Register. Allentown, Pa. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26. 1863. Law of Newspapers 1. Subscribers who do not give express no tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing to continuo their subscription. 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their papers, the publisher may continue to liptid them till all that is due be paid. 3. If subscribers neglect or refuse to take their papers from the office to which they are eireoted, they are held responsible till they have settled their bills and ordered their pa. pars diseontinued. /Al Subscribers move to other places, with out informing the publisher, and the paper is Font to the former direction, they are held re sponsible. 6. The courts have decided that refusing to take a paper from the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for f ii prima facie evidence of intentional fraud. • 6.. 'A postmaster neglecting to inform a pub lisher when his paper is not taken from, the of. makes himsejf liable for his subscription price Railroad Meeting A call for a general county meeting, signed by several hundred citizens, appears in our columns to-duk. The object of the meeting is 16 discuss the propriety, of subscribing a portion of the stock of the 4Plinkakhia, Easton and Water Gap Railroad CairiiiartM.provided the terminus and depot of the road be inide kri Al i lentown. We hope the citizens will be laiW. ly in attendance, as it is a matter of the great" est interest to them. Allentown with the pros pects ahead of a Railroad communication North, South, East and West, is destined to become one of the largest manufacturing places in the State. New County Movement. A town meeting was held in the Lyceum Hall, in Tamaqua, Schuylkill Co., on Saturday evening last,.for the purpose of adopting mea sures to procure, at an early period, the passage of a Bill, by our Stale Legislature, creating ,a new county out of parts of Schuylkill, Luzern° and Lehigh, to be called Jackson,—Tarnaqua to be the county seat. We hope the meeting will be large and enthusiastic, and steps taken to petition the -Legislatute from every section of the contemplated new county. IllrThe above notice we find in the "Tamaqua Gazelle," of January 15. We have no objecr lions to make against our Tamaqua neighbors, to their new county project, if they tentain west Of the "Blue Ridge," but so , soon as they un dertake to step in our territory, We will de clare war. Besides the citizens of Lynn to a man we believe are willing to let"well enough alone." Decision in the Supreme Court. The following opinion. given by Chief Jus tice Black, in the case of Frantz against Knauss. in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, we glean from the l'hiladelphia Sun, of Friday lest and maybe of interest to many of ppr readers: "It appears that Godfrey Peter, of North White. hall township, Lehigh county, owed Christian Knauss five hundred and thirty-eight dollars on a judgment bond, due the Ist of April, 1850. On the second day of May, 1850, the plaintiff agreed to lake an assignment of it, provided the defendant would guarantee the payment of ; whereupon tho assignment by Knauss, and the guarantee by Frantz, were enthirsed. The as signee made nu effort to recover the debt, but on the contrary, took twenty dollars, and fur that ' consideration agreed to wait a certain time.— Godfrey liecame insolvent, and this suit is on the guarantee. The Court instructed the jury, in substance, ; that theilefendant could only be discharged by proof; that the plaintiff had refused to bring suit against the principal, after a positive request by the defendant, and that the agreement of the plaintiff to forbear was no defence, because the consideration of that agreement being usurious, it was not binding. If the defendant had been the surety of Peter— if he had been one of the original parties to the bond---if his liability fur the debt had been the consideration of the credit, given to the princi pal when the debt was created, then the rule laid down by the Court, that he could not be discharg ed, except by refusal to proceed on request, or by a binding contract to forbear, would have been precisely correct. But the instrument on which . the suit rests, is not the obligation of a surety,— It was a collateral contract, made in considers• • lion that the plaintiff would accept an assign ment of a debt, which had been made long 'be fore. It purports on its face to be a guarantee ; and it is one to all intents and purposes. Now, it is well seitled in Pennsylvania, that the contract of one who guarantees the existing debt of another, is a mere warranty of the debt or's solvency. The creditor takes upon himself the duty of recovering it from' the principal, if that can be done, and the guarantee is not bound to give him notice to proceed. The present plaintiff could not recover without showing to the satisfaction of the jury, that he had used all due . and proper dilligence to collect the money limn Peter, or that Peter was so hopelessly in solvent at the date of the guarantee, that no rea' ennoble diligence would have been sufficient to save it. It must be manifest that it makes no difference in thins case, whether the egteement to give time was usurious or not. The defendant was dis, charged by the fact of delay, and it is all alike whether' the delay was in pursuance of a legal or an illegal contract. The same consequence would have resulted from mere negligence, with. out any contract at all. The, evidence objected to was admissible as a part, though perhaps not a very important part of .the whole transaction. • JUdgn3.enf ,reVersed, and ben. fa de nov, ewer ded. Schools in Lehigh We are indebted to Messrs. Laury and Barr, of the House, at Harrisburg, for copies of the re port of the Superintendent of Common Schools. An abstract of the general operations oNke sys" tern we gale in our last week's paper. We give here a view of its operations in this county : Number of School Districts, 15 " Schools, 147 " yet required, 11 Average number of months taught, 6 Number of male teachers, 136 female " 12 Average salary of males per month, $l9 69 " females 44 18 06 Number of male Scholars, 499! female " 3880 " learning German, 1909 Average No. of scholars in each school, 09 Cost of teaching each scholar per month, 39 Amount-of tax levied; Received from State appropriation, $2,877 97 U 44 collectors of school tax, $10,013 18 Cost of iristruction, • $ll,BlB 23 Fuel and contingencies, $2,251 41 Cost of school houses, purchasing, building, renting, repairs, &c., $3,063 14 In Northampton, the average number of months taught is 6, Bucks 7, 'Jerks 4, Carbon 7, Mont gomery 7, Schuylkill 7, Monroe 7. &c. Lehigh is slightly above the average in the entire Slate, which is 41, as near as ordinary fractions will express it. Large Sale of Negroes To give our readers an idea of how they dis pose of human flesh as personal properly, we glean the following notice of a sale of negroes, from the Fincastlo . (Vu) Whig, being the prop erty of a deceased citizen of that place : .t' s , l "The largest sale of negroes that perhaps curer occurred in this county, came off at the Newell Pltibe, about 7 miles below Buchanan; on the 27th :; iltimo.—There were 89 negroes sold. The sale amounted to 846,523, or about 8534 each. The negroes were made up of all ages and sexes, from the old man and woman of more than four•score down to the suckling infant less than a month old.' Taken as a whole, we have no doubt they brought as high a price as any lot of negroes, of the same quality, that were ever sold in the State. <These negroes were valued by commissioners some year or so ago, and the sale now made exceeds that valuation by more than fifteen thousand dol. lars. The slaves belonged to the estate of the late Robert Harvey, dec'd. The sale was con ducted by Mr. Rufus l'itzer and Maj. John T. Wilson, commissioners appointed by the Com t. They have shown pretty conclusively, byinan agement of this estate, that they know how to . make property bring its full value in the mar kets. The whole property sold, both real and personal, brought over 869;000." Pennsylvania and the Cabinet What a pity it is, thinks the Village Recor 1, there arc not as many Cabinet places as there aro State . s in the. Union—one for each State; especially one apiece for the States that voted for Pierce and King ; for each of thuSe States seem to think they are entitled to a Cabinet ap pointment. This would greatly aid the Loco foe° party in rewarding the victors with the spoils, and thus far furnish them with "the co hesive attraction of the public plunder," so es sential to the harmony and existence of the party. In distributing the Cabinet loaves, the very important question arises, what is to be done for Pennsylvattia Iler favorite for the Presidency, Buchanan, it is said declines an appointment, should any be tendered him.— The Now Yolk hera l d enumerates six Penn sylvania politicians ready to enter into the scramble for Buchanan's mantle, viz: Camp. bell, Jones, Hughes, Bigler, Woodward and ';lack; and retnatks, with decidedly cold com fort to the Democracy, that, in all probability, General Pietee will, by any selection, cut that State into factious, which may throw the next popular vote into the hands of the enemy. lie may do the same thing by rejecting them all. A Whig Governor of Maine The Hon. William G. Crosby, the Whig can didate at the late election in the State of Maine, was, On Ft iday, last, elected Governor of the State by the Legislatere, now in session at Au• gusta. No choice having been made by the people, it become the duly of the House of Representatives to place before the Senate the names of two candidates, Selected from the four who had received the highest popular vote. The names of .11.1 r. Crosby and Gov. Hubbard, the late incumbent, were selected by the House, and the former was chosen Governor by the Senate, the vole in that body being 19 to 12. This result has been• caused by divisions among the Democrats, who, notwithstanding they have a majority in the House of Representatives, partly filled the vacancies in the Senate with Whigs, so as to give the latter a majority in that branch. Mittical Fire intairmice Company of Sink ing Springs, publishes its customary annual statement'; jrom which it appears that 300 new members wet e added during the past year.— Thu receipts into the Treasury amounted to #:1,229 17, nut of which was paid for incidental expenses $627 37—leaving a balance (or the . year of 8-601 80, which added to the balanced $1,438 30, as per last year's report, makes a total balance of $2,050 10, bearing interest, be sides $660 outstanding debts; The Company how numbers 4500 members, forming an ag gregate capital of Ten Millions of dollars to levy upon in case of loss by Lire, beyond the amount of means in hand.—The Company have paid out for losses by fire during the year 8755 50 —being only 13 cents fur each thousand dol lars insured. They adhere to the policy of not insuring down or other hazardous property, and requiriitg lightning rods to be placed upon all buildingi insured. A better managed or safer Muted Company fur farmers.does not exist in the country. Important Legislatiye Report The undersigned, Commissioners appointed under the resolution, passed 4th of May, 1852, authorizing the Governor"to appoint Commis sioners to revise the code of Pennsylvania," in proceeding to the discharge of their duties, found their duties limited and prescribed by the resolution authorizing their appointment, as follows: 1. To digest .and simplify the general tax laws of the Stale, and to report them to the next Legislature. 2. To prepare drafts of general laws, to be submitted to the consideration of the next Leg. islature on the subjects. I. Of selling real estate by guardians, exe cutors, administrators • and others, in a repre sentative capacity. 2. Of the creation of corporations. 3. Of the payment of claims against-the State. .1. Divorces. "In order to lessen as much as possible the ne cessity of special legislation." It will thus be seen that the powers of the resolution itself are not so extensive as the tip tle would indicate. $12,712 48 Our Commission organized in the city of Philadelphia on the 13th of July last. The la bor of attending to particular portions of the subjects was primarily distributed among the individual members of the Commission, so as to embrace them all. Each branch having been so examined in detail, the whole was then examined and revised by all the mem- io bers, and the final disposition - of - them - thus made. Much time and reflection have been I devoted to the subjects committed to our charge, and the result is now submitted in the bills accompanying this report with explana lions under appropriate heads: The object of taxation is revenue, and hence by increasing the amount and variety of taxa ble property you increase the revenue, , and may as the revenue thus increases, reduce the rates of taXati6n. The immediate effect of the bill we have the honor to submit, will be large ly to increase the revenue, and the remote ef fect will be largely to reduce the burdens here tofore imposed, by equalizing the assessments. It is an important fact that heretofore a large portion of the taxes have been derived from real estate. It is right, perhaps, that the real ty, which is, visible, tangible, and cannot be driven away, should he taxed at a Jute beyond what could be salely imposed upon more vol atile properly. But the proportion between real estate and personal property is too large. The principal features of the bill have been framed with a view of getting a fair and equal assessment of all the real and personal proper ty ir•. the Commonwealth. No State is more deeply interested in a well regulated system of revenue than Pennsylvania; and while her public debt is large, her resources are ample to meet every demand, if the revenue laws are justly and equally applied to the properly of citizens. The proper imposition of taxes upon 11w peo ple is one of the highest duties devolving upon the Government. But in the adjustment of our revenue system we are met at the threshold with an almost insurmountable difficulty. We mean the election of assessors in the wards and townships by the popular voice. The assess• went of property is the first step in any revenue system ; if a mistake is made hem it cannot be corrected. No one who has examined the sub- jest can fail to appreciate these iemaiks, or hesitate to adopt such measures as will control this fundamental error. hi Matyland the assessors are named in the act of Assembly, and each small county forms an assessment district, while the large connties are divided into two or more districts. This is undoubtedly au improvement upon our sys, tern; but we have not deemed it expedient to matte so radical a change. The people ate ac customed to elect assessors, and would not, perhaps, be satisfied, it deprived of this ancient custom.. We have however provided addition al machinery by which the present system will be greatly improved. Prior to 1840, it was the practice in many, if not all the counties, to assess the real estate one-fourth or one-hall less than its real value. This system while it inmeased the rate of tax ation, did not add to the amount collected from the people. But when the State tax was iur posed, extending over the whole Common. wealth, it became necessary to adopt a uniform standard of value. Assessors were, therefo're required to assess real estate at its lull cash value. How well this duty has been perform ed is known to the Legislature and to the pub lic. The effect of underrating real estate in times past, is felt oven now, and nothing but a determined effort bhe Legislature, can ele vate the standard of value by which the assess minus are to bo made. By the bill submitted, the assessor is.author ized to subpoena witnesses and examine them under oath in relation to the value uf 'Feel es• tato, and to require the production of title pa pers, 'which will materially aid him in the per fermat.co of his duties. The Board of Revision which is . provided for each county, has author thority also to subpoena witnesses and to OK amino them undo' oath relative to the value of property. All discretion is taken away from the Beard; when the %aloe el any property is ascertained ; it must be increased oFdecreased from the value as returned by , the assessor.— The same principle is extended to the State Board of Revenue CommissiMters. For the assessment of personal property ,we havet it is believed, Introduced the only effi cient system which can be devised. The as• sessors are furnished with a printed circular by the Commissioners of the county, which they are required to serve upon every taxable in habitant. The form of the circular is prescrib ed by the bill. Every taxable inhabitant must within ten days after having received it, fill up the blanks as his property may require, and re General 711 x Law turn it to the assessor under oath, the form of which is appended thereto. This feature is not ot•.tirely new, for in many respects it re sembles the provisions of existing enactments. Under the present system a very large propor• tion of personal property escapes taxation alto• gether. This is especially true of moneys at interest, which are invested more or less se cretly, and frequently without the knowledge of any person except the parties interested. The bill which we submit compels every per son to disclose the amount of such investments and all other personal property. And why should he not do so? An assessor cannot ac complish impossibilitieS. The real estate he can find, for it is immovable and palpable, but he cannot ascertain the amount of money in vested by each individual, unless informed by the party himself. Why then should ho be compelled to.guess it? The best evidence should always be taken, and ns the party making investments knows the exact amount he owns or controls, he shoutd be required to disclose it. Conscientious men now pay more than their share Of taxes, while those less scrupulous evade the payment of the amount justly due by them. If it be desirable to equal ize taxation, then all property in the Common- wealth should be assessed, and order to do this, those who possess the information must impart it to the assessor. Existing laws make it obli gatory upon every man to answer such queries as may be pro Pounded to him by the assessor, but as there is no penalty imposed for refusing to do so, little or no attention is paid to it. The return of personal property by indviduals owning or controlling it, under oath, is an effectual rem edy for existing evils. The oath is the attesta tion of the truth of the return, and no man will hesitate to confirm, in this solemn manner, any statement of facts he may be required to make. Every citizen is interested in having the assess. ments fairly wade, and it is as much his duty to render every assistance in his power, as it is the duty of the assessor to be vigilant and faithful in the performance of the high trust committed to his charge. In case any citizen shall not make a return of his personal property, the assessor is required, after having ascertained its value as nearly as he can, to add twenty per cent to the valuation. This addition is in the nature of a penalty, for if citizens will not conform to the assessment law, they must suffer as in other cases. We have provided for a County Board of Re vision with enlarged powers and duties, and it will be seen by reference to the bill, that if any person who has - neglected to return to the asses sor his personal property, may make it to the Board of Revision. In every such case the twen ty per cent. added by the:assessor will be deduct ed; but should no statement be received, then the Board of Revision will add fifty per cent. to the valuation as returned by the assessor. This last addition, like the first, is intended as a pen ally for the violation of a known duty. Should there be any individual reckless enough to disre ,c,,ard this provision of the law, it will be with the hope of certainty of being gainer,.even with those large additions to the valuation of his property. We have continued the Stale Board of Reve nue Commissioners, with extended powers, but confuted to their duties to the equalization of as sessments of real estate. It is believed that by the provisions of the bill, all personal property or nearly so, will be assessed, and consequently taxed at it, full value. Should the assessors not make full returns the error will be corrected by the County Boards of Revision.. Heretofore the Revenue Commissioners have not had power to subpoena witnesses, which has caused great em barrassment and delay, and in many cases whol ly deprived the state of the testimony of impor tant witnesses. This power is conferred upon them by the bill submitted. By the provisions of the act of 1844, the Rev enue commissioners can only act upon the ag• gregate valuation of property in each county; and as the returns made by the County Commis• sinters are in the aggregate by wards and town ships, but little information could be obtained from them. The bill which we report requires the commissioners of the several counties to re. turn a transcript of each assessor's book, so far as relates to real estate, together with . an aggre. gate valuation of the same, by wards and town ships, including personal property under speci fied heeds. This will enable the Revenue Com missioners to act intelligently and efficiently. The property exempted from taxation by our bill, is nearly 'the same as under existing laws.— The policy of relieving from taxation the prop erty of institutions of learning, In actual use; is well established ; also churches, hospitals, and generally all establishments for public charity or benevolence. We have extended the provisions of the 42d section of the Revenue Act passed In 1844, for the collection of taxes on the interest paid by any county or city, or any evidence of indebted , ness issued, so as to include all companies incor' porated by law. This is almost exclusively a new source of revenue, and will produce a large amount of money. Rut it is unnecessary to particularize further. Nothing has bt.en invested which is not deemed essential to the efficacy and success of the bill. The bill must be considered as a whole, and it will require some examination fully to under' stand its various parts. The first effect of the bill will be, if passed as reported, and administer ed In the spirit it has been prepared to increase the revenue to an extent which will astonish the public. Under our imperfect system of assess. ments, and the almost universal disposition to conceal from the assessor, the amount of moneys at interest, and the value of other personal prop erty, the amount of money received at the Tree miry from taxes upon real and personal proper ty has increased from $553,911 38 in the year 184.1, when the.three mill tax was first imposed, to $1.,359,636 OU in 1852. The increase of rev' enue under the bill we report, will be greater and more starling than that just referred to. It is evident, therefore, that in a short time the rate of taxation can be considerably reduced, and would have been before now, if all the property in the State had been fairly assessed.— In accordance with this opinion we have in serted a section in the bill, that in the event of the revenue from real and personal property reaching the sum of $1,800,000 at the close of the fiscal year 1855, then the tax shall be reduc ed to two mills. That such will the the result we have not the slightest doubt. We have not deemed it prudent to reduce the existing rate in advance, beonuse there is a possibility that the new law may be as inefficiently rulmlnistered as the present one: and in that event, the Treasury would be left destitute, and the credit and char acter of the Commonwealth suffer thereby. The bill will go into operation gradually. The trien nial assessment is just made or being finished, and at the proper time will come under the su. pervision of the Revenue Commissioners. In the mean time the County Board of Revision will have acted upon the personal property, which will be the first visible effect of the bill. In closing our report upon this branch of our subject, we cannot refrain from expressing the hope that the Legislature will dopt the bill as reported. The stringent provisions which have been inserted are its vitality ; strike them out, and the bill is not worth the paper upon which it is written. Heretofore the whole effort has been to conceal property from taxation. This feeling pervades all classes; and -while there are individual exceptions, the immense majority act upon the principle that it is morally right to de ceive the assessor. It is to be hoped hereafter this course of action will be changed, and that every individual will come forward cheerfully and disclose to the assessor the amount of his personal property, and that assessors will take care and value the real estate at its actual cash value. Wealth of a Southern Planter The New York Tribune translates the follow. ing, from a German paper: "A rich planter, a Mr. Delabitzcher, descend ed from an ancient French family, died recently in New Orleans. He was a young man at the time of the first French Revolution, and fled from the guillotine to become a merchant's clerk in the Cresent city. After a time he married the daughter of a rich planter, and carried on the plantation so skillfully, that in a comparatively short time to acquire the reputation of being one of the richest men in Louisiana. Since his death the division of his property has shown its aggre gate to be an amount, which, from an European point of view, is almost fabulous. It consisted of 31 plantations, upon branches of the Missis sippi, affording an annual profit front the culti vation of cotton and sugar, of $50,000 ; 12 steam• boats upon the Mississippi, 3 upon the ocean, and 34 merchant vessels, the aggregate income of which, at the lowest calculation, is $150,000; shares to the amount of $5,000,000 in railroad stocks, producing annually $250,000; 7 limited partnerships in Europe, one in each of the cities of London, ParisMordeaux, Lisbon, Cadiz, Na ples and Constantinople, each producing an an• nual profit of $BO,OOO, in all $500,000 cash to the amount 0f.57,000,000 in the bank of England, drawing 2 per cent., producing $140,000; making an annual income of $2,350,000, or about 14,• 000,000 of francs. Ilis property to houses, furn, iture, collections of Works of art, books, &c., were in proportion. The property falls to three heirs. Vermont —llon,.Satnuel S. Phelps has been appointed by the Governor of Verinont, U. Senator, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the deatliof Hon. Wm. Upham. Judge Phelps is, undoubtedly the ablest man in the State. He has already served two lull terms in the Senate, and will have no superior in that body an cont. prehensiveness and clearness of intellect. Grundwn livtilutiem.—Utider the will of Hart (irritation, late of Philadelphia, the sum sf2o; WO was set apart, the interest whereof is to be loaned to young men, to enable them to com mence business. I.ly an act or the Lrgislawre chartering the invitution,loans are to made, in moderate amounts, for a period not ex c eeding five years. The institution is now prepared to receive applications for Loans, subject to certain conditions. .Thellimore PloTurns—lt will astonish the Pierce men at Washington. says the Ohio State Journal, to learn that the Ohio Democracy repu diate and spit upon the Baltimore platform of Locolocoism. When it was proposed to endorse it in the State 'Convcntion last week, at Colum bus, the, motion was laid upon the table, and then after a debate, the members deliberately refused to take it up! Fite : Free Soilers in New York also seem to have got the ascendency of the Dun• kers, if we may judge by the •events of ten days at Albany. Chinese Jugglers.—A company of genuine Chi nese Jugglers have lately found their way to this country, and are performing at Cincinnati, we see, just now, with great success. Their feats of magic, legerdemain, dexterity, &c., are repre sented to surpass anything of that sort we have hitherto had in this country ; but of that our ci• tizens will have personal opportunity to judge upon when they come to Philada. The jugglers were brought direct from China to San Francis co, and from thence they recently came to New Orleans, and so up the Mississippi rive'. to Cin cinnati. Pryitub/e Hem—There is a chicken lien not far from West Chester, Pa., which hatched and raised last summer, three broods of chickens, two of fifteen each, and one of twelve—making in all 42 chickens. The most of these have been and the remainder will be sold at an average of 623 cents per pair-31 pairs—sl3 123 The Ten 31iilion.v.—The following is the reso lution to the ten millions, which the Democratic members of Congress propose to place at the dis posal of Gen. Pierce : Resolved that the sum of ten millions of dub lars be set apart out of any funds in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and be, placed at the disposal of the President, for the purpose of en abling him, during the recess ot congress, to meet such exigencies as may ari>.• out of those Momentous subjects connected with ihe . present state of the relations of this country with the oth er powers of the earth, so liable, on .account of their character and complexity, to present Ilienir selves from hour to hour for practical and am^ mediate consideration. The Bible Flow comes it that this little volume, corn. posed by humble men in a rude age, when art and science were but in their childhood, has exerted more influence on the human mind and on the social system than all the other books put together? Whence comes it that this book has achieved such marvellous chan ges in the opinion of mankind—has banished idol worship—has abolished infanticide—has put down polygamy and divorce—exalted the condition of woman—raised the standard of public morality—created for families that bless.. ed thing, a christian home—and caused its oth er triumphs by causing benevolent institutions, open and expansive, to spring up as with the wand of enchantment? What sort of a book is this, that even the winds and waves of hu man passion obey it? What' other engine of social improvement has operated so long, and, yet lost none of its virtue? Since it appeared' many boasted plans of amelioration have been tried and failed, rnany codes of jurisprudence have arisen and run their course, and expired. Empire after empire has been launched on the tide of time, and gone down, leaving no trace on the waters. But this book is still going about doing good, leaving society with its holy prin ciples, cheering the sorrowful with its consola tion, strengthening the ternped, encouraging the penitent, calming the troubled spirit, and. smoothing the pillow of death. Can such a book be the ollspritig of human genius? Does not the vasittes, , et its efleets demonstrate the excellency of the power of God ? GLEANINGS r.P'llon. James Cooper, who has been detain ed at home by indisposition, we are glad to no• lice, has returned to Washington, and resumed his seat in the Senate, in an improved state of health. L'.l . lon. William B. Campbell, deeline a re nomination for Governor of Tennessee. E./ . Y'l'he tobacco crop of the United States, for the year 1850, amounted to about 200,000.000 pounds. 01 this, 81,000,000 were consumed at home. In 1840, the consumption per head in the U. S. amounted to 2 lbs. 10 oz. In 1950, 3 lbs. 8 oz, increase of 70 per cent in 10 years. CrOne hundred thousand acres of lands. in the southwestern part of Georgia are advertised in a New York paper at one dollar an acre. E.T"Old Folks.—There arc 147 persons in the town of Litchfield, on the Ist of Lottery, 1853, that were 70 years old and upward. Seven of these were 90 and upwards. The oldest are 91 years old. I . ""rhe Whigs of Rhode Island, in calicos, nominated Hon. Samuel B. At told, for 11 . S. Senator, who will undoutoedly be chosen as the Whigs have a majority itelioth branches of the Legislature. LV'Stephen Spaulding, one of the veterans who composed Wa.,ltington's life guard, died ou the 30th ult., at M., ,rue, \l'., aged ninety-seven years. FP' It is said the lair Amos T,awrf nee s. , ave away in charily upwards of live hundred thou sand dollars. Ti The printer , of Chicane eelehratrd Frank lin's birth day in greet style, end throu v eh the medium of the telegraph, invited the Presidents of the different Printers' Unions throughout the country. L," Hon. two; Choate, his been appointed At.orney Geoeral of Ma , sachusetts. • Thou me —The expenditures of the city' of New York for the next fiscal year is estima ted tit four millions of dollars. That is exclusive of the lax for the support of the State and Fede ral Governments, The population of the city is five hundred thousand, and the ratio of increase twenty per cent per annum. Killed by a Cow.—An elderly lady, named Keever, residing on Light Street, Baltimore, was so severely gored by a cow, on Saturday week, that she died from the elects of the injuries re— ceived. She was engaged in milking at the time when the animal suddenly turned round and made the attack upon her which had so fatal a result. Miraculous Escape.—On Wednesday morning of last week, as a stone team was coming dawn;. Lehigh Hill, in consequence of the toad being so very slippery, the horses could riot hold the wag on, but were forced down the hill at so rapid a. rate that they were unable to make the angle of the road, in consequence thereof they were pre, cipitated over a steep bank, against a row of houses, turning the wagon and horses complete ly upside down. The carter was on the wagon at the time, but most miraculously he and the horses escaped with but very slight injury.—Eas son Sentinel. Worthy of buttution.—The borough of Wesc Chester, in Chester county, is possessed of a Public Square, containing G acres, handsomely laid out and planted with trees. There are 23S trees in the squate, comprising about I GO distinct species, all of which are flourishing finely, and• some of them have attained considerable . siae.—• The Farm Journal challenges a comparison with any other town in the State of twice the size. ft is quite probble that that borough cannot be equalled, but it ought, to be imitated as speedily as possible by every town in the State. High broded.— In his speech delivered i e the Railroad celebration at Wheeling, the presidenr of the Baltimore and Ohio-Road said : "As to the power of overcoming high grades, Mr: Mayor, we claim. to have taught a lesson to' the wet ht. During the whole of the past sum, mer, this company carried the United States Mail over a grade 01)530 feet to the mile, without the aid of assistant power, and every bar of Iron which was laid upOn the track, between the Kingwood tunnel and Fairmount, was passed over the same summit." Rc•annexcd.—Senator Buckalew, immediately after the meeting o f the Legislature, carried a bill through the Senate to . reeannex Reatinz Creek township and parts of Franklin and Mad ison townships to Columbia county, and on Sat. mile) , Mr. Scott called. up this till in the House and had it passed by a vote of more than • two+ thirds. •
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