qlie Tlegioter.
Allentown, Pa.
TIIURSDAY, MAY 29,.1851.
' 1 1) rre ulation near 2000.
Petition for Pardon
'We .learn that a petition to Gov. Johnston
has been handed about town and signed by
some fifteen or twenty persons, praying for
the pardon of two young men, named Thomas
Simpson and Daniel J. Ward, who plead guilty
at our last Court to the charge of passingeoum
terfeit money on the Harrisburg Bank, and
are now confined in Jail. Who the petiiioiiere
are we do not know. We must confess that we
have yet to see the first person who is in favor
of the paßlno, but know of hundreds who are
opposed to it.
This mode of pardcning crnvicts we are de
cidedly c' Offd to. If we ate to have lawF,
lel them le raided cm in gcrd fanh. This
teing a vety rpton% ming (me, ut,d Ly no
means should t e countenance d Ly no Execu
tive pardon. There men were taken up in
January last, for passing counterfeit money on
a nu mber of our citizens, in and near Allen.
town, and confined to prison. In INlare'll last,
they with four others broke Jail and made
their escape. It way then Me :fettered wish of
the citizens that they might never be returned,
and very little efr , rt was male to retake them.
Such however was needle case, they imme
diately resolved to operate in their old business,
in which they were retaken and confined in
Lycoming county. Such is a brief history of
these worthies who ask a pardon at the hands
of the Governor.
President and Associate Judges
Of all the officers to he chosen at the next
October election, we regard the election of
Judges as the most important to the coutmu•
nity. Whether we consider the long term of
their. offige, their elevated and-responsible sin.
tion, or the vast range and efleet of their- du
ties, the subject is one of deep and vital inter
est. They are to sit in jodgernent upon life,
liberty and property, and we hold that the tit;
most care is requisite in their _ selection.
A President Judge should be learned in the
law, familiar with the reports, decided, not
doubting and timid, beyond the suspicion of
fear, favor or affection, of uti.itlemioned integ
rity, and of recognized. sobriety. Ile should al
so be kind to those subimlinate to hint, not
self-willed or dictatorial, elegant rather than
rude in his manners. Ability without good
moral character in public stations of host and
importance, is but a curse to all whose interests
are involved.
The associates should be equally men of
reputation, having the confidence of the com
munity. Although it is not requisite tliPy
should have extensive legal knowledge, the
duties of their office require sound judgement
good business habits, and some familiarity with
legal proceedings. In the Quarter Sessions
and in the Orphan's Court they are frequently
called to decide questions touching lie appoint•
mont of guardians, the approval of bail, sett_
ling estates, conviction and sentence of pri
soners, granting tavern licenses, and matters
01 interest and grate importance.
Portable Churn
rn passing the workshop, one day la't week,
of our fellow townsman, John Q. Cole, we were
invited in to view a Portable Churn, which in
our opinion is a decided improvement in this
valuable article. 'The size of the Chum is the
same as those now in use. The access is at
the head instead of the side, which makes it
by far more convenient: The time in making
butter is shortened at least one half.
The Densookatie Conventions
The two State Conventions of the Demo
cratic party will assemble next month, one at
Reading, on the 4th, to nominate a candidate
for Governor and Canal Commissioner, and one
nt Harrisburg, on the I Ith, to nominate Judges
for the Supreme Court. Thu Harrisburg Ville!'
of Wednesday last published complete lists of
the senatorial and representative delegates to
both Conventions.
The Newspaper
.The definition at this etteapam of all earthly
.luxuries is thus given by Butner, the great
novella!:
The newspaper is the chirmicle of lit iliza
lion, the common reset your into x%liich every
stream pours its living Waters, and at which
every email may conic tutu dlillk. It is in t i lm
imwspaPers which gave to liberty its practical
life, its perpetual vigilence, imweating ac
tivity. The riewspaper is u daily amid sleepless
*atchman; which reports to you every danger
which menaces the institutions of our &tinny
and its interests at home and abroad. The
nowspaPer informs legislators 'of the public
opinions and it infcrtns the people of the acts
legislatorss—thus keeping that.coustant synt
pathyand goOdunderstauding between the pen
ple and legislators which conduces to the main
tenance of order,and prevents the stsm neces-.
airy of revolution. The newspaper is a lan
'book for the indolent, a sermon fur the thought
less, a library fori l he poor.
rhe Plough, Loom and Anvil.—This pet iodic al
has not depreciated in value since the death of
its lamented editor, ./ . ohn 6, 9.kinner, E , ,but
continues to afford a vast amount of useful and
Plitructive reading for working men, partieu•
lady those devoted to agriculture. The May
ieuMber Is now before us, filled with many ex
talent articles upowvarious subjects connected
'with' Farming, Manufactures, and Mechanical
occupations. Philadelphia-ztiv.• 79 Walnut
stmt . . - $3 altar.
New Registration Law.
The fast Legislature 'paSsed a bill, making it
the duty of the Register of each county, from
and after iließist of July next, to provide books
for-- the-registration of the marriages which
shall be contracted, and the births and deaths
which shall occur within his county. The ob-
jects of the law are to perpetuate evidence of
the marriage, birth and death of inhabitant:sof
this Commonwealth, and to gather important
sanitary facts affecting the physical welfare of
the human race. Its main provisions are as
follows: Clergymen, aldermen, j.tstiees, and
all persons by or before whom any marriage
may hereafter bo contracted, are required to
certify the same to the Register of the county
in which they reside, giving the full name of
the husband, his occupation, birth-piaee, and
residence, the full maiden name of the wife,
the names of their res -sas pective parents, the color
of tile paities, arid the alid - phice - er mar: l
-
riage. Physicians, mid•wives, 6r other per
sotiti in whose care a birth shall lake place,
sled' make a return thereof to the IZegiskr as
aforesaid, setting forth the sex, color, and name
(if any) of the child, whether born iluick or
dead, the full name and orenpation of the pa
rents, the maiden name of the mother, attd tht.
; day, Mier and, place of such birth. Physicians,
Isurgeons, or uther persons, in attendance at the
!death of any individual, shall make as return of
the same to the Register us aforesaid, giving
the lull name, sex, color, age, occupation,
I place cf birth, time, place and cause of death
of such individual, with the !MOWS Of his or
,or her parent the butial ground in which in,
' terted. and if married, the name 1,1 the hes
t hand Of wile ; as the case may Le. Sextons
and other persons hating change of vaults or
burial wounds, arc forbidden lower or hermit
the ietertnent of any dead body, without pm
curing a.copy of such record duly certified.—
; Manit2es, births or tiJaths, which have occur
d previous to the passage of this act, or mar•
riages, births or diliallts of persons out of this
S:ate, children of citizens of this State, may be
regismfed in the same manner as aforesaid,
upon producing sari-factory proofs 01 all the re
facts to the R,igister. No letter. of ad
ntinistratm or letters testamentary uyou the
!estate of anv deceased person. shall his grant
.
eti, -- tintil the death of such person is duly cetii•
tied as provided by :his act ; and no appoint
, :tient of guardians to the person or estate of
any minor, shall be valid, until the bit th of said
minor, and death of his or her parents, shalt
have been duly certified accolding to the pm
visions of this act. The Register's hooks, or a
certificate 110111 the same duly authenticated
under seal, shall be received in all the. Courts
of this State as prima ficia evidence of any
marriage, birth or death. The Register of each
county shall receive ten vents for rogisteriug
each marriage, birth, and death, to be pail out
of the enmity neasury ; Three cent cam.
, Ming, each witness, 25 cents when die iestinot•
ny in reduced to writing : 50 cent , for etitlittg
up the Retool on an appeal; and Sr. cents f or
granting a certified copy of the Rmo!. The
record. The Registers shall transmit setni-att
neatly, iu January and July of each year, to
! the Secretary of the Commtmweulth, copies
Of their several records - of mamages, births,
and deaths, which shall be filed in the Seely
: tary's office; and he shall annually lay before
the Legislature an abstract of the whole num
ber of marriages, births and deaths %%hick
have occurred et the State dut leg the preceding
year.
The bill miginated, we believe, wilt Mr.
Armstrong, a member of the House of Repre
sentatives from Philadelphia, and although
cumpliance with its'detailewill be found some
what vexatious and burdensome, 3et it will
doubtless prove useful for the plesetvation of
testimony relative to the important events of
which it takes cognizance, as well as 'for as
certaining many interesting facts connected
with the slit jests of heabli, poimlation and the
domestic relations.
Eintztown Haltalliosa
Our neighbor of the ."Detimerat" in passing
his ill timed remarks upon the "Ringgold Ar
tillery" a cornpauy get up in Reading, in honor
of the brave hero whose nanie It bears, receives
the following well meri , cd rebuke 40111 a cot
respondent of the '•Reading Gozelte,' who
signs himself “Captain Bragg." The article
of the Democrat also appeating below
"Besides the Ringgold Artillery, (rather a sor
ry specimen, by the way, of the Artillery got up
by the lamcmcd hero whose name they have
chosen,)
. there were several companies from
Reading, and the LLIII crs,IIILES, Capt. Sam.
son, from Allentown. The Liner wile accompa
nied.oy the Union Masa Band of this place, and
altogether made a display tar superior to that
of any one Company we saw there.. We say
this in no disparaging spirit; tint hi simple jus
tice to our townsmen .who compo s e the ranks
of the reneibles".—.l/kafttam Lk/tits:fat.
The above' i, clipped from an article on the
Kutztown Batallion, published in the organ of a
little village over in “Lecha" county. We are
fat a lot ' s to know what could have induced the
editor to pen so ridiculous and norhe'ons nit ar•
title, and must conclude, out of pure charity,
that he was citht.r not at Kutztown at all, or, if
'here, too much intoxicated tollialiC use of his
organs of r: inn. The "Ring,g - ild Artillery,"
upon which the editor seeks to cast a 'slur, is, to
I say the least, in appearance, the first olunteer
corps in our bale, and cue of which our city i,.
itt,ily proud. Their uniform it preci3rly the
same as that u rir ft by the "lamented hero whose
Mime they have chilaen, " and, therefofe, not a
I whit inure sore) in appearance than was, his,
when we add to this, that they number sisty men,
completely equipped, and drilled on foot, as In
fantrt., Independent of their battery drill, with te.
washable preciAon and Mleriness, the astonish
ment of the fender must be still further increas
ed at the critique of this military editor, who
makes such a laughable effort to appear cutting,
but who, as Dogberry would say, effectually
writes himself down au aria,
Proteotion in the United States and
England.
We ask the attention of the public to the fol
lowing letter from . Henry Clay. In- it the•ven
erable Statesman discusses the difference toe
tween the United States and England with re
ference to the question of Protection to Home
Industry, and as usual does not dibcuss it in
vain. Tho letter was addressed to Messrs. D.
Simmons Cc Co. of this City, who had sent Mr.
Clay a prp.ent of some of their manufactures.
New Ywk 1 . ) ibune :
Asat....sn, Monday, April 26, 1861
(iENTL P.M EN
Prior to my reaching home, your
favor of the 12th inst. arrived Irere i and I have
since safely received the Case, containing two
Axes and the Hatchets, which you have done
me the favor to present to me, I beg your ac
ceptance of my cordial thanks and warm ac-
knowledgments . for therm . - Nothing-could-ex
teed the beam . ), and excellence of their finish
and this praise is due both to the handles and
to the Axes and Hatchets. Such is their neat
ness twat while they are admirably adapted, to
the practical purposes' for which they are in
tended, they will form not 'unsuitable orna
ments for the table of a parlor. lam very
glad to hear that you have sent specimens of
your manufacture to the great exhibition
which is to take place Louden nest month.
They will I have no doubt defy all com
petition abroad as the American has defied all
loreign cornpetion in our own country.
I am notch gratified to learn from you that
this branch of Atrictican manufacture is car
ried ou with stall success as to need no pro ,
tection.
Such f,runately is the ease with many oth
er branclie, , , aid if the Tariff could be taken
up is a calm, moderate national F pith ; 1 have.
no doubt that a jubt..measure of protection
might bo accorded to the few objects of native
industry requiring it, without prejudice to any
interest.
England by her great advancement in the
arts and civilization and from the fact-of our
havieg originated fromiters•and front the very
great extent of our Commercial intercourse
with her, exeicises a large, perhaps too large
an influence iyou our councils by her exam
ple. Ileoce her doctrines of free trade have
been imported, as extensively as her merohan•
dire, and are prevailing to a degree which
those who have adopted - them, will I think
and it necessary to limit Or modify. The eon•
dition of I:4:land is widely different from that
of tht United States, in respect to indushial
rurquits. There the perfection to 'which man
nlactures have been carried by great skill,
abundant Capital, cheap labor, and long expe
rienee, ren ders protection unnecessary. They
can safely encounter any competition at home
ur ab,,,ad. Ii is different with the English ug
ricultine. that is supposed to need protection
aganist uompetition, by eminent Eng
state.tneu, and a struggle is now in pro.
vess m England upon thin question . ; between
the pn:mboirm of the Cities told that the
Country. The reverse is our condition in the
United S:tees. Ilere our agriculture needs no
-protec:inn, but a few branches of our mauulae
tines minim, for a limited period, a reasona
ble and tuodelale degree of it ; %vitt' such en.
eouragcntent they will at no distant day, attain
a maturity and perfection which would enable
them to vie with those of any other country ;
and, in tin: meantime, we should avoid those
rev ulsions in Commerce and monetary affairs,
which there is too touch reason to apprehend
may result from too free and unrestricted an
importation of foreign merchandise.
' I and greatly obliged by your kind and friend
ly oiler to fill the case which you have sent
me with new tools when these which I have
received 1MV1.3 worn 001. I believe that !shall
hardly have occasion to avail myself of your
goodness, as these will last me us long as I
shall live.
I play you, Gentlemen also to accept, my
7ratelul aeknoe•ledgements for the sentiments
of pen.ontil regard, anitehment and confidence
which yon du ate the honor to entertain to.
%yard me.
I aro, with great respect, your friend and
obedient F.er van I. 11. CLAY.
" 1112s,rs. D. Simmons & Co , New York.
Elf:slotted Domestic Bible —Nos. 20, 21 and
22, of this beautiful and comprehensive edition
of Ma Holy Scriptures, have been received.—
They bring the work nearly to completion, and
it will suet appear entire, bound in various
styles to stilt the tastes and means of all. No
better, or more complete Family Bible has
ever been issued. It contains a large number
of hist! nctivo engravings and maps, copious
marginal inferences, au exposition of each
chapter, embracing the views of the leading,
Commentators, ts it:l reflections- drawn from
the slily 'cis of the Chapter, together with ques
tions at the end, for funnily examination. The
chapters arc also divided into convenient les
s Ons, for each morning and evening's reading
thioughout the year. Edited by Rev. lute rant
Cobbin, M. A. Published by S. Iluesten, 139
Nassau street, Now York. Single numbers 25
cents.
Pare/mod Contrudirged.—Same rabid
partizan sheets have recently charged Governor
Johii,:trln with having pattlotted George W.
Hornet ha had been convicted of several bur,
glaries in Delaware county, and sentenced, in
May Jas', to fifteen years in the. Eastern Penitenti,
ary. We find in the 1141rislwg American of
irsterthy, a full and emphatic contradiction of
this. as follows ;
This statement is entirely false. Nil such
person as Georges W. Horner has been pardoned
by Gov. Johnston, nor do 'we know of any. par.
dotted convict for whom the above_paragraph
might possibly be intended. It is merely a con_
teinptible falsehood, fabricated by an nnsorupu
loos partizan sheet.
LIP - The mountains 'in Vermont are still coy
crud with :-.liuw
Califortkia and Oregon
The news from. California Is highly favorable
to our hopes . of the ultimate prosperity of that
great State., The struggle for good local and
State Uovsrantents is still going on ; and though
in some diitricts the stern justice of Lynch law
is still resorted to, for the protection of society,
yet there are signs of a more becoming adminis.
(ration of law, which promise to come into force
upon those who outrage the public mind by acts
of robbery, violence, and bloodshed. The news
paper press—the great lever of civilization, when
well directed—is having a vast influence upon
the enterprise and industry of California, and the
world has never seen such a spectacle as is
presented by the numbers of daily and weekly
journals which are published in that new coun
try. The polder which such a series of rapidly
published papers may have on the public mind,
it is true, may be for good or for evil. Much
depends upon the community—but it is gratify.
Tag - tti - that - generally - the-Cal iforn ia-newspa—
pers are devoted to law and order, and to the
greatest prosperity of the people ailarge, as an
intelligent and industrious community.
There are two. facts in the news from Cali
nia .and Oregon, which are quite important, as
they are °minions of the future progress of our
citizens on the Pacific. The enterprise of the
people is. fast urging them to seek for further
territory upon which to exercise their skill and
industry, and evidences are fast springing up
that the annexation of Lower California will be
an event not very far distant. Even the mines
of Mexico, of Durango and Sonora, seem to yield
but scantily, under the impulses which work
them, as communicated by the Roilischilds, the
timings, and other foreign capitalists. Labor,
directed by zeal, is the best capitalist in mining
°iterations ; and the day must come when the
people of the United States will ascertain the
real productiveness of the mines within the ter
ritory of Mexico. 'T he Mexican government,by
imprisoning Americans, and by neglecting to
enrich themselves by the resources of the soil,
are creating a thirsty spirit among adventurers,
which must, sooner or later, end in the move
ment of a large portion of the American people
towards that territory.
With regard to the future commercial spirit of
Oregon and California we have great hopes, on
account of the recent discoveries of valuable
coal deposits on the Pacific coast. This fact
will cause a great increase cf the steam marine,
and we shall soon have a line of steamships es
tahlished.between the. Pacific coast and China.
Already the goveinment is in treaty for the des
patch of mails, by steamers, to the Sandwich Is
lands, and the prospect is that, in a short time,
Oregon and California will become as highly fa
vored by commercial facilities as any ,t,f the
States on the Atlantic seaboard.
Sunbury and Erie Railroad
A neighboring journal says of this project
which we fully endorse—
" The idea of connecting the lake with the sea,
board was conceived arid put into proper train
for future service by one of the most enlightened
and prophetic minds, of which the whole social
and commercial history of Philadelphia can
boast. ePhis sir,' said General Packer, in a
speech delivered in the Senate on the 21st of
February,. .was the favorite project of the late
Nicholas Biddle, of your city (Phiadelphia,) anti
whatever may be said of him as a politician or
financier, all agree that on questions of internal
improvement and commerce he was one of the
most saga cious and farseeing statesmen in this
Union.• His fault was, if fault it be, that he was
twenty years in advance of the age in which he
lived. Sir, his towering mind enabled him afar
oIT to
'See the tops of distant thoughts,
Which men of common stature never saw.'
Had he lived, and maintained the strong hold
which he once had on the affections of Phila
delphia, that city would long since have been
placed, in relation to the trade 1 have attempted
to describe, where New York and Boston now
are. And in order to show that Gen. Packer
was not mistaken in the views he so clearly and
eloquently expressed on thaisubject, we will ad
vert for a moment to the statistical records of
the value and capacity fur infinite development
of the trade, which entered so largely into the
anticipations of the future greatness of his na
tive city, which excited the pride and enlisted the
energies of Mr. Biddle."
The fact is, that Nicholas Biddle, as a states
man, dear to Pennsylvania, can only be appre
ciated by posterity, when the blunders of others
are forgotten, and when prejudices against him.
self are buried in the grave, that ought long
since to have received them. The improvement
is one that recommends itself from its own mer
its; but, as General Packer observes, Mr. Diddle
lived in advance of his time, we think half a
century at least, and Pennsylvania may always
feel proud to boast of him, as New York boasts
of her De Witt Clinton.
National Convention
The National Convention of the Order of Uni
ted American Mechanics convened at the Coun•
ty Court House, in Lancaster at 10 0' clock yes.
terday mdriong.. There were in. attendance
delegates front New York,' Delaware, Mary
land, North Carolina, Ohio, New Jersey, M issou
ri, Virginia, and our own State, to the number of
one hundred. The Convention was itilhrmally
organized, by electing Vnt. P. Thomas, Esq.,
President, and Lewis Blanche, Secretary.
The convention organized permanently yes.
terday slim noon, by electing the following offi•
ccrs : Presid.mt,John Marshall, uf • Maryland ;
Vice Presidents, Daniel Meloy, of Missouri,
Wm. D. Wirt, of Ohio, Ja mes Hindman, of Vir
•ginia, Chas. Lord. of Delaware; Secretaries,
Louis Blanche, of New York, T. L. Pounder, of
Pennsylvania; Doorkeeper, 8. A. liurlburt, of
Connecticut, tleargcnt at-Arms, Isaac T.Agar, of
N ew Jersey ; gatshal, B. C. Peek. of North Car
olina. The, object of the Convention is the pro.
motion of the Order;
tgrThe narroWes4 escape we ever heard of
was that of - the chaP Who crept through a knot
hole, when his wife was chasing liut with a
broomitir!c.
Apportionment under the Seventh
Census.
•
The Republic of the 29d publiihes an inter
esting table of the population of the United
States, prepared at the Censtut Bureau, exhibit._
int; the apporticTiimeht — Of Congressional Repre
sentatives under the law of last congress. - We
understand the correctness of the returns are
not yet entirely vouched ; but we presume they
are sufficiently so as to render it probable
there will be no change in the apportionment as
given. The following is a portion of the table
showing total free and slave population, and
,
the number of Representatives allowed to each
State..
States. Total free. Slaves. No. of Rep's
Alabama, 478,765 342.894 6
Arkansas, 162,658 46,983 , 2
California, 200,000 --
Connecticut, 370,604 --
Delaware, 89,239 2.289
-Florida,- 48,046-- ---- 39,341-- ---
Georgia, 515,669 365,966 7
Indiana, 988,734
Illinois, 868,298 --
lowa, 192,122 •
Kentucky, 779,728 221,768 9
Louisiana, 20 9 ,955 2 30,607. 4
Maine, 282,232
Massachu's. 994.271
Maryland, 492,799
Mississippi, 292,434
Michigan, 295,703
Missouri, 594,843
N. Ha mp'st e. 317,931
New 'York, 3,090,022
New Jersey, 498,552
I N. Carolina, 4580,458
t• 01 :o, 1,977,031
Pennsyl n'a 2,311,081
R. Island, 147,555
S. Carolina, 283,544
Tennersee, . 773,599
I Texa::, 131,057
Vermont, 313,466
Virginia, 948,053
Wisconsin, 304,226
19,9'27,085
pis. ColnCia. 48,090
Terra dries
Minnecota, 6.192
New Mexico, 61.632
Oregon, 20.000
Utah, 25,000
20.087,909 3,175,589 2is
Representative for fractional nuinber.,, 15
Whole number representatives,
;Inc:10,110g 710 civilized Indians
Recapitulation.
Total free Slaves. Representative
population. pop. population.
free Slates 13,533,328 119 13,53:L399
Slave :States, 6,393,737 3,115,783 8,299,.^•<'6
lli.trict, &
1 64.82 1 3.687
Ten
20,07,900 3,179,5EW 21,632.65
Tntal free populauon,
Siavec,
Rano of Reprcsenta
Singular Mistake
A Liverpool paper describes a mistake in
connection with a child which occurred in Liv
erpool on Tuesday.last. An irish woman, with
a child aged about 16 months, who was about to
emigrate to America, stopped at a lodging house
in Regent street, kept by a person named Pvne.
This party understood that the vessel in which
she had taken her passage, and on board which
she had placed her provisions, would not sail be
fore the following day. In the course of the af.
ternotin, mud was btought to thelodgingdiouse
that the vessel was about leaving the dock to
proceed to sea. This announcement threw the
woman into a state of extraordinary excitement
lest she should lose her passage. She accord•
ingty gathered her clothes with all concievable
speed, and having done so, rushed into the
kitchen, and seized what she conceived to be her
child, and hurried away, and got on board the
vessel as she was passing through the dock
gate. A steam tug instantly took the vessel in
tow, and brought her out to sea. Shortly after
getting on board, the woman discovered that in
her hurry she had left her own child behind, and
had taken a•child about the same size anti age,
belonging ton man at whose house she had been
staying. The poor woman told the parties in
charge of the tug boat the mistake which she
had committed, and requested them to convey
the child back to its parents. Fearing, howev
er, that the woman wanted to get rid her child,
they refused to take it, and Master Tyne is now
on his.way to New York. The child left behind
is a female.
Improved Printing Press. '
A small model of an improved printing press
has lately been deposited in the Patent. Office, at
Washington, by the inventors, Mr. Hathaway, a
printer, and M. titrippel, a machinist, of Nor.
'folk, Va. They have applied fur a Patent. The
Washington Republic says:
'There are many points in this invention
which claim originality ; but its principal fea
ture, and which alone will recommend it for gen
eral use, consists in the great economy of ma
chinery. The Napier, with its heavy cylinder,
railway, cug. wheels, &c., the average cost of
which exceeds $1,400, Vat last met by a rival,
•stripped fur the race," with orie.third of the
machinery, simple in construction, perfect in
regularity of Movement, for the bum of $500.
The average speed is one thousand sheets per
hour, two persons being required towork it.—
Possessing a half rotary movement, it can, bow.
ever, be worked with ease by one person, at the
rate of 500 sheets per hour. •
"Bruce & Co., 01 New Yiirk, some time since
offered a premium of 7500 fur the beat and cheap
est binproved prititing press, and Messrs. MUM,
way & Strippel, we learn, are constructing one to
send to that city, that they may claim the reward "
due to their ingctintty."
ME
liarTrepare - a bed and sow celery seed for
late crop. If yOu have plants set them out.
WHoe, but do not hill the bulps of onions
cleanliness and an open suit is all that is
needed.-
C2'Bow the seeds of red peppers, of sorts, for
your main crop..
13irFor your late crop of tomatoes you may
still sow seed.
'The three cent pieces have been put in
circulations and have found their way into the
country. Thsy are a very pretty coin and will
be convenient.
Folly.—to think that you can matte Inirit
out of pig iron, or that you can become a shoe
maker by just drinking sherry cobblers.
reThe Locusts have made their:appearance
2 I in Lancaster.
CR"The best medical leeches are found in wa
ters that abound with frogs.
...rjr..Fluuris_au.excellent article in its place,
but we depreciate the rubbing of It upon ladies'
0 I faces.,
GrA man six feet 10 inches in height was
found drowned at Cincinnati.
liN'Gently, as dew upon the openitig flower,
falls the influence of a mother's virtuous con-
duct
II rThe citizens of Little Rock, Arkansas,
are having a beautitul block of gray graniic
prepared fur the Wal..hibgton National Monu
ment. .r.
89,900
300,119
E" lrlte Oswego Journnl says that sikteen
twenty fugitive slaves pasn through that place
weekly to Canada.
r.rA lot of land in New Imk, 100 feet cluar,e,_
was sold at auction the other day for $90,000.
Think of that.
MU
11U
288,312
tiathit beet! , every week throughout,
the tnunth.
394,9'25
249,519
53,346
Sickness no Me Western Rivers.—The Cincin
natti Gazette says many of the cases recorded as
cholera on board the boats of the Mississippi and
Ohio are cases of ship fever and other discuses.
It is surpriSed that there is not more sickness.
among the emigrants, stowed and stewed on tho
decks of the river steamers. •The emigrants, pa,
passage across the are crowded' .
below deck, vith little ventilation, with f our
food, and no exercise. On arriving they in
dulge' freely in fresh fish, the s cheap tropical:
fruits that are temptingly displayed, and vegeta
bles already in process of decay, 4fter
genre in this way, exposed on the levee in the.
sun, and wet,' night and day, they crowd them
selves - into - dm stroallest compass and Most in
convenient accomoodations, where, half fed, and
with little or no rest. they are exposed to tho
heat of the engine, and the cold and daMp night
air front the river—frozen, steamed and stewed„
alternately, day after day. Few can live thm . melt
this process long, and many sicken, and' die .
without care.
473,0'26
3,173,092
3,697
Mr. Cobb's Vale'? Nrrerh.—The Savannah Re.:
publican, received by Tuesday night's mail, con
tains the great Union speech of Mr. Speaker
Cobb before an immense assemblage at Savan
nab. The following is an e:mliet relative to the
action of South Carolina: "For one he hoped
Georgia would give her to understand, so far as;
we are concerned, that she need look for no aid
or sympathy from this State in her elms to
overthrow the Government. We may regret tha .
course she has marked out; we may even syrri=
.
pathise with her; but nothing more. We can
never raise our hands against the Union fur any.
thing in the past besides."
20.087,900
8.179,580
23,287,498
93,702
Planting Cabbagc.—Manure and dig up a good
clay mould bed, rake it with care, and plant out
plants; they must he set in rows three feet apart,
the plants two and a half feet asunder in the
rows. Seize the first season to do this, in order
that your family may have early collards and
headed cabbages upon the dinner table: In
drawing the plants from the plant bed, be care
ful ; have a mixture of two parts mould, one part
soot, and one part flour of sulphur, reduced tip
the consistence of cream by water; as the plants
are withdrawn frOm the bed, dip their roots and
stems in up to the first series of leaves; by this
care the plants will go onward, take root soon.
cr, grow more vigorously, while the bitter and
sulphurous compound will keep off* grub and
cut, worms.
Boy killed by on.Etephonl.-We are informed
that during the exhibition of the Menagerie, in
Derby on Wednesday last, a little boy was killed
by being struck with the trtink ofate,ilephant
Columbus. lie was amusing himself, in - cow.
parry with other boys, by feeding the elephant
with nuts and other articles, whet( for' the sake
of von he pricked the animal upon the trunk
with some sharp instrument, which enraged him,
and the buy becoming frightened, withdrew into
tile crowd. Bvori after he approached toward
the elephant, though cautioned to keep away by
the keeper, when he received a blow on the head, •
which injured hint so severely that he died.—
Neu , Haven Journal.
Pally Cunt/ Euting—Bi the following bill of
fate at the Dunkirk Celebration last week, it is
very manifest that the President and his Cabinet .
were well fed. The fare is tolerably substantial .
as well as being rather plentiful. The first ar
ticle named in the bill, we suppose is In compli
tnent to Mr Webster:
• Bill of Fare.—Chowder ; a yoke of oxen bar
bacued whole; 16 sheep roasted whole; beef a
la mode; boiled hams; corned beef; buffalo ,
tongues, bologna sausage ;'beefy tongues, stun.
ked and pickled ; head cheese ; pork and beans
50 roast turkies;'loo roast fowls ; hotcoiree,&c.
Coutilgrfeit.—A counterfeit Gold pullar, well
calculated to decieve, is described'-as follows.-
1 ' It feets greasy to the touch, is rather thicker
than the'genuine, is of lighter color, and :has a
dull, leaden ring.; The wording," United States:
of America," and the word " dollar,"are dull, and
have nut the clear slim p appearance of those of
genuine, •
inunatae - Rock7Piah.--On -- Friday -afternoon
last a rock fish weighing 67i pounds was'
caught at. the••fishery on the Delaware. .iushorg'
distance below the Lazaretto station s . It was
four feet six inches hing,, and three iu tiirCutu:
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