(111)e tel)igl) AliCllololllll Pa. THURSDAY, JULYI27I=K6-2 Cr The communication of "Common Sense" is received, but too late to find room in this weeks paper. It will appear in our next: Burglary at Friedenaville. It is evident that our neighborhood is infer, led -with a band of robbers, obnoxious in no small degree. During Saturday night, or Sun day morning last, some during villain or vit. laius entered the large dwelling of Mr. Jacob Correll, in the village of Friedenaville, Lein county, by means of boring a hole in a panel door, below the lock, sufficiently large to admit an arm, and . then removed the bolt attached to the lock, thus gaining entrance to the cellar kitchen, from there in the room above, ransacked every nook and corner, obtaining Zis booty eleven . SilVer utblo spoons, several silver spectacles, thimbles, razors, and to:' iv ooh: r articles, besides victuals, Mr .tt the time they endeavored to gain al , :' his bed chamber, hearing th.- •t..: iimnped out of tied, which ore al them, and they made good their reheat. ferf , re thence they proceeded to the hnu a ot.;w i by Augustus R flathath, E , q., in the same vil lage, and entered the same through tle2i niter cellar door into the cellar, !berate up into Pin first story, took out the drawers of a en phaard, to the rear in the houseyard, sea:idled them for silverware, breaking spoons to ascertain their value or quality, feasted on pies, bleed, , of which some were found in the yard next morning, and then left in haste, moult to the annoyance of the family. it is said they also committed more depredations the same near that village. There is little room to doubt, that they are the same party who entered the residence of Mr. Anderson, in Bethlehem, the night previous, Mid abstracted silverware to the amount of thirty dollars. Let this be a caution to the people at large to guard against similar attempts of bui lary and secure well the apertures of their dwellings. The Harvest The farmers this week are all engaged in lion sing-their-Oraiu-cropFand-shouldthe_wetell- er continue favorable, very little will remain on - the fields,at the close of the . week. Tha Rye crop never was better, and such is the news froM all parts of the State. The Wheat crop is much bolter, than we had reason to ex pect it would be in the Spring, acid will atnount to-about an average crop. ludeed we have wheat fields in the neighborhood of Allentown, which prove to be equal to any over grown in the county. Tho rust or mildew done no dam ages whatever, and if it had not been for the havoc of the fly, the wheat crop would have generally been even more plentiful thee last year. The Oats fields promise an abundant yield, the same is the ease with the corn aml potato() crop. The appearmwes never were better than they now are. We are informed that these crops have still a better appearance in the gravel and slate soil of the Upper towik i ships of Lehigh and Northampton 'counties.— These townships last year hardly produced suf ficient for their own use. Fruit Crops The crop of apples, plumbs, pears, and grapes plomisea to bo very aburidant this year. The orchards are more heavily laden with flue than usual. There are but few trees that will net contribute their quota to the most bountiful ag gregate. The fruit also appears huger and more free-from knots and worms than coot• mon. This is a valuable article to the cont. munity in general, because of the many uses and ways the fruit can bo applied to the walls of families, affording a nutritious and health• ful diet for half of the year, when the yield is plentiful: No Business During tho season, when all farmers are ho' sy, and all their suns, our borough is quite des olate and solitary. Thu hotels look like Eo many churches, the printers are nearly tdut ed out, and the merchants d,.0.111(1 clusi'vely upon tho wants of the b0r0n...01. lt,s only now and then that our eyi , s aro greeted by a good substantial countryman in lnw,—nr perhaps eager to uoluo then himself of surplus dollars or by cuntrinii.2 in such times our politicians are .; I up ; they hang abivut the .s ord. ; d the shade, deprieutingih..l.4:.; ing comfort by fiodiou Won't eotno of friends take pity on ' tt, our borough? „ I , blues, or be es:lye:h.,: .tt valu:) ~11; ! ;o oal news is uncommonly doll, too. Can noth ing be dono to revive it? The young fulk6 uro all so busy, few have time oxen to get marri ed! Our matrimonial department has been unusually barren for a week or two. Denlooratio Mass Meeting At a meeting of the Democratic State Cem tral Committee, hold in Philadelphia on the 3d Met., a. resolution was adopted appointing a committee of. five to make arrangements for holding a State. Democratic !Hass Mooting in the City of Reading, to further the election of Pierce and King. The committee are to fix upon the tithe, which it is thought will be early in September. The meeting will no doubt be a large one. All is , Vanity. It is worth while for the:, worldly ambitious to ponder on these, Words of Henry Clay "There.is nothing in honor or fame or world. ly fortune, which is not vanity when the time of our death approaches—nothing real—noth ini(stlbstantiak—nothing worthlaving,' but the hope of God's pardon, and the• consolation of Idisfreligl on." . A Hint to Politicians The-Alien and Sedition Laws of the adtnin• istration of th'ia elder Adams, has led ROIDo politicians. to look back upon the President of thnt period almost as a traitor to his country, and associate the name of Adams, with any thing anti-republican, when in fact, a better patriot lived not through "-the time. Thai tried men's souls"—his sin being only an error of judgment in recommending certain nopopular eivil measures during his presidenor —a peri od which regnired much sar,ai•iiy to steer the ship of Stale, -yet surronoiltil with a heavy debt. They forgot his noble vpoech in favor of the Declaration of Independence, which gave new courage to the - timid, strengthened the boldest of the signers of that instrument.- 1 ohn Adams, is truly made to say by- Dattiel ebster, in that trying moment, "live or die, k or ..witn, survive or 'pet ii.h, 1 gi ye my heart. I hand to this declaration." Ilear the pani sp.•at: of the ".., , ,lorious fonrili," in a letter of lv stll, 1776, one thy tAfii.r the Declancion 1.4 1 niri apt to heii“ve r•rfliepz a !zron I a , ..!.• ••• Ii nlr nni/•••I v: 'n P" '4 , / Qs bulk, ho: fruit/ kris tiOW f.)rrver." Eighty Cents a clay He who duos not deli , dit to , ee tho ot the land well tcwardecl—wtho does not do,iie to see them command it sufFhtieilt compensa tion to secure tor themselves a home or their us), and the rottans for educating their 4211;1;!: ten, mu-tt possess feelings of seilideirtss, to which all good men slt , itthl pray to be strati.. gore. The ottlinaly price of comma labor with us i., 30 cents a day.' Snell 1413.1,.!, tor a resiileist of it town, wltu - lutist pay root, sop. Dort a family :ithl boy everythin:; for ICH, livitt l ; exeept what.httle he may raise in his garden, is entirely too lo . w. ft is al:11,1,1 iiripns.ible for a Mall to do noire than keiip b Lly nod scot; to gether with such eorripensation. A. sin may with economy save a smal; sarit—'fso oer annum, pet hap , (int of such. a rompensatiou, it ' he is so fortunate ae to ha able to wlik every week day in the year'—hut fot u . will ooh a Fundy it im - possible. Every-tnsn--6a.nld— as wu believe every light minded one will— alw.eys desire to give the lab,nets of the coun try ample iewaii! for mil—such a compensa tion as will atcool hie: a 1U:1 , 01k:bit: chance, by the exercise of prodenee and economy to earn for "Mime," and command the ad vantages of looks, newspapers or other medi ums whereby he may elevate himself and Lnu ily, in the scale cif intelligenvesvid fill :et 11911- ntahlg station in lit community. Those who have by chance, education, the aid of friends or by their well directed ellarts, and goof pa in^ cioles, obtained comfortable positions in lice ; with a fair prospect berme 'bent, know the ad : vil.ll.ii7P, alai :110 ploasnios sand. preitioils ebil• ter; and slienlvt cuhaviee a feeling ‘,l nb.oatily towaida the In,. lasi awl du nil in their power to ant the woully honest poore r toiler, to altaiti notneibing, to lightim the labors of age 'writhing tr. rely upon in limes of siplium;;;, or misfeitinto, and F.orneihing more then sntli o cient to ednuale and provide Mr their lamilie4. "Charity begins at home, : ' we tire told. Su it Auuld aid we hope to see it exhibited in help• ing along the lowly in the welfme of life. It is highly laudable to help Ihu temperate., pru dent, honer, pour man—mad where ale there mow word)y otjects for ~impalby and aid?— in inapMing a lionwsimul and competency. It au bn done in a 'hominid difforent naps. it ';,Jllose wino may, only have the proper divo lion to do so. :Men ei t the highway to fiethee or even compote:my, arnl too clinch disposed to grind down instead of increase line [nice of la . t;or.—futtsViton le,hfer. Li terary Notices rereiveit Magazine, for Ail. gust, can see uu hind that should-not 'mike it cieeepintilo in every 1-;000... The t .1,0 goad, the 1110, ttiiiiiirA ex , and th.! itirailjeinelits 01100 11c) , •1: i)t•I Sart , .i)r's r )r Au_))))! Nn, rains a tam qf the ulu ira c.l Lift) of Gel). I.y 11,a)Iley, tweniyalirte cel:er )) . .1 i, ! altngeWer fifleoti enibel6ll - I rilivil):11. boiatt n lick 1.!ia...)), died MEI 1• 0:11t.1.1 , 1.1 I'l I‘•e•L 1 , , y (•; i .•!;1• , ,, e Vulllll.`olVil A'.41 . 101/1- lUll'. plot•eilt nuiliber.eommences it cev; Ncw York—l\lyrati Finch : 9 Si,rtwo 1 - 3rcot. *3 a year. Remarkable Case of Longevity. An old lady named Mrs. McElroy, is now living in this city, who will bu 108 years old on the 20:1, inst. Twenty one yews ago she received what is termed second sight, and van now see as clearly and distinctly as over.- 4o does all her housework; wails aped her youngest daughter, fitly-one years of utt, who has been blind for three years past: o!?:1 at tends a store or shop they keep in i:,tl :!odt room. Sho was married in 1790, whet 46 years of ago, and is the mother of seven child" ren, three of whom are dead. She has dis tinct recollections of Gen. ‘Vashingtun, and vn. lions amines of the revolution, Ilsr fattier who was a German, lived to be 107 years old. She was born at Allentown, Pa.—Phila. Sun. Or Capt. John Meyers, of Gettysburg, has a cow which recently yielded twelve and a half pounds of butter in one week—and that Without extra feeding. • • The news from Australia, via London, is the most important of any yet received from that interesting poition of the world. But for the confirmation of similar accounts received in the early pert of Iho California gold discoveries, says the New Yolk Herald,, we should be Ilia. posed to doubt Ma correctness of the•state men:s publit , hed io the Engredi journals.— From all that we can gather relative to the gold product in Australia, that country is like ly to throw Cali!ornia entirely in the i.hade.— Thew is very litile.d.mht bat that the product of gull in Ati&talia will continue to increase from year to year,•and .that the estimate for this year will be fully realized. Eighty mil lions of dollars in geld lust is pnt down as the product for the first year. 1\ lost of. this will find its way into England and be concentrated in I.'ll/(1,19, principally in the Ranh of England Do the 19th of June the 11:rik of E , lghted ha.{ in its .vanhs twenty•one tout a half millions , teihm.r, with a c . m.nlation of noes to a corms arommt. rti.r.:.vvil noir, ntztount i,,l to I cube Imly!rOti f'liFli:•.!_ I. 6.1•.1 io oti covn sierli , ilz of to t' zt totottott mt..: to !to potthtl for pound 'it ur ot..itt t,.1 it toil. It titoretow rtp• MEE lo , i.J11;I: I.: 1W:1 by IP.e b,1111:, iu eirvti I:a- • ,ro.t!ir.i m,epie Coo F-crvcd I l (,ideal I , ra: [h.! fat", lataa.ty ito,er inure atam.lant - ha,l than at apar.caii, and n.o.its.i.,f interest lull, at rileie'iy nominal The r.ioid gull in Coe vonlis of die hank of En.4l:inil. and in all the great c•f Eno - )lie, ilready ,ipoilid,cio 1 in itio itiiit - tle; of fi• nonoiois t!ie :noble effect of such unolinii , i; ;zoo tn 4 mo.itlitt %%041111 Iht; I in }let, lice al• a p. 11.0 Mime rotlect of :tve t.vi.i-11 have. exhamitible Two or three le• eeipis, at the 1.001 aliaady Might t of mahe much illiferem:e, even it af. anti ' , Au pur,ei:, generally re,:oive.l irotti aveeh,iiiii, cfgold for any le:igth of lilllo, StUrR3 outlet, ultimately re , ult in a eelimime t!- -, rangvin..nit in the valicin, final cial sy , ...oisis of Ow tvolltl , up,ot all niea•ureB 61 value, alid liiing about a new organization of tile finances ut evety g,tvon niacin iu existence Webster and the Presidency. ll:r, laic eu;hu-ia cc recoplion of IVe!..::tc•r, Ly !lie eilize:is of I 1 -tun ; is a fact of ‘vbirh ; the nation as well as Itini.elli•houitt be prowl. i ft sbow.4, rays the Evening Bulletin, Brit :let gnat heart of the pr.•yi!e re.ortiz IS ' IVI , :l: , 1 tint a 1:111Y 1'~1.I:II N !I"IN I l'. i'hnul 1`: i•'.i.ll hI& litifi, than man; who p0 , ,e,, slide patronage• of p(Mei, and ;di the po:op po,itton. hue lioincrous hieuds of Webster who, in their regret that he will probably never be President, speak of that station as if its loss was a serious drawback to the lame of their favorite.' flat this is not so. Ihe l'resideecy could confer no glory on a man like Webster, lilt would lather itself receive consideration from hint.— Leng after scores of oar Presidents shall have been forgotten, the 1:111113 of Webster will still be bright and honored. Who remembers the long list of (Inman consuls? When Pompey, Ciceio, Cac.al, Cato, :Scipio, and the other great men of Rome, ri , o to our memory, we ask not whether they leaohed that highest office in the 4th of it e R itetto people, tor the tecollection of their glory hi arms, or Lloquelice, ur wis dom so fills the tniad, that tw talk of the hort. or of the consui-hip, iu CUoite:6oU shit sUcli men, teems au heath. It is better, in one tenet', fir thu lame of both Clay and Webster. that neither attained tie Presidency ; for now their glory is wteJlly tle•ir own, and not a rti• fie rii4Vl 110/11 joiner 1111(1 tike. Colossal meta, their rvlir•aee. long after they have departed, will ling i on the Innizen, like an eternal twi• light. • We learn from the Aitlford Beacon that the destructive insect known as the Army Worm, has made its appearance in this Slate—the first time for forty years, and has already done much dammio to the ffrasc and other critii. On the farm of Alexander Johnson, at Marshy Hope, a tine meadow was completely cleared of grass as though fire had swopt tivi rit ; aad it was found iwei,sary to dig a deep ditch to ptevent•lhe de• Oa the istcro Shore of Maryland the worm is also f.maii in countless numbers, and the des• trot:min of crops have been large. Sussex ("minty has not escaped the ravages of this pest, anti will lie seen from the following communica• !lon just received rem an attentive correspon: dent: "The army worm has destroyed the salt triar.,l! on Indian river to a wondetful extent ; for miles the grass looks as if a fire had passed over,it ; the worm has not left a vestige of vegetation standing. 'Many rarmeys are at this time, iu Baltimore hundred, ditching round their -curn fields to keep them out." Cunning Device.—A Philadelphian, who had been indicted for selling lottery polices, failing in his efforts to °tiny his peace" with the officers of the law, eluded their vigilance by advertising his death . , and inviting his friends to the funeral which was conducted with becoming solemnity under direction of his "bereaved widow," while he stepped over into New Jersey. The ruse sue. ceedecl , completel a y until an evening or two since, when the dead man yielded to his desire.to visit Philadelphia, -where he was discovered by some one whose faith in walking gi(Oita,.(lid nut ran. der him doubtful as to .theldeatity of the cun ning rogue. • . - • European News The Army Worm te corn nod oats The Rail Road Question Mn. EntTon ! Much has been said of late, on the necessity of a direct railroad communica tion between the Lehigh Valley and the city of Philadelphia, thus opening a channel through which the vast products of that rich and fertile region might, of any season of the year, be brought to its natural and legitimate market—le gitim me it certainly is, fur who is now entitled to the traffic in our awn untold mineral and agri cuitural riches, than that city, the pride of every genuine Penn,y Iva nian, and natural, because the chasms in our mountains have been found, as if on purpose to make a path for art to meet the requirements of our future prosperity. Is it not strange Mr. Editor, that the inexhaus tible riches of this region, should have been thus long neglected ? Hitherto we have been con tented to be Me-buund, fur at least one-third of the year, and annually went into a state of dor. mancy for that period, as if it were a dis. inlet characteristic of our nature ! The pulling :of the Iron -Horse, sent forth from the wily rival or the east, has arouscd Philadelphia to the importance of the subject, as well as an aliened u, from our leMergy,and no less than three ddr,rent charters have been obtaintil at the last session of. our Legislatiire, to connect us with Philadelphia—showing, conclusively that a s p,, h in h you i appreciation of the importance of the sul,j, et has taken plane. EIDE New lc has now communication with Basi tun, and through the i•Dalawarc, Lehigh and Sii•quehatina Railroad," aheady surveyed, will soon be through our midst to Ow coal fields on and richuyikill, and thence to the Caiawistat and Eric Railroad, which Philadeli pitta capital nvill Intilding;• on the border of hake Erie, making it by far the nearest cut from that city to the Lopes—cost the consequences of li that be anything but disastrous to the prosperity of Phtladelphial A glance at the map will sat• isfy anyorie in it moment, and as before stated, the nuinher of charters obtained to - idifereseel this great thorough fare, shows that the subject is api preciated—and the question- new to be. decided is, which route is the most eligible and on which can our energies he'd be united ! • Ia building a rail..oaaseveral questions should be, and generally ate taken in consideration in the selection of a route—they ate : Ist—which is the nearest from point to point? 2d—which is the lease expensive? 3d—which is the most profitable to the stock!' Mier: I 4th gtve-the-most-genetidJ-satisfaction-?--- 'l•he ction ? The first whose'claims I will consider, is the I'rcemansburg and Norristown route. What the projectors of this route could have had in view to make the tipper terminus at Frye^ manshurg, U miles east of Allentown, I ant at a Was to conceive, as aside from the increase of distance, the idea of taking all the millions of tons of coal and other freight, that will find its way to the Philadelphia market on this road, th4t lhr out of the way. The trade that will mune to it faint Easton, will be so insignificant, as nut to he thetight of—as all that trade intended for the Philadelphia market will find its way there on the Belvidere awl Trenton load, notv under CULSIrtIC, The cost of construction Inuit certainly be touch greater than any of the other proposed rotues. The distance by this route is 70 to 71 miles. The location has so often been described that I deem anything on that head useless. The next is the Pottstown route, which has a considerable number of advoemes on account of the shortness of the road to be made, represen• ted to be but 28 miles, to intersect the Reading road, 4U miles from Philadelphia— whole dis. tance 68 miles. EEME The most material objection to this route in my estimation, is the fact that it will leave the Lehigh at the complete mercy of the Schuylkill region, and how that company can be able to tin this additional business on their road, ever in its present aspect--say nothing of the ;ft eat future, I confess I am unable to see, nut do I regard its proposed kcation so beneficial to Allentown as some do, tho' that can be altered. 'Plee last is the route which has drawn the at tention of the "Philadelphia, Easton and Water Gap railroad Company," from :Norristown tu Al lentown. The liberality of the charter of this company is such, as to permit , them 19 take almost any route, connect with any road they may see fit, and alloWsthem the utmost latitude, and- hence will select such route as to them seems the most practicable, and calculated to be the most bene fit to themselves, the city ..f Philadelphia and the Valley of the Lehigh. This being their only aim, it could not fail to strike them, that by coat mencing with the termiuus of the Norristown railroad, thence by as direct a route as may be to the Perkiamen creek, Meilen along said creek to tiumaytown 17 miles, thence along said Per. hion.en creek to th 6 head of Hosensack creak, which is n lateral branch of the former, and ris: in; almost within stone•throw of the west branch of Saucon creek, 13 miles at farthest from Sionnytown ; thence through Dietz's Gap down said i7‘l,incon creel; and along the Lehigh o r S o uth Moun.tain tiltheNs' Gap 6 miles ; thetice through said gap to ..E.t Allentown, -intersecting the Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna railroad, sin miles, making the whole distance to Phila delphia 65 miles, the shortest of all the proposed routes. As to the expense of construction—the insig nificant damages to be paid, having a hill-side for the largest portion of the way ; abundance of stone and other materials—makes it in my esti• oration by far the Most worthy of consideration. As my time is so - limited at present, and hav ing already tresspassed so much on your space and patience, that I must close fur the present, hoping ere long to say something more on the subject. CLINTON. Col. John J. ilirCahoz..—Governor Bigler and State Treasarer Bickel, have appointed this gen. demon as Loan Commissioner, to visit Europe. Under this appointment, Col. hieCahen will be charged to make arrangement to effect the con version of the State securities held abroad, into four per cent. bonds. We trust the mission will be successful, and we have confidence 'that the financial'ability cif - the appointee will; be able to carry out the design, which; must be of some benefit to the State, • • 1:ET=12121:1!El 'Although the peach crop hhs entirely, fail. ed in Kentucky, there will be a most abundant crop of apple 3. EV'"nOnioes and harmony, now and forever, one and inseparable"—that's my platform, as the boy said when he was eating his dinner. rj-The annual Commencement of Lafayette College, at Easton, will take place on the 28th ir.t. Rev. Symmes C. Ilenry, of Cranbury, will deliver the address before the Literary So cieties. _ - ..•Gen. Cass is one of the richest men in the North-west. LT:', - Ralihing warts with solid polash,.will of feetually remove them, rV'The Secretary hip of the Navy has been offered to, and ace.epted by, the Hon. J. P. Ken' ncdy, of Maryland. tarn mad named Luther Allen, Secretary of the Mechanics' Health Insurance Association of Newark, N. J., absconded on Thursday last with $13.000 of the fuels oh the Association in his hands. re ft is a good sign to see the color of health in a man's Glee, but a bad sign to see it all con e-Nitrated in the nose. Frfour millions of tnanufaetured goods are now annually exported from Belfast to the Uni ted States. crj-Our Exchanges are "chock full" of notices of Mr. Clay's death ETP' -- An American, an officer of an American vessel at Calcutta, has been astonishing the na• lives by walking 10011 miles in 1000 hours. They called him the American state. 1 C. - ii — Fifty laboring men could obtain employ ' meta in and about NN'illiain‘part, Pa., at high rates ur wages. Appeal from Appraisement. As there appeared to be a doubt whether the opinion of the Courts recently given in reference in uterchantilc appraisements, covered each par• ticular case snbmiited on Appeal, And. Miller, on behalf of several of the 'appellants, brought to the.atteminti of the Coati a case as follows : —. Ws client is a turner in wood and bone. lie has a manufactory, where all his work is manufac tared to the order of the trade only. - He pureba• ses the rough material and works it into such form as is ordered. Ile has no store (Jr shop for vending, ihe manufactured article, but employs twiny journeymen. The second question was that of a Shoemaker who cut Out all his own work ni his shop or store, but gave a part of it to jonrneymen to make and binders to bind; who had their places of busines> elseo here. The Court decreed that under the Act of As sembly, hut these tippellants were liable to as - SCSSITICI.I, The proviso to the act of 25.1 of April 1810, Sec. Xl, reads, "that mechanics who keep a stole or warehouse at their own shop or manufactory for the purpose of vending their own inanMacturcs e.!;clusively, shall not be re quired to take out license." The question here submittril, depend: 'upon the test of shop or no shop. The inanufccturer has .no shop or store for the vending of his manufactured articles, hut upplie.; the getieraity upon oriltors given. lie therefore come, within the syt.pe a the pro vim', and is !table. Tiw .seconil (pies:in einl a. yes the htisittes., of a person who has the Imre. ipiistte of a Store for the vending o f shoes. but !hey are not of ins own manufacture exclusiv ly, a part being manufactured in some whet. place. The fact of his employing, journeymen wound not render him liable, (the work of his journeymen being the work of himself,) provi, (I , d the work was done at his shy p or store.— This not being the case he is liable also. nrriblc Boil. iurue.—The Sussex (N.J.) inter says that a terrific hail storm swept over Montague on Tuesday last, raging about halt an hour, the stones measured from 6 to 9 inches in circumference, and some were nearly us large as a man's list. The storm followed the course of the L`,l.tware river, Coniniencing in the north. ern part of Moot:tune, and sweeping the whole length of the township in a track about two miles wide. It extended into Sandyson township, but did comparatively little damage therein. Melds of grain were completely cut off—fruit of all kinds destroyed, and numerous patches of corn were so injured, that their owners at once plough (Nl them up to put in buckwheat. The window glass in every building within the rage of the storm, was more or, less injured. Mr. Nelson Snook was harrowing in buckwheat when it commenced, and in his etfuris to manage his al.' flighted team, he lost his hat, and had his head very seriously cot by the hail. The team of Mr. Benjamin Cole broke loose, and ran away with the harrow, until they were perfectly exhausted, and rendered nearly valueless by cuts and bruis- es received.from-the hail, and from the obstruct lions with which they Caine in contact. Al. together, the storm appears to have exceeded in violence any similar visitation within the mem• ory of the inhabitants, and the damage sustained is very great. Accident From ("arelemntes.—lt is with regret, says the Easton Sentinel, that we announce the facts of a very serious accident that occurred in our borough, on Tuesday ni;lit last. For sever• al days past the pavement, which has been dug out some ten feet deep, in front of Jacob Wag ner's new building, on Northampton street, has been left in an exposed and a very dangerous condaion, at the risk of the lives and limbs of pedestrians. Oh the evening above stated, Mrs. James Titus, had the misfortune to fall lute this pu, injuring herself very seriously—breaking a knee,cap and otherwise bruising her limbs to such au extent that it is feared she will loose the use thereof. Thus through the .carelessness of some person a lady is placed upon a bed of pain and suffering and'in all probabiljty deprived of the use of a limb for life. We hope this may serve as a wonting to others who are exhibiting a similar cat elessaess.• Yer d i Productive.—A bed of strawberries in the garden pf Mr. Mintzer, at Pottstown, measuring 16 by 10 feet, produced the extraordinary quam City of 76 quarts of fruit, of a very superior qual ity, during the past' season. The Ledger men, lions thisoo s show how easily people may raise this delfaioua fruit with; a small space of ground and ordinary attention. GLEANINGS. Letter from Hon. G. C. Washington. I have seen in the public prints the proceed ings °film American National Convention, which assembled at Trenton, New .lersey, on the sth inst., from which it appears that was nomina ted for the office of 'Vice President of the United States. No official communication of the fact has been received by me, and if any such was made it has miscarried. My nante having been thus unexpectedly presented to the country, I cannot longer consent to remain silent and there fore adopt this mode of responding to the nomi. Its non. am highly honored in being deemed worthy of such distinction, and by having, my name as sociated with that of the eminent and revered citizen selected by the Convention for the office of Vice President of the United States. The Baltimore Whig Convention has presen. ted to the nation, as candidates for the same of fices, the names of Winfield Scott and Wm. A. Graham. These nominations received my cor dial assent, and they will my zealous support. I have been on terms of friendly intercourse with lien. Scott for twenty years,iind esteem him for his spotless character, and his frank, manly, and courteous bearing. I respect hint fot l tar. eats often severely tested, btu which never fail ed him under the most trying circumstances and I admire him for his military services, by which the character of his country has been el. evated at home and abroad, and been equalled by those of r,o man living ur dead since the days of the Revolution. He has freely shed his blood in maintain ing the honor of his country, and her rights.--; His patriotic devotion to the Union, conserva • live principles, and \ firm support of the compro mise measures, cannot, in my belief, be ques tioned without doing hint great wrong and in . Mr. Graham is wholly unexceptionable, beinf.,; respected for his talents and esteemed for hi 4 virtues by all wild ktioU , him. Entertaining these opinions of the candidates of the Whig National Convention, and being ful ly and willingly committed to their support, I am constrained mast respectfully to decline the nomination of the American National Conven tion. GEORGE, C. WASHINGTON. Muntgomery county, M L, July 13, 1E352 Clay's Advi6e t) Young Men Two years ago, daring Mr. Cray's address to the students of the New York State and Nation al Law - school, in nalSton, Spa., one subject of which is to train young MCII, in the art of extern • poranetius speaking, he said, when counting on the advantages of that institution, ••I owe my success in life, td one Single fact, viz; that at the age of 21, I commenced, and continued for years, the process of daily reading and speaking upon the contents of some historidal or:mien olio book. These off band efforts-were made some. times in a cornfield, and others in the forest,. and, not frequently in sumo distant barn, with the horse and the ox for my auditors, It is to this early practice of the great art of all arts, that Lain indebted for the primary and leading im putes that stimulated me forward, and have shaped and moulded my entire subsequent des tiny, improve, then, young gentlemen, the supe• dor advantages you here enj-n•, L.l not a day pass without exercising your power, of speech. There is an power like that or or,iory. Cesar controlled rued by exciting their fears ; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their . passions. The influence of the one perished with its author—that of the other continues to ihis da Slellll on the Eric Crinat—The Steamboat Ja cob Mods, says the Lockport Democrat, recent ly passed through this village, having in tow lour of the largest class of boats that can now tia'vigate the canal; they were heavily loaded with railroad iron, and as eighty four tons was the smallest any of them had, the aggregate amount must have been at least three hundred and twenty six tons. With this heavy line of boats to drag, the steam tug moved ahead at the rate of between three and four miles an hour, notwithstanding the obstacles. which the narrow and shallow water of the old canal in many pla ces presented. dit made no well to wash the banks, but moved on smoothly, hardly breaking the stream with a ripple. Monument to Commemoralc Perry's Vidory.— An association was formed on the sth inst., by the citizens of Sandusky, for the purpose of erecting a monument on Gibralter Rock, in Put. in - Bay, to commemorate the brilliant victory won by Perry on Lake Erie, and in honor of the dead ivlto fell in that engagenient. Gen. Lewis• Cass, of Detroit, was chosen President, and' among the list of Vice Presidents are the names of Col. J.J. Albert, U. S. Topographical E'ngi floors, NVashington City, Hon. Elisha Whittle^ se y, Com. R. P. Stockton, Gen. Cadwallader, Philadelphia, Hon. Reuben Wood, Ohio, J. A. Harris Cleveland, Major John G: Camp, - Sam. dusky, Capt. Champlin, Buffalo, and John Bur— nett, of Cincinnati. Generous Donalton. I'he President of lb's Reading Railroad Company, in pursuance of a resolution of the I3oard of M'anagers, has presen. ted to the President of the Pennsylvania Hospi tal, the sum of One Thousand Dollars, to be ap plied to the improvement of the buildings oithat institution. The lfospital has, on several occa- sions, rendered important service to the Corn. pany, in opening its doors for the reception of persons overtaken by accidents while on duty up. on the road ; and hence the peculiar appropri ateness of the donation. Great Mett.—John 0. Rives says have seen the manuscript writing of most of the great mcn of this country during limiest twentyyeare, and I think may safely, say,, that no twenty of of them could stand• the test of the scrutiny of onvitalf the journeyman printers employed in. my race." Nine tenths of the "great men" who have shone ,in this country during the last twenty years. are great men by the courtesy of the press , and their.contemporaries. When you come M. rip up their claims to the appellation oi"great,' everything about them rips up, andoiten nothing but es "old tip" Is left. • -'
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