litegister.
Allenlintrn s Pit.
THURSDAY, F
Circalat on near 2000.
• Gen. Taylor's Cabinet.
We see it announced thatOeneral Taylor has
invited\h: Hon. Joins M. Clayton, of Delaware,
to a plac in his Cabinet, tendering him the
Department of State.
The selection of this eminent Statesman, to
the highest position in the Government, augurs
most auspiciously for the new Administration.
His vigorous intellect and great experience, his
brilliant services, his temperate but decided
course in public life, are sure guarantees that
the important and responsible duties of this De
partment will be discharged with such signal
ability and fidelity,.as to reflect honor upon the
Department and the Country.
It is not yet known, who may be selected by .
General' Taylor. to administer the affairs of the
other Departnients. There is one, however,
whose financial talents and statesmanlike ahil
'ity seem,so peculiarly well adapted to the dis
charge of the varied and enmplicated duties of
one of them, that, we lad uluelthe hope, he may
be invited to the charge of it.
We mean the Hon.• George Evans. of Maine.
as Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Evans pos
sesses air intellect of high onler, and is singn
laily eminent in all that belongs to the ques
tion of political economy, and to all its details
and incidents, and thoroughly comprehends the
whole policy and operation of cur industrial in
teresta. Having devoied his time and his en
ergies to the mastery of our National finances,
his loss to the deliberations of the Senate and
the necessity of his sound counsel. have been,
in many a crisis, moat keenly felt, by that en
lightened bixly. Men, like Mr. Evans, belong
to no party or section, they are the property of
the wants COUNTRY. And as no one has so sac
sessfullyelaborated and made plain„the particu
lar and complicated science of principles and
figures, we know of none, into whose hands
could be more tidy and safely entrusted the guid
ance and management Of the financial and ludas
4rial-ftlfiirs of the nation.
Frightful Accident.
Between 3 and 4 o'clock on Sunday afternoon,
while a number of young men were engaged
in the pleasure of skating on the Lehigh Dam,
above the bridge, near this place, a young man
by the name of Andrew Eck, a tobacconist by
trade, broke into the ice, immediately above
the little island in the dam, where the water was
from Bto 10 feet deep. He managed to keep
his head above the water, by means of a rail,
that was handed to him, but having lost his
strength and the weather being so intensely cold
he failed in being able to secure himself upon
the rail. No boat being near at hand, and until
one was secured—which had to be cut out of
the ice, with which he was taken out—life had
nearly fled from him. He died in a few minutes
after he was take!' out, having been in the
water full three gum-tem of an hour. He was
a sfhgle man and bore a very exemplary cha-
racter. He was buried on Monday afternoon.
followed by a large concourse of members of
the different fire companies. He was a mem
ber of the Lehigh Fire Company, and his age
was about 23 years.
Penn County
The “ Geist der.Zeit,":puhlished in Kutztown,
contains the:proceedings of a large and respecta
ble meeting, of citizens of that B. rough and
vicinity, in favnr of the formation of the new
county of .• Penn." Similar meetings have been
held in Richmond, Greenwitch, Mazatawny, &c.
From appearances we should judge that a divi
sion of some kind is loudly called for by certain
portions of Old Berks," hut as this is a matter
of their own, we do not feel ourselves authorized
to interfere.
Old Zaok's Coming
The sensation 'created along the route by
which General Taylor proceeds to IVashington
city, is truly astonishing. On the I lth instant
he arrived at Louisville. tie Was received a
short distance below the city, tither. a wan
welcomed by the Mayor in au appropriate ad
-dress, to which the General replied in a -brie
-expression of thanks. The streets through whiA
he ptsssed was one solid mass of human beings,
and their shout of welcome made the welkin
ring. The windows, doors, and house tops
were thronged with spectators. Old men came
30, 40 and 50 miles to welcome General Taylor,
and the crowd *as variously estimated Jim 20
to 40,000 souls.
He arrived at Cincinnati on the 15th, escorted
by five steamers crowded with passengers.—
The appearance of the fleet, with banners flying
and the bands playing national airs, must have
been an imposing sight. The river sidO was
crowded, notwithstanding the inclemency of
the weather. 'The General was so completely fa
tigued by the excitement through which he had
passed, that he felt himself linable to reply.—
Gen. Taylor is feeble, in eonsequence of a fall
at Madison, Indiana, occasioned by the rush of
the populace to grasp the old Hero by the hand.
Metropolitan Magazine.
The second or Febt nary number of the Ameri
can Metropolitan Maiazitte is before us, and
folly equals the first. It contains four very hand
come engravings, and the literary matter is from
the pens of many of the most distinguished
writers in our country. We recommend it as
one of the best in the Magazine line now pub
lished. Terns,B3 per annum. Address Israel
Post, No. 259 Broadway, New York..
gar Gov. Johaaton has been strongly recom
"ended by the 'Philadelphia Daity Bun, as a
inesaber of General Taylor's Cabinet.
thineral Banking Law.
• We received a copy of a General Banking law,
reported in the House of Reprerentatives a few
days ego, by Mr. Diehl of Philadelphia county.
it was referred to a select committee, and we
'may soon look for a•report upon the subject.—
The bill authorizes the burins of banking and
provides for a Sinking Fund, for the gradual
eitinguishment of the State debt. The bill em
powers the Auditor General to provide and fur
nish any association of persons formed for bank
ing purposes, such amount of notes of the various
denominations as may be demanded, said bank
ing association first depositing with him an
amount of State and U. S. Stocks, bearing an
interest of at least five per cent, one fifth greater
than the notes required, said notes to be paya
ble on demand; and upon a refusal to redeem
any part oflthem theAuditorGeneral-taredeem
them all with the Stocks in his hands depcisited
as security. The interest accruing on the Stocks
deposited is to be paid over to the owners, re
serving one-half of one per cent. which goes to
the State and constitutes the sinking fund, and
is to be, applied exclusively to. the extinguish
ment of the State debt. •
The present system of banking in our State
is liable to many serious objections. It gives
through its•corporate powers to Stockholders
certain privileges, that are not based upon the
common principle of equal rights. The citizens
of Pennsylvania have suffered severely from
Batik failures, and it is hoped that the Legisla
ture in its wi4lont, will adopt a system which
will tint only secure ihe barker, brit be of equal
security to the Note•hidder; ru i •h a system will
be brought about by the passage of the Genera!
Banking Law. a here the prom6e to pay" are
backed by " United States and State Stcks."
Should this system of banking be adopted in
Pennsylvania, it can hardly be doubted that it
would prove highly beneficial. It would create
a demand for our own State stocks. The in
terest paid upon them would be paid to our own
citizens. Every man who held a Bank note,
secured by such stock, would have a direct in
terest, in maintaining inviolate the credit of the
State. The blasting cry of repfinliation would
.never again be heard, and the plighted faith of
the State would be sacred as national honor;
and lastly, it would give Them a sound and uni
form currency.
We learn from Harrisburg that the project is
received among the members with much favor.
Such a law has been in operation in New York
for some years, and with advantages of the most
salutary character. Mr. Diehl deserves no little
credit for his efforts thus fari and we trust that
he will persevere to the end. Pennsylvania
should at least be placed on a fair footing with
her neighbors and rivals. She is a great State,
with immense resources, and it is the duty of
her Legislature to enact liberal and enlightened
laws—laws suited to give confidence to her
capitalists, to encourage enterprise, impart an
impulse to trade and manufactures of every
description, and thus to enablt our citizens to
'occupy their true prisition. Such a law is much
needed, and the present Legislature should not
adjourn, without bestowing upon the subject,
due, enlightened and favorable consid.•ation.
Shocking Accident•
On Thursday last, the 15th instant, Mr. Joel
Koch, a highly respectable citizen of Richmond
township. Berke county, met his death 'n the fol
lowing painful manner. Mr. Koch and his hired
man were preparing to thrash out a stack of clo
ver. While the former was in the act of remov
ing the cap, upon the stack, placed his fork into
the clover to throw it upon the wagon, which
was placed along side of the stack ; the prongs
of the fork broke off, and awful to relate, precipi
tated Mr. Koch head-foremost from the stack
knocking his forehead upon the hub of one of the
wheels. fracturing his skull in such a manner
that he was taken up a corpse. Mr. Koch was
a middle'aged man, and has a wife and several
children to mourn his untimely loss. The house
and barn of this unfortunate man were destroyed
by fire last summer, and he had just finished the
rebuilding of these again, when he met with his
awful death.
Something for Farmers.
Care of Cattle —Cantle should be kept warm
and comfortable in winter, else far more fond
will be necessary; and then they will . be less
profitable. than when kept in a comfonablecon
dition. The whole barn should be made tight
anti wartnoind there-should-be no-partition-be
t wren the cattle and the large open space, called
he ham floor; and there should bo no obstruc
tion directly before the heads of the cattle.
whether standing or lying, that they may breathe
the pure air. Bars in front, will be sufficient.
Many of the best managers of stock have
barns so warm that water will not freeze in them
in the coldest weather. The open space in front
of the cattle gives a good chance for pure air.
In warm, dull weather, in winter, it is neces
sary to open doors, at some distance from the
animals, that a draft of air may pass through
the barn floor, yet not blow directly on the cattle.
If a cattle-house be made close, with a parti
tion in front, the steam and gasses arising from
the manure, and the breath of the animals, will
produce foul air, and create disorders.
Glass Milk Pans.—These articles are coming
into use in England, and are there considered
Much preferable to any others. If the milk be
comes acid in a wooden pan, the wood absorbs
a portion of the acid, and must, in some degrees,
affect the fresh milk on the following day. to
an earthen or till pan, any acidity in the milk
will act upon the lead with which these articles
are covered, and the milk will be in some de
gree injuriously affected. The glass pan is en
tirely exempt from any of these effects. and
hence its value. This subject is well worth the
attention of both our farmers and glass menu
faeturere.
• Bowen's North Americ* Fanner.—This is the
title of a new Family paper, very handsomely
,tot up. It contains a large amount of Agricul
tural,Commercial and Statistical tomer, and is
published weekly in Philadelphia, alai a year.
The New . Exemption Bill.
From Bowen's North American Farmer, we
glean the pailiculars of a bill of considerable
importance which passed the Stale Senate a few
days since. It was introduced by Sir. Johnsen,
of Erie, and exempts property to the amount
of three hundred dollars from levy and - sale, or
distress for rent. the vote on its final passage
in the Senate, was eighteen to eleven. It was
urged on the ground of benevolence to the poor
man, as calculated to improve his position,
strengthen his hopes, and brighten his prospects
in life. One gentleman argued that if the present
exemption laws were right in principle, then
the new law would also be right, as it would
only extend the principle to those who could not
be benefited by the existing enactment. Other
gentlemen, however, thought the bill would
injure rather than benefit the poor, and said it
. would have a bad effect upon the poor master
mechanic, the poor trader, the poor boarding
housekeeper, and di isan. An amend-
Ment wasto, that th bill should not
affect any bond or mortgage on t eny ex
empted and appraised under the provisions of
the bill.
'The measure, we repeat, is urged on the
ground of humanity, and asa sort of compromise
between those who fire to see the poor man
sufficiently protectegbut who think, neverthe
less, that the exemption of a homestea6 or prop
erly wonh from $6OOO to 1.43000, would' operate
injudiciously—and those who are for.the more
extended exemption alluded to. MI our sym
pathies are with the honest and indusirious.
We would have them guaranteed in all their
rights, privileges and immunities, but there are
creditors as well as debtors, and in protecting
the latter, we should not be unmindful of the
rights of the former—especially as creditors
may be poor as well as debtors. A rogue, for
example, might occupy prepetty worth 55.000
or SlO.OOO, and yet refuse to pay his day-laborer,
his shoemaker, his tailor or his washerwoman.
An exemption to the amount of three hundred
dollars, to include household funtiture, tools of
trade, &c., would perhaps be at once
philau
thmpic and judicious—!but the matter should
not he carried too far, and facilities should not
be afforded to the dishonest, to aslvgnt f ige them
sel%.es at the expense of the hottest. We repeat,
the law as it has passed the Senate, is liable to
little or no otieetioe ; whereas, an exemption
to the extent of thousands, would, we fear, in
duce many tricks and stratagems on the part of
the evil-minded, at the expense too of that
proper and essential degree of credit, which
should be at once the privilege and the blessing
of the children of toil.
The existing law is in some sense partial, and
the operation of the bill, as passed by the Senate,
is to extend the principle, and make it more
general in its application. Under the present
law, the following articles of property owned
by, or in the possession of any debtor, are ex
empt from levy or sale on any execution for any
debt contracted after the Ist day of September,
1828, and also for damages received since that
day, except for damages due to real estate—to
wit: household utensils not exceeding 830 in
value, tools of trade not exceeding $3O in value,
four beds and bedding, a spinning wheel and
reel, a stove and pipe, with fuel for three rnritiths,
one cow, two hogs, six sheep, with the wool
thereof, and the yarn or cloth manufactured
therefrom, and a due quantity of feed. Meet
riot exceeding 200 lbs., twenty bushels of pota
toes, ten bushels of grain or the meal therefrom.
flax not exceeding ten pounds—all Bibles and
school books in family use. These items m.ty,
we think, be estimated as worth about $3OO,
but it will be seen that for the most part they
are of an agricultural character. By the bill of
the Senate, should it become a law, the me
chanic, the artizan, the day-laborer—all classes
of the community, indeed, will be placed on the
sante footing as the farnierand property to the
amount of $3OO, will be released from seizure.
sale or execution.
Suicide.—We learn that on Sunday forenoon,
a daughter—whose name we did not learn—of
Mr. Solomon Burt:, a very respectable farmer
of Longswamp township, Berko county; com
mitted suicide by hanging herself.
Reading California Association.
The Reading Gazelle of Saturday la.t, eon
tains,a tnee:ing ut the Stockholders of the Read
ing California Abilociation, for the purpose of.
organizalion
Andrew Taylor was chosen President, Benja
min Tyson, Treasurer, and Franklin Miller ;
Seeman..
Dirt:dom.—Andrew Taylor, fi!mjamin Tyson,
John Green, A. M. Sallade, Franklin Miller,
John Ebner, and Isaac Ely.
An election for members to go to California
was held at the t4llllO lime anal place, and re
bulted in the .choir•e of Allen Grosh, Thomas
Taylor. Urialt Green, Charles Taylor, Dr. Walter
J. Martin, Edward Stealer, Henry Kerper, John
Halts, Samuel Klapp, Simon Seyfert, Reuben
Axe, Peter Rapp, Wm. Zerbe ; Wm. T. Abbot,
RObert Farrelly, Noland Whitman, and Jona
than Flack. •
The Hoard of Directors appointed Thomas
Taylor, Captain. Directors to serve with him
in California, Dr. Walter J. Martin, Uriah Green
and Allen Grosh.
', It was resolved, that the Stockholders pay to
. the Treasurer, twentyfive per cent.of the Stock
subscribed, immediately, and that the Board of.
Directors make every necessary arrangentevit to
get the Company off at the earliest opportunity.
Success in Life.
The suceeeb ut individuals in life is owing
to their learning early to depend upon their
own reboureee: Money, or the expectation of
it by inheritance, has ruined more men 'than
the want of it ever did. Teach the young men
to rely upon their own effotis, to be frugal and
industrious, and you have fomished them with
a productive capital which no man can ever
wrest from them, and one which they them- .
selves will not feel disposed to attests.
Legislative Proceedings.
HAnaissuno, Feb. 21, 1849
SENATE.—Mr. Johnson, from Erie, presented
a petition asking for a general banking law, like
that in operation in. the State of New York.
Mr. Bnas, one•from Lehigh, for a law to elect
Prosecuting Attorneys.
Mr. King presented a petition for a law requir
ing persons selling boots and shoes not manufac
tured in this State, to take out special licenses.
Mr. Brooke, one for the registration of births,
marriages and deaths.
Mr. Overfield, one twenty-one yards long, and
one from 2000 laborers and minors of Carbon,
Schuylkill and Luzerne counties, for a law mak
ing the amount of their wages a lien on the prop
erty of the owners of the mines.
Mr. Boas, one for a change in the place of
holding elections in Upper Saucon township, in
the county of Lehigh.
BOTiSE.—Mr. Cooper, from the Committee of
Ways and Means, to which was referred Mr.
Grittinger's resolutions, making inquiry to the
ability of the State to complete the North Branch
Canal, made repOrt favorable to the completion
of that work. It recommends licensing oyster,
eating and porter houses,as a means of revenue;
the abolition of the militia system, and the im•
position of a tax of filly cents on each person
subject to military duty. &c. The committee
promise another report. .
Mr. Myers (Select Committee) reported against
the new county of Madison, out of parts of Berks,
Montgomery and Chester; also, against annexing
certain townships of Lancaster to Berks.
The resolution previously offered, calling on
the Canal Commissioners for information as to
whether the tolls on the public works can be
raised, so as to increase the revenues without
injury to the State, was taken up and adopted.
The Kentucky Slave Question
In the Kentucky House of Representatives
about a week ago, Mr. Dohoney offered the fol
lowing resolution:
" Resolved, That we, the Representatives of
the people of Kentucky, are opposed to the
abolition or emancipation of slavery in any form
or shape whatever."
Mr. Ewing, not approving the too broad and
general phrase—" in any form or shape what
ever"—moved to lay the resolution on the table,
which was negatived , --yeas 14, nays 79.
Mr. Hughes moved to amend Mr. Dohoney's
resolution, by adding thereto "except as tiow
provided for by the Constitution and laws of the
State," which was adopted, and then the reso
lution as amended, 'passed—yeas 93, nays 0.
In addition to this, we have anothe'r damper
on the prospects of emancipation. The Frank
tort Convention of the friends of emancipation
throughout the State is said to have been poorly
attended, only a few counties being represent
ed. The Convention resolved itself into a mass
meeting. The resolutions met with some de
cided opposition.
U'" The Lehigh Comity papers name our old
friend, Maj. William -Ryas a suitable candidate
lin Canal Commissioner. We have known the
Major from our boy-hood and would give him
our support as cheerfully as to any other man
in the State. lie is honest and capable.—Eas
ton Argus.
Adrertising.—A little man behind a big rock
with a big platter full of pearls, at only one cent
apiece, and keeping his own counsel, would
probably sell nothing. It is of the greatest im
portance to make yourself and your goods
known. A frog in the night attracts more alien
;ion than an ox. for he cries aloud and spares
not. The profits arising front advertising, are
not conceded by those who have not tried.—
To those who have, we need not say a word,
for they will never discontinue the custom.
Black Laws of Ohio Reptaled.—The Ohio State
Journal gives; the following synopsis of a bill
which passed the Legislature of that State on the
6th instant:
Sec. I provides for the creation of school dis-
tricts for colored schools, and' creates the office
Of trustee for them.
Sec. II provides for the election of trustees by
the colored taxpayers.
Sec 111 dedicates the taxes Paid by colored
persons to the support of the colored schools.
Sec. IV provides that the districts for colored
persons shall ,be deemed distinct bodies 'politic.
Sec. V defines who shall be deemed to be
colored.
Sec. VI repeals all laws creating disabilities,
or conferriug privileges on account of color.
The blacks under this law have not the right
to sit on juries, or the benefit of the poor laws.
Valuble Remedy fur Intemperance.—Dr. Schrei
ber of Stockholm, Sweden, has succeeded in cur
ing drunkards of their bad habits. He isolates
the patient,gives him brandy and water to drink,
prepares all his food with brandy and water, and
mixes these with his tea and coffer. At the end
of a few weeks, the regimen produies an uncon
trollable disgust and repugnance. A physician
should, however, watch the operation for fear of
apoplexy and cerebral congestion. One hundred
and thirty-nine soldiers were so treated with per
fect success.
Mr; Buchanan Abroad.—A recent' copy of the
German Wiener Zeitung, the official" Gazette of
Vienna, contains a well written sketch of James
Buchan:h. and speaking in terms of high com
mendation of his despatches as Secretary of State.
Most of his writings have been translated into
German—as was the whole of his celebrated ar
gument on the Oregon title—and all, the Zeitung
declares, have been warmly admired for their
lucid perspicuity, their chaste and temperate sim
plicity, and their entire freedoni from useless and
ostentatious ornament.
Rail Road hon.—The Harrisburg and Lan.
caster Railroad Company have just sent out an
order to England for four thousand tons of heavy
T rail, o replace their present tracks. The iron
delivered in New York, will cost them ;46 per
ton, cash. Iron manufactured in oar own State,
could have been procured, delivered on the
road, at $52050 per ton, which is about the actu
al cost Of production and delivery.
Congressional Proceedin*.
WISUINGTON, February 21, 1849.
SENATE.—A message was received from the
House inviting the Senate to count the electoral
votes of the late Presidential election in conjunc
tion with the House. On motion, the Senate ac
cepted of the invitaiton and proceeded in a body
to the House.
On the return of the Senate to the Chamber
Mr. Jefferson Davis, in behalf of the committee
to count the electoral votes, reported a resolution
for the appointment of one membei - of the Senate
to act in conjunctidn with a House committee of
two, to notify. Messrs. Taylor and Fillmore of
their election. The resolution am.. adopted.
HOUSE.—Mr. Darrow,of Louisiana, from the
Joint Committee to count the electoral votes at
the late Presidential election, reported a resolu-.
Lion officially to notify the Senate from the House,
that they were ready to receive that body and
count the said votes. The resolution was adopted
and sent to the Senate by the Clerk.
The Senate in a body came into the Douse.
Mr. Dallas; the Vice President, took possession
of the Chair, Mr. Winthrop, the Speaker, being
seated beside him. The tellers, Messrs. Jefferson
Davis. Barrowrand McClelland, were posted at
the Clerk's desk.
The Vice President, Mr. Dallas, briefly an
nounced the meeting of the two Houses in Con
ventign. After the conclusion of the Vice Presi
dent's reniarks, he handed over to Mr. Jefferson
Davis the vote of each State, which Mr. Davis
read in a loud and clear voice.
The votes having been all counted in conformi
ty with law, Vice President Dallas announced the
vote—first of each State and then of the whole
number cast. After having stated the number
necessary to a choice, he announced that Gen.
Zachary Taylor had received 163 electoral votes.
and Gcn. Lewis Cass 127 votes, and the same
respecting Messrs. Fillmore and Butler, the op
posing candidates for the Vice Presidency. He
then declared that Gen. Taylor was duly elected
to the Presidency, and Millard Fillmore to the
Vice Presidency. He then announced that the
Senate would retire to their own chamber.
Mr. Barrow submitted a joint resolution for the
appointment'of a joint committee to wait upon
Messrs. Taylor and Fillmore and inform them of
their election.
Worth Knowing.—Ladies are very fond of keep
ing the door knobs, spoons, platesok.e.:, in brilliant
order. Now, if, instead of water and chalk and
such preparations, ladies will use camphine and
rotten stone, a far brighter, quicker, and more
durable polish can be obtained than in any other
way. Camphine is the article used for producing
the exquisite polish of daguerreotype plates ;and
nothing has yet been found to equal it.
Shrewdly Done.—William and Ellen Craft, man
and wife. he black, and she white enough to pass
for a white man, as she did, in disguise, have es
caped from slavery in Georgia, and arrived at
Philadelphia. She, in coat and trowsers, pre
tended to be master of the black man, and as she
could not write, tied up her arm as an excuse for
not entering her name at the hotel. It takes the
women !
Navigation ofMe Sciuta.—A Cincinnati steamer
lately ascended the &iota river as far as Chili
cothe and Circleville. She was a ram avis in that
vicinity, consequently hundreds ofcurious people
thronged the river banks to see her. The passage
was effected with some difficulty, owing to sundry
dams and bridges which she was obliged to pass.
Iron Works Stopped.—lt has already been men
tioned that the extensive works of Messrs. Cooper
& Co, of Trenton, N. J., are about to be stopped,
so far as the manufacture of railroad iron is con
cerned. We now learn that this necessity corn.
pelled determination on the part of the proprietors
will throw out of employment, on the Ist of March
next, some six hundred hard working men, who
have families to provide for. Some of them are
already discharged, and it is said their sufferings
are painful in the extreme.
Luzerne County.—The county of Luzerne has
sixteen prisoners in the Eastern Penitentiary,and
the cost of their support during, the . last year, at
24 cents per day, was $974 84. The proceeds
of their labor amounted to $428 67, leaving a
balance due and to be paid by the county of
$545 87.
Ohio State Debt.—The State Treasurer of Ohio
has announced his readiness to pay off the faith
and credit and Miami Extension stock belonging
to the domestic debt of the Stale, to the amount
of 5245,152, on demand, and that the interest will
be punctually paid on the Ist of May next.
Broken Ohio Banks..—The Legislature of Ohio
seems inclined to bring these swindling concerns
to proper account. A resolution passed the
Senate on the 3d instant, directing the Attorney
General to institute proceedings, in quo warranlo,
against the Bank of Manhattan, the Bank of
Wooster, the Bank of Norwalk, and the Bank of
Sandusky.
Ftnancial Dffficullter.—:-A panic has been creat
ed. in St. Louis, by the refusal of brokers and
bankers- to receive bank notes of a less denomi
nation than ten . dollars. The facts are as follows:
A State law, enacted some years ago against the
circulation of small notes in Missouri, was gener
ally disregarded, and in fact became dead letter.
Recently, however, the Grandnlury found twenty
one bills of indictment against brokers who had
circulated small notes. The fines alone on these
indictments amounting to sixty thousand dollars,
half of which goes to the informer. This alarmed
the brokers of St. Louis, who stopped dealingin
small' notes, of which there is said to be a bircu
tallow of three hundred thousand dollars in that
city. A general panic and much suffering among
the poor have been the results of this movement.
Hank notes under ten dollars were selling at a
ruinous discount.
A Mail to the Pacific.. r -A petition bas been pre
sented to Congress, praying that a weekly over
land mail to the Pacific. Ocean should be estab•
lished. The panics making the application are
among the largest and most respectable stage
owtters in the country, and they are prepared to
carry the law into 01'01 as soots as possible alter
it is passed.
Gleanings from Ilzahanges. .
131" The salt found in the great Salt Lake, in
California, is superior to any now in use for pre—
nerving butter, beef, &c. It is the strongest salt
ever yet discovered. Three barrels of water'
made one of salt.
tar The debt of the State of Illinois amounts
to 516,651,000. That arises from plunging into
extravagant internal imptivements—a state try
ing to ran before being old enough to walk.
ti" To take ink out of linen—Take a piece of
tallow, melt it, and dip the spotted part of the linen
into the melted tallow. It may then be washed,
and the spots will disappear, without injuring the
linen.
Uir A petition has been presented to Congress
from Mr. J. Emery, of Weashore, Pa., asking a
grant of 200,000 acres of land in California, for
the endowment and support of a University near
Yerba Buena, on the bay of San Francisco.
Cr According to a census taken one year
since, the entire black population of Canada is
5571, being 4167 more than 1842. So the state
ments of 15 or 20.000 slaverbaving escaped there
from the United States are all moonshine.
lar The Ohio Cultivator states that sweet and
good butter maf be obtained from fetid cream, if
when put into the churn, a small quantity of salt
petre is added.
I:3' On the reception of the news in the Chero
kee Nation of the elt‘kon of Gen. Taylor, they
fired salutes and whooped. for three days.
tar The New Testament is now freely circu
lated in Rome, and indeed, in debate it is oflen
quoted.
EV" Gov. Crittenden has been nominated as a
candidate from Franklin county, Kentncky, for
the Convention to revise the Constitution of the
State. Gen. Richard Collins has also been nomi
nated from Mason county.
Mg" Dr. Franklin used to say that rich widows
were the only piece of second.banded goods that
sold at prime cost.
a" When you see a female rise early, get
breakfast and do her mother's-work in season,
and theri sit down to sew or knit, depend upon it,
she will make a good wife.
Or The Arkansai Democrat of the 19th ultimo
states, that discoveries of lead have been made
ten miles west of Little Rock.
ar A correspondent of the London Lancet,.
says that dux vomica in small doses is a cure
for dyspepsia. He tried it himself," by the ad- -
vice of a homeopathic physician, with perfect
success.
CV" Galvanized wire netting is sold in London,.
at one penny the square foot. ,
ll' Fifteen million yards of calico are annu
ally manufactured in this country.
rar There were 2,500.000 bales of cotton raised:
in the United States in 1848.
UirThe Lowell gills in the factories are
quite musical. No less than eight pianris hare
been sold to them within six months, at 350 dol-
lars each
Eir It is now asserted that Louis Napoleon
ikas not around him a single officer of state whom
he can trust. Most of his Ministers are attached
to the Bourbons.
car The Legislature of Massachusetts has di
rected the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire
into the expediency of providing by law that
homesteads of the value of 300 dollars be ex
empted from execution for debt.
ilirMr. Polk and his family, leave Washing
ton on the 6th of March, and accompanied by
some of his friends, pass through Richmond,.
and take the southern route to New Orleans, and
then to Nashville. This is a rortion of the
country which to has never yet visited.
'The Kentucky Convention for the revision
of the State Constitution, is now in session at
Frankfort.
or Marrying a lady for her beauty, is like
eating a bird for its singing.
cef- Don't touch the lute when drums are re
sounding. A wise man remains silent while
fools arc speaking.
M 7 An exchange paper observes that it as ful
ly as impertinent to ask an editor the name of
his correspondents, as of an old maid her age,
and you will get the truth just as soon.
13r When a gentleman marries a lady bean ti
and rich, his friends say has married
a perfect Bird of Paradise." If the lady happens
to be poor, however, they say perfect Bird
of Paradise with the exception of feathers?
Fire at Warren. Ohto.—An extra of the Trum
bull (Ohio) Democrat, under date of the 9th 'in
stant, states that on the morning of that day, a fire
broke out ir, the block of frame buildings on Mar
ket street, a tad raged two boors before it was sub
dued. The sufferers are Messrs. Iddings, Steele
& Co. merchants; A. Bartholomew, merchant;
Howard & Fitch, *inners ; Westcott & Weeks.
merchant tailors; Wm. Chamberlain, saddler: :
Jefferson Palm, book merchant ; A. W. Bliss,
hatter; B. qranage, shoe merchant; Dumars &
Foote, publishers of the Trumbull County Whig;
Crowell & Brown. and T../. McLain, attorneys.
Some merchants in the brick blocks sustained
some loss consequent upon the removal of their
•
gpods.
National Bank.—We see by the last advices
that the Mexican Congress, in accordance with!
a suggestion contained in the speech of President.'
Herrera, at the opening of its sessions.is now r
agitating the project of establishing a
Bank, and of investing it with the reitiPta and'
disbursements of the revenue of die
A Committee of the Chamber of Depinies had
reported favorably upon it wait Vas ad be dis- -
cussed on the 29d ultimo.
A Compliment to Mr. diamila files ilk lines- .
peeled Quarter.—At the rectal anti-slavery.peet- -
ing of the Garrison Abo/itieeists held in ranneie,
Hall, Boston, the followini'eoinpliinemilrireso...:
lotion on Mr. Calhoun"-wisionassinsonifipiussed..
It is a compliment, although mot a kind 4 00, au&
Mr. Calhoun might reiiirn Win kind.
“ Resolved, That in openly and
advocating slavery as a just, 'beneitcient,and 1
democratic institutios.J*C.llaihilkoltlOo
Carolina, is to be comisiindkid tor'his friatiness '
and directness; that . fo kik
envy, intrepidity and self4acHfide, iq defendinii
and seekilitrtir extend J antilikrrpettilite
thus proitsses to regardt.ak'sttplerlativklpieitili
ent, he ?s lqually to' be. dbastuended.n