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Hogs---PriCeS.

The market is quiet, and prices appear
to be steadily maintained, with sale oI
1900 hogs for packing, deliverable next
week, at 81 20 per 100 pounds net; also
a sale of 500 large hogs at Sd 35 net
The sale at 81 90 net is equal to SO gross
within twenty-five milss of the city, al
which price VIC learn several lots have
been sold, but to what extent we did not
ascertain. The packers continue in op-
Grafton, and fully 175, 900 hogs have been
slaughtered up to the present time, which
is large excess over any previous season
Another lot of 900 hogs were sold at
81 25 net, which appears to be the ruling
rate.--LoaiSriRe Courier, l0th instant.
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The Conspiracy Case.
Ihgitires brought TO Easton- Tier
C0pamittaL

lOHtHttfut
On Thursday evening of last week, DR.. !.
JAMES STEVENSON and ISAAC PARKER,
whose arrest we noticed in our last, were
brought back to ou, Borough by Esquire
Buck and Stewart Lewis, by virtue of a
requisition directed to them, from Gov
crnor Bigler. Late in the afternoon OF
that day, information was received by
telegraph. that the above named officers
were en- route to this place with the Grim
inals, and large crowds of people assem-
bled. at the Philipsburg depot and at Es-
quire Bucks Office, to get sight of the
Doctor and his accomplice. They were
taken to Bucks Office and bail demanded
of Stevenson in the sum of $4,000, and
of Parker in the sum of $4,000; and in
default whereof they were committed to
jail. The Justice appointed the 18th oi
December for their hearing, but was af-
wards adjourned to Thursday the 22d Of
December, 2 o'clock, p. NJ.
On Monday afternoon of this week,
one thousand dollars more of the confed-
crate money was found in Stevenson's
room. very inartifcally hidden in closet
between the leaves of@ book. This 81 }.
900 exactly corresponds with the 81 800
found in Parker's boot when he was ar
rested, being in 500 bills on the Farmers
& Mechanics Bank of Easton. 1t may
be questionable whether Doctor Steven
son left this money there, or whether some
other one deposited it there to exculpate
himself. We think the latter looks the
most probable.
No further facts have been developed,
except an unsigned receipt which wa:
found in the Doctors trunk one day last
week. 1t was receipt for the payment
of $500 by Benjamin Green, purporting
to be for purposes which we now forbeal
to mention. From certain letters found
in the Doctors possession, it is supposed
that he has been engaged in other project.
no less criminal than this. We under
stand that those letters throw some ligh
upon the manner in which he obtained
those dry goods which he brought here
and had sold at public auction last sum
ilCI, anu w ulCu AS luCu dilCSS0 ulU RCSi
taken in payment of promissory not
from man in Pittsburg, Pa. If all tht
reports be true, the Doctors case is ;
fearful one.
There are rumors afoat that other per
sons of this place, are implicated: but al
no further arreets have been made, W.
think they are unfounded. We trus
that all who have been in the slightes
manner connected with this foul and fen
dish act, will receive the highest penalt.
that our laws annex to such crimes.
Much praise is due II. D. Maxwell.
Esq, and others, for their untiring dill
gence and faithfulness in bringing thos,
fugitives to justice and thus far exposing
their deeds of infamy and disgrace.
EaStOa Wig.
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rw A man was arrested in New Yor

r% A man was arrested in New York
a few days ago for preaching against the
Catholics in the street. On Sunday, the
time appointed for more presching, about
twenty thousand people assembled, some
to hear, but many in anticipation of ri
OF. The Mayor had large police force
on hand, and military ready at moments
warning. Several preachers addressed
the crowd; but no disturbance took place.
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rRTbe L. S. Circuit Court at Boston

r@The L. S. Circuit Court at Boston
has decided that person exhibiting to
another letter marked confidential, ,;
or otherwise using its contents thus pub
licly to the injury of the writer or third
party, was guilty of gross violation of
privilege, and might be held pecuniarily
liable for damages resulting from such
breach of confidence.
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Infamous Conspiracy.
Arrest OF "a Physician.

4 man calling himself physician, BY
the name of John X. Seymour, was ar
rested in New York, on Saturday, the
81 inst, by Policeman Patterson and
Sweemy, of the Lower Police Court
charged with having, with the aid of his
wife Jane, professed clairvoyant cureI
of diseases, by means of scheme Of the
most Infamous nature, defrauded John
K. Stuyvesant out of house and lot
worth from $4,000 to $4,000. The fol-
lowing is the substance of the affidavit ot
Mr.. s., on which the charge is BASED
He swears that in the early part oi
the present year, being afflicted with Sc.
we're pain in the breast. he was induced
to visit the house of Seymour, then in
Division-street, and subsequently at No
49l Houston-street, for the purpose Of
consulting the wife of Seymour, who, by
a sign on the front door, and by cards
and by words spoken, professed to be a
clairvoyant, and while in that state to be
able to prescribe efficient remedies for the
cure of diseases. That he frequently
visited the house, and for each consulta-
tion with Mrs. S., paid her 81, and for
the medicine she prescribed he paid to
her husband, who procured it, from 81 to
SO per bottle.
That during these visits, Mrs. S., by
her responses and acts, invited liberties
to be taken with her person by him,
gradually and artfully leading him on, as
be now perceiyes and believes, with the
view and dosign-though he was not con-
scious of it at the time-of getting him
into such suspicious and cquiyocal situa-
tons as would enable her and her hus-
band-who, he believes, was corspiring
with her for the purpose-to extort mo-
ney and other property from him.
That on the night of the 10Th of May
last be was at the house, when Mrs. S.
informed him that her husband had gone
to Boston; she the ngaye him a night key
to the front door of the house, and in
vited him to visit her the next night,
saying that she would have the servants
out of the way. That on the following
night he visited the house, when she re-
peated to him what she had said the
night previous relative to her husband s
absence, and by her 'seductions, advances,
and caresses,' induced him to visit her
sleeping room, and while both were par
tally unrobed, she suddenly gave a sig
nal, by slamming the door three times,
when her husband Immediately rushed
into the room with drawn sword cane
in his hand, and struck him violently
with it upon the head, and stabbed at
him several times, and threatened to
murder him unless he would pay him
money or its equivalent, and refused to
give him up his clothes until he had con-
sented to transfer to him a house and lot
which be owned in Sixteenth street, which
be subsequently, did transfer.
lie further states in his affidavit, that
Mrs. Seymour possesses no such power
of clairyoyance as she professed to have,
but that the business carried on by her
and her husband is the practice of gross
to entrap the unwary and de-
fraud them,' and that in this instance
they have conspired together to cheat
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Removed.

Mr. Samuel Melick, Jeweler, Of this
nlace. has removed his materials to the
front room in John Edinger's new BricE
building, where be is fully prepared tc
accommodate all who may favor him with
their custom. The room Mr.. VI. now oc.
cupies is large and better adapted for the
business than the one he formerly occu-
pied.
A fine selection Of goods, suitable fol
Christmas and New Years Presents car
be had cheap, at his establishment.
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Jury List.


List of persons drawn to serve Grand and as
Petit Jurors at the December Term.
GRAND JURORS.
Smithfeld. Daniel Tribe, Daniel Butz,
David Fenner, Samuel COPYRIGHT, Anthony
Transue,
.Stroud-Jnmes Hallet, William B, Row.
Samuel Neyhart, Rudolph Shiffcr, Charles
Swink.
N. Smithfeld.-Adam Oserfeld, John V.
Coolbaugh.
Paradise-David EdInger.
Polk-Dawalt Fisher, Philip Kresge.
T'obykanna--Peter Merwine, sen. Wash
ington Winters.
Hamilton-IIenry Setter, John Marsh,
Thos. Ross, John Shoemaker, jacob Shafcr.
EIdred-William Jones.
.Jackson-M Michael Heller.
PETIT JURORS.
To5qhanna-SamuelH Hay.
Sfroud-Frederick Fable, James Andre,
John Ransbary, james Smiley, Philip Rock
efellow, George Hcuk, John Miller.
Price-George Ink.
Pocono-Joseph Hickman. Jacob Heiny,
Stephen kestler, George Sebrlng.
SmifhfeLd-James Fenner, Peter Wolf,
Moses Strunk, Abraham Depae, James ;.
Postens, William Latimore, John Tribe.
Chesnuihiu-George Serfoss, jr.,
VI, SmiihfeEd-Samuel ID. Pipher, Jacob
Bush, Martin Place, Benjamin Fan"hy Ben
iamin II. Strunk, Webb Wallace
.Jackson-Andrew Singer.
Eldred-Joseph Christman.
RosS-Peter Frantz.
CooIbaugh-John Callaghan.
HamiItoa-Simon Meyers, Joseph Fenner,
Jacob Fetherman, Jucob Metzger, William
Feker.
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A Snake Soy.-The Buffalo Express
says: Miss Permolia Dumas, daughter
of j. B. Dumas, tavern keeper, at Stry-
kersville, Wyoming, County, recently e.
jected from the stomach, black snake
some six or seven inches in length! 1t
bad white ring around its neck. Very
distinctly marked. The serpent was a.
bout the size of common goose quill.
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The Penn'a. School JOuraal,
THos. II. BURRowEs, Lancaster, Pa.
The Massacbu>etts Teacher.
SAMUEL COOLIDGE, Boston, Mass.
The Oaie Journal of Education,
LoRIN ANDREWS, Columbus, Ohio.
The NPW-York Teacher,
T. W. VALENTINE, Albany, n. Y.
No one that wishes to be first rate
preacher, lawyer, or doctor, is willing to
do without magazine especially devoted
TO bis profession, and We are certain that
no Ire teacher Will hesitate to subscribe
10 one if not more of these. Send Oh
One Dollar and you will receive it month
ly for one year.
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as-prof. Jobn Wise. Of Lancaster, the

@ Prof. John Wise, of Lancaster, the
unrivalled American aeroant, has an or
der from Mr.. j. C. Champion, in Canton,
China, to make him balloon 25 feet in
diameter, one Of the finest fabric, and to
be splendidly embellished with ornamental
work. witk a representation of Dosdulus
and learns from Crete. 1t will cost 81
SO. He has also another order from San
Francisco for balloon.
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New ORLEANS, December ia pri-
vate letter, dated Vera Cruz, eth instant,
says Santa Anna is proclaimed dictator
for ten years, with the consent of all the
principal States and cities, excepting
Ordspa, which wanted him made perpet-
ual dictator.
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TEN DOLLARS A DAY!

offer for sale upwards of thirty different
Resceipts, many of which have been sold for
from IS, to so pece, and in the sale and
manufacture OF these any one of energy can
make Ten Dollars day
Address IL. p. AiUatcr," d ,ston Massa-
ehusetts, enclosing one dollar and the whole
number Of Receipts will be forwarded by
return mail.
All letters must be postpaid
December Is, 1853.
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s0- An exchange paper says:-Sever-
al citizens of Marlboro, Nd, without re-
gard to party, have held meeting, and
resolved to support Judge Sharkey, of
Miss, and the Hon. ID. s. Dickinson, of
New York, for the next President and
Vice President of the Uuitcd State.
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STATE Teachers ASSociati0n.-Tbis asso-
citation viii meet at Lancaster on the 9th,
.28th, and 29th inst. The Canal Commis-
rioners have offered TO carry persons at
tending, on the railroad, at half price.
Various committees have been appointed
by the citizens to give cordial and hos
pitable reception to all who may attend.
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sGT The parties who instituted the
suits at Pittsburgh to recover the penal
ties from those who issued small notes,
have been held to answer a charge of
conspiracy
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A family was poisoned, by eating buck
wheat cakes, on the 23d ult at Philadel-
phfa. 1t is supposed that some deleteri-
Gus substance, either by accident or de-
sign, was mixed with the -four. The sick
persons recovered by the aid of a physi-
clan.
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Rgg- As has been the case for several
successive seasons, (says the Savannah
Georgian of the 10th inst.,) the first shad
caught in our river this year, was taken
yesterday by Mr.. p Gallagher. Tt weigh
ed four pounds, and was purchased by
Mr. A. Haywood, for $40
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NOTICE,

The annual meeting Of the Stockholders of
this Company will be held at the general Of.
nee OF the Company, No. As Wall st. New.
iork, on Monday, the I'd Of January merit,
tor the election OF Officers for the year
ne next ensuing. (polls to be open between
the hours OF and p. NJ. of said day. and
Tor the transaction of any other business
proper for consideration at that time.
The Transfer Books will be closed fsoSa
December, 10Th inst, TO January Sd, 1884.
BY order ofthe President and Managers.
WM. L, WARREN, Secretary,
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sg-The total appropriations asked for
to meet the expenses of the fiscal year,
ending on the 9th of June, 1855, foot up
nearly forty millions.
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rg-An English ship, the Lady Eve
lyn, belonging to Liverpool, was wrecked
while on her voyage from Hong Kong to
San Francisco, in July last, and over two
hundred persons, mostly Chinese, were
La
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GUBERNAToRIAL.-A correspondents
OF the Lebanon Courier urges the nomi-
nation of Judge Pollock for Governor.
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Del. Div. PENNSYLVANIA Canal.

Statement of the several kinds of prop
erty shipped upon the Delaware Division
of the Pennsylvania Canal, at Easton,
during the fiscal year, ending the Both of
Novemher 1854
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MARRIED.

On the 18th inst, by the Rev. Mr.. Hei-
lig, Mr.. Amos Shoemaker, of Hamilton,
and Miss Mary Dreher, of Stroud.
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s@- The aggregate salaries Of 7o3
clerks in Washington is said to be $780,
500.
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aG A negro man, the property of
John Thornberry, near Louisville, drey
prize of sl2, 900 in the State Lottery.
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Argument Li>i.

Levi King vs.. jacob d. Teel.
Perry Sux TO the use of Philip IIufsmith
assigned to jacob Shaler vs.. jacob Van BUS
kirk.
In the matter of the distribution Of the
proceeds OF the sale of the real estate of
James Hollinshead.
Vim. a. Long vs. Henry Kintz g. Henry
DIETRICH.
George Everitt vs.. John Chamters and
Mary his wife.
In the matter of the auditors report Of the
distribution of the proceeds of the sale of the
real estate of jacob B. Teel.
In the matter of the citation upon the ex-
ecutors Of Peter Frlenzer, deceased
John Merwne vs.. Joseph Keller.
In the matter of the real estate OF Joseph
Houser Jr., deceased.
Charles S. Palm er VS.. WIN. d. Brooks
and Reuben Harper.
John Tolmie and Charles s. Palmer, late
partners trad ne under the firm of Tolinie
and now to the use of Charles s. Palmer, vs..
VIM. ID. Brooks
Executors of Godfrey Greensweig VS..
Jonas Greensweig.
Samuel Ward vs.. VIM. Bells.
Executors of Godfrey Greensweg ys. Jos.
GTcenSWeig.
John Merwine and Atsaham Butts IS. Geo.
Alstine, Philip Smith and Loussa his wife,
John Smith and George Smith.
David Keller VS.. Was hington Oyerfcld.
Moses w. Coolbaugh, for the use OF David
Keller VS.. Washington Overfield.
In the matter of the report of road view
in M. Smithield township.
In the matter of the report of viewers to
vacate road in Middle Smithfield township.
Those cases marked thus* are set down
for special court.
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Trial List, December Term 1853

John Bowman and Miriam his wife, vs..
John S. Vanvliet and Hanna Vanvliet, ad-
ministrators of Charrick Vanyliet, deceased.~
abraham Barry and Elizabeth his wife, VS..
John S. Vansliet and Hannah Vanvliet, nd-
minstrators of Charrick Vanvliet, deceased =
William Trainer VS.. Jacob B. Teel.
William Clark VS.. james Gunsaules, ex-
ecutor of Mary Smith, deceased.
John Merwine and William Walp, execu-
tors of the last Will and Testament of God
frey Greensweig, deceased, vs. Jonas Green
sw eig.*
Wm Clark vs. Peter Kemerer, Amos Hell
Ter and Francis E. Grattan.*
Joseph Gruber and Michael Iiney IS.
Ephraim Christman.
John Merwine vs. Joseph Keller.*
The Commonwealth of Penna. at the sug-
gestion of Joseph Kiefer, VS.. Charles II.
Heaney. ct. al.*
Joseph Huston va Charles SHUTTER.
Samuel Frantz to the use of David Keller
ys. Joseph Altemose.
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Otice Of the Dela1are, LackaUanna and J
Western Railroad Co.
New York, December 5, 1853.
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RG-The editor Of the Savannah New
eat fresh strawberries last week.
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List ofpersons drawn TO serue Grand and as
Petit Jurors at the December Term.
np.yn IrRORs
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Address, L. ). ARTHUR q Co.
No. l07 Walnut ST., Phila.
Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1853-08-23
lr0niON--itS Past--ItS Present.
lis Future.

Its Past. Four years just gone by
since the Gaun Ia.ion or,hc lown-Iurins
which time its subsian al progress has
ever been oNm Ard; it has never once
"looked back"
It's Present. a very prosperous rail
roal in operation thirteen miles into the
interior: the present lan!ing for ten fur
naces, more soon, twcny five stores Of
various kinds: six or seven heavy manu-.
facluring establishments in operation or
IN Progress. ,o3cth.r with divers smaller
concerns, mechanic shops, &C.; hun
drcd houses; twelve millions Of brick
lall up; union public school; six
chnrchcs;a very heavy, active and pro.
duotive capital; any amount of energy,
thrift and 90 ahead; anl population,
in round numbers, little short Of three
Mousond.
It's Future. 4 rery larse mznufac'
turing ciy.--Hon'Ou Register.
That's bright picture to look upon
it is gladdcniug to the hcart of every
man who is in any degree anxious for
the improvement and development of the
resources Of the State. Taking the past
anl present as basis Of prophcsy, the
writer pre.Iic,s that lfonlon will be a
"rery larga manafuctnring cay.' In
his mini this realization is not depend.
en-, upon an ''if." He does not say ,ha,
'..f' tho Democratic Tariff of 1916; "if'
the in|epenlent Treasury system are
oyer,hrowu, "ii" the Wing party in the
State obtains the ascendency and super.
cedes Democratic policy with the one to
which it has we ldcl its affections, M,n
will! lrontoa become, ga rery larg,
manufacturing city, but thrift, enctgy
and ahcalilivness viii achieve this
result, even under the measures Of the
Democratic party, that in times past.have
been bitterly cxccratcl by the Wing par.
IT,. Give timc to the measures of the
democratic party in which to operate,
nnd as chaT is driven bcforc the gale, so
will the prcjulices engenlcrel against
hem be swept wndwarl, and the truth
lndeniably established that measures
founded upon the true Democratic doc.
rine are the only ones that fully con.
luce to the permanent prosperity and
,sppiness of Republican people,
Gill; Adc.
Spirit of the times. [volume] (Ironton, Ohio) 1853-1858, 1853-08-23
The King of Terrors.

Our newspapers should he drapel in
mourning. The light and ocular should
harIIy fin an cclo in their columns. II
seems, in ecl, as if our nation required
some act of penitence and publication.
Death is knocking at the doors of hun.
Ircls daily with foarfully quick step
He comes with SUI l,lcnncss, hnrrying his
victims oil from their labors AMI enjoy.
ments, an scarcel Y giving the livn.
man time to be star,lcl, befOr, hi:
skeleton again rises to view The
Southern part of the Union is Gtarfuliy
suffering from the yellow fever. Hosp,.
ais arc full. PHI sician and patient a
like al, callc away. Poverty and rich
cs have no distinction in his equal eye.
lit the Eastern Metropolis the heat i,
laden with an oppression so burden.
some, that hundreds daily are sinking
beneath il. The hardy workmen, with
his trowel on the scai'old, the Irish hod.
man ascending the ladder, the omnibus
driver Oh his seat, the drayman rolling
his u.ar hosshoal upon the pavement-
the men of toll upon whom the sun-
that "source incxpres.ibIc of life and
joy shines, yicl up their breath at the
silent "s,rokc" Of the same noiselcss ray
which limns the dasucrrco'ype Of the
child Az paints the rose.
The telegraph comes literally groan.
ing with the pains Of the wounlol and
the anguish Of the dying, who are called
hence even in the moment of hilarious
activity and social converse in the rail
car. Truly death is broolins over the
land. 1t seems as If Go were warning
Us, that Our pfile shoull be hu.nbleI
an our dependence Gxc'l upon power
lc.s (alible than an arm Of flesh or the
imp p,rect reason Of man. 70. States.
man.
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More E'Grtug!iese E;y;lIs.

Another banl Of Portuguese cxiIes,
numbering about sixly.Gvc in all arri.
vel on Thursday last. They are direct.
iy from Ma Icira, anl ar, a portion Of
the company of cxilcs rclcrrel lo by Dr..
Kelley, when here a sho:l time ago, as
being on their way to this county,
They were cordially wrIcomcl BY their
fellow cXi'cs here, AMI received into their
houses, until thcy Shall BE- able to
provide homes of their own. They all
intend 10 settle here except Il few who
have lricn is in Sprin.GtiI.
We learn that others are cxpcctc To
arrive IN the fall. L.. them come. We
know ofno class ofiorci.ners who make
better citizens. They "rc uniformly So.
Der, industrious AMI moral--jnst such
people as we ncel to till the soil of ouI
broad prarics.- Horgm Journal.