tiegistcr. CirculaliOn near 2000. Allentown, Po. THURSDAY, MARCH, 13, 1361. _ PrlVlessrs. Shinier and Lanry. nat. Represen latives at Ilarri-burg, have our thaulte for val Gable Legislative tinentnents. • rr'We received a communication purport ing to be an ansvrerto the "Question for School Boys," in last week's Register. The autlMrs name not being given, and its great length Re counts for its non-appearance in our columns. Kr We learn that sufficient stock has keen Fu bFrri bed to extend the :'Telegraphic Wires" from this place to Catasanque. The work will be-commeneed-inLe-few-tlays Tariffon Iron Inoreased. • As there is no little speculation afloat its re gard to the real operations of Mr. Hunter's Bill, as affecting the coal and iron interests of this State, we publish the following, which we are informed by the gentlemen who communi cated the information he obtained from that quarter from which the construction of the new law is to emanate. The additional duty im posed on iron, as near as can be ascertained, is equivalent to about $1.75 cents per ton, which will add, from this source alone, to the national revenue about 60130.000 per annum. The leading iron masters profess, under all the circumstances, to be satisfied with this in crease. The additional duty on coal is about 60 cents per ton. Township Election It appears that by an Act prtaxed at the lasi Psion of the Legidatore, removing the place of holding the general election in Heidelberg township, Lehigh county, front the 'house of Peter Miller, in Saegereville, to the Imam of Jacob Holbig; the place of holding the town- Ihip el leo iiMluded "bet:. -cliff ship election was at, .utied tut. .nown . the citizens, in the same act. The citizens be ing dissatisfied, ordered an election to be held, on Saturday, the Sth of March, nt the public house of Peter Miller. in Saegersville, at which the question was to be decided by hal. Jot where the township election should be held in future. One hundred anti seventy-two votes were east, to viz : 123 for the house of Peter Miller, in Saegersville, and 49 for the house of Philip German, in Germansville, 74 majority in favor of the former. Professions. What a mistaken estimate of the true nobil ity of profession that man makes who aban dons the culture of the soil for the pursuit of trade, or for any of the "learned. profes sions. All honest toil is honorable and digni fied, just in proportion *it answers to the ne cessities of man, and adds to human comfort and independence. Tho tiller hf the soil, therefore, ranks first—he is the king of labor ers—for the soil provides for the first and great est necessities, food and raiment. The farmer, standing in his furrow, is more substantially a king than he who sits on a regal throne, and depends for his daily bread on the tiller of the soil. The first is independent, he creates for himself; the latter is dependent for all he eats, drinks or wears. Next to the cultivator of the soil in essential nobility are the mechanic and artisan—the men whose brown ha nds build houses and ships, and furnish the endless appliances of every-day fife. Who does most to bless mankind ?—the shoemaker, who keeps our feet from the damp and cold; the man who covers our heads and fashions our garments; or he, who, without creating for us 4A single comfort, calls himself a king and is a tyrant—consumer of rite sweat and blood of nations? Does it need arguing to answer so simple a question? Surely not. We can see at once that he is the most noble in his pursuit who roost relieves the necessi ties and advances the comforts of mankind.— What man on the broad earth, so iroperiat as the possessor of acres from which his own toil can draw a supply for every need. He is not forced to do homage to atty being less than God, nor to depend upon any chances for livelihood. The young man who leaves the farm•field for the merchant's desk, or the lawyer's or dootor's office, thinking to, dignify or enoble his toil, makes a sad mistake. He passes by that step from independence to vassalage. He bar, tars a natural for an artificial pursuit, and he must be the slave.of the caprice of eustomets and the chicane of trade, either to support him• self or to acquire fortune. The more artificial a man's pursuit, the more debasing is it moral ly and physically. To test it,contrast the mar chantss clerk with the ploughboy. The former may have the most exterior polish, but the lat ter, under his rough outside, possesses the tru er stamina. He is the freer, franker, happier and nobler man. Would that young men might judge of the dignity of labor by its usefulness and manliness, rather than by the superficial glosses it wears. Therefore, we never see a man's nobility in his kid gloves and toilet adornments, but in that sinewy - arm, whose outlines browned by the sun, betoken a hardy, honest toiler, under whose farmer's or me chanic's vest a kingliost heart may heat. Grahams' Magazine. This valuable periodical for April is already received. It is a superb number,, containing 144 pages of original matter; the same size as "'Japer's" and the gitternotional." Graham is determined to take the front rank in the:l,lBg azine line, anti if the number before us may be taken as a specimen, he will do it effectually. The contributions are of the most sterling char aater,a.wl t4ll by American authors. SEVENTH CENSUS Lehigh County.—Official The fidlowinu iv an official statement of the population . of Lehich county, as shown by the seventh Census, taken in 1850. It will be sect] that the increase of population is exceeded by but a few counties In the State. a l 141 ; 1 3 3 te, C 'n DISTRICTS. t I • i• I Allentown,. . . 8778 620 7241 41 15 49 etaltr.burg. .. . 1884 920 337: 16 106 16 Upper Milford,. 3259 615 639, 19 283 18 Hanover,. .. . 2375 396 . 451! 47 82 10 Upper Saucon,. 1t372 446 473 18 190 23 Low. Mactingy 2353 400 432, 28 144 - 14 Heidelhera, .. ' 1385 242 243 9 1 17 6 Warthington,. . 1493 262 273 19 115 13 1021 175 179 14 , 92 10 Northampton, . ' 896 144 166, 17 7 8 WriFetilnim . 1761 306 922' 9 162 14 Up. Macungy, . 2035 341 350, 25 153 28 Lynn. ' 1997 336 347 15 • 207 40 N. Whitehall, .1 2955 517 628 1 46 210 16 S. Whitehall, . 2913 462 489 47 193 7 Total, . . . . 32477 5588 6882 970 2175 270 Essay on Arithmetic, Read before the Teachers' Sssociation of Lehigh County, January 25th, 1651. I=3 The application of the mathematics to the everyday concerns of life, to the whole range of arts and physical sciences, is important and frequent. To architecture, navigation, civil engineering, suiveying, mechanics, gunnery, fortification, astronomy, optics, hydraulics, pneumatics and the various branches of natural philosophy, to 'history, geography, the affairs of government, minerology, and mercantile transactions, their application is indispensably necessary. Even to the fine arts, music, sculp ture, and painting, they have highly important relations. To the Jurist, the orator, and the statesman, to the bench, the bar, and the pul pit, the logic of the mathematics, presents a different, but not less important consideration. Like other arts, that of reasoning is learned by practice and perfected by exertion, and for the formation of these habits of close and accurate thinking, of lucid, systematic, and concise ar- rangement which make a comprehensive and convincing reasoner, the study of mathematics is eminently well calculated. The importance of the mathematics to comfort, to usefulness, and consequently to happiness being thus shown, there needs no argument to prove the neressity of a thorough knowledge of arithme tic—their foundation ; and that knowledge need not be of doubtful, or even of very difficult ac quirement. The science of numbers is not ne cessarily ab:ruse—on the contrary it may and should, attract and please by its clearness and simplicity, its harmony and beauty. The several parts which constitute the whole present that systematic order of arrangement, the contemplation of which of an instinc tive pleasure to the mind, and it is a pleasure to which all' minds are susceptible, though some of peculiar organization arc doubtless more highly so than others. An opinion has obtained that all cannot he arithmeticians, that :hough all may strive in the race the number of the ultimately successful will he few. That the number is few, must be admitted, that it is necessarily so, cannot, be shown. Destiny— the fates—have nothing to do with the matters, neither is the science itself in fault. The dif ficubies which surround it are, for the most part, factitious, and in the grasp of One truly skilled in the numbent,"vattish in thin air."— In the acquirement of this, as of all oilier sci ences, we must begin at the beginning, and lay the foundation broad and deep. The first .dep must be taken aright for it is to serve as a basis to succeeding ones. If a complete and thorough knowledge is not obtained of the principles involved, if anything is left doubtful or uncertain, the attempt to advance will be made hesitatingly. The pupil knows an ob stacle is below him and feels he has not in his possession the means of overcoming it. His difficulties have commenced, and from this time forward, his course is ore continued series of blunders, discouragements and disasters.— His. knowledge of principles affecting the re sults gained of - the relation of the several stops of the operation to each other, is confused and indistinet. Ho neither has a clear idea of what he has done, nor what ho is to do.— Each succeeding step in the science, is but an accumulation of blunders and mishaps, owing solely to the want of a correct understanding of that which preceded. Anti yet ho goes on —goes in a sort of zigzag undulating course, painful to witness and difficult to describe.- He would willingly throw aside his hook, for he has met nothing but diseouragements, and begins to doubt his ability to master a science so occult, but the hope of getting "through" is held up before hint as a stimu lus ~to action, and though scarce a ray of light breaks across his toilsome, cheerier., way, he struggles on, aye ! "onward but not upward" looking forward to the happy day which shall bring relief from labors bo irksome. At last he is "throngr—he has turned the last leaf, and solved the last question in his text-book, and with a dislike amounting perhaps to ha trod of the whole subject, he is entirely certain of but one thing,—a complete ignorance of the science, in general and in detail. This is no overwrought picture, but a plain statement of facts. The memory, even of those whose schooldays were long since ended, would need no refreshing to induce the acknowledgement that it is "an over true tale." Once more—the fault is not in the science. To the method, or rather to the want of method, in teaching it, the whole train of evils is justly chargable. It is not difficult of comprehension. It does not require a mind matured by years and experi ence, to grasp its principles, and master its difficulties. On the contrary, they can easily be brought to the comprehension of the child, but the child may ; and will, if they are'proper ly pres-ented,derive pleasure in performing the various operations. But there need—there nest he, no attempt to burden the memory with a set of fixed rides. A more inutile pro ceeding could not be adopted, anti it will most oertainly fail of success. The experience of the past abundantly proven this. Illustration and application must be the motto. The at tempt to make a practical shoemaker or watch smith, by imeans of rules and instructions sole ly. no Matter how extended or elaborate, would prove a total waste of time and trouble. A knowledge of numbers is valuable for its sus ceptioility of application to the various pupa .tes and concerns of everyday life, hitt to be really valuable, the knowledge most he practi• cal. Its possessor must be able, readily at.d instantly, to apply it, whenever, and wherever. ihe application may be necessary or useful.— If thought as it should be, this will he the case. From the commencement, nothing should be left imperfectly understood. Every point should be made perfectly clear, by ample illustrations and the rule adopted by military men—never to advance in an enemy's country while a fortress remains untaken,icrupulonsly adhered to. The object should never be rapidity, but certainty of advancement, anti the principles involved •in an operatioa being 'thoroughly mastered, then, and not till then, let an ad vance be made. If first principles be simply and clearly exhibited, if the relation of suc ceeding steps to each other be distinctly point ed out, it in all cases the reason be madc clear ly apparent, there will be progression, not ra' pid perhaps, but steady and sure. The mind, gains strength by exertion, and though taxed to its utmost capacity to.day, will be capable of still greater efforts to morrow. But there 'must be an incentive to action, some motive for exertion. The natural'affnmities of the mind, must be regarded, its powers and cepa bifities, its love of beauty and order, called in to action. By how much the more this is done, by so much the more complete will 'be the at tempt to acquire or impart knowledge. In the intrinsic beauty of the relations and proportion of numbers, in their systematic. arrangement, in the certainty of results, will ever consist the chief inducements to their pursuit. Their study, commenced as it is at an early- age, cannot be strongly and successfully urged• by an other motives, arid these successfully address them. selves to all ages anti capacities. In order to teach arithmetic st.ecessfully, it mailers little what textbooks are adopted, or Weed, wheth er any are. adopted, but the teacher must he perfectly familiar with principles anti details. He must be a system of himself. He must in• duce the pupil to reason, reflect anti judge.— He must explain, amplify, and enlarge, at the sante time carefully refraining from doing for the pupil, what the pupil can do for himself. Ile must teach the pupil to rely confidently on his own skill and ability, and consider success as the ample, certain reward, of perseverance. fle must appeal in all cases to the reason anti judgement ; endeavor to train the mind to vig omits, 'independent thought, and he will have little reason to complain of want of success. New York and Erie Railroad Thi4 great road will he completed, it is said, before the first of June next, and ready for twight and passengers from one tMil to-the fetter—from the cey of New York to Ihnikitk, on Lake Erie. The length is five hundred and forty-three miles, and it is the longest railroad in America, and if we mistake not, in the whole world : we mean the longest that has been completed in an independent and single enterprise. It v. ill have cost about thirty-nine thousand dollars per mile, exclnsive of build ings and machinery ; and it is calculated that the journey from Now Yolk to Lake Erie will be made in eighteen hours, the average rate being thirty. This will be easily done; on the best roads in England forty miles per hour are not considered to be extremely swift traveling. Sixty miles are frequently achieved, when there is any special reason - for great speed. In this respect, though the Etig,lish are' likely to be ahead of us—go-ahead as we are—for some time to come, for the very obvious reason, that their roads are from twice to six times as cost ly as oars, and are more solid, substantial and safe. But the time may come that wo will beat them on iron, as we now do on the salt water. Practice Makes Perfect Even with natural gifts, it iS necessary to enl:ivate them, if ono wonld rise to distinction. Especially is this the case in oratory. How can a man speak forcibly unless his ideas ful• low each other itt a logical order, or how can ho speak effectively unless his mind is welL stored with learning! But even with judge. ' merit and acquisition, he must study to attain a felicity of expression, which, with a single line, will sometimes annihilate the argument of an adversary. It is related of Grattan that he exercised himself in parliamentary studies, and made speeches in his walks in Windsor Forest, near which he had taken lodgings, and his "chamber. Ilk landlady observed : "what a sad thing it was to see the poor young gun• Human all day talking to Fomebody he calls Sir. Speaker, when there was no speaker in the house /but himself." The Navigation We nuder-dancl that the water will be let in to the Lehigh Canal in the course of the pre. .ent week, from Easton to Allentown, and it 1. , expected that the entire line will bo ready for navigatiOn from the 16th to the 20th instant. The canal has been greatly improved by the con struction during the Winter of a new lock about a mile below the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company's weigh lock. and by n heavy amount of repairs and new work intended to give in. creased stability and security to the whole line. The State weigh lock at Easton, will probably be ready to pass boats into the Delaware Division by the 20th instant. This will be good news In Merchants and the trading community, as they depend solely upon the canal for transportation, The Cheap Postage Bill The bill from the House of Reptesentntives providing for a reduction of the rates of postage, hari been materially altered in the Senate, with regard to the rates of postage on letters and news. papers. We are indebted to the War:hington Repnhlic for the following synopsis of the bill. With regard to letter postage, the Senate hill pro. vides, that from and after June 30th 1851, in !it'll of the rotes of postage now eAtablished by law, there shall be charged the following rates, to wit : For every single letter in manuscript, or paper of any kind upon which information'shall be asked, &c., conveyed in The mail, for any (Us. lance between places in the United States not exceeding 3,000 miles, three cents, when the postage shall have been prepaid; and for any distance, exceeding 3,000 miles, doable those rates; for every such single letter, whrr•. con. veyed wholly or in part by sea, and to or from a foreign country, for any distance over 2500 miles, twenty cents; and for any distance under 2400 miles, ten cents. A single letter is one not ex• ceeding half an ounce ; &ruble and treble letters pjy double and treble Mese rates The rates of postage on newspapers may be stated thus: All newspapers, not exceeding three ounces in weight, sent to actual subscri bers from the office of publication, shall be charged as follows: Weekly papers, within the county where published, free; for any distance not exceeding fifty miles out of the county where they are published, five cents per quarter; ex• ceeding fifty and not more than one hundred mires, ten cents per quarter; over three hundred and not exceeding one thousand miles, fifteen cents per quarter; over one thousand and not ex• eeeding two thousand miles, twenty cents per quarter; over two thousand and not exceeding four thousand; twenty.fit•e cents per quarter ; and' for any greater distance, thirty cents per quarter; semi. weekly papers to pay double, tri. weekly treble, and papers issued oftener than tri-weekly, five times these rates. For any other book, paper, magazine, &0., not exceeding one ounce in weight, there shall be paid for a distance not exceeding 500 miles, one cent. Over 500 and not exceeding 1,500 miles, 2 cts " 1,500 " 06 2.500 44 3 44 44 2,500 44 64 3.500 44 4 -.._.3;500--" " 4;500 44 5 Fur e ach additional ounce or fraction the rates are proportionally increased. Revenue Board The Board of Revenue Commissioners met on the 26th oh., and has been in session since, in the Supreme Court room, in the Capitol. The Board was established by tht act of 1841, laying a three mill tax On real estate, and taxing money and other property for payiag the interest on the State debt. The Board consists of one member from each Judicial District (twenty•four) and its object is, to equalize the appointments in the va rious counties. It was supposed at the time the law was passed that these were counties or parts of counties in which the assessors, for the pur pose of avoiding the payment of their just share of the taxes, assessed the people at less than its real value. The act requires the County Cum missioners of the several counties to furnish the Board, under Oath with a detailed statement of the returns by the assessors of all' the property taxable for state purposes. The commissioners and all other county and township officers are required to answer under oath, such questions in regard to the correctness of their assessments as may he put to them. The board prepared a series of questions which have been forwarded to county and town. ship officers and to private individuals through• out the State. They are of the most searching character, and place any evasion—unless by fraudulent swearing, entirely out of the question —a large number of witnesses, consisting of cit izens of the various counties have been exitmin• ed belbre the board—while their answers exhibit the gratifying fact, that the assessors generally perform their duties with fidelity, yet enough has already been exhibited to show the import ance of the board. Citizens from counties em• bracing a large amount of property have testified that the assessments are from 30 to 40 per cent. below the fair value of property—while some counties are evidently returned up to their full value, there are others who fall short ofwhat.must be a just estimate. The board are amhotized to fix the aggregate value of the several counties and where this falls below the report of the commissioners they tre required to their rates of assessment, pro ratio, so as to raise the required The last Board raised the assessments in the State $7,000,000 increasing the revenue $21,000. Of this increase $2,957,339 was added to Allegheny enmity, f 4,000,000 to Philadelphia, $BOO,OOO to 1.613,423 to Lancaster, ;450.869 to Lehigh county. The returns from Philadelphia city and county for 1851, shots an increase of 5.77 per 'cent. on the valuation of IS4B. • This is probably a fair estimate and not likely to be disturbed by the Board. An effort will be made In commence the ad justment of the Carious counties on Monday next. In the absence of the State Treasurer (who is ex officio President of the 11Coard) Mr. William• son, of Chester, occupies the chair and makes an excellent officer.—Daily News. General Laws We look upon the matter of providing general laws, to supercede the necessity of special en actments, as one of the important objects that should receive the attention of our s t at e Legis• 'attire. It is not absolutely necessary to• pass n general law upon each subject, although for Banks, Roads. Manufactories, and other heavy interests, it is requiite--but minor Whirs, which naturally belong to township regulations, might and ought to be comprehended under a general laW, increasing the power of.townshipa. This would be, srendering to the people in iheir collective capacity, at least a portion to those rights nnd privileges which they can con• veniently exercise, and which shOuld, therefore be considered inalienable,—..lViningt Register. . 113"Thos. M'Laughlin was executed at Cum berlanci, Md., 1n the 9th; for murdering hie wife Pennsylvania Legislature. 11Annisnenn, March ID, 1851. 1 On theld, Mr.Laury introduaed a bill t ' , amend the charter of the borotigh of Allentown, in Le high county. On the 4th, Mr. Laury presented three peti. Lions for the charter of the Farmers' and Me chanics' Bank of Allentown ; also, for a railroad Irom Norristown to Shimersville; also, for an alteration of the charter of Allentown ; also, on leave, read in place a bill to alter the charter of Allentown. Mr. J. Brown, presented two petitions for the incorporation of the Farmers and Mechanics' Dank at Allentown. On the AM, Mr. Kunkel moved that the com• mittee on Ways and Means be directed in inquire into the expediency of making an nppropriation for purchasing g,round and erecting an Execu. tive Mansion at Harrisburg; which was hdopted, after sums remarks in favor from Messrs. Kun kel and Bigham. Mr. Penniman moved the bill establishing a Departmrenrof — Erltrcarim — be made t e specie order of Wednesday next, the 12th; which was agreed tn. Mr. Laury on the 7th presented a bill relative to cattle and swine in Upper Milford town.litp, Lehigh county. Mr. Packer presented a bill to provide for the preservation of newspapers in the different counties of the Commanwealth. On the the Bth, ihe hill to . incorporate the Far nii•rs' and Mechanics' Bank or Bastnn, was tak en up and passed second reading—yeas 47, nays 33. rt was then laid aside. SENATE. Mr. Shinier ; on the 4th pre:tented a petition of Northampton and Monroe counties, for.authority in construct a certain State 'Mold. On motion'of Mr. Shimer, the bill snpplemen• tart'• to the act anthorizing the laying nut of a State road from Jonestown to Allentown, was ta ken up and passed. On motion of Mr. Maine, the bill sopplemen• tart' to the act entitled van act to incorporate the Hazleton Coal Company passed Match 18, 1836, was taken op, read a second and third time, and passed finally. Mr. Frailev presented thirty two remonstran• ces from Montour county, against the annexa tion of that county, to the county of Columbia; also, 'remonstrances from COlumbia county, on the same stilject. Mr. Milner, on the sth presented a peti•i , n in favor of the passage of a law authorizing a stir, vey of roads and streets, in the Borough of Easton. Mr. Walker, from the Judiciary Committee, to whom was referred t3enate bill, No. 120, en titled "an act antkorizink a general systcm of banking hatted on Slate stocks," with a request to report whether the provisions of saLd bill do, or do not conflict with the 25th section of the lit article of the constitution of this State. 'Report, That. in the opinion of a niajority of the Committee, the provisions of the bill do not conflict with the above mentioned article of the Constitution. On motion of Mr. Frady, the hill to incorpo• rate the congregation of United Brethren in Litohlehern, was taken up (Mr. Bally in the chair.) The bill was passed to a second read. British Independence A writer in one of The late English journals congratulates his countrymen upon the vast ad. vantages likely to result from the new mode of preparing flax, and prominent ar11011:7, thow enu• merated are the following. which we specially commend to the consideration of our cotton, growing readers, to wit: “It will render Great Britain entirely independent of the United States for the raw material of her great manufacture, and it will greatly disenurage davery. Until now the Manchester political econo- mists have wanted words to express their ad miration of the advantages resulting from the mutual dependence of nations ; but henceforth, we presume, they will find it 'equally difficult to et press their admiration of mutual mdependence.— How such independence will suit the South Car olina followers in the Manchester school, we shall doubtless soon learn. They have labored hard to prevent the machinery from coming to Me - cotton, and their English friends are likely now to Libor equally hard to donway with, all necessity fur bringing the' cotton to the ma• chinery. The President . * Futher.—We Aee it stated that President Fillmore's rather arrived at the White House, ‘Vashington City, on Friday evening a week, while the President was holding his usual Friday's levee. ,It is said that There is hut one previous instance in which the father lived In see the son occupy the Presidential chair.— John Adams died in 1826, one year rifler his son• Quincy Adams, acceded to theq!esidency. .In• Old “flesideider" LPfl.—VVe learn from the Coudersport (Potter Co. Pa.,) Union, that John Jordon, Esq.,..one of the first settlers on the far. famed Sinnemaboning," killed an elk a week or two ar,o,"welghing some six hundred pounds, and about seven years old; his horns were four feet two inches long, and five prongs on• each horn." Gen. Sal.—Forty members of the Pennsylva. nia Legislainre have issued a card, requesting, the friends of Gen. Scott, throughout the Stated° meet and consult together upon the expediency and propriety of.presenting his name for the next Presidency. • Land Wryrant—We yesterday saw, says the Cincinnati Commercial, at Easton's, Fourth, st., a United States land warrant, which he had just procured, that called for 160 acres of United Slates land for Mrs. Anna Harrison, late Presi. dent of the United States, for his services in the war of 1812. Cholera in Tennoseee.—There trait beeii Much excitement in Tennessee, in consequence of the ppen ra nc e of the cholera at Franklin and Nash vtlle. Late accounts from Franklin, represent' the disease as rapidly disappearing, and' at Nashville there have•not been any new cases ftir the last few days. , r 7 Thy (LEANINGS• fth. buds hr led in Northern Illinois. ahThe lowa Legislature has passed 61111 or ganizint no less thari fifty new counties, this sem' sine. reldr. Dawson announced in Congress ore Saturday, that at the end of the present fiscal' year the public debt of the United States will be one hundred millions of dollars. 147 A golden crown cannot cure the headache' nor a slipper give case to the gout, nor a purple robe drive away a burning fever. fir The scientific gentleman who expects to be able to raise colts from horse•chestaater is in Buffalo. M'lnformalion has reached llarrisburg, that the nom Daniel Webster contemplates visiting that place before the Legislature adjourns. 13?" A petition has been sinned by over two' hundred citizens of Sm.sex, Delaware, asltlne their delegates' ir. the Legislature to return tie their home. 15rTlic Western Ohio papers sny that spectv - Intors-are4lready-in-the-field - contracting - forthl , next clip of wool. Wool has advanced Wm. et; to 10 cents a pound, and ranges from 45 to 51 cents. somnambulist, named Adam Wise,. walked out of the window of his room, in the third story ail house at Savannah, Ga., on Fri,• day night a week,and was instantly killed. M - I'wo new churches are to be erected in Reading during the present year—lhne a Luthe. ran, and the.other a German Reformed. The generality of mankind spend the ear.• ly parts of thrtr lives in contributing to make the latter part miserable. Eir lion. Jaines Buchannan intends visiting. Virginia this Spring. A Prophetic Cow A milch cow, belonging to Uol. Philip Ruhl,of Blatt(' township, Union county, has become marvellously gifted with the powers of speech, abd has, according to coiumon report, lately made several confidential communications, in very fair English, to some of her particular friends. One of these is to the effect that the world will come to •an end on the 16th day of J•ine next. Probably she is herself destined to the hands-n(01e butcher about that time. - At - all events this oracular cow has created it sensation. up in Union county, quite as great as did the Rochester Fishes and Foxes in New York.— She is visited by numerous curious speculators. and her mode of uttering prophecies is called , tviceinaCon—nut vaticination. A scientific anti clairvoyant committee,' consisting of Andrew Jackson Davi:, Horace Greely and others, are going on for the purpose - of consulting and in vestigating this new oracle. Married Without' K:icuOig 11.—The Gin c inn at. ti Commercial says: A gentleman of Indiana is claimed by a lady in this clay as her husban I ! Hearing of the claim Af late, the gentleman made his way to this city in considerable haste to see the person who claimed him. Ile searched the•. records and it was ascertained that the r , g the papers had been made out, that the marriage had taken place, and that a clergyman of good standing had officiated, and the whole matter was, to all appearances, a legal transaction.— The lady herself states that the gentleman is the identical person she was married tr. But our Hoosier neighbor denies all knowledge of the lady, and, in a card which we find in yesterday's Gazette, intimates that some person bearing a strong resemblance to him, and of course, know ing his residence, officiated as his representative, got married, and in a short time after left for parts unknown! This is the latest imposition, it imposition it be, and we doubt. not it is, that has come to light. The object of the false man is plain, viz: to impose upon the lady and es. cape the law. Virginia Elections l'otponed.—The bill post. r oilin g the Congressional elections in Virginia, until August, and the State officers until October, has passed both Houses of the Legislature, and is now a law. If the convention shall have com pleted its labors by the Ist of June, a vote will be taken on the amended constitution in August, and if ratified, the election of all officers provided for under it will take place in October. 11:=11 Natch.—A few days since, F. M. Moore, t.q., Justice of the Peace, married al I.Cverett street Jail, Boston, a minor of IS years of age, to a woman the other side of 50. The youngster was a prisoner upon an action brought against him by his bride. • Strawberries.—The editors of New York are regaling themselves with ripe strawberries, which have been already introduced into the markets of that city. .nßoses in December, ice in Jone,'' strawberries and watermelons in mid. winter, and similar improvements on nature, are becoming quite common in these days. ' lahtstnan.—A Man living near Ashville, N. C. one day last week, took his little boy, five years old, went ton still house, got drunk hithself until made the boy so drunk that in about thirty' minutes he was thrown into convulaionti and , died. A Valuable Bridc.;--It is said that the Swedish , nightingale ,stumped her toe against a looser brick of one of the pavements in New Orleans•, not long since, and that an editor who was in her train. immediately picked up the consecrated article, and has been carrying it in his hat ever since. Lawyers.—lt is a remarkable fact that ever man that has filled the gubernatorial chair of the" State of New York, from the days of George Clinton dOwn to Washington Hunt, have been• lawyers. New OdeFis.-A city censits of Sew arlean%• just completed, makes tho whole population 120., 951, and the number of voters 12.468. In 1840. , New Orleans had a population of 120,000. This , is not a very rapid increase compared with , ouir northern cities. lo Prather. of Jackson county, tod.si came to his death about the tat Inst., from din effects of falling' into, a. heap of burning logs. while in a convulsive fit. El Q DI I! LI a►e genera S IMO
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