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The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

Town OFFrcERs.-The election for
town officers, held last Monday, resulted
in the choice of P. G. Ferguson T. n
Cazneau; J. NJ. Parker; H. n. Brown
and Jos. A. Smith, for Trustees. For
Marshal, Robert Mullan; Treasurer, A.
E. Hooker, and David Green for Asses
sor.
The number of votes cast was four
hundred and seven. The election was
an exceedingly quiet one and very little
interest appeared to be manifested. The
new Trustees take their seats Immediate
ly. All the gentlemen composing the
Board are we'll known to the community,
and we have great confidence in their
ability ard discretion. Mr.. Mullan will,
in our opinion, make an excellent Mar
shall, and the funds are placed in good
hands; as for Mr.. Green. the people are
suited in his election as Assessor, and his
ability is unquestioned.
To sum up the whole, large majority
of the people are satisfied, and the town
will be well governed.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

The RAcEs.-Yes Yesterday the match
race for $3.50 side between Nick Of the
Woods and Fandango Jack. resulted in
favor of the former. The distance was a
single dash of half mile; time, min.
Is seconds. The black horse was beaten
18O feet.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16
Ladlef, Fair.

The preparations for the Grand Fair
of the ladies Of Columbia, in aid of the
Columbia Institute for the education of
young ladies, are in active progress
Our fair and generous maids and matrons,
are in the excess of their zeal vieing with
each other to carry off the palm Of praise
for the extent of their influence and the
magnitude of the results they may pro-
duce in aid of the objects that SO fully
enlist their philanthropic sensibilities.
We are proud of our country women
no object of public benevolenco or pri-
] vate worth that does not claim their warm
support. In all that is worthy, noble,
pure, charitable and good, they are ever
present. These sentiments inspire them
in their exertions to found in the midst
OF our happy homes, noble institution
for the education of the youth Of their
sex, now budding forth towards woman
hood, and destined in few brief years
to take their rank as wives and mothers
We are ourselves warmly enlisted in this
great and good object-nothing will SO
much tend to elevate our community and
give us character throughout the entire
extent of our State as fostering care Of
educational objects.
In this view such institutions as that
now contemplated for Columbia, and for
which the Fair is in aid, has claims that
address themselves to all our people ,and
we bespeak for the object the good wishes
and the generous aid of all our citizens.
Charles Carlinel's spacious and elegant
Hall has been selected as the locale for
| the fair, and here the enchanted tables and
enchanting fair ones are to display their
graces. and bid the good and generous to
aid them in their exalted aims
Gentlemen prepare yourselves for a
rich repast, heightened by the joyous re-
Election that every dollar received at the
festival is for noble and holy object.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16
PAGES Line Of On
Freight! +! F'reight!! Freight!
AT
REDUCED PRICES.

we unOerSlsne0 Degs reSpeCtflll-
I'll ly to state that from and after this date and until
further notice, he will forward Merchandise and other
Goods by first class Mulc Teams Columbia and vicinity
at The following reduced rates Of freight viz
For heavy Goods Groceries, Provisions, Liquors
&C., &c, per Mule Teams .1I cts p H.
Do Do per Ok Teams Tx ss
For Case Goods, Dry Goods, and others ofa
puiky NATURE. .........-l1s fG 2cts.
Do Do per Ok Teams, .11 "a ~ cts.
In addition, offer the advantages of correctness dis
patch and security against losses damages on Goods
transit.
Storage in Fire Proof Brick Building for all Goods
consigned to my Free OF Charge.
D. J. oUIIAHAN
Stockton May IS, 1857 4s-n
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

We are compelled to apologize for the
late appearance of the paper this week,
in consequence ofthe Sonora news.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

Hook &c LADDER Co.-An enthusiastic
meeting of gentlemen favorable to the or
ganization of Hook & Ladder Co. was
held last evening at the Hose Co.'s house.
After considerable discussion the meeting
adjourned to meet on Tuesday evening
next at the same place, when every one
deslrous OF joining is expected to be
present.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16
DIED.

In Columbia on Wednesday last, CHARLES, only of
Charles and Jane Cardnel aged year and months.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

CARDINELL's BALL-We learn that
this Ball was grand affair. Between
90 and 100 ladies were in attendance and
eighteen full setts were on the floor at
one time. Nearly 800 people were pre-
sent and all seemed to enjoy themselves
highly. The managers deserve great
credit for the style in which they arranged
the hall and catered to the public taste.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

To CORRESPONDENTS consequence
of press of matter, we have laid over
several communications until next week.
As they are on subjects that will not spoil,
we hope our friends will be satisfied with
the arr angement.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-05-16

JAcoBs.-The Wizard performed last
evening to a full house. All that has
been said of him comes far short of the
reality. His tricks are astonishing and
he is supposed by many to be very closely
allied to -. Go aud see hiRa for
yourselves aud our word for it you will
. be surprised and delighted, and satisfied
that no greater magician lives.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21


BOSTON BooT AND SHOE MARKET Week ending July
1.-THE large auction sales which have taken place this
week attracted 10 cur market large lumber OF buyers
from all section Of the country. Although the effect OF of
rng at auction In week 10 900 boots and shoes
has deferred buyers from making ex.h5lve purchases
until The result Of the sales knoRn We now conf
IDENTITY look for very active market for weekFas
have never heard in the history of the trade 90 many
buyers as are now among The two principal auction
sales went Of quite satisfactory as could be expected
under the circumstances Many manufacturers who
present expressed themselves quite willing TO sell out
their stocks nj the prices obtained, q1ay considered
The private transactions Of The week have been quite
large perhaps quite large the public sales. The
quantity shipped by waer almost exclusively TO South
ern ports, begins TO look II there little life
still eft ia this trade At Lynn, Hayerhi and other
neighboring to also advised Of active de
mand and increased Baes and prices generally age fully
sustoned and firm. Leather han rapidly advanced and
nov rules from DC per Id. higher than the current
ratesa month ago and goods cannot bs manufactured
and sold unless higher p'iees obtained The upwsrd
tendency Of the Hide ant ather market still continues
the receipts hardy equal to the demaud and the feeling
is so buoyant arm that would MOI be surprised II
prcea advanced quite as rapidly for the next four weeks
ShipplH list
BosroE CurroE GooDs MARKEr--Week ending july
1.-THE demand ior Cotton dood0 the past week has I'M
proved ltte but business is sin quite moderate Hold
ers generally continue firm as to prices foods vt the
present poc OF Cotton cannot be Manufactured aud sold
at the presentracs to pay, and in consequence there
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MILFORD ITEMs.-We learn from the Journal
that John Chamberlin and John Waugh, beer
manufacturers, were arIaigned, on the complaint
of Timothy Ide, Jr., for keeping liquor with in
tent to sell. They received the usual fine and
sentence, but appealed.
Week ago Sunday, the house of Mr. Jonathan
Pond, who resides about three miles from Mil
ford, was set on fire by some children playing
with matches, and entirely consumed, while the
family was at church Loss unknown.
The temperance cause is being pushed forward
very rapidly in the town. Rev. Lyman Maynard
gave lecture, which, according to the Journal,
breathed the genial spirit of Christianity, as well
as taught its sentiments.
On Monday afternoon last, thunder storm
came up, and forced Mr.. Richard Carroll and his
hired man to drive load of hay into barn own
ed by Michael Hart just as they stepped cut
Of the barn, to get some water, the lightning
struck it. They returned Immediately, and found
the load of hay on fire and both the oxen pros.
trated. An attempt was made to unyoke the
oxen, but the spread of the fire peventedit They
were destroyed, together with the barn. The oxen
were worth S225, making Mr.. CAROLS loss, to.
SN'HNA WIN MO NaSoH anu nay, not less tnan
| $500. He can hardly afford to lose it.
The lightning cut up some queer freaks, a week
ago Monday, in the City District" 1t split a
telegraph pole to pieces near Mr.. Harvey 7.
| Taft's house, crossed the road, struck Mr.. It's
house on the Basterly corner, and running up to
the second story, it took off the window mould.
ing, and entered the room, which was used as
shoe workshop, upsetting the benches and turn
ing everything topsy-turvy 1t then passed out
of window, which was open, and went down
the lightning rod, at the side of it, to the ground
From thence it ran to an ash tree, eight or ten
rods from the house going up the tree, it strip.
| ped its trunk Of the bark from the ground to the
branches.
Policeman Ide seized two casks of beer from
an express wagon driven by Mr.. Theodore Stacy
son of Rev. George W. Stacy, who surrendered
it after some remonstance. Mr.. Ide when he
was carrying off the boer, was Kissed by the crowd
1t was put into the Town House over night, and
somebody got it and tapped it, SO that most of it
was gone by morning.
There has been but one death in that town
since the 14th of June. On that day very aged
woman died The death since was that of a very
! young child. This is a rather remarkable in
stance of healthulness, unsurpassed, we believe,
by any other town. There is population of
5000; 1000 under 6 years of age, and one third Of
the whole foreign born or children Of such.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

Mes~s. Editors The fifth subscription Con-
cert given by Fiskes Cornet Band at Mechanics
Hall, comes off this evening. Let nothing pre-
vent full house, as there is but one more of the
course. Letsus shew them that we appreciate
their music, and their motive in giving us such
cheap entertainments. Gentlemen visiting us
from other cities speak in the highest terms of
our magnificent hall, and tbelperformances of the
band singing. They much surprised TO find
such entertainments for the small sum of ten
cents, having often paid fifty cents and dollar
for what did not please them as we'll They, one
and all, speak Of our talented leader, M, Arbuc-
kle, of his gentlcmally treatment to all, and his
ability to perform the most difficult music most
effectively. Its said by many that he has no
superior in this section Of the country. The
thorough manner IN which be has drilled the band
shows that he is we'll qualified for the position he
now occupies II is hoped that one more Con
cert after the course may be given, for the benefit
of the leader. CITIZEN.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

Mr., George Peabody the American
banker, Of London, made visit TO this city
last Thursday, and was the guest Of n. g.,
Upham, at whose house were assembled, in
the evening, a large and brilliant party, who
were rejoiced at the opportunity of taking by
the hand man whom wealth and position
could never make forget he was an American,
and that every American citizen was his
countryman. An incident which he related
of himself, while here, will show to what
Mr.. Peabody is indebted for his success. Fiji
ty years ago, at the age Of u, he had occa-
sion to pass through Concord, on his way to
Vermont. He stopped all night at the Stick
ney Hotel, where he paid his lodgings and
breakfast by saving wool Concord, ON. H.)
Independent Democrat.
There are eight surviving ex-govern-
ors of New York, viz Van Buren,, Throop,
Seward, Bouck, Hunt, Fish, Seymour and
Clark. Massachusetts, has but six, viz: Ey-
erett, Morton, Briggs, Boutwell,, Clifford and
Wa4burn.
Each hundred persons in Massachu-
sets send through the post 1902 letters in a
year each hundred in New Y ork S43 letters;
but in North Carolina, only 1885, and in Ten
nessee, 1897 being less than two letters per
person on an average in a year. While in
New York and New England there are from
s to 10 to each person.
The largest train ofcars that ever pass
ed over the Lehigh Valley Road came down
on Tuesday last. 1t was drawn by the To-
connective "Lehigh," Joel Field, engineer,
and consisted Of one hundred nnd fifty cars,
carrying in the aggregate about seven hun
dred and fifty tons Of COAL
Widow Grizzlies husband lately died
of cholera. In the midst of the most acute
bodily pain, after the hand Of death had
touched him, aud while writhing in agony,
his gentle wife said to him, ''Well, Mr..
Grizzle, you needn't kick round so, and
wear all the sheets out, if you are dying!"
A cheap and handy remedy for diar-
rhea is simply to take tumbler OF cold water,
thicken it with wheat -four to the consistency
of cream, and drink it. This is to be repeat
ed several times during the day. or as often
as you are thirsty; and it is not very likely
you will need it on the second day.
"Many," says Newton, "have puzzled
themselves about the origin of evil. OBJ.
serve that there is evil and that there is q way
to escape it and with this begin an end
A maid hooked one of the best of her
mistress's dresses the other day, but the affair
was passed over because it was done behind
the lady's back, so there was nobody to testify
to the fact
Nothing is more favorable to love than
little discord-as the frost makes the grapes
tenderer and richer.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

MuT1NY ON BOARD OF A WHALE. SHIP
Barque Huntess, Capt. VIM. Allen, arrived
at New Bedford on Sunday. after an absence
of eleven months and eight days. Fourteen
of her crew refused to do duty when nine
months out, in consequence of ill-treatm emit
to one of the men, by the captain, who thrust
piece of iron foot and half long, into his
mouth, knocking out some of his teeth, &c.
The iron was kept in his mouth two or three
minutes. The crew ordered the captain to
put back to st. Helena to sec the American
consul, who advised the captain to put to sea-
and make them do duty, but the other oficers
refused to sign papers, and the ship was there.
fore, sent home. The crew will be taken to
Boston by U. S. deputy marshal VIM. Rus.
sell, for examination. The men were twenty.
two days in irons at ST. Helena, where they
lay four weeks, and were six weeks coming
home.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

WHAT NBxT.-A naRchine has been invent
ed for shearing sheep, the operation requiring
but three minutes, when the animal jumps
clear of the machine, so smooth that one
would suppose it had never had an outer
coat to its back We have heard it said that
it is thing impossible to get wool off a hogs
back, but in this age of inventions and ma.
chinery there is no saying what may not be
done, and were it not that just now pork is
in rather bad repute, some one might try his
hand at something Of the kind
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w o .CE STER

true to the principles Of the Constitution, this
Onon viii defy all monarchs. all tyTants, and all
eayonets, and was greeted with vehement ap-
ptause-durIng the very time when Charles a
Phelps, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
after 'hymning the blended glories of SARATOGA
and OF Kings Mountain, of Bunker Hill and
OF Yorktown and after alluding in complimen-
tary terms to that distinguished son of Virginia,
Senator Mason, who very properly reminded US
the other day at Bunker HILL etc, was declairn-
ing; The lesson which comes in fiery yolieys
nom bunker Hill to kings and cabinets and
pnnclpalities and powers, is, that they must not
aafe to outrage the sentiments of free people
lat that very time, America was holding over
three millions Of people in the cruelest bondage
known on earth. Aye, more than that While
the ABOVE words were pronounced TO wells of tu-
muttuous applause, three fugitives who had fed
tobNashWlle, Illinois, and had been pursued thith.
er IN the strength of the Bill which that distin
Bulshed son OF Virginia devised, were seized
ana one OF them, in the spirit of Patrick Henry,
resolved on liberty or death, and resisting cap
ture, was shot dead This was the accompani,
ineht TO our bells and cannon this the echo of
agony, crime, and horror which made respous e
70 the sentiment of Paueuil Hall, on the eighty.
nrst anniversary of the glorious independence of
me United States of America / should have
seorneo myself forever after had suffered the
opportunity of that day to pass without un
compromising protest both against the slave pow
er OF the South, and its hunheys in the North.
II this be treason 'yulgariy, bad taste, or
malignant abuse let the most be made of it.
Some persons seem incapable of discriminating
patriotic ardor from partizan zeal-the cage at
tempt to compass a selfish end from the dsinter-
ested fufment of duty-generous Indignation
from poisonous hate. The attacks of such are
harmless, and their own punishment is in them
Those persons who take every hearty word against
corruption, demagogues and slavery, or in be.
half Of purity, principle and freedom, as per-
sonal insult, and the speaker Of it personal
enemy, are surely as much to be pitied as they
are to be despised."
The letter of Senator Mason to the Brooks fes-
tiyal in South Carolina, referred to by Mr.. Ager,
above, in which the distinguished friend of Mr..
Winthrop, from the " old Dominion, eulogized
the whole course of Preston S. Brooks in Con-
gress, and declared for disunion in the poll
cy of the slavery propagandIsts was not carried
out, weshall publish tomorrow, with illustrative
comments thereupon.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

New York, July 20. Flour closes SC lower
lower on common State brands; sales 450O bbl: common
to strait State Sc 25 IS; Upper Lake 25 u GAS;
common to good Ohio extra 55a 10; extra Genesee
so a so. Southern qeavy for common; sales 1000
7S5 80. Canadian heavy; sales 400 bbls superfine
So 40 GAS; extra 100 90. Wheat closes frmer;
sales 1900 bush; Canadian white 81 30 974; South
ern mixed, new, o.; Upper Lake Milwaukee club, so
81. Oats dull and heavy; sales 4lO0i State So a Csc;
Western So 65c ooEn lc bet.eri sales 29,000 bushi
mixed 81 Soc; white nominal; yellow 90. Whisky
lower; sales 1000 bbls; Ohio 3lt 80.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

DAD DISASTER AT THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.
We learn by telegraph that the Flume Eouse,
at the White Mountains, was struck by light
ming at about the middle of the afternoon of
Saturday, by which two persons were instant
ly killed. One Of them was Mr.. w. IL.
Smith, of the firm of Wright, Davis & Co.,
carpet dealers, over the Boston and Maine r.
r. Depot in Boston. The other person killed
was Mr.. Blandon, Of Bethlehem, clerk of the
house.
The lightning struck flagstaff erected in
front of the house, on the 4th OF July last,
descended the pole until it reached the wire
of bell, aud thence entered the house.
Mr.. Smith was sitting in the portico when
he was struck and killed. Mr.. Blandon was
writing at his desk. A child near him was
stunned and slightly injured. as were also a
number of other boarders in the vicinity of
the persons killed. II Boston Traveller.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

IMPROVED PEN.-JohE Keith & Co., have re-
Gently introduced new steel pen, manufactured
exclusively foE them, called the 9 Waehusett
Pen" which towers as much above the ordinary
run OF pens, as Wachusett does above the sur
rounding hills The diligence used by Keith &
Co. to accommodate the public in this line is
worthy of communication. But for their pons,
some Of our most pointed paragraphs mightnev
have been written, and what loss that would
have been to mankind in general.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21
CLOSING PRICES AT THE BROKERS' BOARD,


FLOUR--There is rather better demand and the mar
ket is finer. Sales Of Western superb at Sc rs 90;
fancy 10 a S5j extra Z 5Oa9 50 per Dbl.
GRAIN Corn. Sales of yelo8 at 95c mixed OIL a 92c
per bush Oats. Sales Of Northern and Canadian at 81
a 70, per bush Rye is selling at 81 16 per bush.
PROVISI0NS-pork is In moderate demand Sales Of
prime at $21 81 so; mess at "a rs; clear and extra
clear 20 81 per bbl cash aud 4 mos Beef is steady
Bales of mess aud extra $40 so 10 per bbl cash
and mos. Lard is in fair demand. Sales in bbis. at
144 15lc; kegs 1864 l6c per ID, cash and mos
Hams are duh at II l3c per h. cash and mos
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21
For the spz.


congregational Singing.
"Let all things be done decently and in order.D
TITS said the human mind within
"From pole to pole" is ranging;
Which proves our most beseltiug sin
Consists in love for changing.
And alb! how many sad regrets,
This rage for change is bringing;
1t enters cen the Church-and sets
The congregation singing,
The people now are oal'd to meet
With singing book and psalter;
The ehorister must leave his seat
And ''stand before the Atari
'Tis sadie see The jreary waste,
The orchestra deserted;
'fis sad to think the Christian taste
Could e'er be so perUsrted.
For where's the harmony divine
To fill the soul with pleasure;
With voices blending-psrt in time,
And part-behind a measure?
The steadfast saints With patience wait
The dawn Of hope discerning;
The Church its error will forsake,
10 former works returning!
The Organ and the House unite
Expressing that desire;
While music waits 10 every pipe
To greetsagain the choir. n. G
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

MECHANICS HALL.-Remembe the ten-cent
concert this evening" at Mechanics Hail. by
Fiske's Cornet Band. This is the fifth of the ex.
cellent series Of cheap concerts now being given
there, which have been SO fayorably patronized.
Mr.. Fisher Flagg will play solo upon flute
and rich and rare treat may be expected tonight
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21
For the sry

Messrs. Editors During the past two years.
our rose bushes have been visited by the " Slug, .
destroying the foliage, and giving them the ap-
pearance Of having been burned. After trying in
various ways to destroy them, with like result
as last resort, I have applied to you Soliciting
your earliest attention) thinking that either
yourself or some of your numerous subscribers
may have been more successful than
Yours, truly, AN OLD SUBSCRIBER.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

THE EXCURSION tomorrow to Lake Alexander
by the 'Indepentent Sons of Erin Club" will be
pleasant and agreeable affair The cars will
leave the Norwich depot at O'Clock, and return
after the exercises in the evening. Fare to 90
ana return, 70 cents. Goddard & Aldrich's Band
VIII accompany the cxcursonists from this city,
and an exceedingly pleasurablc time may be an.
uciPated there, in boating, dancing, fishing, &c.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 20.-Robert Farnham, the
oldest book seller and stationer in this city, and
universally esteemed was killed this forenoon at
the Stanton station OF the Philadelphia and Bati'
more Railroad. He was standing on the track
as the train approached. Mr.. tarnham was ma
tive of Boston, and extensively known to the
trade throughout the country.
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Hail storm.

ROCHESTER, N. Y, July 20.-At about three
O'Clock this afternoon our city was visited by the
most terrific rain and hail storm of the season.
Rain and hail fell very fast for half az hour
Much of the hail was of sufficient size to break
windows, and it is feared that much damage has
been done to the crops in the vicinity, paIticu-
larlr 10 rnrn and frnit