iri Your Naives.
a large number of persons in
through the country who are
ty newspaper. There are many
oved into town who are without a
re are still others in town and coun
re just for the first time properly em
z upon the sea of real life—tO all such a
d family newspaper.will be of the greatest
ccount. It will smooth a thousand little
cares and troubles and make all things move in
the even tenor of their way, lavishing happiness
and 'pleasure on every side. Send in your
names for the Register; it is just such a paper
as you will want.
CIRCUS.
A chance for the admirers of the sports of the
arena to gratify their penchant, will be furnish
ed here, on Saturday next, '(the 23d inst.)—
Jos Pr.m.r.Asn's Circus has long been known
ns one of the best in the country, and a rich
entertainment may be expected, as the troupe
comprises some of the most celebrated per
formers,—both equestrian and acrobatic. Our
York State exchar ' --) —y highly of the
company.
11.manNED.—.-Dr. C. C. 11. fluhlin, who has
been absent some weeks on a tour through the
Western States, returned home last week, and
can et all times be found at Bechtel's American
Hotel, where he will be pleased to offer his pro
fessional services in the science of Dentistry.
Closing the Stores.
On Monday last a paper was shown to us,
signed by all the merchants and business men
of Allentown, agreeing to close their stores and
places of business on the Fourth of July, so
that their Arks may be enabled to join in the
festivities' of the day. They are confined to
b us i ne ss all the year round, from early morn
till F or 9 o'clock in the evening; and we think
their employers acted but justly in entering
into this measure. So now, hurra for Inde
pendence Day.
Passenger Trains
On Monday last regular passenger trains
commenced running on the Lehigh Valley Rail
road from Allentown to Philipsburg,. where they
connect with the New York and Philadelphia
trains. The first train leaves here at 4-30 in
the morning, and the second at 1.30 in the
afternoon. The first up train arrives at 1.15
in the afternoon, and the second at 9-15 iu the
evening
Lot est • front Europe
The steamer Atlantic, Capt. West, arrived
t New York, at 9 o'clock in the morning, on
the 12th inst., with Liverpool dates to the 2d
Mst., one week later than before received.
She brings intelligence that the Allies have
captured Kertch,•in the Sea of Anil; and also
the Russian camp at Tchernaya, besides being
successful in a number of brilliant actions be•
fine SebaStnpol. France and England have
leclined to hold any further correspondence at
t=
The news from the seat of war is the most
important irate the intelligence of the battle at
Alma. The news comprises three distinct suc
cesses by the Allies. Fiistly—The French,:
in a series of sanguinary conflicts, lasting th e ,
IvhoTe nights of the Ltt:.'d and :23il of 'May, took
and retained an important position of defence,
the I'lace d'Arines, bellire Sebastopol. Not
ewer than 8000 men were killed and wounded.
mostly by the bayonet. Secondly—The Allies
made a vivid advance, and seized and retained
the Russian lines on the Tehernaya, without
much loss—the Russians retreating to the hills.
Thirdly—The secret expedition of the Allies
has obtained easy possession of Kertch. and
thus commands the Sea of Azolf, in which are
now fourteen allied Alcamers. The Russians,
in the approaCh of the Allies, blew up the
orts and burnt four steamers, thirty trans
ports, and half a million sacks of breadstuff'.
t iAI.II 7 OENIA News.—The latest mail from,
San Francisco brings a few items of interest.
In Calilbrnia luisiness generally was dull, al
though therel,ad been some large sales of flour
sin , Iltr shipment, to New York, Liverpool
IQ Australia. ',The ship Charmer sailed for
- t:w York en the 10th of May, with 704 tons
seen(, 104 tons of barley, and 175 tons of
!mfr. The Flying Arrow would follow With
1,000 has of wheat and flour. Chili and Cali
'orals four quoted at fi per barrel. There
lad Iwo' a good deal of rain, and the crops
ooked well. The mines were yielding abinul
antly but money was scarce. The Walker
expediticn, it seems, sneaked away front San
Francisco, by carrying away the sheriff and
then set him on shore at the entrance of the
harbor. The vessel, the brig Vesta, had fifty
five filibusters on board, armed to the teeth.
They represented that they had engaged to join
the goverment forces of Nicaragua and assist
in crushing the revolutionists.
PRICES OF PRODUCE IN NEW YORK.—Flour
has receded in price from 25 to 37 cents per
barrel. Connnon to good State, sold at $9.37
to $9.50 per barrel ; extra State, $9.02 to
$9.75. Rye flour, $7.75 to $9. 0 5. Corn meal,
$5 to 85.37, per barrel. The last sale of wheat
wo have to quote, was 3,000 bushels upper
take, at $2.15 per bushel. Rye sold at SI.SO
per bushel. Oats unchanged in price. In
corn, the prices range from $1 to $l.lB per
bushel : sales of corn are made deliverable in
July at 98 cents per bushel. Prime new pork
sold at $1.1.75 per barrel ; prime mess, west
ern, $15.75 to $10.50 ; old mess, $l7 per bar
rel. First quality beef cattle sold at 12 to 121
cents per pound; medium, 11 to 111 cents;
poorest ; 10 to 101 cents. Among the causes
that have tended to enchance the price of cat
tle, there is one that appears to have been en
tirely overlooked—and that is, the fact that
emigration to California having opened a mar
ket to western cattle, immense herds have
been driven to the land of gold. The amount
is said to be incalculable—rendering cattle
scarce in the western States, and our market,
of course, Peels this effect.
American National Convention
The proceedings of this body : have appeared
so far only in the New York papers,'and we'
should be rather suspicious of the g enuineness
of the the following, did not the press of Phila
delphia appear to place confidence in its cor
rectness. It appears that the, Convention
is
considerably troubled by
the slavery question,
and on Tuesday, the 31 Committee, by a vote
of 17 to 14 reported :is follows:
Resolved, That the American party, having
arisen upon the ruins and in spite of opposition
of the Whig and Democratic parties, cannot be
held in any manner responsible for the obnox
ious acts or violated pledges of either ; that the
systematic agitation of the slavery question by
those parties hail elevated sectional hostility
into a positive element of political power, and
brought our institutions into peril. It has
therefore become the imperative duty of the
American party to interpose Ter the purpose of
giving peace to the country and- perpetuity to
the Union. That as experience has shown it is
impossible to reconcile opinions so extreme as
thoto which separate the disputants, and as
there can he no dishonor in submitting to the
laws, the National Council has deemed it rho
best guarantee of common justice and cf future
peace to abide and maintain the existing laws
upon the subject of slavery, as a final and con
clusive settlement of that subject in spirit and
in substance.
/?csarcd, That regarding it the highest duty
to avow these opinions upon is subject so im
portant, in distinct and unequivocal terms, it is
hereby declared, as the sense of thi3 Nationrii
Council, that Congress possesses no power un
der the Constitution to legislate upon' the sub
ject of slavery in the States, or to exclude any
State from admission into the Union. because
her Constitution does or does not recognize the
institution of Slavery as a part of her social
system ; and expressly pretermitting any ex
pressions of opinion upon the power of Congress
to establish or prohibit Slavery in any territory.
It is the sense .of this National Council that
Congress might not to legislate upon the sub
ject of Shivery within the territories of the
United States, and that any interference of Con
gress with slavery as it exists in the District of
Columbia would be ri vhr'iation of the spirit and
intention of the compact by which the State of
Maryland cede '1 the District to the United
States, and a breach of the national faith.
Mint - Way llyorl.—The minority resolution
was as follows :--Thso"ccd, That tae repeal (S i
the lissouri Comprise was an infraction of the
plighted faith of the Nation. and that it shoull i
be restored, and that if efforts to that effect
shall fail. Congress should refuse to admit :My
State toloitting Slavery which shall be formed •
out of any portion of the territory from which
that institution was excluded by that Com
promise.
The minority rvolutions were signed by the
representatives of Pennsylvania. Ohio, Cornice
tieut, Maine, Massachutts, Rhode Island, Ver
mont. Indiana, Wiwtonsin , Michigan,
twelve in all. Delaware and Ne‘i"Jersey also
endorsed the first elame. New Yor::, alone of
the Free Sta..es, \Mit Ihr the umjurity resolu
tions, and united with Minnesota and tic Dis:
trict of Columbia, enabled the South to carry
the mr.jority report in Committee.
In discussing the resolutions, Cov. Gardiner
declared that neither he nor Lis State, nor a
majority of the free States would abide by the
resolutions first reptirted. 'fie party could
not carry a village in Massachusetts on them.
He charged the New York Delegation with de
sorting the North. The resolutions of the ma
jority will undoubtedly pass.
On Thursday, the Convention removed the
pledge of secrecy •from its doings, and.proceed
ed to 'complete the platform. The subject of
the naturalization laws was settled, and in this,
the platform is not so exclusive as the , present
native test.
STILL LAM.— Delegates from 'twelve of
the Northern free states, comprilicnding all
New England, and the whole of the west, have
seceded from the National Council of the Order
of Know Nothings at Philadelphia, in cense
quieneSi of the platform adopted in d efiance of
northern sentiment. They have held a meet
ing at the (ht.:n.(l House, and adopted a creed
of principles, which they have signed and pub
lished. Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Netv
York do not appear among the seceders, but it
is well understood that portions of the delega
tions from Pennsylvania and New Jersey will
secede also. New York will remain as her dele
gation does not believe in northern rights. So
also some scattering delegates from New Eng
land and the West ; but the bulls or the North
has cut loose from the Council, leaving the
South to enjoy its ultraisins alone.
Simultaneous with this striking event, are
received the proceedings of a meeting in Cleve
land of a national representative body of the
order of Know Somethings, which takes ground
in faVor of the restoration of the Missouri Com
promise, ProtestantiSin, and 110 proscription on
account of birth place. Every northern Slate
is largely represented there ; also, several slave
States, including Virginia and Kentucky. It
is thought that the result of these movements
will be the formation of a great northern party
to demand the restoration of the Missouri Com
promise. The body assembled at Cleveland is
to assume the name of " the Republican party,"
and it has an organization in seven of the New
England and Western States sufficiently pow
•erfut to warrant the belief that it will be able
to carry them. In fact it!is stated that in
those States it has taken the place of the KnOw .
Nothing party.
EARLY WREAT.—We learn that a load of new
wheat was received at the Palace Mips, on the
18th inst., being the first this season. It was
a portion of the crop of our stirring friend, Dr.
David Deam of this county. Arco• ing to the
published rates of the Palace Mil his wheat
would have commanded $2,75 !, ushel: It
was not however, eared for
(Ga.) Enquirer.
Letter from Illinois.
NAUVOO, Jutio 2d; 1855.
•
'Twas nt the season when earth upsprings
From slumber, as a shepherd angel's child,
Shadowing its eyes 'with green and golden
wings," '
That we first beheld the beautiful site on which
the city of a poor deluded people was built.--
The rise and fall of Joe Smith is too familiar to
the readers of your paper, to require a repeti
tion bare. from his commencement at Mor
mon Hill in New York, to his fall in this place.
his course of life was one continued round of
licentiousness—bartering virtue for his pre
tended religion, and morality for the god of
mammon—until forbearance ceased to be a
virtue, and he fell by the hands of an incensed
community.
Years may, roll by, the flowers of spring may
bloom and fade away—the frosts of winter may
chill the ground with its icy breath, and the
turbid waters of the Mississippi may continue
to wash these shores, the works of his hands
may crumble into dust, and generation after
generation may rise and pass away, but the
name of Joe Smith will live on, far down the
stream of time, as a byword and reproach to
the American people.
The ruins of the temple (so called) are the
principal features of attraction now :, in its per
feet state it must have been a grand- affair.
The location was the highest and most promi
nent point in the towq, ironting the river and
commanding a fair viva. The length was 127
feet 10 inches; width SS feet 4 inches ; height
55 feet. The first floor or basement had thirty
openings wide enough to admit an ox -team, and
high in-proportlonilrched-at, the top, with a
key stone fitted in. One was left open for a
passage to the large hall. Rooms were parti
tioned off on either side and each having win
dows 3 feet high by 3 wide, and arched at the
top. In the center of this hall was the baptis
mal fount, 15 feet long by 12 wide, cut from
stone and deep enough to immerse a person.--
This fount was standing on the backs of 12
oxen, the heads and fore legs only show,.(the
hinder parts not being visible were supposed
not to have been there.) They were cut from
stone and well executed.
On the second floor was an entrance which
led to a round room, in the centre on either side
were arranged small rooms which were to have
been occupied by the prcphet and officers of the
church. From the centre room a winding stair
case led to the galleries above, " where wise
men could look down.on the heads of fools be
neath." On the outside were 30 pilasters, at
the bottom of each a sitting moon about half
full. The moon was 4 1-2 feet in diameter, cut
in solid stone and well wrought. On the top
of the pilasters were 30 capitols, 5 feet 5 inches,
by feet 0 wide, with a colossal face, the rays
of the sun eminatin,g from it : and on the top,
in relief, were two hands with a trumpet in
each, in attitude of giving' the signal for the final
end bf all things.
The widow of Smith has married again, and
she with her husband keep the hotel here. She
became tired of the Mormon religion and of ad
ministering spiritual things, and has returned
to the world to administer temporal things to
those who sojourn here. It can hardly seem
possible that 30,000 people inhabited this city.
Here their plans were once in successful opera
tion, but a change came o'er the spirit of their
dreams—to them a sad change. The people
rose hi their might and Warned them to flee for
their lives. Their prophet fell, the temple wits,
blown to pieces, houses were levelled to the
grodnd, and the work of general destruction was
in earnest begun. To save their lives and the
city horn ruin, they sold out their possessions
and fled 'for Salt Lake. We will not follow
them, nor repeat the suffirings on the way : it
is enough for us to know that they have gone
bevouil the pale of civilization, and that they
will not be likely to pollute this land again.
Beal estate is low here. A line house and
lot may lie had ffir from to that in
Keokuk would ln7ng Ilti many thousand. Parini
ill the vicinity may be had for from
per acre, better land or a more lovely place is
not to be Mind in all the \\ - est.
Returning to . I\lontrose we take the boat to
resume our journey up the river. This is a
small village at the head of the rapids. compos
ed mostly of boatmen and laborers who ale en
gaged in the reshipment of freight. It is a hard
looking place. The people do not live, they
only stay. The mothers paint the legs of their
boys blue to save pantaloons, and the little
girls' feet arc encased in clay to save shoe
leather, and both ran at large with the pigs in
the street.
A. word of caution to travelers going West.
We would advise all to drink no water, par
ticularly the Mississippi water, unless diluted
with a little brandy. Any one from the Vast
using it is sure to get sick. The cholera has
made its appearance. and many of its victims
are left at the landingS to be buried among
strangers. And often times the boats are run
to the shorn, a slight hole dug in the earth, and
the dead deposited. It is a sad sight to behold
a stranger in a strange land, thus consigned to
his last resting place ; his every-day apparel
his shroud, and the cold, earth his sepulchre,
'with no friend to shed a sympathizing tear or
sculptured stone to mark the spot where he
was hastily laid. The green grass may grow
over his bleaching bones, and the winds and the
waves may howl a requiem over• his grave,
while his friends in a distant• land may !brewer
remain in ignorance of his fate.
Yours, &c..
IERTAL.
REMARKABLE ' BALLOON ASCENSION- THREE
HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILES TRAVELED IN FOUR
BiIIIDiSUC, of Adrian city,
Michigan. ascended on Friday afternoon, in a ,
balloon, from that place, at 101 iu the morning,
and descended, in Clarion county, Pennsylva
nia, at 01, in . the:afternoon, making the compu
ted distance of three hundred and fifty miles in
the eXtraordMary short tune of four hours.—
This is his second trip, and an experimental
one with a balloon of unusually large size. It
is thirty feet in diameter, contains over six hun 7 , ;
dred yards of silk, and is capable of holding
nineteen thous:and cubic feet of, gas. After his
ascent to the distance of three miles and a half,
the mronaut struck the eastern current of air,
which, he says, is - continually blowing in the
one direction. It carried him south of the lakes
through Central Ohio. His intention was not
to descend until dark, as he was above the rain
clouds in a clear upper sky, but the excessive
cold to which he was exposed brought on the
accustomed drowsy sensation, which prevented
him from properly managing his balloon. He
was in that sleepy state when his " craft" an
choretl in a tree in Red Dank, having descend
ed in consequence of the evaporation of the gas.
The cold was so severe that his feet were com
pletely frozen.
IrPToo COLD—the evenings fur ice•cream.
Wonder if the clerk of the weather hasn't got
• brick in his hat I
A WONDER:FM AND USEFUL SunsTANcu.----E.v
erybody has heard of the multiforin uses to
which modern ingenuity puts a slaughtered
animal--the hair; the horns, the hoofs, the en
the bones—all being Vrned to account.
and converted into articles of practical utility.
A similar variety of services is also obtained
from somesorts of coal,as fur instance the famous
Boghead coal of Scotland, and the Albert coal
of New Brunswick, which are found to be use
ful not merely for ordinary consumption, butfor
the quantity of gas, oil, and other extracts . thlt
I can be obtained from them. The lloglicad is
no longer sold for fuel, the entire quantity being
used in the manufacture of oil, &e., which is in
great demand for the use of railroad and other
machinery, But we have never seen any sub
stance of this sort which seemed susceptible
of such a number of modifications as the Breck
enridge coal; of which some specimens have re
cently been brought here from Kentucky. As
fuel nothing could be more satisfactory ; it
burns with a clear flame, great heat and no
dust, only some eight per cent. remaining as
ashes ; but chemical analysis shows it possesses
other qualities still more valuable. By distil.
lation there is obtained from a ton of this coal
fifteen gallons of purified illuminating oil, 35
gallbns of lubricating oil, and above 18'2 lbs. of
solid paraffin°, worth together, it is supposed,
I some $4O to $5O. The cost of manufacturing
these substances Crom a ton of coal is about $6.
The lubricating oil is of great value. for-ma—
chinery, being superior to all animal or vegeta,
ble oils for that purpose. It also yields benzoic
in quantities ; and a patent has been taken for
making printing ink from it also. From the
parafline excellent candles can be made, equal
in all qualities to the best sperm. At the same
time, such is the compactness and toughness of
the coal, that it may be turned into knife
handles, ink-stands. buttons, or other articles
of that sort. It would be difficult to imagine
a mineral which could be put throngh such a
Protean list of transformations as this coal.
EXTRAORDINARY FEAT.-LA Mr. J. Thomas.
who advertised himself as the " Salopian Pedes
trian," nt Ormskirk, Scotland, went through
the following performances in an hour. lle
walked one mile, ran a coach wheel one mile,
walked backwards one mile,. ran one mile.
picked up forty stones placed one yard apart in a
straight line, and fetched each one singly tom
basket ; hopped one hundred yards ; leaped
over twenty steeple chase- hurdles, ten yards
apart ; picked up thirty eggs with his mouth,
placed one yard apart in a straight line, convey
ing.each one without breaking or the use of his
hands to the basket ; and concluding by ilu•ow
ing twenty 56 pound weights over• his head.
COMP POISONED BY Parssm Arm.—A child
of )Ir. Tsehi, aged tlu•e. years, died suddenly
at Newark, New jersey, last week, from taking
prussic acid. Tt appears that the child hail
been playing near a box containing oils and
perfumery belonging to a barber shop, and
atii•acted by the flavor of a bottle of bitter
almonds. greedily partook of its contents. In
a few inimi;..s it was thrown info convulsions
and dic.l. This rczult tsould have Lem instan
taneous had the.oil hem pure. This is one of
the most deadly poisons hooWn. Pros , i o
acid k found in peach pits, peach lilt,:soma an d
leaves, and in the laurel water kept for sale
in the shops. Any of these, taken in quanti
ties, is sure to produce fatal results.
MAMMOTH STRAIVRERRIES.—The cabbages of
California are famous for their size : they have
had their day in items. The Sacramento Union
is now giving California strawberries a turn,—
It chronicles a basket or big one that was held
before the editorial nose on Wednesday. It
says:
The largest specimen of the many presented
is of the shape of a flag leaf, aMI measures ex
actly six and a half inches longitudinally.—
This is by for the most enormous strawberry
we have ever seen o• even heard of, and we
challenge the world to produce its equal. Only
think of a single strawberry measuring over
half a foot in circumference ! Other spe.•imens
in the basket, of pine apple shape, measure
from three to five inches in circumference, and
ten of the largest weigh " one quarto• Of a
pound." These huge samples of our most lus
cious fruit were raised in the famous garden of
A. P. Smith, on the American river, three miles
above Sacramento.
StrooviNG Titz . DEviL.On Thursday of last
week, the ceremony of " Shooting the Devil"—
a Roman Catholic festival in commonmoration
of the Lords Supper--was gone through by
the German Catholics in that part of 'Williams
burg, known as " Dutchtown." A military
company were drawn up in front of the altar,
and at certain
,points in the mass they blazed
away at his Satanic majesty with hearty good
will. As it is customary to repeat the ceremo
ny once a year, we presume Old Nick must be
bullet-proof.
A Snowtut OF Faous.—On the 7th of June,
at the Middletown station, on the Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, Ohio, during a heavy shower
°train, it was perceived that the ground was
completely covered, with little frogs or toads
about one inch long. which had evidently been
rained upon the earth, and strange to say, they
all appeared to be live and kicking. •
[ -- ilsosatoos SNAKE.—A black-snake, full
six feet six inches long, was killed on Wednes
day afternoon, near Shultzville, Colebrookdale
township, by Joseph Ilelzinger, of this city,
one of Mr. John Fehr's teamsters. This mon
strous " varmint" sprang from a stone-heap
into the road, right under the feet of the fore
most mules in Joe's team, and frightened them
considerably ; but it was soon made to bite
th, dust with a shot from Joe's•gun which took
its head completely oft: Tho snake may be
seen at Green's American House, by those who
are curious in the matter of reptiles.—Reading
Gazette.
01)bbri QII
1:. -- .1.1ssansittNo--the late rain, though wq
had rather more of it than desired.
r7•Not married—Tom Thumb. The lady it
seems merely attends to his wardrobe
[rYOne house in Trenton contains only one
hundred and seventeen persons.
dishonest man carries his recommenda
i n his eyes.
fa-The printers of Cincinnati have formed a
military company.
7Of 504 deaths in NeW Orleans for the
week ending the 10th inst., 276 were from
cholera.'
.ri-At a marble yard ittlludson, New York,
they now prepare gravestoneS with daguerreo
types of the deceased set in marble.
3.1 A woman who is pretty and don't belkuro
it, will make a good wife, but—where's such iio
woman ?
10 -- In the United States, physicians have es
timated that 20,000 persons die every year
front the use of tobacco.
10 -- LEFr Tows—two of the hopeful verdant
specimens, that " bloomed, blossomed, and bore
iTuit" on Saturday Inst. Blackberry brandy
is a had thing for weak stomachs. .
111 - The New York Councilmen havo appro
priated 851100, foV the purpose of celebrating
our National birth-day, in that city, in an ap
propriate manner.
riThere were twenty-six fires in •the
'United States during May, in which the loss ex
ceeded 81,116,000—similar loss since the Pia/
began SO 318,000.
al7 - *The farmers of. Michigan are paying for
good help from $l4 to 818 per month, for the
season. Sheep shearers get $2 per day. Hay
ing will be heavy, and wages range from $1 25
to 81 50 per day.
[*The value of American cotton exported
in 1854, amounted to 93,596,220 ; of this 64,7
738.391, was exported to Great Britain, with
the exception of a very small quantity 'to Ire:.
land.
Q The Globe Iron Works, of New York,
t ; urned out, on Wednesday last, a casting
weighing-eighty eight thousand pounds—the
largest, it is sad, ever effected in a single mass.
in this country.
fr=l --- Orn l'ortl..mox.--According to a state
ment in the Washington Union, the increase of
the population of the United States, from 1700
to 1 t 450, without immigration, amounted to
t,123 souls.
117' CluiNTiatvcrr:— Counterfeit twenty-five
cent pieces are in circulation. They aro dated
11-z53, and executed with tolerable neatness,
but quite light, and thus readily detected by
one who is in the habit of handling coin.
071 he sun is now at its greatest distance.
from the equator, and we have the longest days
from this until the 10th inst., in this latitude,
they are about the same length, of fifteen
hours and five minutes.
r7 - Bw.ti.r.ows —lt is estimated that onPof
these bird; will destroy, nt a low calculation,
nine hundred insects per diein. This would
secai incredible, if we were not aware that, this
wholesale saw/lowing is quite a summery oper
a t ion .
ft is stated that' the U. S. Treasury is
now lmrthrned with the custody of over (Ivo
millions of dollars in small silver change, from
half dollars to three cent pieces. 'Two or three
years ago there was a universal complaint of
the scarcity of small coins, both American and
foreign.
Rev. Dr. C. F. Schaeffer, of Easton, Pa.,
has been unanimously elected, by the Synod of
Pennsylvania, to fill the German Professorship,
established by that body, in Pennsylvania Col
lege. It is a most admirable selection, and
will be gratifying to the friends of the Institu
tion.
0 - 77 - CouyrnitrErr gad half Eagle are in circu
lation in various parts of the State. They orb
somewhat thicker than the genuine, and ok
rather brighter color. Counterfeit 25 cent pie,
(!es, dated 1553, and excuted with tolerable.
neatness, but quite light, are also in circulation.
The public should look out for them.
ErnIARSI'M'S BABY Snow turned out to bo
a good speculation after all. was visited on
Tuesday of last week, (the first day) by -11,-
867 ; on Wednesday by 17,540; on Thursday
by 14.368 on fliday, the last day, by 10,745 ;
and on Saturday, though the show had virtually
closed, none but the prize babies being on ex
hibition, 8,656 visitors were present at the
Museum. The aggregate -receipts of the five
days named, it will be thus seen, amount to
$18,304, This is a good lift.
EXTRAORDINARY . SPEED AND ENDURANCE. -
Two trotting horses, Trustee and Spangle,
were matched against each other last Monday .
on the Union Course, ten miles from Now. York,
to trot twenty miles out in sulkies, without
stopping. The purse was $2,000. Trustee
accomplished the distance in ono hour five
minutes and forty-six and a half seconds.—
Spangle did the same in one hour six minutes
and two and a half seconds, thus losing by only
sixteen seconds.. Trustee made the twentieth
mile in less than the .first by two and a half
seconds. Spangle cast a shoe in the nineteenth
mile. It was, a cruel test of the noble
and their owners deserve the spur, and the
whip well laid on. Such experiments deserver
a worse name than " improving the stock."—
" Cruelty to animals" would be nearer the
mark. Trustee, the winning horse, is seven-
teen years old.
Nmvs vaom EUROPN IN SIX DAYS.—The New
York and Newfoundland Telegraph Company
have contracted for the removal of "
hlerliu
Rock," lying in the centre of the entrance to•
the harbor of St. Johns, Newfoundland. When
this is completed the Collins steamers will bo•
able to enter St. Johns, after. making the pas
sage from Liverpool in six days ; and the news.
can then be 'telegraphed from there •to plow
York. This arrangement is expected telly!
completed by the first of August next,