Cip riDitO Irgiottr ALLENTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1855 The Oclebratton of the Fourth. The seventy-ninth anniversary of American Independence was duly observed in Allentown. For two or three days previous, it was manifest frein the unceasing discharge of lirc•crackers, and similar explosions, that the Fourth was coming, but during, the night of the 3rd, those indicationa were still more manifest, and the ringing of-bells, the loud buzzes of men and boys, with occasional gun and pistol shots, pre vented many of our. peaceful, slumber-loving people from enjoying a comfortable niglit'a rest. The day, was.usbered in by the firing Oa na tional salute. martial music, and the enlivening strains of National Music by the Allentown Brass Band—cheering the countenances of our citizens and fitting them for the great occasion. At 6 o'clock the Allen Rifles," commanded by Captain Good, paraded. The men were well dressed ,and well drilled, and made an impos ing appearance. The weather, although we had several slight showers, was good, the sun's rays being tem pered, for the most part, with light clouds, that bore on their bosoms refreshing breezes:— At 9 o'clock a procession was formed in Mar ket Square, consisting of the Military, Firemen. Sons of Temperance, Red Men, Cadets, and Good Fellows, and after marching through the principal streets, proceeded to the beautiful lawn in the rear of the Court HouSe, where the Declaration was to have been read and an oration•delivered, but a fast approaching storm threatened to interrupt the proceedings, and the military, firemen, and different societies there upon proceeded to their respective head quar ters. At 12 o'clock the military „gild a large number of our citizens, headed by the Band, proceeded to the Spring, where a splendid repast was in readiness, to which they sat down, and we doubt not, done full justice. After the table was cleared,, Joni P. 'Rutin, Esq., was called to the Chair; Henry Knipe and Adam Thicker appointed Vice Presidents, and C.- IL Samson. Secretary. After the meeting was organized the Chairman made a few appropriate remarks. which were received with great applause by the assemblege. The Declaration of Independence was (lien read in admirable style by Mr. Nathan Miller. After this the regular toasts of the day were read by Mr. T. Good, which was followed by an eloquent address by C. M. Runk, Esq. At 1 o'clock a very large company also sat down to an elegant dinner in 'the Odd Fellow's Hall, prepared by Mr. E. J Ebele. After the dinner was got through with, John D. Stiles. Esq., read the Declaration of Independence. after which Mr. I. N. Gregory delivered an elegant and patriotic oration, which abounded in sentiments highly appropriate to the day. In the afternoon the scholars of the Allen town Seminary had a celebration in the lawn in front of the school buildings. It was highly entertaining to all who witnessed it, and credit able alike to.scholars and the principal of that flourishing institution. In the evening a fine display of fire works took place in the lawn on the south side of the buildings, which was witnessed by a large number of our citizens. AT CATASAUQUA.—The Independent Order of Odd Fellows celebrated the day by procession in regalia. music, banners, &e. We learn that it was a very handsome demonstration. Special excursion trains were run ot•cr the Lehigh Valley Rail Road between Catasanqua. and South.Easton, which brought a very large num ber of persons ; all the cars being crowded to their utmost capicity. Broke Ja 11 On Saturday night last, taxi Om, who was confined on a charge of setting fire to the proper ty of Mr. Greenawalt], in Saucon township, made another escape from the County Jail, by cutting one of the upright iron bars in a window on the second story, and then letting himself down by means of a rope which he had made by cut ting a blanket into strips. He is one of the party that broke out some time since, and seems to be -very cute at all kinds of rascality. If however, lie should happen to be caged again, and convicted of the charges against him, we presume lie will have " a hard road to travel" before he can work his way out of the " Cherry Hill Institute" aL Philadelphia: GEM Last Wednesday f6renoon another fire broke out at the Thomas !roil Works; at Ilockendock qua, which destroyed the cast houses, bridge house, and in fact, almost the entire wood work of the establishment. We have not heard how . it originated. It is estimated that the loss by this fire, and the dest.ri.ction of the Foundry building last week, will amount to $20.000. Immediate preparations were however made to reconstruct the buildings destroyed. Subscribe for Your County Paper. Let it be remembered that for every County paper which is received at any post office in the county, the Government pnys the Postmaster a bounty often cents out of the funds of the Post Office Department. while for every city weekly the subscriber has to pay-thirteen or twenty-six cents a year, one half of which is paid over to the Government, and goes out of the county, , thus making a differenee of sixteen and a half, or twenty-three cents saved to the county by pre- ferring the home press. Letit be remembered also, that the money spent out of the county for subscriptions never returns; while that paid to the home press'remains hero in circulation. There is, therefore, o strong reason for patroniz ing your county press, in a pecuniary point of view, and beside this, it may be well argued that the home press, when liberally sustained, has far greater ability to be useful at home and influential abroad, securing extended means fqr di, using intelligence within its humble sphere, and plitFing it in a position to represent its lo cality with more ema in whatever quarter it way reach. Northampton Coal CoMilani. We were last week faiored with a pamphlet containing a,« Report of the Directors of the Northampton Coal Cothpany,—report ofi the Engineer, and By-laws of the Company."— This' company was organized on the 15th day of August, 1854, and has for its object the mining of Anthracite Coal and other minerals. The following named gentlemen compose the of ficers of the Associatiou—meh who rank among the best and most reliable in Northampton county. David Weaver, President ; Jacob Fatz, inger, Secretary and Treasurer; Directors, David Weaver, C. R. Hceber, John W. Lescher, Thomas Barr, Daniel Siegfried, Samuel 'Weaver, and John Laubach. The coal lands owned by the Company, whiph consist of 730 acres, are located in Newport township, Luzerne county, Pa., about eleven miles below Wilkesbarre, in the great coal basin of the - Wyoming Valley.— The company is organized under the General Mining and Manufacturing La* passed in 1849, and its subsequent amendments. The capital stock is now four hundred thousand dollars, and under the law, it may be increased to five hun dred thousand dollars. Over three hundred thousand dollars of the stock is already sold, and the remainder is now in market and can be . had at such times and places as specified in an advertisement in another column. .Wm. J. Harlan Esq., of Mauch Chunk, the Engineer, having carefully examined the lands estimates the aggregate thickness of the three veins of the superior quality of white Ash An thracite coal, at twenty eight feet, which would yield 30,6011 tons per acre, or 15,000,000 tons in the whole aggregate. He contends that the coal in the ground, with a rail road to bring it into market, is worth at least 25 cents per ton, yielding $3,750,000. Besides, the property has considerable timber, which will be valuable for building purposes, and for the use of the mines. The Engineer also gives a careful, esti mate of the expenses of opening the property, and putting it in a condition to produce 50,000 tons of coal per annum, recommending also the erection 'of a steam saw mill to prepare lumber at a cost of $4,000, which is included in the es timate, together with Store house, Superinten dent's house, Lumber Wagons, mules, harness, carts, cars, &c. &c.olmonn , ing in all to $50,- 115,00. The expense of Mining (says the En gineer,) preparing and delivering the coal into boats cannot exceed, if properly managed, seventy five cents per gross ton, allowing two cents per ton per mile for tolls and transporta tion upon the road of the. company. The coal delivered at Nanticoke is worth 51,50 per ton, leaving a net piofit of 75 cents per ton. New Stage Line. Mr. Charles Seagreaves last week put a new stage line upon the route between this place and Hamburg. It leaves Allentown at 7 in the morning and arrives at Hamburg g m Lime meet the lyestern train. Returning, leaves Hamburg at 9 in the morning, and arrives at Allentown in time for the 1.30 New York train. This line is a great convenience to travellers. as it enables them to reach the great West with only 28 miles staging from• New York. inporl ant to Business Men. The &or of the North says :—Of all acts passed by the last legislature, that which will most interest the business community is the en actment of a portion of the British statute of frauds, which will require nearly'nll contracts to be in writing, and to be signed by the per son who is designed to be held liable. In the following case they will be entirely void if they depend only on verbal evidence : 1. Where it is designed to cliargb the defend dant upon any special promise to answer for the debt, default or miscarriages of another person. This will apply to assumption where the engagement is collateral and not original. 2. Upon any contract or sale of lands, or any interest in or concerning them. A part of this same statute was adopted in 1772, which de clared void all contracts for any interest in real estate for a longer term than three years. 3. Upon any agreement which is not to be performed within one year from the making thereof. This act is to go into operation on the first of January next, and is . to apply to all cases where the subject of the agreement exceeds §2O. It has long been in force in some states of the Uni on, and is adapted to a condition of society like that of England and the Eastern States Where all business men have a good commercial ed ueation. • Dow it will work where young men aftei half an apprenticeship start a thmily and shop upon ' their own hook,' and enter into business before they understand any of its de tails, remains-to be seen. American Convention at Reading. The Know-Nothings of Pennsylvania, at their State Council, in session at Rending last Week, divided—Governor JOHNSTON lending off for a Northern party. Other delegates organ ized a Cotined on the Philadelphia Platform. At the time of the Northern and Western se cession from the National Council, a majority of the Delegates from Pennsylvania signed a protest against the adoption of the Pro. Slavery Platform, and in.doing so they most undoubted' ly represented the true sentiment of the Order in their State. Soon afterwards, the Executive Council of the State held a meeting, nt which, under the influence of New York and Southern Delegates, they resolved that the Order. in Pennsylvania did not favor the action of their protesting Delegates, and declared in favor of the Pro-Slavery Platform. This action greatly pleased the Southern men, who believed that thereby Pennsylvania was secured to their in terests. The convention however, has repudiated the 12th section of the National Platform adopted at Philadelphia. A section has been adopted in place of the: 12th, declaring in favor of the re enactment of the Missouri ComproMise, and opposing the admission of any more slave States north of the Missouri-Compromise line. The new section was adopted by a vote of 133 to 53. The Eastern delegates stood 73 to 27. Thirty Western men oppOsed the platform as not strong enough. On Thursday ten Southern delegates receded. Infamous Ccin*es:atom, The New York Journal of commerce notices a report that•severaL capitalists and large pro duce dealers held a meeting at Buffalo on Thurs day. the 28th ultimo, to deiise ways and means to control the present stock of breadstuffs ; and thus not only to determine the amount to be forwarded to the seaboard, but also to regulate the price. . We have called the above an infamous 'con vention—iays the Saturday Mail, and it is : ono of the most infamous and atrocious ever held on the American soil. We wish we had the names of all who participated in its wicked purposes. We should he compelled, by a sense of duty to the people, to publish them to the world. It is time, high time, that the community should see and know what this class of their op pressors is composed of—who the mean and grovelling creatures are that thus combine to keep up the necessaries of life at famine and starvation prices. We do not complain when speculators and respectable capitalists form lawful combinations to carry on purposes of enterprize, by means of bonds, scrip and stock. Those are matters within the purview of the people--they are concerns in which the masses have the power in their own hands. If they do not wish to buy the paper of any work, whether of a public or private nature, they are not,compelled to do it. The country would go on, it would be prosper ous and happy, if the citizens are virtuous and industrious, even if there were no such things as railroads, and canals, and magnetic tele graphs among us. We should not go-ahead as fast as we do now—but still we should advance in the great career marked out by the Infinite for our rising nation. But in this matter of private combinations, of secret, dark, plotting speculations in the food and drinks of the people, the case is totally different. Here the public have personal, indi vidual rights,—rights involving their very lives and liberties--which cannot and must not be put on a par with the rivalries of enterprise and the speculations of trade. The people must have bread or they must starve. The people can do without shares of banks ; but they cannot do without sheaves of wheat. The people can do without the parch ment scrip of speculation ; but they cannot do without the meat from which that parchment was served. The people ask for bread, at fair prices ; and• these speculators in famine and want, give thent„stones. The people ask for fish, and they give them scorpions ! But, thank God ! the day of retribution is at hand. The voice of the Almighty is coming up from our teeming fields, like the sound of many waters ; and it is thundering in the ears of this deMon of speculation in the life-blood of the poor.---" Hitherto shalt thou come, but no furthe r ; and here shall thy proved waves be stayed !" If the half-starved wretch who meets you on the way-Side and in a moment of desperation and madness robs you of your purse, is deemed a villain meriting the maledictions of the law and the punishment of the felon's cell ; what shall we say of the rich and well-fed speculator, who, with no other temptation but the thirst for gold, combines with the money power to snatch the last loaf from the mouth of the poor man, who grabs the last potato from his little basket, and the last lump of coal froth from his cold hearth stone ? These overbearing monopolists of the staff of life, are the men the poet meant to hit, when he called so loudly : —" Put a whip in every honest hand, To lash the rascals through the world!" Lay it on, good reader ; lay it on ! The New front Europe. The Hermann, at New York, and the Ameri ca at Halifax. bring the one four days and the other seven days later news froM Europe. The intelligence from the seat of war is important, though but brief details, received by telegraph by the English and French governments, are given to the public. Rumor was very rife when the Hermann left of a severe repulse sus tained by the Alliedlorces in storming Malakoff and the Redan, and though five days had inter vened before the sailing of the steamer Ameri ca, since the battle, which was fought on the 18th ofJune, but few additional facts had trans pired, and those were communicated officially 'by Lord Panmure. Private accounts were full. They describe the battle to have been a simul taneous attack by the British upon the Redan and the French upon the Malakoff. The Allies fought with their usual courage and impetuosi ty, and the French gained a footing in the Mal akoff, but the Russians opened upon them with a dreadful fire and from new and unexpected batteries. The Allies were compelled to aban don the attack and retreat to their former par allels. The Russians sprung some , mines, whereby the slaughter was more terrible. The loss to the British alone, it is said, was nearly 4,000 men killed and wounded. The Russians appear to have followed the retreating Allies, and have succeeded in recapturing the Mamelon outworks, to get possession of which caused the French such a severe loss on the 7th ultimo.— This assault is the first undertaking by storm against the regular defences of Sebastupol, and its disastrous result does not auger favorably for a speedy capture of the place. ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN.—The last Legisla ture passed the following important, sec on, re lating to the name and right of illegitimate children to inherit the estate of their mother— and the mother to inherit the estate of such child : SECTION 3. That illegitimate children shall take and be known by the name of their mother, and they and their mother shall c respec• tiyely haw; capacity to take or inheiit from each other personal estate as next of kin ; and real estate as heirs in fee simple ; an 4 as res pects said real or personal estate so liken and inherited, to transmit the same according to the intestate laws of this State. Democratic 'Hate Convention. The delegates to the Democratic Stite Con vention met in Harrisburg, on the 4th of July, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Canal Commissioner. Hon. J. Glancy Jones, of Berks county, pre sided. The ballotings resulted as follows : Ist Bal. 2d. 3d. Arnold Plummer, Venango Co., 47 60 77 W. S. Campbell, Allegheny Co., 37 43 40 John Rowe, Franklin Co., 10. TO Geo. Scott, Columbia Co., 7 7 Robert Irvin, Centre Co., 5 John T. Hoover, " 4 Bernard Riley, Satinylkill Co., 4. 1 Alex. &Unit, York Co., 4 4 James Worrell, 2 H. B. Packer, 2 Arnold Plummer, having received a majority of the votes cast, was declared the Democratic nominee for Canal Commissioner: A MAN OVER THE FALLS OF NIAGARA.— The fact that a man went, over the great Ame rican Falls during Saturday forenoon, says the Buffalo Express, June 25th, was communicated by telegraph the same afternoon. We have since received the following letter form a friend, which says : • " Another man over the Falls ! BACHMAN, at the Grist Mill ; a few rods above the Cataract House, saw him from the rear of the mill com ing down in a boat. His oars were hanging in the row-locks, and he was sitting with his arms folded screaming for help. Mr. BACHMAN called to him to seize his oars. A few well directed strokes would have brought him to the shore : but on he went, until he came opposite the back piazza of the Cataract House, where the boat capsized. He was seen to come up one and throw out his arms. Mr. M. says he was a young man, about twenty years old. The probability is the poor fellow, having by some means that will never be explained, found himself in the rapids, become paralyzed with horror, and was unable to use any exer tions to prevent his awful fate. Who can ima gine his emotions as he neared the fatal preci pice, whose roar sounded like a death-knell in his terrified ears, or the mad delirium that seized upon him at the thought of certain and terrible destruction ? It was all done in a mo. ment—a struggle, a shriek, a plunge, and a soul went home It was all done in a moment —but it told upon Eternity." THE LlQuon LAW IN NEW Toni.—We ob serve that the Prohibitory Law in New York is essentially stamped as a dead letter. The New York Harald of yesterday, says ;---. " The Liquor Law went into operation on " the glorious Fourth," and the result has been a very important and most astonishing discov ery. The general belief of the effect of this ex traordinary law was, that from and after the " kourin woum pm, all ing and liquor selling by retail, " except for medicinal, mechanical, chemical, or sacramen tal purposes." But the effect is exactly the re verse. The • practical working of the law in these parts, thus far shows that so far from be ing an act of absolute prohibition of the retail li quor business, it is an act of absolute free trade. Anybody, may bny and everybody may sell—if we may judge from the numerous rxamples of buying and selling in all parts of the city— without the expense of a license, and without fear of the law." Hortnint.E.—A Mrs. Abashaba Ellafield, wife of Thos. El'afield, became deranged, and left home, - taking with her two small children, one aged about two years, and the other about four years. Search was made by her friends through the woods for a space of twenty days, when she was found in a frightful condition, and the two children were found eaten up by the hogs. They had evidently been killed, as the skull bones of each had been broken. The maniac mother is now in charge of .a friend a couple of miles from this city, in Perry town ship.—Eransville (Ind.) Enquirer, 251/1 ult. TUC CIRCUS NOT PROFITABLE.—The Louis• ville Courier says that for a long series of years there has been no season so disastrous to the circus managers as the present. Amusements of the ring have been below par during the sprifig and summer, and as a consequence, many of the travelling troupes have disband. ed. Those wonderful people, whose feats upon horseback, upon poles, turning sotnmersets, and performing all sorts of astonishing antics, are to be seen frequently throughout the city. Most of them are of course in trproverty-stri ken condition, their tattered garments contrast ing wonderfully with the velvet and spangles, the light and brilliant dresses they were ac customed to sport when times were not so hard and the circus drew its admiring visitors. Tnu NEXT CONGRESS.--.TIIO members of Con gress, so far elected, may be summed up thus : Whole number chosen, 161 ; Whigs, 59 7 Ad ministration Demo-rats, 35 ; Anti-Administra tion Democrats, 3 : Republicans, 39 ; Know. Nothings, 27 ; of those understood to be Anti- Nebraska, 119 ; Nebraska 41. In the present confused and distracted slate of parties it is al most impossible to make any classification of the House of Representatives that shall be com pletely accurate and reliable. GARDENING FOR LADIES.-000 little job in garden is particularly adapted to the attention of the fair sex. They should go out scissors in hand, and snip off every decayed flower, espe cially of roses, which will grow.till the 'better and look all the smarter, for riddance of the dead blooms, besides lasting the longer in flow er. Geraniums want their dead floWers cut ofl regulatly, for it makes them look better and en c?urages new growth and bloom. Everything, unless seed is wanted, should be deprived of de cayed`blossoms. 10 - Afflictions are God's whetstones—they put a new edge upon our principles. FASMONAMINThLLIGENCE—MOXSTER WED DTNO PAwtv.—We yesterday ' copied an item from the Richmond (Vs.) Dispatch of the 29th ult., giving what was supposed to be a fabulous account of a monster' wedding which was to come off during the coming month at the St. Nicholas Hotel. But notwithstanding the incre dulity with which the repo ' rt was received, we learn that it is substantially correct, and that the party will arrive in this city on or about the 12th inst. This will certainly be the most magnificent affair of the kind ever gotten up in this country, and will no doubt create an immense excite ment, especially in fashionable circles, during the stay of the party in the city. The bridrgrocm, who is a Louisiana sugar planter, named Mitchell, and reported to be very wealthy, is now en route for New York, accom panied by two hundred pairs of young ladies and gentlemen, who are to take part in the wedding exercises. On their arrival they are to put up at the St. Nicholas Hotel, the exclu sive use of which has been hired for the occa sion, for the sum of two thousand dollars per day, the festivities to continue four days. The bride is understood to be the daughter of Judge Concklin, formerly Judge of the Northern Dis trict of the State of New York, but more recently appointed Minister to Mexico, and whose successor to the first named post is Judge Hall, formerly Postmaster General. . The marriage ceremonies arc to take place at the St. Nicholas, and we understand that two thousand invitations have already been issued. The religious rites are to be most imposing, and the attending festivities are to be on a scale of the most profuse magnificence, and will in clude balls, fancy dress and masquerade, pri vate concerts, and dinners and suppers the most recherche. Young New York, male and female, are destined to be in a state of tremend ous excitement shortly. The happy couple will find that the number of their friends will mu:- tiply with fearful rapidity, until such time as the wedding festivities are over, when things will relapse into their former state. Such of our fashionable friends as will not receive an invitation to the wedding must endeavor to pos sess their souls with patience, and keep as cool as the weather will Termit.—(N. V. Herald) LARGD STRAWBVIITLY PATCM—Mr. REZIN HAM MOND, of Anne Arundel county. Maryland, has one hundred acres of land set in strawberries. On the 11th instant, says the Baltimore Remib lican, some thirty acres appeared as if his troops of pickers had not yet invaded them. The berries hung on the vines as thick as clusters of grapes, and filled the air with their delight ful perfume. The picking season generally continues about three weeks, but Mr. Ham mond has arranged his crops to be able to pick a week longer than most of his neighbors. lie has employed as many as two hundred pickers tills scasun, cuumstmg vt um", and girls. The price paid fbr picking is.one and a half cents per quart, at which rate good pick ers can Make some three dollars a day. His largest day's picking reached about fourteen thousand quarts, (over finer hundred bushels !) and the average will not be less than five thou sound. In all he expects his picking to reach near one hundred and fifty thousand quarts. which is but a fraction short of five thousand quarts. A Tsatum.h. FALL. AT SKA.-011 board the ship Metropolitan, when nine days out from New York, on her late passage to California. Louis Chevalier, a Frenchman, was aloft to loose the main skysail, which' is the loftiest sail on board. Ile had just reached his giddy des tination, when missing his hold of the bunt basket, he fell headlong, and striking the cross trees some forty feet below, rebounded and fell with a sickening crash upon one of the ship's boats, which was - turned bottom up at the time on deck. He turned in the air in his fear fill descent, so that one of his legs went entire ly through the boat. When taken up, it was found that nearly every bone in his body was broken, the corpse presenting a mass of bruised Ilesh and shattered bones and sinews horrible to contemplate. llis fall was about one hun dred and ninety feet, and instant death ensued. The ship Metropolitan, since her arrival at San Francisco, was accidentally careened and sunk at the wharf. She will however be raised. HAIR LISE.—A young lady, says the Home Journal, sonic time since, sent us one of her hairs as a curiosity. It was wound round a card, and the two ends fastened with sealing wax, and was of the wonderful length of se r . en feet and one inch! It is of the most beautiful auburn gold. But what length of electric tele graph would this lady's hair make, if extended in a line? The average number of !Ors in a head has been estimated at two hundred thou sand. Her golden locks, therefore, would reach, like the Sebastopol iron, from New York to Albany and a little over. A lady's head may make a one hair telegraph of two hundred and sixty-eight miles ! HORN SNAKES IN Ourg.—The Easton (Ohio) Register says that a.mnn Jiving some miles west of that place lately] killed a " horn snake," a reptile often talked of but rarefy seen: It is said to be a most venomous serpent. The Re gister thus describes it The monster killed thus measures four feet in length ; and the horn at the end of the tail—through an almost im perceptible hole from which the poison is ejec . - ted—was about an inch and' a half long, spiral, sharp at the point, and so hard as to defy the effort to cut it with a knife." READING RAIL Roan.-:-The business •of the Reading Rail . Road—immense as it already is, —is constantly increasing. The net profits for ➢fay were $265,269, against $150,795 for the corresponding month last year. The total net profits for six months ending May 31, were $977,086. For the corresponding six months of 1854, they were 8586,449. Our C4ip 93aokti. laWatermelons are selling in New Orleans at $8 per hundred. [E7Ripe peaches grown in Virginia sin now being sold in Richmond. • IrT'At Steubenville, Ohio, wheat has declin ed from $2.05 to $l.BO a bushel. It:7"New wheat is selling in Washington county, Ga., at $1 per bushel, about as low it is stated, as it ever gets in that region. ija-The liquor interest in the city of New York is estimated at about ten millions of dol lars. (Q . A. young man has been arrested in New York City for attempting to kill his own mother. Postmaster General has just issued orders, forbiding Postmasters to loan newspa pers that have been left in their offices for do. NO colored woman is now living near ll lion, Herkimer Co., N. Y., aged one hundred and twenty-fire years, and bids fair to survive for many more. I - Passenger cars commenced running on Tuesday last on the North Pennsylvania Rail road. from Gwynned, in Montgomery cotittty, to Philadelphia, a distance of nineteen miles.— The trains are run daily. trj - The visitors at Independence Hall, Phila delphia, on the 4th of July, numbered upwards of 9000. Among them were the surviving soldiers of the war of 1812. ri-To KEMP OFF ANTS.—A circle of lime or chalk laid round any plant will prevent ants from touching it. There is no other remedy against their encroachments. a:7"A Cincinnati paper says that more than two-thirds of the Catawba wine sold in that city is made of water, sulphuric acid and honey, with a dash of the genuine Catawba wine to give 1: the proper flavor. ry — The Cleveland Herald oilers to stake its reputation for veracity, that flour will be down to $6.50 per barrel in thirty days. It says the crops never looked better in the State of Obio, and the prospect is that there will be the lar gest yield ever known in that State. scheme is in Agitation in London, for the formation of a road throiigh that city, eight miles long, roofed in with glass, with homas and shops on each side. two lines of rails, one above the other, the lower for trains stopping at every mile, the upper for expresses. fr77-It is not safe to keep birds in painted wire cages, especially in warm weather. The paint softens in the heat, the birds are liable to nibble it, and to get poisoned. This is a fact, and those having valuable birds in such cages should remove them at once. 1: - "Six quart bottles filled with green cur rants, apparently fresh, were recently discov ered in the foundation of an old building in the town of I3urlin ton. Pa., and it was aubse- there for thirty years. 677 The wife of William Olmstead, of Bloom field, Monroe county, Ohio, on the 3d of June presented to her husband three children—one boy and two girls. Weight five pounds twelve ounces, five pounds four ounces, and five pounds fifteen ounces. One has a white head, one a black head, and the other a red head. 017 . Two persons rode their horses into tho river above Genesee Falls the other day. The current washed them over the falls which are ninet Y-two feet high. The men were saved by clinging to n bridge. One horse was instantly killed and. strange enough, the other'received no serious injury. entiors.—A Lunatic received an injury of the great toe by the fall of a heavy piece of wood, so that the nnil was torn away. The physician, on examining the patient, remarked that he seemed scarcely to feel this injury, ordi narily so very painful. On examining the case more minutely, ho found that the lunatic had completely lost cutaneous sensibility. This led him to examine all the lunatics in his establish ment, and he found that out of 180 insane per sons, (100 males and 80 females,) 18 (17 males end 1 female) had complete antesthesia of the skin and in six others, who were males, the sensibility to pain was very much decreased. CASHMERE GOATS.-A letter from Dr. Davis, of Columbia. S. C., to the Greensborough Bea con, states that " the fourth crop of the Cash mere upon our native goat, is fully equal to the pure Cashmere." This animal the Doctor says, is destined to make a great revolution in the agriculture of the whole South. Beautiful cloth is now made by negro weavers, with ordinary pltintation looms, from the second cross. 'All the native goats in South Carolina, he states, are now appropriated to crossing with the Cash mere breeds, and Georgia, and Virginia are also breeding these animals extensively. CALIFORNIA FOR/MTS.—The mammoth trees of California are the wonder of the world. The Mammoth Grove is a forest of suchtonstess.— Situated 4,500 feet above San Francisco, it has, come to be a summer resort of the people. The• largest tree is 95 feet in circumference ; and. two are 65 feet in circumference and beautiful to look at. At the grOve is a first class hotel:. I n the body of the big tree there is a . bOuse 14 b 80, which contains two fine bowling alleys. The stump of this tree is intended for a bag room ! llow old must such a tree be;asahown. by the annual formation of rings • DluccssorA.—The Territory of Minnesota At , filling up with population so fast that real es tate in the town of St. Anthony has risen filly' one hundred per cent. within a year Past.. One, half of the Hennepin Island was sold last July . for $BOOO, and since then $5.1100 has beef) offered for one undivided !berth of the same property. Two years ago $lO,OOO was the highest offer for Nicolett Island, 40 acres; and' last summer $35,000 was refused. The• in crease of manufacturing at the fall is what - lias caused the great advance
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