Efiti ME lje litgister. CirCulation near 2006. Allentemn, Pa._ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3;°1860. rant is currently reported that our neighbor of the Democrat is about crowding us out of our neutral position, ho hinks it bad policy to be 100 democratic, when "dollars and cents" are in question. It is said he will vote three of the Volunteers. Should not our democratic neigh bor inform his readers, which three he has cho son, as they appear to be interested I Census of 1850• Through ihe politeness of Augustus F. Hal bach, Esq., one of the deputy marshals of Lehigh county, We give the following additional cen sus returns: Lower illactton.—Population 2,333, females 1,176, males 1,177, -houses 491,-lamilies 433, childrin attending schools 533, married during the last year 26, over 20 years who can neith er read nor write 26, deaf and dumb 6, blind 1, farms 144, value of farms $1,061,160, extent .01 township 24 and nine tenth square miles. lianorcr.—Population 2,375, males 1,211, fe males 1,104, children attending s chool 414, colored 2, deaf and dumb 1, blind 8, deaths during the year 46, of which 8 died of cholera, over 20 years who cannot read or write 38, hour_ ses 396, families 452,1 farms 82, value of real estate $934,850. Distinguished Stranger The lion. James Buchanan, arrived in our town, on Wednesday aftanoon, on his way to Easton and Doylestown. lle:was entertained at the public house of Col. William Craig, and was visited during the evening by many of his personal and political friends. The ex-Secrc lary is quite a venerable looking gentleman, ap pears to be in very good health and excellent spirits. Large Gold Coins, The Union says, an important measure has been brought forward in the Senate by Mr. Gwin. It proposes that gold coins of the values of froyn one hundred to ten thousand dollars each shall be struck at the mint and its bran ches. They are lobe of rectangular form, forcon venience in packing, struck of refined gold, of uniform fineness, and with appropriate legends and devices, similar to those upon our smaller Coins, with their values conspicuously marked, and the inscriptions Liberty and United States of America. Important Decision. The following decision• was given on the 9111 inst., by the Court of Common Pleas of Phila delphia, in relation to the election of State and County officers, under the recent act of the Legislature. Some doubts have arisen in re gard to the mode of voting for Auditor Gene ral, Surveyor General, County Surveyor and District Attorney, the matter was brought .be fore the Court by the Deputy Attorney General and the Solicitor of the County, when the sub joined opinion was pronounced: 1. That the Auditor General and Surveyor General aro State officers, and are to be voted for on the "State ticket" with the other State officers; the law of the 7th of March, 1949, was intended to institute a system for the future . government of elections, and intended to cov er the cases of present officers, as well as those which might be afterwards provided for by Le gislative enactments. 2. That the District Attorney and County Surveyor are county officers, and are to be voted for upon the County ticket with the, other coun ty officers, upon the principle stated above. American Tea The cultivation of the tea plant in Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina, is now exciting much attention. Dr. Davis, of South Carolina, introduCed the plant, and is realizing a hand some fortune from his enterprise. It is not in manufacture and the growth of cotton alone, that the South promises to enjoy great prosper ity. From this introduction of the plant, great results, it is believed, will ensue, as the very best tea is obtained. Conferee Meeting Pursuant to public notice, a meeting of the Democratic Conferees, of Bucks and Lehigh counties, was held nt . t4:public house of Pifer Smith, in Quakertown; on Wednesday the 25th September. The folloingtonferees were pre. sent: Lehigh.—Solomon Fogel , Charles Foster and Henry Pearson. Bucks—Paul Applebach John S. Bryan, Sam uel A. Smith and George W. Classon. On motion Samuel A. Smith, of Bucks county, -was appointed President, and Solomon Fogel, of Lehigh county, Secretary. On motion of Mr. Foster, of Lehigh, the no mination of the lion. Thomas Ross, as the dem ocratio Candidate for the sixth Congressional district was unanimously agreed to. On motion of John S. Bryan, of Bucks, au address to the democratic citizens of Bucks and Lehigh, was unanimously agreed to. _ . On motion of Chitties Foster, is was resolved that the proceedings be published in the dem ocratic papers of the district. SAMUEL A. SMITH, Prc`iiditif.. 601.1)MON FOGEL, fictretary. Oast Fire at Carbondale.—On Satunins night last, a barn was discovered to be on fire in the year of Carbondale, Po., which communicated to the adjoining buildings, and before morning between 40 and 50 houses laid in ashes. The amount of damages are not yet estimated, but is large, as it.took the best part of the town, Political Xonsinatioll%. LEHICIVI COUNTY. Demaerate. I Whtge &Voltinteers CANAL COMMISSIONER. William T. Morrison. I Joshua Dungan. AUDITOR GENERAL. Ephriam Banks. I Henry W. Snyder. SURVEYOR GENERAL. J. Porter Brai,vley. I Joseph Henderson. CONGRESS. I Caleb N. Taylor ASSEMBLY. Thomas Ross 1 William 11. Blamer, 1 James D. Gallup. David Lamy, William Lilly, Jr SFIERIFF. Joseph F. Newhard.• I Chades F. Mertz. COMMISSIONER. I Adam Decker. AUDITOR. Samuel M. Kistler. Peter Engelman Jonas Haas DISTRICT.ATTORNEY. Henry C. Longnecker. I James S. Reese. DEPUTY SURVEYOR. George Blank. Elias Mertz. • POOR DIRECTOR. Daniel Miller. . I Israel . Wesep. TRUSTEES. Robert E. Wright. I Peter S. Wenner Nathan Metzger. George Moyer. ON COUNTY, NORTH A M VI CONG Milo M. Dimmiek IBLY. Alexander E. Brown ) Joseph Brown. ZIFF. I Sidney A Clewell. Joseph Wertz. Jacob C. IVeitbach. Jamb Laing,. William .1. 21icke. .SIONER. ME .larnes M. Poiter. Michael Meyers tSu►. John Bachman COMMIS Thomas Dumblazer. EEO Jacob Freeman ME 'eler DISTRICT AT ronN Ev. I. M. Mutehler.S. Shinier. l Peter Bahly DEI'UTV SURVEYOR. Ebenezer P. Zealles. POOR DIRECTOR. uhti Brown. CARBON COUNT ASSEMBLY. William Lilly, jr David Laury. COAINIISSIONER. Abraham Shortz. I JesFe K. Pryor. DISTRICT ATTORNEY. VIM= 11. Butler. 10. H. Wheeler DEPUTY . SURVEYOR. I T. L. Foz•ler. AUDITOR. leery Boyer Samuel B. Price BUCKS COUNTY. CONGRESS. Caleb N. Taylor. ASSEMBLY * Thomas Ross Joshua Foulke, Samuel Walterit, Jumes FlowerB. TREASURER. Ralph Storer. COMMISSIONER. Edward Thomas, JonialaAn Ely, Noah Shull. David Todd Benjamin Ilarwiek. I Charles P. Large DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Elias Carver DEPUTY SURVEYOR Frederick G. Ililpot CLERK OF SESSIONS A. C. Worthinglon AUDI FOR, for three years 'Charles Thompson AUDITOR, for one year. Stephen N. Bartine. John t.t. Spencer l'ool2. DI it EcTott. Thomas Jacoby Mint in New York The able Report of Mr., Phenix, from the Committee on Commerce, in relation to the establishment of a Mint in New 'York, has been published, and contains an irresistable array of facts beating on this question, 'whirh catnict fail to have weiktht with Congress. Of the ne cessity of a Mint in that City, any one who has marked the course of the specie and bul lion movement for the last few years can bare no doubt, and nothing but the opposition of in• terested parties has plevented the establish ment of one. Wu trust this act of justice to New Yolk will not be delayed. New York is the great centre of the Commerce of the New World, and she has a claim for all the Goecrn• ment facilities she nceds. The production of gold in Calilornia for the present year has been estimated by a distin guished writer on the subjiict nt filly Million's 01 dollars. It is fair to presume that thirty mil lions of it will be brought to the Atlantic Cit ies ; and a 'very large portion of this immense sum must necessarily be landed at New York. The amount of California gold received at the mint front December, 18p, to the 20th of June, 1850, amounted to t"-:15,750,000, of which it has been estimated that 515,000,000 were entered at the port of New York. The gold bullion re ceived at the mint from California,' via Cha gres, entered at the Custom 'House in New York, for nine months ending the 31st March, 1850, was 84,005,000; entered at the Cus tom House in Philadelphia, fur the same pa riod;el,7so. Wonders of the Telegraph The steamship Pacific, of the Collins line, touched her dock in New York at a quarter. past six on Saturday evening last. At half•past seven the foreign news which she brought was in Chicago, 111., a distance of more than a than. sand miles. This is the greatest telegraphic feat that has come to our knowledge. What would oar lathers have mild to it, Protection in the . South. The ,following from the Philadolehia "Inqui rer" meets our heartiest approbation. The comments contain the doctrines we linve long been advocating ) as the tree troliey of our Gov- ernment: "A late number of the thruleston 'Mercury,' which for years has been regarded as the lead- ing nullification paper of South Carolina, con tains a curious article for that Jegion and that particular journal. It advocates encouragement and protection for home mechanics, and thus in fact, adopts the loading principle for which the friends of Industry have been so long contending. The only difference between the protectionists of the North and the protec tionists of South Carolina lA, that the loaner de• sire the operatives, workingmen and laborers of the United States, to be shielded and reliev ed from tho ruinous competition of the low la bor of Eutope 3 '‘chile the protectionists of the South, on a more limited and lesg natural scale, desire the mechanics of that particular region to be shielded from the competi tion , of their brethren of the North. We co py the article word for word ; it is not very long i and it is real ly a cut iosity, when we remember its origin:— ~ Encourage your own Iliechanics.Do not send abroad for help if you have work to do, when it can be done in your neighborhood—perhaps at yob! . next door. Encourage your own hon est, industrious, faithful mechanics. They need all the work they can get. By such a course, you keep money at home, assist the worthy, and have just as good work performed. It is the only way to make a town prosperous—to ' support your schools and churches. Where. there is a disposition to send a hundred miles ler articles that, to say the least, could be man ufactured as well at your own door, there will always bo little or no business done in the place—the churches will be thinly attended, and all kinds of labor extremely dtill. Wher ever mechanics are the best employed, pros perity is seen—the social virtues predominate, travelling mountebanks and pedlars retire in disgust, and a kindly, brotherly feeling is expe rienced, which is the source of unspeakable NEIL Henry Snyder 'FOR. James 1). Gallup. I \V illiam 11. Blamer I Mahlon Yardlc) Samuel tiradr.havi: I John W. Cowell Hiram June= I Joseph Rosenberger happiness. "Whatever you have to be done, look around and see if your neighbors cannot do it. If you have a house to build or a shoe to tap, a har ness to he made, or a pump to be bored, a pack or business cardsio be printed. or a 'well to be dug, just look among your neighbors, before It 'Yon undertake to rid abroad; if you have none around you en We of the task, it will be time enough to Icok'clsewhere. It is a wrowl idea, to suppose nothing is serviceable that is made ;it home. We know of many instances where men have reriteil to purchase work made by. their neighbors, and sent to a dilant. city for the articles they needed, and paid a third more for them, when behold, they had been manufactured and sent away to sell by the very neighbors of whom they refused to purchase. 'Let it be the motto of all—l will encourage my own neighbors. In turn you will be en couraged also. A mutual feeling of good will and kindness will spring up in your midst, and prospetity will be observable in every street and in every d‘velling." We endorse the foregoing throughout. The sentiments are kindred to those that have been again and again expressed through the columns of the cluquirer." We have written colutnn upon column in favor of adequate protection to l'home industry; and we were never more fully impressed with the wisdom and the patriotism of such a policy than now. Why send abroad for that which may be manufactured at home? Why contribute to the activity of the workshops of the Old World, when hundreds at home need encouragement• and protection ? Why send to Europe for iron, when millions of tons may be dog from the mines of Pennsylvania'? True independence is identified with the AlllCr ican policy of protection. It implies that pro ducts and fabrics which may be obtained at home, should not he sought for elsewhere. It urges that the operative in our own neighbor: hood should first have plenty to do and fair wa ges, before we seek elsewhere for the labor of Inman hands. We have contended again and again, and we repeat the sentiments—that the laborers of this country art more deeply infer ested hi the question of protection than any other class. It is their industry that we desire to remunerate and encourage. It is their com• fort and that of their families, that we seek, to promote:Juni assist. Georgia "Leading Off•" The remark of Mr. Rheo. th , o Georgia was to lead oil" in the disunion movement, and South Carolina to follow, may prove true, and may not. Inasmuch, however, :Is we have had the proclamatiom of Gov. Towns, giiping his view of the case, it is no more than right that the othf r side should also have a hearing. The Grand Jury of Harris county, Georgia. in the discharge of those duties which require them to take notice of nuisences, have made a presentment from which we quote as follows oWe decidedly disapprobate the course litir. sued by our list Legislature, in making proyd shins for calling a State Convention in the event California is admitted into.the Union as a State. We do not believe such an act on the part of 1 Congress to be suffiCient ground to dissolve the' Union, nor di, we believe M the past movement of those who have advocated and advanced the holding of the Nashville ConventhM. We hold that Congress has committed no act authorizing the bolding of said Convention ;That the payer of legislation upon the subject belongs to Con. gresS alone, having been granted by the Consti-. tution of the United States ; hence every m ov e. ' Merit in that way we regard as being revolution. ary in its character; that the time for the people to move, if they move at all, is only when 'the Constitution his beeti violated in a plain and and palpable manner. Until then we hold that We'are :most solemnly bound as good and laith ful citizens, to observe and carry out every prin ciple & measure that will perpetrate theTialom." Terriblo Aooklont As (the American mall steamer Pacific :was leaving her wharf at Canal street, New York. on Saturday last, a most terrible accident occurred. In swinging around she struck tt house un the wharf on which a great crowd wan assembled 10 witness her departure, The house was knocked down by the steamer and demolithed, and hundreds of persons are ba• ried beneath the ruins. A great number of lives are lost, but how ma• ny:it is impossible to tell. The •utmost conster nation prevails. Numbers of those on the house; and %had' saved their lives by jumping into the water, from whence they were rescued by boats and persons on the wharves. Owing to this terrible calamity, the Pacific has postponed her departure. Second Dkputch.—The building destroyed was a frame shed over the wharf, under which the crowd was. assembled. The whcel.housc of the steamer caught in it and pulled it down. It has been ascertained that thirty person3' are killed and forty wounded. The scene is a terri ble one, as it is impossible to tell who are led, and hundreds are looking in dread, lest their relatives or friends are among the victims. A large number of surgeons and medical men are on the spot to render all the relief llianhey can In the survivors. The Pacific backed into the slip after the ac cident, and all bands jumped ashore to render ascionnce The greatest excitement prevails all over the city, and thousands arc congregating, about the calamity.—Philadelphia Copper News. We take the following from the Like Superi or Journal, published at Saut Ste Marie, nl* the 18th ult. The Propeller. Independence came down on the Ilth inst., with 129 tong of copper in masses and stamp work, from the Cliff Mine, and 7 tons from the North American Mine. The Propeller Napoleon brought down yesterday 20 tons from the Clilf Mine. In this shipment by the Independence there are several masses of enormous weights. The larg est weighs over 5,000 lbs, three others 4,900,10 860, 4,810, and a dozen masses weighing as fol. lows : 3,700, 3,500, 2,200, 2,900, 3,560, 2,771, 3 ; 500, 3,300, 2,060, 2.210, 2,300, 3,000. There is a mass now ready for shipment at the North West Mine, weighing over6,ooo lbs. This is a most promising mine, having shipped this season over a hundred tons of copper, and having on hand ready to come forward this fall, about two hundred tons of the same sort. These steamers are bringing down every trip almost, mote or less of copper, and the steam boats London and Franklin are constantly taking it below. It has become nn every day business to see cargoes of copper arriving and departing, and on that account we do not notice every small shipment. Georgia State Convention The Federal Union, published at Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia, and which is the organ of Gov. Towns, says his Excellency will call a con vention of the people of Georgia to redress the wrongs they have sullered by the admission or California. We may expect a proclamation in a few days, ordering an election of delegates.— In regard to the "mode of resistance" to be adopted by the convention, the Federal Union says : "It may be that the convention will deckle upon separate action by the State—in other words, im• mediate secession. This, however, we appre- bend, will be the denier resort, and will not be adopted till every other expedient has failed or proved hopeless." The Charleston Mercury also says that it has authentic information from Milledgeville, that Governor Towns will certainly call a conven tion of the State. The Savannah Republican, however, says that the Federal Union need not trouble itself about 'immediate' - or any other kind of 'secession.' Horrible Murder at West Chester.—We were in formed last evening of the following particulars relative th an awful murder that occurred in the Vicinity of West Chester on Saturday morning Some of the 'children belonging to the school' at Rocky Hill, three miles above West Chester, on reaching the schoolthouse, found their teacher, Phebe Sharpless, lying at the door, weltering in her bkMd, and quite dead. She had been shot in the back of the neck. Lying near her was the wadding used in !timbal; the gun, which, upon examination, was found to be a . piece of the Sa' turday Evening Post. In the course of the day, -George Pharoah having been seen in the vicinity with a gun, was arrested on suspicion, anti, strange to relate, on his person was found a por tion of the Saturday Evening Post, and the wad ding found fitted 'to it. He was committed to prison to await a further examination. The de ceased was an estimable young lady, aged about 28, the it:10,111cl - of Aarim Sharpless., An Impruvemenl in Art. —Langenheims, the excellent Daguerreotypists, have introduced to the public a new and useful article—magic lan. tern slides; the scenes depicted on them taken from nature upon glass, by means of the. camera obscuri. They are therefore as faithful to the copy as the Daguerreotype, and in minuteness of detail and general effect excel it. They have taken more than one thousand views, some of which are the most faithful and charming tran scripts of nature we ever beheld. Insects, plants, anatomical specimens may all be taken in the same way, so that this improvement is likely to be a great assistance to lecturers upon science. They are produced ,cheaper than those by the ordinary method of the pencil and brush--PueL Laser. Progressing.—Defiance County, Ohio, has a population of 6,971, nn increase of 240 per cent. over tB4O. Defiance lies in the northwest of Ohio, where the new settlements are filling up with immense rapidity. The Danner states that it is„thought that six hundred farms hate been commenced in that county within the last year. There are but nineteen colored people in the county. Sad End of an /Eronaut The Niagara's papers record the death of Lieutenant Gale, the fool-hardy IBronaut as fol- MIAOW" The Bordeaux journale, which have arrived this morning, announce the death of Lieut. Gale, the .IBronatit. On Sunday he made an ascent with the "Royal Gremorne" balloon, on the back of a pony, from the Hippodrome of Vincennes, Si Bordeaux. R was the first time that Mr. Gale had ever made such an ascension, and his pony had only a days before been broken in. At first the little animal displayed great repugnance at being lifted from his feet, but he gradually got accustomed to it, and on Sunday allowed himself to be carried off by the balloon with the greatest compostito. As there was some delay in filling •the balloon with gas, the pony, gaily saddled and bridled, was paraded round the Hippodrome, and was regarded with .extraordinary curiosity by the spectators. An, immense multitude as• sembled to see the ascent. The local journals •say that the town was completely deserted, and that the adjacent' villages sent their contingents. When Mr. Gale was seen to ascend rapidly into the air, sealed on 1113 pony, with the bridle in one hand and salutir g the public with the other, I there was a sort of shudder of fear in the 'vast gathering. The pony was perfectly calm, with his legs hanging and his neck bent ; lffit - 1 re-mo movement. The descent of Mr. Gale, which took place at a short distance from Bordeaux, proved fatal to him. When the horse had been released from his slings, the peasants who held the ropes of the balloon, misunderstanding the directions given by the -Eronaut, let go, and the balloon having still sufficient gas in it to give an ascensional force, after losing the weight of the horse, rose suddenly, and the anchor, which held by a tree, being loosened by the sudden motion, the shock upset the car. Mr. Gale, however, clung to the ropes, and was fortunately able to pull the string of the valve, to cause a further escape of the gas. The ascent of the balloon was then checked, and it was thought, in consequence at Bordeaux, that he had succeeded in climbing up into the car. Thi:, however was not the case, as the next day the balloon was discovered lying on the ground, some miles from the spot where the pony was liberated, and on further search being made, the dead body of Lient.Gale was found in a wood, with the limbs all broken. I He has left a wife and eight children. We may expect to hear of a similar term ina, lion to the career of M. Puitevin, another ..F.ron• ! ant, who ascended in Paris on the satne dayithat Mr. Gale lust his life. The following is the ac. 1 count of his performance. On the Silt in s tant, at 5 o'clock, an immense 1 concourse assembled at the Hippodrome, to sec the ascension of M. Puitevin on an ass. The vast area of the Hippidrome was filled; anal the approaches to the barrier de l'iltoile and the Arc I de Triomphe were covered with a crowd so dense that ffir one hour not a vehicle Could pass through the barriers. He wore the costume of Sancho Panza and was mounted on a superb black ass. Above him standing in a small car \ was a companion representing Don Quixotto.— 1 They were driven by a Northeast wind and alighted near the village of Orsity, on the same plain where lie descended on the preceding Sun• • day. M. Puitevin speedily packed his balloon in a cat I, rode his ass to a neighboring house, and dined with the same host who had entertained I him on his former ascent. Aspect of Death in Childhood. Few things appear so very beautiful as a very young child in its shroud. The little innocent face looks so sublimely simple and confiding amongst the cold terrors of death—crimeless, and fearless, that the little mortal has passed alone under the shadow, and explored the mystery of dissolution. There is death in its sublinaest and purest image—no hatred, no hypocrisy, no suspi cion, no care for the morrow ever darkened that little face; death is come lovingly upon it; there is nothing cruel , in its victory. The yearnings of love, indeed, cannot be stifled, for the prattle, and smiles, and the little world of thoughts that were so delightful, are.g,one for ever. Awe, too, will overcast us in its presence, for we are look ing on death ; but we do not fear for the lonely voyager—for the child has gone, simple and trusting, into the presence of its all.wise Father; and of such, we know, is the Kingdom of Heaven, The Price of a Hem—One hundred and twenty dollars has been paid fur a hen in Massachusetts, where the poultry fever has been raging for a long time. It is called the wild Lidian game hen, and the Providence Journal strongly re• commends that she should be called the Jenny Lind. Larg . r B. J. Bassel, of Harrison county, Virginia, has purclMsed of Mr. A. Minor, of the same county. the following cattle, to be fattened 'for the Baltimore . and other Eastern markets: One pair of oxen, lour yearn weighing 4,000 pounds; one pair six years old, weighing 5,000 pounds; and another pair six years old, weighing 5.590' poundi. Marriage.—The Meredith Bridge (N, H.) Dem• ocrat states that a young gentleman and young lady at Centre Harbor, not many days since, re• quested :3 quire Thompson, or that place, to unite them in wedlock, with which desire he forthwith complied—one of them, it is said, agreeing to pay him flee dollars for the service, and the oth. er prothising an additional compensation of . a bushel of beans. The parties now say that they preferred their request for marriage merely in fun. But the Squire informs them that they are tied fast, and can't hack out—the Marriage hay ing been legally recorded on the town books, as a veritable contract. Mw Delaware Bridge Company !Um ' —The. Receivers of the New Hope and Delaware 13ridge Company, the same that broke a year or th go, give notice that, pursuant to an order of th ourt of Chancety of the State of New Jersey, the creditors of the said company are required to present and prove their debts, claims and demands; at the (Ace of the Receiver,Lam7 be rtv ille, New Jersey, within, sit months from the 24th of June, or to be excluded from all share of such dividend as may be made. Those inter. ested will, Therefore act accordingly. I 7The population of the borough of Cham. bersburg is 3,927. . 137 - The population of Cleveland, Ohio, M 17, 60g. In 1840 it was 6,025. Ur General La Vega,hns been appointed Corn- mandant General of the State of Mexico.. . _ arThe Morris Canal is again in navigable order. 10" The city of Monterey, Mexico, wns cap's Lured byt.the Americans:on the 23t1 of Septem-' ber, 1t346. tom' Why are jokes like nuts? Theidrier they' arc the better they crack. rP"Geeat Fortunes have been made in this country by the use of Spinning, Jenattarnuin is:now trying to see what he can make with ti Singing Jenny— riTit is astonidting, how much wisdom can be compressed into lines; for eiample, "The most useful sign painters in the world are the publishers of new:papers—advertise your busic ness in the papers, if you woultlldraw custorri.- C_V"Falent without tact ha,. been said to be , like a fiddle withont a fiddlestick. reForgeries of the name of Senator Dayton': of Newlersey, to the amount of .several.thousand dollars, have been discovered in some of the New Jersey Banks. Ear The population of GetnYtinfoifn borough h - e — mad is 6,204; township, 2,102 ; total, 8,366. Ens A business house in Baltimore, is shipping by the Tide, water Canal, a parcel of Scotch Pig Iron for a foundry in Harrisburg. i7' It is stated , that about 20,000 persons are preparing to emigrate to America from Norway, tieing about 2 per cent. of the whole population. rirPeter C. Ellmaker, 1 , 4•41., was confirmed by the Senate, on the 26th inst., as Naval Officers for the Port of Philadelphia, by an unanimous vote. illyder:ous Affair.—An excitement was created. New York, on Monday, by a report that 130 out of 150 children at the Infant Asylum at Mot• risania had suddenly disappeared. This was found to be a grossly exaggerated statement, but it was found that a number of bodies were inter , red in the grounds of the Asylum, of which no satisfactory account could he given. A coroner's , inquest was held, but nothing material was eli cited. The matter is to go before the Grand Jury.. Some of the particulars in regard to the condi , . lion of the bodies found are sufficiently disgus ting. A Quakeress, named Mary Shotwell, is the principal of the Asylum, and she is still an object of suspicion. Accident.--The bridge across 4.:llicque's run,: on the Lancaster Railroad, about two miles front Altona, partially broke down on Wednesdey evening. The accident, fortunately, occurred after the train from Philadelphia had passed over it, and no personal injury was sustained. Rapid Growth of the West.—We occasionally come across little facts in themselves, but which go far towards illustrating the unparalleled growth of our country. Cibt's Advertiser, in speaking of the present position of Cincinnati, says the man—Asa Holcomb—is yet living, who saw the first cellar dug in that city. The man— Jeremiah Butterfield-is yet living, who assisted Isaac Ludlow in surveying an laying out the streets—sixty years Lgo. lie landed there in 1780, on his way to St. Louis, when nitt a single while dwelt between the Mianms. lie survives to behold the county in which he resi des, com prehending a population of 200,000 inhabitants. There is nothing its the past or present, to vie with this picture of progress. Manufacture of ! Vurch.—There is at Oswegr, New York, a starch manufactory, in which corn is used to manufticture the article. It consume 200 bushels per week, and. turns out fury the u sand pounds of the article, which is said to be the whitest and most beautiful material of the kind yet disc.erred for all domestic purposes. llone:thile. —The population of Honesdale, Wayne county, i:i '2,345, and of Texas township, adjacent 1,636, making a total of 4,001. The . poptilation of the borough and township in 1840 was 1,188, showing an increase of 2,815. Cue. John stun.—The Governor received a grand public reception at New Heflin, Union county, Pa., on Tuesday lat. , The Danville Band, and a number of citizens from Danville, joined the reception. . ett , lom Framl.—A n•i nI/ esti gation is go ing on at the New York custom-house, of certain alleged attempts to adulterate brandy while in the public stores, ft is said that a merchant of that city, after importing brandy as pale; has chang ed it to dark, by mingling certain ingredients with it while under the custom house lock. Plugging Abulidad.—The House of Represen tatives was engaged on Tuesday last, in consid ering and maturing the Naval,Appropriation bill• An amendment was adopted, by a vole of 131 to '2O, abolishing:flogging in the Navy. The bill was filially passed, by a vote of It l in the affirm ative and 48 in the negative. The Grape Crop.—The "gentling Press" esti mates the loss on the Grape Crop in that county, during the present year, at not Ices than $20,000. The crop is said to be an almost total failure.— In the early part of the season the fruit was seiied with rot, which destroyed large quantities. That remaining Will lose 'Hach in flavor, and the wine made from it most likely prove of a ve ry inferior quality. llad neWs, this, for wine. bibbers- . • .t• . • Priilissor Agar's& Opinion of Phonography.—. Phonography Has enabled me to dr; more in one year, than I could have done without it in three years. Vie facilities tthich it affords, exceed the powers of the human mind fur intellectonl labor. • Good Luck..- , -Mr. Moses Johnson, of this coon iy, says the Warrenton (Va.) Flag. whilst plow ing on the farm of Joseph Homer, Es'q., near New Baltimore, found a small earthen.pot con. raining about 600 dollars in gold and silver coin. Jihad evidently 'Gen buried for many years. We advise our farmers to plough seep; they will not hurt the ground, and no one knows what trea sures at'e concealed in the VIII. GLEANINGS•
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