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THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1849.
Circulation near 2000.
V. B. PALMER, Esq, N. W. corner of Third
'and Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, and 169 Nas
sau street, (Tribune Buildings,) New York, is
our authorized Agent for receiving advertise
ments and subscriptions to the Lehigh Register
and collecting and receipting for the same.
.14' 4 We would advirie all of readers to peruse
the poetical effusion, on our first page. it is a
capital production.
I A sketch, entitled "Broadway," by a
friend, will appear in our next.
Mena organization of Gen. Taylor's Cabi
net gives great satisfaction to all men not pre
determined to be dissatisfied. It is admitted
to be as wise and strong a Cabinet as any
President of the United States ever had.
Bon. John Banks
The name of Judge Banks, of Reading, is
mentioned at Washington in connextion with
a Foreign Mission. Few men are, as well
qualified and none more deserving of such a
consideration. Judge Banks would be an
honor toile country and to the Administration,
in such a capacity : and his appointment gra
tify a host of friends.
Adjournment of the Legislature.—The Legisla
ture by resolution now before the Senate ; pro
pose a final adjournment on the 10th of April.
The event may be postponed a day or two,
but it is not likely that the session will be ex
tended further than that. The ono hundred
days of full pay expire on the 12th April ; and
the performance grow uninteresting after that
period.
the New Post Master General
The editor of the New York Courier and
Enquirer relates the following anecdote of Mr.
Collamer, of Vermont, our new Post Master
General :
"He is, to an extent, rare even in this coun
try of wonderful opportunities and facilities for
success, the artificer of his own fortunes, hav
ing raisedhimself, by the most strenuous ef
forts, from poverty to his present place. To-il
lustrate his exertions and his merits in this re
gard. We may, without impropriety, repeat
here a remark we heard him make, at a dinner
of the graduates of his Alma Mater—the Univer
sity of Vermont—over a year ago. Speaking
of one of the early Presidents of that institution,
who was in office -while he was in college, Mr:
C. said he never heard him utter what seemed
to him a harsh reproof, but once, and that was
when he directed him never again to appear
in the recitation room without shoes. The
harshness of the remark ; he said, sprung from
the fact that he had no shoes. He procured
some, however, and for the sake of economy,
carried them in his hand to the door of the re
citation room, and then put them on." '
Holden's Dollar Magazine
-The March number of this highly . popular
periodical is on our table. It contains, besides
the valuable original and selected matter, nu
merous engravings of eminent men. This is
the cheapest publication we know off only
one dollar per annum. Address C. W. Holden,
109 Nassau street, New York.
Washington Movements
it is said by the very Intelligent correspon
cent of the Baltimore Patriot, that the President
has determined as a general rule to remove
no officer whose commission has less than six
months to run, except for special causes; and
that no appointments will be 'made now, ex
cept of officers whose commissions have ex
pired, or will expire while the Senate is . in
session. In these cases it is necessary, by law
that the nominations should be made now.
It may be a month or more r fbefore new ap
pointments are made. It is the desire of the
President and his Cabinet not to remove any
officer, except for pressing reasons. Tho com
missions in most cases, will. be allowed, to ex
pire, and then when the question of re-ap
pointment comes up, the administration • will
decide who shall fill it, with reference only to
the public interest. •
The Intelligencer states for the information
of those who have had occasion to correspond
with the gentlemen who have lately been
called to preside over the Executive Depart-
Monts, that their occupation has been such
since they have entered upon the duties of of
fice, in the reception of visiters and the dispatch
of the most urgent public business, as to make
it impossible for them to answer letters ad
dressed to them individually, even so far as to
acknowledge the receipt of them.
To all persons who may be candidates for
the office of United• States Marshal in any
State of the Union, it may be proper to say
that, as heretofore, the appointment goes
through the Departrnent of State, and has not
been transferred, as soma persons have sup
posed, to tho Home Department.
•lErThe Easton Argus has made its appear
ance in an entire new dress and otherwise
much improved. The Argus is conducted with
much ability, and as a partisan sheet ranks
amongst the ablest in the state. Here is our
rir Colonel', we wish you success.
Excellent Advice !--Whatever yon do, friend,
don't permit yourself to be dunned by the poor
printers. Pay those miserable fellows in ad.;
vance, or at least as soon as their bills are
?caseate&
17" George Getz, Esq., has been elected May.
or, of the city of Reading.
Township Elections
The following. tersons were on Friday, the
16th inst., elected to fill the several offices in
the different townships of Lehigh county :
ALLENTOWN. Judge, Amoa Ettinger ;
Inspectors, Joseph Weaver, Nathan Metzger ;
Assessor, David Stem ; Ast. Assessors, William
Mertz,Aaron Troxel ; Justice of the Peace, John
F. Buhl", Eli J. Saeger; Constables, Samuel
Hartman, Samuel Burger.
LOWER MACUNG .—Jtulge, Jacob Micha
el ; Inspectors, Joseph Keck, Jacob Wetzel ;
Assessor, David Donner; Ast. Assessors, John
Singmaster, David Hertzog; Supervisors, Geo.
Bare, John Ortt ; Constable, Andrew Neumoy
er ; Auditor, Henry Gabriel ; Clerk, Solomon
Diefenderfer.
UPP. MILFORD. Judge, Sol. L. Holder;
Inspector, Reuben Stahler, William Shantz ;
Assessor, Daniel Mohr; Ast. Assessors, Anthony
Krause, Abel Johnson ; Supervisors, George
Bachman, Lazarus AVeidner ; School Directors,
JoShua Stahler, John Miller, Charles Foster;
Auditor, Charles W. Weiandt ; Treasurer Solo
mon Kemerer; Clerk, William Hittle ; Consta
ble, Henry Jordan.
SOUTH WHITEHALL—Judge, Daniel Hoff
man ; Inspectors, Josiah Heninger, Ephraim
Butz ; Assessor, Solomon Brobst; Ast. Assessors,
Jacob Heninger, Peter Marx; Supervisors, Pe
ter Wenner, Daniel Roth, Gideon Marx. Ed
ward Guth ; School Directors, Martin B. Ritter,
Charles Troxel Justice of the Peace, Daniel J.
Rhoads.
IlA rt E a ß.—Jtidge, James Lackey; Inspec
tors, Tho s—Ritter, Charles Nolf ; Assessor,
Florentine Hoelde ; Ast. Assessors, Jacob Bast,
Daniel Nagle; School Directors, George Breinig,
George Yeager ; Supervisors, Jonas Biery, Geo
Reichert ; Auditor, Charles Colver ; Clerk,
Charles Gabel; Constable, Thomas Craig.
LOW H ILL.—Judge, Andrew Bit ner ; Inspec
tors, Nathan Wetherhold, Jonas Kner, Assessor ;
Charles Sheurer ; Ast. Assessors, Elias Kuhns,
Joel Klotz; Auditor, Frederick Schaffer; Super
visors, Jonathan Werly, Solomon Zimmerman ;
School Directors, Jacob Derr, Michael Delbert;
Constable, Peter Oertel.
IVASHINGTON.—Judge, Charles Dorwarth;
Inspectors, David. Rudy, Elias Peter ; Assessor,
Charles E. Beck ; Ast. Assrssors,,Georgellex,
Stephen Schlosser ; Supervisors, Daniel Peter,
Henry Peter ; School Directors, Peter Roth,
Daniel Kern; Auditor, Reuben Peter; clerk,
Reuben floss.
NORTHAMPTON. Judge, John F. Hal
bach ; Inspectors, Jonathan Trexler, David
Gold ; Assessor, William 111endsen,; Ast. As
sessor, William Hecker, David Gold; Auditor,
Reuben Steckle: Supervisors, Daniel Baumer,
Benjamin Hunsberger; School Directors, IVm.
.Menclsen, Jesse Remmel ; Clerk, John G.
Schimpf ; Constable, Jacob Meyers.
UPPER MACUNGY.— Judge, Joseph Mil
ler; Inspectors, Herman Rupp, Jacob Ilaines ;
Assessor, Benjamin Rupp ; Ast. Assessor, Jo
nathan Haas, Amos Brains; Supervisors, Jesse
Stnith,Williarn Dcsh School Directors, Solo
mon \Voodring, Jacob Hummel ; Treasurer,
David Satan ; Auditor ; Benjamin Foyle ;
Clerk, Herman Rupp; Constable, John %Veld
knecht.
KYNN.—Judge, Lewis Kistler ; Inspectors,
John J. Kistler, Philip Kershner ; Assessor ;
Reuben Buck. Ast. Assessor, Jacob Snyder, D.
F. Lutz ; Supervisors, Joel S.echler, Jonathan
Oswald ; School Directors, George Miller, D.
Brobst, Henry Creitz ; Auditor, John Moser;
Treasurer, Daniel IV. Kistler ; Clerk, Jacob
Gumbeer ; Constable, Daniel F. Follweiler.
SALISBURY. —Judge, Paul Keck ; Inspec
tors, S. Klide,jr., Paul Nunemaker, Assessor,
Henry D. Wolf, ASt. Assessor, John Apple, P.
Voile; Supervisors, George Kemmerer : M.
Stuber ; School Directors, Michael Shaudt,
Williatn Kratn ; Auditor, Samuel Kemme
rer; Clerk, Tho Mas Reihbold ; Constable, 1.
Hastier.
FIEIDELBERG.—Judge ; .Georze Iloatz ; In
spectors,John Smith, Gottfried Peter; Assessor,
Nathan Fritzinger ; AM. Assessors, Abraham
Peter, Andrew Peter; Supervisors, John Kress
le, Samuel Gehry ; School Directors, Elias
Bittner, Nathan Clauss, Benjamin Rau ; Audi
tor, Peter Miller; Clerk, David German ; Con
stable, Henry Smith. •
SAUCON.—Judge, Daniel Dubs; Inspectors,
Jacob Erdman, Samuel. W. Snyder ; Assessor,
Joseph Kratzer ; Ast. Assessor, Jacob Cooper,
J. 11. Weidner ; Supervisors, Thomas Ott, B.
Eisenhard ; School Directors, George W. Fur
ring, Joseph Witrnan ; Auditor, Henry G. Per . -
son ; Clerk, Edward Seider ; Constable, John
Yundt.
NORTH WHITEHALL. Judge, Franklin
Smith ; Inspectors, Elias M. Kuhns ; Michael
Woodring ; Assessor, David Moyer; Ast. As
sessors, Nicholas Saeger, Peter Kern ; Super
visors, John :tumult, Joseph Fryman, Peter
Steckle, John Bertch ; School Directors, James
Newhard, Aaron' Eisenhard ; Auditor, Peter
Hecker ; Clerk, Peter Gross ; Constable, Si
mon Kemmerer. •
WEISENBURG.—Judge, Thomas Delbert ;
Inspectors, George Knerr, Daniel,Smith, As
sessor, Jacob Gruenewalt ; Ast. Assessors, Eli
Lictenwalter, Elanius Krayalich ; Supervisors,
Abraham Roih, Daniel Gruenewalt ; School
Directors, Daniel Leibig, Stephen Balliet for 1
year, and Daniel Weiss, , Dennis Bachman for
2 years, and Peter Shoemaker and Jonas Biel
ler for 3 years ; Auditor, Jonas G. Gehringer;
Constable, Henry Wetly. For Removing the
township election : For 'Joshua Seiberling 145
and F. A. IVallace 144.
.4 Lillie More Grape.— Col. Bragg, says the
New Orleans Delta, of Buena Vista celebrity,
was at a private party in this city one evening
last week. Among the desert, at supper, were
some very fine dupes, to which the Colonel for
some time paid assiduous court. After a while,
hoarever, he fought shy. This a lady, who 'sat
near him, observed, and raising the salver on
which the favorite fruit was plated, and grace
fully presenting it to the'ngalla i nt Colonel, she
said: "A little more grape, Captain Bragg 1"
Physical Education
We makft ,.. the following extract from the
annual report of the lion. 'Horace Mann, Sec
retary of the Massachusetts Board of Educa
tion. It is within but a few years, that the
study of physiology has been introduced as a
branch of education into our schools, and it is
still not so generally adopted as is desired.—
We may reasonably expect, however, from the
attention which has of late been bestowed
upon the subject r by the increase of popular
lectures and the multiplication of text books
for the use of schools, that the importance of
he study of the laws - of life by youth, will ere
long be generally recognized:
"Now modern science has made nothing
more certain, than that both, good and ill
health are direct result of causes, mainly with
in our own control. in other words, the
health of the race is dependent - upon the con
duct of the race. The health of the invidual
is determined primarily by his parents; se
Am
ondarily, by himsalf. The vigorous growtMaf
the body, its strength and its activity, its ew
ers of endurance, and its length of life, on the
one hand; and dwarfishness, sluggishness, in•
firmity, and premature death on the other, are
all the subjects of unchangeable laws. The
laws are ordained of God ; but the knowledge
of them is left to our diligence, and the obser
vance of them to our free agency. These laws
are very few ; they . are so simple that all can
understand' them, and so beautiful, that the
pleasure ofeontemplating them, even indepen
dent of their utility, is a tenfold reward for all
the labor of their acquisition. The .laws, I re
peat, are few. The circumstances, however, un
der which they are applied, are exceedingly
various and complicated. These circumstan
ces embrace the almost infinite Varieties of our
daily life; exercise and rest ; sleeping and
watching; eating, drinking and abstinence;- 7
the affections and passions ; exposure to vicis
situdes of temperature, to dryness and humidi
ty, to the effluvia and exhalations . of dead ani
mal or delaying vegetable matter; in fine,
they embrace all cases where excesses, inde
suctions or exposure may induce disease; or
where exercise ; temperance, cleanliness and
pure air may avert it. Hence it would be
wholly impossible to write out any code of
"Rules and Regulations,'i applicable to all
cases. So, too, the occasions for applying the
laws to new circumstances, recur so continual
ly that no man can have a Mentor at his side,
in the form of dphysician or physiologist, to
rect his conduct in new emergencies. Even
the most favored individual, in ninety-nine
cases in a hundred, must prescribe for him
self. And hence the uncompromising neces
sity that all children should be instructed in
these laws; and not only instructed, but that
they should receive such a training, during the
mighty forces'of habit on the side of obedience;
and that their judgment also should be so de
veloped and matured that they will be able to
discriminate between different combinations of
circumstances, and to adapt in each case, the
regimen to too exigency!'
The New Mormon Temple
The New Mormon Temple at the Salt Lake
is to be a splendid building. A writer in Niles'
Republican say's:—
"They' enclose a lot 17 miles long and I•_'
miles wide, with a mud wall 8 feet high and
4 feet thick. There are to be four cities inside.
They have discovered mountain rock that re
sembles Cornelia!' stone, which the writer says
is beautiful for temples and pillzrs. The size
of the ternple is not stated, but its highest point
is to be 600 feet, and can be seen 80 miles
either way. The party that went out last ses
sion lost many of their oxen—having died With
what they called the 'swell head." Many of
the streams which they crossed wet e so strong
ly impregnated with alkali that they date not
let their cattle drink. Ott the shores of many
•of the lakes a crust is formed an inch and a
half thick. They break up this crust : scrape
off the dirt on the bottom and top, find it pure
saleratus. Strange as this may seem, it is nev
ertheless true, and the writer collected in a
short time 75 pounds. A mountain of pure
rock salt has been discovered near the Mormon
settlement. The Mormons have discovered a
rich gold mine 150 miles southwest from the
Salt Lake."
Advertising —lts Advantagss. This is the .
season for advertising. There is no one %Ili()
has been deeply 'engaged in mercantile pur
stilts but that can testify to its numerous ad
vantages.------By advertising, merchants are elm
bled to keep a constant shedule of thcif goods
before the public, thus inviting the trailing
community to sec their stocks: it's the best
evidence, ton, that they fear not competition,
and are willing that their goods and prices shall
bear the test of the market. Advertising, ju
diciously managed, pays ten fold, benditting
alike the buyer and seller. -
Hon. Jacob CoHamer
The New Postmaster General, says the Dai
ly News, is the son of Samuel Collanier of Bei-
Wale; Mass., who was a soldier of the revoln
' lion. The Post Master was born in Troy, N.
Y. and at an early age removed with his fath
, era's family to Burlington, Ft., and while yet
young, graduated at the University there in
1810. He commenced the study of law, but
1812, went through a frontier campaign as a
lieutenant of artillery in the detached militia
in the service of the United States. Resuming
his studies again, he was admitted to the bar
in 1813, having obtained his profession, with
out any other pecuniary means than such as
his own industry supplied. In 1833 he was,
without solicitation on hi§ part, elected an As
sociate Judge of the Supreme COurt. He con
tinued to discharge his judicial duties until
1842, when he declined a re-election. In 1843
he was elected to . Congress; was re-elected in
1844, '46 and '4B, when he declined again be
coming a candidate, •
Women in California
The demand for marriagable women, says a
ladY writing from San Francisco, to a friend in .
Massachusetts, seems to be as great as for
goods. This is the only country in the world
where women are prhperly appreciated.
The proportion of males in the territory is five
to one of females, and the labor of feinales is
as much needed in cooking ; &c , at the gold
region, as the males. There have been more
marriages the last few months than in ten
years previous, in this country. The squaws
before they will go to the gold region ; make
efforts to get white husbands, which they soon
obtain in the present state of affairs. Father
Manaque, the Catholic priest has informed me
that he married the last month 110 white men'
to squaws. The consequence is, that the poor
Indians will soon be left without any class of
females from which they can choose, as cer
tainly no white woman of whatever condition
in soci- ty, will marry an Indian, when she
•can readily marry a white man of some
wealth and prominence. Some of the most
ugly and slovenly servants here, marry tra
ilers who have accumulated fortunes in a week.
Gold Dollars,
The following is the bill which passed the
House of Representatives on the 20th ult. and
was confirmed by the Senate on the fast day of
MIMI=
Section I. That it shall be lawful hencefor
ward to make at the mint and its branches twen
ty dollar gold coins; of the weight of five hun
dred and sixteen grains, and, gold dollar coins,
of the weight of. twenty-five grains and eight
tenth, which coins shall be legal tenders of pay
ment according to their nominal value.
See. 2. That the above mentioned coins shall be
made, in all respects in conformity with the ex
isting laws regulating the coinage at the mints,
except that on the reverse of the gold dollar the
figure of the eagle shall be omitted.
Sec. 3. That in adjusting the weights of gold
coins henceforward, the following deviations
fiont the standard weight shall not be exceeded
in any of the single pieces, namely : In the dou
ble eagle, the eagle and half eagle, one half of a
grain, and in the quarter-eagle and gold dollar,
one-quarter of a grain and then in weighing a
large number of pieces together, when delivered
from the chief coiner to the treasurer, and from
the treasurer to the depositors, the deviations
from the standard Weight shall not exceed three
pennyweights in one thousand double eagles,
and one and a half pennyweight in one thousand
quarter eagles, and one-half of a pennyweight in
one thousand gold dollars.
Scr. 4. That so much of this as regards the
coinage of twenty dollar and one dollar gold
pieces, shall continue in force 'until the fourth
day of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one
and no longer.
Preparations are in progress for the coinage
of the new pieces named in the above bill, but
ihree weeks or a month will probably elapse be
fore any of the dollar pieces will be ready.
Lancaster Colton Mill.—The machinery for the
new cotton Mill has reached Lancaster. Its ex
tent may be estimated from the fact that the
freight upon it amounted to over $3,000. The
v•dtie of this mill to the State in the way of tolls
will probably be not less than $lO,OOO per an
num. Think of that tax-payers.
Codenuarians.—We have observed in the pa
pers of late the death of quite a
.number of per
sons who were over 1 hundred years of age. One
of these, George Linnett, who died in Nova Sco
tia, was the last remnant of General Wolf's Ar
my at the taking of Quebec in 1759, and was at
the time of his death 120 years of age. Another
who recently died near Montrose, Pa., named
John Adams, was aged 104 years, and a soldier
in the Revolution. He was from Massachu
setts, and is salt' to have been related to the two
Presidents of his name, as well as to their anti
pode, Ex• Governor Hill, of New Hampshire.
He iiissessed much talent for writing, even since
he has passed his hundred' year. '
Germans Going Wed.—The Detroit Free Press
learns from a recent letter from Germany, that
great sums of money are leaving the country by
the emigrants, for the United States. But seven
weeks ago 150,000 Prussion dialers ready money,
was taken by two families that left for Wincon
sin.
New Method of Staling We learn
from the Michigan Farmer, that a Mr. Cooledge,
near Niles, Michigan, instead of sowing his clo
ver seed on the top of his wheat in the spring,
plows it in, and that he fidds it succeeds much
better than when seeded in the old way of leav
ing the seed to find its way in the earth by its
specific gravity, or merely bushing it in.
Propriety qf Dancing.-- We notice that many
of our exchanges, secular as well as religious,
are discussing the propriety of dancing. Some
defend it from the Bible, but these are secular
presses: the religious journals, without one
exception, bear testimony against it.
Home Deparlment:—A Down East cotempora
ry, of Whig, politics, says that a great many as
pirants for cabinet appointments will have the
hondof presiding over the home department !
QUM! of The IVed. The city of Cincinnati
has become one of the wealthiest cities of.the
Union, possessing heaviei capitalists than Bos
-tonNicholas Longworth-paid-a-tax-last : year
of $11,500, while the largest tax paid by any
man in Boston, was considerably less than $B,-
000. • There arc 105 persons who average more
than $l,OOO each their aggregate tax being
$110,105. The entire tax of 1810 amounted to
only $2,594 of 1820 to $12,972, of 1830 to P7,-
057, of 1640 to $244222, and of 1847 to $475,000.
13" In doing good, more good is always discov
ered requiring to be done, and this is the reward
of doing it. "Alps upon Alps arise ." and a life
thus devoted becomes sublime, as it approache;
,llis, who "went about doing good." What the
expression "God said let there be light and there
was light," is in reference to the sublime of cre
ation, the phrase "Ile went about doing good, is
in regard to the moral regeneration of mankind.
Extra Session of the Senate.
WAsniairrox, March 21, 1840
In the opening of the session this morning,the
debate on the resolution reported yesterday by
the Select Committee, in relation to the eligibility
of Gen. Shields, was resumed.
Mr. Calhoun moved to amend the resolution
by adding thereto as an amendment, that he was
ineligible at the commencement of the term
for which he was elected. •
A long discussion ensued by Messrs., Webster,
Rusk, Atchison, Shields, Seward, Douglass, Foote,
Hale, Calhoun, Berrien, and Underwood, in the
course of which several other unimportant mod•
itications were suggested.
Mr. Foote, at the request of Gen. Shields, with-
drew his motion to pos 'pone subject until the
next scssion
Mr. Shields then tendered a letter of resigna
tion as Senator.
Mr. Welister objected to the reception of the
resignation. Mr. Shields not being eligible as a
Senator, he of course had no power to resign. -•
Mr. Cass moved, to lay the whole subject upon
the table. Negatived by a vote of 15 to . 34.
The debate was continued, the speakers Confin
ing themselves to the argument of the point
whether in case Mr. Shields resigned, the Gover
nor could fill the vacancy.
The discussion was brought to a close by. a
motion to postpone the subject until to-morrow,
carried, yeas 24, nays 23.
On motion of Mr. Hale, the letter of resigna
tion was read, and Mr. Hale then moved that the
President of the Senate inform the Governor o
Illinois of the resignation.
Mr. Berrien moved to postpone the considera
tion of the motion till. to-morrow, which was
agreed to.
The Senate was occupied during the whole of
the session of to-day in Executive session, with
out making 'any confirmations. The following
nominations were scut in by the hands of Major
Bliss, acting as the President's private Secretary.
Wm. B. Norris, of Chambersburg„ Franklin
county, Surveyor of the port of Philadelphia, in
floe place of Gen.. Davis, the term of whose coin
minsion has expired.
W. H. Le Roy, Navy Agent for New York, in
the place of Prosper M. Wetmore.
James Collier, of Ohio, Collector for the port
of fan Francisco, California.
Edward Rose, Collector of the port of Sag,
Harbor.
J. H. Rhea, Collector of the port of Bratos San
tiago, Texas.
Charles W. Rockwell, of Connecticut, to be
Commissioner of Customs.
Allen A. Hall, of Tennessee, lo be Register of
the Treasury of the United Stales, in the place of
Daniel Graham, resigned.
James Norfleet, Collector at Edenton, N. Car
olina, rice Zizop Bawls, resigned.
John H. Cross, Patecaluck, Rhode Island, rice
George Brown, whose commission expired on
the 19th instant.
Zebedee Ring New York, rice Elijah F. Pur
dy, whose commissionexpired.
Mrs. Mary Christie, P. M., Rock Run, Har
ford co unty, Maryland, rice John S. Christie, re
signed.
Legislalite Proceeding,s.
HAnaisnuna, March 21. 1839
The Committee on Banks reported adversely
to the applications for the incorporation of the
proposed banks at Allentown, Tamaqua, Dp
vale, Erie, Armstrong, Minersville,.and Holli
daysburg; against a general banking law;
against the repeal of the law prohibiting the is
sue of small notes ; against the bills proposing
changes in the charters of the Bank of Pennsyl
vania and the Carlisle Deposit Bank ; against
chartering the Spring Garden. .I . si'otth Lebanon
and Middletown Sayings Institutions. The same
Committee reported favorable to the bill to re
duce the capital stock of the Girard Bank,
A supplement to an act, entitled, "An• Act to
incorporate the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkil and
Susquehannah Railroad Company," finally pas
ed the House and was sent to the Senate, where
it also passed.
The bill to c:lablish a general manufacturing
law, was negatived by a vote of 30 to 39.
The Usury Bill was defeated in the Senate by
a vote of yeas 7 nays 23. The object of this
bill was to repeal the standard rate of interest.
6 per cent., and allow parties to make their own
contracts.
Inns ra ALAIIAMA. - We understand that the
mining and manufacture of Iron in Alabama is
making rapid and encouraging progress. A sin
gle furnace in Shelby county makes from ten to
twelve thousand pounds of pig iron per day, and
will soon re ready to do all sorts of casting, and
the making of bar iron. • The ore is said to yield
from 50 to 60 percent., and to be inexhaustable.
The principal ogstacle to the extension of the
business is the lack of easy transportation.
Education. —Ex•Governor Slade, of Vermont,
is delivering lectures in Chicago on the subject
of Education in the West. The National Board
of Popular Education, of which Governor Slade
is the agent, has sent out to the west during jhe
forty-two years 110 school teachers, at a cost of
about $lO,OOO 06 of who are now engaged in
active duty. About $BOOO of the above stun has
bedn collected at the East, while the West, for
.whose benefit the enterprise has been 'underta
ken, has only conlribuied a little over $2OOO.
It is their intention to send about thirty additional
teachers into the field. in the spring.
New-Mr/L. and Bastun.—Pop ula t ion of N. York,
in 1830, 202,007; in 1840, 312,710—increase in
10 years, 54 per cent.; in 1845, , 371,102 in.
crease in 5 years, 18 . 4 per cent. Population of
Boston in 1830. 61,392; in 1840, 85,000 —.in.
crease in 10 years, 37 per cent.; in 1845, 114;
36c—increase in 5 years, 35 per cent.
Counterfeits.—An altered $3 bill on the State
Dank at eamden,N.J. was shown to us yesterday.
It iu no respect resembles the genuine, though
the signatures arc pretty good imitations. The
words .State Bank at Camden, near Pkilidelphia;
have evidently been put in on an erasure of the
name of some other bank. The fraud may be
known by the figure of a
of
of horses racing
between the signatures of the cashier and presi
dent, which is not on the genuine bill.
Gleanings from Exchanges.
UP - Pens made out of boties are now in usd
in England, and sell at the rate of fity for 23
cents. They ale phonobaccd to be flexible as
the quill, and far more arable.
EITDr. Locke, of Cincinnati, hasbeen donated
$lO,OOO by Congress, for his great invention of
the•" Magnetic Clock." •
rE'Creneral Wool is now in Washington.
re' Marry not a gambler, a tippler or a haunter
of taverns, because, he • who has no regard for
himself will never have any for his wife.
rVAdultery is set down in the Electoral law.
of France, as a disqualifiction for office. The
vote in the Chamber of Deputies, for disqualifi
cation, was—ayes 286; noes 229.
lEe' The new Republic of Rome Will ncil bd
governed by a President; as in France and
America, but by three Consuls, as in the an
cient days of the republic.
Chailes D. Penrose, Esq., to whom has
been assigned the office of Assistant Treasurer,
was ,Solicitor of the same Department, under
the Harrison Administration, and is ,every way
qualified to fill his new and important duties.
Ear The oldest living newspaper in England
is the Lincoln Mercury,,first published in 1695.
The oldest in London is the St. James' Chronil
cle of 1761. The oldest paper in Scotland is the
Edinburg Evening Courant of 1704. The oldest
in Ireland, the Belfast News Letter of 1787.
I.:V - A couple of gentlemen in Trenton, about
to start for the "gold diggings," were publicly
presented with shovels and pick-axes a night or
two since.
A Yankee has taken out a patent for an
improvement in the "Scales of Justice."
far Governor Crittenden welcomed General
Taylor at Frankfort in the following brief man
ner : .L. ,, General, in the name of this Common
wealth, I, as its organ, welconie.you to old Ken
tucky."
Ea" "Who is the strongest man The man
that can lift' his notes every day Widen' bor
rowing:" Smart boy = blow your hose with a
bellows, and then tell me how much pickle Lot's
wife would have made. School is -distitissed to
slide on the-bannisters."
Efir The skeleton of an Indian workian was
found a short time since, embedded in the bank
of the Niagara river, where it is supposed to
have remained for 200 years. It was found in a
sitting posture.
INe' In a recent response to a complimentary
speech, Mr. Polk said, ../ am no longer a servant
but one of the sovereigns of the nation. 3 '
Ce - Cie man considers himself rich, because
he has money to lend at ushrions interest
another, because he owns a large attloUnt of
stocks in some moneyed institution ; bUt the
fat tner's wealth consists in his tith lands.
L - P•lt is said 'that the fees of the New York
Health officers amount to $OO,OOO. Hid you
ever sec so much money!
co- One hundred barrels of Wine were made
by Mr. H. Vaughn, within a short distance of
East Greenwich, B. from wines growing wild
during the past season.
Science in Me K4chen.—Professor Liebig, in-a
letter to rroc. Silliman, gays : The method of
toasting is obviously the best to make flesh the
most nutritious. gut it does not follow that
boiling is to be interdicted. If a piece of meat
be put into cold water, and this heated to boil
ing, and boiled until it is "done," it will become
harder and have less taste, than if the same
piece had been thrown into water already boil&
ing. In the first case the matters grateful to the
smell and taste, go into the extract the soup ;
in the second, the albumen of the meat coagua
lates from the surface inward, and invelopes the
interior with a layer -which is impregnable Id
water. Try it.
THE JEWS IN HAMnvno.—The Senate of Nam=
burg . is about to convene an assembly of the
citizens, for the sole purpose of introducing a
bill for the emancipation of the Jews, in compliz
once with the Sec. 26 of the fundamental law of
the German people. The council of Sixty has;
according to the statement of the Senate, agreed
in toto to this proposition ; but that of the ati=
cients made a proviso that the use of the Mosaic
law, in mailers relating to matrimony and in-
licritance, shall at once cease, while the Senate
proposes that it shall still remain in forcei
Thus is Life, If we die to-day, the Sun will
shine as brightly, and the birds sing as sweetly
to morrow.—Business will not be suspended for
a moment, and the greht mass will not bestow a
thought to our memories. "Is he dead 1" will
be the soleinn inquiry of a few, as they pass tot
their pittasure or their wolk. But no one will
miss us, except our immediate connexions . ; and
in a short time they will, forget us, and laugh as
merrily as when we sat beside them:
Thus shall we all, now active in life, pass
away. Our children crowd close behind its,and
they will soon be gone. In a fCw years not
living being can say, "I remember him." We
lived in another age, and did businesi with those
who have long since slumbered in the tomb.=
This is life. How rapidly it passes!. O, biased
are they who are held in everlasting tememtiee
ance.
Original Dialogue:— 4 S . am Jonsing, does yore
Vose acneralVnilot whipped the hiexicans'bir
accident?"
“No, Pete,-lif no manner ob means, ole Zar,fi:
ary meant to do it, sartin."
“Den let me axe rill, what 'markable river. be
vos like at ac tithe !" •
••Oh I must give 'lint up, and axe you to splain.
yourself."
"Wal, I tell you as Yotr told me, Zachary
meant to. (Sacramento.) •
"You berry deep dis mornin. Out, talking
'bout Californy, why am all the emigrants on the
way thar, like folks gwinc to de timatre
"You too sharp agin. I gub him up."
"Why,- cos they gwine to de play, sir." (Pla
cer.) •
yah. Now why. am yon like the gold
they digs op 7"
.'Spose cos I'se merry waluable."
"Oh, no, data not it. Cos you berry scaly.''.
"I doesn't like no each insinevations. Go4id
morning.