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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.
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