c NEUTRAL IN POLITICS, Mlooto to News, fit - et - Mitre, iloetrn, Scienceinleclytnic, I.grictilture,.the Eligusion of Mufti! Jiiformation, Orlin - al „Intelligence, 'amusement, illarffeto, VOLUME V. THE LEHIGH REGISTER , Is published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa.,every Thursday 1111( A IJGIJSTUS L. I{llllE, A tsl. 60 per annum, payable in advance, and $2 00 if not, paid until the end of the year. No paper discontinued, until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the proprietor. Anvan•rrar:area•rs, making not more than one square, will be inserted three limes for one dollar and for every 'subsequent insertion t.ventyfive cents. Larger advertisements chargd in the, same proportion. Those not exceeding ten lines will be charged seventy-five cents, and those making six lines or less, three insertions for 60 cnts. EY'A liberal deduction will be made to those w•ho advertise by the year. Ur — Office in Munition St., one door East ol the German Ihyormerl Chnreh, nearly opposite the 64 1riedensoothe Ogee." Catasauqua Headquarters. JAMES W. FULLER, Most respectfully in vites the attention of the public to the fact that r r y he has taken the above tanned House, recent ly occupied by Jesse in the village. of Catasauqua, and that he is now prepared to accommodate visitors and the travelling public in the best manner. Ile Will give his sole attention to his business, and there fore confidently believes that he shall be enabled to render satisfaction to whoever I may favor hint with their custom. His TABLE will, at-all times, be sup plied with the best the market affords ; Ii is BAR be stocked with the choicest Wines and Liquors ; his S'l'A BLING attended to in the hest manner. I lis rooms are large, airy and convenient, and the utmost clean liness will be observed in the Beds and Bed.; ding. In short, the proprietor of the "Cat asnuqua Headquarters" will spare no pains .or expense to render his guests comfortable. He therefore cordially invites his friends and the public generally to give him a call May I, 1851. 11-3 in The Navigation Opened ! Philadelphia, Illlentown Alauch Chunk TRANSPORTATION LINE, For transporting inercharnlize between Philadelphia, New Hope, Easton, Free manshurg, Bethlehem, Allentown, Weiss port, Mauch Chunk and White Haven, and all intermediate places along the Delaware and Lehigh Canals; shipping from Budd rontly'N Third Wharf, below Vine street, un the Delaware. 1111ECKEE3, LONG, & Have lately purchased the Line oo'l3oani, known for the last two •ears as the Tren ton and Lehigh Transportation Line and previous as Cook's Line. They being new beginners, hope, by careful and prompt attention to their bust ness to get a liberal share of patronage. The proprietors have large and commo dious Store House at all the above named stopping places. HECKER, LONG, & CO., Proprielora. .11 GENTS Stephen Long, Philadelphia, Samuel L. Opie, New Hope, G. W. House! & Co., Eaton, & A. Bachman, Freemansburg,. Charles Seidel., Bethlehem, William Hecker, Allentown, Lewis Weise, Weissport, Robert Klotz, Mauch Chunk, A. Pardee & Co., Hazleton, Horton & Blakeslee, White Haven. March 6 -- --- Lehigh County Mutual Fire Insurance COOMIPAZI \4 4):tcI Capital $600,000 DIRECTORS—Jacob Wenner, Israel Wes (:), Jonathan Diefenderfer, Jacob 'Yeager, Jadob Heninger, Daniel H. Bastian, Hi rani Schantz, Henry Schantz, Peter Wick ert, iieuben Danner, Jacob Sclitnoyer, Ed ivard Kidder and Beneville Yoder. This safe and well established company is always ready to insure ull kinds of build ings against fire, and upon the most reason able, (dins. ,• Person wishing to insure in this Compa ny eau make application to tiny of the of kers', orici`.‘ r their agents-4, 1 (10in .ffeiper, illsq4 in north Whitehall. or 13oneville Yoder,' in TttcFlertoWn. • • .J4'toa WENNER, President. iIIIARI ' SCIIANTZ, Treasurer. • . BENEvAtc YODER, Secretary nroy ir-4w fa: it:ie a a A. . T.TogNty - Al ,LAW. 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The Proprietors would inform their friends, and customers that they have .E ell 0 PE..D from (heir Old Stand, Brocks's Wharf, to the First Wharf above Vine Street, direct ly oppdsite the Salt Store of 'Fright 4. Nrphew. They also forward Goods to and from New York to Wilkes Barre and intermedi ate points via Delaware and Raritan Canal, and Delaware and Lehigh Canals. Goods Shipped by this Line from New York will go by S. Neitson, & S ' on' s Line of Vessels to New Brunswick, which will be forwarded at the Albany Basin, Foot Or Cedar street, North River. Any information required can be had of Messrs. Stewart & Mettler, No. f,4 Dey Street, at Messrs. Neilson & Son Agent's office, No SS West street. Merchants and others having goods to ship from New York to any of the above places, will find this route the nearest and most ex peditious. The Proprietors have lartze and commo dious Store Houses at Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk, White Haven and Wilkes Barre. ABLE, WILSON & CO., Proprietors dCENPS. 11. S. Moorhead. Philadelphia ; John Opdycke, Easton ; 13orheelt & Knauss, Bethlehem , A. J. Ritz, Allentown ; A. W. Leisenring, Mauch Chunk A. Pardee &Co., Penn Ilaven ; 13Ialteslee & Horton, White Haven and ViHies-Barre. April 10, 1851 ' r i —3ln Eel Fr HE season is nbw approaching •for this -i delicacy, and in view of the better ac commodation of the public, the undersigned has lately refitted his Ladles and Gentlemen's Saloon, in a new. neat and fashionable style. ICE CREAM of all kinds, with other seasonable delicacies and luxuries, will be served up front this lime to the end of the season. Fresh Vegetables, domestic and foreign fruit, &c., constantly kept on hand: Thankful for paSt patronage, he is ready to accommodate all his old customers and as many new ones as may think proper to favor him with a call: laPOpen every day and evening except Sunday. AARON .WINT. Allentown, May El 4: EMS VIUM ZOLI41 1 4 casErSITIRE! KERM 6 KLIME, Have lately returned from New York and Philadelphia, with their Second arrival of SPRING ~ I ND SUMMER GOODS among which will be found the latest French and English style of Ladies Dress Goods, - . Such as &revs, Berrge de Thins, fancy colored Silks, Pollard Silks, Silk Po plins, Lawns, white fancy Dress Goods, such as MO, Swiss 11, Bishop Lawns, Book Muslin,fig uredandplain Mantillas, • plain and figured Muslin, prints, gloves, hos- 1 iery, &c., all of which will be sold 20 per' centuin cheaper than at any other establish ment in town. A LSO, A large and varied assortment of gentle men's Spring ,and Summer Dress Goods, such as Cloths,Prench, English,and /Mar ican,lancy Cassimcres and ITest ings, 4.c., 4.c. The goods have all been selected with the greatest care, and the assortment is such as will not be found in any other store in Allentown. The public well knoW that the motto of the New York Store is Quick •S'olc3 , Yniall Profits Therefore keep it in r , -!Collection that , Kern & Klitie',s Store' is the place to make good ba rga ins May 15 'lle Navigation Opened, 4 ._ .14...1 7 0..‘j 1 ;','if ',4;- - - , 7 ,.. i...-:-.,=c,- , -- I,- ....,:;:: da 44: .----12 , -- ,4 4 ;1•_.- '. :i. 7t;:17 , 2 , :.: -• '- --- _ - .7 ..., -: -._ - lint's Ice Cream Saloon! Mealy Refitted! ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH CO Builders Look Ilene .IVEW , tiASSORTMENT OF w al la a The undersigned announce to the public, that they have just returned from Philadel phia and New York, with a very large iot of Hardware, consisting of . House Furnishing `3k' - 73NT'l Cutlery, Coach Trimmings, Saddlery and Shoe-findings, all of which will be sold at extremely low prices. They ask the public to give SAEGER'S HARDWARE --v OA &conk:, sign of the do I° a call, in order to Convince themselves of the fact, that a , penny saved is a penny made.' 0. & 1 SAEGER. May 8 To ilousc-Keepers. A great assortment of !louse furnishing articles, such as ENA MELED and tinned inside, cooking vessels, sauce and stew pans, preserve ket tles, fish arid ham kettles, frying pans, grid irons, waffle irons, &c. TEA TRAYS and Waiters, from com mon to fine, in sets and dozens. Also, goth ic form, in sets, and in variety of patterns. KNIVES and FORKS—its sets and doz ens ; also knives only ; carvers, steels, cook and butcher knives, with a variety of other mann factures. WEI POCKET and *PEN KNIVES—Razors, scissors, shears, from the best makers ; one, two,•three, and 4 btade knives. SHOVELS, spades, hoes, chains, rakes, pick, axes, &c. SHOVELS and TONGS, Iron and braes polisited steel fire sets and standards, coal hods, tailors' irons smoothing, irons &c.. and for sale by • 04 J SAEGER. IRON.—A lot of Hammered and Rolled Iron, Sheet Iron, American and English Band Iron, I-loop Iron, Cast and Shear Steel, square, flat, and round, just received with Anvils and Vices, arid for sale cheap at the store of 0 & J SAECxER, GLASS.-150 13oxes Gluts, 8 S by 10, 10 by 12, 10 by 14, 10 by 15, 12 by 16, and various other seizes, for bale by TO NIECE] ANICS.—TooIs of every de scription, such as Bench and Aloulding Planes, [land, Pannel, and Back Suws, Brace and Bats, Auger Butts, Ilatchets,, Squi,res, &c., for sale .by TO SHOEMAKERS.—Just received a new assortment of Morocco and Binding Leather, Lasts, Shoe-thread, Wooden Pegs' French Rubers, and numerous other artic les belonging to the shoemaking business NAILS,--300 Kegs of the best Nails, Brads and Spikes, just received and for sale by U& J SAEGER. OILS & VARNISI-I.—Oils of all kinds, boiled and rat v,' Newark Var nish of all kinds, Glue &e.,--will be sold cheap by o & J SAEGER. PLANES.--A full assortment of Planes of John Bell's best Inal4e, also a large assort ment of Carpenter's Tools, for sale cheap by 9 & J SAEGER. WHITE LEA D.-2 tons of White Lead just received, Pure and Extra, and for sale by 0 Ss J SAEGER. HOLLOWAttE.-500 Iron Pots and Kettles, just received and for sale at very reduced prices at the store of ¶-3m a!tly 8 To Itstilders. _ - A splendid assortment of Front and Parlor Locks with mineral knobs, german Locks, Latches, Bolts, Hinges, Screws, Paint Brush es, and a variety of other building Hard ware just unpacking, and for sale cheaper than ever by '0 Sfr, J SAEGER. May 8,11-1 y Two Journeymen Tailors lATANIEWD. Two Journeyman Tailors, or sober and industriotis habits, and good workmen, can find constant employment, either by the job or week, if they make immediate applica r tion to' the undersigned, residing at Sieg fried's Bridge, in North Whitehall town ship, Lehigh county, May 10 0 & J SA EGER & J SA EGELZ O & J-SAF.GER O & J SAEGER GEORGE DANIEL *-4tv PM INTY, _PA.,JUNE 5, 185 Clocks and Watches. Choi Ws S. adassey, k.RESPECTFULLY informs his friends tat lie, has . recieved nt his establishment, riparly. ophosite the , Gorman Reformed shiarch•ip • Allentown. alarge assortment of s t V;. - ... ' JEWLIRY, CLOCKS, :Mie.' WATCHES, 2 i , E ,' ~) 1 11 ) consisting of GOLD and ) ' . ;,,,, . I ;. SILVER Patent Levers, ;:`` . e g 'c:46' Quartier and plain Eng '::"..:- .:.--t - L — lish and French. ‘Vatch es-sold by him are warranted, and as low as the same quality can be purchased at other establishments in town or elsewhere. His assortment of Clocks consist of Brass eight day, thirty hours, and alarm, from 3 to 12 dollars. ilk selection of .Towelry consists in part of Gold rings, Bracelets, Breastpins, Broach es Gold and Silver Pencils, Watch-chains, Keys, Gold Pens, of a superior quality, &c. He has also on hand n variety of F✓l NCI' .711?TICLES, Such as steel•bends for purses and work bags, Silver tea and table spoons, Gold and Silvt r, Spectacles, to suit all ages, Spectacle glasses, Silver thimbles. Every article sold by him, is warranted to be such as represented, and should they prove otherwise can be returned, and the money Will be refunded. I ii • stock has been purchased with a view to supply the citizens of this county with good and genuine articles in his branch, and which have been selected from the best and most extensive houses in New-York and Philadelphia. He hopes by due attention to his business, and liWral prices, to. have a share of patronage. Lir — Clocks, Watches and Jewelry, repair ed in the best manner and at the shortest notice. Old Gold and Silver taken in ex change for Goods. Call and see, then judge for yourselves. May 1,1 S5l, ¶-3m. .1 1 'ear Invention I warmers Look Here I 1,&101111 R.?" s PATENT CULTIVATOR. The subscriber having purchased the right of "Lamhurn's Patent Cultivator" for Lehigh county, nov offers this valuable ag ricultural implement to the farmers of this community. As the undersigned inanufac-, tures the Cultivators at his establishment in the village of Catasauqua, Hanover town ship, Lehigh county, he can warrant the workmanship to be of the most durable character. Teal! who have made use of it, the full est satisfaction has been given, and all of whom agree in pronouncing it as superior to any Cultivator now in use. It may fur ther be said, that to this Cultivator the Pre mium was awarded by the Franklin Insti tute. October, 1850: The subscriber purchased the Patent at the dose of last season, and had not a suffi cient opportunity of introducing it to the public, yet succeeded in manufactiting a few of them, which the following named persons has had in use, and recommend it to the public as answering the purpose in a efficient manner, to viz: Peter 13ei1, Dani el Siegfried, William Schwartz, Frederick Guth, Samuel Kahler, George Yeager. Abraham Rohn, William Rohn, William Yaeger and Charles E. Chandler. Cultivator may he seen at the Hard ware Store of 0. & . .J. Saeger, in Allen town, where orders will be received and at tended to by ISAAC E. CHANDLER. May 2.2 QUEENSWARE The undersigned have just returned from New York with a large and general assortment of Ctueensware Which they feel disposed to sell very cheap. PRETZ, GUTH & CO. 11-4 w May 15 WILLIAM S , MA RX , ATTORNEYS COUNSELLOR. AT LAW Office in the western front room of the buildug of John D. Lowell, formerly Horn. beck's, west of the Courthouse. Allentown April 4, 1850. zet 1 - 11 al Wller nAs Daniel and hales S'atzinger, trading under the firm of D. 4-.1. liazin ger. in the Butchering business, have made a voluntary assignment, of all their proper ty, real, personal and mixed, baring date on the 30th of April, 1851, to the undersigned, for the benefit of their creditors. This then serves as a notice to all persons, who know themselves indebted in the - books of the said firm, that they must make settlement with in 30,days from the &do hereof. And such Who have yet legal claims against said firm, will also present, clairns well authenti cated Within the above specified time • JOSEPH NONNEMACHER, n • Thomas 0. GINKINOER, asugnee May 8. 11,—Ow sctections. music as the hend of the procession .came. alongside, was the first reporter to the:ear- L erom the Baltimore Sun of Tuesday] of what was going on. The eye also,..took. Confession of the Cosden Nassaere. measures of distances at. this point .which, were among the curious experiences of the I day. (Mai - icing alort7 the greatly narrowed lavenue marked by the continuous - double ; line of spectators between whom tlie.Queen I was to pass up the southern side, the per!" spective seemed to strech infinitely away, and the termination was 11 point which the, eye could not define. , When the proses-. sion turned this point, the fact could not be ascertained by the unassisted vission—and it had made some progress up the avenue when it was discovered by moans of a teles cope.—Then it was curious to watch how something di:n and unconfined seetnett,blot- Ling out the line along which the eye' ran—. shortening the distance whithout' revealing itself, like the - travel of a shadow :—till gradually it took masses and forms, and fi nally resolved itself into its, gay elements, and was taken up by; attending music! .diheneum. . We received, last evening, the following hasty letter from our correspondent at Ches tertown, written yesterday morning, a half hour after the confession to which it alluded, was made. It will be seen that a full de velopment of this bloody transaction has been made by one of the parties to the deed, and that all of the accused participants are in jail : CHESTERTOWN, May 26, 1551. Gentlemen—We have now a confession of one of the parties under arrest fur the Cosden massacre, which is thought to he worthy of credit. About the time of the murder, a man by the name of Hand, living near Blackbird suddenly, and without as signing any reason, left his home and %Tient to New Jersey. A few days after his wife also left. The movement of these people were of course regarded as suspicious, and efforts have for some time past been made to obtain a knowledge of their whereabouts. A few days since Mrs. Hand was brought to Che&tertown, and made statements to the following effect :—That on the morning a(- ter the murder, at a very early hour, a man by the name of Stephen Shaw, who board- I ed in the house with herself and husband, came canning into_the house with a mus ket in his hand, and very much under the niflut nce of liquor—that he told her the Cosden family were murdered, and that himnself, Taylor, Shelton and Murphy were the .parties—that he had been solicited by Taylor to join the conspiracy, which he supposed was only for plunder, and not fur murder—that he and Taylor proceeded, on the evening of the murder, to the Swantown mill (about a half mile from Cosden's) and were there joined by Shelton and Murphy ; that he had a - double-barrel gun, Taylor a musket, Shelton a double-barrel gun and double-barrel pistol and Murphy a double barrel gun. He then proceeded to state that uport arriving at the,,house, Taylor fired through the window and shot down Ccs len, and then, snatching away Shaw's gun, shot Mrs. Cosden, as she ran out. He also stat a that Shelton murdered Miss Cos den and Miss Webster, and Taylor shot the black women, but that Murphy took no part in the murder. He asserts that he himself was drunk and took no part ; in the murder, and that he was aft - eilvards so overcome by liquor that he fell it: the fence corner and lay there for several hours Shaw was wrested on Saturday, and this mcralng has made a full confesssion, corro borating all the statements made by Mrs. Hand. saying "that he knows that Mrs. Eland's testimony will ,convict him, and that he may as well make 41 clean breast of it." lie has been confronted with the parties charged and adheres in their presence, to all the particulars, as detailed by Mrs. [land. Murphy, he says, he had never seen be fore, but believes the man he sees in jail .1. Morphy.to have been the 11 111rderer. '('here is little or no doubt entertained of the truth of this confession. The cause of the sudden flight of Mrs. Hand, was fear that, us she possessed Shaw's secret, he might do her some bodily harm, to prevent her divulging it. A. Since the above letter came to hand we have conversed .with a gentlemen direct from Chestertown, who was present at the jail yesterday morning, when Shaw was con fronted with the prisoners, and made his confession. He says he never saw a more hardened set of men collected together. The excitement in Chestertown was intense, and great joy was manifested by the people at the certainty of all the murderers being in custody. 'Webster, the uncle to Mrs. Cos den, is now acknowledged to be free of all participatien in the bloody deed, and will be discharged in a few (lays. The prisoners are heavily chained together, and present a most revolting spectacle. Their trial will take place next week. Distances In the Crystal Palace. A gallery fur the accommodation of visi tors has been erected at the eastern extrem ity of the building, under shelter of the American Eagle:—and from this, the view down the long interminable nave—travel ling over the sunny central spot; and bring ing all the features and incidents of this main aisle into a single picture—was a marble to behold. " Strange measures of dis• lance present themselves at this point.-- When the ceremonial was in progress of the loud Anthem performed in the transept, half way down, 110 sound reached the east ern gallery ; and when the thousands cheered, the sound came to the ear like a fur, faint and often doubtful echo. From the moment when. the Queen turned west out; of the tanseptOn lier circuit of the nave, till .she reached it'.sgain by. the opposite side, all was silent for ;those in the gallery, Of the swelling music thut everywhere accom panied her march •not a note came over, the American frontier. .. The great organ in thu western gallery might as well have been playing over seas. The organ on.the floor fat east of the nave, which. poured" forth its' RIB Origin 'dale Quaker& In Lossing,.'s Pictorial Field I3ook of the Revolution, (the first of which, consisting of twelve numbers, has just been comple ted,) we find the following account of the origin of the Quakers. Like all else from theipen of its author; it is entitled to ere dence, as he is indefatigable in his mwr tions to give the most authentic inforini- Won: -- , •The Quaker sect sprang up in _Eng land about 1056, under Georg,e Fox, and re cieved their name from the peculiar sha kin,g or qualcing of their bodies while preach ing. They went furthur than the straitest. Puritans in disregarding human authority when opposed to the teachings of the Bible,: yet they were allowed full liberty of action during the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. They denounced war, persecution for re ligious opinions, and above all, the idolatry demanded by rulers in Church and State of those under their control. They condemn ed all ordained and paid priesthood.:, refus- , ed to take oaths, had thus, struck a direct • blow at the hierarchy. They differed from the Puritans in many things, and became noxious to them. They , derived their sys tem of morals and.polities‘chietly from the New Testament, while the Puritans took theirs from the more sanguinary and intol erant modes of the old dispensation •Lay • ing aside the falsehoods of politeness. and, flattery, they renounced all titlek addressed all nun, high or low, by the title of Friend, used the expressions yea and nay, and three and thou ; and offices of kindness and affec tion to their fellow -creatures, James, consti tuted their practical religion.• The Qua. kers might be regarded as representing' that . branch of the primitive Christians who ea-.. teemed Christianity an entirely new dispen anon, world-wide in its objects; while the Puritans representing those Judaizing, Chris ti", wt,,, 1111, net rid of the idea of tr t. c -peopie, to wit, themselves'." Perini/is had warned their, br..‘thr, , ti in America against these 'child ren in hell,' and the first appearance in the colony of Mary Fisher and Ann Atistin.' who came from Barbadoes, and professed .. . the new doctrine greatly alarmed the -New, - England theocracy: A special law, wai n .. enacted. by which to bring a known ker into the colony was punishable with a fine of five hundred dollars, and the exac tion of bonds to carry him back again. The Quaker himself was to be whipped twenty , stripes, sent to the House of. Correction, and.. • kept there until transported. The introduc tion of Quaker books was prohibited, defen ding Quaker opinions was punishable with fine, and finally banishment: and 'hi 1657 it was enacted that for every hour's entertain- ‘• moot given to a Quakeri the entertainer should lose an ear on the first conviction, and the other on a second; and both males and females, on a third conviction, were to • . have their tongues bored'through with a red hot iron. 1n1658 the death penalty was enacted. Under it those who Should re turn to the colony a second time, after ban ishment, were to suffer death, From un willingness to inflict death, it was provided by a new law, 1658, that any perion con victed of being a Quaker should be deliver ed to the conitable of the town, bit ed naked from the middle upwitrda; and tied • cart's tail and wipped through the town, and thence be immediately conveyed to the con stable of the next town toward the border of. our jurisdiction, and so from constable to constable, to the end cirehe outermost town, and so b 3 whipped out of the colony.' In • case of return this was to be twice repeated. • . The fourth time the Convict war to be branded with the letter R on the left shoul der and after that, if incorrigible, to incur the death penalty. Chitifly• through the instrementnlity of Bing William , diced pen-, al la*s against the Quakers were abrogated by royal.authority, and that :mitt hecaine an iMillortant element in Aifiericamsociety tturz ing the eighteenth century.'.i *•' "'Father,' said a *roguish boy, 41 hope,,o. you won't buy any more gunpowder tee.for, mother.' 'Why not 'Because every time site driuks it she blows me up' NUMBER 3&
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