• I% taKt"*C34l f IJ VS : .t.. 1 ' ' I t. jt hsefr: ffee:tis . t. " 4l : :st : s ; r! ..E;.7 , ti , i ..;. . un't• , r ' • " ... ; . ..T.:,,,,;• . %?.. a .4,.,.y r rea. v ou sa t , slZ 7 liTSC - .... ''' s• Zl)e tlegiter. Circulation near QOUO. Allentown, Pa. THURSDAY, APRIL, 8, ISSI. The Counterfoitoth RGtalren On Thursday last, Shedd Newhard received dispatch from ‘Villiarnsport, Lycorriiiig coun ty, stating that !Yard and ,Finpseri, the counter. feiters„ who broke out of piiriou in our 13crougli, were safely lodged in Jail at that plrice. We learn, that they were practicing their old bni einem, no doubt fltitliiig it a pretty profitable one. Deputy Sheriff Heintz end . Dr. Gorge Band left here on Friday, upd barely relumed with the birds, decorated with iron braceicts We trust the Sheriff will furnish them wig: tellable guard chains, &c., until our Judges aid Jury — wilt - fur:lk place of abodo. UMI1:111=:1 Reader !—Your Duty if you desire en interesting paper, subfcribe for it—pay in advance—read it attentively— write for it occasional, and procure all the new subscribers you.can. If yon have a lair,ily and wish to interest your on or danghter itt read ing a - Illp r, furnish them the means of becour log a subscriber, and you will have the double pleasure of reading the paper and Leming it read. If your neighbor borrows your pope! and don't return •11, by nil means get him to subscribe for ono of his own. If you have a brother in the church who nays he is too pair to take a religious paper, tell him to drink mote water, and less "hold cider.'' 11e ill thereby add much to his own cemfert and lose no friends. If you have never token ;I.e Le high Register you can give the editor an agreea ble surprise by forwarding your sub-ei iption by the next opportunity. Collection of State Taxes The Board of Revenue Corn misi-ioners have recommended to the Legklature the passage of a law containing - the following provit.tons: 'l. Making it the duty of the County Trea-m -ret to collect the State taxes and pay the same to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. 2. Requiring the Treadurer of each Comity to attend at the place of holding eloetions in the several township., ward,: and borough's of the Commonwealth, on or before a day to be, fixed by law, for the purpoi.rof receiving the State taxed—from wh ich a certain per ventage, a, determined by the Legit.lature, shall be retain ed by the County Treasurer, as hid compensa tion for serviced rendered the Commonwealth. 8. Taxes unpaid aler the day de , rig,ta.ed by the Treasurer, shall be paid to Ii County Treasurer, at his office, be(Gro the l‘t clay of October of every year; after which limo, the Treasurer shall issue his warrant to the Sh.2r;:f, authorizing and requiring him to collect the unpaid balances, with the addition cf rive per cent. for his compensation. 4. Making it the duly of the Coun:y Com rniPsioners to allow such nhwerrenti ryol ex onerations as they may tlic jo=t trl,l reasona ble to the Sheriff, Op to the 1,1 of January an. nually, rifler which time :Ito Trea , urvr to vim% the Sheriff with :he unpaid bolanco. Decision of' Hunter's Bill. A special correspondent of the North leer lean, in a letter from Washitvon, written on ‘Vednesday last, sap.:— "The now Appraisement Law —generally known as Hunter's Bil!-:-was the sul ject of discussion in Cabinet Council on Monday, and again to-day. After a full and free interehanze of opinion, it has jtist been determined that, under all the circumstances preceding and at tending its enactment, a proper construction of its provisions will not include freights one of the elements of value upon which duties are to be assessed. The action of .tho Treasury Department will, of course, be in confermiv to this decision." New Counterfeits Farmers' Bank (j . Schoy Cotady, Sche}l - Haven, Pa.-10's spurious—The vignette : which is at the left part of the body of the note, is a female seated, holding in her right hand Caduceus of Mercury. At her right, sheaf of wheat, alongside of which is a sickle ant some- thing resembling a small keg. At her left is a train of cars passing over a bridge. On the right margin, at top and bottom the X, between which is a female, holding in ono hand a stalk of grain, and in the other a Cornucopia. On left margin the X, also at the top and bottom, and between them a female wearing a crown, In her right hand key. Between the names of the officers a number of trricultural im. plements. Purported to be engraved by S. Tit r•., nor, New York. The engraving is quite imper feet, particularly The title of the Bank, and "State. of Pennsylvania." Paper white and thin, $lO notes are also circulating, on a coon• terfeit plate of the Minced Bank of Pottsville, altered to ',•Tradesmen' s Bank." The counter feit has the words J.Ten" printed in the cor ners, the genuine has figures 10 ; on the coml. erfeit, the vignette is a feimila figure looking to the left, with an anchor by her side and o reOsol in the distance ; ,the genuine a fi,gulnof Liberty, with her face to the tight, and an ca. gte by her bide. On the counterfeit, the side figures .are a female head; on the genuine a head of Franklin on the right and a hill length female figure on the left. A coat of arms of Pennsylvania on the bottom of the counter. felt note; on the genuine none A new Po . stmaster.—Nlr. Jutiph. lkist, the old postmaster at Kutztown, Het ke. enmity, has resigned his Mike, and (hartis B. !last, Esq., line been appointed by the Postataster General in his place. From Harrisburg By telegraph we received news from Harris burg that•the new Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank bill finally passed the Senate by n vote of 19 to 9. This will give Easton a new Bank. What will he the fate of the old Easton Bank is not known--neither are the prospects very bright in favor of a new Bank at Allentown.— There appears to he en understanding among the Free anti New Bank men, that the latter go whh the former in passing the Free Bank bill, the former will go with the latter in passing the present sp . plivations for local Baokr—nn• lees this understanding is carried out, our Bahl; will not be ini,,sed. A Beautiful Pictorial IV(' !Hive received hn flat number of G'.ea• eon's Pictorial Dru't ing lloom Journal, sur pt:%!•ing iu nrtlitie. aml typozraphival exe cution any thing of the 'ever befere pub li,ited in thi,t crfumry. It pritired Cu finely gl,vp.ed'Ortper, decorated with n rich and taMe ful border. TN% prm , ent number i•+ 0:1 with the following beautiful eno,ravirp;- 4-10' ' Ti 't AI ' taw or Fitheoll hail, arket, tiNtott ; view of the Palk, New Yolk ; the Sultan and his Cii • casFian Slave; the Glace Pah:et...and the S•Cil!l3- er Atlantic. Among its chief literary attrac tion will be found a deeply interesting story, ly Lieut. Murray, entitled "The Circassian Slave, or tha Sultan'q Fu;•oaito;" 'The Royal Fnaitive," a tale of old Ene,land, by Franck A. Duriva4e; rich poetical efludons; uFelnl and 10,4111C:irP Fkctchrs, and anecdotes---,makin4 it al'oge:hcr a paper illztt evelybody will love to read. We would advi , o our readers to procure a copy forthwith. It publi,.hc,l at the low ol f 3 a year, by F. Gleaccuo, Boston, .M:ts yachns.etts. Plo , pectus nn oar outside. IMM Safety Fund vs• Free Banks Thompson', N. V. Bark Note Reporter says, Safety Vend I;at,klaro the old chartered banks of this State. They pay one half of ono er cent. per annum op their capital to the "Safety Fund," et "Bank Fund." This iOnd it now liable to the creditors of baidcs which have already failed to an rmetunt ready equal to the future comrdtutiona doting the 'Allele term all the Safest• Fond Bank charters have to run. S., there is Ito teernity fur the pay_ meta of the debts of any Softly Fond bank which may fail, except the as-tets of the bank cc the individual liabi!i'y of iii block holders. • Free Danis aro the banks M • gaaize.l nn der Ilse Getter,.l Banking Law of this State.— Their eitculating notes aro scoured by a depos it of stocks and mortga , 4os with the Commit& ler. The original, law (preved April, IS3S.) pemitted the stocks of any of the:a...ales a , se. evilly; hence we find, in some of the banks h were Mst organize.l, llielii an, Illinois aub Indiana storks. In April, ISIS, the law Wa , so airemle‘l as In vaelmle all stocks' ex eept Nov Yeti: and United ;trees. Aa a gen era the new. banks Ciecl: re! their circula tion by half Nov Vot k and half United Stales stocks. Some of iho country Free itlek 4 4 111 depositing rn , rt;_;ages ,u :;e Y.nk &tech., whi.rh can be dent, in equal amomas. These deposits wllh the Comptroller ate ile,lgad for the paymemt of IL e 3 Vire tila;jey! miles only. Holders of checks, drafts, depos its, , look to the bank for security, or to IL.. cookholders, who are, by c', Art passed April 1".), 1541, made Ind.% re. - rm!il . l.) for the dells or liabili ioa of bat kr, both Free and Safety FenJ. Stockholders are det.lared to be 'all equitable owners,' even thenig their names do not appear on the t ooks. Guardians and trustees, who voluntarily invest in lark stock, are declared btdividuaily liable; and trust funds in the bands of the guardian cr trustee cannot Ito used to meet a loss ;rutting out of such ill Veteellee: The cote , tittnion rI Stale prehihtt3 the Leuiblaturo Item enne.iqiiivg a suspertbiun :.pecit3 payrneut Sentiment in South Carolina The National lutelnger:eel., in the eintri.e of a most able aitielo, on the condition of things in South Carolina, cites the fallowing article from the Camden That paper, sup posing that the Slate should recede and that the Gm:eminent of the United States should bloneiraile her poll: tays: 'We I elieve England would acdrnotAledge 09 nil independeht Republic : and conto in 1 and tiad ll ~ 15 Ith ~ simply pausing there block. 1 ading ,hip•; by and comin : , in ; and it in their pa ,, s , tge tho , e ships should lire Oil Mem, why 1 brold.ide from an E, glish s'eatn,hip would ,en!,-) it, •se think, rather to the (It:advantage of a Vahkee reventm muter. Ilecollen , , om ,hips that 11:11, ii dung good gOrViCe against E-g• l 1i,.11 ,Idp4, have had sumo Soudietnets aboazd, a.... 1 in their crews no disoth•eied persons. This 1101.1.1 be ditiorcut. England has never :d.ilk e d a war for rear of cl i pp li,,, ,. , het commerce for it :•CCIIIS to flourish hy war. She would clear the blockade, for the teasel' that ohs would be. glad to see this erinlederacy broken up—be• cause rho would be lighting against the North, her natural rivals of the loom. She would do it, beette , o them she would have an open and tree Ametican prat. She would do it. in short, became interest would drive her to it.'' . This. is 1119 langua!:c a an A mei ican Editor! It was raid that, in the war r f the revolution. there weie, more :mien in South earclina, than in any State in the Union, and it would :=e•eni, from the above parapaph that the breed is no: yet extinct. Exmplion.—A bill has been reported to the Massachusetts Legislature by n joint committee* which proposes to exempt real estate, either lands or houses, from liabiny for the debts of of the owner, contracted after the passage of the iaw, to the amount of f5OO. The estate so es entree(' shall no be considered assets in the hands of an executor for the payment of debts, provided the decedent leaves a widow and chit. dren. Nor can said property be conveyed by a husband without th• wife's eansm, Indian Graves. The Sunbury American says the recent fresh ets in the Susquehanna exposed the graves of several Indians, who were buried years ago On inc banks near Fort Augusta. The favorite burying place of the aborigiuese, was upon the grassy bank of a stream. Their bodies, pie vions to interment, were decked in all the fie• ery of which. the deceased was possessed, and in case of a warrior, his, warlike weaponli wore placed by his sida in the grave, so that they miebt be a: hand ott his arrival at the happy heetieg gkounds of the Great Spirit, A camp liettle, spoon, boil , tobacco pipe, and provi sions were also deposited Webin them, The graven whirl were opened last week con-min ed the remains of wooden bee Is, pewter spoons, &0., wi!li a number of beautiful beads of amber and other substances. In on eof them was found highly or:meowed darts, of flint, a large number of tiny bells such as it was the custotn ofehiefs to ornament the skirts cd then goda dresses %vitt], and a large clay pipe filled with tobacco. The bonen had mouldered :tit a ' 'less-' elit rnotit the resting place of those who had roan, oil ie the wildest heed= on the bat.ks of the beautiful river, long before the foot of the %%him man trod the hunting paths of their forest.— The waters that umrtnerett a hoarse' dirge at their burial, had hotried away and been het itt the mighty ecean ; the ej.tht wind that had Wailed a requiem over their graves, had swept ',award and never returned their tribe had long ago been driven from the !Mines of their fatheis and extermiented ; their bodies had mingled with their mother Earth, rind the mem ory of their liven and deeds is belied beneath lie illimitable (wean of eternity. IVldle gar. Mg open these baubles that had resisted the et - trite-ion of time white every twee el their for mer owners was obliterated, we were forcibly reniinded of the reelection on the death of lit the Nell. 'Dear, gentle, patient, noble Nell was dead ; and her little bird, a poor weak thing, the weight of a lingermight have erush ed, nns 514111 , g nimbly in its cage, %%Idle the attune. heart of its child•rnktress was mute and et (Modest+ forever Secession of South Carolina 'rho Iyashingion correspondent of the Joni nal of Commerce .9ays: Should South Caroli na suede to.uriorrow, the movement will in no way be noticed by the United. States Govern. meto, except by the withdrawal of the thii . ed Slates military force froth r,Jrt 2,loultrie, and the placing a United States steam vessel lathe harhors of Chaikton, Beaufort, and St. Helena, to collect the revenue. The state of things will then be this:—The United States Mail will b.) taken front IVilinicgtoti, N. C., to Savannah. reir Hanks Carolina will suspend, be cansedlie creditors cannot pay them. The cot- ton crops will be sent, at great ex pv,nFe, to Sa vannah." [looses iii Charleston will beeorno cf value—for her trade Th, stavcs will itecome valtieleAs atid burdensome, and their nizisters wid drive them cif', or run av (min thorn ;--the very state of thing , that John Randolph rredicted. Taxes will be dent), led for 1851; but for the next year,-they must liccorre destructive of all bui , -iness and proper ty; ;11;d the S.ato caa neither borrow nor pay. Tki Sow!. carolina revolution cannot bo ouct- I , t carp. Ono Stop Gained Thr.• bi;l revealing the obnoxious sections of the Act of 1817, for the prevention of IC:dnap• &c., after having, been alnendrd se4 as to repeal only the sixth section, passed the Senate on Wednesday, by a vote of 17 yeas to 8 nay; as follows: Yrus—Messrs. Uaily, Brueke, Crabbe, Fernon, Forsyth, Frailey, Fulton, Guernsey, IfoBe, Jones, Muhlenberg, Myers, Packer, San. Berson, Shimer, Matthias, Speak er—i 7. Nov—Messrs. Carothers. Corson. Cunning. ham, Frick, Haslett,Malone,Savery, IValker—S; Absent or not roil ng —Mesrs. Buckalew, Units, Tres, M'Caslin, Ni'Murtrie, Lawrence, Itibertson, and Stine-3 The iection repealed by this bill, rends as feel ME '•lt shall not be lawful to use any jail or pri. Non of this Commonwealth for the detention of any person claimed as a fugitive from servitude or labor, except in cases where jurisdiction may lawfully by taken by any judge, under the provi. sions of this act: and any jailor or keeper uf any prison, or other person, who shall offend against the provisions of this section, shall, nu convic tion thereof, pay a tine of five hundred dollars; one hall' thereof for the use of the Commonwealth, and the other half to the person who prosecutes; and moreover, thenceforth be removed from office, and be incapable of holding such office of jailor or keeper of a prison, at any time darin3 Ids natural lire." Lawyers in the United States The people of the United Slates must be fund of law, notwithstanding it is so expensive, for we see by Living,Ston's Law Magaiine, that there are twenty one thousand nine hundred cod wren• ty.nine lawyers in the country, or üboUl every eleven hundred inhabitants, male and fe. male, old and young, black and white, Jew and Gentile, bond and free. Philadelphia county has four hundred and ti:rty.seve•n lawyers, or nearly one to every nine hundred persons. Pennsylvania has over seventeen hundred. If our own State is favored with a large amount, New York is more than doubly blessed, for it has over four thousand three hundred lawyers. Nit-. Livingston estimates that each lawyer in practice has an average income of 51500. This would make the aggregate cost of jaw in the United States reach the enormous sum of nearly thirty;tfiree Millions of dollars. If this is not paying too dear for the whistle, generally all the client gets after the fees are fobbed, we know not what ia. A year's war could scarcely cost more money, and probably not prove .more ruin ous lo private tortunes. Af ew years buck and the expense of the General Government, with all its various officers and retainers, was not an grate ns this.nmetint. Pennsylvania Vegislature, Ilinninnuno, March 31, 1851. • SENATE. On the R7th, on motion of Mr. Prailey, the bill to incorporate the Allentown iron company, was taken up, and passed through the several read- Ma On the 21st the bill to incorporate the Farmers and Iteqhanics Bank at Easton, tVas then taken up, and `passed second reading, by a vote or--- yeas 15, nays I I. On the Stst, the bill to, inerense the 'capital stock or the Southwark Dank from 5250,000 to •100,000 was then taken up and passed to a third reading, with an amendment, providing, that the stock authorized to be issued by this act, shall be sold at public sale fitr cash, and the proceeds of such sale shall form a portion of the capital and assets of Slid kink nod that notice of such sale shall be published, in at least two dal• ly papers in the city of Philadelphi3 every day for two weeks preceding such sale, and that the said stock shall be sold in lota of from one to arty shares. Irttl t• s litre uced fur the ap• poinimvill of Commissioners to investigate the affairs al the Lehigh - Cottnty Bank. =la On the 22.1, the bill for the establishment of a department of education, came up in order, and bring on !bird reading— Mr. linger took the 11.... r and . opposed the 1,i,1 at let.eth IConltel followed, and advocated the pas snge or it. Mr. Griffin obtained the flour, and— Mr. Shugert MuVeil the previottq question, which was seconded, the main questions ordered, and the bill passed finally, as follows: Yeas 47, nays 35. ON the 25th, a bill incorporating the conerega• tion of Utrited Brethren, of the borough of Beth lehem and its vicinity, passed final readine. On the 2dth, agreeably to an order, the bill to provide for the registration of marriages, births and deaths, was taken up, read and amended. Mr. Roderis moved to restrict the provisions of the Lin to ihe city and county of Philadelphia ; which was not agreed to. The. 1 ill passed second reading, and on the rpiestirn, shall the bill be transcribed Mr. Armstrong advocated the passage of the bill at length, showing what groat benefit would recur to the people by doing so. Mr. Bowen followed on the stime ride of the question, and the bill way ordered to be transcrib ed—yeas st, nays 30. N ' liiii , :t y Y . Me Me rtzhers of Ike Cidijornia Legr:s. laffire.—lt is interesting to know what States of the Uniun arc represented in the Legislature of California. I have ascertained the places of na. tivity of the several members, and I give them to you as follows :—Messrs. Thorn, Field, Brown, Richar.kon and Bennett, are natives of N. York ; Messrs. Baldwin and Saunders of Alabama; MCS?IS. :lisle, Hall, Kendrick, Welkins and Bod- ley, are natives of Kentucky ; Mesgrs. Bigler, (the Speaker) Bradford and Lind, of Pennsylva nia ; Messrs. Campbell, Crane and Merrit are tin. ives of Virginia; Messrs. McCandless and Carrt ,-,r Tennessee; Messrs. Robinson, Carnes, Vol, 1.. , .r and Stearns are natives of Massachusetts; Messrs. McCurlde, Kellogg and McDougall are of Ohio; Mr. Moore of Florida ; Mr. Murphy of 1 South Carolina; Mr. Wetherell is of Maryland; I Mr. Cook is a native of England; Mr. Covarru. hiss is a native of Mexico; Mr. Pico IS a native Californian. I have nut been able to ascertain the birth-places of .Messra. Freeman and Rand all. From the statement you will perceiv e , that the greatest number of members are from New York. Kentucky is the next highest, and the old Bay State nest. Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, are equal in number of their represen tatives, rompultfon.—The Free Negro Law passed IT the Delaware Legislature incites any free negro or mulatto coming into that State from another, subject to a fine of ;GO, and in case of the non. I payment and failure of security to leave in five days, he or she i 3 to be sold out of the State for such amount an will cover the fine and costs.— ,These penalties also stand against any free col. need person who has left the State for GO days,' and i•hould . return again, except they left as set , vants or seamen, or are trailers from Maryland. Those in these latter classes are allowed to come into the Slate as usual. There is a fine of $2O also against assembling at any political meeting or treat, and sln at any ramp or but-door meet ing, except in connection with white people.— There is it penalty also of MO against any coin mender of a steamboat for knowingly Waging into the Slate any free negro or mulatto to attend a camp or other meeting. A Challenge.—After the battle of Actium, Mark Antony challenged Augustus, who disarmed him in the following words :—."11 Antony is weary of his life, there are other ways of despatch, besides fighting him, and fur my part, ! shall not trouble myself to be his executioner. Dentho of Editors.—f. Hill, the veteran edi• tor of the New iialllPshir 4 l'alriot, and formerly Governor and United Slates senator, died;;, day lash, Maj. M. M. Noah, long connected with the N. York Press, and one of the ablest political, and mosi accomplished literary writers of the coon. try, died in the city of New York on Sunday of last week. John S. Skinner, the able editor of the 'Plough. Loom and An yil,' accidentally fell through,a trap door in the Post Office at.Daltimore, on Friday last, and was proclpilated into the cellar, frac. Luring his skull and receiving other serious in. juries. He died a few hours after the' accident occurred. RaifrOad Contention,—The committee of or. rangetnents have fixed on the lath day of April for the assemblage, in New Orleans, ofit Convert. lion to adopt active measures for the construe. tine of a road to Jackson, and so on to Chicago Illinois. Organ Grinders.—A Genoese vessel, which or. rived at Philadelphia on Sunday last, biought 17 organ grinders out of passengers. Look dm for patent music now. GIM 1101'S1 The Trade of Lake Erie The report to the Legislature of this State upon the Sunbury and Erie Railroad presents some interesting facts in regard to the rapid increase of population in . the States bordering on Lake Erie. In 1840, the aggregate population of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin was 2,524,728. The increase in ten • years was 1,456 ; 295. In 1850 the population of the States nam , ed was 4,323,370, exhibiting another increase in ten years of about 1,700,000. In 1800 the pope. Whin in this region was only 31',000. Tha in crease in fifty years is nearly four millions and a half. In each period of ten years the popula• tion has nearly doubled. To these States must be added the trade, travel and commerce of Lake Erie, that vast region of country which reaches from the Falls of St. Mary's to the west end -of Lake Superior, a country which in mineral wealth and of great agficultural capacity, and presentin4 an extent of inland ship navigation, by means of internal improvements, nowhere else to he found, By means of the Weiland Ca. nal, now enlatg.•d for vessels, Lake Ontar• r a_n_d_ he river .awrenee are added to Erie, Huron. Michigan rind Superior. It is shown to be prat:. ticable that the Mississippi river may also he connected with Lake Michigan by n canal for vessels of deep draught. When that is accOm. plishcd, the trade, travel and commerce thereby thrown upon the lakes may itself exceed by ma ny per cent. the present apparently extraordinary bust Les: , Erie.—Ledger. Important to Fishermen. The usual spring fishing season in close at ' hand, and promises to be remarkably lively.— The rods, reels, and lines that have been laid np in the lavender dnritig the winter, will soon emerge from their dark retiring places, and again aid in depopulating our various waters of their mn:titudinous finny inhaLitants. Fishing, n few yearn ago, was a mere pastime; but it is now be. ginning to assume the guise of an art. In France, nn attempt has been made to render the hook and bait of little account by a novel system of artificial fecundation. The procreative organs of the male and female fishes are, after being taken from the bodies, managed very simply, so as to he unpreccdently prolific. In llostoii, the question of the "naturalization of fishes" has been brought up for diseusion ! It is contended that fishes of foreign growth and origin can easily be naturalized in our own lake streams. The projectors of this new theory of natural, ization go so far in support of their doctrine as to assert that sea fishes would live, thri•e, and propgate in our inland ponds, and that cod and halibut 'night, after a while, be Eaken In plenty from any of our fresh waters. These suggestions . are at least worthy bf the experiment to which they refer, and we shall not be surprised if they awaken en active energy among many of our aquatic: sportsmen. Thb task of naturalizing fish will involve no tampering, with our courts or judges.—Stioday nne.r. Route to China The recent rapid passage made between Cali- Cornin and Shanghai, China, a distance of :MOO miles, in 33 days, by the ship Memnon, mid 11 by the schooner Sierra Nevada, excites, says the New York Express a good deal of attention among capitalists and others. The prediction made by Thotna , ,,Eutler King, of the Committee on Naval trair, in his rt pt.rt to the House, May 4th, ISIS, that soon passengers would ar rive in London from China in as short a tittle via New York as by' the India littlish overland route, is nearly necomplishcd. Passengers by the Siert a Nevada were 31 days to California, b;aving San Francisco, February Ist, they arriv• Ed in this city March 7th, with 31 days more, making only 39 days from Shanghai, which is beyond all precedent. Mr. King slated that the average India pas sage is about 65 days from Ilong Kong to Lon. don. The present passage via New York would be 6s days from China, 12 to Liverpool—tidal 8t) days. When Steamers runt on the Pacific it will be shone r. Premium fir Ti 1034, two rich women desired to marry the lihrl of Huntingdon, for the sake of the title. One of them afered to lay down 20,000 pounds on the day of her marriage. The other (Allred 500 pounds a year during his life and 0,000 in cash, he to go with her to the church and marry her; immediately after the ceremony they were to take leave at the church door, and never see each other again. Queer! Virginia Pistanced.—According to the census turns of Virginia, there is still a standing army of 83,000 chivalrous sons of the Old Dominion who cannot rend or write; but Virginia, it would seem, is obliged notwithstanding to knock un• der to Indiana in the prevalence of ignorance.— According to the census just taken in Indiana, there are 175.017 Hoosiers over 21 years of.age who are precisely in the same blissful state—if ignorance be bliss—as the 83,000 of Virginia. Knot Adjournment—The'Scnate VD the With pasSed the resolution of the !?Ruse,' fixing upon '`e 15th of April as the day for the final adjourn• meet of the present session of our Legislature:, I==ln!Ml The 4$ a.—Among the passengers in this steamer, which kft New York. on the 26th, is Mr. Asa Whitney, who goes to England for the purpose of considering the propositions made to him by British capitalists in relatiOn to the Great Pacific Railroad. The Asia lakes out $708,500 in Specie, o which $500,000 is American gold; $75,000 half dollars; $125,000 Mexican and £lOO sovereigns The New Cornlitution.—Thepeople of New Hampshire have, at the late election in that State, rejected the, new constitution, in' which provi sions were embraced abolishing * the old aristo• cratie and intolerate features of landed qualifica• Lion and religious test for office. This would seem to be a strange illiberality for those who profess the most radical political principles. Net; Cuunterfe: —A new counterfeit 55 note, Relief issue, on the Bank of Middletown, has made its appearance in Philadelphia. It is well executed, and calculated to deceive the unwary ; but on a close inspection appears darker than the genuine, and indistinct. GLEANINGS I We pity the poor wight who says he nen • er reads the advertisements: He is behind the age, and the chances are that he will never be up with It. IV - Can't our Legislature be Invited to attemi the World's Fair?—free passage and bull-frogs included. It would make a nice Summer's ex ISIXZEI 177 A colored man named Robert Jones, died in Marietta, Lancaster county, on the oth instant, af. , ,ed 108 years. I...V'A bill to appoint an Agricultural Commis ioner and Chemist, has passed the Virginia nous: of Delegates. 1... 7 ir The population of Albany is 30,771, against 32,002 in 1840. tar !lon. James Cooper, United States • Senn. tor, returned to Pottsville, immediately after the adj•'urnment of the Senate, and resumed pram. tieing late. r7 - I'weniy•orie tine horses belonging to the French President were soy recently, bringing CF . The legislature of New Jersey have atm!, ishrd the property•qualification law.' C~7v lie nhove the opinion of the world, [lna art from your own sense of right and wrong. 12? Smisa families are settling near Pickens, in South Carolina, fur the purpose of sheep rais ing. Uirt"The Indian population of North 'Carolina TIO, and all of them are engaged in agricul- rir Adam Damn haA hen enricicM,l of the murder of Mules Schaeffer, nt Nt. Louis, and sentenced to an imprisonment of seventy-five) ME Cr The census of Mississippi sh.,ws a pogo. lation of 300,000 white and 311,577 blacks—loial, 611,577. re"Ezcellent Vegoable Pill—An apple dump tirThe whole amount of stock taken in the Memphis and Charleston Railroad up to the oth instant, was 42,300,000. Nap llampshire.—The Concord Patriot has re turns of the vote for Governor in every town but Pittsburg, in Cass counts', which casts 70 votes and has probably given_ Dinsmore 10 majority. The residue of the State sums up as follows: Opposition 394,59; Whig 104,01; Independent 121,18. The Patriot, correcting its tables, dislike the House na follows: DernOcrata 139; Atwood Democrats 13; Whigs and Abolitionials 130. Every part of the New Constitution has been rejected by the People, by votes varying front two to one to four lu one on the several 'proposi- MEM ris;tors at tie CrOW Pulace.—The asseried number of visiters to the Crystal Palace, before it received any of the objects designed foxexhis bition, seems almost incredible. The London Morning Chronicle of Feb. 24, says that it was visited un the preceding day by not less than 100,000 persons. It wan ascertained by actual computation that, from two to five o'clock, 32,403 persons entered at the gate opposite Apsley House, and 21,614 through Cumberland gate. It is stated that fifteen cases of articles fur the ex hibition were on their way from Greece. An Albanian dress, worth 12000, in the preparation of which filly persons were employed for three months, is one of the objects most highly spok en of. General Dunking Low.—The supplement r.r the Act authorising Free Banking in New Jer sey, repeals so touch of the original Act as re quires that persons associating. h.r the purpose of Banking shall be residents of the Stare, and provides that any association of persona formed may deposit, in addition to the stock mentioned in the original Act, the stocks of the States of N. York, Ohio, Kentucky and Pennsylvania, as bra curity for their circulation. It is provided, also, that the bills issued shall be stamped ,, secured by public stocks in the State Treasury,' or cured by public stocks and bonds and mono./ gee in the State Treasury," as the case may bel. A majority of the Directeta !Aunt beresidents of the State. The Act is to go lute effect imrnedi• Lindy. /Th . ..tring Mass.—The secret of blowing great glass bubbles, like the decanter which the French intend to exhibit nt the World's Fair, consist* simply in moistening tha•mouth withem Wal ter before blowing. The' water ik converted, in. the interior of the drop, into steam, which V/18 , 11:6• aids the breath in extending the dimensions' oh' the 'bell." Ring, to Gen. Cues.—A ring weighing six oune es has been manufactured at Ban Francisco as a present for Gen. Cass, from George H. Blake,. one of the workmen in Jacks & Brothers' jewel ry establishment. The top is constructed with a box and glass containing four compartments, yen specimens of gold fr::::; Ur districts. Illinois Central Itailroad.—At the last session orthe II"- Lezislature, an Act to incorporate the Illinois Central Railroad Company was pas-. sed. The tollowingis the second section otsaidi Act: The said corporation is hereby authorized andi empowered to survey, locale, construct;compfere; alter, maintain and operato' a railroad, with one or more tracks, or lines or rails, from the south. ern terminus of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, to a point at the city of Cairo, with a branch of the same to the city of Chicago, on Lake Tilichit gan ; and also a branch, via the city of Galena,. - to a point on the Mississippi river, opposite the town of Dubuque, in the State of lowa." ' Pacific Railroad.—The Directors of the Pacific' Railroad have held a meeting at St. Louis and resolved upon commencing the construction of the Road as soon as practicable. It is thought, that not more than forty. ate miles will he. Inca. ted or constructed the present season, owing to. the prevailing belief that a grant of land will be. made by Congress •at its next session. Vige Chief ..Dngineer of the Road being' now in: this City arranging for the operations of the season, the roate will not be determined until hisreturn, —N. Y hibune.'
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