ar.4e totoi) register.
Allentown!, Po!.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE S. 18b1,
CANAL COMMISSIONER.
Moses Pownall,
OF LANCASTER COUNTY
AUDITOR GENERAL.
Alexander K. McClure,
OF FRANKLIN COUNTY
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
Chrititian Myers,
OF CLARION. COUNTY
----The Railroad_to Norristown.
Theitingiiiiiiris enthis road - have reached-Al
lentown on Thursday last, and their report will
soon be made public. From what we can
learn-of-Mr.- Consult, _ the Chief Engineer, the
route is"found to be very favorable, the dia..
lance frorn eight to ten miles shorter than any
road yet surveyed lo the Coal regions.. The
highest up grade being only 42 feet to the mile
and only one summit at "Leibert's Gap," from
there a distancevotiorty odd milesthe road pre.
sents a descending grade to Norristown.
The road is Of very easy construction and will
make the great thoroughfare from Elmira in the
State ofNew York, by way of Towanda, Tunk
hanook, Wilkesbarre, Mauch Chunk, Allentown
and Norrisiiiivnto Philadelphia, and will make
the only roadihroUgh which Philadelphia can
command the Northern Pennsylvania trade.
It commences at the terminus of the Phila.
delphia,Germantown and Norristown Railroad,
and following the banks of Schuylkill a short
distance thence to Perkiomen,abOut three,miles
above its mouth, and following that streantilix
teen miles to Green Lane, at the 'mouth of 'the
Macouba, up that strenm.to the mouth of the -
Hosensack creek; about seven miles thence
over The summit without descending grades
along the . Hosensack and Its tributaries; about
five Miles to the summit in the - middle moun
tain, opposite Leibert'sGap, in the Main Lehigh
mountain, through which the mithilemountain,
a tunnel of 2000 feet, is proposed, thence by a
descending grade of 44 feei to tiAnile for
nearly five miles, and 40 feet per mile fOr three
miles they reach Allentown. From
,Leibert's
Gap to'the town it is almost an airline. The
course is kept up almost the whole distance
from the time the perltiomen is reached to Al
lentown, with no sharp curves and the grades
generally light, and in the direction of the hea
vy descending trade ; whole distance about
forty-two
The tunnel is through a soft sand rock, easy
(.1 excavation, to all appearance. In the whole
line, there are no great natural obstacles, iitas
much as the line follows . water cotirses,,;ex 7 ,
cepting the tunnel, and consequently the mild
%vitt be cheaply built. No large, expensive.
bridging or heavy rock cuts along the
An Anecdote with a Moral
A friend of ours not long since told us an an•
cc.doto in relation to one of our subscribers
which contains a good moral for husbands, and
also furnishes an example Tor wives which is
not unworthy of imitation under similar cir•
cuinstances : '
. "The subscriber referred to, said to our friend,
in the presence of his sy ife hat it had been his
intention to call at the &wider office, pay up
his arrearages, and discontinue his piper.—His
wife very promply asked "why do you intend
to discontinue yeur paper V' •
"Because," said the husband. "I am so
much away from - home on business, and have
to little time to road , there seems to be very
nide use in.my taking the paper."
"Yes," responded the wife, "it may be of
little use to you, but it is of great use to met and
ihe children. I remain at home, while you aro
gope, and I wish to know what is going on in
iiiq world. If you discontinue the paper, I will
0 straight to town and subscribe for it myself.''
its the paper has not been discontiued, we
t oppose the wife's reasoning was conclusive.
..'" l llie:rnoral of this incident must not be over
. ..
. A husband should consider the grafi
itcatictutpd profit afforded his wife and chit
n't)i, the paper, as well as his own, and not
Iscontipue it, simply because he may not have
ao:opportunity to read it regularly. And fur
ff may remind some good husbands, not
nee. subscribers, that it is their duty to take the
j,:ip - nrjhat their wives and children may know
—What is going-on in the, world."
Melancholy Aooident
On Friday last, the 3d instant, a miner by the
famt , of Conrad Holc, a german, while working
tit die ore bed of Mr. Rob. Steckci, the earth gave
ay' and caved in, completely covering the
I an. After much exertion of those present,
t t 3 was.got out alive r btat received a fracture of
ae 01-his legs above, the knee, and otherwise
juring his spine. Ho is a man of family in
,creircumstances, consequently was removed
tu. the Poorhoufie. lie has since died.
A Curious Calf
Wii'hattbccaston to visit our friend Dr. D. O.
IVlttoungi township, this coon.
• , oni . t,litYlait.wsekpstrol alter passing sever,*
hoursvOrylifettiiiint tly with him and another
)d friend, hi ledAis into his stable and oho wed
a era *l l o l 'go4g ettriesity in: its 'Way.
14 of a beautiful...hp:ln enfori; handsomely
..tied, and perfeetly„rfalpralsln - ,iis . ,etruoture,
. t has no toil and thits'ffesent:ll:cluilauti spec
!n.We tried to persuade: tie Docior to raiso
• ~ ; ; or; exhibition at tho next Adrieultnral Fair;
however did not seem to favor the idea, be
, ring it to be more a matter of ponitthmetit to
poor areiltkq'a than a gratification of curiosity
• ..he tipoOtatoci as the tail- Fee ms to be the na•
10:al weiipon of the beasainat the flies.
teg,
:77 - Richard 111'Kee, who has the contract. on
~ Railroad ahoy.° the . Allentown Furnace, on
t ;:dnesday last had a Floret) killed by his fal
„, over a Culbert Bridge on the road.
Plunderers Daguerreotyped
The Lycoming Gazette, °leading Democratic
paper, says that "thp .last [ l egislator° was the
most illiterate and corrupt that ever. disgraced
Pennsylvanii." Gov. Bigler, then, is no bet-,
ter, for he approved nearly all.their acts. Th 6
State appropriation of the session, amount to
the enormous sum of $5,500,000 of which up
wards of two millions are for repairs, Ste. Svc.,
on the State Works. At least half a•million of
this enormous sum will be stolen.by the State
Robbers, So glaring have these robberies and
official rascality become, that the so called dem
ocratic press, itt many sections'e the State, is
forced by popular sentiment to direct the at
ention of the people to it.- -The Eastern Argus,
anothes leading democratic paper, cites the
-following;
"We doubt whether a bigger set Of rascals
can be found in the Union than the vultures,
who are constantly preying on the public works
of Pennsylvania.--They-have - -spread_over_the
Commonwealth like so many highway robbers,
plundering and stealing whenever opportunity
offers, and are not unfrequently particeps crim
inis with men whom the people elected to pro
tect their interest and guard their Treasury."
Tho same paper alluding to some useless
locks put up along ono of the lines of State Ca
nal, adds:
'Who sent a notorious State robber to put up
these Locks? Vho knows? These are ques
tions the public would like to have answered.
Honest and responsible men could have been
found here, by the dozen, who would have
done the work in time and done it well. But
favoritism must be the order of the day, and
one of the most notorious plunderers in the Co
mmonwealth most be sent here, nt his own
price, to put up a botched job and the dear pee
-Ede pay for it. He was told befOre the water
:Was let into the Canal, that his job was zoOd
for nothing, but those who where presumptive
enough. to give the gentleman the benefit of
their experience and knowledge, were told to
mind their own bininess.
George Merriman, Esq., in a letter. to the
"Crawford Democrat" impeaching the official
Conduct of the. Canal Commissionersi charges
that "Thomas Wilson, clerk to the Canal Board
is kept under the influence of New Whiskey
all the time, in order that he may be more
ready to do the dirty work . of the Board." He
further says, "it 'appears, by the reading of
quite a number of the papers in the State that
a man cannot be a Democrat unless he will
violate every principle of honesty and back up
the Canal Board in ull their rascality, and give
them what money they ask to squanter, and
lavish out to their favorites. But I can tell :
them that what is their wish is not my Demo
cracy." Mr. Merriman has represented Craw
ford county in the Legislature for two years
past, and in: his bold opposition to the Canal
:Board shown.timself an honest man.
The only effective plan Pennsylvania can
adopt to rid herself of the cormorants that are
constantly preying .upon her, isle sell her pub
lie improvements. They have already Cost
millions more than they will ever come to if
they are in the hands of the party for a thou
sand years. Every year swells the debt, and
the people have to pay the seorcer in the shape
of extra taxes. Sell the works, and the game
of plunder will be blocked at once and forever.
Costom-house Appointment
We congratulate our friend Col. J. L. Getz,
of the Reading Gazette, on his appointment by
Collector Brown to an Inspectorship in the
Philadelphia- Custom-house. From what we
learn it was entirely unsolicited on his part, and
could not have fallen in more competent hands.
As a laborer in the geat Locofoco party, none
more worthy could have been selected.
lflining Register.—Mr. C. M.llall, one of the
proprietors of the Register, published in Potts-
Pa., has disposed of his entire interest
in that concern to Mr. Garret L. Vliet, who was
orginally joint proprietor with Mr. Hall. The
paper will henceforth be conducted by Messrs.
Deyo & Vliet.
Pennsylvanian.—W m. H. Hope, Esq., Edi
tor and Publisher of the Philadelphia "Penn
sylvanian has withdrawn from that establish
ment, and the paper will henceforth bo conduc
ted by J. M. Cooper, Esq., late Editor of the
"Valley Spirit," Carlisle Pa., agentleman etni.
nently gratified for the task.
Hogs and Whiskey.
The Cincinati Atlas has the following para-
graph
°The largest distillery in the United States is
at New Richmond, Ohio, on the river, about
twenty miles above Cincinnati. There are two
distilleries in the town. At the larger there are
now made 125 barrels of whiskey per, day; at
the other 86—that is, New Richmond furnishes
the world 205 barrels of whiskey every day, or
about 7.0,000 barrels per annum. 1n the larger
distillery there arc now 0,000 hogs ; in the otll . er
7,000. These hogs are changed three times a
year, which makes 27,000 from one,. e and 21,000
from the Other, or 48,000 hogs frorti - New Rich
mond annually. At certain sea3otianf.the year,
from the character of their food, or from other
causes, epidemics prevail among the hogs.—
, Last winter over 3000 died.
In the last two years.abour 12,000 hogs have.
died at the two distilleries. These hogs are not
a dead loss; their carcasses are rendered into
lard oil. The bu'siness of the manufactory, at
Which. this "saving process" goes on, amounted
the last six months to over $5OOO. Last year
450 barrels Of lard were made from the hogs that
died in the pens.
'T:Jr' the larger distillery there arenow in store
about 100,1100ibtishels of grain. it is a spot as
inviting lo great-yats' as ever , Was. California or
Ahatralittlegold-lotring 'l` trade.betwein
Cincinnati' " and New4l.lchmond atiPports a steti..
mer, which makes daily triYis.der44;_and
The Might is Mainly hogs and whiskey. .110.'et .
c'ensiderable business is thine, al4o;livilour, of .
which at the two distilleries• there are ground
every day about 100 barrels.
The AdwirlorpraTariff:
• ' Thelon!) of an advalorum duty oni iron, is-1
'now demonstrated in a way to Make ttie.pook;
ets of.theConsumers feel it largely; . 'he rtrice
of iron, without any duty, is now high enough
to enable Manufacturers to make handsome
profits, and yet the beautiful operations of . the
princple, gives them double the protection it,
did when the price was low,.and they stood in
need of the tariff tax. When iron is low, the
duty is low thus operating against the success
of our manufacturers, and when the prices is
high, the duty is high, and then the consumer's
pocket pays the piper?' Our law-makers ought
to have loather medals to commemorate there
wisdom in this . particular, . while the individual
political advocates of such a system, should be
1 -sent to-school-to-learn-ccimmon - sense. :There
' is jest is MuCh common sense—for we can't
see thi uncommon sense, which some politi
cians seem to comprehend, in taxing the con
sumer with a high duty, when the price is high
as this is subjecting the manufacturer to a low
duty when the price is low—and neither oper
ation shows any wisdom whatever.
The workings of the system, elicit the most
profound contempt. A specific duty should be
applied where it can be advantageously done,
to consumer and manufacturer, as in the article
of iron.
We are all aware that in many articles it can
not bo so fairly applied as an advalorum. In
such case, it is as foolish to apply advatorums,
where specifics meet the mutts of the country
the best.
Tie Sunbury and Erie Railroad.
are gratified to be able to announce the
fact that the Sunbury and Erie Railroad will
now now go on to completion, with very little
delay. Its construction has been placed be
yond a doubt, by the completion.ot contracts
with responsible parties for the entire line.
Messrs. Sennett, !frown, Cadwell & Company
have contracted to make one hundred miles
from Erie eastward, and Messrs. Gamble, Rock
afellow & Co., the next hundred miles. The
remainder of the road has been under contract
and in progress for some time.
The citizens of Philadelphia have reason to
rejoice over the consummation of these con
tracts, under which the immediate construction
of the greatest work yet remaining to be done
for the prosperity of the city is rendered cer
tain. The mode adopted obviates all recent
dificulties in the way of the road, and ex
pect as we hertitily hope; that every thing will
now go on smoothy and harmoniously, Anchbat
the day may not be far distant when we can
announce the arrival of the first train from the
shores of Lake Erie. • •
Two Many Banks and Railroads.
We do . .not believe in borrowing trouble, and
old fogies 'and-croakers are our special aversion
but once in a while.the 'financial engine gets
too much steam on and the safety valves have
to be opened, or the whole train runs off the
track. The spirit of the age is progressive—
the motto of the times is, "go ahead"—no mat
ter at what cost, at what risk, or where you go
to, but
- go ahead: don't -stand still nor lag be ,
hind, buf push on—keep moving this is what
is taught the rising generation, and the rising
generation is remarkably quick at acting upon
the advice. The consequence is every branch
of industry, trade and commerce is extended
to the utmost, enterprises undertaken and car.
rind out by individuals that twenty years ago
Governments would not have ventured upon.
The expansion just now is in manufacturing
Bunks and building Railroads and we think
there is more of both done than is needed:—
Itailionas are useful and absolutely necessary
and every mile that io built adds to the . ;srealtl!.. l
of the country . , but they should be built arid ,
paid for by those who are to receive the most
benefit from them—they should be built by ac
tual subscriptions and not by the sale of mort
gage bonds. The bonded indebtedness of this
'country is enormous, and the amount of varf.
ons loans on the London market, for sale, is
estimated at over one hundred millions of dol
lars. It is not difficult to imagine that the
time may come when it will not be a very ea•
sy matter to pay the interest merely on our
Railroad debt, and in many cases the principal
when due, can only be paid by renewal. The
increase of Banks is also too rapid; they spring
up in every town .and village,
.and in cities
they monopolize all the corners and are as com
mon as grocery stores. The increase is, we
think, greater than the country requires. A
little reflection will satisfy every one that there
can be such a thing as too many Banks; and
in our opinion this is just the time when a lit
tle reflection is most needed.-7bmp, Reporter.
A New Gold Mine in Georgia.
The editor of the Dahlonegah Signal thus do.
scribes a gold mine in Union county, Georgia,
which he recently visited here, we vis
ited the coin mine now being woiked by Gener,
al Lawhon and Colonel Adam Willamson ; this
vain is of but recent discrivery, and is making
conilderable noise abroad, in consequence of its
extraordinary richness. We happened to hare
no little experience in vein and deposite mining
ourselves and we unhesitatingly give it as our
opinion, that the half is. not.yet.told of this vein.
We opine that when. it shall become fairly open
ed, it stands high , in the, calander, yielding the
palm to none, save the celebrated D 0741 mine in
Carolina. Not only do we find-the ore of the
richest quality; but the slate by, which It is en
cOmpassed, we find equally so,'whlch will defray
every expense in taking out the ore..' A yan,
full of both the pulverized 'ore and • slate,
far exceeded any that we ever rled. - These en
terprising gentlemen, tvithlifioyanriphdts, are .
pressing on.theii•;siorktiii4apidli as tiossible.—
'rhey have to • the; depth . oF 30 or 40
.Ceet 'on, , the yelkowles; notiiitigagad in. driving
,ti`r4nnel'i•eiiifiCit;t:tTeill4rti:the Valli at a . depili of '
I .14 or 80 feet f>rotn the surface The. vein irt.sit
nated on a %req.bigh hilf encornpttssed,hfit fiite
oleaginous -elate, which makes much in Its
favor." . •
Progress of Methodism
A correspondent of The Chriatibn Advocate an
mime! gives the, following view of the increase
of Methodists in New Yorli City
During tho llevolutionary war the population
had diminished very much, as many had fled to
the country on the approach of the British army,
and a'great portion of the City was consumed by
fire soon after that event ; so that great soar
ing ensued and many deaths occurred. On these
accounts the number of inhabitants had so de^
creased that in 1780 there could not have been
over 15,000, as the entire population, did not ex
ceed 23,000 at the commencement of the war.—
Allowing this to be accurate, the number of the
several decades from that time to 1850 will stand
as follows, with the numbers of Methodists, and
their )rtion to the population in parallel
columns :
Prop
of No. of Proportion of
Year. Citizens. Methodists. Members.
1780 16,000 100 1 in 150
1790 33,131 684 I.in 53
1800 60,489 770 1 in 81)
1810 96,383 2,260 lin 42
1820' 128,706 3,221 lin 65
1830 202;589 3,955' lin 51
1840 312,852 6,091 lin 51
1850 615,607 8,130 lin 63
This is, as far as the census of the City has
been taken, but allowing that-in-1852 the popu
lation amounted to 670,000, which it probably
did ; and as the number of Methodists nt that
date was 9,215, the proportion would be as 1 to
61 which, is a little increase from 1850. From
this estimation of comparison it will be seen that
the least proportion wari in 1780, when it was as
1 in 160 ; and that the next leaSt was in 1800.
when it was I in 80 ; and that the largest was
in 1710, when it was 1 in 42 ; nod that the next
largest was in 1820 and 1840, when it was 1 in
65, and in 1760, when it was 1 in 63. It will be
perceived, therefore, that since 1780 we have
Inept
ept a pretty steady pace with the increase of
the population, though since 1840 there has been
rather a retrogade motion, from 1 in 51 to 1 in 63
and 1 in 61.
Widow's Bounty Land Claims
It appears that a large number of widows
whose husbands having died, suppose their
claims to bounty land on account of the servi
ces of their first husbands are still valid. This
supposition, it will be seer. by the following, is
an error :
Pension Office, Washington, May 25, 1853.
By a recent decision •of this office, widows
are not entitled who have married since the
death of the husband for whose perigees she
claims land bounty, except those widows whose
husbands were killed in battle. •
Very rePpeetfully;
A' Happy World.
This is a happy world—who says tO flte con
trary is a fool or something' Worse. Therei is i
every thing to.make us happy. The land, sea
and sky contribute to our enjoyment. :The
man who has a good heart sees pleasure where
a bad person beholds nothing but gloom. The
secret, then in being happy and eajoying.this
glorious world is to possess a virtuous heart.—
Who is the most cheerful and contented man
itt your neighborhood? The man who is the
most honored and possesses the greatest rich
es? No—it is he who has nothing but a kind
and good heart. Nothing ruffles his temper
or disturbs his repose. The morning 619 7 ; the
evening cloud, rolling waters, the bloonting
landscape, the teeming forest and fields of snow
give him pleasure others never d.rearn:of;
It is he whose mind is led from nature up.to
nature's God, and'every day that he lives he
is as collected and happy as it is possible for
man to be. Dfpend upon it, the world•is a
beautiful one, and contains a thousand sources
,of enjoyment, which they can only see and
feel whose hearts are pure and whose lives
,correspond to the word of eternal truth.
'How to Make Men Brave
Santa Anna has hit upon a new expedient, it
seems to make brave men. It is nothing less
than striking off from the army list the names of
all officers who surrended to General Scott, at
the time when that great commander entered
Mexico, after Santa Anna himself had run away.
As these men fought bravely, and only yielded
when a further struggle would have been mad
ness, the plan seems rather a questionable one,
at least so far straightforward ideas of what
nourishes courage, and what not. If the leader
who deserts his post, and thus sets the example
of his country, is a braver mail than these who, re.
ma ining, are overpowered and compelled to
yield, we know nothing, weconfess, of what con
stitutes courage, fidelity, or patriotism.
Santa Anna, while thus proscribing all who
surrendered to Scott, is endeavoring to canonize
as it were, all who fell in bank with our forces.
He has ordered their bones to be disintetred, and
buried in suitable seulchres ; while he has di
rected that the namesgf Generals Vasquez and
Leon 'shall be inscribed on the banners of the
army. But such factitious encouragement will
Prove, we suspect, as ineffktual as the terror of
expatriating those who surrendered. It is not
by such stage-tricks . that nations, sinking into
decrepitude, can be restored to youthful vigor.—
Men cannot be made brave by the arts of the
harlequin.—Evening
The :Crystal :Patape, in New l'ork.—The New
York :Marna( of. Commeree, referring to this
bUildkig 'ion New lferk r which was undertaken
for tke parposepf-holdirtg, halt.:a. world's. fair,
is impossible to say, milt, when the exhl• .
hillock will opep,%; comparady,ely short time
would suffice to 'finish the malm.structure, but
several weeks most•elapse before it can be corn.
Pleted in ail its' parts+-the inachihery, arranged
and put in, '
,working .; order the geode entered
and prepared, for exhibitio.n,; ; ;Xhis unexpected.
delay is 'unfortunate atiktnortifyieg; and many
individuals, both it' s hoirie,e:nd - abroad, will ex^
perienee'serious disappointmint; \ In conse•
quence of this ,delay, or for -some other reason,
Orystal Palace Stock, which at one'thne sold as*
high as 175,was on Monday down to 112."
GLEANINGS
lOrln Ohio, there are 1285 miles of railroad
completed, 1719 miles constructing.
tar Stony Point was taken on the 31st of June
1779.
ti" The cry is one day for ice, and the next
for blankets, overcoats and umbrellas: An ex
tensive variety of weather.
• M"Pope Pius has prohibited the sale or cir
culation of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in the papal
States,
r Gen. Cameron has expressed the opinion
that there is no doubt of the success of the Leba
non Valley Road. •
laieJudge Rank, of Lebanon, has a lemon
tree, which had on it last Fall seventy lemons at
one time. One of the_ lemons presented .to the
Editor of the Courier, weighed nine ox's.
laPThe new Anthracite Furnace.at Leesport
Berks county, will be in blast in a few weeks.
Iron ore is said to be found in great abimdance
in the immediate neighborhood.
('Governor Bringham Young, of Utah, is
the father of thirty - two children.
Eir The population of Hoboken is 5527, an
crease of 1366 in a year.
'lo"Sirawberries, and good ones too, are act
ing in Philadelphia at GI cents per:quart.
I' Why are country girls' cheeks like French
calico 1 Because they are warranted io wash
and retain their color.
Wlllinois sends a white ox, weighing 3,500
pounds, and a five-legged calf, as a contribution
to the Fair at New York.
Car Our anti.bank administration at Harris^
bur' is trying to borrow $500,000 from the Banks
irs h filltladelphia—for what purpose Is notknown.
fa - The new jail at York is to be immediately
commenced. It will occupy a space of 540 by
140. feet, and will cost $63,000.
12rFanny Fern delicately. styles a certain
complaint from which shildreo suffer in cherry
time,"a pain under the apron."
10" The population o( Keokuk, lowa, has in ,
creased about 2500 in the last eight weeks.
State Medical Society.
At the annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania
State Medical Society, held in Philadelphia, last
week, it was resolved that Pottsville be the place
of the meeting in 1854.
After disposing of a large amount of business,
the Society elected the following officers for the
ensuing year, to wit:
President—Dr. John P. Heistbr of Berks.
Vice Presidents—Dr. Francis Burrows, Lan.,
caster; Dr, John 11. Gemmil, Huntingdon; Dr.
K. Smith, Delaware ; Dr. ittcob M. Ponfer, Blair
Recording Secretaries.—Dr. Henry S. Patter:
son, Philadeldhin ; Dr. Isaac R. Walker, Chester.
Corresponding Secretary—Dr. •Isaac • flays
Philadelphia.. • •
Treasurer—Dr Francis West Phtlpdelphia.
Deleghtes to the American Medical As'socia_
tion for 1854—Dr. Hiram Carson, Montgomery ;
Dr. Wm. Mayberry; Phila. Dr. John L. Altec,
Lancaster.; Dr. Frail' Greene, Northamion ; Dr.
J. S. Carpenter, Schuylkill; Dr. Ed. Wallace,
Berks ; Dr. Isaac R. Walker, Chester; Dr. John
D. Ross, Blair. -
S. Corn
•.•, . .
Twenty-Seven Thrnisanil Oftiee Seekers!-Tliire''
are in the New York customhouse some seven
hundred. subordinates. For these places there
are twenty-seven thousand applicants at the pre.
sent writing. The salaries attached to these of
fices are substantially asfollows : One of S3OOQ,
two of $4OO, three of $2200, five of $2OOO, seven
of $lOOO, thirty-six of $l6OO, one of $l4OO, and
the`:-remainder varying from $lOO to $1095.
Ainong thiv twenty-seven thousand applicants,
there are between forty and fifty magnates of the
party, each of whom demand a place for some
one of their particular follonters worth at least
$3OOO a year. Now, as there is but one •office
worth this sum, and less than fifty; which are
worth over $llOO, some of the throng who must
he served are doomed to egregious disappo.int.
meat ;. while of the twenty-seven thousand con
fident expectants, twentrsix thousand and .odd
must be totally blasted in their pursuit after of
ficial honors and emoluments. We feel that the
Collector of the Port is deserving of great com
miseration in his present Charybdis of perplexi
ty, arising from thb deluge of applications under
which lie is overwhelmed. We can only com
mend patience and the temper of the Phrygian
King to this functionary ; while to the twenty.
Seven thousand, one and all ,we impart the friend
ly counsel to withdraw their papers. and set about
earning an honest living at planting potatoes,
sawing wood, or any other useful vocation.—
New York Tribune.
Female Typc.Setters.--Tlle Boston Olive
Branch on which females are employed as cony
positors says
"Onr rooms arewell carpeted, and the girls
do nut - come in,until nine or ten o'clock in the
morning, retiring in good season, seldom mak_
mg over seven or eight hours a day. Smart
compositors can earn from $6 to $8 per week.
We have also one female clerk out of the three
we employ. - Added to this, one desk has been
occupied by a female editor as our assistant, it
a salary. of $OOO a year. She has spent seven
hours a day in the office for five days in the week
We generally have in our office an oink and
a piano•foete, and we have music at the meal
hours, when the ladies feel like playing."
Discharged,—The July in the notorious -.Gar
diner Case," were discharged on Saturday last,
they being unable to agree. They stood five for
acquital and three for conviction. The case has
been the subject of newspaper comment for the
past year ; the suit, as our readers are all aware,
having been brought against Gardiner, for swind-,
ling the United States out. of a large amount
.of
money: .
Imporfs. r -'fhe Imporis'at New York for the
past four weeks were $13,542,000 agairites7,-'
594,000 same time last yent;an increase of near
ly 1000 per et., The Eiperts of the past week
exclusive of specie, sere :$1,684,770,. against
$770,225.
Lake .Troui.--About a dozen:of very fiee 'riortt,
from Latte,Erie some of them Mer,e:ll,tim : , three.
feetielergth, were' brought' to' , . Baltimore lest
week by Adani'mExpress, Reeked
were about thirtyfsix hours on the wey.
Successful Farming in Maryland.
A correspondent of the Centreville Times, pub•
dished on the Eastern Shore in.the State of Ma.
ryland, relates the success of a farmer of that
county by a liberal use,of manure. It appears
he purchased the farm in 1844, previous to . which
it scarcely produced enough to support a fami•
ly ; clad since then, now nine•years, be has used
10,098 bushels ashes, 17,685 bushels atone lime,
and 9,700 of shell lime, besides street manure, in
all costing $3,224 68. In 1844 the produce of
the (arm sold for $493 58, and was gradually in.
creased until 1852, when it sold for $3,504 47.
The sales of the nine years amount to $16,215
20, or $12,990 53, over and above the cost of the
manure. At the rate of yield of 1844 the aggre
gate sales of the nine years would have arnoun.
ted to only $4,424 22, so that he has a cleargaja
irT:ini - tiftiduce alone, 0118,566 90i - by - the - aptap. —
calion of manure for nine years, in addition to
which his farm, of 308 acres, which, in 1840,
was assessed at $4,928, is, this year, assessed at
10,780—increase in value, $5,852. Daring the
nine years he also sold $1,900 worth of wood
and rails, making a total increase of sixteen
thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars.
Going Out.—The „Bteamship Cambria, sailed
from Boston on the 26th for Liverpool, with
5250,000 in Gold. England reaps a double har•
vest, getting all the gold of Australia and a large
share of the California product. • •
Boyertown Railroad.—lL will be observed that
books for subscription to the stock of this road
are soon to be opened. See notice in an other
column. The making of the road to Boyertown
will be but the beginning, or steppmg stone to
an extension loAllentown j thus uniting the va,
ters of the Schuylkill and the Lehigh, at a point
which will bring Allentown via. Pottstown and
and the Schuylkill valley as by the Easton and
North Pennsylvania Railroad. This projectcom
mends itself to the people of this section of
country through which it passes as well as the
capitalists and men of enterprise in 'general,—
Montgomery Ledger.
A Speculation.—The sovereign people of Phad•
nixville Chester county having put he veto on
the Liquor Traffic, a speculator on the Mont
gomory side, has offered to set up an accommo
dation house, and rent the Schuylkill Bridge at
$lOO a year, for his dry customers to come over
free, to gal heir drams. A great 'country this. al
Singular Occurretice. 7 -On Wednesday morn
ing of last w‘ek, two lids,. who slept to
gether in the second story . of the residence of
Mr. Keller, In Lancaster, Pa., alter getting - out nf
bed, and as they were dressing themselves, dis
covered a snake in their bed. The alarm was
immediately given, , and it was killed by Mr
,Keller. It was a black water snake, twenty in
ekes long, ;and had evidently , been imbed all
night; but how it got there is a mystery.
Hoeing Potatoes.-The following sound, prim
tical.remarks on hoeing potatoes, we copy from
the address of W. R. Coppock, of Buffalo, and
they will afford some useful hints at the pres
ent time, to•onr Chester
.coluoty;:farmek The
tealon,is at hand or fast approaching for dres
sing an'&lwiding potatoes
I would herd mentian a palpable error, so
common' with, us in the cultivathm of hoed crops
especially corn and .potatoes. I mean careful
hilling•up. This practice, like many others, is
an imported one. English gardening has hsen
adopted into this country withmarked injury:—
The hiimidity of the atmosphere, and the almost
contain rains render it necessary* tq,get rid of
the superabundant moisture, by billing up plants
and raising and growing, garden beds. '‘ While
here, during Ole growing season we eanhusband
for the sustenance of Alie ;, plant.- Hence, we re"
quire.flat culture and flit Orstnikon garden beds,
with a deep and permeable soil that shall catch
and oblige to pass through it every summer
shower." •
interest in California. --By an act passed March
13,1850,the rate•brititerest.oft money loaned.
was fixed at ten per.cent, whera,there, was no
special contract,' but ',parties may agree in writ
ing for the. payment of any rate of interest othst_
ever on money due, or to become due sin any
contracts * Any judgment' rendered on such con
tract shall conform thereio, and shall bear the
interest agreed Upon:" ' : _- • •
Look out !—Large quantities of old Spanish
coins, most of them badly:worn, have been cir
culating through Out our country, for years.
Many thousands of dollars of this' worn-ont coin
have already been sent to the United States mint,
to be re-coined. The new standard silver coin
is now being issued, and will.drive this Old, sil
ver out of circulation as coin, and make itmere•
ly an article of commerce; Those - who - -bave
been hoarding up that coin had better (lisp's:M.o'
it before the new coin is generally introduced,
arid thus save themselves from loss. =
A Man en Dieguiee.—Last_sumnier tv.(reputed)
female %this going the rounds, inekrucfing- ladies
in the art of cutting dresses;& > hailing , from
the Mirth, we'believe; Wtio 4 unkleretand that this.
person recently died In'thetiipper'edunties, when,
the discovery make, that thecutter s of Indies.
garments' wasi in - on e—one Whit had.
donned the peaceits ?or some unexplained rea-.
son and passed for a female until "afteidettik-r•
Frederieleirburfi herald.'
7bledo, Norwalk'
, and Cleve(atid;AraarThis
road is cluing cupli#43l4,l>!/81:41178„.LTI/V!itil, riigs
From June 300;411etsl fi rsteleScpilii - Aplio6th.
amouat , to $98,035, The roadja,iff: miles; long.
an d',witt cost OYhenfullY, compl eted; rir,from
11,600;000. 'rite railroad *10'0.1410 tlyil the
•ea risings this year will Orlitiabli. fella $450,000
deducting 050,000. for , earicue,,expenses. will
leaVe $300,000 for interest and dividend.,
WitlOur of ,Gen. iittfrizeh.—The estltuable
widow'of 4en. Harrison . 110 o'ecuOlei a Ottlon
tAthe old tnanalho at, Isiortii teed, Oh(o, Aare
she' is 3SSIOKOOY,O:b3!t h e.(Iia l farn
lly,of The present Harrison eitatat
consists of Bkoitatieitt 4 lcoilkliettd; rind 820 at
the mouth, of the. Aflato,s„ topoy, fs, as
yet undivided, though th e,
, heirs to thettsomi'llg.s4;