The Newspaper Credit System. The following remarks in relation to the newspaper credit system, which we clip from one of our exchanges, expresses the loss which newspaper publishers are subject to who send out their papers on credit. Read it: "With publishers, of newspapers, in corn- Mon with business men generally, the cash system is preferable to any other; to persons who rely, or nearly so, upon their subsctiption list for support, for the prosecution of their bu siness, they must necessarily be the loser.— There are thousands of well-meaning men who subscribe for newspapers and intend to pay for them ; but the idea of Writing a letter to an editor enclosing two, three or live dollars never enters their heads, through if called up on for the amount due, would probably be pre pared to meet the demand. But the publisher of almost every country newspaper knows it would be out of the question to employ a col lector out of the profits of his subscriptions; so Many of his patrons continue years taking the paper without advancing one cent, while he is paying cash fdt his paper and labor, and every thing else necessary to carry on the business. Here then is a loss—not attributed to any de sign on the part of the subscribers to defraud, but the fruit of a worse than worthless system. They would pay if waited upon, but the printer can not afford to spend five dollars for collect ing but three and never gets his pay. One of Uncle Sam's Strong Boxes. The National Intelligencer gives the follow ing description . of the cash . box in which Uncle Sam keeps his change at Now York The New York Subtreasury now contains $10,000,000 in gold and a low hundreds in sil ver coin. The sate containing the coin is kept in the custom-house, and is composed of dou ble sheets of iron, strengthened by cross bars or lattice work of cast-steel rods, between which no instrument can cut or file. The safe is fifteen feet long, eight wide, and about as many feet high. It in divided into two apart ments, in the inner one of which the money is deposited and it has three thick iron doors, each having two locks, the keys to which are distributed at night among the different clerks, the Assistant Treasurer keeping himself the re gister of the principal key, so that the safe can not be unlocked unless all are present. On the sides of the safe are tiers of boxes, capable of holding in all nine millions six hundred dol lars. They are now filled with coin, which is put up in bags of five thousand dollars each, except a few containing small amounts for con venience in making payments. The weight of the ten millions l ,of gold now in custody is eighteen and three quarter tons. The Harmonious Demooraoy The Washington Union, the organ of Presi dent Franklin Pierce, descants as follows in italics in aneditorial in relation to the Balti more platform : "Ile who attempts the violence of that sol emn covenant, whatever his antecedents will merit, and he will unquestionably receive, the condign punishment of an unscrupulous politi cal traitor." The New York Evening Post, the leading organ of the SO Shills, which :action is now under executive patronage and favors, spits upon the same platform in this wise: "The rule laid down by Mr. Guthrie—that of adherence to the Baltimore platform—is dis gracefully illiberal of itself. The Baltimore platform, our readers will remember, was not adopted by the Convention which nominated Mr. Pierce in such a manner as to give it any weight. It was not considered, it was not de bated, it was not put to vote in such a way as to afford any indication of the opinions of the majority of the theabers; it was brought for ward at the very moment of adjournment, when many of the members were gone and others were going out at the door; it was not heard by hall the people on the floor, and not voted for by half the rest. That any grown man, and in particular that Mr. Guthrie, who is a grown man, trot only in person but in intellect,should bring forward this bugbear of the Baltimore platform every day in the year, like a Chinese bonze airing his ugly wooden idol, is a folly for which we can hardly account." The Nation and the Spoils. The Pans correspondent of the Nation'al In telligencer concludes a leiter with this lang uage:—"l cannot consent to conclude what I have to say upon.this subject at trie present time without throwing out one thought which has frequently °courted to my mind, but which 1 have not yet met with in print. The Otto man empire is, there can be no doubt of it, ap proaching its destitution. It must soon be bro ken up. Constantinople, commanding as it does the Black Sea and the Alediterranean, is a capital point. It will determine perhaps the naval superiority of Europe in favor of the nation who in the partition of the territory of the falling empire shall ultimately possess it. There are three great and powerful rival na tions--4tussia, France, and England which would most gladly possess it; it must inevita bly fall to the lot of one 'of them. It seems clear that it must also be force which is to de termino the ono of them which is to be its lucky possessor. They could never pacifically and diplomatically agree upon the point. Passing events prove this clearly enough. It requires the union of France and England to keep Rue sia from seizing it. Were Russia even out of the question, France and England would soon come to bloWs upon thh question, of its pos. session. Let either of .the three once get possession of Constantinople and the Darda nelles, and in the present state of naval and miltitary science , posession could probably be maintained. Now, I have only to say, in the view Of all this, thatif I were a British Minister. I should - very tritely but very vigilantly see to it that the British naval force in those seas should be always kept a little superior to that of the French." • Cie A I lentiowni Pa. IVEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1563. Autumn and Winter Autumn is slowly passing away, and Win• ter, like the solemn tread of Death, comes with steady and sure approach. Those who have done, and well done the work of Spring, Sum mer and Autumn, dread not the approach of Winter, and to those who have fulfilled the purposes of life, the latter has no terrors. The earth was chilled last night, by a heavy frost which lay like a winding sheet on its bosom, but. disappeared before the rising and gen ial sun of to day, only to be followed by anoth er, more relentless in its ravages. So are the hopes of man cheered, and depressed by turns as the frosts of age, the sure presage of ap proaching death, come steadily and * stealthily upon him. What Railroads Do ? The opening of the road to Sunbury, has oc. casioned a marked improvement in business in that heretofore dull town, as well as at Sha mokin. A large new hotel, to cost $14,000 is now in course of erection at Sunbury, and bus iness of every kind is looking tip: This shows the great advantage of Railway improvements. So necessary have they become, in this age, that no town can expect to prosper without these means of communication with the business world. When the Allentown, and Lebanon Valley Roads, are completed, the lowns.along I the line will go ahead like magic, and Allffy town will come in for a large share of benefit. What we Want We have frequently thought that the vicini ty of Allentown offers unusual advantages for dairy and market farms, and that such enter. arises would be well sustained by the constant ly increasing demands of the community. There is probably no town of its size and char. enter in the Union which isso much neglected in these respects. The difficulty Of obtaining good milk, butter, and vegetables, is something extremely : vexatious, and all for want of the right sort of management among the people in the country around us. Thera is really no excuse for this state of things. Our town is evidently growing, and the public institutions located here, with the increasing travel, all combine to create a demand which would seem suaicient to sustain a far greater supply than the present condition of the country affords.— If our own people cannot enter earnestly upon these branches of agricultural industry, we would be glad to see some of the better sort of small farmers from near large cities conning in I and seizing the adv'antages now ripe to the hand of intelligent enterprise. Lehigh Zino Company The works of this company, for the manu facinre of oxide of zinc, are now in successful operation. They are pleasantly situated upon the south side of the Lehigh river, directly op posite Bethlehem. They are owned by a com pany of enterprising New Yorkers, and are un• der the superintendence of Mr. Samuel %Yell erill, for some time connected with the New Jersey Zinc Works. The buildings oldie com pany are constructed of brick, and are some of those substantial structures which seem to be fire-proof, waterproof, wear.and-tear-prool, and proof against the ravages of time. They were commenced early in the Spring, and completed some time since, and they have now, some twenty furnaces in full blast. The works are divided into three separate and new inventions taken together, making a perfect whole. -First, ; the Furnaces, where the ore is oxidized direct ly by the application of heat and blast within the ore. Second, the Seperator, a new and ingenious method of separating the small par tieles of carbon from the perfect oxide. Third, the Catching Apparatus, which is large, and adapted to the work to be accomplished. One portion of the process, where the carbonic acid and carbonic oxide gases are separated from the oxide of zinc, together with the flux used in the process, Mr. Wetherill, the inventor, keeps secret for the present time. The white oxide produced by the new process will coin• pare favorably with the best French White, and is superior in many respects. The Company have already commenced to enlarge their works on a very extensive scale, and to increase the product to ten tons per day, or Pace thousand tons per annum. The enterprise promises great success. The stock has already advanced to more than double the Original par value.— The nkines of the Company are situated near Friedensville, but a low miles from the Works at Bethlehem, and for the last feW months they have been worked with great energy and skill under the superintendence of Mr. John Keenan A Novelty The editors of the "Southern Weekly Post" in referring to the most prominent featdres of contributions to the. First Agricultural Fair, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, in October last says : TwO negro woman, twins, and so closely re• sembling each other that it is almost impossi. ble to distinguish them, weighing 260 and 268 pounds, were present on the ground part of the time, and excited much attention. They are fine looking women, genteelly dressed, of light color, and in every respect fine specimens of their race. Washington Globe. The prospectus for this official register or all that is said and done in congress, is contained in this paper, and as Congress now convenes in a short time, this is the time to subscribe for this valuable paper. See prospectus. Ev ery man, young or old, who wishes to be post ed up in information -relating to our own Ns 'loan! Affairs, as well as Foreign Affairs, should have the Globe. Direct and enclose subscrip tions to John C. Rives, Evi l Washington City D, C. The Sunday Law As there is considerable excitement at this time upon the question of the Sunday Law and from appearances, likely to be considera ble more we publish the act, that all of our readers may become acquainted with itsprovi sions. Sect. 1, If any person shall do or perform any wordly employment or business whatso ever:on the Lord's . day commonly called Sunday, works of necessity and charity only excepted, or shall use or practice any unlawful game, hunting, shooting, sport or diversion whatsoever on the same day, and be convicted thereof, every stich person so offending,shall for every sue!• offence, forfeit and pay four dollars, to be levied by distress . ; or in case ho cr she shall refuse or neglect to pay the said sum, or goods and chattels cannot be . found, where to levy the Fame by distress, tie or she shall suffer six days' imprisonment in the house of correction of the proper county: Provided alw a ys. That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit the dressing of victuals in private fam* dies, bake houses, lodging houses, inns, and other !Muses of entertainment, for the use of sopurners, travellers or strangers, or to hinder waterrnen from landing their passengers or ferrymen from carrying over the water travel. lers, or persons removing with their families on the Lord's day, commonly called Sur.day nor to the delivery of milk or the necessaries of life before nine of the clock in the forenoon nor after live of the clock in the afternoon, of the same day. Tho Whole Vote The popular vote of Pennsylvania for elec tion purposes reaches about lour hundred thou sand ; yet in the recent State canvass not more than two hundred and severity five thousand votes were polled ; so that about one hundred and thirty thousand legal voters abstained from the exercise of the elective franchise. Of course the majority of the non-voting are %Whigs, or opponents of the Democratic party. Had any_ considerable proportion of these ‘Vhigs taken the trouble to go to the polls, Christian Myers would have been elected Surveyor General by a handsotne . majority ; for it appears by the returns that over ten thousand persons who voted the regular Democratic State ticket re fused to vote for Mr. Btawley, the Democratic candidate for that office. Although ilveople of Pennsylvania were never much addicted to polling their full vote at elections, yet it is something unusual and strange for so large a number as one hunderd and thirty tilt:resend of them to abstain from voting, and implies eith er a. wide spread dissatisfaction with party ma chinery and operations, or a want of confidence in the management of our elections. Ca - Our friend Aaron Win!, 1!:q., informs us that heteafter excursion tickets to New York on the New Jersey Central Rail Road, will be good from Thursday to Saturday noon at 12 o'clock. This arrangement will meet the views of the people of Allentown and vicinity much better than the former. Only three more trains this season. Nuw is the time to see the 'Wonder of the World,'—THE CRYSTAL PALACE! CI" The Pennsylvania arm Journal for No ye m. ber, id well posted up in agricultural affairs.— The merits of this t‘ mk must be apparent to every farmer who desires to keep pace with the times. In these days of improvements and inventions, when old fashioned ideas are cast aside •to give place to new and better ones, no one can be considered as "taking Time by the forelock," unless he endeavors to advance his profession whenever an opportunity oilers.— The husbandman will find the Means of so doing by taking the Journal. J. Al. Meredith & Co., West Chester, Pa , $1 a year. Awful Catastrophy Michael Porter, fortnerly of fleitteiburg town ship, Lehigh co., but latterly a resident of York state, while on a visiting tour to his relatives in this county, came to Easton on Saturday the 22d of October last, and in a fit of mania-Portu was committed to prison. On the following Thurs day he was taken to the Northampton county l'Ourhouse, to be cured if possible of his disease. DUring the day he was brought there, he showed no, symptoms of the dreadful fits; the steward did not think it necessary to provide a separate cell for him ; he was consequentilytput in the upper story together with other inmates of the house.— ShOnly alter, however, he had another attack, and in his fits escaped through it dormar-win dont on the roof of the building; a persuasion to Mimi to his chamber proved useless, con• tending his friends would tear him to pieces if he would do so. He continued on the roof for three hours, and made r?peated threats he Would throw himself to the ground, which he effected at about II o'clock at night. The distance he fell was better than 50 feet. He was most shock• ingly bruised, and died 23 hours after the deed. Chester County Stock.—Joseph Cope sold two of Is Southdown bucks at the Pittsburg Stale Fair, one for $3O, and the other a few dollars less; and Alfred A. Tanguey sold his lot of 7 pigs, six• months old, with the premiums they took, at $l5, $lB and $2O each. Benjamin Nick. man sold one of his pigs 12 weeks old, at $lO. Rule fur finding the Weight of Lit;e Stock by Meacurement.—fhe girth is the circumferance 01 the animal just behind the shoulder blades. The length is the distance from the shoulder blade to the rear of the buttock. The superficial feet are obtained by multiplying the girth and the length. The following table contains the rule to ascertain the weight of the animal : ltleas.than I ft. in girth, multi, superficial ft. by 8 " 3 and more than 1, i. ' I I .11 5 s, .. 3, 11 41 16 617 'll 5, 11 11 28 41 7 . 41 .. 7, 61 " 32 . 41 41 9, 66 1/ 43 Example.=Sappose the girth of a buttock to be 6 ft. 2 in., length 6 ft 6 in. The superficial area will then be 34, square ft'. This multiplied by 22;in accordance with the preceedinr, table gives the weight, 782 pounds. Bradford County Exhibition This, the first fair of the Bradford County Agr ricultural Society appears to have succeeded be. yond expectation. A gentleman in Towanda writing to his friend in 'rings, says: "The first Agricultural Fair of Bradford coun. closed last evening, after a very successful ex hibition of Iwo days. The attendance was very large, the receipts from members and from ad missions, amount to $925, thus putting the Soci ety in a very good position, entirely removing any apprehension as to its future success. The contributions were very numerous, and very creditable to the farmers of the county." Among other articles which received premiums, we were struck with the account of a crop of wheat raised by John McCord, of that county.— it was of the blue stem variety, and the product of 6 acres was 354 bushels or 59 bushels to the acre, and the wheat weighed 64 lbs. to the bush el. This is an extraordinary crop and will no doubt be brought before the State Society at its meeting in January for a premium. We doubt if it will be exceeded in the State. Bradford joins Susquehanna county, where G. Walker's great crop of corn was raised last year. Some "spirit" of improvement must have broke loose, and been "rapping" the farmers in those border counties or else, there is a kind of conspiracy thereto raise the largest crops in the State, and obtain all the premiums. Tioga. is the adjoin, , ng county on the west, and we shell not be sur. prised to hear of the next great report front her. I'enn. 'Farm Journal. Great Snow Storm 7'he Sunbury A merman says, that Monday, the 24th of October, 1853, will become famous in the annals of the clerk of the weather, as the day on which occurred one of the most remarkable snow storms of the last century, at least so far as our memory is concerned.. In this place great quantities of snow, intermixed with rain, fell during the whole day. Four miles east of us, there was less rain, and the snow fell to the depth of a foot. At Shamokin it was still deeper. Be tween that place and Pottsville, on the moun tains, the snow was eighteen Inches deep. The roads were rendered almost impassable by the amount of snow and the breaking down of trees by the accumulation of snow on their branches. The car, front Philadelphia were about two hours behind time at Pottsville. The passengers took the coaches, but when they arrived at Mount Carmel, eight titles east of Shamokin, they re fused to go un to that place, and remained over night at Mount Carmel. A Bear Plgla.--Two men, while hunting for deer in St. Lawrence county, last week, met with a monster bear. One of them, named Chapman Olmsted, levelled his double barrelled gun at him and fired. The charge took efiect In one of the fore paws, which so enraged the animal that he sprang upon Olmstead, and completely stripped him of the greater part of his coat. Olinstead's comrade, at this juncture, in fright ran away.— Olmstead sprang behind a large tree, the bear following closely, and it was only by the appli cation of several severe blows dealt by Olmsted upon bruin's head, that he was made to turn from him, and go in pursuit of Olmsted's com panion. The latter hearing the bear coming, ascended a tree, where the bear was unable to follow, owing to his wounded paw. Olmsted then came up, and again discharged his gun lull into the carcass of his enemy. This caused the bear to stagger and roar in pain, when he soon after gave up the ghost.—Albany Lead MincB.—lc Clayton county, lowa, an im mense lead mine was lately discovered byMessrs• Holmes & Dickson, who have taken out 120,000 pounds of mineral within the last four weeks, and have another 100,000 in sight. The lead is considered good for 1,000,000 pounds. It is said to be found on the surface of the upper strata of magnesian limestone, and about eighty feet be low the surface of the earth, at the highest point of the ridge running east and west, and directly 'across the ridge. The mineral re. said to be of the best quality, bringing, at the rate of ;531 per thousand pounds. It has now become the set• lied conviction, at least with a great many, that trie whole country formerly reserved by the Gov ernment for mineral purposes will prove to be rich in lead ere and of the best:quality. Extraordinary Crop of Wheat.—Chpt. J. C. Ragland, of Saluda township, in this county, raised during the last season, on twelve acres of land, two hundred and ninety six bushels of wheat, weighing over sixty three pounds per bushel. 'What is still more remarkable the ground was not sown last Fall, but the grain, sprung from the crop on the ground the previous year. The ground the previous year having been prepared with a sub soil plow, was of course far more mellow and moist than if it had been skinned vero in the manner too common among many of our farniers.—Madisoix (Ltd.) Banner. Monument to Franklin.—A meeting of printers publishers, authors and others connected with the public press, was held in Philadelphia on Monday evening, to devise ways and means to erect a monument to Benjamin Franklin. The meeting was well attended, A resolution was passed that immediate measures should be adopt ed to procure the necessary funds for the pur pose indicated, and that an Executive Commit tee of Fifty-six be appointed by the Chairman, to take general superviaion of alit whole subject, and prepare an address to the printers and literary men of. the Union. The meeting ad journed to meet again at the call of the Execu tive Committee. Newspaper Union,—The two Whig papers at Harrisburg,—the Telegraph and State Journal, are to be united, and will hereafter be published under the title of the "Pennsylvania Telegraph and State Journal." This is a capital arrange ment. Both are excellent papers, and the union will make a large circulation. Success to the new concern. Seizure of Mackerel.—The Pot t:and Advertiser states that the fishing schooner Lookout, Capt• Littlejohn, which arrtved at that port 23d, from Bay of ehaleur, reports having had 00 barrels of ,mackerel taken from her by the British cruisers, on account of alleged: fishing within limits. GLEANINGS E -- e" God never designed this world for our home; it is only the place where we are educa ted for eternity. I3' 7 Don. Mr, Medd', just elected Governor of Ohio by OP,OOO majority, Was a few years ago a resident of Delaware. Cr The United States army numbers about 10,000 men. Lasi year they cost the country $BOO per man. rti'"The Democrats and Free Soilers of Nor folk county, Massachusetts, formed a coalition on Tuesday. The President of the Democratic Convention referred to the removal of Mr. Bron son as showing that President Pierce would fa vor such a coalition. IV"Jiihn Bell, of Tennessee, was reelected U. S. Senator by the Legislature of that State, on Saturday last. tar The Governor of Maryland has appointed Thursday, the 124th day of November, as a day of Thanksgiving. Imo' The Virginia Democracy unanimously denounce the removal of Collector Bronson of New Yurk. LT"The Pottsvilleans arc vary much concerned how to obtain a pure supply of water for their town. The present supply is entirely inade- qua te Indian Payments.—Gov. Gorman went up to Shakopee, on the Minnesota river, on Monday, for the purpose of making a small payment of removal money to the Sioux, who are now en route to their new homes. Gen. Fletcher, Winnebago agent, arrived yes terday on the Luella from St. Louis bringing with him $137,1100 in gold for the payment of the different annuities to the Sioux, Winnebagoes andChippewas,to be distributed about as follows ; Sioux, $BB,OOO Winnebrigoes $33,000 Chippewas $ll,OOO. The Sioux payment will he made at their new Agency, on the Minnesota, and those who do not move there previous to the payment will he deprived of their share. It is understood that the Payment to the Winnebago tribe will be made in the country lately ceded to that tribe north of Crow River. The Chippewas of the Mississippi will be paid at their Agency on Croi Wing River. Agent Herriman, who is now absent at Shakopee, is expected here to day and on his return will immediately leave fur his agency with the Chippewas annuities.— St. Paul OEII.O Democrat Oct. Death of the Sleeping Vrou man died at his brother's residence, in Clarkson, on. Monday, the 17th of October. While on ex hibition in New York, he was taken sick, which seemed to induce a wakeful state fur a short pe riod, and then a stupid condition, with intervals of wakefulness, until he was brought home on the 14th. He talked very little, inquiring after his mother, who had been dead two years, his lather and brothers, whom he seemed partially to recognize. He complained of great internal heal, and soreness of his throat and stomach.— On the morning of the day of his death he called for food, and ate a hearty meal, and from that time seemed to be in pain until about 2 o'clock P. M., when he died without a struggle. His age was thirty•four years. = Bye/tester Demccral. Should Women Vule I—Har . riet Hunt, one of the "strong minded women" of the day, says that taxation without representation is tyranny, and cuntinues—"Heie ant I, an independent Ameri. can woman, educated for and living by the prac tice of medicine. I own properly, and pay taxes on that property. I demand of the government that taxes me that it should allow nte an equal voice with the other tax payers in the disposal of the public money. lam certainly not less intelligent than thousands who, though scarcely able to rend their ballots, are entitled to vote. I am allowed to vote in any Bank or Insurance Company wherein I choose to be a stockholder. Why ought I not to vote in the disposition of public money raised by tax, as well as those men who do not pay taxes, or those who do either 1" EMIMMMI Polutoes.—W e are told that there is more than enough of this Illinois product to load a large steamboat, lying, on the right bank of the river between this and Alton. At three landings there are nearly or quite 4000 sacks. In these busy railroad passenger times, the Alton packets have something more to do than to throw away their time on potatoes, and any "stern wheeler" now afloat would scorn to be seen at a potato pile.— Thuse 'Murphys," therefore, stand but a slim chance of spending the winter in a warm climate. —St. Louis lutelligencer. Generous (Igen—Although Corporations have no souls, it seems they occasionally manifest a disposition to provide fur the souls of others; as the fidlowing extract front the proceedings of the Synod of the German Reformed Church, which lately sat in Philadelphia, will show : ' , The proposition from the Philadelphia and Sunbury Railroad Company to appropriate $3OOO towards the erection of a German Reformed Church at Shamokin, provided the Synod would contribute a like sum, was accepted, and a reso• lution passed to make the necessary arrange• merits fur the construction of the Ncw Invention.—A new wheel barrow has been invented. The wheel is placed under the cen tre, so that none of the weight of the load rest upon the hands. A man can wheel twice the usual weight. The Apple Trade in A'ew York.—Some idea of the value of apples, says the Rome Sentinel, as an article of profit to the farmer, may be found in the fact that no less than 17,000 barrels have been purchased by two buyers, chiefly in the the towns of Kirkland Marshall and Augusta, and shipped east to Market. The amount re^ ceived is probably about $20,000. Lime.—There is not within the whole State of South Carolina the slighiest indication of the presence of limestone. The consequence is, that in many of the interior towns of that State one dollar per bushel is paid for lime. Point Your noln—Every farmer should be provided with a small quantity of the coarser kinds of paint— a few pots, brushes,. paint and oil, and should keep his carts, wagons; sleds, plows, harrows, dec., well coaleil . witb paint. Longevity. We have observed reneently in our exchan ges quite an array of interesting instances of longetilly and numcrous progeny. We give be^ low the most interesting of these, with the ad- dition of several names in this list of modern Methuselahs, whose history we have learned through oilier sources. First, then, we see it stated that a family gathering of the Darlington blood was held re^ cently at the residence of Brinton Darlington , near West Chester. The gathering was compo sed of the descendants of Abraham Darlington, and numbered near ! four hundred . Daniel Wilson, or ihe state of Indiana, died recently at the age of one hundred and seven Dears. He is said to have been the companion of Gen. Marion, and to have served long and faithfully under General Washington. These facts are given by Alexander Wilson, who rep resents himself as the finly fifth child of the hero of this notice. We have heard it staled that the family circle of John Leech, now residing near Greenville,. Mercer county in this Stale, and father of David Leech, Esq., the great merchant known to near-. ly every body in the commonwealth, number, in' child, grand and great grand children, about , one hundred and (hilly souls . 1 The old gentle-. man is about ninety years of age, and is sti4l row markable fur his great physical and mental energy. Mrs. Sarah Benjamin, of Pleasant Mount, Wayne county, is now in her one hundred and eighth year, and enjoys good health, and clear intellect. Some time during the last 'summer, she sent to Governor Bigler a skein of wollen yarn, which she had spun a few days previous on her old fashioned wheel without any specta cles. The yarn was of the finest texture and most perfect proportions. She witnessed the delivery of Cornwallis' sword to Washington, at Yorktown. She says that she was all Arneris can on that occasion, and that she does not be lieve that she could have treatesi Cornwallis with the civility that Washington did. She telt like having a little vengeance at the expense of turies and tyrants. She is the recipient of a pension, and says she should have two pensions, for she had two husbands who died in the war of Independence. Aaron Snyder of Clearfield county, is said to be one hundred and four ;year, old. lie is also surrounded by a numerous progeny. lie is sensible but quite helpless. James Gallecher, of the same county, is re. juicing in his 95th year, and has given notice that he will pay no debts contracted by his itin erant Rife, who has left his bed and board with out cause or provocation. He thinks a lass of 80 ought not to be trusted at large. He served in the war under Washington, and acted the part of the brave soldier. But the greatest Methuselah of all, was Mary Simonson, uho died recently near Shippensburg in this State, at the almost incredible age of one hundred and twenty-six years—almost one hun dred years over the average of human life._ Carlisle Herald. • The Horses in the United Sltes.—The Boston. Transcript says: 'l'he first horses brought into any part of rho territory at present embraced in the United States, were landed in Florida by Cabeca de Ve ca, in 152/, forty-two in number, all of which, perished or were otherwise killed. The next importation was also brought to Florida, by De- Soto in 1539. In 1608 the. French introduced, into Canada. In 1609, the English landed at Amestown, in Virginia, having ten horses with them. In 1629, Francis Aigginson imported horses and other domestic animals in the Colo.. ny of Massachusets Bay. In 1635 the Dutch Company imported horses into New York. In 1750, the French of Illinois were in possession of considerable numbers of horses. According to the census returns for 1850,there were 4,335,358 horses in the U. States, exclusive of those in cities which were not returned. The four and a half millions of these animals in the United States, constitute a proportion of one to every five of the inhabitanti. New York has one horse to seven persons, Pennsylv vania, one to three free inhabitapta, In Ohioand the new States of the Northwest, the increase of horses has kept pace with that of the population. The number of horses in the United States to more than three nines as large as that in Great Britian. A recent report in France shows that there are in that country three millions two hurt. dred thousand horses. Death of the "Oldest Pihabilant."—A friend writes to us that on the 15th alt., died, on the plantation of Edmund IL Richardson, in Bladen county, N. C., Judy, a slave, aged one hundred. and ten years. She was a faithful servant, and. maintained a good moral character. She was• one of eight slaves who, nearly sixty years ago,. Were the first settlers on the plantation where she died, within one mile of the Cape Fear riv► er. Of the other seven, one died over 90 years of age, another 93, and third 81. Two are yet living, one 75 and the other over 60 years of age.. Within five miles of the place where Judy died,. lived William Pridgen, whose death at the age of 122 years, we. recorded some four or five years. ago.—Ftwellseille Observer. Law for Railroads.—The Circnit• Court in; Broome county has awarded $4OOO damages to, Mrs. Primrose Johnson, whose husband •wati. killed by accident on the Brie Bei!road. This. is a different conclusion from 'that one of the: Courts of Louisiana, which recently decided that though a man might claim damages himself. for. injuries sustained to his own person, .yet. &he be killed outright,.his wife, or legal heirs, or representatives have no claim ; .a decision ab surd upon the face of. it, as the entire life must• be of more value to the wife and family than the time involved in a mere temporary suspension. - of his business. The Russian War Cry.—The Russian proclaw oration to the army concludes with these words: wilusila is milled upon to annihilate Paganism.. and those who would oppose her in that sacred mission shall be annihilated with the Pagans.— Long life to the Czar. Long life 19 the Gild or ,he Russian: 1-11
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