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The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-02-06
A ROLLING MILL

Is to be built at Poltsville the present gear
BY Messrs. Harris and Burnish, two skilful
and enierprising mechanics Of Boston, E1ass.
They have purchased sufficient ground or
the notthen limits Of the borough, at what
is called Fishbaeh, in close proximity TO the
Mt. Carbon Railway and Centre turnpike, on
which they purpose erecting extensive works.
They will manufacture all kinds of merchant.
able iron, for blacksmith and machine shop
purposes, small T rails, and all kinds Of
rails for mines. These gentlemen could
have selected no better place than Poisyille
Tor The investment Of their capital, with
greater certainty Of good home market for
the products of their industry at good remu-
nerating prices Messrs. J. Wren & Broth
ers, good and industrious mechanics of this
borough, have contracted for the supplying
OF all the machinery for the Mill, The whole
OF the work will be put under contract i'm.
mediately, and pushedio early completion
There will be one Engine of so horse pow.
er to drive the main works, and one OF s.
horse power TO drive the fan and pump.
The Messrs. Wrens have purchased 10, of
ground of F. W. Hughes, Esq, below tho
American House. on which they will erect
as speedily as possible large Foundry, TO,
furnish the heavy castings for. the Rolling
Mill. We wish these gentlemen tbs moss
ample success in their enter l,rise--Min,ne
Reeister.
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Inprroyement.

The West Wing of the main building Of
the University at Lewisburg, is now COM
pleted, and a few days since was taken pos
session by Prof. Taylor and most Of the stu
dents entitled to rooms there. This wing is
four stoty brick building, ll5 feet inlength
by 35 in width. II contains 35 front study
rooms, each i2 feet square, and in the rear
of each study room dormitories or sleep
ing rooms, each 6 by 10 feet in size. Every
room has window, is well warmed by fur.
naces, and is provided with good means Of
ventilation. The views from both front aud
rear windows are grand and pleasing, and
can not fail TO have the happlest influence
upon the mind Of the students. We learn
tha. the Lewisburg Ladies' Sewing Circle
have fitted up seven or eight dofmitories,
and intend TO furnish the corresponding study
rooms, for the use Of students; and that La
dies in Milton and other quarters are also en-.
gagged in fitting out rooms for the same pur.
pose. In other cases, individuals furnish
rooms according to their own means and
tastes -Lewisburg Chronicle
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Scarcity of Silver and Ciamor for Small
Notes.


The laws Of trade are immutable. One
of these laws is that currencies of unequal
value will not circulate together. The most
valuable WILDE driven out by the most worth
less. We have seen this thing reduced TO
practice several times.-During the war Of
1912, no longer 1.-THE last war;" even COP
pers was driven from circulation by shiuplaS
tiers. The latter were bauished on the return
of peace, and the specie that every body
thought had gone forever, returned and filed
the channels of circulation In 1918 the pas
age Of the law prohibiting The circulation Of
notes under five dollars was followed with
like results. The suspension of the banks
in '37 repeated the lesson, and in that era
of shinplasiers it was difficult to get change
for one dollar or even for quarter as il is
now for v. Shinplasters were again ban.
ished and naturally as effect follows cause,
the specie returned, obeying the laws OF
trade, leaving when il was not wanted and
returning when it was.
At this time silver is scarce, scafcer it is
said than gold, and an emission OF small
notes is asked for 10 remedy the evil. Can
il be possible that any one. with our past ex.
perience, can doubt hat this remedy will
but aggIavate the disease. An issue of small
noies will drive away what silver we have
left and with it the gold coin. No man pays
out his specie while he has paper money
The laws of trade cannot be changed or vi
ola:sd by any act even of the Legislature ti
Pennsylvania. If the Legislature wish TO do
something 10 remedy the evil, let them call
in the relief notes and prohibit the issue. ol
any other note under five dollars, and we
shall have sound currency; and for tie
uses of the working classes metallic cur
rency, which they may lay by if they have
it TO spare without the fear of its becoming
worthless, through the mismonagement OF
dishonesty of the president, directors, & co
of the Bank of - Keystone.
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Correspondence Of the Star.
FROM HARRISBURG.
HARalssuRe Feb. /, 1851.

HARalsBuRa Feb. I, 1851.
Some opposition is growing up against the
laying on, Of state road from Washington
vile in Montour countyto Muney, as provi-
ded for in the act Of 10th of April 1850. a
number of petitions and bill have been
presented for repeating that provision of the
law.
The new county projects are coming up
again. II is proposed to cut off a new
county from Bedford to be called s'Buena
Vista" You will remember that last win
ter Fulton county was cut from Bedford and
Cambria, and VIC should suppose that bring
ing forth .ew county each year was lit
tie toe prolific for Pedford, TO be done in
legitimate style.
II is next proposed to cut new county
from Bradford and Tioga to be called "Penn. ;
Then we have another move to cut a new
county from parts of Franklin, Perry, Juni-
alta and Huntingdon TO be called "Pennn
From Centre Huntington and Blair coun.
ties there are petitions for new county 10
be called "Marion"
A new county to be called "Decaiurn is
prayed for from Crawford and Warren, or
from Crawford Warren and Erie.
Beside these we have the old standing
applications for Pine and Mahoniug county.
Now you will at once observe that these
projects differ from the Montour case as it
stood last year in the facts that here the ter
ritory out of which the new counties are TO
come is inconveniently large--lhat in every
case, either mountains or other canses rem.
der it difficult for the petitioners to get to
their present county seat-and that there has
been general consultation as 10 the neces.
sily for new county, and not a game sprug
without notice.
In The Senate, Mr. Lawrence from the
Committee on private claims has reported
aoVefse!y TO the claim of John L. Watson of
DaRTIlle for damages from the state.
Mr. Buckalew has presented petition
from William Richie of Columbia county
praying that his name may be changed 10
Richard Mann. Another from 1917 citizens
OF Mahoning township, Mon,our county for
change in the place of holding elections
Tho alection is norv hold at tho courthouse
in the borough :of Danvie. He has also
presented petition praying that the elec-
tion for Fishinscreek township in your coun.
tymay be hereafter held at James MHenry's
| tavern.
The bill 10 incorporate the Wilkesbarre
and scfantonia rail road company has pas.
sed final reading IA the House.
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Things in Schuylkin Couuty.

The use Of the Telcgraph--A man stole $40
in Pottsville and put off for Philadelphia
The telegraph, however, was ahead of him,
and he was nabbsd at the station, and fork
ed over the amount 10 the officers. He was
committed.
adjourned Meeting There was large
and enthusiast, meeting of the citizens OF
Potsvlle and vicinity, at the Town Hall, on
Thursday evening, JAN 80. 1851. The pso
minent cause assigned oy the di ilTerent spea.
kers was to take into consideration the grie-
vances under which the citizens OF the Coal
Region are laboring and have beer labo;ing
for yearS-and also TO advocate the erection
of a new railroad 10 Philadelphia, in oppos-
tion 10 the old road \ strong feeling, the
Potisvile Journal says, prevails throughout
the region against the course pursued by
the Reading railroad, and settled dstermi-
nation 10 resist any further imposit ion.
A Female Seminery is about being esiab :
lshed in Minersvlle, by Miss ZeigIe, former
ly of this place.
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Wi Iii amspoEt and Elmira Railroad

1t is gratifying TO learn that this half
finished and long neglected work, second
IN importance to no other -of the kind in
Pennsylvania, will speedily be finished.
We learn that the Company have made ar
rangements with JOSEPH GoNDER, Jun, Esq p,
a gentleman we'll known for his success in
completing enterprises of this kind, by
which he subscribes s5OO,Oo 10 the stock
of the Company; and undertakes to com.
plete the road, that is-to relay the 25 miles
extending from Williamsport 10 Ralston,
and 10 extend the same 10 Elmira. Ills ex.
pected that the entire work will be compile.
led in two years.
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England and CaLasta,

A book OF $50 pages has been published
in London, with plates and a map Of Nor,
America down 10 the 10th degree of north
latitude, detailing. The plan of a railroad
across Nava Scotia aud the Canadas from.
Halifax 10 the Pacific. The idea is magu,fi.
cant The route from Halifax to Quebec is
already surveyed. The distance from Eng.
land 10 China by this proposed road is shown
10 be fifteen hundred miles shorter than u,o
nearest route across the the United States.
The cost ofthe road is estimated at fi4,O 600.
600, averaging $4,000 mile To build it,
10000 convicts are to be set a: WORK at once,
paupers are 10 be sent over, and CanaJa i,
to be raised 10 great dignity in the United
Kingdom. Five millions of people can be
spared from England, Ireland and Scotland,
to settle along the route and populate it TO
the Pacific. The scheme is 10 relieve Great
Britain of her paper burdens, regenera,e
the old monarchy, and establish her fi,mly
on the American continent. Jonathan will
see about it.
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A nice little fight

Is growing up in relation 10 the office Of
Reporter of the Supreme court decisions in
Pennsylvania. Mr. Harris, the present in
cumben;, il would seem does not like Sun
bury; and, as might be supposed IN such
case, some Of the Northumberland county
people do moi too well like hun. Hence a
bill has been introduced into the House 10
abolish the session of the Supreme court al
Sunbuy and remove its business 10 Harris
,brrg. In retaliation MIR. Packer of the
House has introduced bill TO authorise the
yudges of tine Supreme Court, instead ol
the Governor, 20 appoint the Reporter Of de.
cisions; and providing that MIR. Harris shall
be funetus o6iso in next January.
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Reports Of Incorporated Counnu;sx

We copy from the annual repor,s urad.. h.,
the diileren; interpretations OF the State 10
'he Legislature, the following in relation 10
F., the two large iron establishment in ,h;s
neishborhood-
Tho "Alontonr Iron Company" repor
is', that The capital stock is $3.50, 600, ali OF
which has been pai,l in. 2J, That j, own,
100 acres of land in Montout county, al
That the works consis, of four authtaci,.
o'as' furnaces rolling mill, for the prodnc
'ion OF railroad, and other iron, a fuuJry ami
o'her works connected with CONDUCTING thu
ouslness, only part Of which are now il,
| operation.
4lh, That they have smelled since th,,
last report, SOTO tons, 10 cwt. Q qrs and 0
IDS, OF pig metal, and have made in lbeis
roiing mill 574s tons cw, qrs and lbs.
oi railroad iron so that all of the bias, fur.
haces nave In consequence of the great de-
pression IN tho iron trade, been ou, OF bias,
since about July 18th, and portion of tho
rolling mill has been running only half tho
time
Philadelphia Dee IS, 1850.
The "Bloornsburg Railroad Company
report, lst the amount of capital stock is
Sloo,o0ot of which 81, 900 have been paid
III; I'd, they own 1880 !acres Of laud; Sd,
they own Two anthracite blast furnaces, both
oil winch are III operation; lih, they have
manufactured during the year ending Dec
3ist, 1880. 967o tens of ,,sihracitc metal.
Philadelphia, Jan. ESD. 1854.
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The TARIFF.

The Pennsylvania Iron mongers ask
higher tariff on the article they manufacture.
The Lawrences and Jameses of New Eng
land want a low duty on iron and high
'taiif on cotton goods. The farmers Of New
York (Whigs ami ally have no objections 10
free trade, except, that upon the articles Of
@sa they want the strong protecting arm Of
government to help them. In North Caroli.
M the Legislature lately, without distinction
of party, passed resolutions against an in
crease of The present tariff rates for North
Carolina has articles 10 export, and is highly
interested in foreign commerce.
This Is the tariff question in n nut she'll
Beyond necessary tariff for revenue, the
whole agitation is founded OIL the cupidity
and selfishness of speculators and monopo-
lists, and no, upon the sound policy OF gov
emmen, OF the wants Of the people.
We are heartily glad that the subject is
getting TO be understood, and seen in its true
light. True we have had some weak brain-
ed pilots OF the Democratic press in Penn
.sylvania, but better day is dawnng, ard
the hcresy OF Democratic high tariff %
will be as generally recanted as it was in
1916. Some of these prolectiouisls whose
Democratic visions were little bcdimmed,
for want of any thing elso 10 sustain them
selves, have persisted in invoking the aid
, of Robert ]. Walkers name, as being with
Them. They 10 doubt felt their weakness,
and the need Of some good name to help
their desperate position. But by the annex
ed extract from The letter of Francis ]. Grund
to the Philadelphia Ledger, it will be seen
that change has come over the spirit Of
This tariff Democracy, and that the lights
which the names Of great men She, are on
sh- side ~f ..>-ss. .-.si- The following g
is the extract
GAS soon as the bill (Mr. Hunler's) comes
down to the House from the Senate, tariff
amendment will be lacked to it, which being
germain to the bill, cannot be voted out OF
order. The tariff will then come up fairly,
and we shal! see his strength. Mr.. Bucha-
nan is here, and his friends are rather shy oil
touching the measure, even those who here
tofose were known 10 be in favor of tariff
amendments. MIR. Strong, of Reading, the
mover Of the late tariff amendment, and as
Influential member as is in the House, is
not Buchanan man. II is not0 certain thai
Dallas, Buchanan and Walker are opposed tc
amending the tariff"
TO show how futile is all this cry for all
increase of the present tariff rates. we viii
now add an extract from the Whig paper
which was the first III the Union 10 advocate
the election of General Taylor-the Neu
York Mirror Its editor says
1--WE deny that protection is any longer
distinctive principle of the wing parry The
time was when High Tariff and National
Bank were fundamental pillars of of the
Conservative creed. But the day has gone
by. With all the clog rolling" that can be
brought to bear upon Congress it is utterly
impossible 10 alter the Tariff without RE
DUCING it,"
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MONTOURjCOUNTY

Is exceedingly unfortunate in being the
bantling of ex-senator Best's rascaliiy. The
case is beginning 10 be understood, and a
mong other testimony we clp,he following
from the Polisville Register being from the
pen of its Harrisburg correspondents
ain the Senate, movement has been set
on foot for the re annexation of Nontour
county 10 Columbia. Ii will be remembered
that Senator Best used his balance vole tor
the division OF Columbia county, having
successfully kept i'll check by the same, in
iluence the passage Of the appor'ionment bill
until his darling object was accomplished ;
the reaction arising from these coersve rnea-
sures is now in full fruition. The sins OF the
,pariizan may therefore be washed out by
the oblleraiion of the new county"
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RHODE lLASD TOO AMONG THE FAITHFUL -
On last Thursday the legislature of Rhode
Island in General Committee choose Cha rles
t. James, Democrat, as United States Sena.
tor for six years fIom the fourth of March
next. General James is the well known su.
perinendant Of the large cotton factor les Of
Lancaster in this state, and will oppose an
increase of tariff rates upon every thing
but cotton. This again illustrates fully the
selfiishness of every protective tariff move.
ment, and especially Of tariff Democracy
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CoLoRED PEoPLE IN INDIANA.-The Indiana
State Convention has adopted into the Con-
stitution provision that no negro or iaulai,o
shall come into or settle in the State after the
adoption of the State Constitution. 1t also
provides that contracts made with negroes
and mulattoes coming into the State hereaf.
ter TO be void, and all persons employ ing or
encouraging SUCK negroes or mulattoes TO
remain in the State to be fined not less than
$40 or more than $500. A colonization fund
is 10 be raised of the fines collected under
the above provision.
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THE PosrAoE BlLL.-The amendment in
the Senate to the Postage Bill, making let
ters unpaid pay two cents more than pre-.
paid letters, five cents in all upon unpaid
letters, it is said, will pass the Senate. II
may meet with au amendment proposing a
two and iour cent rate when returned TO tie
House, but there is little doubt that the three
and five rate will ultimately prevail Some
of the New York papers are still clamorina
for greater reduction, to % cents! but the
public mind is, perhaps, not yet prepared fol
SO great change
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Living on the Iate, est Of what you Que
We have heard it said of persons who lived
well, without any visible means of obtaining
living, that they we're living upon "the
interest of what they owed" and this
though sort of paridoxical Joke when ap
piled 10 an individual, becomes sober fact
when applied to bank. Every bank note
is an evidence that the president, directors
and company owe somebody the amount il
calls for; that they have got value received
from somebody for ii, and it is evidence, to
nse common phrase, of "aothing else"
And on this evidence of debt they receive
interest The proposition 10 erect free
banking system OH the State stocks is a
magnificent improvement on this scheme,
and if carried out will enable an indefinite
number of somebody's to live on the inter-
est of what the State owes and what they
will owe Themselves in addition.-Ksystone
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Gov QuIrMAs-The report that General
Quiman had resigned his office as Governor
of Mississippi TO attend his trial in New Or
leans on charge of being concerned in the
Cuban Expedition comes from the New Or
leans papers OF the 2lst. If this should
prove true, the Chief Executive of the State
will devolve upon the Hon.. j Guion, Pres.
idens OF the Senate of Mississippi This
gentleman is Whig, but fully susiaius the
position of Governor Quiiman on the ques.
lion between the North and South.
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PROTESTANT CHAPEL IN RoME.-The editor
o. the New York Evangelist has received a
letter from the Rev, Mr.. Hastings who is the
gentleman preaching in the Protestant Chap
el at Rome, Informing him that the chapel
has not been closed, as ithas been reported
TO have been. Another account says =; -,
Mr. cass has had an interview win The Car
dinals on the suh;;sct of ...ae iittle American
onape'' WITCH has resulted in its being per
..'Iled 70 60 on without molestation.
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Firo.

On Saturday night last, our citizens were
alarmed by cry of fire. On ralying, il
was found that the old store house belolis TO
the Estate of the late Abraham Thomas, sit
ualed on the North side of the Canal, was in
flames. The fire Company were promptly
on the spot, with the new engine, but the
fire had spread SO nearly through the build
ing, that there was ro hope of staying it.
The building stood alone, and there being
no wind, there was no danger of the fire ex.
tending. The fire company turned a stream
OF water into the flames, merely for exer
cise, and show what could be done--satisfy.
ing all the spectators of the ability of the
company and the engine TO render most i'm
[ortant service where it could be available.
We understand the building burned has
been frequently used as place of resort by
the dissolute. Sometimes, it is said, u horde
of persons, male and female-black and
while-have taken forcible possession of IL
and made it place of residence. Conss.
quently it has been held as an annoying nu,.
sance TO the more immediate neirhborhood
II is believed to have been set on fire with
view TO its destruction. This may be true
but we are 10th to believe there is among us
a single individual who would thus wanlop.
ly destroy property. If true, the act is mosl
reprehensible, and the actor ought not to per.
nit himself to rest, EMIL The widow and faith.
erless are remanerated TO the exten, of their
Wilkesbarre Advocatc.
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~ Every one of our readers has heard of
Mrs. Swisshelm of the Saturday Hisitcr, the
only trueeand consistent anti-war and abol.
lionist journal of the state. We have fire.
qucntly taken pleasure in copying her truth.
ful and well said reproofs of the foibles and
follies of The age, for it is of course the lit.
erary and good common-sense columns of
the Vtsiter which we coat upon-the spice
and Attic salt which suits our palate. Well,
last week we were delighted TO greet this
welcome Tsiier in fine new dress, and al
lhongh its lady editor has a neW fantastic
head for her paper, she evidently uses the
old Qaker one TO write with, for she talks the
same good sober sense of yore.
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A New Town.

We understand that Messrs. Strong e.
Morn, of this place, have purchased the
farm of Mr.. Peter Pollen, on the opposite
side Of the Susquehanna, with a view of
laying ii out into town lots. When the
Bridge across the river is completed, which
will be during next summer, communication
will be rendered easy and pleasant. and ma
ny will doubtless provide themselves with
residences in the new town--Pittston Gazette
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VAN Courts New Monthly Magazine is a
cheap periodical after the style of Harpers
Magazne--that is reprint of the best ar.
ticles from the British Magazines. It is fur.
nished at 81 per annum, and is deserving oil
the highest encouragement. Address ]. Van
Conr Philadelphia.
Van Courts Counterfeit Detector is. fur
nished by the same publisher at the same
TERMS
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S Hon. w. A. Richardson Of Illinois
has addressed the President demanding the
semovai Of A. Williams Attorney for the
Uri,ed States for the District of Illinois. He
gives as charge the fact that MIR. Williams
last fall declared on the stump that the iugi
tive slave law abolished trial by jnry ard
suspanded the writ Of haLsas corpus. Maj
Richardson says lhat from this either the
officer lacked proper understanding of the
law Of the honesty 10 express q candid opin
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New post Offices.

The following new post Offices have lately
been established in this state
. Clearsville, Bedford CO. John l.. Grove
P. Nj.
Warfordsburg, Fulton CO. J. T.. Stevens,
Leesporl Berks CO. G. w. Allhouse,
Little Gap, Lehigh CO. JOS ]. Albright,
Paradise Valley, Monroe CO. David Ed
niger