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A Chat with our Readers
Our readers will acknowledge, we think,
that we diligently for their satisfaction, have
spared neither pains nor expense to make the
'Register what it should be. This lac' being
admitted will they not also acknowledge the jus
tice of the scriptural declaration that the "labor•
er is worthy of his hire ?"
We have in our books a large amount eharg.
ed for subsciiption, advertising and jobing, the
payments of which by delinquents, would give
us great pleasure and strengthen us greatly in
the future exertions we shall use 1 r keep up' i„,.,
the standard of excellence which our paper lion
has thus far establiMed.
The_approaching.Conrt aflords a favorable op-
Portunity for many, either to send or call—an-d-t—
-pay the amount due to us. As we are not giv
en
to dunning, we hope this suggestion will bo
sufficient top induce all who are in arrears to
come forward and settle their accounts.
Tho present, too, is a particularly proper
time of the year for subseribing for a good
newspaper. The fall and winter evenings will
soon bo at hand, when no more agreeable or
acceptable visitor could be welcomed to the
family circle, than a weekly Journal, which be
sides giving all the news both in and outland•
ish, contains many agricultural and literary ar
ticles of great value, and well calculated to
•
amuse the mind.
We are truly grateful for the widely exien•
ded patronago, oNceec> that of any Eng.
fish journal in Eastern Pennsylvania, and which
has, thus far rewarded our enterprize, but will
still feel exceedingly happy, to reecie a huge
accession o[ nutnes to our list, only Fend them
on, we are ready to since you
Law of Newspapers
1. All subscribers, who do not give express
notice to the contrary, are considered as wish
ing to continue their subscriptions. -
2. II subs:libels order the discontinuance of
their papers, the publisher may continue to I
send Them until all arrearages ate - paid.
3. If tinbse4ers neglect or relktse taking' :heir
papers from the offices to which they are sent
they: ate held responsible till their bill.. are set
tled and their paper ()Rimed to he di s continued.
4. The Courts have decided that refusing to
t ake a newspaper or periodical from an office, or
removing and leaving it uncalled for, is "pri
ma facia" evidence of Intentional Fraud.
5. It has recently been derided that whine
a subscriber failed to mei fy the editor to dis,
continue the paper, at the end of the time for
which he subscribed, or to pay up the arreara
ges, he was bound fur another year.
• The Lehigh Rail Road
We are happy to announce to our readers,
that the Railroad final Easton to Mauch Chunk,
will most hkely be put under coon act boh , :e
October next. Robert li. Sayer, F.:41 , the gen
tlemanly Engineer of the company, was in town
latt week, and to whom we had the pleasure
of an introduction. Ile informs us that the bridge
across the Delitivate, at Easton, will be put
under contract as soon as arrangentents to that
cflect could be made, and alter that, the whole
of the road would . be put under contract. Since
then a notice was sent us for poblicatinn, to
receive "Sealed Proposals" for the mason work
and superstructure 01 the bill e at o for grad
ing the Rock section at the western end o f the
proposed bridge. It 18 believed that in less titan
two yours the Icon Horse will sound its whistle
along the Valley of the Lehigh.
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Amendment of the Tariff.
In the [louse of Representatives, on Thurs
day last, the fell of August, lion. J. Glancy
Jones, of Pennsylvania, offered an amendment
to the General Appropriation bill, providing for
the assessment ofduties upon the various kinds
of iron and glass, on their actual average VllllO,
or wholesale prices, in the principal ports of
the United States, during each fiscal year.—
Thth amendment was decided out of order by
the chair, on the ground of irrelevancy. Mr.
Jones appealed from this decision, but the
}louse sustained it, by a veto of 67 yeas to 64
nays. lion. T. Ross, who I,ns-represents Lehigh
and Bucks, voted to sustain the chair ; so did
Manua/urn, of Franklin, who also mis-repre
scuts that Iron county. Through the treachery
of these two members the bill was lost.
The Railroad Survey
We have been informed that W. B. Foster,
Esq., has entered upon the duties of surveying
the routes severally proposed by the conteMpla
led Railroad from Philadelphia by the nearest
and most feasible route to the Lehigh Valley.
The corps of engineers have commenced at
the Perkiomen creek, 8 miles north of Norris
town, passing along the boundaries thereof to
the mouth of Swamp creek, thence along the.
boundaries the nearest and most practicable
route to the Lehigh river.
We have no doubt but that the Engineers af
ter striking Swamp crock, will pass along
said creek to its summit, which is found with
in stone-throw of where the west branch of the
Sauces creek rises, thence along the south side
cif the Lehigh mountain to Geis& Gap, thence
along the valley of Trout creek to blast Allen
town, where the road will intersect with the Le
high-Valley road.
. /f this Company wish to roach Freemansburg;
They can do so by running along the base of the
mountain to where it intersects the Saucon
creek near the above place.
Quo Warrant°.
From the Mining Reiister, published at Potts
ville, we learn. that a Quo Warrattto was Issued
against the Farmers' Bank of Schuylkill county.
'The Court has suspended its decision for the
present. We caution the citizens of Lehigh
countito refuse the notes of this rotten concern.
Arrival of' the, Glasgow.
Thil fine steamship reached Philadelphia n
Saturdiy last. She left Liverpool on th st of
July, }td passed the Delaivare Bre4.k valet at
o'clucl on Saturday morning. ghe briny a
heavyfreight, and one hundred-and four passcn.
gers.
Amin the passengers we find our fellow
townst!an, John G. Schimpf, and neighbor Hen,
r?, Gqz, of Hanover. They both left in the
Glasgiv in April last, on a visit to Germany,
their rmive country.
Mass Meeting
The Vhig citizens of Pennsylvania are in vi.
ted to net in council at Harrisburg, on Friday
the 2001 of August, to celebrate the anniversary
he " attic of Cherubusco." In honor of that
more le day, let the people of Pennsylvania
•ti ou 'n their might, and mingle their gratula
ri
as at to bright pt ospects that are before them.
A- nu ber of distinguished public Speakers
(I, erent parts of the Union, will be present
In
ttrt ss -- the - tneeting. .
minato.
All due allowance must be made about elec.
lion times, for lies arid misrepresentations. —
i
1 All i tint Wirealumnies - are - now - to -be _ ex p_ e _ cF _
Business Notices. 1 ed. If what is said of Mr. Searight is untrue,
Stfte/ Trechers.—We invite the attention of I We must confess he is the most abused man
n•soet—who are on the lookout for schools I that has ever been so unfortunate as to be a
wring le winter—to our advertising columns. j candidate for Canal Commissioner in this
1 non te r of vacancies :ire offered. [State.
Hoyt Furniivreft)r Synk.—A splendid lot elWo are not disposed to pass over the matter
H l ouse Furniture is offered for sale on Satur- so lightly as the interests of party politicians
day iitxt, at the House of Mrs. /IL 2: Daterr— i might require. Every one who has given at-
BelsoM wishing articles of this kind will do tention to the history of our public works know
well to be in attendance—see advertisement I they have become a political machine around
in neither column. I which thousands of persons who are too indo
.ct4 Shaul to Lct.—One of the best Store ; lent Or impotent to depend upon their own ex
stand:f in the county, is tittered for pnrt, located ; ertions for support, are hovering, eagerly watch
in Frif•llelltivillr, Upper Sancon township, this . 1 ing like birds ol prey, for a bone, to pick.—
count". It hr in the immediate vjeinity of the ,There are some excellent men and public sec- k
t
Zink Ore lied. Slim ol business should sets to vents on our works, but the legions of hungry
A Plank in the Platform Gone.
it. lie a further des'eription see Curti. I seekeis for place in the pay of the State, are
The [louse of Representat3 at Waping•
oiotry siorarepos.—mr. 11. S. White, No. I troublesome eustumere. The interests of the
148, North Third Street, PhilarteltiLia, says in ' State require that nien should be at the head ton has given a decisive vote in favor of die
his (1111, found in another part of to-days pa- lof our- public works noted for their unbending t on 60,000,000 acres of public lands
per, that he keeps on hand for sale, any quan- {integrity, of large pr act ical knowledge and :lc • amen th e Stales! The House is largely Dem
tity cf Carpet Chitin; Cotton Yarn &c., at. e x. ! qua i t , t „„,„ t ,hi f , w i t h t h e control o f t h e pu bli c °erotic. The Baltimore Democratic Conven•
trentrly low prices, which is an inducement to !works—of Jackson-like determination to do lion passed a resolution against distribution of
any kind. Political Convention expressions of
comity merchants to tiny. I best for the interests of the people of the State
if A r m Fir ot.—Messrs. Winder & Boyer, have ; having, an eye single to their duties as faith lul sentiment are getting to be perfect folly. 'lle
lately entered into co•partnerithip in the //at guardians of public!: interests—regardless ol all fact is, politicians, in their ti er act
whip
the-devil-round the stump kind of policy, have
and Cap business.. They tiro both practical ;personal considerations of men or politicians
lost either the will or. the
fl intelligence
their et o
to be
mechanics in their branch of business, and are I seeking reward for doing the dirty work of par-
governed by reason or justice
able to exhibit for sale hats and Caps of the I ties, in sucking at the public teat. The office in pres
sions of sentiment.
latest and most fashionable styles. l'hey are iof Canal Commissioner is the most important
new begitin&s—clever fellows attliat, and con- lone to the people of Pennsylvania they will be
sentiently bound to do a first T ato b us iness— ; called upon to fill this fall.
Go see them ! ~ I We trust Mr. Searight will come prumptly
/tertrogd Gontracters.—ln unothercolumn of i forward and show up the said letter to be a for
to.days paper will tro town' a notice to receive j gery. if he does this, all will be well, when
r•sealeil proposals" for the grading and super - I his libellers may he justly. execrated. In re
struction, of the Rail lload Bridge. at Easton, I gard to the charge of defrauding orphan child
over the river Delaware. The job is one el the ; rest, his accounts have gone through the course
largest on the unite. ; of legal investigation, and been passed upon
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las correct. Whether there was any ground
News from Illinois ___ .
kfor the char g e of defrauding or not, is a ques-
We glean the following item of i n
nformation ! .
on that may not be decided; brit it is a just
from a correspondent of tho Brie Chronicle, who
`maxim, that a man be considered innocent tin
ts now on a travelling, excursion through Illinois,
• • tit he hits been proven guilty. Legal gentle
among other things he writes thus:
ps be worth while to say that men and properly constituted auditors of ae.
"It may perha
I counts, have decided that no charge against
working cattle range in price from 40 to $4lO,
as to the quali.y, age, &c.; cows from 15 to *2O l Mr. Searight of this kind can be sustained.—
per head ; sheep from 1 to $.2 each after shay. P°lts t m 3 LeAger.
ing, thiee year old steers in good order for 1
1 Destruction of a Bridge.
stall leedir.g ) from 1R to $22, beef or. foot in 1
Oil Thursday evening about half past 6
niarket from 4 to l!l5 50 per ms wl.
plains wakes a o'clock, a violent tornado suddenly passed over
The untigiation moos;ti
1 this place, and in its Cellitie, we regret to say,
greatinai•ket for all mariner of draught stock
I swept from its foundation that portion of the
and rows.
Horses are at least one quarter
Northumberland bridge spanning the river
higher in price than with you, and often bringi
a third more. . • from the island to the Sunbury shore. The
1 bridge now lies crushed, in a mass of ruins,
Wheat is worth here from 3010 44 cents per
above the piers. Sir. Krum, who resides on
bushel ; corn 15 to 20 cents per bushel in the
the
ear; ow , 15 „, 11 , per bushel! No potatoes to Grant farm at the eastern end of the bridge
bit had at any price. Barley a good crop here ; had just driven off with a four horse team, and
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Down the Hirer 15 miles from Sterling nt a . by the time he reached his barn, about 20 yds.
place called Lyndon or Sait's . Hest, I saw a ! distant be saw the whole structure raised up
corn shelter at work by 110IF0 power . It took ; and hurled into the river. Alr. James Smith
6 men to attend it, and shelled when worked i who was hauling in grain, tan the island,
regularly, 1000 bushels of corn daily. Corn is I was just preparing to drive over the bridge to
here and•in most places in this State, sold in i this place. Fortunately no person was on at
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the ear to the merchants who shell and send it ; e time.
The Northumberland Bridge Company have
off in sacks. It is an every day matter to see
square pelts laid up of rail 12 and 14 feet in I been singularly unfortunate : I'lle old bridges
were erected in 1815', at the cost of 890,000.
length, and up as high as 15 feet, then filled
with corn and over tire top a course of rs ,In the spring of 1839, the bridge on the North
which then beiirg covered with prairie g ra ss 1 umberland side fell, and was rebtiilt in about
piotects the grain through the wilder.' Wheat ' a year, at the expense of about 520,000.. Sev
is frequently threshed out, put 'into rail perm !end years after the Danville bridge was swept
the flood, and ir. its course, came in con
prepared for the purpose by having straw Ala- I off by
I tact with the new Northumberland bridge, and
end on the bottom•and sides, and the wheat in
the chaff shoveled into the pit in the centre; carried oil all but one span. .The bridgAr was
when all is in that they wish, it is covered over i again rebuilt the year after. About four years
the same as the corn pens, where the wheat i since the old bridge on the Sunbury side was
will keep in good order for as long as they destroyed by the freshet, and was rebuilt the
may want; and it is cleaned as they want it year following, and now lies in the stream
along Worn time to time by pulling out some of above the piers a perfect wreck. The bridge
the side rails, digging through the*side straw, just destroyed was badly constructed, the arch
till they reach the wheat, when as much as ea being so much sprung the first year of its
may be wanted is taken out and the breach in construction, that it required repairing. The
Ire pen repaired." I telegraph wires, passing through the bridge to
Innis place, being severed, Ivis of course cut oft
! our means of communication at present by lel
egraph.—SioNtryzAinerican, July 31. •
Australian Gold
Crowds .of emigrants, says the Sunday Mer
cury, are leaving the shores of England for
Australia. The returns of emigration from
Liverpool to the United States, in the month
of June, show a decrease of upwards of six
thousand. Every class is pushing oft to get
tho first washings of the newly discovered pla
cers. The gold fields of Australia already ri
val those of California. Gold is gathered, not
by the penny weight, as mines formerly yield
ed, but by the ton. A million dollars a week
huff :arrived in England in three successive
weeks. The London News says, "The unpar
alleled influx of gold is regarded with the ut
most earnestness, and those who aro disposed
to view with a . species of apathetic indiffer
ence its probable cited thoug,hout 'Europe, so
long as California alone was the great gold pro.
duper, are now seriously shaken in their views
.since the treasures of AuStralia are thrown
open. The appreciation of convertible invest
ments,of every description, notieed.formonths
.past, is now more sensibly shown than ever,
and holden) of stoats and shrtres are. generally
sanguine of a great-rise." .
Soaright in Trouble
Most individuals who have paid any atterr
lion to political. matters, have noticed some
very grave charges preferred against Mr. Sea
right, the Democratic candidate - for Canal Com
missioner, and in a connection therewith alet
ter purporting to be from Searight, which for
punctuation and orthography is an outrage up
on the English language, and indiCative of an
ignoramus in the. writer. The Bedford Gazette,
a Democratic paper, says if these things are
not disproved, it will be compelled to draw his
name down from its head. The same paper
suggests that the August Convention, for nom
' inating a candidate for Judge, examine the
matter, and if the letter purporting to be from
Searight is genuine; he be repudiated; and an
other man be nominated in his place. We are
I anxious to see how this strange affair will ter-
Nature indicates the season just arrived as
the one when frequent ablutions are conducive
to health, by • frequently removing from the
surface of the skin the accumulations that re
sult from its functions. We do not approve of
living in the water, because it is. agreeable• in
hot weather ; and it is quite certain that the
practice in extremely cold weather, of leaping
from a warm bed and suddenly extracting all
the caloric by cold water, has been ruinous to
multitudes of delicately organized ladies.—
They speak with-delight of the re-action of the
blood, and after glow; but,the demand upon
the vital apparatus to bring that about, vitiates
the complex machinery of life, after a while,
and a debility follows, which can only be over•
come by abandoning
.the luxury that produ-
ces it.
Evening is a better season , for bathing than
morning, for the water relaxes the system
and sleep brings it up again for the next" days
toil.
The right course, says the rhiladelphiaSen,
has been commenced to bring the guilty per,
petrittors of the Henry Clay murder to justice,
and we hope it will be persisted in. Warrants
have been issued at New York by the United
States Marshall against Thomas Collier, one of
the owners of the Henry Clay, and on board
of her at the time of the calamity, Capt. Tat
man, John Germaine, engineer, James L. Jes
sop, clerk, and Edward Hubbard, pilot, on a
charge of Manslaughter, in causing the death
of Stephen Allen, A. J. Downing Mrs. Maria
Bailey, Miss Maria Bailey, Mary Ann Robin
son, Elizabeth Ullman, Matilda Wadsworth,
J.. 1. Speed and many others. Mr. Collier gave
bail in the sum of $lO,OOO to answer the charge.
Mr. Iladlorth, another owner, (said to be
wealthy,) became his bail. Tho arrest was
made under the act of Congress of July, 1838, 1
which provides that if by the misconduct of
the captain, pilot,, or other persons employed
on board, in their respective duties, the life or
lives of any person or•persous grail be destroy- - '
ed, said captain or others shall be deemed
guilty of manslaughter, the trial to be before
any Circuit Court of the United States, and pun
ished by imprisonment at hard labor for a pe- I
riod of not more than 10 years. The arrest of
Mr. Collier was based on the idea that being
an owner of the vessel, and on board at the
time, he came under the denominations of per•
sons employed on board. Mr. Radford was
not on board at the time. The same amount
of bail was required for tho captain and other
officers against whom warrants have been is.
sued, as has been required in the case of Mr.
Bathing•
Arrest for Manslaughter
Import of Railroad Iron
Some idea of the number and extent of the rail
roads, now being built in the United States, may I
be derived from the fact that the importation of
railroad Iron in 1851 was double what it was in
1850. A table, carefully compiled, and publish
ed in Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, makes the
import of 1950 about seventy thousand tons, and
the import of 1851 Over one hundred and forty•
one thousand tons. A large portion of this iron
has been paid for in bonds of the companies on
whose account it was purchased. The remain"
! der remains unpaid, or has been liquidated by
exports, either of specie or of staples.
The result of this enormous importation has
been a decided rise in the price of railroad iron.
As most of the American railroads begun in 1850
are but half completed, and as others are being
commenced, it follows that the demand for rail
road iron must increase, rather than diminish,
notwithstanding the enchanced price. To par.'
chase for 1852 the same number of tons as was
bought in 1651, will require several millions
more. As the importation will probably exceed
this year, what it has ever been before, it re
quires but little calculation to fersee how vastly
our foreign debt will be enlarged. It is true this
debt will not have to be liquidated entirely for
many years to come, and that, before pay-day
comes, the roads will all be earning money.—
Still the inquiry comes back again and again,
when we ponder on these statistics, “have we
not been giving way too .largely to the railroad
fever 1" We would have our readers reflect on it.
Art of Swimming.—Men are drowned by rais.
ing their arms above the water, the unbuoyed
1 weight of which-depresses the head. Other an. '
j imals have neither motion nor ability to act in
la similar manner, and therefore,swim naturally:
Whan a man falls into deep water, he will rise
to the surface, and will continue there,lf he does
not elevate his hands. If he moves his hands
1 under the water, in any way he pleases, his:head
will rise so high as to allow him free liberty to
breathe; and if he will use his legs as in the act
1 of walking, (or rather walking up stairs,) his
1 shoulders will rise above water, so that he may
use less exertion with his bands, or apply them
Ito some other purpose. These plain directions
will be found highly advantageous in preserving
' life.
John K. Wilson, formerly Sheriff of Butler
county, Ohio, and always a Democrat, was one
of the Vice Presidents of a late Scott demonstra
tion at Hamilton county. lie declares hiS deter
mination to support the Scutt ticket, and says
there arc a large number of Democrats in old
Butler who will do the same.
• Drying Tomalucs.—The Ohio Cultivator said
early last summer : i•We ate some very fine to
matoes not long since, dried in the following
manner: Fruit fully ripe was scaled, strained
through a sieve, slowly cooked half an hour,
spread on clean plates, and dried in an oven, the
whole process requiringabotit two days before
the fruit was ready to pack away."
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A Good Jake—A western paper makes:use of the
following language : You tarnal sap•heads, you
green. tailed lizards, why don't you come along
and pay for your paper I Do you suspect that I
am such a consumed blockhead, such a short
sighted white-livered numskull, such an.intern
al fool, as to stay here to print, right in the midst
of a swampy country•where the air is so dense
with ague, that you have to cut your way through.
it with a broad axe—where it shakes the hair off
the back, and the teeth out of the very wild dog,
itself—unless you pay for it; If you do, you're
sucked, that's all." . •
Or About 100 dragoons from Carlisle, Pa.
barracks, on their way west, arrived at Vincin
nazi laskweek.-
. GLEANINGS•
113""0h Papa! Doctor Measles had rich hard
work to pull mother's bad tooth - out." •'llad he,
my son 1" "Yes, I see him try first with his
pincers, then he put his mouth right close to
mother's and-pulled it out with his teeth !"
Inrilon. Amos Tuck, member of Congress
from New Hampshire, who opposed Taylor in
1848, is out in favor of Scott.
lO P Five hundred barrels of flour arc daily
kneaded for buseuits in New York city.
fit' -The population of Maryville, California,
as given by the census taker of Yuba county, is
4500; 243 of whom are females. There are
four churches—one Presbyterian, two Methodist
and one Catholic. Seventy children attend the
Sunday schools.
ro . The police reports of London show a con
stant increase of drunkards ever since the year
1844, equalling in the aggregate fifty per cent.
rir The Wheat crop in. Germany is better
than it has been before in twenty years.
Eir The Chicago Journal says the barque
Canada cleared from that port for Buffalo on
Saturday, with acargo — of - 50 - ,000 - busheli - of - oats .-
Gen. Quitmatt.—lt is said to be untrue that
Gen. Quitman will support Scott. He refuses
to take any part in the canvass, because both
Conventions endorsed the compromise.
eej-John Van fluren and Judge Douglass, of
Illinois, made speeches from the same platform,
at Newburg.
gar Remarkable Longevity.—ln the parish of
Freeding Ilills, West Springfield, containing
about 600 inhabitants, there are nine persons
whose aggregate ars amount to 770 years, and
whose ages average 85 7 9 years.
L'The Whigs of Montgomery, Ala., formed
themselves into an association, under the name
of the “Chippewa Club."
rS-Gen. Whitney, who acted as Marshal at
Niagara Falls, fought side by side with General
Scott on the frontier. Ile rode on this occasion,
the horse rode by the lamented Colonel Hardin,
who fell in Mexico.
The report that Mr. Sands, the equestrian,
was killed by a fall from the ceiling of the Court
House at Walcott, N. Y., turns out to be a sheer
fabrication. Mr. Sands is reported to have been
alive and well at Oswego.
WThe,Whigs of Kennebec county, Me., to
the number of six thousand, held a grand mass
meeting at Gardner on Thursday week. The
meeting was addressed by lion, George Evans,
and Hon. Wm. Pitt Fessenden. A fine feeling
pervaded the meeting. •
IgrA Park, containing 250 acres, on the Me
tairie Ridge, is proposed at New Orleans. The
entire cost of the ground is estimated at only
$ll,OOO.
r.r Live 'Hogs are now brought to the New
York market over the Erie Railroad, in four days
from Cincinnati.
Cir Hon. Humphrey Marshall, of Kentucky, it
is said, has been confirmed as minister to China.
re Common sense and good substantial home,
spun garments are not used much in these days.
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.The Crops in !he West.— An.intelligent gentle•
man, who has lately taavelled out west, says :
"In regard to crops, I would give Michigan in
preference for wheat, Indiana fur corn, Illinois
for stock, and Wisconsin for oats and potatoes.
The last named is also not much behind for
wheat, rye and corn, and, as a State, she is much
freer from such bilious complaints as the ague
and fever, which are so common in the West.-
13etween Wolf and Wisconsin Rivers, in Wis
consin, there is a very rich, handsome rolling
country. The land around Wolf River is well
timbered with oak, pine, hickory, elm, bass, pop
lar, and some black ash and cedar. There is a
grand place for one or two steam saw.mills at
the junction of the Embaress and Wolf Rivers,
in Township 22 North and 14- East, with much
good pine iu the vicinity. Wolf River is navi•
gable for steamboats for over a hundred miles.
The land on the east side of Wolf River came
into market about three years ago, and is now
owned, or much of it, by speculators, who ask
from $2 50 to $lO per.acre, while on the other
side of the River the land is not in market, hut
the people are settling on it very fast under the
preemption law, and by this 'means they got
ahead of the land , sharks. This land was bought
of the Menominee Indians a short time since,
and will soon be its market." .
A New Threshing Machine. Mr. Palmer of
North Carolina, has invented a new threshing
machine, which is now on exhibition in New
York. The editor of the Express, who witness
ed a trial of it, says ;
It threshed out with perfect cleanness every
kernel, so far as we could see, of every grain put
into it, from he tiny timothy seed to the Long Is
land wheat, and we are perfectly convinced that
it is the best machine of the kind we have ever
seen. We are assured that with four men to
feed" the No. I, double machine, it can take one
hundred cart loads of wheat in the morning,lY ,
ing in the sheaf, pass it through the thresher,
separate every kernel froin the straw, winnow
clean, and put into bags 1,600 bushels before
sunset.
Low.—A lawsuit about a calf has just been
decided in Burlington, lowa. The lowa Gazette
says, that the case originated in West Point, Lee
county, and the costs now amount to five bun.
dred dollars, independent of counsel fees. The
value of the calf was three dollars.
Ice to California.—We notice the clearance at
Boston of another cargo of ice for San Frarais••
co, notwithstanding the competition of that mar.
liet by shipments from the. Russian settlements,
by which prices were. reduced from 20 cents
down to 6, and even 4 cents per pound.
Schuylkill County.—The democrats of Schuyl
kill noun!) , have renominated C. M. Straub, of
Orwigsburg, for Congress. They also nomina"
ted Bernhard Reilly for the State Senate, and
Samuel Hippie and John Horn, jr.; for. the As.
sembly.'
Death of Hon. Robert Rantout—The Hon. Rob
ert Rantoul, Jr., member of Cungfess from the
Second District of Maisachusetts, died in Wash.
ingtort city, on the tilth of August, after three days
'illness, of erisipilas. His . remains left that city
I in the 4 o'clock train, the same day for Boston:
Cure for Hydrophobia.
The New Orleans Picayune has receiv i ed
from a friend, a planter in the parish of St. Ber
nard, and a gentleman of the most implicit cred
ibility, a few grains of a plant something like the
okra plant, whiqh is raised by every family of
the Spanish fishermen and hunters who have so
long inhabited the district of country, some six^•
teen miles below New Orleans city, known as
Terre aux Boeufs. These people also raise, a
very large number of dogs—mongrel curs
—and cases of hydrophobia, both among dogs.
and men, are at a certain season of the year fre
quent. The inhabitants, however,' do not fear
the terrible malady, but cure it, as they contin:
ually and solemnly assert, with these seeds.
Not to rely altogether on their statements. a,
friend of the gentleman above spoken of, also a,
resident of the parish of St. Bernard, had fiy . c•
hunting dogs bitten last year by a • mad dog.—
Three of them were valuable, and he treated;
them with decoctions of the seeds. The other.
two were locked up in- a small enclosure. In,
less than nine days they died in all the awful.•
_con_v_ulsions of hydrophobia; . while the other
three, though clearly evincing some of the pri..
mary symptoms of the malady, such as red spots.
or ulcers under the tongue, recovered complete
ly, and their master frequently takes them out
with him on his hunting excursions. The seed;
was originally brought from Catnpeachy by an
old Spanish sailor, named Antonio, some thirty^
ty-five years ago. He heard of its properties
and took some home to Terre aux Boeufs, with
directions to plant and use it. It must be plant^
ted in March, but before planting they must be
soaked in warm water for twelve hours. The
remedy is to be prepared thus ' , Take nine of
the seeds, crush them, put them into a small wino
glass full of Xeres wine (Sherry,) let them in"
fuse a few hours, then stir the dose well, and
swallow it. This must be repeated for nine
days.'
Election Returns
hiva.—The election in this State has rdsulted
in the re-election of Bernhardt Henn, in the first
district, and Lincoln L. Knauss in the second.—
Both democrats.
Desmoines county has elected the entire Whig
ticket for the Legislature, being four Represen.
tatives and two Senators; all Whig gain.
Arkansas. --In Philips county, one Whig and
one Democrat are elected to the Legislature, as
are one Whig and one Democrat in St. Francis
county. Conway, (Dem) is ahead as far as
heard from fur Governor. Legislature doubtful.
Alabama.—Sufficient returns have beeri receiv
ed to show that the people of Alabama vote large
ly against holding a Convention to revise the
Constitution.
Mesmerism and Spiritual Rappings.—We have
received a pamphlet, without the name of the
author being attached to it, which pretends to
expose the Spiritual Rappings scripturally.—
The author attributes the phenomenon to evil
spirits ; he appears to be just as sincere as the
Rev. Mr. Harvey. An astrologer was arrested
in our city last week, and his spirit of divination,
will no doubt cease. If some of those spiritual
rappers who, for filthy lucre•sake, lead silly
minded persons astray, were encased within the.
walls of a penitentiary, to rap away at the break
ing of stones for six months, all their spiritual
ism would soon disappear.
.Applging far Bank Charters.—The Whig pa
pers of this city are publishing advertisements,
giving notice of intended application for new
banks in Reading, one under the title of "The
Mechanics' Bank of Reading," with a capital of
$300,000, with a priviledge of increase to $600,-
000. The other is to be called the “Reading Sav
ings Institution," with a capital of not less than
$50,000, for discount and deposit. There are a
number of first rate discount and deposit banks
in Reading called "saving societies," or "build. -
ing associations," which takeS all the loose•
change that this community is able to gather and
scrape together, and two regular banks that make
fair profits, discounting freely, and giving gen
eral satisfaction.
Remedy fur Me Bile of a Snake.—Mr. Abraham ;
Kemp, who was bitten on the hand last week by
a copper snake, immediately rubbed his
hand several times on his pantaloons, which
caused the blood to flow freely. Within the
space of four minutes he chafed the wound with
brandy, and applied to it sliced white onion and,
salt ; he then applied spirits of hartshorn, which
he repeated five times, and, although a vary tern.
perate than, he was advised to drink copiously
of brandy—perhaps two or three gills in all.—
Two or three times next day he complained of a
slight pain in one of his fingers; and in the af
ternoon, the inflarnation having subsided, he
succeeded in extracting the fang. Since then
he has felt no inconvenience from the bite what.
soever
Cot Benton.—A correspondent at St. Louis in
forms the National Era, that there is a fair pros
pect of Col. Benton being returned to the next
Congress. He is a man who cannot fail to make
his influence felt in Congress.
Going to Europe in 'a Balloon,—Mr. Pelin bo .
written a letter to the Hartford (Conn. ) , : 0
about the construction of a large
cross the Atlantic.
H. Petin. We
his object,
What a Stomach.—An English paper says, that
a lunatic recently died in one of their hospitals,
a post mortem examination had on the body, a
variety of solids were found in the stomach as
follows : 'A mass of handlei of ironspoons, and
other articles, of the weight of two pounds and a
half, consisting of three entire spoon handles,.
about five inches long, four half handles, nine
nails, some of which were as large as a spike
nail, the half of an iron heel of a shoe, a screw
two and'a half inches,long t four pebbles the size
of a hazelnut, a metal button, and a quantity of
pebbles, which the patient had been in the habit
of swallowing for twu or three years previously,
and which, it was apparent, had been the cause
of hir death. Why not add, two or Aegis ma rl
-anvils, "a grindstone; a wheelbarrow.and a nun'
ber of plates and dishes, ' the story would - lose
nothing by stretchipg. - • •
lavorite idea of
ne will live to accomplish,