Ml l e teliigl) Register. Allenlown,.Pa. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1853. CANAL COMMISSIONER. Moses Pownall, OF LANCASTER COUNTY AUDITOR GENERAL. Alexander K. McClure, OF FRANKLIN COUNTY SURVEYOR GENERAL. Christian Myers, =EI larThe remarks of the "Patriot" respecting acertain marriage notice, that made its appear. ance in the "Register" and "Friedsnsbote" of the 13th of April, is couched in language so dis reSpeetfelit-nd ungentlemanly, that they deserve no further notion. The Break in the Canal The break at one of.the new locks, at Uhlers• villa, on the Delaware Division of the Penn sylvania Canal, appears to have been quite a serious one. The water ran in behind the wing wall and undermined it, the whole of which bad to be taken down and rebuilt. As our Mar' chants, Millers, Distillers, Mechanics, &0., are debply interested in the matter at present, hav ing either goods on the canal, or ready for shipment, and particularly, us so many exag gerated repafts have been circulated, any cor rect information concerning the break is anx iously looked for. A gentleman of Allentown, left on Saturday for Uldersville,- Mr. Burns, the Superintendent informed him that the breach could be so far restored, as to be able to pass Boats on Wednesday or Thursday, of the pre sent week, so that they may be expected in Allentown by about Friday or Saturday next Public Works—Banks. Mr. Strong's bill for the sale of 'the Main Line of the public works was up in the House of Representatives a few days before the final ad journment, providing for the organization of a company to purchase said line for fifteen mil lions of dollars. There was evidently adecid ed majority of the House in favor of the prop. milieu, but the late hour at which the bill was got up, prevented final action on it 'our Bank_l3ills_w.ere_passed—the-Meehan— ice and Girard of Philadelphia were re•charter. ed, the capital of the Chambersburg Bank was increased 650,000, and the Erie Cily. The first three were old banks, the latter a new one. Relief Notes. A section was passed in the appropriation bill providing for the speedy cancellation of the Relief Notes. The greater portion of those notes have become so filthy and tattered that their cancellation was urgently demanded by every consideration of decency and comfort.— The large number of counterfeits in circula tion is also a 'strong reason for the withdrawal of the whole issue from circulation. An Improvement Oar enterprising friends Mesere. W. 15 . C. Edel man, have lately built an inclined plane from the wharf of the Lehigh Basin to their Coal Yard, a distance of several hundred feet, and by the aid of one horse and three men, they are enabled to unload a sixty ton Boat in three hears. The expense of unloading is reduced one-half, and will be the means of reducing the price of coal to that amount. A Mouse Caught by an Oyster. Whoever heard of a mouse being caught by an oyster? Yet such is the fact, it we are to be lief our friend Mr. Aaron Wint, the proprietor of the Resturaunt, in West Hamilton street, Al lentown, who by the bye is a man of truth and veracity. Mr. Wint, one evening last week, left a few oysters standing in a basin on the floor, from the heat in the room they partially opened ; during the night it appeared a mouse undertook to creep in between the shell, when the oyster fastened on the mouse and made it a victim. In the morning the oyster was pick ed up with the mouse tightly pressed between its shell. New York Tribune The New YorliTribune commenced its thir teenth year on Monday, the 11th of April, by an "enlargement which will fully add one third to its erear require its proprietors "henceforth to pay more for the white paper on which it is printed then all they receive from its subscri bere,".and will add $50,000 a year to their ex penses, making their expenditures next year larger than their annual income has over been. This enlargement has been made in order to avoid all complaints about fine print and bad type, to give more room for news of. every de. eoription, enable them to publish their Foreign and other . correspondence, with more prompt ness than heretofore, and introduce a number of new features by which to make their paper more than ever attractive and valuable. We have two daily mails from New York, one in the fore,• and. the other in the afternoon, and often have we perused the Tribune, before the Philadelphia papers came to hand. We have only to add, that the Daily Tribune. in its present form carefully filed, will make a per fect Library. The termer)! the various editions are as follows :—Daily, five dollars per annum in advance ; six months, two dollars and fifty cents; three months, one dollar and fifty cents. Semi-weekly, three dollars per annura; , , 2 cop ies, five dollars; 10 copies, twenty dollars. Weekly, two dollars per annum ; eight copies, twenty dollars; twenty copies, thirty dollars. Three Cent Pieees,—The United Stales Mint at Philadelphia has stopped coining the 3 cent pieces, having made thirty-six millions since the begiaing of the issue. They made enough in all conscience. The 3 cent piece is a miserable coin, and not fit for circulationimang a decent and Christian people. Vice President King is Dead We announce with profound sorrow, the death of William R. King, the Vice President Of the United States. Ile died at his residence in Alabama, on Monday evening, the 18th of April, where he had only arrived the day pre vious. Though this intelligence has been long anticipated, now that it has come, it will be re ceived with deep regret. • Mr. King was a native of North Carolina, and represented that Slate in early life in the Con ' gross of the United States, but reeigned his seat in that body to accept the post of Secretary of Legation to Mr. Pinckney, at the time that die thiguished Statesman was commissioned all ernbassador to ono of the European courts. Mr. King spent several years abroad, and on his return home, settled in Alabama, where he was an active member of the convention which framed the Constitution of that State, and soon thereafter was elected otte SetiatorS'ili Congress. lie continued a member of the; U. S. Senate until 1844, when he was a tainted I Miri>ter to - France.: liritis 'return, in 1847, he was again elected to the Senate, and remained a member of that body until his election as Vico President. Few public men have had so uninterrupted and successful a career as Air. King, and few have sustained through life a brighter reputa 7 lion for personal honor and unswerving integ rity. Though he never could be ranked among the first Statesmen of his day, he was a man of more than ordinary talents, and always oc cupied a respectable and influential position as a member of the Senate. . It is said he dreaded to die in a foreign land, and that his heart's wish while in Cuba was that he might he permitted to return to die in his own country. It pleased a kind Providence to gratify his wish. He was enabled to return to his own heme, nod died within twenty.four hours after he reached it. Ills death will he deeply deplored by all who knew him. Clothing. Emporium.—Our enterprising neigh bors, directly opposite our office, have just re• turned front New York and Philadelphia with a very superior Stook of Spring and Summer Goods, embracing all the new and fashionable styles. The good judgment these gentlemen are known to exercise in the selection of their goods, is so well established, that any thing we might say in their behalf, be considered super- Th - ey have also just received a splen did lot of Odd Fellows' Regalias ; those who would like to appear in procession in 11lay next, would do well to give Kick and Lch a call. Advice to Young Men Owe no matt anything. Keep out of debt. Avoid . it as you would war, pestilence and famine. Shun it as you would old nick. Hate it with a perfect hatred. Abhor it with an en tire and absolute abliorence. Dig potatoes, break stones, peddle in tinware, do any thing that is honest and useful, rather than run in debt. As you value comfort, quiet and inde pendence, keep out of debt. As you value good digestion, a healthy appetite, a placid temper, a smooth pillow, sweet sleep, pleasant dreams and happy wukings, keep out of debt. Debt is the hardest taskmaster, the most cruel of all oppressors. It is a mill-stone about the neck; it is an incubus of the heart; it spreads a cloud over the whole firmament of man's being. It eclipses the sun; it blots out the stars; it dime and defaces the beautiful blue sky. It takes the soul out of its laugh, and all stateliness and freedom from his walk. Come not.under its accursed dominions. Pass by it as you would pass a leper, or one smitten by the plague. Touch it not. Taste not of its fruit, for it shall turn to bitterness and ashes on your lips. Friendly, Nay to each and to all, but especially to you young men, who are begining business, keep out of debt. Master and Apprentice 1 A ease was tried in the Ilerks county court, several weeks ago, involving the obligation and rights of the parties under the apprentice sys• tern. The contract was a verbal one. Reuben Prelz, was to serve one year and ten months under Jonathan Butz, to learn the mysteries of cigar making. The boy left at the expiration of four months, alleging that he could not stand the trade, but afterwards worked at the busi• ness at home and elsewhere. Therontruct was made on Sunday, but the jury found a verdict in favor of plaintill for twelve dollars. The Judge charged that "ille,e contracts are highly important a..d that the interest of socie• ty. require that they be kept in good faith. The apprentice must stay long enough to compen• sate the master for his trouble in teaching'him his trade." KrWe have seen a number of cases decid ed upon the same grounds in Philadelphia and other places. In Allentown, however, wisea cres have a different opinion of the law. We know of a case decided not many years since, where an apprentice by verbal contract agreed to servo 5 years to learn a trade, after 1 your had elapsed, for which he was to receive $9O, the boy saw fit to leave his master. Some five or six dollars was coming to Mo boy, at the time he left, which the master refused to pay. Suit was brought before uJustice, decisions sim ilar to the nbove were quoted, but all to no pur pose, judgement was given in favor of plain• tiff; "Doubtful things are very uncertain," so is the law. Holders of Silver Coin The following paragraph from the Baltimore Clipper gives timely warning to a class of peo• pie who will do well to heed it: - "Silver Coin. Spanish quarter dollars are only intrinsically worth twenty cents. Govern. meat is preparing an enormous issue of new quarter dollars. The banks will be supplied next month. The Spanish quarters will then be "called in"? at twenty cents. Those old fo gies who have been huarding up Spanish coin had better put it in circulation, or they will lose twenty per cent." Marriage in Pennsylvania A New York - cotemporary appears to be shocked that, in this state, "a man and woman may enter into a mutual agreement of matri mony, untrammelled by religious ties or cere monies." We cannot ourselves see any cause for horror. Marriage, says the Evening Bul letin is regarded as a civil contract merely, not only in this State, but generally in these United States ; and that civil contracts should be enter ed into, without "religious forms," is surely nothing astounding. Nevertheless, though the law does not require it, a majority of marriages iri Pennsylvania are propably celebrated before a mini.ter. The reason is, that miirriage was considered as a sacrament forso many centuries requiring the sanction of the Church, that even the-change of the law has not sufficed to abol ish the old practice. There are thousands, in deed, who would scoreely think their_nuptials _ perfect, without the blessing of the preacher; and there are lens of thousands more, who pre fer the religious to it merely civil ceremony, ue_i more decent, if not more fashionable. Weth er or not Protestantism has done wisely, in making marriage a civil contract only, we do not pretend to say. If there has been any er ror, Pennsylvania shares it with other States, and even many foreign nations While matrimony remains a civil contract, however, our system is unquestionably the best. That is to say, any testimony, by which, a con tract can be proved, should be adrnissable so long as marriage IS regarded as merely a civil contract. If two persons agree to live togeth• er as man and wife, and do so notoriously live together, this is a marriage, and ought to be, it good morals are considered. Were all commu nities governed by a rule like this, week young girls would not so often become the victims of designing betrayers, for many a confiding fe male, would then find himself compelled to support her as his wife. Whether two given parties are married or not, is a mere question of evidence. A certificate from a justice of the peace or from a minister, or a sufficient num• her of oral witnesses, is as good proof as the official seal of a bishop, or the notoriety of thousands of spectators. Of course, the more public the ceremony, the more solemn the form, dire easier it will be to authenticate the marriage. The Quakers, who not only marry in meeting, but have parchment certificates b friends_ancLother-spectatorsi-often-to the number of hundreds, excel all other sects in the completeness of the proof they afford of a marriage. But it does not follow, because religious ceremooies, or the presence of hun dreds, makes the evidence of a marriage more conclusive, that it would be wise in leg• islators to declare such forms and spectators to be absolutely necessary to legal nuptials. Important from Mexico. A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans, dated April 20, states that news had just been received iu that city from New Mexico, which promise to embroil this country in another war with Mexico. The accounts state that Gov. Lanehad issued a proclamation claiming theMe cilia Valley, now held byMexico, as a portion of the American territory. The Government organ asserts that this Valley was left out by the neg. lest or oversight of Commissioner Bartlett, and that it clearly belongs to the United States. He has therefore, under this confident belief, or dered Col. Summer to proceed to the spot with an armed force and take possession of it. Col. Summer, however, it is stated, refused to obey the instructions till he receives positive orders from Washington. In the meantime the Mexi eau authorities received notice of the move ments on foot, and immediately sent a body of several hundred troops to the Mecilla Valley, who where commanded to assist at any sacri fice:all attempts made by the United States to sieze the Valley which the Mexican Govern ment looks upon as a portion of its own pos sessions. When the above accounts left, the most intense excitement prevailed, and as it was expected to embroil the country in another war with Mexico, bloody work was anticipated. A Queer Feature in Banking.—The Bank of Chester County, some days ago, refused to re. ceive any more money on deposite, much to the astonishment and inconvenience of persons who have been in the habit of using this means for the safe - keeping of their superfluous change.— The reason is that the charter provides that the total liabilities of the bank, exclusive of its car Intl, shall not forany period of thirty consecutive days, exceed three times the amount of the cap ital stock paid in, under penalty of a forfeiture of its charter. The coffers were full, and the officers retnainded inexorable. The directors of this Bank seem to be more conscientious than some Bankers we have heard tell of., Grand Indian Council.—The Fort Smith Her ald learns that the Grand. Indian Council of all the Indian tribes is to be held on the south side of our Canadian frontier, in the neighborhood of the Red Hills, about three hundred and fifty miles from Fort Smith, about the middle of May. Copper in Berl,•s Counly.—The copper and lead mine lately discovered upon the property of Mr. George Focht, in Windsor township, Berks county, is to be worked during the approaching summer, by a Pompon:) , from Philadelphia. It is believed that the enterprise will not only pay ex • penses, but yield a handsome profit. OS/c.c.—Alt Iletlts, it seems, expects a liberal share of the crumbs which shall fall from Col lector Brown's Custom house table. The Read ing Journal says that a strong deputation of the ' , Democracy" of Old !Jerks visited Philadelphia last week, and waited upon Collector Brown for a share of the spoils within his gift. Thus ftir, we believe, no appointments have been made from, this region. LirThe richest unmarried young lady In Boston, Miss Shirn min, is taxed for $320,000. Now, young gentleman, smooth down your faultless liyons,,and lay siege to the umtnate. able (horrid, word) "figure." A Man and Five Horses Killed. On the 31st of March last Mr. JOHN ICEPPLEII, aged about GO years, of Stet•cnson county, Illi nois, formerly of Centre county, in this State, and father-in•law of Mr. Peter Lichten Walter of this county, accompanied by three of his sons, were engaged at ploughing and sowing oats, and about three o'clock in the afternoon a thunder storm came up; the old man ordered the horses to be unhooked, and said they would go home, and wanted the boys to come and ride the - horses, but they said they would walk; they did so with the exceptions of Henry, who mounted one of the homes and led one by his side ; so did the fath er, and one horse was loose and walking after the others. After they got within two hundred yards of the house, a streak of : lightening struck the old man on the head, tearing his cap to pieces opening the skin somewhat on the left side of his forehead, scorching his hair and eyefirows,.and I killingliim and'the five horses instantly, while the boy Henry miracuously escaped by being stunned for a few minutes. The horse he rode was-instantly-Atilled-under:him7--Eashm—Argu-sTI Gold.—The New York Journal of Commerce, noticing the prediction Of the remarks on the depreciation of gold by Chevalier, who stands at the head of political economists in Fiance, says very sensibly ; °We do not ourselves believe that there is going to be any great depreciation in the value of money. The quantity of gold produced is indeed large, and so is the world large over which it is to be scattered. The in creasing population and business of the world require an increasing wealth, the world absorbs increasing quantities in jewelry and the arts. A modification of our banking system, so as to with. draw a portion of our immense volume of paper promises from circulation, would soon show whether gold is worth any thing or not. At pres ent, we ate living, to a great extent, upon artifi cial stimulous. The case is somewhat different in Europe, we admit, and the over. action is con sequently less. The current will work itself clear by and bye, and we shall see where we all I stand." Girard Will Case.—Judge Grier, of the U. S. Circuit court, has refused to grant a new trial in the case of the heirs of Stephan Girard vs the city of Philadelphia. . The heirs claim certain lands of great value in Schuylkill county, held by the city of Philadelphia, under the will of the late Stephan Girard. The Judge, on the trial charged the jury that as the title to those lands - was - perfeCted - ti - Thihe date of tlast codicil to his will they could not pass by it. The jury found for the heirs, and the defendant moved fur a new trial. This Judge Girer has refused to giant. Tobacco and Brandy.—The New York Times calls attention to the astonishing fact revealed by the Treasury tables just Issued, that We smoke up, in Spanish cigars, our whole export of Indi an corn. For the rest of our breadstuffy, the Door sent abroad suffices for something like two - thirds of the interest on the foreign debt, leaving the rice of South Carolina, and the deferred faith of the repudiating States, to settle the remainder. Two Great Discoveriee.--The Boston Transcript is told that two important discoveries. have re• cently been made in the manufacture of oil and the production of light. Although probably known to quite a number of persons, the details have not yet been spread before the public. Ifcorrectly in formed, the oil is obtained with singular economy and abundance by an improved proces to the dis tillation of coal, while, with a like degree of econ omy and abundance, benzoic., which is also one of the products in the distillation of coal, is by an improved apparatus, converted into gas for illumination. Specie coming East.—The Weeling Tildes says that the Falls City, on Saturday. had $150.000 in specie on board for the East. The Virginia, on Friday, had about $40,000, and during the week past $400,000 have been forwarded to the same destination by Adams Sec's. Express. A LessoN TO THATIEBNIEN.—When old Zacha" riah Fox, the great merchant of Liverpool, was asked by what means he contrived to realize so large a fortune as he possessed, his reply was— .. Friend, by one article alone, and in which thou mayest deal, too, if thou pleases; it is civility. The Wheat Crop in Pennsylvania.—Up to within ten days past, the wheat fields did not look over encouraging; but the late warm rains have had a most invigorating influence upon them. Their spotted appearance has given way to one ex. panse of "living green" so that, to keep within reasonable bounds, the crop for the preserit sea. son, gives promise of a full yield. The informa. tion from other quarters of the State, as well as from other States, where this crop is more ex clusively the staple one, is of the same cheering nature. Fire in Mount Bethel.—eit Friday afternoon last the barn of Daniel H. Snyder, Esq., in Low. er Mount Bethel township was destroyed by fire with all its contents consisting of about 200 bush els of oats, two voluble horses, one cow, togeth er with a quantity of hay and straw. It was set on fire by one of his little boys, who was play ing in the stable with a parcel of matches.—We learn that there was only about $lOOO insurance on the property. Parents cannot ts too careful in placing matches beyond the reach of the'• children.—Euston Argue. Britian's floppy Family.—The Queen, Alex andrina Victoria, was born May 24,1819. Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Eman. uci of Saxe Woburg and Gotha,. was born Aug. 26, 1819.. The twain were married at the age of 21, on he 10th of February 1840. The issue has been Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa, bunt Nov, 21, 840. Albert Edward, born Nov. 9, 1841. Alice Mout Mary, born April 25, 1843. Alfred Ernest Albert, born Aug. 25, 1844. Helena Augusta Victoria, born May 25, 1890. Louisa Caroline Alberta, born March 18,1898. Arthur William Patrick Albert, born May 1, 850. A son not yet named, born April 7, 1853. Eight children—four sons and four daughters In thirteen years, and all alive and well, Bible Statistics. More than once have statistics of its of the fol lowing character found their way into print, to the delight of both young and old; this fact will not prejudice the insertion of the statement here with presented by a correrpondent, inasmuch as the accuracy of its details, dithering as they do from those of similar statistical papers,' may be relied upon. It is mainly taken from an English Bible, as given by the indefatigable Dr. Horne, in his introduction to the Study of the Scriptures (Vol. 31., p„ 38, last Eng. ed.,) and is said to have occupied more than three years of the compiler's life. As it will be found both useful and inter esting, its length will not be regretted.— P. Sun. Old Testament. Nem Test. Total, 39 t 27 60 929 260 1,189 23,214 7,959 31,173- 593,492 - 181,253 773.746 2,728,100 838,380 3,566,480 Books, Chapters, Verses, Words, _ Letters, Apocrypha. 14 Words, Books, 195 I Letters, 1,00,87 G Chapters, Verses, The Bible. The middle book in Micah The middle and smallest chapt. is Psalm 117 The middle verse is the Bth of Psalm 1151. The middle line is in 16 verse of 2 Chronicles 4, 'l'be largest book is that of the Pslams. The largest chapter is Pslam 119. The word Jehovah or Lord occurs 6855 times, The word And occurs 46,227 times. The number of authors of the Bible is 50. The Old Testament. The middle book of the Old Test, is Proverbs The middle chapter is 29th of Job. The middle verse is in 2 Chronicles, 20th chap ter, between the 17th and 18th verses. The shortest book is Obadiah. The shortest v. 1 Chronicles, Ist chap. 25th v The word And occurs 35.543 times. The 21st verse of Ezra, 7th, contains all the letters of our alphabet. The word &hzh occurs 73 times, and only in the poetical books. 2 Kings 19th chap. and Isaiah 37th chapter are alike:— This fact is on internal mark of the truth of these Scriptures being transcripts from public re. cords, by two different writers, who where not cotemporaries. The same may be said of the following two coincidences. The book of Esther does not contain the words God or Lord. The last two verses of 2 Chronicles, and the opening verses of the book of Ezra are alike. Ezra 2d and Nehemiah 7th are alike. There are nearly 30 books mentioned, but not found in the Bible, consisting of civil records and other ancient writings', now nearly all lost.— They never formed part of the holy Scriptures. About 26 of those are alluded to in the Old Tes tament. New Testament. The middle book is 2 Thessalonians, The middle chapter is between Romans 13th and 14th. The -middle verse is Acts 17; 17th verse. The smallest book is 2 John. The smallest verse is John 11th ch. and 35th v. The word And occurs 10, 094 times. The name Jesus occurs neatly 700 times in the Gospels and Acts, and in the Epistles less than 70 times. The name Christ alone occurs about 60 times in the Gospels and Acts, and about 240 times in the Epistles and Revelation. The form Jesus Christ occurs 5 times in the Gospels. I. The Bible was not until modern times divi• ded into chapters and verses ; the division into chapters has been attributed to Lanfrane, Arch bishop of Canterbury in the reign of William I; and by others, to Archbishop Langton, of Canter. bury, A. D. 1206 ; but the real author of this di visors was Cardinal Hugo de Sancto Caro, about thirty years later. • The facility of reference thus afforded was fur• ther increased by the introduction of the present system of verses ; this was done for the New Tes tament, in 1545, by R. Stephens, a French prin ter it is said, while on horseback ! But lone before this, the Hebrew Bible had been divided info verses by a Jewish Rabbi, Murdecai.Nathan about A. D. 1445. 2. The number of languages on earth is esti mated at 3000 ; the Bible or parts of it have been rendered into only about 180. The two 'princi pal English versions are those of “King James," commonly called the Protestant Version, and the "Downy" or Roman Catholic. The fortner was translated from the Hebrew and .Greek in the reign of James 1., A, D. 1609-1611 by 47 Epis copalian Bishops and other clergy—the most ' learned English divines of their time. It is uni versally esteemed as the best translation ever made. The Downy version was translated from the Latin Vulgate, collated with the Hebrew and Greek. by lour Professors of Theology in the English College of Downy,. in A. D. 1709. 3. The Latin Vulgate is the Latin translation of the Bible in common (Ur vulgate) use, in the Roman Church. It was made, A. D. 384, by St. Hieronymus, a learned monk. It is highly es teemed by all. 4. - The earliest translation known of the Bible was the version of the Old Testament, called the Septuagint, into Greek, make in Egypt, 285 years before ChriSt by 70 learned interpreters, from which it has derived its common title, Septuagin^ to meaning 70. 5. The Apocrypha is not a part of Canonical Holy Scripture, but is read nevertheless for ex• ample of life and instruction in manners, but not to establish any doctrine." It should be printed with every edition of the Bible as all the old L'ag lish and German Protestant Scriptures are. 6. The first English translation complete of the Bible, was by Wiclif, in A. D. 1380. At tempts, with partial success, had before-been made by the venerable Bede, A. D. 785 who died as he finished the last Word of Si. John's Gospel King Alfred, A. D. 900, continued it. It had in part been translated into Anglo - Saxon, even.be^ fore Bede. In French a version was made A. D. 1160, for the Waldenses, by their great leader Peter Waldo. In Spanish,.there was one made A.D. 1280, by order of Alphonse, King of Castile. In German, a version was made about A.D. 1460. Luther made a new translation into German of the New Testament, about A.D. 1522 and of the Old Testament 10 years later. 7. The first American edition was printed in Boston. A.D. 1762. The second was printed by order of the Continental Congress, under super. vision of their Chaplain, the late good 'Bishop While. This was printed in Philadelphia, in 1761, by R. Aitken. Many copies of this edition arc in possession of our citizens and will be pre. served as a relic of the days of the Pater Patria. 8. In the time of Edward 1., A. D. 1250, a copy of the Bible was valued at $164 of our currencY now millions of copies are yearly distributed.— From one depository alone (British and Foreign Bible Society,) in 1851.2 the issues were at the rate of three Bibles and a half every minute, at the cost-of one cent. per copy ! Such is one class of benefits arising from the invention and pres^ ent advanced state of the art of printing. Truly it is, as it has been styled, "the lever of the world." EP"A clerk in a city establishment writes to hia friends at home, "I have a plaguy easy time of it now a days -- very little 125,185 firm don't advertik,. • Well, Pat, which is the way to Allentown., "How did you know my name was Pat ?'t I guessed it." "Thin, be the powers, if ye air 30 good at guessing, ye'd bethur guess the way to. Allentown. IV"Judge Reid, fermerly of the Supreme Cuarr of Ohio, has taken a final leave of the bar of that State, and started for California. W' Gen. Arista, late President of the Rt.public of Mexico, has arrived at New Orleans. OrThe Clay Monument Association. of' Ohio has received a donation of $l,OOO from a former of Hamilton county. 12P" Vice President ICine, it is said, owned an estate of 2,000 acres of r;ch land in Dallas cowl , ' ty. Ala., with 150 slaves. It is also stated- that he has left the hulk of his property to the poor est of his relations, though all are comfortably provided for. 6031 tom' Among the late counterfeits are s's on the Trenton Banking Company, N. J. vig figures 5, with two female figures, cupid anti a small eagle entwined in it 3 each side of vig.— head of NVashingion on right hand. CrThe O!d Fogy is au individual that sits upon the shirt tail of progress—looks backward and cries whoa ! whoa Never reproach a man with the faults of his relatives. IV - Cuba tobacco seed, planted in Texas, proves to be an abundantly yielding crop. It - wouldn'rbe - surprislng if Texas seed should yield abundantly in Cuba one of these days. Amalgamation.—Married, in New York city, March 30, by Rev. ThOmas Henson. Prof. W. G. Allen, of .McGrawville, N. Y., to Miss Mary E.. King. of Fulton, N. Y., daughter of Rev. Lyndeu King, of Fulton. A case of amalgamation 7 The parties are the same who were concerned in the attempt at the feat they have li.ially,accomplished, some time ago at Fulton. It created great excitement there at the time. Allen, the colered gentleman denied that they wished to be married, and she went utr into Pennsylvania to teach school. Al. len is said to be unworthy of and ashamed of his color, and has always said that when he :named he would have a white girl. He was at one time at the Institute at Whitestown, and afterward., studied law in New York. His airs made him unpopular with his own people and with those abolitionists, who noticed his conduct at McGrawville. His marriage, it seems, is now a fixed fact, in black and white.—Utica Gareth, The Manufizdure of Umbrellas, Parasols, 4-c.— r This branch of business is carried on extesively in New York, according to a statement in the Journal of Commerce. It is chiefly, confined to seven different firms, who by the aid of machin ery manufacture anually about $15,000,000 worth. One of the largest firms embloys '325 persons, including 250 girls. Daring a considerable part of the year, from 1,200 to 1,500 umbrellas and parasols are turned out daily, and $75,000 worth of silks and ginghams are sometimes consumed in the course of three months. There are in an umbrella 112 different parts, and before being perfected the umbrella passes through 'nearly as many different hands. The average wages received by sewers of umbrellars is $4 50 per week. Extrordinary Matrimonial Case.—There were several complaints for neglecting families, at the New York Tombs Police the other day. One was against a sleepy looking carman, nsmed John sleDue; aged about 35 years, who was claimed as the baser half of a fat, strapping, Irish dame, of 55. John stoutly denied the soft impeachment averring that he was a widower, and that one night having drank rather freely, he found the woman In his bed, claiming to be his lawful wife. don't believe I'd do the like of mar. rying her if I were as drank as-4" said John— she's old enough to be my mother." The Court thought there might be some truth in John's state ment, and he was aocordingly dist:barged. Hard.—The Pittsburgh Visitor learns that last Monday a passenger in the accomodation train on the Pennsylvania Railroad, told the conduc tor he had no money to pay his passage, bat wished him to permit him to come to Pitts burgh. This the conductor refused, when the poor man made no further remark. The cars were stopped and he expelled. He sat down on the road-side, dropped his head upon his knees and died instantly. There were several email houses near, but no one took the corpse in, and the next day it was still there lying in a coffin by the road side. This took place a few miles west of Greenaburgh ; but we could not learn the uame of the poor stranger. Charcoal for Swine.—lt is not perhaps generally known that one of the beat articles that can be given to swine while in preperation for the tub is common charcoal. Nutritive properties are so great that they have subsisted on it without food for weeks together. Geese confined so as to de• prive them of !notion and fattened on three grains of corn per day, and as much coal as they can devour, have become fat in eight days. The bog eats voraciously after a little time, and is never sick while he has a good supply. It should al ways be kept in the sty and be fed to the inmate ill:Wail). like all oilier food. GLEANINGS
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