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•IW PROFMJ ARK orrrif AI.ONG
UN THCUUN>KIttrMOK HKATIUN.
Ortfon, Washington, Kawis,Minne
■79 - y* sola aßdJlah Territories.
Front lite Oregon Weekly Tmee.
Orrgou and It* I'rovpects.
li Is but a few yean since the: Oregan was
bat Rule known in lb* amrtjfe of history.
Then rOifLfatelively . nothing. i known,
Hive it wis a wild expansive waste beyond
the Rocky Mountains—inhabited only by
lite races, arid visited by a few adventurous
wi.iles occasionally in the capacity of lrsp ;
pyvs nnd for Wadr*. s h is .but* a few years
ftHhe Ata+i*, at lite mouth of -the msjetlic
Columbia, was tits oo)y .town itial.iiot'ed the
entire and braid domain iocluded in the
"m*p of Oregon"—anil it was called the
Capital.
What a marked difference is to-day pre
sented. Two btoad Territories—Oregon end
Washington—dotted otter with thriving town*
sod 'villages,end peopled with seventy thou
sand hardy, enterprising pioneero, now oc
cupy tie piace. Sl* years ago its emi* pop
uiation numbered but a (rifle over thirteen
thousand—the sturdy Stid enterprising emi
grants who hive crossed the Roeky Moun
tains since then have contributed largeiy'in
swelling our. population, in a< gradual and
permanent manner, to w present number
The industrious husbandman is bore well
repaid for bit fell- mother earth here yields
a bounteous return to all who speed the
plow through he: rich, er ply the axe to her
majestic forests.
■ytie products of Oregon alone, for expor
tation, amount, in the aggregate, to at truf
half a million dollars yearly. The item of
epp'es, alone, which will be exported thfe
season, will not fall below one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars.
once (he tiny Indian canoe was |
the only conveyance upon our waters, we
now see the noble steamships, sait-sblps, and
riser steamers in abundance. Trade and
commerce steadily acquire mmoenruirr; and
where a short lima since existed but a few
trading posts With limited supplies o! Indian
commodities, we now find almost unlimited
numbers of stores anj More-houses, stocked
with farge quantities of everything Lfial can
eondeee to the comforts of civilized life.
Notwithstanding a, devastatinglndian war
l.as been raging tbroughoat Oiegoq and
Warfciftglon Territories during the past year,
WfHcb hat proved disastrous io onr genera)
prosperity,, yet, through the abundance of
kind Nature, a Urge surplus of crops have
been harvested ibis full.
Rest estate ia manifestly improving in
value; and, although farm stock is raited in
* great profusion, there seems to be but little
diminution in its vale*, improvements are
going on rapidly throughout the Willamette
valley; mills and manufacturing establish
treute of various kinds are in process of com
pletion ; schools, churches, and printing
presses are properly appreciated, and liber
ally sustained.
We occasionally bear the remark made—
' Oregon is a poor country to thrive in"—but
such are few. We know ol uiiny who have
resided here lor a lime, and returned to the
Elites with the hope of being belter satisfied,
who, in most caaes have either returned or
expressed their regrets of leaving, and wish
ed themselves back in Otegon once more.-
Let croakers say what they will, in the sore
ness of potty disappointment, the country is
sare to prosper. A steady but sure progtess
is better, in the end, thsn fieiitous and mo
mentary flarbus of advancement.
We see additional reasons, from year to
year, why the people here have cause to be
contented and happy. Tbe industrious need
bave no fears of coming to want —and the
capitalist will ever find abundant opportuni
ties for profitable investments. What mors
is nsceutry?
From the I'icntu and Democrat, Oiympta,
Washington Territory.
Wnstttuaton Territory.
OOV. STEVENS' SPEECH ABOUT THE LATE INDUS
* :■■■ was.
Substance of the Remarks of Gov. Stevens at (he
Dinner given to Col. Shaw, end the' Volunteers.
After thanking the company for the honor
tbey had done him, in associating his name
with the meatuies of the war, Gov. Stevens
gave a history of the causes of the war, de
monilrajing that it was the result of a wide
vpread combination, and had commeuced
under circumstances of great atrocity. The
relations of the whiles and Indians bad been
friendly, and bet few casye of injury to lbe
property or person of an Indian, had occorred
since the first settlement ol the country.
Treaties had just been entered into, and
yet io violation of the faith 6( them, our peo,
pie, entirely unsuspicious of danger, hod been
massacred in eold blood ; innocent women
and helpless children even, not having "been
spared. It was determined, all persona a
greepm, (he people, aothorilies and regular
itbed, and tb iribas which prelected tliera.
The tribes in the Yakima, and refugees
from the tribes oil the Sound under Lesehi,
not* waged war in earnest, but thanks to the
ririor awl patriotism of our people, the war
wax ended on the Sound, and those who tfid
not surrender unconditional prisoners Were
tbivvß acrossihe Cascades. " X J '■
Gov. SteveM regretted that be could not
approve of the operations of the regular troops
east of the Cascades, which in bis judgment,
broughtdiscredit upon tbe country; aruffow
ered tbe pteatigo of the white race in the
mind of the iudign, { .
The bright spot to Uts operations of the war
east of the Cascade mountains, since (tie sig
net defeat of the enemy in tjrie WsllawaUa
vnlley in December last by the Oregon vol
uoieem, wasw brillient victory of the Grand
Roiirfe* Tba tr&ups moved io two columns
(torn tbe Sound over the Cascades and from
the Dalles along the Columbia, and meeting
almost the same day, pushed no by night
marches, and ittuok tbe severest bio w of (tie
Sound. The Southern Battalion, under the
ittUepid Mexoi> r .aame by feaeed marches 10
- thn Souogma its hour of need, grid ihe Sound
forces with tliem over the Cuscades
to the Grand Ronria, of which the relations
■are with ihe Columbia valley, there routed
die enemy and reamed home with them by
wpy of the Columbia river.
But the citizsnaxrf the Territory generally,
hive given an example of patriotism which
past history furnishes no parallel. Every
, thing that could be spared waa freely tender
ed, at fair prfecs, to carry on the war. Firm
| crs, merchants, ownSM of vessels, nil con
tributed, turning oat dnirnala, wagons, pre-,
visions, clothing and transportation to vqnip
and beep well supplied- lor six months more
than one half of the able bodied men of the
Teiritory—and yet with their arms in^,their
hands ami the risk of their lives, those who
remained at Home, less than one half of the
adolt mates, got in crops which haw ripened
into a harvest, sufficient for the next year's
subsistence of the Territory.
Bot it is nm so much the valor and patriot
ism of our people which challenge* admire
lion, aa their noble humanity under circum
stances of extraordinary excitement and prov
ocation.
No bird Of ill omen hovering over the coast,
and sending its stench tn the shoreaof the fir
Atlantic, can obsenre the glorious record
which the conduct of our people has made in
the history of th# eoufttry.
No friendly Indian has been molested in a
volunteer camp our Seoul. There has been
no killing of prisoners or plundering of prop
erly from Ihe ho-tiles. Chptured animals
• have been accounted for as pntdic property.
For six months, not a friendly Indian was
killed thronghout the Territory, nltliough one
half were ready et the Invnnble moment to
join tbe war pnrty. Of the five thousand five
hundred Indians held on reservation, not one
waa touched. It wns not the strength of a
few {[ail men, but iho strength anJ courage
of a whole population Hint secured to tbe
Indiana this Immunity from suffering and
wrong.
Of (he few esses of murder which occurred
subsequent to Ihe first sik months of the wsr,
there was extraordinary provocation in two
cases which occurred jet a district forbidden
to the friendly fn.liaui, and which had been
laid waste Ky the enemy. TITWsm murders
have been oniversany regretted and reproba
ted by our citizens; and It would be as unjust
to attach the censure of litem to an entire
community, as ft would be to attach the cen
sure of the recent killing of a northern Indian
by some soldiers at Steilacom to Ihe whole
garrison.
All such officers of the regular service as
Halter, Alvord, Malouey, the lamented*
Slaughter. Russel, Nugent, and Major Rains
himself, who from a long residence in the
Territory actually know the country and the
Indians, have agreed with the people and the
autnoriiies aa to Ihe character of the emer
gency we have bad to meet. They have
been with us in sentiment throughout.
The only terms thai ehonld be allowed hos
tile Indians is unconditional submission.—
Mercy ought then to be extended to l'<e great
body, but murderers should be hung. Such
are tbe conditions of a permanent p: ace.
Gov. Stevens concluded by toasting the
volunteers, which w*e responded to by Col.
Shaw.
From the Sacramento Stale Journal.
Kansas Territory.
The following passages from a letter re
cently received from an Ohio farmer, settled
al Fort Riley, Kansas, will, at this time be
perused with interest.
I have,col the convenience for a published
letter. My desk is a walnut log, in the edge
of a skirt of limber, on one of the main trib
utaries of the Kansns river; al a short distance
is my dwe'liflg, consisting of two breadths of j
cotton cloth, inclined at right angles of a
hackberry ridue pole, and my couoh is this
dowry valley, with an Indian rampfire at
my feet, and tne stars for my study—though
none of these make me feel disquiet and
lonesome, for here one is amidst some of the
finest repiesenletions of nature.
The Birds of Kansas. —The birds are trifling
and singing around me, aud some of them
are getting up a variety of sounds that seem
Utile like music. The blackbird, the robin,
the lark, the nightingale, a species of oriule,
are among lltese I venture to name. The
hawk duck, prairie lieu, grouse, sand bill
crane, wiM goose, and turkey, are rather
abundant.
Quadrupeds —Our quadruped game consists
ol rats and mice, gophers, the fox, the squir
rel, the badger, prairie wolf, coyote, deer
antelope, elk end buffeio. We bave consid
erable spoil w.itb the wolves. They are rath
er familiar towards us, still they ehow us a
decided amount of respect. A few days
since we look a bunting stroll aud routed fif
. teen antelope, killing one, and taking aue
prisoner.
i Jieh.— Fish abound wj plentifully in all
the rivers and tributaries of the Territory. A
, patty-ef ua, a few dgys *g, waul to tlm Re
r publican Ford, and with our wagon-theft
I caegbt a catfish thai weighed forty -one lbs,
wit It ether itzca ranging down. The catfish
is a scry line rating fish. Tbe other varieiiea
, ai quife numerous- •*e-i.t •*.:
, Buffalo Hunt. —Thsrv is a petty of us going.
a buffalo bunting in a few days, Starling from
. Fort Riley, and following op the Saline Fort.
, A party et obr neighbor claimants bave j-tat
retamed from week's bum, with tbe meet'
, of otiemuffalo, end two Nve buffalo calves.
. They give such great accounts of them, that
, those of us who stayed at home to guard the
. wagons and ciopa, have become somewhat
I excited in our tepid arrangement* for another
, bunt.
, The Soil—Agricultural Resources,
( soil of this Territory is rich vegetable loam,
, strongly impregnated with limestone. The
, geological formation of the country is simple.
It is very likely there ir corny coal in this tar
- ritory;—there may be considerable. The
i timber and prairir-aie proportioned, in ray
i judgment, of ebont one acre of limber to 300
t acres ofimrtririe. There is water in great por-
I (ions uHP* territory and a conriderable da
I ficienoy HI others. The country is wjell adap
ted to the raising of horses, cattle, sheep and
> boga; to ihe cohere of hemp, corn, potatoes
t and the grape. A gentleman of considerable
V-f* *4l ' ' *
-.- ; . . ;4.
' .tgricuHaral experience toid me he thought
' rite principle products of the- conntry were
destmed to commence with 11 W," wool an-i
• wii'e. They will unquestionably be leading
productions, bi|t no theory Can make this any
less a great cattle country.
Correspondence of the Ohio Statesman.
From minaesrttn—AgiilDE to fie a Slate--
01. Noble*' exhrbtuau.
Siixxopxc, Min. Ter", Nov. 85, 1856.
COL. MXDART— Dear Sir;— I bare been in
Minnesota two weeks, and thinking you
might like to know what my impressions
concerning the Territory arc, I venture to
give them,
fn ascending the Mississippi, I had no op- j
pdvtnnlty to vise "the coorttry, aa the ahnte#
■re generally bluffy ant' barren. Ten or fif
teen miles Irom the river li.e good cOnntrv
commences. It consists of fertile, rolling
prairie, with considerable timber land, and
generally an abundance Of water.
Moat of the toWns appear to be very enter
prising and flourishing. Tha rapidity with
which settlers ere coming into the country ia
without parallel. It is estimated by some of
tha beat informed, that there are nearly 200,-
000 people in the Territory at ibis time. I
could scarcely credit this when I first landed
si St. Pan). Since tten I have been up the
Minuesote rirar aa far as Traversa das Sionx
and St. Peters, and almost every acre of
land ia claimed for a distance back of from
ten to fifteen miles on each side of the river.
There era many fine farms and farm bouse*
all the wsy up to the. Indian Reservation
neatly to Fort Ridglv. The bast locations
between the Minnesota river and lowa are
already aelecttd and settled upon. North for
sixty or seventy miles along the streams and
around Ihe little lakes, and about jbe same
distance west of the Mississippi, the bast lo
cations are already claimed by tattlers who
iulend to pre-empt. Thonsands of men will
spend Ihe winter here, building their houses
or cabins no their claims, eosxto be ready
IO receive their families in ihe Spring. Very
linle choice land will be -left subject to pri
*daiauujM-etaot her season. This ia good
for th# country, bnt not for (peculators.- I
Those who oome now are ulmoat actual set
tlers, and, of course, will cause a rapid de
velopment of the country.
Stps will be taken this winter to call u
(tea Tensio- to-frame a Convtiietfea ywapaia
tsfry to the admission of Minnesota as a State,
and in a year from this wintar she will
doubtless become one. Her soil is unsur
passed, her climsle for health is unequalled,
and her rapid development for two years
past is wlthooi a parallel not excepting even
California. St. Paul has s reeideut popula
tion, by actual count, of lull ten thousand at
this time. A number nf other towns now
lttfrij. a population of from five hundred to
two inhabitant*, which two years
since had not an exlsfsnce. As the cobntry
is settled new towns are up con-
A settler's claim to a quarfflfceetion nf se
lected land sella readily for to
53,000, according to the advantag^H^prai
rie, water and limber, or localdy,^S|be
fore the government i paid for it.
Many roads have been laid out
proved sufficiently for aft
across the territory. jffierprise
of the kind on foot the wagon
road from Fort URf IQ. pemJßnce
Rock, near 'knJHPn rass of the Rooky
Mountains. A government road, under the
d irecuon oflfi&jpl. Thorn, of the Topographi
cal F.ngineem; has already been laid out and
will prubajjiy be completed next summer,
from St. on the Mississippi, to Fort
Ridgfey, oik tike Minnesota River.
Froth fh* San Francisco Sun.
JMMmrmons er Utah.
not a more Unpromising
region in country for a people to
I locate ia thillHflh Shut out from ail inter
course as may be had by the
most trying priv^Hb—devoid of almot ev
erything like products—rigorous in
climate—sterile iugaoil comparatively—re
moved from all idKits for such products as
the industry of Jw inhabitants can force
from the relucianVkarth—without navigable
streams, and increyd by lafty and nigged
mountains, Utah il gradually 'and steadily
becoming an objeot |f far greater importance
than We are for tbe part aware of. Im
pelled by the most incredible fanaticism, and
under the most absnlote fype cf theocratic
government—paying tilind eod zaaloUA obe
dience to tbe behests of theWeader, these
people are literally performina miracles.—
Their mipaionaries are seatterih over the
world, and though frequently rcpSled with
scorn and derieion, return to theßlabore
• with tbe ihost astounding pertinacityi But
■ u few years ago, and a handful of retfMjjj
t men and women from Missouri were wenth
i iug an untrodden path through the heart of
• a vast and unknown fract, in search ot some
t place where they might shelter from the
persecutions of the world, and now that
I j Uaudiul of outcasts have grown to bo a pow
, i erfol peeple, demanding admission into the
. Union on equal terms with the States, and
t setting the power and authority of the
, American Government at defiance.
i Tl.e rapid progress and colonization or
X, California can be accounted for on nataral'
principles, but Ihe advancement of Utah is
j. almost miraculous. Thousands are flocking
i to their standard, from England, Germany,
, Australia and (be United-Stales. They have
i their entisMiries in all ihlae and other cOun-
I trie*, diligently prepsring the way and mak
. ing the paths straight for immigration lo
I their great stronghold. The revenue of ike
i Territory is freely expended io promote this
t object, and instead of being diminished, is
largely increased by tbe added population—
for industry is strictly enforced in Utah. Al
ready they havy assumed the name of Stale
, fo| their Territory, and have opened up every
t branch of manufacture necessary to their
. subsistence end independence from the coo
• uibutions of other places. They msnufao
i lure all sorts of iron ware afd cutlery, all
r- kinds of farming implements, carpets, raise
> woof, and make clotb, cotton fabrics of all
■ kinds, to tbb so foe manner, paper, saddlery,
furniture, build steam engiaes—and many
• others. They pay great attention to raising
I the finest breeds of stock, poultry, etc.; they
t also encourage the fine arts, and painting,
t music, e'c., are handsonXly patronized; and
in several pointathey are in IIM. qdv*uce of
California, with all her boasted weilih and
natural reroureee. The** are faots—
stern accusatory facts—containing a leeaon
fall of deep import to oar people, which
they would do well lo apply. Their unprom
iaibg country compete unceasing induitsy,
and that checks the wild spirit of excitement
have no |j me f or jj. They settled in
a poor region to make it rich—to build up
permanent homes, by*obriely and perseve
rance; pot fevered by the plots
of the aaiiiDltng speCtrfator; (tTSy offer peace,
••cpfiUf for life and ptqpfrty, and aeafat these
who afe willing .to go t thenk, aad ate 10,
, creasing In populstioiv *Ub-eU Jhatr natural
obaticlaa, far fatter tbao Is California, with'
her many natural advantages. Immigrants
to Utah go theit dragging handcar's from
Missouri, containing all their world's store,
while, we base two lines af steamships in
full operation, two other routes soon to be
opsreted, a wagon road in prospective, and
aia hoping for a railroad in addition. They
; havo settled the vast region from Great Salt
Uke to within two hundred miles of Our
California frontiers, se that travellers having
passed that space, can eleep at one of their
settlements every night.
The want of spece precludes our showing
(he causes of these results as compared with
UaliCoiffia; but the subject is one of deep
import and merits the serious attention of all.
STAR OP THIS NORTH.
DtsnnriSiiri rlselliSO if Colombia coon
i. ly are notified to meet in their eeveral
elemjan districts op SATURDAY, the 27th
irtst,, between the hour* of
two and seven, P. M.j and choose the usual
number of Delegates to meet in County Con
vention, at Bloomshurg, on Monday follow
'JGfJ?ece"hber J£th, at one o'clock RJkL, to
sareef mJißCon"
vention which will moot at Hsrrisburg on the
2d day of March next, to nominate candidates
for Governor, Canal Commissioner and Judge
of tbrfupteme Court.
w . C. R. BtJCKALEW,
Chairman Standing Committee.
Blcomsburg, Dec. 18, 1868.
TUB JJEROCRATIC'SPATE COAVEN
. TIOA FOR 1897.
The Democratic B,'eio Convention, for the
porpose ol placing in nomination candi
dates for Governor, Canal Commissioner and
Jadge of the Supreme Court, to be voted
for in October next, will be held at HARRIS'
BURG, on MONDAY, tba second of March,
1867, at 11 o'clock. A. M. '
J. VV\ FORNEY,
Chairman of Stata Central Committee.
A REVIEW.
With (he close of the year will draw to
ward its end the eighth olume of the "STAR"
—the eight years of mjied toil and enjoy.
BMMW-WtrtEh have matted some or the Dear
time of life. They have been fruitful in the
knowledge of men and the world; and while
ooteveiy movement bee been one of sun
shine, it has gone quite ae well with the idol
of our political affections as we had aoy rea
son to desire or expect. It grew out of the
earnest impulse ef life's spring-time for 'Truth
and Right,' and dealt its blows fearlessly
against selfishness and guile without count
ing the cost. The labor in lis columns ha*
been given with" a hearty good -pill, and
with-the zeal which Only sincerity can be
stow. It is the most pleasant of reflactions
in reviewing the past (bat our early friends
all stand by cur banner yet; end that even
the enemiet ef our enterprise in ite origin
now do slow justice to the motive*ihat guhfe
it and the roeflts that mark it,
A coup'ry newspaper must from the very
nature of things be political; aad the man
who in this repoblio preionds to despite poli
tics tamely guilty of a foolish affectation.—
He who assumes to be a "no-party-mtn" is
generally the veriest slave of party, and the
most bigoted .of man. In our parly, then,
we found eight years ago a portion of eamp
followers caring on Iy for the "rule," and re
alty hostile to the principles of Democracy.
Heresies were openly avowed on subjects
of revenue aud finance in government, end
men taken for candidates who were mK|s
to the orgsniiation of the party, Cameron
ism and volunteering were dividing the pet
ty, snd bad mode it tha easy prey of the op
-111" these
b** not an
open friend in tha county, und the men who
ran after Whigs and Volunteers come beck
repentant and sorrowful. When tire tide of
fanaticism and bigotry swept over the State
in 'B4 there were here a/ew Democrats who
followed the falsa gods, and ministered be
fore the idol* in seeret silence and ahame.—
They drew the water , and hewed the wood
for the false prophets, until tbey found that
oread powerless to sake them, and are now
cast oat as unprofitable servant* by those
whom they served only to well: When the
day of darkness came we gave warning and
spargd not the faithless and false. Early
and late we toiled against deception and
malice—and often toiled almost single hand
ed *nd alone.
The opposition has been disheartened and
mortified at the result—at first that its allies
proved powerless,, and more recently that
tbey proved treacherous
We nan say of a truth wbal few meu-oan
after eight-year's service in the front rank of
the fray—that we have written nothing iu
these columns which we would wish were
blotted out—-nothing which we believe was
unjust of unfair. Aud with this inspiriting
reflection out work will go ou. To the true
spirits who have stood by us io the hour of
trial the uew year and volume will knit ue
With another ligk of brotherhood in the great
cause of the people. The cold hearted have
illustrated the lesson ol human-frailly, and
we can afferd to forgive. The viotories of
tba past will animate u* to begin out new
volume with renewed energy *nd_#pirit.
Our readers may remember thai, some.
, months ago, the Commonwealth obtained
judgment against the Hartisbarg Binkfoi the
penally incurred in not keeping its bills at
per in the oily. Bjr the decision pf a major
' ity of the Cburt, the case was brought within
the Act lilting liabilities- lor penalties tff
two years preceding anil, so that, although
judgment was in favor of the Commonwealth
* the Bank escaped a large portion of ite just
liabilities. The amount of the judgment wee
; P al 4 by the Bank; and with the understand
ing that the pthat Banks of the Cominoh-'
wealth, Standing in # like delinquent position,
would settle on the same bests, suits against
nbem were deferred. It is now understood,
however, that (bore banks refuse payment,
and, it is said, rely on the Legislator* to re
lieve them from tfte penalty by.repealing the
. law, and giving the repeal retrospective ac
tion. The Commonwealth, under ibis ospeot
of the rattler, proposes to commence eoit*
t against them immediately. This is right and
, proper. Anything less or any delay would
render the authoritiea of the Stele obnoxious
, to tha charge of neglect ofduly. There should
be no lews on the etatule book that are not
or cannot be enforced. The Legislature, it
1 is hoped, will take notice of the ground on
which it is intimated that the banks rely for
escaping this penally. So far4rom repealing 1
the law, it should be amended by increaeing
the penally five Cold, and by simplifying (be
collection of this increased amount. The
object of the present penalty of two mill* per
cent, tax W]Mfligg|t intended to require
tha banks to keep their notes at par riA
points named,and not as a revenue measure.
If this .is so, then why not increase the tax to
two or even fire per ceni, if depreciated pa
per cannot be driven oot at a less ratel The
ptessnt penalty i# manifestly inadequate for
the object intended, as tba banks can pay the
tax and realixe a handsome profit afterwards.
Bat a* they do neither pay the tax, keep
their bills at par, or regard the decisions of
the Court, the Legislators should take early
occaaioa to signally rebuke their contuma
, Ps,' ■
OF We commend the following just tribute
to Post Master General Campbell, taken from
io* fSve^%'^bMkbi^S
who whenever a mail failed in its arrival, a
aewapaper miscarried, or a letter was mis
sent, never failed to cast Ike blame upon the
Poet Master General. The "North Ameri
can" says:—
"It is due to Mr. Campbell, who hts made
hie last anneal report te Congress, and ie
about to retire from his high office, to say,
what indeed we can say, in strong and cor
dial terms—that be has performed the oner
ous but honorable duties of that office with
a single eye to the interests of Ihe public,
with a faithfulness, industry and ability ttn
surpassed; that he he* fully met and an
swered all the just claim* ol the community
upon him, and will leavn the Department in
as prosperous a condition te was possible for
the administrative skill of a single men to
render it."
% New Com.—'The aew cent is a very pretty
corn, and great improvement on the present
unwletdlg^ead-filthy, copper cent. It ie about
the size of a quarter eagle, but muebthicirer
and nearly tbe color of German silver. The
obverse is a well executed figure of an eagle
in flight wiih the date underneath, ar.d the
words "United Stales of America" above.—
The converse is a finely executed wreath,
representing all the principal staples of the
country—cotton, corn, tobacco, wheat, grapes
etc.—with the words "one cent" in the cen
tre. Tbe only objection to it is, 'it has no
ringing sound.
NEW YCAR'S ADDRESS.—Our carrier re
quest# us id sey thai he will deliver a spe
cial communication to town subscribers on
the morning of tbe first day of the New
Year, treating of very important matters
which it concerns them to know. He hopes
tbey will feel duly grateful for this mark of
his regard, and be prepared to favor b'.Ci
with a small or large tnetal wheel on the fg
casion. -
P. S. No objection to gold dollars.
IW The Jedgcs of the 21th Judicial Dis
trict will meet at the Court Bouse in Blooms
burg, on the 30th inet., to appoint a Reve
nue Commissioner. f
I . Jgyj|t ■
' W Next wtek we'will publish a very sen:
sibl* extraet from a late lecture of Judge
Lewi* which will bo interesting to laey peo
ple. We will alio turnist) another ef Ihe spicy
epistles of Deeatioke'.
IST Col John M_. Sullivan, oi Butler Co.,
Ie named by tbe Butler American aa the next
Republican candidate for Governor of Penn
sylvania. The party might go farther and
fate worse.
OT John Youngman, Esq., the editor of
the Sunbury Gazette has resigned tbe appoint;
ment of Pok\master at thai plgce, and Medio
E Bucher has been appointed iu his plaea.
0* The Clinton Co. Democrat has raised
the name of Gen. William F. Packer to its
mast bead for the Demociatio nomination
for Governoi by the next State Convention,
■
diL leant from the Scranton Herald
that Coal properly near that bo
rough, waa recently sold to some New Yolk
capitalist*. Tbe tract contain* 660 acres,
and wai sold at MOO per acre, or 8330,000.
OT George W. Tattle, the inventor of the
famous "baby jumper," and who baa reali
zed 860,000 by the patent, died in New
York on Saturday, from congestion of the
lung*. He was 30 gears old, and died un
married. l T . .;
OT The Erie City Bank and Bank of
Newcastle are reported lo have failed, and
the notes are generally refused.
OT Hidalgo eonnty, Texas,oast 161 votes,
ail or which were for Buchaqan.
pi . ' M%B|i
§W The population of Cuba it estimated
at' 1,446,603 souls.
. Judge Lecpmpte ha. bM TemWred, site
one io whom ewn the Washington corrse
pondentiof the New York Timet
expresaea eon fidence—James 0. Harrison, of
Harrison, of Kentucky, hai bee* appointed
his successor. Mr. Harrisfci is e native
Keiyeeky, resd Isvr in removed
la Vicksburg, Mies.,* made > fortone at thai
bar, and then returned to bis old home snd
resumed the practice of his profession there.
He was at one lime associated with John C.
Breckjn'idge, the Vice President elect, in :
Ibe practice of his professrrfn, and has a wide
i reputation as aa honorable and competent
man who woald be influenced by no other
desire than to administer justice fairly and
imparlisliy to all parties. Mr. el
' though a Democrat in politics, was appointed
by Henry Clay one of the exeeutore of hi*
wih, a mark of respect end regent which he
would oat have bestotved opon bin) had he
1 not been deemed fully worthy of it. The
appointment was entirely unsolicited by Mr.
H., but it is hoped and beliered that he will
accept it.
With good officers secured to Kansas, am!
n repeal of the bad feattfies of her legisla
tion, she will need sympathy from no quar
ter, and her condition will speedily become
one rather to be admired and' envied than to
be deplored and commiserated. >. . %"!
The Koicrgn New*.
The pool Line of
furnfstNKl us with three news from
The news is no! vety important. England
has acceded to the demand for a new Con
fenoe of the European Power* to interpret
the late treaty, and although she professes to
have limited the powers of the Confareuee,
it is evident that she her been overruled
rather against her will by her desire to keep
on good term* with her elly, France, whose
power she fears and whose friendship she
cannot afforJ to lose.
Matthews, Ibe English Consul el Philadel
phia, implicated ,in the Eulisment business, J
has been rewarded with a first class Euro- j
pean Consulship,
An iitsurresiion has broken out io Sicily,
bmtiriathwrtWuf wteißern wilt prove very
formidable to ibe government, as it seems to
be rather local then genera! in its character.
CstawlHs Railroad.
Earnings of the Caiawiss* Railroad Com
pany for the month ef November: ;
Freight, 816,6t6 79
Passengers, 7,494 87
823 081 66
Same month last yaar, 20,387 04
Increase, $2,684 62
This is the full estimated increase in the
trade for this period of the year.
We understand that at - a meeting of the
Maoagers of tk'is Company, hald yesterday,
Mr. Jacob Haines, of Money, was elected
Vice President. Mr. Hainee, a respected
member of the Society of Friends, it an in
fluential pertfttn in his district, (through which
ibe Railroad passes,) and his election ia re
garded as an accession of great strength to
tba Company.
GAMBLING JN BUSINESS HOT LEGAL. —The J
Superior Court of New York has decided that
sales of produce or metuhandise deliverable
at a future day, with DO intentiou of the par
lies actually to perform it, bu' merely to pay
difference on the ooe side or ibe other, ac
cording to the slate of the market, such con
tract is a wager, and, therefore, void. The
policy ol the law id to discourage gambling
transactions of every kind, whether in bets,
wsgsrs, stakes, stocks or business merely
speculative.
*—•""T—
POLTGAMTI* UTAH.—The slory goiog Ibe
rounds of ibViMwa^aftAtbtfJdge Drum
tnend had obugeda jury in Ut*tf that po
lygamy is injiclabtain that Territory is a
hoax. Congress has pasted no law to pun
ish the practice of polygamy, nor is there
any "Revised Statutes ol the United States?
as spoken of in the charge." It is a pretty
good hoax, however, like Secretary Mercy's
letter to Gov. Grimes.
ly Tbe Rev. Dudley a Tyng of Philadel
phis, who attempted io carry his Abolition
Ulok "Republican" Fremont notions into
ffliptiureh, and was very properly dismissed
therefor has raised th 3 standard of rebellion,
and hat np for himself. He baa engaged the
Natiopdl Hall in Philadelphia, and wtU hold
forth aswccasiqn may require.
Nipped frv.fA* Bud —A Washington cor
respondent ol thoJlcrald aays Secretary Mar
was secretly floating out
the present Veoezueleau government and in
favof of Paez, and that bra says he will not
allow any filibustering parlies to, leave the
UniieifStalesto make war opoa governments
with which we are at peace.
t3P The Supreme Court of fhis State re
cently decided that the widow of a decedent
is entitled to 8300 out of the proceeds of the
sale othis real esf&te in preference to a judg
ment creditor in whose favor the hnsbuid
had waved the benefits of the Exemption
Aot of 1649.
OF The Sheriff of Bucks county,last week
took eight prisoners to the Penitentiary from
that county.
HoUowoy's Tille. —ln chrooio dyspepsia,
where the stomach has become callous to
all ordinary remedies, and stimulants fail ei
ther to provokff appetite or facilitate diges
tion, these Pill* by iheir simultaneous action
upon the fluids which dissolve, ceeimiJate
and adapt to the purposes af nutrition the
food taken into the system, will quickly im
part a healthy tone to the whole physical
machinery. Indigestion, and all it* concom
itants and consequences, including general
debility, liver Complaint, nausea, pains be
tween the shoulders, headache, low spirits,
a feeling of expression after meals, sleepless
ness, languor, flatulencs, bowel complaint,
aio., are among th e ailments invariably cured
by a course of ibis inestimable ismsdy 1.
* ' ' , •; , , * *
- imr'tm '
r T%e Mustetng Liniment curti Stig
' Joint*, 1
J The Mustang Liniment curet Burn.
' and Wovnjft,
I The Muttong Liniment curet Sore.
| and filters,{||
The Meetfang Liniment curt! akta
Breaet* and tore Nipples,
g J he t^roi.
The Mustang Liniment euret Born*
and fVarts, , ' - er\^r
77, a Mustang Liniment it Jorth V
1,000,000 DOLLARS FES AlMtf
To the United Stater, as the preserver, snd
restorer of valdaht* Hortea and dsn ft [|
eures all sprains, Gslds, Wounds, Stiff Joints,
u\ '
Will yon answer this question? Did-Mm
evpr hear of any ordinary Sore, Swelling,
Sprain or Stiffness, either on man or beam,
which the Mustang Liniment would nptcurel
Did you ever visit any respectable Druggist „
in any part of the world—in Europe, Asia,' or dlf
Amrrioa—who did not say "it WastfaeatßAw*
est discovery of the age?" Sold eVery v|,
j Every family should have it; 3 size'.
In Blnnmsburg, on Tuesday tire n||B
bjr Rev.^A. A. Msrplo, Mr. josaast '
The said* PrutteM will also offer for
•sle on |h* above day of letting the eld
Church, which will hw# to be rtMioved
by the 25tb of April next, Possession
of the ofd church will be givewby the
10th of April. JESSE SEANNON, -
E. B. BtDLKMAN, Sec*y. Prs't.
Blooms burg. Dep. 24, 1850.
" ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE-
N'dTICE is hereby given that letters of ad
ministration upon the estate of Martha
Scbooly, late, of Madison township, Colom
bia county, deceased, have beao grtnted to
the undersigned residing lit Jerssyiowo, Col.
county. All persons indebted to the etidp
decedent are requested to make payment
without delay, and those having account*
io present tbsm for ssitlement to
JOHN A. FUNSTON,
Administrator.
Jersey tnwn, Deo. 22, 1856. <
Lxeculor'B Police.
|k. NOTICE i hereby given that letters testa
ternary upon (he estate of Nathan Oliver, lata
of Greenwood township, Colombia county,
deceased, have been granted to the oader- ■
signed residing in GBenwooJ township. All
|icrsons indebted totno decadent are request
ed to make payment without delay, snd
those -having acconnts estate to
present them for payment to
THOMAS OGDEN, Exetuhr,
Greenwood, Dep. 17, 1856.
Administrator's Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given ibat leitera of Ad
ministrilioe da bonis nn with tits will annexed
upon the estate of Andrew Here, late of Bu
garloaf township, Columbia comity, daotaaed
I have bean granted to the undersigned resi
! ding in the township of Greenwood. AH
persons indebted to the said decedent are re
quested to make payment without delay, and
(hose having accounts against the estate >0
present them for feirtament to
WILLIAM Q.HARRIS,
Administrator it bonis nan cum testamento
annexe. -* .
Greenwood, Dee. 15, iB£6.
PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
THERE will ba sold upon the premises on
Friday, the 16th of January
next, the fpHowiug real estate of Andrew,
Hess, late of Sugarloaf township, Columbia
county, deoeued, viz: A treat of land situate
in Sugarloaf township, Columbia eounty, ad
joining lands of Jacob Hess, Andrew Haas,
Joseph Hess, Nathan Hjiriaou and otbara,
containing
28 ACRES AND 46 PERCHES,
on which there are ereetad a "* -5 ' ll
FRANC DWELLIKG SOVBIE
a log stable atxi other ouibuilil'nas. Thar*
isa wall of water at the dbor. Abotif one
will of kgad*,
khown 6a the day of Mile. 1 oKtr r"'
WILLtAM 6. HAlks,
Administrator wide the Well animut.
Greenwood, Dec. 22. 1896. - ■-
Adniiaiistrator's IVwtick
JkTOTICF. ia herabTfiiven that \mpi
L * A'dminisuation upon the estate I?y*
man M. Johnson late of Scoit tßtWoahTp,
Columbia county, have bade grejgßiatWt
undersigned residing- ia Light
ssme township. All paraooa nnldbiad to the
said estate are requested to mnke payment
without delay, and those having SccourttS
against the decedent to preaeny boon for est.
JOSEPH R. BOBBINS.
Administrator.
Light Street, Dae. 17 t1 J856.
E&ecutori' Afntke,
NOTICE is herebygiratt thatJntteie testa
meniary upon the astute of Philip Krickbewn,
Into nf Bentor. township, Columbia county,
ileeenrcd, have been granted to the under,
signed residing alia in the said township of
Benton, All persona
estate are requested to make with
out delay, and those having accoCmageiast
the decedent represent them ftgj
Banten, Deo. 4, 1856.
banks desirable for
msfa o tba office of the '