Circulation near 2000.
Zig Ecl)igl) ilegister.
Allentown, Pa.
TIIIIRSOIY, AUGUST 28, 1"S51.
The Cuba Excitement
The greatest excitement is manifested in re
gard to the tate of the small but gallant band
which has landed on the Island. • Meetings are
being held in New York, Philadelphia, baton,
Baltimore, Cincinnati, New Orleans, in short,
in all the larger cities of the United States, to
express their detestation of the terrible Massa
cre of the 16th instant, in Havana, and the
moral influence of the sanction of the Ameri
can people, to the movements for the regener
ation of an enslaved people.
Later intelligence from Cuba, inserted in an
other part of our paper, . will attract .increased
attention. If true, it is indeed important in
more senses than one. We trust that that pm-
Lion of it which relates to the indignities offer
ed to the Spanish Consul at New Orleans ; may
prove an exaggeration.
Still Later News.---fly telegraph we learn that
the steamer Saranac sailed on. Tuesday last,
August 26th, from Nortolk, Virginia, for Ha
vana. Commodore Park:r, commander of the
Home Squadron, takes with him intonations
to enquire into the cause of fhing upon, and
chasing the United Suves mail steamer Falcon,
and investigate the murdering and butchering
of the fifty-two Americans, at the City of Ha
vana, on the 16th instant.
Advertising
Nothing is more clearly settled, or more uni
versally admitted, than the best money spent
by a business man is that paid for advertising.
The fact has been demonstrated throughout the
the world. Alen will pay enough for a hand
some sign to embellish their stores, for elegant
windows, and for oysters, drinks, cigars, con
fectionary and knickdinaeks, to pay a half a
dozen years' advertising bills, and all without
any benefit to their business or thems•'lves, to
bel gained by freely adveriking. Hundreds
ought to be paid where tens are now, if rner.
c ; nts would thrive and make money.
t does not answer to dabble lightly in the
ter. A man may as well expect to wash
hands by dipping a finger's.tip in the wa
rts to give his business.a sensible, clean
h by a;little advertising. The true way, and
t profitable one, is, to pay for liberal ad ver.
ling, and then use it. Keep the mill•wheel
biting all the time, and people will certainly
er,jd you their grist after -a while. Depend
tr.in it, half of the business men who "burst
might avoid the painful and disastrous
dint, by resorting to the printer's instead of
ti shaver's aid, to hold them up. If the
in paid for shaving, and other follies, would
eke the foolish men whu pay for those lux•
lies, rich and comfortable. Try it arid see.
We wish that our merchanisoneehanie;, awl
ftusiness men generally, (meld realize and ap.
)neciate the importance of advertising. Eve
lry dollar paid for advertising will pay back twen
ty fold. Try it in . the "Register."
Arnold's Patent Sash Lock.
The patent right for Lehigh county, us will
seen by reference to our advertising col
itis, has been purchased by Alessrs. S. P.
tz of Co. ) where they eau be seen for inspec
n and sale. The Lock i; very simple, cc.
pies but a very small spare, is cheap, laqy,
d very convenient, and is not likely to eel
tof repair. The Lock needs but to be ex.
iced, and it will soon become in general
. For further particular,; we refer our read•
to the advertisement.
Agricultural Fair
' he committee to make. arrangements for
holding of the State Agricultural Fair, on
22nd, 23rd and 24th of October ncxt,.have
cted the field of David Hummel, Eq., one
e above Harrisburg. for this purpose, have
ertised for proposals to fence in fourteen
es ; have enetwed the tents used at the N.
k Agricultural Fair, and made all other ne
..ary .arrangements for the holding of this
ihition. The Executive Committee have
'prepared and had printed the list of pre.
ms to be awarded; and the rules and rep
! no. to govern the exhibition, which are
t being distributed throughout the State.
l e trust therefore that our agricultural broth
hroughout the Commonwealth .will pre
themselves for this first exhibition, and
it one that will do'credit to them. •
I The First Act of War.
A Southern Republic, a paper published at
:den, South Carolina, gives us a definition
lull will constitute the first assault upon
Carolina by the General. Government
iluting an act of war, that is, the applica
if force to keep South Carolina in the Uni
"The first assault" will be the retaining
: forts about Charleston. Unless the Mil
ales withdraws all its force from the posts,
.urrenders them' at once to the new soy
. ty, that will be an "act of war." Smith
ling will proceed to attack and take then];
will be an act of defence. Gas.
I
t. pert Dress Makers.—ln Schuylkill county.,
Pennsylvania, there died last year a man nam
ed liehisel Dress, aged fumy, who was the
fighsr of twenty-one children by his wife, Kate
Those, aged iliiny4nne. The first child was
barn in 1829. and the last in February, 1850.
She had twins five times, and in February,
1848, had four children at one birth !—making
twenty-one children in twenty-one years, and
six children born in a space of eighteen months I
The four children at a birth • were apparently
healthy and well-formed. • One died in about
fuur weeks; another eleven months, the third
a little over a year, and the fnunh, a fine boy,
is still living. There are now twelve of the
whole number living-7 boys and 5 girls,
The Cuban News
The community has been shocked by the
startling news that the Spanish authorities in
Cuba, have shot down, in cold blond, without
a pretence of trial, some fifty unfortunate men
who have been separated from the invading
force. It is an instance of savage cruelty,
un
parallelled among Christian nations of modern
times, and Spain, in her rudest days, was nev
er more mercilessly cruel.
%% idiom pretending to defend the cause of
the Cuban invaders, we cannot help a , king
what sympathy can Spain expect horn eiksiliz
ed nations, if this is the course she thtsignA to
follow in her contest with the insurgent Cu
bans? She is weak, and, it: this bloody
shumliter, sftnws one of the first features of
weakness—enwardiee—in killing the prison.
er's she has taken, without any form of trial
to justify her in the eyes of the world. Ans.
trian cruelties rise In refined humanity when
(midi - timed with this bloodiest art of modern
history.
As for the hapless victims of this Spanish
slaughter, there is little io say in their delenee.
They knew that, in Hoing this adventure nib
der Lopez, they were acting in viralion, not
only of the Spanish, but of American laws.
Our government can do nothing to avenge the
murder of these men. They were the" awful
prisoners of Spain, who had a legal right to
do with theM as she pleased, however much
she mieht•shock the moral sense by her mode
of exercising , this right. But it remains to be
seen whether the sanguinary cruelty of this
slaughter at Havana will not raise smolt a flame
as can never be quenched until Cuba is flee.
The civilized world has often wondered to
see a rotten, decrepit European monarchy,
which is too weak to sestain itself. exoreisirg
dominion over the fair island of Cuba, three
thousand miles off. This wonder Trill b e i n .
creased by tlae discovery of the method that
Spain adopts to preserve this dominion, and it
is our opinion that there will be raised, tint on
ly in Cuba, but in the United Sates, a desire
to avenge the minders of these lilty nice,
whieh will lead to a Universal revolution in
Cuba, and the speedy extinction of authority in
the island. Thus, though Spain has given us
no ca,vesbali, (unless the firing into the Falcon,'
which has yet to be investigated, may prove
such.) yet there will be a feeling among out
people which no efforts of our g,overnmem can
suppress, and which will be quite as eflieient,i
in the end, as the direet aid of the U. Slates
forces.-1.1ol&fl».
Astounding Invention
We notice, says the Philadelphia Daily
Sun, an invention by Mr. Solomons, ol Cin
cinnati of what lie calls a period sub,tittim for
steam. Vroin common whiting,, sulphuric
acid and water, he obtains culon in the gas..
eous state : and ‘vith the power exerted by
this gas, he asserts that he now drives a 25
horse ermine, and for one-fortieth Use expense
of stemn, lifts tel lets fall 12000 pounds five
times iw a minute. This fluid, without ;toy
heat apptied at all ; exerts a pressure of 510
pounds to the sqmtrs kali, whole water in the
moue unheated slate has no pr e ,.,: mre but lbw
of grax by. Water. heated to the boiling piton
yields e power of fineen pounds. This tioid,
with the same heat, would yield a power ol
neatly 12 000 pound: , ! And what is more,
handlul of charcoal, and a boiler the size .of a
Ica-kettle, will produce, at an expense of a
few Cents, the whole of this tremendous ener
gy ! Fifty dollars expense in carbon would
vary one of the Collins stealers from New ,
Cosh to Liverpool.
Death of an Aged Indian.
"Old Bucktooth," a vet) , aged Indian, ex
lured a few ILIyS since at his residence, a short
I distance below the mouth' of Little Valley
Creek; in Cauaranges comity. Ile was the
'last with the exeeptien 01 tv. Blackstone, of
I the aged lodians who have lingered so long in
1 , t 'led of the living. One by oho, iike our
.
; own lathers of the Revolution, have the Whin
ehiehains passed away, and so u r the last will
the on his way to the "spirit lamb" Tim fol.'
lowing [waive of Bucktooth, hum the pea of
Ilon. S. A. Brown, recently appeated in the
Jamestown Journal. "A few months aon, when
returning trim a railroad meeti n g a t
60 , 4 induced us to travel out of the way a
mile on loot, to see an aged Indian by the
!name of Bucktooth, said to bo 120 years old.
Iris wigwam stood on the banks of the Alle.
I gany. An abundant supply of corn; curiously.
fastened together by the husks, suspeeded over
poles, with balk placed over it as a security
against the weather, decked the inclosure
around the dwelling; and within, cm a Ic . n
•low bench, placed against the wall, on which
was a mat, which. Wallis heitt by day. and
couch by night, sat the living relic of by-gone
years. During our slay he arose fsem his seat,
and stood as erect as a youth of twenty. Ale•
thought, as I gazed on this aged man, thy
health has not been impaired, nor thy physi•
.cal powers prematurely wasted, by means of
the Inxurie.i which civilization brings."
Jut! So.—Printing Presses, Pulpits and Wo_
men, are the three great levers that govern the
movements of the world. Without them the
bottom would fall out, society would become
chaos again. The Pies.: makes the people pa.
triotic, the pulpit religious, but ' , woman no,
swereth all things." There would be no going
to church if there were no girls there, neither
Would there be any going to war were the sol_
diers to meet with no applause but from the
masculine& Without the sunshine shed by wo.
men the rosebud of affection would never blow
nor: the flower of eloquence germinate; in short
she is the steam engine of delight, and the great
motive power of love, valor and civilization.
Drowned.—A man named Emery, a boatman,
was drowned a short distance aboye Mauch
Chtink, nn Thursday night last. Ile belonged
to South Bethlehem, where he has a family. and
was taken there. ror.intermrnt.
Democratic Whig County Meeting.
Pursuant to public notice, a large meeting
of the friends of Scott, Johnston, Strohm and
the Union, was held at the public house' of
George Moyer, in the. Borough of Allentown,
for the purpose of forming a "Club" for the
canting election. On motion, CoI.JONATII,AN
COOK, was appointed President, and Benjamin
Loclintun and E. J. Abele; Secretaries. The ob
ject of the meeting being elated by the Chair
man, it was on motion
flnso/vcd, That a committee of five be ap
pointed to draft It Constittnion and By-laws, to
James S. Reese, E,q. J. Vi f im g , Tit g
man Good, E. J. :More and L. P. Unger.
Res•,l veil, That a committee of 'live persons
be appointed, IA hose duty it shall he to report
pe•rwanerli officers o 1 lime “Ulu:‘," and select a
place when! the future Ineetina4 ehall be held,
to viz: (l urge IVe:herhold,j..., Ephraim Grim,
Reuben latdiritati, E. Eckert and \Vtn. Miller.
I:c. , Uvr,l, That when this meeting adjourns, id
meet: agido on Thor-dap evening. A ug..28111, at
the public house el Gcorge Iretherhold, when the
respective committees will be present to report.
[Signed by the (dicer=.]
Another Anti• Rent Outrage
Il.rain :Shaw, Esq., is a highly respectable
citizen of Berlin, in the county of Rensselaer,
farmer possessed of considerable property, and
has been fur eight years a magistrate of that
town. Ile has at times acted as agent for Mr.
Can Rensselaer and others, and latterly fur Mes
srs. Lansing and Pruyn. This is his only offence.
About I I o'clock on Saturday tight, after lie
and his fatuity had retired to rest, his house was
unexpectedly invaded and broken into by fifty or
sixty anti. renteQs, disgnist-d as Indians, and arm.
rd with cons, rifles, tomahawks, and other wea
pons. Having effected a burglarious entrance,
they proceeded to the bedroom of a respectable
young woman and ontrazcil her person by snip
ping the clothes off foam her, and dragging, her
partly out of bed ; and after frightening her neat
ly out of her wits, compelled her to procure a
candle and light it for them.
Their exeu,e for their violence to her, was,
that she did nut do it when first bidden.' Having
thus provided themt.elves with a light, ilvy
broke down the door of Mr. Shaw's bedroom, and
dragged hart out by main force. Alter showing
him to dress he was taken out of door, placed
in
An extraordinary calculating machine, say , .
the London Times, is now placed in the Russian
Court. It is the invention of a Polish Jew, nam•
eilStaffel, a native of Warsaw, and works addi
tion, substraction, multiplication and division,
with a rapidity and precision that are quite as.
tonishing.. It also performs the operation of ex.
tracting the square root and the most complica
ted sums in fractions. The machine, which the
inventor calls .1r;Ili indica men/tin, is afloat
the size id an ordinary toilet, being about 18
inches by 9 inches, and about 4 inches high.—
exter»al mechanism represents three rows
of ciphers. The first and tipper row, contain_
ing 13 figures, is immovable'; the second and
third containing ti figures each, immovable. The
words additton, subtraction, multiplication are
engraved on a semi, circular ring to the right,
and underneath is a hand, which toted be peint•
el to whielmyer opetioitin is to be performed.—
Tim figares being properly arranged, the simple
uncut of a handle is Hien given, and the Orralli/11
IS pet formed SI once as it by magic. The most
singular power of the instrument is, that if a
question be wrongly stated—as, for instance, a
grain r numb,' being, placed for substraction
from a lesser, it detects the error, and the t'ing-
Mg of a small bell announces the discovery.--
The' inventor has exhibited the powers of this
wonderful calculating machine to the Queen,
Prince Albert, and several pet sons of distinction.
TIM inventor also exhibited a mirhine for as.
certaining, by weighing the fineness of gold or
silver, lint this is to he submitted to further and
Bit by a Rattlesnake. more severe tests. 14. - ah machines are, to say
A son of Mr. Edward Hulse, of Dingman: I ;h e l eas t, extremely curious, and have been re-
Imv" 111 1:, rays the Pike . CeonlY Democrat, 'warded with a silver Medal by the Russian Gov•
while ploughing in a field near his father's ernment. During the week the directors of the
house, was bitten by a laffieSnake, j ust iltdOW t Batik of England visited the machine.
the knee. he boy endeavored to eartnle I [This, says the Scientific American, is the
the militia] for the purposo of applying its list extranniinary caleulat irvz machine, we ever
fle-h to draw the poison from the wound; heard of. The one of Mr. Nystrom, iu No. 95,
but failinuf this, le , went direetly to the Sei. Am.. is indeed a remarkable one also, and
well, made a hole twat the curb, deep enough is much less complex than this Russian one.—
to admit the lowest part of his leg. Ila then We hope to hear of' Mr. Nystrom's machines
drew up some water, poured it in the hole, being in our market some of these days.
and mixed a quantity of the soil •xitli it. Al- •
Lo,nnetroit Disenvery.-7\ Greek savant, M. Si
ter he had arraaged matlers to his entire Kok
monidis, pretends to have discovered, in the dif•
faction he laid himself down on the ground,
lerent convents in his country, the archives of
plaeed hiswouroled log in the hole, and re
, which ' he has been inillectMg, the place where
omitted in this simatioa until about nine Weloek
g
at night, when his parents who hail at/.
ih e erii n i l l of the Acts of the.A pestles is hid.—
It IS, aCCONIIII:
sent, returned home and conveyed him in the land or Autigmi r4O his account, in the small is.
us, situated at the entrance oldie
hunt-r. They however continued the same Sea of Marmara. M. Simonidis has demanded,
twain: mid, and, strange as it may appear, the through the :Sardinian Minister, an authorizaiion
next day he was again "op and doing."' to make a speedy research in that spot, in the
Desertion. presence of the learned men of Constantinople ;
It
he particularly Ashes to have some geologists
de is computed that over 9009 men annually
from the United States Army. These
with him,in order to be the better able to prove
sert
attended with a loss NI the desertions, that the earth has not been moved for ages in the
e ar
spot which he points nut. It is said that the
ernment of over f-:400,000 Anothers
Greek patriarch, fearing that such an important
source of loss to the 's t "' ( " Inst. discovery might lead to fresh schisms in the
mend e
of ' 9 and 2'o Years of al.. Church, has besought the Porte to refuse the terreceiving bounty and clothes,,apply for a dis•
thorization asked for. It is, however, thought
charge under the law.
that it will he wanted, and that the search will
This is ti shameful. We hope the Seetetary
°l. '. commenced immediately-Gagiianes Messenger.
\Vat will recommend some remedy for this evil
before Congress assembles. 'rite evil equally Fn hates.—Several heavy failures have taken
applies to the Navy, and also cries loudly for place in Philadelphia anti New York. In the
refocus -
• former, a flour dealing, and dry good firm, fur
lyhalf a_ million between them. That's do
the thing about right—none of your half
work. Bad enough if each could not se.
a fortune (mu of such a "lutist."
rd.:Aragon between Iwo Indians, and, amid the
yelpings and howling: of an escort of savages,
driven about five miles to the yellow meeting
house in Stephentown. Here they compelled
him to strip, and applied to their prisoner a plea'
tiful coat of tar; and then, after threateuin ,-, him
with farther and greater outrages, if he should
ever do arty more business for Lansing and
Pruyn, and denouncing against him the penalty
of death, in case Inc sold any mord sixty_year
lease land on which any one lived, they then let
him go.
The question arises, whether these cowardly
and demoralizing, outrages are to be suth.red br
the authorities of the State to gcl on in our midst
and become every day occurrences. Nothing
but th- will is wanted, to put them down at once
and hit ever. Tney are a disgrace to civilization,
to the community in which we live, to our State,
audio the guardians of the law. We are anx_
ions!) , waiting for sleeping justice to he await . _
(med. It will not, be strange, if she finds it dill,
ficult lu discriminate between the perpetrators
of violence, and those who suffer them to break
the laws and pursum their career of crime with
impunity. A fearful day of reckoning is surely
coming, bath for and•renters and their accesso,
ries whether before or after the fact.—Albany
Slate Rc_4.l.,tt r, August 19.
Murder at Dribtol.--A fliculty occurred at i / near
Bristol yesterday 'afternoon, between two boat tug
' men, that resulted in the death of one of the ! way
combatants, named Thomas Dougherty. The j cure
dispute originated with the parties in reference I A Good Price.—The Farmers of Cincinnati are
to the passage'of their boats through the canal, I getting touched with the poultry mania which
and while Dougherty was lying asleep on his raged so 'fiercely in Boston. A gentleman has
boat, the commander 'of the other boat, John I recently made a purchase of a cock and hen, for
Wilde tiger, threw a water.melon rind at him.-- which he paid the nice little sum of forty dol.
This incensed Dougherty, and he, in return threw bra.
•
at his antagonist pieces of coal. Wildunger
then siezed a hoat-hook, and with much fo rce Michigan Railroad.—The Michigan and 'South.
ern Railroad is now finished.frnm Toledo to the
made a pass at Dougherty with the weapon, the
Indiana State line, and cars commenced running
teeing the juggler vein, and causing almost in.
barb or.hook taking effect beneath the ear, en
over it on the 22nd of August. The whole dis.
lance now traversed is two hundred and forty
slant death.Wildunger, who is a (let man, was
arrested soon after the dreadful occurreaceond miles
committed. The deceased is art Irishman, and
leaves a family
Aristocracy
The following "off hand blow" at aristocracy,
is from ihe pen of the noble and gifted
Ire is dead but his spirit liveth in the following
IMMIM
Let me give it an off hand blow, here, hateful,
heartless aristocracy. I detest it above all things.
I was subjected to its bloated frown, when I was
a boy, and I have a very early, if not a native,
inborn abhorrence of it. It has no idea that you
have any rights or any feelings. You do not be.
long to the same race with your paltry, uppish
aristocrat. He does not associate with you when
you are with him. Ile makes use of you. 'lle does
not recognize you as a party in interest of what
is going on. You are no more a companion to
Min than his horse or his dog—and you are no
more than a horse or a dog. if you condescend to
be of his association. Ile belongs to the first
families. But first here is meant last and least
to everything honorable to humanity. Aristoc•
racy has none of the Lion in it—but it feels big
ger than . n den of lions. You must beware of it.
It Icgards everything allowed to you, as an al•
low:lace—a favor. You have no rights. If
you do receive anything, you must (10 homage
for it.
-It comes by birth. It comes by !floury. It
comes by idleness even. It is-engendered by
trade, and by office. o.d wealth, however,
breeds it the most and offensively—a generation
or two of homage paid by poverty to bloated op.
ulence, will breed it . —the worst kind. It will
turn up the•nose of the third or fourth genera.
Lion thong.—so that it can.hardly smell common
folks as they go on the ground. You can tell its
nose and upper up as far as you can see them.
end there is a dreadful d 111 psy daisy look about
I the eyes and eyebrows. As much as to say, “1
! care considerably less titan twilling about yell."
' , kil the voire too—it is amazingly peculiar.
I haven't any superfluity cif sense—hut— ton
lunch to be an aristocrat. Finally, it cioysen't
I tali , muck to be an aristocrat. I guess aristoc.
racy is lack of sense, as much as anything.—Sense, of a certain sort, may accompany it, or
he in the same creature. But it is a senseless
concern, and moreover superlatively hateful.
New Calculating Machine
I?Drunkenness turns a man out of himself,
and leaves a beast in hie room:
Interesting Statistics
The following important facts were contained
in a recent speech of Mr. Merritt in the Parlia•
went of Canada
The deep sea fisheries on the Banks of New,.
foundland, furnish employment for 500 large ves
sels, manned by 25,000 French seamen, who
catch one million of quintals of fish.
From the United States 2000 vessels from 30
to 120 tons, with 37,200 seamen, who catch one
and a half n,iilions of quintals.
Great Britain and her Colonies engage in the
in•shnre fisheries, where about 550 vessels from
100 to ISO tons, are employed in catching seals;
and some 10,056 boats, manned with 25,000 men,-
who catch about one million of quintals.
The French G:ivernment pay from £50,000 to
£611,000 sterling, out of the public funds, as a
bounty to encourage the trade.
The American Government give a bounty of
'l4 per ton, which amounted in 4 years, prior to
.1843, to $273,288 per year, while our fishermen
paid during the game time, a duty of 20 per cent.
amounting to ;,270,172, on their fish consumed,
in the United States.,
As it regards the transactions on the Western
Canals and inland waters, the monied value of
exports and imports above the Falls of Niagara
in 1819 was estimated at $111,593,567.
The, aegregate valuation of the lake trade of
the United titates alone, including Ontario and
Champlain, amounts to the enormous sum of
$186,185,267, more than the whole foreign ex•
port trade of the country—all of which has been
created since the peace of 1811.
The aggregaie American tonnage, registered
in 1833 was 167,137—British 35,903.
The movement on the Erie Canal in 1850 was
2,475,600 tans, value fil'lo,6s2,oo9—amount of
tolls ;z3.276,902.
The movement on Welland and Si. Lawrence
canals in Iht , same year was 687,703 toni—
valuo not show❑ in the returns—amount toll,
iI6I 524
In 1850 the ['sport of timber was valued at
£1,360,731, of which 1671,375 was shipped to
Great Britain-1386,000 to the United Sates,
and only £3062 Co other foreign countries.
The quantity to the Ottawa was said to be,
with umderme attention, inexhaustible—it fur.
wishes good return cargoes, and cheap freight
for the import trade—it also furnishes an export
duty of some 37,500 pounds per year.
The trade and navigation returns give the ex.
ports of agriculture at 1,016,034 pounds, of which
6,29 G pounds was sent to the United States,
and only 901,559 pounds to Great Britain. 177 ;
147 pounds went to the sister Provinces-150
poinu.k to the \Vest Indies, and 250 pounds to
other counu•ies. Our exports in all other arti
cles only am , uitil to 263,230 pounds to make up
the total exports of 3,669,298.
The exports in timber and grain were former
ly nearly equal ; but the exports in Great 13ri.
taut have nearly ceased in other articles than
timber; that thtee.fourtlis of our ag,rumulnital
productions are sent to the United States—and
only one tourili to the lower provinces.
The tonnage or the I:naid States has increas.
ed from 2,580,005 in 1844—m 3 535,451 in 1850.
And me: ulna that although tie had the entire
trade oo the lake: iii 1814, at this moment we
hive not one fifth. The purl or New Tort iut•
poris to the value 111,000,000 pounds; Quebec
and Nlontr,al, 3,::.31,951 mound:.
The returns Jliow a fallen;; ell; at the ports trl
Q !Ake and Montreal. Irma 1131/ Atilt., el 500 :
777 ton , . in 1811, to 1031 chips, and 185,1)05
01111111 Mil
Lt• 11 . 111og lhe nr,regale lollo l l4e of °Or
31 steamer;,:suil 213 ,;tiling vessels oil Ike lakes,
and deilticiiti2 16,117 f,.reig,ii tonnage, it leaves
176,6'21 lons fnr Canada.
The Result in Alabama
The JLibile Daily Advertiser of Tuesday, Au.
gust I2ih, says
For Governor, there was no content.
ahhough voted for in stone localities, was. no
Candidatr
The delegation for Congress will stand, five
Union and Compromise men and two ttlouiliern
Rights, but arptreNcene. men. On old party is
sues they stand the same as in last Congress,
live Democrats and two Whigs, Messrs. Aber.
erotnbie and White.
The members elect arc Jtidge Bragg. (S. 11.)
in the first Dislriet, Abercrombie (U.) in the sec.
ond, Barris (S. H.) in the third, Judge Smith
(U.) in the fourth, Ind judging from the tele,
graphic account, Houston (3.) in the fifth, Cobb
in the sixth, and White in the s ,vendt.
The t..hate Register gives a list of thirty, six
Union representatives, known to be elected to
the Legislature, and has no doubt but that body
will be strongly Union. Tliere is no dotibt about
the Senate's being Union.
We see that M idison county has nobly sus.
taincil Senator Clemens, electing the Union and
Compromise ticket by a majority of hundreds,
and giving Cobb, for Congress, a majority of
over 1200. North Alabama, we have no doubt,
will come in overwhelmingly Union when the
returns are all received. In Sumter county,
Winston (S. R.) beats Smith (U) two votes for
the Senate, Larkins, Hopkins and Whitsett elect;
ed to the House. Pickens county has elected
the Southern Rights ticket, and Tuscaloosa the
Un ion ticket.
Plight in lll:cal.—Blight in Wheat has long
puzzled the farmer to 'ascertain its cause. The
last researches in the mutter were made by
two practical agriCulturists in their own fields,
and they report having discovered a little white
insect, which eats off the root of the kernel,
and separates the stalk Irom the berry, which
at once shrivels up and becomes worthless.
Nov Enterprise in Reading.—We perceive by
the Reading Gazette that the enterprising capi,
talists of that inland city, have a new enter.
prise on foot which will add. greatly to its pros.
perky.. It is proposed to erect a first class steam
forge for the manufacture of heavy wrought
iron work of every description-such as steam.
boat and stationary engine shafting—locomotive
axles, tire for driving wheels, &c. There are,
but five similar establishments in the country
and our neighbors of Beading seem determined
to add anotherto this list.
Gleanings.
I:7"The Dayton Empire editor has been pre
sented with a monster tomato that weighed three
pounds
-17 - petsy Overstoke, wife of Abraham Over.
stoke, of Highland county, Ohio, aged seventy-
Lane ?ears, gave birth to a child a few weeks
since. She had not had one for the last thirty•
one years.
rirtlin the 2Srd, at Lnuisville, Tobacco had
declined one dollar. Or hundred weight, on all
qualities. The paces are 51511 telrdirrg down.,
ward.
Letter from a Murderer
In the Kent News, of Saturday, we find the'
following, copy of a letter frotrYAVilliam Shelton,-
to his mother, written two days before his exe:
OEM
C'hestertutvn Jail, August 6:185i
My Dear Mother:
I have seen you fbr the last'
time in this world—on the day after totniirrow
shall close toy life on the gallows; I acknowl;
edgt, on many occasions f have sinned against'
you, and set at defiance your words of reproof
and advice, and often have you cautioned me .
j against the paths I was pursuing and predicted'
that they would terminate in a disgraceful death/
--ntity all young men take warning from me . ,
and when violating the obligations due to parents
and especially to the mothers who bore them,
and nursed them in their infancy, remember that
the end of such is certain and sudden destruc
tion. How true will your prophetic words prove'
—when in the anguish of your soul you have
expressed your fears that my days would be end.
ed on the scaffold or within the bars of a prison.
I pray that God will forgive all the suffering and
anguish that I have caused you, and that in his
mercy he will soften this last blow - from an no.
dutiful son ',port the herti-t of a mother. In my
dying, my last thoughts will turn to you, and my
last prayer next to mercy in my own sinful soul,
will be that Gad will stay and support your de..
dining }•ears
I can say nothing to comfort or console you
except to protest my innocence. I enclose a
lock of my hair, which I hope you will keep in
memory of your very unfortunate and misera—
ble sun.
Lynching in Georgia.
The Macon (Ga.) Journal publishes the fol
lowing despatches :
Cutumints, August 12, 33 P. M.
Messrs. Editors :—There is a great mob rag,
lug here at present. The negro man Jarrett,con
victed by two successive juries of the infamous
crime of committing a rape upon a little girl ten.
years old, was to have been hung to-lay. Tu
the surprise of every one, lie was pardoned by
Gov. Towns. 'Phis has caused great indignation
among the populace, and a mob of five hundred
persons are now before the jail awaiting
.the
hour of 4 u'eloeii, at which time they expect to
hang him.
Ciltv , s/pis„ltigitql 11'., 51 P. M
The mob assembled at 4 o'clock, proceeded to
the jail and demanded• the keys. The eheriff re
fused to glee them up—the doors were brnken
open, and the negro brought OM and hung to a
pine tree, back or the jail.
Opposition to Robjohn's Balloon
11. Poitevin, the celebrated French aeronaut
k coward:Ong a m,st won.d.rful propeller bal..
loon. at Park. It consists of three balloons, each
Ird) lett high. altache.l to the two ends and cen
tre ora carcass of wood, about the length of a
Brooklyn ferryboat. The steering and advanc.,
ing apparatus consist of two screws, moved each.
by a steam engine of four horse power, and act.
ing upon the air precisely as the screw of a pro
pellor does upon the water, and of sixteen inclin
ed planes.
The three balloons are ready—and their im—
mense folds fill the whole length of the Palais
-National, where fifty seamstresses have been
hemming and binding and stitching away at
them for the last two months and a half.
He was t ascend on the INt instant. By the
nisi steamer we shall hear how he succeeded.—
A great number are very ansitius to know when
the American balloon propeller will make her
trial trip from Hoboken.—Seient /fie American. .
Lightning.—.t correspondent of the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, in a letter dated
New London, Chester county, states that during
a thunder storm which passed over that place on
Solidity afternoon, the Rev. Jonas Bissey had
just concluded an excellent and eloquent ser.
mon in the Methodist Church, when the libitt
ning struck the building, killed the Reverend
gentleman in the pulpit and Stunning several of
the congregation. o.le young man, it was
thought, had ; been killed also, but after consid•
erable exertion on the part'of those present, he
was restored to consciousness.
Served him Itight.—lropki II sL:Furaer, late
democratic U. S. Senator from Tennessee, was
a candidate for the State Legislature in Frank
lin county. In the Senate he voted against the.
most important of the compromise measures.--
In the canvass he took the fire-eating Melt side. •
The people thus decided die issue: Mr. Arledge, •
1,003. Varney, lili4-4 , 18 majority against 'Fur- •
ney. So the ex.“. S. Senator is beaten by a
"Unionister," as he styles his opponents.
Ilzia/ Accident—Last Saturday afternoon, al
young man about 19 years of age, named Wil.
I iam Ilyde, - son of John Hyde, of Womeladorf,
Barks county,. while employed with other
workmen in painting the interior of the dome.
of the Capitol, at Harrisburg, lost his balance
upon a holder and fell through to . the floor of
the rotunda, a distance of 60 to 70 feet, and
was so seriously injured that he diciithe same
night. )his body was brought to Womelsdoil
for interment. —Democratic Union,
Alabama.—The newly-elected Senators stand'
12 Union men to 6 :Secessionists.. Fifteen old
members hold over. The new HOuse of Heine- •
sentalives,. so far as Ifrard" ; from,consists. 0f.+50
Union men• to 32 Secessionists, leasringliine
Members to be heard, from. Alabama is• thus•
.for the Union.
I=
WILLIAM SHELTON.