gljt rti)iglj Atatottr. ALLENTOWN , PA WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1855 • 11 - " V. B. PALMER, Esq., N. W. corner of Will and Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, is our authenticated Agent for receiving advertise ments and subscriptions to the Lehigh Idgisier. NORRISTOWN AND ALLIE:TOWN RAILROAD.- The Pottstown Ledger is informed by Mr. Townsend, the President of the Company, tfiat a sufficient amount of stock has been taken to ensure a commencement of the road this season. Another Brook. Another break of nearly a hundred feet oc curred in the Canal a few miles below this place, during the rain on Wednesday night.— A latige number of hands were put to work, and boating will be resumed in a day or, two. Water Company At an election for Managers of the North ampton Water Company, held May 14, the fol lowing persons were unanimously elected : A. L. Rulie, Dr. Charles 11. Martin, Ephriam Grim, Jesse M. Line and Amos Ettinger. The new Board organized by electing L. Ruhe, President ; J. ill. Line, Secretary ; J. Krause, Treasurer ; S. _4. /3ridge:i, Solicitor.; Charles 8.. Baba; Superintendent: The Mangers hive resolved to examine every Hydrant in town, and have it repaired ut the expense of the owner. Another Trial. Another squirting contest came off between the Columbia and Good Will Engine companies on Thursday evening last. Much solicitude was felt on both sides by those who worked the Machines, and each Company labored valiantly to sustain the character of their respective En gines. It is, however, hard to decide which En gine excelled, as both companies claimed the victory. On the whole it is believed that there is but little difference in the capacity of the coMpeting engines. It now remains to de termine who will be the most efficient in actual battle with the flames. Allen Rifles This company will make their first parade in their new uniform on Monday next. We have no doubt the Company will make a very impos ing appearance. They have been for some time under the efficient training of Captain Goon. QM This month is culled lovely May, but we have seen little that is very lovely about it thus far. Winter has forgotten something, and comes back surly and growling uporrus in the middle of mild etherial May. , Old Boreas, savage and ruthless, howls and whistles through the trees, and around the gables, blighting leaf and blast ing delicate bud and blossom, like a genius of ruin. If Winter has not had his share of em pirier the last six months, we fear his ambi tion is insatiable. Rain and a cold snap marked the entrance of the present week, and as we write, the, air is quite chilly. A Good Move. The Town Council last week instructed the Burgess to order the removal of all obstructions and offensite matter from the streets and alleys of the borough. This is a good move, and we hope our citizens will co-operate with the Bur gess in carrying out thO intentions of the Council, and also that after they are cleaned they will endeavor, zts much as possible, to keep them so. It is a duly which we owe to our.selveS, es well as to one another, as it not only helps the ap pearance of the town, but promotes health. BETA li. kl N LEVI Ocus, who with two others broke out of Jail last week, and for whose capture4so reward was offered, was retaken by . Mr. Daniel Berger, on Thursday last, in Upper Saueon township. Ile was found asleep in a grain field. • Shah? Fah The next State Agricultural Fair will be held at Harrisburg, the citizens of that place having subscribed the sum ($1500) to secure .it.' The Annual address before the Society, will be de livered by the Hum Frederick Watts, of Car lisle, its first President, and was one of ••thii earliest and most efficient members of the Society. The days fixed for the Fair, are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the 25th, 20th, 27th and 28th of September next. e Death from Suffocation. Two boatmen, named LinderMau; (brothers) belonging to Catasatiqua, were found dead last Sunday morning in the cabin of their boat, lying at the wharf at Mauch Chunk, having been suffocated from: , coal gns. They had closed the cabin and lighted a lire before going to sleep. One of them was married, and leaves a wife and child. A Cure for IllarA Times. I‘ the people were to attend less to politics and more to useful labor, they would have a greater abundance of food and at cheaper pri ces. Nearly all the popular movements of the day have reference to party politics, and the elevation of Mine favored individual to office, whore ho can draw a good salary from the pub lic without work. Were as much zeal display ed in spreading useful information among far mers, mechanics and manufacturers, there would be a much more profitable investment of labor, Muchmore prosperity, and a greater degree of liberality and enlightenment among the people. If somebody would start a nation al convention for the purpose of setting idlers to work, instead of creating useless, public of-' flees to withdraw them from labor, there would be a greater abundance of food for next year, and laboring people would not be driven to.tho brink of starvation, as they now•aro. Tho 'Crop*. _ The Spring comes on slowly, but the farmers have better reason to be satisfied with its promises, than if it had been, as last year, a succession of early thaws and late frosts.— Much of the spring work, in the way of put ting- in crops, &c., in this latitude, has been finished. We hear from almost all quarters of the State, and all parts of tho Union, that things look auspicious for nn abundant - year.— We hope it may prove so, for' there is every probability that all we can raise this year, and more perhaps, will be needed.. No available patch or corner of ground should be left unused, and there is hardly any that cannot be made proillablo in one way or another. A man saves no small sum, as prices rule now-a-days, who raises potatoes and other vegetables for his own use, to say nothing of raising them for sale. And an acre of wheat or corn, in 1855, is worth as much to its proprietor as two or three acres were in 1350. It' amounts to the same thing, for practicable purposes, as if each farmer's land was doubled in size. • . The crops in Pennsylvania, are said to look well and promise an abundant harvest. Wheat never looked better, and if it meets with no backset," two months more will do away with the starvation prices which now oppress the people. Spring crops are being put in with greatpr care than formerly, and most of our farmers arc making an effort to introduce the most improved modes of farming. In the " long run" we believe this year of scarcity will prove a blessing to the country. Hay will depend a great deal upon the rains, or lack of them, this month. Around this neighborhood, and in most parts of the State, the grass has been in much need of the rain that has fallen within the last week. In tho north ern Counties it has not got n good start for the same inson. We here giVe a few extracts from paliets in various sections showing the prospects of their localities : The Chicago (Mich.) Daily Press, says, All through Ohio, Michigan and Indiana, the wheat is in the most flourishing condition. Nothing apparently has occurred to mar its growth.-- Not a plant seems to have been winter-killed, it is thick and strong upcn the ground, and a very fair breadth was sown. In the vicinity of Terre Coupee, Indiana, splendid fields of from thirty to fifty acres were to be seen as far as the eye could take in the circuit of the prairie, and at many other points in Michigan and Indiana, the groWing crop looked equally well, though the fields were generally much smaller. The fields in the vicinity of White Pigeon, Cold water, and upon Sturgis Vrairie deserve spe cial attention. Altogether, we do not remem ber a season for many years when the prospects for a bountiful wheat harvest were so promising us they are at present, judging from what has lately come under our observatiw. The Mays ville (Kentucky,) Bale of Saturday afternoon says: No rain of any consequence has fallen for several weeks, in this section, and the grass is groWing too slowly to furnish food. In some instances, in order to save their stock, farmers have this week turned them on their' rye, thus almost certainly destroying that crop. The prospect for the small grain crops is good, and the corn is coming up finely. The tobacco . plants, we understand, are suffering very much from the tly. The Austin (Texas) State Ga zelle, of the 21st ult., says: " The late frosts destroyed almost all the fruit crops as well as most of the other early vegetation." Wheat, ill Western New-York, is said to be looking unusually fine. In the eastern part of the State it has not got so good a start sowing to the lack of rain, but still promises well. In Ohio heavy spring crops have been put in, and vegetation, conies forward with great rapidity. As for fruit, the public may as well make up their minds to do without Peaches this year, except as a great luxury. In New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Michigan and Ohio, the buds have suffered severely fib the frost or disease, and numbers of trees aro dying. They are looking more thrifty in the- western part of N. York than anywhere else, and we under stand - that in some instances where they were' Supposed to be killed, they turn out to be only backward. Apples, plums,.pearS, &e., as can 'he judged„are doing well this Year. The New .Lieense Law. . . The following is published in the papers of the interior, as the ppini6n of Attorney General Ine~ri.tx, in reference. to the operation of the recently enacted liquor law. It conflicts with the interpretation of, the law by ninny of the Courts, but is nevertheless worthy of attention as coining from the legal adviser of the Execu tive : . " Although the 14th Section oY the act of April 13th, 15155., entitled "An Act to restrain the sale of intoxicating liquors," declares that no license granted between the date of the act and the first of July next, shall authorize the retailing of liquors by innkeepers after the first day of October next, yet the act does riot pro vide for any apportionment of the price of li cense for a less period than one year, and inn keepers whose license have been granted since the date of the act, must therefore pay the price . of a whole year's license, to enable them to con tinue their business until the first day of Octo ber next, at which time all such license will expire by the express terms of the law. " After the first day of July next; no licenses for the sale of liquors can be granted or issued in any other manner than that provided by the act. Until the first of July next, lam of opin-; ion that the 'County Treasurer may issue licen ses as heretofore. The applicants in such eases must pay the prices now fixed by law fur the whole year ; and the mercantile appraiers must make their returns for the present year as usual ; there being no change made in their duties by the act, nor any provision for an ap pointment by theth. THOS. E. FRANKLIN, Attor. Gen. Lancaster, May 4, 1855. [l:7•Butter is selling at 40 and 60 cents per pound in Richmond, Va. PRIORS OB PROMS n Nsw YORK.—FIOIIr ha.s again advanced. • Gommon to good Stato is quoted at $10.37 to $10.44 per barrel ; favorite State, $10.50 ; common to .good and extra Ohio, Indiana and Michigan; $10.37 to $12.12 ; extra Genesee, $10.75 to $12.75. Southein sold at from $10.75 for common brands, up to $12.37 for extra. Canadian flour from $10.25 to $11.25. Rye flour, $7 to $8.50 per barrel. Corn, meal, 85,25 per barrel.= Wheat is scarce and wanted at old prices'. Rye may be quoted at $l.BO per bushel. Barley, $1.20 per bushel. Corn, from $1.16' to $l.lB per bushel. Salt pork sold at $17.02 to $17.75 for new tness ; and , $14.37 to $24.50 for new prime. New country mess beef sold at $lO to $12.25 ; country prime, $8.50 to $0.12 ; re packed Chicago, Indiana, &c., $14.75 to $15.50 ; extra mess, $16.25 to $10.50 ;. beef hams, $l7 to $20.50 per barrel. Beef cattle, sheep and lambs sold last week at unheard of prices.' Prices aro now actually double and treble what they were a few years back. Think of cattle at wholesale at fifteen dollars a hun dred, and meat from 'seventeen to twenty-five cents a, pound at retail ! Flour and beef, if they remain at present prices, must hereafter be interdicted articles of diet fur the poor.— Poultry and game are scarce—hardly any to be seen in market. Turkeys sell at 20 cents per pound, geese at 15 cents, and chickens at $1.50 per pair. Fish is plenty and cheap.— Vegetables are coming in faster, though the prices are still high. Fruit is of course scarce. Among apples, greenings have disappeared, and Spitzenburgs are almost gone. Butter is coming down in price ; and it is high time it did. Best Orange Courtly sells at 28 cents. Eggs arc dear fur this time of year—only nine being given for a shilling. Never in New York _pave provisions been so dear. LATEI CALIFORNIA NRWS.-By the arrival, at New York, of the stamship Illinois, we have advices from California eight days later. She brings $1,115,000 of the treasure saved from the wreck of the steamship Golden Age, which vessel struck on a sunken rock of the south west end of the Island of Kicaron, and com menced leaking so badly that she was run ashore. In California, business was very dull, and many failures had occurred. The money mar ket continued tightly though confidence was partially restored. Seventeen vessels from At lantic-ports had arrived at San Francisco with in six days. The mint had not resumed opera tions. The miners were doing well, but owing to the scarcity of coin very little dust reached the market. Rain had fallen steadily in the valleys for a week, and in the mountains snow had fallen to a great depth. From the Kern river, diggings the news is still contradictory. A secret society, opposed to the Know Noth ings, has been organized all through California: It is called Freedom's Phalanx. The Legisla ture had fixed April 30th for its adjournment, and it is thought doubtful whether another at tempt will be made this season to elect a- 11. S. Senator. A stringent law against gambling has been anacted, the effect of which, it is thought, will be to shut up all the gaming houses. LATE FOREIGN NEWS.—The Steamship Baltic arrived at New York on the 18th from Liver pool with dates from that city io the 6th, and news from the Crimea to the 4th instant. By this arrival, intelligence from the Crimea in forms us that all the Russian outworks at Se bastopol have been captured by the allied Eng lish anifFrench forces. Fearfully bloody con flicts have taken place between the Russian and allied forces, and the Russians have suffer ed severe losses both in killed, and prisoners taken by the allies. No assault has yet been made on Sebastopol ; but active preparations were on foot for that ..purpose. An attempt was made in Paris on the 2nd inst., by an •Italian, to assassinat Louis Napoleon. The as sAssin fired twice at Emperor ; but failed in his murderous design. Personal revengeful feel ings actuated the attempted deed. The ruffian was arrested and incarcerated. Them is noth ing of particular moment from other portions of Europe, worth telegraphing to you. •I have given you all of importance. Commercial mat ters generally remain as per last advices, with out particular alteration. FIRE AND ACCIDENT.—On Sunday eveningilie 15th inst., between 5 and 6 o'clock a fire broke out in the smoke house of Messrs. Fry & Fenner, on the canal at South Bethlehem (for merly. Wilson Shatfer'S) which was totally con sumed before the firemen were able to reach the ground, together with a lot of meat 'valued at u shilling a pound - and upwards. As the Ptirseverence Engine was running down the Main Street hill at full speed, Mr. George Dil- Bert, who had hold of the rope, and finding himself unable to keep pace, endeavored to get to one side, and fell, and was struck by the wheels of the engine, breaking his right arm and severely injured, his head. Ile was able'to walk home, where I)rs. Hillman and Wilhelm dressed his wouna.--Bahleheni Times. SINGULAR ESCAPE.- A few days since, while Mrs. Danforth, of Warren, Pa., was engaged in het? usual duties, a heavy thunder storm came up, and' in the midst of its .fury a lightning stroke descended upon her, burning the hair from the crown. of the head to the back of the neck, melting her hair 'pins, and proceeding down her body—leaving its mark as it went— until it passed through the floor. Strange to say the lady is rapidly recovering. DODGING.—Thero aro divers and sundry de vices concocted to evade the provisions of law— the prohibitory liquor laws which have been enacted from-time to time furniihing their full quota. In New York State, according to the recent law, the ardent may only be sold in the " original packages." In view of this fact it is proposed to make those original packages con tain but one " horn." ' REannsanou oiLETTnas.-'--The new plain of Post-Office registration of valuable letters goes into operation on the Ist of July next, and the Postmaster General has issued instructions for the guidance of Postmasters in connection therewith. This registration system is about the smallest piece of humbug fathered• by the existing administration. A correspondent mailing a valuable letter, pays \five cents extra to have it registered. • If it is. missing then, prompt and special measures aro' to be taken for its recovery ; but no additional responsibil ity is devolved upon the Department. If the letter is' lost altogether the correspondent re covers not a dime. All lie gets fur his extra five cents is a valueless receipt, and the promise of " extraordinary care in the safe tranimisston" of the letter. That we should suppose to be tho duty of the government without extra chaige ; and this additional tax of five cents seems very much like the quarter of a dollar with which a hotel' guest, bribes a neglectful waiter to furnish him the dinner fur which he has already contracted to pay the landlord. If the government insists upon its monopoly of letter carrying, it certainly should assume all the responsibilities 'of common carriers. GOVERNMENT AND HISTORY. —The govern ment of Kansas is similar to that of other ter ritories of the United States. Kansas formed part of the great Louisiana purchase acquired from France in 1803, and subsequently formed parts- of the Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Territories, from which last it was in 1854 erected into a separate territory, after a stormy debate in the National Congress as to whether the Missouri Compromise (an act 'passed in 1820, forbidding slavery north of 30 deg. 30 min. North latitude), should be repealed. The repeal was carried by a large majority in the Senate and a decided one in the House ; it being thus left to a majority of white inhabitants of the territory, when they may apply for admis sion into the confederacy as a state, to allow or forbid slavery as they may deem proper. FREAKS AMONG THE' PEACH BLOSSOMS.-Dr. White, the postmaster at Union Star, Ky., in a letter to the Louisville Courier, notices a singu lar fact : In that section throughout every peach orch ard there has been a greater bloom than for many years past, and upon examining the blossoms a singular phenomenon is observable. In some orchards for every blossom examined there has been found inside the cups from one to as many as seven well formed peaches, and a large majority of the blossoms have three or four in them. This has never been observed in that part of Kentucky before. SETTLING AN ESTATE.—The Omaha Indians have a novel way of settling the,estate of a de ceased person where there arc no legal heirs to the property. The people en masse are notified to meet at a given time and place, at which they resolve themselves into a court. The properly is exhibited, and all who desire to be heirs to the property stand forth, and at a given signal enter upon a race to a goal a miledistaut.— The first one back is the legal heir. TEE STUYVESANT PEAR TREE. —A Relic of the Revonition in Bloom.—One of the most irr teresting natural curiosities in our city at the present time is the old Stuyvesant pear tree, at the corner of Thirteenth street and Third ave nue. The few branches that remain upon the trunk of this ancient tract, which is upwards of one hundred years of nge, are now completely covered with white blossoms.-- V. Y. Evening Post. Mississim POLITICS.—Sono co gentlemen of the Democratic party, in the county of Lau dredale, Miss., have published a card., announc ing their withdrawal from the Know Nothing organization.,, M. A. McKinnon, the President of the Know Nothing Council at Oxford, Miss., also publishes a card, announcing his with drawal, and giving a history of the origin, pro gress and plans of the Order in that county. A LARGE PIEE.—Mr. George Sherry caught one• day this week, in the Turn Hole Dam a PIKE, which weighed 0 lb. 4 oz., and meascred in length 20 inches. This is a large fish for the waters „of the Lehigh. The head can be seen at the Hotel of Mr. Alfred Lentz.—Carbon Democrat. A BEArrfrul. FLowsm—The B.alritnore (Md.) Sun speaks in glowing terms of a specimen of tho Westoria Chinensis," a Chinese plant, in the garden of Professor Monkur, of that city, which covers an area of about 250 square feet, snd has upon it about 7000 flowers of a blue color, not unlike the lilac in appearance. PROFITS or OnetrAans. —A distinguished agriculturist, who has 1000 apple trees, and in tends to set out many more, says that if apples will sell at 25 cents per bushel, they arc his most profitable crop—and if they will not sell; they are the cheapest food he can - raise for all kinds of animals. VALUE OF A POUND OF VIE FINEST LINEN THREAD. —A single pound of flaxen thread, in tended for the finest spechnens of French lace, is valued at six hundred dollars, and the length of the thread is 'about two hundred and twenty six miles. One pound of this thread is more valuablti than two pounds of gold. REDEEMED AT PAIL—The notes of all the sus pended free banks of Illinois are now redeemed at par by the Auditor of that State, he having sold the stocks Which were pledged for security of the notes. The suspended bank notes of Wisconsin are also redeemed at par. I:7"The New York Post understands that seventy babies have already entered the lists for prizes at Barnum's Baby Show in June nest. Ir7•The moment friendship becomes a tax it's singular, at every fresh call it makes, how very. few persons it finds at home l• Irrettof the Murderer of Bill Poole. The arrival at New l 'York, 6n Tuesday of the Grapeshot, with the criminal Baker on board, furnishes the lending topics of the papers 'of the day, and in order that our readers may be thoroughly posted up we give a full synopsis of the affair. • The murder of William Poole was committed at Stanwix Hall, No. 579 Broadway, New York, on the 24th of February last, between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock at night. Poole after receiving the fatal wound, lingered till the Bth of March, when death put an end to his sufferings. As soon as it was known who was the murder of Thiele; search was commenced for Louis Baker, but Misuccessfuny. He succeed ed in eluding the vigilance of the police ; and taking passage on board the Isabella Jewett, he sailed for the Canary Islands on the 10th day of March, fourteen days having expired from the time of the murder to his departure. As soon as it was ascertained that Baker had sailed in the Isabella Jewett, preparations were made for his purnit, and George Law, to further the ends of justice, generously tendered to his Honor the Mayor the well-known fast sailing clipper barque Grapeshot. This vessel was placed under the direction of Judge Stuart, and was sent to sea for the Canary Islands on the 18th of March, eight days after the Isabella Jewett had left. The Grapeshot has performed her voyage, and has succeeded in bringing the fugitive back. We here give an account of the voyage:' The clipper-ship Grapeshot, Capt. Richard Hepburn, arrived at the City of Palmas, Island of Gran Canaria, on Saturday, April 7, and came to anchor under the Ice of the fort. The Isabella Jewett had not arrived, but came in on the 17th of April, 10 days after the clipper.— After taking in water and making all necessary preparations to intercept the Jewett; we weigh ed anchor, and for several days stood off and on the harbor. On Tuesday we espied the Jewett under. the land, standing toward the City• of Palmas ; we made all sail, and on nearing her requested her Captain to back her foretopsail. The request was without any delay complied with, and in a few moments the pursuers and the pursued were within a few hundred yards of one another. The officers having disguised themselves in sailor's garb, got into a boat and rowed to the brig. Getting alongside, the ob ject of their search was discovered on board the Jewett, apparently unconscious of the nearness of those in pursuit of him. The officers hastily gathering aroundAiaker, he was informed of the nature of' their business, and warned not to make any attempt at escape, as they were fully prepared for anything of that sort, at the same time each' of them preSented a loaded revolver at his breast, and then one taking hint by the arm, another by the wrist, another by the shoulder, &c., and (breed him on his hack over the gunwales of the boat that was on deck, and so put the irons upon him, he protesting, and making all the resistance he was able, calling nut " What does this mean ? What is this for I What do you want of me ?•' We told him that he must go with us. Ho said he would not, and we could not take him—hallow ing out, " Captain, Captain, these are a set of pirates, and have come to take me !" Then appealing to the men of the brig, " Men, will you let them take me ?" Two men belonging to the brig said that we should not take him. The Captain interfered and said to us, " Here, you are too fast ! What is this all about ?" Baker said, " They arc a set of pi rates and they want to take Hie." He recog nized the most of them, and called them by name ; saying, " Do you get paid for taking me ?" and begged them to let him go into the cabin and he would go with them.. Finding all resistance in vain, and being assured he must go, dead or alive, and that the easiest way was the best way, be asked for his things the cabin, and gave directions where they could be found. The time did not occupy over 10 or 15 min utes from the time they left. the bark until they returned with -him. Baker had no idea that they were sent after him, and thought that they wore wrong, or that they wanted to put a pilot on board. He had on a hickory stripe shirt, and was in his shirt-sleeves, wore also cap. He stood no watch during the passage, but was on the - brig's papers by the name of Wm. A. Browne. Before the boat left the side of the brig it was explained to the Captain of the Jeirett what the arrest was for. He ap peared to be thunder stricken, and much fright ened, said .he knew nothing about it . ; " Will they do anything with me ?" A stateroom was prepared for the prisoner, and being well guarded, the Grapeshot set sail for New York with a favorable wind. During the passage home a constant watch was kept by the officers upon the movementebf Baker, lest he should make an attempt at suicide. . Baker's first inquiry when he got on board of the Grape Shot, was, " Is Poole dead ? ' I heard he was ; tell me. You would not have come after• me if he was not." They told him he was. He said he was sorry for his wife and child, and wished many a time when laying in his bunk •on the passage, that . it had been him, as he was alone, and had no one to provide for ; that it was easy to get into a muss but hard to get out. He found great deal of fault with the testimony given on the investigation. The voyage to New York was performed in twenty-nine days, during which time nothing wollthy of mention occurred. The Highlands were sighted on Tuesday morning, the 15th, • and succeeded in gettintiinto port about six o'clock in the evening. As Baker is already under indictment, there will be no examination at present. He has entirely recovered from the wounds he received during the affray at Stan wix Hall. He has a father living in New York, but no mother, brother or sister. Ho was born in Wales. His mother died when ho was about six years old. (11)bilio and Cubs. Ca - The man who does most has tho least ime to talk about what ho does. Ca - There are nearly flvo millions of sheep in the State of Ohio. La - Nothing but a good life can at men for a better one. I:lllappiness can be made quite as well of cheap materials as of.dear ones.. 111:1 , The Emperor of France , Will 81 . years old on the 21st of April. • 11:7 - Six sisters were married the same night at their houso in Somerset county, Penn. 03During lost week tho deaths in i New York city numbered 431, and Phiradetphik 165. _ pa - The appropriation bill paeifeit by the Leg,• islature amounts to $4,130,414 76. 1:17' A Buzzen..—A rattlesnake was recently!' killed in Florida with 35 rattles. [rif• egood act benefits none else, it bane. , fits the doer. 07 - A ship lately sailed from Liverpool for Austria with a cargo of 263 unmarried women:- (17r - The number of processes through which a needle goes in its manufacture is sevenly.. 1:1111oney—a composition for taking stains• out of a character. [l,_The pay of the French soldier is ono cent• per day. Er3lt is estimated that at least $1,000,000 worth of lumber has floated down the Delaware this spring. il✓ Young men should not loaf, cheat, swear.: plague the girls, steal hollyhocks, nor "fret" old maids. G'President Hitchcock says, that the whole amount, in solid measure, of the coal of the United States, equals at least 8500 square miles. [l'llrhen men marry now-a-days, they got more whalebone than woman, and more coffee bags than " tin." 13:7•Tivo hundred Mormons arrived at Pitts burg, a few days since, on their way to Salt Lake city. rain Europe people take off their hat to " great men ;" in America, " great men" take off their hats to the people. 3 - Short Dresses, if adopted by the ladies, will have one good effect, at any rate. It will oblige them to mend tl stockings. 1:a -- 12.1 A LATE SPERM, Lucy Stone said— " We know there is cotton in the ears of mon. Let us look for hope in the bosoms of women." li:7'Solin slandering gld bachelor says it is much joy when you first get married ; but it is more jawy after a year or so. [1:7) -- The Town of Carlisle, Pa., has imposed a tax of 50 cents on all dogs found at large during the summer months. Q a - The cholera has again broken out on the western rivers—travelers are advised to take the cars instead of steamboats. ITT, Making their appearance—mad dogs in various parts of the country. Look out for EMI pJ - Set a value on tho smallest morsels of knowle:lge. The fragments arc the dust of diamonds (U . M../(/—the man that got his moustache colored. It's no use Frank, we want items, and we're bound to has'e 'eni, come from what source they may. Da'The best life preserver in this world, is a marriage certificate. One half the rheumatism in the market is only vice, assuming the shape canes and crutches. 7The hotel Keepers in West Chester have united upon a schedule of prices to be observed hereafter. The prices arc raised from 15 to 20 per cent. IL - 31 . r. Stratton, father of the well known dwarf Tom Thumb, rendered famous by Bar num, has 'become insane, and is now an inmate of the Hartford Lunatic Asylum. 1: - "Thirteen hundred and thirty-six persons embarked for Liberia under the auspices and at the expense of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, for the past two years. ' --- Each miller and bolter of flour is bound by law—seo Inspections, Purdon's Digest— to have his brand-mark. entered with the the Clerk of the Quarter Sessions. EJA country editor thinks that Columbus is not entitled to much credit for discovering America, as the country is so largo he could not well have missed it. ze D" A quiet exposition of truth has a better effect than a violent attack on error. !Truth . extirpates errors as grass extirpates weeds, by working its way into their place, and leaving them no room to grow. pJThe train which conveyed the Emperor Napoleon to Windsor on their recent visit to England, ran at the rate of 72 miles an hour. The distance was 28 miles. Brunnell, the great engineer, managed the locomotive. (l'Gen. Jas. Irvin has generously ofrerod to donate two hundred and fifty acres of land, in Centre county, to the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, , for a Farmer's High Schcil. 117-In Washington, a band of music per forms at the Capitol gardens on Wednesday afternoon, and at the President's gardens , on Friday afternoon, from five o'clock until • during the whole spring and summer. (People who think there is no flour " out West," aro not posted up. At Milwaukio there arc 70,000 barrels of flour and 550,000 bushels of wheat bound for the East. The shipments of Milwaukie will double those of last year. [l:7 - A trot for $lO,OOO carne*Off at the Union Course, between Mr. Wheelan's " Sontag," and 11'rOodruirs " Centrovillle." Sontag won in two-mile heats, easy, Time 2.35 i and 2.37. The trot was in harness. " Sontag" is to trot again soon for $5OOO. (]POPULATION IN CALIFORNII.—T.he lnl crease of population in California during the, year 1854, is estimated at 50,000, about 25,- 000 overland to an equal number by sea. lowa, during the past year,has received over 100,000 addition to her population, and Minnesota, 50,000. •
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