ID ALLENTOWN, PA WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1855 844 e. of Public Workm. The bill for the sale of the Main Lino of the • Public Works, passed the House last week, though not.in such a shape as is likely to benefit the taxpayers to any extent except by ridding them of. the incumbranco. The minimum price was fixed at eight and a half millions of dollars. It truizs the association bidding for the works to Ile compesettorat least thirteen in dividuals, who aroiiiiiitTed to deposit $lOO,OOO with the Governor, in cash or State bonds, be fore ho is authorized to entertain their proposal. The sliding scale of prices, was retained as part of the bill, by the operation of which the highest bidders will be allowed the longest credit, so that if the work sells for ten and a half millions, the purchaser will have nothing but the in terest on the purchase money, at five per cent., to pay until after the expiration of twenty years, when the principal is made payable in ton equal annual instalments. Tho security re- 1 quired by .the State for the payment of the principal is to be the bonds of the purcha'sers, which shall be a lien upon the works, and State stocks to the amount of one-fourth of the pin-- chase money, deposited in the State Treasury, so that the company purchasing these works at the minimuin price will have to be possessed of an available capital of $1,225,000, ono million one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars of which bill be required to be deposited as security in the shape of State stocks, and the remaining $lOO,OOO placed in the Governor's hands. • But the sliding scale of prices makes it more advantageous for a company to bid high, in oiler to obtain an extended credit, although it requires a larger cash capital in possession to make the necessary deposit of State stock Don't Kill the 'Ueda. AM Spring advances, our youthful Nimrods feel the influence strong upon them to pop away their old fowling pieces at the birds. Not that they want them for food—not that they'do not • relish their songs—hut simply to gratify their innate propensity to destruction that marks youth. But we beg the boys to refrain. The little birds are becoming alarmingly scarce in our vicinity. We say alarmingly—fur the • armies of the Palmer worm, caterpillar, and canker worm arc alarmingly on the in- Crease. The little birds arc the farmer's best friends. They destroy the bugs and the worms that infest his crops and his orchards. The blackbird may occasionally root up a few hills of corn, but he daily gathers more destructive insects as he travels over the newly ploughed fields, than nll the corn is worth which lie de strOys, ten times over. The robin may. lake a few of your spare cherries, but, he is only taking pay for the worms ho swallows, which would have made your garden a desolate waste. The farmer cannot, do without the little birds.— They are his best friends. We have no doubt that the late ravages of various insects are owing to the wholesale destruction of thoi enemies the birds, ..1{ ANSA S. From all accounts, the recent election in Kansas was a gross fraud perpetrated on the resident citizens `of that territory. Several thousand armed men from Missouri, it is alleg ed, crossed over into Kansas in wagons and on horseback, armed with revolvers and bowie knives. They took possession of the polls, and threatened the life of every person whom they suspected of anti-slavery feelings. By such means slavery has triumphed. It is said that the Governor of Kansas is going to Washing. ton, to lay the rascalities perpetrated in the election before the proper authorities. It is al leged that his life 'has been threatened ; that desperadoes have sworn to spill his blood if he makes any such attempt to assert the rights of actual settlers in directing their affairs. A des patch to the St. Louis Republican of the ith inst., says that a majority of lhe pro-slavery members in each House have received certifi cates of their election. If these allegations be true, the fedi are disgraceful, and if the General Government had . the power to reach the frauds, it would set the whole election aside.— The conduct of the anti-slavery people who first wont into the territory was just of that kind to invite the fiercest opposition, but no indiScretion can legalize fraud. The License Lavir—lpportant Correction. The Harrisburg Herald calls attention to an important proviso in the new license bill, that was omitted in the first publication of the new law at Harrisburg, and generally throughout the State. It was added to the bill as an amendtnent in the Senate, and is in these Words : " Provided ihrther—,-That so much of any act or acts of Assembly, as require a license from a city or county Treasurer 's ant horize the sale of spirituous, vinous, or 'nail liquors, be and the same is hereby repealed." 'his clause refers to the licenses for restau rants, eating and oyster houses and groceries selling by the quart, and unconditionally re peals Treasurer's licenses. As they are inva riably, we believe, granted about the first of May, none but tavern-keepers will be permitted • to sell under the old law until October next, or until their licenses expire. Proprietois of eating-houses ; groceries, &c., cannot procure ltbense until October, as has generally been supposed ; and all those taken out, or to take effect, since the passage of'the new bill., are no, cestarily null and void TENURN OF 0111.18011 PROPERTY.—'rho bill I•e -!alive to the tenure of Church property in this State, has passed the Senate. The 7th section —against which Roman Catholics have remon strated—place all property heretiller bequeathed to any bishop, or other person for tho use of any church, congregation or religious soceity, •under the control and disposition of the lay members. • • New Octunterfelte•C-- 4. 4 Bicknell's Reporter publisles o following list of new counterfeits': •. • Princeton Bank, Princeton, N. J. s's *al tered from I's. Vignette, Arms of the State— on left end three men with piar, Shovel, guns, &C. Mechanics' Bank, Syracuse. 2's spurious. Vignette, a Female and Shield. Niagara River Barir7lOilwanda, N. Y. s's and 10's altered from l's. Vignette, female, steam vessel, village, &c. Island City Bank, N. Y. -100's altered from 10's. 'Vignette, eagle and marine view. On left end a figure of Liberty. Madison County Bank, Cazenovia, N: Y. 20's spurious. Vignette, a deer. • Latest From Europe. The steamship Africa arrived on Wednesday, bringing news from Europe one week later.— An official document has appeared in the Pails Moniteur which has caused much excitement, and seems to be an apology for soon raising the siege of Sebastopol. It says that Gallipoli was occupied to prevent the march of the Russians to Constantinople, but the Russian retreat to Silistria rendering it unnecessary, the siege of Sebastopol was undertaken so as not to remain idle. From the Crimea there is no news of consequence. The Vienna Conference had met again but without any result. At Sebastopol the military operations progress rapidly. The Russians have converted, the ambuscades into an advance parallel, and the French are ad varieing to the Malakoff tower by a serpentine ! Omar Pacha and his Turks have enlarged their circle of fortiOcations to shelter 5000 men, and have occupied two villages a league and a half from Eupatoria. Russian agents at Vienna report a sanguinary engagement on the 26th of March, and it is also said that the women, children, and sick are being sent out of Sebas topol into the interior of the Crimea. At Sebastopol there has been a succession of sanguinary conflicts between the French and the Russians for the possession of the rifle am buscade pits, with varyin g success and much loss. I'llo latest conflict occurred on the night of the 23d, when 3000 men were killed and wounded. Napoleon and the Empress Eugenie would reach London, Monday tho 10th, and stay 'one week with the Queen. The tone of the British 'public is that of extravagant adulation in re gard to the event, and it is very different from' that which Napoleon was treated to some years d: since. COMMISSIONER MANTPENNY AND GOVERNOR REsum.--Connnissioner Manypenny having referred to recent sales of land in Kansas, in which it now appears Governor Reeder was concerned, as disreputable attempts of certain official functionaries to speculate in lands, Gov ernor Reeder replies to the allegation in a tart letter, denying the insinuations of the Com missioner, and in conclusion submitting the following proposition: Your report on these contracts makes, as I have shown, fierce charges of fraud. If true, f am a dishonest man ; if false, you aro a slan derer. .One of us then, disgraces the office he holds, and it is time to know which is the man. In view of this, I propose to you, sir, a com pact, that if you shall, beforo the first day of October next, make good these charges. to the satisfaction of the President, he shall at once remove me from office ; and if you fail, the same penalty shall be meted out to you. You have sown your gratuitous, inexcusable calum ny broadcast over the Union, and now I solicit, I challenge, I defy you to the test. If there is a spark of manliness in your composition, you will not shrink from it. I desire to goad you to its acceptance. Office, in my estima tion, is .of little value—reputation is priceless ; and my only fear that you will decline this offer is based upon the cogent evidence that your estimate of these commodities is in an in vepse ratio to mine." ChiowisolVoz.vr Cnor IN Onio.—The Day :on (Os) Journal of the 19th, says:— The rain and warm weather of the present week have had a wonderful effect on the grow ing wheat. In fields which, last week, scarce gave promise or yielding a quaittity equal to the seed sown, the improved appearance jus tifies the expectation of an abundant yield. Places which were bare, the wheat appearing, to have been „ frozen out," now have a•green and luxuriant covering. The Richmond (Va.) Whig says:— The wheat fields in the vicinity of Richmond look very will at present, giving promise of. an abundant crop. The fruit trees are in full blossom, the buds having received no injury - the cold weather, if wo may judge from appearance:: ..XCITEMENT IN 'MB anssys.-7Pennsylvania having passed a kind of Prohibitory Liquor Law too,—as well as New York,—the patriotic State of New Jersey is placed between two TeMperance fires, and her soil is expected to be the asylum of a good many liquor sellers, and liquor dealers, seeking refuge from them. The Germans of . New Jersey call upon the " oppressed " in New York, to come over where there is " liberty." NeW York, they say, is only a Hesse Cassel. The Maine Liquor Gov ernor is a regular Ilesscnplag, and Pennsylvania is not much baton—N. Y. Barren. GOVERNOR REEDER OF KANSAS-A PHONON. 'OIAMENTO.-St. Louis, A pril.2s.—A lion has been issued by the people of Kansas, !leder* Governor Reeder to be incompetent for the position he fills, and that his appoint ment, without the consent of the governed, was an arbitrary exercise of power. An election has been ordered•at Leaven. worth, to be held on the 28th, for the selection of a successor to Gol'ernor Reeder. Delegates are to meet there to select a person as territori al Govenor, whose name will bo forwarded to the President for his appointment. Clptifi American County Meeting. In accordance with-the notice given, a meet mg was held at the public house of Benjamin Bagcnbucli, in Allentown, to takit into consider ation the propriety of forming an open Ameri can organiiation ' and also to appoint delegates to represent this County in the American Con volition to be hold at Harrisburg on the 7th of May. The meeting was organized by appoint ing the following named officers : President.—llenry.Yenger, of Upper Saucon. Vice Presidents.— Col. I). 11. Bastian, ofSouth Whitehall, Jacob Musehlitz, of Upper Saucpn; and Moses Schmoyer, of South Whitehall. ) Secretaries.—Samuel Miller, of Allentcrign, nd Josiah W. Stauffer, of Lower Milford. The following nail; ed gen tlemen were a ppoin t e to draw up a series of Resolutions expres si 0 of the sense of the meeting: — Edmund J. Moore, Esq., Thomas Yeager, Nathan Gamer, Charles F. Mertz, Henry Romig, Abner Whit, and Daniel Guth. Wirmta.ts the alarming increase of a foreign pauper population yearly flooding upon our seaboard towns, has become a matter of serious apprehension to a great portion of the Ameri , can people, and whereas also the Opinions and fears on this subject of wise men of both political parties have been formally and publicly expressed, it is - considered a bounden duty which every citizen owes his conntry to bring the matter openly and respectfully to the con sideration of every voter. We therefore ask the candid reader to lay aside his political predi lections and party prejudices, and pause to ponder over a subject that affects his dearest and most sacred rights. The progress of foreignism has become truly alarming and has visited the great body of the people. With a just sense of danger, its influ• wee is of the most pernicious and fatal tendon- Made up as it is of the criminals, political' exiles, paupers, and Jesuits el foreign lands, it constitutes an element in our political rela tions, most bitterly opposed to our reptiblican form of government. This evil influence can be and already lets been successfully. combined to oppose the will of the American people.— Jesuitism owes allegiance to a foreign potentate, and is directed in all its political movements by foreign decrees and papal bulls. The prisons of all Europe cast their dangerous contents in discriminately upon our shores, while the Euro pean authorities find a place in this country for the innumerable host of paupers with which Europe is infested. Our country is already burthened by this motley crowd. Our alms houses and prisons (coin with them, and our citizens arc enormously .taxed to support them. They form one fourth of the present population of the United States, and at the present rate of increase will ere long constitute one half of our population. Titus in stance after instance might be shown, and argu ment after argument olfered to show the danger of this foreign and religious element in our polities. We ask therefbre every lover of our country, every patriotic citizen, whether of time manor born or naturalized, to aid us in check ing the strides of foreignism and jesuitism in our laud. The institutions of our country are in danger; they suffer under a foreign power, and the public weal •demands our earnest in terference. Reflect therefore and act wisely. As an expression of the sense of this meeting it is Resolved, Thnt we contemplate with a sense of danger the alarming progress of foreignism and Jesuitism in this country, inasmuch as they have already established a balance power in our elections, which may be readily enlisted in fa vor of any, enterprising political adventurer, or any measure obnoxious to a republican govern ment, aiiiLlte do most heartily despise any party ffirt • tug recourse to their votes and in fluence for political success. Resolved, That the early associations and habits of the foreign born portion of our popular Lion necessarily unfit them for any participation in the management and control of a republican form of government, and that their prejudi ces and predilections for and with the land of their birth are too strong and deep rooted to be forgotten in the short space of time at which our naturalization laws are at present fixed, in view of which fact we consider it our bounden duty, to instruct our representatives to do all in their Mower to extend the period of naturaliling aliens to twenty one-years from the date of their arrival in this country. Resolved, That the attempts of the Roman Catholics to obtain Legislative interference in their behalf, giving the Roman Catholic. Church a separate •school fund is only an initial step of papal priestcraft to gain power for the Pope in the Councils of the land, and an (Mint to subvert our Constitutional guarantee of keeping Church and State separate and distinct, a right which we consider as one of our strongest l l bulwarks of civil and religious freedom. Resolved, That we recognize in the Roman Catholics and Jesuits wherever they can gain a foothold the willing tools, and instrumints with which the pope of. Rome canes on his political schemes and intrigues,, at whoSe nod they will do any acts of violence., however heinous they may be, for. which reason they arc unfit to hold any office of trust or profit, or exercise the privileges of Americnh citizens. Resolved, That in the organization of an open American party, based upon principles ns are avowed in the above sentiments, we hail the dawn of a new and a better erK, when the American people united by a common brother hood and actuated by a common motive, and that for the public good, will 'henceforth act as become§Ahe character of 'freemen and citizens of a giikat and powerful republic, that they will enact and administer America's own laws, and shield -her time honored and glorious insti tutions against the influence of foreign power, intrigue and domestic dentagogueism. /?cso/vcd, That with the consciousness of the justice of our cause we have unfurled to the breeue as a fitting embletnn of our principles and a sure passage of a glorious victory, the same beautiful banner that -.was bourne in triumph through the bloody scenes of our revo lutionary struggles, the same stars and stripes that have for all time been the beacon lights of our hopes, and the pride of our land, that we will boldly and fearlessly proclaim this great truth of our cause, and never swerve from our, position nor permit any other issue to turn us from the great highway Of our line of march Resolved, That Maj. Charles Mertz and Moore,' Esq., represent Lehigh county in the American State Convention to be<held at Har risburg on the 7th day of May next. . Res.i/vcd, That the proceedings of this meet , big be published in the "Lehigh Patriot" ant " Lehigh Regiiter." _,..,. _ . V ...............,, ~,,. THE NEXT STATE PAIlt.-:—The Executive Com mittee of the State Agricultural Society have resolved to hold the next annual Exhibition at Harrisburg, provided the citizens of that bo rough furnish the grounds, and contribute to wards the expenses of the Society 51,500.. TATIVE is stated in ono of our ex changes that during the present year,.there will probably be raised a grape crop sufficient to make 600,000 gallons of Catawba wine. The demand for the article far exceeds the product. consul of Philadolphia*ill be taken this year gown ont! Ounfti....slfftil/fri PUBLIC AMERICAN ttieETtN4.—.A public Amer lean meeting will be held in Centro Valley, Le. high county, on Saturday ➢lay 19th, at 2 o'clock P.M. CommsxcEn.—The summer session of the Allentown Academy commenced on Monday, and of the Seminary yesterday. We aro told that both institutions opened with a fair num .4 of scholars. BURGLARY.—WO would advise our citizens to be on their guard, as our town is at present inibsted with midnight burglars and robbers.— dwelling of Mr. Samuel Sines, in Seventh street, was entered on Wednesday night, and everything in the provision line carried off. ANOTIIER.—On Tursda last some scamp broke into s inertz' Ho y tel, innight' East Allen town, acid appropriated to himself numerous articles of clothing belonging to a german. SENTEN'oun.—It will be recollected that some time since we stated that a man named Jacob Ochs had been arrested on a charge of Larceny and taken to the Northampton County Jail to await his trial. At the late Court at Easton he was convicted and sentenced to three months imprisonment in the County Jail. Citunen ] ) nmemmx•--St. Johnls Evangelical Lutheran Church in this place, Will be conse crated to the worship of Cod on Sunday next. A general invitation, to participate, is extended to the people in the surrounding section of country. A number of distinguished divines will he present. ArrENtrrnn Roaanar.-13etween 12 and I o'clock on Friday night an attempt was made to burglariously enter the new store of Messrs. leapt Stachrt, in this borough, by prying the slides in' the show-window. The designs of the robbers were however frustrated by their breaking one of the large window-panes with the pry, the noise of which awakened some of the neighbors across the street, who gave an alartmand put the scamps to flight.— Upon an examination of the place it was found that an entrance would have been effected in a very short time, as one of the slides had al ready been lifted out of its place and lowered, and could easily have been sawed (a " OLD 1)or; TRAY."—At the request of a num ber of our little friends, we will neat week re publish this popular sot =. Coining up Jowl, the other evening, a half dozen lute voiced little girls were sitting out on.a " front step" singing sweetly as happy childhood only can— " Old dog Tray is ever faithful, Grief cannot drive him away, Ile is gentle be iv kind, you'll never, never fin( A better friend than old dog Tray." Very sweetly sang, but though Tray is very good in his place. our little friends, we hope, will find much better friends than him. SPRING BATTALIONS.—The spring battalion parades arc beginning to be announced. The following take the lead : • The first Cavalry Battalion. commanded by Maj. Thomas Ruch, will parade at Guthsville, in South Whitehall township, on Tuesday the 15th instant: The second Rifle Battalion, commanded by Maj. Edwin Keiper, will parade at the house of Capt. Peter Lentz. in Lowhill township, on Wednesday the 10th instant. The greatest " come•ofr in this lino will be the Kutztown Battalion, which is to take place on the 10th instant. We have no doubt there will be a great turn-out on the occasion. T3trnovlNG.—ln our walks about town we observe that quite'a number of new edifices are going up, and the coming season promises to add very considerably to the size and popula tion of Allentown. The houses arc mostly de signed in a, liberal spirit, with a proper regard to taste, comfort and architectural beauty.— Besidek the new buildings going up, there is the usual amount ofrepairing, refitting, and paint ing up. These things add to the attractiveness of the place, and at the same time go to show that, its many advantages are beginning to be appreciated. THE CIRCUS AND MENAGERIE.-WO presume our readers are well aware that to-morrow one of the largest travelling Exhibitions in the world will enter Allentown. This combination is endowed or conducted rather on the most liberal principles, affording, to the public at large an opportunity of witnessing both a Circus and Menagerie at one tinie, for one price. IVe trust that Messrs. Meyers & Madigan, the own ers of the Circus, and our old friend llowes may find the union a profitable one, and receive a reward commensurate to their merits as managers. The Zoological department is very superior, containing the only living Giraffe or Cameleopard in the United States. This ani mal is eighteen feet high, is in perfect health, and is said to be the finest specimen ever cap tured. A Rhinoceros weighing . 6000 lbs. is also to be seen together with a largo collection of other Animals. In the Equestrian way they have engaged the world renowned Mad'lle Rosa, whose miraculous Eqtiestrian feats have been the theme of admiration wherever she has appeared. The clown is Mr. James Myers; an eccentric genius and a performer of merit. When lie appears in the arena the good lime commences forthwith, Tux SEASON—CROPS.—The transformation from winter to slimmer is making rapid, pro gress. The fields are clothed in green, and we have also seen sonic fruit trees in blossom;— Within the past few days we were told by a number of persons from the country, that the wheat fields had undergone a great change within the last week or two, and speak encour agingly of the prospect ahead. The grass is also growing finely, and if the weather con tin ' ues favorable, there will be an abundance of food for man and beast. Many a year has passed by since all classes in town, city mat country have looked with deeper solicitude for a plenteous crop. (;rain and indeed esculents of every description bear a price almost unpre cedentedly high. The prayer, unallbcted and sincere, is almost universal, that the earth may bring forth its fruits in their season. The de sire for full crops is probably even greater on the part of those who buy than those who sell. Many of the for Mer feel that the price demanded is getting beyond their utmost means, while the latter are partially compensated fora short crop by an increased price. Under the present circumstances a responsibility.rests on those who cultivate the ground aside from the con sideration of dollars and cents. The farmer therefore, from a motive of dtity as well as gain, should contrive to raise for market, the largest possible amount of eatables which an economi cal cultivation of his land will permit. There can be no doubt that the price of pro duce will amply compensate for the labor and. expenditure, if crops are moderately fair. It is_ no - news to intelligent agriculturists that this. county, though proverbial for the richness of its soil, is yet capable of yielding an looms° of products LOOK OUT !-COUNtIMPEIT Norm—There are at present in circulation in this section of country, counterfeit Fives on the Farmers and Mechanic's Bank of Philadelphia. These notes arc entirely different from the genuine notes, and can easily be detected. The appearance of the note is rough and black, and the en gravings are poorly executed. We copy from Thompson's Detector the following description of these spurious notes : " ss. Vignette State coat of arms—medallion head on the left end—a female on the right end —genuine have the word FIVE iu red ink across the face." ELECTION or OFFICERS.—At a meeting of the Farmer's Fire Insurance Company of Upper and Lower Saucon, held at Bethlehem, on the oth inst., the following gentlemen were elected Managers for the ensuing year : Bernhart Fenner, "Joseph Weaver, J G. Desh ler; ,Tohn• D. Lawall, Charles A. Luckenbach. Charles Ti. Weber and James T. Borleck. Mat thew Krause, the preserit Treasurer and Secre tary was re-elected. The company is in a very flourishing condition. Cor.msnmt Exurxr. Com , Asr.—The new En gine constructed by Mr. John Agnew of Phila delphia, for the above named company, will ar rive on Monday next. It is said to be one of the most superb fire machines ever brought to this section of country. Invitations will be ex I coed to all the lire companies in town to join in the escort. WESTWARD, Ho !—Mr. James Gangwerr. cf . this Idace. sold his house anti lot in Munition street to Messrs. Frederick and Weiler for ::," , 3,- 500. He intends shortly to leave for Ohio, where he has bought lands, and will pursue the agricultural business. He has many warm friends in this county. PRESENTATION.—Some of the friends of Police officer //un/ay, as a testimonial of regard, last week presented him with a new badge. It was made. out of solid silver by our young towns man Mr. D. Klotz. The present is ns compli mentary and deserving, -as it is creditable to the donors. A ltocus.—The Cincinnati Emptircr gives the story of a pretended clergymen, who; being endowed with an oily tongue and a prepossess ing appearance succeeded in engaging himself to no less than eleven ladies of the village of Cleviot, of whom lie borrowed money, upon the pretence of making the necessary arrangements toward housekeeping, Of one lady heobtained $5O, which he laid between the leaves of a Bible in her parlor to be used the day previous to the wedding ; but when, upon hearing of the pranks of the sanctimonious Lothario, she looked in the hiding place, the bank bills were non est. Ilb . The manner which led to the discovery of his multifarious -engagements was that a couple of the betrothed met by accident in a fashionable Illy goods establishment in this city. After mutual recognition, they pAceeded to examine various fabrics and make purchases. Singular- IS , enough their tastes assimilated so exactly that young lady nutnbered ono remarked to young lady numbered two that she thought it very strange. Hereupon young lady number two replied that so it was ; but, if she (young lady number one) could keep a secret, she would tell her one. Whereupon they proceed ed, much to their astonishment, to name the SAME INDIVIDUAL ! The scene that followed, may be much better imagined than described TIM CAROB TREE, Olt. Sr. Jons's BREAD,— Among the recent importations of seeds front Alicanti, Spain, were those of the Carob tree, the pods of which, when ripe, contain a few drops of a substance resembling money. From this circumstance it is supposed that this tree is identical with the one upon which St. John fed while in the wilderness, and hence some times is called St. John's bread. It blooms twice a year --at the end of January or the first of February, and about the middle of Septeniber—and when well watered grows to a considerable height and size, sometimes spreading to such a degree as to have a cir cumference of from two hundred to three bun• tired feel, and bearing upwards of a ton of pods. Young trees, only a year old, often have stems eight or ten inches thick, with branches ten or twelve feet long. Cattle, horses, and mules devour the pods with great avidity, and if well fed upon them will become extremely fist, or in good condition to work. The trees, doubtless, will succeed well s in the southern, and perhaps in the middle States.—Washing tole Union VIIAT Is SALERATIIS•—WIIat h snleratus ? Wood is burned to ashes : ashes are lixivated— ley is the result. Ley is evaporated by boiling —black salts is the residuum. The salts un dergo :purification by fire, and the potash of confluence is obtained. BY another process we change potash into pearlash. Now put these in sacks and place them over a distillery wash tub, where the fermentation evolves carbonic acid gas, and the pearlash absorbs it and is rendered solid ; the product being heavier, drier and whiter than the pearlash. It is now sale ratuS. How much salt of Icy and carbonic acid a human stomach can bear and remain tea t iy. is a question for a saleratus cater. Sonic people say saleratus will not harm the stomach. It is a Icy! A RIVER DESTROYED 111 - OVER ISSUES OF ITS BANK.—The Van, Buren baciligenccr of, the 30th says: It has been mathematically and practically demonstrated, that the Arkansas river will no more be fit for navigation. The, banks have fallen in to such extent as to widen the bed of the river immeasurably, requiring a larger volume of water than usually comes down in ordinary rises, to furnish its thirsty bars, and to till up the bed. The only depend ence now is the railroad. A VIRGINIA Dr.tmoxii.-A tough diamond, picked up near Manchester, Va., a small town opposite Richmond, has been rebeived in New York. The stone is - about the size of, a hazel nut, and weighs forty-three karats. It has a flaw in the centre, but it is otherwise quite promising. Tho Richmond jewellers estimate US Value at four thousand dollar's, and claim that it is the largest diamond ever fotind in North America. , • Our ebip 91asktf.' LlC'The Now Jersey Agricultural Fairis tO be held this.year at Camden. • . la c lit is stated that the March earningeof the Panama Railroad were ab0ut1129,090, • la'There are 2000 Homcopatido physicians in the United States. lri - A lawyer has been suspended,from pric• ticc for six months in Boston, for calling ajuror a Skunk. La - The, whole number o of applicants for bounty land under the new law,. is thuafar s 90,600. Callon. Morris Longstreth died at his red. , domain Pleasant Valley, Montgomery county, on Thursday last. I The expense of educating children in 66 com on schools of New York city, last year s a. .• • :15 each. tar- lather up knowledge with a diligent hand, it is the only earthly good that will nob sometimes give you pain. Lalondon extends over an area of 78,029 acres or 122 square miles, and the number of its inhabitants, rapidly increasing, was some 2,365,239 on the day of the last census. flTwo thousand unpaid letters have been received at the Philadelphia Post Office. They will be forwarded to the dead letter Depart ment at Washington, on the Ist proximo: ri - Gen. Sutter, once the richest, is said to be now among the poorest men in California.. To poverty are added the infirmities of old age. U"7 Never give counsel where it is not asked of you, especially to those who are incapable of appreciating it. n Irishman remarked that a true gen tleman never looks at the faults of a pretty woman without shutting his eyes. [a-Let the motto of every man ho punctu ality. Let this virtue be manifested in a high degree in all our actions, and life's rugged path way will be much more pleasant. ri- - A bright young chap down east, has ex pressed the opinion that sooner than marry a woman of fifty, ho would take two at five-and twenty.. [O - During the storm on Wednesday, at Cora. ing, N. Y., hail stones fell that measured nino inches in circumference, weighing eight ounees, or !hereabouts. ' fr/"Pleasure is sometimes only a change of pain. 11 Winn who has the gout thinks he feels first rate when he gets down to the sheumatient REM [CY - Mrs. TV. Evans, of Bedford; bas now on one of her trees a lemon, which, At the present time, measures 111 inehes eithor way across its centre. [o .— _,l dovetailing machine has been invented. and is in use in Boston, which enables a sin. ;le workman to dovetail with ease from eight hundred to ono thousand bureau drawers flay. C.7ltothschild's Agents are said to hiVe made large purchases of copper at Lake Supe rior for shipment to France. The proportion of silver found in the copper makes it a profitable speculation at present. ~r The lOth of May is now designated by Millerites or the Second Adventists for the coining of the Saviour and the end of the world. hi the eastern States, many converts are being baptised. ~INews FOR BREAD EATEREL—Under the Reciprocity treaty Canada is enabled to furnish us flour. Sixty-six thousand barrels were re ceived at Oswego, N. Y., since the opening of navigation. fr, - 7 -- Thero is a Sweedish Lutheran Church in Wilmington, Dcl., which, from its antiquity, is much venerated by the. inhabitants. Tho house was built in 1689, by the Sweeds, and in one of the oldest tnecting-houses in the country. I'Someitlea may be formed' of the smash ing effect oft c Liquor Law, from the fact that the profits of the New York Astor Dowel on wines and liquors is $40,000 per annum.' The average receipts of the bar in the Aster - Irons° Exchange are $250 per day. 0:3Ir. Richard 3l'Grann, has entered upon a very heavy contract, viz:' To complete the grading, masonry, bridging and ballasting- of some thirty-three miles of the North Pennsylva nia railroad. Ono cut of solid rock will exceed • *250,000. . . UA negro at Norfolk, on the 10th inst., was struck on the top of the head by a barrel of oats, which fell from the thh:d story. Tho negro was knocked down by the concussion, but - was more frightened than hurt, thus afford ing another remarlcable instance of the solidity of the negro's cranium. tr/ - .A sea monster was caught near. Punta ltossa, on the Florida coast, on the 23u1t., 'which had,rt mouth three and a half feet long, and wide enough to swallow a cam*. The space between its eyes measured four.ibetrourinchbs, its tenth of body nineteen feet, and breadth nineteen feet, and weighing 3000 &amis... ''r,l7 l ( 0:7-Avoid loafers, whothim in'male or attire. They are fatal to fralustry,,charticter,, cash and conscience, If there in ono:inventibrr . More than another that has been the entity 'ruination' of a good many well enough both (. people, it is loaferism. Gentlemen of skeptical frame of mind, should endettiroc,to seek • the truth. SAUSAGE.4.--A few days since, two , Gorman'' Jews, residing in tho 16th Ward, 'NOW York' city, purchased from a milkman . the remains' of of a cow that had sickened and , died, for tke sum of nine shillings; Mr:Reynolds' the =at, Inspector for the Eastern. District,. havinginik come aware of that fact, investigated the iiiatt, ter, and ascertained thittrthp,eptiro atrfasa'had been cit up flub, and;iiithati addltioirbeferk,. Wits made into sausage-meat. , f_fili4 been placed in cloth bags proparatorr toting dried and; smoked, when it Ir44l4ltotklii9l34eB" sion or by the Meat Inspectot. A,l3.4t6 t prtie. s 7 had not yet offered this inFatcor sale, they could only he made t9burzic. t NvNolt under the supervision Mr. Iteinoids., 1=MI!!M
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