Z;f)e ticl4,l) ck3ioter. Allentown, Pa. IVEDINESDAY, IffEE6IB - Eli 8. 1852. Insure Your Property ' The season is now at hand when the dan ger from accidental conflagration is more im minent than at other times, and when, despite the mpst rigid precautions against its , favages, millions of property are destroyed, we would take occasion to say a few words to our read• era on the importance and duty of insurance. We need not urge this upon our wealthy men or our merchanis, for they rarely neglect it, anti, if thd'y did, fires leaye them other resources.— But we address ourselves to our laboring fel 'low citizens—mechanics and others—who er, little elFe than a home and ils con • Uinta; krr the world. "I twee ahoulrl never neg• itect foto inauro ; a fire which may visit them at pny:hobr, would leave them homeless, and With no capital but their labor, to begin again the struggle of life, and years of toil and watch ing must pass beloro they can regain what they have lost, if, indeed, it is orb' . done. To such, insurance is a duty—a moral duty. ,II the individual is worth little, the expense is less; it he owns much property, still the ex• pense is trifling, and, by investing's. tew dal lars, he is safe. If he is overtaken by !Bimini . . ~tt. k ne, and his all laid in ashes, he receives a I:tiboiiiponse-Iwsh capital equal to his loss, and may seldri.:rtistom:Khat has been destroy ed. Wo advice ofirliboring men and me- chanics not to neglect the ddliiiiinsuring their property. There is no good excuSe'fOilßch neglect, in the present plentifulness in money matters with all classes, and the wise precau tion of eflei:ting such an insurance in the Frank- lin Fire Insurance Company of l'hiladclphia, one of the_ betki_and safest companion in the State, of WiliCh we are the appointed Agent, for Lehigh county may be the means of incalculable benefit to scores in our town and county dur ing the present winter. "Be wine in titno." The Cattavirissa Railroad. The early completion of the Catawissa Rail road, hap, within the past few weeks, become _a fixed fact. The Company has passed into the hands of New York capitaliste, 'whose am• pie means will enable them to plash forward this great connecting link in the chain of Rail' roads, with energy, to a final completion. We understand that an arrangement was completed on Thursday last, by which all the interests of the Williamsport aid Elmira Rail, road Company, passed into the hands of the parties interested in the Catawissa Road.— The prospect, therefore, of Babiniore being benefited by a connection of this road with the Susquehanna road must be abandoned. The New York capitalists who have hold of the Lit• le Schuylkill and Susquehanna Road, have brought about this event, to prevent the Elmi• ra Railroad from falling into the hands of the Baltimore and Susquehanna Company. It is a rivalry between New York and Baltimore for the Lake trade, and for the business connection of Northern Pennsylvania. Meanwhile Phila delphia has commenced work in earnest on the Sunbury and Erie Railroad. The Mine. Hill and Schuylkill. Haven Railroad will be ex tended to Ashland, and from thence to Sunbu ry. Thus it will be seen that, by the time the Baltimoreans reach Sunbury from Harrisburg, the Philadelphians will be there to meet them, and by the time that both these interests com- bined reach Williamsport, they will find the New Yorkers there by the Catawissa and Le- high and New York Locomotives. . • The work on the Catawissa road heS bean let to a Company of Connectors,. whir' are to have the connection between Catawissa and Tamaqua, with a branch - to . Mauch Chunk, completed by the first of January, 1854. We think that Philadelphia will yet be compelled to• adopt the Allentown route, for the heavy pieties between Ashland and Sunbury will do very much to proveur that project from becoming, available. But from every present indication, we may safely say that the, Catawissa Railroad will be made now, whether Philadelphia will assist or not. II:Er We learn too that arrangements have heel. made to put under contract the whole line of the Delaware, Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad from Easton to Mauch Chunk and Ta maqua. This road will intersect the Beaver Meadow road at Mauch Chur.k. The Beaver Meadow road intersects the Catawissa at the mouth of the Quacake. The Catawissa inter aeon the great Sunbury and Erie road at Wil. liamsport. The whole forming a continuous road front Erie to New York. It is expected that by the first of January 1854,• the whole route from Williamsport to New York will be finished. An Important Decision. Our Court, sayti the Easton Sentinel, have recently made an important derision in which ono working men are interested.. It in, that the wages of labor cannot be attached in Exc. oution, on process issued out of court, any more than before than before a 'hitlce of the Peace. There has been different decisions made by different courts on this subject, and we believe the qtiestion has never been pp before the Su preme Court. We think, however, that Judge McCartney'e decision in this conformity to the spirit of (ho Act of Assembly and the genius of OUT institutions. Anniversary Festival The third annual festival of the Shakspeare Literary Association, will bo hold on Saturday evening next, the 11th of December, at 7 . (Meek, in the Odd Fellows' Hall. The Rev. 'DJ 81. Schmucker will deliver the annual ora lion. Exercieea on the part of the members may likewise be expected.. The Allentown Brass Band will be in attendance. The friend. of education are cordially invited to attend.— At the close a collection will be taken up for the bonen! of the Association. By Order of the Committee.., Court Proceedings Court met on Monday morning. Present all the Judges. The criminal business disposed of was as follows : Commonwealth vs Jacob Antrim.—Fnrnicallon and bastardy on oath of Ehrmitta Fried. De fendant plead guilty, and sentenced to pay $2O fine, and pity 60 cents per week until the child arrives at the age of 7 years. Commonwealth vs bamel GreenaWdl.—Forni. cation and 'bastaray on oaih of tuc'y 'Ann lientz• elman. Verdict of the jury guilty, and was sen• tensed to pay $25 fine, and 60 cents per week until the child arrives at the age of 7 years. Commonwealth vs Jacob Mokr.—Assault and battery on oath of CharleS Gangewer. Defen dant plead guilty, and was sentenced to pay a fine of fd and costs. Contatonweatlit-ve-Dominicuo - lieffly.--Larceny On oath of Reuben Moyer. It seems that I)omi• nicus thought proper to enter the Bar Room of Mr. Moyer, and appropriate to himself some of the change out of the drawer. The jury not be. lieving that Mr. Moyer's property belonged to Dutninicus, fotind him guilty, and the Uouresen tenced him to pay a fine of $l, and undergo an imprisonment in the county jail for 6 months. This was all the criminal business finished by the Court, which is of any interest to our readers. The first case called upon the civil list was ; Fry rs Solomon Gangetver. Platnttff clamied upon book account and for the value of land sold by him. The Court charged the jury directly in favor of defendant, but the jury think ing the Major had equity and justice on his side, returned a verdict in his favor for $165 DI; whereupon the Court set aside the verdict and ordered a new trial. Tilghman Weber vs Daniel Sleekel.—Plaintiff olaimed damages for injury done to his grain fields:byr:_defendants cattle one stormy night.— Evidence was produced to show that plaintiff's fence was not safficient to keep out cattle, but the court charged the jury, tliat plaintiff was entitled to nominnl damages;tven though the fence was good for nothing. Verdict in favor of plaintiff Catharine Weaver by her next friend Jahn no.y. man vs Jesse Weaver.—PlainlitrOaimed a divorce from bed and board with alitribny, adeging ill usage on the part of her husband. A great deal of testimony was produced on both sides, and the jury having gone out the evening previous re turned in the morning, with a verdict signed in favor of plaintiff, but upon being polled,Cewmt found that they could not agree. Some being for plaintiff and some for defendant. The Court thereupon discharged them—no verdict was ta ken. Daniel Edelman vs Charles Mertz. Plaintiff claimed upon a note. Defendant endeavored to ofliet various accounts and transactions between the parties. Verdict in favor of plaintiff for $268 69. Jonas Diehl vs Henry Patzinger.-- Plaintiff claimed $3O and interest for the breaking a coti's leg by defendant. It seems that plaintiffs cow got into defendants field, hr got her by the tail and set the dogs on her, and in driving her out she jumped off of a small bridge and broke her leg and was otherwise injured so much that it was necessary to kill her. The court charged the jury that if defendant had used any.unnecessary . degree of force in driving the cow out he would be liable. Verdict for plaintiffsls. A great many cases were settled by the per• tfes• Quite a number of judgments voluntarily given. The court was very busy until Saturday at noon when it ad journed. An adjourned court will be held on ll'hursday nest, for the argument of matters whereon large amounts of money rest. Change in the Standard of Silver. Times was when nearly ail the gold of this country was hoarded, and it was like drawing e}•c teeth to bring a litindreci dollars of it out of a bank vault nr a miser's coffer. The un told riches of California and Australia, in the golden ore, has worked a wonderous change, and now if you go to a bank it is as difficult to obtain silver as it was to get gold fifteen years ago. The reason of this is that the abundance of gold has cheapened gold coins and made silver the scarcer precious metal, so much more valuable than it is now Felling at some two to three per cent. above gold. This caused it to he shipped abroad largely anti hoarded at home and it should be the first duty of Congress, on its re-assembling, to take up this subject and so arrange the standard of the precious metals as to cauSe silver to circulate as freely as it lor merly did. Unless this is done, and done speedily,'great inconvenience will result to the business community for the want of small change. ft Was but a few years ago since the standard of our gold was so altered as to cheap an it about six per cent. to prevent its oxporta• lion, but now the Wander(' again needs altering to suit the demands of trade and commerce. Missing. 111 r. James Connor, an old citizen of this vi cinity, has been missing since Sunday night last, and fears are entertained that he has been drowned. fie was n boatman, and was last seen with his boat at Easton•.. Tho sudden rise in the water of last week, leads to the im• pression that he might accidentally have step ped overboard. Any information concerning him will be thankfully received by Mr. David Connor, Easton, Mr. C. Connor, Mauch Chunk, or by his afflicted family, re.•iding at Penn Ha. von, Carbon county, Pa.—Carbon Election Fun. We can enjoy a good political joke oven when it is told at our own expense. The best we.have heard of this season was perpetuated by the Whigs of Gettysburg. Learning that the Democrats intended to celebrate their vic tory, the Whigs got up in advance a wooer ..ion to Salt River. They had their roosters, their ice, meat, flour, onions, net, knapsacks, in short, everything in thereating end clothing lute that could be thought of, and some of them had their wives and little ones. The ‘vhille affair was well got up, and produced a good deal of merriment acrd good feeling on all elders. Farmers ! Take a Newspaper We clip the following sensible advioe from the last number of the Dollar Newspaper: "If nor-subscribing farmers could ever be convinced of the importance and rrofit of tak ing a newspaper, we think the present very sudden rise in the prices el rrovisions, grain, and in fact every article of agricultural produc tion, would convince them. Corn has gone up In about '9O cents.perbushela few weeks ago it was sold in any quantity at 60. Wheat has so suddenly jumped from $1 :o S 1 15 per bush el. Flour from $4 50 to 65 25 per barrel. And so of oats, rye, barley, beef, pork, ect. Spec. ulators in these several articles are all the time traversing the country ; and how is the non reading farmer to be protected against them, except by subscription to a well conducted newspaper? We have no doubt thousands of farmers, within the last fortnight have realized on the sale of a single crop of a htindred fold the cost of a newspaper, simply by being ad vised of this rise in the matket ; and many who wore so penny-wise anrb pound foolish, have lost enough by their - unadvised sales as would furnish them and their children the newspa per for a half century. Newspaper readers should remember that the general information and gratification derived front a newspaper in a family, are not all its worth. It frequently returns, in the direct manner instanced, greatly more than it cost.' Tho information the "Register" gives each week of special interest to every farmer and landowner in the country, is worth far more than the price of the paper, and if carefully ex amined will be the means of preventing large sums of money from being dishonestly made by shrewd end deceiving speculators who are constant!) roaming over the country, watching for prey. Now is the time to subscribe. Ev ery thrifty farmer should consider it part of his necessary investments to take a newspaper; and whoever does take one, will of course sub scribe for that which furnishes him the most and best information, and that paper is the Lehigh Register." • Business Notices. Splendid 'Town Property for Sale.--Mr. Israel Yingling offers his beautiful House and Lot for Nate. .The property is situated only a ahort lance from Hamilton Street, near Hagenbuch'a Hotel, in a verx . pleasant part of the Borough.t— It is quite neikc:arid - in its construction pains were taken to make it what it really is, the must convenient private residence in Allentown The lot is planted with choice fruit trees, ca .- the yard is paved all round the house. House and Lot at Public Sale. 7 -On Friday the 21th of December next, lion. Jacob Dillinger, Executor of widow Knauss will oiler at putilic sale, a splendid lot 40 feet front by 230 .:et deep, with convenient brick house, 16 by p 2, frame wish and woodhouse, situate in mirth Allen Street. It is a kind of property but del. dom tittered and is worthy the attention dup. italists. Farm Journal This excellent Agr,cultural Journal has Wen purchased by Messrs. Bowen & Meredith, of West Chester, by whom it Will hereafter be pub lished. A. M. Spangler, Esq., will continue in his post as editor, and devote his whole attention to the work. The November number, just re ceived, is a little behind time in consequence of this arrangement, but hereafter the Nos. will up. pear promptly on the first of the month. 'she Farm Journal has now attained a large circula tion, and no efforts will be spared to render it worthy of the favor with which it is regarded,— The number before us contains a report of the State Fair tit Lancaster, and a number of valua ble articles, original and select, including .cveral illustrations. Term' it in advance. Important Developements The National lntelligencer publishes docu ments, which have just come to light, from which itappeara that a strenuous effort was made by Mr. Polk's administration to purchase the Island of Cuba from Spain, and in which Mr. Buchanan figures conspicuously. Mr. Buell. anan, while Secretary of State, instructed our Minister at Madrid, to open negotiations with the Spanish Government for the a:under of that Island to the U hed Sates, and to tender the sum of Stud,ouo,ouo in payment thereof. The Spanish Government not only declined to lis ten to tho proposition, but deckled that it would sootier see Cuba sunk in the bottom of the Ocean, than consent to its transfer to any other Power. • This was. but another move of Mr. Buchanan's to extend slavery—another bid for the Presidency. Why don't the Demo cratic parry —"Puy the sorrows'of a poor old man," and make him President. Alas! but we fear the Sage of Wheatland will never accomplish that dearest object of his heart. His political lile is nearly at an end. Free Trade—Cuba— the extension of the Missouri Compromise to the Pacific—all, all, is unavailable. Jimmy, the fates haie decreed against thee; why should'st thou murmur? We are decidedly opposed to the acquisition of more territory and the extension of our do. main, because history teaches us that it is a sure precurse of the dont,latl of nations. But it it is "in the course of human events" that we muff have Cuba, then we would Say,— "throw in the. Sandwich Islands and Canada, and its a bargain." • A Good F 4 alure.—The exportation of precious metals, for some nme . past, has been much leis, than the receipts into the country. Money will consequently become more plenty—the rate of interest will come down—and industrial pursuits be thereby encouraged, The glorious prospect before us, can only be adversely effected, by over importations, and too much borrowing of money from abroad; and too much credit busi• ness at home. Every million of interest paid ahead, is a drain upon the industry of the country. CPA man O years eine, was in the eincin , nazi %%Willows, ford rankenness. Georgia Politiob. Howell Cobb, the present Governor of Geor gia, seems to occupy a rather singular position in relation to the Pierce party. In his .tffkitt to he consistent and to remain true to those con. servative principles upon which he wis'elect ed Governor, and yet maintain his character and position as a gond and true ticcihico, he seems 10 haie math:louvred himself out of the line of Georgia Locofocoism. Though recog nized out of his own State as a Union Demo crat, and even rpoken of by many as a suitable person to fill a Cabinet office under the Pierce Administration, he is disowned by the State Rights Locofocos of Georgia, who constitute a decided majority of the Locofoco patty of that State. They not only disown him as a mem ber of the regular Loc party, but insist upon having a reprereriffliton from their wing of the party in the Cabinet of Gen. F. Pierce. The Columbus Times, a leading Secession organ, declares that Gov. Cobb's appointment would alienate and disgust nine.tenths of the supporters of Pierce and King in that State.— This indicates to have all or nothing on the part of the States . Rights Men, and the war be tween the two factions may be expected to be renewed with all the bitterness which charac terized it last year. It will resemble the Kil kenny cat fight, and we are much mistaken it it will not end in the same way. New Inventions Lewis Cooper, of Lancaster county, has re cently secured a patent for a machine for spreading lime, which it is said fully answers the purpose. It wicxhibited at the State Fair, obtained a premium, and also at the Maryland State Agricultural Exhibition, at which it was favorably noticed. It will spread from thirty five to one hundred bushels per 'acre, accord• Mg, to regulation, and with it one man and - one team cart do the work of four men and two teams, and that too, it is said, with singular accuracy. • American Iron It is a matter of national importance to all en• gaged in the iron trade, both in the manufacture and use of the article, to know the comparative value of the English and American manufac tures. The following from the American R. R. Jour" nal—good authority on the subject, gives the de cided preference to the American article: The testimony of the celebrated metallurgist, Dr Musheat of Scotland, is decisive. He says that Schotch bars do not contain more than nine ty per cent of pure metal; whereas American iron contains 99 percent. But we have evidence on this score stronger than an opinion founded on chemical analysis. Late experiments at the Washington Navy Yard demonstrated, that Eng• fish chain cable of a certain thickness of diame ter, was ruptured by a breaking stain of 716 lbs less than was required to rupture American chain cable of the same diameter. During the experiments at the Washington Navy Yard, the strength of a chain of French manufacture was also tried. It yielded at a strain 1081 pounds, while an American chain of the same thickness only yielded at a strain of 1277 pounds. Similar results followed after over two hundred tests. With regard to Scotch and domestic iron, it is shown that the tendency of the latter was more than double that of the for CCM Tumble!' into their own Trap. The Democrats of our own State, says the Wilmington (Del.) Blue Hens Chicken, dug a trap the last election, wh.“:with to catch their neighbors, the Whigs, but which they have un toriunatoy tell into themselves. l'hey districted me State, against right, if not against the consti. tution, so as to elect the Convention delegates by hundreds instead of by counties. There being so great a difference in the population of the hundreds, that one man in some hundreds, as we showed in our table last week, possessed the pulttical power 01 eight men in other hundreds, and in no instance could a man in Wilmington have more than a third of the power in that Con. •ention, of a man in any other section of the State. The Democrats, when this bill was en acted had a majority of the hundreds of the State though a minority of the votes of the State. Con sequently by districting the State, and making the Convention delegates elective by hundreds, they hoped to get a majority in the Slate Con vention. We will in charity suppose, that they dune this through want of confidence in the W hugs, whom they supposed would not make a constitution Democratic enough, that would not contain the great reforms of the age. However, this very messure, which was to give them pow er in that body, has tended to their defeat—for while the Democrats had a majority In the State. —the Whigs had a majority in the hundreds,*and as a consequence, they have a majoriiy of dele gates in the Convention, and will have it all their own way. Had it not been for this move of theirs, intended to defeat their neighbors— they would have been largely in the majority in the Convennon. ''The Democrats stale that their intentions were good—in (act, evil wits committed that good might come out of it. But this principle that the ••ends will justily the mean" is a dangerous one —and should never be resorted to. Schiedhuni Schnupps.—This must be a won derful medicine, if all that is said about is true. Jayne, Swaim, Brandreth, and all the rest, will be compelled to stand aside. Hear what the ed• itur of the Boston Post says of it: Bah ! Penna. Cana[.—The water will be drawn off from the Delaware Division of the Penna. Canal on the 10th instant, in order to give an opportui oily to make the contemplated improvements, which are found to be inthspensible to accom modate the increased business. Alarming for Office Seakerr.—General Pierce, in his speech, in the Senate, on the subject of re^ movals from office, made this declaration : "There was nothing in the administration of General Jackson which I so uniformly failed to justify as the removal of one worthy officer to give place to miller." GLEANINGS Cr The Savannah (Tenn.) Journal runs up the names of Millard Fillmore .and James C. J.ones, for President and Vice President in 1856. UrThe Concord (N. li.) Statesman says that the lon. Ira Perley, of that town, has been oho , - sen'tia deliver an address before the Senate and House•ot Representatives of New Hampshire, upon the decease, character and services of Daniel Webster. Vir W. F. Desaussure, of South Carolina, has been elected U. S. Senator, until the 4th of March MEI FY - Hon. W. K. Sebastian, was re elected by he A rkansas Legislature to the U. S. Senate, for slx years 11'"Gov. Hunt of New York, has purchased a residence near Lockport. 07-*-Mexico supports-but one apothecary shop - . The population is sixty thousand. It is a novel sight to see any person sick. VrThe Cincinnati Banks have commenced, throwing out every description of Eastern paper except at a discount. Ml'Hon. Rufus Choate is announced to deliv er the 48th anniversary discourse before the New York Historical Society, in Metropolitan Hall. arGeorgia is the largest Cotton growing Stale in the South, and her products are the fin• est staple. The twelve bales lately sold in Sa• vannah, at twelve cents, were those that took the premium at the State Fair. c -- The Niles Republica is, the leading Demo^ cratic paper in Southwestern Michigan, is offer• ed for sale. Lawyers. Lawyers are the only men who believe that the older Che world, the less it knows about right and wrong. Judges of to.day refer to Judges of the last century, who •bow with reverence to those of the century before. Almost all our le• gal decisions are based upon the opinion of a lot of noddies, who, believed Ow the earth was a living monster, while the movements of the tide was caused by the monster's breathing. In the Houk of Appeals, Lord Chief Justice Rusty• saw, who lived when the devil was supposed to be afraid of a horse shoe, actually exerts more influence then either justice or common sense. Had physicians been as fearful of new ideas as lawyers are, asses' milk would still be consider ed the only antidote for insanity. Anthracite Coat—When the anthracite coal was first discovered in Pennsylvania, it was sup posed to have little or no value. Some of the blacksmiths tried it in their forges, about the be ginning of this century, and with some advan tage. In 1808, Judge Fell of Willtesharre, first used it for warming a house, in a grate of his own construction. About 1812, Mr. George Shoemaker, of Wilkesbarre, got out a quantity of coal and took nine wagon loads to Philadel. phia. The greater part of it he was compelled to give away in order to induce people to make a trial of it. The result was unsuccessful,--: Those who tried the coal pronounced it worth less, and Shoemaker an imposter. What a change in forty years. Now, the mining and transpor. tation of that coal is one of the leading branches of industry in our country. The stocks of Coal Companies are high. Anthracite coal is coming to be the fuel of the nation. Interesting to Old Pommy.— We find in an ..old paper," the following method recommended to aged people, as a means of enabling them to preserve their eyesight, or to recover it after it has failed: "Every morning, whin washineyourself, dip your face into the water, ripen your eyes and keep them under the water as long as you can hold your breath. This strengthens the eye and feanses it from the rheum which deadens the sight and considerably affects the ball. A gen tleman in Maryland, by the name of James Cal der, alter using spectacles for 26 years, followed this plan, and at the age of 70 recovered his sight so as to , see without them. Dipping the crown of the head into cold water, every morning, both winter and summer, is a preservation against the head and ear ache, and will materially assist the other operation, in its effect under the eye." Australian Gold al the Mint.—A few days ago a deposite was made at the United States Mint of gold from Australia, the first, we believe, that has been received there. The depositor was a young man of this country, who had been in Cal- ifornia for two years, but was unlucky and made nothing. Tempted by the reports from Austra lia, he sailed for that country , and went to the diggins. In two months he succeeded, by great good incite in getting about five thousand dollars worth of dust. With this "bird in the hand" he concluded to come home, and deposited a portion of his earnings, as we have stated. The gold is superior in richness to that from California, be. tug worth about two dollars more to the ounce: Luxurious.—The New . York Express, among its items of Local Intelligence, mentions the ex hibition, in that city, of two complete services of the most sumpsuous plate ever manufactured in this country. T hey consist of an entire gold dinner service, for thirty persons, including tu. reens, vegetable dishes, castors, forks, spoons, butter and fish knives, eggs cups, wine coolers, &c., together with a splendid suit of silver plated ware. They are intended fur the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, and cost something under $26,000. The designs are all of antique style, chaste, exquisitely wrought, and finished in the highest style of art. The silver service is of sim• tar patterns. Oh, fir. another Ogle. Laleat Dodge. One evening recently, amid a crowd of people hurrying into one' of the New York theatres was a young exquisite, who, with considerable pomposity, presented his supposed to be ticket at the door and passed In; but before the young gentleman got beyond reach said ticket was discovered to be a busin, ss card, got up something in the style of a regular thea tre ticket—so the nice young. man" was of course nabbed. On leading him out, he remark. ed,nonchalantly, "Oui, gab; tha must be some mistawk abbo't this ere; positively.' Bab, I was only distrawbiting' my cawds; you took one, you know, and politely let me in the theataw, out..of complement, was. I suppos'il—dernme. President Fillmore and Geo.. Law. The National Intelligencer contains a letter from President Fillmore, to li. Maxwell, Esq., Collector of :he port of New York, in answer to inquries from Collector Maxwell, whether or not Geo. Law has the right to persist in sending the Cresent..City to llavana. President Fillmore's reply is 83 follows: do not admit the right of Mr. Law or any other citizen to threaten war on his own account, for the purpose of seeking redress, for real or imaginary injuries, and then call upon the Go vernment to say whether it approves or disap proves of such conduct, and assume its appro billion unless the act is forbidden. ""The Constitution or the United States has vested in Congress alone the 'rower of declaring war; and neither the Executive uranch of-Go vernment nor Mr. Law has any right t o usurp that power, by commencing a war without it s authority; and if he (Law) should attempt it, it will be my duty, as it is my determination, to ex, ert all the power confided to the Executive Go. vernment by the Constitution and the laws, to prevent it. .1 am resolved, at every hazard, to maintain our rights in this controversy as against Spain ; and I am equally resolved that no act of our own citizens shall be permitted to place this Govern. ment in the wrong. "Mr. Law has an undoubted right to pursue his lawful business ; but when a question is raised between this Government and a foreigq, nation, as to whether the business which he pity : sues is 'Awful, or pursued is a lawful manner; the decision of that question belongs to the met Governments and not to hire. the object, ue to assert his right to enter the port of Havana, with such persons as he may ebtiose to select, in de fiance of the laws a.nd the Government of Spain., he has certainly done enough to present that. question for the decision of the two Govern ments, Spain and the United States; and the ne gotiation has already commenced, and our rights as we understand them, have been asserted, and as I said before, will be maintained. But the acts of this Government cannot be controlled by the interference of any individual, and it is en tirely unnecessary that Mr. Law should repeat. these attempts for the purpose of settling this controversy; and if he wilfully does so, and is so doing, violates the laws of a foreign nation, within its own jurisdiction, and thereby loses or forfeits his vessel, he can expect no indemnity for such an act of folly front this Government. We regulate the terms and conditions upon which all foreign vessels enter our ports, fix the penalties for a violation of our laws, and the right to do so we shall never stiffer to to pies tinned by foreigners, and we do not .question their's to do the same thing. 'He must wait the result of negotiations be tiyen the two Governments. This is a question not settled between him and Cuba; nor even be tween the United States and Cuba ; but between the United States and Spain, which alone is re. eponsible for the conduct of the Governor of Cuba. I write in snme haste as the mail is closing. hut you are at liberty to make known the con tents of this letter to Mr. Law; and inform him that as a good citizen, I presume he will not at. tempt any violation of our neutrality laws, by attacking Cuba. MILLARD FILLMORE Encounter.) with 'Tigers.—The following ac• count of two extraordinary instance of presence of mind are related in the Singapore Journal of Commerce as having lately occurred in the Des ' sa Tritek residency, Rembang division of Codjo negoro. A Javeneses Singodirone was awake in the night of the Bth of July, at about 3 o'clock by a disquieting noise in his buffalo stable.-- Thinking that evil doers were about stealing and taking off his beloved buffitloes, he, armed with his lance, hastened to their relief. By the light of the moon, however, he saw with (right a large tiger in the stable, end ready In spring upon him. But keeping his presence of mind, he pointed his lance and awaited the attack of the tiger, which he received on its point, and with such good success that the tiger, badly wounded, fled, but dropped dead after running about one hundred yards.' In the afternoon of the 11th of July, fol, lowing, the Javenese's '(Kremo) son was out cutting bamboos when he suddenly saw a large tiger making towards him. Armed only with a cutting knife (parang) he stood and awaited the , tiger's spring, which he avoided cleverly by' jumping aside, and at the same time inflicting a. severe .wound on the animal's head, which made him reel, and then seizing him by the tail, re. peated his blows until he succeeded in finally despatching him. Singular Discovery of Stolen Properly.—Rome two years since the jewelry store of A. D. Brack. ett, of Brattleboro, Vt.,. was broken open, and robbed of a large amount of watches and miscel laneous jewelry. At the time the value was es. tironted at about $3.000. From that day no trace of the stolen property has been discovered. Sus picion, however, fastened' upon an individual, who has all the time, been closely watched, and, as it has proved, so closely, that he would not move or dispose of his ill gotten treasure. A short time since, he moved out of his house, and another family moved in. The lady of the new family noticed that the paper was loose, and on on putting it back to its place, she disturbed the wall behind in such a manner-that it gave way and a number of gold watches burst upon the befor her astonished visslon. And here the whole of the stolen jewelry was found, amounting to $lOOO more than the originally es^ mated loss. This is the story as it is told to us—in the main, we presume true. The name of the guilty party we have not learned It is certainly a remaikablevase, and Mr. Brackett is to be congratulated on its gratifying denouement. —Spring field Rep. 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