The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1859-11-09
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the death of Senator Broderick
Lady franklin has spent all her fortune
in Arctic researches She is in the South
OF France, in i'll health. r....
The President has appointed his nephew, :,
James Buchanan, young lawyer of Phila-
delphia, his Private Secretary.
Among old Browns papers at Harper's
Ferry was found Constitution, drawn up
by himself, ior the regulation OF the govern
ment which he intended to establish.
John Calhoun, ex-Surveyor-General of
Kansas and Nebraska, and President of the
Lecomplon Constitutional Convention, died
at St. Josephs on the 18th inst.
The Teavenwor.h Herald tells MS of six
passengers arriving by the express, bring.
ing with them $4,000 in dust from Pixies
Peak. Gold hunters are making from $50
10 s42 per week.
bill is under consideration in the Leg
islature OF Tennessee providing that all free
persons OF color over IS years of age and
undersa0.years of age, shall either go into
slavery or leave tie State.
A chicken was brought to Market on
Wednesday, which on being opened was
found to contain garter snake some 90 in.
ches in length. The bold bird must have
had hard time of il gulphing his sEakeship
down, but the latter got the worst of it
His head was already ground up.-Searn.
ton Repub.
The cotton crop of Alabama and Tennes-
see is said TO be in fine condition. A much
greater amount of land is under cultivation
this year than last, and the crop will be a
large one. The rice yield will be enormous.
One planter on the Savannah expects 10, 900
bushels from 800 acres-55 bushels to the
acre.
THE fact that the wheat crop of 1859 is
one of the best that has ever been harvest
ed IN our country, is no longer a matter Of
question. The West and North. Wes: alone
has Wheat enough to supply the United
States during the coming year-to say moth.
ing OF the extensive yield in other parts OF
the Union. Although prices are what our
farming friends consider 'ruinously low, !
yet the grain is coming into market most
freely, and if there was good foreign de.
mand, we could export millions of bushels
more than any previous year.
The divorce docket OF the Supreme Court
now in session in Providence. R. T., con.
tains eighty-three petitions for release from
matrimony The court appears determin.
ed 10 keep up with The business, and in a
single hour removed the yoke from the neck
of twelve disconlented couple.
A report prevails that it is the intention
of Governor Wise, of Virginia TO make a
requisition upon Gov. Morgan, of New
York, for trez ssffender of Hon. Gerri
Smith, as an accessory OF Browns in the
| Harper's Ferry nsurrection
The young man, Cook, concerned in the
late insurreclion at Harper's Ferry, and dis
tingushed with the title of "Captain" Cook
was, some six or seven years ago, a resi-
dent OF Philadelphia, and employed at the
Ledger office, where for nearly year, he
"held copy" as the printers call l., for the
proof reader. He was then about Is or /!
years old.
We notice in our New York exchanges
the announcement of an arrival of large
ship load of hoops of Partisan manufacture
Let the feminine prepare to spread them
5 selves
The amount Of lager beer drank per an
mum i'll the city of Milwaukee is estimate,
y at twenty five thousand barrels.
,, The people of ladiana have, with grea
: unanimity, voted down the proposition tt
call convention to frame new state con
stiiulon.
r 1t is proverb in Jefferson county, New
, York, that snow always falls on the 10Th O
October, at Sackett's Harbor, and an oil,
resident ofthat county annually wins money
by betting on the event.
Mr.. Williams, mail agent on the Chicago
D and St. Louis Railroad, was shot dead a
4 Carlinville, Illinois, just as the train stop
ped on the evening of the 2lst inst. The
!, assassin gave himself up, but neither hi
name nor his motives for the murder wer
ascertained
The Pennsylvania school for feeble
!. minded children is ready 10 commence op
erations. 1t is located half a mile from thu
village of Media. The building is of larg
, capacity, having front OF 26O feet, and
) depth of 40 feet.
"lon," the Washington correspondent O
the Baltimore Sun, says at is stated tha
the time for holding the National Democrat
ic Convention at Charleston will be fixed
for the 10th of April. The Republican con
vention will, perhaps, as heretofore, be fix.
ed for June, and the National Old.line Whe
Convention, if one should he held, will be
summoned early in July"
We have been shown brad awl, with 9
handle three inches in diameter with al
awl three quarters of an inch long, which
was taken from the gizzard of duck. The
point of the awl had penetrated through the
gizzard into the lights, in which position il
was found when the duck was killed. The
handle about the middle is worn nearly in.
to the center on two OF ITS sides. Mr.. Har.
ry Wilson, who owned the duck, vouches