the felligl) negigter. Allentown, Pa. WEDNESDAY, DIAILCII 23, 1861. Otr•Our friends Laury and Barr, will please accept our thanks for various important legis lative documents. First of April Such of the subscribers to the "Lehigh Regis ter," as may change their places of residence this Spring, are requested to notify us prompt ly of such changes, that the paper may be sent , to them accordingly. The Bounty Land Aot The modification of the Bounty Land Act, did not get through both Houses of Congress during the late session. Strong hopes are en tertained by the soldiers and sailors who served in the ward 1815, and their friends, that at the next session they will get 160 acres of IT - justice o the claim is admitted on all hands, and we cannot but believe that the bill wilLpass,_The_gallant_old soldiers_ol-New-Or— leans-recently meron - ilfe - JaCksoMbrittle'ground and adopted the resolutions proposed by the Hon. J. B. Sutherland and passed here al the I meeting in Decmher last. His resolutions cov er the whole ground, and are everywhere meet ing the approval of the people. Trouble Ahead. A 00:4 Democrat, says the Wilkesbarre Ad rocateijinforms us that their is much dissatisfac tion in his party with the nominations recently made at Harrisburg. He says there is a strong desire felt to have a Canal Commissioner in the northern part of this State, and thinks it the Whig party nominate a candidate for that office in this section; that he will surely be elec ted. He says, that the nomination of Banks and Brawley; . for re-election to the offices of Auditor General and Surveyor General, will not suit the party well, and thinks if the Whigs nominate the righ kind of men they will stand a good chance to elect all three. New Railroad Route The Doylestown Intelligencer learns from a reliable gentlemen in Bensalem, that a survey &a new route, for tho• Philadelphia and Water Gap Railroad is about to be made. It will leave the city at the Kensington Depot, and follow the Philadelphia and Trenton Road to the Val ley of the Poqueston, which it will follow as far as the mill of James Carter, in Byberry, then taking an easterly direction cutting the farms of Jacob Vanzant, Mrs. Dr. Abraham La- Rue, Mahlon Ridge, Charles Whitten, Joseph Vanzant, and to the mill dam of Col. Franlilin Vanzant, in Middletown. It is then intended to follow the windings of the romantic Nesha miny, passing in the vicinities of Attleboro', Newtown and Doylestown, and striking the Delaware river, at some point between New Hope and Easton. It is said that a gentleman who has reviewed the route states that it is by far the most passible - one that has ever been in contemplation, and that the survey will be com menced in a short time. It passes through a garden portion of Bucks county, and no doubt a large amount of stock Could be obtained on the route; the large number of merchant mills on the Neshaminy, will afford a handsome rev enue fOr the road, while the produce of a high ly cultivated country, will find an easy access to one of the best markets in the world. Philadelphia Appointments. According to the information of the Pennsyl vanian, who ought to know, or be correctly in formed, Gideon G: Itiescott, will be Postmaster, Col. F.M. Wynkoop, Marshal, Reuben C. }lsle, or Lewistown; Surveyor. For Collector, we have the same authority for saying that Judge Eldred and Charles Brown, are the most prom inent candidates, and for Navy Agent, Capt. Day and Batty Hayes. • If Eldred fails being Collector, the race for Naval Officer will be be tween him and Chambers McKibben. From Harrisburg we learn, that it ispurrent 1y rumored and generally believed, that Ex Governor David R. Porter, is or will be appoint ed Collector of the port of Philadelphia. Mr. Porter, is a shrewd and .farseeing politician, and wields a deep influence with the so called democracy and is as thorough going as any of them. The fact that Philadelphia is repre. settled in a member of the new Cabinet, strong. ly indicates the probability as well as propriety of the appointment of a gentleman from the in terior of the state. As such we believe Gover nor Porter stands the best uhance. Cr Several candidates are busy in shaping matters at Washington, for the appointment of Postmaster at Easton, which is said to be quite a lucrative appointment. Col. William H. Hut• ter, of the Argus, is said to have received a promise from the Postmaster General that he should be nominated, but Senator Broadhead is on bad terms with him, and will undoubtedly endeaver to veto his confirmation. In order to allow a little breathing time, the whole matter has been laid over, it is said until May next. Appointments by the Governor. Charles A. Black, Esq., of Greene county, to be Secretary of the Commonwealth. Francis IV. Hughes, Esq., late Secretary to be Attorney General. This change in the administration is consequent upon .the vacation of the office of Attorney General, by the appointment of Judge Campbell to a place in the Cabinet of General Pierce. The position of Attorney General is assumed by Mr. Hughes, because it the better enables him to pursue his extensive practice in the courts of his own county, and the Su. preme Court of the State. Mr; Black, who becomes the principal confi• dential adviser of the Governor, is a lawyer, of considerable experience. He occupied a seat in the Senate of this . State, with Gov. Bigler, 'and was always one of his most intimate friends and warm — supporters. In that body he was well schooled in.the financial affairs of Penn. sylvan ia. (For the "Lehigh Register.") To Parents. I suppose all parents are aware, or have ve ry frequently seen the unpleasant appearance of teeth, in different children, in various degrees of irregularity. This is generally to be noticed near the front of the month, of both upper and lower jaws, so bad frequently, that they very much annoy the tongue, and interfere with enunciation, besides giving the mouth a very unpleasant appearance. Parents should be on a continual watch about the time the permanent &second teeth of their Children. eject from the gums, (which is gene. rally between the age of five to twelve years.) As soon as they discover any irregularity or the misplacement of a tooth visable.; they should immediately accompany them to a proper dent fist, and allow him to remove or deal with them as he may think proper. 13y timely . attention to occurrences of that kind, great benefit may be derived in future life, which otherwise would - change — the general appearance and urge the decay of those invaluable translucent organs of mastication. Alter these obsticles have been - re7e - o - v — cid7 - _na ures_vv.r correct slight irrogulariies. Melancholy Allhir On Monday last, the 21st of March, Mr. HIRAM W. DICONY, who was in the employ of Messrs. Hstrarcit & KUNTZ, in North Whitehall town ship, Lehigh county, met his death by the kick of a horse. It appears that Mr. Bigony, on his way in Mauch Chunk, moped in the Gap to feed, while There he saw a horse in thillikable, he for merly owned; he went in to see him, and in pas. sing around—not being on his guard—the horse kicked him in the face, which caused instant death. Mr. Bigony, was a Leung man, in the prime of life, respected by.nequainted with him. The news of this melancholy event, will : cast a deep gloom over the family, who reside in Pottstown, Montgomery county. ' It confirms the 'adage that "in the midst of life, we are in death." Titles in a Republican Government. There.is, and always has been, a numerous classin . .ffie - United Statesa, attached to titles whether in:or.:out - of office: Enropeans laugh at us--=saye iliejlome Journal—for our fondness for military holiers and titles, which are, it is Into, often enough oddity bestowed. But these titles are not to:be avoided, as long as a mili tary established is kept up by the nation, and we have an organiied militia in every State of the Union. But the rage for titles is abundant ly prevalent with us, in its application to per sons who hold, or have held, civil offices.— Hence we may see the terms, "Excellency," "Honorable," "His Hounor," "Judge," "May or," "Aldermin," "Esquire," and various other titles applied to individuals in many instan ces improperly ; or, when appropriately applied to persons in office, continued after their retire ment, and for the remainder of life. Then again, we have "Mr. President," for the heads of our institutions, financial, educational and otherwise; "Doctors" of Divinity, Medicine andiQuackery, without number; "Esquires," not only for lawyers and justices of the peace, to whom perhaps it properly belongs; but ap plied to every citizen distinguished in success ful commerce, authorship, or secretary of ward meetings, until at last the term "Esquire" is neatly as common as the prefix" Mister" form erly applied to gentlemen's names. It would be well, we think, if we had some leader of etiquette—some Beau Nash, Brum mel—who would give us a 'code of procedure' with regard In this matter, trifling as it may seem to the careless observer. In England it is well known that titles and precedence are fixed by law, or the invarible rules to custom and etiquette. If we have not some rules to govern the usages of society, which would gain general assent, we are subject to tho whims and caprices of the apes and admi rers or European fashions in all things, and the ridiculous assumptions of charlatans in po litics, religion, medicine and law. It is curious to notice how few persons among us are aware the proper deSignations of our highest pub lic offices. Thus, in addressing a letter to the President of the United States, one man will write "To his Excellency, Franklin Pierce, President of the United Stated," another will address him as "General Pierce, President," etc.; while a third will say," "To the Honora ble Franklin Pierce,.President, etc., etc." Now, it should be remembered that the first Congress of the United States expressly 'rejec ted all propositions to bestow titles on the Pres. Went. ' Hence the proper way to addre i ss a let ter to that functionary, in all cases, simply thus: —"To the President of the United States, Wash ington." As petitions and applications to the Prosi. dent will be somewhat in vogue for some time to come, we have thought it well to set all *- ties right on this subject of etiquette. Early Potatocs.-119 small potatoes are those which produce the earliest crop. When it is desirable to have . potatoes very early, a quanti ty of the smallest sized tubers should be selec ted and deposited in stable manure, where the fermentation will stimulate the germs, and cause them to send forth sprouts in a few days. They may than be planted out, if the weather and soil are favorable, and in a few weeks will be advanced, and sufficiently large to hoe.— The Potato, in this way, is frequently advanc ed from two to three weeks-;--often lour. New Way to Collect Bank Debt.t.—A telegram from Cincinnati, announces that on Saturday the Legislature of Ohio, passed a bill to amend the Tax law, authorizing the County Auditors, in cases where Banks refuse to pay taxes levied on them, to enter said banks forcibly, and with crowbars, pickaxes, &c., break open the safes, vaults or other places whore the money may be, and take the amount of tax claimed.—The vote on the final passage was-20 yeas and 5 nays. PTA man by the name of RspnsNSAVITE, ID Buffalo, committed suicide. Whether he is the Reuben Savitz, of 'Allentowh,is not stated. The Borough election held on Friday last, in the different wards in Allentown, terminated in the suteess of the following gentlemen: Getters! officers. Burgess—William J. Ettge. Auditor—Dr. J. P. Barnes. High Constable— William Horn. North Ward.—Judge—John D. Lawall. in spectors—William 11. Leh, and George Beisel. Assessor—Stephen Burger. School Director — Jonathan Reichard. Town Council William H. Blumer anYTilghman Stattler. Constable— Samuel Burger. South Ward.Judge—Jesse M. Line. Inspec tors—Joseph Gangewer arid Samuel Fried. As sessor—John P. Hound ie. constable Samuel Hartman. School Director—Dr. Charles H. Mai, tin. Then Council—Ephraim Grim and Reuben Engelman. Lehigh Ward—Judge— John Egge. Lupo ors—Jonas ti.Gommerer and James Kleckner. ssessor—Henry-Van d y k e; — Constatile=George White. Town Council-- Jonathan Trexler and William Hicker. School Directors William Baer, Casper Kleekm Vothatt_Gaumer_ George-White. —most-genefally I lIIPARTOR. On Monday last, the 21st instant, Mr. Samott. DANIEL, of Hanover township, Lehigh county, committed suicide by shooting himself with a double barrelled pistol. What induced the un• fortunate man to commit the horrid deed, is not known. Sheriff Newhnrd, was sent for who em. pannelled a Jury, which coincided with the facts stated above. Mr. Daniel, appeared well and hearty on Sunday afternoon and evening, conver• sing freely with several of his neighbors who were at his house. He went to bed as usual and got up in the morning, without the least thing being perceptible. After he got up, he went out to the barn, but soon returned, taking down his gun and placing it in a corner of the room ; his wife thinking he had seen something outdoors that he would wish to shoot. He then went to the desk, and took out a double barrelled pistol,. which he kept there; quickly turning his back to his wife and pointing the weapon towards his breast ; his wife upon seeing his intention, seized him around his body, and in that instant he dis charged the contents of both barrels into his I heart; one of the bullets taking off the thumb of the wife's left hand. Mr. Daniel is a young man, in very good circumstances, and has only been married about six months. Through the politeness ofMr. Law- y, we re ceived the following Statement, showing the receipts and expenditurs of the Sinking Pond for the year, commencing the let day of Dec ember, 1851, and endieg,the 30th day of Nov. , , ember ; 1852: , , RECEIPTS. Collateral inheritence tax, ." " $143,141 65 Premiums on charters, . 22,940 00 Eating house, beer house, and restaurant licenses, . 7,914 84 Billiard room, bowling saloon, and ten-pin alley licenses, Theatre, circus and menage- rie licenses, . . . . 2,813 25 Distillery and brewery licenses, 2,864 .98 Interest on loans, 2,757 64 Premiums on loans, as per act of 4th of May, 1852, Balance in hand ofJ. M. Bickel, Treasurer, on the Ist of Decem ber, 1851, as per report, Total Amount, DISBURSEMENT. Amount refunded, collateral Wm- ritance tax, . . . Paid Dr. Hammond, clerk to com- m issioners, . . Paid for Snicks purchased, as per statement annexed, Total, Balance due by John M. Bickel : Treasurer, Nov. 30, 1852, . Total Amount, . $238,578 23 GTThe Sinking Fund works admirably. Singular Clroumstanoe Two or three weeks ago, a respectable mar ried woman, residing in the eastern end of this county, gave birth to twin children, which ad dition increased the little responsibilities of the household to nine,. Some five or six nights af ter the event, the husband, who occupied a bed in the same room, was awakened by her, when she complained bitterly of her hard lot in hay. ing such a large household to card for. The husband soothed her as well as he could, and .then fell asleep. In .about an hour he awoke, and found that his wife had raft her bed. Im mediate search was made in and around 'the house, but the woman was not to be found.— The alarmed man fearing that, in her weak condition, she must perish before she could go far, summoned his neighbors to aid in searching for her. The party soon discovered foot.prints in the snow, and they followed the track to a creek, where she had crossed and re-crossed the stream three times in the water to .the depth of three feet. From there they tracked her along the creek, through fields and woods for a distance of nearly three miles, and at length found her sitting in a fence corner, with a piece of a rope and nail in her hand. When interrogated as to her motive for leaving her home, she declared it was her intention to com mit suicide. It was then suggested' that she was laboring under aberration of mind, which she . undoubtedly was, but this she stoutly de nied. The strange part of this occurrence is, that the women, after walking barefooted,lnd with nothing on her batthin cotton night clothes a distance of three or four miles' through snow, slush and cold water, and that, too, only six days after giving birth to two children, is now as well as ever she was in ter life. This may appear strange, especially to medical men, new he less it is true.—Hollidaysb. (Pa.) SYandard- Borough Election er,_No Shocking Suicide. The Sinking Fund Total, $214,106 85 , 24,471 38 $238,578 23 209,411 35 210,112 98 Catasauqua Borough. The newly incorporated Borough of Catasau , qua, on Friday last, elected the following gen tlemen to govern their affairs. The names are all familiar to us, and we should believe them fully competent to discharge the duties of the respective offices to which they have been se lected, to wit : • BURGESS—David Thomas. CouNClL—Jesse Knauss, Wm. Biery, Joshua Hunt, jr., Joseph Latibach, and John Clark. STREET COMMISSION ERS—Jonas Biery and Morgan Emanuel. Man CONSTABLE—CharIes Sigley. ' AUDITOR —John Williams. JUDGE or ELEcTioN—lsaati E. Chand ler. INSPECTOR —David G. Jones, and A. 11. Gilbert. AssrssonLevy Haas. CONSTABLE— Joseph Lazarus. Scitoor. Oracc - rons —James Ginther and Owen Rice, for three years. Chas. Nolf and T. C. Schneller, for two years. George W. Klotz and James Wilson, for one year. Jcs- TICE or TIE PEACE-4011D flucldere Important Movement in England. It will be seen by the following statement, _which - we - copy - from - the - letter - of - the - Lowdon - ent. respondent of the New York Times, that the Pro• testant sects in England, opposed to the National Church, are to unite their strength upon question of political and social reform. This writer says: The Nonconformist, body-Independents, Wes leyans, Baptists, and Dissenters of every denom• ination, are concentrating their strength, with a s view to a more active display of their power and influence on the social and political question of the day. The great dinner, in celebration of the formation of the "Milton Club" last week, at which about 400 of the leading Dissenters, inclu. ding fifteen M. P.'s, were present, was the com mencement of a new movement, and important results may be expected as it progresses. There is not only more .union, but more intellectual strength among the Dissenters than perhaps at any former period. The Mialls, Camp, bells, Burnets, Binney and others, are men who take sirOng interests in what is going forward in matters independent of the immediate affairs of their sects, and are beginning to rival the Church party in the ardor with which they plunge into general politics. The two first named gentlemen are the the able conductors of two newspapers the Nonconformist and the Banner—both zealous exponents of the aims and interests or the body they represent, to say nothing of various other periodicals devoted to the service of other sections of the dissenting world. 'Hitherto mutual jeal. ousies, relics of the ancient theological jancor, have kept them apart, but the "Milton Club" is apparently designed to establish a new order of things and supply the means of general associa tion and facilitate united action whenever it is called for. It will serve also, as kcOunterpoise to the overweening pretensions of the,, , hio churc h . party, and so far help to uphold the'citile of re ligious liberty, which is no .doubt best preserved by checking the tendency to preponderance and arbitrary power which seem inherent in all eclessiastical bodies. MEI Romance of Real Life John Aspden, whose sudden death on Monday was noticed in our columns, is to buried this af ter noon, from Swanson street, Southwark. Mr. Aspden was one of the English claimants of the immense estate of Matthias Aspden. Before the case was decided by the Supreme Court, in fa .vor of the American heirs, the latter proposed to the deceased to compromise the matter and offer ed to pay him the sum of $250,000 to relinquish his claim ;this he.refused to do, and the decision of the Court cut him off without a'farthing. On Monday morning the estate was divided between the heirs at law and almost in the same moment John Aspden fell dead, at a tavern in Carter's Al. ley, of disease of the heart supposed to have been induced by disappointment and mortiflcation.— At the time of his death his pockets contained a solitary cent! his entire fortune! Today, the man who might have been the possessor of a quarter of a million of dollars, will be born to his grave from an obscure part of the District of Southwark.—Truth is quite as atrange as fiction. - . Wronging and Desertion. 1,851 36 30,323 13 $lOl 13 700 00 A cruel case has just come under our notice. Some times last summer or fall, a man calling himself liarlylly took up his residence in one of the towns of this county, and figured con spicuously among the young people, making him. particularity agreeable to the young ladies. Fix ing his attention upon the daughter of a respect able farmer, he marked her as his victim. Un der promise of marriage, he effected her ruin, and left the town, assuring the confiding victim of his•ert, that he was about to take up his resi dence at Cleveland, Ohio, and would shortly re turn and marry. Overburdened with shame and exposure be coming inevitable, the young lady left her home travelled on foot five miles, and took the cars for Deihl°. She there fell in with the Sisters of Charity, who dissuaded her from a further pur suit of her perfidious lover, and provided for her wants. In despair she returned to this city, de termined to conceal her shame and the knowl. of her whereabouts from her pfirents. She found a female friend, who repaired with her to Mr. McKay, Overseer of. the Poor, who assisted her to a refuge, where she will remain until her situation will permit her to provide for herself. Of the whereabouts of the perfidious wretch who has thus trifled with the affections of a hith erto respectable girl, and brought misery and Bor.) row around a hitherto peaceful fireside, we have no knowledge. We regret, we have no descrip tion of his personal appefirance, to give the west ern press, that they might be instrumental in his identification, and assist in holding him up to the scorn of the world.—Rotheater Union. 28,465 75 The Fatal Accident all he Washington Kann ment.—The stranger who came to his death by falling from the Monument, on the morning of the Inauguration, has since been discovered to have been William MeKenney, formerly a boiler maker at the Washington Navy Yard. He was married,.and living with kis family in Baltimore having left them . on the Sd inst., to witness the ceremony of the Inauguration. His body having been disinterred and. recognised by his father, was taken posession only him 'and elsewhere deposited. Pennsylvania Legislature Senate March 11. Mr. Fry, read a bill in place to pre vent hawking and pedling in Lehigh county. March 10. Mr. Fry, presented a petition from Lehigh county, for a plank road from Allentown to Trealertawn ; also, one from Northampton county, for a plank road from Easton to Bethle hem; also, three remonstrances from Easton against the repeal of the auction law•of said bor ough, or any part thereof. Governor Bigler, today signed the Resolution relative to the publication of the School Laws of the Commonwealth, and the decisions thereon. House March 14. Mr. Barr, presented a petition of sundry citizens of the' borough of Easton, North ampton county, asking for the repeal of so much of the act approved the 6th of. May, 1852, as au thorize the said_borough-to-subscribe—swinirl the Philadelphia, Easton, and Water Gap Rail road Company. Also, one of similar import. 11119 another_ofsimilar-im port, Also, one of forty-eight citizens of Lehigh and Northampton counties, in favor of a free bridge at the borough of Bethlehem. Also, one of sixty•seven citizens of Saucon township, Northampton county, asking that mo• ney at interest be taxed for road purposes in said township. Also, one of sixty-two citizens of the county of Northampton, in favor of the Easton and Naza. reth plank road company. Also, the remonstrance of two hundred and twenty-three citizens of Northampton county, against the passage of an act authorizing the erection of a new Court House in said county. Also, the petition of one hundred and forty-seven citizens of said county, praying for the incorpo ration of a plank road from East ion to Bethlehem in said county. Also 4 containing two hundred and twelve names of Northamption and Lehigh counties againStßhe construction of a new bridge at Bethlehem. March 14. Mr. Struthers, from the select com mittee, reported a bill to lay out a race course in Lehigh county. March 14. Mr. Yost, reported a bill to incorpo rate the , Slatington Bridge company' in the coun• ties of Northampton and Lehigh; an net to in corporate the Easton and Nathareth plank toad company, in Northampton county. March 15. Mr. Slifer, reported with amend ment, the bill to authorize the Lehigh Crane Iron Company to make a'railroad; also, the bill to in corporate the Waynesburg Railroad Company. March 17. Mr. Laury, presented a petition of Lehigh, for . a State road in Lehigh county. GLEANINGS rirMauch Chunk was settled about 35 years ago. The first coal was carried to market In 1820. LP The Middletown, Collin., silver mine has recently been sold for $50,000. It was bought about a year ago for less than $5OOO. C" - Harrisburg owes $164.261. She has paid $3135 during the pist year; at the same rate some of her young men may yet see the borough out of debt—the prospect being better than that of some cities we know of. Q' Within a radius of fifteen miles from Lon don, there are two hundred thousand acres of land in the hands of market gardens, all laboring for the London market. a'"The Little Darling—he didn't strike Miss Smith's baby a purpose, did he It was a niece accident, wasn't it, deer !" "Yes mar, to be sure it was, and if he don't behdve himself I'll crack him again." lU"An editor in Arkansas was lately shot in affray. Luckily the ball came against a bundle of unpaid accounts in his pocket. Even gun powder could not get through unpaid newspaper bills, and the editor saved his life by the delin quency of his subscribers. 127' It appears that the farmers of Berks coun ty are opposed to the erection of the new county of Madison, because they had already far enough to come to the Philadelphia market, .without go ing through another county. IW" Wheat in. Ohio.—According to official re, turns Ohio has averaged thirty millions of bushels of wheat for the last three years of which sixteen millions are a surplus, after feeding all hs own inhabitants. t:P-Since the discovery of the silver mines of Potosi, there have been extracted from them not less than 81,600,000,000 ! • The vain is said to be as rich now as it ever was, but it is not worked, Or Mauch Chunk is an Indian name, signify either Bear Mountain or Bare Mountain. Car Wild Pigeons; we observe by some of ex changes, that these birds have visited the neigh. borhood of Trenton, N. J., during Chest week in . , large and numerous flocks. Wild Gaming in Delaware.—Rear and dear are still to be found in Cypress Swamp, in Sus. sex county. t"The Stamp Act was repealed on the 18th of March, 1796. A passenger from California by the Uncle Sam, states that during the passage he was rob bed of gold dust to the value of $2300. or The Chinese Troupe gave exhibitions in Reading last week. Cir The defunct Columbus insurance Compa ny, owes the State Tresury of Ohio the enormous sum of one hundred and fourteen thousand dol lars.— I.2s"The Commissioners of Yorlc' county, Pa., have adopted the plan of a new jail to cost about $55,000. law" The first canal boat through from Philadel- phia, arrived at Pittsburg at Wednesday. • 12frOn Saturday, at St. Louis, John Dickley recovered a verdict of $5OOO against a police of. ficer, named Cousins, for falsely imprisoning him in the watch house. Astounding Estimate.—Mr. C, Everett sums up the results of the liquor traffic thus;—ln direct expense," he says, ""it costs the country, during ten years, $000,000,000; judicial expense $600,. 000,000 more; 300,000 lives lost; sent 100,000 children to the Poor House; the cause of 2000 suicides; destroyed by fire, etc., etc., etc., to the amount of $10,000,000; made 1,000,000 orphans and 10,000 widows." IlAntirsacaa, March 20 The Ericsson.—The ship Ericsson, which ar. rived here on Monday, left the Capes on Friday afternoon, and stopped four or five hours on the way.' The confidence of the owners, it is said, was greatly increased in the caloric engine by the late trip. She went .0 Washington before she was complete, in order to he . there before the ad- Joon inent of Congress. She will now go to the shipyard, at Williarnsborgh, and remain about a month undergoing the finishing operations. The object thus far having been to see how well the machinery will work; it is supposed that the test of speed will he an object tin her next ap pearance. It is claimed by some of the admirers of the new motive power, that when the maxi mum of speed is reached in the caloric engine, the steamers will not exceed them in rapidity by more than a knot an hour.—.Netu York• Tribune. Caloric Engine for Me Navy.—Copt. Ericsson has made a contract with the Navy Department to construct for the Government a model Caloric Engine of sixty-horse power—such an engine as Capt. E. proposes to apply to a screw frigate.— .This engine is to be made forthwith and sent to Washington to be put up in the Navy Yard be fore the next meeting of Congress. Artesian Wells.—The Artesian Well from which Paris is supplied with water, was sunk to a depth of 1800 feet before a supply of water was found. A well in Flanders was sunk to a depth of 3,000 feet, and a supply of. warm water has eversince, issued from it in copious volumes. Pensions vs. Matrimony.—ln the Senate of the United States on Saturday, a pension was gran ted to Betsey Norton, a widow of ninety-odd years to continue for life unless she marry agai n.— Betsey will therefore mind her.p's and q'a whet, the young fellows are about. Wife's Last Hours.—Life's last hours are grand testing houis. Death tries all our principles, lays bare all our foundation. Vast numbers have been found to act the hypocrite in life who were. forced to be honest in the hour of death. What atheists have owned their principles, what world• ings have bewailed their folly when death ap proached! Misgivings of the heart, that have been kept secret through life, have come out in death ; and maby who seemed all right and fair for heaven, have had to declare that they had on. ly been self.deceived. It has been said, 'man may not dissemble in death,' hence the value of lying testimonies. We gather the last acts, the the last experiences; and we treasure them up as indubitable evidence in favor against the char acter of those that wore their value as tests of character, and all have felt their force. Population of Pennoykania.—We learn from the trienial assessment, just completed, that there are in the State of Pennsylvania 603,133 taxable inhabitants the counties of Forest and Montour excepted, no returns being received from them. If we allow 14,000 inhabitants to these counties and fix and proportion of taxables to population at Ito the population Of Pennsylvania, at the present time, would be 2,797731. If the pro portion were 1 ton the population would be 2,. 671,104. If the proportion were Ito 6, the pop. ulation would be 2,644,005, It cannot be less than this. In the year 1860 the United States census showed the State to possess a multi* lion of 2,811,000. The increase is two years would be about 300,197. . . Agricultural Convention. To establish, not "a University, or any systetrt of Education which would requit e a long prelim inary preparation on the part of the pupil,'and rich endowments from the State or individuals,' l but merely a "School where instruction can be had in the usual branches of what is called ad English Edueationi and in the elements of the diF ferent Sciences which are immediately and inti 4 mately connected with agriculture." They pro pose to call it "thgParmers' High School ofPend , sylvania," and suggest that it shotild be located where the Soil would "admit of the cultivation' of all the grains, the grazidg of cattle and the' raising of all the products of the Dairy," near market and easy of access; that there should be not less than 200, and if possible 300 acres; that the head of it should be a practical farmer,. "capable by his character and example, of mould_ ing the pupils entrusted to his care, to soar. -habits-of-mind - am penervering industry as will send forth into the Commonwealth active, able* and accomplished farmers;" that he should no; have less than three or four assistants, one to _each-of-the-English - branches, another Natural Philosophy and another Chemistry, Geology and Botany ; that at some time, as the institution grows, departments of Natural History, Survey, ing and Veterinary Surgery and Medicine should be established; that no pupil should be admitted under 14 or 15 years of age; that every pupil should be required to work,—say three hours a day and none excused except from physical ina bility ; that, as It is an experiment, and the smal lest possible outlay should be made, a single building, "containing apartments for the instruc, tors, sleeping - rooms for• the pupils, recitation rooms, a liberary, lecture room and laboratory, arranged to hold with comfort one hundred per-, sons," is all that will be at first necessary; and that the outlays should be as follows: $9,000 f0r.200 acres of land; $B,OOO for neces sary buildings and improvements; and $3,000 for stock of the farm and furniture—total $20, - 000, to be raised as follows; $lO,OOO by contri bution from individuals, which they say they are satisfied will be contributed, and $lO,OOO from the State, while a contribution of $5,000 from the State Agricultural Society will enable 'them to commence the School. The committee re mark that a "more enlarged plan would be more commensurate with the character, of the great State of Pennsylvania," but they wish the pro ject to have a begining, and with this view, make the above moderate recommendations. Upon the general subject of raising an amount hereaf ter suitable to their wants, the committee say they desire from the Legislature an net of incor poration, and that "the amount of money which it will be necessary, to expend, and provide fur the maintenance and support of the institution shall form the capital, to he dtvidrd into (our thousand shares, of twenty - five dollars each; ma. king one hundred thousand dollars ; an amount which, if the project be successful, as we antici pate, may, at some future day, be necessary."
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