Circulation near 2000. tlegister. Allentown, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1811. Office Seeking As soon as the power departs from one par ty and is assumed by another, in our flee country, just so soon the partisans, who have been struggling to rescue the country from the hands of the spoilers, are ready and willing to perform any other service that the new state of things may require; a proof of the disinterest ed patriotism that characterizes our country men. They are always ready to take charge of County, State and National offices, and wear themselves out, if need he, in the service of their country. They will forsake their legiti mate business for this object, asking norecom pense—though this is not necessary where the pay is fixed by law; and the number is aston ishing who are willing to thrust their feet into the shoes of ousted opponents and fill the breaches that their departure has made. A man who gets appointed collector or postmast. er of a large place, say Philadelphia, is sadly to select from the hosts who beset hint for place. It requires great tact, - in rewarding a friend, to avoid offending another who has been equally zealous. It was the custom of one collector of customs—whose name is treasured in the memory, if not in the affec tion, of many—to write out a list of the names of all applicants in alphabetical order, and treat them in this wise: A man, for instance, whose name began with Y, would present himself, and lug out, like a venderof patent medicines, a big budget of recommendations—from the schoolmaster, and the minister, and the town clerk—all certifying to moral and political in tegrity. The collector would look upon the ap,-, plicant and his documents with the blandest smile, and pointing to the list would say, "Aly friend, I have revived three thousand six hun dred and ten applications, (more or less;) they are written here alphabetically ; your name is pretty well down on the list, but you s hall be remembered when your turn comes." And the man would take heart from the srnile of the collector, though the length of the list rath er augured that he Twist "whit a little longer." Don't seek office. You'll be happier without one. Later and Important from Cuba • By Telegraph! Savannah, Sept. 'lst., 1851 The Schooner Merchant arrived here to-day from Havana, bringing advices from that city to the 23rd of Angust, lour days later than by the Empire City at New Orleans. The Merchant brings the important intelli gence that Gen. Lopez has bean successful itr every engagement with the Spanish troops.— In an engagement on the 17th August, Gene ral Enna, Commander in: Chief of the Spanish forces, was killed with several other officers and a large number of men. The force of Gen. Lopez was from 1,500 to 2,000 strong, and was daily receiving reinforcements. He was marching towards Havana. Gen. Enna was, buried with great pomp in Havana on the 20th. Great excitement prevailed at Haiana, and much apprehension was felt. There are now only about 700 troops remaining in the city. Contributions for Cuba Andrew H. Mickle, :John McKean, S. Squiers, F. B.Tillon, Elijah F. Purdy, appear in the New York Sun, as a committee to re ceive public sitb-zeriptions to b applied to the purpose of erecting a suitable nut ent to the fifty massacred prisoners, on the where the infamous butchery was committed, &c., &c. Contributions, so we see, are to take that form and the Sun adds : "The following contributions have been al- ready tendered: The sum of $lO,OOO by one gentleman, on the condition that $90,000 more shall be subscribed. From two gentlemen, jointly, $5,000, on the samecondition. From another [without condition). $3,000, and the pledge to raise as much more from a fewfriends. From a few Cuban exiles, $1,500. Front an other gentleman, a Cuban planter in this city, three thousand muskets. From another, the musket and complete accoutrements for ten men, said articles to he dispached to Cuba, to aid in arming the patriots there. From anoth er, a farm of 150 acres, within fifty miles of New York. From another, a good rifle and accoutrements complete. The' publication of names is withheld for a few days, but will soon be made, except in cases where the con. tributors may object ?" Whig Meeting The friends of Scott, Johnston, Strohm and the Union ) will meet in the Court house on Friday evening, at B o'clock. The meeting will be addressed by Morton Mc Michael, Esq., of Philadelphia. The Allentown Brass Band will be in attendance. Telegraph Election Al an election for officers of the "Philadel phia and Wilkesbarre Telegraph Company," held at the American Hotel, in Allentown,' on Tuesday the 2nd instant, the following gentle men were elected tor the ensuing year:' President -- Dr. A. C. Goell, Philadelphia. Secretary—H. D. Maxwell; Easton. Treasurer—M. H. Jones, Easton. • • Directors—W. K. Huffnagel, Philadelphia. C. H. Mann; Doylestovrp. R. S. Chidsoy, Easton. C. D. Busse, Nazareth. I'. 11. Goepp, Bethlehent E; Grim, Allentown. N. D. Courtright, Mauch Chunk. S. W.. Hudson, Beaver-Meadow, A. Pardee, Hazleton. • Hon. L. Kidder, Wilkesbarre. Railroads in the United States. We glean from Horn's United States RAO road Gazette, the subjoined compilation of the Railroads in each State: It gives the relative osition of each in regard to expenditures: ,4 = dog rx..E. , 74 2 o • = 5 2 'MST STATES. 0 •-• r: - 0 P. Z 4 .0 0 V . GA O 0. 1.1 8 = - 281 179 ;6,695,518 455 58 14,145,755 366 168 13,467,013 1142 67 51,884,572 50 30 2.614,484 551 65 17,498,599 1659 1240• 61,445,646 304 40 7,445.000 1169 557 45,046,949 Maine 10 N. Hampshire 16 Vermont .. . 9 Mabsachusetts 37, Rhode island . 2 Connecticut.. 13 New York . . 48 New Jersey • • 10 Pennsylvania. 51 Delaware . . . 2 Maryland :. . 3 Virginia 13 N. Carolina . . 4 S. Carolina . . 3 Georgia .. . . 1 3 Florida . . . • 2 Alabama . . . 4 Mississippi . . 3 Louisiana . • 6 Texas 1 Tennessee... 5 Kentucky .. . 7 Ohio so Michigan .. . 4 Indiana .. • . 20 Illinois .. . 16 Missouri.. . . lowa 1 Wisconsin .. 2 335 10287 10092 1,306,607,955 IBM This exceeds the entire banking capital of The country. At this moment the construction of Railroads in diflerent states of the Union is progressing with as much rapidity as at any previous period since they Commenced, and the increase is at the rate of more than live per cent per annum. It is about 20 years since Railroads were first put into active operation on this side of the Atlantic, and the increase has averaged about one thousand miles annu ally, from that time to this. Twenty thousand miles of Railroad are completed, or it: a slate of constrnction. Until within the past few years, the Eastern and Northern Stales monop olized the building of Railroads. Lately, the South and West have gone extensively into the business, and Railways are stretching into the remotest sections of our extreme Southern and Western States. In a short time, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and the States bordering on the Mississippi River will be as well covered with Railroads as any of the New England States are at this moment. Register Permit me through the col. umns of your valuable paper, to recommend to the voters of Lehigh county, your worthy townsman, Col. Jonathan Cook, as a candidate for the. Legislature, and be assured, could be be prevailed upon to suffer his name as a can didate, he will greatly gratify his many friends. sou Tit %VIIITEUALL. The Right View A letter from Hon. S. J. Phelps, late U. S. Senator from Vermont, .has made its appear. ante. It is dated the 4th instant, and is ad- dressed to the Hon. Lucius H. Peck, who re• cently declined the Free Soil • nomination for Governor of Vermont. The letter reviews the Fugitive Slave Law, its constitutionality, and the action of Vermont on those questions, with great earnestness. The wriier Frtys "Of the constitutionality of the act I never entertained a doubt. It is but the echo of the Constitution itself. It may be modified, it may require modification in some particulars, but the mOilifications lie within the range of legis lative discretion, and a difference of opinion in relation to them, affects tiot the question of con stitutionality. "It would he difficult to carry nut the provi sion of the constitution with a law substantial ly like the ono in question. The main purpose of the act, the surrender of the lugitive, is de manded by the constitution. If there be anything oljectionable in that, the remedy is by appeal to legi,lative discretion— not by resistance to the law. • "It appears to me that we have but one al ternative, either to carry out the law, or repu diate the constituti•in." The letter is quite long, and written with great ability. The International Magizine This "Paragon of the INlonthlies," for Sep tember, is upon our table. It cronprises the Spirit of the English Reviews and Journals ; translations from the French, Ger Man, &c; the most popular Serial Romances and Tales; no tices of the principal event= in Literature and Art ; the general History of each month ; Obit uaries.of Eminent Persons; finest passages of New Works, &e., &c. Each number contains 144 octavo pages, in double co lu m n s , w i t h finely engraved Portraits of Public Characters, Illustrations of Events, &c., and carefully pre pared notices of Fashion. The three splendid volumes presented in a single year will contain in the aggregate 2000 large and admirably printed and embellished pages. Stringer & Townsend, Publishers, New York. Terms— ' $3 per annum. Graham's Magazine The September number of Graham's excel. lent American Monthly, is embellished with three beautiful engravings, and enriched with choice original contributions from the pens of Conrad, Stoddart, Prentice, Herbert, Mrs. Neal, Miss Alice Carey, Mrs. E. Oakes Smith, and other writers of acknowledged ability. There is an originality, freshness, and elevated litera ry tone about the Magazine, which gives it a marked superiority over many of the periodi . - eels of a similar class that are now contending for popular favor. George R. Graham, Publish. er, 134 Chestnut street; Philadelphia.. Terms, • 1 , 3 per annum. The acts of Assembly, passed during the last session of the Legislature, were received in this city; yesterday, by the County Treasurer.—. They form a volume of nearly a thousand pa ges, the great bulk of which is made up of what is termed .'special legislation." One hundred pages contain nil the laws which are of a public and general character. This spe cies of legislation has grown to be a serious evil,,annoying to the community, from the distrust and uncertainty engendered by it, and from the expense and delay it occasions in the publication of the laws. So reckless and ex tensive has this system become, that a man can scarcely leave his home for a week, dur ing a session of the Legislature, without run ning great. peril, and, perhaps, finding him self divorced from, his wife on his return, and his house and land, if ho have any, granted away for a cemetery or soup society, or vino printed "to public use," for a street to enable saute speculative neighbor to lay out half an acre of unproductive soil in "town lots." We have too much legislation and too many laws; but if our representatives will persevere in overwhelming us with such evidences of their anxiety for our welfare, we trust they will adept measures to have their doings published a little earlier than they have been heretofore. It is too much to ask the people to wait until September before they can be apprised of the mischief done in March.—fublic Ledger, Au• 16 11 600,000 355 172 13,043,888 483 508 7,6 9 6, 358 249 385 400,000 291 135 7.343,678 784 200 13,922.361 54- - 250,000 244 55 4.750,000 88 ,30 1,718,000 89 - 663,000 - 72 - 80 602 600,000 77 518 '1,500,000 690 1697 12.768,793 411 33 8,046,340 279 1043 5,100.000 149 1772 2,950,000 - 39 - 180 29 263 400,000 Comn►unical ed Publication of the State Laws guht 29 Anecdote of John Adams When John Adms was a young man, he was invited to dine with the Court and [tar at the house of Judge Paine, an eminent loyalist, at• Worcester. When the wine was circulated round the table, Judge Paine gave as a toast, "the King." Some of the whigs were about to refuse to drink it, but Mr. Adams whispered to them to comply, saying: IVe shalt have an opportunity to return the compliment." At length, when John Adams was desired to give a toast, he gave "The Devil." As the host was about to resent the supposed indignity, his wife calmed hint, and turned the laugh upon Mr. Adams, by immediately saying "My dear, as the gentlemen has seen fit to drink to our ftiend, let us by no means refuse, in our turn, to drink to his.—N. Y. Iribunc. Improved Iron Farm Fence. Mr. John B. Wickersham, formerly of Phila. delphia, but now extensively engaged in the man ufacture of iron railing, &c., in New York, has I recently patented an improved farm knee, which has many advantages over his original invention, and being much simplified is greatly reduced in price. The improvement consists in the mode of securing the rails or wires at the posts. In• Stead of the eyes used in the original invention, through which the bolts were passed to bind or 'Strengthen the fence, it is now made in sectional parts, with stills in the post, so arranged that when in place they break joint with each other. This slot in one section extends upward, and in the other downward, and each rail is furnished with a loop or dead eye turned in each end, which prevents it from passing through the slots. Double acting screws are introduced every 300 feet, with which to tighten the fence. The posts are also of an improved form, so as to secure their being fixed permanently in the ground.— The fences thus constructed are warranted to possess an unusual degree .of elasticity and strength and their economy and durability must commend them for general adoption. The cost is but $1,50 per rod for the materials of a fence .16 feet high, with five rails, and the planting of it so simple that it can be accomplished by the ordinary hands about a farm. The price is about equal to that of a cedar post and rail fence in this neighborhood. while in the western prai. rice, where timber is scarce and expensive, this iron fence will probably prove the most econo. mica! by at least 25 per cent.—Reading, Gazette. Making Cider The following mode of grinding apples fur der, applies the threshing machine to a new pur pose. We have no doubt but that it will perform its new work well : The economical use of manure has, within the last few years, received great attention in England, where concentrated fertilizers, such as ground bones,superphospate of lime, poudrette, guana, and the salts of ammonia, potash and so da, arc so much resorted to. Most of these sub , stances require some particular preparation and mixture with mould, plaster, ashes, &c., to bring them to a state in which they will be dropped evenly by the drill. This manure drill is formed very readily by merely adding to the common grain drill a manure box or chest, and a simple yet accurately working apparatus for delivering the manure, which, in the best drills, it does with great evenness, and in quantities varying as the "slip" is placed, from six to eight bushels per acre; and in these drills a very important im provement has recently been made, namely, the use of separate coulters for manure and seed, the manure being deposited not only two or three inches in advance of it so as to give the snit time to cover the manure before the next coul, ters deposit the seed. On the old plan of letting the seed and fertilizer run down the same pipe, where the manure was very powerful, like guano, the seed were very apt to suffer injury from the too close contact. The best position fur manure is commonly considered to be under the seed. Cuba and Me South.—The Richmond Whig takes decided grounds against the annexation of Cuba, as being (apart from all other ohjections) a measure full of mischief to Southern interests. The large sugar productions of Om Island, it says, would break up that interest in the South. The Charleston Mercury; secession organ, oppo ses the acquisition on the ground of its drawing off slaves from the present Eastern slave states of the Union, finally abolishing slavery in those States, Maryland, Virginia, &c., and weakening the numerical force of the South in Congress, as Cuba would, of course, constitute but one State. It thinks, also, that there should be some other country than the United States sustaining -the institutions of slavery: The Voice of Lehigh!!! _ DEMOCRATIC U N COTY MEETING. In pursuance of , the usual call, the regular annual County meeting of the Democracy of Lehigh, was held at the public house of Nathan Weiler, in Siegersville, North Whitehall town- ship, on Saturday, the 23rd day of August.— On motion Hon. JACOB ERDMAN, of Upper Salmon, was called to the chair; Jacob Derr, Jacob Marks, Philip Person,. Is rael Trexler, Nicholas Derr, Samuel A. I3ridg• es, and Benjamin Fogel, were appointed Vice Presidents; and John D. Law•all and %Vim J. Hoxworth, Sec. MIMED The meeting being thus organized, on 'Mo tion a committee of two from each township and ward in the county, were appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meet ing. The following gentlemen constituted said committee : North Ward—J. D. Stiles, Jacob Dillinge,r. South Ward—J. W. Wilson, M. ❑annum. Northampton—S. Brown, Emanuel Trexler. Hanovcr—George Frederick, !henry Sellers. Saucon—C. W. Cooper Euos Erdman. Upper Milford—Henry Om, Henry Diefen ' derfcr. Lower Mactingy—P. notnig, Renb. Danner. tipper Maeungy—Henry Ginkinger, Peter Hendricks. ‘Veisenburg—Dan.Shuler, Day. Zimmerman LowltillJacob George, J. Zimmerman. Lynn—Peter Snyder, Jacob Snyder. Ileidelberg—David Koss, Owen Reedy. Wat.hington—J. Hausman, Daniel Fry. North Whitehall—L. Knauss, Owen Shadt. South Whitehallllenry Guth, Alex. .W Loder Saliebury—Stephen Keichet, John Roth. The committee, after retiring a short time, returned and reported the following, which were adopted Whereas, the time having again arrived, when the Democracy of Lehigh county will be called upon to parncipale in the approaching political contest, and Whereas, we, a portion of that democracy, having assembled in annu al meeting for the purpose of adopting measures preparatory thereto, therefore Resolved, That we have come up hither, to day in no other character than that of true and ardent friends of these United States, amine to our brethren throughout their length and breadth the most solemn pledge to protect to the last, as far as we enable, the ligaments which bind them together, and to do all in our power to transmit their Union to posterity firm and unshaken. Resolved, That we entirely approve of ihe, compromise measures passed by the last Con gress for the Settlement of a question which endangered the peace of the Union, and here by declare our firm determination to defend and maintain them. Resolved, That we have also come together as the friends of Pennsylvania, believing that we have heretofore battled long and hard for the promotion of its true interests; and that our zeal in this behalf has in no wise:abated, as with hearts beating high ivitit hopes, we throw out our banner to the breeze, hearing the in cription of "eternal devotion to the Union and to Pennsylvania." Resolved, That we still adhere to and reaffirm and declare our cordial attachment to the prin ciples of the Tariff of 1846, regarding them as inure just and equitable in all their various fea tures than those of '42; yet at the same time we are not averse to reasonable modifications, as the great and leading interests of the country may from time to time require, provided howev er such modifications can he made without inju ry or in anywise affecting the main features of the present Tariff act. Resoived, That the bright and chrerieg pros pects with which the present campaign has open ed, is but a sure precursor of a more glorious consummation of the designs of the Democracy of the Slate, in wresting its Government front the hands of the federalists. Resolved, That we heartily approve of the nomination of Col. \Vim.* km linnet( as the Dem ocratic candidate fur Governor of the State, and will most cheerfully yield him our support at the coining election; Because we believe him to be eminently fitted for the station, and such a man as the times re• quire ; Because we believe him to be a man brought up from among the people, and therefore knows the people's wants ; Because he is in every sense of the term, a National Democrat, and a devoted friend of the Union ; Because he is at all times prompt to avow and slow to conceal his principles; Because he has no pocket in which to thrust a Fugitive Slave Law, and thereby cowardly defeat the action of the people's representa. OEM And because he seeks no alliances with . strange and unnatural factions, but fearlessly plants his standard upon the entrenchments of the principles of his own party, and'depends upon its strength alone. Resolved, That we approve of the selection of Gen. Seen Cuov ea as our candidate for Canal Commissioner, and will do all in our power to secure his election, having the fullest confidence in his integrity and ability to discharge the du ties of the office with benefit to the State. Resolved, That we have the most entire Con fidence in the talents and qualifications of the distinguished gentlemen who constitute the dem. ocratic Judicial Ticket, whose merits as Jurists of the highest order cannot, in our estimation, be lessened by the shafts of malice or the detrac.. tions of envy. Resolved, That we approve of the course pur sued by the Hon. Tuomss Ross, our Represents. five in Congress, during its last session, and feel especially grateful to him. for his determined op position to free.soilism, and his able de?cnce of the constitution.aud the Union.. Resolved. That the course pursued by our. Representatives in both branches of our state Legislature, generally meets our approbation, and particularly are we indebted'to DAVID LAU. nr, Esq., fur his steadfast refusal to support a bill in favor of the "Free Banking System"' Resolved, That we are opposed' to . any change by the next b"gislature of the Law eretting a Canal Board, arl that should any effort ht dada to"recltice the number from three to oneiotre meknbt.rs in both branches be Sstructed to op. pose it. Resolved, That the Democrats of the different townships, in Lehigh county, arcs hereby request. ed to hold their Delegate Elections at their res. pective places, on Friday the 19th day of Sep tember, and to elect the number of Delegates to which they are respectively entitled, which Del. egates will meet in County Convention, on Sat. urday the 20th day of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M., at the house of Solomon Grieve., mer, in South Whitehall township, for the pur. "pose of placing in nomination a suitable County Ticket, &c., to be supported by the Democracy of the county at the ensuing election. Resolved, That the conferees in this Senato rial and Judicial District, that may hereafter be appointed by the Delegate Convention of this county, to nominate candidates fur this and Northampton counties, be and they are hereby instructed to meet no more than an equal num• ber from Northampton county. After the adoption of the above, the follow , ing resolution, which had been rejected in com mittee, was ptesented by J. W. ‘,V ilson, and de clared adopted : Resolved, That the time has come when Penn. Sylvania is emphatically entitled to the next candidate for the Presidency, and should he be our illustrious statesman James Buchanan, or any other of our distinguished fellow citizens, we pledge him our hearty and undivided sup. port. Resolved, That these proceedings be signed by the officers and published in the Independent Republican, Allentown Democrat, Pennsylva nian, arid Harrisburg Union. [Signed by the Officers.] Whereupon, on motion, the meeting adjourn ed with three cheers for BILLER, CLOVER, and DEMOCRACY. [During the afternoon, the meeting was ably addressed by 110 n. S. A. Bridges, G. W. Faring, and H. C. loingtiecktr, Esqq., in English, and by Rev..l. Shindt4l, in German.] Mr. Wander and the English and French Minis fees.----A Washington letter writer says that some eight or ten weeks ago, before Mr. Webster left Washington, the British Anil French diplomatic functional les here hinted, in a semi.official man ner, at the necessity in which their respective governments might be placed to prevent the at_ tempts of our citizens to seize upon Cuba ; to which Mr. Webster, I believe, have a very com• prehensive reply, stating that the government of the United States had done, and honestly contin ued to do all in its power to prevent other expe ditions against Cuba'; but that the government was not to be threatened by any foreign power, and would not listen to such threats: Mr. Web ster's note remained unanswered by Sir Henry and the Minister sent us by Louis Bonaparte. Bayard Taylor, Esq.—This gentleman, says the Philadelphia Sun., was among the passen gers in the steamer City of Manchester, which left our port yesterday for Liverpool. He goes to explore the sources of the Nile, stimulated by that love of adventure and travel for which he is distinguished. He will remain a week in Lon don, and about the same time in Germany, where he formed many friends during his former Euro. pean tour. From thence he will proceed to Egypt and ascend the Nile, as far as he can ob tain guides, or feel confidence in his own ener_ gy and resources. He anticipates heing absent until the fall of 1852, and we trust he may he able to add largely to science as the result of his journey. We parted with him yesterday in high spirits, and he has not left behind him in our country, a more refitted mind, or a more amiable gentleman. Success to the ardent and accom plished voyager; may all his anticipations be realized. Painful Accident—We learn from the Potts. villa Emporium, that UP Monday evening, the 18th instant, Dr. Heine, of Kutztown, was leav_ ing the Court House, at Pottsville, after hearing the-speech of Col. Bigler, the evening being very dark, he fell from the high bank in front of the building, into the street below, a distance of some twelve feet. He was taken up, to all appearance dead, and carried into Dengler's Hotel, where medical aid was immediately summoned, yet he remained senseless for several hours, when he revived somewhat, but still lingers in a low and critical condition. Another person, it will be recollected fell from the same bank soon after the street was cut thrOugh, and lost his' life in consequence, yet it has been left until this time, in the same exposed and dangerous condition: have You Broken the Pledge ?—Try again! Every man, it is said, knows or should know, when swallowing the infernal fluid, intoxicating drinks, that he is taking in his stomach a serr ent that can bite him a thousand ways, and can influence him against his wife and children whom he should consider most dear to him; and whom he is bound to nourish and protect. Cer. tainly those men who have once been recovered from intemperance, and gone down to that wretched habit again, should be well acquainted with the terrible and disgusting results of grog• drinking. So we read somewhere. • Newspaper Property.—lt is stated that Mr. Bu tecr, who recently bought one.fourth of the Jour nal of Commerce, published at New York, paid $40,000 for his share of that prosperous estab. lishment, the net income of which is between thirty and forty thousand dollars a year. Henry W. Smith, Esq.—This gentleman has requested and authorized the °Reading Adler" and the Reading "Press" to state that he "will be an independent candidate for President Judge of that Judicial District, and that his name will not be presented to the delegate convention.of. the Democratic convent ion. ' Gleanings. tWe verily believe that every newspaper which now opposes the Cuba movement for free dom, would have been, had they existed during the Revolutionary War, rank Tory. 15” Poverty makes a man acquainted with strange bed-fellows. Dir The Masillon (Ohio) News says, that the Counties of Stark and Wayne will send to mar. ket this fall at least 4000 tons of pork. re' A'gentleman of Massachusetts, has recent ly deceased, leaving ten thousand dollars for the pttblicitti'Mr of a Phonetic Lexicon, to be finished in - Idur years. larln 1874 the mail was taken to New Or leans from We:4lslom City in twenty-four days. That is just about i'n . e.'time now required ; in taking it from New York to .s . :l".l 4 rancisco. E - P - I have been a gunning. Did yaitet 11 thing I Yes—l got tired! UP - Cromwell did not wait to strike until the = iron was hot but made it hot by striking. II '•"I loved my wife," said Mr. Candle','..atVi for the first two months felt as if I could eat her r up. Ever since I have been sorry I didn't." or If you do what you should not, you musts hear what you would not. a• , Complaint is justly made in regard to the • new three cent letter stamps, that they dont •stick • with a lick: The inventor deserves a 'lick with? a stick. Improvement in Setting Teeth. At the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Dental 'Surgeons, held in the city of Philadelphia, a new method of setting teeth was introduced by Dr. Allen, of Cincinnati, which consists in uniting small teeth firmly to each other and to the plate upon which they are set,. by means of a fusible silicious cement, which is• flowed in between and around the base of the ar tificial teeth upon the plate, in such a manner as• to form a most perfect artificial gum. This ce.. meat is harder and stronger than the teeth, and , ' cannot be acted upon by salvia or acids. The advantages of this method over the usual mode• are, great strength, cleanliness, facility, and a• much more natural and life-like appearance of the teeth and gums. We examined several specimens of teeth set: upon this plan, shown us by Dr. Allen, and the appearance is decidedly beautiful, and resembles the natural gum as nearly as 'it is possible for art to do. The teeth are firmly held in place by the cement and cannot be removed with forceps. without breaking away a portion of it. The cc. mem itself is nearly, if not quite, as hard as por... celain .4/for/cam A Tragical Occurrance.—On Sunday night, in• Cincinnati, a tragical and unnatural deed was perpetrated, which, in all probability, will cause the death of a worthy young man named Lewis Houseman, a Watchman of Ninth ward. Barn ard Houseman, in a partial state of intoxication. was creating a disturbance in the street, when his son Lewis approached and told him he was a watchman, and must preserve the peace, beg. ging him at the same time to be quiet. With an expression of rage, the father in an instant drew a long knife, and sprineing on his son, plunged it twice into him, once iti the left side of the neck, and once in the abdomen. Col. Crittentlen.—The Louisville Courier says "the Col. Crittenden," shot at Havana, was doubt less William Crittenden, son of John A. Critten den, late Marshal of the Louisville Chancery Court. The same paper says that Patrick Dil. lon, Dr. Fisher, Mandeville, att three or four others of the unfortunates were from the State of Indiana. Singular Coincidence.. , —The mother of George Pharonh, hung at West Chester, Pa., on Friday, was a sister to Jahez Boyd, who wns hung at West Chester on the 21st of November, 1845, for the murder of Wesley Patton, a lad. Pharoah was hung on the same gallows, and with the same cope. MEE= The Cu/on Inellsion.—The Washington Tele graph of the Ist instant, says positive informa tion has been received by the Government, of an arrangement to have, within a month, not less than five thousand armed men in Cuba. The Cuban Junta, at New Orleans, have plac ed the whole matter under the control of Gen. Felix Houston, who is collecting money and or ganizing. for a large expedition. Dreadful Suiride.—The Flushing Journal re ports an inquest held on Saturday, at the Lathe ran Cemetery, near Newtown, upon the body of Wilhelm Fahliner, a German tailor, aged 26 years. The deceased had recently lost his wife and only child, and grief for their death so im. paired his reason, that on Friday night he visited the cemetery, and blew his brains out with a pis tol while standing upon their graves. The cor" oner's jury subscribed a slim sufficient to pay the expenses of his burial by. the side of his kindred.• Keeping Cool.—The MontgOmeri Advertiser ` and Gazette winds up a notice' of the result of the election* foreongress in that District with the following consolatory s* nut we feel like the fellow who alionipd,his . * toe—he was too big too cry, and it hurt so d--d l bad he couldn't laugh. So we will just lay down our pen for the present, and take to excissoriaing. murders, fires and Cuban revolutions. French Emigrants to Oalifornia.—The lottery' of golden ingots, of which so much has been' seen and heard in France, has already realized.. a sum sufficient for carrying out the purposes which gave rise to it. 5,000 emigrants are to be sent to California with the proceeds of the lotte ry. The house of V. Morison & Co., of Havre, has obtained concession from government of the. transport of these emigiants. _ - Schuylkill County.—The Demoarats of Soh uyi: kill county have nominated Charles W. Hegins for President Judge Strange Ns Palmer and Francis S. Hubley for Associaie.s,. and Stepherp. Ringer and gdward Riley fbr Nssembly. The Whigs nominated Christopher Loeser for President Judge; Soksmon *POster and tired Reed' for Associatess and - John 8. Struthers and Thompson Godfreysfor Assembly.
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