Pennsylvania Kailron*. @e kjkkjs as "IHEtGIIT TRAINS no r.... twice a week between V "i.-wistowi. and fbiladolphia ae follow tSvret Leav i wiTt)\v* on rKD.viisnArs fn rR. J) >.-,, ami Pnn.ADKLPHiA on MGJhD.It 8 -" v ' il'RSnjtys, at the following rales <>f freight, vat ri include commissions for storage, via : Kates af Freights nrr 100 Pounls. ~ "L'jtt from p:iii..mei.pki v Js £j§S! =Sj s | Cov.- and Duncannon, I '^ l ! 3U 35 U..ley's, Newport * Mißrwtown, H| 23 32 J7J Perrysvilfe and .M.rttin, , -1 :28 3n 42 LflrWa**! | '*•' [ ® . Way freight (tor mile is 2[ mills for First anil Second Class, and 3 mills for Third and Fourth Class. List of Articles in each Class. FIRST CLASS. —Ashes—wood or leached; none*; ■ Horns and (Use pieies: Bricks,(not fire); broken Cast ings; Clay, Earth, Sand or Gravel; Coal (mineral); l'ire Wood; Germ .n Clay; Ileadingatid Hoop Poles; Iron Ore; Lime; Manure; Marble in blocks ('inwrought); Pis and rtcrap Iron; Plaster or Gypsum; Posts and Kails; ll igs; iiaiiroad Ties or Sills; Salt; Shingle® and Lath; Slate or Tile for roofing; Staves; Slave®, heading, &c. for cedar ware; Tar, Pitch and Rosin; Timber, (round or hewn.) | SECOND CLASS. —Agricultural Implements; Apples, and other domestic fruits, (erecn or dried); Bark (ground or unground); Beef and i* rk, (salted); Blooms and An. j chorues; Boards and other sawed lumber; Bran, Ship I Stuff an.l other Feed; Burr Blocks; Castings, (iron); Cof fee ; Charcoal; Coke; Cotton; Earthenware; Empty Casks; Fire Brick; Fish in Barrels (salt); Flour; Grain of ill kinds; Grindstones; Hemp; Hides; Ice; Iron, [sheet, far, rolled, slit or hammered]; Lard; Lead, [in pigs, bar • r sheet]; Mill Stones; Nails and Spikes; Potatoes, Tur nip®, and similar roots; Pot and Pearl Ashes—Barytes; j Clawed Marble; -Soap Stone; Stoneware; Stone for lime •>r building; Stratv Paper or binding boards; Tallow; Tobacco in leaf; Whiskey, Cider, and other domestic li qnors in Casks; Wrapping Paper. THIRD CLASS.—Agricultural productions not parti cularly specified; Bale and bagging Rope; Beef, [fresh]; Weer, Porter and Ale; B eswav; Brass in sheets or man ufactured; Butter and Eggs; Cast Steel; Cedar ware; Cheese; China or Queensware; Clover, Timothy and other grass Seeds; Copper in burs, sheets or manufactur ed; Fish, [fresh]; Flax Seed; G'asswart; Groceries, [ex cept coffee]; Hardware and Cutlery; Hides, [dry or Span lab]; Leather; Live Stock; Mahogany and other orna mental woods; Marble, manufactured; Ochre; Oil of all kinds [including Castor and Lard]; Oysters; Paints and Dye stuffs; Pork, [fresh]; Red Lead.[ground in oil or dry]; * Rope® and Cordage; Shot; Steam Engines and machinery of all kinds; Ttnand Tinware; White Lead; Window Glass; Wool; Zinc in sheets or blocks; Zinc manufac tured. FOURTH CLASS.—Boots. Shoes and Hals; Hook*, and Stationery; Buffalo and Moose Skins; Carriages, or vehicles of pleasure; Deer Skins; Drugs and Medicines; Dry Goods; Feathers; Foreign Fruits; F'urniture;Furs and Peltry; Garden Seeds, in boxes; Paper, [writing and ; printing]; Tobacco, manufactured ; Trunks ; Un enumer ated Articles. To Drover® and others having Live Stock to send to i market It is de'irable they should go in Wednesday's train, as the Saturday's train remain® at flarrisburg un lit Monday PASSENGER TRAINS run daily, leaving PluSadel- : phia at Sand Lew is town at lOo'clock. A. M SAMUEL MILLIKEN, Jr , .Igent, /.trifUurn. CRAIG it BELLAS, Nov 3, IM9 .dgenti, Philadelphia. HIGH CRAIO. THOMAS BELLAS. CRAIG & BELLAS. T- 7T "T2 ? A *iw J %s XX-s**. wr® ; AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOR THE SALE OF Bac on, Lard, Batter, Wool, (iin sengr, Cloverseed, &c-, Broad and Cherry streets, PHILADELPHIA. Advances made, if required, on Receipt of < Consignments. Cars will be unload ed at our Warehouse. Produce consigned to us for sale will not be subject to porterage or btorage. C. & B. are Agents for the Penn sylvania Railroad Company. Oct. 20, 1649—if. SITLR. JAMES I 10., FLOUR & GRAIN FACTORS, AND Commission Merchants, For flic Sale of Produce in Caeiieral, Broad, above Arch, West side, PHILADELPHIA. Iron received and delivered to any part of the City, or shipped as may be directed. Refer to— Fhem Zook, Esq., Mifflin county. Joseph Milliken, Lewistown. William RT— ell, Esq., Cashier of the De posit and Discount Bank, Lewistown. J. W. Weir. Cashier of the llarrisburg Bank. Townsesd iiaires. Esq., Secretary of the Commonwealth of Penn'a. C. M. Trottman, Esq , Cashier of the West ern Bink, Philadelphia Mourns Patterson Si Co.. Merchants, Jacob Lex &. Son, do. r"3.~l John M Kennedy & Co., do. ) £ ? September 22. I*49—Bin." 1m & EG., Commission Tie reliant*, FOR the hale of FLOUR. GRAIN. SEEDS, Jnd all descriptions of Country Produce. eitoAU ntkket, cast nidi;, Between Race an.i Cherry. philauhlphia. Respectfully solicit t share of the business from tb ik vicinity, and refer to Messrs. Lokgenecker, Grubu Rankers. VV. Russell, K j <) , Cashier, Le wi-town. E. E. I/OCKE, Esq , M i(llin county. K. J. Robs, Esq, Cashier, /,, . .. .- * *T \ ilarrisburg. Messrs. r cnk cj. Mii.i.ek, \ Samuel Johnson, Esq., Marietta, Laucasti r county, Pa. CJco. M. Trout man. Cashier, of Western Bank, ! r„-, , >♦„ , in c .. , Phoadel a. Messrs. Jar. J. Duncan &. Co , J and Merchants generally, j October 6, I*49—(im.* leather, Morocco, ami Shoe Findings. \Urge assortment always on band, and for sale by F. J. HOFFMAN. Lewistown, June 22, 1619. Irish Liiiciik. A LARGE lot bought at a bargain in Philadelphia, and sel'inj; by the niece or yard at a tanail advance at ™ 7 C. I. JONES' £,. '•? .V/ u Cheap Cash Store. AGENCY OFFICE. f r is w. 11 ob-icrved by Fiavel in bis cxc. Ilcut work. ; f Thu Mystery of Providence, that "there are hard ! I i.t'.s iu the works, a well as in the wor I COFFINS made to .in.-,, u ueral- ••iieuded at the shortest notice. Eitlmr M ih-..-.iiy, Cheny or Wal nut c m be had at moderate terms. ANTHONY FELIX. Lewistown, December J. 1819. it c t i"a"a. HMIE foilowing Accounts have been examined and pass- A ed by me, and remain filed of record in this office for inspection of heirs, legatees, creditors, and ail others in any way interested, and will be presented to the next Orphans' Court of the county of MirHin. to be held at the Court House in Lewistown, on THURSDAY, the 10th I day of January, 1850, for allowance and confirmation . 1. The administration account of John Bartholomew, Administrator of the estate of Joseph Bartholomew, late of Granville township, deceased. 2. The final administration account of William Shaw, Administrator de bonis non of Mathevv Taylor, late of Brown township, deceased 3. The administration account of John McCord, Ad ministrator of the estate of Fhitip IVffcr, late of Gran ville township, deceased 4 The administration account of Enoch E Locke, Ad niinisirator of tire estate of George McLetnhen, lite of Armagh township, deceased. 5. The guardianship account of Samuel Biglcr, Guar dian of Joseph sSigler, of Decatur township 6. The guardianship account of George Weidman, guardian of Levi, Laac. and Vdam Weidman JAMES L. McILVAINE, Reenter. Reoistfr's Office. ) Lewistown, Dec. I, 1619. ( The Register deems it proper tn state, for the information of ali concerned, that ac countd must be filed in hts t-fficc and published thirty days previous to the first day of ensuing CouiLs—otherwise ihey will be retained until the succeeding term. ASSIGNEE'S SALE. HY virtue of a deed of assignment, executed by JONS __ R Pinups in trust for he •,< u The Dwelling House, Store-room, VVarehouce, and Set biing, have all been recently lilted up in complete order. The stand is perhaps Ihe best place for transacting busi ness on the entire line of the Pennsylvania Canal, j Due attendance will be given on the daysof sale, hen the conditions will be made known, ice. JOHN C. SIGLKR. Nov. 21, l c l9—td. Assignee of John It. Philips. Auditor's Aolicc. THE subscriber, appointed Auditor by the Court of Com mon Pleas of Milllin county, to report on the exceptions filed to the Assignee Account of JAMBS BROWN, Assignee of JAMES M'N ITT, as filed by James Brown and Thorn as Brown, Ailiriinistrati rsof James Brown,deceased, and to re-state account, if necessary, appoints ti-ITL'RDJi K, the 3th day of January next, at his office in Lewistown, to hear the parties interested, w hen and w here they are hereby notified to attend, WM. M. HALL, Auditor. December I,l'vW —It. [Dem. copy.] Auditor's ftotire. I IHE undersigned, appointed an auditor to distribute tlv balance to the hand* of JOHNSTON SIOI.CM, Ad ministrator of AD AM SIGLER, deceased, to and among the persons legally entitled to the same, will attend for that purpose at hi* office in the borough of la:wistown. on Thureday, the 97 th day of Jlteenhtr, 18-19, wdiet! and where all persons having claims upon atd fund are noti fied to present them, or be [hereafter debarred from com iug in fir a share ofs-.nl fund. J. W. SHAW, Nov. 21, 1819—It And iter Auditor'* police. 'ptTE under-dent t. appointed auditor * .lion tin * balance remaining in the ha. id? oi ii LEATTOR, Kq , Administrator of III" estate of J'>IIN PORTER, d.-n psd, late of Olirn t-wnxhip, Militin county, will fleet at the C'ouit il.nl •In tile borough of LewtstOW 11, on .\l„ad.iy, tii* 2lt A I jccr.iabtr, InIP, to apportion the • line to and among lb. 1 p- rroris legally entitled tore J. DICKSON, Autlilur. I.ewCtown, Nov -it, IAI9- It. Auditor'* IVolier. rpm: undersigned, appointed auditor by the Orphans' " Court of Milliiu county to report on Ihe exceptions filed to the Administration Account •! Or.o W OLIVER, Administrator of JOHN OLIVER, deceased, appoints 7'hurrday, the Y!th of Heambtr nert fir hearing said e* ceplions, at Ihe Court House, tn Lewistown, when and : where parties Interested uiny altend if they Ihtnli proper. J AN. DICKSON, Auditor. Nov 21, IM9— -It [Democrat copy. Auditor'* Aolire. rpilU undersigned,appointed auditor to dis- J. tnbute Ihe proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Dr. LEWIS HOOVER, now in the hands of the Sheriff of Mi film connty, will meet al the Court House in the borough of Lewistown, on TiII'RSI)A Y, December 2(1, 1*41), for llio purpose of making natd dis tribuiion, when and where all parties inter toted art' notified to attend J DICKSON. Auditor. THE G AZETTE. LEWISTOWN, PA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1819. TER M S : ONK DOI.LAK PKR AlfftlTtt, IN AILVAHCE. For six mouths, 75 cents. NEW subscriptions must be paid in ■ advance. If the paper is continued, and not paid within the fust month, #1.25 will be charg ed ; if not paid in three months, $1.50; it not paid in six months, $1.75; and if not paid in ! nine months, $2.00. Noliefs of AdTertiKßeitL S. Mil I.IKBN, Jr., wi!l pay cash for produce delivered ut the depot, or receive it cn con sionment. 'J'he Administrators of Geo. W. Oliver de sire to make settlement of accounts. The County Commissioners want borrowed assessment transcripts returned. The Bridge Company will hold an election next month. Hopper offers a general assortment of prop erty t. r rent. U. \V. Elder, Esq., hasa.i auditor's notice. The President's Ifaee. The House of Representatives at Washington i having failed thus far to elect a Speaker, we are uuable this week to lay before our readers the President's Message. ' V. CONTEMPTIBLE MEAVSESS.—The Postmaster Genera), at the request of some members of the press, gave permission to the reporters to take a copy of his report, but with the solemn pledge from all that it was not to be used until the President's Message was delivered. Good faith was observed by all except the Philadelphia Ledger and Baltimore Sun, both of which pa pers published the report on Tuesday morning, i knowing that the document had not yet been transmitted to Congress. The Heads of Depart ments at Washington will but perform an act of justice by hereafter excluding the reporters of these, papers from all participation in privileges usually extended to that class. Vorth Branch Canal---Allotment of Work. The following are the names of the contrac tors to whom we learn the work on the North Branch Canal has been allotted : Sections. Sectionr 11 Jacob Seiler A Co. 11.'I Mead & Carrigan 12 DykensA VV'endel 114 Francis Blair A Co. 21 John M'Cord 134 Jackson M'Fadden 27 Patrick Burke 159 John Sturdivant 67 Patrick Burke 162 George Leibriek 69 Sturdivant A: Little 173 Cochran A M'Lane 75 Jacob Seiler A Co. 174 John M'Mahon 9$ J & J. Lamon ls2 Rody M'Gee & Co. 11l John Snodgrass 183 Edward Kerns & Co ? 112 John Snodgrass 184 Wm. Phelari A Co. With the llarrishurg Telegraph, we hope that these lettings were fairly made ; hot it strikes us also as a little singular, that every one of the successful bidders as given above is a Ixicofoco of the de< pest dye. The citizens of Johnstown are taking prepar atory measures for the formation of a new county out of parts of Cambria, Somerset, Westmoreland and Indiana counties —Johnstown to he the seat of justice. Cfforts are being made at Huntingdon to pur chase the Juniata Bridge near that place, so as to make it free for travel. The Grand Jury re commend the county commissioners to appropri ate §ISOO towards it. Proceedings of fongress. Congress assembled on Monday. There was a quorum of Senators in attendance, and the usual business was gone through. The House met at 12 o'clock, and was called to order by Thomas J. Campbell, the Clerk of the last House. The roll was then called over by States, when t appeared that all the members were present except Augustin H. Shepherd, whig, of N. C. ; Thos. B. King, whig, of Georgia; Albert J. Al ston, whig, and David Hubbard, locofoco, of Alabama; Albert G. Brown, locofoco, of Mis sissippi; Meredith P. Gentry, whig, of Tcnn ; aiid Geo. W. Julian, free soil whig, of Indiana. Number present, 223 ; absent 7 ; one vacancy in Palfrey's district, Massachusetts. On motion of Mr. Boyd, the House proceeded to the election turn tore for speaker. Messrs. Duer, of New York ; Miller, of Ohio; Hilliard, of Ala. ; and Strong, of Pa.; were ap pointed tellers. The House having proceeded to ballot, the following was the result, viz : Cobb, of Ga., loco 103 YVintlirop, of Mass., whig DO D. Wilmot, of Pa., loco H M. P. Gentry, of Tenu., whig <> If. Mann, of Mass., whig James Thompson, of Pa., loco C. F. Cleveland, of Conn., loco 1 James A. Seddon, of Va., loco Jos. L. Orr, of S. 0., loco DavidT. Disney, of Ohio, loco 1 Joseph M. Root, of Ohio, F. S. 1 221 r.cccv'sry to a choice 111 Messrs, Cobb and VVinthrop did not vote. Three other ballots were had, not materially differing from the above. The House then ad journed. The House had several ballots on Tuesday without effecting an election, and at half past three adjourned. The tenth and last ballut stood as follows : YVintlirop 9~ Cobb Wilmot Gentry V Richardson •' Potter Mann ~ Cleveland, Durkec and Stanton each one. Ou Wednesday the balloting® were resumed with the following result 1 ItU 12th 13 th lAth Cobb, loco, 9b 97 93 b9 YVintlirop, whig, 97 97 98 99 Gentry, wdiig, 5 5 5 ► Root, Free Soil, 77 77 Potter, Free Soil, 4 3 9 10 Scattering, 11 12 11 12 After the 13th ballot a resolution was offered i that on the next ballot a plurality should elect, I hut laid on the, table by a decided vote. The House then adjourned Proßiylianla Railroad Company. The annual meeting of this company took place in Philadelphia on Monday last. The re ports of the Board, Chief Engineer, and Treas urer, were read and adopted. From these re ports we learn that It has been determined by the : Board, that on and after the Ist of January next, ' the rate of way travel shall be reduced to the uniform rate of three cents per mile—a very wise and prudent determination —and also to discontinue all operations on the road upon the Sabbath after that date. The fiscal year closed cn the 31st of October ; last, and up to that date the Treasurer's hooks , showed the following state of affairs : Received from subscriptions and other sources, $3,692,379 44 j Amount disbursed, 3,193,709 15 I Leaving a balance of 498,670 29 If to this balance be added the a mouht of uncollected subserip j tions, including the second sub ! scription from the city of Phil adelphia, about 1,900,000 00 there is the sum of $2,398,670 29 applicable to the construction and equipment of the road. The report of the Engineer gives a large amount of statistical matter, both in relation to , the completion by the different routes over the : mountain as well as that of forming a junction with the Portage Railroad. The receipts and expenditures of the road now in use, between llarrishurg and Lewistown, are sufficient to warrant the assurance that the whole road can- , not fail to amply remunerate the capitalists for the investment made by thern. The total re- : ' ceipts for transportation of freight and passen gers, during the months of September and Octo ber, were $14,892 76 ; while the expenditures during the same period were $3,405 37, leaving an excess of $11,397 39, which is equal to 4§ per cent, interest upon the amount expended in the building and equipment of that portion of the road. A resolution of thanks to the recent and pres ent Presidents, Engineers and officers " for tlu able, energetic and satisfactory manner in icliich they hare conducted its affairs was then adopted, but not without opposition. Resolutions instructing the directors not to pay more than $2500 per annum to the President unless tie possesses the qualifications of an en gineer—to consider the expediency of providing for the delivery of produce at the stores of con signees under the present rates of freight, and relative to discontinuing operations ou the Sab hath, were referred to a committee consisting ° of Messrs. J. It. Ingcrsoll, Jno. M. Kennedy, J. F. Learning, It. M. Lewis, and James Magee, who arc to report to an adjourned meeting to be held on the 241h instant. The following gentlemen were elected Direc tors for the ensuing year:—William C. Patter son, Samuel V. Merrick, David S. Brown, Ste phen Colweli. Geo. W. Carpenter, Christian E. Spangler, Thomas T. Lea, Washington Butcher. I Roar l'rom Tr\as---Boulh Carolina Beat! South Carolina was formerly considered the Bombastcs Furioso of our Union, but Texas, judging from the early commencement made in the science of blustering, bids fair to outdo the Nuiiificrs. The Governor of the latter, in his message to the Legislature, says if the United States persist in their claim to the territory of Santa Fe and other parts of New Mexico, it imposes upon the Legislature the duty of adopt ing energetic and efficient measure* to protect the rights of Texas, to acquit herself of what is due to her dignity and honor. He recommends that ample power be conferred on the Executive of the State, and ample means be placed at his disposal, and that it be expressly required of him to raise the proper issue and contest it, not de monstrating by argument the justness of their claim, nor by reference to tfieir statutes, but with the xrhnle power and resources of the State.— The result of any legislation short of this, he says, will be barren and profitless. How the ! power and the resources of the State are to be I applied is divulged in the Houston Telegraph in commenting upon the message. It says— " The public lands in that section [Santa Fe] were all pledged for the payment of the national debt of Texas, and if the General Government should rob the .Slate of their lauds, it should be arraigned in the Supreme Court of the nation as a thief, and like a thief, it should be compelled to pay a proper forfeit. Texas will maintain her right against every adverse claimant. If the General Government will place itself in the position that Mexico occupied before annexa tion, Texas will be forced by circumstances beyond her control, to resume her old position.— She was then at war with Mexico, and if the General Government assumes the position of Mexico, Texas trill be at tear irtf/i her. The re sult ts inevitable." Notwithstanding these bellicose demonstra tions the Governor thinks it might not be unwise i first to despatch a commission to Washington relative to the matter. There is wisdom in this recommendation, particularly as there happens to be a President at Washington w ho is quite as likely to put down Usurpation in Texas as Gen. Jackson was to put down Nullification in South Carolina. l'lg Pen \ulsanees. The law against creating or maintaining nui sances of this character was recently laid down in the Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions by Judge Parsons. In charging the jury em pannclled in the case ola man who was on trial for keeping a pig pen— The Judge took the broad ground, that no man has a right so to occupy his property as to incom mode or annoy his neighbor. It had been deci ded, he said, in the Supreme Court of this State, I by Judge Seigcant, that the keeping of one pig | in a pen in a thickly populated neighborhood, j was per st (of itscll) a nuisance, formerly, it was supposed, that it must be proven detrimen tal to the health of the neighborhood to make it a nuisance ; but within the last 25 years a more liberal construction had been given to the law in relation to nuisances, and it was now sufficient that the business complained of, should be an noying to the citizens residing in its locality, or who were in the habit of passing along the high road near which it was established. iTf* Our neighbor of the Democrat had "glory enough for one day" this week in a re port that Cobb had been elected Speaker, and Forney of the Pennsy Ivanian Clerk of the House of Representatives at Washington. I nfortu natcly the GI.ORV lasted but one day ! neither having been elected thus far, and from present appearances not likely t<> he. f Exrnatr s From thf Report of the Postmaster General. The number of post offices in the United Stitrs at the close of the year ending June 30, j 1819, was 10,747, there having been 921 estab lished and 338 discontinued within the year, j making an increase within the year of 588. The number of postmasters appointed within ; the year ending June 30, 1849, was 0338 Of that number, 2782 were appointed in con- ' sequence of resignation ; 183 were appointed in i consequence of death ; 284 were appointed in consequence of changes of sites of offices ; 2103 were appointed iri consequence of removals; 11 were appointed in consequence of commissions expired and not renewed ; 20 were appointed in consequence of commissions rencwe.d ; 23 were appoin ed in consequence of becoming Presiden tial by income exceeding $1000; 921 were ap pointed in consequence of new offices. The number of mail routes in the United States on the first day of July, 1849, was 4 943, and the number of contractors 4,190. The length of these routes was 107,703 miles. On these routes the mail was transported 42,547,069 miles, at the cost of $2,428,515. The gross revenue for the year, ending June 30, 1849, amounted to $4,905,170 28, derived from the following sources. From letter postage, including stamps sold, 5£2,7C2 G2 From newspaper and pamphlet postage, iiO,OIC 20 | From miscellaneous items, 3,251 21 From fines, 43 75 ; From dead letter money sold, SJ 50 j f 1,705,176 28 From the appropriation made by the 12* It section of the act of 3d March, 1.817, for mail services to the government. 000,000 00 ! **,90.%176 28 THE EXPENDITURE* DURING THE YEAR, WMB FOB Transportation of iriaiU, ♦2,377,400 71 Compensation to postmasters, 1,320,931 31 H.iip, steamboat ft way letters, 50.171 45 Wrapping paper, ■ 23.036 03 Office furniiure, 4,219 60 Advertising, 61,613 32 Mail hags, 20,602 38 Blanks, 20,276 71 Mail locks, keys and stamps, 4,566 50 Mail depredations ft special ag'ts, 21,228 00 Clerks for post offices, 317,218 36 Miscellaneous payments, 70,437 80 Post-office laws and regulations, 91 73 Excess of gross revenue for the year, $426,127 15 j The whole number of letters charged with postage passing through the mails the past year, ; reckoned on the postage received, agreeably to j a basis heretofore approved, amounted to sixty- , two millions. It has been said that the newspaper and pam phlet postage is not in proportion to the cost of their transportation ; but it is not to be therefore i understood that any increase of that postage is i proposed. It has long been regarded as sound public policy to promote the circulation of these publications by cheap postage, and it may be advisable to proceed further in this policy, es pecially in promoting their circulation in the i vicinity of their places of publication, provided no decided injustice be done to the post-masters within that same vicinity. The most obvious and prominent feature now in our postage is the double price, ten cents, charged on ail single letters carried over three hundred miles. The reduction of this ten cent postage, and charging all single letters at five cents each, would much simplify the manner of accounting, and render the same both more fa cile and perfect—would remove the dissatisfac tion arising from the great difference in the postage in different offices, even in the same vi cinity, but separated by this arbitrary line ; and would promote and encourage the correspond ence and intercourse, by mail, between the most distant parts of the country, which most need and demand it, in precise proportion as their other means of intercommunication are slow and unfrequent. In the last year there were received 2.100,000 dead letters, all of which have been opened and examined. Of these. 4964 contained money to the ami unt of $32,(169, have been registered and the same sent out for delivery to the owners, ami 993 letters containing other enclosures of j value. To show the great increase of service, and the consequent demand for the increase of the force in the Department, the following compara- j tive statement is made : In 1>37, the number of post offices was 11,767 —now 17,164—417 having been established since June last. Number of dead letters in 1837, 900,000 —now 2.100.0(10. Number of quarterly returns in 1837, 48,(MX) —now 73.000. Number of mail contractors in 1837. 16s2—now 4190. Length of routes in 1837. 141.242—n0w 167,703. Annual mail transportation in 1837, 32,597,006 —now 42,544,069. The number of communications received at the department annually cannot be less than 370,000. GODF.Y'S LVOV'S BOOK. —We mentioned last week the early reception of the January num ber, than which a more beautiful one has never been issued. The embellishments consist of thirty-two engravings, among which are the In- ' troduction of Christianity into Britain, the Flight of Time, the Fancy Ball, Excelsior, printed in seven colors, Anglo Grecian Villa, a splendid Flower Title. I'age. in colors—ail works of rare merit, such as arc seldom seen in maga zines. Godey promises that this number shall not be a decoy, but simply a specimen of what his patrons may expect during the year, and as he is one who always performs his promises, his magazine for the coming year will form a vol ume of a thousand pages of literary matter from the pens of talented authors, three or four hun dred engravings, and 12 pieces of music—all for $3, with any two of the following splendid premium plates, which are large-sized parlor prints : •' Death-bed of the Rev. John Wesley," " Wesley Breaching in Gwenap Amphitheatre," " America Guided by Wisdom," " General Taylor and Old Whitcv," " Likeness of the Rev. John Wesley," " do. of his co-laborer, Rev. John Fletcher," —the last two, though separate engravings, are counted as one premium, or two copies will he furnished for $5, and any two of the above prints to each subscriber. Five copies for $lO, arid an extra copy of the Book, and anx two of the above engravings to the per son sending the club Eleven copies for S2O, and an extra copy of the Book, and any three of the above engravings to the person sending the club. Any person sending $5 in advance, subscription for 1850 and 1851, will be entitled to any four of the engravings. Address (post paid) 1,. A. GOOEY, NO. 113 Chesnut street, Philadelphia, or call at the Gazette office. The Pittsburgh Convention. A convention of iron manufacturers assembled at Pittsburgh a few weeks since, to discuss the subject of duty on pig and common merchant bar iron. Various propositions were offered and debated, w hen Geo. R. Clapp offered the follow - ing as a substitute for all others, which was unanimously adopted : " Resolved, That it is the sense of this Conven tion, at the present state of the foreign market, that it will require a duty of $lO per ton on pig iron, and S2O per ton on common bar, and a cor responding increase on all other iron and manu factures of iron, in proportion to cost of make, to protect the American market ' Rnssi'.th'a Iddrcis to his (ounfsy. The following i.-> the fare well address of Km. suth to his country, written at Orsova : Farewell, my beloved country ! Farewell land of the Magyar! Farewell, thou land | sorrow ! I shall never more behold the summit ,of thy mountains. I shall never again trive t}M ; name of my country to that cherished soil win-,-,, jl drank from my mother's bosom the milks of j justice and liberty. Pardon, oh ! pardon him ] who is henceforth condemned to wander fV from thee, because he combatted for thy hair, ness. Pardon one who can only call free that" spot of thy soil where ho now kneels with a of the faithful children of conquered Hungarv ' My last looks are fixed on my country and ) see thee overwhelmed with anguish, 'if,.- plains are covered with blood, the redness >Y i which pitiless destruction will change to blue! the emblem of mourning for the victories u sons have gained over the sacrilegous em-t, of thy sacred soil. Flow many grateful hearts have cc, lt t ; i( . ir ' prayers to the throne of the Almighty! How many tears have gushed from their very depth to implore pity ! How much blood has been shed to testify that the Magyar idolises his com | try, and that he knows how to die for it. Ai d | yet, land of my love, thou art in slavery ! From thy very bosom w ill be forged the chain to hind all that is sacred, and to aid all that is sacrile gious. O, Almighty Creator, if thou Invest thv people to whom thou didst give victory under our heroic ancestor. Arpad, 1 implore thee not to sink them into degredalion. 1 speak to thee my country, thus from the abyss of my despair and whilst yet lingering on the threshold of thv i soil. Pardon me that a great number of thv sons , have sited their blood for thee ori rriv account I pleaded for thee, I hoped for thee, even in the dark moment when on thy brow was wiittr-ii the withering word " Despair." I lifted un voice in thy behalf when men said, •• Be I hoc a slave." I girt the sword about my loins, and I grasped the bloody plume, even When thev ' said, '• Thou art no longer a nation on the soil i of the Magyar." Time has written thy destiny on the pages of thy story in yellow and black letters—Death. The Colossus of the North has set his seal to thv sentence. But the glow ing iron of the East shall melt that seal. For lliee, my country, that has shed so much, there is no pity ; for does not the tyrant eat his bread on the hills formed of the bones of thy children ? The ingrate whom thou hast fattened with thy abundance, he rose against thCe : he rose against thee, the traitor to his mother, and destroyed ! thee utterly. Thou hast endured all; thou hast not cursed thine existence, for in thy bo som, and far above all sorrow, hope has built her nest. j Magyars turn not aside for me, for at this moment mine eyes flow with tears for you. for the soil on which my tottering steps still wan der is named Hungary. My country, it is not the iron of the stranger that hath dug thy grave ; it is not the thunder of i fourteen nations, ail arrayed against thee, that hath destroyed thee; and it is not the fifteenth nation, traversing the Carpathians, that has forced thee to drop thy arms. Nor Thou hast been betrayed ; thou has been sold, my countrv thy death-sentence hath been written, beloved : of my heart, by him whose virtue, whose love for tiiec I never dared to doubt Yes! in the favor of my boldest thoughts, 1 should have al most as soon doubted of the existence of the ! Omnipotent as have believed that he could ever be a traitor to his country. Thou hast been betrayed by him in whose hands I hud but a little space before deposited the power of our great country, which he swore to defend even to the last drop of his heart's blood. He hath done treason to his mother, for the glitter of gold hath been for him more se ductive than that of the blood shed to save his country. Base gain had more value in his eyes than his country, and his God has abandoned him, as he has abandoned his God for ins allies of hell. Magyars! Beloved companions, blame me not for having cast mine eyes on this man. and for having given to hun my place. It was ne j cesary, tor the people had bestowed on him their confidence ; the army loved him, and he obtained a power of w Inch I myself would have been proud. And, nevertheless, this man belied the confidence of the nation, and has repaid the love of the army with hatred. Curse him. peo ple of the Magyars! Curse the breast which did not first dry up before it gave him its milk I idolize thee, O thou most faithful of the na tions of Europe, as 1 idolize the liberty for which thou hast proudly and bravely combaued. The God of liberty will never efface thee from his memory. Mayest thou be forever blest! My principles have not been those of Wash j ington : nor yet my acts those of Tell. 1 desired a free nation—free as man cannot be made but by God. And thou art fallen ; faded as thii lily, but which in another season puts forth its flow ers still more lovely than^before. Thou art dead—for hath not thy winter come on r But it will not endure so long as that of thy com panion under the frozen sky of~4siberia. No ! Fiftren nations have dug thy tomb. - Jlut the hosts of the sixteenth will ccme to save the< . Be faithful, as thou hast been even to the pre sent. Conform to the holy counsels of the Bi ble. Lift up thy heart in prayer for the depart ed ; but do not raise thine own hymn until thou hearest .the thunders of the liberating people echo along thy mountains, and bellow in the depth of thy valleys Farewell, beloved companions! Farewell, comrades! countrymen! May the thought of God, and may the angels of liberty forever be with you. Do not curse me. You may well be proud ; for have not the lions of Europe risen from their lairs to destroy the ' rebels:" I will proclaim you to the civilized world as heroes . and the cause of a heroic people will be cher ished by the freest nation of the earth—the freest of all free people'. Farewell, thou land dyed with the blood of the brave! Guard those red marks—they will one day bear testimony on thy behalf. And thou, farewell, I) youthful Monarch ot the Hungarians! Forget not that my nation i not destined for thee. Heaven inspires me with the confidence that the day will dawn w hen it -hall be proved to thee even on the ruin ed walls of lluda. May the Almighty bless thee, my beloved country. Believe, Hope and Love. For the Gazette. MR. EDITOR :—There is now to be seen at the Marble Yard of Mr. CIIARI.ES STRATFORD, in this place, a nio-t beautiful specimen of Art— a highly polished slab of White Marble, with a wreath combined of the Rose and the Morning Glory encircling the name of "Fit en " Th>' wreath is most accurately and elegantly wrong ' in hall-relief, and nothing can be more trm to nature than the delicate beauty of the fragile and short-lived Morning Glory, nor more appr - priate than the emblem of the blooming IL'-e broken by the rude hand of the destroy ci-- " Fell Death's untimely frost." There is a world of mournful eloquence in this simple flower-wreath embracing that maiden •> name. O, flowers! marble flowers! pale and ' cold a- ye, is that silent one whose melanehoiy fate ye commemorate! Yc call up images "J youth, and sweetness, and innocence, now closcu . from our eyes. But not always shall ye thus •' suspended above the cold couch of tiie dream less dead. That tomb w ill soon be teiianlff'* ■ 5 the Rose shall bloom again ; the morning ot an eternal day shall behold the withered flower ex* panding with renewed life and loveliness to fad no more forever. , > It is a sad yet pleasing task to erect over ta< ' grave of our departed friends some memento " of our affection and their worth, and the tn < * taste that designed this exquisite tribute ot ann • tion, and the skilful hand which execute" ' cannot he roiarueinle t to,- highly