THE VOLUNTEER,
Jobss B, Brattons Edltdr and Proprietor*
CARLISLE, NOV. 9b *953.
lUle, lor 1853.
Cowls at Call
Sessions and Over and
Terminer. 1 Tuesday, November I.
Monday, November 14. | Tuesday, Decembers?.
Her. Uhlkr is expected to preach in the Lutheran
Chbroh on next Sabbath morning and evening. The
public are Invited to attend.
farmers bring in your grain. Now is the lime
to fell, while prides ere high. Don't wait till they
are higher still, or you might bo disappointed.
Qj* IsaaoG. McKinley, Esq , has become sole
proprietor of tho Democratic Union, published at
lltrrisbotg.
Death or Senator Atherton.—Hod. Charles G.
Albertan, U. 8. Senator from New Hampshire, died
on Tuesday, at Manchester,. He was tho son of tho j
Hon. Charles H. Albertan, & Federal colleague of
Daniel Webster In the House oflBl4-16, and afcw- j
yerofeminentability and worth, residing in Amherst,
N. Charles G.was born, though ho has
TSelded for the last twenty years at Nashua. The
younger Arlhorlon has served with dislioclion in the
New Hampshire Legislatuta and in Congress, having
served in the House from 1837 to 1843, and in tho
Senate from *43 to *49, prior to bis re-election last
year. He was a lawyer and politician of more than
average abilities.
Bams Fomiht at Yore, P*.—Oo Tuesday week
a stranger presented at the counter of (lie York (Pa.) I
Bank, two chocks, amounting to rtyit 8430, which
purported to have been signed by Abraham fltea—
tend, Jr., of Holism township, in that county, and
endorsed by J. Sampson. The checks were cashed,
and the stranger, who is described as s well dressed
person, about thirty years of ago, and of the medium
size, pocketed the funds and departed. The Press
■ays he is supposed to bo the man who called at Mr. I
Heistands's mill, the day before, and represented |
himself as one of the firm of Buckner & Walters, I
commission merchants of Baltimore and solicited j
his custom, lo the course of conversation Iho i
stranger requested the use of Mr. H's desk for the 1
purpose of writing a letter, which was freely grant
ed* While the letter was being written, the slran~
er was left alone, when ho abstracted from the desk
two blank checks, which ho filled and used as above
slated.
fr~*f* The Police Board of Philadelph u, have adopt
ed the eyatem of uniforming tho police,and prescrib
ed tbe dress. It will lake effect on the Ist of January.
The frock coat to bo of Navy blue cloth, single
brea*tedr*lsnding collar, nine bright gilded racial
buttons on tbe right breast, two on tho hips, and two
on the bottom of the skirts; pants of dark grey cloth
or oatflimere, blue doth cap, with tho name of tho
proper Police division placed thereon in metal letter.
These coats to be worn from Sept, to May, inclusive.
In other monthq, of the same stylo and material, but
lighter—the coats to be worn buttoned when on
doty. The Marshal’s uniform is to bo double breast
ed. Tbe Lieutenants of tho City and District, are
to wear a star in front, in addition to (he name of
their division.
03" An reroruul, named Elliott, made an ascen
•lon from Baltimore on the 25th ull., and landed
Dear Lancaster, Pa.—a distance of eighty miles —
lo seventy minutes after starting. He says he at
lalned an altitude of four miles, and was carried
along by a gale nearly the whole way. Tho Inst
thirty mils* were made in the inoreibly abort apace
of twenty minutes.
BDSDEM D**t» or A Cliiotuan. —The Rev. Mr.
RfUenhoase, (bo Presbyterian pastor at Washington,
who bad Just finished his new church edifice,
and who had been anxiously awaiting the day of
dedication, on Wednesday, accompanied other min
isters to (be church to perform that ceremony. Just
os he entered the church door, Mr. Rittcnhouso fell
dead from a disease of the heart. The deceased
was welt known and respected in Washington.
Q3* A Washington correspondent of the N. York
Herald, says: “It is understood the President, in
bis message, will come out pretty definitely upon
the subject of the Pacific Railroad, and in such a
manner at to satisfy the strictest constructionist. —
Ho has declared that the project, ae passed in the
last Congress, (Senator Gwinn's bill,) never could
have bla sanction—and ho has intimated pretty
clearly, that If such a bill is passed by Congress*
during his Presidency, it will have to overcome a
veto before it becomes the law of the land."
HoaDnca Bmtamocd.— Thomos Sly dor, a negro
who murdered Peter Cork, also a negro, some months
•ioee, In Cheater county, by putting arsenic into his
whiskey, and who confessed his crime, and at the
first (rial was found guilty of murder in the first
degree, obtained a new trial on account 0/ some in
formality, which terminated last week, in the rendi
tion of a verdict of guilty of murder in the second
degree, upon which ho hat boon sentenced to ccrvo
eleven yean and six months in the Eastern Peni
tentiary. The jury deliberated throe days and a
half before finding t verdict, and during that lime
made several applications to bo discharged, which
the Const refused. Avery excited slate of feeling
exhaled doting their deliberations, and some hard
words were passed.
*Tn* FariXiT Hoaoi or th* World Dcad.— The 1
bey gelding, who performed on Saturday last the
moat remarkable feat of speed and bottom over ro.l
corded in the history of the turf, died on Saturday]
night, In New York. After ho hod performed that
unprecedented race against time, going 100 miles in
6 boars end 5& minute#, ho waa taken to the stable,
where ho was bled, and then covered with six or eight
thick blanket*. U U the prevailing opinion among
horsemen, Ihef tble euperebandonco of covering,
while la an exhausted state, caused the death of this
noble animal. The TWfcuns aiirfearna that the
celebrated pacer, Hero, Is very low, and it is feared
that he al#o will die.
I# there no law to punish the brutes in human
form, who,to gratify their viio gambling propensities,
inhumanly murder the poor eniroale that are Infinite*
ly higher In the scale pretested- beings than they T
(£}* Horace Orooly has been prosecuted for liboj
by Mr. Canon, chiefof Iho New York Fire Depart
moot, laying tho damagee at 930,000. Horace says
that ooaaldaring the tig boras of tho money market,
be night hate fixed the amount at 810,500.
A Taooiam>a D*t.—Tlio annual immigration
of forelogneia to New York, is at Dio rate of a thous.
and a day. What country, beside this, could re*
C«We auch t daily accession of population, without
ill being followed by revolution and disorder 7 Yet
tkU U only what is received at one port.
T6er* ar# new stirring! of Insurreotion in Uie I«I« nd
of Cab*. Nothing ie mure natural, it in impoasiblo'
that welheducslcd mpn, accustomed to tho enjoyment \
nf Übsily'wben frirflling in the United Slates and
olhtb eonntrUSt sbonld long lubmil in patience to
lh| tjriooy there imposed open thorn. And it is
|«inatfM)Jn Ibal a Oovornmont which exercises each
;JSJJZL'‘fbouU not be alarmed el tho most Insignia*
denoDitrations ofboililiiy-
A lazy man—one who attends to no regular
calling—is t generally speaking, a bad .citizen, and
a nuisance-to the community In whioh he lives*—
He is an eye-sore—a piece of nothingness—a
blank in God’s creation. Every community is
obliged to support a number, more or less, of these
drones. This always has been, and we presume
always will continue to be, the case. Nothing
oan stimulate the drone—nothing will shame him
to assume the dignity of an independent man.—
He Is content to drag oat a life of idleness, and to
be forgotten when ho dies.
1 Now, to our view, the man who lias nothing (o
attend 10, nothing to engage his mind, must lead
a miserable and unhappy life. We care not how
rich he may be, he can never enjoy bis riches in
idleness. He must exercise both body and mind,
or become sluggish, stupid, and fretful. Uis a
wise law of nature that requires mart to work, and
when ho fails to observe this law, he forgets the
object of his creation, and brings ruin on himself.
| Every man must toil, if ho desires happiness.—
■The lawyer, the divine, the merchant, the mechan-
I io, and farmer, all, all, are required lo observe this
great law of the Divinity. During our few years
probation here on earth it is the duly of us all to
vie with each other in the amount of labor, mental
and physical, we perform. This wo are command
ed lo do, not merely with the object of gaining
wealth for ourselves and our children, but for tho
nobler purpose of fulfilling a duty, to ourselves and
to society. Our recompense will be a chetyful
disposition, composed mind, and manly feeling.—
When men perform their duty in this respect, they
feel that they are good citizens and entitled lo hold
a position in (he great family of men. We care
not what calling a man may pursue, whether he
occupies the rostrum or carries the hod, if bo la
bors tn that calling, and is sober and honest, he is
a good citizen, and equally entitled to tho respect
•of all. The indusirious man,.even in misfortune
| and affliction, can find consolation, for he has the
i respect, confidence and sympathy of all good citi
zens. Not so with the idler. Ho commands the
respect of none, for the very reason that ho made
no attempt before his affliction, lo build op a char-
I aclcr or lo help himself. His cries, like the voice
j in the wilderness, will not be heeded in his day of
: trouble. He was content to live a lazy life, and
make no provision for the future, and he dies the
death common lo men of his class. j
We repeal, then, a lazy man is a to
the community in which he lives, for he is of
benefit to any one, and all despise him, except I
those who sympathize with him in feeling.
object, therefore, of alt men should be to teach their
child ren (boys and girls) lo be industrious. Train
them to habits of industry in their youth, and (he
habit will not forsake them when they arrive at
years of maturity. Tho greatest fortune a father
can bequeath lo his son is a good education, mor
ality, and industry. Lot a young man of twenty
one possess these qualities, and he has a bright
future before him. If ho has not a cent in the
world, he still possesses a fortune—a fortune,
which none can deprive him of. |
Orphan’s,
At the Quarter Sessions last week, the follow,
ing cases were disposed of:
Commonwealth vs. Eli Norris Assault and
Battery with intent lo kill. Defendant cohvicled
of Assault and Bauery alone. Sentence 4 months
lo county jail, to pay a nominal fmo and costa of
prosecution.
Commonwealth vs. Benjamin Snodgrass.—As
sault and Battery. Defendant acquitted and coun
ty for costs.
Commonwealth vs. Peter and William Spahr.
—Assault and Battery and False Imprisonment.
Defendants convicted. Sentence nominal fine and
costs.
Commonwealth vs. Samuel Ernat.—Fornication
and Bastardy. Defendant convicted. Motion fur
now trial. t f
Commonwealth ’ va. Dr. Jacob Zitzor—Seduo
lion and Fornication and Bastardy. Defendant
convicted of Fornication and Bastardy. Sentence
to pay prosecutor $l5, coa(s of prosecution, and
nominal fine.
Commonwealth vs. Jacob Whitman.—Assault
and Battery. Defendant convicted. Motion for
new trial.
Commonwealth vs. John Finkenbinder.- As
sault and Defendant pleaded “guilty."
Sentence nominal fino and costs of prosecution.
The Ohio Statesman says: The Now York
Herald has commenced waging a war against Pie
eidenl Pierce’s Administration. Some of its tac
tics are neither now nor honest. It is now crying
out that the Cabinet is divided, that Cushing is
jealous of Marcy and wants to bo Premier. All
sham ! There are two ways of accounting for this
savage, reckless opposition of the Horald : j
First, Dennet, its notorious editor presumed to
be a candidate for the French Mission, and the
President, without having the terror of the Herald
I before his eyes, refused to disgrace the country
and sully his odmiflietralion by the appointment—
a course which every man who has over hoard of
Dennet will approve.
Secondly, The Administration is independent!
and incorruptible. The black mail policy of the!
Herald never could agree with the pure principles!
and noble action which characterize the President
and bis Cabinet. You might as well expect Sa.
tan to assist in the propagation of religion, as to
expect the Now York Herald to support the Ad.
ministration. It socks principally Us own profit.
If treachery, baseness, and a reckless disregard of
every honorable motive constitute o formidable
opposition to the Administration, then these attri
butes, incarnate in Bonnot of the Herald, are ar
rayed against, the President, and have placed the
Administration in Jeopardy. But, the sound rea
son and good morals of our people, and by people
who do not mean the Itching nows catchers who
tako the Herald, but the masses of oar voters,
Nor lb, South, Fast and West—these are not influ
encod ono whit by tho senseless rumors, or extra*
vagant attacks of (ho Horatd upon the President.
Witness late elections ! Out, witness futuroeloo
tionsl
Post Office Drafts.— Wo learn from Walking.
lon that (ho Auditor of llio Treasury, for Iho Post
Office Department, has iflfluod a circular notifying
contractors that from and after (ho Aral day of Jan
uary, 1854, but ono draft for llio pay upon each
route, per quarter will bo paid, or filed for payment,
in Ida office. The draft should ototo upon Id face
that it la the only ono for Iho quarter, and the route
ia to bo specified on which it ia drawn, end the sig
nature \heroio should bo attested by the Postmaster
at the place whore it may bo drawn, and one other.
witness; sod each assignment thereof should bo
attested by two witnesses. j
W. W. Corcoran,the rich banker of Washington
CUy,.i« about (o retire Tram buiiueot.
DRONES IS SOCIETY.
CR1B11R&L COURT.
The President end (he Preae.
JOHH W. FOBNEYi
Woato glad la hoar that our old friend, Cal. To
r Westchester .Republican, will again bo
brought forward at the meeting of the next Congress,
for the position ofClcrkto'tho House of Representa
tives. Ho has held tho place for two oucccaWo seas*
ions', and all admit that he baa discharged tho dulios
of ll>a responsible situation with great ability and
fidelity. We are one of the Individuals who like tho
same John W. Fornoy. Wo do not'prolond to say
that ho is one of those faultless beings whoso ools
aro so paro as to bo incapable of criticism, but we
do say that ho Is a warmhearted, talented fellow, j
with the noblest Impulses, and . a. sound, radical, i
notional Democrat. As a political writer, wo believe
him to bo nnrlvaled, and when ho conducted the j
Pennsylvania, wo used to road his eloquent and forci
ble editorials with the highest degree of admiration.
If tho wish would not lako him from a more lucra
tive position, we should bo glad indeed to have him
back in the editorial ranks again. Wo most sincere
| ly hope that ho will bo ro-oloclcd at tho assembling
of tho next Congress. His continuance 'would be
gratifying to Pennsylvania, and wo doubt not, equally
so to the-great mass of tbo party throughout the
Union.
q3* The following horrible caeo of parental cru
elty is detailed in tho St. Louis Intelligencer of
sth Inst. It says s —A shocking case of this char j
actor camo under the observation of Mr. Brown, J
County Coroner, day before yesterday. Tho parlies j
are a German and his wife, and a little girl betjwccn
two and throe years of ago, who is his child by B|
former wife. They live near the Garondolct road,;
a few miles below the city. Mr. Brown had hoard
on several occasions from tho neighbors of the Ger
man, of (bo manner in which ho and his wife wero (
accustomed to indulge towards.her.and on Thursday i
ho wont to their houao to ascertain the facts for him- J
self. Ho found tho child very weak and ill, lying
on a bed upon the floor. Her wholo body was al- j
most black with bruises and marks of pinches she
had received, and scorned to be both ill-fed and ill
clolhod. She betrayed extreme fear ul (ho sight of
her father and step mother, and screamed with ter
ror when either of thorn approached. Mr. B. was
informed that tho father had further practiced a
moans of torture which none but tho moat unnalur- I
a! malico could havo devised, and that when drunk
ho had been known to Uko the child's longue Id his I
fingers, poll U with force, and cut it repeatedly with
a pair of scissors. His neighbors had resolved to
lake tho child from him, and did so perhaps on yos.
lerday. They had also determined to procure tbo
arrest and prosecution of the unnatural parents.
Reported Executions in Mexico, —A loiter from
on army officer, received al Washington, is said (o 1
announce the fact that Santa Anna had ordered (
Senor Tornol, late Minister of War, and Louis dc (
la Ruse, formerly Minister at Washington, to bo shot, I
and that the execution had taken pluco somewhere 1
near the northern boundary of Mexico, Do la Rosa
was Minister of Foreign Affairs immediately offer
the capitulation of tho city of Mexico, and was the
immediate instigator of Santa Anna's expulsion from
the country, and wrote a letter informing him of bis
disgrace. The other victim was also implicated in
the same transection. We have scan nothing to
confirm this rumor in the late Mexican advices, and
think it erroneous, or probably having only a foun
dation in tho execution of some other and less noted
personages.
MORTALITY ON SIIiPSOARD.—TIIO ship CulllOUn,
which arrived at Now York on Monday, from Liv
rerpool, lost by death, on tho passage, six of her crew
end forly.cighl of her passengers. Tho ship Dcla
, ware, from Liverpool, lost, on her passage, fifteen
passengers by death. The Prussian barque Censor,
from Hamburg, had seven deaths on board, and the
Emma Fields forty two. Ship fever and chalet* op
pear lobe raging in all'lhe New York emigrant
hi ps.
Nebraska Territory Colonel Benlon In a recent
loUer to the people of Missouri, regards the early
scltleiDCDl of Nebraska Territory, its organization
by Congress, and tlio eatablishmonl of the moil liber
al pre-emption principle within its borders, os a great
national object—one that Is called for in a military
point ofview, as consolidating our settlement* on both
sides of tlio tlocky Mountains and as furnishing the
volunteers to defend, in case of emergency, our
Pacific possessions. Ho promises to give bis atten
tion to the Territory in tlio next session of Congress.
CCj* An exchange paper calls the attention of tho
Bloomers lu the following text from tbo Bible. It
is found in Deuteronomy zxit chapter and sth verso:
••The wbman shall not wear that which purlainolh
to a man, neither shall a man pul on a woman’s
garment; for all that do so are ao abomination to
the Lord thy God."
JubtinTimk. —The Treasurer of Stark county,
Ohio, walked into the bowels of Dwight's Dank, at
Massillon, to the tune ofSIO.OOO (lie very day It sos.
pended. lie came armed with those utensils, pick*
axes, crow bar and the people, and mode the securi
ties of the Dank pay over without bursting a boll.
It is considered about Cleveland, (hat the concern
Is very much mixed, and the ability lo pay over 50
per coni is questionable.
Wedding of Sleep to Music. —Tlio French papers
ipoak of a new invention called a musical bed. It
is so constructed that the pressure of the body causes
Iho performance of one or more operas, according
Lo the length of the slumber, A dial is placed at
the head of the bed, with a minute hand to bo set
to the hour whin the sleeper withes to wake ; and
when thh» hour arrives, a grand finale la executed
from Verdi, with Imitations of trombones and kettle,
drums sufficiently 1oud«piol only lo awaken, but lo
inspire a lively disposition lo gel up.
A number oftho Whig papers of Ohioaro advoco.
ling the dissolution oftho Whig parly of that Stale,
in consequence of its recent disastrous defeat. They
want a new organization formed, but whore ore they
lo gel for it f
(£j* A Ghost “story” Is rife in Wolxol
The ghost of a man murdered some lime ago, it is
said, has appeared, and Remanded vengeance on his
murderer, and a man pointed out as the murderer
has actually boon arrested.
John Van Duron told a eoulhorn gentleman, at
Washington, a few days ago, that ho had no other
purpose in visiting that city thun to bay a negro,to
convince the south of (ho sincerity of fill attach
mont to (heir came.
Found Guilty.— ln the Court of Quarter Sessions,
Philadelphia, James Black was found guilty of man
slaughter, in causing the death of John Osier, by
pitching him down (wo pair of stairs, at (ha Nation
al Theatre in December last. Black was an olhoor
employed In the Theatre at the lime of (ho occur
rence.
Drinking water neither makes i man sick, nor In
debt, nor hia wife a widow.— Spanith Maxim.
Doer are said to bo unusually plenty io the Allc
,|,ony mountains this season.
The Whigs have but 19 members in the Califor
nia Legislature, out of 94.
c.*The Indians are still murdering the Mexlcaat on
ibo Rio Grande ,*nd committing many depredation*.
The Liquor Lay has been defeated io Wisconsin.
LEGISIiATIVEt'DIUmBIEUB.
Tlio Washington Star contains tho following. It
hut illustrates a course of action which is familiar to
every Pennsylvanian, for it has passed into'a prov
erb that “With plenty of hard cash every species of
law can bo lugged through our Stato Legislature."
I It would bo & public blessing if these acts of corrup
tion could ho fairly exposed. Such exposition could
not fall to secure belter representatives, for where
tho people have tho power wo cannot willingly be
lieve that they will suffer such oulroges and villain
ies to bo practiced upon themselves:
“Wo aro destined to have stationed in Washing
ton during the approaching session of Congress from
thirty to sixty ox-members, who oomo to sell their
personal influence for hard cash on tho nail and con
itingcncies; their influence aforesaid for such con
sideration to be used to got through Congress any
legislation whatever desired to pul money in tho
pockets of the payors. Some of those gentlemen have
followed this business for years past, until they are
j well known around tho halls of Congress as “lobby
members." Their former position in tho public scr
| vice gives them at all limes an entree into both cham
bers, which affords advantages for.oloclioneormg for
schemes an tho treasury for which speculators pay
liberally. Their knowledge of tho rules governing
the transaction of business ta Congress also makes
them sorhowhttt desirable agents. Theso advantages,
backed by tho fact that they aro notoriously less scru
pulous in their means of carrying their points than
1 fnosl others, havonp to this time rendered them so
J successful as professional legislative drummers that'
they have among them shared much of.the public 1
| money which never stio&f havo loft the treasury of I
the United Litlio good it does them, howcv-1
1 or, as in spite ofour laws and tho efforts ofour police,!
I faro banks still flourish in Washington. Wo havo |
I reason to bolidao that a heavy loroo of litis dcecrip- 1
: lion is already engaged to work through Congress
[the Now York Pacific Railroad scheme, through
which it is designed to get tho government to build
I tho road, and then to virtually make it a present to
i a dozen or so speculators in nearly every Stale in the
1 Union. These\>x-mombers aro to' bo paid for their
J services here in slock, provided they carry (ho pro
ject through. Wo shall havo to keep our attention
I fixed upon them affectionately. As they show tboir
1 hands we shall Inform the public, and more especi
ally honest members of Congress, what schemes on
the lioasury each may havo in hand, so that they
• may bowaro of tho plots of these gentlemen. Tho
rules of (ho House and Senate should promptly bo
so amended as that ex-members, claim agents, or
drummers, shall bo excluded from the balls,as other
claim agents arc excluded.
Murder lu Perry County.
The Perry Freeman of the 17th inst., says':—Wo
understand that Adam Flexsonhison.called “Dutch
Adam,** murdered an Irishman named McEtvoy, by
sinking with one blow an azo deep into his breast,
on the 7th instant, causing the death of the latter in
less than half an honr. They had been sent to chop
, wood, and having fallen a tree, it rested upon a limb I
, holding tl op from the ground ; McElvoy told Flex
i senhise'r? to cut it off so that the tree would full lu
1 the ground, when the latter immediately raised itia
1 axe and sunk it Into the former,although warned by
1 another pauper not to do it. Both wore paupers,
i both were foreigners,and both wore inmates of the
1 Perry County Poor House, where the murder was
committed. When Ftoxsooh'cUon saw what ho had
done, ho ran some distance, but when met by per
sons in search of him, ho was roturninglo tho P nor
House, wiping the blood off his azo. An inquest
was hold on tho day following tho commission of tho
crime, by John Killer, Esq. The murderer was ar*
rested, and Is now in prison. Rumor,says (ho pris
oner is not of sound mind. These statements may
not bo alihgclher correct. Wo give them as wo got
them.
A Ferocious Master.
In Sussex county, Va., some months since, Mr. II
Birdsong and his little child, while lying in bed, wore
fired upon, through tho window, the child killed, and
the father badly injured. Three of his slaves were
convicted of tho crime and hung. Tho provocation
was great cruelty;
On the 3d instant, a now chapter was added to the
history of assassination and Inhumanity. Of tale,
Birdsong had been in (ho habit of'requiring each
servant on the plantation to report himself at the
dwelling house al an early hour each nighl. On
Thursday evening last, (ho negroes failed to report
themselves. This act of insubordination bred the
jealousy of M r. B. and ho determined to make on ex.
ample of the first fellow who made his appearance
Shortly after dark one of the servants called at tho
dwelling tu obtain hit master’s shoes for the purpose
of blacking them. Upon making his sppoaranco in
the chamber, Mr. B. called him to account for die
obeying his order.
Fearing chastisement, the negro ran out of the
house. Mr. B. followed him, but finding the man to
fleet of fool, he pul a ferocious bull dog open the
track oftho fugitive, ond soon enjoyed the savage
satisfaction of seeing the dog (car and lacerate the
poor fellow. Mr. Birdsong (hen tied (ho slave, and
bool him so unmercifully as to cause death in a few
| hours. Tho murderer was arrested, and is now in
| prison.
Tins is ‘A Great Country I'— Tho final rrpoil
Ihe seventh census of lha United Slates is now pass
ing through tho press. Il will consist of a single
quarto volume of twelve hundred page*, and will bo
ready for distribution at tho opening of tho ncil
session of Congress. This volume is filled with valt
uablo statistics, not tho least interesting of which sro
.hose in reference to the extent of territory of the U*
Slates, the total area of which, including the terri
tories, is sol .down 013,981,123 square miles. ‘Tho
territorial extent of the Republic is nearly ten times
a,a largo as that of Great Britain and Franco com
bined, throe times as largo as Franco, Great Britain,
Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland
and Denmark together i ond-and-a-holf limes os Urge
os tho Russian Empire in Europe ; one-sixth loss
only than tho area covered by the fifty-nine or sixty
Empire*, States and Ropublica of Europe ; of equal
extent with tho Roman Empire, or that of Alexander,
neither of which is said to have exceeded 3,000,000
square mites.’ Tho total area of North America i
8.373,6*18 square miles. •
*• Solitary and Alone,»*
The Philadelphia Inquirer says Col. Denton is
now sovonty-ono yoyLold, and odds :
“Wo saw him thoSßicr day on the pavement
near his house in Washington. Mo is (he young
oat looking man of seventy wo have ever seen ;
rather fuller in habit and broader than he used to
appear. Ho wears his hat with a knowing ex
pression a litilo on Iho left side, walks with a do
liberate and measured tread, having something
like pride in ila meaning—something that bespeaks
a consciousness (hat ho Is Thomas Hart Uentun.
Ho fools his powers, and so does his country, and
so will it over. His mark will bo loft upon Iho
cio of his life. Few men of greater intellectual
power and knowledge havo appeared on this stage
of action.”
Receipts at the Philadelphia Custom House. '
—The receipts for duties at Iho Custom House in 1
Philadelphia, for the month of October and for the
year, thus far, compare with the corresponding
periods last year, os follows :
1863 1863
Duties received in Oct. $910,149 62 $303,041 60
Do. previous months, 3,224,646 43 4,062,484 85
$3,434,696 95 4,365,426 65
3,434,695 95
Increase in 1863,
(Cy In a livery liable at Sacramento there are five
hoatlon, three of whom* were formerly Broadway
dry good clerk*, and the other two Bapliil preach
er*.
If tenia ofJfttoa.
The Pittsburg Custom House (a completed, cost
$56,000.
The capital invested in California water compa
nies amounts to $3,746,600.
The Boston Transcript says that Barnum has
sold the Illustrated Naws to Gleason, proprietor
of Gleason's Pictorial,
The New American twenty-five cent pieces have
been extensively counterfeited, and large numbers
of the counterfeits aro in circulation.
In the case of Dr. Ames, charged with shooting
James C. Hall at Cincinnati, the jury onTuesday
evening brought in a verdict of ‘‘Not guilty^’
The Sandwich Islands—twelve In number—
embrace a superficial area of about six thousand
and one hundred square miles. Four of the Is
lands are rocky and uninhabitable.
The N. Y. Day Book Is now printed entirely by
girls. Thirty have been instructed in that estab
lishment, in the art of printing.
A gentleman died at an advanced age, recently
near Boston, who had never passed a single night
out of the bouse in which he was born.
The little love agVoomsnts, made at the water
ing places during last Summer, are about being
fulfilled—all our Exchanges are full of marriage
notices. Fine limes for the Parsons.
Tin Grand Jury of Wilkesbarre, have found a
(rue bill against United States Marshals Wynkoop
and Crossman, for attempting the arrest of the
slave “Bill,” some time sues.
A London Physician says if men would wear
v their beards in winter sore throats would go out of
fashion. Very good advice, but what would the
women say T ,
It is calculated that the postage on the letter
sent by the President of the United Slates to
the Emperor of Japan, will have cost about $l,-
210,796 42—that being the cost of the expedition.
The Bank for deposit of sixpences by children,
established in Now York, has reached a capital of
523.000. It pays six per cent, interest, and is
doing much good among that class of boys and
girls for whose benefit it is intended.
Dr. J&mes McClintock, the founder of the Phil
adelphia College of Medicine, has resigned the
Chair of Anatomy in that Institution, designing to
reside in future in Trenton, where he will resume
the practice of hts profession.
The new Democratic Governor of Vermont, in
hts inaugural address, takes strong ground against
the Liquor (Maine) Law, intimating that the Le
gislature transcended its powers in enacting it.
and that it Is tyrannical ami inoperative, as well
as in some respects unconstitutional.
I The Consul General of Franco in the United
States, General Felix Lacosle, died at his resi
dence in,New York on Monday evening. lie
served as aid to Marshal Gerard at the battle of
Ligrry, subsequently becamo Major General, and
fought at Waterloo; since which event he has lived
in tho United Slates.
It is virtually settled, by a score of verdicts,
running through the last twenty years, that a se
ducer may bo killed by his victim, or even by her
brother or husband. He is a wild beast, whom
any one, whom he has specially injured, may
shoot of stab with impunity.
John Neal offers to give onq thousand dollars to
the cause of temperance, or to some other charily,
if any one will prove (bat (hero is not more Intem
perance, and more liquor sold and drank in the
city of Portland and through out 1 1 e State of Maine
at the present time than before the passage of the
existing Liquor Law.
Tho Discover of Goht-ip Australia is to be re
warded by the British Government. The Coin,
nial authorities of Australia propose to give to Mr.
Hargraves, the discoverer, £lO,OOO, but the Duke
of Newcastle, who is the head of the Colonial De
partment in the Ministry, offers him or ly half that
sum, which Mr. Hargraves objects to.
Money has been unusually scarce in Pl.conix
villo for some lime past, owing, doubtless, to the
delay of the Iron Company in paying out. It is usu
al for the company to pay ailhoexpiration of every
month. On account of a depression In the money
market the hands were not paid until long after
the usual lime.
A waggish member of (ho Rliodo Island Legjs*
laiuro plumes himself upon iho “wise Legislation”
which ho says had settled the liquor question in
that Slate; a compromise to which both sides have
agreed, viz I “The temperance men have got the
Maine law, which is oil they want, and every-body
else has plenty of lutn, which is all they wont.”
Thomas Motley has been convicted at Waller*
borough, S. C., of murdering a runaway slave.
He fust shot him, wounding him severely; he then
put him in a vice, and subjected him to the most
excruciating torture. He then set him loose and
ran him down with blood-hounds, end finally cut
him up and fed the dogs with bis flesh. The
Charleston papers rejoice at the conviction of the
brute.
Tho Methodists of the United Slates liave made |
admirable provision for the education of llioir
tors. They have already eight fust class colleges,
with property and funds amounting in the aggro- 1
gate to $404,063, and another is projected in Mis
souri. They have also forty.six theological aca
demies and seminaries, in twenty nine of which
there are 4,036 students, an average of 176 students
to each seminary. The oldest of their colleges is
at Wilbrahnm, and wasjbunded in the year 1830
by tho Rev. Wilbur Ftsk.
A Negro was killed in St. Louis, on (he 25ih
nit., in a very singular manner. Mu had been sent
to Dr. M’Dowell’s Medical College, and on (he
way, ho was told that tho doctor was a terrible
inan, and if ho got him Insidu tho College, would
bo vary apt to cut him up and pickle him. This
frightened tho negro, and when ho got to tho Doc.
tor’s room, he wouldn't go In. The Doctor started
towards him, when the negro stepped back sud
denly, fell down a pair of stairs, nnd’lnjured him
self so severely, that ho died the same night.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad is now completed
from Pittsburg to tho west ond of tho tunnel, and
is in daily use by a train that carries brick and
lutnbeTttApjr in tho construction of the tunnel.—
The only unfinished parts now aro tho sections be
tween Altona and tho tunnel and tho tunnel itself.
It is said (hot tho Postmaster Genera) will re
commend a reduction in tho rates of ooonn postage
generally. The arrangements which ho hasmado
with the German Stales, by which the rates of
postage by tho way of Drcmon have been materi
ally reduced, ore generally being extended overall
Northern Europe.
Members of Congress are beginning to wond
their way to Washington. Wo sco by the papers
(hat some have already arrived—amongst others
iho several candidates forthoSpeakerof iho House
of Representatives, for which post, wo presume,
there will bo quilo a contest.
Gen. John 13. Wool, visited iho Now York Me
chanics’ Institute, on Monday evening, and was
received with great attention. lie was formally
welcomed, and made a neat speech In reply.
John C. O’Neal, U. S. Consul to Belfast, hat
I boon tendered a publio dinner by hla friends ai
I Hbcnsburg, which, however, ho declined. Ho
leaves in n few days for Belfast.
IuponTANT Rumors from Eurofe.— The Now
| York Time* monlions o rumor that Loui* Napoleon
I* convinced that a war in Eastern Europe is inevi
table, end that Franco will bo called upon resist the
1 encroachment* of the Czar. It i* also said ho Invll- 1
jed Kossuth to a secret conference at Paris, for the
purpose of ascertaining definitely from him the mil
itary force whloh ho could bring Into the field in
casQ'Hungary should have another opportunity of
contending for her independence, and that Kossuth
actually spent two or throe day* in Paris, In close
1 consultation with the Emperor upon the subject. I
$020,730 70
Nicholas, the Emperor of Russia, told Senator
Douglass that there were but two good government*
in the world—Russia and the United Staley.
the patent office.
Tho following description ortho Patent Office &|
Washington City, wo lako from tho People'* Journal
Now York: 1
The Patent Office ftt Washington la already one of
the most magnificent structures in the country, and
when finished upon the original design U will be
locond In extent and grandeur, only to the Capitol
in the ea mo city. The principal (south) front extends
on F street, 270 feel, and is seventy foot deep. Verti’
cally.il is divided into a high basement and two*
stories above. "•sTho municipal portico ofthls front
faces down Eighth street, and is, in all respects a
fat simile at the celebrated portico of Pantheon ’ot
Rome, forming the most striking feature of the edi
fice, as soon on that, side. The t grand entrance to
the building is, of course, that through this portico
which is reached by a Bight qf granite steps. Tho
visitor passes from the portico into a large hall, from
whence, in tho rear, by a splendid Bight of marble
steps on each side, ho may ascend into the grand
galleries above, which occupy the whole ofxho upper
story. Midway of the debth of tho building, ore
Touching those steps, doors lend into spacious passage
ways, running east and west. The chambers com.
municatmg directly with the eastern passage way
havcTiong been occupied os business offices of tlio
Commissioner of Patents, and his various assistants,
ond tho passages to'the west boihhmnicate with (ho
large and main model room - , wherein some of the
specimens of American mechanical genius which
huvo been patented, are stored in ranges of glass
cases, with passage ways between them.-
Tho basement is designed precisely after the story
above, ond is used for business offices of (he eslnb.
lishmont, and of the National Institute, which It of.
forded a place there by order of the government.-**
Tho uppermost story of the north wing fs thrown
Into ono grand saloon, ond, being need fur the safe
Keeping of various specimens of homo manufactures,
subjects of natural history, and works of art, brot*
hiilicfby the lute American exploring expedition,
commanded by Captain Wilkes of the U. S. Navy, is
very properly styled the National Gullory. This
magnificent hall is 294 fed lung and sixty-four wide,
with a general height of thirty feel. For ornaments,
lliis hall has a double tow of huge stone dorlc co|.
umnp, winch, with their entablature, are twenty fed
high tu the spring of the srehts resting on them,
which, in turn, roach in height to the ceiling of the
chamber, and thus form a beautiful platform.
Precisely in the centre of (his grand gallery, a
cylindric.il arch or dome, of forty feet span, rises
above the rest of the chamber, from (ho top of which
the light of heaven is admitted hy sn aperture thlr
icon fuel in diameter. Resides the contents of this
hall mentioned übovc.il is the reposiloiy of much
valuable properly belonging to the several depart*
ments of the government—treaties, jewels, military
ond nuval relics, 6lc. —which, with tho rest of Ita
treasures, arc arranged in glass cases* for lbs Inspcc*
tion of tho curious. Recently (hbCist wing of (be edi.
ficohoß been erected, and it is just being finished. It is
also 270 feet long, by G 4 deep,- and Of (ho height of
I lie front described above,being divided intoatmany
stories, each uf which are.ngaln divided ond finished
as are the stories of (lie building we have eiplslned
in detail. Tho grand gallery, oftho highest story of
ibis building connects with that oftho other by s
lufty archway. As this wing is constructed cotWa/j
of white marble, (the other being built of granite
Bondstono.) its appearance Is much more pleasing.—
It is being devoted, aho. to the accomodation of the
business of the Patent Office, which is io rapidly in
creasing its legitimate demands for space. An effort
was mode at the lost session of Congress .to have it
permanently spprrpluled for (he accommodation of
Uic Deportment o( the Interior, which, fortunately,
foiled, though unfortunately, tho department named
was permitted temporary occupation, and os 'poi
session is nine points of the law' it will probably not
be bo removed for a long time. Tho foundations of
the west wing have been commenced, and its eroc.
lion, on a plan similar to that of the others, will bo
completed in a few years, when (ho grand gallery In
the uppermost story wiJJ extend qoito a quarter of a
mile in length, funning an archilcclora) promenade
such oe to bo found nowhere else on (his sido of tho
Atlantic. When completed tho Patent Office will
entirely cover the djublo block bounded by F, 7th,
G, and 9lh streets.
High Prices and Printing.
There is a vast amount of truth and goud tents in
the following nrtk-lo Which Wo copy from (he last
Mcadvillc Democrat :
Every body teems to be realizing the very highest
price lor their labor, except the Printer, The Farmer,
with good crops, is gelling belter prices, am] in cash,
for everything be can produce, than since (he famine
year in Ireland. . This rito lecmi to Jiuye tffeosdah
most every other banch of business but out own.—
Wo are feelingly reminded of this foci by a loiter from
our Paper Maker, apprizing os ofu material advance
on our next lot of paper equal to 12 per coni. Not*
withsfltading this state of things wq are astonished
to see some of ouj ttuiuempororice .reducing the price
of their subscription—-others increasing the site of
their papers, although already respectable In their
dimensions. Every man ispresumed to frnow his
business beat and has (he right to adopt each meas
ures to promeftO'U os' Tie may- deem proper, bat wo
must bo permitted to say, wo do not understand tho
wisdom of their course, lucerne natural to tie, that
while everything around us.is advancing in price,
true policy would dictate that tho Printer should M
low the example set before him, or at least stand
firmly by his old prices. Wo consider (fro practices
of those who are pursuing a Contrary course, a*
foolish and impolitic. They will bo convinced of
this before a twelvemonth passes. So fur »s we sro
concerned wo do not meditate any Increase In the
price of our paper. But wo shall hold on to our old
rates, and only desire that our friends bo more pouc*
luol in their poymonts. Before wo increase the size
of our paper, or lower its price, we shall very likely
give up the business and go to forming or something
else nut so troublesome as printing, and that wodtd
poy better. Tho business, never very good,
ruined by tho mad rivalry of country publishers, who
ore content to live from 'hand to mouth,' in order to
, apo ilio size and prices of (ho over grown establish*
. I moots in the largo cities.
Interesting Statistics*
The N.Y. Daily Time# of yesterday, contained
a largo and valuable lublo, fur which find
room in our columns lo day, showing tho number of
iho white population of the several Slates cltssificd
by ages. By this it appears that In fho State of
Pennsylvania, when the census was taken, the white
population was of the following classification of
□ gee:—Under ono year 31,929 males and 31,017
females ; between ono and fivo years, 139,268 male*
nnd 136,990 females i between five and tea year*/
157,009 males and 164,424 females; between lert
fifteen, 136,633 males and 133,258 females; between
fifteen nnd twenty, 116,773 males and 194,483 fe
males. between twenty and thirty, 209,438 males and
206,801 females; between thirty and forty, 144 033
mules and 133,079 females; between forty and fifty.
07,558 males and 89,451 females; between fifty and
5ixty,58,632 males and 65,919 fcntnics; between
sixty end seventy, 31,841 males and 32,224 females ;
between seventy and eighty, 13,188 males and \3.'
669 females; between eighty and ninety, 3334 main
and 4035 females; between ninety and one hundred
395 males end 40C females} of ono hundred and op*
wards,9o males and - 3l females: ago unkownCGt
males arid 446 female* I total, 1,142,734 male* snd
1,115,426 females. By (his it seems that (ha m«l«
population in Pennsylvania out numbers the fcroih.
and the same is the case in the Slates, generally.
it appears (hat there ars 10,036,409 white males to
9,524,667 white females. The exceptions lo this rule
are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
and Connecticut, fVorn which Stoles the mate popu
lation Is greatly decreased by emigration, while il> o
female population remains at homo and finds em
ployment in the factories which abound there.—M
American. „ v
Late from Blexloo*
I-bmine Anticipated —iUail Robberies—lndian M*r-
New Oulkanb, Nov, 16.—'Tho Pieayune % by Hio
arrival this morning ofAho steamship Toiar r hasre
ceived dates from Vera Cruz to tho 9lh.
Tho country appeared to bo in a deplorable con
dition.
Grout fears of a famine wore anticipated, owtoff 10
a failure of (ho crops. i
Straggling parties of Guerrillas Infected ell ![•*
principal highways, and on several occasions 1,10
malls had boon robbed.
Indian depredations continued. Twelve poison*
had been murdered by abend of Indians.
Tho obolera continued to rsgo at Jalspa, andmunj
deaths bad taken place.
Senator Douglass, who .has been travelling in Ec
rope, recently, saw the emperor of.Russls revise Wj
standing army of 950,000 men! It is the larges*
standing otmy in the world.