,~: ~;_: 153/0 TEHRES -runiaro lUiV on the =:== Tile Miners' Some nest, ere puWisbed nn time; will alter the let - cif, /annaii he following toting and condi ....3 2 - C 0.., .., - !y in advance by those who ro annuilly in adiance by those . . For one year,..... . Six m0nth5,...... Three months,— Payable semi-amra I side in the county—an. viho reside at a aistan . iitr No paper wiLl• is paid in advance. - Fire.doilats in ads subscription. Papers 'delivere charged 25 cents exit.. TO A seul unless the subscrfplion nee will piy for three years by the Post Rider will be MEM Adveitisements not receding a square of twelve lines will be charged $, I tor three insertions, and 60 cents for WIC inseition.l Five Itnes or under. 25 cents I'4 each insertion— Yehrly advertisers will ; be dealt with on the following terms: One Column.. A it -1 I Two squares, .. ...$ 10 . Three-fourths dn.... .sOne do. .........6 Half column • 2 I Business eanis, slines, 3 All advertisements m st be paid for in advance un less an account is ope ed with the advertiser. The charge to Merchants will be $lO e er annum, with the privilege of kleitin,g one advertisement not exceeding one t (pare standing Awing the year and inserting a smaller °net in each paper. Those who occupy a larger spAce will he charged extra. Notices for Tavern L t icence, $ 2. All notices for meetit s and•proceedin,gs of meet ings not considered of general and ninny other tr.tices winch have been inserted heretofore gratuitously. with the exception of Marriages and Deaths, will be charged at advertisements. Notices of Death:, in which inv lances arc extended to the friends and relvives n - tlde deceased, to attend the Ifitneral. will be charged as advertisements. =I YINITE subscriber, a pointed by the Orphan's Ja. Court of Seim). hil rsounty, Auditor, to make 'distribution of the ass:, is in the hands et Daniel Shollenberger, the adt, inistraion &c. of William J. Mover, late of Mtg. Brunswick Township, in Sektryik ill County, de eased, too and among such of the creditors of said deceased, that may be en titled to receive the sable. Hereby gives notice to all such as - haveany claims against the estate of the said deceased; ll at he will attend at his of fice, in the Borough o Orwigsburg, on Monday the 14th day of Februa y next, between the hours of ten and four o' clue. , to make such distribu tion, at which time unFl place the creditors may present their'elaims. CHAIM Or wigshurz, Janui oSrf M. N, Auditor. 8 • JAMES „DOWNEY, RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he has brought v•itli him from New York this Fall, a. large assottincrit of Groceries & Li (lours, which he offers for &der. al the most mod erate Fkiladelphia .wfinlesale prices, ( freights added,) by calling at lie store nouse, next door to the ..icbuylkill Dwell. Morris's Addition, in the i s, Borough of Pottsville , consisting in of Black and Green Peas, of asuper or quality, Falling Loaf, Laguira, P. Rten.and N. O. Sugars, 40 bags of hest RIO GOIFI:C, with alquantity of Java, St. Do ming°, Green and Browned CuffecS; 100 barrels Refined Common Oil, * barrels Winter Strained Oil, Molasses, While and Yellow Soap, Tobacco, Keg and B . )* Raisins, Wines and Liquors, from common to the best fraliti,s, and about rOO bushels of Ground Salt. c., &c Pottsville, Jhouury d Mii:plCirti ES!, MEDICINES!! DB. Win, Evan's narrated yutnoilide do Snot ing Syrup for children. Baron Von Hutetteler's, Herb Pals, ' Ihict. Goodie's Female Dont. Walla Evan ', Fever & Ague Pill,. Duct. Hunt's Botanic Pills. —, For Dyspeptic -Persris 11trnOs Botanic Pills are said to be superior {o any Medicine ever yet .offered to the,l'oblie.• o above Medicines, just the Drug Store of FIN S. C. .M I: 'ft A fresh supply of 1.1 received and for sale at Dec II 50— J LO('4R Z UST received and ow opening, a large and OP well assorted stock pl new Full and Winter goods einsisting of Dry ) Gouda ofetferydesdripfion, Groceries of all kinds, China, Glass and grief:limp:ire. - Fir, Cloth, awl flair Seal Caps, Boots awl Shoes Loafs, Pantalooms, Vests, 4. - c. Master, Salt, F sh, 4-c• NVliieh will ha sold on if e liber4.rt-rm., and nt airy low prices or n exchange 'tor coontry produce, for which the litig!icst pros: Will be paid. [ ‘IU EL I! uc FZ. Pottqville, Nu New Fall andrWinter Good THY, sub:eribers. 'tale just received a New and Elegant assartthont of . Full and Winter consisting of, !lick , Blue and ninny Col. ored Cloths, Blue Bla r e and fancy Colored Cas slaters, Blue. ey, Blown, is'd and Drab Sattinett., White, Red, scarl - et:Yellow and Green Flannels, !Black, Brown, Green, Scarlet' and Drab Morinos, 12-4, 11-1, 10-4. 8-4, 6-4 Blurt kelt+. MrOrinn, Belvidere, Titian, and Taglioni Shawls, Buck, Beaverlllosk in. and Kid Gloo-s, `Winter Prlnt.. Roslyn Ppuls, Mouslin de (Alines, Woolen, 'Berlin and Cashinere 'Gloves, Blue, Green, Bed and Scarlet l'unton Finnnells, Bleach ed and unbleached Caillon-Flailnwil, Pilot, Bea ver and gearskin Coatings, WUXI, shirts Draw. crs, &e. &c. &c. • All of which we are disposed to Fell on our 'wont reasonablei ferrusi Oct 9 41- 1E1.14; A. HEN DE RSON GOLDEN SN . ( REV; VAN HOTEL, VFD, .(ore Aid', Philadelphitil IDOLLAR PER DAV. tias leased this old-eFlub has been completely put tr the netiommodatinu of tnd perroanent l boarders. y to business, reiMcrs it t strangbra and residents !lion of tlin, house has un cnnsing..; The culinary t order—with good cooks insure attention togile4ts Is for 70 persons. • vpr No. 69, N. Third e(., a' co. BOARD ONE VII ARLES WEISS! ‘-) lished hotel, whicl in order fo travelling "" 144 Its procinii' desirable-to of the coy. Every po derzone a complete c department: is of the fir: and servants selec'ed to —II as accommodation T hoie who may favor the house with their custom, may be assured of finding the best of fare the best of attention, and, as Is stated above, very reasonable charg .l,r Single day, 9 I 7 . 5. Lr Room fur horses tnd vehicles. Also horses to hire. . 1.7" Germantown and[WhiteMarshStageOffice• Phtladelidita. DereuAer 11,'1841 50—ti , . VIEW UP rOTTSV I M.P. M R. J.. N. BENiAIiE alt Artist of aeknowl. ed takitt, will publish in a short time; should a eutl'icieut' l puniher'ofL P ulscribers he obtained. a larce Lit bovaphie vietl. , 'of the liorough of Potts ville. It will be Lithokra plied by Mr: Benade and struck tiff by one iit* the best Lithographer• to the county, on thi following tcim , : Oa li)dia-Paper $ I 93 —' Vellud Main Vella tit Paper, I 00 l'obrred eopie4, when desired. 3 00 The view can be -Oxariiined at this office where .abstlriptions wi I-be received. It is 111 be -hoped ths!..Dirr eilizcn.' will aotbe backward in sullicka patronage tc tnsure its car Ip publication. - olt S A r.E.t, thortied to sell an the personal property I American Coal Compa Rail Road Cars, suited i Carbon Rail Road, 16 11 the Mill Creek Rai: R Drill Cars all in good gnus, together with crssary for inininE. 0. other Screens, Carts; Tools, ricks, Shovels, with one fifteen horse one Theodolite and to J A. August 28 TUE subser!ber is au private sale for cash; all belonging to the North y, consisting of 43 large to the track of the Mount ail Road Cars, suited for d with a large number of order, two Truck Wag e variety of fixtures ne .eratione, cyllinder and Wsggobs, Blacksmith 'ha Ms. kc. Together power Engine complete, -d in gond order. Apply !NIES SILLIMAN, dr.• 35—ti POTTSVILLE PE ,J UST received and selected assortment Fancy Hair Brushes Tooth Brushes, Indihn hair Bair Wae4, Rear's Oil, LAY ender Water, Rose tomb Paste, Bear's Grease, Soaps of fines Which he will sell terms. or 601 a choice end We of _ • - VOL, XVIII Many wilt , recognize in the following lines from Tait's Magaiine, a- picturO of wretchedness and sorrow of the English poor, in Lester's „ Glory and Shame of England.", While a portion of the people are shouting and rejoicing and wasting millions of it illars in celebrating the birth ,of a child, another portion are dying ia the damp cel lars for the mere want of food. 7ho kind heart ed and phil intbropic pOrson of our country can almost hear the deep sickening cry of tho destitute and starving mother, as in vain she begs,— Ciao my children bread. Such is the • Shame of England I saw a starving moth*, stand, • By the gates of a place proud, With a whining boy in either hand, And an infant wailing loud. An iufuu wailing loud—for dry Was the fount that wont to hush its cry ; And all that the starving woman said Was—" Give my children brdad!" • Forth from the palace proud theie came Three high and noble ones; The first ova's a Bishop, stout of frame, And chief 'in.d the Church's sons; Softly he strode, for he was fat— But, as he passed, he banned-the brat • Whose cries disturbed his reverend head; Yet the mother uttered—' bread !' The nest that passed from that palace dOor Wasa Peer of ancient rice And he scowled on tits beggars, and loudly swore, To drive thiim from the palace ' fwas hard, 'twos very hard his doors Should be beset by threes and fours Of idle wretc'nes! So he said Still the woman only muimured—• bread! ' 2-4rno POVERTY IN Stu r s s.—An American Can- Tiot read.ly imagine the real destitution and sni ff:ring prevailing .among the poor of Scotland and Ireland. There is in Glasgow a society to afford shelter to the housele-ti and twenty-two thousand applications ( I 6,000 of them by different persons) have been made to secure a night's lodging in a single year. The cost of food supplied to the in dividual who betakes himself to this refuge, for. 'the night, from the winds and rain, does not ex ceed three penze per day, and in ordinary cases, those who lind protection for the night, go forth, trusting only to the compassion of Heaven in the morning, Typhus fever, produced by extensive want and misery, is never absent from Glasgow or Edinburgh. That these causes have acted poweifolly to produce epidemic disease in Scot land, is evident from the following extract from ..Observations on the Management of the poor in Scotland, by Dr. Win. Pultney t 'Allison,” son of the distinguished author of the work on Taste.-- This appears front observing the times of these epidemics; the first in Edinburgh in 1817, after two bad harve-ts, and at the same time as the Dish one; the nextlii 1826, after the great fail uce in 1825, and the sudden cessation, particular ly of building expectations in Edinburgh; and the last in 1836, after the great - . depression of trade both in Glasgow and Dundee, with which towns the lower orders here are much connected, 'and under the combination of other circumstan ces alreadrmentioned, which have depressed the condition of the poor'in Elinburgh of late years. In tilasgow the evidence of the operation of this cause is still stronger. Fever seems to have in creased and diminished for forty years past, near ly as it did in Edinburgh, limit the year: 1836, when, after the stag-nation_ of trade, it became much more formidable. For twenty years before 18,15, when the town was. increasing in wealth, the number of patients in the infirmary never ex ceeded 130 in the year. In 1817, 1818, and 1819, it amounted to an average of 905 in, the year. After the great failure in 1835, it spread so extensively that the numbers taken into Hos pitals in 1836, '37, and '3B, were 3240 per year, and of these 5387 were in the year 1837 alone. The cases of fever. in Glasgow during the three years previous to 1540, were nearly 40,000, and the deaths 3835. In 1837, 2180 died, about one fifth of the whole mortality. During this year 3072 unemployed male operatives applied for work from a pulilic char ty ; 2273 of these being marred men. Dr. Alison is an earnest and elo quent advocate for the introduct , on of the poor law system into Scotland, and in this respect d f fers from his friend Dr. Chalmers.—Jouiwar if COW Meree, EDUCATION. AND elll3lr.—During the year 1840 the total number of persons convicted of felony in England was 19,9:17; of these 4,105 were transported, out of which number•only 390 had received such an education 'as enabled them to read and understand the Bible, the remaining 3- 5 I 7 being more or less, and the g rest:majority what nrieducat.d. in the county of aloe, during the yebr 1810, there have berm 41 persons transport ed, not ono of w horn had received education sot 11;1 , sit to enable him to read the. Bible, and the chaplain's rep_ rt stated that el :122 prinUlleffi in the jril during the last quarter, 50 LA 1111/1 were so deplorably ignorant , that they did not even know the name of the Saviour ; 61 only had been confirrherl 18 only were communicants of the Church of England: the remainder were either Ekssenters or of no religious persuasion whatever. A :considerable portion could not read, but many of them had been taught to read, and even write and do the first four rules of arithmetic, while in prison. • In Worcestershire 'the total number Of prisoners committed from the year 1835 to 184.1, both inclusive, amounts to 1,954. Out of this number of 1,951 no less than 771 prisoners could neither read or write. This is about two-fifths of the whole. And taking the Last si* years the number of prisoners who could read and Write well were about 23 ! to counterbalance the 771 who were in a state of rplete end deplorable ignorance. . PUMERY SALOON. Shaving Brushes,- Cutn Brushes, I :ltrentita %Vault, Lip Salve Court Plaster, Inchan`Hair Dye. Baffaid Oil; Ponaatem & Antique Oil, . quality, &c., &c. _ en the' most reasehable ILLIAM fl, SUMEIL ... ,- .7.ii.: - .n . 2.. , 12-: "':',l: 2 'f i''.'!!..-z.: - - - ,: v....--•-• .-- ' ''''. : -•-- -,' - ---- ‘ - - - ...- 1, - . ',-- -, -; --- : . 's - - '-... '-':,..- . 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JOHNSON The Cry for Bread And then paced forth a tidy fair, With a pale and haughty brow; But she started to see the beggars there, And fain their fleece would - know; Butt a pampered menial sly, and Bleak, - With a dastard's heart and woman's check, Spake out. • Imposters thou!' he said: So tho mother vainly begged fur bread ! That night as the Bishop, Peer and Dame Sat o'er their banquet high, From a 6(113.3111d cellar shells came. A wild and maniac cry!. And there, by her owifinad hand I.y slain That starving mother's children twain; ' And ;he in'ant i'—ai before was dead, For :here was none to give it breed. The Earl of Mulg . rave, who arrived here in the Brittannia, is a pretty good Yankee, being a de sendtrit-of William . Pitts, (by adoption,) the in ventor of the diving bell,, and who was appointed Governor of Massachusetts by King William in 1691, after having been knighted by King James for his success in recovering £39,000 from a sunken wreck near the Port de la Plata. Wil liam Pitts was'a pretty good farmer on the Ken nebec river, in Maine, before he was Governor, and commanded an Eastern, coaster. His father was a gunsmith in Bristol, England.—Baston AND POTTS WEEKLY BY BENJAMIN BANNAN, 'POTTSVILLE, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY, .PA. We propose in this number, to make a few •remarks upoh the cause of the low price of labor in England and Russia. It arises from their dif ferent forms of Government. The Government of England is a mixed aristocracy of nobility and wealth. The lands are, with few exceptions held by the nobility and retired capitalists, and leased to their tenants. The independentfarmers, who form so important a class in this country, are scarcely known there. As the ballot has not been adopted in England, and the vote is taken viva voce; the large proprietors influence every tenant who pays a rent of ten pounds, and, of course, all the counties of England are under this influence. The counties, with few exceptions, returned members in favor of the corn monopoly, who now constitute the Tory majority of the House of Commons. The corn monopoly gives to the landed proprietor about $2 for every bitsh 'el of wheat raised. As only a portion of what is necessary for the consumption of the country is raised, a duty is laid by the sliding scale, when ever it is below that price. So that every inhabi tant must pay that price for his bread— , and, in. case of scarcity, a much higher price. The great reduction in the price of labor and the high price of food, have produced distress and destitution in the lower classes, exceeding any country in Europe. In the year 1834, .C7,511,- 219, sterling, equal to $47, 556,035, were assess ed for the poor rates e f England exclusive of Ire land and Scotland. It amounted to one third of the rental of the real estate. It has arisen, prin cipalfy in this manner. A laborer, !with his lam , ily applie.s to the poor house for assistance —upon the ground that the sum he obtains for his work will not support his family. Rather than have the whole family in the poor house, an allowance is made of a sum sufficient, with what he can earn to support him. This has been the common practice. In other instances, their labor has been 'sold public auction, at so much per week—and t residue necessary for a support, is paid by the harish. The invariable effect was to reduce the price of labor, as the regular workman was dis charged, and this class substituted. So that a great portion of the laborers of England were pauperized, and still no effectual relief was ob tained. The immense sums expended have alarm ek the public, and induced Parliament to enact a new poor law, by which relief was limite'd to the actual inmates of the poor house. Its operation has sensibly diminished the tax for poor rates—but has produced so much dis tress, that the Radical party have changed sides in great numbers, and now support the Tories.— The price of labor is, at this moment, as low as it has ever been known. In the last discussion of the corn laws in the House of Commons, the statement was made, and not denied, that the highest price to be obtained by a weaver in Man chester, per week, with the assistance of his wife and two children able to work, was . los. 6d. ster , ling, equal $2,33. lh this country at the prosoot time several thousand termites are employed at Lewell, in the factories, who receive; upon the avJrage, $3,25 per week—deducting $1,37 paid for board, they earn $1,87 per week. The differ ence in the price of labor for men' is greater.— Where. the disparity is so great, no competition can be sustained without an efficient protection • by government. With respect to the.labor of Russia, it is equal ly low. We have not,!however, the same infor mation upon the subject, that we have relating to England. It is sufficient to state the fact, that there arc twenty millions- of the subjects of that empire who axle serfs, and attached to the estates of the phapriethrs. We now add a statement of the quantity of iron manufactured in this country in 1830 and 1840, and also the quantity imported. It is offi cial, and furnished by the marshals of the United States: The competition in iron is from England, Russia and Sweden. Tons. Tons. Tons. Man. Cast Iron. Hu Iron. lam Bar Iron. 1840 . 310,807 201,581 95,825 1830 112,000 27,650 It will be perceived that since the year 1830, the imported Bar Iron has increased in a greater ratio than the domestic, notwithstanding the duty of $3O per ton. These remarks upon the price of labor in Eu rope, have been made with a view to show the inability of the United States to compete with those productions of England and Russia of which labor constitutes the chief value. If this fact is established, there can be no question but the Ta riff ought to he so framed as to protect, in any event, those manufactures which are necessary for the military and naval defence of the country. LIVING IN PARIS AND LOND The compare. live expenses of London and Parisian hmisekeep• in k . are often discussed. It is probable that persona of very small or very large fortuoeS gain by a resicence in the French capital; while those of moderate have greater advantages in England. The luxuries of lite are incomparibly cheaper in Parts; and though an income of £lOOO or 1' , 2000 per annum may accomplish the same position in eith.-r capital. £lOO9 a year in. France is equal to 10,000 pound. in England. This arises in a great measure from their stationary habits, friim the smaller number of serfants composing a greathtitablisliment, and from the inferior man nerin which ilievAre accommodated Arlie upper servants absorb half the expellee required by dome of the English aristocracy. The stabl e s and equipages also, costly in England, are of less importance. Public amusements, such as the French and Italian opera, are less expensive, and enjoyed - wth greater moderation; and the fetes of the French, though brilliant as regards illumination, are of a more economical order than our own. There is less prodigality, less ostentation ; no forced fruits or exotic flowers; nn "chickens' wings for half the town;'. but simply, good music in a well lighted series of rooms with plenty of ices for refreshment. and buoillion for support. The ball rooms of Paris, are consequently secure from that voracious class of the comniunity which till supper time encumber the dancing rooms of London. [Mrs Gore's Picturesque Annual. • TROO OLE BETW BEI6 TWO M BTIBERS.-A street affray took place on Wednesday morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock, in front of Gadsby's Hotel. The combatants were 'dr. ‘Vm. B. Camp bell, of Tennessee, and Mr. Boardman. The origin of the difficulty I do not know, further • than that something was alleged to have been spoken in the Hall of the House of Representa tives yesterday, by Mr. B. offensive to the mem ber from Tennessee. Mr C. chose to redress his grievance upon the avenue, and to that end made an attack upon Mr, B. Moss were in terchanged, but the parties were. soon. separated, and without any material damage, except_ that of character to either party. --E Cornapo;tilince Ball: Pat. SATURDAY IVIORNINp, , - FEBRUARY 5, 1842 From the - 608(012 Atlas en m itrance. From the Public Leger. Lines written by a Lady, As an excuse.for her tell to the cause of Tem perance; and,..uddressetl to a Inend who told her that'she .* was almost a monomaniac ou the solo jest of alcoholic drink." Go feel what I have Alto Go, bear what I have borne— Sink 'neath the blow a father dealt ; •-• And the cold proud world's scorn— • Thus struggling un from year, to year. Thy sole relief scalding . tho tear. Ge, weep as! have wept, : O'er a loved father's all, Sec every cherinla promise swept, Youth's eweetnet■ turnled to gall. (lope a faded flowers st roved alrthe way That led we 'up to woman's day. Go, kneel as I have knelt, Implore, beseech and pity— Strive the beiutied heart to melt, The downward course to stay— Be cast; with bitter curee,.ostdei Thy prayers burlesqu'd,,thy rears defie I. Go, stand where I have stood, And see the strong roan' bow With gnashing teeth, lips bathed in blood, And cold and livid brow; Go, catch his vracering gime°, and see 'There,-mirror d, his soul's misery. Go, hear what I liSve heard, The sobs of sad despair, As memory fame's loon t bath adred, Audits revealings there Have tol I him what he might have been.; Had he the drunkard's fate -foreseen, Go to thy mother's aide, . • And her crushed spirits cheer, Thine own deep anguish hide, Wipe from her cheek tbs . tear— Mark her d'inm'd eye, her likrow'd brow, The gray that streaks her nark hair now, Hair toil-worn frame, her trembling limb,' And MCOOIO ruin back to h;m Whose plighted faith in early youth Promiled eternal love and truth— But who, forsworn, hatn yielded up 'Pais promise in the deadly cup. And let her down from love and light, From all that made her pathway bright. g And chain'd her there, 'mid want and ■tr.fe, 'rho lowly •thing—a Drunkard's Wife; And stamped ur childhood's brow so mild, That withering blight—a Drunkards Mid ? Go, hear, see and fed end know All that my soul bath felt or known— Then look upon the wino cup's glow, See if its brightness can atone, Think if its flavor you woull try, Ir all prockitin'e—,.." Tis drink and • Tell me I hale the bowl, Elate is a Ittehle.word -1 loathe, abhor—my very soul • With strctogdisgust ie sured When'er 1 see, or hear, or tell Of the dark beverage of hell! A FAcr.—A man in the town of M—. H., who had, while from home, earned about Us dollars, returned the other day to his fatnily, with the cash, His wife told him that during his ab sence the family had suffered for food. He ro. plied, I. will go to a store and buy-what is want. ed, end their we shall have enough. He had re. (rained from drink fur some time, but on arriving at the grocery, if was found ho bad money, and he was invited to drink, um a hail. r:omething stronger, till he got drunk, spent all his money fir rum, and returned to his half. starved family at two o'clock in the morning, penniless. The poor wife was greatly distressed, and on the next everting ventured to go to the wife of the rum-seller : told the story of her suffering family —of the manner in which her husband bad been made a pauper, &c.; whereupon the good lady filled a I urge basket with pork, bread, coffee, su et, &c., and then calling her husband into the entry,i.: presence of the drunkard's wife, &tid— o Last night you took from this poor woman's husband all his money for rum : I have now filled a basket full of-articles of food, and so-long as you continue to sell liquor, and get men drunk and take from them thoir money, thereby making their families poor and miserable, I will deal out to them from the house all they may s want to support them." This was more than the hus band coald stand, and the next morning he went to his store and emptied every cask, decanter, and bottle of liquor into the road—saying he Would no longer sell liquid fire, but would keep a tem- perance store. Would to Heaven that the wife of every rum seller would follow the example of this good woo- man, and that the result might he the same.— Boston Mer. Jour. Tux Dnestesno's Wit.r.,-1 leave to society a ruined character, a wretched example, and I memory that will soon rot. I leave to my parents, during the rest of their lives. as much morrow as humanity, in a feeble and deerepid state, can sustain. I leave to my brothers and s;sters as much mortitigation and injury as I ceuld well bring on them. I leaeo to my wife a broken heart, a life a wretchedness, a shame to weep over me, ant preamature death, I give and bequeath to each of my children poverty, ignorance, a low character, and the re, membrance that their father was a monster. INTenesTtna SeATisTies - ;— The, Census Engtind. The total numbet;of males in Eng land, in 1841, was 7,321,875. Of females 7,- 673,633. Total 14,005,508. The Cmsus ~f Walts.—ln 1841, the maleF amounted to 447,533--females 463,788. Total 911,321. • The Census of Se.liand.-:-Males in Scotland• amounted to 1,246,427—rema1es 1,382,530. To tal 2,628,957. Prussia has a population:of 19,098,125 exclu sive of Neufchatel. The Censtir of Dlesieo.—According•to the last census, the population of Mexico amounted to 7,044,140. The number of animals of draught which paid, duty in England arid Wales, in 1835, was 302, 527—in 1839, 309,304. Welder's AFFECTIONL—The following exquisite anecdote, illusiaiive of woman's undying affec tion, is from a late work published in Great Britain, styled "English Maiden." "Sir Robert Barclay, who commanded the British squadron in • the battle of Lake Ei ie. was horribly motila. ted by the wounds he received in the action. having lost his right arm and one of his legs. Previously to his leaving England, he was engaged to eyoung lady. to whom .he was ten derly attached. Feeling acutely on his return that he was iiinere wreck, he sent a. friend to the lady. informing her of his mutilated con dition, and generously offering to release her her from - her engagement. " Tell him." reqlied the noble girl. "that I will joyfully marrj him, if' he only has enough o Body left to hold his soul " The young unmarried ladiei are much oppoe -. to the Bankrupt Bill; becanae'they eV" it Pm' vents all attadimen4 • - - ." - - ' ADVERTISER. Made hy the Beard of .Managera, to Me Stork &dam tithe Mine .IEII and Sehnylkitt Raven Rail Road Company, January 10th, 1842: The net miscallanemis tonnage transported on the Company's road during the past year, amounts to two hundred and thirty-eight thousand one hundeni and eighty tone. The tolls received amount to fifty-three thou. sand nine hundred and ninety dollars sixty-six cents. The ordinary expenditures during the same pe riod are: • For repairs and maintenance of the road, • For salaries and expenses of the Boird, 1,670 00 Interest account. 2,486 68 The expenditures during the past season, on account of permanent improvements, 'amount to thirty-one thousand nine hundred and thirty-sev en dollars and eight tents. The ascending track has been renewed with heavy iron rails, from Schuylkill Haven to the Company's oftee, a distance of OHO and a halt miles ; and also from Indian Run to a point on the Main Branch. one and a half miles above its junction with the West West Branch, a distance of two and three quarter miles making the whole distance thus laid four and a quarter miles. On the West West Branch from the Muddy Branch extension to Deep Creek, a mile of the distance has been laid with heavy bar iron. On the Wolf Creek lateral, iron rails have been laid, making the whole distance at this point thus renewed nearly a mile. The damages occasioned by the freshet early in January, and of which the stockholders were informed in the last Annual Report, have been fully repaired—the expenditures being eleven hundred and sixty-three dollars fifty seven cents, chargeable to the contingent fund. During the present year, it is proposed to con tinue the reconstructtotrof the ascending track on both branches; the greater port of which it is ex pected will be accomplished at the close of the season. However desirable may be the early completion of an improvement embracing the entire route of the Company's work, the Managera nevertheless deem it Weil . duty to regard the mutual interests of the operators and stockholders. In the execution of such portions as are now complete, the transportation on the road has nev er been arrested, or impeded, while the disburse ments were always commensurate with the conve nience of the stockholders to meet the requisite subscriptions. That the progressive improvement of the Com pany's work has been beneficial to the cost region will be seen from the statement now exhibited of the net transportation it has been the means of affording to the opCrators for a series of years. Coal and miseeliancuu. avums6o tnausporicd during the years 1831 1832 1833 1831 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1848 EOM The gross tonnage transported during the years noted, can be ascertained oy the i additiou of five per cent. to date of January, 1433, when the al lowance to the operators was increased to seven and a half per cent. at which it now remains. From ttie revenue of the Company, as before stated, two semi-annual dividends have been de clared, equal to fifteen pet cent, on the capital stock, of which the shares issued were, on the first day of January of the present year, five thou sand five hundred and fifty two, equal to To which must he aided the mort gage due by the tiouvany, - On the dividends thus declared, the teL due the ' Commonwealth has been paid, amounting to two thousand and eighty-two dollars ; and on the div idend declared January 6th, 1841, just after the act of Assembly had taken effect, the sum of eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars forty-eight cents has also been paid to the Commonwealth. In closing this brief exposition of the . Compa ny's strains, the Managers are induced to reoraik, tLat the extension of the Philadelphia and Read ing Rail Road to Pottsville, may be regarded as another outlet through which individual enter prise may be exerted ; and when viewed in con. nection with the works of the Scho)lkill Naviga tion Company; which have hitherto so largely contributed to the advantages of the coal region, it will be perceived that these imputant public woxks, effected at great expense, will hereafter furnish every possible facility demanded by au in: creasing coal trade. On behalf of the Board of Managers. JAMES DUNDAS, Prc.rident. January 10th, 1842. We have before us a tabular statement of the ruling prices of iron, under various Modifications of the tariff, almost froth the commencement of the Government; This statement speaks for it sPlf, showing conclusively that whenever the duty upon iron was sufficiently high to protect the home manufacture, the current value in the home market has been invariably reduced, and vice ver so. Take the following fact: In 1793 the duty was $l5 per ton, the current value in the home market was $9O and $95 per ton; in 1816 the duty was reduced to $9 per ton, the current val ue in the home market was $llO and $l2O per ton ; in 1824 the duty was increased $22 40 per ton, the current value in-the home market was 1 $BO per ton. W hat, then, do these facts show I Unqueetionably that the home manufacture has, throughout the whole past hept.down the price of the imported article. And the reason is palpa ble. Only destroy the home manufacture, by a mere nominal duty on imported lON and the price in the home market at once advances to whatever sum the cupidity of foreign capitalists any choose to Repub. A chap beitig asked-what he took for a cold, answered: ufoui padiat - bazAhemigefal,r day , madam." REPOFer $5,929 69 610.086 37 17,559 t 5,420 77,072 42,616 66,130 107,845 170,230 142,485 150,919 171,409 238,180 1,249,865 $277,600 40,006 $317,600 , MEM EMB FlO7ll the Western Statesman. The Word of God. When scenes orsorrow hover round. And not a source of bliss is found ; We to the word of Life may go. From whence all lasting pleasures flow This is the source of lasting joy, Which all our moments should employ ; Their richest mines are hinded still, The searching mind with wealth - to fill. Then may that choice, 0 Lord, be mine, To search these pages all divine, And there may I that jewel find. That so enlarges every mind. The mind that doss these treasures prise, Is-fitly ripening for the skies To join, and sing, with angels bright, And dwell in realms of endless light. An Evening Ramble in A utumn. At, the decline of a day in autumn, just as the wearied sun was withdrawing his cheering rays horn the earth, and veiling his lace behind the hills that tower up far off in the west, 1 stood before the old Methodist burial ground. A stranger might have passed it wi•hout bestow ing on it a pasting glance ; not so with me. Of ten in the summer season, when a hT , ,had I wan dered over its consecrated ground, and wept over the graves of a kind and indulgent failier,and two lovely sisters. And now, although night was fag' setting in, with a bleak northwesterly wind, my feelings carried me to its rude fence, and as I en tered, the old worm-eaten gate,—itself the emblem of corruption,—swung back and closed behind me with a chilly grating sound that curdled my blood. The trees hdd Cast off their foliage, and every where might be seen strewing the ground these fit emblems,of man's mortality. Autumn is a melancholy and contemplative season. The leaves became withereu and sere, and t ill to the ground —the fl 'were d.e, and nature disrones he•seti her ereen sod to.aniant drapery—the groves are no longer filled with the sweet minstrelsy of birds, and the mournful dirge and echoes of the spheres attuned in sad harmony with the sombre op pea,ances around. The seasons of breeze laden ed with sweet odors—the beauties and scents of spring—the delightful shades and refreshing show ers of bright and joyous summer, are all past, but 11,4 forgotten. Yes, autumn is here, and though it may be less enchanting, less thrilling than the seasons of fragrant flowers and brighters skies, yet it imparts a healthier, purer lesson to the soul—a calm and more chastened pleasure to the senses. A writer in one of our useful periodicals says •+ spring is emblematicofthe spriOuly and innocent gambols of boyhood—summer, of ripe, impetuous, stirring manhood—but autumn, glori ous, hospital autumn, with its rich and varied stores, Ay pities the calm and serious musings of man's more mellowed age—lignified, serene," Such an . evening ! The winds were wailing in plaintive cadence among the kelless trees, Con veying to my soul their own sail symphony, mel lowing it down, and filling it with heaven-born as piratic) is, as my eye almost intuitively rested on a little mound of earth near the entrance by the lane. A newly placed head-stone informed me that ,beneath it rested the renisins of a little girl aged 12 yeart--one with whom I had went to school, the sharer of my infantile j aye.--The snows of eight winters hail covered her little grave; but twice, nay twenty times that number of years could not blot out the fair creatures appearance, which even now so often flits before my mind—so meek• to heavenly. Oh ! how I loved that girl ; w ith what grief was my young bosom rent, when, on returning from a visit to the country, I learned her fats. Death spares nei:her age nor sex, else had little Marion lived. But why should we sor row for the dead, who have -gained a rich abode above the beauteous clouds? When such as Mare ion are called away by the unerring. unalterable will of the Great Architect of the Universe, some wise end is to be accomplished. " %Veep not for her! she is an angel now, And (reads the sapphire flowors of parsd.ze. All darkness wiped from her refulgent brow— sorrow, suffering, banished from her eyes Victorious over death. to her appears, The vista'd joy of heaven's eternal.years— eep not for her!" My soul began to din within me, and seating myself on the,cold ground raised about her much loved remains, I I gave myself up II reflection.— All who now lie here—the rich and the poor—the arrogant and the virtuous—the learned and the unlearned—once crowded the streets of yonder city ; and all who now move through them. must fi n d a s i m ila r level ; the grave is no. respecter of persons—no bribery avails with it. Rising from the damp earth, I wandered tow ard tho graze of my schoolmaster, N. A. D--, a man who will long be held in fond remembr;nce by all who were eo fortunate as to he placed un der his charge. With the n tme of aschoolmas. (dr " it is customary to associate lirrtell'words, un merciful blows=in a word, every thing which characterizes a heartless man. Such, however, was tint the character of our old friend and teach er. A man of profound learning, ho united to this quality a suavity of mariners and a kindness of heart which won fur him not only the eateem-- 1v that is too cold an espression- r but the lure of his pupils, It were vain to attempt an eulogy of his character here—nothing the writer could siy would plaCe an additional layer nn the cenoloph which his friends have reared in their own ho saute. Suffice it to say, when Areal flipped his dark wings o'er his abode—wh. n grin Death 114715E1f hid his cold clammy hand upon his maidh brow—he shrunk not beneath his ie - trfo . u.h ; but casting his glassy eyes around his chamber, and gazing upon those he loved, for the lust time, he raised his emaciated hand in supplication to the God whom, ddring 1.118 days of rosy health, he had not forgotten, and closed his eyes in death. Ma ny were the mourners who followed Ins remains to thfs place and returned to their homes sorroo- ing. Departed friend, years will be piled upon years; stars set forever, and grief forget ite wore, before cease to think of thee. Turning away from his green and mos ey grave, I could not but exclaim." Regales& in pare." Leaving this " silent city of the dead," the se pulchre of hope that were created but to wither, and the yawnings of which bad caused so many hear 6 to bleed With unutterable and, until Time, that great alleviator of human infliction, had ex erted his soothing power, irreconcilable grief, I resumed my walk, improved by the short stay within its enclosure. My reflections es I turned my firer , From flits " mansion of the dead," and sr . lenoly homeward retraced my steps, were render ed the more melancholy by the darkness which surrounded me, and the essentials of which may be. giiien hereafter.- 1:611TBAM. Tags LAST AODAEST.—.4.IIO 1.61:10301 of mend over matter," as the printer said. wheat!, rgstt fatedlrrt out. - -( MERE 1 . Eauceeton.--We copy the follOnthig ititerest, tog article from the Newark Advertiser.l. It Wilt' be seen by the stinisticiwhich it meenti,litat in same of the Southern and Western iltittety. end indeed *0 may Up, in every *hate in the U4m.„ . there is ;work for the seboolnieiter—he ahoulttbet encouraged to ugo abroarl. b) The' Einem:mei oT • 'the whit e popul a ti on fi l l the slave-holding Stiteit is indeed deplorable. 'There a few exerciser, I powerful influence:over, and coutrul the rircrob, l j , i , It would appear by the late census that thire are upwards of half a million of the free white inhabitants of our country, over 20 years of ago, . wh.s are unable to read or write! The annerl • table shows the number in the *triers, Stares ; and the proportion which that number 'heels to Ass whole number of whiyes. New Jersey, it trill be seen, i., tie...oft:mg to this etundartl, the eighth State in point of popular intelligence. Ey the' same rule, Connecticut stands at the tirad of the Union, and North Caroline the lowest in the scale. The r chivalrous south' appears to he far below the Northern and Eastern States. The diCrerenco beteeen South Carolina;. (tile birth place of Nullification ) where every twelfth man is unable to read and write his name, and Con. necticut, .( the land of common schools;) sabers the proportion is the other way more than five hundred to One, is a most striking end instructive commentary upon the stage of social and mural improvement in the respective States. E NO. 6 ft iv proper to remark in justice to our common country abd its peculiar and beneficial lions, that the apparent proportion of popular ig• norance ii materially increased in sumo of the States by the presence of lame numbers' of aliebs. Thus New York end Massachusetts, sectond to none on the facilities for education, have tit theii large towns great numbers of foreigners. tot yet I assimilated to Ameri4M institutions: The same is true to a great extent of the new Stars... But for those proud members of the • old thirteen; Georgia, Virginia and the two Carolinas, there Li no ruch excuse : Number rf whites over 20 who cannot reek: -or rszi 526, being Ilin 674 3241 i 153 Vermont. • ,2270 New tinrepshirer, v, 927 - s 9 7 Massachusetts, , 4449 ; :I '' 61 tc bleat). 2179 Rhode Wend, 1600 , 66 New Jeisey, 6385 55 New York 44.462 . iSI Perri sylvanik, 33 940 " 4 / CohnectLut. Maine, Olno, Louisiana, 'Airy land, al tsdissippi, Indiana, 111 iasou ri, Alabama, Georgia Konturky, , Virginia, South Carolina, Arkansas, Delaware, Tennessee, North Carolina, The reflecting• reader will derive some impor tant lessons from the contemplation of this tahle. It would be o useful service if some one halm; the leisure and means, should furnish an estimate to show the relative progressof popular intell& gence from the commencernent of the present century, including the increase of population and the means of popular instruction. We trust our political institutions to the people, and we do well, but it cannot be too often repeated that the I public mind must be enlightened to understand.' and culticated to prefer, what is upright and hon. orahle., if we would make them secure, end ad. sance iu the . highest moral and . political happis noes: C 13 - DE.7:51.1) STATISTICS UP TIIE 'nom . matiiiie- Tr it E IIF crtitn.En 5O NTT 4 Furnaces, making annually 'pig metal and cast- ings —4OOO tons. 5 Forges, making annually bar-iron and blooms— 1800 toes. 6 Boiler mills, making annually .boiler plate— 2400 tong 3 Sheet-iron mills, making annually sheet iron and nail plates-600 tone. 4 Nail Factories —amount not yet known. 3 Fou ndres 3 I'rip Hammen' On a careful estimate of the number of people depending on the various mantlfactories above enumerated, it is found that there are 624 fami lies, averaging 4 - persons to each, milting 2496 individuals. Each family consumes per annum 15 bushels wheat—amt. 9360 bus's. at $1,25 $11,700 Do. do. 25 bus'ls Corn-15,600 at 50 70400 Do. do. 10 do. potatoes-6,240 at 40 2,496 Do. do. 400 lbs. beef-249,600 lbs, ats, 12,480 Do. do. 300 lbs. pork-312,000 do. at 4, 12,480 Do. do. tobacco-4,680 do. at 25, 1,170 200 horses employed at the various works, using half a bushel of corn each per day, amounting to 06,- 500 per annum, at 50 'cents per bushel, 18,750 Con= tuning also 400 tons hay, at $lO, 4,000 3 charcoal furnaces, and 5 forges use an- nually 21,000 cords Wood, at $l, 24,000 624 families, 5,240 do. 1, 6,240 Amounil paid annually to our own far. mete. The ;number of persons above enumerated; comprises about the one twenty-third part of h e population of Chester county, or one out of ev ry twenty-three, depending entirely for their support on our. iron manuf mtories, beside a large number more remotely dependent, such, as wheelwrights; shoemakers, boatmen, car agents, &c. Here also we have a market for the produets of 120 farms of Ifio acres each, which is m a ti than the one-twentieth part of all the tillable I in the county. The Loui.wiile Journal furnishes thefollowing sketch of a rather daring movement of a young lady A LOCISVTLLE BELLE.— A few nlglita ago, one of the most accomplished bells of this city, while sleeping in the same apartment with Mrs. Charles W. Thurston, who is in feeble health, was suddenly roused by a slight noise. Looking around her. she saw a ruffian, evidently a robber. at a window, in the act of raising it. Leaping up, she bade him depart. He hesitated a mo ment ; but, seeing that the two ladies were alone in the room, he proceeded with a terrific> frown in affecting his entrance. Thereupon the young lady instantly seized a large pistol which happen ed to be in the apartment ; cocked it, prisenting it at him, and &dared her determination to blow• his brains out if he did not instantly tly.. knew from her countenance that she would bees good as her word, and snatching some small ar• ticks of dress from : a Chair• within arm's length of the window, he fled with precipitation. 'We are told that the young heroine would have Fred if she had known that the pistol was certainly .loaded; but she feared that it was empty, and that a snap would betray herdefencelezanctsi - A prelate, walking with Dr. Johnsen, James Park,.rerearked, that the trees grew very large and strong. pSir," said 11 / 4 "* l 44re- 41 t. antsy have nothing else to do," s. • • 35 394 4,664 11 69; 8,360 33,100 27.502. 19,467 22,593 30,717 45,018 h 8.732 20,615 6,567 4,832 58,531 56 609 5€14.457 $101,116 ME
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