int •TrOg,l) Atgiottr: ALLENTOWN , PA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1855 The Next Fair. As will be seen by the proceedings in another column, the Executive Committee, at their meeting last. Saturday, resolved that the next Fair be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wed nesday, the Ist, 2d and 3d of October. The .remiurn list is to be the same as last year. Dlckents Household Words. The May number of this popular Magazine is on our table. Almost every one has now and then a leisure hour which ho might occupy pleasantly and profitably by reading its short articles. There is a large amount of valuable information served up in a most enticing style in its pages. We have found nothing in it which does the least violence to our moral feelings, and oftentimes it awakens to new ardor. the noblest impulses ofous.nature. Wo would heartily commend it to our readers. Adjourned. The Legislature adjourned sine die on Tues day the Bth instant, after a session of one hundred and twenty-five days, and passing six hundred and eighty-four bills during the session. The greater number of these were for the incorporation of various kinds of Companies, including a long array of Banks and Insurance Companies. The principal acts of general importance are the Liquor Law and the act for the sale of the Main Line of public improvements. Body Found. On Tuesday morning, the Bth instant, the body of a young man was found in the Lehigh, near the Allentown Iron Works. An inquest was held, and from the evidence, the Jury came to the conclusion that it Was the body of lIENny SrAnt., who was drowned a few weeks since, in company with a man named John Rath, by their boat going over Schwartz's Darn. The body was interred at the Poor House. SIGNAL STROKES. The following has been resolved on by the Town Council as the signal strokes of the alarm bell in the cupola of the new Engine House : 1 North 2`touth 3 "Faist. 4 West. A rapid ringing of the bell signifies that the fire is in the neighborhood of the Engine House. ~w.... BROKE JA1L.,,,,,,, On Friday night last, three of the prisoners confined in our County Jail took it in their heads to free themselves of their bondage.— Their names are Levi 'Ochs, Nathan Doll and William Schneider. The former was commit ted a few weeks since on a charge of setting fire to the barn of Mr. Greenawalt, in Saucon township. They accomplished their object by breaking a hole. through the wall near the south-east corner of the second story, and then letting themselves down into the lot occupied by the Gas Works by means of a rope which they had made by cutting their blankets into strips. About 10 or 12 feet from the spot where they alighted, a hogshead is dug in the ground as a receptacle for the coal-tar from the Gas Works. This hogshead was full at the time, and Doll and Schneider had the good for tune to run into it. After they got out of the hogshead they stripped themselves partly of their clothing, which was found in the morning, and " made tracks" for parts unknown.— Sheriff Weiler offers a reward of $5O for the apprehension of Ochs, and $2O for the other two. The New Fire Engine The new engine for Columbia. Fire Company, No. 1, was brought up from the river by the members of the company on Saturday afternoon last, escorted by the Good Will Engine and Hose Companies. A nice display was made, and'it had the effect of lining our.streets with spectators. • The windows along tlui streets through which the procession passed presented quite an array of the fair sex, armed with be quets and wreathes, which they liberally be stowed upon the firemen. The new Engine was made by Mr. John Agnew, of Philadelphia, and displays much me chanical skill. It has a 7 inch chamber, with a 9 inch stroke, and,weighs 2970 pounds. Espe cially worthy of notice aro the beautiful paint ings on the gallery panels, which were execu ted by our former young townsman, Mr. G. Vlrundeilich, who now ranks among the best ar tists in - Philadelphia. On Monday evening the new engine was brought out for a trial. " Good Will" No. 3, or " old machine," as she was termed, was also brought out for a test, and the members evident ly made it. no part in their plans and arrange ments to be beat by the new contestant for fame and power. After a trial of No. 1, a measure ment was taken and it was found that she had thrown a stream of 132 feet. The " old ma chine" was next on the tapis. Anxiety was on tip-too. Many of the spectators, and the boys in particular, manifested the deepest interest in the result. The machine was well manned, and after the trial a measurement was taken, which proved that she bad thrown a stream of 140 feet. Lehigh Valley Itailread. This road is rapidly progressing and before many months we may expect to see the iron horse snorting. along the banks of the Lehigh under the stimulating screech of the steam whistle. It will be sufficiently completed by the 18th of June to run a Locomotive over a portion of the road. We learn from the Eastonian that the bridge over the Delaware, for the use of this road is in a state of great forwardness, being nearly completed across and will undoubtedly be finished by the Ist of Au gust, unless some unforeseen difficulty should arise:' It is a well constructed work, upon which,great care and unsparing labor has been bestowed to make it as strong and lasting as it is graceful and original in its design. lair. Editor :—I was surprised on a late visit to the Lehigh . Orane Iron Works, at CUtasau qua, to notice the enormous yield of the three Furnaces which they have at present in blast, not having had an idea that any Furnaces in the country turned out so many tons per week. Through the kindness of the Managers (who take pleasure in giving strangers anyinforma tion,) I was permitted to take a note of their yield for the past six weeks. This Iron it must be borne in mind, with a trifling excop- tion is the very best quality of Foundry Iron.— I ask the question through your papet, taking the quality of Iron into consideration, has it been beaten in the United States ? I herewith give you the yield above referred to : Weekend. No. 1 Fur.. No. 4 Fun,' 11 Bosh. 18 ft. Bosh.! April 7,92 t Tons 181 Tons " 14, 86 " 184 " " 21, 79i " • 171 " " 28, •80 " 193 " May 5, 101 " 12, 102 k " Yours Ti We have been favored with an early copy of a statement recently sent to the Legislature, by the State Treasurer, containing a list of the pub lic defaulters. It is quite a formidable docu ment, and occupies no less than seventeen pages. The total.defalcations are estimated at $400,223. One individual is represented to be behind-band to the extent of sss,343—another to the extent of 840,530 ; another to the ex tent of $35,094 ; another to the extent of $15,- 917 ; another the extent of $33,111; another to the extent of s27,B47—and so on down to sums as low as $1.20. The defaulters include Brigade Inspectors, Marshals, Sheriffs, Auc tioneers, County Treasurers, Prothonotaries, Collectors, &c., &c. Doubtless, in many minor cases, the indebtedness arose either from mis calculations, or a misunderstanding as to the airustment of accounts. • I 1: 3 North East. 2 : 3 South East. 2 : 4 South West. 1 : 4 North West • • For the Lehigh Register. A LARGE YIELD. 208 209 " ruly, Public D'efaulters. Philadelphia Daily Sun. This excellent paper, came to our sanctum last week in an entire new dress. It makes a very handsome appearance. The Sun is at any time the most readable daily published in Phil adelphia. We wish, however, it would shine with more regularity in our sanctum. AGRICULTURAL MEETING. A meeting of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society was held on Saturday the 12th of May, 1855, at the Public House of HENRY BAUMAN, in Allentown. President HIRAI' J. SCHANTZ in the chair. The minutes of last meeting were read and adopted-- The committee to audit the accounts of 1853—'54 not being present to report, was on motion continued. Resolved, That the Committee to attend to the Incorporation of the Society, be requested to have the same published according to law. Resolved, That the premium list of last year be adopted for the next Annual Fair, and that Dr. Charles li. Martin, Paul Balliet, Charles Seagreaves, Robert Oberly and Isaac Hartman, , be a committee to report awarding committees; and to meet for the purpose of their appoint ment on Saturday the 25th of May, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Public House of HENRY BACIIMAN, in Allentown. • Resolved, That the loan of $2OO made by Aaron G. Renningor and A. L. Ruhe, in April last, for the use of the Society, be legalized as their act and deed. Resolved, That the next Annual Fair be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the Ist, 2d and 3rd of October next. The Secretary reported the following insur ences on the buildings on the Fair Ground made in the " Sinking Spring Mutual Fire In surance Company" thus : Hall Building for $3OOO 00 Two Cattle Sheds each $3OO 000 00 Huckster Stalls 400 00 Carriage Shed 100 00 Chicken do. 100 00 Dwelling House 800 00 Total sum insured $5OOO 00 .Resolved, That Christian Pretz, Charles H. Bush and Dr. Tilghman H. Martin be a corn.: mittee to see what repairs aro necessary .at the Fair Ground, and make all necessary repairs. Resolved, That a general meeting of the So ciety be held on Saturday the 2d'ofjJune,lBss, at the Public House of Benjamin-F. liageduch, in Allentown, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. On motion the meeting adjourned. A. L. RUBE, Secretary. WIIAT IS A NEWSPAPER?-- The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, (in the case of Bowen vs. Taylor and other officers of Allegheny City, a suit to recover damages for opening a street through plaintiff's property, without legal no tice of the proceedings,) decided " That publication of a notice like this is not sufficient -if made in a German paper—that when an act of Assembly provides for notice in a newspaper, it always means an English paper, unless some other be expressly mentioned.— •The notice was also published three times in Purvianee's Weekly Advertiser. But this is not a.newspaper in any sense of the word. It was merely a sheet of paper covered with ad vertisements, and distributed gratuitously at the expense of the Advertisers. It was a hand bill rather then a newspaper. The publication was the same as none." SALE or vim Mutt LINE.—Tho bill for the Bale of the Main Lino passed the Senate finally on the 4th, by a vote of 22 to 11. The mini mum price is fixed at eight millions. If pur chased by the Pennsylvania, Railroad Compa ny, an additonal million' will be required, in consideration of the repeal of the! tonnage tax. [l"At the Bull's Head, New York, good beef is selling at from 11 to 13Y cents per pound on the hoof—the latter being the highest price ever known in the New York market. PVULW mourairia. A large and respectable meeting of the citi 'teens of Nbrth Whitehall township, was held at the house of John Schantz, jr., on Monday the 7th of May, for the purpose of expressing their opinions in regard to the newly enacted • • license law. The meeting was organized by appointing tho Mowing officers : JOHN ERDMAN, President. lIENRYBAER, Sen., JOSEPH G. NEWEIARD, Sen., BENJAMIN BREINIG, GEORGE MILLER, Sen., VICO Presidents. Joseph Steckel, John Schantz, jr., Secreta ries. The object of the meeting having been stated, on motion a committee was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the meeting. Tho committee consisting of Joshua Litury, William J. Keck, David Laury, Tilghman Kern, Stephen Balliet, Peter Sheidy, Dr. S. Wilson, George Miller, jr., C. L. Knauss, John Schantz, Sen., John och, Jacob Miller, William Scheirer and Daniel Schneck, retired for -this purpose, and in a short time returned with the following preamble and resolutions : When in the course of human events, the free and sovereign people of the United States are brought under the power of an unendurable des potism, when our servants who were elected to foster and protect the interests of the common wealth and give expression to the public will, b- . . . _ . . 1Y6757Fur., 18 ft. Bosh. 2051 Toiis 1901 " 1671 " 194 " 204 " 2091 " iecome such victims to fanaticism as to enact such laws as are a disgrace and a curse to the people, it is our right, purchased by the blood of our fore-fathers, peaceably to assemble ♦nd express in such terms as we see fit our opinion on the subject of such legislation. And whereas, our last General Assembly has passed a most despotic and fanatical Ligt.or law, which should rather be entitled " an act for the encouragement of domestic intemper ance" than for the suppression of it, we, the free citizens of North Whitehall, have here as sembled to express our veiws in regard to this despotic measure. Therefore, Resolved, That in our opinion the Anti-Li cense law which is to take effect on October next, is a disgrace to a free people ; that its appearance in the moral world is calculated to elicit nothing but pity for its miserable projec tors, and that we have reason to believe that it, never can be forced upon the people of Pennsyl vania. Resolved, That inasmuch as the people of this State never asked for such a Bill, but on, the contrary by a large majority refused to. do so, it will in our opinion be highly dangerous to attempt to force it upon them against their will. Resolved, That we, as the Sons of the Sires of 1776, never will consent that a band of secret intriguers—a mere hand full of political demagogues—shall ever fasten on us an unright eous and unendurable yoke, which we. in com mon .with . a majority of the people of this State, have so emphatically repudiated at the Ballot Box. Resolved, That we call upon the fellow citizens of this county, as well as the public generdlly to stand up with us, shoulder to shoulder, in the effort which we shall make to repeal this most obnoxious law. • Resolved, That we will use all peaceable and lawful means to effedt the repeal of this law. but are determined that if its measures are to be forced upon us to devise means by which force can be met with force. • • Resolved, That we are not opposed to a sensible and rational law for the promotion of the Temperance Reformation, and will do our best to support it; that which is good we support because it is so, and that which is evil we oppose for the same reason. No man with a spark of common sense, no man that enter tains a heartfelt wish to suppress intemper ance, no man whose moral sense is at all eleva ted, can in the contest that is now going on, fail to see theNdisastrous consequences that must flow from this law. With hypocritical zeal it places upon / paper its claims to moral reforma tion, while in reality it encourages that which it professes to suppress. Resolved, That in ,our opinion this law, enforced, will operate not only unequally but most injuriously for the cause of temperance.— Under its provisions any one who can aflbid it, may purchase a barrel of whiskey, take it to his house and then become as drunk as he will, .the law will not effect him : the lowest loafer in the land, sunk far beneath respect, who cares nothing for public opinion, can at any place where liquor is sold under this law, pur chase a quart of his faNurite drink, carry it away, become dead drunk and still escape the penalty of the law ; while the man who seldom drinks and never becomes drunk, lie who would consider it beneath him to purchase it by the quart or barrel, is by this law compelled to do without it altogether. Resolved, That we do not believe that we err when we say this lavi is a great evil, nor do we mistake the public opinion when we say that the sensible portion of the people will raise up against it and use all proper means to remove it. The expression of public opinion agl!inst at the Ballot Box, and the manner in which it was forced upon us, gives us the assurance that it will have neither a long nor a peaceable cx istence, and those who have brought it upon us must answer for all the consequences that may flow from it. Resolved, That thousands of the citizens of this State, who, relying upon the majority that was cast against a Prohibitory law at the last election, have invested their all in a businesv that was strictly legal, will now be ruined if this law is not repealed. If the people of Pennsylvania therefore have the slightest re spect for their own decisions, they will press for its repeal with a power that can not be.re sisted, and teach their servants (the law makers) that the sovereign will must be re spected. The law stands now by the strength of a short sighted and fanatical government and in opposition to the public will. Resolved, That we tender our thanks to Messrs. Fry and Reese for their opposition to this hated law. Resolved, That these proceedings be publish ed in all the papers in Allentown. MEXICO.—The latest news ftom this quarter is to the effect that Santa Anna was so serious ly ill that he was not expected to live. His malady was an affection of the heitd and throat, causing a state of stupor. There is a rumor to the effect .that the Mexican Government are disposed to sell Lower California, for which they will accept the modest sum'of forty million of dollars.' Santa propbably keeps a longing eye upon Uncle Sam's full treasury. Tna RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE AT NEW YORK.- There were received at New York on Friday, over the Erie Railroad 'and down the Hudson River 0,211 barrels of flour, 6,615 bushels of oats, 720 packages of butter, and 300 packages of cheese. The arrivals of butter in' that city are said to be quite large, and have been so for several days, resulting in a material reduction In .‘ price. • DMA man has been arrested in New York for borrowing another man's wife, and $6OO of a Bank President, and decamping with both. A Hatter Tim* Coming. So far as accounts have reached us they are favorable to tho growing crops.. Our informa- tion is based upon notices in the various news papers, and drawn from conversation with farmers, as well as from merchants and - others who have, travelled recently through different regions of the country. All concur in saying that the indications are decidedly favorable ; that vegetation has started luxuriantly, and that tho prospects of an abundant harvest arc most cheering. From the South, where Spring comes earlier, and the season is further advanc ed, wo have good accounts. The prices of breadstutl are still enormous, •but the indications from various quarters, authorize a belief that the worst has been experienced, and that a change for the better must soon take place. We trust sincerely that this view may be realised. Tho laboring and working-classes have suffered severely for some time, and the wonder is, that they have been able to get along with any degree of comfort. The high prices and hard times, it is be hoped, will have a tendency to restore things to a more healthy condition, and teach our citizens the severe but wholesome lesson of prudence and economy. They should now learn to reduce their wants, and live as necessity shows them they ought always to have done. Flour is now selling in Philadelphia at eleven dollars a barrel wholesale, or higher than for sixteen years. In 1706, however, Howard street flour sold in Baltimore at fifteen dollars per barrel, and in 1817, it was quoted at $14.25. In 1847, tho year of the Irish famine, the highest prico in New York was only $9.12 It is difficult therefore, to account for the pre sent extra rates, except on the ground, that the crop of last year was far more limited than was generally supposed. Now too, the country is everyiwhere intersected with Railroads. The fertile West is accessible by half a dozen chan nels, and one would suppose that breadstuffs, instead of being higher, could at least be fur nished at moderate rates in the Atlantic cities. But, as already observed, the crop was far below an average, or there are too few indivi duals comparatively speaking, engaged in the important business of agriculture. If the Eng lish and French crops had failed last year, the condition of affairs would have been much worse. As it is, we must bear -and forbear a little longer, in the hope of a decided improve ment. Nearly all the Western depots are rapidly filling up with grain. The arrivals at St. Louis are unusually large for the season. and the Pittsburg Chronicle says that there never was perhaps more, flour for sale in that city at one time, than at present. The Buffalo Republi‘ states that there arc 1,500,000 barrels to come forward before harvest, from the West ern States and the Canadas, and that this'vast aggregate will be shipped the moment the canal shall be available. How Shall Hotels be Sustelned The Village Record, regards this an import ant question, now that no licenses are any longer to be granted to hotel-keepers, to sell liquor, affecting not only landlords but the public. That houses of public accommodation are essential to the convenience of citizens and to the wants of travelers, is admitted by all.— Heretofore, the owners and proprietors have looked almost exclusively to the profits upon the sales of liquor for their remuneration, and comparatively few houses, even where kept on temperance principles, have been able to make a respectable living merely by entertaining strangers and travelers with food and lodging. It is obvious that the necessity for hotels to entertain strangers and travelers will be just as great as ever. It is right too, that those who are so essential to public accommodation, and whose hospitality is extended to all—should have a fair and liberal remuneration. The calling should be not only honorable but profii able. The; profession has many attractions for those fond of public life, and now that neither custom nor law requires them to minister to the worst appetites of men they will pursue it with great pleasure. But how shall they be sustained? There is but one way,. and that is by increasing their charges. This will be ex pected by every reasonable . man. In the country and rural districts, oespecially, the charges for entertainment should be advanced. The traveler can afford to pay almost any price for a clean, well aired bed ; and should refuse at all times to be stuck into a dirty one. So also, he should pay liberally for good wholesome food and the shelter of himself and horse. For these luxuries he should bo willing to pay a liberal compensation. A Bin BABY AND ♦ Ltrrtx Ors. There has been exhibiting in New Orleans a female _ infant, nine months old, who weighs sixty-six pounds, and is growing at the rate of five pounds ,per month. 11cr name is Elizabeth Cox, and she is to compete for the prize at Barnum's Museum in Neap York. Captain Alfred Nurky and wife, at Bing-Sing, New York, have in infant child, between four and five months old, which weighs a *trifle over five pounds, and weighed precisely one pound and fourteen ounces at birth. Of the two " babies" it is hard to say which is the greater curiosity. /‘ LAnos. Roma.—The largest room in the world, under a single roof and unbroken by pil- lars or other obstructions, is at St. Petersburg. and is 650 feet in length and 150 feet in breadth. By daylight it is• used for'military displays, and a battalion can conveniently manoeuvre in it. In the evening it is often converted into a vast ball room, when it is warmed by sixteen prodigious stoves, and 20,000 wax tapers are required to light it prop erly. The roof of this structure is a single arch of iron; the bars alone on which it rests weigh ing 12,830,000. ' • 077" The most terrible punishment that a man can be made to endure is to hang himself around his gal's.neck until ho is dead, dead, dead ! • • AWFUL SIUPWREOK AND SUFFERING-SEVEN . MEN LIVING ON SHAM. OIL AND OAMMENE.- The schooner John Clark, Captain Mcßay, sailed from Now York for Jackmel on, the 3d day of March, and on 'tho 7th a squall struck the schooner and threw her on her beam ends, and it was an hour before they , succeeded in cutting away the weather rigging, when the mainmast and foremast went close , by the deck, then she righted. The hatches had bursted and the vessel was full of water.— They were left without food or water, but on the next day obtained a keg of crackers that were wet with salt water. After which, they got a bucket of vinegar, some shark liver oil and some camphene ; the latter made them stupid and feel as if they were on fire. The fifth day after the catastrophe the captain, mate, steward and two men died, and they, tht; two remaining men, had nothing to eat for eight days previous to being taken off. Those that died went crazy previous to death; They also state that they saw two different vessels, one of which—a fish ing schooner—came close to them, so that they could see the man at the helm. They hallooed to them, and she hove to and came close up under their lee, and after surveying them, bore away without offering any assistance. All were living at that time, and but for it being before daylight, could have read the name, as her letters then were indistinctly visible. The weather was good and nothing to hinder them from saving all hands. On the eighth day the bark Clara came in sight and saw two men on the bow waving their hats. The bark hove to, got out 'a boat, and succeeded in taking them off. The names of the two men saved were Charles Lowell, and Robert Mcßay, the cap tain's son. TAIL, FEATHERS, AND A COWHIDE—MEDICINE FOIL A BRUTAL HUSDAND.—The Chicago Journal tells the following : " A man named Billon, living at Galena, Illinois, of considerable wealth and very respectably connected, had been in the habit, for years past, of maltreating his wife and family in the most brutal manner. On Sunday last, having made an attack upon the unoffending woman, ho was thrown in jail, and on Monday morning was brought out and fined twenty-five dollars—a sum so inadequate to the offence that the citizens—to the number of about seventy-five—determined to take the law in their own hands. On Monday night the party preceeded to Billon's residence, and— though they•found it guarded by Billon him self, armed with a two-barreled gun, and a constable, carrying a revolver—took him pri soner, tied and stripped him, and with a good cowhide applied to his bare back, settled the score that has been running up for years.— Then applying a thick coat of tar and feathers to his person, they left hint with an admonition to sin no more." A TERRIBLII TRAGEDY IN WISCONSIN.—On the night of the 23d ultimo, according to the Chicago Tribune, a respectable citizen of Beloit, Wisconsin, was awakened by the screams of his wife,. who saw a man in the house. The husband as he sprang from his hed, was fired upon by the intruder, who missed his aim.— The husband' then snatched up his own musket fired, and the intruder fell dead. Both occu pants thereupon fled to the house of a neighbor, told what occurred, and, in company with sev eral persons, returned, when the father and mother were horrified to recognize it as the man gled body of the their own son ! It app'ears he had descended from his own room by means of a rope ladder, and entered the room, where he was shot, through a window. The house had previously been robbed very mysteriously, of two gold watches. FLOUR FOR SCALDS AND BURNS. -Dr. Reese, editor of the American • Medical Gazelle, reite rates his advice to apply wheat flour to burns and scalds. He says :—We have never known a fatal case of scalding or burning, in which this practice has been pursued during more than thirty years experience, and have treated hundreds in both public and private service.— We have known the most extensive burns, by falling , into cauldrons of boiling oil, and even molten copper, and yet the patients were res cued by this simple and cheap remedy. Hun• dreds of victims have died in excruciating agony, when a few handfuls of flour would have calmed them to sleep, and rescued them from pain and death." No CONNECTION OF ODOM'S AND STATE.- Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802 as follows : " Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies between the man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or worship, that the legislative powers of govern ment reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the American people which declared that their Legislature should make no laws re specting an establishment of religion, or pro hibiting the free , exercise thereof,' thus build ing a wall of separation between Church and State." Pitommo.—There is now living at Great Falls, N. 11., a married lady who is the mother of 18 children, the oldest being , but 20 years of age. She has had two pairs of twins, a boy and a girl at each birth, and at ono time trip lets. All the children are alive, and the pros- pect is good for an addition to their number. NEW YORK RACE S-GREAT TIME.—The great est trotting match of the season, between Son: tag and Flora Temple, for $2,000, came off at the Union Course. Again " the best time on record" has to be recorded. Sontag, carrying three hundred pounds, won the race in three .straight mile heats, in 2:31-2:33-2:35. • ' pa -It has been ascertained that . people who take the papers and pay for them in advance are seldom struck by lightning. The season of thunder showers has arrived and delinquents will find it cheaper to pay up than to purchase lightning rods. That's so ! (bur stbip VOW. ' Ir7A dog that will fetch a bone will, take One. No allusion to female tattlers. o:7Thus far 113,000 Bounty Land applica tions have been received at Washington. tSalene, a celebrated racing mare, has been sold at Richmond for $l3OO. (Ci'Four thousand bushels and 100 barrels potatoes arrived'at Boston on Monday. 117 - It was nine years ago last Tuesday; since the battle of Palo Alto was fought. [7During last week 18,483 bushels of pota toes arrived at Boston from the British pro vinces. ' 0:7" On Wednesday 1,000 bushels of pota toes from Michigan arrived at Columbus, Ohio. 11,7 - The rate of interest as established by the Nebraska Legislature, is ten per cent. per an num. na'The horse is eaten in some parts of South America, especially in the southern portion, and its flesh is esteemed a great delicacy. (}7A woman that loires to be at the wondow, is like a 'bunch of grapes in the highway. fri - It is a curious fact, that during the pa riod of 138 years, the first born in the Austrian house has always been a girl. (Snuff boxes, containing snuffemnisitely scented, are said to be the fashion in Paris at present—for ladies. An abominable custom ! Eallerr Dreisbach, the celebrated " Lion Tamer," has taken a yrife, and settled down near Potosi, in Illinois. (17 - The cholera has appeared in St. Louis.— The papers of the Ist instant announce several deaths from it. is reported at Washington that the government of Kansas has been tendered to Judge Loring. K7Gen. Cass and Gen. Wm. 0. Butler ex press their hostility to the Know Nothings by published letters. ll*" How do you keep your books I" "By double entry." I make ono entry and father makes another." CC7German silver spoons of a yellow color contain copper and arsenic, and should never be used. Pure German silver is white. 10-Three essentials to a false story teller-L.a good memory, a bold face, and fools for an an- dience [I7•A thousand dozen hens' eggs were re cently imported into New York from Havre, France. This is rather a disgrace to our poul try-mania people. (0 -An editor " up in the country," talks of feasting on strawberries when they get ripe.— Where's the money to come from? Printers. feast on Strawberries—nonsense! frßoston issues 113 papers, with an an nual circulation of 59,000,000: New York. 104 papers, circulation 78,000,000: and Philadel phia 51 papers, circulation 98,000,000. human is the term that should plied to the females whim) uod made—ladies to those beings constructed by milliners and fash- onable society New YonK paper. in a fit of revolu tionary enthusiasm, says, " Hurrah for the girls of '76." No, no—say we—hurrah for the girls of 17! o:7•The average wheat crop of Scotland last year was 28 to 3G bushels per acre in the best districts, and in the worst even less than 21 bushels per acre. Li-Philosophers say that shutting the eyes makes the sense of hearing more acute. Our devil (Pete) . says this accounts for the many closed eyes that are seen in the churches on Sunday. 13C711r.eurn.—An indispensable requisite for business as well as amusement, which. young men spend the greater part of their time in damaging, and old men the greater part. of their wealth in repairing. (r7•Three hundred and nineteen babies pass ed over the Southern Michigan R. It. in ono train of cars last week. The conductor en countered a terrible squall but steered safely to port. o:7•lngenuity seems to be abundant enough in the United States. Since the year 1835, no less than 42,000 patents have been granted.—. During the first quarter of the year 1855 the dumber granted was five hundred. (r7Seventeen years have elapsed since the first Atlantic steamer arrived at New 'York.— The first boat was the Sims, and her arrival was followed but a few hours afterwards by the Great Western steamship. [a•At Milwaukie there are 70,000 barrels of flour and 550,000 bushels of wheat bound for the East as soon as the lake opens. The ship ments of 41ilvraukie will double those of last year. 11:71hree powder mills in Marlborough town-, ship, Montgomery county, have blown up with in two weeks. No person was killed by the ex plosions. They were the property of Joshua , Johnson, Jacob Reed and George Miller. 9p-There arc now in the United States, thin, ty-two insane hospitals in active operation, and nine others in construction. Twenty-eight are State Institutions, and the number of insane is nearly twenty thousand. o:7l.utos Hens OF SIIAD.—The Hartford (Md.) , ltepublecan •states that 9000 shad were taken at one haul, near Havre de Grace, Md.. on Tuesday last, and, in the same neighborhood 8000 were taken the same day. 97The board of managers of the Western Virginia Agricultural Society have awarded a premium to Daniel Steenbed, or Ohio county, for the " best three acres of Corn." Mr. S. was the only competitor. His land produced 104 bushels to the acre. n''Tua latest folly enjoined by the goddess of fashion upon her abject devotees, the ladies of New York, is the wearing of bonnet ribbons four feet long. The bonnets, meanwhile, con& tinue to recede from public observation. They have long been invisible to the naked eye—of the wearer.; and they now threaten to Ink Vin' Only to ribbbn..
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