Eli len that. All the pots, pans, pails and nameless vessels, no matter how indispen sable, which the careful woman had stowed away under their beds, begin to enter into the grand melee, and go rattling, thunder ing, and yelling across the ship, like sound ing brass and tinkling cymbals. The very devil is to pay. .Everything is upset and smashed. Kegei 'boxes, and barrels, filled with unmentionable articles, ore all smashed and their contents spilled. The next visitor is a sea to the amount of some few hogs heads, which comes pouring down - the hatchway, followed soon by another and an. I other, till you crawl out of your berth at the peril of your head, and, if you can, seize your most valuable trunk or box, and put that into it. When daylight comes, things are pretty much at sixes and sevens—the storm raging, and you wishing yourself back where you came from. Yet thousands of people who had comfortable homes in the old countries seek new ones in America through the steerages of our packet-ships.— Traveller's Cid*. • (111)c fel)igl) tiegioter. Q Allentown, Pa. WHDIVESDAYi NOVEMBER 30, 1863, ALLENTOWN AS A MANUFACTURING PLACE Looking to the growth and prosperity of a town or city, next to ti commercial interest, is that of a manufacturing interest. All experi• once shows that no inland town will continue to thrive and prosper, no matter how great its agricultural advantages are, unless it also has a mechanical and manufacturing or commercial in. terest to uphold and press it forward. The ar gument we have advanced above has clearly demonstrated itself in our own place. Allen town, as our readers are fully aware_ has_been.. a kind of agricultural depot 'for a district of Country more than fhb ty miles around for a great many years, yet Allentown, depending as it did, solely upon the agricultural products of the surrounding country, improved but very slowly. It is true, a large amount of money was annu ally paid to the Farmers by the Millerseand Grain Dealers, but the Mechanics and laboring classes received but a trifling amount, and the consequence was, that mechanics found it a poor place, and instead of Allentown prosper. ing as it should, it remainded in statue) quo. We are glad, however, to have it in our power to say, that Allentown is not what it was in 1840 —then it had 2400 inhabitants—now it has 'near 6000. Then we had only two small char coal Furnaces in the county, which together run from 45 to 50 tons of metel a week—now we have near Allentown eight large Anthracite Furnaces, and one in course of erection, these together can be made to yield in the neighbor (rood of fourteen hundred tons of pig metal a week ; which valued at thirty dollars will bring to the county forty two thousand dollars every 8 days. This probably is more than any county in the state can boast off. Independent of the Iron business, many of our citizens are engaging in manufacturing, and preparing still more exten sively to embzrk in the business. In a range of three miles we have fourteen large flouring mills, propelled by water power. We have a steam saw-mill in operation. A planing mill, truth manufactory, &c. A very extensive Iron Foundry and machine shop. Since these es tablishments have been in progress our popula tion has been steadily on the increase, build ings are going up in every direction, and in our last weeks issue, speaking of those erected this season, we'have been accused of having stated Vies number some 15 or 20 less than were actually put up. The wages of Mechanics are daily advancing, and this valuable class of cit izens are indeed in great demand. Carpen ters, Brick and Stone Masons, Plasterers, Pain ters, Btsck.smiths, Wheel-rights, Shoemakers, Tailors, Coachmakers, &0., are in demand, al though there are a good number settling down daily with us, yet the demand exceeds the sup ply. There are seven brick-yards in operation in the Borough and still the demand for brick cannot be supplied Allentown now er.joys a high rank in point of location, as it is certain to have a Railroad communition North, South, East and West.— The time has come when all the wollen and cotton goods, hats, shoes, edge•tools farming implements now manufactured in the East, or other parts of the world, should be manufactur ed in our midst. We have the wool and leath er in our reach, we have the cotton with less freight on it than they have in the East, prop .erty is cheaper, labor is cheaper, in fact we have many advantages over distant manufacturers. We have the stone-coal, the lime stone and the iron-ore, in such immense quantities and such eupericir qualities, as to enable us to drive the British Iron out of our market, still we go on fkom year to year, purchasing millions and mil. Eons of Iron from England at a ruinous cost, this should not be done, and thus we send the money we ought to distribute among ourselves in large quantities to pay European's operations Ibr such articles we could manufacture at home, at much leas ,cost. if capitalists abroad, who are disposed to em 'tart their means in manufacturies, but knew halt the advantages of this locality, ant were apprised.of the health of the place, they would ;ash here with eagerness. Important to Postmasters. rOptmasters should bear in mind, (says the Fredonia Advertiser,) for their advantage as well as that of the local press, that for every county paper delivered by them to subscribers, they are entitled to retain of the. Post Office funds, tea and.one•lndf cents per year. It is for their interest as well as that of the publish era, that the county papers bo preferred, since there is no trouble of .making collections or keeping accounts thereof,. ss on foreign papers ' The commission on which will •nret average *telethon from six to Mel icents"peritiarl su toillimetare look to your interim. The Soldiers of 1812 There are yet in existence, and scattered through tho length and breath of our country, many of those who were active participants during the last War. Then they were• in the morning of life., fresh, with the vigor bf youth and ready when the summons came to tape up arms, and bravely-defend the cause which they had espoused = the cause of liberty. They fought and conquered, and when the sword was turned into the plough•Share they sought again their homes and the peaceful employ ments of life. But war which brings with it devastation, where it did not lay low in death, in many in. stances left traces on these who were partici pants,—traces which they bore from the battle field as a glorious insignia gained in a cause dearer to them than life itself. The swing time of life has, to " those actors in that event ful drama," passed away, and time marked its impress on their brow. To rrAiny who stood firm in the hour of danger, i:1 those days which tried men's souls, their aster days have not been smiled upon by fortune, and now when the day of life is closing upon them, they are struggling through the pain of honorable wounds to ob tain an honorable living. 1; is true the soldier is not totally forgotten, but with all the "Acts” which have from time to time passed, the small pittance allowed has hardly iusured the keeping of body and soul together ) and often, in many cases, it is all the poor soldier has to depend on, and the obtain ing of which is often attended with so much trouble and vexation that he would almost fain give op in despair. But what we would speak of particularly and explicitly is the injustice done by Government in the dispensation of its favors to those who are the intended recipients of the same; and, in b o doing, allusion is made particularly--to-the soldiers of the War of 1812. The late act of Congress of September 28, 1850, allows land to all who volunteered their services and served over one month—but grad uating the amount of land to the lime in ser vice up to nine months, for which time they receive 160 acres, and no more if they served beyond that. It seems from this-, that the allowance was goierned by the term of service, regardless of the actions which the soldier may have been engaged in. Now, in many, instances, those who volunteered and served: for the year saw little or no active service or lightning; while many who saw less than a month's or, it may be, three or four month's service, were often in the hottest of the actions, and, it not killed, wounded so hard as to be unfit for further duty; in engagements like Chippewa, Lundy's Lane, and the severe engagements in suppressing Indian hostilities and depredations. We see no reason why Congress should not equalize the amount in this act, and give all who have not received the benefits, or only as they may have ? as the "act" now stands, 160 acres, and that before the coming session closes. They will thus be doing an act of gratitude to those who disregarded not their country's call in the hour of need, and dispensing charity to those who are most worthy of it. Something Brewing. The following extract of a letter published in the" Philadelphia Evening Bulletin" a dem• ocratic paper of great influence, is an indication of what is brewing in the good old " Keystone State," among a large and a respectable pot• lion of the Democratic family in the next Gu bernatorial contest, speaking of the ill conceived appointment of Mr. Campbell, to a Cabinet of ficer by President Pierce, the writer says: "The people must again, and then again, be told that M. Buchanan, and Mr. Bigler are re• sponsible for Mr. Campbell's appointment.— If the matter is properly kept before them, Gov. Bigler will find that his nomination will be of as little service to him as Mr. Campbell found the nomination for the Supreme Court to be.— Do let us try and substitute an honest man for a quack and coward for the Governor of this State. We have had enough of these mon ey-making, vulgar, inferior men as our Chief — Magistrates. Let there he an end of it, and let us at least return to the "line of safe prece dents," and select well-in-formed, straightfor ward, upright men. For one, I desire to see Mr. Bigler defeated, and 1 also desire to see the President restored to his sense of duty, and to be undeceived from the delusion he now labors under, in believing that Mr. Campbell is a man of merit—a man of popularity, and a persecuted saint! When I last wrote to you I concluded by say ing that I should again write, and say a few words to Governor Bigler. I have done so.— As the French say, this is the "beginning of the end." Hereafter I will again write to you, and plainly express the past history of Mr. Camp bell, and the guilty conspiracy between Mr. Buchanan, Governor Porter, Mr. Campbell, and Governor Bigler to rule the Democratic party." Court Week. On Monday next the December term of our 'Court will commence. As a great many of our friends will have business in town ; we trust such who know themselves to be indebted to us for subscription, advertising or otherwise, will not forget to give us a call. We are much in want of the "needful" and we hope this little notice will bring our delinquents to the "Cap tain's Office" to , settle their accounts. Harrisburg " Democratic Union." This excellent and ably conducted. Democrat ic paper, now under the sole control of lcaac G. IllcKindley, Esq., who has recently purchase od the interest of his partner . Mr. Lescvre, will be continued at $2 a year, including the 'semi weekly paper during the session of the .Legis lature; for orSl semi-weekly during .I,he .ses- Ilion alone. . The weekly 4i Union" is furnished 60.. per per year. Persons desirous , of hiving full and correct reports of Legislative Proceedings, will de-Well to subscribe for the glUdien.w Youw: Man Save !hat penny=pick up that pin,—let that account be correct to a farthing find out what that bit of ribbon costs before you say 'you will take h'—pay that half dime your friend handed you to make change with—in a word, be eco nomical—be accurate—know what you are do ing—be honest and then be generous, for all you have or acquire thus belongs to you by every rule or right, and you may put it to any good use. And you will put it to a good use if you acquire it justly and honestly, for you have a foundation, a background which will al- ways keep you above the waves of evil. It is not parsimoniousness to be economical. It is not miserly to save a pin from loss. It is not I seitish to be correct in your dealings. It is not small to know the price of articles you are about to purchase, or to remember the little debt you owe. What if you do meet Bill Pride decked out in a much better suit than yours, the price of which he has not yet learned from his tailor, and he laughs at your faded dress and old fashioned whine of honesty and right, your day, will coma. Franklin, who hem a penny saving boy, walking the streets with a roll under his arm, became a companion for kings, says, "Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves." La Fit to the celebrated French banker leaving the house to which he had applied for a clerk- ship, was not too proud or careless to pick up a pin. The simple pin laid the foundation to his immense wealth: . The wise ban the act, called him back, and gave him employ. meal, convinced by this seeming small circum stance of his ability and honesty. Be just and then be generous. Yes, be always just and gen 'erous. Benevolence is a great duty, a heaven given privilege, by which you not only benefit the of ject, but feel a sensation of joy in your own soul which is worth more, far more, than gain. But you may not give your neighbor's goods. Your own j•tst earnings you should al ways share with the needy, but generosity can never be measured by the amount you lavish on a fine dress, or that you spend with your friends to satisfy the requirements of vanity and fully. What if they do pat you on the shoulder? They would do as much to any dog that would serve them. It is the service not yourself that gets the flattery or you spend your money for naught certainly. Well, let the girls say you are small, rather than spend that dollar you need for a boa. Get the book if it is a good one it will tell you that no girl worth having ever selected a man for a lies band for his long tailor or livery-stable bill more than for his long ears. Publication of the State Laws We have urged again and again some reform in the present mode of promulgating the Laws but fogyism seems to resist, every attempt at progress. We are glad to find the Pittsburgh Union speaking out on: the subject and taking the opportunity before the Legislature meets, and while the members elect have time to re flect upon their coming duties, as a fit time to arouse their attention to the necessity of the publication of the Laws in every county of the Stale. The Union calls upon its brethren of the press for assistance in the matter, and says as ignorance of the law will excuse no one, our government should place it in the power of every citizen to know the laws he is expected to obey. In a country of the advancefuent and intelligence of ours, it would be thought mon strous to follow the custom of the old Roman ruler, who had his laws.written in small letters and hung up on high columns, so that the peo ple could not read them ; and still every viola tion of them was severely punished. It is well known that nearly the whole session is taken up with local legislation; laws binding in par ticular localities are passed, and scarce a doz en interested knew the fact until the law is vi olated and an innocent man puuished. This is unjust and despotic. The people should" know the laws they are required to obey, and to effect this, they should be published in the newspapers of each county. To be sure it would cost something, but it would be vastly beneficial. As it is the laws are published in pamphlet form after they have gone into oper it - ation, and then only are seen by one in a thou sand. We hope to hear the voice of the press on this important subject.—Plid. Sun. Lehigh Valley Times— We recieved the first number of a new paper by the above title, pub• lished in the Borough of Bethlehem, Northamp ton county, by E. li. Rauch. It is printed on new type and makes a very neat appearance. Northampton is blessed with newspapers, no less than six English and two German papers are published in the county. Well the "more the meryer." Brother Rauch's efforte are de• serving of success. Spiritual Telegraph. —The "Spiritual Tele graph" is the title of a paper printed by Part ridge & Brittain, No. 300 Broadway, N. York, a copy of which the publishers have sent us. It is printed on fine white paper and bean evi dence of prosperity. Election of Bank Directors. On Monday the 20th of November last, the Banks in Easton held their annual election foi Directors, and elected the following Boards: EASTON BANK David D. Wegener, Michael But; George A. Nice, Charles Lines, Peter Ihrie, William H. Lawall, C. A. Luckenbach, Charles W. Mix• sell, Peter Pomp, Andrew H. Reeder, James, Thompson, Jacob H. Wilking and Matthias Krauss. FARMERS' AND MECHANICS' DANK. Peter S. nobler, John Geen, Jr., Philip H. Geopp, John A. Slelor, Samuel Sundt, Daniel Lachenour, C. C. Field, Samuel St,imer, Peter Shimer, Robert' Cotingham, Daniel Whiteell, ,William Lee and Cyrus Lawall. McKinley, has purchased the interest of late , partner, Mr. Leseure, in .the Harris burg Hulot, and it now itti sole proprietor: Continental Money—How Issued. Soon after the organization of the Continental army, the immediate necessity of pecuniary means to the new Government caused the issue of paper currency to a large amount. Three distinct modes of putting forth this kind of mon ey were proposed: first, that each Colony should issue for itself the sum that might be required of it by Congress; second, that the Colonies as a body should issue the full necessary sum, and each Colony be held bound to redeem its propor- Minable part ; and, third that Congress should is• sue the required amount, each Colony be bound to discharge its proportion, and the united Colo, nies to redeem all money unredeemed by the de• fault or inability, of any particular Colony. The last mode was adopted, as likely to secure more ready credit, and as affording the best ultimate security. During the session of 1775, three mil lions of dollars were therefore issued. This sum was appropriated among the Colonies according to the supposed population, inclusive of negroes and mulattoes; each Colony to pay its propor tion in four equal annual payments, the first by the last of November, 1789, and the fourth by the last November 1782. The several Colonial conventions were to provide by taxes for a sink ing fund to meet their proportion of the bills. The amount of the issue so moderately begun exceeded all expectation, and at• the beginning of 1780 the enormous sum of two hundred mil lions of dollars had been issued, every dollar of which then remained unredeemed. This prepos terous issue, so far heyound the ability of the United Colonies to redeem—greater, it was sup• posed than the value of the entire Colonial real estate—was swelled to a still larger amount by numerous well executed forgeries 'industriously circulated by malicious loyalists, and by the in dependant issues of the individual Colonies.— The credit of the Colonies was now at the low est possible point, and their paper, which stood well up to an emission of twenty millions, rapid ly depreciated as their inhabity to redeem the is sue became more apparent, and the most ingeni. ous financiering efforts of Congress proved pow erless to stay the downard tendency. In Febru ary, 1781, seven thousand five hundred dollars in Continental money with difficulty command ed one hundred specie dollars. At that time, five hundred dollars in- Continental money would have just purchased for your grandfather pair of shoes." It was usual for tradesmen in making out their bills to charge the price in Continental money, and then indicate the price which would be accepted in specie. The lamentable dispro portion is well illustrated by the following old bill, the original of which is still preserved: Capt. A. 51' Lane. Bo't rof W. Nicholls. January 5,1781, MEE 1 pair boots, f6OO 00 61 yds. calico, at 85 ds. 752 00 6 chintz, at 150 ds. 900 00 moreen at lOU ds. 450 00 4 handkerchiefs, at 100 ps. 400 00 8 yds quality binding, at 4 ds. 32 00 1 slcain of silk. 10 00 If paid in specie, £lB 10. $3141 00 Government failed to redeem their paper curren cy because of sheer inability, Congress tried every plan that human ingenuity or financial sltili could suggest, but without achieving any practical benefit. When the Colonies assumed their defiant attitude towards the mother country they had no money and no credit except among the rebels," and desperate necessity, which overruled the ordinary laws of financial propri ety and prudence, literally drove them into the enormous excesses which we have detailed.— The war was carried on without a treasury, and this was the most serious trouble that Washing. lon had to encounter. Our revolutionary histo ry in this respect, Is unparalled, when we con sider the power and ample wealth of Great Brit ain at the same period. At this late period, the Continental money is in the hands of parties who gave nothing for it—hence Its redemption would not benefit the real losers by its circula tion. Population of China. Some idea of the importance of the revolution now going forward in China may be obtained from reflection on the fact that the population of China proper is estimated, and it is believed, cor rectly, at 367,320,907 inhabitants. in the de• pendencies of Mantchooria Mongolia, Turkistan Thibet, &c., the population is about 40,000,000 Making a total of over four hundred millions of people under one government, or eighteen times as many as live under this Rpublic. Should our population double in number every half century it would require nearly two hundred and fifty years to acquire a population of China. The quantity of land in China is estimated at 830,820,100 English acres, of which, 141,119,317, or nearly one sixth, is under cultivation. The total area in square miles, is 1,297 999 and the population on each square mile 2830. Were the Chinese a warlike people, and as far advanced in all the the modern arts and sciences as the Americans or English, they could overrun all Asia, and conquer the combined armies of Eu rope. The effects of a successful revolution among 400,000,000 cannot be forshadowed by any human imagination. Obituary of the . Saft. ,Deinorracy..— The hard democracy of Livingston have prepared an obi tuary which they intend to hope inscribed upon the tomb of free soilism, tiara it is : OBITUARY , The Van Buren or Free Soil Pariy, Born of respectable colored parents, at Bottalo, August, 1853. Died at sunset, Nov. 8,1853. Aged five years and three months. A post mortem examination proved the imme diate cause of death to be cholera infantum, pro duced by too strong a dose of General Pierce's abolitionism, administered by Guthrie one of the Presidents Secretaries, being forced into its weakened stomach, causing immediate death. A Placefor /3atehetors—Fifteen marriages have taken place within three weeks at the Dennison House; Cincinnati.. -We advise our batchelor (Heads to`put up there. The lady who adverti ses fora husband might . profit'by the suggestion. ear Tar. important European Newsoen matter . . , opt thiM 'paqa7 Statistics of the Census Froni the report of Mr. Dc Bow, Superinten dent of the Seventh Census, now in press, the total white population of the United States is _ . 19,553,068 934,995 8,204,313 found to be Free colored, Slaves,. Total, The total square miles of the territory of the Uniied States is 3,306,865, which gives a popu lation of 301 to the square mile. The annual attendance at schools is 2,646,452 white males, and 1,916,614 females, and 26,461 free colored persons. Of these 3,942,081 are nil tive, and 147,426 foreigners. Pennsylvania schools; 504,610 a year. • Of the entire population, 13,103,650 reside in their native States. 4,176,225 in other States, 2,- 240,635 were born in foreign countries, and 32,- 658 unknown. In Pennsylvania the population is 2,258,160, of whom 11',787,310 were born in the State, 165,966 in other States, and 302,105 in oth• er countries. The table of deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and idiotic, of the United States, show there are deaf ! and duinb—whites, 9136 ; free colored, 126 ; slaves, 531. Blind—Whites, 7978 ; free colored, 429; slaves, 1387. Insane—Whites, 14,972 ; free coiored,..il I ; slaves, 327. Idiotic—Whites, 14,257; free colored, 348; slaves, 1182. Aggre• gate, 50,994. Of theloregoing there were born in foreign countries—of deaf and dumb, 497; oft blind, 2713; of insane, 9358; idiotic, 600. In I Pennsylvania, there are of deaf and dumb— whites, 1130 ; free colored, IS. Blind—Whites, Oil ; free colored, 28. Insane—Whites, 1805; free colored, 49. Idiotic—Whites, 1432 ; free colored, 35. In the States and Territories there are 234 Colleges, with 1651 leachers and 27.159 pupils, Their total annual income is : From endowment; $452,314; taxation, $15,485; public funds, $184,. 549 ; other sources, $1,264,280—t0ta1, $1,916,628. Of Public Schools there are 80,991; of teachers, 92,000 ; of pupi15,3,354,173. Their total income is : From endowment, $182,594 ; taxation, $4,• 685,414; public funds, $2,574,669; other sour ces, s2,l47,Bs3—aggregate, $9,591,530. Of A ca. detnies and other schools there•.are 6032, with . 12,207 teachers and 261,362 pupils. Their an nual income is: From endowments, $288,855; taxation, $14,202; public funds, $114,798; other 50urce5,.54,235,987 ; total, $4,653,842. Of per sons over twenty years of age who cannot read and write, there are 389,664 white males, and 573,234 females ; 90,522 free colored; 858,306 native, and 195,114 foreigners, being an aggre- gate of 1,053,420; of this number in Pennsylva nia there are 24,380 males,42,s4Bfeenales,while, and 9344 free colored. The native population of Pennsylvania who cannot read or write is 51,283 while in. Virginia it is' 87,380; North Carolina, 80,083; Tennessee, 78,114; Kentucky, 67,359; Indiana, 69,445; and Ohio, 56,956; allowing a disproportion highly creditable to our State.— Philentelphia Sun A Humiliating Fact.—A pplication was recent. ly made by two brothers, both colored, to a Court in Richmond, Virginia, for permission to go abroad without registers, as They were so far re. moved from their original blood, as to entitle them to privilege asked, in accordance with an Act of the Virginia Assembly, which declares that persons with less than one fourth negro bland shall be considered white persons. After hear. ing the case, the Court refused the application. On which the Richmond Enquirer thus remarks : The law and circumstances under which this application was made, would free about one fourth of the slaves of the Commonwealth, and lead to interminable difficulties on the subject.— One.tenth negro blood would be little enough to place a negro upon the footing of a white person. Great Mill.—The Harrisburg Union, referring to a new kind of mill highly praised in England says—•'Messrs. Wilson & fil'Uullough have re cently completed a new steam mill in our bor ough , in which they run 4i feet flat French burrs two hundred revolutions a minute, that turn out flour faster than we ever saw it run from a mill spout. These gentlemen calculate to grind reg ularly from six to seven barrels of extra flour per hour on each run of stones, and they may be able to do more. As high as thirty bushels or wheat have been ground on one run of 'tones, in this mill, in an hour! We ask if this has ev er been beaten any where I If any one has beat, en it, they will please send us word. We have been using the flour made at these mills for the last two weeks, and find it superior to any we have ever had." The New 7wenfy—FiveCeni Pieces.—lt is stated in a New York paper that the new American twentrfive cent pieces have been extensively counterfeited and large numbers of them are in circulatiCn. When not much worn they are a good imitation, with one exception, the milling on the outer edge is badly done. They are run in moulds and the creases arc not clear, and shol, on particular examination, that they are not made in the manner of the . genuine. After use they become dark; almost as copper ; but a large number of them are iu circulation that look well, and all new quarters should be examined closely. St/cies:Or/ Whating.—The whaleship !Sheffield , arrived at the Sandwich Islands, Sept. 0. having left the whaling" ground in the sea of Ockotsh, July 38. She had been 30 months on thet,o3 , - age, and had taken 7,090 bbls. oil and 11h,000 lbs. bohe, She had 3,090 bbls. oil and 50,000 lbs. hone on board, having shipped and sold the rest of her catch at Sydney and Hong iCpng.- She took 1,000 bbls. of oil the present season, and left the ground early because she had no more casks to fill. The !Sheffield' reports ships doing as well as last year, up to the tiam 41: sailing.--Newburyport Herald. Violation of the Small Note bito.7.-1 7 cdirteen .suits have been commenced against the Farmers Deposite Bank, of Pittsburgh, for alledged.viola- . lions of, thesm.allnp . to law. The Clerk and pi-, rectors are accused of . ,payinvour notes under. tho dooominaiion of $q At ; the counter.., The pen• All, (or, infringement of the IPW 'case; of, •linnks is very4Leavk. being 004 to! every note tio4nstled!': reErie, 'Pa., has the only Custom Rouse erected by the U. S. Government on our northern lake frontier. It cost F 29,000. IlarThe question with the Sandwich Islands now is,..to be or not to be" part of the United States. • [s7' Were it not for imaginary evils, the lives of many would be much less miserable. 23,01,876 RP"An old German Bible, printed in the year 1580, was put for sale last week, at a vendue in Manor township, Lancaster county. IIE""A movement has been made in the Geor gia Legislature fur a change from tri•annial to annual sessions of the Legislature. ,cry Twelve thousand men are now at work upon•ibei Illinois Central Railroad. Ce The vote in Rhode Island on a Conventinta o revise the Constitution, is more than two•to• one against it r3^ The game of Fox and Gee has been, played by the Fos Girls, who have rapped a for,, tune out of their geese believers. Boston a Century' Ago. v The editor of the New York Commercial Aci" - - vertiser has been amusing himself by the exam.. ination of Boston papers, published in 1742 and, 1746. From the Boston News Letter of 174 G is, extracted the following advertisements, as an. evidence of the public opinion of our Puritanical] neighbors then on the subject of slavery: .To be sold, a young,strong and healthy, good. tempered negro fellow, about 18 or 20 years of age, whose master vice is laziness ; for which. fault he is sold. He might do well if closely em-. ployed with a master. Enquire of the printer. "To be sold, a very likely negro woman about, 19 years of age, fit for town or country, and very fit for any gentleman in his family. Enquire of the printer. Any gentleman who has a mind to purchase said negro, his bond will be taken for the payment of the same in a reasonable time." The Boston Post of the same period combine a moldy group of "sermons" and "negroes" to be sold. In one paper containing four adver tisements of negroes for sale, is one offering "two likely negro men, recently from the West Indies;" and one offering for sale "a fine, lusty, healthy, negro woman, fit for town or country, with a fine child, and to Gc sold either with or with out the chi'd." It would thus seem that our ancestors, a cen' tury ago, who are acknowledged to have been much more piously inclined than the lawgivers of 'Modern Athens" or Boston of the present day, had much less "holy horror" of the ittathu , non of slavery. John Walker's Will.—Mr. Walker, a brewer,. died a few months since in this city, leaving, by. the accumulation of his industry, a large estate.. estimated at $190,000, in bonds and mortgages. and $70,000 in teal property. By will he dertiaeit to his wife in cash $lO,OOO, her dowry of i ontr third for her natural life, in all real estate, all the houselnild and kitchen furniture, &c. This, it is alleged, would give her in interest about $2,500 a year. She claims, as they were childless, that she, as next of kin, is entiled to the whole of the personal estate, besides her dower in the realty. Worthington and Matthews sustain her claim. The nineteen heirs of Walker claim that if Mrs.. Walker elects to take by the will, she relinquish es the $lO,OOO legacy and all the personal prop erty, and can only take her dower in the realty., Walker and Kelber represent the heirs. The• executors who have the estate, represented by. Tilden and.Rariden, deny the power of the Pro.. bate Court to make any order setting aside the rights of minor heirs. The contest between the parties is pending in the Probate Court belcre, Judge Warren.—Cin. Gazelle. Liberal Bequest.—By the will of Daniel Kieffer,. who died on the 20th of October last, at his res.. idecce in Oley township, Derks county, Ten Thousand Dollars are bequeathed 'to the. Theo- , logical Seminary of the Germs ti Reformedehurch at Mercersburg. The G. R.lllethenger states that the will has been duly reccirde l i, and leaves the amount to William Heyser, Esq., of Mercersburg, Pa., in trust, to be invested for the benefit of the Seminary as the Synod may direct. Mr. Kieffer was noted for his benevolence. He gave during his life-time $5OO to Marshall College, at Met-. cersburg, and $5OO to the Second Reformed, Church, recently organized in Reading, of which . the Rev. M. Kieffer is Pastor. The legacy to the Seminary is said to have been most opportune,. the institution being greatly in need of increased . means to promote its usefulness. The (3hurch, of which he was so liberal a member, has reason . to cherish his memory as one of its greatest ben efactors.—Gazelte and Dem. The Victoria,—This vessel was laden With 400, barrels of gunpowder. , She sailed from London on the Ist of last April, and on the 19th of June had reached within a few day's sail of Port Phil 7, ip, when the cry of fire was raised about ten , o'clock at night. The passengers and some of the crew were unacquainted with the preience, of the powder, when some one exclaimed, "My , God the powder !" The crew and passengers got oot the long boat and pulled frantically from, the vessel; When about half a mile off, the 400, barrels blew up, lifting the burning vessel bodily out of the water, and'shivering her in myriads of. fragments, which strewed the ire for Miles upon miles. So immense was the explosion that even at the distance of half a mile, some of the crex, were burned by the blast. Having been at sea (or GO hours without food or watet, tkei were pick up by the bark Tu4iline. Silver.—The rise in the value ofsilver in Eng lend wouhi produce a corresponding rise' hereH if it had anything to act upon. This market, hoivever is bate of silver. 'Mexican and Pacific (Jost silver almost all goes'ib England. The mint in Philadelphia supplies itself by fefusipg to pay the depositor of silver in kind, to; the, lull extent of their deposit. The demand in England , for 'esporlaocm!to f.thimi is kikcjy to be ,kept up as , long as the Rcyolutiert i there continues.. The &l iar, is in Chin ! ,t of I f ccottisianii this opty,priny jus!, , nowAsy i bititi : Ehinisspßepital... i?ts have, coefiOgnce• Englainkwould even (end to Ott entestistkm of our new 003 P. We Kapp Cl'Fl ol;ll4o:!WiellfY thing else ,vys Jim], excepted ilia 01d.„%v09.p; Spattish small pieces. . f i , . •• GLEANINGS
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