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Allemilown, Pa.
THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1.8 At
Railroad to Pottstown
-The meeting at Claylonvilla was well attend
ed, and a lively spirit was manifested by those
Present. We were pleased to learn, that many
of our citizens have satisfied themselves, of the
great advantages we would be likely to derive
by a railroad communication with Philade!,
phia by the proposed route to Pottstown. And
we are further in hopes that measures will be
adopted with as little delay as possible to put
this road under survey. The distance is less
than represented heretofore, being in - no event
over 28 miles. From 18 to 20 miles can be
built, so remarkably cheap; that the cost will be'
— far below - the — average• — calculation ; the bal
ance of the road is expected will not exceed
the average cost,so ihat the road cannot but
yield high dividends to the Stockholders on the
cost of investment, is apparent to every one
who thinks of the subject for one moment..
Can the road be made? From facts within
our knowledge, we feel quite possitive it can.
This much we may undertake to say:indirect
assurances have been given, that if the Read
ing Railroad-Company—which is abundantly
able to make good, what they say—can be sat
isfied, that the trade of the Lehigh Valley and
along the proposed route, is such, as will war
rant the investment of capital, the enterprise
will be put through.
We have no hesitation in saying, that a state
ment can be furnished, based upon the census
statistics of 1850, and of more recent dates, of
the probable amount of business that may be .
calculated to be done on this road. The coun
ties of Montgomery, Bucks and Lehigh, through
which this road will traverse, abounds in rich
beds of Iron, Zink and Copper ores, Lime
stone, Slates, &c. It will command the Agri
cultural trade of Lehigh and the greater part
of Northampton county. It also com
mands the numerous avenues of the Le
high coal,and lumber region. There aro with
in a short distance of Allentown five Anthrax
cite, and two Charcoal furnaces, when worked
to their full extent, are able to run 1,000 tons of
pig metal a week. These, with others that we
might be able to advance, we would in our hum
ble opinion call 'convincing arguments.' As re
gards the trade then of the Lehigh Valley, the
connection of Allentown with Pottstown, will
open a new avenue for the transportation of way
freight; also of coal to Philadelphia, v'hich will
be less than 96 miles distant, nearer in fact, then
from Pottsville to Port Richmond.
We have heretofore in several articles, urg
ed the claims of this road upon the people of
Allentown, and further facts, showing its impor
tance, will be preifented from time to time.
We regard the making of it as next to the
making of our manufacturing prosperity; and
in holding this opinion, we have the conviction
of our business men generally on this subject
Almost a Fire
At about 6 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, the
citizens of Allentown were aroused by the
alarm of fire. It originated in the garret cham
ber of the dwelling of Mr. Richard Levers, south
east corner of Allen and John streets. It is bet
lieved to have originated front the carelessness
of one of the hands of Mr. Levers, who was
resting himself in bed with a segar in his mouth.
The bed having taken fire and but for the time•
ly assistance of the neighbors, with a plentiful
supply of water, it might have broken into an
awful conflagration, the wind being high at the
time, and worse than all, the wretched condi
tion in which our fire apparatus have been
found, being totally unfit for use.
Our Fire Apparatus
W'e believe there is no town in the Union,
in which the apparatus to extinguish fires in
so miserable a condition as they are found in
Allentown. We had two or three well organ
ized Engine and Hose Companies, in which
were enlisted many strong and energetic young
men 'el our Borough, their machinery were all
in perfect order, all they wanted was a suitable
building in whielt to keep their Appara:
TheY petitioned to our Borough authorities for
the erection of a building, at some convenient
spot, or fur an appropriation to that elleci, this
very necessary request was promptly refused ;
the consequence was that our Engine and Hose
Companies were dissolved and their machine.
ry abandoned. In this condition they were
found when the alarm of fire was given on Sun
day afternoon. ‘Nre trust the new council will
come tip to their duty, and make the necessary
appropriations for the erection of a suitable
building,.
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Demooratio Nominations.
The Convention met in Baltimore on Tues
day the Ist of Juno, John IV Davis, of Indiana,
presiding, assisted by a Vice President from
each State, and numerous Secretaries. The
twmthird rule was again adopted, which gives
the minority the power to dictate to the major•
ty. After being in pesbion for five days
nut being able to make a choice, Gen. Fronk.
lin Pierce, of New Hampshire, was on the 49th
ballot,nominated by an almost unanimous vote
We subjoin the ballot, Pierce, 281 ; Case, 2;
Buchanan, 2; Douglass, 2 ; Marcy, 1.
On the 2d ballot, Hon. William R. King, of
Alabama, was nominated for Vice President.
Enormous Profit of Patents.—The most e
nor.
mous profits, have been realized by the assignees
of Woodworth's planing machine during the
twenty.four years the patent has existed. It is
stated that James G. Wilson has received in
sales, assignments, and tariffs, $2,191,852. John
Gibson; of Albany, has received nearly as large
a sum. Chatles Gould, of Albany, has ajso re
ceived a very large sum. Gibson, it is further
stated, is in the receipt of $1 for every thousand
feet planed in poe hundred mills, each of which
turn off 10,000 feet each day.
Economy in a Family
There is nothing which goes so far towards
placing young people beyond the reach of pov
erty, as economy in the management of their
domestic affairs. It matters not whether a
man furnish little or touch for his family, if
there is a continual leakage in his kitchen or
in his parlor. It runs away he knows not how,
and that demon, IVaste, cries "more !" like
the horse-leech's daughter, until he that provi
ded has no more to give. It is the husband's
duty to bring into the house, and it is the duty
of the wife to see that none goes wrongfully
out of it—not the least article, however unim
portant in itself, for it establishes a predecent
—nor under any pretence, for it opens the door
for ruin to stalk in, and he seldom leaves an
opportunity unimproved. A man gets a wife
to leek after his atlairs, and to assist him in his I
journey_ through life=to_educato_anci_preparej
his children for a proper station in life, and not
to dissipate his property. The husband's in
terestshonld be the wife's care, and her groat
e.st ambition carry her no further than his wel
fare and happiness, and together with that of
her children. This should he her soul aim, and
the theatre of her exploits in the bosom of
-herfamilyi-where-she - maj;• - clo - as - much
wards making a fortune as he can in the court
ing-room or the workshop. It is not the mon
ey earned that makes a man wealthy; it is
what he saves from his earnings. A good and
prudent husband makes a deposit of the fruits
of his labor with his best friend, and if that
friend be not true to him, what has he to hope?
If he dare not place confidence in the compan
ion of his bosom, where is lie la place it ? A
wife acts not for herself only, but she is bound
to act for their goal, and not fur her own Brat
ification. Her husband's good is the end to 1
which she should aim ; his approbation is her I
reward. Sell-gratification in dress, or iodul- j
puce in appetite, or mole company than his
purse can well entertain, are equally perni•
cities. The first adds vanity to extravigance ;
the second fastens doctor's bill to a long betel,-
er's account; and the latter brings intemper
ance, the worst of evils, in its strain.
Chinese in California
The Chinese emigration already forms ffne
of the most singular elements in the heteroge
neous population of California, and as the
movement can•ouly be considered as about • at
its commencement, its ultimate extent and
importance form a theme for no little specula
tion. After resisting all invitations to leave
their "Celestial Flowry Land," the Chinese
have at last, uninvited, yielded the silent
persuations of gold, arid disregarding old pre
judices, traditions and superstitions, have Cross
ed a sea ten thousand miles wide and joined
the multitude from all nations, in the search
for the rich yellow metal.
We have before n says the Evening, Belli
tin, a circular from Messrs. King C Co.of Can
ton, dated March 27M,•1852, giving some in
teresting particulars of the progress of the Gold
Fever in the Chinese Empire. The first lar!e
emigration rook place in the spring of 185
After this there NV:IS all abatemeut in the ex
citement until the month of December, when
the ship Flying Cloud returned with some thir
ty or forty adventurers who, by their glowing
accounts of the Eldorado and the display of the
fruits of their visit to it, in heaps of the rich
dust, gave the first great stimulus to the Chi
nese gold fever. Since then• American and
British vessels have been in continued demand
at Hong Kong, Macao and Whampon, to take
Over to Sari Francisco the swarms of gold-seek
ers. From January Ist to March 27th, twenty
nine ships sailed for San Francisco, carrying
an aggregate of 7,537 men. Besides these,
thirty-one ships were about to sail, with an ag
gregate of 9,270 men, making a total, within
three months, of sixty ships, laden with 16,807
Chinese, bound for California. This is corning
rapidly up to the United States emigration in
the same direction, and as the Chinese are no
toriously the most successful of the advent° ,
rers in California, each one will by the ac
counts of his own good fortune, increase the
desire among Irk countrymen to pin him, and
thus there is no such thing as setting a limit to
the numbers of Cliinese likely to go to Cali
fornia.
We cannot wonder at this extraordinary ex
odus of the Chinese, when we remember that
the wages of day laborers in their own coun.
try are only from four to live dollars per month
—a sum less than most of them can earn in a
day in California. They are proverbially tem
perate, industrious, persevering, -economical,
and of steady moral habits; avoiding all the
excesses which have proven fatal to the health
and fortunes of so many Americans, in the gold
regions. It is only a matter of regret that they
cannot be induced to remain in the country,
for, from air we have heard of them, they are
among the best, most industrious and most or
derly people in California. But they bring
with them all their national prejudices of reli
gion and polities; and while glad of the chance
to make gold on American soil, hold aloof—
go6d naturally; but decidedly-4rouri all assim
milation with our Yankee citizens. Then, when
they have earned a sufficiency, they go back
to live on it in peace, for the rest of their days,
in the bosoms of their families.
Uncle Sam ought to adopt sotne measures to
induce them to stay with Ua. We are afraid
they have not a very good appreciation of the
inestimable rightb" of an American citizen, or
a just sense of the importance of "the smartest
nation in all creation." If they could be in
duced to become permanent residents; and
amalgamate with the European races assem
bled in California, there is no reason to be
lieve that the infusion of Asiatic blood would
lead in the end, to a most valuable and useful
class of citizens. The mere suggestion opens
to us a field of curious speculative inquiry,
which we have no time to pursue at present.
g - _,Galvanized iron buckets are in great de_
mend in . Australia for the miners.
Railroad Meeting.
Pursuant to a call of the Commissioners,
named in the act incorporating the Allentown
and Pottstown Railroad Company, a meeting
was held on Thursday, the 3d day of June, at
the House of Frederick Sheinly, in Claytonyille,
Bucks county, to adopt such measures as may
be deemed necessary, to carry the project of
building said road into effect.
The act of incorporation was called for, read
over, when it appeared that the following Com
missioners were present and answered to their
IDEMM
Jacob Dißinger, Peter Weikel, R. E. Wright, ,
Lewis Schmidt, Charles Kramer, Christian
Pretz, A. L. Retie, Ephraim Grim, Jacob Sae
ger, Harrison Miller, John Maddern, Aaron
Erdman, Charles If. Shimer, Henry Shell, Chas.
Foster, Reuben Stafiler, Moses %Vieant end Jii•- -
_cob_Sheip,_oLLehigh_courity.
Jonas Smith, John Smith, James Rittenhous,
Charles Hagey, Dr. C. Keely, P. Y. Brendling
er, and J. D. Streeper, of Montgomery county.
%Villiarri Weaver and Dr. Samuel Young, of
Bucks county.
CHARLES FOSTER, of Lehigh county was
called to the chair.
J. D. Strecper, of Montgomery, and--..-1.- -L.
Relic, of Lehigh, officiated as Secretaries.
A discussion took place as to the proper mode
of proceeding in the premises, the feasibility
of the route, the great advantages likely to be
derived by the construction of the road, and to
the fact, that the present favorable opportunity
should not be suffered to pass, giving perhaps
rival routes proposed, of far less practicability
the advantage in securing to them the exten
sive trade of the fertile Valley of the Lehigh—
whereupon
Judge Dining()) of Lehigh, • offered the fol
lowing resolutions:
Resolned—That R. E. Wright, David Schall,
Wm. M. Weaver, James Rittenhouse, .1. D.
Streeper, John Madden' and Ephraim Grim,
be a committee to confer with the President
and Directors of the Reading Railroad Corn.
pany, for the purpose of ascertaining their
views relative to the construction and experi
mental survey of the proposed Railroad route
between Allentown and Pottstown.
Resolved -I'lw the said committee be also
directed to ascertain and report such facts as
they shall be able to collect, in regard to the
resources of the country, through which the
road is expected to pass, as well as matters
generally in relation to the advantages of said
route, arid embody the same in their confer
ence with the President and Directors of the
Reading Railroad Company, as well as in their
report to the next meeting of the board of Com
missioners.
Resolved—That the committee be empowered
to call a meeting, of the Commissioners at such .
time and place as Alley think proper, with a
view of opening books for the subscription of
Stock
Um/red—That the proeeedings of this (fleet
ing be pnNished in all the papers favorahle to
the project.
ui it 1.1.:s FosTER, Pres , '
J. I). Streeper, )
s ecretaries.
A. L. Rohe,,
Agricultural Convention
A National Agricultural Convention has been
proposed by the Agricultural Societies of New
York and New England, to meet in Washing.
lon city, on the 20th of June next, to form a
confederacy of local Agricultural Societies in
the United States. The objects of this Conven
tion are, to organize a National Agricultural
Society, to which the various Agricultural So.
cieties may become auxillery ; to consult to
gether upon the general good, and to establish
by this Society, or such other means as the
Convention may devise, a mote cordial and
widely extended intercourse between Agricul
`turalists in our own country and in other lands;
to create additional facilities for the acquisition
and diffusion of knowledge, by books, journals,
seeds, and other objects of interest to the Amer
ican farmer and gardener; and to act on such '
other matters pertaining to the advancement
of agriculture as the wisdom of the Convention
may judge appropriate.
Spurious Gold and Silver Coins.
.Split gold dollar pieces are rapidly multiply
' ing and the caution cannot be too often repeat-
ed to be on the look out for them. The piece
by some fine and ingenious machinery, is ino..
bably with a very fine saw split in two abotit
one half of the coin abstracted, and the plun
dered sides stuck together again, the face of
the piece not the least scarred or injured. A
little care will readily detect the fraud. The
milling around the edge will he found broken,
and very generally a pewter colored cement
may be observed protruding from it. The coin,
too, is thin in the middle. Five Frank pieces
have also been mutilated and debased in the
same way.
Persons receiving specie cannit be 100 care
ful in examining every piece, as some of the
one, five, and ten dollurgold coins are exceed
ingly well executed, and a large quantity of
both silver and gold are at the present lime in
circulation.
Gipsies About
We learn from the Norristown Herald, that
a party of Men, Women and Children, descen
dants of the Egyptians; had an encampment
above that town for several days. They rep.
resented themselves from England. They had
a number of horses, in which they traded, and
and the women told fortunes according to As
trology and Palmulogy. They had the rudest
constructed tents we ever saw, not being more
than three feet in height, and not unlike the
top of a wagon set on the ground, and covered
with blankets. There were threie tents of this
kind. The complexion of the oldest person
was an olive, and ho seemed to have the con- j
trol of the party. One evening a storm of thun
der and lightning came up, which aoerned to
terrify them very much.
Communicated.
Ma. Enema! I observe by a late num^
ber of the Allentown Democrat, that the Editor
of that paper has seen proper to take grounds
against the proposed Allentown Railroad, which
would have its terminus at Pottstown, and in fa
vor of a route which makes the terminus at
Freemansburg. This must seem exceedingly
strange to the people of our borough and.county,
a great body of whom are directly interested in
the former road. Any one, who has given any
attention to the influence exerted by railroads,
have found, that the towns at which the road
commences and terminates, are the points which
realise great benefits therefrom; hence I cannot
conceive why a paper published in this borough,
whose interests are supposed to be, and at least
ought to be, identical with those of the town and
county of which it is one of the organs.—l say,l
Icannot conceive, why it should advocate - a - route
- which - will - undoubtedly - conduce - least tithe pros
( perity of the county town, and county in general,
lin which it is printed. That the 'Pottstown and
Allentown road, will do more to promote the in
terest of the people in general of Allentown and
Lehigh county, I presume is scarcely a debatea
ble question. There will be no one to take the
opposite side of the question seriously. This
being acknowledged by_disinterested men—that
is, men who have no peculiar interests to conflict
with the Railroad enterprise,— when we consid
er in connection with the point, that the Potts
town and Allentown Railroad runs through a
richer (Usti - I'o. of country then the Freemansburg
and Norristown road—that it runs through two
rich iron ore districts, two limestone districts,
and in the neighborhood of several iron estab
lishments, independent of the extensive iron es.
tablishinents of the Crane and 'Allentown Com
panies—that it requires but 30 miles of new road,
(the direct line across the country being but 25
miles) while the other will require, over 50 miles
—(see map—take compass and measure down
to the mouth of Perkiomen, measuring 38 miles
across—thence to Norristown, eight miles more,
making 46.)—which allowing the same per cent.
of increase I have allowed (or the Pottstown and
Allentown road, would make at least 54 or 55
miles of new road,—these facts make it appear
passing strange to my mind that our journalist
should give the longest, the hardest to make,
least productive, and least adventageous route
to Allentown and Lehigh county preference.—
There may be reasons for fhis,advisement on the
part of the Democrat, which my feeble ken is
unable to comprehend, or which as yet lie burl'
ed in obscurity, but believe me, I have endeavor.
ed to ferret them nut in vain. On the Reading
Railroad, after the connection is made at Polls•
town by 30 miles of new road, 40 miles of the
best road in the State, over which the city of
Philadelphia can be reached in one hour 30 min
utes, (see time table of Company) in elegantly
furnished cars. The Freemansburg route on
the other hand will require 51 miles of new
road to connect at Norristown ; leaving 18 miles
of road, which would have to be rebid and re
constructed in part, before it would bear the coal
freight of the Mauch Chunk region—and it will
then also be from 2 to 4 miles the longer of the
two routes. With these facts before me, how a
citizen of Allentown, who can see them by giving
the necessary examination, why a rontrwhich ter.
minates many miles from us—can be considered
the most "desirable and feasible" route, I cannot
imagine. Not wishing to tresspass upon your col
umns too much now, I may with your perniis
sion refer to the subject again
Advertising
Mr. V. B. Palmer, the well known advertising
agent, contends that advertising is the greater le
ver of success with merchants. Ho gives illus•
trations by hundreds of cases, in which firms of
moderate business and comparatively unknown,
have resolved to expend $5OO $lOOO or $2OOO,
and in some cases as high as $lO,OOO a year in
advertising Their business at once run up to
a point of prosperity unknown to them before,
and in a few years the proprietors retired on
perhaps fortunes. The newspapers give the
public, far and near, every day information. A
merchant can make himself known, and the cm-
ture of his business, too, through the newspa
pers. He can draw the eyes of fifty thousand
persons directly upon Isis store and stock and
goods, and by doing sd, he cannot fail to increase
his sales to an enormous extent. This matter
is not yet fully understood ; but our dealers
throughout the country are getting awake to the
subject, and it will not be lung before a merchant
will as soon think of taking a journey in a car
without an engine attached, as to attempt to sue
ceed in business without advertising. Every.
body sees that all who go into the advertising
plan, extensively succeed ; whilst most others
who do not take this advantage,group along far
in the rear.
The publishers at Doylestown, Pa., have en
tered into an agreement to discontinue all gra.
tuitous advertising, including the proceedings o
meetings, &c., and have issued a bill of charges
for the future. They very justly remark, that
the advertising which they have hitherto done
gratuitously, somebody has to pay for, and they
think it no more than common justice that those
for whom it is done, and who are generally im•
mediately benefited by it, are the parties who
should pay.
Nol so with Us.—A scarcity of Candidates for
the Legislature is apprehended in Alleghany
county, Pa. Few seem to wonder at it, as the
post has, of late years, become devoid both of
honor and profit, and gentlemen . of respectable
ability are unwilling to lose time, money, and
reputation, by going thither. Not.one of the Al.
leghany members of the Legislature wishes to
return again. •
A Freak of Nature.—The Wadesboro' (N. C.)
• Argus states that Mr. Jabez McKay, living near
White Marsh, Columbus county, has a negro
woman that gave birth ten days back,•to twin
female children, joined together in a manner
that makes them more interesting than the cele.
brated Siamese twins. Their faces look in op..
polite directions, and their bodies are joined by
the back bones running into one at the joint of
the hip, and forming one spine from the join t
down.
The wound of the child (who was eight years
old) healed readily, and she manifested no symp•
tons indicating illness, until the 17th of May,7s
days after she was wounded, which was merely
an apparent scratch on the forehead and the loss
of a tooth, thus showing as the dog run against
the child one of the teeth struck the forehead,
and the others the mouth. On the 20th ult., the
child having been very restless and having had
some fever for three days •previous, Dr. Dodge
was called In and at once pronounced the symp
toms those common to the first stages of hydro
phobia, and so stated to Mr. Thomas Hurd, who
furnished this information who was also acquain
ted with all the facts, and they can be relied on
as being perfectly correct. in the afternoon of
the same day, convulsions commenced, and the
worst fears as to the termination of the case be
gan to be realized.
Dr. Dodge was again called and remained most
of the night. The remedies appeared to be re
lieving, the child, so that in the morning she was
apparently much relieved of both the spasms and
general nervousness. About noon she was again
attacked with the convulsions, which terminated
in death, ate o'clock, on the 21st ult.
Important Decision.—Among the decision by
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, sitting at
Harrisburg, is the following reported in the Tel
egraph :
Gamble vs. Gamble—Black, C. J.—The decla•
rations of an insolvent husband cannot, under
any circumstances, be evidence for the wife as
to her ownership of property. When property
is claimed by a married woman, she must show
by evidence which does nut admit a reasonable
doubt, either that she owned it at the time of the
marriage, or acquired it afterwards by gift, be
quest or purchase. If the husband could create
title to personal property in the wife by merely
saying it is hers, no creditor would be safe for
single moment. It is not easy to conceive how
a higher premium for dishonesty could be offer.
ed. The relation of husband and wife is so in ,
timate, and the identity of their interests so eh
solute that even the oath of either is not and
ought not to be taken in favor of the other. A
multi fortiori, the naked declaration should be
rejected.
COMMON SENSE
A New Idea in Agrieallure•—The steward on
board a U. S. steamer, in the Gulf, has produced
several crops of excellent potatois by the follow
ing mode of cultivation :
He procured a common "crockery crate," a
bundle of straw, and a few eyes of the potato,
and, went to work farming it on board of ship !
The process of cultivating them is this
your crate with alternate layers of straw and
the eyes of the potatoe; commencing nt the bot
tom with ft layer of about six inches in depth of
straweand then a layer of the eyes—the eyes be.
ing placed about two inches apart over the sur
face of the straw—then another layer of straw
on the top. Keep the straw always moist and in
about two months you will have about $l4 worth
of sound, good potatoes on the first water.
Twn Deaths by Drowning. A man by the
the name of John Rau, was drowned in the Le.
high river just below the outlet lock of the Le.
high canal, on Thursday last. We understand
that he was standing un the side of his boat when
another boat was run into his, and the concus
sion threw him over board. By the time he was
taken out, life had departed. We are informed
that the deceased has a young wife residing in
Catasauqua, to whom he had but recently been
married.
Another case occurred on Thursday night in
Lehigh township. Mr. Adam Miller came out
of his house during a thunder storm and walked
right into the canal. It is supposed that he was
not rightly awake or that he was blinded by the
lightning and cttuld not see where he was going.
—Easton Argus,
Campaign Paper.—The Weekly New York
Tribune for the campaign will be furnished for
75 cents a single copy ; $2 50 for 5 copies; $5
for 11 copies ; $lO for 23 copies, ---packages to
be sent to one address and the cash in all cases
to accompany the order. The New York Week
ly Times will also be furnished at the following
rates: Single copy 60 cents; 5 copies to one
address, $2 ; 10 Copies, do $8 50; 20 copies do
$0 • 60 copies, do $l2 50..
GLEANINGS.
Or Gov. Bootw!II, of Massachusetts, has been
hung in effigy three times within the last ten
days.
IT' The new banking law of 'lndiana goes in.
to effect on the first of July.
or A Minnesota paper announces the mar_
riage of Mr. Timmas H. Curd, formerly of Ohio,
to Miss Whirling Thunder, a Winnebago lady.
Elir Contracts have been made for the delivery
at Madison, Ind., next fall and winter, of forty
thousand hogs at $9 50 and $4 75 per 100 lbs.
net.
The Mountain Sentinel man, at Evens
burg, boasts that he °caught one hundred trout
with a single fly."
r:l.The venerable Dr. Samuel Nott died at his
residence in Franklin, Conn., on the 26th ult.,
in the 991 h year of his age. .
13'Auntryman brou '
,lit=the:,
Ohio, market, on Thursday last, four hundred
wild pigeons. They were caught in a net, and
sold alive at 50 cents per dozen.
co' - qt proposition is made to supply Hartford
with water. It is said that this can be done at a
cost of only $150,000.
U^Bull and bear fights are mentioned as
among the Sunday amusements at New Orleans.
rErTheillinois _Central _Railroad ;Company
are in want of five hundred or one thousand la.
borers
1.7" A turtle was found a few days since on a
farm near Zoar bridge, Conn., which had cut up•
on Its shell the initials of then a resident of the
farm, and the date 1824.
Death by Hydrophobia
On the third day of last March, a daughter of
Mi. Thomas Winch, residing four miles west of
Cleaveland, Ohio, was bitten by a dog supposed
to be mad. Unknown to any person in that
place, the dog was immediately shot, thus leav
ing no certain evidence that he was actually ra-
bid.
Agricultural Productions
New York has the greatest number of acres
of improved land, Virginia is second, Ohio thin!
and Pennsylvania fourth, on the list—New York
having 12,285,077 acres of land under cultiva.
lion, Virginia 10,150,106, Ohio 9,720,650, and
Pennsylvania 8,019,631.
In the production of Wheat, Pennsylvania
stands first, Ohio second, Virginia third. and
New York fourth. Pennsylvania produced 15;
482,191 bushels; Ohio 14,967,058 i 'Virginia 14;
596,950, and New York 13,973,657. NFst are
Illinois, producing 9,433,966 bushels, Indiana
6,625,474, Michigan 4,916,706, and *isCon'siiz'
4,292,208.
Ohio produces the greatest amount of Indian
Corn, Kentucky next, Illinois the third, Indian 4
fourth, Pennsylvania being the twelfth, and New
York the thirteenth on the list. Ohio produced
59 , 788 ,7 50 -bushels,-Kentucky - 58,922; - 083,, 1111^
nois 54,179,283, Indiana 52,637,863. Virginii
produced 35,538,582 bushels, Pennsylvania 19;
707,704, and New York 17,944,808. Rhode Is:
land is the lowest on the list, producing-only
520,132 bushels.
New York has the greatest amount of value frf .
farming implements and machinery; Pennsyl^
yams is the next on the list, Ohio the third, and t
-Louisiana-fourth.- The estimated value'in New
York is $22,217,563 ;Peipsylvania $14,931,993;
Ohio $12,716,153, and Louisiana $11,326,313.
In Live stock, New York stands first, Ohig
second, Pennsylvania third, and Virginia fourth:
The estimated value of live stock in New York
is $74,672,356 ; Ohio $43,276,187, and Virginia
$33.607,369. •
Virginia produces the most Tobacco, Ken,
tacky next, Maryland third, Tennessee fourth,
Missouri fifth, and North Carolina sixth. The
number of pounds produced by each of the above
States, is Virginia 66,516,302 ; Kentucky 55,766,
259 ; Maryland 21,198,271 ; Tennessee 20,144,
360: North Carolina 12,958,147.
Alabama produces the greatest amount of Cot.
ton, 560,360 bales; Mississippi next, 494,774;
Georgia third, 494,023; South Carolina fourth
300,991.
In Wool, Ohio slancls first, producing 10,089,
607 pounds, New York 5ec0nd,40,021,507 lbs.,
Pennsylvania third, 4,784,367 lbs., and Vermont
fourth, 3,482,089 lbs. In proportion to IPrritory
and population, Vermont is the great wookrow
ing State.
Ohio produces the most Wine, 44,934 gallons ;
Pennsylvania the next, 23,837; Indiana third,
14,004; North Carolina fourth, 10,801,and Mis
souri fifth, 10,193.
In Butter, New York stands at the head of 11 , e
list, producing 82.043,823 pounds ; Pennsylva
nia second, 40,554,741 lbs., Ohio third. 04,180,
.458 lbs., Indiana fourth, 12,748,188 lbs., Itlinois
fifth, 12,605,654 lbs., and Vermont sixth, 12,128,
095 lbs.
In the production of Cheese, New York is the
first, producing 49,785,905 lbs., Ohio second, 21,
039,475 lbs., Massachusetts third, 7,124,461 lbs.,.
Vermont fourth, 6,758,006 lbs., and Connecticut
fifth, 4,512,019 lbs.
In the amount of Hay produced, Plew York
..„..otity being 3,7}4,734 tons ;
Pennsylvania second, 1,626,260 tons; Ohio third,
1,360,636 tons; Vermont fourth, 763,570. tons,
and Massachusetts fifth, 645,745 tons. •
Kentucky is the great Hemp growing.• Stair,
producing 39,752 tons; Missouri is the second
in the production of this article, raising -21,07,5
tons; Virginia is the third, 4,599 tons; Illinois
fourth, 2,937 tons; Indiana fifth, 1,569 , t0n5.;
and lowa sixth, 1,280 tons.
In the quantity of Flaxseed raised, Ohio pro•
duces by far the largest amount of any of the
States, being 185,598 bushels; Kentucky is the
next, 80,450 bushels ; Virginia is the third, GO;
333; New York fourth, 53,324, and Pennsylva7•
nia fifth, 43,627.
New York produces the greatest amount ofi
Maple Sugar, 10,310,764 lbs.; Vermont the next).
5,159,641 lbs; Ohio the third, 4,521,643 lbs ;
diana (outfit, 2,921,638 lbs; and Michigan fifth,
2,423,899 lbs; In proportion to population ands
territory, Vermont may be considered the great
est maple sugar State.
Louisiana is the great sugar producing State;
202,486 hogsheads of 1000 lbs. of cane sugar
were produced in that State ; The next in amount
is Florida, 46,471 hogsheads; Texas is third 7,.
107; Georgia fourth, 1,273, and Mississippi fifth,.
Lake Superior.—'There are few persons in this
country, still fewer in the Old World, who have
' anything like an adequate conception of the im
mense extent of this "big drink," (as they say
nut West.) To the lakes of Europe it bears the
same relation in size which the Mississippi and
I Missouri bear to European rivers; the lakes of
England, Scotland. and Switzerland, are mere
puddles in comparison with this leviathan. The
length of Lake Superior, says an exchange, is
about 500 miles. Its greatest breadth 190. Its
circumference is about 1700 mile's, or about half
the distance from New York to Liverpool. Lake
Superior is the most western of the great chain
of lakes which discharge their water in The St.
Lawrence. Its depth is 900 feet, while its height
above the Atlantic is put down at nearly 700
feet. To show still farther the magnitude of this
glorious lake, we would state that it contains a .
single Island almost as large as Scotland—whild•,
it has several as large as the States of Rhode Is.-
land and Delaware. Lake Superior is the recd. • ,
pieta of some thirty rivers.
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Paminc in
great suffering fro'm want,or iffoiisions in the
Eastern part of Crawford' and in Warren coun
' ties—the long winter having exhausted almost
every species of rvovisions. Nut only bread
and meat . had become exorbitantly high, but po.
tatoes, turnips, beans, &c., were scarcely to be
obtainedat any price.. The scarcity of meat al
so had completed the general destitution through.
out that lumber region to such a degree as to
ar
rest operations among a great part of the lumber
men before half completing their stock.--Stale
Journal.
What Railroads Do.—Tho Dunkirk Journal,.
states that . the population of that-village by a re."
cent count, was four thou Sand and sixteen, bah'
lag an increase. of nearly, 80 ver.ol. within Alsito
last mutt'. ," . .
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