The Lehigh register. (Allentown, Pa.) 1846-1912, February 28, 1855, Image 2
E C 11 E ALLENTOWN, PA. WED l AY, FEBRUARY 28, 1855 . . , 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. .•.- • Elootion for United States Senator By 7'ELEGRAPII! Exclusively for the Register! Thalmann°, Feb. 27, 4 o'clock, P. M. •. . • 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 4 Tho election was warmly contested, the 8 re 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. -,,,,,,,, ...."---. , ..w...................... 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 [ 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. 12E 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, • 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. 47 53,i 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. . . 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. 110 U SE 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." nit b en bg. ra ------- 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. • - ECM SENATE.