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