Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              AND SUSQUEHANNA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. jOftnrftir in Pjm, tftftnfcrt, fjt Hlrrrnntilr, JBiniag, jFHtrfraniral, nnb %itnlnrot Snttrnta af tljt Cmntrtj, 3nsrtrnrtinn, torawt, fct. ~)~€m DaUura $u tarn, 1 Bfttkltj " PITTSTON, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1854. VOLUME 5.--NUMBER 6. WHO NUMBER 214. P1TTST0N 8AZETTE, A LIVE PAINTER IN TOWN. TO BE 8RKN at IIm "Long #tore." Room No. 7, np atalra, at which ptaeo iha nnttonfemd haao|wned « «hup. and bi trn to Inform th* chlu'im of 1'ilWton and adjacent TlllitgMthut ho iD now p«|Da'®a to cxcculo all kluda or Painting, including Sign anil Ornamental Painting, Gilding, Pronging, fce. tc-, and rMpeetftiltj »oHcit»« aliare of their alt mion and pntronag". N. B.—All crdcra exuMtad with particular regard to taMo, iicatnran, prompliwaaaiid deapate*. I'lttaton, Bepl. 9, lKH-tf A M4CU^TK. $ortrjr. his secret convictions n a great degree. The former had asserted the possibility of sailing from the western coast ol Spain to thp eastern bounds ol lnd», and had,more, over, affirmed that forty days were suffi. cient for the accomplishment of (lie voyage. In the sea between Maderfa and the Western Islands, according to the testimony of mariners, who in that day were loo much prone to mix fable with fact, pieces of carved wood, and large joints of cane had been discovered, supposed to have been brought by westerly winds. Branches of pine trees, a covered canoe, and two human bodies of a complexion different from that of Europeans and Africans, had been found on the shores of those islands.— Other stories, partly true and portly fabu lous, agreeing ir. their leading features with the theory of Columb'is, induced him at length to make an efTDrD to put his plans into operation. Conceiying that tho enterprise was to gD-eai In bo undertaken by any but a sovereign State, he is said to h»ve made his first application to the republic of Genoa, where his project was pronounced visionary. He next applied to John II., King of Portugal, who refused into the underlying, having, as lie alleged, become so much involved In attempting to discover a way to India by tho African coast j but who, however, gave private orders to a ship, bound to the Cape de Vcrd Inlands, to attempt a discovery in the west. This attempt proved, fiom the incompeten cy of 1 lie parties employed,a signal fsUure, and, to cover their own mortification, on thi ir retnrn they converted the sublime pro. ject ol Columbus into rtiatter for ridicule. Disgusted with such treatment as well ha might be, but not disheartened, he dispatched his brother Bartholomew to England, to solicit the assistance of Henry VII., and iti (he meai)lime proceeded himself to Spain, where his plans, far from being pronounced visionary, began to occupy the attention ol the most emminent individuals. His brother was not so fortunate in the reftull of his mission ; being taken by pirates, who kept him captive till after Columbus had succeeded in Spain. But even at the court of Spain the project was nsssaitrd with objections, the natare of w hich will give us some idea of the state of geographical knowledge at the time. One otjnction was: how should ho know rr.ore than all the wise and skillful sailors that have existed since the creation ? Another was derived from the conclusions of Seneca, who had douhted-whetjur it were possible to navigate the ocean nt any {treat distance from the shorn; but admitting such a probability, three years, it was judged«vould be required1 to perform the voyage which Coiurr.bus proposed. A third objection was based tipon the supposition that, allowing the supposed roundness of the earih, a ship sailing westward on a round globe would neccessarily go down on the opposite side, and the operalion of returning, or going forward, would be like climbing up a hill; which no ship could dtt with the strongest «vibd ; while a filth was grounded upon a book written by St. Augustine, in which he declared his disbelief in the existence of an antipodes, and the possibility of going from one hemisphere to ihe other. Dominico, MsriegaUnte,Guadeloupe,Monlnerrat, Redonda, Antigua, St. Martin, St. Ursula, and St. John. On the 1211) of November he came to Naridad, on the north vide of Hispanolia, where he had lelt his colony ; tbat the people were all dead, and the fort destroyed. Undismay. ed by this, however, hn hastened lo plant a small colony to the eastward, whioh he called Isabella in honor of the Queen, and and which, during his slay, throve beyond his utmost expectations, but when he returned to it, after discovering the is land of Jamaica, he found it in a disorder cd condition—a number having been slain by hostile Indians. It was during his xtav in Spain t|iat, alter having reorganized and reinforced his oolony of Isabella, that he had the pleasure of meeting with his friend Bartholomew. In the absence of Colum bus, the latter had been well received at court, appointed to the command of the colony at Isabella, while he himself went into the interior of the island to bring the dif. lerent cilia's into subjection. IIis fellow adventurers being unsatisfied wfth the restrictions that Columbus had imposed upon their avaricious desires, complained to King Ferd nand, and the latter* jealousy was aroused to so great a degree, that he sent a spy to observe the actions of the admiral. Seeing the position of matters, Columbus immediately repaired to Spain, with a quantity of gold and other valua. bles, and so far allayed the feeling again*', him that ho was tupplied wiiha fleet ol' fourteen ships, eight of which were intended to carry supplies for the colony, nnd six to aid in the prosecution of discovery. In this voyage he saw and named I he large island of Trinidad, and in August he reachcd his brother's colony—which had in Hie interrim been removed to Si. Domingo, in Hispanola, according to their preconcerted arrangement. Here a mutiny had broken out, headed by one Fran els Roldan, which he had some difficulty in quelling. Both Columbus and Rojdansenl home an account ot this affair; hut ns Roldan had more friends at court, the infamous fabrications concerning the honenty of Columbus were believed and • fellow named Bovadill?, whose only me/it was in his title, was sent out to examine the Ad. miral, and if he found the reports true, to supercede him. Of course Columbns was found guilty, and while Bovadilla took possession of his house and digni'ies, the great discoverer was sent home in uhuint*. On his arrival at court, tlju King and Qiitcn, ashamed to have him seen in this oomlitLon, commanded that he should be releas« d, and. invite him to court, and promised iiirn fo reinstate him to, his rank and possession*. But this promise, like most royal promises, was never kept. Columbus could never forget this ignominy. lie preserved the fetters, hung them up in Ins oparlnient' and ordered that they should be buried in his grave. In the meantime the plan ol discovery which Columbus had toiled so unremittingly so many years to make pubtic, wus followed bv another favorite named Ojeda ; who carried with Iiirn a Flor entiiie merchant named Amerigo Vespucoi (Americus Vespuciu*,) who was  ed in geography and navigation, and who, by publishing ihe first liook and chart de scriptiveof the New World obtained the honor of having it named America. The frieqds of Ibis adventurer endeavored to claim for him a priority of discovery over those of Columbus, but as the project the.latter was developed in his correspondence wiili I'aul, a physician  Rome ten years belore the time set by Vespucci for his first voyage, the claims of Columbus remains incontroveriuble. speech was received by the majority will/ indifference, but when the moon arose in the manner |tredioted, crowd* of fnuisns came to the whiles loaded with provisions, ntid begged Columbus to intercede with God for the removal of his wrath, The admiral retired into his cabin m if to pray, and when the eclipse had begun to wear off he reappeared, and promised compTi ance on condition that there should be no more reluctance in the supplying of food. Orando, at the expiration of eight months sent a miserable apology for stores, and the vessels whicb had brought them sailed again, without offering to take eff those whom they thus reliwed. A mutiny broke out, and a number of the colonist* were slain, but Columbus triumphed over the instigators, and their ringleader, Porras, being mode prisoner, they returned to their allngianoe. At length they were ta\ ken off by a vessel purchased with the Admiral's own money, and after a short, but unsatisfactory visit to St. Domingo, Columbus embarked, with his son and his brother, for St. Luca, in Spain, where they arrived in the month ol May, 1505.— Queer. isobplla having been deed about a year, Columbus was no longer held in favor at court, and he accordingly retired to ValladoJid, where he expired on the 20th of Mav, 1 rD08, aged filly nine years, and interred in the Cathedral at Seville, with the fullowing inscription on his tomb; Caestilla y a Dean, Neuvo Mundo dto Colon-," "To Castile and Leon Columbus gave a New World- r~ : 7 — -x aWare and Hudson Canal Company,  Pennsylvania Coal Company, and the Scratiton Coal Company, will meet, and contend for the market. Their struggle and competr.ion will tend to give uniformity to thd' price of coal. And so, to a cer. *a*n extent, will flie Scranton coal contend in Buffalo and the West, with Canal coal fior* Wilkes.Barre and Pittston. This canal runs along the margin of the Su»que. hartna river, and at almost every half mile ofits distance through the coal fields stand the fixtures of a coal mine. Frequently, several are in sight at once. The .citizens are all looking forward with impatience for the opening of the new piece ol  in the State of New York,which is to eonnect with the Chemung Canal at Elmira, and this Pennsylvania Canal at the Stste line. It is now nearly ready for operation but will hardly do much this year. DC BEAU BRUMMEL ./ The real story ofBrummel had the people been so astute as to seize its leading points, is amusing as a romance. The auriaoloua insolence with which he trampled down the haughtiness ol the high nobility of England "was splendid—because successful. His grandfather kept a small confectionary shop in Bury street, St. James'a London, and let lodgings. The first Lord Liverpool. theD almost obscure, lodged in his home, took hi? son as secretary, got him office under Lord North, and allowed him to feather his nest so well, that on hie death in 1794 there was XO8.QOQ to divide among two sons and a daughter.— George, the second, was educated a: Eton and dressed so well while early in his teens, that the prefix of " Beau " was then put lo his name. In Oxford he affected to be exclusive, and, on his father's death, in J 704, at the age of sixteen, wan presented with a oornelcy in the 10th Hussars, by the Prince of Wales, colonel of thqt regiment. thenceforth he was the Prince's constant companion. In two years he was a captain, and then—threw up his commission, and set out as a .gentleman at large. This was before he was21,;ftnd t he only reason assigned was that the regiment was ordered to Manchester, which he considered decidedly vulgar. taiqnohniia Anthracite Journal AND IB IT ANYBODY'S BUSINESS. fWe have hail in our mind at lC-Ct fifty time* during the past to publinh the following lion s but somehow they have (lipped through our fingers thus lar. We have them fast this time, though, and.at thrrequest of" a fair oorrespondent, publish them gladly. J " Tb it anybody'* business, If agentleman should choose To wait upon a lady, If tbe iady don't refuse 1 Or to iipeak a little plainer, That the meaning all, may know, Is it anybody's buainesa If a lady has a beau. 11 Is it anybody's business, When that gentleman does call, Or when he leaves the lady, » Or if he leaves at all 1 Or ia it necessary That (he curtains should be drawn, To save from further trouble The outside lookers on. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY GEORGE M. RICH ART. OMctim JemkmS unr Brick Building, one door South of • Sutherland'* Store—up etiirt. TClir**GA*«TT« flt Jo^AL,ril publlahedevoryFrldajr, BtltroMiUu per annum. Twt? Dollars and Fifty Cent* will bo ckartred if not paid within (hit year. No paper wtll be discontinued until all are paid AovaarisliNKiiT* are inserted eonspleiiouidy nrt W1 lDo».- lar per square of fourteen 0t»es for three insert! ont audTwa«Tv-riv» C busts additionalforovorvsubseqm'n user t Ion. A libera) led ictlon to those WDoadverUss fornix months or the whole year. Job Work.- We have connected with our eetftbtlsfement a well selected assortment of Job Ttris whb-li wlilena ble us to exucute,ln the neatest etjle every variety of printing. GEORGE PERKINS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Pitlston, Pa. ufllca n Build I UK uccupltid by Ueo. ii. l.ovu 8 Co., wcoa I floor. April ill, 1854.  0. S. K00N, A TTTRNEY AT LAW—OWcs wllh ./trees Helm, »q A PlLlrtOB, Ptt. A. KENNER'S LIVERY AND EXCHANGE. NEAR THE POST OFFICE, SCRANTON, PA. Ready at all limes tn aeeovimodaU with the belt of horsy and vehicles. Scfantnn, Feb. 21, 1851-lv. 33nsint30 Carta. JOB PRINTING. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Neatly and expeditiously executed at thli office, on reasonable terms. f3T" Wanks of all kinds always on hand. •S. SJEURltiER 8 BROTHERS, Bbot cfc Hboe MaUor«. • South of thn KagUI t'ltlsfo», I'a. for«lho liberal patronage heretofore bestowed •1 upon ibt'A earnestly solicit acoutin janceof th«' Shine. Those made up neatly i.nd substantially will And It to their advantage lo give tn m t xull, ModetiAe proti.s and strict punctuality are the maWx* whtcb they cherish. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, • . IN Pittston Gazette Printing Office, " la it anybody's business Bui the lady's if her beau Rides out with other ladies, And doesn't let her lenow 1 Is it anybody's business But.the gentleman'* ir she Should accept another's escort' Where he doesn't chance to be. HOTELS BOOTS, SHOES, 8C., , wf|1 he made to order upon the shortest notice, and the best of satisfaction rendered at all times. March 94, IKW-ly BUTLER HOUSE, ROBERT B A U R, SH AMI'KL K. HOftSARD bavin* taken the above stand suwell known to the Traveling Public under tbe occupancy of James U. Foreman, and refitted It In the beat manner throughout, would announce to his friend# and the public that his arrangements for their accommodation are complete. The aland lathe Pittston, Luzerne County, Pa. S ooli-Binder, JTortiI East Corner of Pob!u Square and Main Street, WUkeocBarre. M Is a person on the sidewalk, Whether prat, or whether small, la-it anybody's businesa Where that peraon means to call ? Or if you see a person As he's calling anywhere, Is it anybody's business, What his busincas may be there TDICTURE Frames,common, Gilt, and .Mahogany, orna- A tnented and plain, made to order, Of Sny size. Job lliudimr neatly executed. A largo selection of cominon and fine pictures. .flbu Blank Book*, Stationery, Novels, JtC..always on hand* June J7, 1853. Several attempts were made ,during the life, and after the death of Columbus, to wrest from him the palm of prior discovery, but without suocess. Among the clnimentt was one Martin Behem, or Behaim, of Nutembtirg, whose claim to the discovery of Congo, in Africa is unoues lioned, but whose life and writings contain no proof of his having landed in Amrlea before tha time of Columbus. opened about one year since in the central part of Pittston, and Is oue or the mdst commodious and best arranged Houses In Northern Pennsylvania, nnd every effort vi!l be made to render the sojourn of all, pleasant mid agreeable. The BAlt will abound la tbe beet of Liquor*, and the Table will be furnished with all the luxuries of the season. Careful and obliging Ostlers always in attendance. ThaJikf-il for the liberal patronage heretofore naolVN from the travelling public and cltlcens of the county, he will be happy to see tbuin at hi» uew location. Pittston. April 14, 1854. IUtlCK HOTEL To thC• Nrw Building 2 doort North oj BEHOVED Cootbaugh's Confectionary The sutatance sf our query, Simply stated, would be this : Is it anybody'* business What another's busidess is I ° If it is, or if it isn't' We would really like to know ; For we're certain, if it isto"t There are some that make it so. WATCHES 8 JEWELRY. EAGLE HOTEL, a THE subscriber bus reeeatlv meelred friMu Sew York, s vsrlety pf good 811, VEK VVATl'IIE*, which have born m luctml from lsroT" «»™DrimC'nH st the principal iewelry Kslsb'llshmeots In N. York Citjr, nnd which he will warrant to keep good time. Also 911 linwi a great variety of Eyen (lie fact ot this Continent having been discovered by Northmen five centu ries before the Spanish discoveries were thought of does not lessen the merit of" ColtnubOs ; fur all discoveries previously to lira time were more the remit of acci dent than design ; but here we have an enterprise founded on strict scientific end mathematical observation, evincing in every form which it initiated, the greatness ot the mind that planned, and the spirit that successfully cooHueted so gigantic an Magazine. Frun tkr M,H,VC Hvui««, St/Dl. 1SS4. B Y J. B. STARK, Oct. 13, IBM. rirrsTON, PA PORT GRIFFITH HOUSE. JEWELRY. of the very latest style, such as Breast Pin*, Fimger Hinge, Kmr Hinge, H atcA £«., all of whlph he wUI sell ununusually low prices for cash. Clocks and batches repaired at the shortest notice and Warranted. i  JAMES AITKIN. If it is, we'll join the rabble, And act the noble part. Of all tattlers and defruaera Who throng the public mart; But if no, we'll sot the teacher, Until every lueudler learn It were better id Uie futuee1 To mind his ewn concerns. PORT GRIFFITH, LUZEUNE COUNTY, FA M. PHILB1N, PROPRIETOR. rpas subscriber havinu completed his newta*- JL ern house, at Port Griffith, is prepared to aceommoJ.ite travellers nnd the puolw generally, in the best manner and on reasonable terms. The rooms are convenient, and the proprietor will spare no effort* io make his guests comfortable. Mis Bar is supplied with excellent liquors, and tiis table with an abundance of the best the markets afford. He started as %n independent gentleman on £30,000—a small sum for carrying on such • profession—ridiculously small far one whose wardrobe cost htm JS8.000 a year; anil who enieuaioed fashion, and everiToyality »t lti» »oie. No man drassed better; simply, but riehljr, with elegance aud taste. In this he eolipsed his4 muoh puffed successor D'Orsay, whose showy attire made him look like what he was—-a tailor's walking advertisement.— The Prince ot Wales, whose wardrobe h«s cost £100,000 was Brummell's great, est rival, until corpulence which he hated destroyed al| his reasonable pretensions to the throne, of Dandyism. Simplicity, of the most studied kind, was Brummell's great system. Jan'; 13. If54. C. B. HITCHCOCK J L. WILLIAMS HITCHCOCK ft WILLIAMS, Forwarding mid Commission Merchantt, tJt'O DEALERS lJf COJIL, Second and Third Wkarvtn brio to Canal /?«*/*, Havrc-Do-Graoo, Md., Are prepared lo attend to receiving and forwarding Coul by the cargo on rcuaonubfe termi. Aug. 8. 1KD4-3mpJ.  CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. LACK A WANNA COAX. REGION. Coiumwjs »v«s borri in ihe republic of Genoa, ft) the year 1447, and at the early ape of lourleen, acquired his first experi. etice of a seafaring life—the taste fir which he probably inherited from his father, who had for many years followed the sea as a means ot livelihood. His mind appears to have been naturally of a speculative turn ; for during the earlier part of hid career, We find hfrir) examining and rejecting the preconceived ideas of others respecting the formation of the earth, and creating for himself a theory, which, tlio' not exactly a correct one, still proves the superiority of his youthful mind to ilie silly prejudices and perverted notions of Ihe age in which he lived. Having attentively studied the science of navigation, with its attendant branches, ho determined to rest the truth of nil that he had read, from occular ob-crvation; with whirti end in v:ew he visited the seas within ihe polar circle, and afterwards those parts of Africa which Ihe Portuguese had discovered, as far as tho'coast of Guinea. The result of these voyages was his arrival at the cnnviciion that the opinions of the ancients respecting the torrid and (rigid zones were olfogether erroneous, In the early part of his life an incident occurred which, while it bade fnir to put an abrupt lerr.ii nation to his future destinies. In the course of one of his voyages, the vessel in which he sailed, having fallen into an tngngenient with n Venitian galley, took fire, and the crew, lo save themselves from ihe flames, were obliged to take to the water. By the aid of an oar, Columbus swam to the Const of Portugal, near to Lisbon, a distance of more than I wo leagues ; and it was here that he married the daughter of an old seaman, named Perestrello, who had taken part in ihe discoveries of Porto San. to and Maderia. In the charts and documents of the young Genoese found an inexhaustible mine of informalion, and the knowledge thus received lead Injr htm on to other inquiries, he became htitnulated to Ihe undertaking ol hazardous cn'.erprises which have given to his name an impattiul renown. The general reader wiH find some interoating facia in the subjoined extract from a correspondent of a Western journal, relative to tho uimihrr ol forwarding coal to market from iho Lackawanna region ; iieiiher witt they be devoid of importance to thoso more immediately connected with thi» business. Good stabling attached. MICHAEL PUIL3IN, PdTGriffith, June3, IHo-J-tf WYOMING HOUSE, GEO. W. BEAINERJD A Co. mm®m9 103 Murray, near West Street, New York Gen. W. RllAINKl'D, DJVID BEI.DEN [Aug. 2, 185(l.~ty». (NE f*l THE RAILROAD DEPOT ) Srrniitoti, Pn. J. O. BURGESS, Froprtotor. tcr- Charges Moderate. Bopu*inb6 23, IKft. The ooal crops ou» everywhere—on (he lops of the highest hills, in ihe gullies, and on ihe level. The abundance of this mhi protean be judged of from the fact, that no one puts Ihe product of an acre of coal land at less than 70,000 tons—the thick ness of workable coal being stated at from 75 to 100 feet. As for the extent of the coal supply of this basin alone, you can judge from the fact, that it is over forty miles in length by four in breadth, and is literally full of coal. Hardly an acre is without it. The quality of the coal vaiies somewhat. That in the immediate vicinity ofScranton, though good and of fine qual ity, is not equal to the c •»! of the eastern end of the basin, which again is inferior lo that of the western portion. To what causes these differences ore to be Ascribed, I am ignorant—but to they differ, and this difference led to tho quarrel tDnd lawsuit between the Delaware ond Hudson Canal Company and Pennsylvania Coal Company. Tho later Company mine their coal nt Ptttston, and by their railroad, run by gray ity, (that is, ihe line of ihe road follows the mountain faoe on the south side of the basin, and Ihe cars alternately rurl down slopes of forty filet to the mile, "full apfit," and hating reached the bottom of the slope, are hauled up the hill again by a stationary engine. This procrss is repeated 17 limes in 45 miles, and affords a cheap and .quiok transportation.) 1 say iheir oonl it run to the Delaware and Hudson Canal, ai Hawley. whence it goes by boats to New York. The transportation on the canal is done under a contract, made when in* Delaware and Hudson Canal Company wert* keeping the Eastern Market fully supplied with its coal, and nothing was known of better coal being west, nor was it dreamed that the small couoern just forming would ever harm the mighty Oanal Company. But as soon as the Pennsylva nia Coal Company got into operation/the superiority of ita fuel attracted attention. It took the market, and had a preference everywhere over the coal of the Canal Company. A quarrel grew up. whioh Ita* increased yearly, till now the Canal Company will not permit a boat loaded with he coal of the Pennsylvania Company to ss the first lock till the tool for the entire He mixed and visited in the first circles —for he was y'»ung, handsome and naiiri. cal, and the fashion. Ha rode well, and u as b good shot, but affected to deapiae Mellon and the plea that both were too troublesome. His great reform was in the neckcloth, which then was a sort of white muslin podding. He introduced the mod. erale use of starch, which gave the necessary sliffness, and dispensed with the pad. He was curiou? in his tie ; if the cravat did not glide into it at the first touch it threw it aside and tried another, His valet, who was met with a heap of thaao rumpled necltloihs on his arm solemnly said, SCRANTON HOUSE, C. R. GORMAN 8 Co, OPPOSITE SCttA.fTONS t n.ATTB STORE, Age nts for Tapscutt's Oener# Emigration nnil h'oreijrn Exehnnge. Person* rt«fCltnC» in the count ryk»iul wiblitng to engage patwajje or wmi money to rtirir fri"nilii in nny jmrt of Europe niny do *o with miiety liy n|D|)lyinjr a the Po«t-Office. Tu|Xeott 8 Co n. reecipt will be fyminliil lDv return mail. [PitUton, Aug. 28, 1H53. PJtXSTQM, r^D—■ ...... SCllANTON, PA D K. HRESSLER, Proprietor. The doubt* and misgivings of the adventurersof that period remind us forcibly of tlin conduct of a handful of sohoolboys, who, having wandered from home in search for a convenient spot for a bath, 8re delib erating which shall take the first plunge; not being familiar with the depth or naC ture of the stream they lire about entering. Some are quite eloquent on ihe subject of submerged rocks; others are fearful of being entangled in tho long grass jvhicli mav grow at tbe bottom ; and some, again, have a inosi wholesome and praiseworthy dread of " thiirks." Hut one—a Columbus in minia'ure— makes the awfbl plunge «nd instantly the' water is alive with them. I*, n.—A earrijuw »Ht bo In rvadtaest to rnnrff prncMs to tills ihe urrivul of the p.* »cnKor tritin at' Die ''aiiroud IKipot. U-Htpl. Irio't-iy IIYDE PARK HOTEL, O. R. GORMAN, HI. J). IIYDK PARK, PA. By HBNRY HUFFORD,  font. 2.1, JB5S. rDm  Respectfully tender* hi* Professionnl to the citizens of Pittston and vieinity. Office nearly opposite the l'osl OjJice,  Aujg.4, 1850. ly. WYOMING HOTEL. DR. J. A. HANN, Office in lDr. Curtis' Drug Store, Main Street, By «. W. 1H£RCGRGAV, No. 333, Greenwich street, near Ducute Columbus soon found that there «»s no intention at court to reinstate him according to promise, and reluctautly undertook a fresh expedition in search of the West, ern passage. In the course of this expe dution he went to St. Domingo to refit one of his vessels and to avoid a tempest whiuli he 8b w arising, hilt to bis astonishment, Orando, who had superceded Bovadilla, would not allow him to enter the port. A fleet of thirty ships was then ready to sail with Roldait and Bovadilla, who, as an act of tardy justice had been deen deprived of iheir authority as prisoners. Disregarding the advice of Columbus in r«t.peot to the approaching storm, they put to sea, and of the fleet, eighteen ships, with Rold. an and Bovadilla were lost. A story was hatohed that Columbus had raised this storm by nid of witchcraft, which, such was the ignorance and credulity of the age, was believed- Alter leaving St, Domingo, Columbus pursued his course to the east and south, having previously fall en in with an island wheie he saw that which reanimated hishopeaof discovering the passage of which he wa« in quest, and being led to the gull of Darien he visited several hat bora one of which he called Porto Bello but found no passage as he had huped. He next began a colony oa the coast of Veragua, and called Belam ; but the hostility, of the natives defeated this project, and he was driven to sea only to encounter a succession of tempests, which so disabled his fleet that he was obliged to run his vessels ashore on the Island of Jamaica. He then sent lor aid to Orando, who tor eight months gave him no answer. In this extremity Columbus had resort to Ihe following means to obtain a supply of provisions from the nntives. " These are our failures," Tiie Prince of Wales quarreled with him, after nearly twenty years' intimacy. The story runs, lhal in the Prince's drawing room he said " WalesD ring the bell" which was done ; and when the servant came in, the Prince said, " order Mr. Brummell's carriage." The Beau denied this, and attributed bis quarrel to something he had said about Mrs. Fiizherbert'a stoutness. This was about 14911- Brummell continued King of Fashion, though ho had quarreled with the Prince. Bui he I took to gaming. In 1814. he lost all he had, and £10,000 more; raisei what money he coqtC1 and retreated to Calais ; attri. buted his bad luck to hia having parted with a " lucky sixpence:" which, he main.- tained, .Rothschild must have got possession of ; was supported in his exile by hi« brother nnd sister; was so liberal when his remittances came that the beggari called him " Le Roi de Calais" was made Brittish Consul at Caen on the mediation of Wellington with George IV ; was removed without compensation, when thai Consulate was abolished ; lost his senses \ spent his last hours in a hospital for lunatic mendicants ; and died March 2nd, 1840. _  Selections cf a Newspaper. Most people think the selection of suitable matter for a newspaper the easiest pari of the business. How great an er ror. It is by " '"a* the most difficult To look ovef TITTSTON,Pi December 17, lfc."D2. NEW YORK Jair 15, 1853. Grormaxx Fhyalolan. \\f OUIjD respectfully announce to ihe peo-7 T pie of Pittston and vicinity that after an absence of mime months lie has rtturned and permanently located in the place. He will he happy to wait upon; any requiring bit professional service*. Thankful fur pust favors,he will endeavor •o merit a ciDnti»uojDce of the su me. DR. H, WENTZEL, E4GLE HOTEL, *TO. 139 MOUTH THIRD ST., {SBOVK RACE,) PHILADELPHIA. PA. After some opposition to the project, Queen Isabella influenced bv the persuations Juan Perez a Spanish priest, and Lewi.i Sintaogel, an officer of her household, was induced to recall Jiim to court, alter having twice him; when *he offered to pawn her jewels to defray the expenses of the equipment. The money was, however, advanced by Santangel, and the Queen's jewelry was saved. Alt the preliminaries having been settled, Col umbus set sail from Pulos a port of Spain, on the Mediterranean, oil the 3d of Aug., 1492, and arrived at the Canaries on Ihe 14th of the same month—slopping a few days to lay in wood and water. It was during this, his first voyage of discovery in the service of Spain, that the sailors were thrown into dismay by the variation of the magnetic needle. It was with much difficulty that Columbus allayed their terrors and prevented them from executing their intention ot throwing him into the sea; having induced them, by artfully Contrived stories, to keep on their course for sixteen days longer, in ihe night (it the 11th ot October, they discovered a light, and laud was shortly after discovered from the mast head—which proved to be ihe Island of the Guanahua, one of the Bahamas. After several months spent in cruising about among the islands of this vast aroliipeligo, which, from a mistake attribu table io the ignorance ot the age, received the title of the Wnst Indies, Columbus re. turned to Spain, leaving behind him a col. ony of ihifty niuo men, ,suitably provisioned, and lodged in a tort made from the timber of their largest vessel, which had been wrecked in a violent tempest w|)ioh they had encountered. The display of gold and other valuable productions which Columbus had brought with him, and tbe exhibition of several of the natives, created an astonishing sensation, and by the sanction ot the Pope, he made a second vpvage in the servicaof Spain, W*Dich I*-, suited Jb the discovery of tbe Ulspds of 8. A. IIR.IDY, I „ . r, «. i«. inwvvN, ( June 23, I8M—WBlft BRYANT HOUSE, Ofliec in the dwelling of Wb. S. Reddin (jirral Kend Dcp«t( Pa. ADDISONURYANT, Phoprietob. Sept. 1,1BQ4-Iy. Pitts'. n, Feb, 17,1854 tf C. II. 8. W .« DOWD, WnOLBSALK AND RETAIL DEALERS IN STOVES DBNTIBTBV GEO. W. OBI S\Y OLD, RESIDENT DENTIST. TIN, BRAS§, COPPER, SHEET IRON, HARDWARE, HAY CUTTERS, CISTERN, AND WELL PUMPS, CARPJiNTBHS" TQOLS, Cf-C., Cf-C., Lackawanna Avenue, near Presbyterian CARBONDALB. PA One door from Sweet 8 Rnjuor, ou Main Street rr Uoali jmiil lor old *olU. DR. E. SUELP, SURGEON DENTIST. Pittftnn, Pa.— Office wt'JA Vht. Hannand Dorr. July 1*J, 1854. Church, Scuanton, Pa . Orders respectfully solicited and goods forwarded with promptness. KelD. 31, IH84—ly. GEOHGE LAZAKUS At this time tlie attention of the whole world was drawn toward India ; ths commerce of which had been successively engrossed by the Phoenicians, the Hebrews, the Egyptians, the Assyrians, ths Palmy, renes, the Arabians, the Genoese, and the Venitian*. The Portuguese, in particular, had consumed about half a century in endeavoring to find a passage to India; by the oircumnavigation of Africa; and the attention ol Columbus being drawn to the suhjeot, " he began to reflcct that, as the Portuguese traveled so far southward— (without getting any nearer the accomplishment of their object)—it were no less proper to sail westward.' From the phe. tiomenon of the earth'* shadow in lunar eclipses, which he had carefully observed, he drew conclusive proof to the roundness or spherical formation of tha world. Con. ceiving the distance by the west to b« less than that toward tha east, and lass, in faot than subsequent experience proved it to bo found D U . C. F. HARVEY, Forwarding and Commission Merchants SURGEON DENTIST. Franklin trcet, next dour to Dr. DuoliUle, PITTSTON. FA. WILI. attend to forwarding and receiving goods »t liiaatore hmia*., rear or Laxnnia'a Hotel AHgooda consigned to hit cure forwarded wlita despatch. WILKKS-HARRK, Pa November 11, 1853. COAL ma. wimm. Fashionable Barber and Hair Dresser. In the Room adjoining Cohen's Clothing Store and opposite the Eugle Hotel, Pittston, Pa. WOULD respectfully inform the public thai he has taken the Shop formerly occupied by Lyman Poize, where he would be pleased to wait on them. Pittston, Nov. 1853. '  D. P. FULLER fit CO., COAL MERCHANTS. East side Main street, nearly opposite Bowkley C$* Be yea's store. Pittston, April I, 1853. ill IT16 «»v  K _ hundreds and hundred® of listanoe (o the Hudson is paid down in a eichange papers every week, from which 'Jew York ceriiSed oheck. To avoid de- to select enough Cor one. especially when ay, a daily payment is made of the entire the question not what shall, but what shall lay's shipment' But the public are to be not be selected, is no easy task. If every wmfitted alter all. For while litigation person who reads a newspaper could have was progressing between the Companies, edited it, We should he*T less oomplaints. [he Pennsylvania Coal Company, fearing Not unlrequontly is k Aecase that an ed. they might loose their suit, and get cut off itor locks over his estrange papers for from the use of the Canal, got a change in something interesting, and call absolutely their oharter, to enaWs them to run a new find nothing. Every paper ts dryer than • Gravity Railroad from tbts valley to the a contribution bo*, and yet something sit* ot New York direct, and are now eur. must be had—his paper mast corns out . veying the route, and find that a ear start- with something in if, and he does the trial . famine ed here will, of its own weight, run within be can. To an editor *ho hav tte least . which the some thirtr miles of the metropolis. When care about what he selects, the writing he evening of ani this impmvwiMBt is oomplsts, N«w York bas to do is the least part of the later. • • first hav* cheap Mai. For tHertHhs Del- Kvery subscriber fMMt* the-pspsris pria- A. PRICE fit CO., COAL MERCHANTS. Vjfice—West side Main street, Pittston Architecture. Luzerne county, Fa. August?!),1852.  r wanting anything designated above X will please give the subscribers eall, who ii prepared to make drawings for buildings, write specifications, if-c. May be found by inquiring at tbo Kftgle Hotel. QKO. W. LUNO. Pittston, January '2nd, 1854. He w«s aware that on a certain evening a total eclipse ot the moon would take place, and on the day proceeding the phe nonetna he assembled a number of the principal Indiana whom he informed thro' hi# interpreter thm the God of Heaven being iu great di#plea*ure with them fo wiiholding ttv«ir provision*from the w»-; had re«ol*ed Ip pnoiab tbem with apd peaiiM#*,; in token of k nipon would appear in lb* Mr •ogry and blood-red colon At fi J. BOWKLEY fit BEYEA, COAL MERCHANTS—Office Corner of Main and Railroad Streets, PUtstvn, Pa. Anguet 16, 1850. —tf. MIBOELLANEOD8. BUILDING LOTS. npHE »ub«crlber la now oiertug for wtk ft choice lot with X » good boute and barn on it, ptaanuitljr bIIuuUmI iu this BOrOUgh- AIJO, 6cv*r»l vtcanl leu well c«lcul»l«l rot buaiam mm it »djr kind,In the centre of bualneM. Loti for pririte ilwettlngif'tohm of p»ymept e««]r. ,F«i """a. c.Tnoywo* J. H. JENKINS, EXCHANGE BROKER. Ofict in Ik* Pt$t OjUt, Pittiltn, t«. May as, 1854—tf. ta only found it nec«BOT»ry to adopt the supposition in relation to existence of land )H that ocean, to confirm him fn the course , he had determined to pursue. The opitf-' ioQi of Pliny, «jid ctf learp»4pbyw ilioian of Florenoe—to stfengtbo'n 4 8K0*8 *0,1 tbmSouUB.