Ijc Scffcrsouicm. HTJRSDAY, MAY 17, 1855. JL. Ourselves. The May term of the Monroe County Courts will commence on Monday, tbe2Sth iubt., and give such of our country friends as may be in arrears to us for subscrip tion, advertising or job work, an oppor tunity of cither calling personally and set tling, or sending us tho amounts which they severally owe. We are in want of money and we hope our patrons will not forget us. It is now more than fourteen years since the Jeffersoniau passed entirely into our bands, during the whole of which tinio we have most assiduously labored to make it u valuable and interesting journal. Godey's Lady's Book. The May number of Godey's Lady's Book, has been on our table for some time. It is praise enough to say, that it fully sustains the previous high reputa tion of-the magazine. Dividends. Tho Eastou Bank has declared a iivi- dend of 0 per cent, and tho Farmers and Mechanics Bank 5 per cent, for tho last fcix mouths, payable to the stockholders on and after the 10th inst ZJ" Senator Walton returned home, from Harrisbunr, on Thursday evening hiA. He looks well, appears in fine spirit, and we have no doubt, would le j'leased to meet all of his friends, old cli ents, and as many new ones as may feel disposed to give him a call. V. B. Palmer's American Newspaper Agency is removed from N. W. corner of Third and Chesnut Streets, to Brown's New Iron Building, N. E. corner of Fifth and Chestnut, Philadelphia. Proke Jail! William Bailey, who was committed to Jail in this place, a few weeks ago, on a charge of stealing a horse belonging to Mr. Gideon Burritt, of Pocono township, made his escape on Tuesday evening last, by loosening ,a number of stones in the wall, thereby making a hole sufficiently! large to enable him to make his exit. Bailey is an Englishman, about 40 years of age, about 5 feet 6 inches high, 1 as lost the Hght of one eye, and of san dy complexion. Sheriff Siiafer offers a reward of 30 fir bis apprehension and delivery to the Juii in this place. Foreign XT- Late foreign news announce that the PrencIjj cholera has broken out among the troops at Sebastopol and was raging ljcrcely. Some very suspicious messages nre passing between Austria and Prussia, 'i he Vienna Conference had broken up. Lord Palmerston had announced in Par-' li anient that in these conferences Russia had submitted no counter proposals, and t;:inply rejected thoso of the Allies. The telegraph, however, of a date subsequent . 1 1 M -m. to mis announcement, tells us or an ad ditional conference, at which Russia sub mitted propositions which were immedi ately rejected. The telegraphic communication be tween London and the Crimea is now com p'ctc, and a message has been received thereby. The Emperor Napoleon is a lout to set out for the Crimea. His camp i pipage is said to bavo already gone tjero. It i3 said that Gen. Pellissier will supersede Canrobert. Judge ISTClure on the License Question. The following extract is from a recent ly delivered opinion of Judge McClure of Pittsburg, who has refused to hear any application for license in Allegheny coun ty : The very first section of tho act of A pril, 1555, enacts, 'that all laws, or parts of law, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be and the samo are hereby re pealed.' There is no law in existence, making it the duty of the Court to grant any license under any circumstancos. Now, the Court is as much bound to dis regard repealed laws, as it is to obey those that are in force. Here, then, multitu dinous Maws and parts of laws,' the mass and accumulation of more than a century, guiding and directing the action of the licensing power, are all swept away in a moment, for each and all of them 'are in consistent with the provisions of tho act' of April, 1855. A tavern license is not a license to keep tavern; it is a license to sell intoxicating drink. An application is made lor a license; the Court is satis fied of the fitness of the applicant, the fcufficiency of accommodation, tho good repute of the signers to the certificate that such tavern is necessary to accom modate the public, and entertain strang ers and travelers. Now, these were very good reasons a year ago, but they are no reasons now. The law that made these reasons has been repealed their legal ixistcnce has ceased, and no court at least can re-enact them. The letter and the pirit of the act of April, 1855, is the to tal abolition of the retail license. Nothing but a a bntcr one. good life can fit tnenjbrj an Mb. Editor: Upon the induction of the members of the present Town Council into office, it was confidently believed, by many, that a firm, consistent and judicious administration of our borough affairs, would be the result. Has that expectation bceu defeated ! Does the sequel so far, show nothing, but imbecility in the dis charge of official duty, and a stolid disre gard of the expressed wishes of the pub lic ! "Who, charges that a neglect of offi cial duty, in the estimation of some men, is deemed a matter of small moment, and that a set of men, who can deliberately abuse publio confidence, ere not fit to fill any station of public trust and responsi bility ? Who alleges that a gross derelic tion of official duty implies not only abuse of publio confidence, but violates all sense of honor, justice and propriety, and smacks strongly of u disregard of the sol emn obligations of official oaths ? Echo answers who 1 Wo presume no man has back bone suf ficient to prefer such charges against our honorable and sagacious board of Com mon Councilmen, but somo are so lost to a sense of propriety, so dead to the max ims of courtesy and exhibit such a wan to n disregard for the dignity of high of ficial functionaries, as to enumerate some instances of misfeasance and nonfeasance, upon the part of that highly esteemed and honorable body. Now we wish to refute these asseverations, and vindicate official merit from groundless aspersions. 1st It is alleged "that heretofore ithas been the practice, of publishing annually the Borough ordinances, giving every cit izen a fair notice of their several provis ions. That the present Council have neg lected to do this, and the result is that every citizen does as he pleases in ig- norance of them, with no exaction of pen- j altics c- iQ answer to all tbis, we would say, tnat tne councilmen laave adopted the old and well known maxim of the Bo-man- law, Ignorantia juris, quod quisquc, tenctur scire, nemincm excusat, and that their refusal to exact the penalties for the violation of the ordinances, does infi nate credit to their forbearance and majr nanimity. 2d It is alleged " that Main Street is filled with enormous and uusightly heaps of stone and dirt, reminding them of the defences of the Allies, before the walls of Sebastopol." Upon examining the maps and charts of the military operations, in the I Crimea, we acknowledge the appositeness of the comparison, but we must not over look utility. Any ono can drive on a jgood road, but it takes a good reinsman to tack down main street, in its present condition; and tho publio are under many obligations for the rare opportunities of- t T A it fl , .i ,1 iiuicu luciu oi uecoming proncicnis in mat; act. Not only this, but the boys can in - dulgc in that most pleasant and exhilara ting of juvenile recreations, to wit: "hide and seek." And making high places still higher and low places still lower, many little mud holes are formed here and there, which will greatly relievo tho minds of anxioas mothers, as those of their chil dren that have a penchant for piscatorial pleasure, can sit on the the pavement in front of their doors and amuse themselves by catching tad-poles during the summer months. 3d It is charged "that a Forge Cut has been excavated at the lower end of town, at an expense of several hundred dollars, where the road was good enough before, to the damage of certain residents and non-reiidents, whilst a mean -old rotten bridge, in the very centre of town is left wholly untouched, whero man and beast are liable hourly to break their legs and necks." We have no doubt as to the pow er of the administration to cut through O the hill, but we have some mis"ivinjrs as to their authority in leaving quite so bold a shore in front of contiguous lots; and with regard to the old bridge, it is presumed that rational beings have sufficient discretion to take care of themselves, and if a horse should get bis leg or neck broken, why "it serves him right, he has no business to bo a horse." 4th. That "the Town Council have ne glected or refused to repair the jumping off place, at the end of the pavement in front of the Female Seminary, where al most nightly, ladies arc pitched uncere moniously into the gutter.". In answer to the fourth specification. we beg leave to say, that our City Fathers don't pride themselves upon their gallant spirit of knight-errantry, and it matters little to them who receives bruises, lacer ations or contusions, as long as Burgundy Pitch and Poors Mans Platters arc so readily obtained. This much we say in exculpation of the "Government," and we tubmit this elab orate defence to the calm and dispassion ate consideration ot an enlightened pub i: :.. k ii. ... , r lie, and invoke their lasting cratitudc ud on the members of tho Town Council, for the very able manner in which they have discharged the responsible duties devolv ing upon them as such. But if our de fence, should be deemed worthless and unsatisfactory, why then our advice would be to the Council to resign the powers, as it is said, they have so grossly abused, into the hands of the people who gave them, and save the pains and penalties of indictment that is daily threatened. DOWN TOWN. !Provisions. Potatoes have declined in prico sud denly and heavily, after having reached a most preposterously uigu liguro. lo what this is owing, we cannot exactly say. By many it is attributed to the large im portations ot lorcign ana uomcsuc pota toes from every point wnere tue aruuiu was to be had at reasonable rates, and it is supposed that the sundden fall has been adopted by tho potato conspirators with a view of putting a stop to tho importa tions. During the recent protracted dur ation of hish prices, it is a fact that po tatoes brought from Bermuda and other distant places, were constantly sold here in our retail markets at lower rates than those of domestic growth. When it is considered how much the cost of importa tion is, and the .various profits which must be made on the article before it reaches the hands of consumers, the reader may judge for himself what reason there was tor the recent enormous charges lor the home product. Wo think there can be little doubt that this community has been for many mouths victimized by a trade conspiracy, the object of which was to enhance and maintain at an unpreccdent edly high rate, the prices of an article which has become of almost absolute ne cessity as part of our daily food. We believe that there are, and have been, plcntly of potatoes here, and in most oth er places of the country, and that the re ports of scarcity have been manufuctured for a special purpose. We have juet pas sed through one of the severest winters ever experienced in Philadelphia, when thousands of industrious workmen were thrown out of employ, and great distress prevailed among the poorer classes. At this very time, when the hearts of the be nevolent felt keenly the necessity for ex ertion, in order to relieve the suffering, a set of sharpers have kept up tho prices of many articles of food so high, as to add very greatly to the general distress. The butchers at one time actually found it necessary to refuse to buy beef cattle beyond a certain prico, and they assured i the community that the prices were kept J up oy designing speculators. And lor a considerable period many persons found it cheaper to live on poultry than on beef 1 The potato speculation has now been car ried on through several successive seasons, and with such a degree of profit as to in duce the repetition and aggravation of the offence. There is some credulity as to tho statement that large quantities of potatoes have been lying stored away; but it is notorious that on a former oc casion not a few of the over keen farmers, who raised crops of this article, kept their cellars full of them all through the winter, in hopes of prices reaching a certain mark, and at last were obliged to sell them at a great reductiou. It might seem that such experience would be sufficient to teach men better; but it is well known that the speculators make enough at the high pri ces which they force to enable them to lose a part of their crop or sell tho sur plus at diminished prices. What can be done we do not know, but that there is a necessity for some penal measures must be evident. One thing ought 'to bo look ed on with suspicion. We allude to the croakings about bad crops of potatoes ri n ,.t t i ana scarcity oi Deer cattle, wnicn are an- dually got up by interested parties for special purposes, and palmed off on pub lic credulity through the newspapers. JPhila. North American. u 'J vuyeu The Buffalo Express relates an amusing incident which occurred at Erie a few days since. A gentleman left Cleveland for A tr,, n, - t New York at an early hour in the morn ing without his breakfast, and being very hungry, upon the arrival of the train at Erie, entered the dining room, and pla cing his carpet bag upon a chair, sat down beside it and commenced a valorous at- taok upon the viands placed before him. I Ly ana oy tne proprietor ot tne ostaonsu- ment came around to collect fares and up on reaching our friend, "Dollar, eir !" "A dollar !" responded the eating man, "a dollar thought you only charged fifty cents a meal for one eh :" "1 hats true, said Meanness, "but 1 count your carpet bag one, since it occopies a seat." (The table was far from being crowded.) (Jui friend expostulated, but the landlord in sisted, and the dollar was rcluctautly brought forth. I ho landlord passed on Our friend deliberately arose, and open ing his carpet bag, full in its wide mouth, discoursed unto it, saying, "Carpet bag Zl ' 1 I . it bcuuis jou rc an luuiviuuui, since you eat at least I've paid for you, and now you must eat,'' upon which he seized everything eatable within his reach, nuts, raisins, apples, cakes, pies, and amid the roars of the bystanders, the delight of his brother passengers, and the discomfiture of tho landlord, phlegmatically went and took his seat in the cars. He said he had provisions enough to last him to New York, after a bountiful supply had been served out in tho cars. There was at least 8 worth in the bag upon which the landlord realized nothing in the way of profit. So much for meanness. Size of London. London extends over an area of 78,029 acres or 122 square miles, and the num ber of its inhabitants, rapidly increasing, was some 2,362,239 on the day of tho last census. A conception of this vast mass of people may be formed by the fact tnat, u tue metropolis were surrounded by a wall having a north gate, a south gate, an cast gate, and a west "ate. and each of the four gates was of sufficient width to allow u column of persons to pass out Ireely four abreast, and a perem tory necessity required the immed ato e vacuation of the cit'f it could not bo ac complished underTour-and-twenty hours oy the expiration ot which time the head of each of tho four columns would have advanced at no less a distance than seventy-five miles from their respective gates, all the people being in close file, four deep. Nine thousand shad w;crc taken nt one haul at Hoke's shore, Havre de Grace, Md., on Tuesday last, and at Vandiver.s shoi e, oiir ht tl lousana were caught. STKQUDSBURG fcAHK. Tho following are the closing proceed ings, in tho Legislature, in connection with this bill. It will bo seen that Sen ator Walton left nothing undone, con sistent with honor, to aecuro its passage. Mr. Walton s&id, however reluctant he might feel in asking the Sennte to pass this bill, after the Governor has seen prop er to interfere with his veto, yet he felt that he could not discharge his duty to bis constituents, as their representatives nn this floor, without doing so. He was very much gratified indeed, when this body was pleased to give it their support, and pass it with a larger majority than nnv other application of the kind has nasse d this winter: ho must say he was surprised to find the Governor thought it to be his duty to interpose any objections against it. As to the reasons contamea in his veto, it was not now his purpose to speak. It was sufficient however for him to say. This bank was asked tor by tne citizens of thoso counties (Monroe and Pike,) with more unanimity than any oth er bank application before thi3 Legisla ture. Not a single objection was openly made, any secret objection to which my attention was not called, he presumed had no more effect with the Governor in with holding his sanction, than it had with him in giving it his support. He wished, how ever, in justice to himself, to correct one misstatement, which has been circulated injiis county, to wit : That he gave con sent, that tho Governor might veto the Stroudsburg Bank, if he would sign the Mauch Chunk Bank. This he pronoun ced false and ulterlv void'of truth. There was no understanding of the kind be tween the Governor and himself; it was therefore due, as well to that officer as himself, at this time as well as upon this particular occasion, to pronounce that re port untrue. That ho did all in his pow er openly and honestly to secure the pass age of this bill, as many Senators on this floor would bear testimony. Mr. Crabb. Yes, that is so. Mr. Walton, and that he pressed the matter also before the Governor, as far as was consiatent for him to do so. He did hope that in view of the wants and neces sities existing in those counties for, and the relief and assistance this Bank would afford them, the unanimous voice with which it was asked for, and the evident necessity, that every one who is acquaint cd with our locality must see there was for such an institution, he had, he thought, reason to hopo tho Executive would have eiven it a more favorable consideration. His objections, however, aro on record, and he said it come far short of convinc ing him, or tho grounds he assumed of carrying conviction to his mind. He therefore hoped that this bill would become a law; they have no banking cap ital in these counties. No banks chart ered this winter could afford them a par ticle of relief; no more than if every dol lar of the new banking capital granted was to be used in the city of Philadel phia. He said it was true they lived on the borders of the State, and heretofore have never derived any benefit of all the canals and railroads, and other public improve ments of the Commonwealth, for which they have been heavily taxed and willing ly paid, and yet aro yearly bound to help pay, while other sections of the Common wealth, are reaping its benefits. TKiu ?a thes anlv loniclnfmn nf JmnnrK. i ance to us, that we have asked for foryear. j Our peculiar situation and wants being ; known, wo had a richt to expect it would j bc cranted us. Are wo to be disappoint- ' o r grai ed I We claim to be Pennsylvanians, yet we are compelled to go to other States for assistance and favors to carry on our business, which should be furnished by our Legislature at home. Again, allow me to express the hope that this bill will become a law. Should it not, however, he would have the consolation of knowing that he had done his duty and his whole duty, to his constituents, and to them he would gladly return and settlo tho ac count of his stewardship. Mr. Taggart said, he was sorry to be compelled to voto against the wishes of the Senator from Monroe, especially when ho appears to have the matter so much at heart. That Senator knows, that after himself, no one in the chamber moro deep ly regretted his disappointment than he did. In the early part of the season we forced discrimination upon the Executive, by passing everything in the shapo of a Bank bill that came before us. iLwas now our duty to sustain that discrimina tion. He, nevertheless, highly esteemed the zeal and ability displayed by his friend from. Monroe, in his advocacy of this measure. Mr. Walton said, it was true the gen tlemcn from Northumberland had rend ered him very essential aid in passing the bill, for which he felt under many obli gations, as well as his constituents, he and himself, although on opposite sides of the House, have been on the most intimate terms, aud he regarded him as a valued friend, yet he was sorry to learn that he could not now vote for this bill as here tofore, notwithstanding the veto of the Governor. Mr. Hendricks remarked, that it was perhaps just for him to say, that although he had voted for tho bill on its final pass- ago through the Senate, he felt constrain ed now to sustain the veto of tho Govern or. He was satisfied that in consistency with the rule marked out by tho Govern or, in his inaugural address, to govern his action on the question of new banks. He could not sign both this and the bill for the incorporation of tho Mauch Chunk Bank. lie had voted for both, but was satisfied the Governor could not sign both, but would bo obliged to discriminate be tween tho two. He thought it was un derstood that, as the Governor could sign but one of the bills, tho Senator from Monroe should be consulted -as to his pre ference, and should have his choice. He was sorry ho was obliged to vote against the Senator now, but felt it to bo his du ty to do so. Mr. Walton said, his friend from Schuylkill was mistaken in his position,! it was as he understood proposed to the Governor, that as there was two applica tions for banks id his district, that it was due to him as the Senator, if the Govern or could not sec proper to grant both ap plications, that he should be consulted and have his choioe, yet ho never was consulted upon the subject, and had no intimation that either Bank was to bo ve toed until that veto was read in this chamber. -This fact the Senator from Northumberland can bear me out in. Mr. Taggart said, that although it was understood tho Senator should be con sulted, he was satisfied he was correct in statins that he had not been. Mr. Haldeman said, he felt constrained to sustain the Senator and vote for the bill, and gave as his reason, that tho veto did not assume that there was no necessi tv for the Bank, but that he only dis between the two. He chose to exercise his risht to discriminate also; and feeling that there was a necessity for a Bank in that section of the State, he would vote for the bill. The veto was then taken and the bill fell, (two-thirds necessary,) as follows : Yeas 7 nays 10. Yeas Messrs. Haldeman. Hoge, Jam ison, Mellinger, Sager, Skinner and Wal ton 7. Nays Messrs. Browne, Ferguson, Frazer, Frick, Hendricks, Jordon, Lewis, Piatt, Pratt, Price, Quiggle, Sellers, Shu man, Taggart, Wherry and Hiester, Speaker 1G. Decisions of the State Supeintendent. The following decisions by the State Superintendent may be read with inter est, as well as to prove to bo an item of useful information to many . "Directors not to be contractors . It is a violation of the school law and sound policy, for a Board of Directors to enter into contract with one of their number for the erection of school houses. Such con tracts are wrong, upon principle, and the bupenntendent cannot hold them other wise than illegal and void. Directors not to be teachers . No person can serve as Director and Teacher at the same time. One office or the other must be surrendered County Commissioners to furnish infor mation as to taxable property . When the Directors are at a loss to know what are proper subjects of taxation for school pur poses, they should, under the 29th section of the school law, call on the County Com missioners for the desired information. Maximum of Assessmc?it . The highest assessment that can be made upon taxa ble property for school purposes, is thir teen mills to the dollar. Amount of tax on persons, trades and occupations . If the assessed value of per son's trade or occupation be less than 200 it is not taxable at all for school purposes. If it be valued at from 8200 to 250, the tax should be 50 cent3. If it be valued at moro than S250, the tax should be 50 cents, and then in addition to 50 cents, one per cent, on every dollar of the valu ation above 250 ; and this is the highest limits which the law authorizes in this particular. Farmers arc exempted from a?i "occu pation" tax, by the 32 section of the Act of tho 29th April, 1844 (pamphlet laws, 1844, page 497,) and the Superintendent has no control over this subject. Whal single freeman are taxable . It will be seen by the III. Act of April loth, 1834. (pamphlet laws 1834, p. 512,) that the ppll tax on 'single freemen" is only ap plicable to such single freemen, above the 3"C ot years, as shall not follow any occupation or calling," and not to unmar ried men generally.'' - mm Registered Letters. Washington, May 11. Tho Post Of fice Department has passed a series of instructions for the Guidance of Pos Masters, in receiving valuable letters for transmission by mail. The plan is to go into operation on the 1st of July, on and after which letters can be registered and receipted for upon a fee of five cents be ing paid. Extraordinary care is to b taken to ensure their safe delivery. The instructions re.quiro all letters al leged to bo valuable to be registered at the office of mailing, on pameut of a reg istration fee of five cents, and entered in a receipt hook kept for the purpose, and kept separate from the regular accounts of mails received and sent. Ihc receip book is to be kept by the postmaster, or a person specially designated by him for that service, and all registered letters to bo receipted for on delivery at the office of their destination. What doos it cost to Fence the Country, Tho amount of capital employed in the construction and repair of fences in the United states, would bo deemed fabulous were not the estimates founded on statis tical facts, whicfi admit of no dispute. Belknap, a well-known agricultural wri ter, says : fetrange as it may seem, the greatest investment in this country, the most cost ly productions of human industry, are the common fences whioh divido tho fields from Tho highways, and separate them from each other. No man dreams that when compared with the outlay for thoso unpretending monuments of art, our cit ies and towns, with all their wealth left far behind. You will scarooly believe mo when I say, that tho fences of this coun try cost more than twonty times the amount of specie that is in it. mjm mm) Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxvillo Whig, publishes what ho calls the abridged gospel of Know-Nothingism, as follows: Foreigners and Roman Catholios may all oido in the chariot of American frcodom. But tho Americans must drive. The Postage Law. A cotemporary remarks that tho new law puts an effect ual damper on anonymous letters. Those who send them are now compelled to pay out three cents, which to such mean souls, imparts a much greater pane than thoir effusions can possibly inflict on any ono CISC, The Kansas outrage, though planned by Missourians, was not entirely achieved by them, for the Missourians of the bor- ..... m . f 1 der aro not sumoientiy numerous ior sucn a purpose. They therefore wised a tuna of 020,000 with which they hired four hundred porspns to go trom J&entucKy, and over two thousand from other States. Each man had his passage paid to kan- sas and back, and received ono dollar a day besides, while their leaders got irora ten to twenty dollars. This army of hire lings was required to be well armed, and was so. The violanco of its members was but a part of the services for which thoy were paid. Such aro the statements of a recent letter from Lawrence City, Kansas. Barnum Out-Barnumed. Some short time ago, a-Rev. Mr. Dag nal inserted an advertisement in the news papers stating that he suffered for four years from nervous affections, but that he had discovered a certain cure, which, in compassion to those who were suffering: from the same cause, he wished to mako. generally known. He only asked that ar letter, postpaid, should be sent to his ad dress, and he would send the remedy frco.: of charge. Now, although their was hum bug on the very face of this announce ment since nothing could have been eas ier for the reverned gentleman,whose bow els of compassion were moved in behalf of his suffering fellow-creatures, than to publish the remedy instead of the adver tisement, and thus save the applicants postage, and himself the trouble of read ing and writing so many letters many among our gullible community open their eyes in wonder and gratitude, aud sent on to the Rev. Mr. Dagual's address the post paid letters, asking for the sovereign rem edy. Then came out the "cat under tho meal bag." Mr. Dagnal replies by return of mail, in a printed letter, that the ex tract of St. Ignatius Breeze a violent poi son, containg large quantities of mix vom ica and strychnine is the remedy. This information calls forth a second letter, asking how such a dangerous medicino is to be used. To this second letter Mr. Dagnal replies that ho has made a prep aration to meet all nervous cases, and sells his pills at forty for one dollar, and if for ty do not cure, another dollar will pur chase forty more. Was there ever such a bare-faced humbug such a mockery of philanthropy as this displayed by tho Rev. Mr. Dagnal ? The remedy is worao than the disease in unskillful hands. Professor Monker, of Baltimore, sent for a box of those pills, and upon analyzing them, found tbem.to contain a large por tion of deadly poison. JT. T. Tribune Singular Case. A singular case of circumstantial" proof of a nature so curious aud remarkable as well as conclusive in its bearing on tho result of the trial, took place in our cours on Monday last, that we deem it worthy of notice. Certain parties were on trial under an indictment for bogstealing. The hog had been traced to its place of concealment in a barn or outhouse, and found disemboweled, cut up with the hair on, and packed in a bag. In the barg a handkerchief was discovered which seem ed to afford a clue to the perpetrator of the crime. A witness in the caso who was supposed to be familiar with thu properties of the prisoner, was first showu a similar handkerchief to the ono found, and declared bis belief that it did sot be long to the prisoner. The ono found wi:k the stolen hog was then ebowd to him and he pronounced it tho property of the prisoner. He was asked by the Court how he identified it. He said that tha handkerchief was a peculiar one, having: a round patch in the centre of it, and tho only one with such a central patch which he had ever seen, hence his confident in- dentification of it. Tho circumstances was deemed coaclusivc by the jury and the prisoner was convicted. The end was not then however. The friends of tLo prisoner by way of retaliation, perhaps, charged the witness with sheep stealing! Ho was indicted on their information and after trial found guilty by ihc jury and will do doubt undergo the same penalty with the swine felon. When rouges fall out, whether honest men get their own or not, the 3eorcts of rascality aro apt to bo exposed and tho concealed villain brought to justice. It is " seldom wc are favored with a such a curious instance of crimination. rcsultin in tho success of both parties. Their mutual gratification at tho success of their r . f cross urcs must oe solacing m the ex treme. Eastonian, May 5th. How the People of England Lived till 1750. The Scientific American, in its last is sue, says : "In tho days of Queen Elizabeth, sub stantial diet was confined chiofly to per sons of rank and wealth. A nlowmau was often compelled to dine on water gruel. The food of the laborers was eoarso and deficient: their clothinc was incom parably moro so, and their lodgings were rude, dirty, and uncomfortable. Tho houses oven of the wealthy were mostly destitute of glass windows aud chimneys The floors of tho peasents1 houses woro of clay, and filled with the accumulated; filth of many years. Tho luxury of lin-. cn was confined to rich aud high born. . Their woollon cloth wa3 all of domcstio manufaoturo. Tea anl coffee, and, to a great extent, sugar, were unknown. Beer was tho universal beverage. The uigner classes ot society lived chiefly on salted meats. Tho common people sold-. om ato meat in any form. Tho ordinary faro of workingmon then would produce a riot in a work house now. Potatoes and turnips appeared about this time. in earlier ages, too peopio iea ontireiy on bread and meat. As lato as 1750 oufcbf a population of six millions, in England and Wales, one-half were sustained by i . .T .1 rye, parley ana oats. imow, tno samo class of persons aro consumers of wboaL Tho uso of tho potato, as tho principal article of food has been confined to u few, districts."
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