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C'ONTINCK to mate and sell a finer and more J duralile Hat far the money than any other establishment i" the United taf s atandard price of Hats $'3 00. Gents and Uny's Cluth and (ilaxcd Caps. Umbrellas, Carpet CulaTy Panama and Straw Hats at equally low prices. May 25, 1850 ly josi y v. i'As:e: a. Co. . JMPOKTKllrt OK . ' "Watches, Jewelry, Plnted Ware, ill Chisnut St , betieeett 3d If 4lh Streets. PHILADELPHIA. ALWAYS keep on hand an excellent assort ment of the attovo articles, which they will all on terms as low as any in the city.' June 13, 18.r)0. liin W. F. PBSJDRICK'S ' (LATE PARTNER OF C. 8CHIIACK) Varulkb Dluiiul'aclvry aud l'aint Mturt, ,. Aro 78 North Fourth Street, i FEW DOORS ABOVE CHERRY, V EST SIDE, Vf SHiZ.ADEI.PIII A. Constantly on hand and for tale, at reduced prices, and of suptrior quality, the fol lowing articles, tiz : Cneh. Cslunet. 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BITTING & WATERMAN, Importers and Dealers in Liquors, , No. 220 Market street, Philately OFFER for sale, the cheapest and best assort ment of Liquors in Philadelphia, such as , Champagne, Sherries, Port, Steck, Claret, Bur gundies, Sauturn, Uarsac, Mailer ia, Lisbon, .'. - Tenarifle and Sicily Wines. : ;; Brandies of the choicest brands, viz I e Maglina, Otard, Ponet, Hennesy, &e, Ac. , '"Fine Holland Gin, Monongahela, Scotch and Irish Whiskey, Axu, Ac. . : . .. ,1 . Hotels and the country trade supplied at Phila delphia price, on the most liberal terms. July 13. 1850 , . . . MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. ; ; ;CHA$, DUMIrlXG, v.l No. 207 Chssnut Strett, front Arcade, FuiLiDSLrati. TMPORTER. and Manufacturer of all kinds of - Musical In.trumenu, r ancy Arucies and Toys. Hie price, art lower than those of any other store in Philadelphia. All kinds of Musical Inatritt menu repaired in tire beat workmanship, and also taken In trade - . t Philadelphia, May M, 1130 ly SELECT POETRY. , HOW LOVE BECAME BLIND. ; ! BX fREDBRIO SOWtOM. Litlln Cupid vrn ffitlina one day u-ilh Mn, , Putting lipa to his arrows and proving his " " bow ; For hs mpnni next ly, if allowed by his Pa, On a loxopholitical ramble lo go. "MammH, whal'g lhat spol on your beautiful cheek !" Ha exi'laimeil, ns ha paused for a moment to ttx '. . " :Tis a freckle, 1 vow faiih, old Sol in a pi(lle, , ' Has Bcorrh(i you wilh one of his envious rays !' , . .-.!!. .' . : Now It happened lhat Venus wan going that niaht ' " To ineel well I needn't sny whom for a stroll ; And wiihlnir lo look more lhan commonly briirht. ' " Was annnyeii at the spot, from the depth of her soul i 1 ' ' ' . 1 : Ami she cried in hen reil a raze, "Well, if ever 1 Such an impudent child ! It's a lied! parcel of You shall find faull no more Ihough I ' mil inv wnnl " 1 give And she threw a whole handful of dnst in his ., eyes. ., . . : luflnmation ensued plied, : there were leeches ap- CoM watpr, rnllvriiims, poullices, loo, But ihuuch all the means I hey could think of vrpre Iripil, The optics grew worse, and the occulists blue. (11 a week, so inflamed was each delicate ball, That every hope of hissisht was resinned ; In a mouth he could scarcely (ItMiniruish at all, And now the poor fellow is totally blind. To amuse him they still let him play wilh his bow Though 'lis worse for the world, I believe I may say For, as he can't aim where his arrow should go, Why he shoots I hem at random lo fall where they may. Aud the consequence is that these random (hot darts Are the cause of pain, Ihou'gh intended for good ; Thpy are iue to alight on the wrong people's hearts, They fall where they shouldn't and not where they fliould. ' Skctcl). ELEPHANT FIGHT. raOM Cl'MMIN'G'd "AFRICAN TOUR." In a lew minutes one of those who had gone off to our lef came running breath less to say that he had seen the mighty game. I halted lor a minute, and instruct ed Isaac, who carried the big Dutch rifle, to act independently of me, while Klein boy was to assist me in the chase ; but, as usual, when the row began, my followers thought only of number one. I bared my arms to the shoulder, and having; imbibed a draught of aqua pura from the calabash of one ol the spnorers, 1 grasped my trusty two-grooved rifle, and told my guide to go ahead. We proceeded silently as might be expected, lor t few hundred yards, .fol lowing the guide, when he suddenly point ed, exclaiming 'Klow ! and before us stood a herd of mighty bull elephants packed to gether beneath a shadv grove about a hun dred and fifty yards in advance. ' I rode slowly towards them ; and as soon as they observed me, they made a loud rumbling noise, and, tossing their trunks, wheeled right about, and made off in one direction, crushing through the forest, and leaving a cloud of dust behind them. I wa accom panied by a detachment oi . my dogs, who assisted me in the pursuit. The distance I had come, and the diffi culties I had undergone to behold these ele phants, rose fresh before me.- 1 determined that, on this occasion at least, I would do my duly, and, dashing my spurs into Sun day's ribs, I was very soon much too close in their rear for safety. The elephants now made an inclination t my left, where by I obtained a good view of the ivory. The herd crfhsisted of six hulls; lour ol them were loll-srrown first rate elephants; the other two were fine fellows, but had not yet arrived at mature stature. Of the four old fellows, two had much finer tusks than the rest, and lor a few seconds I was undecided which of thee two I would fol low; when, suddenly, the one which I fancied had the stoniest tusks broke from his comrades, and I at once felt convinced hat he was the patriarch ot the herd, and fdlowed him accordingly. Cantering alongside, I was about to fire, when he In stantly turned, and, uttering a trumpet so strong and shrill that the earth seemed to vibrate beneath my feet, he charged furi ously after me for several hundred yards in a oirect line, not altering his course in the slightest degree for the tree of the forest, which he snapped and overthrew like reeds in his headlong career. When he pulled up in his charee I like wise halted, and as he slowlv turned to re treat I let By at his shoulder,' Sunday caper ing ana prancing, and giving me much trouble. On receiving the ball the ele- phant shrugged his shoulder,' and made off at a Iree majestic Walk." This shot brought several of the dogs to my assistance, which had been following the other rlephants; and on their coming up and barking,' an other headlong charge was the result, ac companied by the never-failing trumpet at before.' In his charge tie passed close' to me, when I saluted him with, a second bul let in the shoulder,' of which, be did not take the slightest notice. ' I now detrrmin ed not to fir again until I could make steady shot ; but although the elephant turned repeatedly. Sunday invariably dis appointed me, capering so that it was im possible to fire. At length exasperated, i became reckless of the danger, and, spring ing from the saddle, I approached the ele phant under cover of a tree, and gave him a bullet in the side of his head, when trumpeting so shrilly that the forest tremb led, . he charged among the dogs, from whom he seemed to lancy that the blow had come ;. after which he took up a posi tion in a grove of thorns, with his head to wards me. I walked up very near, and, as he was in the act of charging, I (being in those days under wrong impressions as to the impracticability of bringing down an elephant with a shot in the forehead) stood coolly in his paih until he was within fif teen paces of me, and let drive at the hol low of his forehead, in the vain expecta tion that by so doing I should end his ca reer. The shot only served to increase his fury an effect which, I had remarked, shots in the head invariably produced ; and, continuing his charge with incredible quickness and impetuosiiy, he all but ter minated my elephant-hunting for ever. "A large ' party of the Bechuanas, who had come up, yelled out instantaneously, im agining I was killed, for the elephant was at one moment almost on the' top of me ; I however escaped by my : activity, and by dodging round the bushy trees. At the elephant was charging, an enormous thorn ran deep into the sole of my foot the old Badenoch brogues, which I that day sport ed, being worn through ; and this caused me severe pain, laming me throughout the rest of the conflict. "The elephant held on through the for est at a sweeping pace; but, he was hardly out of sight when I was loaded and in the saddle, and soon once more alongside. About this time heard Isaac blazing away at another bull : but when the elephant charged, his cowardly heart failed him, and he very soon made his appearance at a safe distance in my rear. My elephant kept crashing along at a steady pace, with blood streaming from his wounds; the dogs, which were knocked up with fatigue and thirst, no longer barked around him,' but had dropped astern." It was long before I again fired, for I was afraid to dismount, and Sunday was extremely troubh-some. At length I fired sharp right and left from the saddle; he got both balls behind the shoulder, and made a long charge after me, rumbling and trumpeting as before. The whole body of the iiainan?wate men had now come up, and were following a short distance behind me. Among these was Mollyeon, who volunteered to help; and being a very swill and active fellow, he rendered me important serice by holding my hdgetty horse's head while I fired and loaded. I then fired six broadsides from the saddle, the elephant charging almost every time,1 and pursuing us back to the main body in our rear, who fled in all di rections as he approached. "I he sun had now sunk behind the tops of the trees ; it would soon be very dark, and the elephant did not seem much dis tressed, notwithstanding all he had received. I recollected that my time was short, there fore at once resolved to fire no more from the saddle but to go close up to him and fire on four. Hiding up to him, I dismount Al, and approaching very near, I gave it him right and. left in the side ot the head, upon which he made a long determined charge after me; hut I was now very reck less of his charges, for I saw that he could not overtake me ; and in a twinkling I was loaded, and, aaain ' approaching, I nred sharp right and left behind his shoulder. Again he charged with a terrific trumpet, which sent Sunday flyinsr through the lor- est. . This was his last charge. The wounds which he had received began to tell on his constitution, and he now stood at bay beside a thorny tree, with the dogs harking around him. Jhese, refreshed by the evening breeze, and perceiving that it was nearly over. with the elephant, had once more come to my assistance. Having load ed, I drew up and fired right and left at his forehead. On receiving these shots, in stead of charging, he tossed his trunk up and down, and by various sounds and mo tions, most gratifying to the hungry na tives, evinced (hat his demise was near. A sain I loaded, and fired mv last shot be hind his shoulder ; on receiving it, he turn ed round the bushy Ire besides which he stood, and I ran around to give him the other barrel, but the mighty old monarch of the forest needed no more; before I could clear the bushy tree he fell heavily on his side, and his spirit had fled. My feelings at this moment can only be under stood by a few brother Nimrods, who have had the good fortune to enjoy a similar en- counter. I never felt so gratified on any occasion as I did then." To PKr.sr.HVE Buttbr. Sink it in the Mississippi River ' Lately some kegs of but ,er were broueht up by diving bells from the wreck ot the steamer Neptune, sunk twenty years ago, and it was as sweet and good as ever. First Love. Tha conversation at Holland Huane turned upon fiat Jove, Tom, Moore oompared it Ip potalo, "because it shools from the eyes." ''Or, rather," exclaimed Byron, "because it becomes less by pair- iug i ... : '' i .... A well known Pianist recently played some of his most astonishing pieces before the Grand Seinor, At the conclusion of the performance, (he Sultan, who had been pbser ving him with great apparent admiration) said lo hitnl , "1 have heard ThalberR a low bow of the anist, and a modest smile) I have also heard Lizsi ( siill lower' bow and devout alien lion) but no onVbf all that have played be fore rot ptripirtd as much as you do, THE NEWSPAPER. The oltl farm-house Jore a quiet, pleas ant look, as the setting sun gilded its small windows, .over which the luxurient grape vines were carefully trained. In the open door sat the farmer,, wilh a little morocco covered book in his hand, on which his at tention had been fixed for the last hall hour. He was a man of method, and brder ld Richard Heath and aside from his regular acconnt books, which were kept wilh scru pulous care, he always set down in thia little book, in the simplest manner possi ble, all his expense's, (no very complicated account, by the way,) and all he received during the year, "in the real metal," us he said, "not by way 6' trade." This last account he had just reckoned tip, and the result was highly satisfactory, one might judge from the pleasant expres sion of his face, as he fumed to his wife and addressed her by her pretty old-fashioned name. ' 1 "Millicent," said he, "this has been a lucky year. How littie We thought when we moved on this place, twenty-five years ago, that we should ever get five hundred a year out of this rocky, barren farm." "It does pay for a good deal of hard work," said she,' "to see how different things look from what they'did then.,' "Now I'm going to figtir-1 up how much we've spent," said Mr. Heath; "don't make a noise with your knittin' needles, cause it puts me out.". ; His wife laid down her knitting in per fect good humor, and gazed out over the broad rich fields of waving grain, which grew so tall around the laden apple trees, that they looked like massive piles of foli age. Hearing her own name thus kindly spoken, led her thoughts far back to the past ; for after the lapse of twenty-five years, the simple sound of the name she .bore in youth means more to a wile than all the puling epithets of dearest love, and darling, so lavishly uttered in a long-past courtship. Very peasant was this retrospect to Mil licent Heath. The picture of the past had on it some rough places, and some hard tri als, but no domestic strife or discontent marred its sunny aspect.' There were smiling faces on it happy children's fa ces, without which no lile-plctitre is beau tiful. Soft blue eyes shone with unclouded gladness, and wavy hair floating carelessly over unwritten foreheads. She forgot for a moment how they were changed, and al most fancied herself, azain the young mo ther, and tiny hands stole lovingly over her bosom, and young heads, nestled a of old. The illusion vanished quickly, and . she sighed as she thought of her youngest born, the reckless hoy who left her three years before, for home on the sea. Once only had tidings reached her of the wanderer. The letter poke of hardship and home-sickness, in that light and careless way that reached the mother's heart more surely than repining and complaint To know that he suffered wilh a strong heart, with noble, unyielding resolution, gave her a feeling of pleasure, not unmixed with pride. "He will surely come back," murmured the affectionate mother lo herself; "and I read the paper so carefully every week, that if it says anything about the ship Al fred sailed in I shall be sure to see it" "Mrs. Heath," said her husband, inter rupting her meditations somewhat rudely, "we've spent thirty dollars more lhan usual this year: where can it have gone to 1" "The . new harness," suggested Mrs. Heath, "That don't come every year, you "Well, there's twenty dollars accounted for." "We had the carriage fixed up when you bought the harness," continued the wife. "Well that was eight dollars ; that wenty-eight dollars that we don't spend very year; but the other two where can they have gone ?" Glancing his eye has. ily over the pages of the memorandum book, he continued : "I'll tell you what lis, the newspaper cost just two dollars, and we can do without it. It isn't any thing to eat, or drink, or wear. I don't do nvthing with it, and you always lay it up n the chamber. It may as well be left out as not, and I'll stop my subscription, right awav. ' "Oh," said the wife, "you dont't know how much I set by the newspaper I al ways have a sort of good feeling when I see you take it out of vour hat and lav it on the kitchen manllepiecey- just as I do when some of the: children come home.J And when I'm lired, I set down with my knitting work ond read, (I can knit just as fast when 1 am reading,) and feel so con' ented. I don't . believe Queen Victory herself takes more solid comfort than I do, sitting by the east window, of a summer af ternoon, readjng my newspaper." "But you'd be just as well off without it," answered her husband, for the want of any thing wiser to say. "I never neglect anything else for, my reading, do II" aked Mrs. Healh, mildly. "No, I dont know at you do," answered her husband ; "but it seems to me an extra like; thall tiop U." he added, in a tone that showed plainly enough he wished to stop the conversation too. "I shall take the paper," remarked ni wife, "if I have to go out washing to pay This was not spoken angrily," but so firmly that Mr. Heath n iticed it, though bv no means remarkable for-discernment in most matters. It sounded to different from her usual quiet "as you think best," that he actually stopped a moment to con aider whether it was at all likely she would do as sbe said. Mr. Heath was. a. kind husband, as. that, indefinite . description is generally, understood; that is ht did not beat hn wife, and alw'i gave her enough to eat. , More than this, he had certain regard for her happiness ' whlc made him already feel half ashamed? hit derision, but, like many other men who have more obstinacy than wisdom, he could hot bear to retract anything, and above all, to be convinced that he was wrong by a Woman., : i .' '! .' .., However, , with a commendable wish to remove the unhappiness he had caused, he suggested that "as the papers were care fully saved, and as she had found them In teresting, she could read them all over again, beginning at January, and taking one a week clear through the year they would come out even," he concluded, as if it were a singular fact that they should do so.' ' ' Notwithstanding this admirable proposi tion, he still felt some uneasiness. It fol lowed him as he walked up the pleasant lane to the pasture, and it made him speak more sharply than he was wont, if the caws stopped while he was driving them home, to crop the grass where it looked the greenest and sweetest on the sunny slope.. It troubled him till he heard his wife call him to supper in such a cheerful lone, that he concluded she did not care mch about the newspaper after all. ' About a week after this, as Mr. Heath was mowing one morning, he was surpri sed to see his wife, coming out dressed as if for a visit, "I am going," said she, "to spend the day with Mrs. BroWn I've left plenty for you to eat." And so saying, she walked rapidly on.' ' Air. Heath thought about it just long enough to say to himself, "She don't go isitin' to stay all dav, once a year hardly, and it is strange she should go in hay time." ' Very long the day seemed to him ; to go in tor luncheon, dinner and supper, and ave nobody to speak to; to find every thing so still. The old clock ticked stiller than usual, he thought, the brood of pretty white chickens, that were always peering round the door, had wandered off some- here, and left it sliller yet ; he even mis sed the busy clink of the knitting needles, that were apt to nut him out so when he was doing any figuring. ' ' '" 'I'm glad," he said to himself, as he be gan to look down the road at sunset, "that Millicent don't go a visitinj all the time, as some women do there, she is just com ing." - J.i - ... "How tired you look,"; said he, as she came up ; "why did'nt you speak about it, nd I'd have harnessed up and came after ou." , "I'm not very tired," she answered ; but er looks belied her; indeed, her husband eclared she looked tired like for a day or two after. ' I What was his amazement to see her go awav the next Tuesday in the same man ner as before, without saying much ' about t before she started. To his great dissatisfaction, everything seemed: that day to partake of his wife's new propensity for going away Irom home. "A man don't want cold feed in hay- time," grumbled he, as he sat down alone lo dinner. In the same grumbling mood e recounted the mishaps of the morning, which seemed much alter the manner set forth in a certain legend of old time, for he mbellished his recital by allusion to "The slieep'. in the meadow, The cow's iu the corn." adding that they wouln'nt have been there I Mrs. Heath had been at home, because she'd have seen 'em before they got in, and hollered. She would have seen the oxen too, before they got across the river, and saved him the trouble of getting them back. Hut after tracking all these outward events to her absence, he said to himself, consol- nS'y "I guess she won't go any more ; she always was a home body." Mrs. Heath did go again though, and again ; and the day she went tor tne tounn time, her husband took counsel with him self as to what he should do to ."stop this gadding." Seated on the door step, in the shade of the old trees, he spent an hour or two devising ways and measures, talking aloud all the time, having the satisiaction of nobody to dispute him. ' "It's hard lo think ol her to he gemn' io be a visitin woman," said he, "and it's clear t an't right. Keep her at home,' I've read in the Bible, (Old Richard's Bible knowledge was somewhat confused, and his quotations varied , slightly from the scriptural phrase 'keepers at home,') but it says, too," he added, with the true science ol a sincere man, "that husbands must set great store by their wives, and treat 'em well. I won't scold Millicent; I'll har ness up and go after her to-night, and corn in' home I'll talk it over with her, and tell her how bad it makes me feel ; and if that don't do I'll try something else." Jn accordance with this praiseworthy resolution, he might have been seen about sunset hitching his horse at Mr. Brown's door; for strange enough, Mrs. Heath's visits had all been made at the same place. Going up to the door, he stopped in amaze- j ment at seeing his wife in the kitchen ta king off a great woolen wash-apron, and pulling down her sleeves, which had been rolled upas if for washing. He listened: and heard her say as she took some money trom Mrs. brown, "It won't be so that I. can do your washing again." . i "It has been a great- favor to have you do it while I've been so poorly," answer ed Mrs. Brown, "and I am glad to pay for it. This makes four times, and here's two dollars. ' 'Tis just as well that you can't come again, for I think I shall be well enough to do it myself." . ; :u , "Two dollara--jtiat the price of the newspaper !" exclaimed Mr, Heath, as the truth flashed across him. ,., . Rather a silent ride, home they had, til) at last he said io hit wife, "J never, was so ashamed." . V "." ' ' , w "Of what," asked Ma wife. ' "Why to have you go out wash in'. 1 ain't so poor as that comes to. " "Well,' I don't know, replied his wife "when a man ii too poor to take a newt- s paper, bis wife ought not to feej above go-" tog out washing," , ,. .,. . ... .: , .. Nothing more was said on the subject at that time) though some ill teeling lingered in the heart; of each.;.. The "making up" was no mawkish scene of kissing, embra cing and crying, such as romance writers build their useless fabrics With but as Mrs. Heath was finishing her household duties for the night, she said quietly '. "I don't think 1" did: quite tight, Rich ard." :.: n ' "I don't think I did, either," responded the husband. yj , ;" ZZT. " '' And so the spark was quenched which might have become a scorching flame, blighting all domestic peace tinder their humble root. He subscribed for the "American" forthwith. ? PROF. WEBSTER'S FAMILY. t tii' . Daily, even to the present period, you may see persons driving up to the dwelling house of Mrs. Websterj Cambridge for the purpose of at least looking at the outside of the holme where her late husband lived. The day af ter the execution, a carriage drove up, and a lady, (at least appearently one) Btid her two daughters, (a Mrs. P.) from New York, alight ed, and desired to enter and ee the corpse, stating that they had come on purpose. When the application was objected to gently, they insisted upon entering, till they were more peremptorily refused. Among the mass of communications and letters which the family have received since his arrext, (and they have been so numerous that the postage alone which they have been obliged to pay, might have supported them for half a year,) was one from a Baptist clergy man of Kentucky, who offered, if the family would send him on money to pay bis travel ling expenses, to come and use his Influence with the Parkman family, as his deceased wife has been a distant relation of theirs, and with Governor Briggs, who ' belongs to the Baptist persuasion, to procure a pardon for the convict. ' Another man presented himself at tha house, a short time before the execution, and desired an interview with Mrs. Webster, for ihe purpose as he stated, of making some im portant communication to her. They proved to be, that he had hit upon a scheme to ef fect the prisoners escape, that a vessel was ready to sail and bring him away in safety, and all he desired was the co-operation of the family. A scamp, whose name is not known, per petrated Ihe viPany of sending, after the ex. edition, a newspaper lo the house, directed to Mrs. W., which contained a wood cut of the execution in detail. 'Two Sundays ago, when the family ap peared in the parish church; to attend publio worship, ihe minister, (who was not the regu, lar clergyman of , the parish, but preached there merely by way of exchange,) although he had been expressly told by the regular minister to be careful in regard to his sub, ject, because the unfortunate family might perhaps attend ; chose the edifying subject of "the execution of criminals," beginning wilh crucifixions. I could add other incidents as flattering to human nature as these ; but the heart sickens to think of ihAii. Cor. N. 1. t'cnwig Poif. . COPPF.n ORES AND MANCFACTLER. There are now three large copper smelling establishments in Ihe United Slates--one at Boston, one in New York, and one at Haiti more. The furnace at Baltimore requires 5, 000 tons ore annually. The Boston works about the same.' The annual consumption of smelted copper ia 6,000 tons, of which the Lake Superior mines furnish 4,000.! i, Until the year 1842, Ihe town of Swansea. in Wales, possessed a monopoly of the copper ttade. The copper ores of Chili and Cuba, the late Australian discoveries, have constituted new sources of supply. ' England manufactures 25,000 tons of refin ed copper annually; the county of Cornwall alone furnishes ores for 12,000 tons. Ireland North Wales and Devonshire, for 3,000 more Her own mines therefore supply 15,000 tons, and foreign mine 10,000 ions- Great Brittain exports 28,000 tons refined copper annually India is ber largest customer, France , next, and, then Ihe United Mates. In the year 1844 we imported from England 2,145 Ions ond in 1846, 2,171 tons being over a million of dollars its value annually.' ' '' It is believed that the Superior mines can supply the American market, though it is doubtful whatever the market can ever be glutted, the demand increases the cheapness of ihe material. The mines cf Chili will probably rival iu productiveness those pf the Lake Superior re gion. Free Press ' Thb Pbsksyitania Coal Minss The re cent disaster lo the Schuylkill Canal, and the difficulties to which the constant use of that work for the transportation of cal is subject, on account of the freshets, ha revived the project, which it I now said will be carried opt, of tbe early eompleiion of a railway con. fiecting tbe Anthracite coal field of Pennsyl vania wilh New York Harbor,' It is said that the coal lands" formerly belonging to Hare Powell, Esq!, tn 1h neighborhood of Beaver Meadow) embracing 13,000 acres,' hava' re cently been iold: at a very large advance to some European capitalist,.'. ! V. i pill. 4 Iu. ! '" .1 .'' ' V " 1 ' -:.:J-- . Ts GaAra; CaerThe .lending Prtst es timate l,he )oa on the. Grape crop it Ibis county, during ihe presont year, at not leu lhan! 1 20,000.' Tbe erop t said to ka an al most total Mluie. : '.'' V' ' . OEJIEALOQVOr ADAM.,.,.,, .Tbe Rev.,. Dr. Smith, who for noma time pat, has been advocating, with great learning ana power, te doctrine of the strict unity of the human race, thou refers to Adam and bis immediate descendants: "Id the genealogy of Adam, but three of is children,. Cain, Abel and Seth, are men tioned by name,- and a few only of his remo ter descendants appear in ihe record. In the 830 years he walked upon the earth, his fam- ly must have been far more numerous lhan this, and bis other children are expressly al luded to in ihe words, "and he begat sons and daughters." "The mother of all living, was doubtless a fruitful vine," and both she nd Adam were in the vigor of Iheir lives for length of years which ibe postidiluviana now nothing of, 7 Cain waa a mariied man when he slew Abel, and was then, not loss, probably, than 120 years of age. Seth who was appointed by God to occupy ihe place of Abel whom Cain slew, waa born to Adam when he was 150 years old. The natural in crease of tbe race of man is exlremely rapid when no . hinderance is interposed. "An island, first occupied by a few ahipwrecked English in 1589, and discovered by a Dutch vessel in 1667, is said to have been found peopled after 80 years by 15.000 souls, all tha escendants of four mothers.",, When tbe Creator undertook to people a world,, we may suppose that his providence arranged for thia end, and no hindrance was to interpose. It ia oeueveu mat tne death or Abel waa the first which occurred in the family of roan. It is not an unreasonable supposiiion, therefore, a ngures will demonstrate, that the family of Adam embraced 190,000 lo 200,000 people at the banishment of Cain. ,. , i How many of these adhered to the fortune of Cain, from whom a large share descended or whether any, we are not informed, uor are told when he built his city. If he lived a ong as father Adam, and built it in the clos ing period of his life, bis own descendant born in the land of Nod, j.,e. in the land of his flight, which the name denotes, were far more numerous lhan Ihe.nombers above men loned would indicate. The same remark will also apply to Nimrod. Though he. may be, as is said in these lectures but of "ihe second generation from Ham," there was abundant lime for a population to have arisen ou the. earth, afiera flood, sufficiently numer ous lo build cities and form kingdoms., .The city Cain built was not probably extraordi- naty (pr size, but at first, at least, a mere stockade, earthwork, or fortress. Rome was not built in a day. It was onoe a hamlet or blockhouse on the Capi'.oline Mountain, and. as only tbe "beginning" of the kingdom found-, ed by Ninevah, Rehoboth, Caleb and Reson, of which the historian speaks. Jensy'j Lap Dog. The Boston Post per petrates the following : : O, Jenny, sweetest child of song. Why iliil you bring that pup alonn f 'Twas quite a needles weight. And much the same as taking coal . , To Lehigh, mine., upon my soul, Or fi.h to BiKingpitc t "Give me a bid, gentlemen some one start the carl do give us a bid, if you please anything to start Ihe cart." Cried an excited Auctioneer, who stood in the cart he was endeavoring lo sell. "Anything you please, to sfart it." "If data all you wants, I'll slhart her for you," exclaimed a broad-backed countryman applying bis shoulder to the wheel, and giv ing the cart a sudden push forward, tumbled the Auctioneer over Ihe side. : By the time the fallen Auctioneer regained his feet, the countryman had starred too. - - Thc subscription books of the Hudson Gut ta Percha Company are now open at the Trenton Bank., . The Gazette says this ia the only Gutta Percha Company in thia country. They have lately purchased the Somervilla Water Power .for $150,000. Their capital is to be 300,000, and $10,000 are open for subscription in New Jerttey. , Da. McClintock, editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, who has been aboard for his health, returned by the Asia, looking per fectly bale and fresh. He has passed most of his time in Germany. , , . , . . , A Puzzle. Two boys were asked who they were, arid answered in this way ; . ( . v l .' - ' ' - '. . We are two brothers burn '' Also two sisters' sons 1 Our lather is out grandfuUwr How queer oar kindred raits. x Tall . Candidates. Juges Johnson and Wood, and the Rev. Mr. Edwards, are the Whig, Democratic, an.d Ftee Soil candidate for Governor of Ohio. Tbe three met at Cleveland a short time since, aud It was fonnd that they measured nineteen feet. Curtailment or FicToaT Butsmass. Tbe Lowell Courier says lhat it ha been deci-' ded to reduce ihe actual business operation of three of the manufacturing corporal lone' uf that city about one-half, via 1 ihe Suffolk Hamilton and Appleton Mill. ' v; Ti AraiCAH Kino or Dahomt A letter from Sierra Loa y; monarch has or, dered tba taiMiortaries and recaptured slave at "Undefstowa" 4 Uava the country before tha 1st of October, i If tbey do , sot, be aay that he will bthtad them all, commencing with thf roiasiooarin. . . n ui. . .' vk Axoko the paaaengera by-, tba West India, mail-packet Avon, arrived at gautbamtou, in England, were tbra grisly bear fraro Cali fornia. -
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