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THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1849.
Circulation near 2000.
V. B. PALMER, Esq., N.W. corner of Third
and llhesnul 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.
Gs' Messrs. J. D. BOSS, of the Senate, and
JotephLaubach, of the House, will accept our
thanks for valuable Legislative Documents.
Commitment
Oa Monday last, ayoung girl about .18 years
of,age, named Lucy Knauss, of Salisbury town
ship, this county, was committed to jail, on
the charge of having attempted to poison the
family of Mr. Joseph Reinhard, of Upper Sao
con. As the matter will come up for trial at
'our next Court, we refrain from making any
further remark of the case.
New Judicial District
The bill erecting Berks into a separate judi
cial district has passed both branches of our
Legislature, and become a law. This will be
ood. news to the people of Berks, and will
g eatly tend to facilitate the legal business of
1 at county.
By the provisions of the bill, Lehigh and
Northampton are to constitute the old district,
over which Judge Jones ism preside. Belts
is to. be the 23d district, over which David F.
Gordon, Esq., of Reading, has been appointed
to preside. The new arrangement will proba
bly go into effect after the adjournment of the
April sessions.
The Plough, Loom and Anvil
We haie already received from the publishers
the April number of the Plough, the Loom.
and the Anvil. It continues to be what its title
indicates, the - great expounder of- the-Agricel
tupil and Manufacturing interests of our coon
try. Its purpose is to keep the reader advised
of all really new awl ve/attide discoveries and
improvements in the implements and anima:,
employed in agriculture and in the process and
principles of husbandry in all its various
branches.
Teens arc in advance three della:-
when - two unite, five dollars fer.two copies.—
Persons wishing to subscribe can do so by
leaving their names with us.
• WTHohlen's Dollar Alagazine fur Nlarch, is
an excellent number, embellished with several
likenesses of distinguished men, and contain
ingimuch excellent reading matter. The pre
priefor is in California seeking for material to
enrich his magazine as well. we presume, as
fibs purse. .
Gen• Tom Thumb
'This remarkable personage •wid make his
appearance in Allentown, on Monday the 16th
inst., and remain in this place for two days on
it: The General is 17 years old and only
tlf3 inches high, and has tiavelled through the
Whelo of Europe.
Be will appear in various characteressuch
!As Napoleon, Frederic the Great, will dance,
.sing, .and go through various other amusing
performances, during the exhibitions.
•We would invite the citizens of Allentown
and vicinity to give the General a call, as it is
the first time, we believe, he ever visited our
place. For further particulars see advertise
ment in another column.
'Howes and Co'e Circus
This splendid Company, being the largest
and most e.xtenspe that travels the United
States, consists of two hundred and fifty men
and horses, and requiring 40 carriages to con
vey their performers, musicians, ✓ic., will make
its grand entree into Allentown, on IVednes
day, the 18th , inst., between the hours of 10
•and 11, A. M., and , exhibit their skill and
wonderful dexterity in the afternoon at 3-and
in the evening at half past 7 o'clock. 'Their
company cannot be excelled. Alaj. Little
Finger, one of the smallest human beings in
axistanee is attached to the company, and will
be exhibited without extra' charge.
• . Newspapers.
Every subscriber riapt to think that a news
paper is printed for hie special benefit, and if
he finds nothing in it at one time that suits him,
'he thinks it good for nothing. There are but
few papers that do not contain something of
use to the subscriber. From the testimony of
every one of our correspondents, we can say
that our readers always find something to suit
them in every number. We endeavor to make
our paper one of facts, and although there may
be nothing in one number to suit some sub-,
scriber, yet, when they place it on file, it will
happen somehow-or other, that they will have
to refer to some article in that very number,
for. information on same subject which caine
mider . their cOgnizance before. We have
deaths and marriages in our columns because
people like to read them, and we have stuns:,
because some people prefer them from other
sealing matter; we discuss not polities, but
our column nre always open for calls of. meet
ings &c., for both political parties. We have
food'for the young and (mid for the old, and it
iskolettelt a kind tinit-tho,o who 1 1 ;i110:€1 of
feel afterw•atds retie
strength
rirTho retutns t,i the e;e,-;ion riher!e Is•
hind; givi.../tutlmuy, the Whig (7:Aloi:tate rot-
Governor, 2,0:n! rn2inrity.
njoriL e ill, bo:h 13r:incites
th t.441 51 .1 1 qt• .c . . . .
A Glance at Lehigh County and its
Another long winter has passed away; the
birds,, the voice .of spring,- have returned to
make the mountaihs and vales eiebe;"'again
with their songs; the buds are peeping modest
ly from their prison -houses; and the _breath of
spring returns to revive 'all nature. Though
this is common to a large portion of the world,
it is partichlarly so in this especial section of
the country through which the Lehigh runs.
The eye' of the traveller as he approaches this
region from any quarter whatever, is particular
ly struck with the peculiar beauty everywhere
predominant; with the sublimity of the scene
ry; with the richness of the fields teeming with
natuniVs fruits produced under a high state of
altivutionvitlvrAfierflarge-_-and-_-noble,barnet
that seem to be filled to depletion ;' and finally
with the air. of physical comfort and prosperity
univepally prevalent. To the individual.who
has been accustomed to the close air, pale
faces, and swarming desolation of one of our
large cities, this impression will be forcibly
vivid ; and to him who has been able to mark
the contrast between the divers portions of the
land, the comparison will be favorable to our
part of the country.
Nor will this impression be effaced after a
residence here sufficiently long to verify or ek
perienee the reverse of it; it will be the more
confirmed; for it will be found that there are
oilier advantages which are not the least im
portant of any, among which healthfulness may
be mentioned us one of the chief.
- - - - .
It will be discovered that in thaustible
sources of wealth are indigenous to this see
tion ; that mines, if not of gold, yet of that
which produces gold, and with as little labor
too as the working of the yellow metal, are
resting almost valueless from want of explora
tion and use. There is not we .believe an
equal section in the union which surpasses this
in - a
IMmbination of natural advantage's. At
nearly an equal distance between the two
chief cities of the country, a distance compara
tively of no importance, and which needs only
easier locales of communication, it excels in
this respect the west. Then, as for scenery,
situation and natural objects of beauty, where
is them presented to the lover of rural life a
scene more complete ! Indeed we have been
surprised that those who seek retirement from
the, turmoil and excitement of a city life, have
tst flied mention more generally
Lett:. But a litt;.t •etien soon resolves the
enigma: the chief reason doubtless rests in the
lac!, that the facilitie, of communication are so
dsfective. The individual whose business is
tare, city and residence in the country, is not
dispwed to spend a whole day or more in a
fatiguing transit born place tn. place.
Now "we know no good reason why the.ria
tural resources of this region should not be de
veloped to their fullest extent. hs there a fear
that with Me - reusing prosperity, there will be
more than a proportionable increase of evils 1
This EPL i cence does not naturally follow, as is
proved by the example of other places. IVltere,
for instance, is there a greater degree of pros
perity and morality united than in New England
generally, and to cite a particular example, Lo
well of blassachusetts, a town composed almost
entirely of a manufacturing, population. There
is no lack of bodily comforts among us; we
believe everybody, at least with a few excep
tions, has sufficient to maintain himself, with
out anxiety forth(' future. Is that however the
extent of our duty, the provision for our own
physical existence? If we have a surplus, or
the wherewithal to create a surplus, it is our
bounden duty to cause its extension abroad.—
So then, them is no moral reason for this state
of business inactivity. A still str6itger reason
should influence ns to greater enterprise ; and
that is the benefit arising to ourselves from ac
tivity in business of tiny description.
But how shall this reform be commenced, if
such reform is needed? is a question that na
turally smings froth our previous considera
tions. It is very easy to see where there are
deficiencies, a:id what should correct them;
but it is more difficult to proseribe.the manner
in which the remedies should he applied. IVe
think, however in this case it requires no great
stretch of reason to give a prescription ; and
this we will do in a few words.. ,Thehirst piing
then . we would ;impose is, a railroad leading
to either one or both of the Ntetropolitaw cities
on each side of us. The fact is we are behind
the age in this respect; we are too content to
see
.others win the race while we lag behind
and merely watch the sport. How different is
the case in New England! There, if there is
a stream of water not much bigger in volume
than your little finger, every available part is
turned to account. If the Alps were to inter
vene at any point where a railroad was wanted,
there would be no hesitation in hewing the
mountains down, or boring a tunnel through its
bowels. IF capitalists there cannot find on
their own soil convenient means for the dispo
sition of their funds, they seek them in the
Western wilds, or some other distant region.
But some not-concurrent reader may ob
serve, "how is this! have you not said fine
things. in praise of the beauty and the air of
prosperity which reigns over this tract of coun
try 1" Yes; we have ; and we repeat that
probibly nowhere are God's blessings shower
ed in greater abundance than in this section of
Pennsylvania, in the midst of w h ich our own
beautiful Borough is situated. And 1 will re
peat too at the risk of being considered tauto ,
logical, my former argument, or its substance.
if a Man has ten thousand dollars and puts it
to interest at three per cent, when he can just
as well as to' 'ct six, is he not criminally ocg- .
ct Ins ? So we, though we have
snows ronclihandatle - Etitefinise in our rise
tram the blasting misfortunes caused by the
consuming eleinent in our town; though in
_very vale and on every hill, the hand of im
provernentshews its marks, there still remains
toe much pndone. Though t he • wakutii„liss
Ira
t
Resources.
been tapped and its mineral contents fused in
one or two furnaces, it still griialm,severely
~fidniwaqief amore speedy delivery ; are
4 . lilltdo..jakteltided from the busy World:
We firmly believe that the Girman popula
fitirr of IPennsylvania has innate qualities for
great enterprises ; whether , of- - business, litera
ture, er anything else, as prothinent as any
.other Class in the world,, and much more so
than many other classes in - .this or any other
country. llut they are slow, cautious, hard.r
excite. If, however, the ontercrest-be once pen
etrated, and the soul once acted on, we believe
they would show m u ch fire as would astonish
even themselves. This change cannot be ef
fected at once; it requires time for the devel
opement of these faculties.which:only lie dor
mant like the countless riches under the soil
-on-w ey- rve;
Wo have confined our remarks mostly to a
business point of view; we shall perhaps next
week address ourselves to our fellow citizens
upon a subject that we deerh of still more im
portance. In the meantime permit lIR to drink
your healthy in a glass of that limpid water
which flows from our inexhaustible mountain
springs..
An Excellent Regulation
The following lean extract from an Act pass
ed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, during its
recent session :
cige t . 7. The town clerk of every town shall
take for the use of the town, one copy of each
newspaper printed in the county in which
such town is located, which papers shall be
safely preserved with the books of the town,
and bound in volumes; as shall be directed by
the supervisors of the town."
Every person who knows the value and in
terest which an old file of newspapers possess,
will readily perceive the utility of the regula
tion prescribed in the section abovequoted.—
The comity newspaper contains a faithful and
contigious record of all matters of local ititerest
transpiring within its district. It has been
aptly called a concise history of the times, in
wi,ich every event of a public nature, is duly
ur.!ed 411hono.h few subscribers take the
1,;v::c.•:‘o the numbers as they are
issued. !lave iliern bound in book-form, it
is neverdieleFs strictly hue, that a volume of
old newspapers is one of the most interesting
and valuable memorial,. of the generation in
in which he lived ; that a man can hand down
po,,terity.
Cases are constantly occurring, in Coitrt, and
in the ordinary business of life, %viler& it be
comes of the utmost importance to consult a
newspttl•er file. As so few files are kept, if is
impossible to do so, unless by having recourse
to those that are always preserved iu the pub
lishers (office. llow'coovenient would it be,
therefore, if regular files of the newspapers of
&tell county, were deposited in the archives of
every district within the bounds of the county,
so that the citizens might always have them
near at hand for reference. A series of-news
paper volurna regulady kept by every town
ship, would in a short time form one of the
most valuable — legacies of local history that
could be transmitted to posterity. The sub
ject, although apparently trifling, is worthy the
attention of the Legislature of every State ; and
we hope soon to see it adopted in Pennsylva
nia. It affurds the means of collecting a vast
amount of historical, pietistical and miscellane
ous information, useful for the present pur
poses, but more particularly for future refer
ence, and which cannot readily be obtained
front any other source, at a cost so inconsider
able as to make it scarcely worth taking into
account.
The render will of course understand, the
word town in the section copied above, to mean
township; for' the district which we call by
the latter name, are known in many of the
States by the denomination of towns.
Isopathy
Some of the newspapers tnentionoranishly
or otherwise, a newly-invented mode of treat- .
in~diseases.said to he of German origin, which
rejoices in the Greek name of Isopathy.
We have now Homeopathy, Allopathy, Hy
dropathy, and Isopathy, and how many more
epathie% we do riot know. The first is Hahne
mall's system of curing by administering infi
nitestnal doses, the thousandth or ten thou
sandth part of a grain, or less, and cures are
sometimes effected the remedy operating,
we fancy; through the medium of the imagina
tion, rather than upon the physical part of the
system.
The Necand is the regOlar practice, about
which we need not say anything—indeed we
do not know much.
The third is the cold-water cure,as practised
by Priesnitz, its inventer.' or perfecter rather,
and his followers, who, are pretty nutnerous,
both in Europe and America. By this method
many wonderful are undoubtedly effected ;
but to undergo the process as renovation, for
old obstinate chronic diseases, requires a de•
gree of patience and resolution to which but
few sufferers are equal -few compared with
the number that exist.
The isopathists are very original practition
ers, we think, if not very scientific or success
ful. Their modes operandi is, to apply to 'the
diseased part the corresponding part of an ani
mal recently slaughtered. For udisease of the
eye, a can= iir a sheep's or any other beast's
eye would bo at plied : for
,a disease of the
heart, the her of an animal applied to the
cardiac region; lor a diseased liver, the liver
of an ON or hog or other animal would be ap
plied to the hepatic region; and so on ad infi-
Munn.
IVc have not yet seen any cures by this
method rei,orded. If we find hey, we Will give
them a place in our COlllllll5.
Enveloping sick persons in the hot skil l of
an animal just flayed is an old remedy,
,and
has sometimes, nodoubt, effected cures. This
we can tiomprebe,nd,,but .14e isop,atbic method
is not
tone so intelligible.
Miraculous Escape.
Mn Monday the 2d inst., says the Carbon Dem
isaral, as Mr. Charles Packer, of Nesquehoning,
in_conspany with another person, was descend
ing the plain of Messrs. Packer & Doughlas,
above this place, with a train of trucks, they be
came somewhat unmanageable, and commenced
moving with considerable rapidity. Mr. Pack
er's assistant becoming frightened, leaped oil,
leaving their entire management to himself. Of
course, his power was unequal to the task, and
they came thundering down threatening destruc
tion to everything below. When near the bot
tom they ran onhe track, and striking a piece
of wood at the very verge of aprecipice, Mr. P.
was thrown
from his position over the wall, and
singular to relate, alighted, some twenty-five feet
below, erect on his feet, on an upright , 3 inch
lank—With-great-presence-of-mimiTsupposi
the trucks above were about coming down , upon
him, another bound placed him beyond harm's
danger. The cars, however, remained on the
verge of going over. Of course, the whole af
fair, was but the work of a moment. From a
knowledge of the place he descended, every per
son present supposed that he must literally be
dashed to pieces. Great was their joy and sur
prise, however, to find him unharmed in the
least particular. Mr. Packer is one of our most
estimable citizens, and we rejoice with his many
friends over his miraculous escape..
Served Rim Right. —The West Tennessee
Whig tells a capital yarn of a farmer in that
part of the State, who, to make a speculation,
put a large stone in one of his hogsheads of to
bacco, and forwarding it to his commission.mer
chant at •New Orleans, directing his merchant
there to send him a barrel of sugar. By acci
dent or otherwise, the stone was discovered.
The merchant took the stone from the tobacco
and put it into barrel of sugar before he weighed
it, put on the head and sent it back to the tobac
co man in the course of time, and didn't say a
word about the stone. But he found it before lie
had used more than half of the sugar. He got
four cents and bought it back at eight, 'without'
daring to exercise the poor privilege of grumb
ling at the one hundred per cent., advance price
on the repurchase.
Nurder.—The Bradford Democrat of the 15th
ult., notices the recent murder by a man named
Corbin, of Orwell, in Bradford county, of a part
of his family. He in the absence of his wife
collected all his cattle, &e., into the barn and
closed all the avenues to prevent escape, and
then set fire to it. He then returned to the house,
where two of his children, the eldest 17, were in
bed and supposed to be asleep, deliberatelely
cut their throats, and after setting fire to the
house, with the sanie razor cut his own throat.
&balm Molar— We learn from the Lowell
Couriel, that the salmon trout taken in Moose
head Lake, during the past season, amounting to
about twelve tons, having brought the fisherman
on its borders, the snug sum of $2OOO and over.
It would take a great many of our delicious brook
trout to make twelve tons, but the Moosehead
fish are generally of a most extraordinary size-
They are as yellow and almost as rich as a bur
nished lump of California gold. Numbers have
been taken the present season, which have
weighed more than 30 pounds quite as large
as the average run of codfish in the market.
IFGrneral Munufiicturing will be
seen by the proceedings ofthe„House of repre
sentatives on Wednesday last, that the General
Manufacturing bill, which was loSt in that body
last week, has been reconsidered and passed by
a vote of 52 to 37. It had previously passed the
Senate, and now only awaits the signature of the
Governor to become a law.
Cough Syrup.—Take Thoroughwort, Hoar
hound and Pennyroyal, of each a good handlul,
and boil them in just water enough to extract the
strength; then strain off the liquor, and add an
equal quantity of molasses, and boil until it forms
a candy. Eat freely of this every time an incli
nation to cough is felt, and your cough will soon
leave you.
Mind Your Busine3s.—,lt is common advice, but
nor the less judicious. Who has not follies
enough to answer for, without prying into his
neighbor's affairs? Is there a man living who
has not been imprudent at least once in his life?
What if that imprudent step were whispered to
the world I Would it be just? Then seek not
to uncover the concealed fact. Mind your own
affairs, and look into your own heart, and if you
have not crimes and follies enough to answer
for, here's our head for a football.
Liquidating our Stale Debt. We learn from
the Harrisburg Union that a citizen of eastern
Pennsylvania, has writted a letter to a member
of the Senate, proposing a novel scene for the
liquidation of the State.debt. He says that our
taxes are already too onerous to bear increase ;
that the debt of $40,005,000 was incurred for
public improvements that benefit the western
States more than they do us. He proposes that
our Legislature pass a bill organising a compa
ny of 500 men to go to California and collect
gold dust for the Commonwealth; that this com
pany be allowed 50 per cent. on the amount col
lectet, and be under the official protection of the
State, and this gold constitute a sinking fund for
payment of the debt. Of course the preliminary
expenses for outfit, &c. must come out of the pub
lic treasury. Huzza,boya! there will be an end
of taxation—as soon as we can chronicle the
return of the 500 men!
California Gold. —The curiosity seekers in
New York are gratifying themselves with a
sight of a lump el gold in a nearly pure state,
picked up at the Gold Diggings in California.—
It is worth 53 dollars.
Geiversuir of Illinesola.—We have the notification
of the appointment of the Hon. Alexander Ram
sey as tiovernor of the Territory of Minesota.—
Mr. Ramsey is a gentleman of energy, and will,
we have no doubt, prove highly acceptable to the
citizens of the territory.
a- Thy shock of an earthquake was felt at
New Bedford and DortmoUth, 3 ` ass : , on Friday
strolling last,, accompanied by sound resew
blingdistant thunder.
ILegislative .
Proceeding,s.
H t num v no, April 11,1849
An aCt changing the mode of electing themffi
cers of the Springhouse*orthampton Town and
Bethlehem turnpike road company, was read a
second and thinttimeand passed.
' Mr. Matthias offered an amendment requiring
every person applying for a license, to present
to the county. Treasurer the written consent of
the owner oftthe premises, to his keeping a tav
ern; which was agreed to.
Mr. Brooke moved an amendment, that any
one selling liquor without a license, shall upon
a second conviction be imprisoned for a term not
eiceeding three months; agreed to.
The Deputy Secretary of the CommOnwealth
being introduced, presented a message from the
Governor nominating certain gentlemen as .ris-
iden ju ges an. associate judges.
On motion of Mr. Johnson, the message was
referred m the Committee on Executive Nomina
tions, who obtained have to sit during the session
of the Senate.
hi a short time thereafter, the committtee re.
ported unanimously on the nominations ; and on
motion of Mr. Johnson, the Senate went into ex
ecutive session and unanimously confirmed them
as follows:
For President Judges. Nathaniel B. Eldred,
for the counties of Monroe, Wayne,
: Pike and
Carbon; -Horace Wilson, for the counties of
Bradford, Tioga, Potter and McKean ; William
Jessup, for the counties of Luzerne, Susquehan
na and Wyoming; George Taylor, for the coun
ties of York and Adams ; David F. Gordon, for
the county of Berks. •
Associate Judges. —Siogdell Stokes, for the
county of Monroe ; Wm. Hendrie, fur the county
of Ducks ; Joseph Hunsicker, for the county of
Montgomery.
On motion of Mr. Calmont, the. bill to change
the venue 01 certain suits, and for other pur
poses, was taken up and passed the committee
of the whole. The bill being on second reading.
Mr. Klotz moved to amend the bill, so as to
authorize the construction of an aqueduct bridge
over the Delaware, at or near Easton.
Mr. McCalmont opposed, and Mr. Klotz ad
vocated the amendment.
An act for the relief of certain citizens of the
borough of Allentown, Lehigh county, was read
a second and third time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Stine, the Senate resumed
the second reading and consideration -of the
Senate bill to revise the Militia System of the
Commonwealth, and to provide for the training
of those only who shall be uniformed. After
some debate, participated in by Messrs. Stine,
Small, Johnson, King, McCaslin, Brooke and
Sankey, several amendments were made, and
the bill was read a second and third time and
passed.
Mr. Crabb called up his resolution to rescind
the loint resolution, passed by both Houses, fix
ing the 10th inst.as the time for the final adjourn.
ment of the Legislature, when, after considerable
discussion, the resolution was so amended as to
fix the 14th inst. as the day, instead of the 10th,
from which latter time public bills shall be con
sidered first in order. Yeas 15; nays 11.
The resolution was then sent to the House.
The bill relative to scrip issuedfor the Lehigh
Coal Company, was passed.
The House concurred, by a vote of 47 to 98,
in Senate amendment to the bill authorizing the
partial restoration of the capital of the Bank of
Pennsylvania.
An amendment upon the bill, making it im•
peisonment for any unauthorized person to in
s!! ect.Whiskey in Philadelphia, was agreed to.—
T le bill then passed.
Gleanings from Exchanges.
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LIT In Connecticut, the Democrats and Free
Boilers untitrd elected three members of Con
gress and the Whigs .one. In the Senate and
House the Whigs have a 'small majority.
10" Butter sells in Cincinnati at 20 cents per
pound, :lad eggs at 7 cents per dozen
r7"What two numbers are those, if added to
gether amount to 7, and if one be multiplied by
the other the product is 11 1 We "pause for a
reply."
larA tilt-hammer, weighing six tons, was
lately cast successfully at samples Foundry,
near Cincinnati.
ta r A "down east" editor asks his subscribers
to pay up, that he may play a similar joke upon
his creditors.
'The Buffalo Commercial says that George
Washington was on trial on Wednesday, before
Judge Bill of that city,on a charge of assault and
battery, with an attempt to kill William Henry
Harrison.
OrJ. H. Warren, the Clerk of the Solicitor of
the Treasury's office, of the United States, died
last week. About one hundred applicants have
laid claim to the office thus left vacant, which is
worth about $llOO per annum.
1211 'Pa, ain't I growing tall? "Why, what's
your height, sonny!" "Why I'm seven feet
lacking a yard !" Pa fainted. ,
.12r The Canal Commissioners'have appoin
ted Lewis P. Kinsey, Jr., inspector of cargoes at
Bristol, in , place of J. Zeigenfuss, resigned.
tar In.Mornoe county, N. Y. during the year
1848 there were 632 births, 416 marriages, and
466 deaths.
1121" "Is that the tune the old cow died of 1"
asked an Englishman, nettled at the industry
with which a New Englander whistled Yankee
Doodle. "No Beef," replied Jonathan, "that ar's
the tune old Bull died of."
Elr Jesse Miller, Gov. Shunk's Secretary of
State, has purchased an interest in the Harris
burg Keystone, and is now the leading editor of
that print. It is thoroughly Democratic.
ar The shad fishery in the Delaware, this
season, has been very unsuccessful; many fish
ermen have abandoned their attempts.
California. A gentleman writing from San
Francisco, places the richness of the soil in a
very strange light. . He hired a wagon, he says,
the day after he arrived, and took a ride to the
mines, :When he came back, instead of putting
his hand into his pocket and paying for the go,
on Northern principlis, he just scraped the dirt
from the wheels :trashed it, Paid the hostler fir
teen dollen, and yet had thirty doUars left; to
"make a night of." What a land forspreeing.-
- .•
(From the Philadelphia Daily Sod.)
Arrival of the Niagara.
• t3:r:loux, April 6, 1849.
The Niagara, Capt. Ryrie, with two week
laterintelligence from all parts of Europe,
arrived at WM*, yesterday, at :3 o'clock,
P. M. Our EXgress started at half•past
and arrived at gt, John's at quarter-past 8 this
morning.
The news by the arrival, presents Euro.
pean politics in a more threatening aspect
than at any previous period during the past
year, and its importance, not less than its ex-.
citing interest, predominates over all other
intelligence.
There has been no improvment in the trade.
for Breadstuff's, since the advices by the
Canada. In fact prices at all theJeadin
a kers — mve continued to recede, but low
as they are now, purchasers still hold off;
from a conviction that they have notreached
the bottom. - There has been no determina
tion in the extent of employment in the man
ufacturing districts, but there has - been a
perceptible falling off' in the demand . for
manufactured goods. -
The reports by the overland mail repre
sents trade at Bombay, Calcutta, to be good,
and business generally to be in a healthy
state.
The supply of money continues abundant
on call. The Bankers will not give more
than 2 per cent, and are quite indifferent
about receiving it at that. First class paper
is gladly taken at 2i to 2f .
The Bank of England returns do not
furnish any feature worthy of particular
re
mark.
IRELAND.—The west and south of Ireland
seems to be in a deplorable state. Several
frightful murders are reported. The chole
ra is committing extensive ravages. In.
Limerick, to compensate for this sad and dis
tressing visitation, the farmers have comuiern•
ced tilling their ground; and the potato - la
again planted to a greater breadth. The in
tachment of the Irish to this, their precari
ous mode of sustenance, cannot be eradica
ted. It is hoped that the early sowing has
been adopted generally throughout the coun
try that the chances of failure may be di
minished. The friends of Ireland however,
view with considerable alarm, this recur
rence to a system which has cost so much,
life and treasure.
FRANCE.—PubIic attention continUeO,
to centre fn the trials at Burgeois, of the po—
litical prisoners, which are proceeding witht
due solemnity. But as the Parasiansdipliotk
anticipate any new light to be thrown upon.
the events of last year, and the distance
from the capital precludes the possibility of
making• the proceedings a subject of excite—
ment, the public attention of Paris is more
drawn to a a matter nearer at home, or far
more exciting character, than to the proba—
ble fate of the prisoners. After a painfah
investigation into all the circumstances. con=
fleeted with the murder of Gen. Brea. the
government has spared the lives of allltho
convicted party, ‘vith the ex ce ption. of twos
who were brought to the scaflifid on the Itith,
and guillotined. The first application of
the hateful instrument of punishment since
the revolution, has excited the Red Republi•
cans to uncontrolable fury. They have stip
matised the President as an executioner and
an assassin, and M. Proudhon endi an out—
rageous article on the. subject, thus addres—
sing Louis Napoleon.
"You have restored the eruillotjne, and it.
will only disappear with you
The abolition of the clubs has been decid
ed in the Assembly by the slender majority
of 378 over 359, the division being taken by
ballot.
Every day now discloses some fresh in—
stance of the indefatigable zeal of the Social—
ists. who overturn the present
.order.
things.
Surgical Operation.
We have heard of some bold attempts ,
made lately to render surgery subservient to
the cure of that terrible and distressing mal
ady, epilepsy, which cannot but prove inter
esting to the public as well as to the medical
profession..
The new mode of treatment consists in
obliterating the calibre of one or both-com
mon carotid arteries by. means of ligature.—
These trusks. transmit the blood which sup
plies the head and cerebral membranes, and
by arresting. so large a current from the
brain, it is expected" that the morbid influ
ence will be starved or. altered.
Should' this remedy prove as successful
in ameliorating-certain forms. of this com
plaint as the results already promise, it may.
unveil the obscurity which. at present.in:-
volves the nature of epilepsy.
Two cases,. we understand, bowie Hem
operated on in New York ; one by Dm. Pas
ker and the other by Dr. Mott. The re
sult in both cases has been very satildhctony
so far. Dr. Murrough, of this city, in the
presence of Drs. Skillman, Gayler, Wood
hull and Chevalier, lately performed an op
eration, an account of which has been fur
nished us.
The patient was a young man of consid
erable intelligence and firmness of mind..
His sufferings, as he described them, had
been deplorable. For years he has been sub
ject to excruciating distress in the head, at
tended with throbbing of the tempera! arte
ries. He had exhausted, in vain, every con
ceivable system of treatment; his memory
was failing, and hope was yielding to the
dreary and melancholy prospect of complete
fatuity. The hazard of the operation was
explained to him in rather exaggerated col
ors, but he waeresolved.• and submitted to
its performance.without showing the slight
est manifestation of pain or excitement. The
artery was, tied at•the upper margin of the
omobyoid muscle. On the 14th darthe
gature came away, when Alie pattern ` left
New. Brunswick for his residence. at: Six
Mile_ Run,. with only a_ slight .tractr.of• the
wound remaining. andfeeliug more free film
distress than ho hasitern to ,inanyl:yetin.
It is now inorelhen krnenthApoOlche
liga
•.tuic came away, duriperbiolt.gimelve are
informed he: him nn;,experimieno Amy return
ofitis compFnint.—N. Brunswick Vocs: