'Why. Father, and were you the ragged ittle carrier ?' , Even so ; is it any wonder I feel an inter em in the boys who carry about the New Year's Address:es ?' •We had the promise of a New Year's Address from Uncle Jesse ; but after read ing Aunt Ilatti,t's story the old gentleman says, be thinks there is enough of it, and that it is good enough to make an Extra by itself. Ile hopes therefore, that his,neph cws and nieces will excuse him this time : and he wishes them all a vervi-Jappy New Year.' Sale of the Public Works. Our old friend, I Irsav K. StnoNo, has introduced a bill into the Pennsylvania Le gislature to provide fur the incorporation of a Company to purchase the Public Works of this State. The Company is to have a capi tal stock of $300,000 of $5O each, which shall be appropriated to the purchase of the main line of Public Works, extending from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. The Company is to have possession of these works so soon as $300,000 shall be paid into the State Treasury, and the delivery of twelve bonds of one million of dollars each, secured by inortage upon the canals and railroads pur chased as aforesaid, each bearing interest at five per cent, and payable at yearly inter vals. We hope this proposition, or a better one if it can be devised, will pass the Legis lature at an early day. Action in the mat ter cannot be had too soon. The Public Works will. sink the State in irredeemable and inextricable difficulties, if the present system of management be continued for a few years longer. We conversed within a few days, with cne of the most intelligent and experienced gentlemen in this State, who has had more to do with the Public Works as a transporter, than any other man in Pennsylvania. He assured us, that the exhibit made by the Auditor General did not show the true state of the public finan ces, so far as the earnings of the Main Line is concerned ; that the real condition of things is covered NJ—and that for years past there has been a positive loss—the rc-. ceipts not paying expenses, so far as the Main Line is concerned ! Ile believes there is a deficiency of more than two hundred thausand dollars this year—and perhaps all of that amount last year. Ile is clearly of the opinion that the present system must be changed, or the State Will be bankrupted ! The amount stipulated in Mr. Strong's pro position strikes us as low—our estimate has all along been some sixteen to eighteen mil lions for the Main Line. But no matter,— Sell it at whatever it will bring. Better save seven hundred and fifty thousand dol lars interest per annum than pay two hun dred thousand dollars to make up deficien cies. We are glad to notice, that there is a good feeling prevailing among the democrat ic members of the Legislature on this sub ject. In this County a large proportion of that patty strongly-favor the Sale, and we have heard it suggested—in which sugges tion we most heartily concur—that there be a County meeting held at the approaching February Court, composed of citizens of all parties favorable to the Sale of the Public WorliS. What say the Democratic press to this proposition ?—Laneasfer Tribune. Death of the Russian Minister. "Mr. Bodisco was a noble by birth, and first entered the public service in Russia about fifty years ago. Ile began in the bu reau of the Nlinister of Foreign A (lairs at -St. Petersburg, in the. twelfth class of the Ischia, or official hierarchy, which embraces all branches of the public service ; and died of the 'third class, as a privy councillor, or, in military valuation, as alieutenant gener al. Ile owes' his good fortune principally to having been attached, in the quality of secretary, to Count Suchtelen, who, after the secret interview at A bo, in 1812, between the Emperor Alexander and Bernadotte, the elected hereditary Prince of Sweden. resided in the quality of an imperial commissioner, at the headquarters of the Prince during the campaign of 1812-'l4. With Count Such telen, Mr. Bobisco went to Paris, and thence to Vienna, during the famous Congress which settled the oinks of the continent.— The Count was appointed the Russian En voy at the Court of Stockholm, and Mr. 13o bisco first secretary of legation, Count Suchtelen enjoyed great favor with the Em perors Alexander and Nicholas, and on his death - bed. some eighteen years ago, recom mended his secretary to the sovereign. Al., ter the decease of his generous benefactor, Mr- Bodisco was for some time Charge Aflaires at Stockholm, whence he was sent in the capacity of Minister to Washington. A few years after his arrival here he mar ried Miss Williams, of Georgetown, a young American lany of remarkable beauty. . her he leaves several children." Important Change Contemplated A bill has been introduced into the Assembly of this State authorizing contracts for a higher rate of interest than six per centum, The follow/ in,s arc its provisions ...Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the autbority.of the same. That from and after the Ist day of April next, it shall be iawiul fur any individual to contract for and receive a greater sum than Six per centum per annum fur the loen or use of money loaned on notes, bond or mortgage. In all cases where no contract is made for the rate of interest, the same shall be deemed to be six per centum per annum. Section 2 laws, er pails or laws inconsist , cnt with this Let, are hereby repealed." Graham's American Monthly Alaga:ine.—The February number of this excellent American Alonthly has already come to hand. It is a iruly splendid number, containing some very fine contributions. The 'lllustrated life of Gen. Georgo IVashington,' by J. T. Ileadley, cam irnences with this issue. The Engraving, Nature P.r 1 the other illustrations aro good.— L. E. Graham, 106 Chesnut el., ,Phila. 1)e Register. Allentown, Pa. WEDNESM, FEHARY 1,1851. ['Our friend David Lauri, , has our thanks for valuable Legislative documents. Court in Session The February term of onr court went in es - sion on Alonday last. Judges ArCartney, Dil linger and Haas,in their seals. Parr Snylcr, Esc. of Lynn, was chosen chairman. Several bills upon minor cases have been found. Further proceedings next week. Fatal Accident., Oa Friday last, the 9.7111 of January, a Ger man, named Christian Klinderchcr, employed in the Iron Ore bed of Messrs. Balliet and Kock; in South Whitehall township, Lehigh county, came to his death by the caving in of a heaiy mass of ground, completely covering him up, and when he was got out he was a corpse. Attention Farmers We would call the attention of Farmers and Mechanics to a notice, in another column, of the meeting .of the Lehigh County Agricul tural Society. .All that is necessary to secure permanency and usefulness to the operations of the Society, is the manifestation of sufficient interest in the cause, by !how who are most deeply concerned in its success. Let farmers attend these meetings regularly, interchange their views, and profit by the united experience of all, and a vast amount of good will be ac complished. We trust there will be a large gathering at the meeting on Tuesday next. A Fight in Jail. On IVednesday last, the 25:h instant, two Irishmen, named James Scott, a Protestant, and Edward Crampscy, a catholic, imprisoned in our County Jail, by some way or other got a bottle filled with brandy, furnished by some of their friends outside, and drawn up by means of a string. The sons of Erin after partaking of a good portion of the contents of the boils, felt "boozy" enough to discuss the great ques tion of religion. They of course could not agree upon this important point. The discussion fin ally ended in a quarrel, when Crampsey made a regular " set-too" On Scott with the "stove poker" and inflicting a number of serious blows Ott his cranium, also by a side blow on his body broke the glass bottle that Scott had hid under his "jacket," the pieces of which made very se rious cuts in his breast and side. Sheriff Weiler was from home at the time and the females' about the house, ran to the neighbors for assis ance, who came in numbers and parted the combaletits. The Thieves at Work Again The Harri6burg Union, of Saturday, the Dem ocratic State organ,contains the following item : I:RAUDS ON THE COLUMBIA RAILROAD. "Rumors of outrageous robberies on the Colum. bia railroad have reached us. They are of so startling a nature as to demand immediate in vestigation. Suspicion attaches strongly to the Collectot's office at Philadelphia. Have the Canal Commissioners any knowledge of the facts? We call upon them to answer at once, and boldly. No matter who may be implica. ted in the transactions, the public are entitled to the whole truth. Let us know who the robbers are, and to what extent the State has been swindled." Here we have the admission of the Opposi. tion that the D e mocratic 'Thieves,' are at their old practises. And yet Goy. Bigler, recom mends, in his last Message, that the Public Works bo retained—in order, we suppose, that his beautiful party may enrich themselves by the 'wenlings which they afford. But what say the people? Are they willing to be taxed year in and year out, to support a set of scoun drels who have the control of these works ? Will not the honest yeomanry of Lehigh—and of the whole State,—cry out as with one voice— " Down with the Plunderers and get out peti tions for the speedy sale of the improvements that afford the opportunity of this wholesale sys tem of plunder. This is a question 'that rises far above pity, and every true friend of Penn sylvania interests should act upon it as such. Lebanon Valley Rail marl.—Mr. Osborni3, the Chiel Engineer, submitted his estimates of the cost of constructing the road from Reading to Lebanon, at the last meeting of the Directors. They concluded, however, to defer definite action, until an estimate of the cost of the en. tire road could be prepared. This, Mr. Osborne thought he could have ready, by the meeting in February. The letting. of contracts will doubtless be made, as soon as the estimates are laid before the Board. Special Election fin• Congress.—The Sheriff of Berke County, in accordance with a Writ is sued by Governor Bigler, has published a Proc. lamation announcing that an Election will he held on Saturday the Ith day of February, next for a INiember of Congress to represent said County of Beiks in the room and stead of lion. Henry A. filuldcnberg, deceased. rfir We have since learned, that Hon. Glancy Jones, received the Democratic nomination.— The Whigs.took up ths;ir candidate on Monday last, who it is we did not hear. 771 e People's Journal.—Alfred E. Beach, New York ; 50 cents a velum°, or $1 a }•ear, for 12 numbers, comprising 400 pages illustrated with 500 engravings. The February number of this monthly is now out, making the 4th of the Ist volume. The price of of subscription is far be low its full value—throughm!t it is interesting and instuctive. Montgomery's Pictorial Times, is the' title of a new weekly paper which has succeeded Bar num's Illustrated News, in New York. The !Gulfs is carefully and ably edited, and contains illustrations fully equal to Barnum' paper while the :ceding matter is excellent. Election of Collectors, &o The movement in Congress, in favor of the election by the people, of collectors of ports, post-masters, and other federal officers, is one that should meet the hearty approval of all true republicans. Every good patriot sees with re gret the immense power of executive patron age. What Mason, and other early Virginia statesmen foretold, has come to pass; and the President is practically more potent than almost any constitutional monarch. One of these far sighted politicians, on the day when Washing ton took his first oath of office, when asked to give his goon wishes to "the mu. fledged con: stitution," shook his head, saying, refering to the appointing power, that he could not, for he beheld "the prison under the wings." Nearly seventy years have passed since that day, and the feats of the old patriot have been realized- The immense growth of the country, as he and his school foresaw, has increased the number of federal ofdice•holders almost to any army.— In one department alone, that of the post-office the appointees have risen from less than a thou sand to more than twenty thousand. Nor is this all. The introduction of the maxim, "to the victors belong the spoils," has made it custom ary to throw these appointments into the hands of every new executive. Hence it is that the Presidential election has become, what it was never intended to be, and what it ought not to be, the vortex in which state and municipal politics, Congressional elections, and all other elections, are hopelessly swallowed up. But it the danger of this patronage is great al ready, it will be infinitely more so in fifty. years. By the close of the present century, the population of the Union will reach a hundred millions, and the number of the Stales will have also greatly increased. What the patron age of the President, A. U., 1900, will be, it is frightful to contemplate! It requires no stretch of the fancy to conceive that a practical cen tralization will be our government, hall a cen tury hence, if the present state of things is per. mined, to Continue. Already local questions of politics have to succomb to federal ones.— Alembers of Congress are elected, or defeated, not according to the real wishes offfieir consti tuents, but in obedience to party behesis issued from Washington. Pennsylvania has always been a tariff State, nor is there a congressional district in it, which, if polled, would not show a large majority in favor of protection ; yet, for years, the hulk of the Pennsylvania Congress men have been free traders, 'nearly because the fiat to that effect has gone forth from Wash ington. We might, in a similar ivay, show other States have succombed, to a ['resident or ['residents, through the influence of his cohorts of office holders. The removal of Judge Brbn son, because he would not be a mere tool, and the meekness of the party majority in the House under the outrage, is the last proof of executive power and party subserviency. The only cure for this evil is to elect all post. masters, collectors, and other suitable officers, by a vote of the people of their district. An amendment to the Constitution to this effect would bring back the Presidential office to its true sphere. It should be a warning to Ameri cans, that, in all ages, liberty has perished, eith er by the slow encroachments of the executive power on co.ordinate branches of government by the people sinking into lukewarmness and anarchy. The latter peril we need not fear in this country, so long as the press is free, and education diflused. But the former danger se riously threatens us. Not that the executive power is nominally any greater than it was orig inally. The form's of the Constitution are still what they were. The House of Congress, the Judiciary, and the President are still, theoreti cally, the three branches in which the powers of the federal government are lodged. rho practically the President is master of Congress, and almost master of the Judiciary. In the long run, the executive influence has always prevailed, in every collision between a Presi dent and either branch of Congress. No Senate has ever been able to drive a President into obscurity. But Senators and Representatives, proscribed by an executive, have neatly always been crushed in the end. Few, indeed, can stand before an angry Prerident no matter how righteous their cause. Duane in the past, and Bronson in the present, are potent examples of this fact. But the curtailing of a baneful and excessive Presidential patronage will not be the only good end served by delegating the election of lederal officers generally to the people. At present, it continually happens, that a Whig State, or a Democratic one, has to suffer the infliction of federal officers of opposite politics. What is true ot States, is true also of collector's districts and of communities over which postmasters preside, only to a meth greater degree. Why should a Whig town have a Democratic post master ? Why a Democratic town a Whig'post master ? Surely the true republican principle would be to give to each district and town the choice of its own officers. There is no'deny ing the fact, often urged by foreigners against our federal institutions, that, in this feature, they are essentially anti-republican. If we are wise, if we have forcast, if . we are even con sistent, we Americans.will hasten to amend the Constitittion in this weak point: We therefore hope that the reform, already proposed in Con: gress, will be carri ed into execution. Pennsylvania Prohibitory Convention. The State Prohibitory Liquor Law Convention assem bled at Harrisburg on Tuesday, about 1000 dele• gates being in attendence. Colonel. Huliz was called to the Chair, and great enthusiasm prevail. ed. Two public meetings were held in the even. ing, one in the Hall of the House of Representai tires. and the other in the Lutheran Church.— Neal Dow,Esq., was present in the House and made an eloquent address. Gen.Cassey,ofOhio, also made a great speech at the meeting held in the church. la" The bank note circulation of Great Brit, taln amounts to $108,450,000. Pa. State . Agricultural Society This society met at Harrisburg on the 17th inst.—in the absence of the President, Hon. A. Mcllvaine, of Chester, taking the chair. H. N. !WA lister, of Centre county, the chair man of the Committee on Field Crops, read the report of that committee, making the following awards: To Benjamin Covert, of Fayette county, the first premium of $lO for the best crop of corn. He claims to have produced 158 bushels and 7 quarts of shelled corn, pure yellow red cub gourd, upon one acre of land—of which proof was furnished by actual measurement. o,her competitors did not comply •with the rules of the Society, and their claims were ruled out. Tu John AlcCord, of Bradford county, the premium of $2O, for having produced an aver age of 513 bushels of white blue stem wheat per acre,'upon a field containing seven acres, filly-two perches. To Antos Stone, of Erie county, the premi um of $lO for having produced 140 bushel., of white wheat .by weight, on 31 acres—being an average of AO'Bushels Per acre. To James Sampson, of Erie County, the pre mium of $lO, for having produced 3313 bush. els of barley, weighing 48 pounds per bushel, upon a field containing seven acres and ninety six perches; being a yield of 43,1 bushels per acre. To John It'uthrauff, of Franklin county, the premium of $2O, for having produced 322 bush els of barley, weighing 48 lbs., upon 6 acres 112 perches. The committee recommend, among other things, that the amount of these premiums be hereafter greatly increased, so as to secure a a larger number of claimants. There were (our competitors for the preinium for corn, two for wheat, and two for bailey. The Treasurer of the Society, Mr. George 11. Bucher, made his annual repurt. The, balance remaining on the operations of the last year was $9,058 6.1. The amount previously inves ted was a-7,011; making the total profis of the Society, since its organization, 516,069 61. The officers generally were reelected : President, Frederick Mitts, and a number of Vice Presidents, &e., C. A. Luckenbach, is among the Vice ('residents, Legislative Proceedings. SENATE. January, 23. Mr. FRY, presented three peti tion from Lehigh county, for the incorporation of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank, of Cata. sauq ue Mr. FRY, offered an amendment relative to the place of holding elections in Weisenburg township, Lehigh county; adopted. January, 24. Mr. HAMILTON, presented a petition from Lehigh and Northampton counties for a bank at Catasauque. Mr. CRA 88, read in place a supplement to the act incorporating the Allentown railroad company. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. MONTGOMERY, reported a supplement to the Allentown Iron Company. Mr. LA CRY, read a bill to. encourage manu facturing operations in this State.' January, 24. An act to incorporate the Pure Spring water company of Fogel, ville, in the county of Lehigh. News from Lower California Intelligence has been received in San Fran. cisco that a second battle had taken place in Low. er California, between Walker's party and the -Mexican' forces, in which the American were en. tirely successful, routing, with about thirty men, a force on the opposite side of about one hun_ Bred. The guns, ammunition, and a field piece of the enemy were captured. The invaders had acquired new courage and confidence from the circumstance that the Attila had arrived with re. inforccments. These have probably before this joined the original party. Col. Walkins, •.vith a battalion of two hundred and fifty men, taken from San Francisco by the Anita, has reached Encenada, and joined the Expeditiunists. The party, strong, enough to resist any forces that could be 'brought against them, were ready to make an advance further into the country: The Governor of Sonora has Issued a procla mation to the people of the State, calling upon them to take up arms against the Filibusters.— Ile calls them •pirates and robbers," and adds, "Let them perish to the last one, and let their fate serve as an example to thieves and rascals, who may attempt to imtimate them." The proclamation was issued on the oth of November. On the day following the governor issued an order in which he says that "a:1 strang. era who invade the department without permis sion will be treated as pirates." The Sacramento Union says an expedition is being formed in that city, and that certain mer. chants are engaged in it. It is understood that a company, now forming in San Francisco, will shortly depart front the seat of war. Sunbury and Erie Railroad.—At a meeting of the Hoard of Directors held on Saturday last, the Hon. James Cooper was elected President of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company. This is an excellent selection, and cannot but give char. acter and confidence to the prospects of the great enterprise. Mr. Cooper.is a gentleman of nil. questioned ability and undoubted integrity. He is, moreover, a man of untiring energy, and in. deed in every sense fully qualified to he at the head of such an undertaking. We congratulate the Stockholders, and all concerned, on a choice. so judicious. Urea! Snow Storm in Itionois.—A terrible snow storm prevailed about the 10th instant, along the line of the Mississippi and Chicago railroad east of Bloomington, and from thence as far north as Chicago, covering the track in many places to the depth of eight and ten feet, cutting off, for the time being, all communication between Chi. cago and St. Louis, and other points. A train of cars which left Chicago onlVednesday, the 11th did not reach St. Louis until the Sunday follow ing, and the passengers, some 150 in number, hai a narrow escape from freezing and starving. Demagogueism in the U. S. Senate There are none so blind as those who do not want to see, and gra:re United States Senators can shot their eyes to self-evident truths for the MOM paltry purposes of the demagogue, The .Philadelphia Sun says: we regard the discus sion brought up by a motion of Mr. Cass- on Mon, day, to be the very quintesseheeoldemagogricisin on the part of those who supported it, and ap proaching as near the d!-sg,racefalty ridiculous as we would care about designating any action of that generally august body. The venerable Senator from Michigan npened.the ball by intro , ducing the following resolation Resolved, That the Pt esident of the United States be requested to communicate to the :Sen ate, as far as he may deem it compatible with the public interests, a copy of any correspon dence which may have taken place with the gov• ernment of the Papal States, touching a.mission to the United States. Mr. Cuss supposed that Bertha had been charged with some special mission,and he wanted to know what it was. This was natural enough, for we ourselves would like to know how much further the impertinence of the Papacy has gone than accrediting, to the President a purely ecclesias tical functionary, who, if in a civil or diplomatic capacity, could not so summarily dispose of American church property as he has done. But why did Gcn. Cass go out of the way to vindicate the murder-spotted fiend? How did he dare, even with his years and experience to back him —how did he dare to rise in his place in the free Senate of the United States, and say that he had investigated the facts of the cold blooded assat , sination of Ugn Bassi, and profess himself sails. fled that Bedini had nothing to do with Gen Case is sent to Washington to legislate for Amer ica, not. to apologi,e for Austrian butchers and Romanist assassins. Does Gcn. Cass know the facts better than the German and Italian exiles who were at or near Bologna when the most hor rid cruelties that ever disgraced humanity were perpetrated under the sanction of Bedini 7 The. people of. America will show their dislike to ty rants and tyranny, whenever and wherever they choose and no wretch, deep dyed in human slaughter can ever seek our shores,' without ex pecting to be hooted out of the country ! We feel with the poet the wish ' , to put a whip in ev ery honest hand to lash the rascal naked through the world 1" Of all the speeches made in the Senate that day,and Messrs. Mason, Butler, Dawson, Badger, Douglas, Everett, Adams, Petit, and others, par ticipated, there was but one which touched the vitality of this question ; and that was by Mr. Weller; of California. He calledattention to the fact that eversince the arrival of Bedini in this country, the public mind had been agitated and excited. The Italians and Germans who had tak en part in the revolution of 18.18, and who had come to this country in great numbers, believed whether just or not, he could not say, that this man took a part in the wrongs inflictedupon them. Ile regretted that there slould be violence any where. Ile did not doubt but that any man, ty• rant or oppressor, as be may be, could have trav elled through Georgia without in,des:ation—but there were few Italians or Germans there to what there were in New York or Cincinnati, and who were an exciteable people and easily led away by the presence of one whotn they look upon as hav ing been their oppressorand tyrant. lie thought it could scarcely he necessary for the resolution to elicit front Senators a disapproval of violence. It could scarcely be necessary to Mot m the peo ple of their obligations to observe the law, for the great body of the American people know full well that there was nu safety for properly or right but the sanctity of the law. What could then, be the objects of the resolution ? Was it to tell the people that they might not peaceably assemble to express their opinions and grievarr• cos? If so, it would not have its effect, for such was a right too well known to - them, and if these people charged with outrage, did nothing but as, setnble peaceably for such a purpose, and if this person be guilty of only one.half of what his own countrymen accuse him, then the people were right in what they did. This sentiment elicited applause from the galleries. Did Mr. Cass hear it I It was the throbbing of the American hearts —the true American Impulse, and it ought to have shamed Mr. Everrett, from the State of the Puritans; Mr. Bottler, from the home of the Huguenots, and Mr. Mason from the refuge of the Cavaliers. The ground taken by Mi. Wel. Icr, was that he knew nothing, of the guilt or in• nocence of liedini, and before he could accuse these people of having done wrong he would have to examine whether he was guilty or not of what his countrymen charged him. 'file resolu tion,could not be necessary with a view to any further legislation. If lie were here under any diplomatic authority, the President must know the fact. Congress, as' early as 1790, , enacted law on this subject, reviving a penalty of three years' imprisonment, and fine at the discretion of the Court, for any attack, &c., upon the per son of a Foreign Minister. If this law has been violated, all that the President has to do, was to instruct his District Attorney to proceed against the otTender. His desired in no way to encour• age a spirit of violence. He well knew that no act could justify violence, but it was useless to attempt to put down the people in their assem blages, peaceably to expose their horror and in dignation for crime, oppression and tyranny. They may legislate at Washington as much as they please, and talk to Romanist Buncombe,till they arc tired, the people of the United States are right upon ,this great question, and will never permit a Nuncio of the . Pope to be received in this country, for it is an office unknown to the spirit of our Constitution arid rePugant its pu rity. The great body of the American people are justly indignant at the interferences of this Bed ini, as the spiritual representative of the Pope, in the questions of Church property among us. Pr Alfred Iverson, of Columbus, was on Monday elected on Me fourth ballot United States Senator from Georgia. He is a thorough going State Rights Democrat. larThirly thousand men are employed in the UniteedStalcs on iron castings; twenv IMrTe thou. sand in the manufacture of pig i run fuur lean tbousand in wrought iron. Wild Race of a Locomotive In the Cincinnati Commercial, of Saturday last we find an account of a somewhat singular collision on the Miami Road at Milford. The engine of a freight train ran into the rear car of a prissenger train,which was standing still at the depot. The Comm e rcial says : .4 When Mr. Watt; engineer of the mail train heard the cissit of the collision he supposed his own train would be run over, and with his as - . sistants, sprang off The furnace had just been : , crammed' with wora, and there was a full head . of steam on. The force of the blow uncoupled' the locomotive and tender front the tmgr , ,,age car, at the same instant Jerking the lever and throw ing the throttle Valve wide open ! Awn . ; slied . tii'; locomotive like an arrow,or,if we might so say,: like a hat of omnipotence, sweeping down the track at seventy miles an hour! God help any hapless train met or overtaken; help the city; but full fourteen mile, below, for thakdistance will be devoured in fifteen minutes! The es.ca'p ° . ed engine came howling by Plainsrifle, visiGle for an instant to the appalled vittagers,iwilched: off into tire double track, as lightaingfrom one steel rod to another divergent, and thundered on' to the city whose spires might now have been seen from the iron disc of this fiery comet ; but' there was none to see, for rider, or driver, or liv ing human soul had the engine near. Happily the furnace door flew open, the draught ceased,. and a little way above the upper engine honse," on a heavy up grade, the locomotive's breath was' spent ; it came to a dead stand, and stood the re silent and cold, forming as mach a part of the still wintry landscape as the whitened rock and shrouded trees on the hillside above." Legalizing Dhseclon.—The medical faculty of . New York are making an effort to induce the. Legislature to legalize dissection. It seem that , while the medical colleges are required by law' to teach anatomy, they are forbidden by another . law to impart that knowledge in the only way int which it can be acquired—that is by dissection', —They ask that the bodies of all who die in pris ons and in the almshouses be given to the col leges fur anatomical purposes. The subject is much discussed in the newspapers, but while ad mitting the necessity of the medical universities twin provided with bodies, the feeling is against granting the prayer of the memorial. Marriage at a Father's Death Bed.—Majar S. R. ILibbie, First Assistant Postmaster General is lying hopelessly ill, of consumption, in Wash ington. It is said there was an affecting se , n in the sick charinber of this gentleman on the 19th inst. His daughter Mary was there, in the pres• enee of her prostrate and almost dying father, united in holy wedlock, by the Rev. Mr. lltiuler. to Nathan Reese, Esq., of Newburg, N. Y. The fond father, apprehending his speedy dissolution requested that the nuptials should be celebrated before he had seen the last of earth. Major Hob ble was at one time a member of Congress from New York, and as an officer of the Government it is universally conceded that he ever faithfully anti assiduously discharged his responsible du- Son. Arrethd fin. Seduction.— Deput y Sheriff 8) lies arrested in Pelham, Mass., on Sat urday n ight, Bev. B. W. Wright, the pastor of the Methodist church in that town, on a charge of seduction and adultery, and committed him to. jail. As we get the story, Mr. Wright wrote tri, W.lberham, to a young lady, at a school there, requesting her to meet him at Palmer Depot.— This young lady was the daughter of a deacon of his own church,and had previously, on the occa sion of his wife's illness, resided in his family. At Palmer, he purchased two tickets from the New London railroad and night Sound boat, with state room Geniis. The young lady was on the spot and they proceeded to New York together. A day or two after, they returned; he ornamented with a pair of whiskers, and she sitting before hon. On arriving at Palmer, the whiskers, were taken ill and he.proceeded home, while the girl went back to school, and reported that she had been home. Suspicion, however, was on the scent, and the girl at last stated the whole terri 'Wale stoty. D.•cisinn of the Supreme Court of Pa.—ln. an action by husband and wile, fur the trespass in taking her separate goods, it is unnecessary to prove property in the wife. The allegations of the husband and wife, that the property is hers, is sufficient to make out a prima_ ficia case, and a trespasser who does not claim under either of them has no right to dispute it. A Large rerdiel.—The suit of Thomas H. Silk-- man against Davis & More for injuries received' by plaintiff, by the upsetting of the stage coach belonging to the line of stages of which they are the-proprietors was brought to a close in the U. District Court, eight before last, and the jury re turned a verdict yesterday morning of 0,400,—. The accident happened at Vernon, Wis., in 1850 The plaintiff fractured the elbow joint, Irons which he almost lost the the use of his right arm. One point decided by the Court, we understand, . was the fact that -the plaintiff had been maltreat. ed by his physician, was noCto be taken into • consideration by the jury in mitigation of dama ges, as he must be supposed to have employed the best medical assistance in his power, and the stage company was therefore responsible for all the consequences of the injury. Mr, Silkman is a merchant of New York city.—kiftuuukcJan. 7. A Mata Shot by his IV/A.—Sarah Cru field has been arrested at Leavenworth, Ind., charged with, shooting and killing her husband; She alleges. that her husband was absent from home,, and that alter night she heard some one trying to get into the house, when she seized a gun, tired • through the '6or, and shot a maw through thu heat t, iviur proved to be hes husband. Ottr !'ti Work&—The Actual Cus,l,of the Public Work,. of Pennsylvania is not less than (Mr, II UNINIED 11111.1 Q NS Oli DOLL:ARS. as can he readily Show t ? bY.s, =femme: to the offAcial records. Nearly ITU this sum is still a debt upon the State: Thii mipii ratherdear for the whistle. r3^Pennsylvania maintains ma' pm le schools nt a cost of a little more awl nflatilimil c!°Piqs a year.
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