d[lie fel)igt) Register.
Circulation near 2000.
Allentown, Pa.
THURSDAY, MARCH ?I, 1850.
Drowned
We learn that on Monday the I Ith instant,
a child of Mr. Amos Antrim, aged about three
yearn, fell into the race above his mill, in Up-
per Milford township, Lehigh county. It had
been in the water but a few minutes, and med.
ical aid was immediately tenoned to. but with.
out success.
Free Exhibition
The semi-annual exhibition of the Allentown
Seminary in connection with Alm. Young's . La.
dies' Institute, will take place on Wednesday
evening, the 27th instant, at the Odd PelloWs'
Hall. Persons from the Borough and vicinity,
who can-make-it convenient; should-attend, as
the exercises will be interesting and instructive.
First of April
Our subscribers who contemplate "moving"
on or about the first of the coming mouth, are
requested to give us timely notice where they
- wish their papers sent after that date. Some
persons are in the habit of discontinuing their
papers, When about to change their places of
residence, under the idea that they cannot re•
ceive them as conveniently or as regularly in
their new abodes as in the old ones. But this
is a mistake. We can forward the Register,
by our carriers, or through the mail, to any
point in or out of the county ; and all that our
subscribers have to do, to insure the continual
and regular receipt of their papers, i 3 to in.
form us, whenever changing their residence?,
of the place to which they have removed.
Admission of California
The New Orleans Bulletin says, that of the '
members who formed the Convention, which
lately adopted the Con'stitution of California ;
seventyone were from the slave States, and
forty•eiOht from all the rest of the world. The
exclusion of slavery having been by an unan
imous vote, says the Bulletin, is pretty con•
vincing evidence that even those from slave
holding States consider. the country entirely on
suitable for the institution.
The Double Eagle
This beautiful new coinage has beet: issued
from the mint, and far exceeds all the other
golden pieces in elegance as in value. The
device of the head is from the antique, and is
an emblem of Liberty,. us required by law. The
reverse is designed in conformity with the act
of 1782, which describes the arms of the Uni
ted States with the scroll containing the motto
E. Pleribus Unum, more extended and orna
mented than usual, and seeming by its form
and arrangement to indicate the piece. Mr.
I.ongacre, who designed the die, deserves great
.credit for its elegance and neatness.
The New Banking Law
Our Legislature, says the Pottstown Ledger,
has been eternally tinkering at our Banking
system, with very little good practical effect.
We observe that the folly of prohibiting the
circulation of all paper bills from other states,
under the denomination of $lO, is enacted in
the new restriction bill before the Legislature.
While it is all important that the Banking
system should be made as safe as human in
genuity can make it, consistent with the busi
ness wants of the community, it is worse than
folly for our wise legislators to lumber the sta
tute books with provisions they know never
will be enforced.
We are so firmly convinced of the justice
and true domocracy•of general laws for bank
ing as well as all other corporate wants of the
community, that we can regard the stubborn
perverseness of legislators in refusing to lend
their intelligence and energies to the formation
of comprehensive, reliable and guarded gene
ral Laws, with but little degree of favor. There
are some good enough provisions in this mod
ern bank restriction bill, but we very much
doubt whether it Will ho of as melt practical
utility to the people of the State as it will cost
the State for its making. Our presem banking
system is an aristocratic monopoly.
What Factories Do.
It is the cumulativkinfluence of domestic
manufactures which give them their national
importance. There are Itundredi of thrivin4
cities and villages in this country, who owe
not only their prosperity but their existence to
manufactures; and it is certainly.better for the
country that our people should contribute to the
support of these localities, and the hundreds of
thousands of industrious persons who inhabit
them,tbau that they should support a like num- I
ber °fumes and operativesin foreign co u tunics._
A capital of 3100,000 will give direct employ
ment to 200 people. On the average each one
of these persons will support at least one more,
and thus add 00 to the population of the town
where the factory may be established. Nor is
this all, to house a population of 40n, buildings
must be had—to build and furnish thecc hou
ses and clothe the inmates, mochanics.inust be
bad ; to feed them, doctor them, educate them,
'and defend them, a new demand is made for
farmers, traders, doctors, teachers, lawyers and
forth and so on, all adding still more
to the population and the business of the place
where-such a factory is located.
State Convention
The Whig State Centrst Cmmitikm mot at
Harrisburg on ‘Vednesday the 13th inst., and
WO upon Philadelphia es the place, and 19th
Of June as the time for holding a Whig State
Convention to nominate a candidate for Canal
CoMMiPIVIKM •
Township Elections.
The following persons were• on Friday, the
15th inst., elected to fill the seNeral offices in
the North and South Ward in the Borough,
and in the different townships of Lehigh county.
NORTH WARD.—Justice, Jacob Dillinger,
Judge, Joseph Nunemachar, inspectors, James
11. Buah, Manasses Schwartz, Assessor,
n. Blumer, Constable, Samuel Burger.
•
SOUTH WARD.—Judge, Joseph Dieter, In
sperfors, Joseph Weaver, John' llagelibuch, .4s
sessor, Peter Good, Constable s Samuel Hartman
NORTHAMPTON —Justice, William IA end
son,- Judge, George White,. Inspectors, Daniel
Nunernacher, Benjamin F. Kieppinger, Asses
eor, William Hecker, Constable, Jacob Meyers,
Supervisors, Daniel Baumer, Casper Kleckner,
School Directors, William Hecker, Geo. Moyer,
Auditor, Solomon Butz, Clerk, Thomas F. Hal
bach, place of bolding township elective, John
rSchimpf.
SA LSBCHG.—Justice, Josh h Ithaa.l3, Judge,
Jacob Eckspcillen, Inspectors, 13tilonion Diehl,
Moses Wiandt, Assessor, Henrc• D. Wolf, Con.
j stable, Gideon Ritter, Seem visor,George Kern
nierer, Michael S:erner, School Dlreomr,!, Jelin
I _Yost, Jelin Kemmerer, Auditor, John Apple,
Clerk,Rouben Bernhard
S. \VHITETIALI..— Jortice; cuarrt.3 Guth.
Judge, Jacob Mickly, Inspectors. Charles Trox-
ell, John Culbertson, Asse - ssor, John , Nlinnich,
Cotistahlc;, Josiah Strouss, Supervisors, David 1
Biery, Joseph Hammel, Capt. Adam flicker,
Jeremiah Kern, School Directors, Daniel mitr.
man, Adatn Guth, Daniel Schneider, Charles
Liehtenwalner, Auditor, John Ritter, Clerk,
George Smith.
HANOI' ER.—Justice, Coo. Frederick, Judge,
Samuel Saylor, Inspectors, Isaac MeHose, John
0. Eichten %valuer, Assessor, Samuel Colter ;
Constable, Thomas Craig, Supervisors, George
Bickert, Charles Noll . , School Directors, Sol. L.
Keck, Solomon Elorey, and for 2 years, Samuel
Met-lose, Sam. Millen, Auditor, Tobias Sterner,
Clerk, Jesse \Vassar.
UPPER SAUCON.—Justices, Charles W.
Cooper, Lishua Fry, Judge, Charles B. Weber,
Inspectors, Charles Weirbach, Sanford Steffen,
Assessor, Ezekiah Gerhard, Constable, John
Yundt, Supervisors, Thomas Ott, Benj. Eisen
hardTHenry-BleahnlTSchool-Directors-Gorlfrey
Weirbach, John Weber, Auditor, John 0:1,
1 Clerk, Edward Seider.
1 C. MACUNGV.—J ustices, Willoughby Fogel,
David Schall, Judge. Benjamin Fogel, Inspec
tors, Jacob Litzenberger, Charles Dankel, As
' sessor, Solomon Colter, Constable, John Weid
knecht, Supervisors, W m. Desh, Jesse Schmidt,
School Directors, Michael Reichert, John Marx,
Auditor, John Ahner,
LOWER MACUNGY. —Justices, Harrison
Miller, Jonas Faust, Judge, Jacob Marx, In
spectors, Reuben Baumer, Henry Gorr ; Asses
sor, Daniel Mohr, Constable, Andrew Neu
moyer, Supervisors, GeBrge Baer, Isaac Eisen•
hard, School Directors, Reuben Danner, Geo.
Clause, John Romig, Auditor, John Maddern,
Clerk, Atnandas Steller).
N. WHITEHALL—Justices. Edward Koh
ler, 11. 0. Wilson,Judge, Daniel Kuntz, Inspee
lois, Solomon Do Long, John Romig, As-cssor,
Joint Clifton, Constable, Simon' Keinerer, Su
pervisors, Peter Steckel, John Bartell, John
Annewaldt, Abraham Baer, School Directors,
Abraham Naef, David Lo*ry, Auditor, Jacob
Lindionan, Clerk, Hausman. '
UPPEP•MILFORD.—JUstices, Joshua Sahl.er,
Willoughby Gable, Judge, Henry Diefenderfer,
Inspectors, Samuel Stauffer, David Kern ; As
sessor, Jacob B. Hillegass, Constable, Solomon
Dillinger, Supervisors, Charles E. Raeder, Geo.
Bachman, School Directors, John Miller, Henry
Jordan, Auditor, Charles Shantz, Clerk, Wm.
!little. • I
LOWII I ostler:, 'John Weida, Jud ! 7e Pe- !
net Bitner, InspectorS ; inseph Kline, John Frey,
Assessor, l'eter Buchman, Constable, Daniel
Welly, Supervisors, Nathan Housman, Jona-
than Wet', School Directors, Jacob Hartman,
Jacob Kline, Jacob Darr, Auditor, Peter George,
Clerk, John Shoemaker.
WEISENBURG.:— Justice, Francis Weiss,
Judge, Fred. A. Wallace, Inspectors, John Wei
ler, John F. Seiberling. Assessor, Jacob Green
awalt, Constable, Jonas Ebert, Supervisors, Pe•
tor Shoemaker, Jacob Harmon, Jacob Walbert,
School Directors, Solomon' Hulbert, John Fen
: stermacher. Frederick Walbert, Jacob Grim,
Samuel Heffner, Charles Sell ; Auditor, Levi
Liehtenwalner.
HEIDELBERG. Justice ; John Saeger,
Judge, John Smith, Inspectors, Nathan %Verdi
ter, David Bloc,, A-..essor, John !Hillhouse,
Corti-table, George Hoatz, Supervisors, Casper
Handwork, John Cressle, School Directors, Ja
cob Harter, Michael Rauch, for 3 years, Nathan
Kram, Josiah German, fort years, Andrew Pe
ter, Godfrey Peter, for Iyear, Auditor, Levi
Krauss, Clerk, William Fenstermacher.
WASHINGTON.—Justices, Boas Housman,
Lewis C. Schmidt, Judge, Dennis Hun sicker,
Inspectors, Charles Peter, Peter Strouss, As
sessor, John Balliet, Constable, Gideon Lentz.
Supervisors, Henry Geiger, Geo. Bloss, School
Directors, Daniel Peter, James Hoffman, Audi.
tor, John Fen stermacher, Clerk, Thomas Kuntz,
place of election, Durs Rudy.
LYNN—Justice, Jonas Haas, David Foil
wetter, Judge, Joseph Moser, Inspectors, Josh
ua Weida, Daniel IL Creitz, Assessor. David
M. Kistler, Constable, Daniel F. Folkeiler.
Supervisors, Daniel Weber, Dan. Lutz, S. Cliool
I.Directors, John Ulnieh, John Bachman, Audi
tor, George Sinter, Clerk, Joseph Derr.
eartaiWs Magazine
The April number has mime to hand and
fully equals any periodical in the country.— ,
The manor, passing under the Editorial super
vision of Professor Hart, the accomplished
Principal of the Philadelphia High School, can
na! be other than first rule. The reputation of
Mr. Sartain as an engraver is too well known to
need commendation.
One copy $3 per annum. Addroa John Sat
lain
& Co., Philadelphia.
Another View of the Question
Perhaps it would be well, says the flarrif•
burg Democratic Union, fur the few injudicious
men, who speak so lightly and so freely of dis,
solving the Union, to pause a while and con
sider whether it would be an easy matter to
dissolve. the Union. flow is this to be done?
What steps are to be taken ? It is rumored
that the disaffected members of Congress will
u ithdraw. Supposing they should venture
upon this course, what a melancholy funeral
string they would make. What execrations
would follow them. What a sound of tin
trumpets and tin kettles beaten, would assail
their eats and attend their onward march—
And when they returned to their cbristituetits,
how Would they be received r There is not a
single State that would sanction such an act of
treason and petli,iy thrungh the voice of its
people. The numbers would go to their
:homes; they would.call _meetings for . the pur,
post: of making a diversiou in their favor, and
to cite an account of their Fie wardship. And
what would be the response 1 Wound it be
"well dune, thoo good and faithful servant?"
No! but o: e io;el3 V contempt and denuncia-
And u hat then ? Is the Union thsselced by
cueh a course? Can ynn annihilate the strong
national feeling and pride which beats in the
bosoms of our people ? Can you destroy our
national individuality and glory? Can you
extinguish memory and bury all recullectiai:
of the past ? Can you tear asunder the tiatu
ral.and artificial ties which connect oar whole
people ?
And more than this. The dissolution of the
Union is only an idea—an :ibstrartion—a mere
phantom, which, when approached and grap
pled with, vankhes into thin air. Dissolve the
Union ! Can you dissolve the high roads and
the railroads—the mountains kissing the clouds,
and running, with their snow capped peaks,
over our whole extent—the broad inland lakes,
spreading out like seas, where the storm king
sometimes holds his revels—the mighty rivers,
rising. in the extreme NOrth, beginning with a
mountain rivulet and flowing onward and on
ward, crossing, without impediment, all geo.
graphical and political lines, and emptying at
the extreme South? Can you dissolve out
fields, our mines of gold and coal, and all the
vast area of licit, fertile and productive land?
No ! there stands, and stand, the basis of
our wealth, importance and strength, and, while
the people are free and the earth is teeming,
the 'Union cannot be dissolved. '•Liberty and
Union, now and fore. , er, one and inseparable."
The Election ofJudges
The amendment to the Constitution, provid
ing for the election n 1 Judges by the people,
passed the Ilonse of Representa:ives on 'Thurs
day the 11th inst., by the decisive and almost
unanimous vote of 87 to 3. The amendment
now only requires the ratification of the people,
to become a part of the Constitution. It re
mains in the hands of the people to acquiese iu
the measure.
Litt Daily Nors. - This excelle!d paper
since the 18tli inst., comes to ns with an
new suit of type. It is hanilsonily made up,
and can always be depended upon as having
the latest IICW3. Its 12111106 A columns are in
point of talent equal to any penny paper in ihe
Union. This evidence.of piosperity is highly
gratifying. Tho News supports Whig piinei
plus. Persons who wish a Whig paper how
the City cannot do better than subscribe for the
Daily News
Mr. Calhoun's Manifesto
We publish this week the speech of Mr.
Calhoun, which was read on Monday the I.fili
inst., in the Senate by Mr. Mason of Virginia.
It is a very elaborate Olin!, and is marked by
all the peculiari , ies of its author. It is extreme
ly bold io its assuruptioits, its inconsistencies,
and its demands. Its tone is that of a man
whu has a commission to speak peremptorily
and filially fur both parties in fifteen slave
holding Stales.
Mr. Calhoun lays down his propositions as if
he were the sole and absolute guardian of the
honor and interests of the South, and authoriz
cd to prescribe the terms on which the Union
is to be saved. One would suppose that, 'instead
of having been for twenty years excluded from
Whig and Democratic confidence, by the wild
. tiers of his vagaries and the recklessness of
his ambi,ion, he was regarded as the high priest
of both, and that both were ready to receive the
law from his lips.
lie informs us that Mr. Clay's plan cannot
save the Union. Ile informs us that President
Taylor's plan cannot save the Union. The pro
jects of Mr. Foote anti Mr. Dell, he considers
not entitled to even a passing allusion. There
is only one way itt which the Union can be
saved, and that is Mr. Calhoun's own way.—
The South, he says, has no compromise to of
fer but the Constitution—atiti•not even that
without an amendment •
We con,idei the speech of Mr. Calhoun a
manifesto of disunion, by prescribing itni)rac
ticable and itnimt•sible conditions for the salva.
tion of the Chilli'. It takes the ground, sub
stantially, that, if California is admitted into
the Union, it will present a case for resistance.
This is the only tangible and practied! prt , pt.si•
lieu in the whole speech.
Whatever doubt may have been hitherto ett
ten:tined upon the lioet.tion, lin one can read
this speech without coming to the conclutiou
that Mr. Calhoun liaq wrought hintselt jute the
conviction that the dissolution of the Uttion se:
the only - remedy for existing 6tils. That it
will sr paiate him from thousands of wetl-in•
tentioned anti patriotic citizens, both at the
North and the Soneh, who have hitherto look
ed up to him as a sale political guide and ad
vi-er, we cannot doubt. It is fortunate for the
country tat Nit. Calhoun has thus utimmked
his motives and objects; for, as a professed
disunionist, ho will be henceforth shorn of his
powers and ripper unities of mitt:lnd.-1r Pri.
Judiciary Report of the Slave Laws
A short time ago, says the Harrisburg Dem
ocratic Union, %V. A. Smith, of Cambria, read
in place, a bill to repeal so much of the act of
the Legislature of Pennsylvania of 1847, as
prohibits judges, justices of ihe peace, and al
dermen of this Commonwealth from taking
cognizance of the cases of fugitives from other
States, held to service or labor, under the act
of Congress of 1783. This bill was referred to
the Judiciary Committee of the Hoar, which
gate it a most thorough and careful examina
tion, after which it was reported back to the
House with the urgent and unanimous , recom
mendation that it be passed by the Legislature.
Judge Porter, chairman of the Committee, ac.
companied the bill with an elaborate and able
report, going into the whole history of this
subject, from the foundation of our government
to the present time which report was ennui
:•.rnously_ oat - a:net! in by the Comm ince, : e
are 114,111 y gratified at this result, ea we think
it well calculated at this time to alray the ea
, citernont which exists amongst our Southern
neighbors on this subject, and convince them
that whatever others.may do, Pennsylvania will
(441' the constitutional injunction tinder which
r he entered the Union, and respect and maintain
the rigli!s of all the States, cud of all the chi
; zero thereof.
Union Meeting.
A meeting of the Democratic citizens of Phil
ai;rlphia, in favor of the Union, and the admis
!,ion of California with her present boundaries
and conVitution, was held a: the Chinese Muse
um, on IVedm2sday evening, the 13th instant; it
was very largely auctided. Don. Thomas M;K.
Pettit. presided, as , istet: by a large - number of
Vice Presidents and Secretaries.
This meeting was held by that portion di the
Democracy, who do not believe in the doctrine cr
extending slavery beyond its present limits.
Resolutions were passed affirming that Con
gress has the power to establish territorial griv•
ernmcnts, and to prohibit the extension, of slav
ery into the free territories of the United States
—that the territories which were recently acquir
ed by conquest apd purchase, came to us free,
and should remain free and that California
should be admitted into the Union with her pres
eut_cmistitution and boundaries.
The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Pettit,
Penniman and John M. Reed, of Philadelphia.
and by the Hon. Mr. Cat ter. Member of Congress
from Ohio. Cul. Bissel, Member of Congress
horn Illinois, was' expected to be present to ad
dress the meeting, but circumstances prevented
his attendance.
Original Letter from John Adams•
The N. O. Picayune publishes a letter from
the eider Adams, addressed to Dr. Winthrop of
Boston, from whom it descended to Colonel John
Winthrop of New Orleans, who has furnished it
fur publication, as affording in its patriotic sen
timents, a striking contrast to the letters of mud•
era tlisunionims. The editors have the original
manuscript at their office, and say it is neatly
written, in a small, firm hand, without erasure or
Intel iineation, accurately punctuated, and is still
tsj and clean,..thougli yellow frith agr. The
ttet Is as follows:
PHILADELPHIA, JAN, 23,1776
Dean Sin—Your favor alone the Ist is now
before tic. It is now universally acknowledged
that we are and must be independent States.—
but still objections are made to a declaration of
it. It is said that such a declaration will arouse
a.id unite Great Britain. But arc they nut al
r-ady aroused and united as much as they will
Will nut such a declaration arouse the
friends of liberty, the few such who are left, in
opposition to the present system It is also
said that such a declaration will put us in the
power of foreign States. That France will take
advantage of us when they see we can't receed,
and demand severe terms of us. That she and
Spam, too, will rejoice to see Britain and Amer
ica wasting each other. But this reasoning has
no weight with me, because I am not for solicit
ing any political connection; or military assist
ance, or indeed naval, front France. I wish for
nothing but commerce, a mere marine treaty
with them, and this they will never grant, until
we make the declaration, and this, I think, they
cannot refuse after we have made it.
The advantages which will result front such
a declaration are, in my opinion, very numerous
and t Cry great. After that event, the colonies
will hesitate no longer to complete their govern'
msnt. They will establish tests and
. ascertain
the criminality of toryism. The presses will pro
duce no more seditious or traitorous speculations.
Slander upon public men and measures will be
lesiened. Our civil government will feel a vig
or hitherto unknown. Foreign courts will not
disdain to treat with'us upon equal terms. Nay
further, in soy opinion, such a declaration, in
stead of uniting the people of Great Britain
against us, will raise such a storm against the
measures of administration as will obstruct the
war and throw the kingdom into confusion.
lam grieved to hear, as I do from various
quarters, of that rage for innovation which ap
pears, now in so many mild shapes in
our province. Arc not these ridiculous pro
jects prompted, excited and encouraged by disaf
fected persons, in e.rder to divide, dissipate and
diAract the nun ntion of the People at a time
when every though' should be employed and ev
ety sinew exerted for the'defence of the country.
M:.ny of t h e projects that I have heard of are not
reAirirg, Igo pulling down the building, when it
i s en fire, iosicad of laboring to extinguish the
Mulles.' They are founded in narrow notions,
stinginess, rind profound ignorance, and
tend directly to barbarism. I ant not solicitous
wlt , takes offence at this language-. I blush to
see such stuff in our public papers, which used
to breath a spirit much more liberal. •
I rejoice io sec in the list of both Houses so
many names respectable for parts and learning.
I hope their fortitude and zeal will be in propor
tion, and then, I am sure, their country will have
great cause to bless them. lam sir, with every
sentiment of friendship and veneration, your
affectionate and humble servant, .
JOHN ADAMS.
•Nashville Convention, Free Soil meetingsoSic.
United States & Mexican lioundary
We find in the National Intelligencer of the
14th instant, a long and pretty circumstantial ac
count of the proceedings of the Commissioners
appointed to run the Boundary Lines, from the
beginning of J uly to November. The work pro
ceeds slowly, and was finally suspended for
want of money—"the funds of the Commission
being exhausted.", Who is to blame for this
manifest tardiness, or whethe'r anybody is, we do
not know. The country is one very unfavorable
to such operations, and there has been consider
able delay, occasioned by the slow movements
of the Mexican Commissioners. It is a fact that
Mexico was beaten, conqucred, the new territory
acquired, and two new States organized out of it.
in much less time than ii has required, or will
require, to ascertain and to establish the boun
dary line.
The account in the Intelligeneer concludes
lIMI
LLBut.the_Mexican Commh3sioner had not yet ar
rived at the mouth of the Rio Gila, and Lieuten
ant .Whipple feared lest a failure of General
Conde to agree to the point selected ;is ""the mid-
dle of the Rio Gila where it unites with the Col
oradrf,".might render in vain much of the labor
and prevent the completion of the worts. For-
Innately, November 30th Mr. Zalazar arrived. -7-
Raving received from General Conde powers
similar to those conferred upon the other party,
he joined Lieutenant Whipple in an examina-
thin of the junction of the two rivets, cordially
adopted the point previously selected as that de
scribed by the treaty, and entered into a written
agreement rendering official the operations of that
station. Although sin-ph:NI that the conforma
tion of the ground should be such: as to give to
the United States both banhs of the Colorado for
nearly seven miles below the mouth of the Gila,
together with the best military positions in the
vicinity, there was no hesitation on the part of
the Mexican surveyor, in acceding, to a just
though strict construction cf the treaty. On the
following day, the astronomical fixturp were
turned ovter to the Mexican Commission, and
in obedience to the instructions received from
Major Emory, the camp at the Rio Gila was bro
ken up.
'
Major Emory in the mean time, asNivell
Capt. Ilardcastle, prolonged his azimuth line of
boundary for about five !Mies from the coast, af
ter which, the funds of the commission bring ex.
hatisted, he repaired with the aims ()flits com•
!nand, io San Diego, awaiting, orders front the
Department
Newspapers
A woman in Maine recently renewed her
subscription 1,1 a Portland paper, with the re
mark that •she was infinitely too poor to do with
out it: There is a great deal comprehended in
this declaration. People—even those who are
in straightened circumstances—can dispense
with many thing: rather titan with a newspaper,
Iloty• much has even the poorest saved by atten•
tivelY perusidg some one of the public journals
which . has been his daily or weekly visitant! It
should be .a uniVerially admitted fact, that a
newspaper is one of the necessaries. not one of
the Titxurir.; of life. Every journalist in the
coutitey, by taxing his memory a moment, could
racily illnsirate the trans of the position—and in
deed there are very' few in any community whose
experience does not enable them to bear testioin
ny to it. A newspaper is a mine of wealth to
millions, who, if they never saw one. would have
reason to say that they were poor iudeed.
Transportation in a new Way.
The Pottsville Mining Register gives , the fol. '
lowing as the latest wrinkle in the way of trans
portatinn—a scheme that will doubtless ruin the
railroad and canal if it ever should be put in ex
ecution: "A considerable stir is being made at
this time about the new mole proposed for trans•.
porting coal from Schuylkill county to Philadel
phia, 1 y water enclosed in ca.st iron tubes o f
wide diameter. The Tall being 600 feet in 90
miles, is considered sufficient, and the coal be
ing less titan one third heavier than set.Lvr, it Is
thought that two thirds water and one-third coal
will be the. right proportion. It is detnonstrated
that 1 . 6,000 tons can be passed daily through a
single tube of-3 feet in diameter, at a cost of 25
cents per ton. This may give you a smile. But
less likely things have succeeded, and capital
ists are ready tet 'embark in it, if experiments
about to be made, prove successful."
Auclimmer. A bill has been introduced into
the lower branch of the Legislature, says the
Easton Argus. providing that after the first day
of June next, any citizen of this State. residing
in Easton, who deposites twenty five dollars into
the State Treasury, and a bond with two or more
sureties for two thousand dollars, shall be ap
pointed Am - thmer for the Borough, by : the Gov
ernor. The bill requires the Auctioneer to pay
into the State Treasury a tax or duty of one quar
ter per cent on all sales of loans or stocks, and
one and a quarter per cent onall other sales
made. All uncommissioned persons are 'prohi
bited from making sale, at public auction of any
merchandise, estate or propel ty whatsoever, tin
der penalty of $lOO, except Sherlifs, Constabels,
Excutors orAdministrators,
Smoking Chimnits.—Colonel William Mason,
of Londoi., in a letter says: I have built many
chimneys, in all possible situations, and have
found one simple plan everywhere succeeded,
the secret being to construct the throat of the
chimney, or that part of it just above the fire
place, so small that a man or a boy can hardly
pass through it. Secondly, immediately above
this, the chimney should be enlarged to double
its width, to the extent of about two feet in height
and then diminish again to its usual propur.
lions. No chimnuy that I ever constructed in
that way, smoked.
Death of an Eastanian in California.—The last
arrival form California, bringS the news of the
death of Frederick F. Randolph, at San Francis
co, on the third Of January last. Be was a house
carnenter by trade and left a wife and several
children to mourn his loss.
Grototh of London. Two hundred miles
streets have been added during the last 7 years
Villages which a:fcw years since, were 10 or 1^
miles distant arc Wow part of the iretrupolis..
Legislative Prbeeedings.
H•natanono, March IS, 1850.
Mr. Shimer, a petition fol the incorporation of
the Allentown Bank t also n petition in favor of
the Easton Bank.
Mr. Laird, from the committee on banks, re;
ported with a negative recommendation, the bill
relative to a free banking law.
Mr. Malone, of Bucks, read a bill in place, for
the Improvement of the Delaware Division of the
Pennsylvania Canal.
Mr. Mathias, from the Select conSteittee, to
whom was referred that portion of the Gover;
nor's Message relative to slaVery, 5130 the
lotions of the General Assembly of Vermont and
Connecticut, and certain Memorials on the same
subject from citizens of this Commonwealth, re
potted a serious of "Resolutions on the subject
of slavery, and relative to the Union," which
• were ordered to be printed. ' •
Mr. George 11. Dart, reported a bill on the 18th'
instant, to authorize_general banking on real cap;
ital, and io protect bill holdersirorif
Confirmation by the U. S. Senate. The Sen:
ate in Executive Session, on the 18th confirmed
number of nominations. Among those confirm,
ed unanimously, were
W. C. Rives, of Virginia, Envoy Extraordina:
ry and Minister Plenipotentiary to France.
George P. Marsh, of Vermont., Resident Minis
ter at Constantinople.
Ephriam G. Squier, of Kentucky,Charge d'A f.
faires to Goa trinala.
Timings M. Foote, of :New York, Charge d'Af..
fair: to Grenada. •
Geo. P. White. Post Master at Philadelphia
Gleanings.
rrA Southern paper says that "all the ladies
are for I:stoic-10 a nuns !"
re'New York 13 increasing in popalation at
a ratio tinparralleled in the history of cities.
EVAIon. W. J. Lawton, of Georgia, writes a
letter to the E 4 ay.innah Georgian, declining ttr
serve as a Delegate to the Nashville Convention.
He says : 01 have a devotion almost to idolatry .
to the glorious stars and stripes:'
[- 'Thirtythousand landlords olio the whole
of England, three thousand own I. 4 .cotland,
thottsand.own Ireland, leaving more than twenty
five millions inhabitants of those countries with
out a foot of God's creation.
rg'The New Hampshire state election has
resulted in the Democrats electing a IW•ifState
Uffirc T 5, and the Legiltlatore,by a larger majority
than last year
127" The State Convention of tig. ~F ree Dem
ocracy" is to aa3ernble at Colornba‘, on the sec•
and of May next, to nominate a suitable candi
date for Governor.
reA Homestead exemption bill is reporiPil .
to the Ncn• York Legi:dature. The yalne of the:
estate proposed to be exempted is f
reAllomeopathic College, at Cleveland, fir
the State of Ohio. has been chartered by the Le
gislature olthat State. • 0
tar Cal. John C.Fremont, and his lady arriv
ed in Washington, on ktonday evening. His
health has been much improved since his arri
val in New York, and that of his lady,itt also pet
fectly restored.
LP - The New York Globe says there.•are about
1200 lawyers in the city and 1704 in the s late.
1.3 - The desire for cheap postage is no longer
a doubtful que,stion. The people will have it
and who shall say nn
tV'A Woman renewed Iter sobseription to
Portland paper, saying, ~ s he was too poor to do
without it."
EV - o.le hundred and sixty-six lacers wer e
discharged Wit the New York Custom House
recently, by which a saving of $115,000 per an
num is etTceted in the revenue service at that
port.
Couldn't Cure Him
Eel.tea, and all other cures for drunkenness
that human science ever devised, were tried on
Philander Nicholls, a last-maker. Mrs. Nich—
olls had used some desperate remedies, such as
steeping large quantities of jalap, aloes, ipecac,.
tic„ in Philander's grog ; but he continued to •
drink with undiminished relish, and the conse- -
quences of this dosing system Were more trou
blesome to Mrs. Nicholls hdrelf, than they were
to Philander, her husband. being dead drunk
every afternoon, within half an hour after he be
gan his day's jollification,(so rapidly did he pour
down the liquor,) he never felt the slightest in
ctinvenience or unpleasant sensation on account
of the medicines he had swallowed. At last Mrs.
Nicholls bethought herself of another plan for
Malting a reformed drunkard of her lord. 19he
engaged a watchman, for a stipulated reward, to"
carry Philander to the watch house, while he
was yet in a state of insensibility, and frighten
him a little when he recovered. Inconsequence
of this arrangement, Philander waked up about
t o'clock at night, and found himself lying on a
pine bench in a dim and strange apartment.—
Raising himself on one elbow, he looked around
until his eyes rested on a man seated by a stove,.
and smoking a segar.
"Where am I 1" said Philander.
In the medical college;'. answered the segar,
Smoker.
a-Joipg there'
°Going to be cut up."
How comes Mat 1"
“Why, ycu died yesterday, while you were
drunk, and we bought your body to matte
a 'natorny."
"Its a lie ; Vain but dead;
..No matter; we bought your caraasa •from
your wife, who hail a right to sell it, fur it% all
the gond she could ever make of you. If yOu'ro
not dead, that's not the fault, of the doctors ; and
they'll cut you up, dead or alive."
'•You say you will do it, eh I" asked the old
OAY, In be sure we will; unw, directly," was the
DEEM
••li'ell, caret yult let 11, have a little something
In di ink before you begin i"
This last speech satio-ficd the watchman that
Philander was a hopeless rase; and as his re
ward was enntin7ent on his sUcces , ful treatment
of the patient, he was not a little chagrined at the
result; so, with nu gentle handling, lie tumbled
the irreforin.thic inebriate out of the watch house,