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ALLENTOWN, PA.
WED l AY, FEBRUARY 28, 1855
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etsEs., N. W. corner of
Third and Chestnut PALM st ER re, q Philadelphia, is our
authenticated Agent for receiving advertise
nri3ntliansl subscriptions to the Lelugh Register.
Ilaqauss S. Rams, Esq., of our State Legis
lature, s will please accept our thanks for valua•
blo documents.
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Elootion for United States Senator
By 7'ELEGRAPII!
Exclusively for the Register!
Thalmann°, Feb. 27, 4 o'clock, P. M.
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• Three ballots were had for United States
Senator. The following is the result:
First. Second. Third.
Cameron, —' 55 54 55
13uokalew, 23 23 23
Therebeing noprospect of an election, the bal
loting was suspended, and on motion, the elec
tion was postponed until the Ist of October,
by a vote of 66 yeas, nays•6s.
Election for Organist.
An election for organist was held in tho
German Reformed Church on Sunday last.—
The result was as.follows :
Faust, - - ... - - - 08
Stemmer, GO
Menninger, - - - - 54
. Mr. FAUST entered upon his duties in the
evening. Ile is an excellent musician, and has
aii 'exceeding good voice.
Election in Saucon.
An election was held at the public house of
DANIEL COOPER, in Coopersburg„ on Thursday
last, to determine upon the question of chang
ing the place of .holding the general, special
and township elections of Saucon, from the
public house of DANIEL COOPER, in Coopers
burg, to the public house of JAMES WILT, at
Centre Valley. The result was as follows :
For Centre Valley, - - 248
For Coopersburg, - - - 200
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Tho election was warmly contested, the 8
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being 36 more votes polled than at tho election
last fall.
The Exhibition
On Friday evening last, the Odd Fellows'
Hall was crowded to hear the musical and rhe
torical entertainment given by the scholars of
the Allentown Academy. We were not only
surprised, but highly delighted, at this palpa
ble evidence of an, awakened interest in the
great cause of education.. It must have been
not only cheering to the friends of this cause, to
behold that interest which in this .place has so
long lain comparatively dormant, so evidently
aroused, but gratifying to Mr. Gregory and his
able assistants, to behold the Hall filled to its
utmost extension, to witness and cheer on his
charges in their noble competition for the
prizes, and not only that, but it must have
been encouraging to those youths who were
gallantly vieing each with the other for the
victor's palm, to have their youthful efforts not
only appreciated, but highly complimented.—
We hope they will continue on in this good
work, and stop not, nor stay, until they have
reached the goal. The committee appointed by
the scholars for the distribution of the six
prizes to be awarded fur t h e six best declama
tions, had no little difficulty in deciding who
were most worthy, as all displayed such a
praiseworthy declamatory 'talent. To those
young gentlemen who were not fortunate
enough to obtain a prize, we will say,
' To thoSe who will, there is no such word as fai
To enliven the entertainment, (as though that
Were necessary,) the young ladies of the Acad
emy graciously added their 'mite, in the way of
musical treats, such as have been rarely heard
in this place. We were surprised at the
amount of musical talent evinced by the young
. ladies. It would be bootless to attempt to
name one, who more than another, was de
serving of commendation. It was very evident
to us, that the young ladies individually, and
the whole school collectively, must have been in
skillful hands, and under constant training
to have performed as they did. The. Songs,
Duetts and Chotusses were really beautifully
executed.
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Thomas Iron Company.
At the regular annual Election for Directors
of the T(iomas Iron Company for the ensuing
year, hail , ak.Eastcn, on the 6th fast., the fob
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owing gentlemen were elected : Peter Michler,
phraim Marsh, William 11. Malcott, John
rake, R. S. Chidsey, John Brown, and C. A.
ucbenbach. At a subsequent meeting of the
Board; the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year : C. A. Luckenbach, Presi
dent, John T. Knight, Treasurer, C. P. Ran
dolph, Secretary.
A Large Egg.
We'were shown an egg on Monday kit
that for size can not easily be beaten. It was
7-1 inches in ciroumference from point to point,
and 6 inches around its middle. This mon
ster was the product of a," Shanghai" fowl on
the farm of Mr. PALM BALLIET, ofNorth White
hall. We venture to say that few eggs of such
size are laid. If there is anything that can
surpass it, we should like to hear of it.
The Catasanryun Qlft /ilnterprlee.
Hitherto we have forborne all mention of this
matter from various motives. The time inter
veiling between the period when we first pre
sented ourselves before the readers of the RE.
oisnn as its editors, and the arrest of the par-
MEI
short, and the new and important du les ..
volving on us so arduous, that we had no ti
to present to our readers our views on this su
ject. At a later period we abstained, becaust
(though we heartily desired to see these me
punished, if they could be constitutionally,) u
did not wish to add one iota to the outside i
fluence which might be brought to bear upo.. :
them at their'trials. Now these reasons are a
an end. Two of the parties concerned have ha
their trials, and by a Jury :of their compeer's
have been convicted, and we feel it to be a duty
which we owe to our subscribers and ourselves
to express our opinions of this case. We must
confess at the time when we took upon our.
selves to cater to the minds 'of our friends, we
were surprised to find this Panoramti or Gift
Enterprise mania, like a fatal mrelstroorn, draw
ing within its whirling vortex, old and yonn
male and female t persons of all classes and st.
lions in society ;. and we then prayed it.inig
have somn.untimely end, else notbing but tit
wrecks of the hopes, fortunes and characters .
most of those Who, mayhap blindly entered i
would be left fighting on the surface.
of the horse Shouldle punished for carrying on.
a Lottery for the dispoial of his horse by
chance.' All concerned in this Catasauqua
swindle shoulil be severely dealt with. The
question to us, then is, not so much why, as
how you may punish them without violating
common sense. It would be clearly wrong to
indict a man for stealing and find a verdict
against him for murder.
When felony and murder met with the same
punishment at the hands of the law, it would
evidently be a /violation of common sense to
convict and , punish a man for murder, when
the indictment was laid for felony, though both
crimes were equally severely dealt with. Now
'this is the case with Frederick and Gross.—
They deserve to be punished; and yet, if they
can not be punished legally, why, rather let
them go unwhipt of justice, than violate those
rights .(the right to know the offence charged,
so the criminal may know how to make his de
fence,) which are inalienable to, and should be
held sacred by us all. •
Lotteries, like gambling, has a tendency to
influence the minds of those who enter into with
visions of ease and affluence,—pleasant fanta
sies which are never to be realized ; yet, it is
far more dangerous than gambling, as it draws
into its vortex thousands who would never
dream of entering a gambling hell, and still
bearing within its enticing embrace al! that
vitiating excitement attendant to gambling in
its darkest phases ; and like gambling, it often,
alas ! too often, leads to poverty or premature
death. Lotteries are far more dangerous than
gambling, from the fact of their being more in
sidious in their workings, yet, working to the
same fearful end,--the deprivation by imper
ceptible degrees of all moral principle and feel
ing of those who have any thing to do with
ihein. It is less alarming to consciences that
have not entirely lost all sense of moral propri
ety and decorum, and this perception of impro
priety every day grows less, until, like the bird
charmed by the serpent, it is eventually de
stroyed. Many a heart-broken mother—many
an old man bowed to the earth with sorrow
many a forsaken wife, and many hundreds of
children dependant on the cold charity of the
world, Or worse, turned thieves, can claim as
the root of all their evils the system of Lottery
gambling.
We here again repeat, we think it is well this
scheme has ended as it did ; for, it is a well
known fact that success in lotteries is far more
dangerous, far more fatal than failure.
The gambler, by success grown bold,
Gambles alike with young and old.
When persons aro infatuated (as many cer
tainly were when they bought tickets in this
Catasauqua concern,) by the prospects of sud
den and vast wealth, there is no use to reason
with them about the improbability of success ;
but, should they be successful, that avarice
which has been aroused, that spirit.of infatua-
Lion (we can call it nothing else,) will carry
them on and on, down, down the frightful
abyss till nothing is left but the shattered re
mains of fond chimeras now all darkened, and
a blasted reputation. But should they meet
with disappointment', at the onset, they would
scarce try again when they have their eyes
opened to the ninny means by which they may
be swindled of their money.
Rarely indeed do we hear of any person
drawing a prize from * any Lottery, and, still
more rarely do wo find any person who in the
end has derived any pecuniary benefit from the
prizes they may have drawn. A case might
be cited in this County, where a man who had
a good farm, and was considered well off, drew
a prize ; .well what was the result? why, he
gambled on, and on, until now he is not worth
a dollar ; broken in health and fortune: . ➢Zany
cases of a sham' nature might be cited did \ye
think necessary to do so.
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It does seem strange to us that this Pano
rama was considered no violation of law as
long as. there was a prospect of . gain from it,
but, the very moment those prospects had fled,
the eyes of all were opened to the enormity of
the crime, and those very persons who we
foremost in the ranks of the a' -
of Frederick &
prnionment for a period, not to eiceed six
months. This being the only count remaining,
the prisoner conk; not be both fined and im
prisoned. His Honor taking into consideration
the greater benefit which would accrue to the
County from a heavy fine to be paid into our
County Treasury than from an imprisonment
without a fine, passed upon William Gross the
sentence of the Court, which was, that he
should be fined $3,000 and costs, and stand
committed until paid. Wright, Brown and
Marx, for defence.
SAME DAT
Commonwealth vs. Nathan Frederick.—The
motion of counsel for defence, Brown, Runk and
Longnecker, for arrest of sentence, was heard
by the Court. The indictment against Fred
erick contained. twenty-one counts. Of these
all but ono were ruled out by the Court for in
formality or want of venue. This cotipt-byt
Court was held good, but it also was4tvindict
rnent under the Act of 1833. One of the
counsel for defence, (Longnecker) argued that
as Lotteries had been in existence, and Lottery
tickets sold in this county under the very noses
of the guardians of the law, and had in fact
been winked at by the law, almost .since the
passage of the act of 1833, it would be unjust
to sentence this man now ; if others had corn- i
mitted the same crime, if crime it was, and not
been punished, so should not ho. His Honor
said he was sorry to hear the counsel plead the
frequency of this crime, in extenuation of the
acts of the defendant. If this violation of the
Act of Assembly was so frequent, it was now
time to put a stop to it by making an example.
His Honor then sentenced Nathan Frederick to
pay a fine of $6,000 and costs, and stand com
mitted until paid. Both defendants are now
in the County prison..
The COII2IIIOII Schools of Pennsylvania.
From the Annual Report of A..* Black,
Esq., the Superintendent of the Coinmon
Schools of Pennsylvania, we compile the follow
ing facts. They refer to the school year which
terminated June 1, 1854, being the date of the
last official recapitulation:
Whole number of School Districts,
Do. of Schools,
Do. of Male Teachers,
Do. of Female,
Average Salaries of Male Teachers per
month,
Average Salaries of Females,
Male Scholars,
Female Scholars,
Learning German,
Average number of Scholars in each
School,
Cost of teaching each Scholar per
month,
43c
Whole number of Scholars in 1835, '32,544
Whole number of Scholars in 1853, 474,555
We present to our readers an exhibit of the
schools in Lehigh county, under the old system
of '53, and under the new system of '54 :
1853. 1854.
Whole number of Districts, 17 17
Whole number of Schools, 122 161
Average number • of months
taught, 5 42
Number of Male Teachers, 120 150
Do Female do le 12 11
Average Salaries, 20 00 22 87;
No. of Male Scholars, 4,021 5.175
No. Female do 2.980 3,985
Total number of Scholars, 7,001 9,160
Number learning German, 2,086 1,964
Average number of Scholars
in each School,
Cost of teaching each scholar
per month,
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Rail Road Meeting.
On Monday evening, Feb. 19th, the friends of
the Norristown and Allentown Roil Road held a
meeting in the Court House in the Borough of
Norristown. The meeting was organized by
choosing the following officers :
President.—Zion. David Krause.
Vice Presidents.—John Elliot, Benjamin Hill,
Thomas Saurman, Isaac Roberts, Cadwallader
Evans, Nathan Rambo, Abraham Markley,
William F. Reed, Charles Hillegas.
Secretaries.—Wasbington Richßrj
W. Rogers, E. B,
on, a committee. toidmft
essiwe of the sense of the meet
d the following :
Norristown and Allentown
many is organized under a
t liberal grants and privileges ;
aid Company have procured a
solo of the proposed road, be
'stown and ending at Allen
e and experienced engineer;
eport of the said survey dem
iively that the routo is not
icablo and feasible, but that
II be direct, of light curves_
and that the cost thereof
en compared with its magni
blo advantages ; and a'so
pinion of this meeting the
hen this road should be com
uted with vigor to the final
hole. Therefore,
the route of this road con
.wn with the Philadelphia
ii road, and at Allentown
alley rail road, is an im
e chain of railroads in
ia, and at once opens to
hiladelphia the trade and
th Eastern portion of our
rect, shortest and cheapest
Kt city. of Philadelphia is
this enterprise, and that
o will add vastly to her
s and wealth, and will
largo and profitable trade
nsylvania, which is now
.at rival, New York.
'Mown and Alleniown,
ad, will by its construc
•usiness and distributors
, and thus each of these
-, will become extensive
Tns'BU•rrsa TREE OF AFRICA—The African
tree from which butter of a most excellent kind
is obtained, is called the Shea-tree, and is found
near Kaaba, on the banks of the Niger.--
These. trees grow in great abundance all over
that part of Bambarra. They are not planted
by the natives, but are found growing naturally
in the wood ; and, in cleaning woodland for
cultivation, every tree is cut down but the
Shea. The tree itself very much resembles the
American oak, and the fruit from the kernel
which, being first dried in the sun, the butter
prepared by boiling the kernel in 'water, has I I
somewhat'the appeailince of a Spanish olive.—
The
kernel is enveloped in a sweet pulp, under
a thin green rind, and the butter produced
from it,,,besides the advantage of its keeping
the whole year without salt, is whiter, firmer.
and of a richer flavor, than the best butter from
cow's milk. The growth and prepartition of
this commodity seems to be among the first
objects of African industry, and constitutes a
main article of their inland commerce.
1531
9307
7590
3640
$19,25
1203
260.269
214,286
11,121
UNQUENCHABLE Fins.—The Pottsville (Pa.
Register has the following account of an apps
rently unquenchable fire iu the Silver Creel
Collieries of this State :
Pour years ngo, what is now called the old
breaker, at Thomas & Ileaty's mine, caught fire
from an explosion. The Are was
ted to the " dirt heaps" around, where it has
been secretly burning ever since. It made its
appearance again about five weeks ago, in the
immediate vicinity of the new breaker. Tl.O
mine has stopped, as well as every other mine
in the neighborhood, The coal mountain in
Pennsylvania, which his been on fire sinc e
1837, will probably soon be extinguished, a s
the fire is approaching a point which can be
submerged in water. A mass of coal has been
consumed three-eights of a mile long, 60 feet
wide, and 300 feet deep, equal to 1,420,000
tons of coal.
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IMPORTING Wont,.—A movement is on thot
among growers, looking towards the introduc
tion of wool free of duty, with a view of trying
the experiment whether it will not facilitate the
manufacture of ivoolen goods in this country,
and thus build up a better and less fluctuating
market for this staple. It is supposed that the
free import will not lessen the present price.—
Any thing at all to increase our own manufac
tures. The man who makes a yard of cloth in
this con
k r try, will consume twice as much of the
produce o farmer, Its one , living in Great ßritain, if we cud upon sending it there to
him. The nearer
,t Producer and co""ifIt;,
are brought together the et or both.• •
awford.
'pointed Joseph
, yd, James B. Evans,
HICKORY NUT 011.- . A NEW LIGIIT.-HiCliOry
nut oil, considered equal to the best lard or
sperm oil for burning and machinery, is manu .
factured by Mr. Warren Estabrook, of Dayton,
in this state. The nut oil remains in a fluid
state at very low temperature, and it does not
" gum" like the ordinary qualities of oil. It is
used in 'Very delicate machinery, and when
properly refined could be used by watchma
kers. The pigntit is preferred in the manufac
lure, on account of its thin shell, and greater
apundance of oily material. Mr. Estabrook
believes that oil manufactured from the ordina
ry shell-bark, and large sn•eet hickory nut,
would come into general use for the table.—
Toledo (0.) Republiian.
LEWISTOWN RAILROAD BRIDGE.-II will be
remembered by our readers that the Pennsyl
vania Railroad bridge crossing the Juniata
river above Lewistown, was burned down a few
weeks since. That bridge is now re-built, and
the cm_ cross it daily. The bridge was six
hundrerfeet in length, and although nearly • nll
the timber had to bo taken a distance of over
sixty miles, the whole structure was completed
in the short space of 358 hours.
TITE LAST OF BRADDOCK'S DEFEAT.—Died in
Williamstown, Mass., January 27th, Ishmael
Titus, colored, of the extraordinary age of 109
or 110 years.• He was born a slave in Tirgitili
,and when Gen. Braddock set out on his ill fated
expedition,, the master of Ishmael was employed
by the commissary to transport subsistence
stores for the army, and' took Ishmael with him.
5:71t is said that Now York has a non-re
sident floating. population of 100,000. ,
fl The copulation of London . increases at
a
the average rate of 50,000 souls year.
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ly developed, -the real estate in each enhanced
in value, and , their general prosperity greatly
increased.
'Resolved, That tlillirorristovni road and the
Lehigh Valley road, With which this connects,
will reap , large profits and advantages from
such connections, and their stock holders
should come forward and subscribe liberally
thereto.
Resolved, That the construction of this road
should not be left to capitalists exclusively, but
every one along the route which passes through
a country so largely rich in mineral and
agricultural resources should lend a helping
hand in its favour, for ho -thereby benefits
himself.
Resolved, That the citizens of the Borough of.
Norristown and vicinity, reposing the fullest
confidence in the President and Directors cf
this company, do pledge themselves individual-
Ty not only to co-operate with and aid them in
procuring additional subscriptions to the stock,
but also to subscribe to the extent of their,
means and interests.
.The meeting wits then addressed by Horn
R. Kneass, Esq., of Philadelphia, Col. H. W.
Bonsai!, George W. Rogers, S. N. Rick, L. E.
Corson, David Krause, of Norristown, and
Samuel P. Townsend, President of the Company;
after which the resolutions were unanimously
adopted. On motion of S. N. Rjch it was
Resolved, that the proceedings of this meet
ing be published in the papers of Montgomery
and Lehigh counties, and Philadelphia city.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
(Signed by the Officers.)
Itgirlintitte iispmfbinge. t.
On the 16th, on motion of Mr. FRY, the
supplement to the act incorporating the Thomas
iron company was taken up jho pending
question being on the new section submitted
by Mr. BROWNE, limiting the subscription to
stock of any other company to $500,000, and
requiring the assent of all the - stockholders
to the railroad before the subscription be au.'
thorized.
Mr. FRY moved to strike out the word "all" .
and insert " two-thirds ;" so that the subscrip.',
tion may ,be made with the consent of two
thirds of the stockholders.
The amendment to the amendment was then
lost—yeas 10, nays 12.
And the amendment of Mr. BIIOWNH was
adopted.
Mr. FRY now submitted a proviso to the'
second section, that the company in forming
their connection with the Lehigh Valley rail
road, be required to adopt the same•level anti'
use the same gunge.
This was adopted, and the bill passed finally:
On the 20th, Mr. FRY, presented a remon
strance from citizens of South Easton, Norths
amptcn county, against allowing the Lehigh
Valley railroad company to lay their track ow
the public road.
On motion of Mr. FRY, House bill No. 226, to
incorporate the Hereford tuippike road compa
ny, in Hereford township, II erks county, was
taken up and passed its several readings.
On the 21st, Mr. FRY presented a potition
from citizens of Northampton county, for repeal
of part of the school law relative to, county
superintendents.
On the 22nd, Mr. HOGE, (Compare Bills) re
ported that the committee hnd compared and
presented to the Governor for his approbation
a supplement to the act- entitled "An act to
incorporate the Allentown railroad company,"
approved April 19th, A. D., 1853.
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On the l • CRAM moved to proceed
to the consideration of the bill, a supplement
to the act incorporating the Lehigh Valley
railroad company. Not agreed to.
On the 20th, the following entitled bills were
taken up arutrepared for a secomireadingrviz
" An Act to erect part of Montgomery,
Chester and Berks counties into ellen , and
separate county to be called Madison."
" A supplement to the act incorporating
the Easton water company, approved October
14, 1317." oh*,
" A supplement relating to, the Allentown
railroad company."
" An Act for the relief of Jacob Diefenderfer,
a soldier of the Revolutionary War."
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d. , -oizens of Not folk, are luxuriating
upon fi•ogh
tp --- If men praise your efforts, suspect their
judgment ; if they censure them, your own.
ry'Taking babies to church is rightly termed
a " crying sin."
[l:7An editor out in lowa, says they don't
brag of the sizi, of their babies, but they aro
a most uncommon sure crop.
ri - Nothing begets confidence sooner than
punctuality. Nothing so well become - ii•fernin-•
ine beauty as simplicity.
"Money skilfully expended in drying land
by draining and otherwise, will be returned
with intcreit.
; -. 1.a1.cr is a school of benevolence As well
as justice. .Next unto virtue, let children bo
trained to industry.
ri—A piece ofland was recently sold in Lon
lon at the rate of two millions of dollars an
ESE!
[l:7=lf you wish to be happy, keep busy;
idleness is harder work than plowing, a great
deal. There is more fun in sewing an hour
than there is in yawning a century.
[ --- BISTIFUI.NESS is more • !tient!) , con
meted with good sellse,, an we find assurance
--al f impudence, on_ e 'the other 'hand, it is
often the 'Met of dll7nright stupidity.
rille alone deserves 'to have any weight or
influence with posterity, who has sliciwn hir*-
self superior to the particular and predominant
error of his own times.
113 On Thursday last, as a family were out
sleighing, near Newburyport, Mass., an intknt
was smothered in its mother's arms, by being
too closely wrapped up.
1:1'S. Horning aged 84 died a few days ago
at Norristown; where he had resided all hia
life. The Register says, he has been A sub
scriber to that paper for 54 years—ever since
it had been in existence.
D'Ai good book and a good woman aro
excellent things for those who know how
justly to appreciate their value. There are
men, however, who judge of both from the
beauty of their exterior,
0:7 - If you desire to be certain that your eggs
aro good and fresh, put them in water. If the•
butts turn up they are not fresh. This is an in.
rule to distinguish a good from * but
egg. , .
11:7 , Sec here, Gripps—l understand you
have a.superior way of curing hams. I should
like to learn it." " know very
well'how to cure thew: but the trouble with
me, just now, is to find out the way to pro.
cure them !"
1: -- Politeness is asocial passport all over
the world, and good society is the best school
in which it can tie learned. Neither talent;
wit, nor genius, can conceal the positive defer:.
mity of impoliteness.
o:Mrs. Swipes says the reason childrenaro
so bad this generation, is owing to the wearingt
of gaiter shoes, instead of the old-fashitoned
slippers. Mothers find it too much trouble to
.untie gaiters to whip children-roo they go.un
punispunished
hed; but when she was e.t.hdld,•tha way
the old slipper used to do its duty way a
caution. •
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SENATE.