li3M lO ItYigY Atgiottr ALLENTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1855. B. PALMER, Esq., N. W. corner cf Third and . Chestnnt streeti, - Philadelphia, is our authenticated Agent for receiving • advertise ments And subscriptions to the Lehigh Register.. , • ••ABBOIIITMLINT BY THE POSTSIASTEB CI:NERAL —Samuel R. Weber, Postmaster at llellertmw itk•plave of Martin Leidig, removed. Frozen to Death. 'We stated in our last that two Irishmen en gaged on the Railroad above the Allentown Von Works were missing, and that it was sup- Osed they were drowned. They were found a few days ago, at .Geisinger's Island, lying in their boat, frozen together. Although they were intoxicated when the unfortu - nate occurrence tdok - place, we are told that they Were hard working and industrious men, and had many Kends in the vicinity of the Iron Works. Fatal Actildeat. _ M.about eleven o'clock yesterday, Mr. Stmo ncot,!' RUPP, a highly respectable citizen of Wei sonburg township, this county, met with a shocking-accident at Klepinger's Coal Yard, in East Allentown. Ho was engaged in loading coal, a but in consequence of the coal being frozen, it had been undermined Loa great extent, and Mr. R. not aware of the danger entered too far, when it caved in and crushed him in such a shocking manner that lie expired a short time after the occurrence. He was about 40 years of ago, and leaves a wife and seven children, to mourn his loss. Tho Poor The newspapers of New York have given paipful accounts of the suffering among the poor in that city, which have been read with interest throughout the country, and in various places have led to efforts for their relief. In our sympa thy for the suffering abroad, however, we should not loose sight of the fact that there arc some at home needing our assistance. Those who have comfortable homes, and abundance of food and clothing, should look around and enquire into the condition of their poorer neighbors. All of us are liable to forget— . " Sore pierced by wintry winds, How many shrink into the sordid hut Of cheerless poverty." Copper Mine in Upper Milford A short time since a vein of Copper was dis covered some thirty feet below the surface of the earth, on the farm of Mr. SOLOMON Men- MAN, sr., in Upper Milford township, this county. Specimens were brought b - efore an experimenter's test, and were pronounced to be of the richest kind. Upon further investigation it was found to be very abundant in the locali ty where it had been found. Messrs. Solomon Bachman, jr. and Jesse Kline are now success fully working the mines. We have no doubt the quality of the copper will prove worthy of the county in whichlt is exhumed. EneOurtige Your County Papers. Seine people seem to forget that publishers of newspapers need as much suppor,l, as other mechanics, and too frequently neglect the jour nal which gives a voice to their own neighbor hood, for a city paper, which connting its sub scribers by thousands instead of hundreds, can afford to publish somewhat cheaper. In our town, as well as some of the small towns sur rounding us, clubs numbering from forty to fifty copies of Philadelphia weeklies arc re ceived. Why cannot the country papers be patronized? The answer is, they cost a Ittur more. Yes, but let them make up such clubs for the REctsrnit, paying regularly every year in advance, as they do for these, and we will undertake to give them a paper as cheap and as good in every respect. .With such a populous and intelligent neighborhood around us, we ought at least to count several hundred more names on our list. Think of this, friends ; re member that every thing you do for us, is done for yourself also, 'and those must therefore be good bargains, in which both parties are gainers.: Who will pnt his shoulder to the "Wheel and give •us lift du this matter ? We have no doubt that-with • aiztriffing effort on the part Of, the friends s of the.paper, a great increase•of sub gicriptions may be obtained. Extend our ciren; la • ,tion still. farther, and we will endeavor to .mnltgecour paphr 'all that can reasonably' be asked or desired. Our friends have' already• done something in the way of extending our circulation, and are still doing more. 'We arc aware that this requires time to see and eon verse wjth persons as opportunity offers. „.„, • . , illaohine for Quarrying Slaio. Slate - have heretofore "been all cut out in gunnies by hand labor. The worlcnien with picks cut grooves in the 'rock to the depth re quired, and then the slate comes elf in thin lay ers the size of the space• between the cut grooves, forming rectangular slabs. To super sede this slow method of quarrying slate, henry J. Brunner, of Nazereth, has invented a ma chine for which he has applied for a patent.— The cutters are operated so as to feed forward and cut out a groove in one direction, the desir ed length, and then it (tile machine) is turned, and the cutters made to cat a transverse groove, and thus proceed until the rock is so grooved that the space between the side and two end grooves or cut channels, forms a slab of the size desired for the slate, when the slate is fermi out,, and splits easily into as many sepa rate slabs as there have been horizontal layers Tom the surface to the depth the cutters have perforated. One of these machines has been in operation for some time, and has accomplished more than its inventor anticipated.• It is oper ated by hand, and with one man will cut out more slate in ono day'thau twelve men with picks by hand labor. 110IIBE AND SIGs PAINTING.If any of our friends havo any jobs in the above lino we refer them to the Card of Wit,max L. Youx. Evil Consequences of Free Trade. Our Yankee nation imported, in 1853, very nearly $268,000,000 worth Of goods. Of these $34,000,800 were for goods free of duty, and presumed to be pf a character that could not be produced at home. But how many millions re main thatwere paid for articles that American soil might have been the better for producing, and American hands are idle for the lack of labor on ? Why should not Americans have the privilege of growing such products as no country can surpaSs her in, and American hands have the job of moulding them to the shape of our wants ?—Why is this ? Because it is easier to trade than to work—to handle the yard -stick than the spade—the pen than the rake. If there is anything characteristic of our nation it is the •propensity to trade. To dig and plough, to sow and reap arc slow methods of making money ; yet the earth is the source of wealth, and the tilling the earth is the pro- 1 cess to obtain it. The farm or ti; dairy do not. make such quick and largo returns as the fac tory or the machine shop ; and who cares for health or moral purity when money can be made—without which there 'can be no show ? We shall never cease to be rt ii dependent and debtor nation till we are driven back to the soil as the treasure4touse of true national wealth. Let us have agricultural schools, and set all out- idle boys and youth to felling the forest, turning the furrow, putting in the seed, and gathering the fruits, and nations that now come to us as domineering creditors,. will come as de pendent customers. The enormous frauds which disgrace our lands—the insatiable desire of office, and the corruption which is so un blushingly acknowledged by those who hold it —the general laxity in the tone of moral senti ment, and the obligation of virtue, and the recklessness with which life and poverty are sacrificed, all have their source directly or re motely in the hot haste of men to be rich. We arc quite sure that to overcome the prevailing aversion to agricultural labor is a most im portant and philanthropic object, and that to this end schools for scientific and practical bus bandry should be numerous, cheap, and attrac tive to the young. Our New Sign. We have just placed over our windows a large new sign, which can be easily read with out spectacles. Such as arc anxious of enroll ing their names on our'subscription list will have but little difficulty in finding our office.— The painting was executed by our young towns man JAMES SIEGER, who', from the appearance of our sign, we should judge understands his business fully. Population ofPerinsylvitnia. According to the annual report of the Audi tor General, the number of taxable inhabitants in Pennsylvanin is 558,236. Taking the ratio of .5.1 of the population to every taxable, the-ag gregate number of persons in the State would thus be 3,070,268. This, if a correct estiniate, shows an astonishing increase in the last five years. That is not too high we are certain.— Indeed, we think that the ratio of six inhabi (lnas, to a taxable Would be more nearly cor rect, which would give the State a population of 3,3-16 ; 116. By this latter ratio the city of Philadelphia would have a population of 521,- 058 souls while by the former it would be 8-16,- 1.85, the total number of taxables in the city being SO,O-13. . - Business Notices• LOCIDIAN'S DAGUERREOTYPES.- 2 :-TIIC pictures executed at Lochnian's Gallery, fur truthful. ness and beauty of finish, arc unsurpassed by those of any establishment in this , or any other town in the United States, and they are furnish ed, too, at reasonable rates. New Tbaateo STotte.— ibtrx Roma has opened a finely assorted Segar and Tobacco establishment a few doors above our office. As these commodities have of late years, to some extent, taken rank among the necessaries, or, at least, indispensables of life, the public will no . ' doubt thank us for informing them where a prime article in this line can be found. WINDOW Busys.--Persons in want of new window-blinds, or having old ones to repair, are referred to ALEXANDER P. Mum's, in this Bo rough. His work is good and tasteful, and his pAces low. See advertisement in another column. " STANIIOPE BUILLEIGII:-THE JESUITS IN Orli Ifomrs. "—A Novel, by Helen Dhu.—This thril ling-work, published by STRINGER & TOWNSEND, 24.'2 Broadway, New York, will be ready for delivery in a few days. An eminent Protestapt divine says : I have read STANHOPE DERLEIGH, with un- • mixed admiration, and delight. It is not often that I can use this language in speaking of Works of Fiction ; but this book is a Fiction only in name—its truthfulneSs will speak for itself on every page, and almost at every period. I regard it—aside from its high literary merits as one of the most powerful works which Protestantism has prodticed, not excepting— all things considered—thy ablest treatises on this subject, which were published by the great Protestant Divines of England, after the period of the Lutheran Reformation. lam quite con fident that it will be greeted with enthuSiastic delight by all the Protestant clergy of America, and of the world, if they hold, with earnestness and zeal, the Faith once delivered to the Saints.' ' THE IRON TRAM:I.—The growth of the iron trade and manufacture of the United States, during the last forty years, has been enormous. In 1816 there were 1,53 furnaces, producing 54,000 tons of pig iron ; in 1845 there were 5.10 blast furnaces, averaging 900 tons each, an• nually, yielding 486,000 tons ; and 950 bloom cries, forges, rolling and splitting mills, yield ing of bar hoops, 291,600 tons,—and of blooms, castings, machinery and stove plates, 151,500 tons, at the value of $33,040,500. In 1853 the rapid increase in this class, of manu facture was such as to yield much more than a million tons of pig iron. Narrow Escape An interesting girl, aged 12 years, residing in Baltimore, whilst ]au ping and talking with her friends, - suddenliviell back with spasmodic coughing and suffocative breathing. She Was observed a moment before to have something in her mouth ; but they could not tell what it was, ineither conld. it be found. She soon becanie ex hausted in. struggling for breath, sunk rapidly, and seemed to be in the agonies of death. A physician was called, in, and he at once found that whatever she had' swallowAl, had gone into the air pas Sages and had passed below the rim, glottides, (an opening through which the air passes in and out ofthe lungs,)and that no earth ly uncaps could save her life but a surgical op eration.. TracheCtomy was promptly perform ed, and with perfect success. As soon as four o f the rings of the windpipe divided, the offend ing substance, a gilt button with on eyo to i t,flew through the aperture with considerable force. The wound was dressed, and she is rapidly re covering CALIFORNM—The California newspaars are fond of portraying the wonders of the young State of California, and of holding up to the ad miratiOn of their readers Iv2r genial climate and her fertile soil. And indeed they have reason to be proud of their State, for California is cer tainly in many respects one of the most remark able countries in the world. AS far to the northward as the city of San Franciser, cotton of excellent quality has been raised fur four suc cessive seasons, and in sufficient quantity to demonstrate the fact that the soil and climate are well adapted to its culture. Tobacco of a quality equal to the best Virginia has been raised in Sonora, and there is no doubt that rice world flourish admirably upon the lands borderhl, the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. The nutmeg grows wild upon the northern hills, and the orange anti fig tree flour ish in the southern part of the State. All the fruits anti vegetables peculiar to the temperate zone may be found in California, and ninny of the tropical products. The California papers quote the comparison of Frcmcnt- and call their State . the " Italy of the West," and one of them, the " Alta California," goes even further than this and declares in abet that California is more truly Italian than Italy itself. It says that in European Italy the winter skies arc contin ually overcast and the weather is raw ; where as in California " we have truly an Italian cli mate, from which the real lover of Italian skies will not wish to wander far nor linger long away."—[Boston Journal. LIME WATER POR BaEAn.—Liebig, the German chemist, having made many experiments, re commends the making of wheat and rye bread, by using a pint of lime water to live pounds of flour. He urges the abandonment of the use of saleralus in the raising of bread, and to sub stitute therefor' pure baker's yeast and lime water. ' CreaM of tartar and carbonate of soda arc fltr inferior to common yeast for making wholesome bread,' says the &kW* American. The lime water is prepared by stirring sonic quick lime in cold water, then after allowing the sediment to settle: draw it off, and put it in bottles for use. No care is required about the quantity of lime, as the water will imbibepidy a certain quantity. HOGS KILLED AT TUE WEST.—The number o hogs killed at Cincinnati this season, up to the close oflast week, was 274,695, against 326,341 for the same time last year. The number killed at Louisville is 267,314. At Madison, Indiana, the receipts arc 70,000 hogs, which is an excess over last 'season. At Lafayette, Indiana, up wards of 20,000 by one house have been killed, which is about 4,000 mice' than were killed by the same house during the *le of last season. It is ~estimated that 18,000 hogs will be slaughtered at Keokuk this saason, against 0,000 last year. At• ,Quincy, Illinois, it is thought an excess of at least 8,000 to 10,000 will be obtained over last season's operations. MOTHERS MADE THANKFUL. —The Local Ed itor of the Buffalo Republic has made himsel one of the immortals by the publication of a discovery which he has recently made, of great importance to mothers. It is an infallible means of keeping babies, from two to ten months old, perfectly quiet for hours. The nao das operandi is as follows : "As soon as the squaller awakes, set it up, propped by pillows if it cannot aft alone, and smear its fingers with thick molasses. Then put half a dozen feathers into his hands, and the young one will sit and pick the-feathers, from ono hand to the other, until it drops to sleep. As soon as it wakes, more molasses and more feathers, and :in the place of nerve-astounding yells, there will be silence and enjoyment unspeakable ! • . FLOUR PROM BROOM Cons.—Tho Pittsburg (Pa.) Union says that in has been presented bj Mr. James Gardner, of that city, with a speci- men of corn broom flour, which is decidedly superior to the best buckwheat it has ever had for cakes. The way to make it up is to bake it a little longer than buckwheat ; mix the dough with a little soda, and you will have a. more delightful cake than can be mado from buck wheat. Lank= CLkuntazzo.The Delaware 'States man and Blue Ben's Chicken is out against the infamous lottery system of that State, which few Delaware papers have ever had the independence to denounce as it deserves: An other application has been made . to the Legis lature of the State for a lottery grant of nine years, for which the petitioners offer $90,000 ! This shows how profitable this kind of gamb- ling must be to those engaged in it, as wellas the nature of the influence exerted over the Ligis lature to keep up its legal vitality. Oh, Dela- ware ! where is thy shame ? I:al'A teaspoonful of table salt - dr.:olvcd in three pails of water, will make it soft enough 'for all purposes. Arrest of Counterfeiter.. . A few days ago, two men, named Leonard VanEkfirden and Erastus Eggleston, from Wyo ming' cOunty, Pa., passed upon Mr. L. Hirsh, a mcrchant,at Danville,Pa., a $5O counterfeit bill, purporting to be of the Wilmington and Bran dywine Bank issue, which had been altered by the pasting Operation from a $5. These two men immediately took the cars for Philadelphia. A telegraphic despatch was sent to the Mayor's office in this city, and the fugitives were arrest ed in the Reading cars by high constable Franklin and, officer Wm. Esher, the same evening. ' Some $5OO or $OOO in counterfeit money, consisting of old and new issues pur porting to be'genuine bills of various banks and of different denominations, together with small amount of spurious half-dollars and coun terfeit $1 and $3 gold pieces were found in their possession. The prisoners made affidavit that they had purchased spurious money near Muncy .Dam, in Lycoming county, of John Mangos, one of the most notorious and dangerous counterfeiters in Pennsylvania. On Friday. morning, High Constables Franklin and Blackburn, with spe cial officer Ellis, were sent in search of Menges. At a very late hour that night they made a descent upon his house and searched the pre' raises, but found nothing except heavily loaded guns and sonic of the members of the family. The officers continued the pursuit for him, and at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning captured him at the house of Abram Hause, in Limestone, in Montour county, sonic ten miles distant - from Manges' residence. They [build him in a second story room, in which there were six other men. The officers entered the room in their stocking' feet, when a demonstration of resistance was made as soon as the party was awakened. The revolvers of the officers, libwever, were exhibi ted, and Menges was taken out of bed and manacled before he was allowed to dress himself The officers then Placed him in the sleigh which conveyed them, and took him to Danville, and in the evening brought him to the city. Ile was committed by Ald. Kenney fur a further hearing, in default of $5OOO bail. Tinder the pillow of Manges the officers 'bum; a large pocket book, containing counterfeit notes, Am ones to fifties in denomination, on dilferent Banks, amounting to several hundred :dollars. Among the counterfeits is one note of $.50, altered from a tss, of the issue of the Bank of Penn Township, by the pasting process. They also found several packages containing _ . spurious gold coin, of the denominations of $2O. $1 and $2 50. The pocket hook also contained numerous papers, showing the operations with different parties for counterfia money, and a memorandum showing the transaction between Manges and Vangarden and Eggleston, above named. These two men are now in prison as fugitives from,Nontour county. For five years past the authorities of this city and of the in terior counties of the State have been unsuc• cessfully endeavoring to secure him. The last attempt prior to his arrest was made by a party of Philadelphia officers, in 1832, and notwith- standing their - .arrangement were perfect, he adroitly eluded them by Concealing himself in the second story of his kitchen, behreen the floor boards and the lathing of the ceiling. In searching the house at that time, the otliccr,,: stepped over ltim several times.- Ledger, Fib. 5.. A COSTLY CAIIIIIAGS POR CALIFORNIA.-2 elegant carriage (says a New York paper) has just been made by James Brewster 8 Sons fur Mackin & Davis, of San Francisco, at a cost of $2,500. The interior is liued.with rich canary cblored silk, and spring cushions ; and the iron work, which is very elaborate, is heaVily plated with silver. The axles (Coling's patent) cost 70 ; the lamps about *BO ; and the harness, which corresponds in elegance with the rest of the establishment,' :F,'.-100. The latter is cu riously wrought with porcupine quills, by an exiled Hungarian. The cost of the plating alone is about .5500. A FREAK OF NATURE IN VIRGINIA.—V(e saw yesterday, says the Norfolk Herald, Jan. 21, an instance of a curious freak of nature in a young cat, about half grown, having no appearance of hair on any part of its skin, an opossom's tail, and hind quarters similar to those of a rabbit.— The skin on the upper part of the body and the head is of a mouse color, and thdt on the belly and legs of a pale red. The cat which bore it had four other complete kittens at the same hour. • • SALERATCS.-A writer in the Boston Journa thinks that of the three hundred thou Saud child ren in this country who die under ten years of age, at least one hundred thousand might sur vive, but for the effects of saleratus. He re lates a curious story of a sickneSs in a board ing house at Williamstowni. Mass., caused by eating biscuitS, puddings, &c., full of saleratus. Out of fifteen boarders thirteen were taken sick, and were confined a long time, two of them died, another barely escaped death, and the others recovered after severe sickness." WHEAT on LAST YEAR.—The Winchester Virginian states that, from' an estimate made with some care, it would appear thq the millers of Frederick county, Virginia, have now on hand, or expect to have delivered when they are ready to receive it, not less than 130,000 bushels of wheat from the crop of last year. This is a larger stock than usualfor this period of the year, and is attributable to the low condition of the milling streams. IMPORTANT DOMESTIC LAW.-A bill is before the New York Senate to authorize such persons or societies as are or may be authorized to bind out by indenture Tiny child to be apprentice, clerk, or servant—to bind such child as a child by adoption, instead of apprentice or servant, and to change its name, and such child shall thereupon be entitled to the same rights and subject to the same duties, iu respect to its new parents, as if it were their •natural rtgigtatiut On the 2Gth Mr—FRY read in place a bill to withdraw certain papers relative to the Allen town Bank, which was granted. On the 27th Mr. FRY from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill relative to tax on bank stocks. On the 29th on motion of Mr. FRY the Senate proceeded to the emisideration of bill No. S 2, entitled an 'act supplementary to tLo act incor porating the Easton water company. On the 31st Mr. FRY read a bill in place to reimburse to the Eastim Bank certain moneys paid to the Commonwealth. On the Ist of I•'cb. Mr. FRY presented two petitions from citizens of Lehigh county for the incorporation of a bank nt Allentown. Mr. CRESWELL a petition from citizens o Lehigh county for a batik at Allentown. Mr. JAMISON a petition front citizens o Lehigh county for a bank at Allentown. Mr. SKINNER, (Committee on Railroads,) a supplement to the act incorporating the Al. lentown railroad company. Mr. FRY read in place a supplement,to the act incorporating the Thomas iron company. A at.t num COUPLEI IN Tuounr.m.--A boy named ewiS Mount, sixteen years of age, was arrest t i o n Monday afternoon, for drunkenitess. The same boy has been before Alderman Izard, on three occasions, for thrwing stones in the street, &c., and as been hitherto discharged with a reprimand. On Monday the Alderman sent the boy to the House of Refuge, thinking the discipline of that Institution 'Would prove of advantage to him. 4 After the committal, a girl of fifteen called at the ofli• e of the magis trate and claimed Mount as her husband ; alleging that she was married to him eight months since. The Alderman referred the ven erable matron to the Managers of the House Re fuge.—Philudelphia Inquirer. . ._ STARVED TO DEATIL—The Geneva Gazette mentions the death of a Mr. Julm Hobson, of that town, and adds as the cause of his desease, that it was a stoppage between the stomach and the bowel:4, that rendered futile any effort to retain nourishment or medicine. The mo, ment after either rwas administered it was thrown up. And in this condition the lamen ted man lingered along for four weeks—till lie actually starved to death ! It was a melan choly fate for a man who was otherwise in sound health, and in the possession of every other faculty, physical and mental. TfIE POULTRY TRADE 8F NEW JERSEV.—The Salem Stimdard man counted thirty-five wag ons loaded with Poultry. one morning in that village, on their way to the railroad. They be longed to James T. Waddington. Mr. Rushing had five tons at the same time. The editor of the West Jerseyman says . the Camden and An:- boy Railroad hal - e taken upward of one hun dred tons in one day to New York. Before the holidays, the regular business was from twen ty to fifty tons a day. A SIiECIMEN FOR SHOW.—We learn from a friend that, there is living, near Bridgton, in this State, a bouncing boy, aged about two years and ten months. and weighs 85 pounds. When 5 months old be weighed 17 lbs., and at 12 months 50 lbs. His parents names are Cornell—the father Locke Cornell— who arc medium-sized. persons. The child's name isTrancis Marion Cornell, and is repre sented to be healthy and noble !oohing, and un commonly intelligent fbr his age.—Jcrscy City &wind, January 2tl. —Philadelp BRITISH FARMS.- The census taken in ISSI discloses the following facts in regard to the number and size of farm-holdings in Great Bri tain. It appears that there are 190,573 farms under 100 acres each ; 52,912 farms over 100 acres each ; 20,003 farms over 200 acres each ; 9,031 farms over 300 acres each ; 4,063 farms over 400 acres each ; 2,248 farms over 500 acres each ; 2,819 farms over GOO acres,Cach; 1,131 farms over 1,000 acres each. . FIRE AND Loss OF' LIFE.-110.1ThrriSbUrg Herald has been informed that do Saturday night the house 'of John Crum; near .Lingles town, Dauphin co., was destroyed by fire, and that the owner perished in the flames: The general supposition is that Mr. Crum was kill.' etl' fur his money, and the house fired by the murderer. Mr. Cruet's daughter was away from home on Saturday night, and there was no one else in the house. FINE STEEM—Ono of the largest, if not the largest, steers ever fed in Chester county, was sold by Mr. Stapleton, of Willistown, Choker co., last week. Ile is estimated to weigh 3500 pounds, live weight. lie was bought by Mr. Abraham It. Paul, victualler, in Philadelphia, and with a two year old calf, brought the sum of one thousand doldirs: SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—Mr. John Lentz was shot in Charleston, Kanawha county, Va., re cently, in the following singular manner.: On going to bed he hung his coat—in the pocket 01 of which was a loaded revolver—on the bed post. The coat fell down, and the concussion caused the pistol to go off, lodging a ball in his foot near the heel. GREAT PEDESTRIAN FEAT.-TllO extraordina ry feat of walking during one hundred and two consecutive hours, has been performed in Cali fornia by a man named Jas. Peeler. lie com menced walking at four . tlijnutes past three P. M., December 13th, and stopped at four min utes♦past 9P. M., December 17th. Ills pulse, it is stated, varied but little throughout the time of. Walking ; his limbs did not swell, nor his feet blister. No severity of any kind was necessary to keep him wakeful. . co-wrIAT A Cm.uArn.—Peas and other vege tables arc budding and blossoming in the open air in Florida. SENATE Our ebip 3a d. rpThe fraternity of fools may be divided into two classes—those who know they are fools, and those who don't.. The latter class includes those superanuated fogies who can descant for a week . upon the germinating properties of the skunk-cabbage, when they would bo puz zled to define' what relationship an aunt bears to a grand-mother. Young men on single bed stead salaries, who take on the double untensil without pecuniary increase, are also of this class.—Strange, ain't it, that a man Rill go off into all kinds of foolishness because a snub nosed girl declines roosting on the same .polo with him ? Well, it is. 117-Tv uss beep calculated that the cost or washing linen that might just as well be worn two days longer, amounts to enough in this country, to more than defray the expenses of the American Board of Foreign Missions ! The expenses of buttons warn on the backs of our coats where they are of no earthly use, is cc - Inel to the suPport of all our orphan asy lums !. The value of tails to dress coats, (of no value in reality, for warmth or convenience,) is actually greater than the cost of our excellent system of common schools ! 17 - /- It is said to have been Yudisfaciarily de. monstrated that every time 4 wife scads her kusband, she adds a new wrinkle to her face! Tt is thought that the announcement of this fact will have a most salutary effect, especially as it is understood that every time a wife smiles on her husband it will remove one of the old wrinkles ! rci - There is nothing which contributes more to • making our undertakings the takings of time and opportunities ; for time carries with ft the seasons and opportunities of business. Tryon let them slip, all your designs are rendered unsuccessful ; but if they be rightly taken, and followed with diligence, you • seldom mi::s of your purpose. ri - On Sunday the 15th tilt., there was a balloon ascension at New Orleans, which was witnessed, it is stated, by over 10,000 ladies and gentlemen. On the same day, they had a great, horse race, which was attended by a large number of males and females. [l7 The prohibitory liquor bill has passed the Assembly of New Jersey, by a vote of 35 to 22, three members being absent. It has yet to be acted on in the Senate, and if successful there, will be submitted to the people in October next. Cl 7 - I cannot bear children,' said Mrs. Prim. Mrs. I'artington looked over her spectacles mildly before she replied— perhaps if you could you would like them better.' Fj'A dandy, while being measured for a pair of boots, observed, " Naketheni cover the calf." " Heavens!" exclaimed the astonished artist, surveying his customer from head to foot. " I have not leather enough !" .D . 7:-" We have the most religious hens," said a little girl, that ever you saw. They never" lrink the last drop of water, without looking up to the sky between every swallow—l suppose to thank God. lam sure such hens are an ex,. unple to us. all." 7.17 'There is a maiden lady in this town who is so extremely nice in her notions of female modesty, that she turned mfber washerwoman because she put her clothes in the same tub with those cf a young man ! [alt is reported, says a Boston paper, that a lady in this city has spent, during the year, 1851, at a lace embroidery store, the enormous sum of 82.000, and that several have each Con tracted bills at the dry goods stores varying from ,5000 to e6OOO. ia - One Irish woman in N. Y. City who had been regularly supplied with a large pailful of soup for her children at home, was followed, last week, and seen to give the whole of it to her pig. Iler next call for soup was in vain. 17 - Weak doses of wash-boards are now re commended by physicians for ladies, who com plain of dyspepsia. Young men troubled in the same way may be cured by- a strong prepara tion of wood saw. 1 - 7- - A hog is on exhibition at Buffalo measur ing, it is said, 3 feet 10 inches in heighth, 7 feet 10 inches around, 11 feet in length, and weigh ing 1469 pounds. CAA negro being caught stealing from a henroost, excused himself by saying, " Dat ho only come day to see if de cbiekensi.sleep wid der eyes open." (0- Wedlock without love is like a feast of dishes—a mere show and deception. We would sooner wed an almshouse than a female minds a heart. Well, wo would. • Di"' Sal,' said ono girl to another, ' lam no glad I have no beau, now.' Why so?' asked the other. Oh, cause, I can eat ILI man? onions as I please. one of the back towns of Massachun. setts: a poll parrot was lately sent to jail, rote using " wicked and profanke language." phi beats the Maine law out of sight. [allte Lcgislaturo of Illinois has a bill• by, fore it, requiring all railroads to be fenced in., It has passed one House, and it is believed will pass the other. • Ca - Marry not • the man who thinks . hiinself one of the superior of creation, for that nugk's, brains lie too much in the back of the head. El'Sornebody says a wife should be like roast lamb—tender and nicely dressed. Somebody else wickedly adds—' and without sauce.' 11 - The engine " Hamilton Davis," with six cars attached, ran fourteen miles in eleven min- Wes, on the N. Y. Central Railroad. 11:70ur prayers and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well—while one saccade, tha Ether descends. [along words, like long dresses, frequent y hide something wrong about the under', .tanding. [a - Several largo manufacturing establish-. nents of Pittsburg will go into full operation his week. Joyful tidings to the laborer,
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