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Allenteivn, Pa.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20,1861.
The Teachers' Association will meet in
the Lecture room of the German Reformed
Church, on Saturday the 22d instant.
rrThis is the,third week our Court is in ROA
id op, a clean sweep will be mode of the trial list.
upper-O-nageribuoles-Elotel , _
Ve learn that the members of the "Wok
and Ladder Company," together with the citi
zens, will partake of-a splendid repast, on Bst
nrday evening the 22t1 of February, at the
House of Mr. Benjamin Rageribuch, in honor of
the birthday of the illustrious Washington.
Firemen's Ball
Tho *members of the "Lehigh Fire Comps•
ny" will give a ball on Friday evening next ;
at the Odd Fellow's Ball, in Allentown. From
what we learn it will be very largely attend
ed. Supper *will he in readiness at half past
o,elock, at the house of Col. Wrn.
Tickets tyro dollars.
Adjournment.of Cons ,
On the 4.1 i of March Congress adjourns, and
with but nine, working days before them, the
members are still making ahnost interminable
speeches. None of the Appropriation Bills
have:been touched in either branch; the Port
age Bill and the• French Cairns Bill, hang be
lateen the two Houses, and the River and Her
bor Bill seems likely to be talked to death in
the Houre. The Country suffers for the want
of an increased duty on iron, coal, wool, &c.—
When will the people learn to send men of
'tense to Washington instead of the miserable
political hucksters, who for the most part now
compose the body of Congress.
Free Trade in Great Britain
The . tables accompanying the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, shows the exports
of tobacco for the year ending July 1, 1850.
amounted to 101 501 hogsheads, valued at 5.5,-
•
802,207. Of these 21,947 hogsheads, were ex
ported to Great Britain, the value of which is
put down at $1,77.1.000. The duty in Great
Britain being three shillings sterling per pound,
or about $9OO per hogshead, that country col
lected and will collect. when the whole is ta
ken out of bond for consumption, 517.557,600,
which sum Is about the revemie the kingdom
derives from the duty levied on a portion of
the products of some half dozen of the States
in this Union. This is free trade in Great Bri
tain; and reciprocate it by permitting her to
flood the country with her goods at the eft
pence of our industrial purftnil9.
Fruit for Market
The man who wishes to make a business of
marketing fruit, and obtain a regular yearly in
come, must plant many kinds. Some kinds
will succeed best this year, and others next.—
An individual in western Now Yolk Pold, the
Newrok Advertise' says, in 1840, twenty•fit a
hundred dollars worth of peaches tram about
12 acres. Fruit was scarce that year, and
peaches sold at n high price. A large cultiva
tor of the grape, on the Hodson, sells some
times 55000 or $6OOO worth of grapes. Anoth
er individual of 'Monroe county, New York,
sold in 1846, $l4O worth of Northern Spy and
Roxbury Russet apples front one acre. A gen
eral assortment of the best kinds of fruit will
be likely to furnish every year, with good cul
ture, one or more highly profitable crops. In
the neighborhood of a large city, fruits always
meet with aready sale, and they are highly
conducive to health.
liackstanding School Appropriations.
The Reading, Bettie County Gazette says,
Mr. Fegely has introduced into the House of
Representatives, a bill providing that all the
non-accepting school districts in this Common.
wealth which have not heretofore received any
appropriation from the Commonwealth for cum
rnon school purposes, shall hereafter be entit
led to receive out of any moneys in the State
Treasury, the same amount of money they
would have receivedif they had heretofore been
accepting school districts in this Common
wealth, 61101 be paid such veto or MIMS of
Money as will make them equal in amount
with that:4) school districts which received ap
propropriations from the commencement of
rchool system.
The 'object whi , :t thin hill nt, nothing
more than b: rn plc j.tstiee to the "non accepting
school districts," as they are denominated.— ,
Under the old law, a certain annual appropria
tion was tendered to tho several counties of
the Commonwealth which.wculd elect to air
cept the common school system. So long as
compliance with its requisitions was voluntary,
the withholding of appropriations from the dis
tricts which white to accept, was perfectly jos.
But when the school law was made
obligatory throughout the State, as it now is,
the baokstanding appropriations become by
that act, the lawful property of an the districts,
11 ratable Shares. If the voluntary acceptance
cf the school law entitled a district to the State
appropriations, there is surely no reason why
the same should he granted to a district which
accepts under the compulsion. If anything,
the claim of the latter to aid is tinn strongest.—
It is rather too great a hardship that the penal.
ty for - tion-compliance with a law- should -he
un f o rced against those who have no longer the.
power to evade it. We hope that Mr. Feeely's
bill pass, for it deeply concerns the welfare ni
of the common school system in several
counties,•wherg perhaps its benefits are most
needed.
• State Agricultural School. .
The annual report of A. L. Russell, Esq.,
Secretary of the Combumwealth, and' ex-officio
superintendent ofour Common Schools, offers
the plan of a State institution, for special, in
struction in the theory and practice of Agricul
ture, and for general instruction in all the
branches of a high school course. We must
omit the publication of the details, but take
the first occasion to express our warmest as
sent to the scheme. We would be pleased to
see the design extended,' however, so as to
make it a State Agricultural and Mechanical
Seminary, where boys from fourteen to twen
ty-one years of age could be prepared as farm
ere or mechanics. It is not alone the knowl
edge of a handicraft or trade thafis necessary
to make useful citizens. Our laboring classes,
:-when-young„hay.e_too_little lime for practical
education. The apprentice is at work nearly
all day, and is too much fatigued at night to
feel like studions application; consequently,
when he becomes of age, and is ready to as
sume his pluce among the men of our nation,
he may be practically a first-rate workman, but
without any theoretical knowledge of his o'ceus
ho may be a good carpenter, and not
an architect ; he may be a first-rate mason, and
know nothing of the durability or the geologi
cal qualities of the material he is to work...urn ;
he may be a painter, and totally ignorant of
the chemical combinations or analysis of the
various pigments hdis to use. These defects
will exert as important an iefluenee upon them
m after life, as the iguorance of the theory of
agriculture would upon the farmer's boy, who
only knows how to reap anci sow, to plough
and to garner, after the usual routine which has
been pursued on the farm.
The education of the Laboring Clases, not
only innnually, but mentally, is the grand ob.
ject which should engross the attention of le
gislators. It is not enough that our Public
School system should educate them—it must
- in - Sllnerth - enrin - some - practical - mode - of - oh --
mining. The old adage that "a good edlica
lion is better than any trade" is a false one, as
far as regards the mere animal requirements of
man; and we daily see instances where edu.
cared men cannot make a living. They are all
theory, and have had no practical experience ;
while on the other hand, there are thousands
of young men who leave their apprenticeships,
knowing, only how to handle the tools of their
trade, without a single glinimer of that theo
retical knowledge, which is indispensably to
heir rising over the mere dependence of j mr
neymen. If then we can devise a plan for a
proper infusion of the iwo—a plan which will
teach young men how to work, and why they
work by given rules; which will explain
principles upon which the carpenter, the ma
son, the painter or other mechanic, bases his
labor, we shall have attained a great desider
atum.
EM
We would not; however, jeopardise the suc
cess of the admirable plan proposed by the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, by proposing
any present addition to its scope. There is tun
reason to he - adduced why the Legislature
should not take immediate action upon his
proposition. Agriculture is the great source of
national prosperity, and the more perfection a•e
obtain in its management, the more we add to
the real and available capital of the country.—
As long as it is urged by sonic political•econo
mists that protection afforded to the mantifire
luring and mining interests, operates tothe det
riment:of the agriculturists—to which we nev•
er could agree—it would pethaps prove the
means of reconciling all conflicting interests :
arid placing our tariff, whether for revenue or
protection, on a permanent basis, if the . State
should educate our farmers and teach them how
to make the most of their land at the smallest
cost. We therefore trust the Agricultural Semi
inary will arrest the early attention of our Le
gislature, and that Pennsylvania may soon
boast an Institution inferior to none in the Uni
on, where the theory and practice of farming
may be taught on the most extensive scale.
Important Invention
A young man of St. Louis is about to as
tonish the word by the developement of an
invet.ticat, that in point of universal utility
promises to he one of the most important dni-
COVOIiCA of the age. He has invented, and is
DOW completing, an apparatus by which to
manufactute gas from the atmosphere, the
light of which will be more brilliant than that
produced from coal gas, and which can be
supplied almost as cheap as sunlight. It will
also produce light of all colors and corribma
lions of colors.
Subjoined we present to our readers the stat•
istics of the U. B. Mitt for the month of Janus.
ry. Tho coinage of gold, it will be perceived,
was greatly diminished during Jan usry,.in con•
sequence tif a suspension of the refining oper
ations from the end of 1550 up to the 20:h ult.
This is required in consequence • of the provi
sions of the law v. hich require the melter and
refiner to settle his accounts annually, and to
deliver up to the Treasurer all the bullion in
his bands. This suspension was ulso taken ad.
vantage of to prosecute certain improvements
in that department, which, being now complete,
has so enlarge& the capacity' of the Mint that
the demands e the depositors and the pohlic
will be readily met in future •
Gold 'coinage
Silver coinage
Copper coinage •
New York and Pkiktdetaiis Manufacture:l—
manufacturing interests 'of this city and
Philadelphia compare as follows, according to
the United States census, just completed:—Nea l
York has $34,232,822 capital invested, and the
annual products of her manufactures are valued
at $105,318,308. Philsdelphia has about $33,.
000,060 of capital invested, and her products are
valued at 56.1,130,000 pve Annum—New York
U• S. Mint
• $2,620,966 00
. . 16;950 CO
2,705,199 40
Court Pro ooedirtgu.
COMMON PLEAS.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania An appeal
for the use of Wm. Walp, from awardof
vs. Arbitrators,-
Stephen BnHim This was a
suit originally instituted against defendant for nn
alleged obstruction. in 'a public road which to
minated at the. Lehigh river, by constructing a
wharf, to the detriment and inconvenience as
was alleged, of the public!. The defence was,
that said wharf not being erected within the cur.
vey of said public road, could therefore not be a
nuisance. The jury was instructed to the effect
that if the wharf was erected within the serve/
of said road, and the defendant having had no.
tics to' remove the wharf, the verdict toast be
for the plaintiff. Verdict fur plaintiff for $O,OO
damages anti 8 cents coat.
Anna Bright Feigned issue to try the
right to certain monies-in-1_
A. P. ItPßride, Fred. the hands fit' the Sheriff,
1 .
Erick Klett and Sol- which monies it was al, '
omon Uangwere. J legecl by plaintiff was due
her on account of a certain judgement'in her fa.
var. Defence alleged that said judgement seas
fraudulently obtained and therefore void. The i
Jury, thought otherwise find returned a verdict in
favor of plaintiff. . .1
Edward Kern, Owen Kern, Joseph Witman
rind Lavinia his wife, late Lavinia Kern, vs. Dan.
nlel Kern and Peter Sieger, late Partners, done i
business under the fi rm of Kern and Sirger.l
This was a suit brought by plaintiff upon a pro.l
misoty note for $2,161 13, executed by defendants i
in consideration of the balance due on ancient ,
'bond which was given to Thomas Kern, Execn I
tor of Jonas Kern, deceased, dated April '0.1831.
payable in I year firrthr - sum-0f55,000.-Differ ,
eat payments were endured from time to time ;
on the back of the Veld, hut nothing was said as
to how they should be applied. Evidence was
offered to prove, that the parties, when the Note I
was siren were ignorant as to whether the bond !
carried interest the first year, btit that they agreed'
it should be mode right afterwards. The Court
ruled that the bond did not bear interest the first
_year,_and_the_luey_ltelie_v_ing_the_ev_kie_nce_above
mentioned, reduced the amount of the Note and
gave a Verdict for pinintiff of 61,778 80.
Joseph Musser vs. Daniel Lower. An action on
the case for slanderous word spoken by defen•
dant, which were actionable in se. The words
alleged to have been spoken were, that defendant I
I
said of the plaintiff ..du hest mein° Riegel gestoh.
len." Defence stated that there was no malice.
ous intent, but a mere mistake in the defendant,'
as he meant to say, that plaintiff took the "rails
away. The Jury brought in a verdict in favor
of plaintiff for 6 cents damages and full Costs,
Franklin Diltlebeitel ) An action vie! armis ag.l
t ic, t..net. Constable Hartman
Samuel Hartman.
.), levying wrongfully upon
certain goods and chattles which belonged to the
plaintiff. It appears that print to a number of
executions issued against Joseph Kramer,_ a
coach-maker in the Borough of Allentown, he
(Joseph Kramer) sold to the plaintiff in this case.
for a valuable consideration, his shop and shop.
ping materials and all the stock. After said sale,
the levy was made by the constable and the
goods sold, for which this suit was brought.—
Defence stated that the transaction of the sale
was frnudnlent and made for the purpose of de
frauding the execution creditors of Mr. Kramer.
Plaintiffproved that the transaction was fair and
honest. Verdict in favor of plaintiff for 350,00
dollars wiih costs.
S:ephen Leh Appeal from judgement
v.. • of Daniel Saeger, Eeq.
AbrahamNewhard. Suit was brought upon a
debt which arose out of a horse trade. ' De•
fence, that there was 'a former suit brought for
the same debt, where it was settled. After
trial plaintiff suffered a non snit.
Bethlehem Sciciety Feigned issue
to try the right
Blank. K d others. of monies in tl e
.emmerer ano
Orphan's Court, arising from sale of property if
Abraham Worman. Continued on account of
illness of Counsel.
G. Wenner vs. Lazarus and Grq.fly,—Debt on
Book account for goods delivered to Lazarus.
Plaintiff failing to show 'partnership, judgement
went against Lazarus for amount of claim.
[Poly vs. Seibcrling.—Enactment for , a cer.
lain house and lot occupied by defendant. De
fendant confessed judgement and possession to
be delivered on' the first of April next.
Lewis K. Hollenstein, surviving Executor of
Catkin° Deshler, deceased, vs. David Deshler.
attaeliment in debt. In this snit the
Judgement which had been obtained on the
Foreign attachment was opened for the pm.
pose of permining the defendant to show that
it it was too high. On trial a verdict was tak
en for $2553 13.100.
Daberacker's Assignees vs. John G Goundie
others.—Non Assunipsit. Feigned issue to try
the rights of certain monies in Court. made on
the sale of the real estate of George Haber
acker. Continued on account, of illness .of
Counsel.
Santulli Marx (or the use of David Stem, Jo
seph Line and Charles Bears, vs. George Wen
ner, .Tesso M. Line, Peter S. Wenner, and nth
!
ers,—Attachnient execution against John Wag
tier, garnishee of defendant. On trial a Jitror
Withdrew and judgement confesssed by de .
fondants for 525 00 with way of execution •
Distressing
Some . ten days since, Mr. Thomas Rankin,
of Uniontown, Pa., while laboring under a fit
of mental aberration, cut his awn throat with a
razor, inflicting such a deep wound that he
expired a day or two afterwards, notwithstand•
ing every effort was made to save his life.—
The deceased was a gentleman of wealth and
excellent character. A daughter, who ivas
lying hi bed sick, and saw her father commit
this terrible act, has since died.
Enterprise.—the Placer (Californias Time
notices the following instance of individual en.
terprize
A trader. named Z tcharia, five months ago
took a small store, six feet by on tet.t, situated
on the levee, and invested $5O in clothing. Since
that time he has turned42ls,ooo, has enlarged
hii house of business, and is now on his way to
the Suites to tiring hi% family to Stockton.
Jogifiel Intelligence!
News of the Atlantic.
New York, February 14
The packet ship I.4eine,Jrom Havre, arrived
at this port this morning: Capt. Williams, her
commander, reports seeing the American
Steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, when she was
four days out from Liverpool, under a full head
of steam, in longitude 21 west. The Seine
had just experienced a heavy gale.
Capt. Williams did not see anything remark•
able in the movements of the Atlantic. fle
thinks if she had been disabled after he saw
her, she could not have reached thelVestern
Islands in consequence of the wind blowing
from a contrary quarter.
The Atlantic had, if the degree of longitude
is slated correctly, accomplished only about
one founli of the voyage during these four
days, which is considerably behind her usual.
speed. 1f an accident had happened to her af
ter going thus far, it would , require probably
several weeks to return under sail either to au
English or Irish port,, or to, the Azores.
The fact that the Atlantic has been seen by
a' Havre packet, would. scant to indicate that
Captain West has taken a southern course on .
this voyage, as the Havre ships never get so
far north as the usual northern route.
Conjecture is still at fault in regard to the
Atlantic and every one is hoping that the At'.
ries, new daily expected at this port,. may
bring further news of her.
I.3 , nt , ince the above was in type, the steamship
Africa arrived, and brings the joyful intelligence
of thc Atlantic's safety, she having put hack to
Cork, Ireland, in consequenee-of derangement of
her machinery after having been out nine days.
Annexed is an account of the accident to the
Atlantic, from Lient.Bhufeldt, one of the officers
of the Africa, to the editor of the New York-Her.
ald
"In order to prevent garbled statements of the
recent accident to the Atlantic, from obtaining
publicity, I take the liberty of sending
rect narrative of facts, compiled from her log,
and for which I can personally vouch.
The Atlantic lett Liverpool on the 28th De
ce m ber, in fine steaming condition, and without
any apprehension on the part of her officers in
regard to the voyage. It was blowing a strong
gale at the time of departure, from W. S. W.,-so
much so as to render it -- impossible to land her
pilot. On the 29th December, at 930 P. M., she
passed Cape Clear, and fairly commenced her
homeward passage by plunging at once into a
heavy head sea, and stemming strong westerly
gales, which continued without intermission for
the time following up to the day of the accident.
On the Gilt of January, at noon, she was in lat.
46 12 long. 41 W., it blowing strong gales from
W. N. W. At 6 30 P. M., the engines were
stopped, as it was first supposed by the engi
neers on account of the breaking of the eccen.
tric strap to the starboard engine—and,on exam
i;iation, it was determined to go ahead again,
worki:lg that engine by hand; but another revol
ution of oh: wheels proved that the accident was
of a much moag serious naturethe main shaft
was found broken ccmpletely through, (in a di
agonal direction,) the bearing of the starboard
pillar block', and the additional I,:ra after the first
stoppage, caused one part of the shari to lap over
the other—thus fracturing both pillar blocks,
and immediately rendered the engines perfectly
useless..
The ship was at once hove to under storm
canvass, the wheels lashed, and all hands em
ployed during night, and fur the following day, i
in sending up her square yards, and stripping
her wheels of the floats—a task at once difficult
and dangerous in a gale of wind, and the decks
covered with ice, but fortunately accomplished
without accident. On the 7th and Bth laying to,
with the hope of an abatement of the gale and a
change of wind, as the captain and all hands
were extremely anxious to reach some port on
our own coast. • On the 9th, the wind hauled to '
the northwest, and became quite moderate. Im• '
mediately made sail, and shaped a course for
Halifax, 897 miles distant, and New York 1,480.
This weather continued until meridianof the 10th,
when an observation placed the ship 180 miles
south and 70 miles west of her position at the
time of the accident. A gale now sprung up
again from the 'southwest, and It became neces•
sary to heave the ship to, for even with moder
ate weather it was evident to all that she could
do nothing by the wind under canvass. At I'3
A. M. of the Ilth, a large ship passed, bound to
the eastward; but she either did not see or took
no notice of our signal of distress.
At 10 P. M , after taking an accurate account
of stores on board, and considering the apparent
impossibility of reaching home with the ship in
her disabled condition, thin captain determined,
with the assent of his officers and passengers, to
bear up for the . cnast of Errope—which was ac
cordingly dune. From this time to the twenty.
second day nothing of importance occurred. We
had followed gales and high seas, and the ship
made an average distance of 160 miles per day,
and in that interval ran 1,400 miles. At 3 P. 111•
of the 22d, she entered in Cork Harbor,' which
fact alone, when considering the immense size
of the ship, her small spars, light canvass, and
heavy machinery, isatlficient to prove her a
splendid sea.boat, and must add, in no small de.
gree, to the reputation already acquired by her
noble commander for prudence and seaman.
ship.
In regard to the conduct of her passengers
under such trying circumstances, too mach could
scarcely be said. Suffice it that they bore the
misfortune with becoming fortitude and cheer
fulfiess, and testified, on leaving her at Cork, as
Much sympathy as those who have a more per
manent interest In the good old Atlantic. The
Atlantic had on board 650' . tona of freight, and a
considerable quantity of specie, which the Cam.
bria was chartered to bring over, and probably
.sailed from Cork on the 4th instant, direct for
New York. Before the Africa left, arrangements
;tare making to tow the Atlantic to Liverpool to
have her rep - aired.
The Africa brought her mails and passen
gers..
It W. Sniarr.t.nr, Chief Officer,
R. M. riiOrncr Africa
Penosyrvania LcgisWare.
ITAunrautrua, February 17, 1850
SENATE.
Mr. Shimer, on the Bth presented a petition
from the counties of Northampton, Lehigh,
Bucks and Montgomery, praying for the con•
struction of a railroad front Freemansburg to
Norristown ; c remonstrance from the Society of
Friends, against the repeal of the kidnapping
law of 1847; and a petition praying for the in.
corporation of the Farmers' and Mechanics'
Bank of Allentown.
On the 10th, Mr. Shinier presented five peti•
tions praying for the renewal of the charter of
the Easton Bank ; one praying for the repeal of
the kidnapping law of 18.17; one from the com
missioners of Northampton county, praying for
the passage of a law to require the sheriffof said
county to keep a deputy ; and one praying for
the incorporation of the Fanners' and Mechan
ics' Bank of Allentown.
Mr. Shinier, on the 11th presented a bill to in
corporate the Allentown Sarinp,s Institution.
Mr. Laury, a bill to incorporate !lie Ntactingie
Horse Company for the itelzeGn of horse
thieves.
On the 12th, Mr. Scoffield presented a bill to
regulate the trial of contested elections of judg•
CS in this Commonwealth.
On the same day, Mr. Leet presented a bill
relative to the salaries of associate judges.
On the sante day, Mr. Bigelow presented a bill
relative to registering deed..., mortgages and oth
er instruments of writing, now authorized to be
recorded by law.
On the 13th, Mr. A. E. Brown, presented five
petitions for the renewal of the charter of the
Easton Bank; one from the firemen of Easton,
asking to he exempt from Militia duty; one for
the incorporation of the Mauch Chunk Bank;
one for a Bank to be located at Allentown ; one
asking a change in the place of holding elections
in Low Hill township, Lehigh county ; one from
Daniel Boyer for a divorce from.his wife Maria ;
and from John Flick, guardian, for authority to
elLicaLeslate.
MIME
On the same day, Mr. Joseph Brown, two for
a hank at Easton, to be called the Farmers' and
Mechanics' (lank: and a remonstrance from Ma,
ria 1.. Boyer against divorceing hes hwsband
Daniel.
•
A Remedy for the Crisis.
_ A pamphlet appeared lately written by the Hon,
S. D. Ingham, formerly. Secretary of the 'Trea
sury, in which he proposes a remedy for an
"approaching crisis in our monetary system,'!
which he anticipates from the recent rise in the
value of silver, or rather from the depreciation
of the value of the gold currency, both by the
act of Congress in 11431, and by the rapid intlux
of gold from CalilOrnia. It is in consequence
of these causes, the writer thinks, that silver
now commands a premium bf 3 per eent., and is
rapidly being withdrawn from the banks and
public treasury for exportation. lie piediets
that a few mouths wiil probably leave nothing
for small payments, except so ne light foreign
coins, and paper tokens or tickets, to be issued
by every one who pleases. To meet this atr.i,
cipated evil Mr. Ingham recommends that Con
gress authorize the coinage by the Mints, of a
limited amount of silver coins' of all the subdi
visions of the dollar, as much lighter than those
now coined as would be requisite io protect them
from exportation or the melting crucible, and
(li b t these coins shall be made a legal tender
only In payments not exceeding five or ten dol
lars. He dt,:.'s pot propose this as a remedy for
the exportation c. silver dollars, which he ex.
pects will go on until country is drained of
them. He looks to the Gold coinage and to the
paper currency to supply their place. His ob•
ject is to provide a substitute for the subdivisions
of the dollar, of our present coining, which he
thinks will soon disappear also. He supports
the plan by forcible reasoning, as well as by ex
perience and the opinions of Sir Alexander Bar
ing. 'The fact that our present silver coins are
almost all light, and yet circulate freely in spite
of all efforts to suppress them, is itself evidence
that the plan proposed would effectually obviate
the great evil he anticipates, of a circulation of
paper tokens or tickets, for subdivisions of the
dollar.
Population of the States
The following list is said to exhibit correctly,
the order in which the several Statet stand in
point of population, according to the present
census:
1 New York, 17 Maryland,
2 Pennsylvania, 18 Louisiana,
3 Ohio, 19 New Jersey,
4 Virginia, 20 Michigan,
5 Indiana, 21 Connecticut,
6 Tennessee, • 22 New Hampshire,
7 Kentucky, • 23 Vermont,
8 Massachusetts, ' 24 Wisconsin,
9 Georgia, 25 Arkansas,
10 North Carolina, 25 Texas,
II Illinois, 27 lowa,
12 Alabama, 28 California,
13 Missouri, 29 Rhode Island,
14 South Carolina, 30 Delaware,
15 Maine, Q 31 Florida.
16 Mississippi,
Great lee Flood.—The recent heavy rains have
caused a great good in the Susquehanna. The
ice in the river has been moved several times
and piled up to a great height in the vicinity of
Pittstown. It is much to be feared that great
damage will be caused by the immense quantity
of ice, should a final breakup ensue at this stage
of the water. Mr. Pettis, a gentleman residing
on the oppositaside of Pittstown, was obliged to
leave his tlwelling, owing to the high water. We
also understand that several coal mines in that
region have been filled up with beck water from
the river. The water Is said to be three feet
higher than ever known before.
Zon.4.—The population of lowa, by the late
census, is 108,284. In 1840 lima had a popula
tion of only 43,111. Showing a gain in ten
'cars of 10,110.
rir a young lady, last week, in the Court of
Lancaster county;reeovered . 1000 dollars darn.
ages against Shim Neff, for slanderous words
spoken.
HOUSE
Congressional Proceedings.
WASIIINGTON, February 17, 1851
SENATFI.
A large number of petitions and mementoes
were presented.
Mr. Cooper presented the resolutions of the
Legislature of Pennsylvania, in favor of granting
to the soldiers and sailors who served In the las t
war with Great Britain and the Indian wars,the
same quantity of bounty land as was allowed
to those who served in the war with Mexico ;
which was referred to the Committee on Mllita•
ry A 'Lars.
nous,:
Various petitions and reports were presented'
and referred.
Mr. Howe presented the petition of Amos Wit
hams and thirty Others, citizens of Pennsylva ,
nia, praying Congress to modify the tariff of
18.16. Referred ti the Committee of Ways and ,
Means.
Mr. Freedley presented the resolutions of the -
Legislature of Pennsylvania, asking Congress ta•
inakc the necessary appropriations for the repair. ,
of piers at Chester, on the River Delaware,
Atka, resolutions of same, in favor of granting
to each of. the soldiers of tire war of 181'2, ants
of the, Indian wars, one hundred and sixty acres
of land.
GLEANINGS.
IV There are 99 newspapers published in ,
the Slate of Indiana, the aggregate cirenlatiow
being 76,929.
rr lie who serves God has the best master
in the world.
C i., is very good to know a good deal; bur
it is still better to make good tr,e of what we.
mms
Ce"Gott. Houston visits Il.trrisburg on the
2`2,1 instant, at the invitation of the Democratic
members of the Legislature.
C3 - Senator Foote is to be the Orator of the
great-Union festival, to be held in New York
city on the anniversary of Gen. Washington's
birth-day.
LV"David. S. Kaufman, late a member of
C.,ngress, is said> to have died of a pistol ball
wound, received ten years nu, in a recontre in
OEM
rein Russia, the candies used in the mines
are made of tallow mimed with Charcoal dust,
(or powdered charcoal,) which increases the in.•
ensity of the light.
_C 'The Russian Governnient has prOhibiteir
the exporting of silver in bullion, or coin, fronv
that country.
LY'An impnrrant Sign post on the road to
wealth—Advertise.
ER"The Kentucky House of Represtentatives
have appropriated $9OO towards the erection „r
a monument to the memory of the Lite Col. Rtch
ard M. Johns'on,
A Sheep Story
Our morning content)) .rarie, have been de
in.; of late in the attempts t t outdo each other ire
telling remarkable sheep stories. We can relate
one that has just come-to our knowledge, which.
is worth telling. Two sheep, belonging to %Alibi ,
ham Drum, E,q.. of Webster, strayed from Met
fold on the night of a heavy snow storm in De.
cember, and were buried In a snow drift, where.
they remained forty•two days, and were taken'
out alive last week. Mr. D. missed the shee7;
but supposing they had perished, he made taw
search for them. Last week while crossing his
farm, he saw two dark spots in the snow, which
led him to suspect that his sheep were boried
there. He made a hole through the crust of the
snow with his foot, and found his sheep not
dead as he expected, but alti.e. They were some
distance from each other, and wore rather a leans
appearance from fasting over forjy clays. They
bad eaten the roots of the grass for some
lance around them, and this was of course their
only subsistence. They were returned to the'
fold, and sre now apparently in as good health.
as their mates. We haVe heard of sheep beimg:
buried beneath the snow twenty days, but the in. •
stance we have noticed being more than double
that period, is truly wouderful.—Buffalo courier..
Feb. 12.
Sentenced to be Hung.—George Pharoah, con
victed tit AVest Chester of the murder of Miss.
Sharpless, the school teacher, was on Wednes
day last sentenced by Judge Chapman. Ile was
very impressive in his remarks previous to pro-.
nouncing sentence of death, but the culprit lis
tened to him with the utmost composure. It is
understood that he has since confessed the
crime, and that his object was to obtain the watch
she had about her person.
The facts of the case were published at -the
time of the murder. There is one fact which
came out on the trial that we do not remember
to have heard before, to wit: George Pharoah
told one of the boys in the neighborhood: that he
had been near the school house that morning-ancl
saw the dead body of Rachel Sharpless, but Wag ,
afraid to go near it, and that there was nobody"
near when he saw it. lie also told to a person"
he met on the toad, on the morning of the mur.
der, and before the dead body wasloandj• (reit .
was known a murder had beedicommittedlthati
Miss Sharplesti had been sbotiwith a large gait
while she was unlocking the door of the Reboot
Moose. To another person he said, he Woulttt
be a fool to own it and be ham dec. This Pha-•
roah is a mother to ehibei3lOid. who was con
victed and hong for tine:aitilkittif ;a man nam.
cd Wesley PitttoryilalheilVi'terisaty, some six.
years ago.- •
Jidie ionsteman. who rem t fje
resigned bis• swat in-the Constitutional Conven •
tion of the State of Ohio. at the request of what
purported to be a meeting of hie-Democratic con
stituents who disapproved . of bis vole against
the nection "providinglor the repeal of all char
ters, has been re.eleetedio the Convention by
over 1000 majority.
Death of Ma 21giramoth Boy.—The mammoth
boy of Indiana, 23 years old, and weighing 400
pounds, and exhibited in New York by Birnurn.
died on Saturday. A'. coroner's • inquest was
held, and'the verdict declared that he- came to
his death by improper treatment on the part of
hi. physicist.. who has accordingly been arrest
ed fur manslaughter.