lip lebio Irgiottr. ALLENTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1855 0:74. IL PALMER, Esq., N. W. corner of Third and Chesnut streets, Philadelphia, is our authenticated Agent for receiving adVertise meats and subscriptions to the Lehi,glr Register. NOW Foundry and Machina Shops. We have constantly renewed indications of a. state of prosperity for our town, which is very gratifying indeed. Messys. BRIDGES, GER MAN and WILSON, who own the tract - of land between the Lehigh Basin and Allentown Fur nace, aro at present erecting for a company in Philadelphia several large Machine Shops, Feud dries, &o. The Company intend to engage in the manufacture of Rail Road Cars, Locomotives, Steam Engines, &c., and calculate to commence operations in September. The Works we are told are to be arranged for an immense stroke of business, and from the known energy and enterprise of those engaging in it, we can well believe that this concern will operate upon a magnificent scale. We were struck very for cibly with the judiciousness of the location of the works. No place in the State can hold out greater advantages to capitalistsiand men of enterprise than this. - The raw iron is at hand, and fuel must always be cheap, it being only twenty eight miles to the coal-regions. Manual labor too, is cheaper here than . in Eastern States, and easier commanded. The general health. iness of the situation, the rich, fertile country that surrounds us, and the honest, industrious, substantial, and wealthy class of people, are much to be considered. Signor Blitz. . " You-that have sides, prepare to shake them now !" Our old and distinguished friend, Signor Blitz, the world-renowned Magician and Ven triloquist—the scholar and the whole-soule . gentleman—with his learned Canary Birds, appear before the Allentonians in the afternoon and evening of Monday next. Ile will give our people such a treat as they seldom have an op portunity to indulgein. There is nothing in the entertainments of the Signor that the most fas tidiotis person could object to: We confidently predict a large attendance. The scenery around Allentown. The country just now looks well. The trees have all put on their green foliage ; some of the apple trees are in full bloom, while 'others are shedding their blossoms ; the fields are green with the wavy grass and the flowing wheat ; the flowers are out in gaudy colors and all' things are beautiful. The country indeed looks well. It is delightful to stroll out to Worman's Spring at the present time. The spring abounds with fine trout, which with its natu ral and picturesque beauties, renders it notori ous as a place of summer resort. his in fact a place upon which nature has unsparingly :lav ished its beauties, where a Venus might be pleased to• erect her temple, and where the muses might dwell with rapturous delight. To repair thither, to seek relief from the scorching rays of a midsummer's sun, where, among other luxuries, you may at one moment behold the springing trout, glittering in his golden spots, and sporting in pride and apparent se curity beneath the ripples of the little lake, the next dangling upon the fatal hook, ther served up before, you to gratify an epicurer taste, is with us, highly appreciated. The "Big Rock," which is on the Leith Mountain, about three miles south-east fro' town, is also a place of considerable.resort, am indeed presents many attractions. It is rocky eminence several hundred feet high,. easy access, from which there is a very extei sive and beautiful view of the country norl and south of it. In a few weeks from lb time, however, the scenery will be still mm elegant. The eye then lights upon a pleasing diversity of colors, produced by the yello• dottings of the rich and yellow harvests; an Holds loaded with crops slowly ripening, am presenting various shades. But when th earth has been summoned to change her sum nor for her autumnal mantle, when the moun tains seem to bo overspread with Turkish car pets, and the intervening country to have been touched by the richest and most delicate pen cillings of nattire*, - then it is that the view from the Rock is beautiful, and grand in the ex-. treme.- We would advise our readers to go to both the Spring and Rock one of the fine balmy days, we are now having. Now is the time to enjoy fresh air; now is the time to fill the lungs, with the real life and health, distilled in the laboratory of nature. Conmert. By reference to our advertising columns it will be seen that a Concert will he given in the Odd Fellows' Hall this evening by some of the present. and former music scholars of Mrs. J. N. GREGORY. The proceeds of the entertain ment are for the benefit of the Library Associa tion connected with the Allentown Acadeiy. We would advise those who, in these hard times, want a, little more than the worth of their money, and at the same time contribute to a most worthy object, to go and hear them. Of all entertainments the most rational, in structive and entertaining to mankind of refined feelings, are those of music, vocal and instru mental, They are worthy of encouragement, whenever presented by true gentlemen, ladies, families- or troupes. • Those who . spend their shillings for common negro performances, &c., would-do far better to save them—add together and patronize true artists, and genuine merit, when they present themselves, to break the monotony of our daily 'routine of busy carp. Presentation. A number- of •the frionds of Police officer Erma last week presented•him with a beautiful silver badge, as a testimoniarof their apprecia tion of him as a man and public officer. E xamtne yonr Lightning' nods. The season is now hero when we may appre hend danger to binildings•from lightning, and it would be wall for the farmers of Lehigh county to examine the points on the lightning rods about their buildings and see if they are dofeotivo, and those who have no conductors at all about their buildings to neglect this important work no longer. A careful and observant friend throws out. the following suggestions, which wo commend to the attention of our readers : • " Thunder and lightning aro coming, and it is all importent that lightning rods should be in perfect order. This is the way it has been. A barn is struck, and burned down. The inquiry goes forth, had it • a rod ? The reply is it had, consequently faith in their protecting power is somewhat diminishing. But the inquiry should go further. Was the rod in perfect order ! Now I have taken the trouble to notice in my travels, the condition of lightning rods. One I saw with the uppermost staple out and the rod resting upon the corner of the roof. Another barn with a slender rod, had the glass broken out of one of the staples, and the rod was testing against the iron of the staple. (Of course such a rod can do nothing but harm, but the utility of rods should not bo condemned therefore.) Another barn where the glasses were broken out, their place was supplied with leather. Farmers and others should see to it now." Arrested and Committed. On Wednesday last officer Hankey went to Philadelphia to arrest JonN BOYER, on a charge of setting fire to the stable of Mr. Augustus Keiper, several months since. He succeeded in arresting him on Saturday morning last, and brought him to this place on , Sunday morning. In consequence of some of the witnesses being absent on Monday, the hearing was postponed until yesterday afternoon, when he was brought before JOHN F. Rutin, Esq., who committed him to await his trial at the next Court. Famine Prices. If we are not in the midst of a positive fam ine, in name, we certainly are very near it, in fact,—for certainly at no time within the mem ory of the oldest inhabitant,' has the commu nity been called upon to pay such unheard of prices for the common necessaries of life.— Flour, the market reporters have it further advanced yesterday,' and this is about the story told every dny for the last six weeks. The speculators say this is the result of an actual scarcity in the country,—that the supplies are short, and all that, but papers from every sec tion of the country tell a very different story.— There is flour enough, corn enough, provisions . enough to supply all the wants of the country, if speculators would only let them come for ward. Woful as were the privations of the poor duripg_the past winter,—their condition, even now, would be little if any better, were it not that summer is upon us, enabling them tsi dispense with the use of fuel, and giving them more steady employment. • lIIGIIWATS It is no uncommon thing for persons to dig for sand and stone on the side of the public roads. They are, as a matter of course, liable for any accident that may occur in consequence, to travellers or cattle. A case was tried at the Chester County Court last week, in which a party sued for and recovered compensation for damages sustained from falling into a-quarry on the side of the road. Governor, and State Officers, Members of Congress and of the State Legislature, &c., took place on Thursday last. At the last Governor's election, in 1851, when 127,713 votes were polled, the Demo cratic majority in the State was 7,141, and at the Presidential election in the succeeding year, when the aggregate vote reached 129,546, the democratic majority went up to 15,281.7 At the election just held, but two candidates:for Governor were in the field—llnxnv A. Wise, Democrat, and Tnonits FLOURNOY, American. WASHINGTON, May 27.—Returns from seven ty-five counties of Virginia give Mr. Wise about 6000 majority being an American gain of about MOO over the Whig vote at the last Governor's election. The sixty-two counties to be heard from gave 450 Dernocratic majority at the last election. The Know Nothings here contend that the majority for Wise is but 4300, but they mostly give up the contest. Sunday Ercning.—We have nothing further of a definite character from Virginia. A ru mor prevails here that Flournoy has received some tremendous majorities in the western counties, reviving the hopes of the Know Noth ings. The western counties cannot be heard from before Monday or Tuesday. WASHINGTON, May 28. The returns of offi cial and reported majority in 107 counties foot up as follows :—Wise 19,032 ; Flournoy 11,. „„ 646—majority for Wise, 7386. There . #re yet 36 counties to hear from, which gave Pierce 1150 majority. NORFCTLIC, May 28.—Tho majority for Flour noy, for Governor, in Accomao is 110, being a gain of 68 on the majority for. Scott in 1852. • A VALUABLE pine log weamanufac tured into lumber, last Thursday, on Tionesta Creek, Pa., which made 1015" feet of clear stuff and about ono hundred feet of common. • The whole tree from which thillog was taken will probably yield lumber worth $lOO on the spot. Letter trona St. Lords Tho following is an. -extract from aletter written by a gentleman of this place, now trav elling through the Western States : Sr. Louts, Mo., May 20,1855. On our arrival hero we took rooms at Bar num's Hotel. At sunrise the next morning were out early to see the city. Our first day was an unfortunate gne, as it proved the hot test of the season, the mercury ranging from 94 to 96. Coming from where overcoats and thick flannels were required, were compelled to remove them all and substitute summer cloth ing. This gave us an unfavorable impression, and we thought if it ranged as high 'as this now, our chance would be slim in July and August. To say that St. Louis is a 'smart place for business would be using a very tame expres sion. To use a Hoosier phrase, it is a right smart place. The amount of goods on the levee surpasses all that we ever saw, and if this is any index to the amount of business done, we can safely set this down as only second to New York. They have a different way of doing business from other cities. Goods aro thrown out on the levee, and many of them lay there for days, and aro ofton sold and reshipped without going into a store. There is a population hero of about 120,000. The length otjhe city on the river is about nine miles ; the width from two to three. The buildings aro not generally as good as in our Eastern cities. The Court House is one of the best, and will cost when completed about one million of dollars. They have some good hotels—the Planter's and Barnum's are the best. The rum trade is more extensively car ried on here than in any city we ever saw.— The number of places where it is sold and the amount drank seems almost incredible. If there ever was a place that needed a Maine law this of all others should be the ono. The commerce of the place is carried on by steamboats ; from seventy-five to one hundred may be counted along the levee receiving and discharging their cargoes. They are construct ed for light draught, not drawing more than eighteen inches of water. The main deck is appropriated.to the use of engine and boilers, freight and emigrants. Above this is the main saloon, and state rooms for passengers. They are got up very light, and with much taste The May Flower surpasses all others. She is fitted up and furnished in fine style. Boats are arriving and leaving almost every hour in the day for the Illinois, the Mississippi and the. Missouri rivers. They all start when they can get a load, and stop by the way to•receivo or discharge freight, sometimes for two or three hours. The traveller can make no calculation when he will get through, but it is nearly as cheap travelling on the boats as living at a hotel. They feed and lodge without extra charge, ,and often the board would come to more than the price of a passage. This city has been watching with a jealous eye the rapid growth and prosperity of the city of Chicago, and at this time seems quite elated to find that wheat is shipped from that city to this market. The prices have ranged high, but buyers are cautious. With the business prospects of this city we were‘tnuch pleased. But there are dark shadows hanging over her that cast a gloom over her prosperity, which - - causes us to sigh for a quiet home among the green hills of :Pennsylvania, where the spirit of ipression may never more come. We visited market for the sale of human beings, the imbles of sin S and vice. • Some twenty or trty were confined here, waiting to find some id in human shape, who, for arfew piccos of rer might own the body and soul of a man to has had the misfortune to be a few shades •ker than his neighbor. We said the soul. we do not believe the Almighty ever made distinction ; though many will attempt to we they have no souls or intellects like other tn, but wo believe that the feeble creature to ich he has givendbeing is as eternal as.the who made theleavens and the earth. The ly may be bound with the chains of slavery, it may be blotted out of existence, but the soul will retain its everlasting life and shine forth in glorious beauty in a never•ending elernitf, Yours &c., Foreign Nerve By the arrival of the steamships Baltic, and AMerica, we have news from Liverpool to the 12th init. From Sebastopol the news is that the Allies have captured the Russian outworks, and gained some other trivial advantages. In France an Italian Republican exile had attempt ed to kill the Emperor, by shooting at him with a pistol as ho passed on horseback along one of the streets. Ito was promptly arrested and imprisoned, and has been condemned to death. The English press admit that all hopes of peace aro fled, that no assistance can be expected from Austria, and but little from the rest of Europe, and that England and Franco must fight it out alone. The French police have discovered a vast republican conspiracy. ramifying all over Europe, and connected with the late attempt to assassinate the Emperor. The London Times, in an editorial which has attracted some notice, says that the circum stance that America• does not sympathise with the Allies is shocking and revolting. The above comprises in a nut shell the most important news by these arrivals.• ADVANTAGES OF PAYING FOR A NEWSPAPER IN ADVANCE.-A Boston Paper says one of the facts put on evidence at the trial in the Su preme Court, to sustain the will of the late William Ru . ssel, was, that only a few days be fore he made the will, he called at the office of the Democrat and paid for a paper a year in advance, thereby saving fifty cents. . The fact was dwelt uPon at length by counsel, and com mented upon by the Judge in hiacharge, as one of importance.. The verdict of the Jury would seem to sustain the proposition, that a man who has mind enough to pay for his newspaper in advance was competent to make a will. „,. ~N.ABROW ESCAPE P.A.ON DitOWNING..---XIIO• ebrated vocalists' known as the Baker Family, •who gave concerts- in Allentown several years ago, recently made a narrow escape from drowning. The Baraboo (Wis.) Republic says : The Baker Vocalists, while crossing the Wis coasin River in a-ferry-boat at Merrimac, on their way to this place, narrowly escaped losing three of their company by drowning, viz : Mr. J. 0. Baker, his wife and Mr. George E. Baker; It appears that after they had got a short dis tance from the shore into a very swift current where the water is from 17 to 20 feet deep, one of their wheel-horses took fright, rushed for ward and crowded the leading span over the front end of the boat, at the same time precipi tating Mr. G. E. Baker into the current. Re being a swimmer after great exertion reached a snag some distance below, whence after a rest of about ten minutes ho with difficulty succeed ed in swimming ashore. Mrs. J. C. Baker, who was getting out of the carriage when the horse took fright, was violently thrown over the side of the boat by the wheel, and was rapidly drifting down stream, when her hus band saw a portion of her shawl floating on the surface of the water, and not seeing her on board immediately plunged in, seized the shawl and began the work of saving the lives of him self and wife. He, much impeded by a heavy overcoat, drew Mrs. Baker along, all the while under water, with ono hand and swam with the other some distance, when knowing that she must soon breathe or perish, he caught hold of her arm and raised her above the water a mo ment, but was compelled to let her again sink while he exerted his fast exhausting strength to reach the shore, which he accomplished with the last effort of his faint energies. With great ifficulty the horses were saved by the other members of the troupe and we are happy to state that the company sustained the loss of neither life nor property. • No blame is at tached to the ferry-men who behaved nobly and rendered invaluable aid. PRICES or PRODUCE IN NEW YORIL—Flour has fallen fully 50 cents per barrel since our last publication. Common to good State, is quoted at $9.87 to $lO per barrel ; favorite State, $lO ;. common to good and extra Indi ana, Ohio, and Michigan, at $lO to $12.12 extra Genesee, $10.50 to $12.50. Rye flour, $7 'to $8.37. Corn meal, a slight decline.— Wheat is in better supply. White Genesee is held at $2.80 per bushel ; white Canadian, $2.60 ; white Michigan the same. Oats range from 63 to 75 cents per bushel. Corn, $1.14 to $1.17 for the range of Southern mixed, and yellow. First quality live beef cattle at 15 cents per pound ; very ordinary 12 to 12i cents. Common sheep, live weight, said at $5.50 to $8 each ; extra, $lO to $l2 ; lambs, $5 to $7. Tho retail prices for beef, mutton and veal, according to the cut, range from 15 to 25 cents per pound. Potatoes aro sold at 20 cents per half peck ; Bermuda new, per half peck 50 cents. Lima beans, 50 cents per half peck. Tomatoes, $2 the half peck. Butter is now sold at from 20 to 31 cents per pound, ac cording to quality. Cheese, 12 cents per pound. Eggs sell at 9 for 12 cents. Among fruits, the only apples that are left are the russets. which sell at 30 cents the half peck. Strawberries have made their appearance, and are tolerably cheap, selling at 9 to 10 cents per basket TUB SUPPLY OF noun..—The New York Tri bune contends that the general impression that the supply of flour in tile-country is short is based on erroneous data, for speculative pur poses, and proceeds to show, that. there are now on Lake Michigan. Lake Erie, and in Canada about 1,456,000 barrels. It then adds : " Suppose 456,000 barrels to be absorbed by the destitute' points in the interior, and we shall then receive at tidewater one million bar rels—enough at the rate of winter consumption, 8000 bbls. per day, to last ono hundred and twenty-five days, or until the middle of next September. Such is the estimate of our cor respondent, and we have no doubt it is nearer the truth than the one of only 700,000 barrels; and therefore, with a favorable prospect of good crop all over the country, there is not a shadow of reason for any alarm about a short supply." MaIAL ODD FELLOWSHIP.—Last year 3;126 lodges were in existence with P39,19r contributing members—revenue $1,334,935, from which relief was granted to the amount 48498,526. Such are the authentic statistics of an Order, which, says the Philadelphia Ledger, " has increased like the grain of mustard seed until its branches cover the entire land, until every wind that stirs through the heavens shakes down bene ilcient demi from it on the sick, needy and suf fering.” Still for all this, no. Odd Fellow can receive the last sacrament from the Catholic priest until ho renounces and denounces such an Order. SEVERE Sarrratias.—Ann E. Fields, coloied, has been convicted at Wilmington, Del., of burning the barn of A. Reybold, valued at $9OOO, and sentenced to pay to the State a fine of $lOO, with costa of prosecution, to stand up in the pillory one hour, be whipped with twen ty lashes, to make restitution to Mr. Reybold in the sum of 818.000. and to be sold to the highest bidder for a period of 14 years. • Tn PLACE TO LIVE IN.—California flour is selling in San Francisco at $6 per bbl : in Philadelphia flour sells at $l3. Wheat in San Francisco is $1 25, and in Philadelphia $2 60 to $2 70. As wages, too, are much higher in California than on this side of the Union, it can not be very hard to live in San Francisco. A DIRTY Towx.—Therir is said to be a wo man in Pittsburg; Pa., who takes in children to wash. She gives them a good scrubbing with soap and sand, and then sets them in the sun to dry. She washes'at four shillings per dozen. Pittsburg is such . a smokey town, that the children have to bo washed all over twice t overy . day. Simierma.—Mr. James D. BTeMann, has agreed to bring forward by the first of June, a horse that will trot to a wagon, on the Union course L. 1., twenty miles in an hour. It is thought he intends to drive Flora Temple. The 'wager is for $5,000. Another person offers to wager $lO,OOO or 20,000 that he can perform the same feat early in June with angther horse. He intends to do it with Lady Fulton. Trustee is said to be the only horse that ever trotted the twenty mileS in successiovin the United States. It is a cruel test to put the noble steeds to, and the man who drives a generous animal so far at the top of his speed, must indeed have a cruel heart. The first-named race came off at the.Centre ville Course on Thursday last. The following is the time made by Flora Temple : Ist mile 2m. 568.7 th mile 20M. 335. I 2d mile sm. 495. Bth mile 23m. 3145. 3d mile Bm. 335. I 9th mile 26m. 365. 4th mile 11 m . 375. 10th mile 29m. 445. sth mile I4m. 355. I 11th mile 33m. 108. 6th mile 17m. 38s. I 12th mile 37m. His. Just as she was coming in on the eighth mile, she throw off a fore-shoe and tripped badly.— She was then 281, seconds inside of time. As soon as it was known, the knowing ones gave up, but she made the ninth mile in 3m. tlis. and completed.ten miles Id seconds within the half-hour. Her backers now began to look blank, and the driver called for the owner as he passed the stand, but kept on 'pushing the poor beast forward. As he came do und the eleventh mile she was panting sorely, and it was remarked that she left a bloody track at every step. -The driver was heard to say as he entered upon the twelfth mile that she could not make the race and it was an act of wanton cruelty to push her round on that mile. As soon as he passed and the condition of the mare was seen the crowd rushed upon the track to such an ex tent that the Marshal could not keep it clear, and she finished the last mile by pushing through the crowd,.who seemed to manifest a disposition to compel the owner to draw her off and own beaten, as he undoubtedly would have been if she had not lost a shoe. So severe had the last mile been that we noticed the fore part of the wagon was sprinkled with blood. We observed scarcely any betting or offers of bets after a few of the first rounds, so even was her pace up to the loss of her shoe, and then it was so evident that the race was lost that no oite'vvould bet. But at that time she had not gained enough in the opinion of good judges to make up leeway for the last few miles. It was 'said that the feat of trotting twenty miles in 'harness within the hour had never been performed. This is wrong. It never has been accomplished before a wagon, but it has been before a trotting sulky. Some six or seven years ago Trustee 'was driven around this or Union Course before a sulky, by Cornelhis Beatan, formerly of Canal•st., but now said to be a lunatic on Blackwell's Island, twenty miles in less than one hour. IMPLEMENT OF DasraucrioN.—Every few days, some new invention is announced, the chief of which is its extraordinary ability to destroy human life. Men are earnestly endeav oring to discover the best possible means for slanghtering each other. AC Baltimore, an improvement in artillery is exhibited, called " Shaw & Ames' Patent Re volving Battery." It consists of a brass cylin der, revolving horizontally, and containing any number of chambers, with a stationary barrel. It is loaded, primed, fired and swabbed, all with one simple movement of a break, whicli was repeated eighty limes in one minute. The whole operation can be performed by one man. At Boston, on Saturday, an experimental trial was made with a breach-loading carbine patented by Col. J. D. Green, which was dis charged fifteen times at a target 175 yards distant, but ono ball missing the mark. At 200 yards, twenty-six shots hit, out of thirty. The carbine weighs only seven pounds, and can easily be discharged ten times per minute. In New York, a new " revolving rifle" has been exhibited, which is claimed to possess many advantages over Colt's invention. It contains eight barrels, in separate pieces, to be detached from the gun before loading. Two or more sets of barrels may be used in connection with the firing apparatus, and can easily be carried in the pocket. By using three sets, twenty-four balls can be flfed in a minute. 1110TILY IMPORTANT TO FARMERS. - WE are informed by Mr. Chamberlin, of the City Mill, that the farmers . of Vermont are in the habit of heading the movements of the weevil by a very simple process. The next season after it makes its appearance they go through their wheat fields, about the time the wheat is head ing, immediately after a shower or while the dew is on it, and scatter newly slacked limo broad cast, so that it will adhere to the heads and stems of the grain. They use about a bushel to the acre. Good limo - should be se cured, and slacked by sprinkling a little water over it, so as to retain all its strength. A paddle may be used in scatteritig it. The re medy has, it is said, been so effectually tried as to leavano doubt of the result. Strips in large wheat fields left untouched by the lime, for experiment, have been entirely destroyed by, the weevil, while the grain . on each side was saved. Since this intelligence was received Mr. Jesse Allen, of thi Centre Mill, has receiv ed corroborating, information from a Muskin gum county fanner, who had seen the same practice and the same results there.—Akron (Ohio) Beacon. CAN CONSUMPTION BM CUMED Loude. of the French Academy of Medicine, gives it . as his opinion a ft er mature deliberation and expe rience, that taking arsenic in infinitesimal doses is the best—the .very best—agent that can bo employed to cure tubercular consumption. It is used in tobacco and smoked. The arsenic tobacco smokers of northern Chin's have lungs like blacksmiths bellows and are as rosy as , cherubs. ° (115ar Oip 93noktt. n'The weather is glorious for the crops. Ba'An impossibility—Ai ugly baby. [l:7'Green corn at New Orleans On the 16th inst. Da'The census says there are 239 colleges in the United States. Tray was sold in New rug on Tuesday for $27 50 to $3O per ton. pa•No less than eight Circusses are now traveling in Now York State. o:7lCAssas.—The Legislature of Kansas will assemble on the 2d of July. [l:7•The farmers in portions of Taxes had finished the planting of corn on the fin* of March. V'Thero arc two hundred and sixty locomo tive engines running on the different roads from. Chicago that house in that city. DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION IS to meet in Harrisburg in July for the purpose or taking up a State Ticket. V - Loms NAPOLEON has abandoned the ides' of going to the Crimea to take command of the allied armies. [l7 . Tho Brady's Bend (Pa.) Iron works are filling an order of eleven thousand tons of rail- - road iron for the Illinois - "entre! Railroad. IT'Five thousand cows,Sther died or were _ disposed of to avoid starvation; in the countk' of Trumbull, Ohio, during the past winter. Eta - There are twelve railroads which fermi. nate in and pass through the city of Chicago, and it is said that every twenty-four hours ten thousand strangers arrive in that city. [!;?Two men .ran a foot race of ten miles at Cambridge, Mass., a week since. Grindell, the victor, ran the distance in fifty-seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Stetson; the loser, was fifty-one seconds behind. Ir:7 - Cholera is said to have already broken out at Cincinnati, and the papers of that city are calling on the local authorities to make ear ly preparations for it, by cleaning the streets and removing every cause of unwholesomeness. il7liors.—There are one thousand acres more of hops in Otsego Co., N. Y., at this time, it is said, than there were last year. This seems singular, in view of the late passage of the Liquor Law in that State. Ga'A COSTLY Drra.—Lucinda C. Nevem, of Long Meadow, Mass., recovered $5,249 34 of Samuel C. Booth, for injuries sustained by . tha bite of defendant's dog, at the present session of the Supreme Court, at Springfield, Mass." 0:7 - Tes Exrmnrrunas of tie national Gov ernment have become enormous. There have been appropriated for the several Departments, this year, a sum forming a grand total of about $75,000,000: 117" The aggregate population of Kansas is stated at 8,401, whereof 5,088 are males anti 3,383 are females. The number of legal voters is 2;877 ; number of natives the United State's. 7,171 ; of foreigners 407, and of slaves 192. 07A small piece of paper or linen moistened with spirits of turpentine, and put into a ward robe or bureau for a single day, two or three times a year, is a sufficient preservative against moths. [l7The two buildings erected for the World's Exhibition in Paris cover a surface of 962,000 feet, or more than twenty-two acres. This is 32,980 square feet larger than the London Crystal Palace. The great Hall is three quar ters of a mile long, and is the longest in the world. NEGRO Boy wrrn SNOW Wnrra WooL.—We yesterday noticed in the street quite ". a nut for physiologists to crack," in the shape of a negro boy's head. The boy was some twelve or thirteen years of age, healthy , looking, well grown, very black and " kinky haired," and what was remarkable in his physiology was a triangular patch of snow white wool, the lower point of which ran down to the centre of his forehead, whence it extended back to the eeri- . tre of the head, gradually widening, and with perfectly defined edges. The rest of his wool would have been whitened by a sprinkling of coal dust. The boy said ho was " born that way," and, evidently proud of the singularity, wore his , deformity like a crown.-- 7 -Mobile Ad• vertiser. AN ARMY OF TOOTH DOCTORS.—The last con sus reveals the appalling fact that there are nearly three thousand dentists in the United States. It probably costs. the people about two million dollars and ten million wrenches of agony per annum to keep their teeth in order. Will some body good at " flggeran give us the value of the gold that is stuffed into the mouths of the people every year by these three thou sand dentists ? To RELIEVE CHOKED CATVLB.-MiX E spoon full of gunpowder with - enough hog's lard to tbrm a ball the size of a hen's egg—open the animal's mouth, and after Fairing out the tongue lightly, chuck the ball of lard and pow der into the throat, let go the tongue, and the work is done. I have tried this in two instan ces, and it produced immediate relief.—W. S. P. Milford, Vt., in Country Gentleman. IMISSITSR QUANTITY OF WITRAT.—The Chicago Democrat says, Messrs. Gibbs & Griffin have at present over 400.000 bushels of wheat and corn in their immense werehouse on North Wa ter street. This is the largest quantity of grain ever gathered together in one warehouse ih that city. It would fill forty vessels allowing 10,- 000,bushels to each vessel. FAWNS IN GNORCITA.—AOOOtints from the northern part of Georgia represent that many people in that section aro without oorn or the means to procure any.. There is none ti►r sal', and there is serious danger of ftwnine. Horses and mules aro turned out into the wilds to well Am grass or starve, so that no ploughing can be done, and planting Must be done with the hos. Union relief be extended, the Poona class .f that mallet) must perish.
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