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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 90, 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.
Ott—A number of advertisernents were una
voidably crowded out of our columns to-day,
they will however, appear in our next. We
further beg the indulgence of our readers for a
a few weeks more, when the advertisements
will slaken off, and we again' will be able to
give the usual quantity of leading matter in the
"Register."
112rWe would respectfully recommend the
attention of Capitalists, to the very large
amount of Real Estate offered in to-days paper.
The already large and continued increase of
our circulation throughout Lehigh, Northamp
ton and Bucks counties, makes it one of the
best and most profitable advertising journals
in the d istrict.
Good News
We are highly gratified to be able to inform
our readers, that the law passer) at the last ses
sion of 'our Legislature, to create a Sinking
Fund, for the gradual redemption of our State
debt, has been put in practical operation dur
ing the past week. The commissioners of the
Pennsylvania Sinking Fund, have purchased
$113,500 of the State Loans, at a cost of $lOO,
000, being a profit to the State of $13,000.
Having thus invested the amount in hand, they
are now out of the market. The good work of
the redemption of the public debt having thus
commenced under favorable auspices, it can
not be doubted that it will be steadily perse-1
vered in, and that the credit of the State will
never again be questioned. The payment oil
interest in gold and silver, and a system twin- ;
ally established and in operation for the grad
ual
liquidation of the principal, afford a basis I
for credit as proud and solid as it is worthy of
our noble old Commonwealth.
Gold Dollars
We hear every one ask, how is it that when
350,000 gold dollars have gone through. the
mint, so few are in circulation? We answer,
that they are coaxed and abducted into the
vaults of the banks, where they quietly lie, as
no bank will put these popular little coins into
circulation, when they can get rid of the rags
which people in business aro forced to take as
a circulating medium. The government should
have directed the superintendents of the mint
to allow persons not connected with banks to
hale the amount they require, in exchange for
gold, silver, or Treasury notes. If the golden
dollar is coined for the benefit of the people,
why should not the people have the use of them? ;
Iron Trade
The London Mining Journal, of the 25th of
August last, contains the-following remarks on
the condition of the tiritiih IrOn Trade:
"The iron trade may safely be declared in a
very promising condition, and both the home
and the foreign trade has improved considera
bly. It is understood that large orders forrails
were received from the, United States by the
last steamer from America, and that our pros
pects in that quarter are much more cheering.
The strike among the colliers in South Stafford
shire has already caused considerable incon ,
verdence; and it is to be hoped, on account of
the autumn shipments, that these differences
may speedily be settled. Prices remain much
the same as last week, with a firm market:—
Welsh bars are held firm at £5 5s to £5 10s."
While such a cheering prospect to the for
eign iron master, and the British laborer is
opened toiltem, what is the condition of the
-iron manufacturer in our country. We hearof
Rolling mills being closed for want of ortlets.
Furnaces out of blast, and a large number of
hard working laborers, who desired a comfor
table subsistence from their operatives, have
either their wages reduced or are distnissed
from employment, because foreign pig iron,
rail road iron, and every variety of the manu
factures of iron are imported at lower prices
than they can be manufactured here.
National Sohool Convention
At the suggestion of several State Superin
tendents and other influential friends of the
cause of popular education in different sections
of the Union, the meeting of the National Con
vention of the friends of Common Schools, which
was to have taken place in Philadelphiaon the 7...!(1
inst., has been postponed to the 17th of October
on account of the prevalence of the cholera
thrpughout the country.
Officers of Conventions or Associations which
have appointed delegates, will please forward to
the Corresponding Secretary the names of ptr
sons appointed as delTgates.
Byorderoftocal Committee of Arningements
. JOS. R. CHANDLER; Chairman:
Alfred E. Might, Cor. Sec.
Voice of the Men oftho Revolution.
It was contemplated by the early founders of
the Republic, that Canada should form a part
of the United States, as appears from the fol
lowing article, specially inserted in the old ar
ticles of confederation of 1776 :
drtide 11. Canada, according to this confer'.
aration, and joining in the measures of the
United States, shill he refrained into, and en
tiiled to all the advantages of this Union; but
no oth er colon/ shell he admitted into the shme,
unless Pneh admission, be agreed to by the
nine States. •
ESE
Nominations in Northampton
The Northampton county Convention of Del
egates, for the purpose of forming a ticket to
be supported by the Democratic party at the
ensuing election, assembled at the house of
Mr. Daniel Riegel, in Nazareth, on Tuesday
las!, and after mature deliberation, nominated
the following
Scnator—,-Gen. Conrad Shimer, of .Hanover
.Assembly—Hon. James M. Porter, of Easton.
" Mich. Meyers, of Bethlehem tsp.
Treasurer—John Davis, of Easton.
Commissioner—Philip Lerch, of Forks.
Geti. Shimer, is favorably known, in old
Northampton, he is fresh from the ranks of the
people, and if we are right, never held a civil
office in his life: As the Senator belongs to
Northampton the Democracy of Lehigh will
unanimously confirm the nomination.
Hon. James M. Porter, wild is nominated on
the Representative ticket, has filled a number
of civil stations, and all with a view to the
public good, and honor to himself. As a pub
lic benefactor, no one can 'be named, who has
done more for Easton or Northampton county,
than Judge Porter. In the Reform Convention
where the Whig party was so able represented
by Thaddeus Stevens, Mm. Merredith, John
Sargent and other prominent men, Judge Por-
ter, was looked upon as the leader of the Dem
ocracy, and upon. nil questions of importance
to the pally, he stood in the front rank as its
able delender. It is then no matter of surprise
to us, that the Democracy of Northampton has
made choice of so able a m ember of theirparly
for . the Legi:dature.
F:=7 "We are authorized to say, that Alexander
E. Brown, Esq. of Easton, is a Volunteer Can
didate for the State Senate.
A New Science.
Farming is now_a science. It is no longer
a blind plodding of labor, but the whole busi
ness is reduced to system, and a crop of any
particular grain may be relied on with as much
certainty from an analyzation of soil and the
character of manure used, as may any demon
stration in. Euclid, or as the effect of any par,
titular medicine on the human system. If a
farmer wishes to grow wheat on his land, he
ascertains by chemical tests what it is compos
ed of. This done, by similar means he analy
zes a portion of the soil whereon he purposes
to grow it, and whatever of the component
parts suited for Wheat is not finnid in it, he pro,
mires and spreads upon his land. A field may
have in abundance all the requisites for pro- ,
during wheat but one, and, lacking that, will
be unproductive. By science it has been dis
covered that butter and beef are in the grass
and the fruits ; that the cow is only the mane-;
fact urer ; yielding all the while only what they
eat. The farmer who refuses to follow the
science, will. perhaps, at great cost, add those
ingredients of which there are already enough ;
but that will not cause a crop to grow. A tru
ly scientific farmer knows little of poor land.
All land is good to him, for he knows how to
doctor it to produetiveness. Land that would
only produce a very poor crop has been made
,to yield a very large one, by simply spreading
upon it one or two deficient substances—lime
of oyster shells, ashes even of anthracite coal,
fish-bones, charcoal dust, tan, &c. Every thing,
it has been fully demonstrated, is composed of
ingredients which must be had for the repro
duction of itself, and many other things. Emit
trees often cease to bear because the soil has
become exhausted of one or two of the ingre
dients which compose their fruit. Give them
but these, and they will at once yield fruit as
abundantly as ever. One crop exhausts one
set of ingredients ; and another to some extent
a different set; and so farmers perhaps often
leapt the fact without knowing the cause, that
the same crop should not be grown for succes
sive years iet the same land. Yet there is no
difficulty in growing the same crop time with
out end, if only the exhausted ingredients are
supplied. Much has been learned as to the'
time of euttinggrain and of curitighay. It has
been fully demonstrated that the quantity of
flour is increased, the quality improved, and
waste of shattering prevented, by cutting grain
catty ; and the fact is equally well ascertained
that grass may be cured and improved by the
addition of a small portion of salt to the mow
or stack after half the exposure to the sun for
medy deemed necessary, thus measurably les
sening the labor of handling as well as narrow
ing the danger of damage by exposure to rains.
Science to agriculture has developed wonders
in the rapabilities of the ground, which have
been from the creation unobserved. Men are
only astonished at the lack of vision of heed
lessness that prevented them from earlier see-!
ing and appreciating the thousands of advan
tages that surround them. Put theadvantages
of science as applied to agriculture can hardly
as yet be estimated. It is as yet but the light
that shows us the unexplored darkness. The
capacities of the earth have hardly begun tobe
developed, and the human family ItSrdly
be
gun'to exist, either in numbers or individual
enjoyments. Evidently no sort of conception
has been formed in the minds of more than a
few, of the swarming millions which this earth
is capable of sustaining in luxurious plenty.
Land and labor have been brought so igno
rantly together that nothing comparatively has
been the product. The meagre, stunted crops
which have so poorly repaid the labor of the
farmer, have exhibited the measure of man's
ignorance rather than of the earth's barrenness.
Let no farmer hereafter, who would conceal
his awn ignorance, laugh. at the information
contained in book-farming. Read, read all,
and read attentively.—D. .Nnespaper.
Capt. Thomas Loeser.—This gentleman, who
served as commander of the Reading Artiller
ists during the Mexican war, died suddenly in .
Philadelphia, at the American Hotel, on Wed
nesday last. He was one of those noble spir
its, always true to his friends and to every
dictate of honor—who had but one enemy, and
that %yap "timself to himself."
For the Lehigh Register.
Female Education.
It is to be greatly deplored, when boys grow
up without thorough religious training; but a
woman without piety is a real moral pest. Her
principles will be impressed upon herchildren
much more certainly and deeply, than those of
the father; on 'which account her influence for
good or for evil is incalculable, History leach !
es us sufficiently, how true this is. The best
and most distinguished men of all times owed
most to their mothers; hence the great venera
tion for their mothers exhibited by such men
as our own great Washington, Franklin, &c.
And yet, not near as much has been done for
the education of woman, as for thht of man.
Whether this is owing to a want of proper es
timation of her calling, we venture not to de
cide.
Even in our country, where she ranks so
highly, great improvements are necessary in
her education. It is true, considerable atten
tion is paid to the subject, but very wrong no
tions in regard to it, have here and there be
come prevalent. Among vs female educ'ation
not seldom wants substance and thoroughness,
whilst matters of secondary importance receive
undue attention. The same is the case
in other countries; but with us it should occur
least, professing as we do, such high regard for
the female sex, and the more we, as republi
cans, should prefer the true solid worth, to the
mere external and accidental advantages,pf a
person. Sincere piety, true morality, a cheer
ful, pure heart, self regard and a high respect
for her calling, ought to be aimed at in the ed
ucation of woman in all the walks of life. Ev
ery girl should be well instructed in female
work, 'and as well as the boy, in all the branch
es taught in a good common school.
A more extensive education, however, is
desirable for all, and fin many it is indispensi
ble. Where may this be obtained? You an
swer, no doubt, in "Young Ladies' Semina
ries," and you are right. Far he it from us. to
undervalue their advantages; and yet do we
take the liberty of saying, that it would be a
much greater task for us, to select a suitable
Institute for the education of a daughter, than
for that of a son. Seminaries, however fash
ionable they may be, where young ladies are
merely educated fertile parlor, where they im
bibe more taste for reading novels than loruse
ful employments, where they are taught to
overrate themselves and to underrate every
body else, are a real curse ; and we do hope
and pray, that they may become rarer from
year to year.
It is particularly important, that solidity in
character and acquirements should be aimed
at, in the schools for ladies of the higher('lass
es. Besides the branches taught in every good'
common school, the following should be thor
oughly taught in every Seminary for "Young
Ladies": Biblical History; Christian morals;
History, that of our own country in particular;
Geography; Science of health; what is most
important and useful in Botany ; at least so
much of Natural Philosophy, as will enable
them to judge correctly and intelligently of the
usual phenomena in Nature; fine'Ladies' work,
Drawing, Vocal Music and Piano. Foreign
languages may be taught 100; but if it be done
as superficially, as frequent instances indicate„
they would better not be taught at all.
If the surrounding influences have a great
agency in aiding or obviating the efforts of the
education in general, those influences are cer-
tainly particulatly strong in their bearing upon
female education ; the gill learns more from
intercourse, than the boy does. It is, therefore
very important, who the educators of the girl
are. They are called upon to educate particu
larly :(although not exclusiVely) for the family
circle, and should, on that account, represent
family life in its most attractive and most prop
er form. In the female Semioary, the cordial
ity of the parental house should strongly pre•
domina'e. Ilowever willing we are to grant
to the ladies a peculiar fitness for conducting
the education of their own sex, it still seems
to us, that man's influence is also needed in it
God has thus ordained it in the family, why
should it not be proper elsewhere? Whoever
has a good girls' sehool-al home, may consider
himself fortunate; particularly if a mother pre•
sides over the family, whose abilities qualify,
and whose circumstances allow her to super
intend the edneatien of the daughters. K.
Allentown, Sept. 16, 1849.
The Plough, °Loom and Anvil
The September number of this truly popu
lar Agricultural periodical is received. W
cheerfully recommend this excellent monthly
journal to the Farmer, the Manufacturer and
Mechanic, its contents will more than re-pay
the liberal price of Subscription. Address J. S.
Skinner, No: 81. Dock street, S 3 per annum,
where two unite E 5, and where 5 unite $lO.
A new race cf Peop . le.—A new race of people
have been recently found in the interior of Af
rica, which partakes somewhat of the marvel
lous. The men are represented to be tall and
powerful!) , built, smutting seven to seven and
a half English feet in height, and black in col
or, although destitute of the usual character of
negroes in features. filehemit Ali sent an ex
pedition np to the White Nile in search of gold,
and there found this race of people, fifteen hun
dred of whom, aimed to the teeth, came down
to the shore of the river, where the vessel lay.
The name of the kingdom is Buri, and its cap
ital Patenia. They raise wheat, tobacco, &c.,
and manufactnre their own weapons. They
are probably the ancient Ethiopians spoken or
in the Scripture. •
Bedford Tl•easury Robbed Again.—The Trensu
ry of Bedford county has been' robbed a second
time. We learn from the Bedford Gazette, that
the Treasury was robbed last week of $248.
The robbers broke into the Court Ilouse,carried
the iron safe for some distance from the town,and
broke it open, expecting a large haul, but they
only obtained the sure above stated.
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Late and Important
From Washington.
French Minister Disinissed!
lIIS PASPOKTS SENT TO 111311
a War apprehended:
By Special Telegraphic Despatch of the Phila •
dclphia North American
IVAsni;GToN,Feb. 18,1849
After a protracted anti important corres
pondence between the French Minister and
the Department of State, Lellers of Dismis
sal and Passports, were communicated to
M. Poussin, on Friday last, the 14th inst.
The whole subject of dispute has been
before the French Government, and its
course has been such as to justify the prompt
and decided action of our Government. •
It depends upon France to determine
whether war shall grow out of this difficul
ty or not. Certainly the United States will
not retract or re-consider its position.
- * - A Inter despatch gives the particulars
of the difficulty, which appears to have ari
sen during the late Mexican war, from a
claim in behalf of a Frenchman, named M.
Porte, then. residing in the city of Mexico.
More next week.
Carbon County Nominations
The democratic delegates elected by the ditrer
eat townships in the county of Carbon, met in
convention, on Monday the 3d inst., at the Public
house ofJobn Lentz in Mauch Chunk, and nom
inated the following ticket.
For Assembly—Robert Klotz.
Sheriff—lsaac Ripple.
Prothonotary—Dennis Bowman.
Register and Recorder—Oliv er Musslematt.
Commissioner John Hot n, Esq.
Treasurer—James R. Struthers.
Auditor—Lewis Haney.
W. H. Butler Esq , is appointed the delegate
to meet the delegates in Lehigh county, at their
county convention, to inform them of the nomi
nation of Robert Klotz.
A resolution was also passed, concuring in the
nomination (lithe candidate selected by the Dem
ocratic convention of Lehigh co_unty, for the Leg
islature, and respectfully recommend the person
so nominated, to the united support of the Democ
racy of Carbon
L-V — The Whigs at their County meeting re
solved to support none but Volunteer Candidates
for the different offices. •
The Pacific Railroad.
There is now,says the New York Tribune, we
apprehend but little difference of opinion in this
cutintry as to the necssity of building a railroad
to the Pacific. The Press of all sections and of
All parties has of late given much space to the
discussion of the subje a ct, with singular unanimi
ty as to its pressing Importance.--There are of
course opposing views as to the route which
should be chosen, and the Manner in which the
road should be built, but with scarce - an excep
tion, all agree that it must be built. And there
is no reason to doubt that in this instance, at
least the Press speaks the conviction of the peo
ple.
This being the case, there should be no unneces
sary loss of time in setting the enterprise on
foot. Not only its magnitude demands that it
should be begun as promptly as may be, in or
der that its inestimable benefits may the sooner
be poured upon onr country and the world ; there
is even greater weight in the fact that the wood
lands, which must furnish an important part of
its materials, are rapidly passing out of the hands
of the Government, and that once deprived of
their timber, the road will cost vast sums of mon
ey which can be saved if the matter is taken
hold of in time. For this reason, if for no other,
we ragard it as absolutely indispensable that
Congress should act on the subject at its next
session, and we welcome every movement which
is calculated to strengthen the force of public
opinion in that direction.
A National Convention has been called at'St.
Louis on Monday the 15th October next, for the
purpose of discussing the great scheme and ta
king means to help it forward. We have receiv
ed the Circular which the Committee of the Peo
ple of St. Louis have sent abroad by way of invi
tation to be, present. It states in terms by no
means exaggerated, the advantages which the
whole country and the world must certainly de
rive from the opening of such a highway for the
Coaunerce of the Western part of this Continent
and . Asia; goes at some length intolhe reasons
for regarding the undertaking as an eminently
practical and necessary one, notwithstanding its
gigantic proportions; and cencludes by inviting
iMegates from every part of every State and Ter
ritory to take part in the Convention, and pledg
es the hospitality of the city for theit entertain
ment.
This Convention ought to:be fully attended,
and we urge upon the people everywhere the du
ty of seeing that they are represented at it. We
do not now enter into the question of where the
road would start from, nor according to whose
plan it should be constructed; those points we
may consider hereafter; at any rate they will
properly come np before the Convention, where
'we trust each will be discnssed• with thorough.
ness and freedom from sectional and party spiv
it, as is 'due to the important nature of the work.
For the present let the matter in hand be to make
sure that the Convention contain the right men
from all quarters.. As for the details of the en
terprise they are matters of less instant impor
tance. What is first wanted is for the People
unitedly, that is irresistibly, to declare that the
Road must now be built. •
California Life and Manners
The journals are filled with lotus from
fornia, which furnish some interesting extracts:
Life in Colifornia.—Life in San Francisco is
exciting and amusing. There is almost a total
absence of female society. It is no place for the
presence of ladies, and Will not be for some time
to come. You can thereforeconceive the entire
freedom from restraint. For instaneb„good board
being at $2l a week, and ordinary at $l6, many
prefer providing and cooking for themselves.
You may see these "independents" walking along
the streets every morning with a beef-steak in
one hand and a loaf in the other, whistling,
"away with melancholy,V and other ratted airs.
Now these gentlemen fare well;. they buy their
beef at 12 cents a pound, delicious salted salmon
at the same, bread at 25 cents a loaf, and coffee
and sugar reasonably cheap. Thus their per
diem expenses do not exceed 75 cent's. And
they are those who make money; for although
clerks have $5,000 salarieS, and laborers 6,8,
and $lO a day, still the cost of board, and wash
ing at $6 and $8 per dozen, leaves a very small
margin fur profit. It is actually economising to
throw away clothes when a change is necessary,
and then buy new, prices of clothing have so fal
len.
Gambling.—Extract from a lette'r dated San
Francisco, July 30th.
This is one of the strangest places in. Christ
endom. I know many men, who were models of
piety, morality, and all that sort of thing, when
they first arrived here, and who are now most
desperate gamblers and drunkards. I think that
many who left New York to better their•fortunes,
will wish they had remained at home. Gold dig
ging is opt of the question with some of them—
they cannot and will not follow it, and it requires
more capital fur a Man to do business here than
in the States. Many have already returned from
the mines, finding themselves unequal to the
work, and are about returning home. It is men
tioned as an indication of the wildness of the
gambling spirit that $lOO,OOO had changed hands
at a monte bank on the turn of a single card. A
New York gambler is said to have lost $lO,OOO
the night before the California sailed.
The Reading California Associalion.—Letters
have been received at Reading from members of
the Reading California Association, dated San
Francisco, July 29th, 1849, whither they arrived
on the 14th of July, in the steamer California, in
seven days from San Bias. They paid $l2O
each for passage in the steerage. The goods
shipped for the Company by the Cape Horn route,
had not yet reached the party to whom they were
consigned at San Francisco.
A home sick man.—A correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun gives the following as his expe-
MIMES
I have conversed with few of the recently ar
rived passengers, from either the States or Ore
j• gon, but who are home sick. Many are now re
turning. others are making preparations ro fol
low suit. Some are dying, while many look
quite broken hearted, and curse the first discov•
erer of gold in these diggins. The fact is, eve
ry thing has been overdrawn. Lever writers
have been interested, or run-toad enthusiastics ;
"they onlx tell of the survivors' toil in their new
lands—their number arid success—but who can
number the hearts which broke in silence of
their parting, or after their departure." It is true,
I have occasionally met with permit's who re- I
;rani this country as only second to Paradise, but
have always found them persons with whom I
desire the least possible acquaintance. The
country is overstocked with gamblers and rum
mills, who carry bn their operations every hour
in the day, and every day in the week. 'Pricy
are generally connected, to fleece the un wary, and
,many a poor devil will walk in with his buck
skin purse well filled with dust and next day he
is penniless, hunting a conveyance to the mines,
and swearing like a trooper at his luck. Hut I
have never seen an Oregon man in any such
scrapes. 'Alley compose a very large pinion of
the miners, and are decidedly, taking them in a
body, the best portion of the community:
Labor the Mines :—A digger at the ()alum
bia mines says:
I have tried gold digging fur the first time
and find it very hard work. On these bars, which
have been thrown up by the rapid current, the
sand and rockk are sometimes piled up over the
gold from one to four feet, and have to be remov.
ed before you get it. We moved today rocks
weighing from 500 to 6110 lbs. and tons or sand,
to get about 50 bushels of dirt, out of which we
got 3} minces—better luck than common. The
whole amount of our digging for two weeks is
two pounds—ptetty fair for new hands.
'Gloomy Accounts:—The Boston Journal pub
lishes extracts of a letter dated at San Francis
co, July Bth, of which the subjoined is. a
Money appears to be of no acctrunt. You can
hardly pass a person that has not his thousands
in gold, carried in a small bag. Yesterday I saw
a man just from the mines. He had with him a
bag containing about $7OllO. I enquired of him
how long he was in getting it, and he said ein one
week !" Some of the pieces were. as large as a
medium sized bean, and from that down to dust,
and perfectly clean. I have seen a great many
breast pins made of a piece of gold just as it
came from the mines, weighing from two to three
ounces. Gamblers are doing a great business.
I went into several of their houses, and saw a
man lose $20,000 in one evening. After losing
it, he very quietly said,-:Well,I shall have to go'
up to the mines again."
SearciN of Women.—A correspondent of the
Baltimore Argus, says.
This country is sadly deficient in the Creator's
lase, best gift to man, and you will be conferring an
everlasting favor on me, if you hill just send me
one of those red flannel unmentionables that is
hanging behind the door of my bed-room. We
had a wedding in Sacramento city on the 12th,
and a regular blow out it was—a Muster of citi
zens and strangers. They kept ii up so late that
I doubt very much if they have all got home yet.
To such an extent is the veneration for the fair
sex carried here, that I have seen a party of Ore
gonians stop and have a dance around an old
caat•ofl bonnet.
Prices of Products.—On het arrival, the Rime
a; from Boston, was Wattled by a man who of
.
eted $5 per bdslrel fat potatoes. They have
been sold as high as $lO. Milk sold for $2,50
er gallon ;it has been as high as $3. The Pres
1. nt was offered $l2 per pound for saleratus ;it
can now be bought f0r51,25. A frame building,
36 by 20. covered with rough boards, well situa
ted, rents far $5OO per month ; a room, 20 feet
square, for $2OO.
Slavery andSbeirly.-431avery, it is said, cannot
be introduced. Two or three churches are es
tablished. There is no theatre; but many think a
well r. , gulated one would be, of serviCe. For the
want of some place of amusement, many now
visit the gaMbling houses, who otherwise proba
bly would not. Gambling is carried on to a great
extent. It is no uncommo n thing to see 20Doun—
ces of gold hazarded upon a card. 'Fables cov
ered with gold and silver coin meet you at every
direction.
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- Gleanings froni the Mail.
r'"There were exported from Liverpool to•
Philadelphia, from the 20th to the 28th ult., 250
Mils Pig Iron ; 133 do Bars, - and 12 tons troops:
C-uk'•"Everybody has his own theatre, in which:
he is manager, actor, prompter, playwright.
box-keeper, door-keeper, all in one,and audience.-
. -
into the bargain," ' •
L.V - ..What's that?" asked a schoolmaster, point
ing to X. "It's daddy's name." "No, you block
head, it's X."..Taint X nuthcr.lt's daddy's name
for Iv'e seen him write it many a time.
re Much valuable information is derived
from persons who visit families for the purpose
of seeing and hearing all they can respecting the
domestic arrangements of their neighbors.
I It is very silly to pay for rum to drink
when water costs nothing and is healthier.
re 'There are upwards of 10,000 tailors in.
New York and Brooklyn.
C... - o — foin Flyer. the pugilist, appeared at Syra
cuse, so as to exhibit during the State Fair, but
the authorities forbade all pugilistic exhibitions,
and be had to leave.
.'One line, and one fr : aught with instruction
includes the secret of final success—be prudent,
he patient, and be pet severing.
r. , -(30 to strangers for charily, to acquaint
ances, for advice, and to relatives for nothing—
and you will always have a supply. ..
Butter Making
Rutter intended for winter use, should be made
either in September or October. During these
months the weather is sufficiently cool, and the
'quality of the food in the fields and pastures
more suitable than when the season is more ad
vanced. Very good butter may be made in No
vember, but though (or family use it may be as
good as that made during the two preceeding
months, it is not so admirable for marketing.
One of the principle reasons why there is so
much bad butter in the country, is thus lucidly
explained by a writer on this subject:
-The principal cause of failure ill make good
butter that may be kept for a, long time, is the
neglect to separate the buttermilk entirely from
the butter. Some dairy women are afraid to let .
any cold water touch the butter, for fear of wash
ing nut the goodness—as if water and .boner
could commingle. We object to touching the
hurter with the hands—some partiCles will thug
he melted and thus injute the whole. All*
wooden paddle is best.
o When the butter is gathered in the churn,
that is, ashen it separates from the butter.milk„
and forms lumps, the butter-milk should all be
drawn off, and cold water should be adiled; then
the whole must be agitated or churned, and this
water must then he drawn off, and so on till the
water ceases to look white.
“This serves to harden the butter. and to work
out the alk. If any liquid is finally left in the
butter, this liquid will be nearly all water, and
you have suit touter or "brine” in your butter,
rather than butter•tnilk, which becomes tainted
it, three oi four days of hot weather. Pure brine
will not taint the butter, but butter-milk will."
, By proper care in making and working butter,
our farmers might render their part of dairy bu
siness exceedingly profitable. Extra butter al
' ways cocain:tit& a good price. Dairy women
frequently complain that the milk of cows led on
turnips and cabbages, produce butter ofa bad Cla
vor—so bail indeed, that the articlb is unsalea•
ble,•and unfit for use. The disagreeable conse
quences emanating from the practice of feeding
these vegetables to cows, may be wholly obvia
ted by feeding' them to the animals after milking
at night, and allowing them a liberal supply of
Mr. Clay's Nep:o, Levi.—lt appears that while•
the Hon. Henry Clay was visiting Newport,
Rhode Island, lately some abolitionists coaxed
his servant, Levi, to run away, by giving him
$3OO. When he arrived at Boston, his new
friends offered Levi a sailor's berth, at so much
per month ; but out of his first earnings he was
required to pay back the $3OO. Levi demurred
to this, and so the bargain fell through,-the ne
gro giving hack the $3OO and going back to his
master at Newport. He wouldn't take his free
dom fornothing, nt. how they could fix ii. Some
of the papers have denied the truth of these in
cidents, but they are strictly true.
Fixtune's enanges.—A few days since a young
gentleman related to'us the following: He said
that his mother was speaking in the evening at
the social home circle,, of fortune's changes, and
remarked. "that in her girlhood, at a social par
ty, were there was music and dancing, a young
blue eyed, light haired boy asked her to dance.
She refused, and thciught him rather presuming
as he was the son of a blacksmith, and she the
daughter of Capt.— a militia captain. There
was a difference in their social position. That
boy is the present Governor of Alassachuselle:'
The arrival of two German Republiams.—oolo
- Henry Ney and Villechatup of the German
Republican army, arrived at Boston in the brig
Chenamus, frum Gibraltar. They escaped over
the mountains disguised as sailors, and after un-.
dergoing great hardships, succeeded in getting to,
Gibraltar. One of them was carried on board;
the Chenamus in a sack.
• Indian Odd Pe lqtos.—ln the Cherokee Advo
cam of the 16th ult., we find that Cherokee Lodge
No. 21 was orgabised, and the officers installed,
by the M. W. Grand Maater, on 'the 12th.