• . Essay on Reading and Orthography. s , • By Serene Watson. 21 1 1 . 1!1* • 24:1;13C Grammer has been defined as teaching the • tt;. - " , ocs correct use of language; and though those of 4 • elje Ccogli tiegistcr. our text books which go under this name relate chiefly to the proper construction of sentruices : Circ nil:llion wear 2 000 . yet we can place under the same head, with equal correctness, our dictionaries, our spelling Allentown, Pa. • books, our reading books, our speaking Lucks, and our writing books. For to speak and THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1840. write' the Loglish language correctly requires 'By Telegraph we learn, that the Whigs not only a proper colloration of the words in 6....7 * have elected the Mayor in New York by 5,000 sentences, but also that we should employ majlirity, and it is suppered that the whole words according to their true signification, with 'a gond pronunciation and style of -delivery, it Whig state ticket is elected by it huge majo. rity. In New Jersey the De spoken, or, if written, with due attention t Democrats have elect. their spelling and to beauty of penmanship.— _ed_their_Governerly.abaut_looo_majurity. _ , All that pertains to these branches of readiTirr i The Railroad r.rOje CI; writing and spelling, which are often kept sere The Rail Road project, has received a new I arate and distinct, is yet so closely connected impetus, and we trust that the matter will together, that they may all be taught together not bo suflered to rest until we have the idea- l at the same time and from the same book, to eure of seeing the Iron horse puffing its way sc h o l ars o f a ll ages. along the route to the Coal Regions. It But my subject confines me to two of them, truly a subject' of the greatest interest to the reading and orthography. Of the importance Farmer, Merchant, Mechanic and, Laborer, of_these_f_need sey nothieg, but I past; on to along the whole line, and when an opportuTthe consideration, of the method of instruction. Idly is - again offered we trust - they will not Reading and spelling books 'abound in our bo backward in subscribing -6 proportionate I schools, of such a variety as the wants of tl:c share of stock. Every farmer in the county scholar never demanded. It matters little who has Ids interest in view, should not re- which of these books is used, provided only fuse to subscribe at least two shares, if not that it be such a one as the scholar can reason more; and so should every merchant and ably be expected to understand and become mechanic. The road if finished will not on- i n t e r es t e d i n . Thi s po i nt l think of the high ly enhance the property largely, but it will est importance, for the practice, which is too bring the market for his produce : we may say COIIIII.TI, of requiting ycung scholars to puzzle to his very door. I and tire theinselves over words and subjects of In the fall of 1547, Mr. Childs, an eminent which it is hardly possible for them to obtain a Enginemirom Massachusetts, made a survey clear conception, is not merely a waste of of the route from the Delaware at .Easton to time but a positive injury to the mind. It pro- Lehighton, from thence up" the Maliony Val- yokes the habit of hearing and uttering words ley to Tatnatptri. The cost of the road we which leave no more impression upon the mind believe was estimated at about 525,000 a than would so much Ilcbmw : and effectually mile. A sufficient quantity of stock was dig- driver to despair that ingOiSitiveness - which is posed off to organize the company, and on t the mark of a mind eager fur knowledge and 213 t of October 15•17,, the following (Ali- which it is the teachers duty to excite by eve cers were elected : ry means in his power, And Lthink that here PrEsideni—JAMES Fon FEN. • too the quite common t:'llsturn is at fault, of Planagers--Dudley S. Gregory, John S. Darn giving to a class as a regular lesson a long li s t sey, John I'. Jackson, Daniel Mclntyre, John of words iu the spelling book, to be committed W. Hutchinson and Edward R. Biddle. to memnry. hi many cases it is more than Treasurer-R obert L. Schuyler. probable, that of these words to be spelled a arr.' ' - 'te W. llot lnson. majority of the class could give a tolerably cor rect definition of not more that cue fourth, Secrctary—John W. llotehirmm. 117 i Decomber 1818 an election waA dirrrt iTki to ho held in the Ilorougl. Stit of January 1 , 319 In'elect managers fo . r.the current year. NVe did I,Ot lealn utin the olti eers were, elected then. but Flippive , l the 01 ones to be re-elected. Thus the matter f-tamh4 at present. On the 3d of September last, a meeting of citi zens took place iii the Court (louse at Allentown. Col. Porter, the President of the Company being present, briefly stated the object of the meeting, and urged the Citizens along the contemplated road to be tip and move in the matter. lle said the time specified to commence the road would expire in spring, and if Mil opportunity in Littler ed to pass over, we will never be able again to procure a charter to unite us with the great mom. Marcial emporium, the city of New York. Citizens of Lehigh, let us urge you on 111 the good cause, the time is growing short, and we are loosing sight of our best interests, therefore we beseech you, one rind all, to assist with yoni subscriptions, if it is only nice share, it will count. The SoMinerville road from the While House to Easton, Is now under contract and hundreds of workmen are engaged on it. Therefore, all we want is a connection at Easton, to build up our borough and County. A Convention of Delegates from Northamp. ton, Lehigh, Carbon, Schuylkill, Montour, Lu, zerne and Columbia counties will be held on the 3d day of December next, further to consider this important subject. Since writing the above we have been inform• ed that a 'Company of Engineers were on the road, taking a survey of the same. Winter is Coining November has made his appearance. We have to expect the first of .winter weather, and we must now look only hr the fireside recreations which give to the season its pe culiar charm. The beauties which elowded upon es . in :he open air have depatied,—gone are the flowers whose fragrance and beauty gratified the senses, and we aro left to seek in other objects for that charm which Sum mar bestows. The change, however, is Ire. quently advantageous, as it chives us more to reflection and reading. Insensibly, when tho forest is its deepest given, and the brook murmers on with scarcely an audible sound;— when the thousand voices of artic ulate nature swell on the ear, we are led drum communion with. ourselves. But when the leaves have fallen and the shadow has come over nature, wo retort' to habits of thought 'and to intercourse with the great and good, whose works of genius hese hallowed the metnory of the past : or form the true gin. ty of the present. Now is the period for our young men anus apprentice's to participate in the advantages of mlucation, and thus to store their minds with that useful knowledge which fits thorn properly for. the clinics of life. Thus the changes of the season may lie of incal culable advantage to them and society. A Failurci Mr. Pusey, the Aeronaut, who was to make an Aerial Ascension on Saturday last, again tailed in his attempt. 'file town was crowded with people from a distance to witness the Aerial voyage, hut'all returned dissatisfied, hating seen nqtbing but the bare Balloon ascend some dis, Lance in the nir, and then came Bosco, landing on the Island, btlow the town. Iris evident that Mr. Posey does not fully undeiviud the theory of generating the gas, which accounts for his failures in both instances. Tlie day was a beau tiful one; and an Ascension successfully carried out, would have been a beautiful sight to be hold, aston on t ,lave au a toget ter wrong impression in regard to another fourth ; nod would confess a total ignorance of the meaning of the remain der. l' , uch:an exercise is to the mind, like fill• ing the stomach with sticks and stones, and can only end in a mental dy-Tepsia or starva tion. As tinally conducted from many of the text books ; it is but a temporary trial of the memory and alrutist useless. To make it of advantage not a word should be passed over of which the pupil does not have nt least an ap moximation to the right idea, either limn the e planaMin s of Ihe teacher or the 11SC of a dic tionary. But this is often impossible. Many of the words in our text books are incompre hensible to a school boy ; litany are never turd in common language aml rarely met with any• where else. To correct this fault other 1,001;s have been composed, NVIIICh in part rrAL.the difficulty, mhile'soine ill tam present other de fects neatly if not ,luitc as great as that %Illicit they are expected to neon!. In some, as in Town's series, the different words of somewhat similar meaning are arranged , in parallel col a plan which can often be used to great advantage. In others•each ward is accompan ied with a (10111111 O n: tchicll of necessity is fie. quently couched ill .5.0 bile(' and hidden lan guage as to need as much explication as the word itself. The committing definitions of any kind to memory is in my- opinion ; of far less utility than the ability to give a definition in one's own language. Whatever study the scholar may be engaged in, he should always be encouraged in the habit of seeking out the meaning of every strange Word that he meets, and whether it be geography. arillinietie or Jammer, this should be made a matter 01 OEM of course and the recitations he 4 iven rather in his no-n language than in the worth, of the Leaning the dictionaly by heart I do not recommend or approve 01, Litt that eve!y other blanch of knowledAs is founded upon this, the lino \\ledge ol 'words„fvely one must admit. Anil upon this folluditi ion spent cg may. be taught to some purpose. Spelling is not the mechanical business whirl' many N.. mild mahe in, believe it to be. Iu Ecnietdy any study ran the principle of the association Id ideas bebrought none powilfol ly into play. 'flits is c , :peeially • the ease in our language in which, pioverbially. die muds are spelt contrary to all rule, %%hence the vow. el scituds and their eorwspondiog charaeter play at hide•and-goseek with car h ether, and whew the arrangement of the t e ll ers i n many winds defies both reaSoll alltl one lint well acqnainte.l with their Mule:ivies. The exeictses of reading and spelling should iron the best lesson, lie united. The child, which you are just initiating into the mysteries of let ters, should be required to spell those o ords only which are found in his reading lesson.— Thisrule should be fellowed until lie has learn ed to write legibly npon a slate, %%hen lie may be required to mite out a small portion of each lesson not upon paper, but upon his slate.— There are several reasons why a should have nothing to do with and ink bchtie his tenth year at least. For a time he inav copy the words from his hook, but, aftei becom ing expert 111 0113, Fholllll ou.e them down as prom towed the teacher. 'I his CI,PICie need not be confined to the lessens in spelling or in reading, but may advantageously he ex tended to passages from any other books which are convenient. • The benefits of this method are numerous and important. In this way the eye becomes accustomed, as it were to the true spelling of -words, and when once well drilled to the service, will often detect 'crags whirl otherwise the mind of the writer would have sanctioned. I have often retnatked, how the very appearance of a misspelt word, like a strange dress upon an old acquaintance, has directed attention to it though not yet dry from the pen. Thus too the scholars, learning eau lion from experience, are less apt to confound the be andps, de and is, vs and we, which in this neighborhood arc stumbling blocks to ma ny. They also learn the proper use of the cap ital letters, and the various punctuation marks, and the division of words into syllables. Let the scholars in their exercises accustom them selves to correct each other's mistakes, for here the opposite of the general rule is true, that he who is quick at seeing the faults of others is apt to oveikeik his own. It may be well for the older ones to learn to liapply-tho-fe-w-rulesieLspelling_whieli we have : some of them arc of considerable importance and a knowledge of them will sometimes serve to help a flagging memory. But a great Will celty is met with in those words, of which there is a large clasS;WhiCh though spelt dif.: ferendy and of diflerent siguifications, yet have nearly the same sound. Miscall be overcome only by practice and perseverance. The lege:. muity-df-teacher ant-of-pupil-may-here-ho-tax- II ed to find ways of assisting the memory. The tmilar words may be so associated with other words or with things, they may he placed in contrast or in connection, in such a way as to fix the tight orthography of many firmly in the mind. The scholar may be required.to fount sentences containing the words in their various signifieations or may analyze them when giv en out to him by the teacher. There are other words, some of whi'fli as many persons spell wrong as right, where the sane sound is ex pressed by diflerent combinations of letters, as in believe, leceive, perceive, pursuit, &.e., or where c and s ate interchanged as in expense, pretene'e, pract i ive. &e,,which can be learned in the same Way ; many of them are fixed in my mind rather by chance associations than by any strength of memory. A k now l e d ge o f t h e various prefixes and suffixes with which our langnage abounds, aid of the manner in which words are derived from each other is of consid erable advantage, for a similarity is found, with few exeeptions, between the orthogia• ply' of the simple root and that of all the words derived from it. The writing of compositions can also l e made an important auxiliary, if, in addition to the mistakes being pointed out, the scluearlie-required tie mite this whole ex el ci-e over dureetly, at lea , t until he has become a tolerably gond speller. IlaVing said thus much upon spelling I shall dismiss the subject of reading with a low words. It is generally true that he who reads what he himself understands, will read so as to lie understood by others. The first point then is that the scholar be well acquainted with and interested in his subject. I would not let the reading lesson go alone let it be a rule that the passage, selected must be attentively studied before the class is called, and then let the reading lie associated with spelling, defini nag. the principles of gratmnar, geography, his tory. or whatever eke the piece may suggest. Any method 6f awakening the interest of the class and interrupting the usually doll routine of reading round the class will create improve meld. But when bad.habits in reading have once been formed it is a very dilliculnask to break them up. The patience and ingenuity of the teacher will be severely bid', and he seen learns that it is easier to snake six gond readers than to unmake one really bad ono.— The chief faults to be avoided are too rapid ut terance and the relining of several words into one, the inserting or dropping and the con foundiog or interchanging of words, and a mo notonous, lifeless manner. In place of these a sufficiently distinct enunciation, a varied in tonation and pitch, and a proper inflexion of the void., should be taught. Example is of as much itimottaime here as in leaching singing, and to he able to teach the art of reading well one must be himself a good reader. This ev ery teacher Flimild be, for it is an accemplish mem that almost all can admire. Practice and observation aie the only idmisites. Thde need be here no atbitrary rules, bet Ira nature his the guide. Let the reader put hitti , elf in the place of the miter or speaker, and dins en imo lbr spirit ui Ms piece, Id him speak lits. words :is a man should speak, 1 elm hilt ariolo;;ive for the ' wanner in which I have healed the suljeet given me for discussion. I have thrown to. , -ether a le ‘v suggeHeil rather by evl.cliel.ce as a scholar than as a teacher., flask!). and of nct...ssity Irietly. Aware that rOtilfs of Illy rrmarku I•1111111d he MIIIIIII% hal mod . died, I ii e vel fhele,f piesent thew In the A;sFO• elation : Sall:41141 ' 1f they induce others of more exiwrienco in teaching to ;tiler, rvltilv or grye the )) eight of their antlinrity in approval of them. Man Drowned Tuesday evening last, a german by the name Of ./o/m /Mit., by some.mis•slep fell into Mc. Canal below the Allentown 13ridge, and before as sii•tanee imuld br rendered lit was drowned. NVe learn that he formerly h. ii in. the neighborhood or iieciomvn, Northampton county, and was about moving to Lehighton, Carbon enmity,— II in wife being present took hold of him, but not alile'to rai,c hint, had to give way to save her u tile. 11,e is a man about 10 years of age. ..V( 1" , ,,./r Tr Suer of the hettl lic‘t spore 111 the Unite. d Ftates, appea l ed l as i acct, in a totantifill nett' The 'l'ribtthr lit re n111011:11 talent eligagt ii upon it:. column: , than ally ttllter paper to dirt country. T" . iVen's llagtizine, for :%;nycnibcr. has. been received, and we find it well stored with excellent articles. his ihe cheapest maga zine publiblied—only one dollar pet year—so cheap as to bring it within the reach of all. Ad. dress—ltolden'S Magazine, 109 Nassau street, New York. The Bounty Land Claimants The Secretary of the Departtnent of the In terior publishes a notice to claimants of bounty lands, requetating them to address communica tions for information directly to the Commis sioner of Pensions. !lc also gives the following information : lit. That where the service has been ren• tiered by a substittqc, ho is the person entitled to the benefit of the law, and not his em• ployer. '2d. That the widow of a soldier who has rendered the service required by the law is en titled to bounty land, provided she wa3 a wid ow at the passage of the law, although she may have been married a second time; but if not a widow at :hat time the benefit of the net M ores to the mine; children of the deceased :,01- • 3,1. That no person, At 110 ha. received or entitled to bounty laud under a prior law is en titled to the benefit of the act of 28,h Septem ber, 1850. .1111. That no soldier is entitled to more than one Warrant under this act, although be may have served several term•; but, where a sot ; dies has served several terms, he will receive a warrant for thergreatest — quantity - otHand --- to which those several terms, consolidated, will entitle him. Sales of Real Estate The Lehigh Timber Lands, AliID, &e.. pub lished in the "Register" a few weeks a.zo, con taining:2,B3S acres, advertised by Mahlon K. Taylor W'o., were soil On the 17th instant ler The sale attracted the attention of o large number of lumbermen and o'her capital ists wishing to make investments; and' the bidding was quite animated. The pnwhas ers were J. L. Day and Samuel 6ayletr. ol Eas• ton. Pa. Our Fathers Old fashions, they sat•, come new every seven years ; sonic how or other knee breeches don't come noun I any more. They say when Dover• nor nowdoin reviewed the troops of Massachu• setts, 1735, he vas dressed in a oral wig, cock : ed hat, a white brondelodi coat and waistcoat. red small clothes, and black sill stockings. In 178•:,(1overnor Hancock leceiVeil his guests in a rid velvet cap, within which was one of fine linen, turned np over the edge of the velvet one two or three inches. Ile wore a blue damask gown, lined with silk, a while satin embroidered waistcoat, black satin Ismail clothes, white silk stockings, and red morocco slippers. The judges of the supreme court 01 Massachu. setts, as bye as 1713, wore robes of scarlet, fac ed with black velvet ; and in Sommer, black silk gowns ; gentlemen wore coats of every va ricly of dolor, most generally the cape and collar of velvet, of a d ificrenrcolor flout the coal. In 1789, General Washington arrived in New York front Mount Vernon, to assume the duties of the Presidency. He Was dressed in a full suit of Virginia home spun. On his arrival in New England, soon after, he wore the old conti nental uniform, except on The sabbaih, when he appeared in black. John Adam:, when 1 - ire Pret.ident, wore a sword, and walked the streets with his hat mulct his ann. At his levees, in Philadelphia, Presi• dent 11 - a,hington was clad in black velvet; his hair was powdered ; and gathered behind in a silk bag; yellow gloves, hoec and shoe buckles, he held in his hand a cocked hat, ornamented with a cockade, fringed about an inch deep with black feathers; a long sword in a white scab bard, with a polished steel hilt, hung at hip. Jenny Lind The New York iforne Journal relates the fol lowing characteristic incident of the fair Song stress and couches for its truthfulness in every particular. During her first visit in New York a Swede called, and scnt up a note in his native language, requesting to 3 C•C her. She did not re member the name, as she read it, but whrn the young man came in, she at once remembered his countenance—an old playfellow when they were children at school, she inquired his eircnm id:limes. lie is a cabinet-maker, residing with his wile and children at Brooklyn. The next day Jenny Lind drove over and made the wife of her old schoolfellow a long visit. The husband Was not at home. she gave, to the 'Agile, a note for him--he opened ii on his return—it contain ed a mvecily worded roiliest that he would allow her hi give io his children a memento of their taihers's schnol•fricnd.ship widt Jenny Lind.— The immanent° was a• check for ten thousand 11,.Ary of .11r.rO•n.—It -is rumoied that r:ol. 131i,s is engaged in preparing a histor}• of the campaigns of len. Taylor, all of which lie u•it nessed, and most of which he was consulted tlettit. Such a work would be a most valuable addition to our standard literature. NVe tout the report is correct. P/lgration.--1. 4 0 large is the yearly emigration riot!) Great Britain to this country awl to other places, that many. will suppose the population of that kingdom must be gradually falling off in numbers. Mr. Laing, in his "Observations on Europe," says that there arc' about tIS millions of inhabitants in Great Britain. That the regu, lar annual increase is 420,000; whereas, the greatest amount of emigration being in the fam ine year, ISIS, was only about 270,000. From this annual addition to au already overcrowded people, where wretchedness increases, or room grows scarce. Mr. Laing argues that hi ~ o nte pet Mil not distant, the present.organization of tln• British Government must come to a vin, ient end, unless a peaceful revolution shall pe,v ple a more speller re medy.-• • /Vol. Doi/I/Sun. 73r r.---The heavy rains of last wed; ea (roll a considerable rise in the streams in this ne i g ht o hood, and some fears of a flout! were en• 'ermined. The Juniata however kept within proper bounds, more snow titan rain having fal. len at its head waters—the Allegheny it is said having been covered with snow on Sunday morning to the depth of 1S inches. We noticed snow on the top of black Log Mountain on Sun- day morning, and ice for the first time this sea son on Tuesday morning Inst.—Lew/4. Cazelie. Canada and the Colored Fugitives Notwithstanding, the sympathy manifested by the Canadian editors at the passage of the fugi tive slave law, they appear to be unwilling that the runaway slaves should become their neigh bors. I:.pecially in this case on the border line of Michigan and the NVestern district of Canada. The last number of the Amherstburg Courier says: rlrThe census returns thus far obtained im oWe have been favoretrfor the last (Our or five Vermont, indicate a decrease of population. in days by nn influx of the colored population from about half the towns since 1900. the States, VIIOIC advent, though honorable to CV - John Fahnestork, Esq., the recently (+TA,. the provinei. as a land of liberty, could be very ed Treasurer of Adams county, died at his resi.. beneficially dispensed with hy the peaceable in• dence in Gettysburg, on 'Thursday rasa habitant:: of this . frontier. On this side aab)e [F Maj. Gen. Wool reached Washington on. clouds of immigrants are disembarlied 'from ev. Saturday )ast, to attend the army board upon the cry boat that stops, and between one and two question of rank. . . • hundred have already arrived 1 this port. A • C Commndarc Stewart is now in Washing like rapid influx continues at all points along the ton, presiding at a board of officers which as- if sonic ac tion be not taken by the J.";;islaturc in the mat. ter, this part wt the province must soon be over whelmed by our colored brethren. When, some years ago; the porn inhabitants of Great Britain and Ireland flocked over to this province too rapidly. our 1. Gerd Government imposed a poll tax upon all pCrsons landing on our shore:: from the other side of the Atlantic. Much more ne cessary-is such a provision to pi event our being flooded by a blacli population. Let us see if our rulers -will impose it." MM =MU MEI The Worhls Fair.—The Philadelphia North American, says: "We are happy to learn, that the enterprising Jonfse of G. W. McHenry 'A: Co., of this city, intend to issue, cabin passage Certificates for the Lidustrial Exhibition to take place in London next year. The tickets hie the excursion to Liverpool and bark, are to be fur nished at the low prier of ;;100, including every thing but . wince and liquor's. The trips will commence with the packet ship Mary Pleasants, to sail On Inc WI or March next. The sante house, we are informed, has nearly completed arrangements for two superior screw steamers, -to ply between this port and Liverpool, and hope to have them on rho - route by - July' ft intends, alSo, to add to its pre :sent line of Lk , erpool packers, a new clipper ship of 1000 tons, now building by Mr. John. K. Hammitt, of Ken• ~ingtoat Kill, r" Philadelphia correspnn , dent oldie Chester Reptiblican,says "that in the gang to male up for disparity or age and strength, the slung stud was adopted as the most efficient weapon they could use. - 'fits danger., ons tool. as _used :by the Killers,—is—n—leadenH ball of two pounds weight, fattened to a strong cord lour feet in length, and attached to the right wrist. \\*hen this club was organized, crowd, ; of young men and boys were constantly occu; pied in practicing the art of using the shot, nn the hoard fences in the district. 'lite science consisted in thriving a nail up to its head with': one blow. and jerking the ball baclr into the hand. So expett dot they become itt the use 01; this weapon, that bystanders have seen men knocked prostrate, without .being able to tell by whom it was done.", C,iiifio/ to he kg/de,/ relh Gus.—Since the iniroditetoin of Gas iulu Ilarri burg, it has been ' dvieritoned to light the Capitol with that article. 11'1111 this view the Auditor General has adver tised for Proposals for fitting up the Halls of the Senate and House of Representatives, together with all the ExeCutive buildings, with Gas Fix. tureq, ( ~, nrierem under the Small .N . ,,te !atty.—NV e learn from the Public Ledger, that on Monday last, the first suit in Philadelphia, for the penal. ty of twenty,five dollars for passing a foreign small note, was brought before Alderman Erety judgement given for the complainant, and the amount paid the next day by the defendant.— 'This is a wholesome cautivn, and we trust it will not pass unobserved. This judgement is unquestionably correct, and the defendant was wise in paying it without further litigation.— The law, too, is wise anti should be rigidly en , foi cud. The Job'. llint Trial in Alan-arc county - , Netr 1 . 10-1,-.—The great trial which has been pending for a long time in Delaware county, New York, brought to test the validity of the Ilardenburgh Patent, has just been tried before Win.H.Shank land, Justice of the. Bupretne Court. J. Can Bu ren and the Attorney General for the plaintiff, and Spencer and James Powers for defend ant. The cause was !Mho - tilted to the jury, and they have been discharged, unable to agree.-- They stood seven for the people and five for the patentres. The contest is as to lands not actin. any occupied for 10 years before stilt brought. ,1 rreq !,:f u I.* Loomis, keeper of a cigar store at tll2 Broadway, was arrested on Wednesday, by officer Yohn of Reading, l'a., assisted by Win. !I. Stephens of the Lower Po^. lire Court, charged with having, on the night of the jilt of June 14st, picked the pocket of Geo. M. Neim of lierks county, .who was a fellow, passenger with the accused in a stage•conch, is which they were riding, in the vicinity of Paint. ed Post, F-;teutien county, New York•. Mr, Nebo, after missing his money, accused Loomis with stealing it, who stoutly denied the charge, but soon after attempted to escape ; he was prevent. ed at the time by Keim, who drew a pistol and threatened to shoot him down if he stirred.— While legal steps for his arrest were being ta• ken, he escaped to this city, where ever since he has been engaged in keeping a cigar store. Ile was l u rk e d tip by Justice Osborne, preparatory to being sent back for trial.— Not. I,a-1,• Daily Tel ar. 1, /nuke Bens Lay.—The South Carolinian says a neighbor states that hog's lard is the best thing, that lie can find to mix with the dough he Ores to his hens. lie says that one cut ofthis fat, as large as a walnut will set a hen to laying iminediately after she has been broken oil from sitting,and that, by feeding them with the farcit• easionally, his hens continue laying throughout the winter. CV" Tweiveyears ago no Veneers Were manib factored inihr ‘yestern „country. Now nearly all the cities and towns in tho Ohio Valley are, supplied by one esialdiqinient . in Cincinnati. r3"rhe new Jail of Schuylkill county has been commenced. It is to be two stories high with a basement, and is to contain some forty OrThe total population of Pike county, Pa., as appears by the cersus just taken, is 5,91 G.. sembled there on the vSitt tilt. for the purpose of scaling the question of rclatiise rank of naval of ricers. can= (V - Truth is not poly a man's ornament, but his instrument; it is the great mart'; glory, and the poor man's stock. A man's truth is his live lihood. his recommendation, and his letters of credit. 1 - 17" Th e lady who was forty years old at'the taping of the census in 18.10, reports herself at thirty.seVen this year. -- Fe" Wien Forney, an accomplished editor. re— tires front the North Pennsylt anian, and the pa.-• per will be discontinued. E.:P .- The New York llerald tells a gnestiona, tile story to the effect that the State Bank of Mis souri was deceived - liy $3,500 spurious. bills, of its own paper ; gave cash for it, and afterwards paid it away as genuine. C x Cayuga county. (N. V.) has 55;112 inha• bitants. Increase in live year:, 5755. Auburn' has 9514. pierease in five years, 3377. Su the gain in all the rest of the county is but 2388. , Fir The Blair County Pa., IVhig, has hoisted to its coltimn's head the name of Winfield Scott,. of New Jersey, and Thomas Brown, ol• Florida, fur the Presidency and Vice Presidency in 1852.. rirttPa, isn't that man in what is called the spring time of life? "Why, my son 1" "Cause he-looks-so-green," ET - The editor of the Highlstown (N. J.) Re. rotd has seen a turnip three feet in cireurnfee-- ener, and wrighing seven pounds. rirr.domhos, Ohio, has a population at sent of 11,655. rir The late freshet in the StisqUebannah , caused some damage in the vicinity of Sunbury• EirThe great Railway linrn Si._Petersburg to lowow will he opened in the spring,. r - 77 Assistant Surgeon Bernard trenry,Jr., has re si gned his commission in the li. States Navy. The Ohio Stale Journal publishes the official' teturns from all the counties in the State, except Aug Mile and Scioto. By these morns, Wood majority is nearly 1:1000 over Johnston, and the Free Soil vote for Smith will be 14,000. Wood. it seems, will be a minority Governor, a majority of the votes in ihe State being against him. Another reNult,shown by the returns, is that there were 25,000 votes leis cast for Governor tint; year than were cast for Ford and Weller in. MEL , Wood fins 11,295 votes less than Weller had two •ears ago, and Johnston has 27,561 less than Ford received two years ago. A XL, Calliell.—We learn from the T,tmau-• qua Legion, that tha Little Schuylkill Company have broken ground for a new opening about half mile west of the Newkirk Collieries. The Colliery is expected to be in operation by the Ist of next April. This will constitute the elev enth Colliery belonging to this enterprising and• flourishing company. Trouble in the .llnrman Camp.— According to a correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, a serious difficulty has occurred among the batter Day Saints congregated on Deaver Island. in Lake Michigan. Elder Adams, who is a Mot , mon preacher and tragedian by turns, had to flee for his life, in consequence of having provoked the wrath old:lmes E Strang, one of the Prophets, who, it scents, sets up his will as the supreme late. Strang in charged with robbing the ger.. tiles, as he calls all who do not acknowkdge his• law, of provisions and such other goods and chat tels as the Saints require. Adams promises to• expose the wicked practices of Strang and'his followers. • P. S.—Shang has been arrested, taken to Mitc liinar, where he was tried and sentenced to six , imprisonment in the county Time, some one beautifully remarks, is 3o precious, that one moment is taken 11Way before we are entrusted with another, and yet while many think they improve time rightly; it is to hp feared, after all, that a good portion is %wasted in a kind of busy idleness. • • tine flatten.% himself that he is, indeed, reading and storing, his • mind with useful: knowledge—just because his eye:: have beent travelling through a book nt the rate of fifty' or a hundred pages an hour, .4Vliy riot give it the right name., and etdil n match against time ? New in thit Way. of thinking, a man trill:: reads just so' Much as he cam. call to mind and, or jilt' down within hi . S; journal after the Wok is' dlosed--ideas--not.' • words. The mind' in thiS respect is like a magnet clipped into a jar of iron filings. 114 one remembers nothing, after rending a boolc, be su re tho hook is.‘vorthless, or he has worse than' wasted his time. When' a certain Roman Emperorcoula not recollect a single good action which. he had performed during the last 2-1 hours, he said "I have lost a day !" Doubtless. many a poor wretch—recalling : the worthless deedS of a misspent lifetime -- - has cried , out in - the• depth- of his despair;` "I have thrown away my life." "Life, sweet life'," was , the dying exclamation of a German novelist,. as the' last: of earth fled' from his clasp for— evcr. "Millions of money for one inch,or titne,''' sere the hist words of the dying: queetvElizaheth, of nitgland% - Let us pro lit by these examples.—Mon/gm; Ledgcr. GLEANINGS Ohio Election Wasted Time.
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