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THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 1850,
V. E. PALMER, Fsq., N. W, corner of Third,
end Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, and 169 Nas
sau street, (Tribune Buildings,) New York, i 3
our authorized Agent fur receiving advertise
ments and subscriptions to the Lehigh RegisEer
and collecting and receipting, for the same
We received a communication signed
"Brevis." The subject upon which it _treats is
, Education and our Uammon School System."--
We agree in the main with our friend 13 revis,
but as his communication in lather lengthy, we
were forced to defer it to our next weeks paper.
....st considerable : security to the register of the proper county for
class. In either ease, thongli marriage has its I the payment thereof on the personal estate, at
Funeral Obsequies.
chat .ms to the young aspirant after happiness ❑ such period as they or their representatives may
The 'Funeral ceremonies in honor of Gene•
—it becomes to the relbseling mind a subject conic into the possession, together with six per
rat Zachary Tss/or, title Psesident of the trolled
of anxiety and dread. Alen of wealth have a cent. per annum interest on the amount of the
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States, came o ld on Saturday last, and were
right to spend their intone ; Inelegance of lir- tax from the -time the same accrued until paid :
worthy of the illustrious iteatl. The morning
ing. But the exabeple is infectious, and those Psovided,That such persons shall make. a full re
was cloudy; with now and 111011 a sprinkling of
of more moderate means are led to vie with turn of such property within one year from the
rain, which prevented many hundreds limn
them in expense and ostentation. This is an date hereof, or within one year of the death of
being psesellt 011 the seeasion.
error ton common am elms us : more so perhaps the decedent, and within that period enter into
Many of the military oldie county were pre-
The Illustrated Domestic Bible. than in -community. One great evil h in ts fro such security to the satisfaction oldie register;
Sent. All the style aril benevolent societies we htive
received
fevelitt
humber6
et
the
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this that their tknighters form certain a and and the lax cm real estate shall remain a lien on
the real estate on which the same is chargable
with their a l'P rg Pr i ale Ita""t" , b " d g e- '"" •1 de ' Im nate,' Domestic Bible; the advertisement of tastes, and become the slaves to vestal!' artill
(mid petit, biasing lawful inn rest as aforesaid;
vices were present in prneession. The "Eas.
which has been published several Weeks ago.
vial wants and desi r es, which are essential to
their happ i ness and d omest i c ease. D epr i ved and no law heretofore passed shall be tel Cr
toll Bres.s Band," the Dania! intisie, the solemn
From the nunibeis before us we have no hest
tolling
to make any collateral inheritance tax
tolling of the diaeresis bells, find the (mildews , , c . .
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m..tett
of them, Pining, :Old diSappOilllfiletll 11111 ; 1 ne
la ; y tit
,icing 11 L S / I I llt I that I _
of sorrow everywhere displayed, produced an
cessar i t) , ensue. T hey are m an to h e the w i res a lieu on any other preparty or estate than those
complete:l and neatly bound, this t dition cf the
effect o soletnn grandeur upeti the mind never
Seeds Worth Sowing.
of melt of moderate fortunes, and who are charge:tble with such collateral inheritance tax.
Bible tt ill be one of the handsomest and most
a skilful - struggling to attain a position of independence ; . • - •I
Stetter, 2. fustead of the appraisers, directed
to bee f ac. Ls ery public place was cm , ~. . , , ..., ~ -.
~ , ___ IN'henever we enter the garden of
useful 3i t plionsilin. smutted Itues,on, Ids,
blazoned with the dark bend-by of dea.h.
florist, are find it out at once by the rarity and ' whi . sh • • , ~ •
... .
alb ' by the twelfth section of .an -act, posted Apri
, Nassau street, New Volk, is Me publisher.— . • ~ „ trill , position can only ire atm arrived e scan -
The procession alley being formed on Aim- ~ ,
die quality of his flom eIS. LW I 11011/111 any . only
and industry. To be sure most matrimo- h,one thousand eig ht hundred and fortv•nine,
file truth will be completed in twenly.five
en ti eled "An Act to cr eate a. sinking fund to
i'et. 14c l u are , Pruceeded up ilalu'lluit street In numbers. at twenty-five cents each number. and everything him the ground. Ile is careful
• aas with its are contracted at very
,• 1 , r. the gradual
pros it l or ale ixtin,suis i
the Bormedi line, returning came down Ilain-
____.____________._.,...„._,____ what seeds he sews. 'Thos let it be wit/it ' s b ' : earl age; and young girls with ardent and ro
, meat of Me debt of ilw Com r»onweallb," the re.
Mon street to Allen, clown :Allen to Union, Holden's Dollar Magazine. cultivating, the gar. lens of our own and others' , • I 1- urn
: mantic Ice ling apt to lose Fight of the pit.
„sister. of w ill, id . the proper county shall appoint
down Union lo Williandi "P Willing , to Inlgi, The Atignsl. number of Holden's Dollar Mag. hearts. Seeking heavenly aiLl t let tt " -qt " F e rations and the mortifieations to their Pride ° an appraiser as often as, and whenever occasion
down John to Margaret, tip Margaret to Ilan:- tizitic has been rescued. This wort: i s pub. the rood and refuse the evil; not - triflingly
and vanity, which they will be called on to may require, who shall performall the duties re-
Mon, up Ira:nitwit to William, up William to lisped at the lute rate of one dollar per annum. Planli"g a worthle,-,s sapling, or having
an •Y" i endure. But by degrees they will wake from (pined by the said section: Provided, That the
Turner, up Terser to Men, down Allen to Ls cheapness in price sloes not in the least de. thing to do with a single seed that is not worth . I
, their delusion ; to th e m os t painful realities.— right of nppeabcstablisheil ltv the twelfth section
Hamilton, chess!! Munition to ;he German Re- tract from its intrinsic merit. The literary de. sowing.
To this soeree may be traced murit of the alt- of the act of tenth of April, one thousand.eight
formed Church.
' , alimen o t of this monthly is condut•ted with A hopeful spirit will win its way, where one '. e „ at iM i of airt,ction, and the discontent awl hundred and forty. nine, shall continue as provid•
A rostrum bad previoesly been raised in !lie inatked abilny and its embellishments are oft • given to de:Tem& has abandoned itself to dos- vexations of married life. One of two things e d b y sa id set ,
beautiful lawn o f :ors. c'ssS6t/e-if but Owing to at very sit ilt Mg and beautiful and will compare Pair. "11 is all over with us l." said a faint- , follows. 'llley must be restricted in their grab Section 3. The words,..being within this Com
the rain that was for. d lii i rtg the time the f at Drably with its n,ore pretending, ( - antelope- hearted sailor in a storm, when the wtiler in the , ifka,ions or deer must liv,e beyond their means. monwealth" in the first section of an tied, passed
procession was moving it was thought prudent ratios.
. hold was gaining upon the crew ; and directly ;'l d le last is the most frequent result, and one the seventh day of April, one thousand eight
to take the German Refotisted Church for the
the men at the p umps, giving up the Ve,Thel 1 pregnant with lasting evils. ft is not to be , hundred and twenty,SiX, entitled •..An Act seta-
Chqnge of the Tariff.
delivering of rho addresses.
for lest, abandon ed their labor. 't 11
“.`-•- over j wondered at that considerations like these rive to cullateral inheretances," shalt be su con,
'• in h e
corresoondent of
Observer, the V.. as , ..
The Church beteg quickly tilled, the Rev. ,
with us t'' cried the captaie leaping uniong should induce young men to pries ? , and ren • staled as to relate to all persons who have been
the robin: Ledger, In his letter, dated ‘‘ ash- the .. s
Illy. IValker °tiered an peps:soli:ye prayer, al
'" ''s" . "2 boys, l l gO ship Imps weathered ' der the chances of a respectable .aial happy at the inne of their decease, or now may be done.
ter which Judsit (*Tuve! of p h i ladidi , hiat de.; ing!on, July 24, 1850, holds the following Jan
many it rougher gale, and she will again .
iciled within this Ceinenoteweahli, as well as to
marriage more remote to Iles most interesting
livered in the English language, a very hand- ; gnng":
wearlici this. Bear a hand, niy• hearties, we. '
estates, and this is (.I.!e. tared to be the true intent
and attractive of Me fairer sex. We think we
some Eulogieni upon the life `mil eleitacter 01! . • 1 great effort is now making to amend the shall make laud." Thus encourage it, the , cat , di scern i n soc i my the operat i o „ of those and meanies; of said Oct.
th e illusitious beau. is". ' ". Hies F. e hi s „i s i f o ll ow . ; lallfr, and to connect the passage of the coo,
seamen it to work again harder than ever, ! auses extend . te ,
I more widely than at former Section -I. That it shall be the duty of the Re.
promise wills the passage of a revenue law for
ed with an apeloptiate Ettlegiurri in the. Ger- .
and ilie vessel was thus Saved. A word of
gister of Wills of every county, to make return
periods. But how is this to be remedied I ft
man language, after mhich Rev. Mr. Dubs de. ! the P ar P"se• 'A" illit 'g t "r l' e "t'U' i '' WI ( thi 0011110 N and encouragement is a seed worth
and payinent to the State Treasurer, of all the
is by induciem parents with a family of dangle
livered a pra3er in Gelman. 'I Ito benetlic.: proverb; and if northern whigs help to settle ,
sow i ti , 4.
have re:
less to live in a style teorecorresponding with collateral luiterlluhee taxes he l '. llall I
tion was pronounced by the H ee. Ai r. s c i i i i •„, the great national - difficulty of slavery, and A meirlißlll. Who in his prosperity had as l -
ceived, stating for what estate pant, on the l u st
their means, and tu brims them up with a view
dal, which closed the ceremoni es o f ;he drip.' thereby. centertt•Siee Union, the feeling of cont. sisted an humble friend, WaiioWerlakell by irds
days of March, June, September and December,
10 their future position, with habits of it:thistly
Party distinctions and local differences were P'°"•" . .''' may extend to other quarters, and se- fortunes and on the point of ruin, when Lie
not by aping
the
itch,
to instil in every year; and email such taesi-ollectedby
I, economy ;
all buried on Me occasion, and the tribute of one cure the contentment of other sections of the
humble friend, who had greatly prospeted, tin and not paid over within one month atter
false ideas into their minds and foster tliose II '
general sorrow offered to the patriot and hero, Union. There is :to doubt, leo, that the r e st - cimm oppotm„„ty to his aid. 1 1 l 1
return of the same, lie shall pay ail
I quarterly retu
per c .
it. .
" -.°'' .' e •r e " vain and miserable longings I'm vostly dress
sloe of the tariff in some respects would in
terests at the rate of twelve it per lllll4lll
131.1011 the commute altar of our country ' s hotior. ' •
me," sail he, "Wllefl I had nothing :an d while . 01 I di .plar, and for vain and expeusive plea- .
-------------s—s- crease the revenue, and that the substitution I have a florin: y„ shall
„„t„. wan t une.l,_
1 pai d .
' stir ' es. ' 'Their education should have ill view will
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Annual Festival. of hone! valuationS, ors pecifics, would in sonic As ono lriendly action produce ;mother, so a more the useful branches than showy alleolll- ' Estate of Gen. Taylor.
instances be a benefit to the mule, and guard deed of kindness is a seed worth sowing. •,, ~s
~, - , i , t
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plislinetnt . Cultiva te t h e i r m i nds, i nculcate It ite , The t e l eg raph le.„,taph r e ports that It ;tub of adenines
against frauds epee the revenue, without dis ,
sontal principles and a pure morality. With re- , nation have been taken out on the property of
turbine in the slightest degree the principles .
on Louis Phillippo's Fortune• fistions tendencies, and shape 100 their man- I the late Presidein, in U
,'ashington, valued at $BO which the tariff of ISI6 is established.
There was lit on m
e tie an attempt on the tiers ; if you please; but do not waste those pre. , ono, in favor of Col. 'Bliss. It is well known
I understand that many of the warmest • 11 .
part of severe %unseen:l newspapers to create cions years when the character is being ham- that the President has met with a heavy calami
, friends of the Tariff of 1816, and its great au- ,
public 1 ,... m . i ..
) .patoy for ole poor ex-king of th e
ed for life in the frivolous preparations , is. this season, by the 'inundation of his phi:eta
,
'Floe (Ali.. Robert .1. Walker) hitoself,are in fa- i French, on account of the extreme poverty and for a drawin.s•roorn display, or to comp e t e non, and we apprehend leis estate will not
von of home valuation—the repeal Of all die- destitution to which the ingrate reptiblicanS I\llllllle daughters oldie wealthy and the proud realize near the sum above named, The Wash
ties oil those materials now used in our du
had reduced him. All, however, who was in the murals of fashionable follies and dissipa, ington correspondent of the New York Express
inesliC manufaetnres; and a slight increase of
afflicted with
,t ender ernBtions at the sad idea, Tien. Parente should be awake to their duties saYs!
they on note. Ales %Valker, in answer to a call
may dismiss their Scirrovv, for it appears that iti this respect, and to their great responsibili- General Taylor, I regret to learn, leaves his,
made in 1816-7, by the Senate of the United
the old gentleman—like a prudent old gentle. t i cs. Such tr. course is impolitic also. It is a business affairs in a very unfinished, and Sime.
Status, published two tables, one containing a
what doubtful condition. When he left for Mex
man as he always was—has taken pretty good mistaken idea that yowl”. gills without fortune
list of articles, the (111110 S 011 which misslit be
ice, it is. stated, that ire three sealed letters, he
care amid the shaking of empires, and the have a bettor chance of formindhappy allian
increased with a view to increase the public
left directions tier the management ()flits proper :
wreck of his throne, to feather his nest Pretty ces or any alliances at all by being eternally ,
revenue, and the other a list of at tides the dm well. juis private f orm „, h„
... su ff ere d great
1,) , in case of his death there, in which was sup
gazed at. - and dragged around year after year
ties of which might Inc diminished with a view
posed to be a will,—and these three letters were
depreciation within the last two years, but still -
to every party and scene of pleasure, and to
to the saute object. The list of the articles on
nut opened till after his burial here,—but no will
it yields him the snug little income of 800,000 f i , i • )bi
b Ilona e water i ng places. y
The waste away
which rut increased duty would yield an in
was among them, and the directions applied to
dollars a year , or is.thereabouT his , byl1 1 9••
their youth and freshness and flee bes t quail
creased revenue, is headed by coal and iron, on w i ll, he has divided c , ~ each his . ' , a property, which, is now almost wholly changed
silently anion, of ties of the mind and heart. ]Alen of sense are
mltich au additional duly of fen per cent. is
, , „., . , in its fi n m,
, eight children and grand•children, leaving to i • e •
o
Justly allele o f tnem. i neir greatest sp h ere I
supposed to yield an additional quarter of a I
Indeed, his good family now have no home,
_ , f
each the moderate cornpetence of 100,000 dol. 1 attraction is in a life of sirliplicity and in the
million, perhaps MOW.
and therefore, Mrs. Taylor, it is supposed, will
lass a year, upon which, small as it is, we Sill
•
I enjoyment of temperate pleasures—in the so
'l here can be no doubt of the fact that the ,
not return to Louisiana. His plantation on the
cerely trust they may be able to we iggle throe I - - '
au g 1 end circle and around the domestic hearth.—
Tariff' does 1;ot week- equally in all sections of : life.
l'ilississippi has been sold since he came here,
the ceutery, and that like any other measure ------ - -- ss's- - - - - -
[Mere will be found the well regulated mind to enable him to purchase a sugar plantation be
ef imblie pokey ; some sections are more belle-' Census of Massachusetts. j and the purest reflections, tfte genuine faun- how, so that that home is lost. Previously how.
fitted than others. If the North had sooner' The I3oston Atlas of Tuesday morning, con. , elution of a happy married life.—Tuso Worlds. ever, he haul purchased another, midway planta
come to a leasoutiblddegree of understanding tains the official State Census Table, giving the . non, but that has turned out to be a very unpro.
U. S. Senator.
with the moderate teen of the South, they might number of inhabitants in each town in the State, i ..-- (liable piece of - -
long ago have secured it mutual Cm
\‘'e arc I(!fille,:t'd to W111011111:0 to the citi
zens of ..111entewn and t , icinity, that the An
imal Festival of the pnpils of the Allentown
Academy, will lake place on Thursday and
Friday evenings, AtiginA. 1.1 and 2nd, at the
U.ld Fellows Hall. Admittance 123 cents.
Accoinpatiying the aheve requeml, we also
received a neatly printed catalogno of the 1411-
cers and Su:items of the Academy. The Piet.
cipal C. Chandler, licep:i 'ci:ga!zett six
Assistant-, who comAimM the "Boaril of In-
E.-trot:tors!' The Institution, jedging limn the
number of Siodmits, is deseivedly in a rely
flourishing condition; and aslo a recommend
ation, it is only necessary for the public to be
present at the Annual Festiva!, on the even
ings above named, to convince theni.selves
of this fact.
From the Catalogue to it by the
Principal, we make the follouing exttritet:
"'The Allentown Academy, 1 1 1COlpoluted itt
the year 181.1, has been in opeta:ion about .".. , tt
years. It is a County Enstitutinn, tinder the
care of a Board 01 Trustees, elected nienni
ally, by the people at large. Extensive im
provements have brew made, since the isne
of the last annual ill the building
and about the grounds of the Institution—oth
ers are now in contemplation, which will add
greatly to the educational advantages already
(AA& .
For Leanly of situation s for healthfulness
and for most of the other inducements which
render a residence desirable and delightful.
Allentown stands pre•ewineut. The inert).
fine rambles to objects of interest in tho vi.
ciuily r the beautiful drives through brie of thd
most delightful and fertile portions of
fair heritage; 7 give it at Once a commanding
position in the list of places for Mu formation
and' moulding of healthful and niartly.thinds.
The town is 52 miles tiottla of Philadelphia,
anb 90 west from Net , .. York. Three stage linrs
connect it daily with the former, and two with
the latter, vie the N.J. Central and Morris and I
Essex Railroads."
• Fire in Lower_Nazaroth.
.0n Friday Evening, at about 9 o'clock, the
large swiss barn of Mr. Erasmus Kramer, in
Lower Nazareth township, Northampton coun
ty, took fire in some unknown way, and burn
ed to the ground. We learn, that Mr. Kramer
had just linibhed housing hie grain that after
noon, ull of %%Idyll, together with three valua
ble horses anti many farming wensils.were
de
• elre.l'etl• The loss is reported to be between
three and four thoubtind dollars, and no insert
ante on the preperty. Rumor says, that rin in
mate el the Poorhouse, which is located near
him, set tire to the building'
Corpse Found
We learn that last week the corpse of a man
named. John Mintz, aged about fifty years,
was' found in a stable, near the Iron ore bed of
Mr. Isaac Mintz, in Upper Macungy township,
Lehigh county. It appears that the deceased,
being a man without family, and being addict.
ed to the use of ardent liquor, was welling
about the country, and feeling unwell, took re
fuge in the stable, without the knowledge of
any one. Ile climbed upon the haymow,
where he was afterwards found. It is suppos.
ed :hat he must havo lain there for nt least a
week, as putrefaction in a greal degree had al- I
ready taken place, which led to his detection.
Telegraph Company
The following gentlemen havetrecently been
elected officers ol the Phlladelphia and Wilkes
barre 'Telegraph Company.
President—llon James ftl. Porter, of Easton.
Secretary—Carlos H. Samson, of Allentown.
Treasurcr--John Tii us, of Philadelphia.
Directors—C. E. nillbois, of Do) lestown.
- ,( J. G. Fell, of Philadelphia.
14m. TilniStOn, Of Easton.
- C. H. Heber, of Nazareth.
" P. 11. Goepp, of LlAilehein.
" Eli J. Saeger, E-q., of Allentown. i
" f). ThontaA, of Cranevillty.
Asa Packer, of Ititich Chunk. t
" A. Pardee, of Hazleton.
Henry :NE Fuller, of IVillie6barre.
Anproinise,
based on a sincere desire on all hands, to pro
mote the national welfare, and to strengthen
the tie of one common union. 'Life," said
Henry Claylthe other day,'"is but a compro
mise," Ile might have added every human
I.:et:idly is a compromise, --every State, and, of
necessity, all legislation."
Novel Balloon Ascension.
There was a balloon ascension at Paris of a
novel. character. The annals of rerostation uf•
ford.; no parallel, to this equestrian achievement.
M. Poitevin ascended on horseback and without
a car, the place of which was occupied by a fine,
spirited young horse, with the legs free, and'sad.
Xed and .bridled in the usual style. It was ob
served that after rising to a moderate elevation,
the horse became motionless and fixed as a sta
tue. The denizens of the upper air must have
been in a strange commotion at this marvellous
mode of reaching the clouds, deeming in another
Pegasus with Belerophon on hisback mounted
with u modern jockeperip, or a full blood steed
on its *a- the sn^ -
to the sun designed to replenish the
stables of Phoebus, whose stock must have run
out many ages ago. What next!
rir An improvem ent recently a dopted in the
formation of bricks is to shape them so that they
dovetail, each other. By this means extraordi.
nary .strength is obtained.
Selections for a Newspaper
Most people think the selection of suitable
matter for a newspaper the easiest part of the
business. How great en error. It- is by all
means the -most difficult. To look over and
over hundreds of exchange papers every week,
from which to select enough for one, especially
when the question is not what shall, but what
shall not be selected, is no easy task. If eve
ry person %Ow reads a newspaper could have
edited it, we should hear less complaints. Not
on frequently is it the case, that an editor looks
over all his exchange papers for something in
teresting, and can absolutely find nothing.
Every paper is dryer than a contribution box;
and yet something must be had—his paper
must come out with something in it, and he
does the best he can. To an edikir who has
the least care about what he selects; the writ
ing that he.has to do is the—easiest:part of - the
labour. Every subscriber thinks the paper
printed for his own benefit, and if there is no
thing in it that suit's him, it must be stopped—
it is good for nothing. Just as many subseri
bers as editor may have, so many testes tie
has to consult. One wants something sound.
One likes anecdotes, fun and frolic., and the
nest door neighbour wonders that a man of
sense will put such sluff in his paper. S, n ne•
thing spicy Comes out and the editor is a black
guard. Next entries something argumentative
and the edror is a dull fool. And so, between
dietn all, you see, the poor fellow gets rough
ly handled. And yet to ninety-nine out of a
hundred diese thin2s do not occur. They ne
ver reflect that what does not please them may
please Ihe next man; but they insist that if the
paper dues not suit them it is good fur no
thing.—
as enumerated the present year, together with The. Governor of Ohio has appointed Ho' n.'l'.
i Ewing, U. S. Senator, to fill the vacancy occa,
the number of Representatives the towns are en.
titled to every year; the number of years in ten sinned by the resignation of Hon: T. Corwin,—
years, and the whole number they are entitled to Mr. Pearce's successor has not yet been nonti.
each valuation year; also the number of Sena-
Hated.
tors each district is entitled to every year.
Thc new Senator front lWaSBa cleft srt 1 s .—The Gov.
To.
tai number of inhabitants is 973,715, an increase I ernor and Council of Massachusetts met on the
of 239,457 since 1840, U.S. Census. The large 27th of July, and appointed R. C. %Vinthrop, U.
S. Senator, in place of the Hon. Dan. Webster.cities and towns enumerate as follows: Boston,
138,788, Salem, 18,048, Lynn, 13,513, Lawrence,
LIV Hon. f
ted U. S.
8,358, Newburyport, 9,521, Marblehead, 6,073, . Senator bal Hamlin has been re-elec.rom Maine,
Glouchester, 7,416, Danvers, 7,949, Andover, 6,, ! -
748, Cambridge, 14,825, Charlestown, 15,933;
Lowell, 32,620; Worcester, .15,765, Northathp
ton, 6,194, Greenfield, 2,578; Chicopee, 8,319 ;
Springfield, 11,330, Pittsfield, 6,032, Adams, 6,-
050, Roxbury., 18,316, Fall River, 11,170, New
Bedford, 16,441, Taunton, 10,145, Plymouth, 5,-
717 ; Barnstable, 4,805; Middleboro', 5123 ; Nan
tucket, 6,779 ; Hull, 262 ; Boston Corner, 61 ; the
two last.the smallest towns in the State. •
The apportionment gives the State 40 mein.
hers. There are 321 towns in the State, the
number of Representatives every year -
299; the number valuatio'n year, 435.
Deaerters.—A bout thirty U. S. soldiers, belong
ing to a detachment of two hundred and fifty or
three hundred, which left. Governor's Island, a
short time since, for Santa Fe, New Mexico,
deserted from the main body before they reach•
cd Detroit. .
Marriage.
Such is the advance of luxury in our metrop.
olis, and so expensive is the style of living,
that it presents a formidable obstacle to matri
mony with the rising young men of the day.
There are but few who, in the division of pa
ternal estates, or on entering upon life, are
possessed of any very considerable fortune.--
The men of wealth, although with ample means
themselves to maintain a certain degree cf
splendor, cannot apportion their children in- a
manner to admit of thorn living in a cotres
pending style. The eonsequenve is that with
their habits of luxury and ostentation, their
sons are condemned to waste their lives in cel
ibacy, or go the altar with many misgivings as
to the future. And if this applies to the sons
of wealthy parents in large families, how much
more does it affect the views of those, who,
brought tip to bUsiness, and entering upon the
field of a close competition, rely solely CM their
own efforts, and have their own way to make
in the world. As .our society_ is constituted,
these last form by far the most ;d
Laconic.---A Dutchman, being called on to help
pay for a lightning rod for the village church,
toward the building of which he had 'liberally
subscribed,. exclaimed : have helped to build
a house for de Lort, and if he chooses to donder
on it and knock it down he musht do it at his
own risk."
France.—The new electorial law bas reduced
the number of legal voters, in Paris, from 234,,
000 in only 74,000. One more such regulation
will take away entirely lhe constitutional rights
of the. French people,
Will be
Pre4 limiking.—A free banking bill throwing
open the business of banking to every one de•
positing Canadian securities with the Receiver
General, has been introduced, in the Canndiaii
Legislature by the Government. Sitarelinhrers.
arc also to be liable to twice thianiount of their'
stock.
Collateral Inheritance Tax.
An Act relating to Collateral Inheritance Tax
es, approved the llth of March, 1850.
WrisrtEAs, While it is just and expedient that
the Commonwealth should be secure in the col
lection of her revenue, it is not just or expedient
that those OM shall not have come into the ac
tual possession of their estates or property,shOuld
he oppressed by the payment of the eulTateral
Taxes thereon ; therefore,
. .
Section 1. Bell enacted by the Senate anti mouse
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of 'Penn
vlvania, in General Assembly met, and it is here
by enacted by the authority of the same : That in
all cases where there has been, or shall be a de
vise, descent or bequest to collateral relatives or
strangers liable to the collater'al inheritance tai,
to mire effect in possession, or to come into ac,
ual enjoyment after the expiration alone or more
life estates, or a period of years, it shall and may
be lawful for the parties so circumstanced, liablel
for such tax, to elect to wait their coming into the
actual possession of the estates or property sub. I
ject to the said taxl . and in such case shall give I
property, making no crops, in
consequence of being flooded repeatedly. Then
the homestead is gone to make one payment on
which something like seventy or eighty thou.
sand dollars must now be due,—and the middle
plantation is under water. Probably, some of
the Presidential salary was relied upon to meet
the further payment on the sugar plantation,
but that salary is gone. You see from these
general fact, that Gen. Taylor died in a very un.
fortunate time for the interest of his family. lie
had previously however to Col. Bliss's marriage
with his daughter, settled upon her a considera,
ble sum in money,
'Mrs. Taylor, accompanied by Mrs. Wood and
Bliss, wcnt from here to the — Enta* House in
Baltimore, on Thursday evening. Col. Bliss re.
stained to pack. Op his papers and books,
but will follow this evening. Old Whitey slid'
a favorite dog are consigned to Col.poyce to day,
an intimate friend. of the late .President, living
on Georgetown Heights.
The Philadelphia Suffers s.—The Committees
appointed to make dollections for the Relief of
the sufrerers by the Irate awful conflagration in
Philadellihia, report that they had received up to
duly 3il, /23,504 27. The amount collected is to'
'be diStributed , 6,:y a Conimittee specially ip .. ocoAe2
ed foqi4t pdrpose,aniodg, the needy, andif
this
important duty be ju'diciously perldrmed
it wU
do mdcli towards alleviatidg•iho athreilliga
of
ilium: unfortunates 'who have lOst''flileirlafff.
GLEANINGS. •
larThe laborers at Bt. Louis have struck for
$1,60 per day.
Eir'Horace Ureely has won the Silver Cup of.
fered by V. B. Palmer, for the best essay on Ade
vertiOng.
rarA number of seabirds wereltilled neat
Trenton, last week. They had been driven on
litn'd by the storm.
1.-Y'Fresident Fillmore has expreised a deter-
MintitiCM not to appoint any to the Cabinet from
the States that had representifiVes in the Nash
ville
tar I..lnder the new Constitution of Kentucky,
the State elections occupy but one day instead of
three, is formerlY,
arAn Artesian well as been sunk to a depth
of 75 feet, near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin i
but although water was totind, yet no-vein-was
struck that would force it to the surface,
rirThere is a steamer on Lake trie, trliich
runs on an average, about eighteen miles Pet
•
hour.
rV - o'ermany is about to modify her tarifflatv's4
—a low duty on grain and provisions, and an in:
crease on cotton and tobacco.
t: - . - J-There Were over 36,000 births last year
it
Paris, of which number there were -12;000
gitiinale
EariohmE. Heath, of Warrin, Ohio, has ta
ken ont a patent fur an improvement in machineS
fur Itaking and Binding Grain,
C.7l:7frloney is ihe servant of some men, and the
master Of others.
I.P'One million two hundred and sixty thou.
sand Irish have emigrated to this country since
1825.
re Mr. Buchanan is going -to Washington.
reThe total number of deaths ill Cincinnati
tiring the wtelc ending July 20th, was 419, of
hick 285 were by cholera.
re' Ile that has a good trade has an office of
both. profit and honor.
Clr..Capital punishment," as the boy said
when the schoolmaster seated him with the girls.
C.,V'More than one eighth part of the exports.
of the United States are furnished by the State of
Alabama,a state which thirty, five years ago, had
no existence, and was chiefly an uninhabited
wilderness.
C.V . 41 is stated that the guns fired over the
grave of President Taylor belonged to Sedge;
nick's Flying Battery. They were used in the
war will, Mexico. Three or them opened the
war with Mexico. Three of them opened the bat:
tle of Palo Alto, and the other four were the last
fired at Buena Vista.
(?"The population of Rome is diminishing
daily. Hundreds of families are starving, yet the
spit it of the Romans is not subdued, hut mani
fests itself on all occasions, although under the .
strict surveilance of spies.
Awful Indeed.
We copy the following from the Rising Surf
(Indiana) True Whig, of the 20th July :
A niAn from Pennsylvania. (name unknown)'
with lc wife and six children, left Cincinnati one
day last week, in a skiff, intending to gip to Mad:
ison, and when arriving at North Bend, his wile
was taken with the cholera and died in a few
hours, her husband nailing a rough box together
and imbedding it in the sand, where he left her.
On arriving at Millersburg, a few miles below
this place, all of the children died but one, and
were hurried in a like manner. The next day
the father died, and was buried on a sand bar, by
a fisherman. This completed the whole family,
with the exception of a girl three or four years
old, who is now living with the fisherman who
buried her father. This is certainly one of the
most remarkable coxes of fatality on record.—
The surviving girl is. not sufficiently advanced
in years, to give an accurate Fccourolof their or.
igin or destination, the above being the history
furnished our informant by the old man, previ,.,
ous to his death.
• .
Nerhanies.-- One. ol our most distinguished
scholars. Rlihu Burritt has expressed the opini
on that "the situation of an apprentice Id me
chanical business is one of the most favorable
for making intellectual progress; and if he had
his life to live over again he should prefer to.
begin as an apprentice. The labor of the day
secures health and gives a keen relish for study
in the gnus of relaxation. The means of the
apprentice for acquiring habits of reading and a
taste fur study are already respectable, and are
constantly increasing. Application—the right
use of spare minutes—are the great secrets of
success in the moral and intellectual enterpri
ses the pursuit of which Li the prerogative of
man."
Dreadful Massacre.—The natives of the San
dal Wood Islands massacred the crew of the
Mary Cutter, on the 10th of July, 1849, with the.
exception of one . man, who, owing to a diseas'eie
his eyes, was regarded as unfit for food. ' Tl:ey"
cooked Ike bodies of the captain and crew ashore, •
and ate them; after which they burned ig yes."
set to the water's edge.
A Great Leap.—A Sam Patch has arilicafed an
Englanu, whose feats surpass those'of hts
irk:us predecessor. This sub•agdeous
leaped into the water from an elevation 'of 80'
feet, with a pair of boots in his hand, which he •
succeeded in getting on before he cam'' to"the
surface.
G'Cut.• ,
. Tat/Ines Renn!his.—lhe tiounsil of Lou
isiana request the PCnierndr of that State to pp.'
point one hundred citizens to escort dee.
It is reniains home, the State pa'Ani/titi whole'
expeneecireemoval and burial.'
soWidKingeui.:::A 7 .WiT e r . ' Gunp O w O r;
to be more powerful thai thf blade, has been
manufactured in England: It fs . P i cim i iiOscif of
chlorate of potash, loaf siiar; 'an'a p l rusintei . ot i
potash.
• -
Steam on the lieleiware and Itierttan Casial,- - b4;
'No new steatimitii,!heprovel,try'en'irithi,El4!.
&tie been 'the canal to
t - rAen this city and New,
ish'e'd With Ltiper's
;'the .eile made the
New Yolie in ID'.4 ine`haliniCo'll4lles
of
canal 31h'eer'diat Transpor
tation Lompany of 'Trenton, liaireaiso convey,
tetralu.alter of theii . ti6ais