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The board of Directors of the Common
Schools, have lately resolved to build a new
School House, in the North-east District of the
Borough, on the lot where the old Church now
stands. The plan of the Directors is an admir
able one; they propose tearing down the old
aura, 'and put up a new building 60 foot
fronting on Margaret street, and 50 feet deep,
three stories in . front and two in the rear. The
basement` ill contain two . rooths, and the sec
ond and third stories each 4.rooms, making ten
rooms in thb honse,_alLeLwhiolt-will-berheat
ed by two furnaces. Our Common Schools un
der the present Directorship have been 'mana
ged with very remarkable success, and the
board deserves the highest, praise of the ciii
zone, for their perseverance in the efficient man
agement of the schools.
State Agricultural Convention.
This Convention assembled at Harrisburg,
on Tuesday the 21st of January. "Lehigh" al
though in territory small, but by no means
lacking in Agricultural productions—we are
sorry 10 say—was not represented. We have
before made an effort to induce our citizens to
aid in organizing; an "Agricultural Society,'
but with no success. We are one of the rich.
est and most productive counties in the State,
and should by all means have been represent
ed. We trust however, that our friend Lamy,
our able member of the Legislature, will con
stitute himself, the representative of "Little
Lehigh," and attend to her interests.
Heavy Verdict.
Judgg'Sbarswood gave a verdict in favor of
this Commonwealth against the United States
B ank_foh_ Bl , 2o3 l7so, --- Witlreost s and interest,
in round numbers, $1,300,000. The suit was
brought to recover the htindred thousand dol
lars annually, which the Bank, by its charter,
agreed to pay as a bonus to the School Fund
for twenty years. The suit will of course, be
carried to the Supreme Court, and will, no
doubt, be warmly contested, as there will be
an effort to make this judgement take preced
.ence of the assignments. For the poor share
holders there seems but little hope.
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. Silver and Gold.
The vast increase of the product of gold, and
the great diminution of the product of silver,
says the New York Bank Note and Commer.
64'1 Reporter, is attracting the attention of po
litical economists and statesmen of all nations.
.1n France the subject has received the most
marked attention ; and, in our opinion, her le
gislators
.have evinced more foresight on the
subject than those of any other nation. The
measure of discarding gold as a currency, and
making silver only a legal tender, as proposed
in France, is no shott•sighted movement. Sil
ver is the prevailing currency of that nation,
while gold is the main metallic basis of curren
cy of the other leading nations. Nineteen.
twentieths of the specie in the Bank of Eng.
land and the banks of this country is gold; and
we believe that nine -tenths of the specie in
the hands of the people of England and the
States is also gold. Believing that silver is to
grow more valuable, and gold less valuable,
France, situated as she is, is wise in adopting
such measures as will rid herself of what gold
she has, and secure the advantages of the aug7
merited value of her silver.
Neither England nor this country can follow
the example of France. The Bank of England
cannel sustain specie payments a week on sil
ver—the government cannot pay one quarter's
interest in anything but paper or gold. Our
banks and our government are•equally gold
b6und. The Sub• Treasurers have not silver to
meet the demands upon them for twenty,four
hours. There is no alternative, then, for Eng
land or this country, but to continue to receive
and to pay gold as at present; and as silver
shall become comparatively more valuable, we
must debase its quality, or diminish its weight.
It is impossible to foresee at what point the
revolution will stop. We see nothing improb
able in the idea that an ounce of silver will be
. come worth an ounce of gold. In other words
an ounce of gold may sink to the value of an
ounce of iiker,
The chances are, that the nation tvho.se,pol
icy augments its silver is wise, in comparison
to the nation whose policy saddles its people,
with all gold at its present value.
Bad Policy.
The Harrisburg Union says Pennsylvania will
not have great Men. While other States take
a pride in their distinguished men, those of
Pennsylvania are assailed by factions in the
State, who take delight in tarnishing their fame,
and robbing them of well earned laurels. There
is too much truth in theseohservations. A nar
row and selfiel2 policy seems to have infused
itself into the politics of this State which is hard
to eradicate.
There's a better time coming, we hope, when
this selfish and factious spirit will be sternly
rebuked, and it will hide its "diminished head"
in that obscurity where alone it should exist.
Counterfeit.
We were shown yesterday, says the Public
Ledger of Saturday, a ten-dollar counterfeit on
the Miner's Bank of Pottsville. The counter
feit is a fao.simile of the genuine ten-dollar
bills of the bank, but may be detected by its
slurred and general bad appearance. Avoid all
of the ten4lollar bills of the Beek is the safer
course to escape the fraud.'
Allentown, Pa.
New School House
.Censue of Northampton County.
We are at length enabled to publish the cen.
sus of Northampton county, as taken by the :U.
States Marshals, for 1850. The figures show
that our county has made a gradual and grat
ifying progress. — We will be enabled to bold
our own among the other counties of the Slate,
in the next Congressional apportionment.-
1840. 1850. Increase.
Allen, . 2,547 1228 /
114
*East Allen ) ' (new) 1133 J
*Bethlehem Bore, (new) 1516 /
633
Bethlehem tsp., 2,989 2106 5
Easton (proper)
Bush k ill, 23.11 1
4 a 3 12 1001
Lehigh, 2524 )865 3908 1381
Bushkin,
... 1,716 1839 123
Forks, ...e 2,166 2321 156
Hanover, ' 382 428 46
Lehigh, 2,019 2352 303
Low. MI. Bethel, 2,957 3117 160
Lower Nazareth, 1,201 1932 731
Lower Salmon, 2,710 2905 195
Moore, 2,389 2615 226
Plainfield 1750 4 -1753 252
S'llt. Easton, Boio, 661 1511
.850
Upper Nazareth, 1,118 . 1116 OOO
Up. AFL Bethel, 2,643 2885 242
%Killiams, 1,937 2634 '897
33,831 40,94.1 7,111
* East Alten has been erected out of Allen
township since 1840 and Bethlehem Borough
out of Bethlehem township.
The total population of Northampton county
in 1840 was 40,996 but Carbon county, includ
ing the townships of East Penn, Lausanne,
Mauch Chunk and Towamensing., has since
been taken front her.—Argus.
Population of the Leading Cities.
The leading cities of the United States rate as
follows, under the new census, as to their popu-
lation : lB5O. 1846.
New York, 517,000 312,000
Philadelphia, 409,000 258,000 •
Baltimore, 169,000 102,000
New Orleans, 145,000 102,000
Boston, 135,000 93,000
Cincinnati, • ' 116,000 46,000
Brooklyn, 96,000 26.000
Pillsbutg,_____________B3;ooo 411,000
St. Louis, Bl,OOO 16,000
Louisville, Buffalo and 'Washington are about
42,000 each.
Cheap Postage.
The object of cheap postage, says the Village
Record, and the only object, at present should
he, to give the people full and comprehensive
views of whatever is interesting in their seve
ral comities. This is best done, and only done
through the country papers. Do thisond much
will be lone—attempt to do more, and all may
be, will he lost. All the local affairs, the local
politics, the candidates to fill the county offices
—the local taxes, &c., are discnssed . in the lo
cal papers, and in them only. The proceed.
ings of Courts, Commissioners, County meet
ings, are found in country papers, and are not
found in the city papers. These are the great
points of interest to the farmer and tax-payer
of the country, and he can obtain a correct
view.of them only in the country papers. It
is a benefit to himself, to the State and to the
county, to enlighten him. For all these things
he is dependent on the local papers—the local
paper is, therefore, an article of necessity to
him—and the question is whether Congress
will allow him to obtain it without a tax, or
whether the whole system must be broken
down, by connecting foreign luxulles with it
A man's county is a miniature of his country,
Every man has a voice in its affairs—every
man has a potent influence. To regulate and
govern it well, it must be well understood. Let
every city, county and district, attend well to
its own affairs, and our country will be pros.
perous and happy. But domestic papers, and
not %reign or distant papers throw light about
the people's homestead
Schuylkill Count;,
At this moment wants- to be connected to
New York city, direct by rail, to compete suc
cessfully with northerrcand more eastern coal
fields. To accomplish this, a dozen rival car
rying companies between Pottsville and Phil
adelphia, even if practicable, would avail not.
It is in economy of distance, time, and cheap
ness of construction alone, that will enable a
railway connection to New York to meet the
wants of the trade here. That such a road
would soon become highly productive, the
figures of our . present coal tonnage in that di
rection cannot fail to demonstrate clearly; but
that capitalists with brains can be found at this
time who would think seriously of investing in
a new rail to Philadelphia, we cannot believe.
However much the public
. may have gained
heretofore from' rival carrying companies, ex
perience of stockholders attest that it is a se
rious drawback on their dividends, and they
cannot appreciate the popular word."competi
lion" in the same sense ! Capitalists seek not
to beggar themselves in experimenting for the
public.—Mitring Register.
Resolving Water into Hydrogen.
Mr. Paine has published a challenge in the
"Boston Commonwealth," to resolve water en
tirely into hydrogen without completing the
electric current, with the use of any battery
and electrodes his opponent may chose. The
challenge is for $5,000 to be given to some
charitable institution. The . chalienge has been
accepted. Here are the conditions
"I stipulate, according to the terms of his
proposition, that the electric circle is not to be
complete—that there shall be no possible con
nection between the poles of the battery, eith
er by metallicyluid, or any other electric con
cluder; also, that there shall be no oxygen
generated, in a tree or combined state; and,
further that Mr. Paine shall show jo the antis;
faction of the supervising committee that ha
purposes, n that but one current oT electricity
pusses through the fluid,• by the agency of
which, hydrogen alone is disengaged."
Have a Trade..
By all means fume a trade. Don't go up
and down in the. world, and find nothing you
can put yonr hand to. No matter if you don't
have to work for a living. You may not al-
ways be prosperous as you are now. This is
a mutating planet. That man that is up to.day,
may be down to-morrow. Thank heaven, we
live in no land of prirnogeniture, no heredita
'ry succession.. Each Man is morally bound to
labor. •
Have a trade, we repeat. Educate your
hands. Have something.you can turn your en
ergies to when times pinch. It will be'an ev-•
erlasting resource. We never knew a man
who, with a good trade, could not get a good
living—aml much more with a right applica-,
Lion. What if you are going to college, in in
to a profession ? The case is not altered. you
need it just as much. It will come in ply:ev
ery day of your lite. It is much the better.—
Disciplina of the hand sihould always be be
fore that of the' tead.--1 •• • n:w a col
lege oy who wasn't better for a substantial
trade. He always graduates with the highest
honors. He is sure to be a scholar. The story
is, he knows how to storm—to bore—to con
quer. Ile but transfers himself from the shop
to the study. •
Voting, man, decide at once to learn a trade.
Apply yourself with all your mind and heart,
and be its master. And when you graduate
and ask you diploma, if you do riot want, or
are not obliged to work at it, you have laid by
so much, and such a kind of wealth can never
be lost or taken from y . ou. •
Jenny Lind's Wealth.
A correspondent of the New York Home Jour
nal has written a short article, which is going
the rounds of the papers, stating that Jenny
bind's wealth amounts to $1,000,000. Now we
have the following facts from a reverend gentle.
man who . knew her well in Sweden, and to whom
both in Europe and America, she has imparted
with the most childlike confidence every partic
ular in relation to her pecuniary affairs, as
well as to her future prospects and intentions.
Jenny bind has neither a sister nor_a_brother
- lost — a — Slgfir some years ago, but
never had a brother, notwithstanding the num.
berless stories to the contrary which have been
circulated. Her parents are both !Mug in quiet
and retirement in her native city, Stockholm,
being supportrd by an adequate sum put aside
for that zzpecific purpose by an affectionate
daughter.
Jenny Lind's annual income from property
which she has laid by is less than six thousand
dollars, (not so much as she could make at a
single concert;) and she is fully determined nev
er to increase it, for every farthing of her income
and earnings above what she expends for her
own personal wants is devoted to charity. The
whole of the funds received from her American
engagement, are set aside for the establishment
of Common Schools in Sweden, and it is her in.
tention to devote her personal services to the
supervision and inspection of these schools.
Her reverend and venerable friend once said
to her: "Miss Lind, I think that you should have
a large annual income secured to you, that you
might be prepared in case you should lose your
voice."
"In that event," she replied, "one sixth of my
present income would support me well in Swe•
den, and at all events it is as much as any per.
son with proper feelings ought to expend in a
year. So lam still left five thousand dollars per
annum forcharitable purposes." A woman with
such a heart, would indeed be wealthy if she
possessed not a dollar in the world.—/Vetv York
Sun.
Ohio Convention.
The sections relative to the State Debt which
have been under discussion in the Convention
,for several days, were adopted on the 13th in•
slant. There is to be a sinking fund sufficient
to pay the interest annually, and also SlOO.,
000 of the principal. That applicable to the
payment of the principal is to bo increasetl
annually by compound interest at 6 per cent.
until the whole debt is paid. The State is
prohibited :hereafter from contracting debts
which in the *aggregate exceed 6750,000.--.
Sinking Fund Commissioners are to be ap
pointed.
A WealMy Man.—General Hartwell H. Tar"
ver, of Twiggs county, Georgia, is said to be the
largest slaveholder, if not the wealthiest man in
that State. !Id owns a thousand negroes and
fifty thousand acres of land, divided into ten
plantations, in Twiggs, Pulaski, Houston and Ba
ker counties, yielding two thousand bales of cot
ton annually. At 13 cents per pound, his crop
will bring $lOB,OOO. He recently added to his
estate a tract of 2350 acres, in Burke county, at
fifteen dollars and seventy-five cents per acre,
or thlrty.seven thousand dollars for the tract.
Clarnform a 3 an Antiperiailic.—The French
Government has offered a prize of 4,000 for the
discovery of a shbstittne fur Quinine in the treat
ment of fevers. Prof. Deliouz, of Rochefort, re
commends chloroform as a powerful auccedan.
curn. Periodic fever's are common at Rochefort,
and he treated numerous cases in the hospital
there with such regularity of success that he
feels warranted in recommending it as it substi
tute for Quinine. He gave it in doses offrom 9
to 30 grains, according to the severity of symp
toms, rubbed up with syrup and water. hi was
administered before the access of fever and its
use continued for scverAl days.
Massactinsetts.—After taking the falh ballot in
this Slate for U. S. Senator, in, which SUmner
lacked eight of a majority, the House voted on
the motion of Gen. Cushing, by a very large ma.
jority to postpone the whole matter for• .one
week.
The general opinion is that no Senator weillbe
elected at this session..
A National llioilday.-7tite Washington ""Na,
tional Intelligencer" strongly recommends 'ob.
serving the 22111 of February next as a general
holiday,. In. commemoration of the Union.. Capi,
tal idea. •
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Pennsylvania Legislature.
HAnnisnuno, January 20, 1850.
SENATE.
Petitions presented.—For the incorporation of
the Farmers' a nd Mechanics' Bank, °IA lien town.
For the establishment of a Free Banking Law,
based cin State Stocks.
For the renewal of the charter of the Easton
Bank.
Otte for the - incorporation Of the Bank of
Eamon.
A petition was also presented for the repeal
of the Militia Laws.
One for the establiShment of free banking
and the-issuing of small notes.
In favor of incorporating the Mauch Chunk
Bank, with-a capital of $200,000. .
One for the repeal of the forty-eightlrand for
ty.ninth sections of the Act passed April 16th,
1850, regulating flanks.
One that the manufacturers of tip and co er
ware . _ .. jut ; r
,s.,•e Asian i a-may-te imrmil d ~v end
their wares in any part of the Commonwealth;
without paying license. . .
For the repeal of the Act laying out the State
Road from Waynesburg to Reading:
A bill Was also , introduced to extend the char
, ter of the Schuylkill Bank of Philadelphia, to re.
duce the capital thereof, Mid to restore the same
by subscriptions. • , •
One to authorize the several Ranks of this
Commonwealth to issue notes of denominations
of 'two and three dollars.
Tii authorize the Adjutant General to issue
arms to cadets in military schools.
A bill was introduced to re-instate the capi
tal 1
of the Mechanics' Bank of the city of
Philadelphia.
A bill to remedy certain defects in the char-
I'
ter of the Waynesburg •Bank.
nango.
The following resolutions were offered by , Section 2tl provides that after the first day of
Mr. Crabb, and adopted :
Resolved, By the Senate and House of Re 1 December, 1851, the salary of the-Chief JuStice
p- I of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, shall be
resentatives, that inasmuch as many of the sot- I $2200, and the salaries of the. Associate Justices
diers recruited into. the service of the United ' of the said Court shall be $2OOO, and the said
States before the conclusion of the war with judges shall also be entitled to receive, in addi
Mexico were scarcely a month on duty, and_i tion_to_their-respective salaries, $3 per day
yet received one hundred - and - sixty - affeTsOf I whilst on the circuit, and necessarily employed
I'land, it is, in the opinion of the General As. in holding courts ; ur in travelling to and from
sembly of, this Commonwealth, both just and the same to their respective places of residence,
equitable that those who served in the war of l as a full allowance for travellitrg expenses.
1812, whether upon land or water, as well as 1 Section 3d provides that the salaries of the
in the Indian wars, should receive the same a President Judges of the Courts of Common Pleas,
number of acres of public domain. * I and of all other Judges required to be learned in
Resolved, That the Governor of the State be ; the law, shall be $2OOO per annum, except those
requested to forward a copy of the foregoing
for the judges holding courts in the city and
resolution to each of. our Senators and mem-
county of Philadelphia, and the County of Atte-
tiers of the House of Representatives in Con
press, and, that they be requested to vote in 1 '
favor of the grant herein recommended..
Mr. Frailey, a bill to lay out a State road dere(' to be printed.
front Saegersville, Lehigh county, to Palo Alto,
Schuylkill county.
Mr. Shimer, from citizens of Pennsylvania.
I gheny, which shall be $2500 per annum.
Phis is a very important bill—in fact, the bill
1 of the session. It was laid upon the table and or•
i
praying for the repeal of the 46. h and 49th sec
tions of the act of Assembly of this Common.
wealth, approved April 16, 1850, entitled au act
regulating banks.
• Mr. Robertson, from the citizens of Lawrence
county, praying for a system of free banking,
based on State Stocks. .
,The following is the Senate Committee on
Banks. Messrs. Crabb, Shunter, Savery, Ives,
Frailey, Walker and Robertson.
HOUSE. * •
A bill to incorporate the Farmers' and Me
chanics' Bank, at Allentown.
Mr. Dobbins offered a joint resolution instruct
ing our Senators and -requesting our Representa
tiyes in Congress to use their best efforts to pro
cure the modification of the existing tariff laws,
so as to more effectually protect the iron and
coal interests of this Commonwealth ; and also
to advocate a further amendment to said laws,so
that the duties may be levied at home, and not
in foreign countries.
Mr. Pentiiman moved that the' Committee of
Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of funding Relief notes issued by
certain banks, under the act of May 1, 1841.
Messrs. Bight= and Brower presented peti
tions in favor of Free Banking.
Mr. Laury, a bill to incorporate the Farmers'
and Mechanics' Brink, to be located at Allentown;
also, two petitions in favor of the above Bank.
The Counting of the Votes.—A committee
from the House announced that that body were
waiting the presence of the Senate, to proceed
to open the returns of the election of the Audi
tor and Surveyor General.
The counting of the vote was then proceed
ed with, and for Auditor General resulted as
follows :
I • Ephraim Banks, - - 1-13,812 •
Henry W. Snyder, • - - 130,312
E. S. Neal, - - - 1,217
They then_ proceeded with the counting of
the vote for SurveyOr General, which resulted
as follows:
J. Porter Brewley, - - 140,703
Joseph Henderson, - 131,486
Kimber Cleaver, - - 1.054
Ephraim .Banks and J. Porter Brawley were
declared duly elected Auditor General and Sur
veyor General'of this State.
A bill was introduced for the establishment
of a Free Banking Systom and the issue of
small notes.
A resolution w•as passed, giving the.use of
the Hall to the Agricultural Convention; on
Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon and even•
ing.
The following gentlemen compose the House
Cotnmitiec on Banks: Messrs.Brintile, Bingham,
Lect, Feather, Hart, Bonder, Dobbins, Dent and
Jackson.
General John 131. Ilickel.was nominated by
the Democratic .caucus, for reelection to the
office of State Treasurer.
Ner Middleewarth is the Whig caucus nom
inee for State Treasurer.
The members of the Senate and• Rouse of
Representatives met in convention on the 20th
for the purpose of erecting a State Treasurer.
The following is the result of the first. ballot—.
John M. Bickel ) (dent), 73. NerMiddlesvrarthr.
SO. Mr. * Rickel was declared duly elected.
Judicial Apportionment. -
In the Senate, on Tuesday, General Packer in
troduced a bill in place, making a Judicial Am
portion merit, dividing the State into twenty Dis
tricts, entitled, 4.A supplement to the Act, entit
led an act relative to We organization of Courts
of Justice, passed April 14, 1834. .
lat. District, to consist of the city and county
of Philadelphia, to have three Law Judges.
2nd. District—Ducks, Montgomery and Dela
ware.
3d. DistrictLaneaster and Chester.
4th. District—Derks and Lehigh.
sth District—Dauphin and Lebanon.
Gth District—York, Adams and Cumberland.
7th. District—Juniata, Perry, Union and North•
umberland. •
Bth District—Schuylkill and Carbon.
oth D istrict — Northampton ; Monroe, Pike and
Wayne. ,
10th District—
hanna and Sullivan. .
I Ith District—Lycotning, Columbia, Montour
and Clinton.
12th District , —Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and
Somerset. •
lath DistrictL-Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson.
Forest and Elk.
11th District—lltintingdon, Mifflin, Blair and
,Cambria,.
15th Disirict—Bradfurd, Tioga, Potter and
McKean.
16th District—Westmoreland, Indiana, Arm
strong and Clarion.
17th District Washington, Fayette and
Greene.
18th District—Allegheny.
19th District—Beaver, Butler, Lawrence an,
Mercer.
20th District —Erie, Warren, Crawford and Ve
Ladies Wastes
Mrs. Swissbelm, in a savage article against
the magazine fashion plates, says:
"We know women now whn are dying; dying
by their own hands, and piously saying their
prayers every day, and for their death the Mag
azine publishers are accountable at the bar of
the Eternal. They are murdering them as truly
as ever David slew Uriah by the sword of the
Amalekites. No human agency can teach those
victims of fashion plate mongers, that the long
whale bones sticking down in their sides, the
tight strings tied around the small of the back,
and;weight of skirts dragging on them, are crush
ing their lives out, and dragging them to :heir
graves. They will not believe they are entailing
misery and disease' and death upon their chi/.
dren. Dui yet many of them do not know it,and
with all their vaunted love for their offspring,
would rather see their little ones suffer ten thou
sand deaths than that they themselves should
fall to look 'like Promethius in my picture here'
—a long sided funnel set on a jug."
•
Missouri U. S. Senator.—. The election fa Uni
ted States Senator in this State, was held on the
16th instant. Three anti•Bentonists voted for
Geyer, the Whig candidate. The ballot was as
follows:
Geyer, 67
• Benton, 54
Green, 31
Necessary to choice seventy.six.
Pennsylvania Agricultural Convention.—On the
6th instant, a meeting of farmers was held at
York, Pa., and a large delegation appointed to
.represent the county at the Agricultural Conven•
tion, to be held at Harrisburg on the 3d Tuesday
of this month. Every delegate who cannot go is
authorised to.appolnt a substitute; and any five
of the delegation are empowered, should they
deem it expedient, to call a meeting of the farm :
crs of Yo . rk county, after the adjournment of the
state Convention.
Great Pedestrian Peat.—A great foot race for
e5OO a side came off at Longmeadow on the
15th instant. A young Englishman named
Mole, underfook to run 5 miles in 31 minutes.
He succeeded easily, with 49 seconds to
spare ) although • the track was muddy. The
,
next day, for another wager of the same
amount, he run:lo miles in 64 minutes;
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Mammoth .Hog.—A mammoth hog raised
And fattened in Ephrata township, Lancaster
county, being twenty-ono months. old, was
slaughtered, which, after being dressed weigh.
ed 892 pounds. Who can beat this?
Illiouri,—There have been 29 ballotings for
U. S. Senator,.without a choke. Col. Benton
has been abandoned, and Mr. fl. Bough,
Anti-Benton, nominated. Mr. Green has been
withdrawn.
opal yet Curious Decision.—Some Judge
in New York the other day decided that a
/Homeopathy 'Doctor was not a physician.—
An actor in the Opera. House refused to sing
because he wus not well. The physician , of
the establishment decided that he was not
ill. Then the man sued. for Ills salary, the tes
timony of our infinitesimal. friend was brought
in, but !ha Judge dedided* that his opinion was
invalid, because he was no physician. Judge
Dally has since over•culed• this• alecisioa, and.
placed homeopathy high bti its legs: *: '
11=SIEM
The inscripton. on the outside of this coffin'
showed that the• body was that of Gol.mus.as-ank..
the daughter of G"bt-/iar.afunk, "the justified"—
the father, a priest of Thebes. From the decla.
thins on the coffin, it was probable that the body
was richly embalmed. There were three kindl.
ofernbalming—the richest style cost about $1200,.
the second (rind $3OO, and that used for the com
mon kind of E.xyptians, $2O. With the richer.
corpses, jewelry. was often found, though the rel
atives of the &Teased were generally deceived ,
by-the embalmers, who stole the jewels. The
Arabs sometimes opened the coffins of rich mum_
mies, took out , the jewels and put the bodies.
back. All these-were contingencies which naigha
arise, and to which the mummy in question was
liable. The probability was that. this lady had
beep enalxiluted front 1000 to Otayears before
Christ. •
A committee, composed: of Dr. B. S. Pattenson„
Dr. David Gilberr, an& Dr Wm. It Grant, were ,
then appointed to supenin ten& the unrolling, and
to assist Mr. Glidion nub Above, his. assists
•
The richly decoratett inner coffin was then.
laid upon a hurdle, smd•a seetkin of , the heatb
sawed off; the seam at thwback was itrippedt.
and the 'body taken out; upoft.inspeetion Mr
Gliddon pronounced it intact, NW as originally,
embalmed.
The committee then began to novirrap . the ban
dages. They were of linen ; and some, with the
selvage upon them, were wrapped eisenlarly , ands
then pieces of linen placed longitudinally, anti.
other circular bandages applied.. The-papyrus.
—book of the dead—was, found on the breast.,
written as Mr. C. announced, in biezattic char
acters, the symbol writing used by the priests..
The scarabaens, or sacred beetle, was also found,'
on the breast of the mummy. ft was ao cov
ered with pitch that it was Impassible to say
whether it was accompanied by a precious.
jewel or a piece of common pottery. The feet
were found broken and one of the legs came
oil at the knee; ..a result due to the injuries.
committed by tha probes of the Custom.house
officers.
The body was then unwrapt to the last ban-•
doge, which was found to be so tightly glued'
to the body that it was evident that to take it
off would be a work of considerable time. It
was soft hoorever, abd showed the figure plainly..
One of the hands was entirely covered. The
further examination of this mummy was themen
trusted to the committee, who will reporton'Mbn.
day evening next.
The body of the child was then uniVapped.—
It was embalmed.in better style than the corn-•
mon Egyptians, with whom matting was gener
ally used. It was wrapped in coarse cloth. and'
embalmed in a different manner from that of '
Gatmus•as ank. Bitumen was freely used; so•
much so as to make it probable.thet a hammer
and chisel wouldhave to be used to loosen• •
some or the bandages. The pitch has_beett'ap
plied cold, as was supposed, some of the hair of
the head having been obtained about half an• .
Inch leng, and very soll'and tlne,. The exam‘
nation of this mummy was also entrusted to the .
committee; who will report at the nextledture..4...;
. • •.
Ledger, Junuary ld.
Tho Virginia,Congrensional,
are unatiiraoubly in fauor cot &mit'.Dick..r
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Unawathing of Two Egyptian
NUNIAIES.
•
Last evening, at the Museum, Mr. Gliddorr
proceeded to the task of unwrapping the mum
mies of an Egyptian lady and child, in accordL
ante with a previous announcement.
An audience of about one thousand persons,
consisting of ladies, medical, scientiffe, and pro.
fessional men were present. The back part of;
the stage was decorated with several mama?'
cases, outer and inner coffins, some mummies,
papyrus, and ornaments; among them was the .
body of a very large and powerful man, which
Mr. G. said belonged to John L. Hodge, Esq , of this .
city, which was partly unwrapped about 20)
years ago. From the inscriptions, it was found'
that his name was Pet-isse, he who belongs to.
Isis, who died. at 'Fhebes, about 1500 or 2000'
years before Christ.
Gliddon-commenced die business of the*
evening, bpstating that he had purchased the.
female Mummy which was about to be unrolled,.
in London, about two years since, under the
ad
vice of Mr. Buch, of the British Museum, and'
Mr. Nash, a celebrated Egyptiologit, whose•
opinions as well as-his own, were that the mum—
my had never been taker. out of its original case.
—but he pointed out to the audience where the•
case_ad been mutilated at the feet of the mum
my, most probably by Cavort). House officers,.
and frankly stated that he knew no more of the
contents than she apeetwors, , •
The second mammy, a, child, obtained from
Egypt, was purchased by Mr. Harris, of Alexan
dria. The child appears to be in good condition,.
as far as could be seen. It was swathed in lin.
en, with the face painted on the cloth. Mr.-
Gliddon said that mummies of children are vary
rare. In all his life he has not seen more than
dozen, and six of them were in the British Mu
seum. Over five hundred millions of mummies
are supposed to be in Egypt, and it is very
strange that the bodies of children are rarely
found.
111 r. G:iddon inferred this mummy to have
been made during the Roman dominion._The
_inference-that-it-was—ma-di—during that time was •
deduced from the fact that it was not
. until that
period that the Egyptians began to paint the full ,
face upon the cloth in which the mummies were •
swathed. This would maikb the date of this•
muminied child about from 1500' to 2000 years •
before Christ. Mr. Gliddon said that he .be.
ieved this was the only mummy child in 'this •
couniq
The inner coffin of the lady who was about to•
be removed from the clothes was richly painted.'
and gilded, and covered • with figures of various
kinds, the lines of which. were very vivid. Mr..
Gliddon said this inner coffin was composed of
a substance technically called carionage.• It/
was formed ell strips of linen cloth glued to—
gether and moulded' so as to fit the body ; it was.'
then sewed together at the back and coveretP
with stucc4 upon which some paintings were:
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