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Allentown, Pa.
- ANUARY 12. 1553.
• 110'"Mr. Laury, our attentive member of the
Legislature, has favored us with a copy of the
Auditor General's Report, for which he has our
sincere thanks.
.A.tteltot to Commit Suioid . e. •
On Weerasday last, a young man, German
by birth, about 20 years of age, whose name
WO did not learn,' entered himself as a passen•
• :•ger in one of the Sage lines at Bethlehem for
Philadelphia; on the arrival of the Stage at
• • Kern's Hotel, in Quakertown, he went out •in
••thestable, and with a pocket knife deliberate
ly stabbed himself in three different places, in
the fore part of the thorax and abdomen. lie
was found laying in the stable by a person who
followed him out shortly afterwards: He was
- Ttakerrup and carried into Mr. Kern's Helot, and
Placed in bedj , medical aid was sent for, clur
ing•whichiime be got up from his bed, and
•• threw limpell lead foremost out of a second
-story window, but having failed in his second
attempt abself distruction, he was taken up
with an additional wciund at the head, which
made him insensible for a time, but soon re
covering his senses again. He was asked wheth
er he was "tired of - living in this world," he
answered -in Oct negative. Those present left
the rpom to gee Whither he would make an
rittemprednasooner had they left the
room, beforelrigttio again, and made for
the window, in biti - lakFlioqircyvas of course
not successful. lie is stilibivinghpt s is said to
be very low, and not expected to
What induced the young man to. commit tliej
rash act, is not known
Railroad. Ele alba
The Stockholders of the Delaware, Lehigh.
Schuylkill and Susquehanna Railroad Company,
at an election held on Monday last, at the of
fice of lion. J. M. Porter, in Easton, the follow
ing gentlemen were elected officers fat the en
suing year:.
President—J. M. Porter.
Secretary & neasurer—John N. iluichinson
Managers—William Ilaekei, Henry King,
J. N. Hutchinson, IVillium 11. Gaiziner, John T.
Johnson, J. 0 Stem.
-.EPA supplement was passed a few days
ago, changing the corporate name of the "Dal
aware, Lehigh, Schuylkill and Susquehanna
Railroad Company," to that oldie "Lehigh Val
ley Railroad Company," which was unani
mously accepted by the board. The road from •
Euston to the Lehigh Coal: regions will hereaf
ter be known as the ''Lehigh Valley Railroad."
Illness of Col. King
W. 11. King has made his will. Ile was
born in 1780: owns 5000 acres of land in one
body, in Dallas comity, Alabama, and upwards
of one hundred slaves. His entire estate is
worth about $150,000. Ile is a humane roas
ter. He told a correspondent of the Now York
Tribune, some years since, that he never sold
bdt one slave in his life, and Ito was compelled
to sell him because he was a tenor to the neigh
borhood. Col. King cannot possibly recover.
Ilia physician has sounded his hinge with the
stethoscope, and declared that one of his lungs
is entirely gone, and the other partly so. Col.
K's niece, Mrs. rnis , is with him.
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Relief of the Soldiers of 1812.
Senator Brodhead, of Pennsylvania, has re•
ported a bill in the United States Senate to the
following duct:
J. That the provisions of OM several laws
granting bounty lands to the officers add sol
diers who have been engaged ini the military
service of the United States, shall be extended
so as to grant to each of ;he persons therein
described, a quantity of land which, in nffili
tion to that which he may be entitled under
any other law of Congress, shall not in the
whole, exceed the quantity of a quarter sec
lion, or one hundred and sixty acres; and each
of the officers, non-uommissioned officers, mu
sicians and privates, engaged in the naval, ma
rine, gun-boat or flotilla service, or in defence
of the coast, in any , of the wars mentioned in
said acts, who have not received prize money,
shall be entitled to the benefit of said laws, us
thus extended.
2. That after the passage of this act, all war
rants shall be issued in the names of the per
sons who rendered the service for which they
are granted, whether living or dead, and shall
inure to the benefit of the warrantees, if living,
and if not, to the heirs specified in the several
laws extended by this act; arid failing those
heirs, to thwheirs-ablaw ol the warrantee, ac
cording to the laws of t h e place in which he
had his domicil at the time of his death ; and
all patents for lands, located with any such
warrants, shall, in like manlier, issue to tile
warrantee; and, in case of death before the is
suing of said patent, thereby conveyed shall
inure to, and vest in his heirs as aforesaid, or
iris or their assignees or. devi sees , as the ease
may be. Provided, however, That no person
Who has 'perpetrated, or attempted to perpe
trate, a fraud on the United State., tinder Oilier
of said . laws; as aforesaid, shall bo entitled to
the benefit of any of the provisions of this act.
rg-rho Baltimore Bun proposes to relieve
the scarcity of mall change by coining gold
half eollura.
Our Contemporarien.
itgr The Reading Gazette and Democrat, has
made its appearance in a new dress on the first
of this year. Brother Gctz publishes one of the
largest and best conducted Democratic papers
in the State, and the shurest evidence that he
enjoys the confidence of his party, is its in
creasing patronage. He has our 'best wishes
in every thing but politics.
(*. - The Reading Journal too has doffed its
old suit and made its appearance in a new
dress last week. The Journal is, with the ex•'
ception of the Ad/cr, the oldest paper in Berks,.
being in its 37th year. When in the hands of
Father Getz, it bore the name of being the
handsomest and one of the best edited pa.
pars in the State. Its character we think has '
not lost anything by its age. Success to our
friend Knabb.
Eli'The Pottsville Mining Register, we ob
serve, lias received an Editorial accession in
the person of Mr. Abraham Deyo, of- &Amyl
kill Haven, who has purchased a half interest
in the establishment. The paper will hence
force be conducted jointly by Messrs. Hall &
Deyo. •
Terrible Railroad Accident
We regret to record a terrible and ;mart
rending accident which occurred upon the Bos
ton and Maine Railroad on the 6th inst., atten
ded with serious loss of file, and under circum
stances calculated to give to the occurrence the
the most painful interest. 'General Franklin
Pierce, President elect of the United States, to
gether with Mrs. Pierce and their son, were
among the passengers in the train, being on
their way home from Boston, when, by some
Wormer' accident, the car containing about 70
` .passengers, Uteri, women and children, was
thrown . down an e rn bank ment some twenty
foot high - ippon a pile of rocks, killing several
instantly, aniTumong them the son of General
Pierce, and seriously injuring Mrs. Pierce, who
narrowly escaped:\
There was but on4assenger car attached to
the train, which, in consequeneo of the break•
ing of an axletree of the ear, was thrown of the
track and down the embinitment, as before
stated, stnashing the car to pieces. Very few
of the passengers escaped untiurt, while some
ten or twelve were almost instantly killed.
Gen. Pierce alter the accident complained of
a severe pain in the back, from bruises receiv
ed by the fall. Mrs. Pierce was more serious
ly injured, and was conveyed to an adjoining
house, and medical aid sent for. The nature
of her injuries were not known when the train
left
Gen. Pierce had taken the cars at Andover,
for Concord, having remained at Andriver all
last night. Those present at the accident, say
that the escape of the Pret , ident was most mir
aculous. Mr. Newell, a lawyer, had one of
his legs broken. Gen. Pierce's son was an only
child.
Among the injured, Mr. Bailey Lawrence
had a leg broken ; a little girl had her foot
crushed, and another, whose name is unknown
was very badly injured,
Thu express train with the President of the
Company, has just returned from the scene of
the accident, and reports that all the injured
are doing well. Mrs. Pierce's injuries
are not considered dangerous. Ails. Pierce and
the General remain with thu body of their son
in Andover.
At the time of the accident Gen. Pierce was
conversing': with Mr. Young, the stmerimen4
dent'ef tie new mills at Lawrence. Professor
Picitard, a relative of Gen. Pierce, was in com
pany with MFR. Piero° and her sou, and the
party occupied the forward part of the car which
was divided in the middle.. They were all
thrown into a heap, one over another. Master
Pierce fay upon the floor of the car, with his .
skull Eight fully fractured. The cap which he
had worn, had fallen ofi, and was 1111 M with .
his blood and brains.
Gen. Pierce acted with wonderful coolness
and presence of mind : but the agony of his wife
was indescribable..
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Drawing Room Companion.
Published in Boston, Mass., will commence,
on the Ist of.lanuary, 185:4 a new volume, be
ing Volume VI of this elegant illumined journa s l
It will appear with new type, new heading, and
splendidly improved in every department, be.
sides which, the price is to be greatly reduced.
The publisher is resolved to commence the new
year with a circulation of one hundred thousand,
and therefore, offers the .most liberal induce•
menus to clubs. Realizing the spirit of the age.
the gtent improvement in art, and the constantly
increasing intelligence of the people, the pub-
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prove his already splendidly illustrated journal:
Especially will a great improvement be manifes
ted in the engraving department, as well as the
literary character of the paper, so that the Pic
torial shall appear in a style, not only to merit
nll the enconiums of praise so 'lavishly beitowr
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respect for its enhanced excellence and perfec
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perior to anything yet offered to the public by
the publisher. By referring to the following list,
which forms a part only of the regular contribu
tors to the Pictorial, its high literary character ,
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Mrs. Alice 11. Neal, Mrs. Phebe Carey, Miss
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Common Schools.
Hon. F. W. Hughes, secretary of the Corn.
mon wealth, and ex-officio Superintendent of Com
mon Schools, in his annual report to the Legis
lature plesents much interesting statistical mat..
ter Illustrating the condition and progress of our
Schoul.Systern. The tables are too voluminous
for our columns, but we give the following re
capitulation of tota'.s for the year 1852
Whole number of districts
do schools,
Number yet required,
Average number of months taught,
Number of male teachers,
Number of female teachers,
Average salaries of male teachers
per month,
Average salaries of female teachers
per month,
Number of male scholars,
do female - scholars,
do learning German,
Average - nuMber of seholars in each
school,
Cost of teaching each scholar per
month,
Whole amount of tax levied,
Amount of Stale appropriation,
Amount received from Collector of
School tax,
Cost of instruction,
Fuel and contingencies ,
! Whole amount of school houses, pur
chasing, building . , renting, repair
ing, &e., 269,950 39
While the Penn
sylvaniasuperintendent_conOtqqates upon the genera: cnr:4re? .. WlVNltml,
Law of 1849, many points have 'llleti*lioht:.ol
his attention, which show that it needs amend=
meat to give it increased efficiency. In view of
these defects, and additional provisions, he re
commends :
1. To provide a corporate name or tulle for
each school district, and for the service of legal
process therein.
3. To make provision for the collection of
debts due by a School District.
3. Provide adequate means for the collection
and enforgiment of the school tax.
4. To tax stock in Banks chartered or re^
chartered since 16th April, 1850, (now exempt
from School Tax.) •
5. Power to levy a special tax to purchase
ground and erect school houses.
6. Clear power to sell real estate in use, with
the view to invest again for school purposes.
7. To abolish sub-districts, or if retained, to
amend the details of the present provisions rela
ting thereto.
8. To make provision for a school architec..
lure, and thereby promote economy in building,
with good taste, convenience, proper light, fresh
air and regulated heat.
9. To enforce the leaching of the rudimental
branches of education in all the schdol districts.
10. To provide. more guards against the em
ployment of incompetent teachers, and adopt
measures to increase the number and secure the
services of such only as are competent.
A Capital Letter
The Boston Post gives five copies of unpub-
HAIM letters from Dr. Franklin, which have
recently been - found in thal city. The follow•
ing one seems to have been addressed to a la
dy with whoth ho was on intimate terms pre.
virus to his marriage, and who was still single
at that time:
Oct. IG, /7.75
I "Dear Kull—Your favor of the 18th of June
I came to hand, but on the 23d September, just
three months after it was written. I had two
weeks before written you a long chat, and sent
it to the care of your brother Ward. I hear
you are ni n e in Boston, gay and lovely as usu
al. Let me give you some fatherly advice.—
Kill no' more pigeons than you can eat; be a
good girl, and don't forget your catechism i go
constantly to meeting or to church till you get
a good husband ; and then stay at home and
nurse the children, and live like a Christian.—
Spend year spare hours in sober whist, pray
ers,
or learning to cipher.
"You must practice addition to your hus
band's estate by industry and frugality—sub
,/ traction of all unnecessary expenses.
Multi
plication—lie will soon make you master of.—
' As to division, 1 say with brother Paul, 'Let
there be no division among ye,' but as your
good sister Hubbard (my love to her) is well
acquainted with the rule of two, I hope you
will become as expert in the rule of three, that
when I have again the pleasure of seeing you,
I may find you, like my grape vine, surround,
ed with cluSters, plump, juicy, blushing, pretty
little rogues, just like their mamma. Adieu,
the bell rings, and 1 must go among the grave
ones, and talk politics." B. F.
Educational Convention
A State Convention of Teachers and friends
of education assembled at flarriiiburg, on the
28th of December, and continued in session
two days. Thos. It Burrowes, of Lancaster,
was. President, Messrs. Thompson, of Pitts
burg, Browne, of Philadelphia; Mester of Dau
phin and McElroy of Indiana, were Vice Pres
idents, and Messrs. Barnwell Of Philadelphia,
aria. Browne of Schuylkill, Secretaries. The
Convention, owing to want of general notice,
was small, but it was talented, zealous and
composed of the right kind of men. Strong res.
Options were unanimously adopted in favor of
Cwinly Superintendents—the extension of the
minimum term of leaching from three to six
months—the holding of teachers' institutes in
every county—of legislative aid to them—Nor•
mat Schools, &c. A State Teachers Associa
tion was organized, which is to meet next Au
gust in Pittsburg, and next December (1853)
in Lancaster.
Population of Cincinnati.—Father Gist maims
an estimate that the population of Cincinnati, at
this time, consists of 165,000, allowing that the
increase had been ten per cent. for the last two
and a half years. Mr. Is at present enga"
ged in taking the census, and in a few days we
shall have the facts put down in figures.
Revenue of Lehigh County.
We extract the following statement from the
Auditor General's Report, showing the taxable
inhabitants of Lehigh county, the amount paid
by them into the Slate Treasury, during the fi
nancial %Impending the 30th day of Novem
bei., eighteen hundred and fifirtwo :
Tax on heal and Personal Estate, $26,447 03
Crane Iron Company, tax on Stock, 600 00
Allentown Iron Company do 600 00
Lehigh Bridge at Bethlehem ; 62 40
do do Biery's 14 62
do do Siegfried's 10 00
do do Water Gap, 23 70
1,173 50
1,212 42
28 50
6598
27 75
4 75
14 85
581 00
1,160 88
30 00
1,508
9,699
7,860
3,852
Tavern Licenses
Retailers do
Circus and Menagerie Licenses
Distillery and Biewery do •
Eating and Beer House Licenses,
l'atent Medicine Licenses . .
Pamphlet Laws • ..
$1875
$1146
268 059
213 719
11 90_1
Tax on Writs, Wills, &c., •
Collateral Inheritance .
Tax on Enrollment of Laws
$31,777 38
From the same document, we learn that the
appropriations and payments to Lehigh county,
by the Commonwealth, for the year 1852, were
as follows:
Salaries of Judges,
Militia Expenses,
Pensions and Gratuities,
Common Schools,
Abatement of State Tax,
$992,196 22
158,948 87
783,578 81
793,54 G 25
79,946 00
14.` .
s.
• Pennsylvania Legislature.
Ifsitaisuuno, January 0.
SctrA•re.—The Senate met this morning at 11
o'ajfick, and on motion, immediately proceeded
to ballot fur the election of Speaker. The eighth
ballot was had which resulted as follows :
Thomas Carson, . Whig, 16; Geo. Sanderson,
D. 1 , 1; Joseph Bailey, D., 1.
Mr. Carson was thereupon declared to be duly
elected Speaker of the Senate for the present sea
son, and having been conducted to the chair, by
Messrs. Sanderson and Bailey, was duly sworn.
The• Speaker in a brief speech tendered his
acknowledgements to the Senate for the honor
conferred bpon him, and pledged his best efforts
to discharge the duties of the trust with fidelity
and impartiality,
The newly elected members were sworn in.
The Speaker then, on minion, appointed the
usual committees to inform the House of Repre,
sentatfves of the organization of the Senate, and
also to act with the House committee in waiting
upon the Executive.'
The Secretary of ; tlie Commonwealth was then
announced, and presented toThe Senate the mes
sage of the Governor which was read by the Clerk.
The reading of the message having been con
chided, two thousand copies in English and one
thousand in German, were ordered to be printed
for the use of the Senate.
January 6.—Mr. Crabb introduced a bill au
thorizing the settlement of the affairs of the
United States Bank.
The Senate, on motion of Mr. Crabb, proceed •
ed to the election of subordinate officers.
The first ballot for Chief Clerk resulted in
the election of John M. Sullivan, of Butler; Ja
cob C. Bomberger, of Cumberland, was then
chosen Assistant Clerk, receiving 17 votes. .
The Senate also elected Wm. R. Thompson
Sergeant-al.Artniii; Thomas H. Wareham, Door-
Keeper, and Messrs. Baker of Lancaster, War
den, of Union, and Barnes, of Somerset, tram
scribing Clerks.
liouss.—The house met at 11 o'clock, and
was called to order by the Speaker.
The Speaker laid before the House a commu.
nication from the board of tnanagers of the Penn
sYleeola State Lunatic Asylum, inviting the
members Of the House to visit that institution at
any time they might see fit. The invitation was,
on motion accepted.
The House then proceeded to the election of
Clerks and other officers.
Messrs. Wm. Jack, Dem., of Blair county, and
David Fleming, Whig, of Dauphin, were nomi
nated for the office of chief Clerk.
The House then proceeded to ballot, which re
sulted as follows:
Wm, Jack, Dem.
David Fleming, Whig, 40
Wm. Jack was thereupon declared re-elected
Chief Clerk of the House, and being sworn, an,
pounced that he had appointed Wm. S. Picking,
of York county, his assistant.
The Clerk also announced the appointment of
Wm. L. Gray, Richard H. Adams, Wm. Giles
and Charles Stockwell as transcribing Clerks.
The House then proceeded to the election of .a
Sergeant.at-Arms, when, on the first ballot Jno.
Grinder, of Armstrong county, received a ma.
jorrty of all the votes cast, and was declared du
ly elected.
Jacob Coleman, of Berks county, was then
elected Door keeper, and W. M. Barron, of Cla
rion county, Messenger.
The committee appointed to wait upon the Sen
ate and inform that body of the organization o
the House, reported having performed that duty.
Mr. Kilbourn, from the same committee to
wait upon the Governor, reported that in con
junction with the committee of the Senate, that
duty had been discharged, and that the Governor
would shortly send in a coMmUnicatioa to the
Legislature.
Several unimportant bills were introduced and
laid upon the . table, until the appointment of the
Standing Committees, irnd leave given for the
withdrawal of memorials from the files.
' The Secretary of the Common wealth was then
introduced, and presented the annual Message,
which was read. -
The House, on motion, directed the printing
of 10,000 copies of the. Message in the English
language, and 3000 copies in German, for the
use of the members.
The House then adjourned.
January 6._The• House on motion of Mr.
Struthers, took up the bill supplementary to•the
ant, incorporating the, Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, which after some little_ discussion
passed finally.
The Governor's Message.
The annual message of Gov. Bigler is a busi
ness like document. It opens with congratula
tions on the prosperity of the State and nation,
and the blessings of a representative democracy,
as evinced in the late Presidential election, ac,
complishing a peaceful revolution, 'Cheerfully
submitted to by the minority, and magnanimous
ly enjoyed by the majority. It then proceeds to
examine the fiscal
.affairs of the State, reports
the success of the $BBO,OOO loan for completing
the North Branch Canal, and the progress in the
five million loan, to be applied to the payment
of the six per cent loans, payable after 1846.7,
the cancellation of certtficates issued to domes.
tic creditors, outstanding five per cents. The
progress of the mission of Col. McCahen to Eu
rope, to convert the five per cent loans into new
coupon four per cis., is fully detailed, and the
Governor recommends the passage of a law, au.
thorizing the cancellation of the old five percent.
bonds by the creation of new ones, free of taxa
tion, with coupons attached, bearing a less rate
of interest, or bonds bearing the per cent., on
which not less than 53 per cent of a cash pre
mium shall be paid, as he believes the State can
thus save a large amount of money, cancel all
her present bonds, and avoid the trouble and ex
pense of keeping loan books and transferring her
stocks. The operations of the Sinking Fund are
also detailed. A considerable portion of the State
stock purchased for this Fund, was not deliver
ed at the Treasury until after the close of the fis.
cal year, and hence this investment is not stated
in the Auditor General's Report.
The financial condition of the Slate and the
revenue from the public works, slated in the mes
sage, are familiar to our readers from previous
articles published in these columns. To com
pete with rival routes,-economy and energy are
recommended, to prevent failures of connection,
by breaks, to secure increased tonnage, and abol
ish all useless offices and expenditures. The
law of last session providing cash payments for
work and materials on the public works, lies
operated beneficially, though its efficiency has
been impa;red by a deficiency in appropriations.
The Columbia Railroad has increased its profits
under the energetic Superintendent, to whom
the Governor pays a high compliment.
The views of the Governor as to avoiding the
plaices, completing the North Branch Canal, and
re-laying the North Columbia Railroad track,
given in a former special message, are reitera.
tad and pressed upon the Legislature. After
these are completed he thinks the State should
abandon the policy of constructing improvements
as the circumstances which made it wise for the
State to participate in such work, have passed
away, individual capital having carried out ev.
ery feasible scheme of this kind. With present
impressions he will resist the commencement of
any new project of this character. The Gover
nor regrets the controversy between the Canal
Board and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
and hopes the rivalry between the State line and
the incorporated road, may be directed to an uni
ted effort to counteract the influence of rivals out
side our State.
The Governor suggests a speedy cancellation
of the Relief notes, of which about $600,000 are
now in circulation, by allowing their conversion
into 4 per cent. bonds, to pay them front the
Sinking Fund, or to apply to their liquidation all
preiniums received from the conversion of pres..
ent stocks into new coupon boruk. Ile thinks
the aggregate amount of State currency sufficient
for all legitimate business purposes, and consid
ers any increase of paper circulation unwise, as
the present upward tendency of our markets is
the consequence of the abundanee of money, ad
vancing nominal values to an unnatural eleva
'ion. This state of things is attributed in part to
the influx of gold, which has cheapened the stain
dard of real value. To meet the increase of spe
cific circulation, he suggests the removal of all
five dollar bills. This . part of the Governor's
message must be lead in full to be understood;
it cannot be abbreviated without impairing the
force and doing injustice to Ilk arguments.
Special legislation is depreciated strongly in
the Message, and remedies urged. The Com
mission, consisting of Mesers. Porter, Penniman
and Bonham, appointed under the resolution of
the last Legislature to prepare general laws,
have been actively engaged and will soon report.
The Governor has determined to correct these
evils, and recommends the adoption of more gen
eral laws, and the rigid enforcement of existing
ones. In anticipation of the Report of the Com
missioners, we are informed that they have re
commended the extension of present general laws
to mining and smelting the metals, and extend
ing the liability of stockholders ; to give the
Courts larger powers in relation to sales of real
estate by parties who now require - special legis
lation, and to refer claims against the Common
wealth to the Courts. These things effected, it
is hoped that money will be saved and hasty, ex
parte legislation prevented. The Commission
ers have also simplified the tax laws, extended
their provisions to new subjects, and, sought to
guard their infringement.
The Governor strongly urges the appointment
of an Agricultural Chemist, his duties to be mtg.
Bested by the State and County Agricultural So,
cieties, and calls special attention to the capa
cities of Pennsylvania for wool - growing. The
Census Report is made a subject of congratula
tion to the State, as.to its population, value of
real estate, products of grain, iron, wool, cotton,
and coal. The augmentation of the latter trade
in 1850, in the ratio of its past increase, would
61,810 000
4 00
118 89
2,900 . 67
1,195 26
q 6,058 75
51 votes
produce forty•tive millions tons valued at $lBO,.
000,000, more than treble the present revenues
of the General Government. With her natural
advantages, the completion of the North Branch
Canal, the avoidance of inclined plebes on the
Allegheny mountains, and the railroad connec
tion of Philadelphia with the lakes, the Governor
believes that before the present century Penn
sylvania, in point of wealth and real greatness,
will stand in advance of all her stmt.'. Slates.
The remarks of the message on the claim of
the Franklin Canal Company, to construct a
Railroad from Erie to the Ohio linr• ;,on the ob
ligations of the State to the encouragement of
Educatiorvits warm* approval of the suggestion
of Mr. Waterman, to elect a monument in lade
pendence Square, commemorative of the becla•
ration of July 4th, 1790; and the 'recofnmenda
tion to improve the public grounds around the
Capitol ; the appeal to provide fur the transit of
slaves through the Slate, as suggested by inter-
State comity, and the hint to the Legislature not
to leave the Appropriation Dill until near the
close of the session, will all eomthand attention.
GLEANINGS
nirThe Spiritual Convention is still in ses
sion in Boston. On Thursday a paper was read
from the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, proposing
anew form of Government.
Mit costs thirty two millions of dollars an"
nually to maintain preachers in the United States.
arThe sale of lottery tickets in Virginia was
prohibited on and after the Ist inst.
ar There is a negro in Louisville, who plays
the violin equally as well as Ole Bull.
nrA resolution has been introduced into the
Legislature of Virginia, asking for the distribu
tion of the Public domain for educational and in.
ternal improvement purposes.
la , - lion. John Davie has written a letter to the
Boston Atlas,.declining to be a candidate for re
election to the Senate. Ile expresses his deter-
mination to withdraw from public life.
M"The great Chimpanzee monkey in the Jar.
din des Plantes, at Paris, whiCh sits like a man,
and uses a knifelike a Christian, has been Liain
cd "Uncle Tom."
'j In Prussia a patent is granted only for six
years, and it must be put in operation six months
after having been granted.
'Several pork houses in Cincinnati have
closed on account of the high price of hogs.
laeA western paper contains a thrilling ac
count of a dog fight in Frogtown.
larSenator Douglas has been unanimously
renominated by the Democratic Legislative cau
cus of Illinois, and re - elected for six years from
the 4th of March next.
'A movement was to have been made in
the New Hampshire Legislature; to remove the
relieious tests from the State Constitution.
FeA ttorneys nt law are admitted evils.
reGirls are like jellies—as moulded, so they
turn out.
t"' "The first law of gravity is never to laugh
at your own jokes.
11.7'.101in Engler, feH dead at a German ball in
Cincinnati, last Monday night.
re Poor Stock—Sleigh bells, buffalo robes and
skates.
ra" Dr. S. Humes. or.i.ancaster,'Pa., who
died laicly, bequeAkihed $2OOO towards erecting
an asylum for the reformation of drunkards.
-
Ilui Beds, and Frantes.--Now, if ynnr garden
has noneof these necessary applicants, lose no
time in providing them, a.i . yoit may rest assured
/that it is impossible to grow very early vegeta
bles without them. The cost of them is as noth
ing in the scale when compared with the bent -
fits arising from their use. Vl'brn a gentleman
only wishes to raise early vegetables for the use
of his own family, a frame 20, 30, or 40 feet long,
would grow as many cabbage, cauliflower, broc
coli, tomato, egg - p'auts, frit ti ice, and other plants
as would answer the purpose, while the cost of
such a frame would be but a few dollars, and
would last for a great many years, if taken cute
of.
A New Mm/c rf Eltrthog Pr(.vidri;is.—A gentle•
man named John W. King, has recently. written
a pamphlet in the form of a memorial to the
Kentucky Legislature, in relation to a change in
the mode of electing the President of the United
States. He proposes to choose the Executive
from the members of the Senate by lot.
Coinage al the Ma—tinder the Commercial
head, the Daily News publishes :he statement of
Mr. Dale of the operations in coin at the Mint.
for the month and the year. The aggregate foots
up to the enormous sum of over fifty two mil..
lions of dollars, forming an average of a million.
a week. A very large portion of this amount,.
was coined in small pieces, thus rendering the
work of the establishment and the machinery
much greater Mari would otherwise be the case.
Water Proof Boots anti Shoes.—Take one pint
drying oil, (boiled linseed oil as. prepared fur
painters,) two ounces of turpentine and an ounce
of Burgundy pitch, and melt them carefully over
a slow fire, stirring them well so as to be thor.
oughly mixed when cool. - Rob new boots or
shoes with this mixture either in sunshine or at
some distance from the fire. Repeat the opera
tion as they get dry until the leather is satura
ted. Let them remain for several days until
they are perfectly dry and elastic, and they be.
come impervious to wet, will wear much longer
and acquire a softness and pliability that pre
vents the leather from ever• shrinking.
Degree of I?ebecca.—This degree of Odd Fel
lowship was conferredupon nine ladies, wives
of Odd Fellows, in the city of Lancaster, on Sat
urday the 18th ult. Special meetings were held
monthly for the, purpose of conferring this de..
glee. None but wives of the Scarlet or sth De
gree members are entitled to it, nor can any be •
admitted to the Lodge when the Degre e
. is confer.
red but such members. This new feature in the
Order was instituted about a year ago, by the •
M. W. O. Lodge of the United States, and is very
popular among, the fraternity.--Lancasfer Whig.
Large Crops in Lancaster County—Mr. John •
P. Harlan, of Little Britain township,Lancaster
county, raised the last season, from one 'acre
of ground, one hundred and twelve bushels of
yellow corn. The ground was coated with fifty -
bushels of lime ptodghed under. The corn was
drilled In rows four feet apart. The apace be—
tween each stock averaged 12 inches, •
Mr. Hiram Campbell, of Manheim, raised this
year, one hundred and fourteen bushels and one
peck of corn to the single acre.
lowa.—The Legislature in joint Convention .1
re - elected Gen. George W. Jones, to the United• '
States Senate, by a vote of 59 to 94 fur George
0. Wright ; absentee or scattering, 4.
Caucus of Crowned Heads.-ft seems the Em ,
peror Napoleon 10, has left Paris for Berlin,
where the Emperaof Austria was expected on
the 15th of December. What France, Prussia
and Austria are concocting, we do not yet see
but Napoleon is wide awake to strengtheh his
new. throne, and to render permanent the re•es•
tablished Empire. . '