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Allentown, Ppi.
THURSDAY, MAY 20.1862.
The Lehigh Valley
The rivalry ha* in some measure common
ced, between New York and Philadelphia, for
the groat trade of the Lehigh Valley. New
-York is extending her iron rails to our borders,
through the Now Jersey Central road, which
.will be finished to Easton by the first of July
next, to connect with the Lehigh Valley road,
via Allentown to tho Lehigh Coal. fields, and
finally connect with the great Cattawissa and
Erie road. If Philadelphia wishes further to se
cure the trade of the fertile . Valley of the Le
high, and the North western section of Penn
- Sylvania, it must be carried on with more
Spirit by her citizens than has been done thus far.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger,
calls Attention to theSe facts, and says the pro
jected Trenton and Belvidere road will never
serve the purposes of Philadelphia, as
. a lir
val to the New Jersey Central road, for the
trade of Easton and the Lehigh Valley, as the
distance is greater and the guage of track dif
ferent which would require transhipment.—
But to evade this difficulty recommends the
.4Treernansburg and Norristown" route. 'The
writer in the Ledger is perhaps not aware, that
our last Legislature passed an act to incorpo
rate the Allentown and Pottstoviii Railroad
. company, which authorizes the construction of
a road from Allentown through the- rich- Agri
cultural district of Lehigh , county, to Pottstown,
a distance of only 28 miles, to connect with
the Reading road. This route requires only
28 miles of road to be built to connect the Cat
tawissa road at the mouth of the Quakake
on
the Lehigh, also at the same place the "Phil
_adelphia and Wilkesbarre" road, chartered at
the last session. The former road connects
with the Sunbury and Erie, and secures the
whole western, and the latter secure the north
ern Pennsylvania trade, and all this can be
done by. constructing a road the short distance
of 28 miles, between Allentown and Pottstown.
Why talk of extending the Norristown road to
Freemansburg, which is 46 miles in length,
when the same trade can be secured by the
Pottstown route in 28 miles little more than
half the above distance. Will not Philadel
phians-see into this matter?
The distance from Mauch Chunk via Allen•
town and Pottstown to Philadelphia is only
ninety eight miles ; whereas, the road from
Mauch Chunk via Freomansburg and Norris
town to Philadelphia is one handier{ and four
miles.
The route would pass through a country that
would furnish much local travel and trade,
while the through business would be of such
variety and magnitude, that the stock could
not tail to be made a most profitable investment.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad will be commenced
this year, and as it will be buih oldie Pennsyl
vania gunge of track, coal cars from the Mauch
Chunk and Upper Lehigh mines, eat, pass di
rectly to Philadelphia without transhipment or
any hindrance whatsoever. The distance from
Mauch Chunk to Philadelphia, by canal, is one
hundred and twenty-tour miles. By Railroad
it will not exceed ninety-four miles. AU com
munication between Philadelphia and the coun
ties of Lehigh, Northampton, Carbon, Luzerne,
Monroe, Susquehanna and Wyoming, would
by over the Allentown and Pottstown route.—
These seven counties, by the last census, con
tained 214,856 inhabitants and 1624 manufac
turing establislurients, an aggregate of souls
and property exceeding some of the States of
the Union.
We believe responsible contractors can be
found' ho would take fifty per centum of the
amount of their contracts in the stock of the
company. When built and equipped, the road
would at once earn revenue to divide more
than six per contain on the whole cost. It
could never have a rival that would rise to the
dignity of a competitor for the travel and ton
nage that would pass over it. %Vitt Philadel
phia awake to the importance of the move
ment, and act before New York snatches the
rich prize from our grasp?
The Railroad
The corpse of Engineers, eight in number
have commenced finally locating the Dula.
ware, Lehigh,. Schuylkill and Susquehanna
Railroad from Easton to Manch Chunk and
Tamaqua, along the valley of the Lehigh.—
The Engineers started out from Mauch Chunk
and have pome down as far as Perryville, Rob
ert Sayer, Esq., officiates as principal engineer.
We learn that the Company have purchased
the track of the Beaver Meadow road as far
down as Perryville. If the weather continues
favorable, a short time will be required to 'en
able them to reach the banks of the Delaware,
after which we presume the road will be rea
dy to be pet under contract.
The Tariff
There is still some hopes of a change in the
Tariff laws. We learn that ea• Governor Da.
Lid R. Porter, of Pennsylvania, is now on a
visit in Washington city, as the authorized rep
resentative of the Iron interests of this State,
to confer with the Democratic members pl
Congress, on the subject ol further protection
for those interests, by the, restoration of the
home valuation. Some movement is to be made
on the subject vety soon. We hope the suc
cess may prove true ; we have however very
little confidenCe in any. modification of the
Tariff at the present time.
Bible Sooiety
A public meeting of the Lehigh county Bi
ble Society, will be held in the Salisburg church
near Emaus, on Asdension - day, May 20th, at
o'clock P.M. There Will be several address
es'.delivered on tho occasion. We trust the
managers will all be present, and also, all the
fcioncis of tim pible cause. E. MOWS, Seo'y.
Advice to Businese Men.
In your converse with the world avoid any-
thing liko a juggling dexterity. The proper
use of dexterity is to prevent your being cir
curnvented by the cunning of others. It should
not be aggressive
Concessione and compromises form a large ry, . prepare.,
and a very important part of our dealings with tore ut compliance with the eighteenth section
others. Concessions must generally be look- of the act of the 16th of April, 18-15, embraces
ed upon as distinct defeats; and you must ex• the names of three hundred and fifty pub
peel no gratitude for them. I ant far from lie officers, the aggregate of whose indebt
saying that it may not be wise to make con , edness to the State amounts to three millions .
cessions, but this will be done more wisely of dollars ! That is, if the plunderers were for
when you understand the nature of them. ced to disgorge, a sufficient sum could be re-
In making compromises, do not think to afized to liquidate the one thirteenth part of our
gain much by concealing your views and wish. entire State eb t
.
es. You are as likely to su ff er from its not fTlie people of Permsylvania,' says the I.y.
being known how to please or satisfy you, as coming Democrat, "have to raise for the tax
from any attempt to overreach you, grounded gatherers about six millions of dollars' every
on a knowledge of your wishes. year. About one-third sf this enormous sum
Delay is in some instances' to be adopted is either stolen outright by State and county
advisedly. It sometimes brings a person to officers, or it is fraudulently obtained by the
reason when nothing else could ; when his i swarm of contractors and rip rappers who are
mind is so occupied with ono idea, that he eating up the substance of our citizens.
completely over mstimates its relative impor- j Pharaoh's locusts had the delicate appetite of
Lance, he can hardly be brought to look at the love-sick boarding school misses compared to
subject calmly by any force of reasoning. For the cormorantic powers of Pennsylvania's rip
this disease time is the only doctor. rappers. They (the rip rappers) swallow the
A good' man of business is very watchful, green tax payers of our State with an appetite
both over himself and others,•to prevent things that can never be satisfied, and with a digea•
from being carried against his sense of right lion that can never be overtaxed. In the case
in moments of lassitude. After a Matter has lof Egypt's ruler, there was a softening of the
been much discussed, whether to the purpose heart with each new plague ; but the plagues
or not, there comes a time when all parties aro of Pennsylvania, thus far, have only had the
anxious that it should be settled; and there is tendency to make the people indifferent to the
then some danger of the handiest way of geb corrupt workings of a system which has coy
ling rid of the matter being taken for the best. j bred thiseSate - with anarmy -of -tax •gathers;
It is often worth while to bestow much which encourages public officers to steal ; and
pains in gaining over foolish people to your which has rendered a government, purporting
way of thinking; and you should do it soon, to be pure and paternal, the hullowest kind of
Your reasons will always have some weight i mockery, and this indifference to public mon
with the wise. Bet, if at first you omit to put als, are not confined to any one portion of the
your arguments before the foolish, they will I Stole, in particular.
form their prejudices; and a fool is often very A reform never will be effected until the pub
consistent, and very found of repetition. Ile lie mind is aroused to the absolute necessity
will be repeating his folly in reason and out of of an organic change in party machinery and
season, until at last it has a hearing; and it is governmental machinery; until the people are
hard if it does not sometimes chime in with fully aware or the extent of their burdens and
external circumstances. the extent of official corruption. Every man
A man of business should take care to con- who pays taxes, is simply paying the interest
suit occasionally with persons of a nature quite of a debt which•has been imposed upon
different from his own. To very few are giv- -in a great measure, by the fraud, coo - el:lion,
en all the qualities requisite to fOrm a gond and oxliavaganeo of his rulers ; and it is a
man of business. 'Files a man may have the I debt, too, which he cannot avoid, evade, or
sternness and the fixedness of purpose so ne- escape (corn.
•
cessary in the conduct of affairs, yet these
confines prevent him, perhaps, from entering Public Lands.
into the characters of those about him. Ile is Th 2 "°w La n ds-, to give away
likely to want tact. He will be unprepared for the public holds, in tracts of one hundred aoil
the extent of versatility and vacillation in oth- sixty acres, to persocs who will go ar,d settle
on them for five years, might be indifferently
er men. But these defects and oversiAles
might be remedied by consulting with persons regarded as a wild scheme that would die of
whom he knows to be possessed of the quali• itself, but that the discussion which has taken
ties supplementary to hisow n. Men o f muc h place on it, and the earliest support which has
depth'of mind can bear a great deal of coup- been given to it by some , members, authori
sel; for it does not easily deface their own zes a fear that it might pass, if the opition
character, nor render their purposes indistinct. to it be not decided ! It is to be noted says
the Baltimore Patriot with eolllmendation thou,
Business Notices. , that the oppositiou has been decided, aud the
Coaehmaking Business.— To feel rich, is to oonclusive arguments against any stall a dis
-Bplead out in a beautifully finished vehicle, at. . position of the VOllllllOll property of this whole
limbed to (Arm minute horse, and its Robert Kra- I p ion, brought home to the attention of Con.
mer, whose curd is found in another column of g;tISEI and the people.
to-days paper, that manufactures the handsom - • There is, in the manner in which public
est article of the kind we ever saw. Ile is ad- lands have been, from time to time, disposed
mitted to booneofthe moil tasty workman in the of by Congress, by the partial rippropriation of
county, and it requires only a visit to his ostab- them to the new States, much that the old
lishment to satisfy yourselves of this fact. Bub ' 1 States of the Union might complain of; but
is great on a barter, and we know will as lief the great object for which these appropriations
accept of a horse, watch, or any thing else, In were made, were held to be a satisfactory rea
exchange for a new vehicle, us be would of the son, if not justification, for this discrimination
rhino. Go see hint and cut his eye teeth ! •in favor of the new States. But the proposi•
non to give the lands away—to vote them as
ice! /cc !! Our old 1 fiends Messrs. Schimpf :
a donation to private persons—and thus de
and Kfcr. - kricr, have made arrangetnents to sup•
prive the great body of the people, and the
ply the citizens of Allentown and vicinity • •
• Mates of the Union; of any right to them, is a
morning with the refreshing article of ice.—
proposition so startling that it may well excite
These 'gentlemen are deserving a liberal sup.
the wonder of every one, why, if the public
port in their undertaking; there has always
lands are thus to be parted with, the money
been a scarcity of ice during the summer season
itt the treasury should not be similarly dispos
which we think is now remidied. ed of? It would he difficult to reconcile oppo
sition to givi..g away the public money, or
any other public propeoy, with the support of
a measure that gives away the public lands.—
And yet there are members of Congress who
have allowed themselves to be betrayed into a
course involving this gross inconsistency
Of coutse, no one would now—we cannot
say if certain progressives have their way, how
it will be next year—but now, certainly, no
one in Congress would vote for a proposition
to divide the money in the treasury among a
selected class of the people—though the rea
sons which forbid that are not less conclusive
than those which preclude the giving away of
the public lauds. The latter are the common
property of the whole Union. They were pur
chased by the blood and treasure of the people
of the Union. They are the heritage bequeath
ed to us by the men of the Revolution. No
Ulan may claim ono inch of them as his cho
sen property—they belong to all alike. 'Con•
greys, therefotc, in disposing of them cannot,
in justice, forget this common right, without
doing wrong to the great body of the people.
The Cireus.—The great Southern Circus of
Rubinson & Eldred, will exhibit in Allentown,
on Monday next. If offers a very attractive bill
of entertainment, and the Agent assures us, that
the public will find it all, and more than it is
represented. The same Circus was here, two
years ago, and was pronounced the best that
travelled the State.—See advertisement in an
other column.
Gen• Scott and the Compromise
The Richmond Whig of May 11, contains a
letter from the Hon. John 11.1. Botts, in which
he states that he has recently had an inter
viewf with Gen. Scott, and that the General had
at one time decided to pubash his views and
opinions in favor of the Compromise Measures;
but ninny friends North and South, have urged
silence, he determined not to do so until after
the nomination. Mr. Bons considered this a
wise course. He says Gen. Scott freely ex
presses himself in favor of the Compromise
measures, to all who approach him.
Another Whig State Convention.
The delegates to the late Whig State Con
vention have — been requested by the Whig
State Central Committee to assemble in Phil
adelphia on SATURDAY, the NINE
TEENTH DAY OF JUNE, at it o'clock A. M.,
to nominate a candidate for Judge of the So
prourie Court to fill the vacancy caused by . Judge
Coulter's death.
The only name we have suggested in this
connection has been that of Hon. George Chem.
hers. Ho ran next highest to Judge Coulter,
and is a pure man. He made an excellent
Judge and would make an unexceptionable
candidate.
Alleghany county. Gov. Johnston has been
urged by the Whigs of Allegheny county, to ac
cept the Congressional nomination; but the
American says all offers of the kind have been
peremtorily declined by•him ; probably as inter
fering with his duties as President of the Alle
ghany Valley Railroad.
Public Defaulters.
A document of eight pages, from John B.
Bickel, State Treasurer, showing the balance
due to the Commonwealth from various pub
lic officers, as appears from the books in the
State Treasury office, on the Ist day of Janua•
1852, prepared and reported to the Legisla-
The New Yark.Canal Law tiaeonstiltdional.—
The New York Court of Appeals at Albany, on
Tuesday decided the Law for the completion of
the State Canals to be unconstitutional. The
Supreme Court had previously granted a manda
mus commanding the State Auditors to issue a
warrant (or the payment of a claim arising out
of the recent Canal act, but the Court of Appeals
reversed the decision and denied the mandamus
—thus deciding against the constitutionality of
the act, and the validity of.the claims arising un
der it, including certificates for upwards 0f.P.,-
000,000 already sold at par. and part of it depos.
iced as a basis of bank circulation. It is one of
the most important decisions ever made there,
and will result in a heavy cost to the State, in
paying damages for work begun, and contracts
broken. A meeting has been called at Roches.
ter to ask the Governor to call an extra session
of the Legislature to consider the subject.—Dai.
11 1 Sun.
Agricultural Meeting.
Meeting of the Lehigh county Agricultural
Society, held April 24, 1852, at the house of
Eli Steckel, in Allentown.
Present. Edward Kohler, President—Vice
Presidents—Jno. Lichtenvilner, Charles Witt
man, George Beisel, Daniel 13eisel, Henry Die.
fentlerfer, Joel Klotz, Paul Balliet and Puler
Troxell, jr. Recording Secretary—Jesse M.
Line. Treasurer—Owen Schreiber. Librarian
—E. D. Leisenring.
Whereas divers and several sums of money,
goods and (battles, of and belonging to the So-
Moly, will from time to time come into the
hands of the Treasurer of the Society.
Therefore Resolved That the .'Treasurer
eleCt is hereby required to give a Bond
with sufficient security to the amount of 8500,
for the faithful performance of the duties en
joined upon him, by the constitution of this
Society.
Resolved—That an Agricultural Fair and
Plotighing match, be held during the first week
of October next, The place and date to be de•
signated at - our next meeting.
E. D. Leisenring, was appointed a coin mit
tee to receive sealed proposals for a suitable
field, in which to hold an agricultural Fair;
and also a field to hold a Ploughing match
therein. The fair ground to be of the size of
about 2 acres, closely fenced 8 feet high.
George Beisel, E. D. Lei .ritiring, and J. Al.
Line, were appointed a committee to wait up
on the Commissioners of Lehigh county, to
ask permission for the use of the middle up
stairs room itt the Court House, for the purpose
oLestablishina therein an Agricultural Muse
um, for the use of this Society.
Oa motion, the meeting was adjourned to
meet again on Saturday, the 5111 day of June
next, at the house of Aaron Guth, in South
11'hitehall
J. ill. Line, Recording Sec'y
Congressional Apportionment.
The following table exhibits the population
of the several Congressional Districts into which
Pennsylvania has recently been divided. The
unequally of the apportionment, must strike ev
ery one. The difference betwcen the largest dis•
trim (the !GO) and the smallest (the 250) is
35,274!
Districts. Population.
1. Southwark•, Moyamensing, and
Passyunk, Philadelphia 'county,
and Cedar, Lombard. Spruce,
arid New Market NVards, in the
city of Philad.
2. The remainder of Philad. city -
Incorporated Northern Liberties
and Kensington, Philad. co , •
4. Spring Garden, Kingse,sing, •
Blockley, West Philadelphia, Penn
District, North Penn, Unincorp.
N. Libcrties„Bridesburg and
Ar
amingo,•Philad. co.
5. Mannyunk, Roxborough, German
town, Br istol, Oxford, Frankford,
White Hall, Limp . Dublin, By
berry and Moreland. Philad. and
Montgomery counties
n. Delawate and Chester
7. Bucks and Lehigh
8. Berlin
9. Lancaster,
10. Lebanon, Dauphin, Union and
one township in Northumberland
ii. Schuylkill and the remainder of
Northumberland.
12. Wyoming, Lucerne, Columbia
and Montour.
13. Northampton, Monroe, Carbon,
Pike and Wayne.
14. Susquehanna, Bradford and Tioga
15. Lycoming, Sullivan, Centre, Clin
ton, Potter and NTifllin.
16. York, Cumberland and Perry.
17. Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bedford
and Juniatta.
IS. Huntingdon, 13Iair, Cambria and
Somerset
19. Westmoreland, Armstrong and
Indiana.
108,456
20. Fayette, Green and Washington. 106,157
t. Allegheny and Butler-168,656 ? 84,318
22. ?. averaging. S 64,318
23: Beaver, Lawrence and Mercer. 80,010
24. Warren, Venango, Clarion, defier ,
son, Elk, Forest, McKean, and
Clearfield.
:15. Eric and Crawford
Death.--.ln Baltimore on Tuesday morn•
ing, John 11. Burns, grocer, residing at. No. 55
Ross street, died from poison communicated to
his system by a deceased horse. About two
weeks since, the deceased had a horse afflicted
with glanders, and during an administration of
medicine, thrust in the animal's mouth his hand,
the middle finger of which had been previously ,
cut and flesh laid open. Through this wound
the poisonous virus was absorbed and mortifica- .
lion having supervented. Prof. Smith was call
ed upon to ampudiate the deceased member.—
Perceiving, however, that the poison had pene,
traced to every portion of the unfortunate man's
system, the Professor declined performing the
operation, and stated that no' earthly skill could
save his life. After lingering in great agony,
death closed the scene. The corpse presented
a blackened, hefflous appearance.—P/mi/. Sun.
How Canada Obtained its Nantc.—The origin
of the word Canada is curious enough. The
Spaniards visited • the country previous to the
French, and made particular searches for gold
and silver, and finding none, they said among
Themselves ~A canada," (there is nothing there.)
The Indians, who watched closely, learned this
sentence, and its meaning. After the departure
of the Spaniards, the French arrived ; and the
Indians who wanted none of their company, and
supposed they were also Spaniards come on the
same errand were anxious to inform them that
their errand was fruitless, anti incessantly re
peated to them the Spanish sentence, o.Acanada."
The French,•who knew as little of• the Spanish
as the Indians, supposed this incessantly recur
ring sound was the name of the country, and
gave it the name Canada, which it has borne ev
er since.
GLEANINGS
rirA printer is the only man who can act
while he stands.
r4"in Alabama, marriage between blacks and
whites is lawful. •
(;:yrltirty cases of divorce were granted,, on
the 6th inst., by the Court of Common Pleas of
Cincinnati
1.7 - The journeymen bricklayers of Memphis,
Tenn., are on a strike—refusing to work, while
negroes nre employed with them.
17 - The Whigs of North Carolina 'nominated
John Kerr, for Governor.
EV" There are now twelve daily newspapers
published in Cineinnaii—eight in the English
language, and four in the German.
EV - The Court of appeals have declared the
Canal Law Of New York unconstitutional.
EV - Millard Filhnores motto is, "The Union
of the States, now and for ever, one and insep
arable."
Er Why is a husband in these (lays like a
western steamboat! Because he is at all times
liable to be blown up.
CV - Kossuth it is said, has received two hun•
ered thousand dollars since his visit to this coup•
try.
1 7 7 - According to the military almanac just
published, the French army comprises 16,304
officers.
pnrulation of New Orleans is 125,
468; of which 17,000 are slaves.
What Pleasure is Worth
We observe, in one of our English journals,
an account of a Sale of the estate of Richael and
Glaschnrrie, iu the Highlands of Scotland, which,
though entirely unproductive, brought forty`
thousand dollats. The secret of this large price
was that the estate all sided 'excellenu.grou.se•
shooting. The man who in this country, should
pay shod; a sum, solely to obtain the chance of
knocking over a few hirdg, would be considered
a fool; but in England amusements o f all hinds I
have become reduced to a science, and none I
more so than shooting. A century ago, this bit I
of wild, bill. side land would not have brought a I
thousand dollars. There are thousands of just
I such properties in the mountainous regions of
Pennsylvania, which can be had for the taxes;
and in 1750, this little Highland estate could
have been obtained on terms scarcely worse.
I The English sporting gentry, however, are not
i I
so wasteful in their grouse shooting as the pay_
ment of this large sum would seem to involve ;
for instead 'of giving away the dead game, they
generally forward it, packed in ice, t o the Lou
don Market, where it fetches a high price. In
fact, some of the grouse proprietors actually pay,
in this war, the interest on their capi , al. Many
a noble bud, whd toolts contemptimsly on a
Manchester manufacturer, :,inort, to peddle
bads. What strange IneonstArucies human
'taw' e displays!
EIEM
BM
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Bursting, out 1111 Lake.—The bursting out of
Stephen's Lake in the township of Brighton..
(Canada,) which occurred some days ago, and
by which Iwo men lost their lives, is thus des
cribed by a correspondent of a Coburg paper:—
"The hank through which it broke was- about
Burry feet in height, drawing into a hollow be
low about eighty act es of water, averaging in
depth from four to five feet, draining, the lake
entite as regards any standing pool. The water
in its onward course, tore up the forest, leaving
mangled woods in the curves and turns of its
onward way, and dragging a.ravine, averaging
twenty.five feet in depth, and over title hundred
feet in width, the distance of two miles, leaving
the contents two feet in depth nearly all over the
surface. In its course, it swept away the mill.
dam of Lewis Sheater, and tore away part of his
mill ; and with it the person of the proprietor
and a laboring man."
EMU
s; ,J 33
MEE
EIMMEI
77,239
98,911
89,308
82,555
07,676
96,862
05,:306
A Frenchman's linthcc.—:A French traveller.l
in the United States, sends the following untlat.
tering sketch to a Parisian journal :
"Picture to yourself, if you please, a lean fig.
ore with bony wrists; feet with d tmensions that
would forever tarnish the escutcheon of a gentle.
man ; a hat stuck upon the back of the head ;
straight hair; from morning till night, by klump
of tobacco; lips stained yellow by the juice of
the same weed ; a black coat with narrow skirts,
'a tumbled shirt; the gloves of a gendarme;
trousers in harmony with the rest of the equip
ment, and you will have before you the exact
portrait of a thorough - bred Yankee."
Nevertheless, it takes those ill proportioned
figures to cross the Atlantic in nine days ; semi
a yatcht, the end of whose main - boom can be
touched by nothing which floats in European
water; furnish agricultural implements which
open Jonny's peepers; and do other things "to
1
numerous to mention."
Mal
111,866
109,533
88,752
90,435
7(1591
The Influx and h.:Am—lt:is hard to say which
way the tide of immigration flows the faster,
from Europe to America or from here to the
shores of the Pacific. Think of the Illinois ink.
big out nearly eight hundred passengers to Cal.
ifornia, all at one load, the other day I Yet
this is but a solitary instance of may be said to
be. now an every day fact. Our exchanges from
all parts of the country, the east and west partic
ularly, have all some reference to parties going
from their respective neighborhoods, to New
York, there to embark for the land of Gold.—
Here they are met by a counter currant of hu.
manity from the old world, both keeping in con
stant whirl those mighty business interests em
braced in our noble packet steamers. The New
York papers chronicle the arrival at that port,
one day last week, of two thousand three hundred
and eighty eight immigrants from various ports
' of Europe.—Sfute Journal.
Longevity.—The New Bedford Mercury says,
that there is a strip of land bordering on the sea
in South Dartmouth, known as ..Smith's Neck,"
which is about one mile in width by one and a
half miles in length. The inhabitants on this
strip of land are mostly Quakers, who number
145, the ages of twenty of•whom average 86 yrs.,
and making an aggregate of 1729 ycars. Twelve
of this number have attained To from 80 to 95
years, making an aggregate of 1134 years, and
eight others (the comparatively middle aged,)
are now from 70, to 78 years of age. This is an
amount of lorleviiy not often paralleled. .
Offioisl Corruptions.
The Berks and Schuylkill Journal publishes.
from a report of the State Treasurer, a long list
of defaulters to the State,the aggregate of which
as reported by the Treasurer; the Journal says,
amounts to about three millions of dollars. The
editor, commending upon this state of things;
very properly observes that tta reform never
will be effected until the public Mind is aroused
to the absolute necessity of an organic change
in party machinery and governmental machine.;
ry ; until the people are fully aware of the ex:
tent of their burthens and the extent of official
corruption. Every man who is paying taxes is
simply paying the interest of a debt which has'
been imposed upon him, in a great measure, by
the fraud, corruption, and extravigance of his
rulers.; and it is a debt, ton, which he cannot
avoid, evade, or escape from. Take the case of
a farmer whose taxes, say, amount to sixty dol.
Mrs a year. Sixty dollars a year is the annual
interest, at six per cent., of a principal of one
thousand dollars.; anti every farmer whose tax.
es amount to sixty dollars a year is in debt one
thousand dollars—the interest of which he must
meet promptly, nor in trade or traffic, as in the
case of ordinary debts, but in good bankable
funds. His farm is literally mortaged for this
sum of one thousand dollars ; es much so, as if
he had burrowed the money from a neighbor
and had the whole transaction placed on record
in the Register's office. But, says the farmer,
can sell my farm to-morrow fur ten thousand
dollars, and that, too, without let or hindrance
from the Commonwealth.' Most true, fellow
sufferer; but please bear in mind, that if you
could get rid of your sixty dollars a year taxes
your farm would sell for, not ten, but eleven
thousand dollars; and that when you sell your
- Win; disguise it in any way you please, you sell
it subject to a mortgage of one thousand dollars,
which is held by the State. But the evil is
much greater 'than what appears on the surface.
Encumbered properly always sells at a disad
vantage, and can never command a price cor.
responding with its intrinsic value, after deduct
ing an amount equivalent to the encumberance.
No man likes to buy a town property nr a coon.
try property subject to a perpetual mortgage.
No man likes to build upon a lot, plastered over
with an irredeeniable ground rent. The State of
Pennsylvania holds a mortgage on every farm
within her broad boundaries ; and to make mat.
tens worse, the mortgage is on the sliding scale,
increasing in amount as the firm increases - in
value; Thus if a man owns it farm which is'
worth ten thousand dollars, the Slate hold a
mortgage on the same for one thousand dollars.
If by years of industry and enterprise he suce
ereas in making his farm so valuable as to cam•
maul twenty thousand d•tllars a year, which
means that his property has been mortgaged to
the tune of two thousand dollars. In the Slate
of New Jersey the taxes are so light as to be
merely nominal in amount• Now we would ask
what same Man would hesitate—everything else
being equal- , -between buying a farm in one
State tree from encumbrance and buyieg a farm
in another State subject to a heavy mortgage I
No hottest man would seek to avoid the pay
ment of a just debt; but to be compelled to pay
the debts fasted upon us by public defaulters,
corrupt canal commissioner:, .swindling Con.
tractors, and shamefully faithless senators and
members, is indeed applying the screws with a
vengeance to the overscrewed tax payers of his
plundered commonwealth."
Law.—A suit was tried fur the fifth time
at the late term of the Lancaster county Com,
mon Pleas. It was brought upon a promissory
note—tried in 1842, with a vet diet for defendant
—taken to the Supreme Court, judgement re_
versed, and a new trial ordered—tried again in
1814, with verdict for defendant—judgement re
versed by the Supreme Court in 1846—a new
trial had in 1848, with verdict for defendant—a
motion for a new trial gyanted and in 1860 a
new trial had, with verdict for plaintiff—this
judgement reversed by Supreme Court, •and a
new trial ordered=and has now been tried again
and a verdict rendered for the defendant. The
amount of the note wag $lBB 12. It will be ob
served that four out of the five verdicts were fut
the defendant, and that the Supreme Court have
been on both sides:
Core of Lock Jaw.—We learn from the tiara ,
den Danner, that Mr. Thomas Githens, in conse ,
( - pence of running a nail in his foot, was
ed with tetanus or lock jay, to so terrible an ex"
ent that not a hope was fur days entertained that
he could be saved.. The Banner says: "The
condition of Mr. G. became so alarming that the
family were induced to send for Dr. Dingell;
who soon discovered symptoms of lockjaw;
which was finally confirmed, beyond all doubt;
by the closely set jaws and other unfailing etti.:
dences of that fatal malady. Dr. B. treated the
patient mainly with chloroform, tinct. aconite,
and landanum, with brandy, &c. Dr. Dingell
called in Dr. Mulford, one of our oldest and most
experienced physicians, who coincided with the'
above treatment, and 'pronounced it the best de•
veloped case of lock-jaw, from the beginning, he
ever met with. Mr. Githens is now sitting up,
free from all the sympions, which lasted abou t
four weeks. A cure of this disease may be con
sidered one of the wonders of the age; and the
fact that it was successfully treated reflects the
highest credit upon the professional attainments
ot Drs. Birdsell and Mulford.
Most Astounding Freak qlValure.—On Friday,
the 7111 inst., a post mortem examination was
held by Dr. Parkhurst on the body of the widow
of Amos Eddy, in the town of Frankford, Herki•
mer county, aged 77 years, and to the utter as-•
tonishment of all present a lull grown child was
found, which she had carried for the term of for.
ty-six years. It was eased in a sort of bony or
cartilaginous structure, except one leg and foot
and one elbow, which were almost entirely os
sified. The facts and circumstance of the above
case will be published at full length in the differ
ent medical journals as soon as Dr. P. finds lei
sure to put together the history—of which he
has extensive notes—that he has kept for the
last twelve years, as well as of her life before
and after marriage, which took place filty-twsi
years ago.— Ulla Obierrer,
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