Legislative. 1 A STRAY BA nr.—A fine hearty - ft - 1i te child.
On Fnday weeks a -4:411 fixing...t.he pay _of_ about a month old, was left at the doorof Mr. ,
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metauera o f tneuegistatariat,3soo for the sea- IfauvEyl)7B - wen' - im.;-in-thisitlace-i-bn-Saitlr:.
, t GI" with an allowance of ten cents a mile for day night btt, before 9 o'clock. - It was wrap-
LeVery Mile - teaVelled,Atassetl the Senate; l 8 to -ped up in a large blanket and a slaw% to
. - , which was pinned a note asking that it - should
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CC/ The - vt- end her during last ireek vvissl In' the House, a 'supplement to the Act rela; .be taken and raised by him as his own, and
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extrentely cold. On Tuck:day the mercury tive to Pennsylv,anin.Medical College at Phila.: be called “Edgar." It was neatly dressed.
steed at P r below zero, and on Wedneaday
zdelphia. was reported by Mr, Nfengle. This and hada change of clothing wrapped up with
in , rning I."' above , --
;% - se v er° snow - storm . iv. the bill which we alluded toi, a week or two it. We learn that it has been adopted by Mr.
iirevailtA on Wednesday- and Thursday, and since, as having been- secretly got up to affect Its UCCA :S, of this place, and named Lines.
the 'sleighing; is excellent, ' Those who are' -itl,,;-. 1 i
.therests of the College. ft was referred to vEy EDGAR iguanas.
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reprdless of cold "noses and toses". are go - theCOmmlitee on the Judi c iary ; and on Fri• i 'There seems to be-no clue to the parents of
in -4. it With a rus,-11! hat body reported adversely to it. ! the child—but it is thought that it was ;
ibrought from a distance, as_a; sleigh was no- 1
1 ticed by a neighbor to stop at the . door a-few
minutes previonSly. - - - . i
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NON Mf)ll,Npa," - 4, - 1T5.712; - 1855:-
COLjD WFATlffni. —The ret ports
— TheeveatbiT itOlie - Narth Eli
iilint ; it to have extremely cold. as
ci:Ttainlywasin this region; • At Cambridge
VnjWcrsity. in Boston, the 'mercury in the
grafduated.instrnment ‘tootl 10 deg. below.
14-r', induntLing tite nOlilea weather had there
for t.lrelast• fifteen years. The Charles river
—ir-aa-entirtiy -frozen - s ever, The-,-therrueineter
was heloW zero at Ogdensburg, 33 deg,:
at Buffalo, 20 deg.; at Rochester, 18 deg.; at
vafiena towns in Maine and New Hampshire at
from 13 tti:Zo-deg.: at titiebee, 21 deg.: and at
B d t g. below zero. In many
of the towns named they had tine Aeiglii
Gov. PoII.IOM, has appointed Wat.' B.
)I( 4 . , txt.i..tx and FitANKl.tx Plextmi. of this
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place. Aiils-ile-csitup, with the runt: of Lieuteri.
ant Colonel.
AProwimumi a 'Gov. PoLt;ocx.-7-Gov.
Pollock has made the following appointments :
Thomas J. Power, of Bearer county, Ameri
can Denicerat)--Adjutant General of, the State.
Christian Myers, of Clarion county. ( American
Whig) Whiskey Inspector for - Phi ladd phis,.
C.
~14; Magee, (American Whig) Inspector - of
Wv_ihts and Measures for Allegheny county.
- hlr. Culp,- {American) Flour Inspector for
Pittsburg.: Stephen Aliller. ( American Whig,)
nun. luspector for Philadelphia., The Whig
Know Nothings get all the office& that are
worth having. -
32'Governor , Pollock 1 / 4 1S noininsted Col.
A. K. Arqure, of Cliantbershurg ',editor of the
Repository tad Whig, as superintendent of
public printing, in place of E. Common.
PASSAGIR BOLT area LiND BILL.—The .
United States Senate, on :Monday, after vari
ously amending Mr. Brodhead's Bounty Land
bill, passed the same finally by a vote of 30
to 15. It is'very comprehensive in its provis
/Lw, givingl6o tiMes of land to all those who ,
served in any of the Indian or other wars previ
ous to and embracing the wars Of 1812, witli
deductions where grants have already been
made under Fortner acts. It also increases the
pay of invalid pensioners.
fla - The l'entisYlvania Railroad Bridge over
the Juniata, at LeWititoWil. #lllB entirely de
stroyed by fire tin Saturday night week. It Was
most probably set on fire, having been cover
ed with tin, and the week being upon the
top: It was a four span bridge, 520 feet, and
cost about 610,000.
tMr.•STttrtti.` PLICASANTON, Fifth Anii
tor of the Treasury Department of the United
&ales, died at - Washington, on Wednesday
week, in-the 79th year of Ins age. Ile filled
the office of Fifth Auditor forfifly years, being
by twelve Vresidential administra
tions. -
17Texas papers dated - the 25th ult. state
that a battle had occurred between the Ca
inauche Indians and a party of Texan Rangers,
in which the Indians were defeated with a loss
of serenkilled and many captured.
K7"Aix.ording to a report just made by the
Treasurer of the United States, the Na iional
Treasury contained, on the 29th ult., the snug
sum of twenty•one million nine. hundred and
twelve thousand seven hundred and six dollars:
Tim FEBRUARY INTRREST.—The State Trees
urer,.tien. Joseph Baily, cotton enced the pay
ment of the semi-annual interest on .the State
debt. on Thursday, at the Bank of Pennsylva
nia. The amount•to be paid is about $900,-
(100, all of which is on hand.
Fnu AND Loss or Lum.—The Harrisburg
Herald has been informed that on Saturday
night the house of John Crum, near Lingles
town. Dauphin county, was destroyed by fire,
and that The owner perished in the flames.—
The gen' era! supposition is that Mr. Crum-was
killed for his money, and the house fired by
theuinrdere7. Mr. Cruet's daughter was away
froui. Mime on Saturday night, and there was
no one else in - the house.
7coi. KINNICY'S Central American Expe
dition is attracting a large share of attention.
eQuie of the papers say it will be arrested by
our government, on the ground that, it is an
armed expedition against a State with which
tue United States are at. peace. 'Others say
teat its intentions are entirely pacific—that the
government has no right to interfere with it
and will not arrest it.
3 -- " A fist tight took place in the House of
Itepmentatives, at Washington, on the 30th,
between then. Lane, of Oteg,on, and Mr. Farley,
of Alaine.
Z7The steamer North Star arrived at New
York, on Thursday last, with 200 passengers
on Imard, and $1,230,000 in
„.. - There are reports of the discovery of rich
mines of golf and txbpper in the terriwry ac
quired by the United Sutter. from Mexico under
the tiladsdeit treaty.
11:7The biucernor of lliciii7llll3xsignedtl
Prohibitory liquor bill pasArd by th e L eg i s i i .
titre of that Sate, a few days - ago. It, takes
effect in ninety (Flys.
MSG e the Farm I , ,tsrnal has been
removed from West Chester to No. 33 North
Seventh street, Philadelphia.
. 1 0 - A Yankee at Pall2l3tl. Rnuglet :shelter at
the American Comma Orono the tareiwittake Ntiright, of Indiana, has withdrawn
he thought even the cartlntuaie would iespect from the :Methodist church, assigning that his
our fin. i pastor was a "know:nothing."
Registration Ant.
to T liture - haS 'passed An act which
repeals the regikration law enacted during
Gov . . JonNsroN's administration. The repeal
of this law was demanded by public opinion,
'its well as_ by every principle of justice and
right. The registration law cost
.the State
about 1 hiriy thrnsonnd dollars, and it would-have .
been muchfliettcrirthis-timount-ortrumey-Itad
been appropriated towards paying - our State
debt. It would have reflected more credit on
the legislature. But so it goes. Ask an ap
propriation for a really meritorious cause, and
the cry of economy is raised at once. It stands
no chance. Humbug has more virtue now-a.
days than logitimato•projeots.— flier. Union.
Ihntauttal Diwrn.—A man named John Rus
sel, residing near Orrstown,
_Franklin county,
came to his death on Thursday week last, in
a shocking manner. He had been engaged in
burning time, and was fbund next morning
upon the top of the kiln, dead : his lower ex
tremities buret away, and his body very much
charred. It is supposed that after throwing
fresh stone upon the top of the kiln. he lay
down upon them whilst they were cool, and
composed himself to sleep, scarcely conscious
of the danger to which he
.was exposed. He
was a man of intemperate habits.
Nor! COLD.— On Tuesday s at Gothatia, on
the White mountain, the mercury in the then.'
mometer was within one degree of the point
at which it becomes congealed. - This is con
siderably colder than we have had it: but not
near so cold as the polar regions, where, ac
cording to Dr. Kane, sweet oil had to be saw
ed and brandy split with a hatchet.
COL. KINSKY.—The Norfolk Herald' Of Sat
urday says that instructions have been receiv
ed by the agent in that city from Col. Kinney,
authorising the stopping of enrolling men for
the Central American expedition. It is.' said
unforttmate circumstances and difficulties have
caused the Colonel to come to this determina
tion.
A Daosimous COUNTIMMIT.—A hie dollar
bill on the bank of 'Chester County is in circa.,
ltition; altered to a twenty in so skilful a man
ner as to be likely to deceive any. but an Excel
lent-judge.- -We-are-informed- that- there-are
great numbers of these altered notes afloat, and
citizens should be cautions how they take mon
ey of that description. The note has a farm
bowie, cattle, niilk maid, &c., as a vignette,
and a nittflallion head at-either end of the
plate. The date upon it is June Ist, 1852.
Harriaborg Item.
AN EDITOR, IN Luc:K.—The-New Cnstle Cnsr-
ier : man says he received a few days since, a box
containing two hundred dollars worth . of val
uable household articles. including a complete
set of silver spoons and forks. The best of
the joke is, he don't know who sent them. This
ignorance is, we suppose, of that cast, that is
pro Motive of bliss ;—if so, we wish some one
would in like manner, add to our stock of bliss
ful. ignorance.
r7The National House of Representatives,
on Monday last.- passed the Senate resolution
authorizing the Navy Department to send a
steamer and tender to the relief or rescue of
Dr. Kane and his Arctic expedition. - The Sec
retary of the Navy will despatch the vessels
ordered immediately.
THE COST OF TFIE leading Eng
lish journals complain bitterly of the cost of the
war. The London Times gives the total expen
ses for twelve months, at eighty millions of
dollars. For the present year, the expenditures
will be still greater, unless peace shall be de
clared. The calcualation is that at least one
hundred millions will be necessary, and with
the best view of the subject, at least fifty mil-
Aions_ofdollars must be raised annually, as long
as the war may last, either by an appeal to the
money market, or by doubling the rates upon
the taxpayers. This taxing of the industt ions
to support those who are wasting their energies
in war is a very
.terious business to a nation.
PRESBYTERIAN HISTORY.--We see it stated
in one of the religious journals, that a change
has lately been made in the Presbyterian His
torical Sticiety, by which it is hereafter to em
brace within its scope, all the branches of the
Presbyterian family, the officers being selected
from the Associate, Reformed, Associate Re
formed, and Old and New School Churches.
IDOL EXTRAVAGrA-NCE.—It. is estimated that
the incense alone, which is burnt in the Chi-
nee Empire in the worship of their idols. an
nually costs .f.9t1,000,000 sterling. or a little
more than one dollar for each man, woman and
child.
r 7 Rev. Mr. Streeter, of Boston, has only
ken in the ministry twenty-eight years, and
has married three thousand :.even hundred and
sixty-three couples.
Da'Seuator Seward was, on liiesday last,
re-elected, to the United States Senate from
from the 4th of ',March
lielL, receiving 18 votes in the Senate and 69
in the House.-
la - The Know-Nothing Governor and Leg
iglature of .Massachusetts hare dishai:ded seven
military companies, because they are erntipos
ed of naturalized citizens. We sup i ose the
country is safe now!
rtSirmin Cameron received the nomination
of the Know Nothing Legislative caucus, on
Friday evening. Car li. S. Senator—but only
.after a eevere struggle, and. the withdrawal of i
a portion of the caucus. There was a very
stortn_y_time__am_ongAlie K. N's., and- corrup-
tion "ruled the. roast." Ex-Gov. Johnston, I,
Cooper, Smyser, Stevens, Tiffany', Curtain, -
Wilmot, and others; were actively supppraed.
Johnston and Tiffany, however, were the - next
highest to Cameron. The election -comes off
io-rnorrow, Hon. Arnold Plummer will most
probably be nominated and supported by the
Democrats.
0:7. Another arrival from Europe—the At
lantic—but no war news of the slightest mo
ment. The Russian General, Menschikoff, is
reported to have said—'•Our troops may rest
--7GenernisJanuary,
.14/ r uary and Mareh will
fight our battles far better than we can !"
Lord John Russell has resigned,Ftic \ positimi in
the British cabinet, and Palmerston, it is said,
will take his place. •
n'ilon. J. C. Breckenridge, in consequence
of the continued' illness of Mrs. Breckenridge,
has declined the mission to Spain, and lion. A.
C.... Dodge, U. S. Senator from lowa, has been
appointed and confirmed in his stead. .
ir'lVe are again underobligations to Messrs.
"L and KURTZ, of the National Ilouse of
Representatives, and Messrs. McCI.EAN' and
NIELLINGNit, of the State Legislature, for ac
ceptable favors.
Mechanics and Laborers.
Thkfunowing act of Assembly which was
passed at the last session of the Legislature is
not generally known. We publish it for the
benefit of those for whom it is intended—the
mechanic and laborer.
Sic. 1. Be it enacted. &c., Thaf in al! as
signments of property, whether real or perso
nal, which shall hereafter ,be made by any
person or persons, or chartered companies to
trustees or assigns, on account of inability at
The time of the assignment, to pay his or their
debts, the wages of minors, mechanics, 'and
laborers. employed by such person or persons,
or chartered company, shall be the first pre
ferred and paid by smith trustee or assignee,
before. any other creditor or creditors of the
assignor: Prr;vided, That any one claim thus
prefered shall not exceed one hundred dollars.
I?ailrottd
PHILAMILPHIA, Feb. (. —A freight train on
the Columbia Railroad ran off the track a.bout
three miles west of the Schuylkill this after
noon. All the cars rolled over the embank
ment and broke up. the wreck taking fire from
a stove in one of the cars, when their contents,
consisting of Hour, wheat, (lowest &c., were
mostly consumed.—Several of the employees
of the company were injured. Michael Spang
ler was wedged among the flora• and terribly
burned. lie was brought to the hospital in
this city.
-- "A distressing casualty happened on Sat
urday week, above the Dam on the Schuylkill
river at Philadelphia, resulting in the death of
Mr. Samuel A. Shinn, Druggist, aged 25 years.
and Miss Russell, aged 20 years, both of that
city. Mr. Shinn was skating and44shing Miss
Russell before him on a sled on the ice when
without being aware of it, they came on a thin
place and were both drowned. The - bodies
were recovered. hut too late to restore the vi
tal spark. Truly this is an afflictive event.
'Minx .11trastNn —A week or two ngo, the
Frederick Examiner published an article to the
etli•et that Mr. Elder. a Catholic Wiest at
. St.
Mary's College. near Eminitsburg, had horo v d
a bible which he found in the hands of Mrs.
Earl augh. at Sabillnsville. In the last paper
it is acknowledgetlehat the whole matter wa.;
a fabrication, a titan named Samuel Valentine
having made a false certilicate—and the Editor
retracts the allegation. -
PaArrica vs. Patv'Err.--The Providence P 0
places strikingly in contrast the course Ai Gov.
Clark and Mayor Wood, of New Yiirk. The
former was elected under the claim—that. he
represented all the r•irtnes. and after a few days
in office, even his former friends charge his ad
ministration w;th corruption. The latter was
chosen in the face of the most foul charges
against him, and has so conducted during his
few days in office as to curry popular opinion
universally with hint.
A (loon BrIILKSQI7, ON lc:cow-Nom:cap:Nl - .
--The following excellent hit upon the ridicu
lous notions of Know •Nothingism was given
by the City Council of Roxbury, Mass., which,
upon the last night of its session, passed the
following ordinances :
"Ordered, That the Superintendent of the
Almshouse be, and he is hereby directed to sell
nt private sale all the horses a ttached to the es
tablishment that may Ve of foreign blood ;
all the oxen and cows of the Durham shot 1.-
horn. Ayrshire and Alderney breeds: also, all
the swine known to be of foreign extraction. and
supply their places with native breeds, whose
pedigree can be traced with absolute certainly
as far hack as Shay's Rebellion.
"Ordered; That the n►easurers of wood and
hark he directed to examine all the fruit and
forest trees in the city. mut to dig up their roots
and make into fagots all those of foreign origin.
of apples, peaches, plums. &c., algo. all the
English cl►us. European lindens. Scotch larch.
Norway sit: uce, &c., the growing of the same
being deemed inconsistent with republican in
stitutions, detrimental to the progress of the
age, and dangerous to the liberties of our
countr
o 7 The New- York board of emigration esti
mate that :li-52.0.000,000 in money has been
brought to this country in the last year by
6erman Emigrants.
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- " - The first Legislature of Nebraska terri
tory has met and organized. The choice
officers Is said to he friendly to the administra-
lESIE
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u. r .71 , 1.r5. Ku .}'.a millionaire of Philadelphia,
gave an entertainment in that city last week.
which. it is sai d. cost about e
k wrc 2,000
Great Snow Storm at the Northwest.
A Secularited Clergy. The
It is a_singular feature of time present' state The Chicago papers bring os various go
of polities in this country, that hosts of clergy- • counts of the recent terrible snow storm in all
-„...____men_are_beiug-returned as membersof—State that region of country. •01 course there' was a
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the act _relative to mvestrnents . by Building Legislatures. or of the national Congress, and total ste.pension of . travel. Locomotives and
Associatioas, delivered in the Houso, at liar- some are even now we believe Candidates f o r whole trams of ears were buried in snow. and
risburg, on -Thursday week. We commend
tiovernor. ' It has always beena grave toes- the passengers suffered irthnself
front card and
_ non how far a clergyman should interfere in ho m n-er. The Chicago Journal of the 211th ult.
them to the attention of our readers : ' the exciting poll tied questions of the day._ lie -Kay, :
Mr. M'Clean said he was favorable to the has certainly all the- rights of any other citi- Advices were received late Saturday evening
amendment • offered by the member from zeii, and may exercise those rights in such' a to the eff e ct that time train whicli'left . - Sp - rit`tg-
Schuylkill. (Judge Prailey.) but felt constrain- , way or manlier as may seem good to him. His- field early last week, on board of •which waS
ed to vote against the Bill. w ith or without great missum however is to win men from sin the Speaker of the House, the members of the ,
the :Intendment. It was a sho r t bill, embraced to holiness, and to make his influence felt,, he Legislature from this county, and almost a
in less than three brief lines, but short as it - should not excite in the minds of liaise with iptorunoof other members; the clerks of the
. was, it was comprehensive in its results. So , whom he comesin contact, prejudices such as two Moses. &c:. were in imminent peril. '
far as the subject matter goes, it was a virtual would tend to destroy his usefulness. lie is About .40_ miles from W ilmington, it appears
repeal of a statute enacted and in full force for to lieware of placing a stumbling block in his the train came to a scow drift, about 15 feet
more than a century and a quarter. (he refer- brother's way. It is well known that 1 ) 4 ) 56- in depth. The locomotive being nearly out of
red to the statute against usury.) Mr. M. cal animosities are exceedingly bitter and hard water, the ertgineer and conductor proceeded to.
objected to the bill for another reason : it was to ratlicate-- No clergymanpin
_go into the the next station to get . supply rrF~ei> utt
an infringement upon the province of the'judici- political arena, particularly its a candidate, riving the tank was f o und t o h e frozen, soAlilit
[try. He regarded his rights as well as his re- without a tendency to create these unrelenting the engine could not return, and the passengers,
sponsibilities as a Representative of the people, feelings. .The question then arises, wh -tf, e r 250 in number, were left to pass the night.
and would yields no right nor evade any re- he does not overstep the line of duty, when he i Being out of the,, the first onslaught was made
sponsibility devolving -upon him in that posi- goes beyond the simple d e positing of his vote upon the emigrant. cars, the seats of which an
non. . But whilst he would thus act, he would in the ballot box. We believe he does.. We swervd the purpose. Next the wants of the
not seek to invade the power of anodicr hrartar take the broad ground, that no clergytuan hay- -inner man' claimed attention, and an attack
of the government-, We have been told here , ing 14 lose great idea if his profession Linty -at was made upon the express car, whirh. eery
• - --..., lame number of suits 'endiri : - JO ever be found anxious to nil •
_le in • soon fell into the hands of the %ril l ~ .. '' ' e ( ire*
Remarks of Mr. M'Clean.
Below will he fotinitthi!'snl,istanco of the re
inarlts_toacie by Mr. ;Nl'elenii, of Adams, on
and claims hanging, as it were, by the eye
lids, by these associations which are awaiting
the action of the legislature upon this bill. • If
the prerniumS given are not usurious as con
tended for, why not rely upon the decision of
the judges ? Why not instruct, their 'counsel
to urge the -decision. and to quote and rely
upon the decision, of Chief Justice Tindal, the
English judge, referred, to by the gentleman
from the county of Philadelphia, (Mr. Simp
son.) Mr. M. had examined the case quoted
by his friend from the county. and regarded the
character of -the association involVed in that
ease quite different from those interested in
this bill. That was a bene fi cial "Associa
tion," the members contributint-, an equal sum
each, monthly; to a joint fund. This was
loaned out monthly for a premium, and the
chiefjustice decided that it was a dealing with
a partnership fund, - Ile says in his opinion,
that if it was a loan it was usurious. Mr. M.
referred to the bill before him to prove that the
investments•were loans, and ther e fore usurious.
Mr..M. was oppo.ped to this bill for the-reason
that it would confer upon one class of citizens
a right to take more than legal-interest—thus
conferring upon a few ,a privilege which was
denied to our citizens at large. Mr. M. repre
sented constituents most of whom were in- ;
terested in agriculture. Those persons whose
means were invested' in land often did not re
ceive the legal rate of interest upon their invest
mcuts.
Those who are money lenders direct
did not receive more than 4 per cent. in con
sequence of the present system of taxation ;
and yet we are asked to confer upon a class of
citizens the right to receive often, we are told,
20, 40 and more per cent.
Mr. M. contended that,• the example was a
pernicious one. Let the Legislature t.anetion
the practice of these associationsi in violating
au express act. of ASsembly in experimenting
as tar as they can, and when they are in danger
pros re acts of. Assembly construing their
operations to be lawful, and the ingenuity of
man will he et to work to devi , te other schtmes
more objectionable than the one before us.—
There will be other lures held out-to entrap
the unwary and the prodigal, fur tine were
the classes of persons lot the most put wk
were induced to pay more than a legal rate of
interest.
Mr. M. contended that it was the duty of the
Legislat urt! to protect= :dl; but - especially-those
liable front necessity. or a spirit of prodigality
to he nopo.sed on by others.' From the expla
nation given here by members of these associa
tions, it wouhl seein that the investritents, by
the dittereot members, were by no means equal.
lay tar the bulk of the stock was held by a
anti' those the wealthy. Individuals con
tributed according to their means. But who
were the tiro lowers e _ Do the Poor lend to the
rich e or is it the former who pay these exorb
itant rates of interest e My friend on my lett,
Crow lk rks, has told us that Shwas, ttnil
other officers, whose duty.it is-to sell reaT estate,
are opposed to these associations and to the
Passage of the bill. because the passage will
tes.leti Cue auloutit of their lois. But I could
refer my friend . to the systein of auctionecring
in these bodies as attending a poor relief from
the hands of the shet ill. A sum of money is
put up, by'the auctioneer, the bidder is to pay
six. per cent. and a premium in addition. The
man must have it, and his associates know it.
lle is•surroundtql by bidders who are, perhaps,
as necessitous as himself ; and he is also en
circled by others who are to pocket the large
share of the funds. We all know the spirit of
competition which enters into these associa
tions, and especially are they hazardous where
money is 1.0 be obtained to r elieve men from
pit:smug necessity. We have been (continued
Mr. M.) pointed to individual:4 who, by the
operation of these associations, have been en
abled to sectire comfortable habitations of their
own. Mi. M. verily believed that it wa , 4 by
the strength of their own brawny arms, their
vigorous frames and untiring industry that
these individuals were thus favored in despite
of the exorbitant interest exacted ftotn them
Mr. M. said he would that every man in the
(?onnuonwealth could gather around him his
with and children, and as they sat by their
hearthstone they might call it their home'.
But he believed that was a state of things not
easily to be obtained by the system referred to
in thi s bill. We have heard of the prosperous
—the picture the successful has heen exhib
ited to our view ; but where wits the record of
the unsuccessful ? That was not brought out
—we were left to int:rinc the number and the
conthuon of those will) had been induced to
vest their little all ill these assiellitions, and
who were now rendered himseless by the ex
orbitant stuns wrenched from them.
Mr. M. thanked the 'louse ftir the attention
given to him during the delivery of his remarks.
lie was not in die habit of intrudin g upon the
time of the House. and would not have' spoken
at this time, but the bill had been reported by
a committee of which he was a member, and
he, for that reason, had deemed it proper that
he should give his reasons for opposing it.
t kn.—The Pottsville (Pa.}
Rtzixter ha.: the following account of an appa
rently unquenchable lire in the Silver Creek
collii:nes of that edunty :
Font years ago, what is now called the old
breaker, at 'Thomas Ikaty's mine. caught
ti re f rom an expichion. The tire was commu
nicated to the ••dirt heaps" around, where it
has bet it secretly burning ever since. It made
tts appearance again alfout five weeks ago, in
the intmethate vicinity of the new lire:lke'.
The mine has stopped. as well as every other
mine in the neighborhood.
The coal mouniain in this State,' which
has been on fire since 1637, will prohal.ly soon
be esdingnished, as the fire is approaching a
point which can he siihmergecrili - Wa ter. A
mass of coal has been consiimi.d three-eighths
of a mile long, Citi feet wide, and 300 feet deep,
equal to 1,4'.20.0('1) tons of coal.
llt;au.tx MlNls.—tnte million. three
hundred and lilly•eight thoti,:and and fifty-tire
(kiln rs Were cooled at the unlit of San - Louis
P otos i,
,Nlesie,o, (luring the rear. :old fir s i
million'. lire hundred and eighty thousand dul
lars at the mint in Guanaxuato.
;117 - A band of girNies, who have been so
journing near Freehold, N. hare succeeded
in .1% - indlin;4, a ftrater out of
the strife of politics. lie can make hiingelf so
-much-more useful in other positions—can so
condemn the evil and applaud the gouda thou
sand tunes more effectually under other and
more congenial circuiu.stauceS, that we are per
suaded he commits a laud error when.he leapS
into the political conflict.
,••
The error is a fatal one to himself, and acts
injuriously against every member of the sacred
profession. profess to know something
about clergymen. and our knowledge is gained
from actual contact. We know of no style of
man Or whom we entertain. such a high regard,
as 'for a sincere and devoted Christian minister, •
and we care not in what denomination he may'
be found. We know of no style of man for
whom we have such sovereign contempt and
pity, as one who has put on the clerical garb,
mid dishonored it. it is our experience that a
secularized clergyman, in nine cases out of len
is a very good tor nothing fellow. We know
of no single instance where a clergyman has
gone out into the world and engaged in secu
lar pursuits, but what he has sunk down, and,
down in public estimation. People may go to ,
hear hint- preach on a Sunday, possibly from
habit, but his influence is fur the most part lost.
We do not wish to be understood that a clergy
man should avoid all kindSof manual labor—
that, he should not till his garden, or his few
acres of ground. Far from it. These occupa
tions ate ennobling, and tend to give hint in
creased usefulness. llur idea is, that where a
clergyman- puts a secular pursuit above -his
prylession.---where he goes out into the world
and chain:is for gain; or worse than this,
mounts the hustings and bellows for fame or
popular applause, he is a man that may !'reach
limn the pulpit until the -crack of doom,"
without. benefiting the world in any particular.
baited such characters'do not long trouble the
Eletn. one of them to an (dice, and he
will pretty soMi sink the black coat and the
white cravat. In. the present legislature of
Massachusetts iy is said there are about. sixty
clergymen ! There is no right minded mit,
but what will sav theSe sixty clergymen, are
out of place. They have deserted a Master
under whose banner they have sworn to tight
until death. Some vleil meaning people will
argue t h at such a mixture •of clergy-with the
laity will produce pure legislation. We do
not believe it. The immortal Wilberforce ac
complished inure in the Enalisti parhatoent
than all the Bishops in the house of lords had
dune tor centuries. We have not the slightest
faith in un. individual who abandons so sacred
a= callingunder the pretext that he cat - do
more good in the position of a legislator.' The
platform On which stands the devoted minister
of our holy religion, is above and beyond all
other positions of usefulness that the world
knows of. it he fuisakes that, he stenscknvu
wards, never upwards, because beyond this,
is immortality. We have no faith in a Secular
ized clergy. They not only lose their own in
fluence, but they palsy the energies of those*
whose Imu is ale absorbed in the great win k
of directing u.eu to their true and substantial
happiness. -- I V . c.sl ke.sl r Republican.
IMPORNA:s:T ARIMST OF CouNl'Eartaruts.—
E. J. Somers alias J. 1.). Miner, Mrs. Miner,
and a man named Itusencrantz. alias NichOts.,
have been arrested at Cleveland, and ;$20,000
of counterfeit notes, on Eastern Ranks, ready
for circulation, and a whole trunk full, not.
tilled out, found on their premises. The Main,
Dello. says :
On Miner was found a letter from one of the
gang. ordering a large amount to he remitted
to him, as he was going east of Philadelphia
and Baltimore, and could put it oil like but
Cakes. A list of retail dealers, eustotners, from
ahroad, who were patronizing this wholesale
house in Cleveland, was also found. The three
are in jail, and UV aid of the telegraph, no
doubt other arrests in other parts of the 'coun
try are, ere this, made.
NGur.mt Em(n to.N. —The fOlowing, written
in an elegant business hand-, was inscribed on
the back of a live dollar bill lately received in
New York front North Carolina :
"here is n .5•5, bill which i intend to toss out
of my window. in Norfolk, as soon as have
written this. lam now no lover of money.
1 hate it. most cordially. for it .has been the
ruin of all my faintly. I will beg front dour
to door eternally rattier titan own another cent
one hour. It made my grandfather a suicide,
my father a murderer, my mother the victim
of a sorrow that sunk her early to the grave,
my brother a garultier, and myself a convict in
the Sate prison - lour years."
AMERICAN STEAMERS FOR THE EFIRopEAN,
WAR,.—IL is assertvd in the Southampton
(English) pliers that the British have just
despatched two naval officers to the nited
States, to purchase a large number of stea m ers
for war purposes. Vessels of light drafts of
water, for use in the sea of Azof and in the
Baltic, are the class understood to be wanted.
A Ksow-NoTtn.\ - G. —Smith, of Alabama,
who recently made a speech.in_favol - ofAhow-.
Nothingism, quotes front - Soloinon . , in defence
of the secrecy of the order. "af,, , ,i's mouth is
his destruction. &c." This is as much -as to
say, that the Know-Nothings are fools, and if
they open their mouths ilvstruction imaits
them. Pretty good for a Know-Nothing.
A SNAKE Ix THE. STr'NfACII. —The Peterslmrg
(Va.) Express gives w loft pm potts 10 be an
: Acc o unt Gf the ejection of a live snake from the
stomach of a matt named Wade, who dttrin4 the
past summer, was in the habit of slacking his
thirst fronra rivulet, in a field where he was at
work. The Express says the snake was al
most transparent. had reilish eyes of great bril
liancy. and was live and a quarter inches
long. Mr. W., it is said. hail for sometime been i JmiN Y. Mitsos.—At the last accounts
troubled with a feeling of suttution and an
the indisposition of our Minister to Paris contin-:
unusual fullness of the stomach. ca
!led to improve, and a speedy and complete Coll.
A HAnn SNEEZE.—A young: lady of Bridge- valeseence was anticipated.
ton. N. J , a kw days ago. while ill the act of;
sneezing. came near dislocating her neck : she •r In Houston, Texas. there are seven hun
was insensible for suite hours, am! had it not tired children between the ages of six and six
been for the sk II o f t h e „ r „.„ 1 ,. w h o was teen. of which, number only rig,hty-three were
attending school on thy _ of November last.
mediately sent for, life would soon have been
- _ -
extinct
17 - Charles Durkee: - Frees il„ was; elect
!
gang of fifteen bogus money inannfae- ed on Wednesday, United States Senator by
tnrers were aricsted iu Lleveland, un W e d l i cs . I the Wiscousia Legislature,' by m a j or ijp o f
day last. • one':
MIME!
1:1 sot,. share of s'Nils n the shape o
oysters en rinste for the ettisini; of hisisciatent
cyCsoirernor Matteson.
%Vile!). loornirg broke, the party Nina them
°selves alone opal, the deep, but spying ahous'er
some four miles distaat, - an ahle-iiodied corps.;
of sappers and miners Were dekiiiiel led for a lit
tle aid and comfort.. The house proved to he
the residence of a worthy fanner', who forthwith:,
load.ea.his• teams with fuel. and. proxender, ami
took ott the women and children. A couple of;
gentlemen took a conveyance amiss to Morris,.
20 milesdistant,''w here they struck tha , : Rock
Island 'irairi-=some few others started oar foot
for Pontiac, ten Miles distant—hnt a greater
share remained at the scene of disaster.
When last heard from, the Speaker of ther
House, axe in hand, was presiding over a wood
pile—the amino-an, of bankt and corporations.
had under consideration a snow batik fift ee n,
feet deep a rxl2o miles in. extent--clearly -a bank.
of "deposit." The ttee- on. internal im
provement were despatched, after mince. pies anal
sandwiches, while the lobby, "my tortitruke"
ira the cliair.. - 11 - ad iesolv,ed itself into m commit
tee of the whole on the state of the country.
Air. Farnham, on learning of the circinn
stance; despatetwd a locomotive from Joliet.
with provision*to the train, txtt we• do. not
learn whether it reached'theio or not.
(Front the Chicago Times of Tuesdtty.]
.SN.ow.--Linaher Embargw. —Hardly.
had the whistle sounded of the tirst twomotive
NY I ti(4lL re: wiled this city from Rock tslao4l since
the 20th inst., ere another snow '.storitt set ii
and tidied up the cwt, made through the huge
snow-drifts. The Rock Island road is again;
closed, the Galena road i,s closed, the Aurora.
and Dixon roads of course are Closed, the Mis
sissippi and. the Central Illinois remain, closed
(—but a single train! arrived from the Eastward'
yesterday—the world is shutout, ittld. Chicago.
is shut in. isolation ! •
Up to last evening the snow Ind &lien with
but tittle intermission, for fisly-eight hours..
Its disastrous ettects in many possible - ways ,
may weit awaken serions consideration.
Old New iesitients say' they never
saw anything like it. The oldest inhabitants.
of these parts aver 'it has never bun equalled
by anything; seen in the West before. it is no ,
doubt the greatest snow Storn ever experienced
in the Northwest or tlte Union, for aught. war
know.
[From the Chicago Tribune, of Wednesday.] •
VMS's N Ews lARAWCaII• *W.% ST., 1..A.K --
Suuw Driq El.:flatten ,Miles Lang and Eif.flif
Feel party of four geraleman who.
left St. Loris tOr this place on the mmaring of'
Sunday the 21st inst., on the Chicago anctt
Mississippi Railroad, reached this city on yes—
terday morning, having been nine days en route..
They were very curious looking objects when
they arrived here, havilig been exposed for the
greater part of this time to the fury of the snotty
which had been raging during the last ten days,.
and were immediately carried to the dag.uerrean
gallery of \V in. Hester, where portraitsof them.
were taken in all their glory of snow and frost.
The train in which they left Alton was forced:
, oto stop by the smi‘te at or near Lexington, a
:station mate U. 4; M. 8.. R., a k.‘v irides this.
side of Bloomington. Here they procured al.
;.sleigh with sixteen horses, and started, on the
way for this city. The distance is SOILAI 120 ,
miles, and they bad to make their own roads..
They passed along the Vine of the railroad most
of the way, and saw the condition. in whici!.
the storm had placed it. it is terrible. Front
Lexington to some 94niles this side of Pontiac,
the diths are immense, and. apparently-insur 7
mountable, except by the slow and tedious
profvss of pick-axe and shovel,„ the force of the_
wind having packed the snow and rendered IL
hard as ice.
The bank in which the two trains from this
city are stuck, is alullother about eighteen
miles long. and varies M depth from three to
eight feet. I.t either et di of it were tau be seem
locomotives which have made frantic- attempts
to break through, a nil w inch, having frozen fast,
are covered, entirely by snow, their smoke
stacks only sticking out to show where they are..
THE 1 St , :oB CETI 1R0120115/ I3T ROL373Jatti—Al
IVOSSAN THKCAst.l.—The G3llowing addition
ni facts respecting the recent retibtry of t)oardt
the ears of the New York Central Railroad wer
find in the Itochester Democrat:
"On Friday last a young, woutan took the
ears for the nest at a station a short distance
beyond Utica. Iler baggage was checked for
Buffalo. After proceeding a short distance up
on the journey. a woman who was a fellow
passenger, with an affected desire to relieve the
loneliness of the young lady, took a seat ,with
her, and became very sociable. She was, in
tact, quite attentive, and among other marks of
familiarity, offered her protege her bottle ot
smelling salts, which was accepted and used.
Soon atter inhaling the pungent odor of the
vinaigrette. she became powerfully affected by
t h e i n fl uence o f some subtle soporific agent
which it contained. and fell asleep. She re
mained in this unconscious condition for some
time - , and on recovering from her stupor dis- .
covered that she had
_been robbed of her purse,
baggage-checks, &c.
••On arriving at the Clyde station, she made
known the facts to the conductor, and the rail
mad men made up a sufficient sum to take her
on to her destination. This circumstance de
velopes a new and dangerous scheme for the
robbery of unsuspecting persons on the railway
trains. I hmtaless the finnale adept had caused
her victim to inhale the vapor of chloroform,
and thus had her fully in her powers while she
perpetrated the robbery. If they carry their
operations to the extent of taking baggage also,
it is a still more serious business. Let every
one be cautious alann, encouraging the ap
proaches of_ plansilde strangers on the cars. _