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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:
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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.
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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."
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• 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.
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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.