New York Crystal Palace
_The ceremony-of opening4he-Crystal Palace
occured on the 14th inst This is good mews to
many, for, se: .nr , ) ieetiles. been
the deliVie',liii-eintudittittic that. 'sandy unto
phistinattdz t,ifixtr'Wherd . tieect;i4ivemadverse
ly to tbeir'll4eKandiwhiihes—to regard the
whole malter.its ;myth, begotten by some sub
tle schemers, end serving only to place a new
'fancy' on the Stark . Beard. The project however
now seems to / have substance to commend it,
and the glittering superstructure erected in this
behalf; is now open to the inspection of uni.
versa! yankeedom at so much per capita l ,.
The princiPle on , which the show is Galen
a* bitted is a good one : and doubtless, the
manner in which the preliminaries have beetirc
conducted,, aklittle reprehensible, as in prOZ
jests of a kindred name, is usually the cask'
With a conspicuous degree-of gammon, there'
its yet a vast element of good about it.
As to the objects of the approaching exhibi.
tioni all bra well posted up. The dimensions
and'pocaliar arrangements of the edifice have
been' iven in the daily papers with a precision
and - min uteness of detail which leaves us noth
ing to say on those points.
We_hed intended to speake somewhat in ex
tenser of:the display which it is expected for
eign rations will make at the exhibition. We
must however limit our remarks mainly to gen
erilities. England, Italy, Switzerland, the Ger.
man. States, Austria, Russia, Turkey, Persia,
and 4poesibli r Japan, will exhibit libembly
-seiref.;of*,them munificently. So too, their
Highn, ,
esies, Faustin - Ist and Napoleon 3d are
by no means to be overlooked in the crowd—
France contributing, many choice articles, the
the ii'bildlanied Gobelin Tapestries, while his
black brother of Hayti, ;ends some exceeding
ly suggestive dye : stuffs.
- In - the sense of rivalry with thegreat eihibi
lien of 1852, ours , will of course be nowhere.—
The.show in; Hyde Park, amid othei elements
of advantage, received direct the potent pay
renege of the English Government, while ours
is wareation of private enterprise, in which the
GovOntrient ; pp : , assume -no helping position..
Stilt it *ill without doubt, be the richest and
IN
oslettenum..4lBplayAVOT_gtven r en-our soil,-
and witi o Ariff: r e .111 who can
reaPiAcm994l34#o4,netr l tretioSn, or profit
mnet'WeiAirwile?irfieW 4 Heme to the strew
then, in willixdonliffent.iftOrrthrid all. Bring
with yourlaslaiOrteltietighhtlie4sho have not
the coin to sperei• , Chariti (Wearied thus, will
belell as sweet fo the, donoritnd-by the recip
ient tici;longet treasured Wthemtorebouee of
memory,lhan if ati equal luirriunt was expen
ded;Ort till - belief in the - every drry necessaries
of life: - 'Bring also with yeti out children,
wives insfeweethearts, so that the Ride 'breast
of the former inalbe'gladdinedfia celeitial
airing, in the gigantic , - merrygo-Xitnd.and the
latter,
.latiate,their..vienal curiosity with the
nobaimingdkaptsy so lavishly - spread out with
in the Palactil white frem4heliabellike battle
inente.ef therlatting.dbserratom _all may en
joy the' thrillieg,kesrOptOpleasure, which
vas height and extentiie.pfirsPect ever imparts
to.hekittrY:hitii*Od s itrong heads.—Thomp. R.
.}, ...
• . •
.F Central Railway.
.:tRY ;the other day, went into the
Nei
,:iditAttakket with a subscription book for
$95 . 4 nitiesued stook, and in doing so, they
pointort the contemplated route and anticipa
ted Witrantages to-favor them in tonnage. They
say :-.F,rom.thirterminea at Easton, the Lehigh
Valley Railroad is.in:autive - tiountesof construe
d?! le Mauch Chunk, 46 miles, and will be
omed:Tn':Jul'A. •1854, cobnectifig . New York,
Wiattli an& suMmer, with tho Lehigh coal fields
by a rialcia( . 6l l 3f -125 , lefiee; the Lehigh road
having only demeni)ing octave, grades, and the
CentraEread:no grade Mretalleet to the mile.
At Tumatupur the - Lehigh road connects. with
the Cattuvrisea med,..now constructing, and - to
bit•alirfpleledile May, 4854. This connects
with f i - AO Erie road, now ander
contrite addle:be completed in two years.—
Thoe'llrityearclBss*illiee a new route of la
voriblirguidekaird-ourves only 962 miles in •
leagtterpeued ;hem NeW York to•Erio, Pa.
Famine in' India.
IlViindellifilitaiity:—/k late number of tho
tais:
lilite.havitamipes, occurring almost decen
niagyteciare orwhich, within our time, have
evreptifiefiretiliobe. away. In 1833, 50,000
pam
. theAriciatiriglSepteteberinLuoknow;
at Shineirtorl9oirditidrof want; and £1190,000
sterling, were subeeribed by the bountiful to re.
lieve the destitute. • in Glamour, 150,000 human
beings, 74,000; bulrush, 159,000 much cattle,
and 300,000 sheep and goats, died •of starve-
Hen. -Filly• L thousend people perished in Mer
war ; northwest provinces, ;50;090
humartltyria are supposed_ to . . have been
The living preyed ypen the dead moiherii•der
Toured they children; and the humacimagina;"
rlon.opoldacircely picture the scenes of Poripi,
11t81 , parriditd the land. In 20, months time,
,A,lspopoo persons must have died of hunger or
ihkimmediata consequences:
eThq,dirAot pecuniary loss to the government
by thistainoe visitation exceeded £5,000,000
sterliel saw widish would have gone far to
avert thilmlimitr , frum Which it arose, had it
beati:ettertirlinc,itf constructing thorough fares
to coriiiiiici,' - thirinierior with the sea coast, or
districts .s . rtterei soiroity leavened with those
where beetickfird.Oraa loilus had in abundance;
or on camels to bear far forih to the soil, thirsty
and Direst) fistyra4 of moisture, the unbound.
ad supplies, i;titr , riy,sio curry to the ocean:"
What ifearfEtl picture . ; And in what broad
aontrisiji Oa ciao balmy. orinntry.- now many .
rtmeoluEbave we to be grateful Odle, the death
of onaludividual by poverty .or want is a rite
ocounenceewhile in Ludialhousands and lona
of thousands are swept away every few years.
Btartlinglictores, litrer these 'are calculated to
make us aPgreelate oar prwilieu and • Jr many
blessings.
ebe febigb Register.
Allentown, Pa.
WEDNESDAY, JULY SO, 1865.
CANAL COMMISSIONER.
Moses Pownall )
• or LANCASTER COUNTY.
AUDITOR GENERAL.
Alexander K. McClure.,
I=
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
Christian Myers,
El
OF CLARION COUNTY
The Meeting on Saturday.
'Ae will be seen in our advertising columns,
a meeting of the members of the Executive com
mittee of the "Lehigh Comity Agricultural So.
eiety" will be held at the House of John I'.
Bechtel. in Allentown, on Saturday next. The
Committee appointed for that purpose will re •
port a list of premiums for the "Fair." It is to
be hoped that ovary member of the Committee
will be present, as other matters will be brought
before them consequent to the holding of the
fair. The time and place, and other necessary
arrangements have to be agreed upon. We
trust that every member of the Committee will
be in attendance, and that such efforts will be
made•as will do honor to the society.
Paving Hamilton Street.
We are highly goosed to perceive that
efforts are made by our friends in East Hamilton
street, to pave that part lying between Fifth and
Church Alley, with flat Mountain stone. We
hope also, before long, to see that our up
town friends will continue the work to the
Borough limits. No Town the size of 01113 can
lie found, in which the streets are.not paved.
We trust that every individual who owns
property on Hamilton street, will go into the
measure at once, and pave the same from
the. Jordan to the Borough line. The advance
of property. will without doubt repay- the cost
of the imptilienient
•.
.
Agitate the_Queation.
Now is the time to agitate the queitiint,of
the sale of our Canals and Railroads owhed.b.y
the State. The people are in faVor 400 - sale
and-in selecting candiates for the Lngisfatgre
caution should be taken to secure men who
are in favor,Of disposing of them to the highest
and best bidder. They are a curse to. the tax
paying people, and the sooner we get them
out of our bands the better. Two-thirds of the
citizens of the State are in favor of such a mea
sure, and they should compel their representa
tives, in both- Houses of 'the Legislature, to pass
a billfavoring this object. Wisdom and spund
policy-diotate that it should be done, in order
,to arrest the speculation, plunder, and lavish ex
penitore of the tnohey of tax-payers.
The Man Over• Devoted to Business.
There is, says, the New Orleans Delta, much
sound philosphy in the old adage that 'All work
and no play makes Jack a dull boy.' There
are men;and plenty of them too, so thoroughly
wedded to business, that they have never a mo
ment to spare for intellectual improvement, or
leisure to cultivate rationally the graces of so
cial life. When such men are reproached for
this continued devotion to bosiness, which, af
ter all, is the worship of the golden calf, in
another shape, —Their reply is, that their plea
sure is in their business. This may all be; and
so it is the pleasure of some crazy men, unless
restrained, to be forever maiming themselves;
but is such a pleasure,aproper or healthy one?
Those who are in the habit of walking a great
deal know, that iris much less fatiguing to walk
over uneven ground for any length of time,
than it is over that which is perfectly level.
the former, a varieiy of muscles are called in.
to- action, one set relieving .the other; but in
the latter, the same muscles are constantly
engaged, and the fatigue is proportionate. It
is so with the faculties of the herniiri mind:—
No one will bear - a continued tension Without
injury. Insanity ha's been Well defined to the
coptinual entertainment of.one idea. Now, if
this be so, we will leave the man °vet-demo
ted to business to say how-far he is removed
from a madman A prudent and steady atten
tion to business becomes everyman; but it is
sadly making the means the end, when every
other faculty of the mind is allowed to lie fal ,
low, and all the rational delights, which are so
lavishly strewed in our path to remain ungath.
ered and loved.
- Bush:legs Notices
Edurri's .7bbacto Warehouse.—ln a card .pub•
'lobed in another column of the "Register?' it
will be seen that Mr. E. IV. Eckert, still con•
dune the Tobacco buainessi atihe cild stand. No.
.90, two doors east of the Register Office ;: where
he keeps on hand a stook•equal'to any city es
'tablishtnent, and is ableto sell at prices as low if
not lowir than can be purchased either in New
York or Philadelphia—Recollect No: 30, East
Hamilton street:
A Chance for Contractors.—By reference to
our advertising opinions it will be seen that
proposals will be received by Messrs Pretz, and
Ramer, for excavating, gravelling and paving
part of Hamilton street. Persons who ire en
gaged in this kind of business will do well to
notice the proposals. •
Rdi/way• Luxury.—A silver urn, with iced
water, is carried through the cars of Itie'Beaton
and Worcester Railroad, at proper iniervals,
time, by a lad spec:dilly employed fur that ob
ject, the urn being strapped to the ,boy's About
dere, so that - passengers; with a silver goblet
with „which they,arelurnished, may help them
selves., The littlemeter bearer, •whose presence
ht so grateful' to. travellers, is a bonstant erten
dant upon the 'rain; to which- he is -attached,
and valuable wiles ilftembrnent is which he
• r-
beatotrir, he ie not . illeWed to tale any parfroni
the incipient*: • ' •
Rues% and Turkey.
-The con versatiori -refets- chiefly-te-the-foi
eign news, by the Arabia. The private • letters
received, says the New York Herald-as well as
the published accounts, represent a greatet•
probability of war between-Russia and Turkey.
A member of a firm, who came passenger in
the-Arabia; stated that on the morning Of the
day on which the steamer sailed he had held
conversations with several well informed mer
chants, who considered that war was almost in
evitable; that though the Emperor Nicholas
might not consider tile seizure of the Danubian
provinces an act of war, the Turkish govern-
ment did, and that France and England would
feet bound to sustain her. The Russian vague
and unmeaning pretext for thus invading a
weak and friendly power was like the wolf's
peaceable intentions towards the lamb which '
incontinently sipped from a brook nearer its
fountain than the wolf, and nothing but the in
terference of shepherds, in the form of England
and France, could save the lamb (Turkey) from ,
the jaws of its voracious enemy.
Chinese: Afire.
The arrival of the Illinois. brings us intelli
gence from Hong Kong four days later than
had been previously received; but it gives us
very little additional news concer,niug the ac
tual progress of the Rebellion.. It is not easy,
indeed, to derive any clear and connected nar
native of recent proceedings there from the
broken statements of the Hong Konk journals.
The Herman, some days since, brought a ro.
mor, which reached England from Hong Kong
under date of April 22, that the Rebels had ta
ken Nankin, and that a decisive engagement's
between them and the Imperial forces was ex
pected in a few days. The Illinois confirms
the report that Nankin bad fallen into their
hands, and adds, that they were again driven
out of it. According to these accounts Nankin
was taken on the 21st of March, after a series
of rapid and successful marches upon various
other points; but the Rebels were compelled to
evacuate it soon after, and were defeated by
the Imperial forces on the sth of April, in an
engagement, about thirty miles south of Nankin.
Our extracts_from_Hong_Kong papeis _contain
many contradictory and irreconcileable state
meats concerning their proceedings ;—but these
facts seem to be very clearly let forth, and ate
iitobably, authentic.
According to this account, the revolution his
received a serious check. Up to that time the
rebels seem to lave hod-everything their owp
way. ;They very seldom '
met any Of the ipy=
peal tioopej of thecouniry through which th*
passed. It hes' frequently been asserted titto,
their progress would be checked whenever they
should come dear .enough to the capital to ed.
counter the resistance of the Government troops
and thoevent.seeots to have •justifted-fthe - -pro.
diction. •
The Chinese papers generally attribute less
weight to the rebellion, and are less confident
of its ultimate success, than the EagliehjtMjr
nate. Very,sbocking stories aratold of thelitir
barities praclicedby the rebels, especially *hen
they took Nankirr—though they do not parde.,
in a shape whiolventitles them to lull creAire:— .
And the Chittese Mail offers sundry cogenereit
sons. for believing that the commercial interest.
of England and other foreign nations would suf
fer more from their triumph than from their de
feat. Upon these points as upon many.otheri"
connected with this extraordinary movement
we are not yet possessed of data suflicierit to
enable us to form an opinion.
Iron Pavement
There is a specimen of the iron pavement
patented by Atkinson & Evelath, now putdown
in a street in Boston on trial. The payment is
oast in a mimer that admits bf inteAoakioglke
••• - •
pieces, do that separais blockscan neither...sink
nor rise ; While the upper , face is cast in
. Opep
workotrprevent the slipping, of horses, which
has heretofore been•the serious objection to iron
pavements. Should this project prove success
ful in answering the purpose, so far as durabil
ity and suitable surface is concerned, it will be
an improvement that will be highly popular
brollies; for , there . is not in the whole cata
logue of town annoyances any one more per•
petually annoying, than the eternal clatter,
crash and jar or.the carriages passing over these
ill shaped cobble-atone pavements.
Railway Passenger Cars.—The cost of one of
tjte long railway passenger oars is, on an aver.
age, about two thousand dollars. There are in
the United States upwarde of eighty'private car
manufactories, exclusive of those railwitys
which make and repair all for their own, use ;
and it is calCulated that a capital of 66,000,000
is invested in this branch of industry, producing
about 317,000,000 annually, and employing
about six thousand men.
Western Emigration,
Few are aware of the statistiavbf travel over
the plains of the Far West. 1% glean the fol
lowing from a recent letter from Fort Kearney.
Up to the 31st of May, the number of emigrants
who had passed that post this season, were as
follows .t—Men, 4,997 ; women, 1,900; children,
2,830; making an aggregate of 9,467 souls.—
The stock taken with them included 4,960 hor
ses, 1,637 mules, 81,600 cattle, and 11,000 sheep.
This, it will be remembered, is but one route.—
Matiy others have taken the lines of the Kansas,
Arkansas, and Red rivers. The exodus west
ward will soon fill those fertile plains and smil
ing valleys whh.sta indastrions and.enteyprising
Ropulation.
Death of a Stranger.—A gentleman from New
Orleans, says the Winchester Virginia, by the
name of E. W. Diggs, died at Capon Elpridgs, of
consumption-on Thursday night or Friday morn.
ing last. He wits 'found 'dead - In • his ' tied. • He
had with him a very large suni4-48(000: 1 . 40,-'
000,'prineipally`in drafta, certificate:a depOsite
&c.; all of which was duly taken care . of. The .
body was interred at Winchester by the Odd Fel
lows, to which faiternity the'llek*sed belonse,ll,
Bar Iron—lmportant Disooveri.
_Messrs. Davis &_Co., of_Cincinnati, Ohio, have
become interested with the owners of Hilton's pat.
eat process of making wrought iron directly from
the ore. with wood or mineral coal, at a single
heat, and have put the matter to a practical test
With the most favorable results. They hive . put
up a furnace, forge, and rolling mill, in one room
and the first attempt pradtadeti
. irod, though all
the'hands, with one exception, had never seen
such a futhace. The furnace.and puddling oven,
are conne,cted,'wheri the Me is Melted it flows into
the oven, and by lapping a few inches above
the oven hearth the slug or drop flows out. The
iron is bailed and put under the trip hammer,
made into blooms, and prepared for rollers ; all
done with a small quantity of fuel: . Owing to
low water in the Ohio, Messrs. Davis & Co. have
so far used a very inferior quality bf 'black
sand stone ore, yield only about 10 per cent.
of iron and usually refused by foundry men as
unprofitable.
The ore is pulverized and mixed with 20 per
cent of carbon—common bituminous c . oal—and
then put into air chambers prepared for it, which
are also heated by stone coal. In the puddling
oven.it is also heated by stone coal to a white or
welding heat, and made ready for bailing. No
charcoal or anthracite, heretofore considered as
essential,as used. Nine blooms, of 70 pounds
each, averaging one in fifteen minutes, required
but three bushels of stone coal to the bloom.—
They are now turning out about 2i tons of the
best quality of blooms every 24 hours at a cost•
of $l2 50 per ton in Cincinnati.
The iron manufactured by the new process
has been subjected to the severest test, such as
making into horse shoe nails; nuts, &c., and
proves to be as.good quality as the best blooms
brought to •the Cincinnati market. The above
particulars of this important invention to the iron
interests are obtained from the communication
of J. Greer to the Dayton Journal, and Charles
Cist to the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both have vis
ited the works and witnessed thd process, and
Mr. C. says :
a The great advantages claimed in this process
are the cheapness with which the iron is made,
the cost estimated is but $22 to 23, where the ore
and coal is near at hand—the use exclusively of
the Common bituminous coal—the uniform good
-quality-of-the-iron=and—compared-wlth-a-blast
furnqce, costing say $30,000 'which usually pro-
duces nine tons pig iron, worth say $3O per ton
the daily products would be $270. The same in
vestment, say $BO,OOO, will build twenty of these
furnaces, allowing (1,600 for machinery houses
&a., which twenty furnaces, at the poorest
yield ever yet made, we produce 40 tons blooms
daily, worth, at least, $6O per ton, when pig iron
Is worth $3O, making $2,400 daily pieduct from
a $BO,OOO investment against $270 product of a
blast furnaces, and the comparative cost of la^
bar, nothing, compared with increased product.
The works are all contained in a building 30 by
60 feet, and the estimated room required for
twenty furnaces and necessary machinery is
a single shed, 140 feet wide."—BicknelPs Rep.
Preparations for War by Turkey.
The Constantinople correspondent of the Co
logne Gazette, writing on the 16th inst., states
that the sacred hannecof the Prophet was to be
"unfurled on the following day and that no Turk
capable of bearing arms would -be exempted
from military service. Fie adds that Persia is
at variance with Russia : that hordes of Bedou•
Ins are swarming towards the-Caucasus; that
any further concessions on the part of the Sultan
would not prevent war, but only bring about his
own downful ; that the Turkish fleet in the Black
Sea is quite strong enough to repel the the Rus
sian one ; and that twenty.one batteries, well
provided with heavy artillery, await the Russians
at !he entrance of the Bosphorus, supposing they
contrive to get so far. He states, too, that the
Turkish fleet is constantly cruzing in the Black
,Bea ; that 100,000 Turkish troops are stationed
in the directioq_of Salistria, and about 50,000
'near Trebisonade.
The same journal publishes a Peracorrespont.
dente of the 16th instant, as follows ;
"However great may be the efforts of Euro
pean journals to prove that peace will not be
broken, the fact which we witness here are not
of a nature to raise such hopes. On the contra
ry, everything shows that we are on the eve of a
conflict. The Porte,has too energetically rejec
ted the demands .made by Ptince Menschikoff
ever to be able to comply with them.. Russia on
its side well foresaw what in the event of the re
fusal of the Porte, was to be done ; and that fore
sight existed before Prince Menschikoff was sent
on his pompous mission. In spite of the feast
of the Yatnadam, the Turks are extremely cheer
ful. In Bulgaria, two army, corps of 50,000 men
will be brought. together. In Schuma, Achmed
Pacha. will unite with Ower Pacha. Under the
command of the former are some French officers
—amongst others, Captain Megnan.
A third corps will be placed at Erzeroum, un
der the command of Abdi Pacha. There are
not less than 95 Turkish ships of war near the en
trance of the Bosphorus. Eight other vessels
are being rigged out in the arsenal, and ships of
war are daily arriving from various parts of the
empire, that the Turkish fleet may be Called a
"highly respectable" one. People here will re
joice when the modern Rdssian armada Makes I
its appearance. Inflammatory pamphlets.,, pub
lished in Greece, have been circulated amongst
the Greek religionists, and apprehension are en
tertained by many that the Greek population of
Constantinople and of the Archipelago will rise
in rebellion, when the Ottomans are engaged
with the Russians on the Nothern frontiers."'
AccOrding to the 'Mate Gazelle, the Prince
of the Meridites his been ordered by the Porte .
to collect as - niany. irregular , troops as possible
in Upper Albania, anilio proceed with them in
the direction of Schumia. It Is thought that he
will be able to mist& 45,000.
Newspapei. Change.—Col. Munroe the senior
partner of the Baltimore Patriot, retires from the
estahlishment to day, having accumulated a for
tune. Mr. John F.'McJllton, his fernier, partner ,
has now become the sole proprietor of the 'paper..
Mr. MoJilton is , a gentleman of:Much relent midi.
energy, and itis hieintention to make the pewi
t(' rank among the first afternoon paper's.
.. .
GLEANINGS
lar—The-easiest and best-way-to expand-the
chest, is to have a good large heart in it. It
saves the cost of gynastios,
rirPoi the first time in the history of news•
papers, an - Australia journal announces that it
wants no more subscribers—until its new steam
press arrives from London.
tir The present stock of coffee at New Or
leans is 86,246 bags, an incremeof 50, 367 bags
over the corresponding date frtit year.
cirri is stated that $5,000,000 worth of basket
willow was used in the United States last year, a
large portion of which was imported.
rirJulius Caesar was born on the . l2th of Ju
ly, 100 B. C.
Orlt is said that Barnum has lost a thousand
a week on his Illustrated News. The newspa
peebusiness is out of his line. Ife thrives best
by newspapers when other men publish them.
117" Joseph Smith has been fined $5OO and
costs at Cinctnnati, for renting a room for gamb•
fX^Famine prevails in Spain, and hundreds
of the unfortunate inhabitants are perishing
daily.
CV The Crusaders took Jerusalem on the 15th
of July, 1009. • •
far A quick workman can make thirty flour
barrels a day. A single barrel has been made
in seven minutes and a half.
10" A lad, or girl of fifteen years of age, may
be bought in the interior of Africa for four yards
of Manchester notion : value sixpence.
nr The Nashville Danner says tobacco has
risen in that market within the last ten days,
from five to eight cents per pound.
rirThe average yield of tea is about one
hundred and twenty pounds to'the acre. The
average cost of producing a pound of tea is sev
enteen cents.
nr Three spoonfuls of brandy make one
cocktail, three cocktails one go, three goes one
spree. three sprees a muss with the night police
and one visit to the penitentiary. Cut this out
and paste it in your hat.
ti "Don't be in a hurrYi, keep your seat"—
when addressed to a visitor in an editor's office,
means, "clear out as fast as you can."
lair'Young Arthur Spring is employed in a
confectionary store in Washington City, and re
ceives $lB per tnonth found.
carA man's character is like his shadow;
'which sometimes folloWs, and at others precedes
him, and which is occasionally longer, or shorter
than he is.
A. Curiosities for the• Fair
The Tri-States Union, of Saturday, says that
on the day. previous, there passed through Port
Jervis. on the N. Y. & Erie Railroad in 'route
for the World's Fair, the greatest wonder we ev
er saw of the sheep, girthing nine feet and coy"
ered with wool of the finest texture, 35 inches
long, and growing in natural rolls, ready for
spinning, of which rolls three are 8,000. The
weight of the wool is estimated to be 30 pounds.
The wool hangs in beautiful white rolls reach
ing ground on each side. There was also a lamb
three years old weighing 300 pounds, and cov
ered with wool 30 inches in length and growkog
in the same peculiar way.
We saw also a liliputian cow only 90 inches
high, weighing 229 pounds, and the mother of
three calves, one of which was by her side and
giving milk, though only 13 months old. The
sheep were raised by James Bicknell, of Aurora,
Erie Co., and are of the Beakwell breed.
Cc:kiwis= Railrolid.—The work on the rail road
from Catawissa to Milton has been allotted'as
follows :
Sec. No. 1, 2 and 9—A. Malcom &c Co.
" 4 and 6—J. SeVidge & Co.
8, 7 and B—Fisher & Flannigan.
• 9—Walter Scott.
10—Wm. Colt & Co.
11 and 12—McCrum & ()Chard.
13 and 14--Franci
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' 15—McWI Co.
10 and 17—Brayton, Blair & Gelse.
. . 18,19 & 20—Jas. Malcom &W. B. Kipp.
21—Josiah Morgan & Co.
22,29 & 24—David Marr & Co.'
Died While Dressing for a Ball.—Miss Laura
Shields who resided on Liberty street, went up
to her room on the evening*tif Auly 4th to drets
for a ball to be givenitt BniOn n liall, on Broad
way. When the gentleman came who was to
accompany her, she had not come &tin stairs.
Her mother called her, but she did not come,
though nearly an hour passed in waiting for her
At length her mother went to the door - and rap•
ped, but no answer was returned, and she had
locked the door. They then became alarmed
and forced the door, when Laura, was found ly
ing upon, the floor, nearly dressed for the ball,,
and dejtd. She appeared to be in perfect health
in the evening, at tea. She was buried in the
dress they found her in, on Monday.- 7 Cin Corn
Horrible Parricide.—The Wabash (Ind.) Ex
press, to the 6th inst., contains an account of a
deplorable event, which took-.place a few days
previous, near Wahoo, in Vigo county, Indiana.
Thomas Mc whinney, aged 60, quarrelled with his
son John, aged 30, while both were drinking
whiskey. Duriog, the fray - John stabed his lath
er to , the heart . The old man told John to take a'
horse and leave the country,- as he did not wish
to have his son hung. The father died, and.the
son Is an outcast.
Trying Situation for a Mother.—A few days
since, a datighter tif Mr. Isaiah Sawtelle, of Bel
' grade, Me., about two years old, fell into a well
eightecn.feet deep. The mother was Informed
of the accident, but when she arrived the little
one had sunk in four feet of water. She ran to
a neighbor's, twenty rods or mote, for assistance,
but found none. Returning, she lowered the
well pole to the bottom. and brSught . the child to
the surface, the little thing clinging to the pole
with its hands. The mother raised it a few feet,
when its hold relaxed and it again sank. Again
she lowered the pole, which coming in contaht.
the little hands, ft was taken with death.
'grasP, and the child thus drawn up twenty feet,
to its mother's arms. Notwithstaudinti it was
apparently dead of the tlpto, by proper exertions
It was restored to life. -
Hydrophobia.
The Cineinttali_Gazette_refers to-the-fact that
the number of reported cases of hydrophobia,
has been unusually large the present season, and
comments on the.subject,as follows:
Now that publio attention has been called
to the subject of hydrophobia, it may interest
some to know that an ingenious theory is held by
some medical men, which rejects the idea that
the'madness of the biter has any effect on the
madness of the bitten, and affirm that hydropho
bia is as likely to result from the bite of a dog in
perfect health, as from one that is mad. Their
chief reasons are, that the effect ad!l other pois
ons are certain and determinate-no other poison
can be received into the system with impunity—
yet hundreds of persons have been bitten by dogs
unquestionably mad, and no evil effects havd
followed. Instances have been known where d
score of persons hive been bitten severely by the
same dog, and only one has been eflected by hyt
drophobia. So also many persons have died*
from hydrophobia where the animals by whom'
they were bitten, where never known or eyed
suspected to be mad. Other poisons have a spe;
cific time within which their operation begins
and ends. In hydrophobia therein no such de
finite period—in some cases the effect shows it
self iminediately—in others not until the lapse of
months and even years.
Ten, animals--the dog, wolf, fox and cat; the
horse, ass, mule, cow, sheep, and pig; are all
which are said to be susceptible of this disease,
while the first four only are said to be able to
communicate it. These four have teeth of a sim
ilar form, capable of making a deeply punctured
wound.
From these facts the conclusion has been
drawn that hydrophodia is a species of tetanus,
resulting from Abe nature of the wound, and not
from any poison' injected into it. Tetanus, or
lock jaw often results from a wound made by a
pointed instrument, like a nail, in the hatid or
toot, and the same result has followed other in
juries to the nerves, the two diseases seem to
bear a general resemblance. Both are spasemo..
dic, both effect the muscles of the throat, and
both are attended with the same great excitement
of the nervous system.
°The above Is a brief synopis of The opinions
of some ingenious members of the mernbers of
the medical — professioni — which-if—established,
would go to diminish the terror which is now
felt whenever a person is injured in any way by
the bite of a dog."
Divorce and Remarriage. —lt has been said
' , facts are often stranger than fiction," and every
day's experience proves the truth of the aphorism.
By a reference to our law reports,it will be seen
that a very singular case of divorce was decided
yesterday at the special term of the Common
Please. The facts are briefly these: .
A wealthy gentleman residing in this 'city her
comes enamored of a poor but virtuous girl.—
They are married, and in due time are blessed
with a smiling cherub—a pledge of the mutual
affection. But "the course of true lovene;erditi
run smooth," as frequently after the consummat
Lion of the manage relations a's before they are
entered upon. Business calls the gentleman to
Europe, and the same cause delays his return
for a 'long time. Meanwhile slander with her
hundred eyes and ears is busy at work. The,ab,
sent husband is charged With infidelity.. The
la ly becomes indignant, applies , to the Courts,
and sues Out a divorce with five thousand dollars
as alimony,.which ia, immediately paid over by
the friends of the absent husband. yhe lady
having yesterday become of age, (21 years)
comes before the, Court, asking that the abtive
mentioned sum be paid to herself, which was of
course granted. But in the midst of all this le
gal warfare the husband returns, seeks an inter
view with his former wife explains away all that
had been•said to his disadvantage, and it amend
time the happy couple sought the steps of.the al
tar, and a second time the knot was Aleef.and we
presume firmly enough this time to last for the
rest of their lives.—New York Express. -
To Catch a Polar. Bear.—We quote from a
"Narrative of the VOlage of the Herald,”, by
Berthold Seamati published in England, the fol
lowing story, which Is very touch, to say the
least : •
A thick and strong piece of whalebone, about
four inches broad and two feet long; is bent don
hie. While in this state, some pieces of blubber
are wrapped around it and the contrivance phi
ced in the open air, where a new temperature
renders it hard and compact. his now, ready
for use: The natives being armed with bows ind
arrows, and taking the frozen _moss with them
depart in• quest, f ale prey, and as soon as the
animal is seen, one of them deliberately dischar
ges an arrow, at 14'The 'bear, feeling . the
pursues the party, now in lull retreat; but meet..
ing with the frozen blubber, dropped , expressly
for it, swallows the-lump. The chase, the me—
else of running, end the natural heat of* itt.7
aide,-soon cause the dissolution of the blutit;eri
the whalebone, thus 'freed from inquinbrance
springs back to its old-position, and drakes such;
havoc , with the intestines, that the beast diacoa
firms the , chase and soon
Monument to the Captors of Mtg. dlndre.--Thil ,
Fourth ot July was appropriately celebrated ay
Tarrytown, N. Y., by laying the cornerateme'or
a monument to Paulding, Williams aftirtritre
Wert, the time patriots by , Whom Major"Andrie
was captured •at that place. ft is - ta'aiinilat or
three blocks of marble with a shaft barred' thir
ty and forty feet in height, with' an . appropriate
inscription. Some ers
6000'pons 'Wefts present. ,
.
on the ocOasion: " • •••
New Way to Rutore rethssic/so=ln , France they
Minister of the Interior authorl 'Zed,: in duly;si lot
tery far'the. ` restoration of et church; at Piiithek.:
The tickets not!.being sold yet, after a !spite
two Years, the Mayor of the town and the care=
of the chtirch have signed a call upori'iltis,Olti;.:„
zens, from which it appears that every person
who will take a 'ticket at one franc • will hue
mass said for his soul after death, onCe,a,yeas l
forever. For five francs, twelve masses will be
said, and soon . at the same rate of progressims.
The• Minister of the Interior Is a god du) scan,
dalized at this mixture of the,monOtpul stf4,l4 t
spirit*. and means to ituerfece dstistlistell•• "'