Ilis companions were thunderstruck ;
hunk,' cried each in his turn.
•1 thought so,' said the young man who
was said to have been hit.
I!
El
, Wall, I declare if that don't beat all my
mother's relations,' cried the landlord, hold
ing his side:: to keep them from bursting
with laughter. 'Why do you mean to say,
ye fellers, ye don't know what a skunk is . ?'
'Why,' cried the cresufallen victor in sin
gle combat, 'do you mean to say that a
skunk has black and white spots, and looks
almost like a cat ?'
~T o be sure I dew,' replied the landlord.
'Aril that they can hit a man at five rods
and knock him down, as they did Pimpkins
there ?' pointing to a poor fellow who seem
ed to be still at a loss how to account for
what had struck him. .
'Sartain,' again replied the landlord.
'Do you mean to say, too,' continued the
hero, looking more and more horrified, 'that
a ditink will smell as awful as this animal
dory. r
•Sa-sa-sartain !' r•creeched the old man;
almost speechless from laughter. •
'Well, then,' added the dandy sportsman
'if that's so, landlord, we've killed four of
infernal things !'
Such a shout greeted this announcement
that the strangers themselves had to join in
one, a wiiggish fellow, remarking that af
ter oil no one could deny they were good
hunters, as they were pretty good on the
'scent.'
ely tel)igl) Register.
A I 1(1110%4'n, Pa.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1853
The Late Election
The ‘Vhigs in Pennsylvania cnd Ohio, as ap
pears from the result, have loft the election go
by default.
.The Democratic State ticket is
elected by a nitijority varying from twenty to
thirty thousand. The turnout was less than hall
what it might have been. No opposition having
been made to the Democratic ticket, and no one
appearing to have been anxious to run as a vol.
unmer in the county, consequently no local ex
citereent was up. lo Ohio the election took the
same turn, arid the Democratic ticket is elec.
ted by an tint/Emil large majority rising 40,000.
The World's Fair.
By a cant public-lied in to•days paper, it will
be seen that the New Jersey Central Railroad
issues excursion ticket's every Thursday, until
the Ist of December next, returning with either
train the same or next day, entitling the holder
to go front Ea=ton to New York for two dollars The Soldiers 0f1.812.
Lehigh County is behind in the good work
fifty cods. These tickets also procure an ad Lehigh
sometime si , :ce in behalf of the heroes
portunity bat seldom offered, and all that can,
mitt:ince to the Crystal Palace. This is art op
of 1812, as would seem from the following
which we find in the Philadelphia 'Evening
ought to go. This is a very pleasant time to
'
make the trip, and as it takes but a day or two, Argus, of Saturday last
Armstrong county has takeh the first step
we trust as many as car, will take advantage
outside of Philadelphia, in electing Delegates
of it. Tickets can be had at Aaron Wint's, also
at Hope's Express office in Bethlehem. to our National Convention of the soldiers of
the war of 1812, to be held here on the aniver.
miry of the Battle of New Orleans. The old
soldiers of that county have chosen Major Gen.
Robert Orr, Major G. W. Smith, and Dr. C. C .
Snowden, to represent them. No better selcc•
Bons could have been nitrite. The resolutions
adopted by the meeting were oldie right stamp
and manifested a proper zeal on the subject.
'They endorse the suggestions of Judge Suther
land, and express the suggestion among their
proceedings, that they are confident the Con
vention of the Bth of January, will be one of
the largest, if not the very largest ever held in
Philadelphia. Dr. Snowden delivered an ex
cellent address at the meeting of the soldiers
and their descendents in Almstrong connly.
No Good Apples.
They are no peculialy good apples in mar
het. Thaw 01 this year's growth, so tar as we
have yet seen, are small in size and in letior
in quality. The country surionnding Allentown
has failed to pioduce creditable crops; whether
hum :he heglect of cchaidists or from natural
causes we are not prepared to say. Courtin it
is, we have 'no such itch displays of this fruit
us heretofore; and what there is sells very high.
It is said that the Letter (the eating) kind will
be suppled from the north, arid at large prices,
no doubt; for every thirg that contributes to
animal sustenance has to be dearly paid for
now•a.days.
It is a marvel that country people, living near
to so good a market LIN this, do not bestow great•
er attention to mcharding, as the vegetable pro•
dues could not tail to remunerate them richly
for their honorable toil.
The Advance in Grain
The advance in the price et grain has created
quite a sill among our lartners—especially coin
and %%heat. The list: in the price of corn has
taken place at an opporttine time tot those who
have their cribs still full with last years crop,
and the holders are very busy shelling it oil
the cob, hauling it to mill het and making room
for the present crop, which is now ready to be
stored away. Our main highways for the past
few days, have been lull of teams, hauling
loads of grain to market. We observe that
corn is mimed at 80 : 81 and 82 vents and wheat
red, $1,40 and whip $1 b 3, in Philadelphia.
Exhibition Worth Seeing
o teat to-morrow the 18111 and 19th Oe•
tuber, day lied evening, Col. Irood, will exhib•
igle !Intel," in A Ilen
to.% ti, the taigesi .ind sinallest women in the
'flits is cn ot the I,lost interesting ex.
hibitions tce I.nriw rl, tii,(l we suppose every
body that eorne , to. Town, on those days, will
itile:ss there ourin iiics . Theypostively only
continue here for two days. See the card in
our adverising cola Mos, for lorther information.
The Next Governor.
We find the following communication in the
Public Lodger of yesterday.
This is a propitious time to inquire as to the
proper man for the next Governor of Pennsyl
vania. Mere party allegiance has become but
a slender shackle. Distinctive party, principles
have Hourly vanished ;some of them have boon
adually modified, and mutually adopted by
each party; (Akers have been rendered obsolete
by the altered condition of the country. The
obj-:ct of all honest and honorable men now
should be to fliioe. the most upright and able
men. lit looking over the names of ill:smarty
vorthy men et the State, I can see none so
..nice oil parties as Garrick Mallory.—
oi,c, I an: sure could be fi,tn i a who Would
u mar- credit to the Geberhaturial chair.—
re - The first Agricultural Fair of Union coon•
was held at New Derlin, on the 13th and 14th
EMI
Increase of Agricultural. Fairs.
The increase of agricultural fairs, throughout
the country is one of the most favorable signs
of the day. American farming is confessedly
infer'or to that of Great Britian, so that what
eve tends to elevate it is a public benefit, and
sh Id be encouraged by all good citizens.—
Th gre,stest.,' benefactor of his 177 w, n litistie . en
said, is he, who teaches two blades of grass to
grow whore only one has grown Wine. These
fairs, by the emulation they excite among far.
mess, tend directly to this end. They are to ;
agricultnridists what an exchange is to trier i
chants. Every novelty is there produced, dis.
cussed and its merits decided upon.
Consider what these fairs have done for the
breed of cattle. If the few spirited' ndividuals
who first imported the best stocks from abroad
had, instead of exhibiting them at these fairs,
kept them secluded always on the farm, how
little comparatively would have been the good
effected. The breed of cattle on that particular
estate, and on one or two neighboring ones,
would have been unproved, but the great body
of agriculturalists would have remained en.
firefly ignorant of the advantages of a superior
stock of cattle. The difference between Italian i
farthing, where no improvements have been i
made for centuries, and th e modern scienti fi c
fArming of Great Britain, is to he attributed to
the exehange of ideas among the farmers of
England, and the want of such an exchange i
among the farmers of Italy. A few fairs would
regenerate the Italians
Formerly these fairs were confined, in the
Linited States, principally to the neighborhood
of . .large cities. There has been, for many,
years, such a fair near Philadelphia. But now
every county in the Sate is establishing an ag
ricultural fair. Farming consequently is being
quickened to the new life. The venerable jog
trot fashions of tilling the soil are giving way,
under the stimulating influence of these as.
I sem bloges, to new and improved methods,just
as cocked hats, queues and powdered heads
of our grandfathers have succumbed to the
more sensible attire of existing generations.—
The old fogies in agriculture are getii,trgvithana ft ,
ed of themeed‘mes. :l'he most incredulans skep
tics in scientific farming and good breeds of
cattle are mortified when an agricultural fair is
opened at their doors, and they see, with their
own eyes, how far they are behind the age.
Give us agricultural fairs all over the land.—
They will work miracles. What the spinning
jenny has been to manufactures, that agricul
tural fairs will yet be for farming.
Representative District.
The following is the official vote in the Rep
resentative District of Etigh and Carbon :
nt- ,
1 : 3
C.
C 4 - ,
-...5.
.a
a; , ...
.
1 ' ' cr
Lehigh, :2152 2052 306
Carbon, 1039 1120 606
Total. 3191 3173 917
4sTFlie vote for Judge in Carbon stands as
follows; Diniunek 1104, Porter 639.
Washington Sentinel.
This is the name of a new daily paper pub
' lishen at IVashington city, Dist. of Columbia,
by Beverly Tucker, E.g. It is democratic in
politics, and supports the administration, though
independently. iVe like its appearance cx.
ceedingly well. It is well filled with reading
mutter, and edited with marked ability. Wm.
M. Overton and Ch. Maurice StUhl), are the ed•
hors. Terms of Subscription, single copy, dai
ly', $lO,OO per annum; Tri - weekly, $5,00;
Weekly $2,00. To clubs or Individuals sub-
scribing for five or more copies, Tri-Weekly,
per annum; in advance, $3,00; Weekly $1,50.
Farm Journal.—John S. Bowen, Esq., has be
come t•ole editor and proprietor of the Register
& Examiner, at West Chester, Pa., J. M. Mere
dith, his former partner having became stile
proprietor of the Pennsylvania Farm Journal
to the business department and publication of
which Mr. M. wishes to devote his whole time
and attention.
Newspaper Agency.— Messrs. Crane & Co.
have establised an advertising agency in Phi
ladelphia, and propose publishing a monthly
paper called the "Typo." Front the references
which these gentlemen give, we are satisfied
they will promptly attend to any business con
fided to . their care. Advertisements forwarded
from their office will always be paid for, with
out unnecessary delay, or vexation to the prin
.
Sunday Aniusemcnts in Cali.firnia..—On Sun
day, Sept. 4th, at Gibbonsville, there was a great
bull fight, a fight between a woman and a bull,
and a foot race between the celebrated Sohn Gil
detsleeve and Wm. Waters. These are delicate
amusements, truly, for the first day of the week.
Tho Autumn and its Lesson.
All that is earthy most lade. IA an an
nual lesson, taught by the falling !eat, die with.
ering frost, the silence. which pervades the an
and the wreck and decay of vegetation, a, each
reenring Autumn lISNUIIIed
Autumn is Open it. now.
I con] are dead and the . I,•, . dan tin_
ear:• have lost their green. ; m...cydde
i+ hear
ing the hayfields of their last burden. Small
I yellow leaves; that have exbaustecbtheir
ity before the advent of the frost, are drop
' ping one by one front the flees. Flower
stalks, that but a few short weeks since stood
green and glowing, bearing tumidly up 'Lein
wealth and floral beauty, now stand stank and
dead. The first intimations of approaching
dissolution rest upon all vegetation, yet, amid
these scenes ; the fruits of autumn are spread
up on every si,le. Apples bend horn the bough,
nuts wait on the trees for the locoing lingers
of the frost, wagons go creaking home laden
with homely roots, the granaries are already
filled, and soon, housed and garnered, the pro•
duet of the year will await the grateful use of
man and animal.
All that is earthly must fade, "We all do
lade as the leaf." Man has his spring, his
summer, his autumn, and his winter. Some
leaves wait nut for the frost, and fall early, but
we who grow crisp and dry with age, and we
who grow golden and glorious in the frosts of
time, must all alike follow them to the earth.
There are worrn•ealen fruits and blasted corn
ears in the fields of humanity, as iu the fields
of vegetation.
The good ones only can find a place in the
store-house of the great husbandman. The
lesson of the autumn bears upon and tiles:tales
the whole sul,pct of the close of human lite.—
The year is but a hollow (awe tt ithout fruit as
the grand result. A human life in its autumn,
in which is seen no fruit, betrays a perversion
so foul that it might make an angel weep, and
as the angels look down upon the world, may
they find graces which blush like apples among
the leaves, chal'acters well filled Out and clean
front all impurity, true wisdom filing all the
storehouses, and the seeds of an int mot tal life
perfected, and ready to be unfolded in
Those everlasting gardens,
Where angels walk and reraphs are the will.'
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Santa Anna to be an Emperor.
Our latest news from Mel:h.:ols curious and
interesting. Santa Anna is not satisfied even
witfr his present position as uncontrolled dicta
tor of the republic of Mexico. He aspires to
to the imperial purple, and is determined to
don it. There is scarcely a doubt that this is
the darling scheme on which Santa Anna has
set his mind, and that everything is being
put in train to facilitate and ensure success 01
the undertaking. There is to be no Span•
ish dominion in Mexico then, but his Excel
lency Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, benemer
ito de la patria, will be the first Emperor. It
is so determined on. Ample means are in his
power to carry out the coop &dot ; and. many
months are not expected to elapse until Santa
Anna lakes his place among tiro family of rnon•
archs —of Emperors. It is understood very
well that Spain has long been desirouS of again
obtaining a footing in Mexico. That the guv•
eminent of Spain could hope to carry out their
plans with Santa Anna in power was out of the
question•., because his ambition would not tol
erate any one taking the precedence of him in
his native country. What they could do, how
ever, was to assist idol with money and eve!y
other means in their power to establish the
empire, and then, calculating upon his age,
I trust to their lather in trigueing to be enabled, af
ler the death of Santa Anna, to e , tablibh a Span
ish prince upon the throne of Mexico. Such
a plan they now anticipate to put into execu-
tion, and Santa Anna will avail himself of all
the means and assistance which hi, Span kli al
lies have punnised to furnish hint with. Ile
will proclaim himself Emperor, and, as he has
no son, will cam very little as to who may be
come his successor. With him it may be, as
though a c•elebtated statesrmo.—"Aner me
the Deluge;" but so long as that event occurs
not during his lifetime, it is a matter of perfect
indifference to him when it may happen after
his death. Truly this is a curious age, when
Wiley politicians can control the destinies of a
whole nation without a word of murmer from
he masses of the people
Fine Chickcns.-0,1 Friday afternoon last at
the cluse of the Northampton Agricultural Fair
our hied F. P. of Easton suld four of
hie pure Chittagong Chickens, for Ode flun•
dred Dollars—twenty five dollars apiece. The'
chickens were bought for Hon. 'l'. Butler King,
Georgia. The Farmers of this county will here
perceive that wising the right kind of Poultry
is rather profitable business, and we hope this
evidence will induce them to improve their
breed.—E,
Escape from Jail.—Six prisoners, who were
confined in the County Jail for various trifling
offences, made their escape early on ttre morn
ing of the Gtli instant, Their names are .Wil
liam Johnson, ‘Villiam Smith, (negro,) James
!brie, Hobert Saxon, Adam Steckner and Jo
seph Cresswell. They eflected their escape
by sawing an iron bar which admitted them in.
to the main hall and by making a rope out of
their bed quilts they scaled the wall. The
Sheriff has offered a reward of *B5 (or the lot.
—Easton Argus.-
Boyertown Railro2d.—A survey of'the route of
the proposed Railroad between this place and
Boyertown, was commenced last week. Mr.
Lorenz, the efficient engineer, informs us Uta s t
thus far the appearances along the route arc
quite favorable to the construction of the road and
thinks it can be made at comparatively small
expense. The road will doubtless be built, and
will be but the commencement of the road through
to Allentown.—Pottslown Lcdgcr.
Ell
No• 2 Mill makes three kinds of Ticking, Hea
vy Flannel and 4 4, 10 - 4, and 12-4 heavy sheet
ings.
No. 3 Mill makes Print Cloth
The average daily manufacture is 22,000 yards
he average daily consumption of cleaned cotton,
s 6,430 lbs.; and the average weekly T:insurup •
ion of coal is from 95 to 100 lons.
The number of persons employed in the Mills
is about 800 1 The average payment every four
weeks, to hands, is $lO,OOO. The Wm ks are
understood to be doing a paying business et pre.
sent. Every department appears to be under
the best management.—lndep. 1174.
Hun CHOP or Onto.—On the first of October,
about one..half of the counties of Ohio had fur.
nished the Auditor of State's Office their annual
statement of personal property listed for taxation
in 1853. The number of hogs In 44 counties is
set down at't,315,498, against 696,031 last year.
It ts, however, doubted, if the real increase is as
large as the returns make it appear, il/ conse•
quence of the repeal ofthe $2OO exemption law.
THE ilLoctc rgom Eorrr.-On Monday the block
or the Washington Monument, from the ruins of
:he library itt Alexandria, Egypt, arrived at
Washington. It is of red seynite granite, the
same in quality as that in the obelisks of Egypt,
and was taken from under twenty feet of rubbish .
This memorial is quite a curiosity. On Monday
morning the workmen commenced another grade,
which elevates the Monument 144 feet from the
earth. The collections continue very fair.
Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.—The Hon.', S.
Chatfield, the agent of this company to obtain
subscriptions, will be in our city sitortly for that
purpose. The capital is $100,000,000, and as it
is proposed to apportion the same among the
States, Pennsylvania will be entitled to about
$7,000,000, We have never seen the charter
which, the State of New York granted to this
company, and therefore cannot speak of the val.
ue of the investment, but hfr. Chatfield has for
many years occupied a favorable position before
the public, and we do not thinlr he would act as
agent for any Corporation which had not solid
claims to confidence. AVere the charter,' or an
outline of it to be advertised, in advance of his
visit to our city, we have little doubt that he
could easily obtain the quota of subscription al. -
lotted to our state, if the provisions are found to
be advantageous.—Philadelphia Sun,
Destiny of America.
Mr. Seward was called upon to deliver the
opening address at the dedication of Capital
University ill CrillfllbUS,Ohio, Sept. 14th• which
has made its appearance in the public paper...—
Mr. S.'s subject was the Destiny of A no•iica.—
lie presents a glowing picture of the future con.
diuon ot this country, and says:
• If the future which you seek consists in this
—that these thirty•one States shall continue to
exist for a period as lung as human foresight is
allowed to anticipate after-corning events, that
they shall be all the while free, that they shall
rrmalt distinca and independent in domestic
economy, and, nevertheless, be only one in corn.
tierce and. foreign affairs; that there shall arise
from among them, and within their common do
main, even more than thirty - one other equal
States, alike free, independent and united, that
the borders of the Federal Republic, so peculiar.
ly constituted; shall be extended, so that it shall
greet the sun, when it touches the Tropic, and
when he sends his glancing rays toward the Po.
lar circle, and shall include even distant islands
in either ocean; that our population, now counted
by 20 millions, shall ultimately be reckoned by
bundreds• of millions—that our wealth shall in
crease a thousand fold, and our commercial con•
nections sloth be multiplied, and our political
influence he enhanced in proportion with this
wide deve:opment, and that mankind shall come
to recognize in us a successor of the few great
States which have alternately borne command
ing away in the world. If this, and only this, is
desired, then I am free to say that if, as you will
readily promise, our public and private virtues
shall be preserved, nothing scenes to me more
certain than the attainment of this Future, so sur,
passing ly comprehensive and magnificent."
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Sale of Imported Cattle.
The Madison county (Uhio) Stock Importing
Company, on the 27th ult., made a public sale of
a lot of Durham Short Horn cattle, which they
imported the past summer. The following are
the prices which they hrought:
WM
Thortibeiry-F. W. Renick . , Pickawdy co. $ 875
Sheltiefiler - .1. W-Robinson, Madison co. 1,800
Marie--Rob. Reed, Madison county. i,r,Go
Mirqu is—James Fullitigton, Union co. 3,000
Starlight—C. Phillis, Madison cn. 3,1:00
Bean Clerk—D. M. Creighton, Madison co. 750
Symineiry—W. A. Dun, Madison cn. 1,150
Farmer's Boy—Jos. Rayburn, Madison co. 925
Prince Albert—J. F. Chenoweth, Madison co. 300 i
Colonel—W. A. Dun, Madison co. 13,50
Sportsman—James Foster, Madison co. 700 1
Prince Edward—M. D. Wright, Fayette co. 475 1
'locket—David Watson, Union co. 425 1
Splendor—F. A. Yocum, Madison co. 500
Duke of Liverpool-(;.(;. McDonald,Mad. co. 555
Total
MEM
Victoria—J. Q. Minchell, Madison co. $605
l'icootee—Jesse Watson, Madison co. 1,270
Stapleton lass—Jesse Watson, Mad. co. 1,353
Princes§ . & Calf—Wm. Watson, Clark co. 909
Miss Hilton—David Wilson, Union co. 375
Alexandrina—David Watson, Union co. .560
Blossom --David %Vntson, Union co.' 650
Yorkshire Dairy Cow—Jos, Negley, Clark co. 425
Monsoon—Joseph Rayburn, Madison co. 295
Total
FG,
They sold at the same time imported.swine72o
at from $l6 to 200 each ; and imported sheep
at from f 35 to 1115 each.
What would Lehigh county farmers say to
such prices
Cotton rains.
All out Cotton Mills are now in full operation
tinning twelve hours out of the twenty-four, and
upon twelve different kinds of goods, as follows:
No. 1 Mill makes narrow and wide fine shirt
ing, Satin Jean and Fine Flannel.
GLEANINGS.
[i7—rwo mammoth squashes were exhibited
at the Erie, • Pa.) Agricultural Fai,-, last week—
, 'toe weighed 226. and the other 227 pounds.
re"Fertlinand Heller, of Hamilton township,
Monroe, coun Pa., died suddenly in 'Easton, on
Friday.
r'Laneaster county was well represented in
the State Fair at Pittsburg, and obtained several
. -
•
premiums.
CT? In New York city, .during July and Au
gust, there were 1846 births and 560 marriages.
CU'A cabbage weighing twenty seven pounds
has ,seen raised in Bhcks county this season.
rg - The taxable property in San Francisco
has increased in one year from $19,000,000 to
;730,050,478:
large amount of property in and about
Norristown has changed hands the list week, at
very good prices.
LP - The tenth annual exhibition of the Bucks
county Agricultural Society, held at Newtown on
Wednesday, was attended by a large concourse
of people. The display was very fine.
Eriv. 'Jack frost has taken up his permanent res
idence with us.
William Penn was born on the 14th of
October, 1644.
rp- Turkey has two hundred thonsand men
under arms,
Is Belgium, there is a nunnery which con
tains nine hundred nuns. What a sum of wash
ed life.
The Ohio Democrats have carried the
State by some 40,000 majority. The prophecy
of Daniel \Vetiver will soon be accomplished.
1:27"A Galena paper gives an account of a.vein
of load ore, along the back of the Mississippi ri
ver, below Prairie du Chien, which is one and a
half miles long. No fear of our ammunition be•
ing expended in the next war.
• rii"Phere are now built and in process of
building no less than seven Roman Church edi_
flees ill Chicago. One of these, now building,
will be worth l,;100,000, and two others. already
erected, are estimated to be worth $50,000 each.
Debts of the Great States.
The funds of the nations of Europe fall with
the prospect of war, and the English funds have
fallen, by the accounts from Europe by the Ara
bia. ' The New l' oik Courier, writing of the in.
debiedness of Europe,observes that whatever the
Four Powers can do to avert tear they will do.—
To two of them—England and Prussia—war is
a most exlmustin,?, debt ; to the other two—France
and Austria —it is absolute bankruptcy. We
I quote:—"France has a debt °rover one thousand
I millions of dollars. To pay the interest on her
national debt ; to support her standing army Of
three hundred and fifty thousand men, and navy
of three hundred and thirty vessel ; to sustain the
dignity of her present court, and to meet the cur.
rent expenses of civil government, France has
to raise an annual revenue of three hundred mil
lions of dollars, which is more than one - fifth
of the annual amount of all the united incomes
of the people.
$18,a55
Austria is' worse off still. She has a debt of
eleven hundred millions of dollars and a revenue
of only one hundred and twelve millions.
Prussia has a debt of one hundred and thirty.
five millions of dollars.
The English debt everybody knows. It would
crush any nation but England; and the world
secs how it grinds her, even with her gigantic
energies
No continental power, save perhaps Russia,
has extensive credit. The absolutist governments
have borrowed money till the necessity of extrin
sic support has nearly become a settled law of
their existence. Dui capitalists have had too
strong a lesson of the ruinous effect of this sys
tem in the untold losses they have sustained by
Spain, Mexico and the South American repub
hes, to shut their eyes to the consequences of
supplying States with-means to du what they are
unable to do by their own positive resources.'
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Ardiuua
Ruilroads..lndianapolis will in two or
three weeks have eight railroads in operation,
running to nearly every point of. the compass,
viz: The Madison and Indianapolis Railroad;
Lawrenceburgh and Indianapolis Railroad; inf .-
' fersonville Railroad ; Indiana Central Railroad ;
Indianapolis and Bellefontainc Railroad; Peru
and Indianapolis Railroad; Lafayette and Indi
anapolis Railroad; Terre flame and Indianapolis
Railroad. 'These are all now running except
one, and that is finished with the exception of
laying six or seven miles of track.
tlixsiasippi
Bridge it Rock Mand.—The DA yen -
port Gazette states that the bridge across the
Mississippi is to be commenced at once, and
that $50,000 have been appropriated to be es"
pended upon it this fall.
GIRARD BANK COOSTI:IIFEIT.—The counterfeit
Fives on the Girard Bank, Philadelphia, which
appeared some time ago, are still in circulation.
The engraving of the vignette—a large figure 5
I surrounded by Cupids—and filling up of the sig.
natures, are so perfect as to deceive all but the
most practiced eyes. But the devices at each
end of the note are very defective, and will at
once betray its worthlessness. Since the coun
terfeit was discovered, the Bank has been
with drawing from circulation all the old notes
and issuing others from a new plate, with entire
ly different devices. The present issue, has a
vignette of Liberty, with an eagle, shield, &c.,in
the centre: a female head at each lower corner,
a figure 5 at each upper'corner.
Liberation of. Slaves.—John Fisher, Esq., of
Westminster, Md., cashier cf the Batik of West.
minster, last week set at liberty four of his slaves,
and gave them in addition an outfit, which will
in all probability Amount to near one thousand
dollars. One of the colored women, who had the
principal charge of the household affairs, had
about one thousand dollars in money herself
which she had collected by selling milk, butter
eggs, chickens, &c., Mr. Fisher allowing her the
privilege of so doing, and in fact took the money
and put it out on interest fur her. Mr. Fisher
has but two slaves left, and they have positively,
It is said, refused to take their free papers and
leave for the free States, begging of their master
to let them stay with him. The liberated slaves
have gone to reside near Hanover, Pa., where
they have purchased some laud
The Lottery Pu6iness.
We, in common with many others of our chi' .
zens, about once a month receive a circular from
some lottery agent at HaWinner, setting forth
the splendid opportunities to make fortunes by
investing, a few dollars in lottery tickets. We
do not know that any one in this region is silly
enough to dabble In such schemes; but if there
are Such, we commend to them the following
exposition of the chances of success:
First, there are upwards of seventy numbers
used in making out the tickets, and there are
three numbers on each ticket: now the question
is, how many different tickets can he made? If
hut ten figures were used, instead of seventy,
there could be issued 479,000,000 tickets; so a
man in the first instance, where there are ten
numbers, would stand one chance out of 3,623,-
800 chances, and in the last instance, where
there are twelve numbers to change byrhe would
stand but one chance out of 479 , 0 00,600,and if
the whole seventy figures be used, and if as mat
ny different tickets were issued as could be form:"
ed by the permutation of these numbers, it fx
probable that there 7Could be enough to more
than carpet the whole territory of the United
Slates. Of course very few are printed, compa
red to what might be printed, yet there is just as
good a chalice of the prize to fall an unprinted
ticket as to a printed one. If it does so, as no
one can claim the money, it remains with those
Making the lottery. There are, in such a case,
thousand, of chances in favor of the lottery ma,
kers. Again, if lotteries were fairly conducted
there would be hundreds of thousands each
month receiving a fortune by the high prizes
alone; and each year there could be named from
one thousand to ten thousand persons thus fa
vored by fortune. Is this we have only been
speaking of one single prize in each, lottery, and
as there are many important ones in each, the
fortunate persons ought greatly to exceed ten
thousand annually. Yet, how ad loin do you
hear that even a $l,OOO prize is drawn ! Still all
the przes of every lottety should f on some
at each drawing. Who gets them ? Where do
the favored ones live? and how does it happen
that their names are norparade'd before the pub
lic each week? It is simply because no one
holds a ticket entitled to the prize, and of course
the money remains with the maker of the lot-
Change for Ireland—The Exodus.
The laincLat Times of a late date contains an
interesting aritcle 011 Ireland. It alludes to the
immense emigration that has taken place within
a few years, and says truly enough, that the po
tato rot of 1846 produced a social revolution
greater than any that war, conquest, or political
violence has been able to accomplish. It is sta.
red that within the six years ending March 1852
no less than 1,213,226 persons left the shores of
Ireland. What an outpouring! Ilow many cit
ies, towns, and villages of the New World have
been measurably populated through this agency
The number who departed in 1851, was 251,537
in 1852, 224.897; or about a quarter of a million
!eacli year: So and spontaneous a drain is
probably unexampled in the history of the World
especially, says the Times, when the fact of its
being across a great ocean, and in a time of pro'
found peace, is taken into account. The
[ion naturally occurs—ts this condition of affairs
likely to continue? The extraordinary drain of
population cannot but have an important effect
upon the rates of wages, and as these increase,
will there not be greater inducements to stay at
home ? On the other hand, the •ery fact of broth
ers and sisters having crossed the ocean in safe.
ty, and established themselves in the United
states in comfort, cannot but induce many of
those they left behind, to follow in their footsteps._
This country, indeed, seems to be the chosen
abode for the emigrants and refugees of the Old
World; and while we continue to prosper, while
labor is in constant demand, and land in the Far
West may be obtained at a dollar and a quarter
per acre, this disposition to wander to and settle
in the United States must continue to exist.
Hui/rood Opcninp,..--The Catawissa, %V illiams
pot t and Elie It tilroad, was opened on Monday
of last week, from the town of Catawissa up to
to the village of Mainville, seven miles. The
Locomotive, the pleasure cars, and the passen—
ger:, made the rxeursinn up and down, in good
time, and gave a foretaste of what is coming next
Sear, when the eats ran run from Philadelphia,
through to Williamsport. The, work on the road
between C.itawissa and .Wilton, is now progres
,ing with more vigor, several ..f the Contractors
havtugimerrtred their force. In anticipation of
the early coming of the iron horse, The swell of
new buildings and other improvements at Dan
villerfar exceed 'till former growth. The flood
of new corners now abiding at this place, is very
large, and neatly all of them good and useful.
citizens.
The French Nary.—At the latest accounts from,
Fiance, the greatest activity prevailed in the ma-.
rine department. When the present equiputen:s
at the navy yards arc completed, it is said that
France will have afloat a more powerful navy
than at any former period of her history. De , '
fore a year she wip have according to present
arrangements, fifty ships of the lino and fifty fri
gates, and most of them with auxiliary steam.—...
The sum voted fur the navy yards the present
year is 25,000,000 francs.
Woman's Rights in New Jersey.—The Newark
Mercury says that single women, who were freer
holders, voted in New Jersey as late as the year,
1800. in a newspaper of that date is a compli
mentary editorial to the female voters, for unapt
imously supporting John Adams for President s
'n opposition to Mr. Jefferson.
r Deep Snow in Illnine.-On Wednesday befora
last, snow fell in the town of Rangeley, (Me.,) to
the depth of one foot. Between that place and
Philips, travel was interrupted for several days.
in consequence. The trees bordering the road
were so loaded with snow that they bent down
and obstructed the way,
Change If Name.---It will be observed that the
name of ..The Philadelphia, paston 4 and Water
Gap Railroad Company" has been' changed.to
the name of "The North Pennsylvania Railroad
Company.' .
Gil