Zig fel)igl) ilcgister. Allentown, Pn. THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1861. Circulation near 2000. Farmers' and , Mechanics' Bank The Comminbioners opened the books for The subscription of mcrk, at the American Ho tel M Easton, on flonday the 12th instant, and continued keeping them open until Saturday 17th. We learn that upwards of four thousand -Mar - nbe ibed mesrwere-subscribed—enough to secure the operation of the Bank. The balance of the stock will undoubtedly nil be taken as there appears to be a general rush for it. Nien of undoubted honesty and ability will be selected for officers, and we have every reeson to bey Neve that this will be one of the safest and most popular Banks in the State. The Lehigh Fenoibles Under the command of their new Captain, Carla 11. Samson, left here on Saturday last for the great battallion at Kutztown. They mustered thirty.two muskets, four commission ed officers, one ensign and three musicians, besides the "Union Brass Band." The banal lion is said to have been one of the largest ever held in that place. Dedication at Norristown On Thursday last, the 15 , h instant, the Odd Fellows' Hall at Norristown was dedicated:— The day was a beautiful one. The parade and exercises throughout were interesting, and it was the brightest the citizens of the pretty bo rough of Norristown ever witnessed in that place. The procession was over two miles in length, and numbered betty een three and lour thousand persons. The new Hall, which cost 616.000, is 50 feet front Ott De Kalb street 4 ,6s feet deep on Egypt street and . 57 feet high. The basement is ap. preprinted to a reht.sl mem suit en. the first floor to steres : tl.e t.r mill to a large ball room, the third to the purposes of a Lodge room and Encampment. and the attic to Masonic purpo. ses. The building is quite imposing in appear ance and is nn ornament to the town. In the evening a splendid hill was given in honor of the occasion in the Hall, and was very largely attended. Beck's Philadelphia Brass 13and of ficiated on the occasion and discoursed their sweet music. The tickets were sold at 63,.and several hundred dollars were vetted out of the proceeds, which goes to the liquidation of the debt of the new edifice. Graham's Magazine Graham's Magazine for June, is on our table, filled as usual with contributions from the best pens in the United States. The embellishments, three in number, possess decided merit. Gra ham always secures the best talent of the coun try and pays good prices for it. Bence the su perior character of his Magazine and its Moul ting success. .A git ation The schemes ot the agitators are transparent. Their design is disunion. In South Carolina, the effort to keep up the slavery excitement proceeds from a desire to dissolve this glorious confederacy. No grievance exists now. The compromise measures adjusted all difficulties with a due consideration to the rights of all.— The fugitive slave bill has been executed all over the Union and will be faithfully carried out. At first them was a determination on the part of the abolitionists to prevent its enforce ment. Through their mischievous agency, the' officers of the law made one or two slips. But fanatacism has done its worst, and hereafter, the law will be rigidly observed. While the disunionists were holding their cabal at Charleston, the abolitionists were plot ting treason and denouncing ministers of the gospel at Syracuse. These Conventions wore intended, in a measure, to operate upon each other, and by mutual violence, create hostility against one'and sympathy' for the other on the part of the north and south. In the north the abolitionists have signally failed. Their intern perate and disgracefu: resolutions have been denounced by the respectable journals of all parties. In the south, we are led to believe and we sincerely hope, that the designs of the ultra secessionists have low approvers out of the circle•of the South Carolina faction. In. deed, we trust that the postponement of seces sion is the last we shall ever hear of it, and that ere the time arriVes for the renewal of its consideration, we will all be living in harmony and confidence, and that the • Palmetto State Will.be most loyal in its devotion to our glori ous Union.—Demorrafie Union. Steamboat for Easton Mr. David 'Taylor, of this city, says the Camden Democrat, is building a steamboat to ply on the Delaware river, between Lambert ville and Easton, Pa. The boat will be ready , to make her first trip about the foutth .ol July next. She is to have two fifty horie-power en gines, and will when laden, draw but about ten inches. Mr. Taylor, who is one of the best ehip-buildere, we believe has contracted to build three of these crafts for the same persons, a pair of Yankees, front Maine—all intended for the same trade. The project though new, we doubt not, is a feasible one, and will prove successful. We have already registered our mime- for the firm trip. Ho ! for the mourn tains ! Starch.--Every week'4o.ooo pounds of corn starch, snid to be of tbe it best quality, are manu factured at Oswego; it Is good both for the limn dry and' for. food: The produce amounts to ;120,C00 n year; and the• weekly , quantity of. eon usud i V.,Vc.O t tit An Arrest. Two men were arrested in Allentown re cently, for passing counterfeit money. They in formed the Deputy - Attorney of Lehigh cOun ty, that they had purchased it of a man named Wm. Greger, of Montgomery county, where upon -a telegraphic-despatch was forwarded to District Attorney B. E. Chain, who communi• cared the information to sheriff Hahn. The Sheriff, District Attorney and posse upon the following morning, paid Mr. G., a visit, at his residence in Pleasantville, where he owns a farm, arrested him and instituted a search for cour.terfeiting apparatus about the premises— without finding anything else than two old screw presses suitableior printing notes. The money made at this establishment, if made there at all, or s.ome_other-connected-withitiiii- sold at $33 on the hundred, affording a very sties profit in the making and passing—the lat ter part of the business being the most hazard ous. William Greger was once arrested, with two or three others, for attempting to counter feit on the Montgomery County Bank, which never came to a trial. He has also been ar rested in Berke county, we are informed, for a counterfeiting offence upon a Reading Bank. Fearing•the stern justice of a County Court in Berke, he made a confession implicating his accomplices, who were arrested and sent to prison, and he obtained a pardon from the Governor which was read to the Court when his case was called up. It is knOwn that the Middletown Bank has suffered 'beverely from counterfeiters, and the bank has offered a reward of 5500 for their de tection and plates, on which the notes are print ed. Gen. Cameron has expressed his convic tions heretofore that the notes were made in Montgomery county. The only difficulty in this case has been the shrewdness of the principal, whoever it may he, in getting out the counterfeits, which has frustrated the operations of the law. The im pres•ion has Ion!! since existed in the public mind that exi.l(ed, ‘viiere tinne by a pro cess of law has bet ike every num in (he comilintlitv i< lud he 10 ho, f•!,ea'ed sr'. riont , money, any information or eireunistatiee,i tending to expose the guilty persons, and re lieve the community of the infamous imposi tion, ought to be made public.) Some men make a life business of getting up counterfeits, and are fortunate or shrewd enough, by keeping up an outside appearance for honesty and good principles, to evade the prying investigation of the deceived public. Mr. Greger has been taken to head quarters at Norristown, but unless, further develop°. monis are made by the men arrested for pas sing The notes, or discoveries are made to crina , irate him, the arrest will prove as fruitlea as its predecessors. We du hope the truth will be brought out—the guilty punished, and the innocent exculpated.—Pottstown Ledger. Irish Emigrants Began to come to Pennsylvania about the year 1719—principally from the north of Ire land—and settled mainly in Lancaster county, towards the Alarylatal line. Logan, in his Journal in 1722—v, complains somewhat bit terly of the krish and Germans, for squatting on his land without offering to purchase; he calls them "bold and indigent strangers, saying, as their excuse, when challenged for titles, that we had solicited for colonists, and they had come accordingly." They were exempt from rents by an crdinanoe of 1720, in consideration of their being a frontier pecp!e. In 1729 Lo gan expresses himself glad to find that the Parliament is about to take measures to pre vent the too free emigration to this country...— The Assembly had laid a restraining tax of twenty shillings a head for every servant arriv. ing; but it did not check emigration, and the tax was generally avoided. In 1730, Logan writes and complains of the Scotch Irish, as possessing themselves by force, of the whole of Conestoga manor, comprising som fifteen thousand acres of the beet land in the country. They alleged that it was against the laws of God and nature, that so much laud should be idle,While so many Christians want it to labor on, and to raise their bread. • The Paxtang boys, however, were dispossessed by the sheriff and his posse, and some thirty of their cabins were burned. The feeling then engendered is supposed to have had much to do with the Paxtang massacre, which occurred twenty, five years afterwards. Craig's Settlement, in Allen township, North ampton county, was made by emigrants from the north of Ireland, about the year 1728—'30. That was the period at which the tide of Pres byterian emigration began to, lake place. Wil liam and Thomas Craig appear to have been the principal settlers; among other prominent ones, were John Ralston, Robert Walker, John Hays, James King, Gabriel King,"Arthur Latti more, Hugh Wilson, William Young, George Gibson, Robert Gibson, Andrew Mann, James Riddle, John Boyd, Mary Dubbin; Niglo Gray, and Thomas Armstrong. Foam of the descendants of those people are said to he occupying the very farms first set tled by them; while others may be occupy ing prominent positions before the public in this and other States, for all we know to the contrary. Next to the Germans, may be classed the Irish as an einigmting people; They come to our Mimes, annually, by thousands, and have contributed in no small degree in infusing a good and healthy element in the' character of the American population.—Mining Itegistcr. Fire in The Coat—ln Waleia fire has been raging in a coal mine fur twentysix years, and ...bas consumed, it is computed, $500,000 worth of coal. Within five years after its commence• meat it was gfeatlytestralued by the construe.. tion of an enormous wall which cost $BO,OOO. At present it is about passing this wall threat. ening very extensive destruction, and learned engineers have been employed to consult on M,lllO lit W arrestibg A Good Sign. We notice indications of &sound arid healthy feeling in both political parties throughout the State, in regard to the selection of candidates for the Judiciary; all feeling the necessity of bringing forward the best men, as contradistin guished from the mere politicians-who are as piring to the ermine which is this year to be bestowed directly by the hands of the people. In the Harrisburg Keystone, of May 61h, is an able article on the subject, front which we copy the following paragraph : "We believe that at the approaching election, the party which presents the best men to the people will be most successful; that this will be the case in the election of judges, we have no doubt, and that question will exe,' ence on others. Not will it be confined to this election. The abandonment by the whigs of their open opposition to some of the great mea sures that have hitherto divided the two great parties, has so materially narrowed the line that separates them, as materially to diminish on both side the inducement to swallow an objectionable nomination. A nomination will not hereafter be "as good as an election," unless the nominatin is one that the party arc ready to endorse as One "fit to de mabe." IVhigs and Democrats, we feel convinced, will feel,the truth of the assertion that the par ty which presents the best men to the people will he most successful; and we trust that they will both enter into an honorable rivalry on this point. The Keystone of the 13th inst. con tinues the consideration of this subject in an article from which we quote the following: "No one can calculate the amount of evil that will ensue if the judiciary of Penn'a. shall become the prize of mere trading politicians; that there are enough of this class ready to seize upon it as their spoil, NO one ,who has paid any attention to our past political history can doubt that they can only certainly be defeated by preienting the possibility of filling our primary meetings and county conventions with their friends. we are satisfied." Georgia We observe with great plea.mre the deter mination and unanimity which pervade the people of Georgia in the organization of ihe Constitutional Union party for the approaching political earimaign. Every mail brings us ad ditional intelligence of the zeal and interest Which the movement excites, and there is no reason to doubt that it will be triumphant by a majority of many thousands. The day fixed by the Southern Rights party for their conven tion to nominate a candidate for Governor is on the 28th of this month. That of the Union party the Monday thereafter, being the 3rd of Jur e. Missinsippi The Union party State Convention of Mis sissippi, held at Jackson, on the sth inSt.,nom- Mated General Henry S. Foote, tot Governor, James A. Horn, of Lauderdale, for secretary of State; Gen. Wm. Clark, for Treasurer, and Dan: iol R. Russell for Auditor. In the 11Id Con gressiOnal District, represented by the Seces sionist Ale Willie, who is anxious fat a re-elec tion, the 'Union' mon have nominated Gen.J. D. Freeman, of Hinds county. Gen. Foote, be side running fur Governor, is also one of the 'Union' candidates for the State Convention to consider the slave question and what Mis sissippi shall do in-relation to the 'Peace Mea sures.' New Board Fence A new mode of constructing fences has been invented by Mr. .1. Berdan, of Plymouth, Michi. gan, the principal features of which are not a little novel. By his plan, a good substantal and economical fence can be constructed of boards without posts. The boards for the construction of this fence'have notches cut in them near their ends, and they are locked together in such a manner as to form a worm or zig.sag fence.. The boards are supported in the middle by stakes passing down each side and secured to. gether by clams drawn together by a wedge.— A brace or rider passes between the stakes rest. ing upon the clamps, thus adding to the height and streng,h of the fence. The inventor has taken measures to secure a patent.—Seienlifie American. Coins of California The California papers are complaining of Congress for omitting to provide them with a Mutt. Thi difficulties in trade are attributed to this reason, as the absence of a Mint caused the issue of irresponsible coins, which filled up the channels of trade. The Alta California says:— "The bankers, who especially aided in getting this coin in circulation, by which they, of course, made a pretty fair percentage, have determined to decry' it, and thus make another good per centage by, purchasing it when the panic shall have depressed it below its real value. The merchants also have'repudiated it. This move.. ment of theirs would have been much better had they taken it long ago. As it is, it will probably recoil in a great measure upon themselves—for miners and country merchants coming for sup. plies, when they find all but the U. S. Assay is. ' sues refused, will naturally enough rank that with the rest, refuse to have their gold dust coined and insist upon making their payments in it." The fifty dollar pieces will be found unsuited to the purposes of trade and general circulation, and nre only useful for shipments out of the country. The money market is said to be tight. ened. On private loans 10 per cent. has been freely paid, and the ruling rates are from 5 to 10 ii6r cent. a month. Real Estate and rents are declining. The price of cleah dust is $l7 per oz., but.the dust usually called merchantable will not average $l6 per oz. Exchange on the At. !antic cities 2 per cent. premium. The Press oa. Speeeh.—A rapid writer will pen about 2500 words is nn hour. A rapid:speaker will utter 42, 000 words in the same time. Hoe's newly invented press will print 10,000 words in a minute, or 000,000,0110 an hour.—American Mee. assign-. , Trip. of the President President Fillmore and Messrs. Webster, Crit tenden, Graham and Hall, members of his Cab inet, left Washington on Monday to participate in the opening of the New York and Eric Rail road, and were at every point along the route re ceived with that consideration due to their exal ted stations, and patriotic servises to the coun try. They reached. Philadelphia on Monday evening, and were welcomed by • an immense concourse of citizens. They remained over night in Philadelphia, and proceeded to New York by the Amboy line on Tuesday. At the latter city their reception was most enthusiastic. Cannookthundered, flags waved, thousandsshout• ed, and the military, to the number of twelve regiments, paraded, to do them honor. On Wed, MIMI neschif they started on their tour over the great Erie Railroad, and were recieved at all the way stations along the line, with the most flattering attention. They stopped at Elmira over night and on Thursday reached Dunkirk, on Lake Erie, the termination of the road, where the open ing was concluded by a grand celebration. The length of the great New York and Erie Railway is 465 miles, nearly the whole of Which has been constructed since 1845. The company was organized nearly nineteen years ago, but for a long time misfortune and extrav agance attended the enterprise and retarted its completion. Five years ago a new directory came in, and they have matured an achievement, which for magnitude and commercial impor• tance has no parallel in any similar enterprise yet accomplished on this continent. The whole cost of the road is nearly $ 3 0,000,000.--Reading Journal. Tusk of a Mastodon Prof. Anderson, of the University of Lewis burg, Union Co., Penn., under date of the 9th inst., informs us of an interesting discovery "I have before me a portion of the tusk of a mastodon, fouqd last week on the farm of Mr. Thomas Howard, three miles west of this place, on the Buffalo Creek. I visited Mr. Howard yesterday and obtained from him an account of the manner of discovery, and brought back the tnest perfect fragment, which he has presented to the cabinet of the Society for Inquiry in the University. "It was discovered in digging a ditch in a meadow near the Buffalo Creek. In running the plow along the line of the ditch it struck the point of the tusk. Unfortunately it was suppos• cd to be the root of a tree, and a part—about,two feet in length—was shattered before its true char. acter was suspected. It lay in a horizontal po. sition, imbedded in blue clay resting upon lime. stone. "The whole tusk measured about nine or ten feet in length, and was very much curved, espe. cially toward the point. It has now become im possible to give a drawing of it as I had hoped to do. I found only three fragments remaining; each about two feet in length. The most perfect portion was that which now lies before me. It commences about two feet from the larger end of the tusk. About one foot of this is in a per ! feet state, presenting a round polished surface, 24 inches in circumference at the larger and 22 at the smaller end. It is somewhat curved, form ing the arc of a circle whose radius is 26 inches. The other fragments were falling rapidly to pie ces, the laminm, especially of the larger end, separating at the slightest touch. I judge from appearances that the tusk was' fractured previ. ous to its discovery, though its exhumation threatens to hasten its destruction. "No other remains have been found in the vicinity. Mr. Howard designs to make some further excavations, in hope of meeting other portions." Inew4.ection in China.—Regarding the long standing insurrection in the province of Kwang si, we learn from the Overland Friend of China for last January, that the disturbances are in. creasing in violence. Th• insurgents were as sembled in great strenth within sixty miles of Canton, viith the avowed purpose of subverting' the present dynasty. The revolt had attained such a head that it was thought uncertain wheth. er his Celestial Majesty would be to keep pos session of the throne. A Lucky Man.—The barkeeper of the steamer Webster, lately destroyed by fire, who was re• ported drowned, was found on a pile of drift wood and picked up with, as he supposed, only the clothes on his back. He was unable to swim but preferring the water to fire, be jumped overboard, and fortunately floated to the drift wood. After reaching New Orleans, as we learn from the Picayune, he found himself the fortunate holder of the ticket which drew the $12,000 prize. in the Havanna lottery. This was ' making a pile very unexpectedly. Virginia Convention The committee of the whole reported to the Coilvention sitting at Richmond, on the 17th in stant, the compromise adopted the day before; with its modifications; and the subject being be- fore the Convention on second reading, a motion was made to strike out the clause providing for biennial sessions of the Legislature, which, how. ever, was disagreed to . . Mr. Docock then offered a new proposition as an amendment, which was laid on the table and ordered to be printed; after which the Convention adjourned until Monday next. The Compromise, as it nbw stands, gives the counties west of the Blue Ridge, 82 delegates, and Ilnise east CS ; the west 20 members of the Senate, and the cast 30. It also provides that the question of representation on the white popnla, lion, and the whole taxation, shall be submitted to the people together in 1865. Shawls.— An Indian manufacturer of shawls, named Najd- Ramoyna, was recently at Paris on his way to London. lie is an inhabitant of the celebrated Valce of Cashmere, and , the object of hid journey to- Euroße is to expose splendid shawls of his own manufacturer at the London Exhibition. Whilst waiting for the opening of the Exhibition, he purposes *siting Lyons and other manufacturing parts of France. lie is said to be a man of great intelligence, and has raised himself from the state of a workman to be.the head of a large manufactory.. • Another Whitewash The editor of the Horticulturist, in answer to the queries of a corrospondent gives the follow ing receipt for a whitewash : Take a barrel and slake a bushel of freshly burned lime in it, by covering the lime with boil. ing water.- After slaked, add cold -water enough to bring it to the consistency of good whitewash. Then dissolve in water, and add one pound of white vitriol (sulphate of zinc) and one quart of fine salt. To give this wash a cream color, add one half pound of yellow ochre, in powder. To give it a fawn color, add one 'fourth of a pound of Indian red. To make a handsome gray stone color, add one half pound of French blue, and one fourth pound of Indian red—A_drab_will_be_matle- by-adding-one-half-- pound of burnt sienna, and one.fourth pound of Venitian red. For brick or stone, instead of one bushel of lime, use half bushel of lime and half bushel of hydraulic cement. These washes are very useful in preserving buildings, fences, &c., to which they are applied, and although it must be renewed much oftener than oil paints, they give a neat appearance to farms, where they are applied to the buildings, gates, &c. As their cost is trifling, it is strange that they are not used more often than they are now. "Fore Sail•' The Lycoming Gazette publishes the follow, ing verbatim copy of a handbill, which it says was posted on a store door in that vicinity. It is decidedly rich. That rooster ought to bring a big price : FOR SAIL IN Nippinez tonship the follerin of my property by publik outkri viznaimly I Schotep ig I buro I fish sain, 4 braskandelsticks 4 ginnyen I hatch et) on 20egg, I hors wagn und harnesses, 4 empt syderbarls und tine rooshter wich will be sold on 6 monat credit the oder thing must be gelt, cause I go more to muecheter Wally dis Schpring, olso howsole fernicher. Schoolmaster Abroad.—A correspondent of the Easton Argus, gives the following ludicrous specimen of orthography, as found he says, on a sign in Schuylkill county: "Enderdenmen fur man un hos. Ba do do un drus domori Which, being interpreted according to the rules of such orthography, means: "Entertain ment for Man and Horse. Pay to day and trust to morrow. By Thomas Read. The Lungs.—The following simple experiment is said to be a test of the soundness of the lungs. Let the patient draw in a full breath, and then begin to count as far as he can, slowly and aud ibly, without inflating the lungs. The number of seconds he can continue as then to be careful ly noted. In confamed consumption the time does not exceed eight, and is often less than six seconds. In pletfrisy and pneumonia it ranges from nine to four seconds. But when the lungs are sound, the time will range as high as twenty to thirty second. New Printing Paces.—Mr. John R. Hathaway, a well known periodical agent of Norfolk, Va., has gone to Washington, for the ptirpose of tak ing out a patent for a printing press, of. his in• vention, which is to be worked entirely by one person, and will Ahrow off one thousand copies per hour. It is very simple in• its construction, and can be made at a cost but little above the ordinary hand,press. Such a machine has long been a great desideratum to country printers.— If Mr. Hathaway's invention is what it purports to be, he may consider his fortune made. Thomas W. Darr..—Many of our cotemparies call the restoration of Ex•Gnv. Dorr's political rights a long delayed act of Justice. Mr. Darr was a school mate of ours, and our personal sym pathies have ever been enlised in his favor, but be has proved as stubborn as a mule, refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the new Constitu tion, and therefore the long delay has been his own act. Mr. Dorr refused to acknowledge-the supremacy of the laws in Rhode Island, and was therfore convicted of treason ; he was one of the "higher law" men some ten years since, and met the fate which should now be awarded to those who refuse obedience to the Fugitive Slave Law. Dorr struck at the root of the Dem ocratic principle, by refusing to submit to a ma jori ty.—Philadellaphia Sun. A Wife Starved to Deuth.--Nashville papers give an account of the murder of a worn an at that place by starvation, by her husband. The suspicions of the neighborhood were aroused by the disappearance of the wife, who was reported by her husband to be sick. The house was en tered by a window, and a woman was found ly. ing in the bed covered with filth; in a most em aciated condition. She was extremely weak, and it is stated she declared that she had not ea ten anything for a week or more. She died in a few hours afterwards. They found that her person bore the marks of cords, by which it is supposed slip had been bound to the bed. The husband has been arrested and committed to prison for trial. A Great Truth.—ln the Long secession speech lately delivered by Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, we find this undoubted truth, which is a grain of wheat in a bushel of chatT: oft will be far easier indeed, in my opinion, to get out of the Union than to keep nut of it." So saith Mr. Rhett and so we are inclined to think. When South Caroli na comes to taste the luxury of the decline of her own commercial ports, the emigration of her citizens, ant heavy taxes fur an independent Government, she will be as fierce to come into the Union as she is now to go out of it, Money Digging.—Application has been made to the civic authorities of Lynn, Massachusetts, to make excavations at °Dungeon Rock," With'X view to the discovery of the entranCe t 6 the Pi. rate's Cave. The legend is that a freebooter once lived . . in this cave, and was buried there with his treasures, by the falling of a portion of the rook during the great earthquake of 1658. Several, attempts have been made previously to blow op.lbis rock, in order to obtain the buried trearore,but without success:. larThe Free Banking Law has passed to a third reading in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. rirA HumMpathic Medical Convention of the North Western States, is to meet in Chicago on th — e Oral Monday in June. rirGeorge W. Johnson, late speaker of the Kentucky House of Repreaentatives, it is stated, is a defaulter to the amount of $2,000, in retain ing money collected for the Bank of the Com , retonwealth of Kentucky. The Delaware Division.—This Diviiion of 'the Pennsylvania Canal is now fairly in operation and the business of the year promises to eiceed that of any previous one.--The amotint of tolls received at New Hope, for the month of April, is $2,170,21, exceeding the amount received in .the month of April of any previous year. The amount crossing at the outlet lock at New Hope, into the Delaware and Raratan Canal, is also proportionately increased. Since the 80th No. vember, 1850, there has been an excess in favor of 1851 in the whole amount of tolls received or $8,768,43. Increase of Travel.—The advantages of our railway communication with the West, are strikingly Illustrated by the exhibit of the num• ber of passengers passing over the Allegheny Portage Railroad in the months of March and April, 1850 and 1851. In 1850, the number was 1,426; in 1851 it was 5,765, showing a difference in favor of this year of 4,939. Pennsylvania Railroad Depol.—We are grati fied to learn that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has purchased the fine property known as the aPowelton Estate," on the west bank of the Schuylkill, with the intention of using it for depot, workshops and all other purposes con nected with the business of a great railroad.— The purchase was made by Charles H. Fisher, Esq., for the Company on Saturday last. The property contains ninety three acres and was purchased for $350,000, ground rent, redeemable after two years. Origin of 11re Antercan Flag.—Mt. Tupper the 'grigli.sh poet, in his remarks at the Maryland Historical Society's anniversary, related an in. 1 'cresting fact, which in his mind suggested what should be to Americans a pleasing idea—possi. bly a discovery as to the origin of the National Flag. On making, a pilgrimage to Mount Ver non, he was forcibly struck by the circumstance that the ancient family coat of arms of the il lustrious General George Washington had consisted of three stars in the upper portion.of the shield, and three stripes below; the crest rep resented an eagle's head, and the motto was sin gularly appropriate to American history: Cetus ado prubtn." Bi Domi red." Paten! Revolving CIIIIIIOII6-Mr. Z At .1 on ry, of Portville, Cauaraugus county has invented a cannon Which wiil load and discharge itself fifty times a minute. Iris staled in the Cattaraugus Wht,g that the War Department has passed a resolution in favor of adopting this ingenious destructive power for our government. Who are the ISteessioniala I—The District At. tome . ) , of Charleston, who was lately in Wash• ington, states that the politicians who, are now revelling in secession projects in South Caroli na, by no means represent the sentiments of the people of that State. The delegates to the Con vention from one district were sent by a meet. ing composed of twenty persons, fifteen of whom were made delegates. Similar operations were performed in other districts. The face is, as the National Intelligencer says, these delegates are of the old aristocratic class in the State, and to be extremists is a sort of exclusiveness with them. The Charleston Mercury says they were the "picked men of every part of the State;'..,. ..Nuf Ced." Good Businese.—Eight hundred and seventy. three boats passed through the Delaware Divi sion, Pa. Canal, at New Hope. week before last. The Diarist state, that all the companies on the Lehigh are. doing a-larger kusiow ibis season than ever before. ' Liberla.—An emigrating party of come inter est is about to proceed to Liberia from Balti more on OVnear the Ist of July. The Rer. Ja• cob Mbore, the founder,and for some years the pastor . of the colored Methodist Episcopal VhurCh s , in Howard street, is the leader in the movement, which embraces twenty-five respect able and industrious families, numbering fully 100 persons. To Make lion—Take one pint of corn and boil it till soft, add to it one pint of molasses and one gallon of water; shake them well to gether, and set it by the fire,ind in twentyfour hours the beer. will be excellent. When all the beer in the jug is used, just add more molasses and water. The same corn will answer for six months, and the beer will be ii for use, in twelve hours, by keeping the jug which contains it warm. In the absence of molasses, sugar or honey will answer in its place. In this way the whole ingredients used in making a gallon of beer, will not cost exceeding four cents, and it is better and more wholesome than cidee % , -,1 Paulding (Miss.) Spy. The Great Bdl.---The large bell of the Cathe dral of Notre Dame was rung on good Friday, after a silence of three years, caused by repairs in the belfry. A largo crowd a”enit!led on the Parvis to hear it. The bell is called Emmanuel, was cast in 1682, and Louis XIV, named if in the christening ceremony: F f orrd'erly . sixteen " men were required to ring it, but owinyto an • improvement in the datging, four nOW'suifide.' The relics ofthe Crithedial were, bn Gaud Fri. day, carried mind in solemn procestifdd after a' sernfo'n"of Abbe . Rivighaa.. The Fres& dent of the Republic was present, and there was' a vast congregation. Aitti Itrk.-The shipment of spick 10 E6-'-- rope, the present week amount tii . 50.8:663, ex. elusive of $3b,000 on board the Hermiiii"On 17th. Tht 'aggregate export since the Jlt of January, is $10,051,010. But for•the.contirdti e large invoices from California,: thfaeheavy' . drains of our gold'and silver would telt serfou'a." uprin"the M'onvy. market.. Gleanings. Pa:
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