(1.1)t tlegister. Circulation near 2000. Allentown, Pa. THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1841. 'Our Court Bas commenced its session on Monday last, Judgd Jones, as President, and Judges Baas and Byhe as Associates in their chairs. The 'grand inquest was called and swum according to law, Aaron Eisenhardt, being chasm' foreman. A number 'of 'bills were found, Irani, W hich were those atzaMT — lfend and Simi:son, for passing counterfeit notes on. t he Harrisburg Bank. They plead guilty, and now await the sentence of the Court. Shocking Suicide. • On Sunday last, the 4th instant, at about 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the family of Thomas Schnerr, in South Whitehall township, Lehigh -county, was thrown in the utmost excitement, by his committing suicide in the most dreadful manner. It appears that the unfortunate mall had been addicted Ito the use of intoxicating liquors, which so impaired his body and mind, that ha became unable to follow his daily oc cupations; his wile who it appears had just Bnished shaving Mtn, laid away the razor, u n it left the room fur a short time, during which he got the razor again, went before the looking glass and made two cuts on the right side of his throat. By this time his wife came in, was much frightened, and immediately belt the room and run for assistaace, and upon tier return, he had mado a frightful cut on the left aide and laid weltering in his blood a corpse.-- Ha was about 40 years of age, leaving a vtife and one child to mourn his loss. Menagerie and ChOUS A. Turner & Company's combined Menage rie-and Circus, -- which — contains some - of the largest, most beautiful and magnificent ,speci mans of the Animal Creation, which has ever been taken from their homes in the forest and wilderness, together with a full and unrivalled Eguastrian Trct'pe, composed of a company of performers who stand pie-eminent in'the pro- fession for their unequalled talent, will give an exhibition in Allentown on Monday the 12th of May next, and on Tuesday the 13th must, at Kutztown. This is said to be one of the most magnificent trains of liv big animals that ever travelled the country, we therefore say that ouch who wish to see something rare, should not fail to be in town on Monday. Northampton County. Wm. Parsons, a shoemaker, surveyed and laid out the town of Easton, and was the first Prothonotary of old Northampton. This office was created by the crown, in the yearl7s2. Par. sons afterwards became Surveyor General of Pennsylvania. A free school was established in Easton, by subscription, as early as 1755. Lafayette College was chartered, through the public spirited efforts of Hon. James M. Porter, in 1826. Lehigh county was organized in 1812—just 57 years after that of Northampton was created. In 1153 : '134, the people of that county erected their first Courthouse and jail. At the time Northampton was erected, it ern braced all that is now comprised with the coun- ties of Monroe, Pike, Wayne, Susquehanna, Wyoming, Luzerne, Carbon, Lehigh, and a portion of Schuylkill. Whitewashing As the time is now at hand for whitewash• lour on a large scale, we will give a receipt which is the•best known, for out houses. Take half a bushel of good unslacked lime, slack with boiling water and keep it co% ered during the slacking process. Strain the liquid through a sieve, and add a peck of clean salt disi.olved in warm water, add three pounds ci hoilei rice or wheat paste and half a pound of dia. solved glue. Add five gallons of wafer to this mixture, and it is beet to put it ou hot, but in that case use only old brushes, or make allow ance for the spoiling of them. It has been found that our dry. winds bite off, as it were, more of the whitewash than the rain, The salt is to obviate this evil. For white. washing the interior of dwellings, do not use any salt, as it absorbs moisture, and to the above lime, add about two pounds of Spanish whiting. It makes the white more clear look. Mill a little indigo is squeezed through a cloth amongst it. Amongst the lime, Spanish brown or ochre may be stirred to make a colored limo paint. The sulphate of iron (copperas) makes a boB oolori•the sulphato of copper, (bluo vit. riol,) a blueish color. Glemon's Pictorial Drawing Room Compeni• on.=This new and beautiful paper has been enlarged, and the character of its illustrations improved. The last number, which has just some to hand, contains an unusual number of engravings, among which we notice "Mayday in England, l r the steamer "Isaac Newton," the burring: of the Assembly Buildings in Phila delphia, a large view of Sim Francisco, por traits of Daniel Webster, Wendell Phillips, and the slave Sims, with several graphic illustra tions of the Anti Slavery excitement jn Boston. Thu typographical execution of the "Drawing- Boom Companion" is refreshing to the eyes. Balloon Ascension Mr. Joshua Pusey, of Philadelphia, the eel . Anted aeronaut, intends making his fourth grand _anettle.lo2T- on-Monday, May sth, at - 4 o'clock, P. M., front the corner of Callowhill and. Seventh streets, in thUt city; To•add nov- elty to this 03 rial voyage, the intrepid (umlaut purposes to make the ascension on an erqficial !writs-.a feat never before attempted in this °ennui. Support your County Papers We clip from an exchange the following ju• dicious remarks in relation to the new Postage Law, in connection with newspaper patronage, and recommend them to the careful attention of our readers. We are at present unable to recollect the name of the paper in which the article originally appeareii, or we would give the necessary credit. The article, however, is a most excellent one, and we endorse every word it contains: We have already alluded to the fact that the new Post Office Law which is to go into effect shortly, authorizes the free transmission of newspapers by mail, within the limits of the county in which they are published, and the hope was expressed, that many persons would avail themselves of this privilege, and add thefr names to our subscription list, nea newspapers nre too (Lien neglected by the people of the neighborhood and county in which they are printed, and ihn', too. because their importance is not properly appreciated. It seems strenge that persons Ahould overloak the incidents and facts by which they are `im mediately surrounded, nod fail to render en couraging assistance to journals devoted to the dissemination of facts and maintenance of in terests peculiarly their own, while they sub scribe liberally-- for papers which are issued from some more remote place, and are made up of details of it general character only. Such, however, is the fact, and a moment's reflection will induce the conviction that it is not as it should he. Local or county papers are indis pensuble to the general welfare. They are hand bualds of what is going on in detached cammuoites—records of its legal, political and peculiar history. As such, they should he en couraged by all as a matter of duty, and the labor and energy of their publishers - ought not to fail cf a just and remunerative reward. Otte' county paper at least should be taken in every family—then, if its means justify largeexpeto ditures for such collects, others can and ought to be subscribed for. But subscriptions to re mote journals, to the exclusion of local ones, cannot, we think, be justified on any principal of-tairness. It is - taking - away - support fiiim I domestic enterprise—enterprise which is far more important and valuable that) must persons are in the habit of regarding It. The excuse is not unfrequently given that local nec..spepers are inferior in merit, and the ability with which they are conducted, to oth ers published elsewhere. Admit this to be the fact, and what is proven by it in nine cases out of ten 'I Nothing but that the deficiency in ability which is complained of, is the natural consequence of the feeble and languishiagsup port which is given to the so styled illforior papers. If they were sustained as they should be, liberally, actively and punctually, our word for it, the improved condition of the publisher and editor would be exhibited not only in the appearance of the journal, but also is the varied interest and strength of its columns There is, we venture to say, us unit tal ent engaged in laborious effort tq keep country newspapers alive, as can be found employed in the publication of an equal number of popu lar and flourishing city journals. Circumstan- Cos prevent the one class from exhibiting their abilities as favorably as the other ; for it riot infrequently happens that, in older to gain a mere livelihood, the publisher of a country pa per is compelled to assume in hie own person the duties of editor, compositor, proof-reader and pressman, and of consequence he is pre cluded from devoting to any one of these seve ral departments the particular attention which justly belongs to it. Support your cour ty papers liberally, and yuu will find their merits increase in a cones. ponding ratio. Let a subscription list and ad vertising and job patronage justify a publisher in employing editorial assistance, and his col umns will teem with good things; whilst he himself will be enabled to devote more time awl attention to other duties of equal magoi magnitude. ' Try the experiment, friends, 'mid you will find that the better you reward a pub• lirher's enterprise, the richer will be the fruit yea reap yourselves. How to mako a Fortune Take earnestly hold of life, as capaciuted for, and destined for high and noble purpose. Study closely the mind's bent for a labor or profession. Adapt it early, and pursue it 'steadily, never looking back to the turned fur row, but forward to the new ground, that ever remains to be broken. P.leans arid ways are abundant to every man's success, if will and action are rightly adapted to them. For rich men, and our great men, have carved their paths•to fortune and fame by this eternal prin.' ciple—.4 principle that cannot fail to reward its votary, if it be resolutely purshed. To sigh or repine over lack of inheritance, is' unmanly. Every man should strive to be a creator, in stead of inheritor. He should bequeath in• stead of borrow. The human race, in this re" spect want dignity and dikipline. It prefers to wield the sword of valorous forefathers, to forging its own weapons. 'This is a mean and ignoble spirit. Let every matt be conscious of the God in him, and the providence over him, and fight his own battles with his own good lance. Let hint feel that it is better to earn a crust, than to inherit coffers of gold. This spir it of self-nobility, once learned, and everyman. will discover Within himself, under God, the elements andeapacities of wealth. Ile will be rich, inestimably rich, in ielf•tesources, and can lift his face proudly to meat the noblest among men. Origin of Lynda Law.—The following_is ex. tracted from the council books at Galway, in Ire land: "James Lynch, mayor of Galway, in 1408, built the choir of Bt. Nicholas Church, and hang ed his own son out of his window, fur killing and defrauding strangers, without . martial or common. law, to show a good example to poi; terity. Coinage of .the U. S. Mint in April. The Ledger of May 2nd publishes the 'Freest]. rer's statement of the business of the Philadel. phia Mint for the month of April. From it we learn that there has been a considerable falling off in tile amount of coinage, though we are glad to notice a small increase in the number of gold coins fur cirenlaiiUn—the gold dollars and quer. ter_eagles... The aggregate gold coinage for the month of March was $6,285,735; for the month of April, just closed, it is but $9,176,068; show. ing a falling off of nearly one half. Of this les. sened coinage for April, we observe still quite too large a proportion of the largest coin, the double eagles, which, for all the purposes of circulation, had almost as well be ingots of the value nfSIQO. as of the denomination of $.20. This coin is use: ful in Its sphere, hut it is used almost entirely for banking and Treasury payments. They are seldom—found in CIICUi, n ,no wit s ant ing so many of them are coined, while the demand for the smaller coins is urgent on all sides, and from all quarters. The quarter eagles coined .in March were 595,260 to $222,270 in April ; and the gold dollars $263.220 in March to $387,111 in April. This is good as far as it goes, and we hope the increase may go on. There has heel) little silver coinage, even less than in March.— This is to be expected so long as Silver rota. mands a premium over gold. The copper coin. age for the month more than doubles that of March.. The_deposits of gold for April are $2„ 800,500 against $2,671,000 in March. The fol lowing is the statement in detail of 'the coinage fur April ; ECM 117,744 Double Eagles, value, $2,354,880 21.179 Eagles, * 211,790 88,900 Quarter Eagles, 222,270 997,118 ()old Dollars, 387,118 014,949 piccea, =l=! 24,000 D;rnes, curpzu COINAGE 1,833,876 Cents, 1,972,625 pieces, $3,191,704 76 Total Gold Bullion deposited for coinage, from Ist to:3oth A pri I, 1851, inclusive : From California, $2,785,500 From other 'sources, 75,500 $2,880,800 Silver Bullion deposited in same time, , 18,000 The coinage of three cent pieces has reached to about $lB,OOO, and is progressing rapidly.— Hy instructions from The Department, one•half of this coinage is to be reserved for the Assist. ant Treasurers and Government Depositories in distant cities, who will, by exchanges and other wise, introduce them into circulation. The bal, ance will be paid out at the mint, in amounts of $3O, $6O and $l6O. The issue will take place on the Bill instant. Trouble in Virginia The controlling and absorbing question now before the Virginia Reform Convention ; is that which relates to suffiage ; and the excitement is very great. Under the plesent Constitution of that State, the basis of suffrage Is popula tion and properly, including in the latter the slaves of the Sate; and upon this basis the East, in which the a hite 1)4)111;10ot) is 403, - - 000, arid the slave population 459,000, is huge ly ii) the ascendant to all legislative bodies, over the Western section, where the whites are 494,763, and the slaves only about 63,- 000. In the present Convention, the delegates having been elected under this basis, the East has an alleged mnjurity of nine, arid in every di rect vote it is supposed that either the present basis will be eatried, or some other scheme ad justed by which the East will maintain its su ,l prematli over the West. The separation of the old Commonwealth into two States, is openly avowed by part of the Western portion. Others depreciate such a re sult as but a beginning of dissolution of State ties that will ultimately extend to the dissolu• lion of the UIIIOII. One thing is evident, the free part of Virginia is entitled to an equal share of political power. It is lolly for the East to expect her to subunit to the old state of things since she has outgrown the circumstan ces that originally united them, There must either be a compromise or the State will be severed. The iatter contingency might be, but not necessarily attended with disastrous cum. sequences to the principle of the Union. Marriage Marriage is honorable among men.. It is a duty we owe to society. Our father begot us and we ought to beget lathers. I ,Ve are in ta ilor of early marriages. Some bachelors plead want of.meatis ; but it requires very little more to support a prudent, economical wife, than it does to support a single man. If a man is rich, it matters little what kind of a help mate he takes; if ho is poor, ho wont provide against a comparden who is only a /I,c/p eal ; but it he is industrious and enterprising, and marries a girl who will do her part in assisting him, he wi:l get along smoothly and prosperously. In commencing life with a wife, there aro two . points to start from—the one is where our pa rents begun, m u d the other is where they left off. If the former is chosen, the future will grow brighter; if the latter, there can be no oth er result than misery and bankruptcy. We say to all brave young men, marry, but take care what you are about. • Body Found—On Thursday, the 2411 i ult., the body of Daniel IVeatzel, was found in the canal near Mr. Peter Miller's residence, above Ham burg, Derks county, Ile had been missing some days. Hon. J. C. Calhoun.—We see_it_stated—that when this distinguished Statesinan died, he left his estate somewhat embarrassed, but that seve. ral South Carolina gentlemen promptly and qui etly stepped forward and relieved it from its debt. larThe locusts are appearing in immense numbers on the upper Ptiturnac. The startling intelligence reached our city about noon on Saturday, of the fiendish murder of a husband, wife and child, in the township of Rosburough, near the nine mile stone. The un fortunate victims were Valentine Bartel, a tier• man aged about thirty years, his wife Catherine, and his infant child, twelve month's old. It ap pears that Bartel was n very industrious man, and by hard labor and rigid economy accumula ted sufficient to purchase the small farm upon which he lived. At one time he was engaged in' the milk business, but latterly has retailed vege tables. His house is some distance from any human habitation, and no alarm that wri3 made could have been heard by any one living in the 'neighborhood. Early on Saturday morning, upon some per sons going to the house, ihey were horrified to ' "e myo t e msband lyink iii the yard some distance from the door, with his skull cleft in twain with an axe. On proceeding into the house, the wife was found in the same con. dition and the infant at the breast with its brains knocked out. The axe with which the deed was committed was found near the body of the man, and was covered with blood and brains. The other two children were discovered in the barn adjacent to the house in such a state of alarm as to be unable to tell,any_thing of the occurrence. It seems that they had fled from the house to avoid a'similar fate. The impression of Our in formant was, that the murders Were committed at night while the family was at the supper is, ble. The table was. set and several of the dish, es were broken over the floor as if there had been a dreadful struggle. That the object of the murderer or murdeters was plunder is evident from the fact that the bureau drawers were till found broken open, and rifled of all their curt. tents, The unfortunate deceased is 'known iii the neighbors to have been poor, so that the fiends who took his life anti the lives of his w il e an d child, were deceived if they suppii,ed that he hail treasure about his premises. Shortly after the discovery of the murders, a messenger was dispatched to this city to obtain the aid of the Marshal in ferreting out the offenders. The Cor• once was itkil summoned to hold inquests over the bodies. The Council of the Borough of Rox• borough has offered a reward of $2OO for their ar rest. We sincerely hopb that they may be dis• covered, and jastly_punished. Since the above was written, we have !mined that suspicion,. has fallen upon a young German or Italian, called i.Robert," aged about nineteen years, who is described as being five feet seven or eight inches high, dark complexion, coarse features and dark hair. He dt'esses usually in datk clothes. The elder of the surviving dren, a girl, says that Robert was at the house at seven o'clock on Friday night. These murders are the most horrible that we remenwer to have been called . upon to record. The Langfeldt tragedy dues not compare with this, hut it has much of the revolting character of the murder of the Cosden faintly, in Maryland.—Dally News. i $ 3,170,058 2,400 13,536 76 The New Orleans Courier has the following account of a new invention. "A steamboat to travel on land or Water," would indeed be a .novelty: A gentleman exhibited this morning in the Lyceum Hall, while the assembled multitude waited to be organized into Convention—a mod• el of a locomotive which can he used fora steam boat to travel on land or water—for ploughing or for any sort of riding or travelling—it can also be used as a fire engine, or a street sprink• ler. Ito said it would throw water 300 or 3000 feet high, according to the size of the machine con• structed; and if one had been in existence here at the time, the St. Charles tire could have been extinguished in five seconds after the invention got upon the ground. The inventor is one of the keenest, titd at the saute time most gentlemanly looking chaps in town ; and we believe he per. shaded every body that his invention is the great• est yet. The first engineers of the city have examined it, and pronounced that he has overcome every difficulty in the may of travelling on land by steam. He made the model move ahead, re, trograde, turn round and round every way, with grace and ease. ft is, indeed, wonderful to behold. Paine's Oxygen Light! ' Mr. Paine has promised the editor of the Wor cester (Mass.) Spy, that in the course of a week he will illuminate his office by his new mode of producing light. The Oxygen light is anew discovery of Mr. Paine, which the Spy says is a process of catalizing, the oxygen o r th e aimos. phere, and rendering it highly ltiminiferous, at a mere nominal expense, without the cost of ma.• chinery, or any other apparatus than an air re. ceiver, capable of holding common air. The ed- itor adds ; We saw it in o t peratio❑ last evening in our of. flee, examined it minutely, catalized the oxygen ourself, and read by the light so produced, which Is equal, if not superior, to the best gas burned in the cities. The haute is peculiarly , and: brtl. liant, burns with a clear steady light, is entirely inodorous, and during the half hour that we watched its operation, we could see no decrCase of the catalizing material. The whole apparatus which we saw could not have cost more than a couple of dollars, and it was capable of furnish. ing all the light needed fur the illumination of an ordinary sized room. Pickliqg Egan.—lf the following were gene• rally known, it would be more generally used:— It is an excellent pickle to be eaten with cold meat, &c. The eggs should he boiled hard— say ten minutes--and then divested of their shells. When quite cold, put them in jars and pour over them'xinegar-(sufliMenl'iti goite - coil= er them, in which has been previously boiled the usual spices for pickling. Tie the jars down tight with bladder, and • keep 'theni - until they begin to change color. . • Car The Si. Louis Republican announces Gen. Scott and Mon. Edward Dates, of Missouri, as its choice for the Prni.kuudl ticket. ' Horrible Murder New Engine South Carolina The Smith Carolinian chivalry, it is , known, have recently appropriated $BOO,OOO for bloody weapons, and some Massachusetts Yankees have got the job to make them—or part of them, at least: A friend informs the editor of the Woonsoch• rt Patriot that "Messrtt. Waters, of Milbury, Mass., have obtained the contract for the small arms, viz:6ooo muskets, 3000 rifles, and 2000 pistols. The field artillery were to be made in Stioth Carolina, and the authorities were very anxious that Messrs. Waters should manufac•, ture the small arms there also ; but this could not be, and get the arms completed within the time allotted by the contract. Messrs. Waters, however, have contracted to establish the ar. mory in Houth Carolina, after the completion of this order." - So, so;•ihe valient souls who are going to is solve the Union, whip Uncle Sam and 'the rest of mankind," can't even manufacture :heir own guns, but have to travel all the way to old .Mis• sachusetts. "The Honor of the Man•" In view of the exeinption law in Michigan, the merchants of Kalamazoo publish the follow• ing card: Whereas, all laws tor the collection of debts in ihisSiate, are virtually abolished, and the honor of ihe man is hereafter to be the founda tion of all ordinary transactions, We, the undersigned, merchants and grocers of the village of Kalamazoo, in order to protect ourselves from the kisses occasioned by bad debts incurred by men without honor or punctu ality in their engagements, do resolve as ful' lows: That we publish the names of all who refuse or fail, Katisfactottly to adjust the demands against them nt the time agreed upon, at either of the stores or groceries in the place. And mu• malty and firmly agree that we will hereafter too irti‘i the Juan whose rtarr ?;hail be thus ad. rrnised, being well coh.(ineed that no man of grand intentions and honorable principles will tn 4 low himself to be thus' posted before his neigh) bars and fellow citi2erts. In pledge of our determination thus do we subscribe our-names and firms hereunto. Caved In. we learn that a portion of one of the mines at - Istesqueltoninecaved - in — on Saturday last, about 3 o'clock, P. M., shutting in five men. Great excitement prevailed on the circulation of the information that several persons were thus bu, tied alive, and the most strenuous exertions were used to rescue them by digging away the fallen mass. This however was of no avail ; hut the prisoners escaped at midnight through an air lode about two miles from the mouth of the mine. It appears that as there was a stream of water running through the mine, a sufficient sup ply of air was furnished to support respiration; and although the men were considerably bruis ed in their wanderings and efforts to find a place of egress, they were all able to walk to their sett. vat homes.—Carbon Gazelle. The 'Sea giving up its Treasures.—The Ply. miaith Memorial says: “During the gale of last week, a quantity of linseed oil came ashore in the breakers, at Man oment Ponds. The oil was in forty gallon casks. fourteen of Othich were rolled upon the shore in safety, but several casks were burst by being dashed against the rocks. The casks that were saved contained about thirty gallohs of oil each, which proved to be in good condition. The con• dition of the casks was such as to render it car. tain that they had been in the water a great while, perhaps many years. The Outer surface of the casks was considerablrdecayed, and there were four ridges of iron rust on each, which were the only remnants of what were once iron hoops. The casks were all covered with barna. cles." • The 11. , ston Advertiser thinks the above came ,from the brig Hollander, of Boston, from Hotter. dam, which was capsized and sunk in Massa chuseus bay about ten years since. The break ing up the vessel, which• was hastened by the gale, probably disengaged the casks from the hold; and being . . lighter than water, they rose to the surface. A Laughable notice.—We are indebted to the IVarrentown (N. C.) News for the following ad. vertisement, which was posted up in a tavern in Newbern while the Legislature was In session at that place: Mine host, it seems, seas an hottest, well mean • ing fellow, who had conceived the idea that the members were the very salt of the earth, and had listened to the complaints of some of them relative to the, doings of a few wilder characters, who did not belong to their fraternity. Here is the notice which he posted in the most conspic: uous place in the house : "Look Herel—The following rules of order will be hereafter observed in this Hotel: Mem bers of Om Assembly will go to the table first and the gentlemen afterwards." After reading it over he did not exactly like it. It didn't say anything about rowdies and black= guard, ; so to caution thorn particularly, he ad ded :-- "Notes Bena—Rowdies and biackgtiards will please not mix with the memberi, as it is hard to tell one froth the other." Bounty Laud Claims.—Those who have clairris for Bounty Lands under the late act, will find it necessary to exercise some considerable degree of patience. The number of applications re ceived 'in a day have run up as high as 1300. They now average about 400 a day. There are 100,00 Q applications on file which have not been touched. The number of warrants which the department hafe foubd it practicable to issue, is about 200. The Contested Eledion Caso—The important Contested Election case, to test the validity of the election of Horn R. Kneags, Esq., to the of fice of District Attorney oT Philadelphia emu . .. ty, , was ddeided mt Sawn lay morning, in the Court of Common Pleas, Judge wing delivering the opinion of the Court, Judge Kelly concur ring and declaring that William D. , had been sleeted. GLEANINGS ""The New York House of Assembly ha passed the bill abolishing the general training' in that than.. UP"Three hundred bars of railroad iron were landed at Beaver, Pa., last week, for the Peon. sylvania and Ohio railroad company. GirA married lady cowhided a fellow in Boa. lon, on Friday, who had boasted that he had se. duced her. Cir The Herald announces that the New Yorie ladies are beginning to wear the breeches. Nu other paper has the news. LV"There are a large number of hogs dying in Western Maryland, in consequence of eating locusts, which are now beginning to appear is that part of the State.„ IV'Ex.Chancellue Walwortit, was married 9n the 17th instant, at Jacksonville, Illinois, to the WI.OW 0 0 rwinigrTvw7Tatillcliffnliti tie of Buena Vista Briar. Nathaniel Hayford, aged 96 years, died at 'Painworih, New Hampshire, on the 28th of April. -ILc': was in service at the battle of liunlcer Hill. kV - The few remaining Revolutionary soldiers in this country are falling like autumn leaves. L.V"An estate of 8.3 acres, two miles from Kentucky., lately sold for pao per acre. Fine Catile.—On Wednesday last, Says the Doylestown Intelligeneer, Albert .Phillirs, •of Doylestown township, sold seven fat cattle to a butcher from Philadelphia, for ;800. Two of them were much inferior to the other five ; but the whole lot weighed 11,078 standing—making the price near light and n quarter cents per pound for the•estimated weigs,l of dressed beef. They were as fine a lot of cattle as we olten see ; and do credit to their feeder, who is one of the best farmers in his neighborhood. Alore.Berf.—ln passing by the fertile and well cultivated farm of Levi Buckman, between Newtown and Attleborough, in company with a couple of friends, we were tempted to turn iu and see some cattle we had heard he was feed ing ; and we were well repaid for the visit. They . were about as handsome a lot of beeves. we shouldthink, Rs any Bucks county farm can show. Ten of them—rare beauties—that would yield about eight thousand pounds of dressed beef, he had just sold to a Trenton butcher, for eight cents per pound. Two others that would weigh; if dressed, twenty five or twenty•six hun dred pounds, are equal if not superior in gelidity to any cattle we have ever seen. He has refus• ed nine cents per pound for them. Three oth. ers, a trifle interior to these in size anti quality, were also in his stable—making the whole num ber fifteen. Altogether they are a lot of cattle of which any farmer might well be proud; and shows plainly that their owner understands sly business.—Doylestown bad. Tula flyer's Mellow? :Icy" York Herald of Moneay the follow; Itfr. Thomas Ilyerr-11avin recently nr rived in this country since your challenge ap peared in the Spirit of the Times. l'Ou state that you will fight any man in . the world for $lO,OOO a side; and as no one has as yet accept. ed your challenge, I will accept it and fight you for $O,OOO a side, the'fight to come off in aire d months after the match is made. I would like it $10,004 but I cannot raise the money. Mat% and money will be ready on Tuesday evening ikt nine o'clock ; so you will confer 1. &vor on nte. by calling at the Rainbow, Vieekninn street, On that evening. W. PUDDECR. New York, April 4, 1831. P. S. As you prefer an Englishman, I shall suit you in that respect. Cuid blooded Act.-111 Columbus, Ohio, on the 20th, a person got possession of one of the late Governor Elebb's blank requisitions for fugitives anti filled it up, for a piece of .:port, and directed it to Thomas Spencer, a well known panic deal er. This enraged Spencer, and some one, to carry on the joke, told him that it was done by George Parcels, the barkeeper tit the Prank lin. lie immediately went to where Parcels . Iferriimiled of him if he had 'filled uji . that Mr. ParCels, in a jocular way, unswered :yes; and was about passing out of:1.door, wlfen Spcti cer drew a revolver and shot him dead. . An old ,11:ble.—Ainong , the effects of Dad ,I Groff, of Earl township, Lancaster county, lately deceased, was a German Bible. in good condition, printed in 1.531 by C. Ftoschaut; e in Zurich, Switzerland. . Appointincrile.—Thomas E. Franklin, Esq., of Lancaster city, to be Attorney General of the Commonwealth, in the place of Hon, C. Harrah, resigned William J. Colgrove, to be Sheriff of I'd'Nean county, in the place of E. Bard, deceased. Jacob Myers, of Linaaitter . city, to be a NO: tary Public fur said city: Sugar.—The Sugar crop of Louisiana, for 1850, was 211,203 hogsheads, equal to 231,191,- 000 pounds. There are 1495 sugar Mlls, 908 worked by steam, 587 by horse power. Tito product of molasses is 10,500,000 gallons. The plectra. Magnetic Lbeamolive.-I . lle experi meats of Prof. Page, at Washington, with his . elethro.magnetic locomotive, have" been com pletely Nuccessful and fully demonstrate the practicability of the application of electro.mag%' net&ii to the propulsion of railway trains. The locomiolva . proceedad'out from Washington as: far as Bladensburg, making the distance 5 miles in 35 . ciiinifies: When the pi;wer`of the battery . wasfu'lli up, on nearly a level plane, the rate of 19 Tpes an hour was attained, being 7 s miles . fastet'ilfan•the greatest speed yet alierne.d. Alleged Robbery.—Charles M.Cuinger,a Clerk in ihe Philadelphia Post 01fiCe,.wis brought be- fore U. 8. Commissioner Ingraham on Manday, chirged with abstricting the Vicksburg mail . frenethe office, and robbing the letters of their, contents. After a hearing of the testimony . . against him,' he y..as bound over in the sum Oil $1.600' to take his trial at the .67xt term of the . United States District Court. 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