Zl)c 1:e1)10) Allentoivn, THEISM, JUNE 6, 1661. Circulation ncar 2000. Drowns • • On Wednesday afternoon, between 5 and 6 o'clock, a son of Mr. John Myer, about 4 years of age, whilst fishing tor Frogs, in the head race of Preti, Guth, & Co's. Mill, accidentally slipped from the bank and fell into the water and no one being Orem, drowned. The boy not returning in the evening,•search was made along the race, as he had previously berth seen there, when the body was found neer the lore bay. This should serve as a caution to the many youngsters engaged in fishing along the different streams in our vicinity. Another Case. On Thursday night, between 9 and 10 o'clock, - Robert Lynn, a man engaged as Lock-tender, at the Out -let lock at Mr. Wheeler's, above the Allentown Bridge, aft it passing a boat, tell into thedock and it appears got fast in one of the wickets and drowned. The next morning search was made foillim and found as above stated. He loaves a wife and two children to mourn his untimely loss. He was buried on Saturday lust, the Rev. Mr. Becker officiating. Departure Extraordinary We were surprisingly informed, that our par ticular friend and neighbor Mifflin Barinum, Esq., editor and publisher of the widely circula ted and highly popular "Allentown Democrat," has left our Borough, beund for the City of Reading. It is — currently reported • that our friend goes to the Convention as a kind of pot rattler of the "Cameron party," a tribe not overly popular in "Little Lehigh." Wonder whether the Reading "Ringgold Artillerists" have any information of our friend's appear ance in that City—they would no doubt feel themselves under special obligations, and he 'ready to serve him with a"a little more grape" for the very flattering notice he paid them in ! his paper of the 22t1 ultimo. As our friend may have some leisure hours at Reading, we would recommend Captain Bragg, to place him under military discipline; but as his mind is very defective and his vision naturally very dull, we would advice the Cap tain to keep the intoxicating Cognac out of reach, crop his ems, (hut not too short as he is the only one of the species we have here) and you may not find him quite as big an ass, as you write him down to he. Concert . - We have the pleasure of announcing to the public that the highly celebrated Dcruort Fam ily, will give another Concert, on Wednesday evening, June 4th, at the Odd Fellows' Hall. They have been performing at Easton, Beading, Pottsville and other places, and the papers speak in the most eulogistic terms of their musical skill. In addition to her extraordinary vocal pow ers, Miss Marian Derworl, the oldest daughter and yet not sixteen, is accounted the best vio linist of her age in. the Union. Master Wit /lam, aged seven years, is a prodigy, executing the most difficult pieces on the violineello with all the skill and sweetness of. a master. The Concert on Tuesday evening was not so Well attended as %%to should have wished to see, owing probably to a misunderstanding as to their arrival. We hope however our citi zens will not fail to give them a crowded house. Farewell Concerts: another column of to-day's paper, our readers will find Mr. P. T. Barnum's Card of Mlle. Jenny Lind's "Farewell Concerts," which. - are to take place on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the 9th, llth and 13th, at the National Chestnut street, Philadelphia. Those -its willnpositively be the last the "Swede n Nightingale" will ever give in Philadelphia, and those from the country who wish to hear and see Jenny, should not fail to male it their bu siness to be present. Democratic State Convention, The Democratic State Convention, to nomi nate a Governor and Canal Commissioner, as_ sembled at Heading yesterday. There is much interest and indeed excitement visible in the ranks of that party, and unless oil is poured upon the discordant• elements by some happy peace maker, the Convention will be noisy.- -There have been strong recriminations already, as prologues to the event. We regret to see any departure from that dignity which should aceoinpany all the primary 'deliberations of a great party. Blows-and harsh language are not the arguments to be used by republicans when discussing the merits•olcandidatos. Keep the peace and your tempers, therefore, good Dem. ()Crane friends ! Who Can Beat It? Our friends of the "Friedensbothe" have for the last two•or•three weeks been treating their readers with articlea•of , extraordinary sized hen's eggs and challenge tie "State" of Berks county to beat it. Siuce the subject of raising Poultry hos become the order of the day, and as the fever is raging high, we would state in the way of "greens," that our friend Franklin Stettler, in William street, has• set seven hens, under each of which he placed fifteerj eggs, they jointly brought forth ninety-four chickens. If the "Friedenslitethe" men can raise any of their correspondents to beat Ibis, they shall be entitled to intr "Walter Hat." We understand that our friend Wilson of the "RepniAloaaer'; is very seriously attacked with.the "chicken.fever," and will give him a 41=0 lo.come in• lot the prize Newspaper Fanoiers. We have a friend who is a most notable specimen of this class. He is a regular virtu oso-in "perishable literature." He takes ten or twelve journals front different parts of the country, and would rather be deprived of his dinner—epicure though he is—than forego the pleasure of their perusal from day to day. He pays for them always in advance. He well knows the precarious hold that they have upon public approval, how the merest mistake of a pen may lose them hosts of subscribers; he is fully aware that brain work is, and ever has been, of all kinds, the most poorly remunera ted; and that editorial labor, no matter how much it may build up private interests, is al ways undervalued by its greatest debtors. He is a missionary in the good cause. He rea. sons with . his neighbors often and at length on the manifold advantages of a well regulated newspaper, and interests himself, sometimes to the neglect of his own business, in the col lection and forwarding of subscriptions. It always affords us great pleasure to watch him while reading one of his favorites, the Re gister, for example. He first unfolds it with great care, places it upon the stove, or. in the sun, and bends over to inhale the great ful odors that rise from its newly-printed surface. He watches the drying process with almost a schoolboy's impatience, and, when all is ready, seats himself snugly in a capacious rocking chair, poises his heels upon the table-edge, and abandons himself tolls pages. If the lead er specially harmonizes with his own views, he signifies his approval by frequent and noisy slapping of the left leg, and when his eye rests upon some particular itirt;ions point, lie leans back, and, with a glance at the ceiling. fixes its import forever in his memory. Ile carefully treasures tip important news items, and keeps a huge folio in which he pastes all sorts of statistics. He notes well the various fluctations in markets, and his ample fortune bears witness to the good use that he has made of his knowledge in that department. In short, nothing escapes his observation ; he never neg lects the poet's corner ; he has a hearthy laugh for the funny stories, he charges his mind with the raciest jokes, to be used in next day's con versation ; and we have heard him declare that a well-written advertisement pleased him more than any thing else in the world. He is a stay-at-home universal traveller, he can give you all the characteristics of Kamtschatka scen ery and climate; and narrates with ease all new discoveries. Ile is familiar with every new invention, at home and abroad, and know the whole history o,f "Paine's Light,'' and the merits of the "paddle-wheel controversy." You cannot catch him ofl his guard in re ligious, commercial, or political statistics; and as for United States history, lie can- treat you to a complete abstract, from the days of Amer icus Vespucius down to the receipt of the last paper. You must be careful how you venture on borrowed jokes in his presence—as he may quietly put you to the Llush by mentioning the date of their first appearance in the Register. He reads books, of course, but they are few in number; he knows that in many of them the ideas are sparse, and the words innumera ble—an ounce of butter or an acre of bread and he prefers to find the substance of the thing condensed in one of his newspapers. To conclude, he is happy in all his domestic relations—is a beloved husband and father, and the whole neighborhood repose with perfect confidence on his opinion. Ile is their Nestor, and his hearthstone is well worn with the feet of old and young. He is now in the decline of life, yet he finds the path easy and pleas ant, and, when he looks back upon the 'years that are fled,' he finds little that can cause him regret here, or mar his. prospects for happiness in eternity. Unpatented Lands. The Surveyor General has given notice to persons in possession, or owning unpatented lands within this Commonwealth, that the act of Assembly passed the 10th day of April, 1835, entitled "An act to.graduate lands on which money is due anti' unpaid to the Common wealth of Pennsylvania," and which act has been extended from time to time by supple mentary laws, which expire on the,first dfly of Ucccsiber nut ; after which time no abatement can be made of any interest which may have accrued upon the original purchase money. It will therefore be highly important to those in terested to secure their patents and the benefits of the said act, and its supplements, during the time the same will continue in force. The Pottsville Milling Register of I‘lay 31, says:—We call the attention of Our readers to the advertisement of the Commissioners for opening the . books to receive subscriptions to Mock in the Danville Railroad Conapany,char tered a few years since by the Legislature.— The stock must become valuable from the na ture and location of the proposed road. In connection with the Williamsport and Elmira, the proposed Sunbury and Erie, the Cattawis sa and Susquehanna, and the Delaware, Le high, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroads, this route is destined in a short time to be the main artery through which the valuable tim•, her and agricultural prodneto of the fertile val.. lies of the Susquehanna, and• the interior' of Northern and Western Pennsylvania, the min• eral of the bituminous region and the iron of Montour's Ridge,• will find their way to the seaboard. Poultry.—The poultry of the United States is valued in the statistics at 520,000;000—the State of New York having over two millions invested in it. In the egg trade the city of New York expends nearly- a•million and a half of dollars annually. The farms of the, country are bestowing a gmater amount of at• tention to the rising of .poultry, and it is.proba •bly one of the best sources of:revenue which they can have: . • . Secession and Abolition. We have repeatedly called the attention of our friends to the striking similarity between the general views and opinions Of the Seees sionists and Abolitionists. The Philadelphia Daily Sun thinks they agree on all points ex cept one; and Upon that they are aiming at the same end for opposite reasons. Both parties are-in favor of agitation—both abuse and de nounce the government as oppressive, unjust and oclionsboth are dissatisfied withthe con stitution and laws of the land—both denounce the late compromise and favor a repeal of some or all of its provisions—both declare the frigi live slave law to be unconstitutional, and ad vocate a dissolution of the Union. The only difference between them is one of opinion.— The Abolitionists declare that disunion will destroy slavery—the Secessionists contend that it will perpetuate It! - This is the only difference.. On the subject of Secession they fully harmon ize, as will be seen by the subjoined resolu tions, the one adopted by the Southern Rights Convention of Carolina, and the other by the Abolition Convention at Syracuse`: CAROLINA. BILSOLLITION.I ABOLITION RESOLVTI.ON. Resoloed, That we hold Resolved, That calms the right of Secession togas has been the govern. be essential to the sov-tment principle of bouth ereigitty and freedom oflCarolina for the last the States of this Con- i twenty years, we con federacy; and that the not withhold from her denial of that tight the praise jestly due her would furnish to an in- consistent maintenance jured State the strongest of the• great cardinal additional cause for its doctrine of the right of exercise. - secession by the single ;State—it doctrine vital , n liberty and the only • lifeguard of the several :ovoreignties from the tyranny of a grasping centralization. Rail Road Union The Charleston Evening News has been sold out to parties who will conduct it on decided Union principles. Mon papers arc beginning to-spring-up -right in the_very hobbed of seees. sion. The people are beginning to think that the politicians have gone just far enough, and that their interests are no longer to be put in j•ropardy to gratify the ambition of political leaders. l‘lacituley says : "Calamity and peril often force men to combine, in osperity and security often encourage them to separate."— One of the evils of this country has been that it is 100 prosperous. It has grown so groat under the Union that some begin to think it would -grow still greater in separate States, but the calamities and perils of such an experiment impressing themselves with force upon the minds of right-thinking people will force them to combine to resist such suicidal attempts. Brass Lettering—Mr. C. Liebrich; smith, of Philadelphia, has introduced a new and desirable style of signs,.composed of brass letters, which are affixed to the external stir. face of glass panes. These letter.; forming combintnions of names, are put on with a pe culiar kind of cement, which is of so tena cious a nature ; that they cannot be washed or rubbed oft. They are of the thickness of a quarter dollar, have a smooth and polished surface, and can always be kept bright, which renders them more conspicuous to the ordinary gilt letters. The invention is of French origin. Doorkeeper of the Bottsc.—W e have gence to-night of the death of Robert E. lior. ner,,door-keeper of the House of Representa• fives. Ile died at his residence in New Jer sey on the 29th of May. The clones of the of fice wilVdevolve upon Charles W. Stewart, As sistant Doorkeeper. Peace and War.—The cost of the Eric Railroad is equal to that of fighting the Mexicans ,six months. Just look at the difference in the per manent effect, the lasting influence of the two expenditures. The effect of thd first has been to excite•a spirit of restlessness and lawlessness which is now manifested in the Cuba enterprise, I and in other equally discreditable undertakings. The effect I the latter will be to increase the comforts of to redeem a wilderness to culd tivation, to unite a great people, to advance the civilization .of a great country. We do not ! ' s peak now plate immediate effects, of the crimes, the blood, the demoralization, the untold and in• conceivable hot roes of war, but of the pertna• unit and rernme effects. if the same amount o f money that has been spent in the world, doting the first bailor this centiiry, in the arts of destruc. I tion, could for the remaining hall he spent in the `arts of peace, this globe would become an Elden ' such as preacher never described nor poet ever irnagined.--Proeidenec Journal. Trout Fishing Extranrdinary.—A patty of our young Pottsville friends, composed of Cipt. Womelsdorff, I%lessrs. Thos. F. Bratty and Solomon Hoover, returned last week from a highly successful fishing excursion to Loyal. sock Creek, near Ellis' tavern, in Cherry town- \ ship, Sullivan county, -during which, having .been absent six days, they caught upwardS of fifteen hundred Trout, many of them large and fine. Of this latter fact we are enabled to speak knowingly, having been the recipient of a bountiful supply, for which the donors arc cer tainly entitled to our thanks. The party also shot a number of wild Ducks, and brought home with them in triumph, a large Bald Eagle, which they fortunately cap tured alive. It measures seven feet from tip to tip of its wings, and may be seen at the store of Mr. Thomas F. Beatty. Taken altogether the llexcursion must have been one of peculiar pleas. me and interest.—Pollaeille Emporium. Water in the Human Body.—A man weighing 140 pounds, if squeezed under ii hydraulic press, 105 politic% of water would run out of him, and only 35 pounds of solid'dry matter would remain. A beef steak pressed between blotting paper, under a press, gives out four-fifths of its weight in water: Water, therefore, is the first necessa. ry of life. And this accounts for- the healthiness of those districts where good Water is supplied to the inhabitants. The water of the ocean ab .sorbe two per cent. of air.—Scierittfie American. ------- . Windmill or Smith's Island. It will perhaps be news to learn that the Is. land fronting the city of Philadelphia, and known as Smith's or Windmill Island, has been with out a legal owner up to last year. Such, how &lief, appears to - be the' fact, - and an important ejectment case, involving the question of title to part of that island, was decided yesterday in fa vor of Mr. George N. Tatham, of Southwark, who took patents for all, or nearly all of the Island, as vacant public land, in 1850. The circum• stances will be found reported under the court colander , in another part of the Ledger, to-clay. The island was claimed by New iersey until a few years ago, and several grants made of it to private persons by that State, all of which have been rendered null and void by the superior claims of Pennsylvania to dominion over, it.— , Mr. Tatham took out his patent under the act of ' 1805, and paid $l5 an acre for the land, amount ing altogether to about.s3oo, whieh, considering 1 the present value and growing importance of the territory, was certainly a very handsome opera" l , lion. The Camden and Philadelphia Steamboat Ferry Company, who were defendants in the', suit referred to, will, however, propably carry• the case to a higher tribunal, and endeavor to' \shake his title. With what success they will do this remains to be seen—Ledger, May 29. \ Daniel Webster.-- . -We learn from the New York evening papers of yesterday, that gr. Webster will leave there this morning, and prob. , ably proceed to Baltimore to-day. The Courier and Enquirer describes his passage through the Empire State as a series of triumphs. It says, 1 "he has met and reasoned with the masses ; and while he has not attempted to lessen their dis like to Negro Slavery, or to palliate its institu tion, he has calmly demonstrated, that our South ern brethren are not responsible for its existence, that it existed before thel.4Vtof Independence I and that our fathers, lilt ng • as little a s do their descendents, had no other question to de• termine but weather it was best for them, for us their descendants, and for the whole human race, that Slavery should exist with or without the -colonies which had just achieved their indepen. dence of the mother country, by reason of their union resistance." Daniel Wader.— AV one of the religious anni versary meetings in New York, two or three weeks ago, the Rev. Dr. Tyng, an evangellical .clergyman, everywhere admired for his talents and virtues,. had occasion thus to remark.— During the past year, there was one man who had been most thoroughly abused—a man whom the speaker hail been taught to lonic up to and revere from his childhood, as the personifica tion of every thing great, good and intellectual; and he would say with Mr. Everett, that never since the Declaration of Independence have the American people been more faithfully, more honestly, more disinterestedly served than they have been by the immortal Webster." • •- • Digging for Silver.—One of the Spit itual Phi losophers, or pretenders to knowledge revealed by deceased persons, is under arrest at Roches ter for swindling. Some deluded persons, whose understandings were rather weak, went to a wo - , man professing to have the power of summon ing the spirits, and consulted her in relation to money supposed•to be buried in a (arm. She "looked into a diamond, saw . there was money," and on consulting the spirit, the latter said there were three bushels silver in one place, six bushels silver in another place, and ten bushels of gold in another.?! One man, to secure this amount of wealth,deposited with the spiritual fortune - teller one thousand dollars, and the next morning she was caught taking a hasty leave with the money, while the man who was weak enough to give it her, had the labor of digging a hole thirty feet square and fifteen deep, for his pains. There is not much pity for him. Any body who will believe in such imposition, after all the warnings they have recieved, cannot com plain if they are made to suffer • through their credulity. Guod.—A patriotic citizen of South Carolina said, "when South Carolina leaves the Union, I will move into the United• States." There are many such patriotic citizens in the State. Why do they not speak out? Now is the time. The District Attorney of Charleston, being at Wash ington lately, publicly avowed that secession was not the popular sentiment; it was the bug, bearof politicians. The Convention' that assem• bled a few weeks ago was not chosen by the pen - pie, but by clubs or associations, chiefly coin . posed of notoriety-seekers and the worn out aris tocracy. A meeting that elected delegates from one district did not number more than twenty torn, fifteen of whom were chosen delegates; yet the Charleston Mercury says that they were the picked men out of the best. ladiamt.—The Indiana Statesman furnishes some inieresting statistics flout the census tables relative to the quantity of wheat and corn pro duced in the various counties of Indiana. These figures show that the whole wheat crop of the State amounted to 6,457,90 bushels, worth prob- ably four millions of dollars, and the entire pro. duct of corn 51,149,668 bushels, which, at the value of 20 cents per bushel, would amount to $10,289,9 31 The great bulk of this article is raised in the bottom landS.of the Wabash. White Water, and'Whlte rivers. There were thirteen counties in the. State which raised over a mil, lion of bushels each—Tippecanoe county stand. ing at the head of the list with no less than 1,- 709,801 bushels Me Postmaster GencraL—The Raleigh Regis - 1 ter, in explaining the post office regulations re cently issued, says very justly, that ..N. R. Hall is the first man who has filled the office of Post. master General since Judge McLean occupied the post, who has hnd•the ability and - Inclination to make himself acquainted with the details, so as to thoroughly understand how the business of the office should be conducted."' Longevity.—We Team from the Cincinnati Commercial, by a letter from Wm. It Curran. Elsq., of Claysville,Xy., that a black man, named Immanuel Coine, died near.that place on Wed'. nesday the 15th inst., who was 120 years, old.— Ile had been a resident of the county twenty• live yealic. • A terrible riot is reported in the New York pa- pers as having occurred at Hoboken, when the Germans were celebrating their annual Pente. cost holiday. The New York Journal of Corn. fierce, of the 27th of May, describes it AS fol. lows : Yesterday the Germans residing in and about New York celebrated, according to annual cus• torn, their May festival at Hoboken, and the weather being fine, the numner was greater than usual. It is said that as many as 15,000 persons were assembled for the purpose of enjoying themselves, and that some sixty wagons crossed the ferry, occupied by those who brought provi sions with them, including a plentiful supply of beer. The day, intended to be devoted to pica" sure, terminated instead in one of the most seri ous riots ever witnessed in the neighborhood of New York. The origin of thin disturbance is variously ac counted for. One repot-Hs-that nutnber-ofrow-. dies, known as the ..Short Boys," attempted to help themselves to the beer belonging to the Germans, and were resisted by a number of men in white coats and black felt hats, belonging, it is believed, either to some gymnastic club or a military company, who drove them back, when the rowdies took shelter in Macarty's tavern, which was seriously damaged in the attempt to dislodge them, Another version is, that the Ger mans eoratnenced quarreling among themselves on the Fox H ill cricket ground, and that some of them made their way to Macarty's tavern, in the Elysian Fiflds, where they demanded brandy, which, the house being conducted on temperance principles, they could not obtain, On this, they became troublesome, assaulted Mrs. Macarty, and commenced the breaking of bottles and de. canters. At last, in self_defence, Macarty was compel, led w use fire arms, and accidentally shot one of the citizens of Hoboken, of the name of Luci us Grishell, who, with others, was coming to his assistance. This was somewhere about five o'clock in the afternoon. Samuel Browning, E-q., Justice of the Peace, who was on the ground and endeavored to preserve order, was himself very seriously wounded, the rioters-have seizedl hold of the bottles about the place, and torn down a fence to procure weapons. Among other per sons who Were itjured were John Hickey, the master of a sloop, Charles Clarke, and Aaron Nage, who were reported to be seriously wound• ed; and a ship's Carpenter, name not ascertained, who was stabbed so badly, that he died in the course of the night. The furniture, bottles, glasses, decanters, &c., of the tavern, were corm pletely destroyed, and both Mr. and Mrs. Mager. ty seriously hurt. Whatever was the cause of the riot, the Ger mans appmir, by their behavior, to have speedi ly provoked a considerable feeling against them selves, and as they made their way back to the ferry, smashed the windows of the houses on the road there ; and when some of the inhabitants to avoid the missiles thrown into the lower room s went on to the roofs, they were there pelted by the rimers. This provoked the residents to so great an extent, that they assisted the constables Messrs. Francis and Havens, in securing about forty Germans, who were handcuffed and bound with cords, and taken in wagons to Bergen jall, where they were lodged for the night. On the road there, the prisoners attempted to induce some of their countrymen, whom they met, to rescue them, and some disposition to do so was at first manifested by blocking up the way with wagons, but on constable Francis producing a revolver, and plainly intimating a determination to shoot the first man down who offered any irrop plement, they reluctantly gave way. As night was coming on, and very great er citement still prevailed in the neighborhood of the ferrry, especially among those who believed that the Germans were in the first, place inter fered with, and were unjustly treated in being sent to jail, a requisition Was sent to Jersey city for the assistance of the military; and by the speedy arrival of James Sayless, Esq., Sheriff of Hudson county; and Capt. Pollard, with 40 of the Jersey City Continentals, and Capt. Riley of the Wright Rifles, with a company also of forty men, the disturbances, which had' been partly quieted by the previous capture of smtnamy pri soners, was effectually put to a stop, but withont the presence of the military, the approach to the ferry for women and children, of whom many were not able to get away till past eleven o'clock at night, would have been difficult and I=llll=l Riot at Hoboken hazardous. Mr. Havens, who was for eleven years a, po lice officer in New York, says the riot in appear ance was far more formidable than any that od• cuffed there in that time, not excepting the As tor place riot; and it is considered fortunate that the military were not on the spot at the time it was at its height, as great loss of life might have resulted. All appeared quiet at halt' past II o'clock, 1 last night, though the milita,y still remained at 1 Hoboken. AI the New York side of the ferry, the reports had been so rife that many lives had been lust and that the riot was still continuing, and was'of so serious a character, that the ferry master cautioned all who bud not actual ()eta . skin to go there, that they had better remain away. About nine o'clock iii the evening, the ferry boats were compelled to land the passen gers at a duck at some distance from the usual landing• The other New York papers give substantial ly the same accounts but differ somewhat as to the number of killed and wounded: The Herald says : It is stated that four have been seen dead; but their names could•not be ascertained; and it is I added that it is known that as many as' twelve I have been killed, or will die of their woundrbe• fore morning. One 'man was certainly carried over the ferry dead. The number of wounded it would be impossible to count. They are hun dreds, if northousarrds. Among-thenr are ihsi tics Bunning, badly ;Sheriff Wright, in the neck ;% Capt. Min Hickie, badly; Charles T. Clarke; , a ship carpenter named Bridges, it' is feared fa. tally, his• sknll'having been fractured; and his jugular vein cut ; Mr. Shell, residing at the silt,. ner of Bloomfield and Second streettf, badlihurt ; Mr. Hcirsch, residing at 1813 Hester sheet, se. verely wounded ; Jacob Cock, found nearly dead ; . . WM. Molt, carver of the New "York Herald at Hoboken, severely wounded; a boy in a black smith's shop was also much injured. In a postscript the Herald says - that young Hickey who was wounded, died yesterday morn ing, and that Justice funning was not expected to survive. GLEANINGS eirA massive gold ring, weighing 6 ounces, and valued at $3OO, has beeu made In California to he presented to General Cass, by his friends there. [s" The chief engineer of the North Branch- Canal has advertised for proposals to complete the work on all the sections commenced prior to the suspension or operations in 1842. Or A Pickerel, weighing 19 pounds, was caught in a seine, in Connecticut river, on Sat. urday last. r"Conrarl 11yer, of Waldoborough, is mivr living, aged 102 years. --ClTElforts-are-to -be made--in-Wiscbosimtri. introduce a more extensive culture atlas. .It costs that State two hundred thousand dollars' annually for linseed oil. (Ci-If about seven or eight pounds of leather currier's shavings are put into a steam boiler every week, it is said that no incrustations will be formed, however hard the water may be that is used. IV - Manhattan, the name of the Island on which the city of New York stands, is taken from the name given by the Indians to the original Dutch settlement, and means the place where they all got drunk. Larne Miner's Bank of Pottsville has issued new five and ten dollar b'lls. This has been done On account the numerous counterfeits that are in circulation. IH-The government of Brazil have declared the slave trade to be piracy. IV - A merchant at Pittsburg. who had arrang. ed to elope with a girl only 12 or 13 years oldo was cowhided by her father.--- IV - The State of California is more than four times larger in area than the State of New York. EV" A boy, 15 years oh], who with others, was stoning a house of fame-at Beaver, Pa. on . Friday last, was instantly shot dead by one of the female inmates, who came out with a gun. 17" Why is an attorney like a minister 1 Be.' cause he studies the law and the profits. The New York Eleclions.—The result of the New York elections I:; very gratifying to the friends of the Canal enlargement, which will cause about nine millions of dollars to be added iu tlie - NeW - Yorlf state debt. Out _of the twelve Senators who seceded•from the Legislature to prevent the bill authorizing the debt from pas" sing, only five anti-canal candidates have been elected. There is no doubt, after this deeiced expression of the people's wishes, that the bill I will pass next session. Rucks County.—The Democrats have elected new delegates to the Harrisburg Convention, in stead of authorising those to the Reading Con. vention to act there. The new delegates are' Charles E Dubois, Edward J. Fox, Dr. Charles W. Everhard and William Kinsey. Without instructions Horrible Accident.—Otte of the most horribke accidents it ever befel us to record, says the Cin• cinnati Commercial of the 23d instant, happened opposite this.city sbout twelve o'clock, night be. fore last, in Wolf's Newport Rolling Mill. A young man nut more than seventeen years of age, named Christopher Hickman, while engag ed in oiling the machinery, was caught between two heavy iron rollers, used for rolling iron, and parsed through them with the rapidity of light nine! The body was completely ground to pow.: 1 der! The flesh, bones and all were so divided into small fragments, that no one could recoe . nise by sight that a few moments before they formed tr human . being, active and full of life! iThe sight was awfully heart•rending. Mr Hickman was a young man universally esteem ; ed by al!. A Sheep Carried ap by a Whirlwind.—k de structive whirlwind and storm passed over the farms of William and Thomas Vance, in a por tion. of Smith and Cross Creek Townshipi, in tilts county, on Tuesday afternoon the 20th inst A sheep was lifted from the ground, and carried up in the air some distance, and fell bursting •it open and killing it instantly. Five large_, apple trees were uprooted, and one carried. several rods' into an adjoining field. A stack of straw- was entirely carried off, and about a thousand pan nel; of fence whirled and scattered over the whole farm. Considerable diniage was also I done to the timber andfencet on adjoining farms.- • Our informant did not learn the distance over • which the storm prevailed, or the full extent of damages sustained by the community in its pas sage.— IrS'ashingbira( Pu)Cummanwealik. 11 is , Libeeky of Speech Now:—When the tal ented and renowned American Divine, Alexam der Campbell, of Bethany, Va., was in Scotland,• some years age, lecturing upon his favorite re. Ilgious belief, a man named Thompson, gave ' him a challenge to meet him in open debate upon.' the slavery question. Campbell did so. Thomp-• son spoke first, and Campbell in following, made' some strong alhisions to Thompson, which so' incensed' him that ha prbcured a writ against.• Campbell on a charge of slander, add had him' thrown into prison on Saturday, where he laid' Until Monday. • Now, would any one imagine that the' same ellow who was so !ntolerant to an American hen, same Thompson—.the very idemieal. mouhtebank—who IS - now lecturing on the free dom of speech and'the freedom of negroes• to de• lighted . audiences - in Mut England. Good orpur Bradforo has been ayeraging ten poundi of butter per' werk•from' tits dairy : dowt, during the. present' season. Tiler are fsednn grasssalone. 'Jetta.; thigh county' smoke Re4onsidered.—The Clarion ljenicinrit of the' 20th inst., says that the lietnocraoy of Jeffeison , county' have reconiidered 'their resultition vor of Gen. CitiO fOr the Piesidency, 'sub.' stituted . the Ilbo. Jas(e's- nuol i artata name ftrtia= stead.
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