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New Spring and Summer Goods.

New Spring and Summer Goods.
TNHE subscriber announces that he has
IL just received and opened a new and
general assortment OF
Spring and summer Goods,
at his old stand on Main street, TO which he
invites the attention of every person desiring
GOOD DAN@AINS
N CHEAP GOODS.
His stock includes
LAWNS,
GINGHAS,S,
SILKS,
PRINTS
of all styles and prices and he has a care.
fully selected stock OF
DWy @@odlG5s
CEDAR WARE, HARDWARE, QUEENS
WARE, HATS, CAPS, BOOTS@
SHOES,
Hosiery and Gloves,
which he will sell at the lowest prices for
cash OF country produce.
GEORGE WEAVER.
Bloomsbury, April 80, 1850.
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M1sNDENHALL & MENSCH
HAVE JUST RECEIVED AND OPENED A E STOCK
of Spring and Summc +

or Cd Cd I'D 69 8
Which they offer 10 their old patrons and
new ones at the best of bargains. They can
be found at their old stand on Main and
Market streets, and their stock will be found
to be selected with care, and to embrace
every kind of coed fashionable and de.
sirable for the season. They have French,
English and American cloths, cassimeres,
~satinets and jeans for mems wear, and a va
riety of Lawns and G~ingham's of the most
fashionable styles for ladies. They have also,
Groceries, Hardware, Queensware, Cedar
ware, Hats and Caps, and, in short, every
thing usually kept in a country store.
" Call and see that we do sell cheap
for cash or country produce.
Bloomsburg, April 23d, 1851.
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BLANKS!!

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JUDGMENT NOTES, o
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JWSMlPI SWAlNTM
Announces to the reading world in general,
and the good people of Bloomsburgh in par.
ticular that he has removed his Bookstore to
the lower corner of Biggs Brick Block oppo-
site the Court House, where he has a full
variety of Books for all manner OF men and
women kind. He has all the popular works
of the day upon Morals, Religion, History,
Literature, Politics and Travels and a gem
eral selection of all school books, English,
Classical, German and French.
He has also a sweet lot Of Confectionaries,
Toys and Jewelry,
So that every kind of taste can be gratifed
by a selection of something from his stock.
Hoomsbufg, April 16,h, 1861.
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FIRE PROOF CHESTS,
FOR BOOKS, PAPERS, JEWELRY, Sc.

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No SO Dock st., opposite
the Philade Exchange.
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IA BOOTS & SHOES.
" At mi LOWEST PRICES. 60

AUGUSTUS WILSON
Respectfully announces 10 his friend DIS and the
public that he has taken the Boot and Shoe
Store lately kept by Warren Russell, where
he has always on hand and makes 10 order
all kinds of Boots aud Shoes at the following
prices:
Mems fine calf or morocco boots, 81 a 4 so
do kip or COW hide, 8 25
do calf shoes 2 90
do COW hide, 1 rs
do miners, nailed, 2a2 so
Ladies' CATERS, 2a2 IS
q" Lace boots, 60
" Thick soled slippers 1al3 81
I" Pump soled, 90
jenny Lind,s 125a1 so
Boys, youths and children's shoes in pro-
portion. He manufactures his work of the
best of stook-warrants it 10 wear; and is
determined TO sell ii as low as others can
their Yankee or city work. Call and see for
yourselves. Shop on Main ST., next door
below Hartman's Store.
Bloomsbury, April LIST, 1851.
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MANUAL OF HEALTH.

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By means ofthe pocket
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Fancy Paper,
Envelopes, Pens, Ink, Writing sand. &c,
can be found at tho cheap Book store OF
FFgs III JOSEPH SMART, (
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Magnificent Idea.

The San Francisco Courier in speaking Of
the necessity and feasibility Of a steamship
communication between that port and China,
remarks that such line would complete the
chain Of steam communication around the
world, except a small break in crossing the
Isthmus of Suez, connecting Asia with Africa.
The paper then says:-
''This link completed, the traveller, leaving
New York, can proceed to Chagres by steam,
thence TO San Francisco, to Macao via the
Sandwich Islands, Guam and Manilla-thence
to Suez via Singapore, Penang, Ceylon, and
Adin-thence TO Cairo and Alexandria, 10
Southampton via Malta and Gibraltar, and
from thence by steam again to New York The
only break in steam navigation will be in eros
sing the Isthmus of Suez. Thus be would be
able to circumnavigate the world visiting many
points of interest, making the trip ii l4o days.
The commercial advantages which mast flow to
the United States from this and kindred sour
ces are too great for enumeration here, and TOO
well known to require IL
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The celestiaIs I'm the Dock.

The Chinese have become so numerous IN San
Francisco that the cognizance of misdemeanors
and peccadillos, in which they figure as plain
tiffs and defendants, is now an interesting item
of police business in that city. One morning
Sung Took appears before the magistrate with a
complaint that an outside barbarian had ruth
lessly cut off his tail He exhibited his mutlla-
ted oueu in evidence; but his honor appeared to
he of opinion that at common law the value OF
a Chinaman's tail was not ascertainable, and
the accused was discharged.
On another occasion, Acum, q fair Chlnese
damsel, with olive complexion, small feet, and
most unexceptionable turned-up- -at-the-corner
ewes. complained against Malay, the boat
swain of the ship in which she came over, char
ring him with having, while on the passage,
entered her state room, blown out her light,
and robbed her of $3.50 in cash, principally in
the current coin of the Chinese realm, and q
gold ring. The case excited considerable in-
terest, as Acum is young and pretty, and q
large number of Celestial beaux were present
TO hear the case. Acums case was pending al
our last advices'
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A Race Around Cape Horn.

The clipper built ships Challenge and Tele-
graph, left New York on Saturday morning, on
a sailing match around Cape Horn. The New
York Mirror says:
They will sail at sunrise; and choice parties
of sporting mariners viii breakfast on board,
and accompany them in a steamer some dis
tance out, provided any steamer can keep pace
with them The freight bills of the Challenge
amount to $50, 900; and the Captain is to have
a bonus of $4,000 if he puts her into San
Francisco in ninety days! The Challenge cost
$40, 600; the Telegraph about $4,000. They
are both perfect beauties
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EBEISBURG, JULY A, l8sl.

OF the day: May his eloquence continue to TEEN
| forth the same sentiment of Union until Disu-
| nlonlsts shall be unknown in this model Re-
public.
| BY Jas. D. Hamilton-To the late Cant VIM
Ny UT; ouitman Guards, let his name be asso-
| ciAted with past remembrances that are near
ard dear to your minds.
by John ODonnell-To the @. G. S: Let us as
brothers together, motto forever, be s.neyer
surrender
by Thomas j. Parrish--To the Orator of the
day: His address on the subject of our National
independence has conferred favor upon his
hearers that will long be remembered with
feelings of pleasure.
By b. L. Price-To our Host and Hostess:
The sumptuous dinner of which we have lust
partaken was rich treat after eight hours
fast May they live long and have the health
and happiness to serve up many of the .ssame
Sort
By P Plummer-To the Fair Sex of Portage:
May they ever be ready and willing to grace
any Fourth of July Celebration with their
presence, and to cast the light of their counte-
nances upon the soldier under arms
By Sergeant Keech-Quitman Guards: Re-
member your first Capt, VIM. NJ. Oft, who
fought the battles of your country. May you
never forget him.
By Sergt. Fell-To the Cambria Brigade:
They have always been ready for place in the
ranks of the soldier. May they ever so remain
By mine host, Maj. Gideon Marlett-To the
Q. G.'s: They have behaved themselves like
men and soldiers this day. They have my best
wishes.
By Lieut.. Hawe-Pennsylvani The Key
stone of the Union, may it ever support the
arch of the confederacy.
By Corporal Single-To our Host and Host
ess: May they ever be prepared to prepare
feast ''as was prepared" this day. They have
Soldiers best wishes.
By A. s. Robertson-To the Fair Sex: Eng
land may threaten to cover our harbors with
munitions of war and ships without number
France may pour in her legions, but the nnlv
victor American will submit to is
Woman.
ResoEUed, That Capt. R. s. Alexander, Lieut..
Vim. c. Barbour and Sergt. r. T. Dunlap be
and are hereby appointed to request the Speaker
to furnish them with copy of his address to
publish with the proceedings.
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bathing I'm the Dead Sea.

The Dublin University Magazine gives the fol-
lowing from a traveller who visited and bathed
in the Dead Sea-
Heated and fatigued, we prepared for gene
raj bathe-as private party; for the pilgrims
determined to reserve their energies for the sa-
cred Jordan, the lake of Sodom being held by
them in horror and abomination. The bad odor
IN which the lake was held, did not, however,
deter us, and having called halt, we plunged
like young ducks into the liquid element Paulo
chuckling like an old hen on the banks We
plunged Disastrous was the plunge, readily
enough head after head popped up from the
execrable waters-hair matted, eyes smarting
and tongues burning from the intense sulphur
Gus bitter saltness Of the detestable liquid in
which we were immersed; water it was not; nor
gusting compound of all four.
A hogshead of it would serve as an emetic for
all Asia Minor, and leave some gallons to spare
against the next epidemic; you could neither
sink nor swim in it. Talk Of fly in molasses;
or q wasp in a barrel of tar-I can find no par
rallel for bathe in the Dead Sea. But the
suferings Of my companions were trife to
what felt, cut and manned in consequence of
my superior horsemanship, jumped into the
water as raw as beef stake, as if l were fayed
alive. However, let me be just to this abomi-
nable mixture; if / rmarted for it my wounds
were effectually canterized completely skinned
over-the cure was perfect to a miracle. We
dressed with the comfortable sensation of men
who had been well coated with mutton suet, stiff,
greasy and extremely out of sorts, with tingling
creeping feeling over the skin; and remounting,
turned our steps to the fords of the Jordan.
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General Scott

Says that for thirty odd gears he has scarcely
read any thing on tie subject of slavery. The
following is his confession in letter written by
him in 1913:
''In boyhood, at William and Mary's College,
and In common with most, if not all nv com
panions, became deeply impressed with the
views given by Mr.. Jefferson, in his '.Notes on
Virginia. and by Judge Tucker. in the Appen-
dix to his edition of Blackstones Commentaries,
in favor of q gradual emancipation of slaves
That Appendix have not seen in thirty odd
years, and in the same period have read scarce
ly anything on the subject; but my early i'm
pressions are fresh and unchanged"
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BS5= The Indiana Sentinel, in reply to
whig who had taken an economical fit, gives
the following striking exploit in the way Of
observation-disclosures the only one the Wings
ever attempted IN tho fade=al se~erzaIuUIIt.-
cat the extra session of 184I, the wi s, or
ganized committee on retrenchment. This
committee visited the custom houses in Phila-
delpbia and New York, eat fine dinners and
drank good wine at the expense Of Uncle Sam,
and, after a long sitting, they made report,
reducing the pay Of the orphan boys who acted
as pages about the capitol, reducing their num-
Der, and limiting the amount of stationary, say
ing nothing about their own pay or mileage;
and finally requiring Jenny Maher, the public
gardener, instead of feeding the grass he cut
from the public grounds to his COW, 20 advertise
and sell it at public auction. This. Jenny, as
an honest man, faithfully carried out, and the
result was that the advertisement cost the gov
e1nment four dollars, and the hay sold for three
dollars and forty cents. So much for whig
economy and whig retrenchnnent''
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A City of Priests.

4 correspondent of the Newark Advertiser,
writing from Turin, says:
''On approaching the environs, one is ready
long black robes are seen trailing in the dust,
and so many three-cornered hats hobbing in
erargz d:-~~4;-s z-ss-- slESe "I1I HUI sur
prise the reader, when he learns that in the lit
tie kingdom of Sardinia there are over sixty
thousand priests, including the monks. Many
of these are attached to institutions for the edu
cation of INDECENT youth, and receive salaries
from the government; others are professors in
the various colleges, and the remainder are re-
quired for the daily masses of the churches, of
which there are a hundred and ten in Turin
alone, besides several monasteries. We do not
know the number of monks attached to these;
but they are numerous, and patrol the streets
at all hours with their uncovered, shaved heads,
bare feet, coarse brown robes, fastened at the
waist by the rough cord used as their scourge of
penitence, and the cross and rosary dangling at
the side. Long professions of nuns, too, in
their cloister costumes, and sisters Of charity,
headed by the lady superior carrying the cross,
may be encountered almost any day by the
stranger entering Turin, some one Of these va
rious religious orders being always out on duty
-burying the dead, or performing some other
sacred rite; so that it is not difficult to realize
at once ones proximity to Roman Catholic do
minions''
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BlOOnner---TEe Fourth,

In regard to some private celebrations at Bos-
ton, the Transcript says:
"a party came off at the office of the Olive
Branch, and there were present between forty
and fifty persons, ladies and gentlemen. The
ladies were all dressed in the Bloomer costume,
except the wives of The editor, Elk Governor
Dunlap, of Maine, Rev. S. Lowell, and one other
The dresses of the ladies were all made of ele-
CANT silk or satin, and 20 suit the taste Of the
Wearers"
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Terrible SfDrnr.

Late intelligence from Texas, gives the fol
lowing:
A terrible storm had prevailed along the
coast for several days, in which the steamships
Mexico, Courtland and Wm. Penn, lying in
Matagorda Bay, had been driven on shore
The Steamer Maria Burt, which left Galveston
on the oath, encountered a severe gale, and
was totally lost. Many houses in Texas had
been blown down, the young cotton crop was
partially destroyed. As far as can be ascer-
tanned no lives have been lost.
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Hue Rose.

The horticulturists of Paris (says CORES
pondent of the New York Expressl have sue
ceeded by artificial crossings in obtaining a
natural rose of a blue color, which is the fourth
color obtained by artificial means-that and the
yellow or tea rose, the black or purple rose, and
the striped rose being ali inventions, and the
result of skilful scientific gardening
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Mr. Webster.

The announcement of Mr.. Webster leaving
the Cabinet, published few days ago, turns
out like many other Washington City rumors
have untrue The Baltimore San of Monday,
| the 18th inst, says:
The most reliable intelligence with regard
| to Mr. Webster seems to be that he leaves
/ Washington tomorrow for Annapolis, and viii
| leave there on Wednesday for New York, by
| sea, in the steamer Golden Gate, Zone of Aspin-
wallis steamers, which visits there while making
trial trip.) He will, it is said, be absent from
Washington full sixty days, perhaps more His
health imperatively demands the relaxation.
The New York Commercial Advertiser, of Satur
day, in noticing the announcement of his resig
nation, says:
We are now authorized-our authority being
in fact the honorable Secretary himself-to
| give an emphatic contradiction to the story, in
which there is not word of truth.
The announcement of Mr.. Webster's intention
| to visit Europe is also unfounded
Eayn Mr.. H. C. Pratt, the artist, who, with
his son, is attached to the Mexican boundary
commission, writes to his wife in this city, from
! San Antonia, Texas, that
Farming is q 3diinerent thing here from what
/ it is in the North; here you can buy thousand
acres of land, which is in beautiful grass smooth
as a floor, get two yoke of oxen for forty to six
ty dollars a yoke, and plough; begin to plough
| in November; plant 100 acres of corn in Febru-
| ary; get all the work done in April, and III Sep
| tember harvest it, and get dollar bushei for
| it; the amount will be five thousand dollars at
| least; this will pay for the land and all other
expenses for the first year. The finest land In
the world, without stump or stone in 1t, can be
bought here anywhere, for from fifty cents to
one dollar per acre; and corn is a dollar to a
| dollar and a quarter per bushel. Cattle, tof
| which you never need cut pound OF hay, can
be bought for three to five dollars piece. NO
one need work at all during the hot months;
the country is very healthy if you avoid the low
| lands. You come from New York TO 1al7
weston for thirty dollars by vessel, and, after
! YOU land, can take a wagon and oxen, or mules
and 60 where you please. There as ROAD d"9-
shere you srisA TO go; you can traverse the coun-
try in almost any direction, with wagons, with
! out any road, Just as well as you could drive
| the same team across Boston Common, and
that, when the grass is high, is fair illustra-
| ton of the country between Victoria and San
| Antonio"
! And that is the soil which sagacious ana
| far-seeing wings wanted to keep out OF the
! Union-wanted TO drive into entangllng ALI
ance with Great Britain.
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EARFHeuAKE IN ST. LoUIs.-The 81 Louts
Republican says that shock of an earthquake
was felt in that city on the I'd inst, at
ten o'clock, A. NJ. There were three dis
tinct shocks, the whole occurring IN about
one minute
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BE "Biny, my boy, can't you eat little
more?"
s.weIl, I don't know but could mother, II
slood up"
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gGF Short dresses, if adopted by the ladies.
will have one good effect at any rate. Ii viii
obligo them TO mend their stockings
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DAPER ENTHUSIASTICALLY a.
.APER and STATIONERY.-EU-

Il GENE ELY. No 80 Fulton-st. JobbeT N Paper and
Stationery and DEPOT for the sale Of Manila Papcrs IN he
rean and M rolls for Taors Pattern. Carpet. Patent
Leather and larsts and great inducements pitI ed
g. country aud city trade anlo I'M
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I.,GH-RRIDGE LOTS FOR SALE.

-EuHrH ,VENVE aiLRoAp These lots
are stas ed the Wtsr ~ - The llaiem I've.
Ssweeu Nice oabs Dam B,idsc and the Hugh Bridge n
pSaAA sNa.ied NTH ths >aHro> o thls CN. w.. lct
reNs the Hish Br,tce Lots that thes ,osses
great adN antasvs residences over all other localities
the CRY, aud that they r cheaper than any 9
property well situated TIE I'll ior the Sh Railroad
havpg been sisncI oy ths Na,,r. the road will ne
mcaced tttb~th and >Vtc-il, tnished please nQsre
and learn the sct The arc fur the entire gts oi the
rad t. be but CENTS The scenery pesened tnon az
nest even par vi this property exceedingly nteress.
smhf acnx nts beautiful views oi land aud FMS
nrvpsty also has wdc tVn; upon The Harlem IA ~,
ther~h slui,g even facsts ~ hoa,ng and hshin,
mans and other information aQffN 70
Sult iM' II r. MlN1NN, Ne n ttNar-st cor II y >.t
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professional Notices.
TICF 10 PERSONS TRADING 10

1 NHAYTI-rhe Undersigned uyos astss that ne hs
been appointed ms Commercial Agent % Hsyu, hr Mes
York and that nr avs Il Hay require that yess ~ AZ
nsng there f,m tins -,rt. De provided = N Malssts d
thg,, fargoes certified ~ HIN. Once ~ 'FRONT.' =
IN naw2nLx9 HENRY DklAF Kid