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