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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