VKUT 1.ATK FHOM MIC XI CO. !
Amicable Stale of Affair Negotiation
between. Ih V. 8. Government ' and that of
Mexico Pacification of , Tobaeai, Letters
fend papers to the 25tli ult. have been received
from the city of Mexico, aud to 29th from Vera
Cruz by tbc arrival of tlte Creole at New Or
If in. Thin is thirteen days later than the ad
vices by steam frigate Mississippi. The Pi
cayune leaas verbally that the general im
pression nt Vera Cinz was, that all difficulties
bet weeu tbe United Slates and Mexico were
in this- way to be amicably .settled. It may be
that Mexico may desire tlte ieierference ofi.ur
government to help her out ofher difficulties
wuh France, and perhaps with England ; stran
ger things have occurred.
La Vozdd t'urtlo (an opposition journal of
the city of Mexico) furnished the inindiition'of
the repiwi that negotiations were Jakely to be
resumed between the United States and Mexico
It states that in a secret session of 4 lie two
Chambers of Congress, on the lith of October,
thf iJiuitter of Foreign Affair communicated
to the lhat the Consul of the United States,
resident at Mexico, had transmitted to him de
spatches from the Cabinet at Washington, the
tenor of which was as follows: That de-iring
ton void hostilities between two Republics which
ought to ba firmly united by sympathy and a
thousand ties of mutual interest, tho Govern
ment at Washington was disposed to snhimt
the afiairs of Texas to negotiation ; and that, in
order to arrive at determination of the matter at
once reasonable and honorable to both Baltics
it would send an Envoy Extraordinary, slxtuld
the Mexican Government be disposed to receive
him. The Government f Meaico replied that
the relations between the two countries bein?
broken, il could not receive the Envoy in a pub
lie character, but would admit him as the sitn
pie priv ate -bearer of the message n question,
n pon the condition that, first of all, the U. S.
Government should withdraw its squadron from
the waters of Vera Cruz. The Minister added,
that without prejudice to these informal com
munications, the Mexican Government would
eontiaueto take measures to protect the nation
THE AMERICAN.
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t.t llallimore.
C7 A few 20 lb. keg of printing ink can be
had atthisolliee, at Philadelphia pi ices, for cash.
t7Weare indebted to the lion. James Pol
lock for documents, &c.
(tj On our first page will be found several
amusing and interesting article!?. I.nt Lfr's mar
riage, the flight of Capt. Craltree, .c.
Jj" Ci iiiNo Hams Our readers will find in
another column a recipe for curinst hams. I bis
Initfd fitntes Senator.
The election of Hon. 11. S. Turney, to the Sen
ate of the United States, by the Legislature of
Tennessee, in opposition to the regular caucus
nomination, has caused considerable excitement
in that state. A number of ineffectual ballots
were had, when the whigs voted for Mr. Turney
and secured hie election, he receiving some half
dozen democratic votes.
Mr. Tuiney has for many years been a leading
democrat in Congress, and was one of the demo
cratir candidates for electors at the lust Presi
dential election,
The Washington Union, 1he organ of Presi
dent Potk's administration, in reference to the
election, says s
ft i lo be regretted that the democratic party
in Tfiinffapp eiiflered themselves to h" devided
ud distracted in the election of a public ser
vant to il-cm in tlm honors tile post ol Sen-
stnr of the United Slates ; Mid we miich repret
the rriminntinn and recrimination j mwiiijj
not (ifihis division. Put now that Mr. Tnrnev
has been elect' (I, we recur to Ins pst public
hirtury and services in the democratic pir'y. anil
find in them an undoubted assurance that he
will coiilirne the advocate and representative
of the principles and parly which lie has so long
and faitliliil'y espoused."
Many of the democratic papers of our own
state, acting upon the endorsement of Mr. Tur
ney by the nlTieial organ, have congratulated
C7" Willis's last letter is dated at Frankfort,
Germany. He describes the houses in the su
burbs as all white and wooden, thus differing with
American cities, he says s
"The poor, in America, live in Xheoutfkirhof
our Iiiiiw, and almost every American capital is
thus set in a ring of misery. The poor of Cer-
many on the contrary, live in the narrow streets
of the town1 centre and the suburbs of Frankfui t,
for example, are a ring of gardens a public pro
menade of shrubberies, flower beds, and foun
tains complr.ti Iff encircling it. Outride of this
garden-ring the wealttiy build their houses, ha
ving the open neighborhood of the public pro
menade between them and the poverty ol the ci
ty's heart. The Herman capitals owe this ad
Vantage of course, to their having bn"n Walled
cities, the rim of the moat affording the unoccu
pied space now convci ted into a promenade.
The climate is said to be particularly healthy.
One other advantage peculiar to 1'rankfort : if
one dies here, he has the choice of returning to
life, for two days longer than elsewhere. Bodies
are taken to the cemetry, and after they are left
by their friends, they are laid out wilh a bell
pull attached to the fingers by lung thimbles.
The least agitation of (he hand, rings a bell aud
brings a waiter, This kind of lull-way house
between death and the grave, would, t believe,
have been a stopping place for many a traveller
her.'iiee to democratic nrincintcs. This is all
very well. The whigs have a constitutional
is an important matter. Hams properly cured right tn participate in the election of a Senator,
are worth much more in market thairthnte cured
in the old fashioned way. They should also be I
well trimmed. j
E7" In nnr advertising columns will be found
the card of Mr. Rfnj. Bannan. Editor of the Mi
ners' Journal, pronsing to publish " A History
ofthe Anthracite Coal Trude of Schuylkill and
the adjoining counties, cc." Mr. B. has been for
a number of years engaged in collecting material
for this work, aod we have no doubt, from his
experience and abilitir s for the tusk, that the
work will be highly useful and interesting.
(JjOur readers will find the advertisement of
Mr. Herr, in our advertising columns. We have
only room to remark, that the reputation Mr.
from a coup-de-main oo the part of th United I Herr has already acquired, is a snflicint guaran
States.. Although these communications were I tee, that his house will be well conducted.
declared rigorously secret, and to be kept per
f'eUly inviolate, the editor of La Xoz assures
ua that iie has obtained tlie lore going from an
c.vcclleat source (!)
American Facts.
It is amongthe worst omens of the lay, that
wc have in the United States no national feel-
CjThe Philadelphia Ledger. ci edits the "Dan
ville American," with an article from our paper,
on the manufacture of rail roaJ iron. This is a too
frequent error with the city papers. There is
no such paper as the Danville American.
ry Some miscreant poisoned four or five valu
able dogs in this borough, within a few days.
in... pm.uc in rns eiecuou, ami voucneu lor ins an- i w,i(1 has ..to,1.on r am torry to suy I ,;, not
see the arrangements of this humane provision.
The caution and custom should he universal, and
I should like to have material for saying more
about it."
Frankfort, he says, is more the home of the
Jews, than any other city out of Palestine. He
speaks ofthe young Jews and Jewesses, as being
excessively handsome. Their dwellings, how
ever, display anything but comfort or taste.
Their houses are wooden and nnpaintcd, and pre
sent, he says, the color of smoked herring. Speak
ing of Madam Rothschild, the mother ofthe bank-er-piinccs,
he says :
'Two of three of the most splendid palaces at
Frankfort belong to her sons, and of course, it
she chose it, she might lie lodged as few can af
ford Jew or Christian but I was told by a
German resident of Frankfort that she has a su
perstitious feeling on the subject, believing, that,
with her removal from that house would depart
the prosperity ofher children. She is now nine
ty years of age.
itiiT.no genuine lore of country. The traveller e trust me perpetrators ot unsi.emiisnaci may
in other land finds everywhere the institutions ?et discovered
and productions of a people prized by themselves,
though they may be condemned by strangers.
Here the order is changed. If any work in liter
ature, art, or science, is by an American, it is1
rX7"LoNGEviTV. As an evidence of the health
of this place, we have been furnished with a list
of twenty-two persons, residents, whose uni
ted ages amount to 1,619 yeais, viz: 1 1 over 70
and when, being unable to elect one of their own
party to that distinguished station, they prefer
one democratic candidate to another, we never
could understand how such preference metamor
phosed him into a whig. The journals to w hich
we have leferred do not think that such has been,
or will be the cae in regard to Mr. Turney, and
we fully coincide with their opinion. Tut some
of them who are very zealous in echoing the ap
proving voice of the Fnior, were loudest and
fiercest in their denunciation of Gen. Cameron,
who was elected under similar circumstances,
except that he received three times as many de
mocratic votes as Mr. Turney. Such conduct
will he considered very inconsistent abroad ; but
at home, where objects and motives are seen
more clearly, it assumes a more odious charac
ter. Denunciation and persecution are as for
eign to the principles of democracy as they are
hostile to their success ; and we hope these scrib
blers will hereafter employ their time in lectu
ring their readers upon the virtues of consisten
cy, instead of vituperating Gen, Cameron, who is
immeasurably above them in everything that
constitutes a sound democrat and true hearted
patriot. Every man in the state whoso mind is
not poisened by envy and selfishness, will "recur
to his past public history and service in the de
mocratic party, and find in them an undoubted
assurance that he will continue the advocate aud
representative of the principles and party which
he has so long and faithfully espoused."
From the U. S. Gazette.
SVHBVRr AND Kill 10 A D PITTtHURQ
HAIL HOAD.
Philadelphia and particularly those engaged in
commercial business, must be convinced of the
want of a connection with the lakes of the North
West and Ohio river of the West, by some means.
Business is floating eastward. New York and
Boston during all the commercial convulsions of
the fev past years, have not neglected to keep
the avenues of trade in "perpetual motion," but
have also formed new thoroughfaies through
which the rich and varied products of the West
are poured into their markets, In vast quantities
adding largely to the wealth of thousands in their
cities, and to the states of which they are the me
tropolis. We commend their vieilance but why should
Philadelphia be so lethargic ? It is a fact that
her commerce is annually decreasing by reason
of the enrrev of New York and Boston and Bal
timore, in furnishing cheap and speedy means
of transportation, to and from ye great West.
Philadelphia!!! open Jour purses, open your eyes
to your geographical position, take the map of
your state in your hands, and examine the route
ofthe Bail Road that heads this article Phila
delphia and Pultsville are joined by a Rail Road,
not equalled in the United States for permanen
cy, ami soon will he by a canal admitting steam
vessels of two hundred tons burden. Pottsville
at a small cost can be connected with Sunbury,
by finishing the Danville and Pottsville Rail
Road. From Sunbury the route of the Erie ami
Pittsburg Rail Road, passes up the West-brunch
of the Susquehanna (at Williamsport uniting with
the Elmiia Rail (toad) to the mouth of the Sinne
mahnning, up this river tn the head ol Elk
Creek, down Elk to Jacob's Mill, one mile above
Ridgeway, situated at the confluence of Elk
Creek and Clarion liver at this point, a branch
to Pittsburg might diverge which would be about
1 10 miles long, descending the whole distance,
and having no grade exceeding 19, feet in a mile.
From Ridgway the line to Erie paseg up the
Any one acquainted with the resources con
tiguous to our N.'W. Lakes, and large rivers of
the West, will not doubt a moment that the traJs
and travel pouring into this road, will fully com
pensate the stockholders, who embark in the en
terprize. It is estimated that 800,000 passen
gers are now annually passing between the East
ern and Western States, of this number an able
writer in the "Railway Journal" states, 400,00V
pass through Buffalo, the remainder seek tho
East by the line on the Monongahnla and the Ba'
timore and Ohio Rail-road. Finish this road, and
the ma jority of this vast number will pass over
it. The immense tnnage that annually is to be
I transported East and West by some means or
way, burdens even thought with its weight. Du
ring ISM, eight millions of dollars worth offlour
and wheat were brought into Buffalo alone, seek
ing an Eastern market, this is but one item of
the vast catalogue of Commerce of the North
west, but from it the rest can in some measure
be judged. A Northern Statesman estimates "the
lake region within the United States, at 20,000
square miles, and adds it is twice as large as
France and about six times that of England ha
ving ISO millions of acres arable 'and, and a largn
part of surpassing fertility." Bordering the O
hio and Mississippi, is the most extensive tract
of fertile land known in the world, thousands on
thousands of people are added annually to the
millions who inhabit that far region.
Who can conceive the prospective extent of
that population ? who can conjecture the amount
in tons, or the varTie in dollars of the commerce
between that population and the East Going
East we shall have the surplus produce of 1'.',
(KiO.OOO busy and industrious people. Going
West, we shall have all the luxuries and neces
saries for that population. Thos of the East
will get their bread from the West, ar.d we of
the F.ast will, supply their wearing fabrics ami
other products of every sort, of every mechanic
and manulactiirer. This commerce and the mul
titude who must travel in consequence, we say
trill rttk thie mule, because it is the nearest to
valley ofthe Clarion to Jnhnonbnrg. and then the Atlantic, of any practicable way, grades ea
set down by the mob of gentlemen who talk of and 8 over 80 years of age. This is pretty good
such matters, as altowtlier ivorthhjss. or as out ofa population ot 1,300
deserving a favorable regard only on account of
its resemblance to something foreign. We re
cite a few facts, admitted by all the world a-
broad, for the benefit of this sort of people.
Imprimis: The greatest man, "take him for
all in all," of the last hundred years, was George
Washington, an American.
The greatest metaphysician was Jonathan
EdwarJ, an American.
The greatest natural philosopher was Benja
min Franklin, an American.
K7" John C. Calhoun has consented to accept
a seat in the V. S. Senate.
E7" Mr. TrnNF.Y, the newly elected U. S.
Senator from Tennessee, was elected by the
whigs and six democratic votes, over the caucus
candidate. The Washington Union savs, that
Mr. Turney is a good democrat, and speaks of
him in terms of high commendation. This puts
some of our picubar democrats in "a tight place,"
who condemn Gen. Cameron because he was sup.
ported by the whigs, backed by seventeen demo
candidate. Sorely, to be connst. nt. our peculiar
democratic friends should not fail to denounce
Mr. Turney. But mntt rerrnnn, as Mr. Ritchie
says. We should certainly like to see what they
think of the matter.
The greatest of livinj sculptors is Ilitam cratic voteg.and elected over a native, anti-tanff
Towers, an American.
The greatest of living poets is William Cul
len Itryaut, an Aiuerir4ui.
The greateut of livin g historians is William
II. Prescott, an Amcticaa.
The greatest living ornithologist is John
James Audubon, an American.
The greatest of living novelists is James Fen
niroore Cooper, au A meriran.
The greatest living painter, in portraiture, is
Ilerry I mean, ui American;
There has been no English writer in live pre.
rent age whose works have been marked wilh
more humor, more refinement, or more grace,
than those ot Washington Irving, an American.
The greatest lexicograplier and philologist.
CJ The Lancaster Intelligencer recently
charged Judge Lewis with having been the au
thor of several articles in the Lancaster Demo
crat, in which Col. Fraier and Judge Champ-
neys were severely handled. Judge Lewis, in a
card in the Examiner, denies that he has any
thing to do in the conduct or control ofthe "De-
moclat, and says, that since be has resided in
Lancaster, he has taken no part in politics. The
other papers of Lancaster county, whig and de
mocratic, bear testimony to the truth of the
Judge's assertion, and speak highly of the man
ner in, which he has discharged his judicial duties
in that county. Col. Carter, we presume, is
able to speak for himself without asking the as
sistance of his fi lends.
CIIarvksti.hc. Maciiinks. We published
ebout a year since, a statement ftom Mr. A. Y.
Moore, of Michigan, giving an account ofthe ope
rations of a Harvesting Machine used by him.
Some of the newspapers at the time doubted the
correctness of the statement. We received a
letter from Mr. Moore a few weeks since, dated
Schoolcraft, Michigan, Sept, 2'J'h 1S45, from
which we take the following extract, in relation
to the performance of these harvesting machines
durine the last harvest. We hae onlv to lav.
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a.ncernetimeo! joimson, was wan nr ,hat any ifa,e,nent emanating f.om Mr. Moore
an American, I can be relied on as enlirelv correct. We have
I he inventor, whose works have been pro- also conversed with persons who have seen these
1 native of tbe grealcjt amount of happiness to machines in operation. It should be recollected,
mankind, in the lait century, were Godfrey, however, that in Michigan where these machines
Fitch, Fulton, and V4iiiBey American. are used, the land is perfectly level, and the
If one ot these facts or estimates is doubted, fields are large, containing from twenty to one
we can prove theru by foreign authorities, and hundred acres. But to our extract :
so prevent all controversy, "1 wo harvesting machines have been in ope
The greatest poet of her sex. who ever lived. rat,on ,he Ps harvest, and cut, in all, 170 ai re.
h Maria Crook. She is as much above Mrs.
lleinens, Mij linlon, Mrs. Norton, rf id
omne fftnu, as they are above tha sicklietH
FCQtimcatalist ofthe chambermaids gazettea.
When her "Zophiel" was published in Eng
land Charles Ijimb wrote to a friend about it,
saying that Soot hey was trying In pass it of! aa
the vork of an American poetess ."aa if there
One machine harvested to acres in lj days,
which yielded over 800 bushels. The other
harvested in an afternoon 13 acres, which yield
ed over 300 bushels. These machines cut, thresh,
clean and put the grain into bags ; and in one
field we filled 2S bags in 22 minutes, each bag
containing 1 bushels. The machine is geared
to travel 2 miles per hour. The rut or swarth
is 10 leet A inchea u, idn. tYe used this Vear
was ever a woman capable of writing such a fro(n ,3 o J6 for dfawing ,ailJ machine.
poem !" Southey himself declares her to be , have bui one f It
over $600. We charged this year for harvesting,
fivs bushels wheat per acre, aud were found in
feed and boarding. We have heretofore charged
$3, and shall charge that hereafter. Ws gather
2 or 3 bushels more from each acre than can be
got in theordinaiy mode of harvesting and thresh,
ing, so that our farmers are now thoroughly con
vinced that it is much the cheapest mode of bar
vesting."
tho "most impissionod and most imaginative of
all poetesses and there is no critic whoee
opinion is worth reading, who will dissent from
his judgment, Matia Brocks is an Amrri
run. While clearing away forests, and making a
road by which Cilvilzation may take her march
through tho country, we have produced the
above rfTS, and a great many more of a like
kind, which we may hereafter lay before our
readers.
Jiky PiML.-ll is to be regretted that a
'jury' is too otten a secret pantP through
which villains cbespa from juBtK.
ET'GaisT and oitita Mills are now conver
ted into Cotton Mills. One at Trenton has been
rented, aud will go into operation in Februaiy,
with 4000 spindles. Some of our mills might be
ttius cooverted with prout to tbe owners.
c7 The Philadelphia Keystone publishes se.
veral letters, purporting to be fiom Hon. Simon
Cameron to Judge Blattenberger, of Perry coun
ty, in relation to the nominations of that county,
previous to the last election. The Keystone ima
gines that these letters divulge a plot to over
throw Jesse Miller, the Secretary of the Com
monwealth. We looked in vain, however, for
' the plot" alluded to. We do not know bow
these letters got into the papers, but Gen Came
ion, we venture to say, would have no objection,
as far as he is concerned, to have them published
in every paper in the commonwealth.
C7" In Boston there are over 2000 persons a
hove IS yeais of age, who are destitute of educa
tion. This is sui prising for Boston.
Ji mciAL Farming. The Wilkesbarre Dem
ocrat informs us that Luther Kidder, President
Judge of the 2lst District, raised this season one
hundred und foity-two bushels of coin ears, from
an acre of upland in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre.
Ma. BrciMJUN The Washineton Union, al-
tiding to a paragraph in the Harrisburg Union ol
a design to "sop" Mr. Buchanan out of the Ca
binet, holds the following language :
"We suspect no one of any such intrigue, nor
do we believe in its existence. We ccitainly
w ill lend no countenance to it. We desire no
hange. We desiie Mr. Buchanan to remain
where he is, becausn be is eminently calculated
for the duties of Secretary of State, and because
our foreign relations are in such a condition as to
demand the services of our ablest and most expe.
rienced citizens. No man pow understands them
as well as Mr. Buchanan. It is our ardent wish
to see him contributing his best exertions to
wards the development of these foreign relations
which he has so thoroughly studied. We desire
him to remain in the cabinet, that the Whig par
ty may have no opportunity to speculate uHn
the instability of the administration, or any
change in our public councils. We go further,
and say that we know of no man in Washington
who wishes him to resign his Secretaryship.
We are satisfied that it depend altogether upon
himself whether he w ill leave the cabinet ; and
our own decided impression at present is, that
, there wiU be do change at all."
Editors at umjoehiiiud. Col, Webb ofthe
Courier, is almut to prosecute Horace Greeley
for reviving the old elm re that the Colonel wo
bribed by the United Slates Bank.
Cai itorma Albert M. Gilliam, late U. S.
consul at California, holds the opinion that the
government of California will soon fall into the
hands of the Anglo-Saxon rare, and that a rail
road, direct from San Francisco, either to New-
Orleans or some point on the Red river, might
he made to great advantage. Mr. G. is engaged
in writing a work on Mexico, &c.
TiRRrr.r., the suspected Boston murderer, is
supposed to have made his way to the sea, and
thus eluded the pursuit of the officers who were
sent after him.
Patf.st. The number of patents issued in
the month of October, was 31 ; amount for pa
tent fees, $3,M0.
A Ye-cNO Fiji Back Whai.h. IS feet long, rnn
up with a high tide into the Great Marshes, nt
Barnstable, and was cut up near a cornfield,
yielding two barrels of oil.
A Foot Race of ten miles was run at Albany
on Thursday, in fifty-five minutes ayd thirty se
couds, by Jackson, the American det-r, and Git
derileeve, the forma: winning.
Railroad Iron for Michigan. There are
four invoices of railroad iron which have been
shipped from Boston during the past week, for
Michigan. The purchase has been completed of
iron and spike for laying the track ol the Central
Road to Kalamazoo, and the Tecumseh branch of
the Southern Road to the village of Tecumscb.
The Mormons intend to sell their land and
buildings at Nauvoo, including the great temple,
to the Catholic Church. An agent is now in
Cincinnati, endeavoring to negotiate with Bishop
Purcell. It is said that terms have been,agreed
iiKn. .
Pitiki l Dkatii of a Gum.. A little girl, a
bout eight years of age, daughter ofa widow wo
man, residing about eight miles from Laper, Mi
chigan, was Irightcned in such a manner, that
the died in about two hours alter the fright. Her
brother, a small lad, diessed himself in a dried
bear skin, and chased her as she was going to a
neighboring house.
Some of the w ealiiiii.st men in St. Peters
burg, whose wonts are good for XtOO.ntUI on the
Exchange, are slaves, w ho, w ith their families,
may be sent by their masters to herd swine and
dig in the mines.
A Wahrant In been issued against a lady
of Washington, who is very respectably con
nected, for bigamy. Jhis Hill be a curious
case, the lady having had a written separation
from her husband a thort time aince, had come
to the conclusion that she was divorced. Under
this matrimonial hallucination the niarrics an
other gentlemen thus having two hutbanda
'in the eye ofthe law."
takes the west fork and continues to its head,
which rises near the South branch of the Teon
ista from thence follow ing the Teonista to Cran
berry Swamp, from which the water flows into
Teonista Creek, and also into the Allegheny ri
ver two miles above Warren. At Warren the
Allegheny is crossed and followed to the mouth
of the Brokenstraw up the valley of this stream
and its tributary Hurris Creek, to a summit be
tween it and Mills' Branch of French Creek. The
line then continues down this to Big French
Creek, and by the valley for three miles to La
BoeiifTCreek near Woterford, and from this in
nearly a strait line to La Boeuff summit, at the
head of Walnut Creek, flowing into Lake Erie,
from which summit it descends to Erie harbor
by an easy grade.
Of this route Mr. Miller, Engineer of the Sun-
bury and Erie Rail Road, in his .report to the
manager says : "It appears that the whole dis
tance from Sunbury to Erie is 2S3 miles, and in
this distance are five summits, two of which,
Cranberry Swamp and La BoeufT are of small
consequence; that the total amount of rise and
fall from the surface water of Lake Erie to that
of the Sunbury dam is 4301 feet all of w hich j
may be advantageously overcome by locomotive
power, and that it is in no case necessary to in
crease the length ofthe line to attain this rate
of activity ; that on 5-fdhs of the road, no grade
exceeds 3:i feet per mile, on 3-lths none exceed
20 feet per mile, ami on 2-3ds none over 12 feet
per mile occurs. The steep grades are confined
to four places, and except that of Erie are in po
sitions where Bituminous Coal abounds, and
thus extra locomotive power may be used with
advantage." In this place we will state for the
informotion of those unacquainted with the fact
that this line contains about 200 miles through a
country abounding in Coal and Iron Ore of ex
cellent quality this with the other advantages
this route has over the roads of our Northern or
Southern rivals (such as a shorter and easier road)
will enables company to carry passengers and
freight, not only cheaper but more rapidly than
any other in the United States. We refer again
to Mr. Miller. "It will not of course be expec
ted that an accurate estimation can be made of
the cost of nich a work from the preliminary ex
aminations alone, from as careful calculation,
however, as I am able to niake from the existing
data, aided by the experience I have had in con
structing similar works in a similar country. I
believe that in order to finish it with a double
track ot heavy iron rails including turnouts, sta
tions, warehouses, machine shops, land damages
sier, fully as cheap, and all tending to furnish
speedy and low transit. There is 2400 feet less
rise and fall than on the New York and Erie
Rail road, our Northern rival, and about 1000 feet
less than the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road, our
Southern rival for the Ohio trade ; we have no
grades but those admitting locomotives with hea
vy trains, and without extra power, whilst our
rivals will be compelled to have their road, over
the steepest of onis, 33 feet per mile.
It is said that Philade Iphians have never known
the value of their position in regard to the West,
and that generally little is known of the impor
tance of that trade; this should not be. Now is
the time to secure to this city, commerce with
out stint, a trade that during this teneration will
realize more wraith to Philadelphia and the peo
ple of our State by ten times than the cost of the
means by which it is to be secured.
LEHMAN.
The Golden Pin.
"This golden pen ! this pen of fold !
So nicely nibbed and so elastic !
So fit for eyes now (jelling old !
So tit for an ecclesiastic
How I admire it ! nntbecnuse
Of lh rich metal it is made of.
But for the smixiih stroke that it draws,
The letters that it pives the shade of.
1 never saw a pen, I think,
More fre, more sprin?y to the touch,
Or one that better irre the ink,
Or one that held so much."
The above is sn extract from a poetical rpi.
tie playfully perpetrated and addressed tn a
friend o' ours, by a clerjymnn of this city. We
have before alluded to the admirable qualities of
these Pens, and recommend them as Ih bent
instrument ot writinjnowr in use. Hat. Alia.
07" To be had on application to the editor of
this paper.
Ci-rino Ham. For every one hundred Ihs.
ofmeat.lske five pints of good molasses, (or
five pound brown sugar.) five ounce saltpetre,
and eight pound rock salt add ihree gallons
of water, and boil the ingredient over a fire,
skiminins off the froth or scum a it rises. Con
linue Ihe. boiling till tiie salt, iVc, i dissolved.
Have the hams nicely cut and trimmed, packed
in ssk with the shank end down, a the pickle
will thus strike in letter. When the pickla
prepared as alve i sufficiently cool, pour it
over the hams. They may lie in pickle from
two to six weeks, according? lo the size of the
pieces, or the state of the weather more time
and engineers' expenses, the sum of VJ.iMN.Wi0, I "-e requ.re.. ... c ... ......
r a.ri.OUU ner mile will be reouired " The cost 1 ' "" h'n''' or l,,n!-"'Pg M ,nr
of a single track with turn-outs and all contin- ! smoking and drying may be cored aecord.ng to
A Si Bsi iTi'i k for Coffee. A letter fioin a
gentleman to lion. II L Ellsworth, Washington,
says Ihe ripe seeds ofthe plant oAru, much used
in soup, &.c. burned and used as a cifl'ec, con
not be distinguished from it, even tho best Java
The seed are sown an inch deep in drills, four
feet apart in May, and cultivated like corn or
peas. It yield abundantly, apt) ia very healthy.
Mr. E. Im the :ed
gencie at this rate would be about $7,000,000.
The branch to Pittsburg would be lor the extra
distance through a bituminous Coal region, and
the rich Iron country of Western Pennsylvania.
This road at ;i:i,000 per mile, w ill cost S 1,910.
OuO, or a single track, alxmt 3,0mi,(HHi. Mr.
Miller estimates that 100 passengers carried dai
ly lor 310 days in a year, in each direction at a
toll of two cents a mile, and ,10, 000 tonsol freight
each way per annum, at two cents per ton per
mile, w ill pay the repairs and superintendanre,
and yield an income of more than 8 per cent on
the investment, supposing no profit whatever be
made on transportation.
The advantage of this connection over all other
routes, is that there art 110 sleep gradei, no Ar
curvet no high bridge; cheap fuel, by reason of
the abundance of Mineial Coal and that Phila
delphia may thus be connected with the Lakes
and Pittsburg and thus secure a share of their
commerce, by less Railroad than any other routs :
to connect Sunbury w ith Eiie, it w ill require 2S3
miles, branch to Tittsburg by Sinnemahoning,
110 miles, together 303 miles. What if this
distant is a few miles greater than the Juniata
routs, still il will require less road to be made to
this mode, and w ill be found excellent. Cult.
A lady in Wisraiwet, Me., has applied fi.r a
divorce, because her husband keep putting his
cold feel againts her hlimh after they go to
bed at night.
Tiif. Wav to Oft Kxowi.fikie Oitener
ask then decide questions ; this is the way lo
better your know ledge. Your ear teach you,
not your tongue j so long as you are ignorant,
you should not be ashamed to be instructed.
BALTISIOKK HtRKKTi
Office of the Daitimubs AniaiCAR.Nov. 17.
GRAIN There is a pretty large supply of
Wheat at market lo day, and the demand being
active, prices have improved a cent or two per
bushel. Sales of good to prime red wer made
to day at 12tal27 cts Sales also of two or three
paicels of Penna. red at 126cts. and of White at
128130 cts. Several lots of family flour wiute
old at 130al33cts.
Corn isalsa in full supply, and prices have im
proved. Sale ot new w bite at 62a63cU. and of
new yellow at 63aCl cts.
coanect Philadelphia with both Pittsburg and the w iiiskfc. I He siock 1 very ngni anu
Lakes, and less money than to complete that one have been mada of hhds. at 27 eta. and of bbla. &$
conntctioo. I 26 cts. whichia an danct.