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OTTSVIIALE. -
SiituiJklay .41ornitig, Jan. 16.
car WO; refer our reader's tu. our annual statistical
table of 4cie Anthracite. Coal TrSde of the United
States, another column, which will no doubt
prO I ve tate:eating, exhibiting as it does the rapid in
die of tftis trade tor !the last ten years—and which
Is 4stine4 to increase in a much greater rata) here
afteir It : ras compiled , with great care, and can be
re/441 on correct.
•
W refer our readers to the Antimal Report of
theilana,eraortheSchuy!kill Navi6tion Company,
whi I
hwi be found on mir first page.
ret Aniirder for $5 'on a Store was dropped in this
offiee on Wednesday last. The owner can have it
by Callin(; -
.
Tlae collection in Trinity Church for mallows, will
be Made tit,morrow—fdrenuon and afternoon--having
postOtied from list Sunday.
. . .
arri* 4 Tyler Ball.—A splendid Hamson and
Tylr Bail is to be given in Philadelphia, on the
1:
Sat , inst4Tickets $lO. A committee, consisting of
J. R%lnger i soll, John Price Wetherill and John Hemp
hill, 'Esqrt.,- fias been appointed to waite on Gen.
Harpson Ina Gov. Tyler, on their arrival at Wash
!net- — ld request their attendance at said Ball.
2LI
11$e Democratic Harrison State Committee, have
el
o
As Ivo" Wednesday, the 10thof March. for the
aue ' bling of the State Convention at Harrisburg, to
no "lash; li-candidate for Governor.
nogeßve.—The quantity of Coal shipped from
this placsillast year, wa5'23,860 tons. Our friends
in titatlularter anticipate a greatly increased trade
pax: , sistutm. We hope they, may not be disap-
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,h4yl t ill Navigatio n.—Since our last publication
we' • areandeavored -to glean all the information res
pect ng tke damage :sustainedby the works of this
cum l any,(and are pleased to learn that the injury is
not . gr ' tas was at first !supposed it would be. If
the' 't vi atimi sustains no other injury by freshets,
add are propererlion on the part of the officers
1
of e - F e wispy, it can be placed in navagablo order
by ,t
i eitmst of May next at furthest.
.! r el damage, as far as we can learn, consis , s prin.
eipa, yl in breaches made in the embankments. Several
of Pa`ms and Locks have .been considerably in.
Jur —Lilt none have been swept away. — 4
- The Reading Railroad, throughout the whole
We learn, has sustained very little damage fjem
• tremendous freshet.
line,
tub l;
i!'
.olierThoce - !whrk have a little money to spare,
iioti.invest it to better advantage than by having
• built during the winter season, and early next
g/Ilpera was a scarcity for last years' business—
, bell are annually worn out—and the late freshet
dio destroyed a considerable number. If we are
tstaken, a good boat will nearly, if not quite,
Itspii next se:
scull
Boa,
spri ,
a as
has
not
The t,:Ounty ommissmners have made the follow
it I . L.
follow
ing
Jtrelilli , untzi • ger, it. Esq., Treasurer,
"iqs' B. r otts, Esq. Attorney, and
J4hu, , „ Do- • .ing, Clerk, in place of Christian
t4b '' n, removed.
FEE
,
oho ito whom hen, ts du .—S- - .1 ... • •
.!
are •lairumg the credit for particular individuals, for
havi" g *a the first to nominate Gen. Harrison for
the tesency. Whatever credit is due to the per-
Gen ho lrst named this distinguished individual for
the (iffrie by wLich he has been elected,
! v
molt lie warded i by HENRY K.'STRONG. Esq.,
of P' egrove, in this county, who as early as Nov
= ~., 1834, when editor of the _Harrisburg Intelii
-4
ge r, ' oused the cause of Gen. Harrison—and
his enlone of his unwavering supporters ever
a t e 7
.., p he favorable result'of the contest in the
Pine. rev `.distriet in this county, is mainly attributa
ble t , hie - untiring devotion to the cause which he
had .'s, with so much zeal—and according to
the 'teitiMony of the editor of the Washington
R. qtarivrho was then a resident of Harrisburg,
" M Stfong has not only the honor of .writing
the ,rst article in November, 1834, but of draft.ng
the , 111;4, solutions, and making the first speech in
his f ',wen the 12th of December, 1834."
' lii ,
li g- Tke Delaware Coal Co. has declared a semi
ann , al 4idend of 4 per cent.
1 1 ,
IL r4LI. S. Leon.--The Philadelphia Stai.dard of'
tiot
W ne
l e, linden i ' . v last, states that Mr. has obtained
se9 an of $2,500,000, and in case the Bank
el
should / .:nt it, $2,50D,000 can be obtained. This
give ;Biel ank ample means to meet all its engage.
men, • ' 4.i
ai il
l e ar e also pleased to learn that all the Iron re.
quireld t ' omplete the Reading Railroad has been
parchtui and the Company have obtained a loan
i k ..
l acy. ii 4 obe sufficient to complete the Road. This
Diouf ; wi i:be hailed with peculiar satisfaction by our
titizttns . ..nerally.
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L Itt
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if f '''e Legialatunt of Delaware has elected the
•1 Tomas Clayton, and the Hon. Richard IL
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i di oth friends of Gen. Harrison , to the N. 8.
T to
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,iv y I has advanced $2 per ton in Philadelphia
[n•i la
t
. rabbet.
, a ' Democrats have gained anoth!r-metnbor
r C. l , ' irt Georgia, to supply the place of Mr.
olq 7 , loco; who resigned. \‘,
ILi 1 . , ,
ilf,p . mail bungs accounts of devastating
T- , Co ihe recent freidiet in various sections of the
nirt l. We have heard nothing from the Delaware
id aen Coal Company's works.
iyl
Ga.
Oayi
*.o,obbery.--Several ;extensive mail robberie s
t r 4.
ave ' Robbery. — Several
been committed on the Western Mail
ion ; ' perpetrators of which, for some time
put eluded the vigilance of the PoPt-office
1
IN * f laformation has h; mover been received
tt.i n
der by the mime of *Carmen; has been-ar
, ho has made a confeAsion t implicating a
Beet r I 4 ddee, his Clerk , and al man by the name
pfa eifi p of Uniontown, Pa., all of whom have
putt' reined. The - Mail-bags were stolen and car
ied"- i r ptielor Bradde's,o ffi ce, nn& then riffled of
their contents.l The Baltimore San says:
•.
• a ler lac' amount of loss by these robberies
i ; , - 4,
ro c
inin . ri In ore now be known, nor, would it be easy
'pf a e nment ; but it is" estimated at not leisa than
half Million of dollant, enough to enrich a pretty
,largeintroldier of affiliated plunderers." -
' ' 1, 1;; i • ;
i danfier`' Derniperatic:Congressman.—On the third
1 ! ,
rrialui ths, Tenth Congressional District in Massa
aus4lo,l4 Mr. Borden, dem,ocrat, has been elected
prerilia,present incumbent, Nr.Williams,by a ma
l:it3 rlegi#B. This is the sago Mr. Williams, who
A aijs*ting the Sub , Treasury 4ill, argued that
!abatis* were getter without than with . meat asitheir
dailylo: The people of his district ttppear to dif•
ler in,lopi ion with this honorable getuleatan.
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The recent freshet extended over a very large
section of the country, and the damages sustained is
immense. At Reading the SchUylliill was higher
than it has been since the year 17136-Hand at Easton
the Delaware rose thirty-five feet above low water
mark.
e? ll P.tta
All the Bridges from Easton to Philadelphia, over
the Delaware have been swept away, except the one
at Trenton.
The accounts from the Lehigh are appalling.—
Later accounts fully confiim the following frightful
description of the ravages of the freshet from that
quarter:
Extract of a letter received by the private express,
dated
One of the most awful and tremendous freshets
that have ever happened in this part of the State has
taken place here, It commenced raining last even
ing, and has not yet ceased. There will be few closed
eyes in Mauch Chunk this night. Our town is all
afloat. Thr re is a mighty torrent running the whole
width of the main street some six feet deep. On
ono side the inmates have left the lower story and
taken to the second for safety. It is an awful night.
House after house is going down the Lehigh. All
three of the Saw-mills have gone. Two stone sta
bles at the hotels also gone, with the bridges, &c.
All the canals, locks, &c. Whole houses are pas
sing.• One of the large packet boats broke loose and
passed down close to the piazza of the Hotel, which
is two stories high. What the damage is below we
dare not think of. W. fear ere to-morrow's dawn
many valuable citizens will have found a watery
grave.
Friday Evening.—Our darkest forebodings have,
been more than realized. All our beautiful naviga
gation, above and below, is swept .stway. Dams,
locks, leckhouses, inmates and all are gone. Those
tremendous locks are entirely swept away. The
bridges above and below are gone: The large rail
road bridge at the end of the Narrows, one at Le
highton, Gap. &c., are all gone. Out of twenty
houses, from Squire Say res to Lehighton, but four
remain ; and very many of the inmates are gone with
them. Those who heard them, say their shrieks for
help was most appalling. Every account grows more
dreadful. The river is a clear stream from mountain
to mountain.
Since the above was placed type, we find the
following in the National Gazette :
More recent information, from credible sources,
states that none of the dams-or locks between Easton
and Mauch Chunk, a distance of nearly fifty miles,
are destroyed: Some embankments, are swept away
and number of lock-gates are broken: It is reported
,tluit above Mauch Chunk two dams and several locks
are destroyed, and others much injured ;,and in many
places tow paths and embankments are broken.lum
bers of lock houses and tow path bridges, both above
and below Mauch Chunk are destroyed."
At Bethleham, the water was four, feet higher
than it was in 1786. Every bridge, except one, has
been swept away between Matich Chunk and Eas
ton.
Every Bridge on the line of the Beaver Meadow
Rail Road from Black Creek to Parryaville have been
carried away.
On the Little Schuylkill we learn that every Rail
road Bridge from Tamaqua to Port Clinton has either
been greatly injured, or carried away.
The Crane Iron Works on the Lehigh were inun
dated—chilled up, and the stack almost ruined.—A
Furnace at South Easton, in blast, was blown up, and
between 20 and 30 houses &c., were carried away.
The New York paperi contain accounts of the
great damage caused by the raising of the rivers in
that neighborhood.—The great dam , erected, by the
City of New York across the river being part of the
works in progress for supplying that Chi with water,
and which is said to have cost between two and three
hundred thousand dollars, was carried 'sway by the
flood, together with the heavy stone. prcitection wall,
20 feet 'hick at its base. The mills' below the dam,
the new bridge crossing the river above, three bridges
below, over one of which is the post road between
New York and Albany, were all carried away. Several
dwelling houses both above and below were swept
away, and the flood coming in the middle of the night,
and with great rapidity, persons were obliged to es
cape in their night clothes and get into trees for securi
ty. Three lives have been lost. King's bridge, and
pretty much all the bridges, are also carried away,
and the mail was sent off by steamboat.
Throughout New Jersey also the destruction of
Bridges and other property has Leen immense.
The editor of the Danville Democrat' in reply to
our last article, appears to be so elated at the pros
pect, of the Iron business, and the sight of a few
piles of Coal on their wharves, that he has really im
agined himielf transferred to the i Coal Region. Hear
him :
Our neighbor of Potteiville, the editor, forgets
entirely that, in comparison with Pottsville, we
are not merely near the coal region, but in it—that
coal is furnished here now at Two Dollars per ton,
which is as low, if not lower, than the same can be
procured at-Pottsville."
Friend Cook must be joking. He really cannot
be serious in believing for one moment, that Coal
can be obtained.' as cheap at Danville as at Potts
ville. If he is, he must be laboring under a great
delusion. Here, if the proprietor of a Furnace is
the ownet of the land, he can run his Coal from the
snipe into the Tunnel-head of the Furnace, and with
the use of the small refuse Coal for the Engine and
hot blast, which is now a great incumbrance at all
our mines, smelt a ton of Iron at a cost of not more
than $2 for fuel. The nearest Coal to Danville Las
to be carried a distance of thirty-Iwo miles over a
Rail road and Canal, and handled twice before it ar-
rives at its place of destination—yet we are gravely
told that Coal for Iron Works can be procured as
cheap at Danville as at Pottsville.' The editor ad
mits the Coal costs $2 per -ton, (which is cheaper
than they can ever get it again;) at this rate the fuel
for smelting a ton of Iron at Danville will cost s 6 —:
here only $2; ?: '
But this is not all. In converting Pig metal into
manufactured Iron, no Ore is used—g.fuel alone is re
quired. This is the. reason that Messrs. Biddle,
Chambers, & Co. located their Rolling mill in the
Coal region—and for the same reason every other
prudent person would locate his /roe Works where
fuel is cheap.
' As regards the ton of pig metal alluded too, we
can only state that it was made from Die procured
°idol the Coal region, which [moved toibe of rather
an inferior quality.. Our Iron men state, howevii.;
that they , :require no better Iron than that smelted
from the Ores found in our Coal measuiee.
The prediction! that a Rolling mill will be erected
at Danville, before
. such an estahlishMent will be
erected at this place, M not likely whet veiified either.
For the eilitOr's eipecial information w record the
. 1
following :
0 :, 'Rolling Mill.—We ahrpleaked to learn that
..t
our enterprising iownsmeri 4.
Snyder, have pufchased 32 sties of L d, within
the limits of this born" -;h, kr - '.Yo ng's Hill,"
and Intel ' a 1 1 1 rge scale,
in the '
corder
the laffl A cmoopiracy,
from 'office s by Govt &turd.
The Flood.
MAuco CUUNK, Jan. 7, 1841.
Thumlay evening, 11 o'clock.
THE MINERS' JOURNAL.
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gions from the commencement of the Trade in 1820 to ,1841, together with the annual •
consumption.
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The above Table includes the Shipments from all die Anthracite Regions in the State, except the
Wilkesbarre Basin, from which we have no returns. This supply, however, does not effect the Atlantic
market—as the whole quantity, which in 1837 was 17,492 tons, is consumed in the interior. The new
impetus given to the Coal Trade by the erection of Anthracite Iron Works on the Susquehanna will
greatly increase the supplies from the Wilkesbarre Region hereafter.
The consumption of Anthracite Coal in 1830 in the United States, was only about 150,000 tons—in
1840, taking the quantity consumed in the Coal Regions into consideration, we can date the consumption
at 1,000,000 tons. The increased demandfor Coal for Iron Works, Steam Boats, &c., will probably create
a market in the nest five years for two million tons. !
The following is the actual quantity of Coal ship•
ped from the different Regions in the years 1839
and 1890 •
1839. 1840.
Schovikill, • 442,360 . 452.291
Lehigh, 140,650 102,264
Lackawanna, 122,300 148,470
Beaier Meadows, 38,429 43,619
Hazleton, 34,000 50,366
Sugarloaf, 7,350 29,039
Pa neg rove, 20,639 23.860
Shamokin, 11,930 15,605
Add quantity remaining
on hand, April 1. 200,000
By the above statement, which can be relied on
as correct, it will be observed that although the
quaptity shipped during the last. season, was 47,-
000 tons more than the previous year, still the
quantity in the market for the consumption of the
present year is about the same as last year.
The average increase of the consumption for the
last eight years, has been about 95,000 tons.—
Should the increase in the consumption this year
be the same, only about 50,000 tons will remain
over at the opening of the navigation next spring.
Quantity of Coal sold on the line of the Canal
between this place and Philadelphia:
1826, 3,154
1827, . 3,372
1828,, 3322
1829. 5,321
1830, 6.150
1831, 10,048
1832, 13,429
1833, 19,429
1834, 18.571
1835, 17,863
1836,21,749
1837, 28,775
1838, 30,390
1839,28.924
~,
1840, • 41,223
It will be observed that the quantity required on
the Tine of the Canal has considerable increased for
the last year. This is caused by the demand, for
Coal at the different Iron Works on the line.
Legislative.—The Senate was organized by the
election of the lion. Charles B. Penrose, Speaker,
George W. Hammersly, Cleat; John B. Wade,
Door-keeper; Samuel T: Williams, Sergeant-at
Arms ; Elliott & M'Curdy, Printers of the English
Jo urenl; Becker & Bibbiehonse, printers of the
Gertnan Journal, and Henry Montgomery, p
of the Bills. 411lik
•
In the House, George W. Crabb, Esq., of Phila.
delphia, was elected Speaker on the third ballot, by
a vote of 53 to 44, over Net Middleswartb. The
Locos, findilig they could not elect their Speaker,
voted for Mr. Crabb, on the third ballot. Alexander
Ramsay, has be en elected Clerk; John G. Patterson,
Sergeant-at-Arms, and Joseph Shaffer, Door-keeper.
These officers arc all Democratic Harrison men.
We are pleased to learn that James S. Wal
lace, Esq., has been elected Printer of the English
JournalH. Montgomery has been elected Prin
ter of the Bills, and Joseph Ehrenfried Printer
of the German Journals.
PRINTING.
The work of reform goes bravely on at Harrisburg.
Our Democratic members will hot disappoint their
constituents. A reformation as regards the Public
Printing has already been introduced in the House,
which will save the State at least $lO,OOO annually.
In 1835,-6 when the Democrats had the disposal of
the Public Printing, the same quantity of Printing,
which, fast year under Loco rule, cost about $20,000,
was done for $6,000. It is .to prevent a repetion of
the abuses, that the attention of the Legislature has
been called to this subject,
SMALL NOTES.
On Monday last, upwards of 30 petitions were
presented from various parts of the State, praying for
a Law authorising the Banks to issue one, two end
three dollar bills.
CANAL COMMISSIONERS.
Petitions are pouring into our Legislature from
every quarter of the State, calling upon the Legisla
ture to enact a Law, making the panel Commissioners
elective by the People.
A large number of petitions have also been present
ed in favor of an Asylum fur4l3lEistme Poor.
PUIII f IG LANDS AND TOR TAUIFF.
and Re
argely in
removed
Mr. Johnson, of Armatrotag, has introduced a Pre
amble indite:elution io favor of distributing the pro
ceeds of the Sales of the Public Lauds among the
Anthracite Coal Trade or the limited States.
The Coal Trade.
817,659 , 865,414
Tons, 1,017,659 1,015,414
PRINTERS.
Stat 6, and also in favor of 's Protective Tariff. Reso
lutions for the same object, but couched in different
language, page also been introduced by Mr. Barr, a
Loco from Berks county. The Locos are beginning
to find it necessary to advocati good democratic mea
sures, to keep their heads above water.
Anthracite Iron.—Thee Journal of the Franklin
Institute of Pennsylvania, a work which ought to be
in the hands of every practical man in the country,
contains an extract from the London Mining Journal
exhibiting a number of facts and experiments made
by Mr. Richard Evans, of Manchester, on the An
thracite Iron Manufactured by the Ystal-y-fens Com
pany, in the Swansea Valley, in Wales, in compari ,
son with the Iron Manufactured with BituminoUS
Coal. A number of experiments of various kinds
were made, which, in every instance, showed the
superiority of the Anthracite over the Bituminous
Iron. Mr. Evans submitted a one inch rectangu
lar\hars of 4 ft. 6 in. in length, between supports of
theii" distancea,- to the breaking "process, to test its
texture and strength, and the following was the re
suit:
150,000
Mean of 72 results upon the Ystal-y-fera lbs:
Anthracite Iron, No. 1. 444
Ditto of 10 different sorts of Bituminous Iron,
Fairbairn & Hodgkinson's lists,
Being a superior strength in favor of the Anthracite
Iron of n per cent. Mr. Evans also "states that in
addition to the uniformity of strength, it is particularly
sound, and free fiom air boles or defects in casting,
which may be inferred from the fact, that it did not
produce one waster from any defect in the fracture in
the 72 trials ; and if it is from excess of carbon that
iron ~acquires the several qualities of uniformity,
fluidity, smoothness in the castings, fr.c., this metal
must be highly charged with it. It, ultimate deflec
tion and power of resisting impact, it also maintains
its superiority at 1,843 and 821, the mean of the ten
before mentioned irons giving 1,597 and 694.
Flom the improvement the above iron appears to
impart, by mixing with inferior irons, of which I have
on record, from my engineering friendri, several prac
tical 'examples, I have no hesitation in saying it will
come extensively into use for this application a l one .
c - This Iron was manufactured from the same
kind of Ore found in the Coal region of Schuylkill
county.
cclw The Commissioners of Schuylkill county,
have issued the following circular to the different
Assessors
The Commissioners of Schuylkill county, together,
with' the Assessors, having met this day agreeably to
an act of Assembly, passed April 15, 1834, for fixing
a uniform standard to ascertain the bona , fide Value
of Property made Taxable by the aforesaid Act, do
agree on the following Rates for the County of
Sadly
LANDS,
First rate Land, per Acre,
Second do. do.
Third do. do.
Fourth do. do.
Fifth do. do.
Sixth do. do.
Eleventh do. do.
Eighth do. do.
Plinth do. do.
Tenth do. do.
Eleventh do. do.
Twelfth do. do.
• HORSES.
• Find rate, $lOO Fourth 0%1
Second do. 75 Fifth do.
Third do. 60
COWS.
$l5 Second dtd
SAW-MILLS.
$5OO Third rate;
300 •
GRIST-MILLS. :
$5,000 Fourth rate,
3,000 Fifth do.
1,500
DISTILLERIES.
$5OO Third rate,
200
First rate,
First rate,
Second do.
Fitrot rate,
:Second do.
Third do.
First rate,
Second do.
TAN-YARDS.
$2,000 Third ramp
1,504 Fourth 414
FORGES. jI
First rate, $4,000 Third tali,
Sicond do. -3,000 Fourth dd.
FURNACES. 1
0,000 Third ratO,
6,000 Fourth
di I
First rate,
Second do.
First rate,
Seeoad do.
ftoPXXgriKa,er
ncrease and
Commissiossn's •OITICE,
OrwigsbUrg.
$lOO 00
70 00
50 00
30 00
20 00
15 00
10 00
7 -
- 5 00
2 00
1 00
, 50
4,000
2.000
01J00
POWDER-MILLS, $1,200
CLOVER-MILLS, 150
FULLING-MILLS ;& CARDING-MACHINES.
First rate, $l.OOO Second rate,
First rate, $3.000 Second -rate,
FOUNDRIES & MACHINE-SHOPS
First rate, $15.000 Second rate,
STORES
First rate, $lO.OOO Fourth rate,
Second do, 3,000 Fifth do.
Third do. 2.000
PUBLIC OFFICES & POSTS OF PROFIT.
First rate, $l,OOO Third rate, 100
Second do. 300 Fourth do. 50
HOUSES &-LOTS.
First rate, $6,000 Fifth rate,
Second do. 4.000 Sixth do.
Third do. 2,000 Seventh do.
Fourth do. 1,000
PLEASURE CARRIAGES.
Firat rate, ' $4OO Fourth rote,
Second do. 200 Fifth do.
Third do. 100
PROFESSIONS.
First rate, $l,OOO Third rate,
Second do. 500 Fourth do.
TRADES & OCCUPATIONS,
First rate, $5OO Third rate,
Second do. 200 Fourth do.
SPECULATORS.
First rate, $lO.OOO Second rate,
WARE & FORWARDING.HOUSES
First rate, $lOOO. Third rnte,
Second do. 500
SINGLE FREEMEN, each,
By the Courtly Commissioners :
ATTEST ;
From the Cincinnutti Chronicle
THE MORMONS.
We have received- a number of a paper called
Times and Seasons," piblished at Nauvoo, Illinois,
the head quarters of the Mormons in Illinois. We
think it proper to notice its contents, that some truth
at least may be known about this singular race.—
The first article is entitled "Rise of the Church,"
and it reviews many passages of Scripture history.
It speaks of our Saviour as he really was, and of his
sacrifice as an 'infinite atonement' for sin. It ap
pears, then, that the Mot Mons recognize the truth of
the entire Scriptures. Their delusion is a matter al
together subsequent to thei
The second article is etfi
recites the commission to
powers given to the Ap.
such as the miracles of el
tongues," &c. These pail
the Irvingitea , take in the !
plicable now. This is on(
The next cuticle is M I
a regularly organized chu
that they have a regular
churches. They have 'eld
seems that they have differ
'Aaronic' order.
'Chia conference was hcl'
minutes show these facts : I
selves the 'Latter Day Sai
hers are very extensively di
and England. 3. That
of the particular facts of
lion :
Philadelphia, 255 meal
Brooklyn, L. 1., 19; Hem
mouth county, N. J. 35; d
Lancaster county, Penn.
Oneida, N. Y., 80.
A letter in this paper a
1800 members present at a
land. They are also foun
vlaces.
We learn also, from thi
the time of the 'gathering
therefore, selected certain
930
Day Saints' are to be gat ered. A large body are
in the neighborhood of N: uvoo 111, and this paper
states them to be in a flour condition. When
they locate a place, they I it establishing 'a stake,'
and accordingly, they have just established one on
Ramus, lll.—This place is i 8 miles northeast of Car
thage, the county seat of Ilancock county, 111.
We give these facts tha our readers may know
some truth about one of thi most singular people and
singular features of our soeial condition.
That they are in great delusion, on many points
cannot he doubted ; and yet. that, like the Irvingites,
they believe in sincerity much of the Christian sys
tem, is also true. To ignoance. and especially to
the want of cultivation of certain faculties of the
mind, most, if not all this delusion is due. Persecu
tion will not cure it. Like the Shakers, they will
find their proper place when left to themselves.
Dreadful Murder and Suicide.—A horrible case
of murder and suicide occurred, a few days ago, in
Adair county, Kentucky : the fact of which briefly
slated, are as follows farmer named Jacob
Burke, ieaiding at Coltimbia, in that county, lost his
wife about years ago, for whom he entertained a
more than en ordinary fondness: he became morbid
ly aensative on the subject of his two little boys,
in their lone and motherless condition. One of
these was fi .e years old :VIM' the other seven. To
add to his misery he took to drink, and from this
cause his mind was measurably destroyed. He de.
termined to take his own life, but unwilling to leave
his children behind him, he first, while they were
asleep, with an axe nearly severed their ieads from
their shoulders, and then went to the barn and hung
himself
Confession of a Murderer.—The Lexington, Ky.,
Observer contains a confession made and signed by
Gilbert N. Richey who was hung at Carlisle, Nich
otos county, Ky., on the 25th of November last-
The murderer states that he was desired by a Mrs.
Fuller to take the life of one of her neighbors in
August last, named Mrs. Snap, in consequence of
the jealous suspicion Of the former, who promised
him a reward of six dollars, and all the money she
could thereafter get, besides making other promises
of various kinds to tempt him to the deed. After, re.
sisting some time he at ,length yielded to the wo.
man's importunities, and on the 13th of August pro
ceeded to the house, of Mrs. Snap, where he found her
alone but a neighbor entering before be could execute
his purpose, he thought proper to leave the house in
company with the intruder to prevent suspicion.
He however presently returned, and as before was
asked to take a seat, Mrs. Snap being then alone
in the house. He declined and at once knocked
her denim with his fist. She recovered and ran out
of the house, while Richey who had seized a shoe
knife, pursued and caugt t her about thirty yards
from the house, when he again with a heayy blow
with hie fist brought his vctim to the ground, and
an an instant at one strok with The knife, nearly
severed the head from the y. He was arrested
i mi
on the 15th, tried and ccrvicted. The murderer
was but 22 years of age,
$25
}0
150
1,000
600
One Term.—Theßarrie.
last, says :
Mr. Reed has offered
providin for the alteratio.
to render a governor of t
term. Such a measure, •
Meet the hearty concurren
sylvania. They have alr.
the principle in the case of
oil and one firm is certain
purity of our State govern
1,000
500
4,000
1,000
Neuepapers.—There a
267 in New England; 67
NomMuds, and 114 in
BREWERIES
C. LAUDERBURN, Clerk,
titled the 'Gospel,' and it
Preach the Gospel, and the
pstles to accomplish that,
speaking with " unknown
sages the Mormons, like
fr literal sense, and as ap.
of their delusions.
flutes of a Conference" of
ch. The minutes sh9w
priesthood, as in other
ers' and .priests.' It also
-nt orders of these, as one
at Philadelphia, and the
1. That they call them
ts.' 2. That their mem
' used in the States
the following are some
their number and condi-
tiers ; New York, 210 ;
pstead, L. 1., 50 ; Mon
hestercounty, Penn. 135;
i 04; New Jersey, 118;
0 states that there were
meeting in Preston, Eng
, in
.Manchester and other
paper, that they believe
has come. They have,
oints where the .Latter
rg Chronicle, of Monday
resolution in the Senate
of the Constitution so as
State ineligible after one
e have no doubt, would
e of the People of Penn
.dy declared in.favor of
Executive of the Eel
no less necessary to the
1555 in the U. States ;
in New York ; 243 in
hio, ate,"
The Wealth of England.—lt is a common error
in this country, to imagine that the riches of Eng
land are derived from and dependent upon her com
merce ; and the influence of this great mistake is
shown in the many wild suppositions that have been
hazarded, touching the effects of our commercial and
financial difficulties upon the financial and political
condition of the wonderful little island. Tho truth,
is that the merchants of England, with all their great
capital and vast extent of operations, hold but o very
small portion of the riches existing in the country ;
and this can he made apparent by a few simple con
siderations. Look at the squirearchy, for instance :
the thousands and thousands of country gentlemen,
with their comfortable incomes of three or five or ten
thousands pounds per annum, derived exclusively
from the soil ; aud the enormous fortunes of the no
bilitv.
300
1,000
2,000
1,000
300
500
250
100
Estimate, if it can be estimated, the immense
amount of treasure in the country, existing in the
form of plate and jewels. Why at a single dinner
given in London on the Path of June, gold and silver •
plate to the value of a million and a half of dollars
was exhibited at once : - all the property of one indi
vidual—the Duke of Wellington. That celebrated
personage could have relieved froni all their difficul
ties all three of the great Ameriran houses which
have been compelled to stop, simply by turning over
to them his dishes and tureens, vases and candelabra,
without diminishing his income a farthin i gl i kind
there are fifty noble ladies in London, any one of
whom could have •ppt the Messrs. Brown & Co., in
ample funds for all emergencies, merely by making
them a present of herl.liamonds.
Without taking the crown of jewels into the ac.
count, it is no doubt susceptible of proof that in Lon
don alone there are. gold and silver plate and jewels
to the amount of two hundred millions of dollars;
and it must be remembered that mighty as London
is, the wealth of the kingdom in wrought gold and
silver is very far from being centered there. An im
mense quantity of it is scattered among the castles
and country seats of the nobility, such as Alnwick
castle, Blenheim, Chatworth, Balvoir, Woburn Ab
bey, Bowood, and a hundred others which we could
name, and among the lovely mansions of the.coun
tiy gentlemen, with which the whole surfiice is dott
ed by thousands. Think of the libraries and galleries
the immense and almost priceless collections of pic
tures and statues and other costly works of art, in
which no country in the world is richer. Why the
whole mercantile wealth of England is hilt an item
of comparatively trifling magnitude. The non-pay
ment of our debt, if it were not paid, which 'thank
Heaven it soon will be, so far from inflicting a mortal
blow upon the prospenty of the kingdom, would
never be felt or thought of, except as a bandy theme
for a sarcasm, now and then, directed against repub•
lican honesty and honor. The fortune of the Duke
of Bedford, or Northumberland, or Devonshire, would
clear off the whole of it, and nobody but his grace be
a farthing the poorer.N. Y. Com. Adv.
250
100
.500
250
FATE OF THE APOSTLES
St. Matthew. This Apostle and Evangelist is
supposed to have suffered martyrdom, or was slain
with a sword at a city of Ethiopia.
St. Mark. This Evangelist was dragged through.
the Streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, until he ex
pired.
St. Luke. This Evangelist was hung upon an
Olive tree in Greece.
St. John. This Apostle and Evangelist was put
into a cauldron of boiling oil, at Rome, and escaped
death. , He after Wards died a natural death it Ephe
sus, in 'Asia.
St. Peter. This Apostle was crucified at Rome,
with his head downwards, by his own request, think
ing himself unwotthy to die in the same posture and
manner as his blessed master.
St. James the Great. This Apostle was beheaded
at Jerusalem.
St. James the Less. This Apostle was thrown
from a pinnacle, or wing of the Temple, and then
beaten to death with a Fuller's club.
St. Phillip. This Apostle was hanged up against
a pillar at Hecrapolis, a city of Phyrgia.
St. Bartholomew. This Apostle was flayed alive
by the command of a barbarous King.
St. Andrew. This Apostle was bound to a cross,
where he preached to the people until he expired.
St. Thomas. , This Apostle was run through
the body with a lance, at Coromandel, in the East
Indies. -
St. Jude. This Apostle Willi shot to death with
El=
St. Simeon, zealot. This Apostle was. crucified
in Persia
St. Mathias: This Apostle was first stoned and
hen beheaded. "t 5
St. Barnabas. This Apostle of the Gentiles Wu
stoned to death by the Jews, at Salonia.
St. Paul. This tpostle was\bebeaded at Rome,
by the tyrant Nero.'l
The, Morality of the Bible.—lt were no 'over hold
opinion, that if the Bible were not the word of God
and could not be proved to be the word of God, it
would nevertheless be the most precious of books.
and do immeasurably more for a land than the ft.
nest production of literature and philosophy.
We always 'recur with great delighflo the teatime
ny of a deist, ,who alter publicity laboring tri
dis
prove Christianity, and to bring Scripture into con
tempt as a forgery, was found instructing his child
from pages of the New Testament. When taxed
with the flagrant inconsistency, hie only reply was,
that it was necessary to teach the child morality.
and that no where was there such moralityas in, the
Bible. We thank the desist for his confession.
Whatever our scorn of a man who could be guilty
of so foul a dishonesty, seeking to sweep from the
earth a volume in which all the while himself recured
for the principles of education, we thank him for his
testimony, that the morality of the scripture is it
morality not elsewhere to be found: so that tP
there were no Bible, there would be comparative.
ly no source of instruction in duties and virtues
whose neglect and decline would dislocate the hap
piness of human society. The deist was right.
Deny and disprove the origin of Scripture, and . ntrio.
ertheless you must keep .the volume as a text boul;
of morality, if indeed you would not wish ,the ban
ishment from your homes of all that is lovely, and
sacred, and the breaking up, through the liwlessnesa
of ungoverned passions, of the quiet and the beauty
which are yet round our families.—Southern Inter,
cry Messenger.
TEMtERANCE.
Messrs: Its & 9tit.rocg : I have recieved the
following items ofint4lligendii try the Acadia, which,
I should be pleased tries inserted in your paper.
J. MARSH;
Father Matthew has paid a third visit to Ireland.
and administered the pledge to 40,000 persons
numbers - of them frOm the highest classes. He says
he was first excited to his works by some from the
Society of Friends., A member of that society in
England has offered, him £lOOO to aid him in bok
work, which he has declined accepting.
Simultaneous prayer meetings for the cause of
Temperance, are to be held throughout West Scot-.
land on the last Sabbath evening of the year. •
Tne'Richmond prison, in Dublin, has 100 cells
vacant, there having been a diminution of 184,c0r0,
a l iments for the last year and the Smithfield primp
is shut up, not being needed. The increase of do.
positors in one Savings Dank in 1840 beyond, 39 is
1530.
I • -
Debt of the Empir e State.—The State -debt est
New York is estimated at $15,064;746.
Advice.—Young men if you go on a sleigh vle.
be sure that you have belles in your skies u weu
bells on the hones. 43amivol Veller says t4st
belle4l are .went' musical "
Fred. Visitor.