al ) c L'elitgli tiegiottr. A licittovrn, Pa. W EDNESDLY, NAY 31, 1864. toR common: • JAMES POLLOCK, Of Northumberland County. FOR CANAL CONAIIeSVICEG : GEORGE DARSIE t Of Allegheny County. VOR JUDGE OF TUE SurnEmt COURT. DANIEL M. SMYSER Of Montgomery county. J -0 N 4 . l43tLis the season•of .lioviers. All is bloom MI Verdure on the smiling and dimpled face of happy nature—would to heaven that the eame bloom and verdure glowed on the heart of every human being. Summer is celebrat ing her jubilew—and yet*June, in this latitude, is but May in more genial . claims. But all is blossom in the bower, and music in the wood. Dressed in her most gorgeous mantle, the queen of flowers dances over the meads to the harmony of . her woodland choir, as they chant lays of luscious melody to the conscious ears of their feathered loves. And now the blessed showers have rained down their fat upon the 'l and, causing every rivulet to sing for joy, and sending a thrill of gladness to the honest heart of the anxious farmer, whose confidence in God is repaid by his bounty ! Pearls hang on every leaf, and the twittering bird dresses his pinions in the sweet moisture, as if the luxury wits for him alone ; while every bud and flow er swells with pride—the teeming grain bow ing its heavy head with affluent treasures, and every herb and gent redolent of perfume, im parts its spirit to the breeze. How little do we appreciate the blessings that follow in the train of the changeful. seasons as they develope the renovating powers of na. Mel The lever of heat may, drive us to the sparkling fountain, or woo us to lave in ocetin's refreshing billows. Fashion may drive us to the mountain top, or pleasure lure us to fViao ara's shores—but this renders no homage to Nature—it is but the fleeting tribute that vani ty or pleasure pass to selfishness. The heart has no share in it—and we never think of the bountiful goodness of God, till famine stares us in the face or scarcity alarms us for our safety, it is then we sigh and pray for rain. Ooe refreshing shower will lift up the heart from despondency. One gleam of sunshine shed gladness on the soul. Nations shall sing for joy, or wail in sorrow, as clouds distil their fatness on the land—or sunbeams dance in golden measures on the domain of the harvests! Think you, selfish mortals! that chance has ought.to do in this beautiful variation of the sea sons ! Science, herself, condemns the thought. Facts rebuke the impious suspicion. Look up to God ! and think better of his love ! Cheering intelligence from all quarters now tell us of abundant crops—and the hearts of the poor are gladdened by the sounds of plenty, for future subsistance—but man, always a tyrant ; denies the blessing provided by nature—and by the power of money, to monopolise, to spec plate, and to 'extort, brings sterility and dearth, even amidst plenty—till artificial famine gasps in the pangs of want ! Shall nature prove tri umphant, or shall man play the tyrant over the life of man? We live in a country boasting her freedom. Let nature at least be free from the grinding avarice of the callous dealer in• food. Let not avarice levy her tariff of extortion upon the bounty of Heaven ! Bread for the poor !is the gift of God. Shall man interpose, and decree that the poor shall have no bread? Per jab forever the burning shame of so inhuman a thought. "Know ye the lend of the cedar and vine, Where the flowers ever blossom—the beams ever shine— Where the virgins are soft as the roses they 11121 And all—save the spirit of man—is Divine? 'Tie the clime of the free and the land of the brave, Where Plenty shall trample o'er tyranny'a grave." To Cmintry Postmasters. It is a fact perhaps not generally known that postmdsters are "entitled to more for diatribe ting their own county papers than the mam moth weeklies. , For instance, the postage on a weekly paper published in the State not ex ceeding one and one half ounces in weight is 13 cents per annum, payable quarterly in advert* Fifty per cent., or 6 cents of this goes to the Post Master. On county papers, they are allowed two mills, each from the De partment, making for each paper 104 . mills,.or ten cents and over, per year, being fully a third more thait they derive from those papers in whose behalf they interest themselves by get ting up clubs, &c." From this it appears it would be to their interest to procure sub scribers an county papers; we trust they will make an effort to secure a package at each post office for the "Register." Lehigh Fenoiblee. We learn that an attempt is being made to enlarge this NHMei), Company, in our Borough. This splendid cops ; is entirely too small for a place like Allentown. Quite a number have signed their names to the list, and it is confi dently believed that in a short time sufficient names will be obtained to make the corps api pear respectable. It does seem tome, that there are enough young men in this Borough, to form of least two, if not three, full companies, and we do trust that at lent one large and spirited company will be formed. rirStawberries and . eherries have appeared in the New York mark ets in Considerable quan. lilies. The. I . grieulturEil Fair The Executiv. Committee at their Meeting on Saturday lasts at Balliet's Hotel, in North White hall, unanimously decided to hold the next An. anal Exhibition, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 4th, tilt and 61h of October next, at their Groubd' in the Borough of Allentown. TAM time is the most Suitable that , could have been selected under the circumstances, although in many respects a week sooner would have been preferable ; but as the °State Agricultural Socie, ty" intend holding their Exhibition, at Philadel phia, in the latter week of September, and many exhibitors at our Fair, and probably others, not exhibitors but memb'ers, intend being present in Philadelphia, and if a week sooner would have been adopted, it would have come too much in the seeding season, therefore a more propiteaus timecould not well have been adopted. The premium list has been carefully revised, and the premiums largely increased, so that it will become a matter of interest to exhibitors this year, and from what we can learn of those who feel interested in this laudable society, it is the intention of raising the same annually in pro. portion to the pecuniary ability of the association. After the selection of the proper committees are made, the Premium list will be published in time for competitors to prepare themselves. Fire at the Furnace On Sunday last, at about 11 o'clock, the alarm of fire was given, and proceded from the large Iron Works near the Borough. It appears the fire originated from the brest, which broke out, and from which the fire communicated with the straw wound around an iron pipe, passing to the floor under the bridge house, a place where it was almost impossible to get at, to extinguish it. The fire ran along the floor underneath, but having no draft, burned slowly. The top of the floor was filled with iron cre and lime stone, so that there was no possible way to get to the fire. TPA Good Will engine and tender, was taken over to the Furnace by horse power. The "Washing. ton Engine and Hose" was drawn over by the full corps of members, and when over both com panies done' exceedingly good service, and but for their timely assistance the whole Furnace building would have been levelled with the ground, and caused a itopage of the works, per_ haps for six or eight months which at the Ares. ent high prices of iron would have been an im• mense loss to the Company. The damage will not prevent the Company from going on with their business. After the fire Mr. LEWIS, the gentlemanly superintendant of. the works, gave a sumptuous repast to the hard. working firemen, and others, and returning his sincere thanks for their kind assistance. We learn that the Washington Engine and Hose Company, broke one of the Carriage wheels and axel trees, and burnt several hundred feet of Hose the loss of which, we are told, will be fully re. paired by Mr. Lewis. Pennsylvania Railroad The rumor that has been current for some time, relative to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, having become possesed of a suffi. cient amount of Stock of the Norristown Rail road to exert a controlling influence in its man agement, is confirmed by.the Philadelphia pa pers. May not this move be the means of furthering the road from Norristowrr to Allen town, only. forty miles in length, to give to that company an entirely independent road to Allentown, where it would connect with the Lehigh Valley Road and form a continuous link of roads to Lake Ontario. It would not only make the shortest, but the most practicable route to collect the trade of the immense Iron Works, twelve in number, in the Lehigh Valley, all locoed within a distance of six miles of Allentown. Military Eleotion. On Monday, the sth of June next, an election will be held by the military of this county, for Brigade Inspector, Brigadier General, &e. This election is held under the recent act, which di . recta that such elections shall be held every five years. We understand that our friend Maj. Amos Ettinger, the present Brigade Inspector, is a candidate for re-election. ' A Major Gen eral is also to be elected by the commissioned officers, on the first Monday in July. The Nebraska Bill. On the night of the 24th of May, the I,Nebraska bill passed the House of Representatives in Con gress, by a vote•of 113 to 100, absent 21 mem• bers. The amendment of Mr. Clayton, prohibi ting unnaturalized foreigners from voting is struck out, the bill had therefore to go back to the Senatb for concurrence. The Senate on Thursday last the 24th of May took up the bill and passed it as it came from tho house by a vote of 95 to 13. A correspondent asks how the , Pennsylvania Members of Congress voted on this bill.— Among the yeas wereMesers. Bridges, Dawson, Florence, Jones, Kurtz, McNair, Packer, Rob ins, Straub, Witte and Wright—f I, all Demos crass, and among the nays were Messrs. Chand ler, Diok, Everhart, 'Ulster, Howe, IVloCullock, Middleswarth, Ritchie and Russell, Whigs, and Curtis, Drum, Gamble, Grow and Trout, Demo. orals, in all 14. The entire State delegation were present. The New School Law—Teaohers. The 27th section`of ,the now School law makes it the duty of every public School teach er "employed under the provisions of this act to make out and file with the board of direct tore or controllers of the district at the end of each month, a report, setting forth the whole number ol pupils attending school during the month, designating whether male or female, the number of days each attended, the books used and branches taught; and until such rei port shall have been made, it shall not be law ful for the board of directors to pay.spid teach ers for his or her services; the reports made in pubsuance . of the foregoing provisions, shall be regularly filed by the secretary of the board of directors or controllersT and shall at all times ,be subject to the inspection of any 'citizen of the diet rict.P Agricultural Meeting. Pursuant to publio notice a meeting of the Axectitive Committee of the "Lehigh County Agilaultural Society" was heldon Saturday the 27th of May, at the House of John Schantz, jr., (BallIot's) in North Whitehall. President Kohkr, in the chair. The minutes of the meeting held on the 11th of March 1854; were read and adopted: Resolved—That an additional loan of $323 81 be contracted, to defray the current expenses of the Society. • Mr. E D. Leisenring, from the committee on trees reported, that some two hundred and thirty odd have been planted in the FaiiGround, one hundred of which were ordered from a New York Nursery, the balance are of home growth of the different varieties of Evergreens Lindens, Willows, Locusts, Sui., the cost of the same may range in the neighborhood of one hundred dollars and will be reported in full to the next meeting. Resolved—That the Secretary be instructed to attend to the Insurance of the Fair Buildings and the putting up of a Lightning rod at the same. Resolved—That inasmuch as the State Agri, cultural Society have adopted therlays that we have last year taken for our Exhibition, and that doubtless many exhibitors, and members intend visiting the State Exhibition, it was deemed advisable to hold the Third Annual Fair on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 4:h, 5 h and 6th of October next. Resolved —That Christian Pretz and Aaron G. Reninger, be a committee to superintend the flooring of the Hall and the finishing of the Ticket Office, in such a manner that the same can be occupied as a dwelling. • Resolved—Thal Hiram J. Schantz, Charles Wittman. A. L. Ruhe, Print Ballict, E. D. Lei searing, Ed. Kern and Jesse 51. Line, be a com mittee whose duty it shall be to select proper persons to serve upon the respective Commit tees, and that said committee meet for the pert pose of their appointment on Saturday the 10th of June, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon at the house of John Y. Bechtel, in Allentown. Oa motion the meeting adjourned. A. L. RUBE, Secretary. Courthouse in Easton From what information we can collect the matter as regards the erection of a new Court• house, in the Borough of Easton, appears to be a fixed fact. For our part, we cannot see nny good reason why it should not. Easton has been selected as the seat of Justice, a building has been erected many years ago, and although it has undergone many changes and altera tient; yet, from all that we have heard, it always was, and continues to be, inconvenient and inadequate to the wants of the justice seeking public. We see the President as well as the two Associate Judges, two succeeding Grand Juries, and we believe the Bar, together with a majority of the County Commissioners and county officers,have recommended the buildittg of a new Court House. We trust, all will unite and in harmony go to work and erect just such a building as the "spirit of the times" will require. The War in Europe It will be seen by 'intelligence in another column of to-days paper, that the belligerent powers of Europe are coming to close quar ters. News has been expected by every steam er of some general engagement, but none has yet taken place. The most important news, however, this side of tho Atlantic, is the great effect of the war question upon the price of our great staples breadstuffs,.cotton and tobacco.-- The cotton and tobacco crops have suffered much from the effects of the continuous wet weather. , The grain erops, however look very promising, and the high prices of produce, are very flattering to the farming community. The Eolipse- On Friday afternoon the Eclipse passed oil according to the'calculations of the astronomers. The'sky was perfectly clear, and gave setenoe a fair field, to peer into mysterious space. At ev ery house in town persons where seen, with smoked glasses looking towards the darkness that was coming over old Sol. The sky turned a deeper blue, and it caused a mysterious duski nese in the atmosphere during the time of its I greatest obscuration. By some it was believed that the world was about coming to its end, these 'superstitious people no doubt feel easy again in regard to that point. Where is Gov. Bigler. • The "Union" the organ of• Gov. Bigler at Harrisburg, in an editorial article' last week, stated positively that the Governor was a fast friend of the Nebraska bill, and that he would take occasion at an early day publicly to de- fine his position on that question. On the other hand the Pittsburg Gazette of Saturday last, says on what it considers reliable author ity that "Mr. Chase, late Speaker of the House of Representatives at Harrisburg, (who is an honest opponent of the Nebraska bill) states, wherever he goes, that Gov. Bigler is really and sincerely opposed to that bill, and makes this statement by authority. Which of these stories is to be believed. Or does the Governor keep on hand an assort- ment of principles to be dealt out like the wares of a podler, according to the varying wants of his friends and customers : o::rCan any of the Governors friends, who are accustomed to laud him for hie independence and firmness, tell us why he keeps the late act of the Legislature in regard to beer houses, suspended . over the heads of the people; Is he for and against that measure also, as may suit the requirements of his temperance friends on the one hand and the beer house keepers on the other. We understand the attorney for the beer houses in this city, has.assurances from the Governor he will notsign the bill. Can not the Democratic temperance men find evidence to satisfy themselves and their friends that he will sign H.—independent Whig. Visit of the "Union Rifles." From a late number of the "Newark Daily Ad vertiser" we learn that this well drilled Military corps intend making an excursion to our Bon ough, on the sth of July next. They will leave home on the morning and proceed to Easton and Bethlehem. At the latter place they will be met and escorted by the "Bethlehem Artillery" who will entertain them either on their going on their return. The "Lehigh Fencibles in connec tion with many of our citizens are making pre- parations for a splendid reception, and as they intend spending two days with as, we anticipate for them a pleasant time. At Easton on their return they will be the guests of the . "National Guards" Cap t. Stonebach. "Popular Sovereignty." This has been the burden of the war cry by the defenders of the Nebraska bill, but it is an idle waste of time to assert that there is any popular sovereignty at all in this county. The only free republic is the moat degraded despo tism of earth! Our tyrant is Party. First we were told that Nebraska would be no party test; then when it was found necessary to druin up more-votes for it, the party lines were drawn ; And now the Washington Union tolls us that fi delity to the principles of the Nebraska bill is essential to Democratic orthodoxy! We have only to feel grateful that the Washington Union is not the Federal Union founded by our Con stitution, and that the people are yet allowed the privilege of deciding, through the ballot boxes, as to who are and who are not faithful public servants. Time must show how the masses will stand such insulting dictation, and whether they will permit the dangerous cen tralizing influences, originated by the present Administration, to influence the popular heart. We have made up our minds to be patient un der the Nebraska infliction, because we have no present remedy; but if it is to be the first of a series of aggressions upon the North, we are "enlisted for the war" against it. In the meantime the Washinion Union should remem ber, it writes for freemen and not for slaves, and use a little delicacy of expression, if it pleases.—Thil. Sun. Process of Coining Gold A Mint of the United States has been comple, ted in Sin Francisco, and is probably ere this lime in active operation, coining down daily vast treasures of. golden ore. It was intended that it should be prepared to coin thirty millions of dollars yearly. The following description of the system which Is about to be established there will afford a good general idea ;f the ordinary process of coining gold :—The metal, after being received in the deposit room, is carefully weighed and a receipt given. Each deposit is then melted separately in the melting room, and moulded into bars. These bars next pass through the hands of the assayer, who with a chisel chips a small fragment from each one. Each chip is then rolled into a thin ribbon, and filed down until it weighs exactly ten grains. It is then melted into a little cup made of calcined .bone ashes, and all the base metals, copper, tin, &c., are absorbed by the porous material of the cup, or carried off by oxydation. The gold is then boiled in nitric acid, which dissolves the siver which it contains, and leaves the gold pure. It is then weighed, and the amount which it has lost, gives the exact proportion of impurity in the , original bar, and a certificate of the amount due the depositor is made out accordingly. Al ter assayed, the bars are melted with a certain proportion of silver, and being poured into a dil. ulion of nitric acid and water, assume a grants• lated form. In this state the gold is thoroughly Soiled in nitric acid, and rendered perfectly free from silver or any other baser metals which may happen to cling twit. It is next melted with one ninth its weight of copper, and thus alloyed, is run IWO bars, and delivered to the coiner for coinage. The bars are rolled out in a rolling mill until nearly as thin as the coin which is to be made from therm Dy a process of annealing they are rendered sufficiently ductile to be drawn throughout a longitudinal orifice in a piece of steel, thus reducing the whole to.a regular width and thickness. A cutting machine next punch. es small round pieces from the bar, about the size of the coin. These pieces are weighed sep arately by the" adjusters," and if too heavy are filed down—if too light they are remelted. The pieces which have been adjusted are run through a milling machine, which compresses them to their proper diameter.and raises the edge.. Two hundred and fifty are milled in a minute by the machine. They are then again softened by the process of annealing,and after a thorough clean, ing cre placed in a tube connecting with the stamping instrument, and are taken thence one at a time by the machinery, and stamped between the dies. They are now finished, and, being thrown into •a box, are delivered to the Treasur er for circulation. The machinery, of course, for. all these processes, must be of the nicest kind. The weighing scales alone, in'the depos it room of the California Mint, cost 14,000.- 80c/tell's Reporter. Safely of Col. freniont.—We are gratified to learn, by the California arrival, of the safely of Col. Fremont, though he reached his destination worn out with long wanderings, and his party broken op. After crossing the Colorado the greater part of them deserted, leaving him but twenty to conclude his bold mid winter journey with. The Colonel left the States last fall, and entered the mountain regions about the Ist of De. camber. The three winter months he was plod. ding through the •wilderness and under the shadows of the mountains, seeking to discover, by experiment, whether hying and travelling were practicable in those parts and passes dur• log that portion of the year. It-was on the 9th of February that he was overtaken by Secreta ry Babbitt, and reported. At that time they were in. the valley of tae Harawan, about as far north as the . latitude of Norfolk, and where the waters of Virgon river, a western branch of the Colora• do, are leaving the Fremont Mountains. The Indians of his party were all exhausted and broken up, and more or less Trost bitten. One only, a Fuller, 9f St. Louis,.has died. But the "Delawares " were sound and Wong:, GLEANINGS• 'How to make a town prosper-1111 it with enterprising people. ' Ilar Washington, a slave, bus been convicted of manslaughter alSavannah, and sentenced •to receive 850 lasbeis-50.each day for slit days. ['Among a cargo o(army comforts that late. ly. reached Constantinople, from England, were 700 wooden legs. • (C.There are said to be 10,000 destitute chit. dren in the city of New York, wretched girls and outcast boys, who live by beggary and shame. Ur The fare to San Francisco by the North Star has been reduced for cabin passage from $l5O to $lOO steerage from $75 to $5O. • rfr The Lafayette, (Ind.) Journal, thinks two million bushels of corn will be shipped from that place Ile present season. (0 - .Newspapers, everywhere, must raise their prices, if their proprietors mean to keep out of bankruptcy. liarb Franklin says, ""a poor man must work to find meat for his stomach, a rich one, to find a stomach (or his meat." Ilar One of the Chicago. papers states, that the oldest inhabitant born in Chicago, and now living there, is a lady only twenty.two years of age. rir Harrison Freeman, colored, has been ar. rested in Chicago for murdering his wife a white woman. Or The city and county of St. Louis voted . May 8!h, by a majority of over 3000, for an addi tional subscription of 31,200,000 to , the Pacific Railroad—the money to be raised by a direct tax. DP" An enormous mass of amber, two feet long, one and a half broad and one foot thick, the largest ever found, has been discovered in Denmark. Perils of Gold Minis An intelligent correspondent of the 'ems burg Times, writing from Forest Creek, Aus lia, narrates the following incidents illustrative of the dangers which beset the Australian miner: "Perhaps no death is more terrible than that which awaits the digger; the heavy yellow dust tank its tempting look, keeps the burrowing in the earth with thousands of tons suspended over his head, and by a tenure, less reliable than that which upheld the sword of Damocles. An ac. quaintance of mine—Nutter, from the State of Maine—persisted in taking out a rich pillar from a very dangerous hole, and succeeded; hut he was not fairly on the ground again, when fifteen or twenty square yards sunk down with a dcad heavy crash. jLiula stones accidentally falling and hard lumps of dirt have killed those in holes and great care is necessary to guard against these evils. "At Ballarat, where the holes are very deep, 1 'accidents are common—one occurred there late. ly. A man digging 'found the bottom growing soft, but paid little attention to it until his !egs sunk in so that he could not pull them out: he shouted for his mates to let the rope down, and he fastened it around his waist, but they. could not pull him up; help came and twisted off the crank of the windlass, then seized the rope in their hands, buck was.of no avail—the water nobbled up around the man in the hole, the quicksand rushed in, buried him to his waist and stifled his cries, and rose thirty feet . above his head. To dig him out was useless, in fact next to impossible. The rope was cut; and its end pushed beneath the quicksand. In another in stance, a man driving sixty feet under ground, loosened a large atone and found water trickel through where ft had been, but not dreaming of danger from a water burst, through his pick in, when the water burst through with great force ; he had the presence of mind to drop his pick and turn round ; the water drove him violently into the main.hole, until he was drawn up, when carelessly.setting out, he slipped and fell, loos• jug his life by the fall. But notwithstanding the many accidents that occur, perhaps they are not greater for the persons employed than in any other business or traffic in life. There are num bers of the miners who would not go to the bot tom of some of the holes for all the gold In Aus• tralia, but the great majority would gladly place their lives against a fortune—myself for one." r As to the productiveness, positively" and re, latively as compared with California, he says.: "I would not yet wish to hazard and opinion of the Australian Gold Fields, but I am convinc ed that almost the whole soil is more or less fil led With the precious metal, and that eventually companies, assisted by machinery, may do well ; but the very general impression here is, that the richest gullies, flats and the hills, have been worked. A miner, who has been some time'on the diggings, tells me that nearly every creek and gully in the colony has been prospected-- that the last six months more than forty parties of Californias have been constantly on ,the search, and that the conclusion of the Califotnis tins is, that no more extensive fields exists in Australia. ..It is a fact that the Californians are dissatis fied, and are leaving in great numbers, and so are the Americans generally—all dissatisfied with,the gold fields, disappointed in the country and disgusted with the government. It cannot be denied that California is preferable to - Austral lia—wages are better there, and the Yield of gold greater, compared with the numbers digging—to say nothing of being in a decent country. Cut Nail a.—There has recently been invented and put into practical operation in Troy, a new machine for making cut nails, the great peculi arity of which is that it is seltfeeding, and will manufacture in a given time nearly, if not quite as many again nails as any other known pro cess, and that one man, (as it is claimed,) with the assistance of a boy, will operate ten machines. There is also a great saving in iron, their 'being a waste of only about a 'patter of an inch in ten feet, which is the length of the pieces of iron plac. ed in the machine at a time. It has been shown that one machiniiiiinninufacture from 230 to 900 nails per minute, all of which are perfect in form and finish. Costied --ieut.ln the Connecticut Legie!attire May 19th Francis Oillette;Free Soil Whig:was denied U. 8.• Senator for the short. term, and Lafayette S. Faster for the long term. The for mer bad*one majority In the aquae, and 'Forest three. • . Gas for Country Use. By a recent invention . , people living in townsi where no coal gascompany is or can be profit• ably formed, rilay still obtain the luxury of a brit.: Haut homemade gas,light, at a cost cheaper than that of the ordinary oil or fluid. This importani improvement was in complete operation, a few evenings since, at the residence of a well•known literally and acientific gentleman on Spring Hill; Somerville, Mass., beingl the Orst house into which it has been Introduced in this section of the country. The light proddced is superior to That of coal gas, being clearer and more power ful, as the flame is of fuller volume and burns with greater steadiness, while the expense Is about the same as coal gas at $2,50 per thou" sand feet. It is the combustion of beniole a resinous liquid, sold at $1,50 per gallon, miffed with atmospheric air—the gas being generated by 'means of an ingenious and not an elegautap: paratus, which may stand in the house entry.way or even be placed on a closet shelf, andirons which common gas fixtures may extend in Alf directions and give the light in any or ever/ room at pleasure. The apparatus generates.a more gas than is immediately consumed, and s . requirers for the purpose only the heat of one of the burners used as a light—so that the whole cost of the gas.is that of the apparatus and the An apparatus of sufficient capacity for a good : sized dwelling house is affoeded for $l5O. • It is . so constructed that, by means of a rotatinsiaii pump, which is revolved by a crank, a stream of air is forced into the generator, which is partial. ly filled with benzole. The generator contains a vaporator exposing a large surface of benzole to the action of the air as the latter is forced through both apartments by the pump and weight and the thus vaporated benzole combining with the air, produces a gas of the highest quality' fur illumination. The apparatus is so perfectly simple, safe and durable, Opt It may be manag. ed by the dullest domestic, only requiring the weight to be wound up brf.-re use and the gene erator to be filled twice a month,nr nut as often if the lights are not employed. This beautiful invention was patented in Au , gust last by Mr. 0. P. brake, a practical elecirf cian of Boston, and must be regarded as one - of the most utilitarian improvements of the It is applicable to houses, shops, faciories, or other places in the country and even on ship board. Hereafter the dwellers on the remotest hilltops, or in the deepest shades of thq "back woods," may enjoy as much as those of the el. tics in the way of artificial "enlightenment" in their domestic arrangements. Cold.—A vein of gold was discovered on the sth inst., upon the lands of James Lay, in Cheep.* hee, S. C., which promises to prove extremely rich. The gold is encased in hard quartz, and is visible to the eye in large quantities. Dr. Charles T. Jackson of Daltimoie, arrived in Savannah on the 6th instant, on arisit to the gold mines of Lincoln and Wilkes counties, Georgia, for the purpose of making a scien• tific examinatwn of them. Dr. Jackson spent the month of March in Lumpkin county, in the service of the proprietors of the mines of that auriferous region. He has also visited the Dome mines in Abbevillei District, S. C., and has been employed by companies to examine other locali• ties, which were believed to abound in mineral wealth. Kentucky.— The people of Kentucky are making arrangements to erect a marble mono, ment to the memory of Wm. H. Butler, who was killed by Matt. F. Ward, which is to be placed in such a public spot ••that men will read its in.. scription every day." Mr. Buticr's widow is to be prosi tied for in a manner which will make her comfortably independent and enable her to educate her child.• Cure for Corns.—Mr. Cooper, in his "Diction.. arq of Surgery," has the following infallible core for corns :—•Take two ounces of gum ammoniac two ounces of yellow way and six drachms of verdigris ; melt them -together, and spread the composition on soft leather ; cut away as much of the corn as you can, then apply the plaster, anti renew it every fortnight till the corn is away A Just Law.—The New Jersey Legislature amended the tax-law in that Slate, as follow*: First, its exempting the amount of debts se. cured by mortgage on real estate from being twice taxed—second, in permitting the mortgager to deduct from the interest payable on his molt. gage , the amount of tal paid on the amount of said mortgage shall reside without the township or county in which the mortgage resides, and third, by not allowing the deduction of debts due to persons . witheut the State from the amount : of taxable property held within . the Stile. `:The Pennsylvania Legislature have mOiyet had'ae..nse enough to make some of these yrovi, Mons fit:our laws, although there justness has long been admitted by all honest men. Lualy Old Age . :-LA man named Josepb (lamp. bell recently died lit tiotirity,llo:, at the advanced age of WV. His children, grind children, and greatigrandichil s dren wale 'found to number two hundred andiwenty . .Eirl ;Int the most remarkable circumstance was, that the youngest of the whole group was his own child. New Three Cent Pieces.-A new three centcolis has been issued from the United Slates They bear date 1854, and differ from the old twilit in being of pure silver. somewhat !hit:mem:ids— trifle larger. The star, also, is sueroonded by is raised line, while in the tiptoe over 111, on •the opposite side, and within the C, is a sprig, and underneath a qUiver of arrows. The new coin is much preferable to the old in appearance. FatatArcirlent.—.oa Thuesday morning last, aGerman woman, who arrived in town on the previous day, with a party Of emigrants, acoi dentally fell from the step in front of a German bdarding house, irt the west end of our Bor ough, and broke her neck. We understand that ■he fell with her head into a cellar. window and-thus caused the causality above referred to. An inquest was held upon the body by Coro ner Beip, who rendered a verdict in accordance ,with the above iailts.—Easton Wind.
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