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Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

DAMON N PYTHIAs.-It is is said that
Messrs. Gales & Seaton, of the National
Intelligence, Washington, partners for for
ty-ive years in the publishing business, have
never had a difference of opinion on politi-
cal question and never Q jar or misunder-
standing Of any sort. They have never
known a division of interest; from their com
mon Golfer each has always drawn whatever
he chose; and for thirty years past there
has never been a settlement of accounts be-
tween them.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

Hthe lions, tigers, elephants, c~atarnoun,s,
balloons, snakes, and all other animals in the
ark, including Noah and his wife, and his
sons and his sons wives, had got into a gen.
eral fight when the deluge was over the
mountains, the confusion and rage, the yell
hngs the biting ard scratching. could not
have been greater than we have every pros
pec' OF hearing and seeing in the ranks of
the Democracy in the progress of the Kan,
sas quarrei.-[Lou Jour.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

GEN. JAcKsoN's OPINION OF Mr.. BUcHAN-
AN.-"My political life has no greater error
to atone than my neglect to crush this rep.
tile of Pennsylvania when had him in my
power. He was the cause of a bitter war
between two men of this Republic, (Clay and
Jackson who should not have been so es.'
tranged. His representations caused the
charge of { bargain and sale,' and when it
was brought home to him, he meanly left
me alone to face it. Friends interfered then
to save him from being exposed and / listen
ed to then."-Ge Jackson to Moses Daw.
son IN 1887.
81 rejoice at the defeat of Buchanan in the
Convention - Gen. Jsekson TO Noses DosO-
son 40 1914,
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

New ORLEANS, Feb. 26.-An editorial
article in this mornings Delta asserts that
the South has already opened the African
slave trade, and that u regular depot has been
established in Mississippi, on Pearl river;
also that cargoes have been already received
and sold, and the negroes are now q. work
The Delta says tina, the vessels engaged
in this business generally carry the French
flag, for the reason that British cruisers will
not trouble it.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

ST. LOUIS, March 1.-The Leader learns
from Father Dermot, n Catholic missionary,
who has spent many years among the Indi-
an tribes on either slope of the Rocky Noun
tainS' that there is a perfectly practicable and
easy route north from Sal, Lake to the British
possessions.
Dermot has travelled the route several times
in light wagon He gives it ms his convlc-
ton If the Mormons leave their present To-
cation they will proceed northwest to New
Caledonia in British America, and will settle
at the base OF Portage Mountain, near forty
ninth parallel. Phe route is described in de-
tail, and the country and climate are describ-
ed as being etninently superior to that of
Utah. The Leader calls special attention
OF the War Department and the public to it's
article.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
DEArH OF JUDGE KAnE-Jobn Y Kono

DEATH Of JUDGE KANE.--John K. Kane.
Judge of the District Court of the United
States for the Eastern District of Pennsyl-
vaniad, died at Philadelphia on the 2lst.--
In 1915 he was appointed Jndg e by Presi-
dent Polk. He acted the unjust Judge in
the case of Pessmore Williamson, who had
commenced a suit against him for false i'm
prisonment, which, of course, was termina-
ted by Judge Kane's death. The deceased
was the father of DR.. Elisha Kent Kane, the
Arctic Explorer.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
NEw Op1EANs March

STEAMBOAT BURNT!--THIRTY-NINE LIVES
LosT.-A dispatch from Mobile states that
the steamboat Eliza Battle was burned at
KemP's Landing, near Demopolis, on Mon
day morning.
Thirty nine lives were lost, with twelve
hundred bales of cotton.
Among the lost was Rev. Mr.. Newman a..
OF Louisville.
Many persons were frozen In the water.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
A SAD AFFAiR.-in Belfast III. on -

SAD AFFAfR.-in Belfast ILL.,, on the
18th ult., Mr.. Elijah Young was cutting wood
at his own door, when his little son out his
hand upon the log, and the axe came down.
chopping it off. The lad was carried into
the house OF his grandfather, Moses Young,
when the appearance of the poor fellow ex-
cited his G randmother, that she took to her
bed and died tie next morning.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

THE KANSAS FIGHT IN CoNGREss.-The
Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Times says:
-Flippant letter-writers and journ = lists,
whose pens are employed in the interests
Of Lecompton, keep asserting that the ad-
mission of Kansas under the un submitted
Constitution is a fixed fact, a thing already
ss good as accomplished, that the Admins.
tEation can and will press it through Con-
gress Immediately. Let not the public be
hanbugged by these assertions. Winter
toiA Gloss and spring Uiu come and 90, and
Summer too for that matter, before the abone-
asotion aotH haze PASSED ooer the Seasate.-
Fae opposition will dispute every inch of
ground; the debate will be the most scorch-
ing which ever took place in Congress. I
predict that before IL is closed the most vio-
lent ~Lecomptonist will be ready and willing
10 withdraw from the conflict. The issue
which viii be presented to the American
people will awaken the popular indignation
TO a hight, which viii make 1t uncomforta-
bic to face.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

Mr.. John T. Blois, a we'll known horticul-
turist of anesville. gives his experiments in
making syrup from Chinese sugar cane the
past season. AS high as 465 gallons per
acre was produced, but he thinks q safe av-
erage would be from 200 300 gallons, which
can be produced at Is to Is cents per gallon
and still leave q profi.-[Detroit ADV.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

A HOPEFUL "HEREpITARY LEGISLATOR"
Lord Brougham's son, who is yet 4 minor
and consequently dependent upon his father
for support, has been noted somewhat of late
for his attention to a young actress in the
French theatre. His father recently wrote
the following laconic epistie: 'It you do
not quit her, I'll stop your allowance" To
which the son replied: aft you do not double
it I'll marry her.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

In answer to a call from the Senate the
Secretary of War has furnished the follow
ing statement of the number of troops pta-
toned in Kansas for each quarter from the
lst of January, 1855. to the lst of January
1858. 1t will be observed that the number
had very much augmented about the time the
citizens of the territory were being transfer
red to the guardianship of Calhoun:
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
A, a public dinner at Richmond, W.. Feb.

%, Hon. William G. Rives said:
"Under no possible combination of cir
cumstances that may occur in the tide Of
time, will Virginia ever consent to a seye-
rance OF this Uniou.''
This sentiment, so worthy of Washing
toms birthday, is the sentiment of Virginia,
all her vaporing politicians to the contra
rY notwithstanding.-W Washington Repub.
lie.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

We notice that Mrs. Bliss, widow
OF the late Major Bliss. u. S. Army.
and daugAker OF Gen. Taylor, the az.
PRESIDENT, was married on the iIth
Virginia. r~
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

AtsTcrk, Pa, FIVE school children, three
boys and two girls, ventured upon the ice of
q stream as they were returning home, when
four Of them broke through, and before as
ssstance could reach them lhs three boys
were drowned.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
ONO LEeIsLAruRE.-We suppose on

Ono LEGIsLATuRE.-We suppose our
readers hardly expect US to fill our columns at q
time like the present with the reported pro-
ceedings of this body, noting particularly the
bills introduced, the various motions made in
r eference TO them during their progress TO
passage or rejection, and the remarks of
which spring up on their merits-especially
as none Of them are of absorbing interest.
We have thus far noticed all the general
acts that have finally passed, and shall con-
tinue to do SO, promising also that if any
thing IN the ordinary routine of proce edings
seems likely to prove interesting to our read
ers TO give them the benefit of il.
the past week, is the manifest determination
the governing party to hold an adjourned
The conclusion to do SO will not
US. notwithstanding the denuncia-
tons by the speakers and the press of the
party against the late Republican Legisla-
ture for SO doing. That model document
tn "new constitution" is ain the hands of
It's friends" it provides for the biennial ses-
sion; its pro visions should be regarded by
Democrats at least; bat when ..four dollars
day" intervene we are inclined to think It's
requirements will be repudiated.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

The jerks have broken out at . protracted
meeting in Indian Grove. Illinois. The Bap-
list OF Jan. 18th says:
"The minister who conducted the meet
ings moved them rem Indian Grove to Avo-
ca, and brought with them FIVE or six of the
ietkerr, and thus the contagion commenced
Ia the latter place. Our informant was pre-
sent at several of their meeting in Ayoca,
and describes the scenes as very exciting
From 6fty to one hundred were jerking at
the same time. Their hands, shoulders,
feet, and head would be violently thrown in
to the most grotesque and apparently fright
ful shapes. The women's bonnets would
fy of, their hair become disheYelled, and
snap like a whip. In some instances it at
tackled unbelievers who tried TO resist it by
folding their arms and wrapping them tight
y around their bodies, but in spite of them
selves, their shoulders. first one and then the
other, would be jerked buck till they lost all
controkof themselves"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

speak of the outrages of the pro-slavery party
before the convention began its s%ittinge,
have excited a deep. resistless. and almost
universal resentment in the free States"
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

AE ATrEMpR or a MAN IN SuMMrr Co.
re BrRN HIS owe BUlLDIke.-The Clese-
laud Herald and the Akron Beacon gives
the raFsiculars relating 20 a citizen of Hud-
coz IN Summit county, who intended to Ere
bis sssR buildings. This Herald says:
Fog two years past an honest Dutehman
has suspected his employer, Mr.. Nelson
Hiakssoh, Of . design to fire his buildings.
Mr. Einksfon has heretofore borne an ire
Psoschsbse character, was a citizen in good
stsBding. and carried on an extensive shoe
besiness, was affiaent in circumstances, re-
sPeeted BY his fellow townsmen, and happy
II his domestic relations. The Dutchman-
we are sorry no, TO know his name-has
been keeping watch of Mr. Hinkston's
HSyernents. and thinking from circumstan-
ces, tiaiihs torch was about to be applied
to &Ae block, communicates his knowledge
10 athers, and the Prosecutor of Summit
coarty. Dir Mckinney, took the matter in
kant.
The buildings owned BY Mr.. H. are in The
center of q large block Of wooden structures,
ard mad he carried out his design the confs-
graiion would have laid an important part
% The village In ashes. On an examination
af the premises, under the direction of the
iaformer, it was found that Mr.. II. had made
his building into q perfect net work of com-
bnsiibie material. from cellar TO garrett. He
had bored holes in the walls, Inserting small
hal:s Of waved ends enveloped in tissue pa
per- and he had connected these from story
10 story, 10 as to thoroughly Gre the joists in
the partitions and introduce the flames I'M
der The plastering, and by nil imaginable
contriva noes had he laid his diabolicaI plans
20 IS to fash his whole building into an in
atubt blaze. Near this building. too, was his
own family and that OF . brother, and many
others.
When the plot was discovered, and she
DcichFian told Mr. H how long and how
faiihfuily be had watched him, Nr. Hinkston !
made q clean breast of the matter, and coz
fessed that il was his design TO fire the build
ing and thus secure the insurance money!
lie said ihat two or three times had he been
Upon the point of touching of the train. but
his heart failed him. WHIST iustieated hin,
to the act he does not know, as his circum-
stances are easy. be being worth 8 Is, 900
ever and above his debts and doing a good
business. His property has been assigned
for his. benef. OF all his creditors, as Mr.. II.
vas arrested and held to bail.
Theae facts have come to light within a
few days. and have caused most painful ex-
eitement at Hucson-the terrible nature of
the contemplated GRIM in connection with
the supposed purity of the criminals charac-
ter. perfectly confounding all listeners to the
remarkable tale.
As there 10 no offense by Ohio statute in
setting fire to ones own property. of course
Mr. H. could not be held, and yesterday he
was discharged by the Probate Judge of
Sunni, county.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

fdIU IeUldIe LedCIlerS 70 ,272 5SS,I57
The total cost of school buildings erected
up to 1897 was S5I3,973. The reported
cost of buildings erected since that time, is
$2,l53,976, making a grand total of S2,667,-
946.
The Commissioner pays a handsome COM
pliment to the press. On page % of his re-
port he says:
Every Teacher should read at lenst one
good newspaper; otherwise he will live in
ignorance of daily occurring facts, in regard
to which his profession requires that he should
be Informed. Newspapers are fast becom-
ing the teachers of the world; and the man
or woman who is not an habitual reader of
this department of literature, cannot be thor
oughlY qualified for the teachers profession.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

1897. 1857.
No. Of Counties rs 50
No. Of counties reported 81 81
No. OF whole districts 1893 1901
No. of schools 1895 1880
Scholars enrolled 6.44o 6o3, 374
Average attendance 10 .3o5 $50. s67
No. OF school youth 468,812 843,849
Male teachers 4,757 lO,IS9
Female teachers 3,2o5 $685.
Paid male teachers $l54.284 I,I8I,8 l9
paid female fopcbors 3c 0T0 EO9 Isz
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

tenure, ID precisely like other property, and
tc the decision of the Supreme Court in
the bred Scott case. He would not DENY
that the Supreme Court might give an opin-
ion concerning slavery where the question
was properly before il, but regretted that they
should have taken advantage OF their position
10 issue au cx-cathedra Endorsement of o
political dogma. The endorsers of accom-
mediation paper seldom fiud it O profitable
business. He then discussed the nature of
property in man, contendingsthe ouly for safe
ty tor slavery was TO make ~it,local, and asking
what will be gaiBed by making Kansas a
Slave State. The Free-State people will
soon gain the ascendency there even if Cal
houn cheats them out of the Legislature
now, and then, when they refuse to pass
laws for the protection OF such property,
what will it be worth.
Dir. Pugh gave notice of an amendment
that the people may alter or abolish their
form of government in such u manner as
they think proper, SO that it be republican
and in accordance with the Constitution,
Mr.. Seward got the floor when the Senate
adjourned.
CNoTE.-Mr. Pugh's amendment will be
offered to Mr.. Green's substitute for the ad-
mission of Kansas and Minnesota together.
--REP.]
HoUsE.-The consideration of the bill,
regulating the pay of a number of employ
ees of the House, was resumed and gave rise
to ON uninteresting discussion.
The House resumed considerations Mr..
Seward's motion to reconsider the vote refer
ring TO the Committee of the Whole the
SENATE bill authorizing the President TO ap-
point any officers affected by the Naval Re-
firing Board to their former positions.
Without concluding the subject, the House
! adjourned.
Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

THE KANSAS FIGHr IN CoNGREss.-The
Washington correspondent of the Chicago
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28

ALLIGAToRs' NEsTs.-They resemble hay
cocks, four feet high and five in diameter at
their bases. being constructed with grass and
herbage. First, they deposit one layer OF eggs
on a floor of mortar. and having covered this
with second stratum OF mud and heritage,
eight inches thick, lay another set of eggs
upon that, and SO on TO the top, there being
commonly from one TO two hundred eggs in a
nest. With their tails they then beat down
round the nest the dense grass and reeds i've
feet high, to prevent the approach of enemies
The female watches her eggs until they are
all hatched by the beat of the sun, and then
takes her brood under her own care; defen-
ding them and providing for their subsistence.
DIR. Lutzenburg, of New Orleans, told me
that he once packed up one of these nests
with the eggs, II a box for the museum OF ST.
Petersburg, but was recommended before he
closed ii to see that there was no danger OF
the eggs being hatched on the voyage. On
opening one, young alligator walked out.
and was soon followed by the rest, about a
hundred, which he fed in his house, where
they went up and down stairs, whining and
barking like young puppies.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28
DIED..

In Lawrence township. Tuesday morning
9th inst THEODORE; eldest son of Wm Mitchell,
aged about % years.
In Penn township, Clearfeld County "a, on the
18th of fourth month, 1858, in the 39th year OF
her age sELIzABErH. wife of Isaiah Vain, after
a lingering illness of several months.
In Lawrence township, on Thursday the I'D inst
of Typhoid fever, after three weeks of severe sui
fering, CLARENCE AUGUSTUS TATE, youngest son OF
Joshua j. Tate, aged years, 9months and Gays.
Dear Clarie's sufferings now are DER,
And he is gone to rest;
His body's with its kindred clay,
His spirit with the blest.
We miss the face NO used to greet.
The expression of those eyes;
For Clarie's gone, forever gone,
To dwell in yonder skies
Too likely and too fair a flower,
In this wide soil to bloom,
He has been early taken
To a world beyond the tomb
Then weep not father, tho thy boy
From thy embrace has flown;
For God in pity bade him come
Ere sorrow he had known.
fcoxNUNIcArED
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28
OUR SCHOOLS.

MR. EDITOR Allow space in your valuable
paper for a few lines concerning our Schools
Certificates of a new style have been issued by
the Department. at Harrisburg, which L will
commences giving to teachers, found worthy
npon examination, at the close of the Normal
School. ~" "
AND NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that on and
after the 2Sth day of June next, all the old
permanent certificates will be annulled; and
those teachers tcho hare reccired them, ,uho irish
TO rcceire ones, mast appear at the public ea-
animation of tie teachers in Cur1rensrilfe, on
The ADORE ganled day, aud be examined. Also,
that ON and after the LIST day of October next.
all the provisional certificates, running hey ond
that date, will be annulled, to give place to
the new style of provisional certificates.
To procure the professional certificate, a
thorough knowledge of all the common bran
ciIes is required, with skill and success in the
art of teaching. - t- --1LH.
WORD TO DIRECToRs.-Please send me
the report for your Districts, at as early day
possible. If any districts have failed to re-
ceive blanks for '5S, notify me without delay.
Also, remember the obligation you have i'm
posed upon me, and do not have your schools
in session during the Normal School.
l.. L. STILL, Co. Superintendent.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28
Tag RAJ TsMANas JovRNAl,
.SALE OF
Il UNSEATED LANDS f5r

Taxes Tor the years 1876 and 1897.
NOTICE is hereby given, that in
pursuance of an Act of Assembly. pas
sed the 18th day of June. A. d. 1918,
entitled, "An Act 10 amend an act di-
recting the mode of selling unseated
lands for taxes &C., the following
tracts of unseated lands in Clearfeld
county, will be exposed to public sale.
or outcry, for the taxes due and un.
paid thereon, at the Court Hoase i,s
the Borongh ef CLearfeid, on the Sec
ond Monday of Jtsme, 1858:
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28

THE SiAMEsE TWINS NowHERE.-A cores
pondent OF the Louisville Journal, writing
IRON Henderson, KY, giving the following
account of siucus natura" in that place,
that surpasscs all freaks Of that occasionally
whimsical lady, Dame Nature: that was ever
heard of:
have lust returned from visit to one Of
the most extraordinary curiosities ever known
in the history of human race. a negro NO
man be longing to Mr.. Samnel Sites, OF this
place, gave birth, eight days ago, to four nv,
ing children, Joined together by pairs IN a still
more peculiar manner than the Siamese Twins
The two boys are connected at the shoulder,
and from the hip TO the knee joint, leaving the
lower joint of the legs and the feet Of each
perfectly free. The girls are joined at the
shoulder. with this difference from the boys,
that they have but one arm issuing from the
junction of their shoulders. They are Joined
from the hip down to the foot-the two legs
ending In one foot.
In regard to the color of the children, ma
ture seems to have been quite as eccentric as
in their formation,one of the boys being biack'
and the other as white as the child OF white
woman; and so with the girls. They all seem
TO be perfectly healthy, and the mother is DO
ing uncommoniy well.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28

TESTING SEED CoRE--A correspondent pl
the Cincinnati Ga1eite furnishes the following
mode of testing seed corn There IS so mucn
damaged corn this year, that much care VIII
be requisite in selecting such as is suitable Tor
seed have seen in your paper ana eise-
where. several modes suggested for testing It's
terminating qualities, but they are Inefficient,
irpracticable, or attended with too much
trouble to he generally useful The following
mode will be found simple, practical ana GER
tain, and can be applied to any extent desired.
Put the sheled corn in vessel OF sueh dt-
mensions as are required for the quantity 10
be tested. Pour water over 1t oil ABOUT the
temperature of milk from the COW, until is
fairly covered, adding to the water from tilne
to time, if the absorption and swelling Oh 6he
corn should raise it above the surface. oet
it in a moderate warm place and let II remain IL
twenty-four hours. Then pour the water on,
cover the corn with some thick CLOTH WHICH
must be kept wet, and let it stand IN mass
still in warm place until it sprouts. lhis
viii take place in about thirty six hours, uSu-
ally, If the corn is good. l prepare all my
corn for planting in this manner. though
know the seed to be good. plant sometimes
with the sprout half an inch long. The result
is that it brings the plant forward week or
more earlier than planting dry. This adyan-
tage in the fall is sometimes very important.
The damaged corn from my field last year did
not exceed five per cent.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28

The Chicago Christian Advocate gives re-
ports weekly of the number of conversions in
the Methodist Churches of the of the North
west. Week before last, it reported $500 and
last week nearly 5000 accessions reported to
the Northern branch of the church have been
made since the first of January.
Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-04-28

Counterfeit tens on the Southwark Bank,
Philadelphia. have Just made their appearance
at various points in New-Jersey, and number
of arrests have been made for passing them.