al)e t'eliigli itegigter.
Allentown, Pa.
THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1862.
rirOar thanks are due to the Hon. James C.
Jones, Hon. Richard Broadhead, Hon. William
H. Seward, Hon. Thomas Ross, Hon. Thaddeus
Stevens, for Congressional documents; and to
Hon. Conrad Shimer, and Messrs. Laury and
Hart for Legislative documents.
The Allentown Bank
It is probably known to all of our readers
that the bill chartering a Bank at. 41Ientown,
has passed the Senate last wo:k4;_and now
awaiti - rits result in the (ions !' Monday last
was set apart for tho consideration of the Bank
bills in the House. We were informed by Tel
_egraph,_ however,_that- the-consideration-was
again postponed until Wednesday, the I 4th in
stant. What the result will be, time can only
determine. We have very encouraging news
from Harrisburg, and we oust our worthy Rep-
resentative Mr. Diary, will be able to carry the
bill through the House.
The Mauch Chunk Bank bill passed the
House on the 2d instant b the ver decided
vote of 41 to 35. The bill now only needs the
signature of the Governor to become a law. So
here is the point. Many entertain doubts as to
whether Governor Bigler will give his sanc
tion to an increase of Bank capital in this State,
although we have comparitively speaking, less
banking capital, in proprotion to the trade and
population, than any State in the Union. We
cannot fora moment believe, that should our bill
pass the House, that he would think to refuse
his signature. He has travelled through our sec
tion of country, and bad an opportunity of be
coming acquinted with the large business
operations in our county, which we doubt not,
have fully satisfied him, that if an Institution
of this kind is wanted in any part of the State,
it is in Allentown. The Manufacturers, Mil
lers, Merchants, Traders and Mechanics are
at present laboring under many inconveniences
from the fact, that they have to travel a great
,distance to procure business facilities, all of
which we trust will be taken in consideration
by the Governor.
The Meeting on the 9th
The proceedings of the adjourned meeting
held in the Courthouse, on Wednesday even
ing last, were handed to us for publication.
The extreme length of the Report, accompani
ed with the proceedings prevented us from giv
ing them in our columns this week. The fol.
following resolution, however, contains the sum
and substance of the report :
Resolved—That a Committee of three be ap
pointed, whose duty it shall be, to proceed
against the Northampton Water Company,
either by Quo Warranto or by sire Facias, ns
ahall bo donmod mn,t f1:1V:`.•LIOP, in or
der to effect a forreiture of tool- (-barter, %von
power to employ Counsel,colleet fon,l.=, to .1e•
fray the necessary expenses, kc., ttnu.! to .lo
every thing necessary to effect the obyrt of
their appointment.
The following gentlemen were appontted to
carry out the instructions of the above resolu
tion, namely: Jesse Samuels ; John B. Moser,
and Charles S. Bush.
We understand that it is the wish of the pres
ent Board of the Water Company, to withdraw
from its management, and in their place desire
an entire new Board to be elected.. This meas.
sure will no doubt allay much of the dissatis.
faction that now exists.
The Road to Pottstown
We are pleased to see that our worthy Rep
resentative David Leary, Esq., on the 6th inst.
took up the Allentown and Pottstown Railroad
Bill, and passed it through that branch without
any opposition. This will be gratifying news
to the citizens of both these thriving places, and
also to those along the line. The bill is now in
the hands of our attentive member Gen. Ski
mer, in the Senate, in whom we have the con
fidence, that he will secure its passage through
that branch of the Legislature at its earliest pe
ried, in accordance to the unanimous wish of
his constituents. We trust the friends of the
project at Pottstown will keep the ball in mo.
tion, in order that the bill may be passed to the
Governor's table, and there receive his signi
ture before the Session closes.
New Bank Proviso
The following proviso was attached to the
Bank bills which passed the Senate, on Friday
last. It is said the same proviso, with an un
important modification, will be appended to
the Charter of each of the new Banks:
"That the said Bank shall pay into the Trea
sury of the Commonwealth, within three
months after the expiration of the present char
ter, two per centum upon the ‘Vhole amount of
the capital stock thereof; and shall be subject
to a tax upon such capital stock, according to
the rate and amonnt provided by the 33d sec
tion of the Act of the 29th of April, 1844, enti
tled 'An Act to reduce the State debt, and to
incorporate the Pennsylvania Canal and Rail-
road Company,' in lieu of the tax upon the capi
tal stock imposed by the 46th section of the
Act of the 16th of April, 1850, entitled 'An Act
Regulating Banks Provided, That should
said Bank, at any time hereafter, be made the
subject of taxation, not now provided for by
ilogeneral laws, the percentage so paid shall be
credited to said Bank on account of said midi•
tionaldaxation."
State Agricultural Fair
We are pleased to learn from the Carlisle
Herald (who is no doubt speaking by authori
ty of Judge Watts, Chairman of the Pennsyl
vania State AgricultUral Society . ) that the Com
mittee entrusted with the selection of a place,
have decided hpon accepting the proposition
for holding the next State Fair at' or near the
City of. Lancaster. .It will be worth the trip to
many of our Lehigh county Farmers ; to see
that magnificent county.
Bible Society
The annual meeting of the "Lehigh County
Bible Society" held its annual meeting on the
evening of the 12th of January, 1852, in the
Lecture room of the German Reformed Church.
The minutes of the last two meetings were
read and adopted. The Treasurer presented
his report, which was read and accepted, of
which the following is a true copy :
• Christian Pretz, Treasurer for the year 1851,
in Account with the Bible Society.
January 1, To Balance in the Treasury, $l2 07
February 3, collected at the Courthouse, 677
March 26, " Rev. Bleentisen, 9 19
-May 23, " Rev. Jos. Schantz, 435
July-18 ,
August 26, " Rev. Walker, 383
Sept. 17, " Washington Church, 5 76
Airs. E. Thomas, Life membership, 5.00
At sundry time? for books sold, 7 57
4.. et
Receipts, 7 . . • . slb6 80
February 3, By Cash paid for Candles, 59
_May_27, Paid-Penn-Bible-Society,- 55
July 18, Paid Adam Snyder, 10 00
July 29, Pennsylvania Bible Society, 15 00
August 14, Paid Adam Snyder, . 12 27
Balaneein - theiraltds 33 69
Total, . . . . . 6 106 80
This Society owes the Pennsylvania Bible
Society $l4 00.
They have yet on hand 23 german bibles, 4
english bibles, 1 english bible.in fancy bind
ing, 24 english testaments. They have also in
the hands of Rev. Mr. Carlisle, 6 english and
5 german Bibles. C. PRETZ, Ti'easurer.
. The members then proceeded to the nomi
nation and election of Officers for the ensuing
year, which resulted as fellows:
'President—Jonathan Reichert. Vico Presi
dent—Jacob Ritter. 'Recording Secretary—E.
Moss. Corresponding Secretary—William S.
Young. Treasurer—flenry Weinsheirner.
On motion a committee of three were ap
pointed, to revise and amend the Constitution
and draft By-laws, consisting of Messrs. Chris
tian Prinz, Rev. S. IC. Brobst and William S.
Young. The Secretary to confer with the Pre
sident, and fix upon a day, on which the com
mittee is to meet. Adjourned.
Sunbury and Erie Railroad
We learn that D. D. Miller, jr., President of
the Company, returned on Friday night, from a
hasty visit to Clinton and Lycoming counties.—
During his stay, the Commissioners of the form
er county subscribed one hundred thousand, and
the latter two hundred thousand dollars to the
stock of the Company. The borough of Lock
Haven also subscribed twenty thousand dollars
—making, in all, three hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars added within the last week to the
subscription of this railroad, the importance of
which to the State and to this city cannot well
be over estimated.
s 10;10,,vs
Warren c. , utit,
Elk do 100,000
Clinton do 'lOO,OOO
Lycoming do 200,000
Lock Haven Borough, 20,000
Philadelphia j o rtdividual subscription, 420,500
Warren county, '52,000
Total, one million five hundred and
fifty one thousand five hundred dol
lars,
A large amount of individual subscription has
been secured by committees, still actively em
ployed in increasing their lists, and from whom
no definite report has yet been received. The .
foregoing list embraces nothing but what is ab.
solutely in possession of the Company.
•Exclasiire of $16,800 conditionally subscribed.
Congressional Plunder.
The liuflalo "Commercial Advertiser" has geucer" from Alr. Edward Armstrong, a mem•
been cyphering out the amount of plunder ber of the House of Representatives, from the
which each member of Congress gets. It up- City of Philadelphia, who framed the bill in
pears that the books amount to nearly a thou- question. The act, it appears, is only compd.
sand dollars, to say nothing of crooked mile. sory, so far as the City of Philadelphia is con•
age. The list is as follows: corned. In every other portion of the State.it
American State Papers, 21 vols. $532 50 Is left optional with the people, whether to
Registers of Debates, 31 " 145 00 make the registry or not; merely providing a
American Archives, 7 gc 117 32 place where a person may go to record those
Congressional Globe, 20 " 80 00 facts, which, in some instances, are highly im-
Laws of the United States, 9 " 31 50 Porlara to be known.
Diplomatic Correspondence, 7 "
Elliott's Debates, 5 "
Finance Reports, 3 tt
Senate Land Laws, 2 "
Contested Elections, 1 "
Opinions of the Attorney Gen. 1 "
United States Constitution, 1
Annuals of Congress, 6 gc
Constitution of Congress,
iNorks of Alex. Hamilton,
Works ofdohn Adams,
Total volumes,
The Commercial then cyphers up the pay
and perquisites of a Mississippi niernbCr of
Congress after this fashion:
Alileage both ways 1600 miles, 51,280
Per Diam for nino months, . 2,000
Books, . . . ! . . 865
Papers, . .
Stationary, . . . . . 30
Stealings, . . . . . 6O
If to this wore added the franking privilege,
(for eaoh member franks home a tart load of
books) we find the coast of a Mississippi mem
bor to be about $5,000, for a Session of Con
gress. If to this be added the damage which
he is apt to do to the manners and morals of
the country, we find his "public services" pur
chased at a pretty dear rate.
Refused Pardon—President Fillmore has re
fused to pardon the two unfortunate men, Reed
and Clemens, who were some time since convict
ed in the United States Court,• at Richmond, in
Virginia, on the charge of piracy. They will be
executed. They 'Were executed on the plO Inst.
The interminable speeches made in Con
gross to promote presidential intrigues, are se
verely commended upon by the independent
press of all parts of the country. The Louis
ville Democrat contains the following timely,
well eserved protest against the prevailing
practices of converting the halls of Congress
into arenas for the. settlement cf family dis
putes, to the neglect of urgent public busi
ness :
"The Constitution of the Union has imposed
upon Congress the bu Si 11 CRS al4ki duty of mak
ing laws; with the people alone is reserved
the rights and business of_making_VresidentEH
But of late years the members of Congress
have taken the.especial privilege of manmuvr,
ing and wire working, to become the 'War
wicks! of this-Republie in-this age - of the press
and steam. Louis Napoleon excused his
usurpation as the overthrow of a jaigling, elec
tioneeriag., ob:ginide legislature,' and many
approved of his conduct as a choice devils.
-- "If - the - memb( if" Cr
_.Jers of .ongress do not pay
more attention to their legitimate busines, but
continue the procrastination of legislation to
await the issue of makingdlreßidentsrthe-neo-
plc may make a sad overhauling and overturn.
ing oldie honorables. Three and a half months
of tho session have expired, and wJnit has been
done, and what is now doing, in eit:ter (louse ?
Chattering and disputing the meths 01 A, It.
or C, Whig or Dem;ler'ane canlidates; mcnr•
bets visiting their homes and constituents, to
see how the card is playing in their immedi
ate neighborhoods, arid give a hint to the pub
lic sentiment how the game may be played at
the Democratic or Whig Convention.
The Harrisburg Keystone says that the annu•
al statement of the amount of appropriation to
which each school district is entitled, will be
transmitted to the County Commissioners dor.
ing the month of April, whose duty it is to
cause tho same . to be advertised immediately
in ono or more newspapers of their respective
counties. The appropriation for the present
will be tim same -to each district that it was
last year.
Blank reports will be sent by The Superin•
mildew to each Hoard of Directors during the
month of April. The Directors are urged to
be prompt in making their reports within the
time specified by law.
Pennsylvania has a queer way of traing bu
: siness. She seems determined to make the
world believe she is very poor and very heavi•
ly taxed at the same time. This is done,4
making the State tax 30 cents on the hundred
dollar, and then, in order to make the tax
light, value properly of one forth, one half, or
two thirds its value. The I'd ontgotnery Ledger
thinks that this does pceomplish that object ve
ry hand,otnety. wets 0., t.. mat
the above rate, and the as-essors instructed to
tt alair market value on property, we would
4ot tuore icvmme, and make a much better
appearance before our neighboring States, as
well as secure more equality in taxation. It
is a discreditable and lamentable truth, that
many men are not taxed to more than one
fourth the extent of their property, while others
are taxed two thirds the value, and over, upon
their properly. The man who owns much
properly, is generally taxed the lightest—and
the poor laboring man, who owns but a small
cheap house and lot, is generally valued, com
paratively the highest.
=I
1 () 11l (1
150 MO
$1,551,500
The Registration Pill.
Many persons may be under the impression
that the neglect or refusal to registe,La mar
riage, birth or death, subjected the proper per , .
son to a line of twenty dollars. T4Filt-7.is not
the case, as we learn by the following letter re
ceived by the Editor of the "Lancaster Intelli-
15 00
15 00 Communication with China.
It has been justly said that there is no bounds
10 00
10 00 to AMerican enterprise. 'Among the most !nag
-500 nificent and attractive projects now occupying
500 public attention,. is the propm;ition to establish
500 a line of Steam Ships from our possessions on
30 00 the Pacific to Shanghae and Canton in China,
12 50 now stands foremost. \We have had in our
15 75 possession for some - - 104., , ,4T1 have carefully
22 50 read and examined the methanol of Messrs.
James B. Moore, LaWrence, Goodman, Diehl,
25 "
7 (C
10 "
and their associates, with a Chart, evidently
prepared at the expense of much labor and
money, descriptive of the line of communica
tion and the prominent points in this country
.and tbe Chinese Empire, which will be mast
immediately affected by the opening of this
Trade. In our next number we will publish
'the memorial with the commontaties of oursell
and others, upon the sul,joet, and would have
done so sooner, but have been anxiously wait
ing 'for, the report of one of the able and en
lightened Committees of Congress, who have
had this and other propositions before them,
since the commencement of the present seg.
sion i for aid 'to open a direct communication
by steam, between this country and Asia. A
number of our intelligent and scietnific fellow
citizens have examined the Chart, which has
a conspicuous place in our office, with the ex
planatory papers, and they appeared to be en
thuSiastic in wishing success to the grand pro
ject. Tho propositlon of Mr. Moore, and others,.
asks no money from the Treasury, and this
strongly commends it to favor in this State.--r-
Linicas/er intriligencer.
$865 57
Waste Time in Congress
School Appropriations
What is Done in Our State
Legislative Proceedings.
SENATE.
April 2. On motion of Mr. Muhlenburg, the
Senate took up the bill to incorporate the Read
ing and Kulztown Ilaitrond Company, when it
passed second tending and was laid over. •
On motion of Mr. M'Caslin, the supplement to
the act to revise the Militia system, and to pro
vide for the training of those only who shall be
uninformed, was taken up and passed a second
reading.
April 5. On motion of Nit . . Mnhlcnbcrg, the
bill to incorporate the Reading and Knztown
Railroad Company, was taken up un third read•
_ing,,_and was passed-linally:
On motion of Mr. M'Caslin, the Senate took up
on second reading the supplembitt to the act to
revise the Militia system, and passed it finally
MEI
BE3
On motion of Mr. Fernon, the bill to incorpo•
rate the Philadelphia,. Easton and Water Gap
Rail Road Company, was taken up, discussed,
and passed finally.
April 6. On motion of Mr. Shinier, the bill to
incorporate the Easton Savings Institution, was
taken up and passed finally, yeas 10, nays 10.
On motion of Mr. Fraile , the Sonate_took_u
tic i to repeal the act requiring the registra
tion or births, marriages, and deaths, when it
passed second reading by 16 yeas to 13 nays,
and was then laid over.
Ai - ill! 7. The Congressional Apportionment
bill was made the special order of the day for
the Bth, and every day till disposed of.
April 9. A supplement to the charter of the
Cattawissa, Erie& Williamsport Railroad pasted.
The bill repealing the act providing for the re•
gistration of births, deaths and marriages, was
negatived, yeas 13, nays 13.
HOUSE
Mr. Lilly introduced a bill to change
the 'name of the Delaware, Lehigh, Schuylkill
and Susquehanna Railroad Comdany, and mint.
ing to subscriptions to the stock of said company.
The bill to incorporate the Mauch Chunk
Dank came up on final passage and passed—
yeas 41, nays 35.
On motion of Mr. Gillis, the supplement to the
act regulating banks (construing it in such a
way as to allow the payment of tax on dividends
out of the contingent or surplus fund of the hank)
was taken up on second reading and finally pas.
sed, yeas 41, nays 28.
April 8. The bill to incorporate the Allen
town and Pottstown Rail Road Company was
taken up and finally passed.
April 7. The hank bills from the Senate in•
corporating, a number of new institutions, and
extending the charter of others, were made the
special order of the day for the 12th instant.
Mr. Lamy, from the Committee on Banks; re.
ported a bill to incorporate the Citizens' Bank
of Pittsburg.
Mr. Acker, from the same committee reported
with amendments a bill to authorize the banks of
this Commonwealth to issue notes of a less de
nomination than five dollars.
The Maine Liquor law, beinu the order of the
day, Mr. o'rqcnt moved to strike out all atter
the enacting clause, and insert a new bill, requi
ring all applications made to the court of quarter
sessions for tavern license, to be petitioned for
by twelve property holders in the proper ward,
precinct or township, setting forth the necessity
for such tavern the petitioners to certify, under
oath or affirmation, that fact. If the tavern is to
be located in Philadelphia ,city or county, thelic.
cnce is to be fixed at 8500, for the use of the
:State, and the act of 1849 relative to the mode of
granting tavern licenses in Philadelphia city and
county, is repealed as are all laws inconsistent
With this one.
Several amendments to the amendment of Mr.
O'Neill were offered which were not agreed to,
and the original motion was also lost, by the ful.
lowing vote, yeas 14 nays 74.
The question again recurring upon the pas
sage of the first section of the bill, it was negativ
ed—yeas 16, nays 50.
Dangerous Frauds.—Thompson's Bank Note
Reporter says: Refuse all notes correspond
ing to the following descriptions, no matter'of
what denomination they may be, or. what
Bank they may purport to be issued by:
ss, in the centre of the mite is a large circu•
lar die containing a figure s—to the right of
this are two men, ono harrowing with two par
ses, and the other sowing seed. On the left
end is a man with a double•horso plough team.
On the right end-margin is a large figure 5 in
the centre, and the letter V on the upper and
lower corners. Oa the left end margin is the
word FIVE running across the whole and.
This is altered from some broken western
Bank, and its last appearance was on the Farm
ers' and Mechanics' Bank, at Easton, Pa. It
is well engraved, and this makes it more like
ly :o pass, where it is not known. It is im
possible to follow these, notes through all their
various alterations, and it is not only by keep
ing their description in the mind, that our sub
scribers may detect them, when again altered
to some other Bank. •
Great Spent in Railroad Travel.—A few even.
ings since, the cars at Weldon were detained
beyond the usual hour for starting, waiting for
the Wilmington train. They had , to connect
with the Baltimore line, and by the application
of a little steam the trip was performed in two
hours and ten minutes, including stoppings, a
distance or 80 miles, arriving. at Portsmouth, in
full time for the steamboat. Deduct thirty min
utes for stoppages, it makes the above run at
the rate of forty. eight miles per hour. This is
not equalled on any other route in this country
in the regular trips.
Gold Mines in Auslralin.—The gold fields of
Australia are supposed to extend over a surface
of 200,000 miles. It is estimated that the amount
of gold which will be sent to England, in the
course of the present year, will be about £3,000,.
000, while the ultimate yield of £8,000,000 per
annum Is talked of. The Government Commis.
stoners have •reported that the mines are capa
ble of giving highly remunerative employment
to at least 109,000 persons, or at least four times .
the number now there.
GLEANINGS
f7:o"The amount of coal mined in Pennsylva.
nia during the year 1851, was 1,400,000 tons of
bituminous, and 4,900,000 of anthracite, of which
the aggregate value is $22,000,000.
tar The German population of Cincinnati is
estimated at 00,000
EV - The discovery of what is true, and the
practice of what is good, are the two float
portant objecs of life. •
reThe man who don't take the papers wants
to know whether Lola Monies is a native of
Philadelphia or Pennsylvania. Ile says he has
forgotten to which of these States she belongs to.
("They have straWberries and green peas
at Savannah. The latter were selling at eight
dollars per bushel.
1. - Pools draw false conelusions_froril 'list
principles, and madmen draw just conclusitins
from false principles.
Fillmore Flag.—The New Orleatt .
Commercial and Bee have both raised the flag
of Millard Fillmore for the Presidency..
ci-Nine steamboats are now running regular
ly between New York and Albany. Between
the river and fire railroad, opposition must be
n u ally_wartn
I e - The battle of Lexington, at which the first
Revolutionary bloodshed moistened the green
sod of that ancient town of the Old Bay State,
April 19, 1776, will he celebrated this year in
New York, on its Anniversary.
Remarkable Financial Pacts
Among the many wonderful things connected
with our banking system, says the Keystone, is
the fact annually set forth in the report of the
Auditor General, showing the condition of the
banks as reported by their sworn officers, that
their affairs are so nicely managed that in every
instance the resources of the banks are exactly
equal to their liabilities, and vice versa.
There is not a cent either way, either singly
or in the aggregate ; they are just as much as
they are able to pay and no more ; and while
•the liabilities of the whole batch are shown to
have been in November, 'lB5l, ,f. 58,618,886 11,
the resources were also exactly $58,018,886 it.
It is truly wonderful'how they manage to keep
their accounts so axactly balanced all the time ;
we are certain no individuals could do so, and if
there is any thing more wonderful about these
institutions, it is the fact abundantly proven in
the case of the Lumberman's, Towanda, Lewis
town, Susquehanna, and other banks, that where
a bank happens to wind up between the making.
of the return, there is such a material dif
ference shown between the liabilities and assets,
from that shown b the official returns, as almost
lead to the suspiebin at the latter are things
"sworn, attested, everyth 7. but true„"
The 31 Gallon Law
This is the form assumed by the Maine Liquor
Law in our State Legislature, anti the friends
and enemies of that law, regard it in its present
shape as a humbug, and this, in our:opinion, is a
correct endorsement. If the matter is to be re•
f..‘rred to a vote of the peoplo, provOtod for
in the bin, why not petmtt them to vote upon the
matter in a proper form. The, people do noth_
ing by halves, and it is to be regretted that the
bill has been put in a shape which will leave the
main issue open to agitation, whether the bill
now before the House is rejected or adopted by
the people. The 31 gallon law is neither one
way or the other, and we lope the Legislature
will have good sense enough not to let such a
proposition go before the people, which is alike
distasteful to both sides, because it embodies the
views of neither, and dues not embrace the point
at issue Ifetween them.— BerkB CO. Press.
Land Warrant Assignments. -- The following
infonnation relative to land warrants, recently
made assignable by Act Of Congress, has been
officially announced by the Commissioner of
Public Lands: •
"The assignment and acknowledgment must
be endorsed upon the warrant, and must be at
tested by two witnesses, acknowledged before a
Register or Receiver of a Land Office, a Judge
of a Court of Record, a Justice of the Peace, or a
Commissioner of Deeds resident in' the State
from which he derives his appointment, and in
every instance where the acknowledgment is
made before any officer other than the Register
or Receiver ul a Land Office, it must be. accom.
panied by a certificate, under seal of the proper
authority, of the official character of the person,
before whom the acknowledgment was made, and
also of the genuineness of his signature. Ac.
knowledgments of assignments by Notaries will
not be recognized.
A Grad Newspaper.—The N.Y. Daily Tribune
of last Saturday, published a supplemental sheet
of 21 columns in addition to its usual double'
sheet—making 72 closely printed columns in all
—3B of which were filled with advertisements.
The publishers say they expect yet to be obliged
to print a supplement every day. They have
just put up a new six•cylinder press, calculated
to print some 12,000 copies per hoar. short'
say they, the Tribune is bound to go ahead—and
never on any former 3d of April printed so
many copies by thousands.
Quid nip from Albany.—The train which
left Albany at ten minutes past 8 o'clock on
Tuesday morning, on the Hudson River Rail.
road, arrived at the station in Thirty-second
street, New York, at twenty minutes past I
thus performing the trip in three 'hours and ten
minutes. This speed is at the rate of titty.three
miles an hour, including stoppage. It is hardly
possible, that the Hudson River Railroad . Com
pany could obtain possession of our person, be
fore we had transacted a little business with the
officers of a Life Insurance Company.
J,icob W. Smith, of Selinsgrove,
Union county, Penh., formerly a German Re.
formed Minister, and lately a merchant commit.
ted suicide by hanging himself in the gaVret of
his own house, of the Ist instant.
Family Poisoned.—On the t.!.9111 of March the
wife and 7 children of Mr. Daniel K. Decker,
Berks County, were poisoned by eating cakes, in
which arsenic had been accidently put, and
came very near losing their lives. Timely
medical aid hcwever enlinternetinl the
Stockton a Protectionist
In his 'speech before the New Jersey Legisla
• ture, on Friday last, Senator Stockton came out
for Protection, economy in the public cxpendi.
tures and anti - corruption, in the following strain:
"The question of a Protective Tarif was al
ways a Democratic measure in New Jersey.—
The first resolution on this subject was intro
duced by Mr. Wilson. No one will doubt that
he was a Democrat—a man of eminence and
worth—the leader of the Democracy in New
Jersey. But soon after that the party split.—
One side went ofF carrying the thunder with them
and it was all the thunder- they had, and they
would not let the matter settled, and it became a
party question. With an'annual expenditure of
$50,000,0& staring us in the face, is. there any.
-thing-more-ridiculous than to talk about the va •
gar ies of Free Trade ! To raise this amount it
would require 331 per cent. on all our imports
and when we all know that this sum has been
raised, it is folly to talk about Free Trade. My
polities do not hang very heavy on my shoulders,
and when the interests of my country are aC
'stake, I can very easily get rid of them. I have.
passed the grand climacteric of life,
the be•• '
the best have but a few years to live, and I live
but . in my children. If I were to consult my
own feelings only, and wanted to have a good
time, I would kick up a row, and would be more
certain in the confusion to get into the White
House than lam now. But I speak for my chil
dren, for my colttry, and I may say, without
profanity, for my God, that I desire peace. For
here is the last asylum of liberty ; destroy . it, and
where will he its resting place? The most im
portant measure to preserve it, is economy in
the public expenditures. They have increased
in the last quarter of a century from thirteen to
fifty millions, and if they go on increasing in the
same proportion for the next quarter of a centu
ry, they will amount to two hundred millions—,
nearly three, fourths of the expenses of the Brit-.
ish Empire, independent of the interest on the
public debt. If you don't arrest that enormous
increase, you will be ruined. Its consequences
will be corruption, with its hydra.head, and all
its train of evils, and if they have once begun
to sap the folindation of Republican:Government
freedom is at an end. I want to see our country
come back to the simplicity and eronorny of the
days of Jefferson. It is not the money I regard,
* but its consequences—corruption and other
evils."
—ln the sane speech, the Commodore express.
ed his personal sentiments toward. Mr. IVebstee,
in these words :
"This is a proud day for those here assembled,
and New Jersey. I feel it as a New letseyman
—as a man—as a patriot and a Christian.—.
Whenever I contemplate itlr. Welistt r, ray heart
goes up in devout aspirations to Ifeaven, that it
has endowed one of our species with such vie
-tue and intellect. It is not simply for his manly
form, that noble brow which seems placed there
as a crown by the Almighty, but the virtue of
the man. I have known hint for thirty years
I lin vn II him sitting st mnn2 the wise and good
in the councils of the nation ; I have sat as a
boy and heard the words of wisdom falling front
those lips, which I deetned - inspired. And I say
it before this assembly, and before Ihe world,
that if there is a patriotic heart in any man, that
heart is in the body of Daniel Webster. I have
heard him, at various times, discourse of public
affairs in private, and I have never heard a word
that might be construed against his country or
her interests, or that should not emanate from a
great and pure man. I have seen hint in the
sports of the field, with his gun upon his shoulder
following my own clogs, and whenever and where
ever I have seen him, he was the same great and
pure man."
Terrible Disease.—We learn from Cumberland
that a disease which has battled the best medi
cal skill, has been prevailing, for some time past,
in the Glades, the upper part of Allegany coun
ty. Its approach Is known by a slight pain,
which soon extends over the' system, drawing
the'body nearly double, and causing the most
excruciating pain to the person :attacked, who is
only relieved by death, which usually takes place
in a few hourS. Families have been almost
destroyed by it, and we hear of an instance
where a widow and three children were attack
ed and died, one little child only escaping.—Bal
tintore Clipper.
Interesting 91rlesian Well—There is an Artesi
an Well at the cotton 'Factory of JoehMatthews,
Esq., in Dalfni county, Georgja,'which is 710 feet
10 inches in depth, and which discharges 600
gallons of water per minute, or 761,000 gallons
in 24 hours—exceeding any well in America.—
The water flows out with such force that if pie
ces of stone as large as an egg, or a half dollar
are thrown in, they are immediately ejected.
The sand, gravel, &c. made by the auger are al
so forced out by water, which is perfectly clear,
limpid and pleasant to the taste. The diameter
of the well is a little over six inches, and it is.
Mr. Matthews' intention, as soon as he had it
tubed the entire distance now completed, to have
the boring continued to a greater depth. This
will make it, it is believed, the most wonderful
Artesian well in America. •
Rccovery of a Los[ Work of Franklin.—lt
pears by a statement published in a London pe
riodical called the Notes and Queries, that a
copy of the first work written byUenjamin Frank
lin, when eighteen years of age and n journey
man printer in London in 1723, has been found.
All attempts to find a copy of it have hitherto
failed, and it. was supposed that they had: all
been destroyed. In Dr. Franklin's Autobiogra.
phy, he mentions this as his first work. It was
written partly in answer to SVollaston's Religion
of Nature, and its title is, "A Dissertion on Lib.
erty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, in a Let,
ter to a friend." It is addressed to Mr. Raines)
R(alph,) and concludes, "Truth will be truth,
though it sometimes proves mortifying.
Conrcheiti Elertion.—Seymore's ;majority fur
Governor will not vary much from 000. Rettirni
have been received from all but a few toitlia;
and cannot materially change the result. The
Senate stands Democrats 15, Whigs six. In the
House the Democratic majority is forty one, and
t hei r , majr,rity on Hitt ballot
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