These chords still and soundless, her
heart was deep—none the lees so, because
it has been kindled by a go:den shot, hat , :
iag known and felt the life and sympathy
in it, unconsoled by the life ofiuxury. In
short, Kate in time became
. maguificently
miserable—splendidly unhappy.
Then a change became apparent to the
husband. He could not longer remain blind
to the fact that his love was not returned.—
He sought the company of those whose
gaiety might lead him to forget the sorrow '
and despair of his soul. This shallow joke
was unsatisfactory. however, and impelled
by a rowerful longing for love, he went
astray to warm his heart by a strange fire.
Kate saw hers elf .
. now in the midst of a
gorgeous desolation,. burning with a thrist
unconquerable by golden streams that flow
ed around her.; panting with a hunger,
which , not all the food of flattery and admi
ration could appease.
She approached her husband for desert
ing. her thus, and he answered with angry
and desperate taunts of deception and a fa
tal. lack of love, which smote her conscience
heavily.
`You do not care for me,' he cried—.then
why do you complain that I bestowed else
where the affection you have met with cold
ness?'
'But it is wrong—sinful,' Kate remon
strated.
'Yes, I know it !' said her husband fierce
ly. 'lt is the evil fruit of an evil seed.—
And who soweth that seed ? Who became
n sharer in my fortune, but gave me no
share in her sympathy ? Who devoted me
to the fate of a loting, unloved husband ?
Nay do not weep, and clasp your hands and
sigh - and sob with such description of im
patience, for I say nothing you do not de
serve to hear.'
'Very well,' - said Kate, do not say your
reproaChes are undeserved. But granting
I.am the cold, deceitful thing you call me
—you know this state of things cannot con
tinue.'
know it.' ,
'Well !'
Mr. Wellington's brow gathered dark—
his eyes flashed with determination—his
lips cured with scorn.
•I have mode up my mind,' said he, , that
we should not live together any longer. I
am tired of being called the husband of the
splendid Mrs. Wellington. I will move in
my circle,,you shall shine in yours. I will
place no restrain on your actions, nor shall
you on mine. We will be free.'
'But the world !' shrieked poor Kate,
trembling.
.The world will admire you the same—
and what more do you desire ?' asked the
husband bitterly. 'This marriage of hands
and not of hearts, is mockery. We have
played this farce long enogh. Few under
etand the true meaning of the terms hus
band and wife; but do you know what they
should mean ? Do you feel that the only
true union is that of love and sympathy !
Then,
enough of this mummery. Fare
well. I go to consult friends about the
terms of separation. Nay, do not tremble
and cry and cling to me now—l shall be
liberal to you. As much of my fortune
shall be yours as you desire.'
He pushed her from bim. She fell upon
the sofa. From a heart torn with anguish,
she shrieked aloud— 11
'Frank ! Frank ! why did t send you
from me ? Why was blind until sight
brought upon me misery ?'
She lay upon the sofa sobbing and weep
ing passionately. Gradually her grief ap
peared to exhaust itself; her breathing be
came calm ; her ekes and cheeks were dry.
her head lay peacefully on her arm, over
which swept her dishevelled tresses—until
with a start -she cried out :
'Frank ! oh, Frank—come back !'
'Here I am,' said a soft voice by her side.
She raised her head. She opened her
astonished eyes. Frank was standing be
fore her.
'You have been asleep,' lie said, :roiling
very kindly.
'Asleep 1'
'And dreaming too, I should say—not
plea.santly either.
'Dreaming!' murmured Kate,' and is it
all a dream
tI hope so,' said
.Frank, taking her hand,
'You could not mean to send me away from
you so cruelly, I know. 130 I walked in
your father's study, where I have been talk.
ing with him all of an hour. I came back
to plead my cause once more, and found you
here where I left you pleeping.'
'Oh ! what a horrible dream murmured
Kate, rubbing her eyes. 'it aas so like a
terrible reality that I shudder now to think
of it. I thought . I was.married !'
'And would that be so horrible ?' risked
Frank. hope that you did nut dream that
you were married to me.'
'No I thought that I gave my . band with
out my heart. No Frank,'• said Kate, her
bright eyes beaming through-her tears, 4and
here it is.'
'She placed her band in his—he kissed
it in transport.
And soon there was a real marrince—not
a splendid, but a happy and delightful one
—followed by a life of love and content
ment ; and that was the marriage of Frank
Minot and Kato Yale.
Entigranfs.migrat!on tb the United States
this year, it is thought, will reach four bundrad
thousand. Dy the census of 1850, the popyia,
lion of the United . States . was over twen
ty.three tpigions, , of which eighteen million;
were native wbites, over two millions were for
eign born, thirty.nine thousand were of unknown
nativities,And thiee millions two hundred thou
sand were slaves. From 1840 to 1860,1,566,850
foreigners came to our shores. From 1820 to
1880, the average , number was only 20,060 a
year. The continental revolutions in 1847, in.
creased the emigration to 100,000 in 1847. The
total-number of emigrants to the United States
since 17110, and living in 1850, together with 'de.
scendants, amounted (when the census was ta.
ben) to 4,304,410. The great number of deaths
among
. foreigners in, the U. States is appalling,
and nlspage,, it is thought, at least fifty per pent,
feljigl) ticgigter.
Atilentown, ra.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER M 1854.
FOR GOVERNOR:
JAMES , POLLOCK,.
Of Northumberland County.
rpn CANAL CiOUSISSP , NES :
GEORGE DARSIE,
Of Allegheny County.
FOR JUDGE OF TOE SUPREME MCAT.
DANIEL M. SMYSER,
Of Montgomery County.
juhnson's Sinking Fund. .
The Commissioners of the "Sinking Fund"
have made a report of their operations during
the last three years, from which we learn that
there has been paid and extinguished of the
public debt of the Commonwealth, Five Mtn
' dyed and Three Thousand Nine hundred and F/
ly Dollars and Fifteen Cents. This is the very
same-" Sinking Fund" that Ex-Governor John
son had passed, while he was a member of the
Senate of Pennsylvania. , This is the odious
measure, for which he was cried down by the
so-called Democracy. This is the very Fund
into which Gov. Bigler could not put his hand
to squander. This is the great measure through
which the state debt brought upon us by Loco
kco misrule, will eventually be paid—vote
for James Pollock and reduce your taxes.
' Keep it Before the People.
I. Keep it before the people—That, next to
the pulpit, the press is the moat potent instru
ment of good to the Church and the world, in
operation at the present day..
2. Keep it before the people—That, the cheap
est, easiest and most interesting medium of con
veyingto a family information on a vast variety
of important subjects, is through the . well-stored
columns of a judiciously conducted newspaper.
3. Keep it before the people—That, the head
of a family who refuses to subscribe and pay
for a good local newspaper on account of its
cost, is 'penny wise and pound foolish," as he
not only keeps them in ignorance of many
things they ought to know, which cannot be
acquired in any other way, but he excludes
himself from information of practical utility, of
tentimes contained in a single number, which
may be worth to him many times as :ouch as
the subscription for the whole year.
4. Keep it before the people—That, the pre
paration and issue of every number of a
newspaper is attended with considerable labor
and that it is something more than meanness
for a man to make it a practice of borrowing
and reading a paper for which others have had
the honokand honesty to subscribe and pay (e l .
Keep it before the people—That, every we
conducted paper is worth a hundred fold more
than what it costs, influence on an individual
and public intelligence, morality and religion;
and that they are true patriots • who conetion•
tiously and liberally support a vigorous and en
lightened press
Devlin in sreadstuffe•
In consequence of the news from Europe of,
good crops of breadstuqs there, and azonsa-:
querit decline in flour and wheat, there, was a
slight panic in flour at Boston on Wednesday,
and prices went down from seventy-five cents
to one dollar per barrel. The receipts of lima
at Boston, New York, Baltimore and Philadel
phia have lately been very large.
Ad Valorem Duties
The folly of Ad Valorem dirtied upon articles
of many descriptions, is now illustrated by the
fact that when iron is at the highest rates, the
duties on it raises in proportion. This circum.
stance reminds - be of a story ielated by one of
our merchants, alto is a member of the Demo.
ctatio party, and being interested in the tariff
question, he visited Washington at a session of
, Congress when the writt was to be altered.—
tie says that a member of the Committee of
the House of Representatives, to which the
subject was referred, in an interview, asked
him "what was the Democratic meaning of
that curious phrase, 'Ad Valorem,' among busi•
ner . men"—for he 'fever "heard any mention
of it at the town, where he was raiser' !"
Suicide by Hanging
On Thursday lasi, Mr. Charles Dahl's, a resi
dent of -Charleatown, Bucks county, commits
ted suicide by hanging himself to a
. toice in bra
own barn. Mr. Dubbs has plwaye born a good
character but being unfortunate in but•ineas for
several years, became considerably involved,
which had the effect of depressing his spirits
in such a manner, that it resulted in his death
by committing the rash act. Age 48 years.
The Know Nothinge.
We are glad to learn that the editor of the
Democrat has a list of tho 'Know Nothings' in
his possession which he de,signs publishing at
"the proper time," and also that be is in pos-
session of all the signs, passwords and hooks
and crooks they use. If he will furnish us
with this important information, we will cheer.
fully accompany hint some derX night, and aid
in hunting up this mysterious order ; and when
found, won't we astonish the " bigots and
knaves, or both," by walking into their midst
under protection of full-blooded membership,
for possessed of their hams pocus arts, how can
they refine to recognize us? and then, won't
we lash them in the. Democrat and Register,
and expose this set of impudent 'knaves for
preferring, as it is said they do, American born
citizens to foreigners! Well, we will-T-so out
with the list, neighbor; trumps are now called
for, and must be played.
Slander. Suits.—Simuel M. Young, of Ohio.
has been sentenced in the sum of po,ooo before
the Toledo court, and for *1,14000 In Vermont, for
slander. in charging a father with wilfully pols
°sting his ow 4 child.
Bishop Lefswe . on Semi Sooieties.
We learn from our Dproit exibanges that
Bishop Lefevre is, just now, solely exercised
on the subject of secret societies. He says,
"Catholics must hate Free Masons." Odd Fel
lows he denounces in unmeasured terms, and
members of his church hare been ezzomnini.
Gated because they dared to join that order.—
Sons of Temperance, Rachabites and Good
Tempters, the pious Bi : thop says, are "hipocrit
ical fools," and legs his followers "they must
not' ain them." But, of all others, the Know
Nothing come in for his greatest, holiest Papal '
Curse; and he has oflered a reward of five hun
dred dollars to any man who will join a Know
Nothing lodge and keep him informed of their
doings and purposes. Now all this holy hor
ror may be very politic and consistent for a
Jesuit—that which a more dangerous and mer
cenary political organization never existed in
the world, and of which all the Bishops and
Priests in this country are members—may be
very consistent for this Jesuit Bishop, Lefevre,
who it is said has a "Society of the Guild,"
which he directs, and the sole object of which
is to direct the conduct of hired girls in Prot.
estant families, to gather up from them, and to
report to him the private aflaira and views of
every Protestant family where Catholic girls are
employed. These secret Roman Catholics so•
. cieties exist everywhere. In Harrisburg they
have a branch of the secret Order of Jesuits, as i
well as a "Society of the Guild," directed by
the Priest, by which a system of espoinage has
beet. established upon all Protestant families.
And theie pious Bishops and Priests who con
trol the moat powerful and dangerous secret pa
litico•religious organization in the world, are fe
rocious in their denunciations of all American
secret associations. And the pensioned writ..
biers of the Democratic Press, while they de.
nounce Know Nothings as "cowardly conspir
ators" and "traitors," are silent as the grave
with regard to the bloodthirsty 'Jesuits, who.
while professing loyalty to this government,
are traitors at heart, and conspirators against
the rights and liberties of the American people.
Ohio Election
The approaching canvass for members of
Congress in - Ohio bids fair to be a most spirited
affair. Notwithstanding the enormous rnajnii
ties by which the Democrats have carried the
State in the last few years, the Cincinatti Ga
zette is inclined to believe that there is a clear
opposition makirity of some fifteen thousand,
divided between the Whig and Free Soil par
ties. in the present canvass these two have
united upon the same candidates, and the
main contest throughout the State is upon the
Nebraska question. In the present Congress 1
Ohio is represented in the House by seven
Whigs, twelve Democrats and two Free Soil.
ere, and the Gazette thinks that the chances are
in favor of every one of the districts being rep
resented by an anti-Administration member in
the next Congress.
The Democracy.
The great unterrifiecr; the party which is
"always rigid," have two State tickets ir. the
field in New York. What a band of brothers,
fighting for principles.; (five loves and two
small fishes.) . The fun of it is That the free
Boilers who coaxed soft headed Whigs to vote
for Van Buren in 1,848, now go` in for slavery
with the President. Always right says Gov.
Bigter: — Always for principle,
For whatsoever king shall reign
I'll be the Vicar of Bray Sir.
State Agricultural Exhibition
The groat cattle show of the State Agricul
tural Society will be held at Philadelpbia,com- .
mencing on the 26th of. this mpnth. It will
amply repay the trouble and expense of the
trip to every farmer who will attend. Every
thing in the way of improved stock, and useful
farming implements will be exhibited. Our
agricultural friends who desires recreation al
ter the summer's labor cannot spend a week
more pleasantly than in a visit to the city and
the Fair next week.
Are you Assessed?—ln order to vote it is nes
censer) , that strangers and newcomers Khould
be assessed in the district in which they have
taken up their residence at least ten days &fore
tlee election. Friends of Pollock, see to it that
you are "all right," and ready, without let or
hindrance to depot-ite your ballots on the second
Tuesday of October.
Pennsylvania Farm Journal —The September
Number of the Journal has been received.—
This publication, whicb4o the farmer, is a val.
uable assistant, is replete with information rel
ative to the best modes cultivating the soil.—
As education is indispensable to the scholar, or
health necessary to the laborer, so is this
Monthly of great value to the Agriculturists.—
No tiller of the soil who properly appreciates
his business, will neglect to become a sub ,
scriber to the Journal or some similar publics.
tion. l'ublished by J. M.. Meredith & Co.,
West Chester;Pa., at Of per year.
The People's Journal, a work which gives
general satisfaction wherever taken, continues
to maintain its reputation. The September num;
bee is on our table, being No. 5, of Vol. 2. Pub.
Belied by A. Beach, New York, at $1 per annum.
Irish Know Nothing Lodge.—ln reference to
the formation of a Know Nothing Lodge in NeW
York, by Protestant Irishmen the Pilot of last
week says :—.The Protestant liishlutre Orange
or Know Nothing lodges in all ,our large cities.
The rules, regulations of the K now Nothings
are:principatly - Made rip from those of the Orange
lodges." . •
Illinois —ln Col..llissell's District, Illinois, the
friends of Googlies and Nebraska *hive been
unable to make a nomination for Congress.—
The Convention refused to let a German del.
eget° be heard, and after various scenes of oon
fplion, the several manly delegations withdrew
one by one until the Couv,ention broke up.
Volunteer & Rotation Candidates.
The following gentlemen - Offer themselves
at the ensuing election, as Volnnteer and Rota
tion.9mdidates for the respective offices to be
filled in this county :
Assembly—limes S. Reese, Allentown.
pusselman, Carbon Co.
Prothonotary—Thomas C. Breinig, Up. Mac.
Recorder—Harrison Miller, Lower Alacungy.
Clerk—James %V. Mickley, ontli Whitehall.
Register—Samuel Coker, Catasauqua.
Commissioner—Samuel Sieger, N. Whitehall.
Poor Director—Solomon Kline, jr., Salisburg.
Auditor—Samuel J. Kistler, Heidelberg.
Trustres—Charles M. Runk, Allentown.
Reuben Reiss, do. -
(* -- Messrs. Joshua Hunt, jr., John H. Hel
frich and David Biery request us to state, that
they witbdr;w their names as candidates, and '
politely request their friends to join in with
them in eledting the Independent Volunteer
Candidates who offer themselves in to-days par
per to fill the respective officer.
Democratic Cminty Ticket.
The Democrats of Lehigh Connty on Satur.
day last, brought the following Ticket in nom
inaion
Congress—Samuel A. Bridges, Allentown.
Assembly—Herman Rupp, Upper Macungy.
Thomas Craig, jr., Carbon Co.
Prothonotary—F ( ran. E. Samuels, Allentown
Regizter—Joshua Stabler, Allentown.
' Clerk—Nathan Metzger, Allentown.
Recorder—Charles Gross, Allentown.
Commissioner—Jobe Erdman, N. Whitehall.
Poor Dircstor--Daniel Heilman,R Whitehall.
Auditor'-- . Charles Ritter, Hanover.
Trustees—James W. Wilson, Allentown.
Mifflin Hanntim, Allentown.
ft will be seen that the Democracy of Allen
town, have helped themselves, to All the fat
offices, and given the Democracy of thecoun
ty the lean ones. Since the nomination we
have heard that Charles Ritter, E,q., has sent
in his resignation, declining the honor confer.
red upon him. The office is said to be worth
something less than ten dollars a year.
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Canvas —Demo
cratic meetings have been held in Sullivan and
Tioga counties, at which resolutions were adop
ted declaring that they "will not support any
man for office who has not been openly and
unequivocally opposed to the repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise and. to the extension of sla
very into free territory,and who will not pledge
himself to use his whole influence for the re
enactment of said Compromise." This sounds
rather ominous for Guy. Bigler.
Wheat in California—The Union states that
since they commenced threshing on the ranch
of Messrs. Hutchinson and Green, on the Putah
Creek Yolo County, the Superintendent, Cap
tain Clary, measured ten acres, forty rods
square, hauled the wheat to the machine, '
threshed and weighed it. The weight was
forty thousand and four pounds, which at six
ty pounds to the bushel, gave sixty-six and
two-thirds bushels of wheat to the acre. This
is a larger yield per acre than we have ever
known taken ofl the same quantity of land.
It is a Fact.--That water let into the North
Branch Canal extension ran five miles up
the stream without stopping: We are so in
formed by a gentleman well acquainted with
the matter, who says the water Stood fourteen
'inches deep five miles above Buttermilk Falls
where the water entered, and the bottom of
tha Canal was dry below it.
The Democrat of Montrose, the North Branch
Democrat, and the Luzerne Union, all organs
of the party in power, condemn the manage,
mant of this great work, and still ask the De
mocracy of the. North to support the adminis
tration which has been so criminally negligent
of their interests. Can Luzerne be whipt into
the pike ? IVilkesbarrc
The Main Elation Ilea resulted in the
success of the fustunist pat y. This was a un
ion in favor of the "Know Nothings," the Maine
Law, and against the Nebraska bill. This
combination bas swept the field, beating both
the Whig and Democratic tickets. Morrill,
Democratic, the candidate of this party, is elec.
ted Governor. They have a large majority in
the Clouse of Representatives, and have elec
ted all the Congressman.
AA Artificial Wonder.— They have sunk an
Artesian well in St. Louis ,2,200 feet, and are
still boring. It is to get pure water for a sugar
refinery. At the depth of 700 feet a vein of salt
water was struck, and at 1,500 feet an' immense
vein of sulphur water burst forth, which has
been runninq ever : since its discovery in a large
stream from the mouth of the well.
This water is the same as that of the Blue Lick
Springs in Kentucky, and possesses a purity and
freshness of taste quite superior to that which
reaches us In barrels and casks. It is carried
by a large sewer leading to the river.
It seems too wasteful that such profuse quan.
tities of this celebrated water should be permit
ted to flow away, but the refinery needs the clear
unadulterated element, and it must lave if and
nothing else. Other medicinal waters Have been
discovered, we believe, but they have been of
little consequence.
Price of.Coal.—We understand that our coal
deileis have ~knocked under,"in other words
reduced their pricei somewhat, since our citi.
tens have begba to send to other phic'esfee their
supply of coal. This is what we expected; but
they have not put the prices down to the right
figure yet, ant! we therefore adviee opr' readers
to hold on a little longer, before they lay in their
velitter i 'e stock. 'the man who pays the prices
at which coal is sold it, present in this city,loses
the iotereit of hit money. The speculators—the
hatyies whose clutches ere ever on the poor—
are 9, monopoly who ought to be resisted. Coal
will be no higher in January thadit itiatthis moi
went. The best way, is'to keep.yosir money till
you want the. article, a nd tber, buy where you
can get it cheapest.
Want to See that Private Letter.
The Derks County Democratic Press, edited
by Col. Meyers, formerly NRepresentative in
the Legislature, speaks thus plainly about that
temperance letter of Gov. Bigler, that Rev. John
Chambers. and Dr. John Patrick are cariying
about in their breeches pockets. The Democra
cy of 'old Berks" don't want to be humbugged,
they are determined !hat the Governor shakile
fine his position unequivocally one way or the
the other. The Press 'says:
"The Governor's friends in this county have
ever considered him an opponent of a prtihtbito•
ry li. uor law. It is now claimed that 'he has
ma ' a confident of the Rev John Chambers, who
life of the prohibitory liquor law party,
and who declares himself a personal and a po
litical friend of Gov. Bigler. It would therefore
be allowed the Governor's friends to see it. We
can assure Gov. Bigler's friends in other pla
ces, that .th . ere are manypemocrats in Berks
county who wish to seethe letter before they ad.
trance fdribet, and who willS a Gov. Bigler
by his owb metits, and not b t the fanatic
Chambers wishes to say of his future acts and
intentions. Neither will they be misled by such
an editorial on behalf of Mr. Chambers as the
Gazytte put foyth. "They wish to know in plain
terms, whether the present incumbent is for or
against a prohibitory law."
Damage Committed by thelnseots.
• Judge Meigs remarked that this was a very
important subject for discussion. The span
worm and catapillar did damage to our crops to
the amount of one huodred million of dollars an.
nually. More damage is done by these insects
• to America than all that the combined armies
and navies of Europe. could from April to No
vember. The damage committed in France in
one year upon wheat, grapes, and potatoes,
by these insects, Is estimated as greater• then
that would pay fur Napoleon's campaign to Mose
cow. 'The judge considered that our intellect
should be employed to conquer this insect,—
Ile recommended the destruction of the insects
while in the egg.
Frofessor Mapes exhibited a diagram, by the
means of which he destroyed the caterpillar.--
lie had Tour tubes in which were inserted a cot.
ton wick, in a lamp. The flame'was light, and
did not burn the wood, but it was sufficient to
scorch the respiratory organs of the caterpillar
and destroyed it. Early in the morning and AP'
ternoon were the proper times to catch them—
This plan will completely root out caterp:llars
from the grape vine, if applied once in three
weeks. The Professor did not approve of gun.
powder, it might shake the caterpillar out, of the
nest, but it would not kill it. The best remedy
he considered for the peach worm, was to plant
it an inch higher than it was when it is taken out
of the nursery.
Mr. Warren staled that an acquaintance of his
in Burlington, Vermont, wrapped around the
foot of peach trees a black cloth, and the ins ects
have never been found to go over it. Its object
being to seek darkness, it goes under the cloth
and feeds, on the outer bark. The cloth is taken
off every week, and the worms killed.
The best variety of potatoes, and the best way
of cultivating them, was fixed on as the subject
for discussion at the next meeting. The club
then adjourned.
I The Month of l'idories.--On the 6th of September
1813, the United States brig Enterprise captor.
ed the British brig Boxer in forty-five minutes,
Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, 10th of Septem
ber, 11113, Chauncey's Victory on Lake o,ita
rio, 11th of September, 1813. Gen. Harrison
captured Malden on the 23.11 of September 1813.
The British brig Avon was sunk by the Linked
States sloop of war Wasp, on they Iti of Septera.
ber, 1814. Macdonough's Victory on ‘ Lake
Champlain, Ilth of September 1814. Rattle of
Plattsburg, 12th of September, 1812. Defence
of Baltimore, 12th and 13th of September, 1814.
Brown's third Victory, 17th of September has
been a brilliant month of victories to Uncle
Sam."
The New Dollar Coin.- 7 -The Secretary of the
Treasury his ordered the new gold dollar coin,
described at length, some time since, to be sub
stituted for the American gold dollar coin now
in circulation. The new coin has as large a
surface as the silver five cent piece. Orders
have been sent to have them struck off in all
the United dates Mints in which coining is
done. No more of the current told dollar coin
will be struck
.Naragation of the Ohlu River.—The New York
Herald, of Tuesday, his the following:
"At Pittsburg, on the 25th lost. , there were
fifteen inches of water in the Ohio, and falling.
At no time since the commencement of steam.
boat navigation on the western rivers has the
Ohio been entirely free of some description of
steam vessels above Cincinna t i, until the pres.
ent season. Navigation has been suspended
since the Mai of July, at which time the last boo t
passed the foot of Illannerhasset island, which
is about one handier! wiled below Wheeling.—
The bar at that point is now the greatest obstrpc.
tid'n in the river, and although a number of boats
from Cincinnati, bound to Pittsburg and Wheel
ingr ascended the river as Par as that island Sub'
sequent to ttie al:Are : date, they found , that there
was not sufficient water on the bar for them to
cross, and they were consequently compelled to
return with their freight. Navigation has thus
virtually been closed for a period of upwards of
six weeks. A number of dew low-water boats
were built this season, a t Pittibrirg and Wheel.
lag, to anph!kr place of the packets which
ihnh fir, have had no chance to display them
selves, and their 'owners have sustuined great
loss in consequence.''
A Sad Allernalive.—We learn from the Trum_
bull county (Ohio) Democrat, that in the,. I
parts of that county the farmers are killinspheir
cattle taking the'hides 011 sellingas much of the
carcass as they can, and throwing the rest away.
This is one of the sad iffsis' . 9f ihe
drooghtt-
The great scat-city of teed is elated as the occa.
sion of a ration to the above mode of relief, in
order to 'prevent the entirelosit of cattle' by star.
vation. ' • .
GLEANINGS.
*lames Wilson, eilitorof the Roanoke, (Va.)
Republican is dead. • .
E;i" Messrs. Walker and King are stumping
Louisiana, delivering addresses in relation to
the Pacific Railroad.
®"The youngest son of Thomas Stewart, of
Turban township, Juniata county, Pa., had his
left arm nearly torn off
.my being caught in a,
threshing machine.
lar II is thought potatoes will command four
and fire dollars per butte! next winter.
• Or Corn is selling in Gallatin, Tennessee, at
$2 90 a $3,10 per bushel.
Thise are hard times for newspapers.--
The Germantown Telegraph tacks of .redeLciag
its size.
lar The returns from Vermont show the suc
cess of the entire'Whig ticket — Governor, Ljent.
Gov. State Treasurer, three members of Can;
gress and both branches of the Legislature.
reThe Fort Wayne (1a.,) Times, says, that
corn in that legion looks unusually flourishing
and luxuriant , and, if the fall season does not
prove nofavorable, will be far above the average
Yield. •
Progiess of the Fires it' the Woods
All Maine seems to be on fire. The woods ear
burning in every quarterin the lowlands and
in the highlands--in the valleys, by the cleat : .
ings, and on the mountain sides and tops.
,The
papers bring new reports every mail. An im
mense amount of timber has already been de,.
stroyed there. and unless heavy rains are vouch.'
sated early, far more must be done. , Let not
those who are in need of a hemlock board, or a •
spruce clap board, however, go into spasms of
fear lest lumber will be increased in price bSr !
the fires. One would suppose that higher prices .
could hardly be made to stick to boards, shingles,
laths,oviumberof any sort. Owners Of the peat
forests that are yet uncut,—of thoston which so
many poor speculators were so sadl,)t sltick
twenty years ago,—could hardly 'fiaire the con•
science to hope for higher. Then, freights are
mortally dear. It costs about half as flinch to
get a load of stuff from Bangor or Brunswick
now, as the stuff itself cost in our yards six years
ago. The "times," we soviet, can hardly ad
vance it much more, before the spurred ingenu:
ity of men will devise some other material Co
supply its place and give lumber the go by. ;
But these fires, whose smoke hangs over all
the northeast —for our comfort be it said—do'
not most rage in districts where the timber stands
ready to be cut, drawn, and fed to the saws.—
They run through the young growth, and mostly'
over the "logging grounds," where large quanta...
ties of well dried branches and withered foliage
lays like tinder waiting only for a spark to kin
dle it into very hot fires. In the great * tracts or
large spruce and hard wood, from which the
immediate supplies to the market must come,
dry as it is, the fire would hardly run. The sett.'
lers alone, the valleys, while they shake their:
heads and see Sad omens in the thick, smoky air
yet do not fear to run fire over their new clearr
ings to consume the trees already felled, though
they outline the thickest grown forests. But 017'
an old encampment, or where logs were drawn
out last year, the woodman, when he shakes out'
the ashes of his pipe, kicks away the leaves, and
buries them an inch or two deep in damp soil,
He is shy of firing into the patridges, though'
they stand as domestic fowl in his path, and to'
almost every great bear story he annexes the in.'
evitable statement, that he hadn't his gun with
him," because "the woods are so dry,,,* One'
good smashing rain, that would set all the
springs to running and the rivers to dashing:
over their dry, stone banks, would make 'the
whole land laugh with the comfort it would Wirt
an d t h e mischief it would check.:—/3rotheilJuire
alkan.
The Indians—Their Lands and Treaties.
Mr. Robinson, Indian Agent, has issued a nom
:ice to the public, in which he says:
"The late treaty with the Delaware tribe of
Indians tong other things; provides 'thee
the P esident soon as the whole, or
any onion of the lands ceded by said treaty to
t e tilted States are surveyed lands for sate at
public auction, in such quantities as be max
deem proper, being governed in all respects in
conducting such sales by the laws of the United'
States respecting the sales of the public !ands..,
his farther provided by said treaty, that all the
moneys received by the sales of said lands, after
deducting the costs of surveying, managing, and
selling the same, shall be paid to said tribe. The
treaty' also provides that the provisions of the
net oI Congriss, approved 3d of March, one
thousand eight hiindred and seven, la relation tO
the lands ceded to the United States:shill,tilar
as applicable, be extended io die land's 'theleiti'
ceded. So it will be - at once seen that these kids'
can in no wise be subjected to preeinption or
hothestead laws, without a palpable violation tie
the treaty.
'ln View, therefore, of these facts, I hereby
forewent all iterson t s againsi locating ort settlhig
upon the lands ceded by said treaty le the Uni.,
add States, as by sr} doing they can only Involve
themselves in a complication of difficulties.'
The Delaware Indians are also moving in the
matter. They have published an advertisement
-14 which they say: . . . 1
'We, the Chiefs, head men add counsellors of
the Delaware tribe of Indians, dtl herniji , riiptotit
fully notify oar white brethren that all settles
ments'on the Ititidt ceded by the Delaware tribe'
of Indians to the United States, by treaty dated
at the city , of Washington , May a, DM, is in.
violation ef said treaty, and that we in no wise
have or will 'consent to such settlement, and it
presisted to by our white brethrenove shall Bp:
pea l to o ur great Father, the'Prishient of the
United States, for proteatintf.F " . •
Gathering 'of Catholita at Rome.—The Paris
Universe slates that d grand council of Roman ,
Catholle Bishop' ftoni all 'parts of the 'world is
to assemble at the end of nesiOetbber, tolellb•
erate on the question of the immaculate comeep,
lison'of the must Holy Virgin; cad finally to seto
tle what is the true dogma of the ROman Uhnitlf
on Mal point. The Universe says_thal . ail 4
Probable that the Bth of December of . this year
will wiines ' s this aecomplishment
snt wish. 7 "