried mull there cannot be
found in three of them a sound man or woman.
One Tuts sore oyes, another scrofula, n third is.
idiotic, a fourth blind, a fifth bandylegged,
sixth with a head about the size of a turnip,
with not ono out of the number exempt from
physical nr mental effects of some kind. Yet
this family perseveres to intermarry with each
other, with these living monuments constantly
before them.
efir In Lancaster, on Friday, a steer was
slaughtered, the meat of which when cleaned,
weighed 2108 pounds ! It attracted great at
tention from the market folks on Saturday
morning and some of the best ems went off at
30 cents ivy lb. Rather deity
Snow Storm in the Olden Times
The year 1717 is memorable in
,the history
of New nigland, nn account of the Unusual
quantity of snoiis , which fell Febnary 20th and
24th of that year. In those two storms the
earth wits covered with snow from ten to fifteen
feet, and in some plaices to twenty feet deep.—
Many houses of one story were buried, and, in
numerous cases, paths were dug from house to
house under the snow drifts. The visits wore
anode by means of snow shoes, the wearers
having first stepped out of their chamber win
dows. One gentleman, wishing to visit his
"lady love," walked three miles with snow shwa
and entered her residence as ho hod left his
own, namely: by the chamber window. He
was cordinally received, as he was the first per
son the family had seen from abroad for a
week I Cotton Mather has left a manuscript
account of "this great snow," and the many
marvels and prodigies attending it.—Busfon
Transcript.
Varnish for Patent Leather
The process followed in France for glazing
leather is to work into the skin, appropriate
tools, three or four 'successive coatings of dry
ing varnish made by boiling linseed oil with
white lead and litheragc ' in the proportion of
or; pound of each of the latter to one gallon of
the former, and adding a portion of chalk or
ochre. Each coating must be thoroughly
dried before the application of the next. 'very
black is then substituted for the chalk or ochre,
the varnish slightly thinned with spirits of tur
pentine, and five additional applications•made
the same manner as before, except thot it is
put on thin and without being worked in.. Tho
leather is rubbed down with ptimmice steno
powder . and then varnished and placed iu a
room at 90 0 , out of the way of dust.
The last varnish is prepared by boiling Pt,
of asphalt with 10th. og the drying oil used in
the first step of the process, and then stirring
in Mb. copal varnish and 101 b. turpentine. It
must hare a mouth's age before it is fit fur use.
Dead Body Found.
On Saturday last the dead body of a Men
was found near the Pa. Railroad, on the fhrm
of Mr. Ilileman, in Allegheny.toWnship. His
pocket-book contained $49 15, but nothing
that would lead to the discovery of his namo
was about his: person. The body was after
wards discovered to be that of CEO. W. RsEn,
n respectable citizen of Catherine township in
this comity. He was in Hollidaysburg on that
morning and started for Altoona on horse
back; the supposition is, that he was thrown
from his horse, and by injuries received died
shortly. Ile was taken on Monday afternoon
from the Alms-house, by his friends, and inter
red in Catharine township, where he resisted.
Much credit is due to the gentlemanly Su
perintendent of the Alms House, EAFARD
Mu-
Goose, who exhibited an amount ofilltindness,
on this occasion, highly commendabie.—Blair
County Whig.
New Counterfeit.
We were shown last week a new Counterfbit
$5 note on the Farmers' Bank of Lancater,
which is so well executed as to be calculated to
deceive good judges, who are not very familiar
with the engraving, of the genuine; the signs•
tures are a good imitation. • But the counter
feits enn readily be detected by the ends of the
note, which have the word "Five" engraved
across them, while on the genuine the word
"Five" appears in dies in three of the corners
lengthwise of the note. In the genuine also
the dog, the key, and the cheat appear between
the signature of the President and Cashier—
while in the counterfeit there is uothing.—Lan
caster Ind. Whig.
A Wee Thing.
About a week ago the wile ofa gentleman
living in the eastern part of the city, says the
Dayton (0.) Gazette, presented him with - a
baby, which is regarded ap n "perfect little
wonder." It 18 a boy, still living, apparently
in good health, and when born weighed just
one pound. Its first bed was made on a com
mon sized dinner plate.
The parents are very proud of the little lid.
low, and harp had his daguerreotype taken.—
Half the women in town have been to see bin,
and the other half are getting ready to go.—
Harrisburg Telegraph.
THE RUSSIAN FLEET.—Tho follo - wing is an
exact account of the Russian force in the Black
Sea:-4 thrce•deckers, (one old) 120 guns
each; 11 line of battle, 80 and 84 gone; 5 fri•
gates, 51 guns; 2 frigates, 48 guest 8 corvettes,
36 guns; 4 corvettes, 24 guns; 2 brigs, 22 guns;
10 brigs 19 pins; 8 brigs, 14 guns; 5 brigs, 12
guns; 5 brigs. 6 guns; 3 brigs 12 guns; 5 brigs,
10 guns, 1 old 84 line of battle-1 old 24 gun
brig, (unserviceable) a few steamships. Total
guns afloat, 2,449.
TIOGA PlllSONERS.—Seven prisoners from
Tioga County en rouge for the Eastern Peniten
tiary, were lodged in our jail for safe keeping
on Monday evening last. We learn they urn
part of a gang of counterfeiters convicted nt
the recent session of Court in that County, and
although n pretty strong delegation for ono
County. it is said "they have a few more moro
left of the same sort."— 'Williamsport Pres.
fierThe National Democrat says George
Lippard has left, in money and effects, a suffi
cient amount to have kept him from "want" for
many years. And instead of living in a garret,
ns represented by the romancer who wrote the
article in the Boston Post, he resided in n very
genteel house, handsomely furnished, and re
plete with every comfort. It is just to the
memory of Mr. Lippard that these facts shall
be known.
ItEl).. A person in England, lately rummaging
his family documents, found written on the
pack of an old deed some words indicating that
a pot of gold wns buried in a certain plane in
the garden. It was an first regarded as a hoax,
but on digging in the spot, an iron pot cum
to light, containing fifteen thousand guineas,
and a scrap of parchment much decayed, on
which wns written, "The devil shall have k
sooner than Cromwell." '
NOBLE Imust.s.rlo7l:-.The School Bill has
finally passed the Legislature of Texas. Two
millions are set aside as a school fund, the in
terest on which, ($100,000) to be distributed
among the connties according to tho number
of children of scholastic age. This will give
counties of an average population over a thou•
sand dollars, and will be of considerable bone.
Sc in the way of paying teachers, besides put
ting in circulation annually $lOO,OOO.
For Me Journal:
A.croslical Enigma.
Composed of 21 letters.
My 1 20 10 17 14 8 is a garment worn by
chi
My 2 16 20 9 21 is a county in a Southern
State.
My 4 13 8 9 15 3 is an adjective in the En
glish language, and one to whom it may be ap
plied is not gentle.
My 7 5 11 C is a kind Of handle.
My 18 21 is a river in the United States.
My 15 12 8 14 19 is an important part of the
human body.
My total is a distinguished title applied to
a certain great man,
.
1:15y. Answer to the last eingma,-“Pay the
Printer in advance."
MARRIED,
At the Black Bear Hotel, on the Gth inst.,
by Rev. W. M. Deatriek, Mr. TROSIAS
I.ETT, to Miss &MUIR-111TE; both of Shirleys ,
kurg, Pa,
- On the 28th ult., by Rev. Jackson Hay,
THOMA£I.I3EANS, of Montgomery county, Pa., to
Altar E., only daughter of Elisha Slalom aker,
of lltuitingdott county, Pa.
Will the above we received a largo wedding ;
cake, for which we return our sincere
and n•e wish their honey-moon may be prutrac.
led.