Meeting of Veterans of 1812 flags were displayed on all the public build. dings in Philadelphia au Monday last, in lion of the assembling of the Veterans of 1812. • The Convention was organized in Indepen dence Ball by the appointment of Hon. Joel B. Sutherland as President. A series of resolu tions were submitted, calling on Cbugretts to extend the benefits of the same pension sys- . tern to the soldiers and widows of the War of 1612, as to those of the War of the Revolution --to place thein on the salvo footing in the die tributiOnlif Bounty Lands as the soldiers of the Mexican War, who all receive 160 acres—re commending the soldiers of the War of 1812 to form a society in each State, and that the Bth of January be set apart as the day for an annual meeting. The resolutions also return thanks to the various public men and State Legislatures who have advoitated the cause,—and copies of them were ordered to be sent to the President and both Houses of Congress, and to t4e.Gov ernors of the several States, with a request that they, rnay submit the same to their respective Legislatures. The Convention then adjourned to the Chi nese Saloon, where speeches were .delivered by hidge Sutherland, and Col. Haight, of New York.' After reassembling, the Baltimore De fenders and the Veterans of New York march• ed into the Hall and wore received with great cheering. The latter under command of Col. Raymond, numbered 60 mcn. The resolutions were adopted and the Con vention adjourned to 6 o'clock. The Convention reassembled at 6 o'clock, and several excellent speeches were delivered by Gen. Ranney, of Mo., Gen. McCalla of Ky., Rev. Dr. Van Pelt, of New York, &c. A reso.- intim was adopted, recommending the soldiers to meet in each Congressional District and pe tition to their immediate representative in Con gress to urge their claims. Another resolution, urging the Legislatures of the thirteen original States to take action upon the proposed erection of a monument in Independence Square, to the signers of the Dec iaralion of Independence, was adopted. li:tatholio Journal vs. Eduoation. The Shplard of the Volley, a, Catholic paper published under the sanction of the Bishop of St. Louie, defines its position anti the position of the Catholic priesthood of this country as follpws : "We are not friend of popular education its at present understood. The popularity of a humbug, shall never, we trust, lead us to sup- port it. We do not believe that the "masses," .as our modern reformers insultingly call the la boring class, are one whit more happy, more respectable, or better informed for knowing how to read. . " We think that the masses were never less happy, less respected, than they have been since the Reformation, more particularly with• in the last fifty or ono hundred yeas—since Lord 13rougham caught the mania of teaching Ahem to read, and communicated' the disease to a largo proportion of the English nation. " The idea that teaching people to read.fur nishes them with innocent amusement, is en tirely false. It furnishes the majority of those who seek amusement front it with that most 'dangerous recreation in which they can in dulge." These ridiculous and astounding statements of one of the Popes most faithful servants, have been very generally noticed by the press throughout the Union, and perhaps any remarks from us upon them may be considered as ap pearing a day after the fair but eipressions of suppriee at such outrageous intimations as those of the Shepherd of the Valley must ever be in or. der. We thank the editor for defining his po sitiori, and assuiing us of his being a dunce, by a certificate from his own hand. It is pleasant to find a fool, who is willing to own himself such; and we •are quite charmed• at the frank. Dose of the sage of the Shepherd of the 'Utley. Perpetual Motion We suppose there is never a moment during which some genius or other is not engaged in attempting to invent a popctual.motion ma chine and every now and • then once a.year, perhaps, on an average—itis announc ed that the discovery has, at last, been made. The last discovery or invention has been el feeted, we believe, at Ipswich, in England.— Tim machine is about a foot, square, is called "self-acting," is put in motion by a screw, has continued in motion-thirty-six hours continuous ly, without any diminution of velocity, and with force enough to turn a mill-stone; and the in vestor says it will continue so to go until the materials of which it is composed are worn out. Persons is London have advanced large sums upop their Mitlk in the reality of the invention, svhich,is. to be finally tested in that city. :We are - incredulous about all this. We are not believers in the practicability of inventing ani , .perpeteal, sell.moving machine, that will be of any use as a labor-shaving machine. If there is much force there must be much hie ifin, which has to bo compensated somehow or oilier, and which can only be done, in our opin. 1 1 4;0 some external power -producing agent'. PennsylVania Common Schools. - The 20th annual report of the Superintendent Cif Cbatmen Schools prosenis Many interesting facts. . The reports frcom all the districts are not included, but the Superintendent estimates the .number of schools open during the year at over 20,000; the average time they wero open was -five months., the average pay of teachers has 'increased, that of males being 819 25 per month and that of females 61 . 2 03. The whole num ber of pupils in attendance was about 480,000. This does not include Philadelphia city and county, in which there were 286 public schools with 50,085 pupils, at an expense of 6411,308- 'B5: The amount of school tax levied in the Stale, exclusive of Philadelphia city and coun ij•jwas $1,621,337 84. The report recommend. Nome reforms iii the school law,. • et)c tel)igl) Register. Allentown, Pa. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18,1864, 64. More Iron Works We are creditably informed that the Allen• town Iton Company, have deoided upon build ing another large class anthracite furnare. They have also in contamination the erection of a rolling mill near their works, the latter however is not finally decided upon. The company have purchased ten acres of land ad joining their works, of Mi. Nunnermaker, for three hundred dollars an acre, which affords am ple room, with the land they now own, to erect the necessary buildings. By next summer we will have two more new furnaces in blast near our Borough. Over one hundred new houses, have already been contracted for building next sum mer, in our 'Borough. The' tide of improve has set in and Allentown is bound in 'five years hence, to be the third inland city in the State. M ind 'our 'Words. A Hurricane. Oh Thursday last the weather became mild, and we were visited by a heavy shower, which continued throughout the day, accompanied by a strung Southern wind, which at about 6 o'clock in the evening terminated in a perfect hurricane- A number of signs, fences, shutters were blown away, and many window-glass broken. We here too that much damages was done by the storm in the country. The long range of cat tle shedding at the Agricultural Fair Ground, was blown away, throwing the roofing some hundred feet in an adjoining field. The dam ages to the company may reach one hundred and filly dollars. We also hear that the storm unroofed the Tavern House of Mr. Israel Wesco, in Lower Macungy, and the stable of Mr. Chas. Mertz, in South Whitehall, and doing consid- ' erable .damages to fences, Sze. The Time to Advertise We beg to remind our merchants, mechan- I les, and business men generally, that this is the season of the year to advertise, not only in a gen eral sense, but with particular reference to the approaching Spring Trade. The lircisTua is a business journal, and is circulated very exten sively, not only among the citizens of Lehigh, but those of Northampton and the adjoining counties. We know Irom the experience of many who have tried the experiment, that an advertisement of the right kind, issued through our columns, seldom fails to bring customers. Indeed, in not a few cases, the profits realized from an investment of this description, have been large and liberal. But the policy and ex pediency of advertising are now so fully recog nized, that it. is unnecessary to expatiate upon the subject. The press is the medium of com munication between the citizens of various sec tions of the surrounding country and the indi vidual engaged in active pursuits, who neglects to make use of it, proves himself sadly insen sible to his own interests. We will only add that our terms—the advantages considered— will be found altogether reasonable. Lehigh Zino Company This Company says Thompson's Bank Note Reporter, organized during the spring of 1853, with the view of mining zinc ores in the State of Pennsylvania, and of manufacturing these ores into zinc paint, under charter granted by the State of Alaryland to the National Mining • Cornpany l The capital stock of the Company is 100,000 shares, at par value of $lO each. Of this stock 25,000 shares were set aside for the construc tion of the works. The Company owns in fee about one hun dred acres of !awl ; and about the same HUM` ber of acres under leasehold. The ore of the Company's Mines is the cala mine of zinc, free from iron or manganese, sul phur or other impurities, and is analagous to the ore of the Belgian Mine, of the Veille Mon- tagne Company, of France and Belgium. The Mines are extremely productive, and one of them has been proved, to an extent, to show that it Will yield forty tone of washed ore per day for fifty years. The manufactories of the Company are situ ated at Bethlehem, where the zinc ore is reduced to paints by a new and highly succeas fel method. There is communication from the the works to New York and Philadelphia by canal and railroad. The Directors 'speak very flatteringly of the property of the Company, and say they believe they will be in a position to pay ropier divi dends at the expiration of the first six months of active operation. Zinc paint is getting to be extensively used, and we should think this Company had the ia. cilities for making it at a groat profit. The stock of the Company is now selling at about &3 per share. Thomas Andrews is the President of the Company, and E. L. Snow, Secretary. Death of Henry A. Muhlenberg. The sad but expected announcement has been received of the death of Mr. Muldniberg, at IVashingion, on Monday night, at the resi dence of Senator Brodhead. Though 'yet a young man, only 33, he has been sorne . 'years in public life, aided by the prestige of his lath -13146 name and his own popularity. lie has represented democratic Berke in theiState Sen. ate, and had just commenced his term as her member of Congress. He was attacked some weeks since with typhus fever, which resulted In htemorrage of the lungs, and proved fatal.— His popularity was not all political; he made friends by hisgenerosity of character and suavi. ty of manners wherever he went. 'As the head of a family party, he . held *eat influence in our State' and was looked up to by many as "a Mortimer," upon whom might devolve the task of breaking down the old dynasty in the poli tics of Pennsylvania. Northamp. Co. Agricultural Society. The annual meeting of the Society washeld at the house of Peter Best, in Nazareth, on Sat urday last, January 7th, 1854. John 11. Keller, in the chair. Tho minutes of the proceeding meeting were read and on motion approved. A motion was made to appoint officers, to hold. the annual election, which was seconded and adopter& Whereupon C. A. Luckenbach, .1,17. H. Flutter, &c., were appointed, after which the polls were opened in regular order, and the voles received until all present hail an op. [maturity to vote, after which the votes were counted, and the following officers were duly elected. President.—John H. Icellcr. Vice Presidents. —William Fir:nstone, Williams i Dr. W. son, Bethlehem ; Peter Kemmerer, Forks ; Jos. Er.gler, Lower Nazareth; Daniel Levan, Allen; Hugh Horner, E. Allen; Coiwud Ifiehline, Up per Nazareth ; FelixAvel, Emery, Up. Mt. Bethel; Geo. Matchler,-Lower Mt. Bethel ; E. Slough, South Easton: Russel S. Chidsey, Easton; Joseph Dech, Hanover; An thony Transue, Bethlehem towjship; Joseph Keller, Bushkilr; Joseph Riegle ithci G. phi mer, from Saucon, (lie—no choice.)—Moore and Lehigh townships are not represented, the Society having no members from these town ships. Corresponding Scerctary.—E. F. Probst. Recording Secretary, George W. Stein. Geolo• gist and Chemist, Dr. Trail Green. Treasurer, Daniel Boyer. Librarian, Josiah Cole. Executive Committee, Benjamin lhrie, C. A. Luckenbach, John P. Beisel, Samuel Riegel, Christian Yea ger. Jacob Ruder and John M. Lerch being tie, no choice. The meeting reorganized at 2 o'clock, after which the following resolution was offered by C. A. Luckenbach. Peso!vat, That the Committee on Proposals be initructed to report the Proposals received by them up to the 25th day of December,lBs3. A. H. Reader, Esq., moved to amend by ad. ding thereto the words "and since.", Pending this Resolution and amendment the meeting adjourned Attest— Qs-IVe are pleased to see that our friend S. K. M. Kr7mer,Erq., of %Vest Penn, township, has been appointed Clerk by the County Com missioners, in place of F. B. Kaercher,E-q., who resigned to take charge of the Exchange lintel, in Pottsville. Mr. Kepner is a young gentle man every way qualified to fill the place, who will give entire satisfaction not only to the Commissioners but the public having business in their office. Cast-Iron Houses A new style of building has been- introduced during the past year, and although attention has been drawn to it before in our columns, yet its growing importance seems to warrant out chron' icling its progress. The United States Govern• ment, through its agent, Mr. Peril, ordered some time since, a new custom house and public build. ings for San Francisco, of cast iron, and by the last accounts we learn that one of them is•already there and up. The War Department, we are in, formed, has concluded to adopt this kind of build ing for arsenals and other uses. In this city, bet sides those already noticed •by us, there is a building now going up in the rear of the Actor House. They consist of a cast iron frame, the sills of which are cast in sections of about five feet in length, and fastened together by screws and bolts, On'each of these joints stand cast iron pillars, which are firmly fastened to each end of the join ed sills, thus rendering the whole perfectly corn. pact. These pillars again support another row of casuiron sills, and on these again stands anoth. er row of pillars. The strength of the whole building depends upon :his skeleton, which is so tenacious that if all the pillars of the first sto ry are taken away, excepting the extreme ones, the building will still be firm as an arch. The advantages of this mode are, its great strength; its tenacity in resisting any shock; its perfect ventilation; and the cheapness and facility with which any architectural ornament of groupings of sculpture niay•be latiolletced wheneveirthiii. able. • Mr. Bogardus, the inientor, has secured him self against the infringeitnentof his rights by a patent. The buildings are curiosities, and will repay any one for the trouble of visiting them.— N. Y. Journal of Commerce. Aid forTurlcry.—We take the folloWing paragraph from a report in the N. Y. Express, of a meeting of the society intending to join the Turks against the Russians-4 The members occupied the most of their time in discussing the queslion whether they would receive a gun offered to the society by a lady in Boston. The weapon referred to, is a sort of .infernal machine,' with ten or twelve barrels, capable of protecting 150 men, and of throwing ball to the distance of 300 yards, while it require 3 men to work it properly. The mer its of the gun were discussed at some length, af ter which the subject was disposed of by laying it on the table." Railroad Iron.--In the House df Representa tives in Washington, on Tuesday laet Mr. Per kins of New Yorlc offered a reseltiti'on• thai"the primmillee of kliAys sin'd Means be inititiOed to report a Bill'repealing all duty on RailmaN Iron and demaded the pievious, question. On !no tion of Mr. Hamilton (from:Washington•county, Maryland,),the resolution was laid tiPonthe ta ble, by a vote of 78 to op. Every member pres• ent from Pennsylvania (eleven in, number) voted in the affirmative and two (Campbell and Nich• ols)_in the negative. -Fourteen. members from Pennsylvania and nineteen from Ohio being ab, sent. The 'iitne was a small 'one, but may be considered as an index of the feeling in the House on the subject of introducing Railroad Iron free of duty. Another Laudanum Case.—On Tuesday morn. ing last, a mln by the name of Philip Dield,died in Easton from the effect of a dose of Laudanum which he had taken the day previous. This is the second.,case.of this kind tilt has occurred in this place, within the last fortnight.---.Sentine/. North Penn. Railroad Company The Annual Meeting of the Directors of this important Railroad Company, was held yester• day at their office, Fourth street, below Walnut. Thomas S. Fernon, Esq., President of the Corn. pang, read the report of the Hoard of Directors. The following report of the Treasurer was read and approved. it is as follows: Amount received from Stockholders in - payment of the First Insalment. $127,615 Second,. . 121,025 . . Third, 116 620 F0urth,26,330 • . . Fifth,, . 10,725 , . Sixth, . .. . ,• . . 19 . 305 Seventh, . . . . . . 19,095 Eighth,lB,96o . . . . . Nine, . ~. . . . . . 18;640 Tenth, 18 740 $507,555 Fxpenses, including printing, advertising, sala ries, rent of office, fees of Counsel, &c., since the org,anization . of the Company, $12,000 30 Might of way fencing, &c. 16,610 08' Engineering—Southern Division, $24,786 45 Delaware, do. 3,350 53 . Susquehanna do. Bridges, graduation. real estate, Building No. 123 Walnut street, 345,120 71 Balance in hand of Company, $162,125 29 The engineers report was read by the Secre. tory. It is a long and interesting document, and concludes with the following statement of the ex penditures in this department up to the present time. Southern division, from Philadelphia to Bethlehem , Lehigh division, in Bethlehem to Pittston, 10,919 16 Susquehan. do, Pittston to Waverly, 7,572 03 Delaware do. Bethlehem to Del. Wa• ter Gap. 3,350 53 • Total, • , The whole amount exceeded for grad nation and hridie's to this date, $165,900 00 Road superintendence, iron rails, 22,731 33 G. TV. Skin, Sec Total expenditures. $235,309 55 The estimated am't of work done on graduation and bridges is, $196,485 00 Of which there is retained as security 30,585 00 Mr. Merrick arose and after a few remarks, on the rise and progress of the road,submitted a re, solution that a meeting of the citizens be held at the Chinese MusueM, at which all the facts con nected with the enterprise should be submitted to them. Mr: Welsh seconded the resolution, in an able speech on the importance of this road to Phila delphia. and the 24th of the present month was fixed for the time of holding the meeting. The resolution was adopted. What Spain Is and What She Was. A Madrid paper contains the following epitome of the history of Spain: The Spanish dominions once occupied one eighth of the known world.— Our country has been the greatest of the globe; and, in the days of its splendor, neither the gi gantic empire of Alexander - nor the vastness of the Present Czar could be compared to ii. The sun never sa upon our country, which composed 80,000 square leagues and 60,000,000 inhabitants. Of so much richness and power, we have lost mote than two - thirds in a couple of centuries.— In 1565 we ceded Malta to the order of St. John France afterwards took possession of it, and ul timately the English. In 1620 Louts XIII incor porated Lower Nevarro and Bears with France. In 1629 our government recognized the conquest of Roussillon, made by the same monarch. In 1620 Portugal emancipated herself, with all her transatlantic possessions. In 1581 we began lo• sing the Netherlands; in 1618 they made them selves independent. The English took from us in 1626 the islands' of the Barbadoes; in 1656, Jamaica; 1704, Gib. I 1-ralter ; 1718, the Lucayas ; 1769, Dominica; 1797. Trinidad. In 1696 the French made themselves masters of Dominica; in 1650, of Grenada; in 1665, of Guadalupe. In 1697 we shared St.. Do mingo with France; in 1821 we lost our WEL-- In 1790'we abandoned Oran after the earthquake In 1791 we ceded our rights over Oran and MAP zalquiver to Morocco. In 1713 we ceded'Sardi nia to the. Duke of Savoy ; Padua, Placentia, Lucca, and other districts in the north of Italy, we ceded to princes of the reigning family; In 1759 we lost Naples of Sicily, in consequence of -the Infanta Don Carlos selling them to occupy the Spanish throne. In 1800 we ceded Louisiana to France; and in 1819, Florida to the Ameri cans; and lastly, the South American colonies emancipated - themselves successively from 1816 to 1826. , Pork.—Mr. George Fisher of Upper Me rlon township; this County, informs us that he killed a few days since, five hogs, the ages of which were each 8 months and 2 days, and which weighed as follows-307-341-382-305 and 297 pounds. We think this will be hard to beak—Afonf. 14'afehman. _ lifore Porkeisb—On the 2d inst., John Seiner, of Solebury, Bucks County, slaughtered seven hugs five of them lacking one day of eleven months oltland their rispective weights were ns fol lows; 440, 330, 370, 354330, 458, hnd 382. The two latter 'Were 'Hie others 'cif the other five; and ?Ise .of four others 'tit the same age, which where slauglitered'ey Mn Richardson, and Weigheil 388, 382, 358, and 332, respectively. The ag gregate 'Weight of these eleven swine was 4,106 -average 28J3 pounds. The correspondent who sends us the aboVe.facts, challenges Bucks co. to beat Solebdry in the Pork line. NOw, for it, farmers ! Let us hear from you.—lnlelligenrcr. Execution of a Negro.—The . negro Charles, who was convicted of an attempt to commit a rape upon a respectable lady of Charlestown, Va., was executed on Friday, In the presence of a large concourse of spectators. lie made no confession of his guilt, but on the scaffold made a few disconnected remarks, in the course of which he said: have done some things that I ought not to have doite' and have left undo'ne. many things which I ought to have done" Lehigh 10,919 16 7;572 03 253,855 89 11,331 92 $24,786 45 46,628 22 GLEANINGS rg'Therc arrived at Philadelphia during last year 17,796 emigrants. OrA bridge over the Ohio at Cincinnati, to cost 5850,1100 talked of. arThere are now, at the lowest calculation, five hundred houses in process of erection in the city of San Francisco. Ur The Cleveland Phindealer say" the Com mon Plea's of that county granied twenty one di. vorces at its last sitting. u" If idleness be the root of all evil, then matrimony is good for some thing, for it setts many a poor woman to work•. t..."'On Friday, the sub treasury in St. Louis paid out eleven thousand dollars In small Silver coins as exchange for gold. •-rrThe Pennsylvania Railroad Company are , erecting a new line of telegraph along their road, to be under the exclusive control of the company. WThe widow of Sterling Ensign, who was killed by the cars of the Eric Railroad, eighteen months since, has just recovered two thousand dollars of the company in the circuit held at Angelica, N. Y. arA vender of patent medicines in New Bed ford courageously heads his advertisement,..Not afraid to take his own hitters." number of hogs slaughtered, and in pens at Indianapoli s , up to December 31st, was 42.000. tar Grace Ilveenwood's °Little Pilgrim," has already five thousand subscribers. Lajlion. John J, Crittenden was elected lini • ted States Senator, on Tuesday, by the K entucky .. Legislatuee. Ills majority was twenty 'three over Gov. Powell, the Demecratic candidate. Singular Gas Explosion For several nights preceeding Wednesday night, the inhabitants of Greenwich avenue, Troy and 12th streets, were greatly alarmed in consC , (pence of their dwellings being filled with gas, which had apparently escaped from the main pipe. On Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Marcy, of No. 1. 12th street notified the gas company of the nuisance, when two men were set to work to ascertain the cause of the gas escaping. After excavating the earth for some distance, they reached the main pipe, and one of the men named Michael fisher, applied a lighted match when instantly a terrific explosion followed.— Halter flew into the air. The gas having found its way through the earth to the sewer at the head of 12th strect,and igniting, threw off the covering of the culverts along the line of the sewer in Troy street, forcing up the iron pates (each ISO Ihs in weight) that covered the main holes, seven in number. The (rain of ignited gas from the Avenue to Hudson street, a distance of 500 feet, broke the roan, hole and culvert covers into pieces; also broke down the iron railing in front of the house No. 23 Troy street, blew a grocer's wagon into splinters, and broke a number of windows in the dwelling houses. The explosion occasioned great alarm and consternation in the above neigh• bot hood, but no person was seriously injured. A daughter.of Mr. Taylor was slightly hurt . by some of the missiles thrown by the explosion.— The workmen were engaged up to a late hour in searching for the principal leak, and finally th ey discovered that a main - pipe had burst• ed and caused the gas to escape. During the night the gas escaped from the main holes, the crevices in the sidewalks and streets were lighted and brilliantly illuminated the neighborhood.— A'. Paper. l'ulality from Ikre.arnis.—On Thursday morn ing last, John hurtles , jr., aged about 20 years, son of Alm Barnes, residing about a mile south of Doylestown, came to his death in a shocking manner. The father and his son had been on a gunning excursion a few miles from home, and staid all night with the father of the Elder Bar nes; and next morning (Thursday) on their way home they•stopped at Benjamin W. James', near Iron Hill, to transact some business. The father went into the }Muse to attend to it, and the young man remained in the wagon house, were some small boys were. Here he was standing, whit ling a stick which he held in his left hand, while the but of his gun rested upon the ground and the muzzle phinting, towards his face, his' left hand also grasping it. While thus'engaged,eith er from the jar of his cutting the stick, or some other cause unknown, the gun went off— the charge, which was quite heavy, striking his nose and passing through the front part of his head, tearing it in an awful manner, and exposing the brain. His father hearing the alarm, ran out and found him in this condition ; and taking him into in his arms, inqu ircd how it happened—to which he replied he did not know. These were the last words he spoke. Medical aid was sent for at once; but the unfortunate sufferer lived only fifteen minutes. Ills remains were carried to his fathet's residence, whence they were ta ken next day to the Mennonite burying ground, north of our borough, and interred. • This is one more addition to the many warn• ings given from lime to lithe, to those who use flre•arms, to be careful in handling or managing them.--ilucks Co. Ink!. Scratches in Ilorses.—This well known disease a sort of nutaneous affection ending in cracks antsores, between the hinder pastern joints and hoofs, is sometimes quite troublesome, and often difficult to cure. Several • remedieS are id com• mon use, among which are, first 'shearing off closely the hair, then washing well in soap Suds and then id salt water or be • ef brine—washing with'soap suds and. then rubbing off the scdrfs - o? scabs with a corn cob; and applying a thin coaling of hog's lard. Another way is to %ens!) with saltpetre, if the soap Suds Washing has be come dry, and after the saltpetre has become dry to apply a slight coal of turpentine with a feath er or quill. All these remedies are quite sitni lar in character, and arc all useful, but.we have never found anything equal to a solution of chin, ride of lime, applied after the first washing, and after the removal of the scrabs were necessary. We have never seen this remedy recommended but it is certainly eminefilly cleansing in its op eration. • • Park iri Ithrlfiird,--Thc electors of Hartford have voted, 100 . 5 to 082; to . establish a public park in thefr beautiful city, Washington Territory. Files of the Columbian, published at Olympia' Ptignet'a Sound;Washington Territory, to the tith: of November, have been received at San Fran cisco. We extract fhe following items from the' Herald Governor Meter's, Cow on his way across the plains In charge of an exploring rarty to Pup, net's sound, had been heard from, and was ex pected in Olympia on the ItYth of November.— As soon as he arrived the organization of the Territory would be completed. There are no less than nine candidates for the office of delegate in that Territory. The census of Washington Territory is not yet completed. The Columbian, however, has received from the United States marshal, Cole' net Anderson, the following returns: The pop. ulation of Pacific county is 15tt Lewis, 463;+ Clark, 1,134; King, 154; Jefferson, 1 . 1. 2, Island,. 183; making a total of 2,235 for that portion al! , ready taken. Thurston and Pierce counties are' not yet finished, but will probably - (7c . ie3.1.3011:' The census of King, Jefferson, and. Islanit'coun ties was taken in the early part of July last, since' which time their popolation has increased fully one-half. If time permits, the marshal will go' over those again. The Olympians were greatly delighted by lite arrival at their wharf of the steamer Fairy, Cap! tarn Gove, from San Francisco. The .firing of cannmproclaimed her appearance, , and brought forth the populace en masse to the bey side to behold the welcome little beauty. She is inten t ded to ply on the . Sound as a regular accommo— Idation packet. The Fairy . Jett ihenext day with a party of Wks and gentlemed otr a pleasure trip to various points on the Sound. The Cape Flattery Itithan‘, under King George have been committing depredations upon the whites lately. A detachment of soldiers, with a' a piece of ordinance has been desOtched to the scene of disturbance from Fort Steilacoom. The Columbian says: ..We are pleased to lekets that the principal part, if not all, of the immignit-' lion by the Washington Territory Emigrant Road have either taken claims or obtained employ ment at good wages ; and it will he tio' less a gratification for their friends in the States to' know of their comfortable arrangements fur thee; winter, than a matter of pride to us that this pit oneer immigration to the Territory direct haie fared so well. They have abundant reason to be thankful," The town of Olympia is rapidly progressing new buildings arc in course of erection in differ. ent streets, while, many more are contemplated... Business continues fair,and merchants appear to be satisfied with their sales, There are now larger, better selected, and more complete stocks in the place than at any previous time. AN ODD STATR Or Tuoros.—We clip the fol- I owing clever hit from the Newark Advertiser: There Is a kind of civil war prevailing in the city of New York at the present time. This gives to their journals a singularly unpleasan t complexion. One may be instructed by their newspapers, but is far from being entertained with their perpetual cries for help against •somv rascality or other, in high places and in low.; with their lamentations, not only over the poor and miserable, but over the graves of persons assas sinated almost every night. Outrages fill their columns, and the, whole city seems,to be arming to defend themselves against alleged, scoundrel:- ism in the very guardians whom they have,elecr. ed to lake care of their persons and their prop erty. "Sometimes the streets are buried in filth, and seem to be mere gutters doing the office of dirty canals in a Dutch city; sometimes they reek with blood instead of nastiness; and now the people are involved in civil commotion, lest they should have no sweets at all—at least, for fear the emis saries of their own flagitious government may tear up, like thieves in the night, their-•beautiful thoroughfare of Broadway, lately completed at such immense expense. All these events, be side a multitude of minor ones, together. wills the terrible catastrophies by fire, comblartovemeter the ,New York papers very roorrical l a for the holidays. We do not clearly see how the ins haboants 'of so melancholy a ptate, eat 1/11141. keep up New Year's day with their usual vit., acity." • Improvement in Artificial 'teeth.— Shitpress. Clayton, Dental Surgeon, of West Onesti4; hat. invented an important 'Modification inthe rangement of artificial teeth so that a perfe c t uni_, on is effected between the metallic plate and the• vitrified substance of which the teeth are compor. sed, yet admitting the use of gold or , any other• metal suitable for the plates. This is a step in, advance of the latest improvements which ad. mined, as we are informed, the use of plantina : alone in the plates upon which the teeth ato : placed.—Reg. Examiner. .11Iore of the Conspimey Case.—OilMonday last . Drs. Field and Laelienovr and A. S. peci i ,were arrested upon a warrant issued by C. B. gacir. Esq., charged with being concerned in the con spiracy to extort money from Benjamin Creep. They gave bends in the sum of $ l OOO9. each, for their appearance at Gout, to answer the charge., -;•Easton Solana RELIOIOUS . PERSECUTION IN TURKEY :-..- The Turkish laws, which are more tolerant towards all religions than the' !Ors of rt)Os countries of Europe, are very sey , " Al e're'iu , plitrthisi: faith. apostacy, from esta blished Che very time, when the 8 3', 1 7q 3 ,ri,hy of thifCbtris , Gan world is so greatly' esctiedlit of Turkey, in the struggle against the Ciar, a Nlussulman has been beheaded atAdrianoplo for professing Christianity: He , suff'ere'd martyrdom with a spirit worthy Of thelaith which he professed. SuchatrOutrageShifuld • call forth tild prompt interference of they Christian poWers in alliance with the Sultan.- Toni, why di:l you mu:Wintry' Miss 'Oh ! she had a sort of hesitancy in herr speech, and so 1 left her.' 'A hesitancy in her speech, I never heardi that before. Are you not mistaken ? 'No.—not at all ; for when I asked her* she would have me, she kinder hesitated to , say yes and she hbeitated•so lono.that Leat• Out for another
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