ilecjiMer.
`• Circullation near eOOO.
Allentown, Pa.
- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1861.
rirWe are tinder continued obligations to
our friend David Laurjj, Esq., of the House of
Repreoentatives, for valuable legislative Linen.
menu.
Fatal Accident
It is our painful duty again to record a dis
-;tressing accident that happpened on the 20th of
,- Felimary at the iron ore bed of !qr. Flown Al
-640, in South Whitehall •tOwnship, Lehigh
county, in which one of the workmen, name,
ly Edward Bortz, lost hie life, Daniel Biehl Fe
finitely fractured his collar bone, and George
Allender, received several slight injuries.
It appears that a number of men were. en•
gaged in uncovering the ore bed, while the
unfortunate three, Were at wet k tinder the
bank. The continued heavy rains of late :•oft
ened the ground in such a rnanner, that a per ,
tion of the bank gave way, in which a large
stop() was contained, striking the breast bone
of Bartz, and instantly killing him and serins
ly injuring Diehl, by fracturing his collar bone,
and slightly wounding Allender. liortz was
taken to his aged mother a corpse, and Mehl
was conveyed to the house of Mr. John Hoff
man nearby. The deceased was an mirnar•
tied man, just in the prime of his life, being
only 26 years of age4f sober and industrions
habits, beloved and respected by all who knew
..him.llis_remains were iuterred on Sunday,
last, followed by an immense concourse of rel
atives and friends. fie was a member of the
In_d_ep_errite_n_t_tarster • w's whose
members in large numbers followed the ic
mains to its last resting place. The Itev.
Schindel officiated on this occasion, in a very
affecting and appropriate address, selected from
the Ist verse, 27th chapter of hoverbs, "Itorif,t
not thyself of to-morrow; (or thou knowest not
what a day may bring forth."
The Free Banking System
We have been favored %%itli a ropy of the
Bill reported in the State Senate Ity 'Nlr. Walk
er, to authorizo a General System of Rankie,
baited on State swag:"
The Bill contains Menly•eight fwv:iotiq, and
is therefore too long for insertion in onr col
umns. It provided in the 2nd Section, "•'l Jn tt
whenever any person or as:ociation of persona
residing in Pennsylvania, formed for the pur
pose of banking under the provisions of this
act, shall lawfully transfer to the Auditor Gen
eral, any portion of the public stock of this
State, such person or association shall be en
titled to receive from the Auditor General of
such circulating noted and of such different de
nominations as may be dematoked,,,counter
signed and registered as afmesnid, equal to
ninety.five per cent. of the marked value of
the stock so deposited : Provided, The Auditor
General shall not take such stock at a rate
above its par value.
The Firemen's Ball
On Friday night was a very handsome a flair,
and by many pronounced as the most pleasant
party of the season. At half past twelve the.
party sat down to a supper, that only added
more laurels to the caterer, Col. William Creif..
After supper the party again exercised on the
"light fantastic toe" until the lays of the dawn
ing day broke in upon the happy assemblage.
Juvenile Concert
Mr. C. Kemmerer, who has established fol
himself an enviable reputation in Philadelphia
and other places, will give a vocal enteitain.
meet with a Juvenile ClaSs, on Saturday even
ing next, at the Odd Fellows' Hall. We trust
all who can make it convenient will atfend.—
See advertisement in another column.
Robinsoe Crusoe
We' had the pleasure of forming an argnaint
mice with Mr. Rich, who is at present engaged
in canvassing the eastern counties of Pennsyl
vaiia, and soliciting subscriptions to the above
w9rk.. It is a publication of the Philadelphia
Journeymen Printers' Union, and is a full and
complete history of the life and adventures of
Robinson Crusoe, by Wk.! De Foe. It is a
work that should be in the hands of every
family.
Montour County.
As will bo seen by the proceedings of the
Legislatnre, that the bill to re•unnit.v
tour county Columbia,,vvas forced through the
House by party strength, and under various
calls for the previews question. It is rendeand
certain that this bill will pass the House in any
form it may assume, but it may fail in
the Senate. That body will not be so likely to
vote upon it by parties. More deliberation and
reflection may be expected in the Senate. •
It certainly would seem very much•like trif
ling with the people of Aloutour, to erect them
into a county one year, and the very next,
replace them. I3ut stranger things have taken
place.
There is no precedent in our history for the
Legislation proposed, and it is to be hoped
that the Legislature 0f'1651 will not disgrace
itself by setting so odious an example. It Mon-
tour be re-annexed either on account of its
trite or the dissatisfaction that now exists in
Columbia county on that account, it would be
just that .a general law he passed re•annexing
all the small new counties to those of which
they were formed.
Cr Arrangements are being Male 'bran early
removal of the Farmers' Bank of Schuylkill
County, from IScbuylkill Haven to FonSale.
Introduction of Shinplasters
The New York correspondent of the Phila•
delphia Daily Sun says:
''Nearly all the outing houses and saloons
in the city are now issuing shinplasters for vu.
dons amounts—from six cents and a quarter
up to fifty. Some of them urn done on simple
cards; others cut bank note paper in the form
of bills ; and beautifully engraved. Fir instance,
ex-alderman Sleteer, at the earner of Na.sau
and Ann streets, issues plain card-, while the
proprietor of the Tontine Coffee Ilonse _,ivies
very hanthmine hills in exchange, in every res
pei•.t resembling' bank tills. The lily emit
shin plaster looks quite like a 1.30 hill, at a
Blunt ilkuoice. The paper is of the linept de
scription, and the engraving 'lone by liie lust
bank note engravers.
We have before us a !heel containing a did
lat's worth of them, viz: one for fifty cents,
one fpr twenty-five cents, and two for twelve
and a half cents each. The engraving of the
plate cost 4200. •It is beautifully executed
The fifty cent one contains on the right hand
ride,the figure of a ship coming into port, wilt
another in the distance outward bound, on the
left side is the figure of a female with scales
its her right hand, suspended - over - barrels - ly=
ing at her feet, while her left 'whistle escutch
eon surmounted by an eagle, entwined with a
cornucopia, and undetneath a number of bales.
The twenty•five cent shinplaster has a well
executed female figure emerging from the
waves, and the tw elve and a hall cent one lots
a female figure on the right hand side, in a
sitting posture, surrounded by trees and fruits,
and the horn of plenty lying at her feet ; while
on the left is an exact representation of a Spanish
or Mexican shilling.
The grocers and pub:ic hom , ekeepers are al
so :ending out their pla=mrs, and the omnibus
prop:ielors are following the example. We
know of an arrangement made by one grocer
for giving tickets in change, which aro each
"good fora tide in an omnibus" of a cerlidn
line. Many persons are driven to this course
by dim necessity, while others, are stowiopi
aN•ay the silver to sell it at a hand:mute discount. 1
For very smallsuuts dollar note:: are eongta:;t
ly ielosed . , and pereons•woeld nitt , +. rather tint
sell the article than to give change, unk,s it '
be at least wool'
Silver Mining in Mexico
During the year of 1850, accorditet to Mew
lean anthoti:ies ; there were extracted horn all
the mines in fklegico, sils'er to the value ut
5:30,000,0m), l hitch is a metty considerable
summit ; and Ii en this it only be infetred, that
could the country etj t nudism/bed tranquili
ty, and all its indusnial opetations and ewer
pt ises be adequately pi reveled and encom2ed,
this amount might be and would be greatly. in
creased. And if the mines of quicksilver dis
covered recently iii Calilurnia should turn out
to be as rich as tliev are
,stipposed to be, the
consequence will be a great reduction in the
price of that mineral. it will fall probably to
two ! w il d s or t o one lu s t' the present Five; and
should that take place, then silver tires that are
now too poor to yield a temencrating amount
of that metal, will become valuable, and this
new source of metallic wealth will add per
haps Elo,ooo,ou° to the agfitegate amount of
the silver raised; so that' the whole will not fall
anything short, it may be, of :Ti , 40,000.000 per
annum, the tranquility of the country being
pre-supposed.
Should Mexico yield 510 ; 000,000 per an
num, the annual quantity raised on this eonti•
tient :night 14 al4Onted at tf.:130,000,000. But
this product, large as, it is, will not be sufficient
to maintain the equilibrium betvveen gold and
silver as now established, should California
continue to fornili the enormous quantities of
the first, as silk!, has done for the last two
years; anti that she will, and tume, many be.
tieve, and believe, too, that tho supply will be
pertniment, that is, that it will last Mr an indefi
nite number of years, and certainly for a great
many. If this be so, then sliver Must rise in
value, or gold must fall, which, for all practical
purposes is immaterial. And when this dis
turbance gets to be inconvenient and embar
rassing, then the wise men who make and un
make the laws must set themselves to work
and conjure out a remedy for the evil when it
comes.. Some 4 think it is now on us ; others
think not. lVe are in cloubt ourselves, as to
whether it is or not.
Newspaper Change
The Philadelphia of the Times has
ehairged hands. Messrs. L. Carrie ti co.
.have become the purchasers, and merged it
1 11 1 0 th e remikyteania Statesman. It has been
stripped of its old dress and now makes its ap
peitrattee on beautiful paper and elegant type,
making it one of the handsomest penny pa
pers in Philadelphia. It is ably conducted, and
promises to defend the Democracy as it was
promulgated at the Baltimore Convention.
The Telegraph
For the information of our readers, we annex
an alphabetical list of the Telegraphic letters, or
characiers:
M--N-. 0.. P Q..-R... 5...
X.-..Y
Freehre in the Delaware.—The late ice freshet
is the Delaware, caused considerable damage to
the Delaware Division, carrying away about 100
.feet of the dam below New liope,and severable
bridges.
Criesitted.—The New York bank note list
says : The amount of uncoined gold in the New
Orleans Mint is three millions, making ten mil
!font in Philadelphia and New Orleans waiting
for coinage. The Nei Orleaits Minillurned out
from the 18th to the 81st January, $5lO 000 in
gold and $74 . 900 in haltdaliers._
Education Meeting
The Lehigh County Association of Teachers,
Directors, anti blends of education convened .
in the basement of the German Reformed
Church in Allentown on the 22d of February;
1851, at 1 o'cloCk.
The 'meeting wan called to order by the
pm.ident, ana the minutes of the last meeting
wete read and adowed.
The committee that had been a'ppointr.tl to
upon the Commissioners and 111 r. Line,
r i Toi ted that they would not release us from
'he elaite, but that they believed the demand
ex at blunt!, and coofetineolly reduced' it 'to
A. Ile: :Arnie ;!t-ruw..iun it wit:; decided
that art coder N.; granted lot itlaillottot otolQt
ptui •
A part of the ITT - Repoli ol the ._,a
;Menden! ‘vas read by Mr. R. C. Chandler, and
o n 'maim' a committee of three were appoint- .
ed by the Piet-ident, Irtiw tip a set' of lei.ob
ntions upon ',aid report. Messrs. R.: C% Chand
ler, George G.1:03 and F. J. Mohr were appohft;•
ed raid committee. The committee wit lithe w,
and in a short time reunited with the following
tesolutians, which' were read, discussed and
•
adopted as amended :
- Resolved, That the able report of - the Sae
Superintendent of Coin:non ;:: , c hoots, presents
-utp:•cts that should receive carnet attention
from every friend of popular edocation.
Resolved, That the appointment of Dii.!tict
Superintendents is wiiely recommended, and
that the ny,cessity for them is becoming daily
more and more imperative.
Resolved, 'flat the recommendation to re-
(luce the nr.rnlet ul Unecton , flow 6to 3 net';
our hearty approval.
fle.,olvetl, That in the opinion of the Associ•
ation much of the incompetency of teacher-s,
at preent eo general a cause of complaint,
would in a great degree be corrected by the
establishment of Teachers' Seminaries. under
' the control of District Superintendents, as re
Icommended hi the Report.
' Resolved, That the ineapaeit
whether mentally or morally, is not to be
charged upon the system ; that the appointing
power should pay as great attention to the mor
al character as to the intellectual capaeitieit of
the candidate for the part of itttsuctor.
lie-olved, That a ti,ate Agricultural Seltod,
v. isety instituted and properly:conducted, coald
trot tail in p:atict•ing boncficial acd lasting re
st:ht./.
r lit 111 , /11011,
nt!%0111....1, Thal Cap:VS fol f
a , ildtp . Cli. he r a nt by the CorreTonding Sce•
tetary to nor Beioe,eotatise 111 Ilitrri , bhr:l. to
the :.ale Supet ietetoicol, and also to the itilrvr•
eta Contoy A,soci:oion< in this Siate.
0.1 niiloo, a meeting of ASSOCI
- will be four weekilmin
LIM
Resolved, That at saitl mce:ing the follow
ing question lie discussed: Which would be
preferable—A Sodelintendent l'or each Con
gies•ional lii,trict, or one for each County?
Resolved, That the Standing Committee pro
cure t.peahers to deliver It:elutes al — dur next
tneeltri4
'flee 6)Eowitig FUliect was then presented
tor :
What part, and how much of the time of
children attending school, should be spent in
recess, or recreation, and how much in study
during each day?—the age of the child being
tatccn into com-ideration.
A Iter an animated debate : the question was
made the 6uljeet of an CFSi/V, to be read at the
next meeting.
On motion the meeting adjourned to meet
again ou the 22d March, at one o'clock P. ➢I.,
in the' basement of the German Reformed
Church.
JoNATHAN REICHARD, President.
E. INless ; I , _Lecretary.
. Bev. C. R. Kessler, Cur. See.
Religious Progress
The progress of 'Christianity, not less than im•
provements in the arts, discoveries in science
-and the advances in civil liberty, has left its in,
dellible stamp upon The last half century. In
the last 50 years the moral aspect of the world
has undergone a complete change. The mis•
sionary zeal of the furnish Church has been ri•
valled by the followers of Luther, and nations of
which we are ignorant in (800, now rejoice in
the light of the gospel and the blessings of civil.
ization. Then China and India were known.
only 'for their commercial importance; no one
had heard of Nestorians and Armenians; Africa
was thought of only as the producer and bazaar
of human flesh, the Islands of the Pacific—that
great moral Dead Sea—was known only fur the
canibalistn and many different other enor•
mities of their inhabitants, and no one dreamed
of reclaiming them tp humanity, touch less im
presSing them with the image of God. Fifty
years have passed and what a change ! Two
thousand missionaries have been sent to differ.
cui heathen countries, 7,000 native assistants
have been employed In teaching and preaching,
4,000 churches have been organized, composed
of 250,000 converts. 8.000 schools have been
established.embracing 250,000 children, • and all
this on a soil which was a moral waste—where
there was not a missionary, a school, a church,
a convert ! At the commencement of the centu
ry theta were four millions of copies of the Bible,
now there are thitty millions; then the scrip
tures had been published in fifty languages, now
they exist in two hundred languages and dialects;
then they were accessible in languages spoken
by two hundred millions of mankind, now in
tongues and dialects spoken by six hundred mil
lions.
Corn. J01.C3 Suspended.—The verdict of the
Court l‘fartisl upon Commodore Jones is dis•
closed. He is - slspended for five years ; halt
that time without pay, chiefly for speculating
with the public money in California gold dust.
The President approves the judgement.
rirThe bcst way , to.get rid of a-beggerisio
offer him Work.
Pennsylvania Legislature.
liAartlsponn, February 2!, 1850
SENATE.
On the 18th, Mr. Shirner presented a petition
(loco the prOprielors - of the 'Allentown Iron
Works, praying.for the pasiage of a law proldb.
king the establishment of taverns not already li.
tensed, within half a mile or the iron works.
tln the same day, Mr.-Shimer. presented n pe
tition from the German congregation of Moore
township, Northampton county, praying for an,
thority to sell certain real estate.
On the 19th, Mr. Shimer presented a petition
flout the congregation of United Brethren at
Bethlehem, praying for an act of incorporation.
On the same day, Mr. tiltimer read a bill in
place to iliac,' porare the congregation of United
Ilrethren r commonly-called-Morovinns;-at-Beth-t- i
lehem, Northampton county.
On the 21st, Mr. Pratley presented a petition
praying Ihr the construction of a railroad from
Mount Eagle to Tremont; and a remonstrance
against the laying our of a State road froM Sci•
'berlingsville to Palo Alto.
Mr. Savcry, (of Committee on Corporations)
reported with amendments, the hill to incap9.
rote the congregation of United Brethren of the
borough of Bethlehem.
On leave given at this time, Mr..Shimer read
in hit? Place and presented_ to the chair_a_bilLto
incorporate the board of brethren of, the church
of the United Brethrot, most generally called
Moravians.
On the 18th, the bill to divorce Dottie! Gross
and Barbara his wife was debated by Messrs. A.
E. Brown, I). Lamy, and W. Lilly in favor, and
Mr. Bowen in opposition. The tsstimony was
ordered to be read, but beft•re it was completed
Mr. Penniman moved to postpone its con:.id•
oration for the present; which was agreed to.
On the 18th Mu. Shimer,presented a bill to in•
corporate the Farmers and Mechanics' bank, at
Easton.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of
the Free Banking hill in committee orate whole.
The bill was passed to a second reading,and then
postponed until Tuesday next, the 26th.
of teachers,
On the 19th, Mr: O'Neill (of Judiciary corn.
inittee) with a negative recommendation, re:
ported a bill to change the time el holding et - wits
in Lehigh county.
On the same day, Mr. Lawry introduced a bill
to incorporate a company to mal:e a road from
Norristown to Shimersville ; and a bill to restrain
the sale of I irpiors within certain distances of the
Allentown and the Crane iron works, in Lehigh
county.
The bill to re.anncx the county of Montour to
the county of Columbia, came up in order, on
third reading, and passed finally—yeas, 4S;
nays, al.
On :the 20th, Mr. Lawry presented a petition
fur a law to prevent the 'sale of liquors within
certain bounds of the Allentown and Crane iron
works, and one from Hiram B. Yeager, a brigade
inspector, for relief. •
On the 2 I st, Mr. Laury presented a supplement
to the act relating to executions, passed January
1815.
On the 18th a supplement was presented to an
act authorizing . ihe laying out of a State road
['tom Allentown to Jonestown. and to repeal an
act relating to road laws in Jefferson county.
Christians Sentenced to Death
:Madagascar.—ln June last, eight thousand
Christians at Imrena, being assembled together
one evenii,g, in different places, engaged in reli
gious exerckes, were all arrested and condemn
ed to ireath. Pi:ghteen of them had already been
executed, when ail the rest found means of es
cape, fled to the paiace of the prince, and im
plored his peotection. The prince took them
under his care. The tact having come to the
knowledge of the queen, she ordered her grand
marshal and first minister, Hainharo, to convey
her orders to the prince, her son, to surrender all
these Christians for execution. Tile grand mar
shal proceeded to intimate this tinder to the
prince, who refused to obey it, declaring that the
Christians were under his protection, and that if
any one had the hardihood to force his palace,
with a view to their seizure, he would put him
instantly to death.
High words them took place between the
prince and the grand marshal, the latter inti
mating to the former that he was acting in open
rebellion to the queen', his mother. The prince
becoming impatient, and having strong motives
for resentment against the grand marshal drew
his sword and aimed a blow at his head. It
struck him on one side of the head,_and cut off
one of his cars. The generals present came to
the rescue of 'the grand marshal, as the prince
was about to put an end to him. When the
queen heard of what had taken place, she quash
the whole affair, fearing a revolution at Imrena,
for she knows that all the Ankova youth's are
partizans of the prince, and that he is beloved by
all the people and the army. The Christians are
now in safety, and assemble themselves togeth
er In the evening, the government shutting its
eye.S . upon everything.
Mary Darnages.—The jury of the Cqurt of
Common Pleas of Dauphin county, in the case
of James Gilmore vs. George Beaty, returned a
verdict on Friday, of $1,500 in favur of the
plaintiff. The suit was instituted for damages
for personal injuries occasioned by. falling into
the cellar of a new building, which hid been
left open. •
A Weighty Farni ly.—Mr: William Robinson
of this town a few days since slaughtered a brood
of eight pigs, at nine months old; whose united
weight was twenty-five hundred and eighty-seven
pounds—averaging three hundred and twenty.
three pounds each. The mother slaughtered at
the same time weighed five hundred and nine
Tbis is considered a fair achievement out
this way; and Mr. Robinson is wailing to hear
from some one who has gone over this mark in
number and weight.—Niagara Courier, Lockport,
Y:ogara County, a V. Y.
Benton for President —Several Democratic pa
pers in Indiana urge the nomination of Colonel
Denton. for•Peesident. Since the•dafeat la /*Ns
'solid, ionic who previously.: ref,ouppcndcd Gen.
Lane, now support Col, Denton',
I IntJS
Great Excitement in Boston!
At Boston, last Saturday, Shadrach Wilkins,
a waiter, was arrested as a fugitive slave, be
longing to John Debree, a Purser in the U. S.
Navy. -The case. was heard before the U. S.
Commissioner, and was postponed till Tuesday.
Wilkins remained in the Court room, in the
custody of officers. A mob of blacks rushed in
knocked the officers flown and secured the pris•
oner, and hurried hint oft
The U.S. Deputy Marshal, P, fUtell, Esq.,has
published an allida rid, relative to the rescue, in
which he chargcs the Mayor and City Marshal
with neglect cif duty. Warrants were issued
fur the arrest of the rioters, and on Tuesday,
two of them, both blacks—A. Thompson and
John Fry—were arrested. Thompson is said to
i _bc_the_ringileader-uf-the-rio4—Fry-was-liberated-'
on bail in the sum 'of $3.000. On the same day,
Charles C. Davis, a young lawyer, and Ellzur
Wright, the editor of the Chronotypr newspaper,
were arrested upon the complaint of U. S.,Attor.
ney Lunt, charging them with aiding and abetting
the escape of the fugitive Slave from the Court
Ilitty:e. They were taken before U. S. Cutnmis
sioner 11. P. Ilallett, and gave bail in $3,000 each
to appear for hearing. •
The case was brought up on Tuetday, aceor
ding, to adjournment, when the 'Deputy Marshal
accounted for the nonappearance of the prison•
er, Icy a deposition stating the fact of his rescue
by a Inc!. and escape. The Commissioner there.
upon decided that further proceedings under the
u•arrailt should be suspended fur the present.
So the matter rests.
Tragedy in Kentucky
The following leper which we find in the
Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth, gives the par
ticulars of a horrible tragedy:
Owe rows, Pebrunry 9,1851.
The vicinity of Owen town was last night the j
scene of a must bloody and fatal tragedy. Abner
Estes,and his brother in law, H. 11. Estes, living
near-neighbors ; -had-quarrelled, and last - night
about dark the former walked over to the resi.
deuce of the latter, and announced that he had
come_ta_effect-an-amicuble-seutement-of-theiri
difficulty. 11. B. Estes expressed his entire
tintless, and invited Abner into the yard. So
soon as he entered, however, he made hostile
demonstrations, and advanced rapid)) , upon H.
11. Estes, brandishing a large knife, who, step
ping into the door, seixed his riffle. The gun ,
wanting .a cap failed to fire, A brief strnggle en- I
sued between the parties ever the gnu, but 11. B.
Estes succeeded in keeping it, and ejected his
assailant from the house. Abner approached
the house from an opposite door, and was-fired
at by his antagonist, but it did not retard the ra
pid advance of Abner ; he then. drew from his
pocket a six-barrel revolver and fired twice.—
AbnevE:tes still advanced upon his adversary,
and seizing him with the desperation bf fren2y,l
he buried his knife *deep in his abdomen, taus I
ratin q the viscera and inflicting a frightful and
fatal wound. The assassin, when he had done
the deed, hounded off into the darkness, and it
was supposed he had escaped unhurt. He was
found next morning, in an adjacent field dead.
The writer had jest returned from the scene
of blood. The spectacle beggars description.—
In an open field, distant fifty yards from the place
of combat, cold in death, lay the giant form of
one of the combatants, clotted with gore, the ,
three halls having taken deadly effect—the "pit
iless storm" pouring down upon hiM in torrents,
his death, dealing knife by . his side, and his eyes
strained to their utmost tension, still glassy with
rage. E. B. Estes is dying at the lime of writ
ing. A tragedy se sudden, so bloody and fatal,
has appalled the whole community. They have'
both left wives and children to mourn their loss.
Abner Estes was a man of abandoned habits.—
B. Estes was a quiet, unobtrusive man, a
good citizen.
Gold Medal for Mr. Clay.
The -California:Courier" states that Messrs.
Jacks & Brothers,, jeWelTers, al: San Frane4co,
have prepared a megnifieelif Gold Mtidal of a'rr
propriate design, intended for presentation to the
great Statesman to whose exertions on her be
half, California owed, to a great extent, her ad-
mission into the Union. The medal is abouf
three inches in diameter, and is said to be a gem.
On one side it represents the lone star of Cali.
fornia admitted into the constellation, and stir
rounded by the other thirty stars arranged in a
brilliant circle around the margin. On the cen.
tre star there is fixed one of the most beautiful
specimens of white quartz incrusted naturally
with gold—an appropriate representation of the
riches of the Stale. Around the rim is a rich
border composed of •native specimens of rough
gold taken from every placer in the country from
Oregon to Los Angelos. The other side of the
medll bears the following inscriptions—" Cali•
fornia admitted, Sept, 9, 1850. Presented to
Henry Clay by Jacks & Brothers, City of San
Francisco, Oct. 20, 1850."
Supreme JudgeB.—John M. Dead, Esq., of Phil
adelphia, and Charles W. Hegins,Esq., of Potts
ville, are recommended in several quarters as
suitable . candidates to be nominated for Judges
of the Supreme Court, by the Democratic State
Convention.
Silver Coins.—The committee fo Congress have
as yet done nothing with a view to keep the sil
ver coin, in the country.. If Congress does any
thing,"all it will do probably, will be to make the
coins weigh something less than is now the pre.
!Ilium for silver.
NIA R DIED.
On • the 28d of February, by the Ilet%
Joshua Yaeger. Mr. John Erdman, of Up
per
.Saucnn, to Miee Roth, of
Hanover township.
On the same day, by the same, Mr. Ben
jamin Iqader,' to Miss Maria Ochs, of
Enst Allentown.
On the 23d of February, by the .Rev. 8.
K. Brobst, Mr. :dilam Seyase, of Hanover,
Lehigh county. to Miss Rebecca Roth, of
Allen, Northampton county.
On the lath 13f February, by the Rev.
IVieenisen, •M. libruhapa /WU, of
North Whitehall. to Miss Susannah Lerch,
of . Allen tuarmhip, NorthaMpton county.
Exploration of the Interior of Africa.
One of the missionaries to Liberia lately
made. an eiploring tour of 253 miles oa foot
into the interior. lie passed through thirty
villages of the °callus, Deys, Qumlcs, and
Candoes. In his report he says:
"Such a country as we passed through:
in that missionary tour, I have not seen sur
passed in either of the fifteen West India
Islands which I have visited, from Trinidad
to Tortola and the Virgin Island. It is an
elevated, mountainous country. Ranges of
mountains. running most generally parallel ,
with the line of coast—from Northwest to'
Southeast—rise up before the delighted eye
of the traveller, convincing him that he is
no longer in the land, of burning sands and
deleterious swain s;such as are encountered
proximity with the shores, but in quite .
another region. And such are the gradual
undulations of its surface as would greatly
facilitate the objects of agriculture. There
are few, if any, very steep acclivities—no
thing like the bold, precipitous mountains
of our Eastern States. Beautiful - and ex
tensive valleys lie at the base of these moun
tains, which gently slope down to the level
country lying between them.
~i t is a well watered country. During
the eight hours' travel which we were fre
quently obliged to perform in _a day,me_ne-__
ver walked more then two hours or two and
and a half at one time, without coining up
to some beautiful stream of cool and very
pure water, either a tributary of the St. •
Paul's or some other of the many smaller
rivers'which intersect that Aft ican Canaan.
And here it may be proper to add, that my
attention was directed to, ate examination of
the adaptation of these streams to the pur
pose of machinery, sites for mills, &c., and
I hesitate not to affirm, that within the Gaulah •
country especially, any number of the most
eligible situations may be found, where, at •
any time during the year, good water pow.
er may be obtained, for any of the purposes
which an enterprising community of agricul-- .
wrists and mechanics may require. My
journey was performed in the very Middle
of - the - dry - season, aml yerwe fumid - plen
of water in Ili e different streams.
"It is a well timbered land. Through'
an extensive forest of acres of miles which
lay in our return route, I was so struck
with the gigantic trees of immense bight,'
which reared their towering heads and uni
ted-their luxuriant foliage in-forming above
us one dense and rich canopy, that I called ,
the attention of the colored ministers of the.
Liberia Annual Methodist Conference who•
accompanied me, to Chia evidence of the
richness of the country which God had giv
en to the Africans, and to which their ex
iled bretbern were invited by so many pow
erful cons:eSerations. L measured several.;
trees, and joixnal, kept at the time tteitflt
scrupseloos e:tactriess, remoras
feet as the circumference of many of them
within six feet of the ground. Let the re
mark, that the variety and superior quality
of the wood found in these forests, and in
deed all along the borders and around the
settlement of Liberia, from Grand Cape
Mount to Cape Palmas, or Maryland, can
not bo excelled any where within the Torrid
Zone. From a specie's of poplar, soft and
adapted to all the purposes for which the
white pine is used in America, up• to the.
teak, a variety of mahogany, a beautiful:
species of hickory very abundant at Cape.
Patinas, the iron wood, the brimstone, sus
ceptible of a polish for furniture of surpas
sing beauty, and many others, an almost
endless supply may be found.
"It is an exceedingly fertile soil. The.
immense undergrowth of shrub and, vine
interwoven around the giants at the forest.
so thick, so impenetrable, without, much,
effort, and through which a foot path only
conducts tim traveler,, is the best proof or
this. But the grains, roots, fruits, vines of
the tropics, all context:ate. here, and may'
be raised with a degree of colwarative ease,
a rapidity of growth and an. amnsiance
most incredible. I have stood. exect under
the branches of a cotton tree in 0, Goulah
village, as they spread forth from the mail
trunk, laden with bolls, and supported, b.y
forked stic!Ls to prevent their ,being brokers
down by their own weight, and found, on
measuring, that the tree covered a space of
ten Pict in diameter. On examining' the
stai,le, as the ripencd bolls burst into maturi
ty, it was found as good and equal in the
fineness of its fibre to the cotton 1:•,f any coun
try. As to coffee, I will only borrow the
words of the report as a comment of them
selves : Coffee of a quality superior to the
best Java Mocha is raised in Liberia, anti
can be cultivated with great ease to tiny.'
extent.' It is a country where tobacco, that
great article of commerce, may be cultiva
ted in any quantity with great success.
'l3ut the region in the vicinity of Liberia
is one of great mineral wealth. This re- •
mains . for Science to fully develop, but we
may confidently arrive at this conclusion
from what has been discovered. Of the •
gold coast your Committee says right, when
they assert that 'England has received alto
gether $200,000,000 of gold from Africa. •
Liberia is adjacent to the gold coast.' But •
I would speak of what is better than gold— •
iron. And such is the purity of the iron
ore obtained by the natives of Africa imme
diately in the vicinity of Liberia, which
they describe as being abundant, that they
have no furnaces; they need none. All
their rude agricultural and warlike instru
ments are made by them of ore so pure that
when heated it becomes at once sufficiently
malleable to admit of being wrought into
any shape or form. 'racy make knives,
bill-hooks, war cutlasses, spears, axes, hoes.
&c. out of this ore, without the process of
catching."
The Duel between SlonleNan4 Info—Washing- •
ton, Feb.
.P, 11 stir was created
here, on acco u nt of a report That Mr. of
North Carolina, and Mr. !pp". of Alabama,. bad
crossed the Maryland . line,.and had a meeting.
From what I can learn from ibelopgne (grunion,.
one idiot was'Gred—noboathittqa - nd a r iTconc i.,
)iation took plaeq.4 Mi. Ettinklef Was ied*pal•
nied *by /46. Mite, of ;gordi.Cirolina, tiad
Inge by Gov. Brown, of ,