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ALLENTOWN, PA.
WEDNESDAY, JTJLY 18, 1855
07Gr.ouus A. CaosuT, No. 7.1 South Fourth
street, Philadelphia, is authorizek . to receive
advertisements for this paper.
Clar*V. B. PALSIER, in Brown's New Iron
Building. N. E. corner of Fifth and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, is also authorized to re
ceive advertisements.
Lehigh County.
6 1' t is common to all men to love and honor
the land of their birth above all other lands ;
to contend that the home of their childhood is
the most beautiful home on the face of the earth.
No matter how degraded their brethren live
and' die, how oppressive the government, how
benighted the riligion, but when wandering in
foreign lands longing thoughts will still revert
to the imaginative Eden of childhood; and if
a listener's attention can be claimed for a few
moments, they will describe that land as one
on which the sun shines most kindly ; where
the moon and stars are brightest, the grass the
greenest, the water the sweetest of any they
have ever met. This should be so, for a man
who will forget his country, we think should be
loolad upon with distrust wherever he is met
or whatsoever his professions may be.. Ile may
become a comparatively good citizen, but he
can never be a patriot. Ile that forgets his
native country will fotget his adopted one.
This being the case, we may be a little infat
uated when we assert that we live not only
under the best government in the world, but in
a county w hich measured from north to south
and from cast to west, cannot be equalled on
numerous points, by any other tract of the
same extent. In speaking of " Little Lehigh,"
we may, we say, be prejudiced like all others
who love the land of their birth, but let us see
what we are, and what we do poiiess in reality
and in truth.
Lehigh is termed a Cumberland Valley coun
ty, and is so called from the river which forms
the dividing line from Northampton county
fOr some twelve or fifteen miles. In german
the word is written Lecha, which probably
comes nearer the Indian name, from which
it derives, than its English orthography.
Tlie county was formed out of part of North
ampton in the year 1812. The streams are the
Lehigh river, and its tributaries, the Little Le
high, Jordan, Cedar, Trout, Copley and Stitt
con creeks.
I•'irst we shall see what 'Lehigh county pre
sents to the beholder on its earth's surface.—
Let hay-making and harvesting tell. Last
week you could behold fields of yellow waving
grain as far as the eye could reach. Not a
nook, hill or dell but yields bountifully, an
swering to the work and desires of the farmer
as faithfully and truly as does the noble ship
to its hello on the bosom of the stormy ocean.
As an agricultural county there is none su
perior in the Stale, and especially do the rich
townships of Saucon, the two Macungies, the
two Whitehalls, Salsburg and Ilanover yield a
plentiful return to the honest, hard-working
flamer ; of which their splendid houses, barns,
out-houses, fences, and the magnificent condi
tion of their farms is the best proof. The land
in these townships is a yellow clay, a limestbne
soil. Mixed in part with sand ; it is interspersed
with hill and dale, and their is, indeed, very
little that cannot be cultivated. The land in
the townships of the two Milfords, Heidelberg,
Washington, Lynn, Lowhill and Weisenburg,
is mixed partly with gravel and slate, and no
soil. with the judicious use of lime, can add
more to the wealth of the farmer, of which they
appear to be fully aware, as thousands of bush
els of lime is yearly wed by the cultivators of
these townships. and silt!' excellent success, as
their land not only produces the fullest and
healthiest grain, but always brings a .bigher
price in mat ket than any other. The land is
generally very hilly, but notwithstanding that,
all can be cultivated. •
We possess a climate healthy all the year
round. We have no sickly seasons of fevers,
of cholera, and other epidemics which usually
about this thee of the year prevail throughout
the land, and which for the past few years
weekly swept away thousands of people. All
our seasons are healthy and delightful. We
have no rainy season or dry season, season of
tornados and hurricanes, season of torrid heat
or frigid cold. If we have speciMens of either
they are slight, and instead, of beiiig the rule,
are exceptions, which set our good people in
Nvondennerit and 'amaze as to tlie cause and ori
gin. Although the iiresent season was a little
behind lime,—which Was of invaluable benefit
to the crops.--as a general thing; our seasons of
spring, summer, autumn and winter follow each
other in such regular secession and just in the
very nick of time, that when we become tired of
the one and wish for the other, here it is,—even
the heat of summer and the cold of winter are
so delightfully tempered, that if_ for our own
use we had the manufacturing of them, we
would not construct them otherwise.
We have just one large town—Allentown,
the county seat,--as beautiful a place as can
be found in the Union. The number of substan
tial business and dwelling houses erected dur
ing the last twelve months, and those that nre
to go up during the summer, afford gratifying
evidence of vigorous growth and incresing pros
perity. Notwithstanding the number of hous
es that have lately been put up, there is not a
businegs house or fitmily residence to be had kt
town. All are occupied and more in demand.
Whether Allentown will or will not become a
town of influence in Eastern Pennsylvania, is
not deemed problemetical by men of sense and
observation, who watch the signs of the times.—
There' are those living in rival towns, nnd at
points likely to suffer from the building up of
Allentown, who affect to believe it has reached
its culminating point, and in a short time
remain a " dead set." We think ,otherwise,
and predict otherwide. As soon as we have
the Port Clinton and the Norristown Railroads
running here, and which will certainly be put
under contract before long, we have all that is
required. We have Furnaces, Foundries, Steam
Flouring Mills, Steam Saw Mills, Machine Shops,
and other improvements " too tedious to men
tion," all going to show that we are destined, at
no distant period, to have a town here that will
commend respect and attract attention. The
location of Allentown, is eminently pleasant
and picturesque, with the finest water in the
world—what a• location for men of fortune,
who have retired from business ! Those who
have settled here, in all time past, have died
with old age. Indeed, gentlemen having dis
agreeable wives, and desiring to get rid of
them, would do well to stay away from here,
persons must die of old age alone! .
By having but one large town in the county,
we are freed from all animosities and jealousies,
the frequent bane of counties where several
claim, and none potential enough to enforce,
precedence. Of jealousies or competition in this
respect we know nothing. Our country friends
are as much-interested in our greatness and
prosperity as we ourselves, and why ? are we
not the emporium singly and undenying of the c
county.
The borough of Catasauqua is next to Al
lentown in point of business and population.
The furnaces of the Crane Iron Company are
located at this place. It is surprising to see how
this town progressed. ,In 1839 several citizens
of Philadelphia determined to erect a furnace for
the manufacture of anthracite iron, a process then
only recently discovered and brought in use by
M. Crane, in England. These gentlemen select
ed the piece of ground where the furnaces are
now located. Late in 1839 the timber was cut
from the ground, and in 1840 a furnace was
erected capable of' producing 4000 tons of pig
metal annually. Three or four houses had been
erected that year, and a few others were in pro
gress of construction for the workmen, being'the
only buildings within some distance of the place:
The experiment succeeded, and in 1842 they
erected another furnaco to produce 5000 tons,
and another in 1846, propelled by steam,
of 7200 tons. In 1850 two additional furnaces
of 8000 tons each were completed. If a per
son visits this place now he will find around
these monster works a town having a popula
tion of about 1300 and between two and three
hundred houses. We have throughout the
county eleven or twelve other neat and pretty
villages. And what a thriving, and industri
ous people inhabits them ! Their population is
none of the wishy-washy, effeminate, dandyfied
apologies of men to be found in many other
places. They are hardy, strong, manly and in
telligent,—take them all and all it cannot be
denied.
Having come doWn thus far we will say
something about the mineral wealth of the
county. We have inexhaustible beds of iron
ore, zinc, copper, mnganese, copperas, &c.—
Iron ore is found in abundance in the townships
of North and South Whitehall, Upper and Low
er Macungie, Mr:Lover, Salsburg and Upper and
Lower Milford, in veins from four to flirty feet
thick, and so near the surface as to be mined
with the greatest ease; it is of different kinds,
such as rock, pipe, shell, kidney, and black and
red sheer, which will yield from 70 to 00
per cent. In Saucon they have rich and valua
ble beds of Zinc. Copperas is plenty, but is
not mined to such a great extent as in former
years. We have also fire clay, porcelhin clay
and hydraulic cement, of the best quality, and
in inexhaustible quantities. The fire clay is
manufactured into bricks at East Allentown.
The porcelain clay is shipped to Philadelphia
where •it is manufactured into ware of most
beautiful description.
There are many other objects in Lehigh
county which Might be used as a handle to boast
with, but boasting is not our province at pres
ent, we simply wish to show that although we
are an unassuming people, we posses within
our limits more of real value than many other
counties more favored and less deserving of the
works of art than we are.
I=
On Saturday evening last Mr. Join; TROMP
sox was found dead near Shimersville, in this
county. The deceased had been engaged for
some time past in selling winnowing mills
throughout the county for Mr. Obediah Bitting,
of this place. As there was no eye witness to
the accident it is supposed he came to his death
by falling from his wagon to the roadside in
consequence of the foot board giving way while
driving down a bill. When picked up it was
found that his breast bone was broken, and also
his shoulder bone and a rib. He was fifty
three years of age, and leaves a wife and five
children.
Be Generous and Just.
When the papers chronicle a rise in prices,
our producers at once notice the fact, and raise
their asking.price to the topmost figure, no
matter how hard it may be for those'who have
everything to buy, to earn enough to secure
their daily food—but when prices fall, then
newspapers are not to be relied on— they lie so
much. They don't believe a word . of it, and
it takes from a week to a•anonth, to get the ad
vantage of redticed prices. Be generous and
just.
florae Stolen
On Saturday night last the•stable Ains.
GANGwsrts, in Saucon. township was broken
open rind a valuable horse stolen therefrom.--
Suspicion rests upon LEVI Ocns, who broke out
of Jail last week, and had since been lurking in
said township.
North Pennsylvania Railroad
This road was opened to Gwynned on the Ist
instant, and passenger trains are regularly run
ning over the road to this, point, front whence
stages run to Allentown, Bethlehem, and vari
ous other points. l Since the opening, the road
has been doing a large business in the passen
ger• line, frequently carrying from 150 to 200
passengers in one train.
The Market far Illreadstntni.
All who have traveled this season in almost
any part of the United States represent the
grain crops as remarkably large and fine. So
far as one can judge by the eye' and by what
one hears in traveling from the farmers, there
is every prospect of a plentiful harvest. It is
said, however, that in three of the most
considerable of the grain-producing States—
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Virginia, a smaller
quantity of land has been • sown with wheat
than is usual. If this be so we are confident
that the deficiency will be overbalanced by the
larger number of acres laid down to wheat in
other States. We hear from Illinois that the
product of wheat in that State is expected to
be at least twenty-five million bushels the
present year, which gives a bushel to every
inhabitant of the United States, young and old.
The largeht product of Illinois hitherto has
been not more than sixteen million bushels;
but of late years very many of the farmers of
that State have nearly abandoned the culture
of wheat, having found the raising of neat
cattle, horses and swine much more profitable.
in no part of the world is there a finer turf or
a richer pasture in the meadows than in those
of middle and northern Illinois—once upland
prairies—on which the wild herbage has been
entirely supplanted by the cultivated grasses.
This year the enormous price of breadstuffs
has tempted the farmers to break them up
again with the plow. From northern Indiana
and from lowa the accounts of the wheat-crop
are equally favorable, 'and the same causes
have there also caused an unusual extent of
land to be sown with wheat. There is, mean
time, one cause of supply which is peihaps,
not fully estimated by those who speak of the
prospects of the market. In all parts of the
United States where the cereal grains and
potatoes can be raised, every body who owns
land capable of tillage, remembering the enor
mous prices of the last autumn, winter and
spring, has resolved to protect himself, if pos
sible, from the inconvenience of a like state of
the market, in 'the coming season. Men have
committed seed to the earth as if they looked
for that most improbable phenomenon, a dearth
for two successive years. The efiect of these
small supplies, which will never go into: the
market, will be only perceived when the crops
are gathered and ready for use ; they will then
diminish the number of buyers and essentially
affect the price. •
Important Law.
Our attention has been .called, k to the folloir
ing important law passed by the Legislature
last winter, which we publish for the informa
tion of the public. ,It will be found on page
332, Pamphlet laws of 1855:
" That no estate, real or personal, shall here
after be bequeathed, devised or conveyed, to
any body politic; or to any person, in trust for
religious or charitable uses, except the same be
done by deed or will, attested by two credita
ble and at the same time, disinterested witness
es, at least one calender month before the
death of the testator or alienor ; and all dispo
sitions of property contrary hereto shall be void
and go to the residuary legatee or devisee next
of kin or heirs according to law : Provided,
that any disposition of property within said pe
riod bona fide made for a valuable considera
tion, shall not be here avoided."
Itegletcring Letters
The system of registration of valuable letters
prescribed by the Post office Department, went
into operation the Ist inst. The regulations
provide, that on the payment of a registration
fee of five cents, a receipt shall.be given by the .
Postmaster when a letter is mailedand extraor
dinary precaution be used in its forwarding and
delivery. It is not to be confined to money let
ters, but any letter will be registered which the
writer considers valuable, but for which the de
partment do not make ,themselves liable.
Postmasters have been instructed to make no
record or marks upon registered letters„ by
which the fact of their containing money or
other valuables may be suspected or made
known.
The Stesim Whistle.
Many persons who arc constantly in the way
of listening to the horrid howl of the steam
whistle, arc unacquainted with the mechanical
means by which its effects are produced. The
whistle is formed of two cups, placed one above
the other. The lower cup is nearly filled with
a ball or gland, so as to leave a narrow annular
opening of 1.32 of. an inch in width around the
edge of the cup. The upper cup is hollow and
its lower edge is about one inch or 11 inches from
the lower cup. By admitting steam through a
valve to the lower cup, it escapes through an
annular opening and impinges against the
edges of the inverted cup. This produces the
sound. The heaviest whistles for locomotives
ere six inches in diameter. The hollow upper
cup is made of sheet brass or copper.
I==l
REORGANIZATION OF TOE WHIG PARTY.-A
movement has been started in Philadelphia, for
the reorganization of- the Whig party on a ba
sis exclusive of all connection with secret orders.
A set of new rules have , been frothed for the
purpose and 'the first meeting for the purpose
of organization was held in the Seventh Ward,
on Thursday evening. G. W. Doano presided.
A Whig Association for the ward was formed,
addresses delivered by Charles Gilpin,, Wil
liam S. Price, and others.
Tun AUGUST ELEcTions.--All eyes are now
anxiously turned to the elections to take place
in the States of Alabama, Arkansas, lowa,
Kentucky, Missouri and Texas on the first
'Monday in August next, curious to know the
effect of the result. Tennessee holds her elec
tion on the first Thursday, and North Carolina
on the second Thursday of the same month,—
The election in Vermont occurs on the first
Tuesday, and in Maine on the second Monday
of September. In Alabama, Kentucky, North
Carolina, Tennessee and Texas, members of
Congress, are to be elected.
Gov. Roeder.
The telegraph brings us intelligence from
Kansas that Gov. Reeder has had a rencontre
with Stringfellow, the Missourian bully and
friend of Senator Atchison, who has been busy
in crushing out the spirit of freedom in Kansas,
and that the Governor was badly beaten. Be
-IWeen the cut-throats of Missouri and the Ad
ministration, Gov. Reeder is to be decapitated
in some way, and his place filled by some slave
ry propagandist. Let them proceed With
their dirty work, and let us have the worst. -
The Easton Argus, the organ of Gov. Reeder,
in anticipation of his removal, contains the fol
lowing article. Other Democratic papers
throughout the State are also speaking out:—
" The appearance of this correspondence has
naturally dented an unusual excitement over
the country, and was ,doubtless published with
a view to ascertain how the proposition would
be received. That the act has been decided on
we have not the least doubt. We have no idea
that any reply the Governor may make, will at
all affect or change the action of the Adminis
tration. Ten thousand ' explanations,' however
satisfactory' they might be, would not suffice
to remove the ' impressions' which we are told
rest on the President's mind.' In due time
his successor will be named, and then we pre
sume the administration and the Missourians
will be satisfied. Common courtesy will no
doubt induce the powers that be to postpone
the removal of Governor Reeder until his reply
is received, although Secretary 'Davis, in his
undignified speech at Vicksburg, announced a
,Fortnight ago, that ' he had doubtless been re
moved before that time.' We have no desire
at present, to speak at length upon this sub
ject, but we may say now, that if President
Pierce is determined to ruin the democratic
party of the North altogether—if he is deter
mined to kill for all time to come his favorite
doctrine of popular sovereignty'—if he has
made up his mind to sacratice the good opinion
of the Democracy of the North, let him go and
commit this egregious act of folly. It will be
a most unfortunate movement for his adminis
tration—one that the people will never sus
tain."
LATE PROM EuxoPE.—The steamship Pacific
has arrived' from-Liverpool, bringing intelli
gence from Europe one week later. In the dis
astrous attack on the Malakoff and Redan
towers, the Allies lost 4,774 men killed and
wounded. Lord Raglan has been very ill, and
it was generally reported in London that he
had asked to be recalled in consequence, but
this is officially contradicted, though it is ad.
mitted that General Simpson hasbeen designated
as the commander, in case Lord Raglan's health
should render it necessary. Captain Lyons,
who commanded the British squadron in the
expedition to Kertsch, has died of his wounds.
He was the son of Admiral Lyons. There
were reports in Paris that Gen. Pelissier had
charged the recent defeat at Sebastopol to the
neglect of the British commander. In tho
Baltic, Sweaborg has been bombarded arid
the stores burned, A large number of the
infernal machines had also been 'destroyed.—
An English squadron has arrived in the White
Sea and formally announced the blockade of
the ports. llango has been bombarded and the
telegraph station demoli,shed. In. the massacre
which took place there it is officially announced
by the British Admiralty that only five men
were killed. In Asia, the allied Admirals have
given orders to complete the destruction of the
fortifications of Anapa. Two hundred cannon
were found in the forest, but unserviceable.
The Circassians plundered the town, the inha
bitants retiring across the Luban with the gar
rison. The Russian forces were concentrating
at Tiflis. In Sebastopol there were said to be
15,000 wounded soldiers, and cholera was mak
ing sad havoc in the town. The children and
women have been sent away. 800 cases of
cholera had occurred in the Piedmontese army,
362 proving fatal.
A. RAILWAY ENG 11417.11. COOKED. ALrcE.—A
train, upon the Greenville railroad, near Day
ton, Ohio, was thrown off the track on the 30th
of June, by the cow-catcher failing to throw a
bullock aside who was on the track. Mr. Du
fone, the engineer, sprang off the wrong way,
and the locomotive crushed and fell upon him.
kle lay under it one hour-and a gimrter with
the hot water pouring over him, before the
passengers were able to extricate him. • The
poor man withstood the torture of a thousand
deaths, and walked to the hotel after he was
extricated. Ile lived in great agony for 24
. hours, presenting a terrible spectacle.
TROTTING MATcn.-The great match against
time—twenty miles within the hour—came off
on Thursday afternoon, in New York, and was
won handsonnly by Lady Fulton, the nag cho
sen to perform the feat. She won by five sec-,
ends, making the twenty miles in fifty-nine
minutes and fifty-nine seconds. The match
was for $2,500 aside, made last winter, the
mare having until the Ist of august to prepare
for the performancC. Some weeks ago she ap
peared out of order, and would not take her
feed to suit her trainer but she improved
again, and Mr. McMann, her• driver, felt very
sanguine on bringing her to the post, that
she was all right and would wiutherace. Time
59.55.
REMARKABLE NEETIEG.—The children of
Noah Davenport, eight in number, all met on
28th June, 1855, at William Davenport's house
in Spencertown, Columbia county, N. Y., in
the same house where they were all born, after
a separation of over Afty - years. Their average
age was sixty. The house they met in is the
same house the father first took for a home over
seventy years ago. It has been occupied by
the family ever since, and probably will beheld
by the fourth generation.. Not many families
of this . number and age can get together in this
way.
Am:lmm, Bnsurrms !—An eminent publish
ing house in Paris it is stated, is engaged in is
suing a series of the most distinguished female
beauties in the world, which, when completed,
is to include ten of the handsomest ladies in the
United States, and these Barnum has under
taken to engage. In order to stimulate compe
tition, he offers $5OOO, in premiums, ranging
from $lOOO down to $l5O, to be distributed,
according to the different degrees of beauty.—
Ladies accordingly are requested to send in
their daguerreotypes to the Museum. None
will be received later than the 15th of October.
Great is humbug s and the Prince thereof, is
Barnum !
'STIBBED BY d. FLASK O,F LIGEITNINCL—At
Troy, New-York, on Sunday evening, July Ist,
during .a thunder shower, a flask or ball of
lightning struck a post in front of the house of
a Mr. Platt in Benham street. A small particle
of the fluid separated from the ball and passed
through a window into the kitchen, striking
Mrs. Platt in the mouth, passing down the en
tire length of her body and left leg, and out at
her big toe. She was struck perfectly senseless,
and remained so for some 15 or 20 minutes.
when she partially recovered, and complained .
of violent pain in the breast, side and leg.—
The most extraordinary part of the occurrence
is, that Mrs. Platt seems likely to recover after
this extraordinary bombardment.
DEATH OF MRS. SCHOOLEY, THE FAT Wost Ax.
—Mrs. Catharine Schooly, the largest woman
in the world, weighing 704 pounds, whomour
citizens will recollect as being exhibited by Col.
Wood, in Allentown, two years ago, died in
Sciota township, Piqua county, Ohio, while sit
ting in her chair, on the sth inst. A few days
previous she complained of an attack of neural
gia, but up to that time enjoyed good health,
and had made every arrangement to visit Can
ada during the heat of the summer. Col. Wood
had her life insured for $25,000, of which $15,-
000 were in companies of Hartford, Conn., and
.the balance in Ohio companies.
LIQUID DEATH AND DISTILLED DAMMATIONT—
ITS FRUITS.—From the returns of the mayor and
police officers in nineteen counties of the State
of New York, made to the Special Committee of
the State Senate, it appears that there were
19,496 arrests for crime during the past year.
Of this number, 13,336 of the criminals were
intemperate. These statistical reports were
from less than one-third of the State. If the
same proportion prevails in the other counties,
and the city of New York be added, it would
show 100,000 criminal arrests in the State du.
ring the last year, and 07,000 of them justly
charged to Intemperance.
DANCING , vs. ,LIGHTNING.--A Buffalo paper
records some rather singular freaks of lightning
in the vicinity. During a brief shower, several
young laboring men assembled in a cooper's
shop. One of the number fiddled while anoth
er danced. As this was going on the lightning
struck the shop, descended to the room where
the men were, and passed down the person of
the dancer, and completely stripped him of his
boots, the heels of which were separated from
the main sole. The fiddle was torn into a
thousand pieces, and the bow was never found
afterwards ! No one was seriously hurt.
WORM IN TIM ITEART.-Mr. F. Ezell, of Tal
bot county, Georgia, writing to the Spartan
PresS, says that a favorite dog of his died sud
denly, recently, and suspecting that he was
poisoned, he made a post-mortem examination.
To his astonishment, he found concealed in his
heart a worm measuring forty inches, and as
large as a man's little finger. There were about
twelve inches of the worm out of the heart,
while the other part of it •was in his heart,
tied in four or five knots. The part of the
worm that was out of the heart cxtended.down
to the liver, which appeared to be soft and very
much eaten. " •
SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE.—Last Saturday
a man, named George Shank, who lived as hos
tler.with Dr. Oelig, in Waynesboro', Pa., hung
himself. The only cause assigned was grief for
the death of favorite horse of the doctor's,
named " Fox," during whose sickness Shank
was heard to say, " When Fox dies I want to
die too." After the animal's death, when re:
moving its halter, he remarked, " this halter
will do me a.torijce some day," and verified
the remark by endcrie his own life with it.
LAWTERS.-Our country probably has more'
lawyers than any other in proportion to its
population. The Census of 1850 returned their
their total number in that year at 23,939. which
gives one lawyer to every 817 , inhabitants, the
white pogulation of 19,553,068 only consider
ed. Great Britain, in 1841, bad 17,334 mem
bers of the legal profession, and a population of
18,717 „870, or one lawyer to every 1,079 in
habitants. •
AN OLD BIRD.—As some . masons were effect
ing repairs in a house in Rue Merciere, in Ly
ons, France, they surprised in its nest, where
it was apparently expiring from old age, a
swallow, having round its neck a chain bearing
a little silver plate, with the following words
engraved upon it :—" Ludovic4 Margaritso
fidele, 1749."
AN Ics MOUNTAIN AT SEA.—Captain Nalco,
of the packet ship Jeremiah Thompson, which
arrived at New York on Saturday last from
Liverpool reports hawing seen on the southern
end of the Grand Banks an iceberg at least one
thousand feet long and three hundred and fifty
feet high.
PROSPECT FOR SAUSAGE MEAT.—We should
not be surprised to hear of a fall in the price of
sausages. .Twelve hundred dogs were received
at the city dog-pound last week. As Dicken's
cocknoy said, " Pot Becomes on 'em t Ah, in
deed,!• vot !"—New York Brother Jonathan.
Cibo . nub enb .
(I:7Every woman is in the wrong until sfie
cries—and then sho is right,—instantly.
1):7 - A white swallow has been seen by the
Editor of the New Haven (Conn.) Register.
[I:7W tot is a colt getting broke, like a Young
lady getting married ? Because he is going lib
through the bridal ceremony.
(r7•AN exchange says that tho last thing's 1.
man does is to repent. This is a Mistake—the
last thing done is to pay a printer's bill.
O:7CoL. AtvA MANN, well known in former
years as a Circus and Menagerie manager, died
in New York on Monday.
07• It's with old bachelors as with old wood ;
its hard to get them started ; but when they do
take flame they burn prodigiously.
f7At a fourth of July celebration, a young
lady offered the following toast : " The young
men of America : Their arms our support
Our arms their reward. Fall in—men, fall in.'•
The Salary of Rev. Wm. A. Good, Coun
ty Superintendent of Berks County, has been
increased to Twelve Hundred Dollars per an
num, by the Directors of the county.
137'11s who marries a beauty, only, is like at
buyer of cheap furniture— the varnish that
caught the eyo will not wendure tho fireside
blaze.
[a - Tim Goon Tots COMING.—The Kentucky
Wheat crop is said to be the largest ever grows
in that State. Other States are not much be
hind Kentucky in the abundance of their crops.
11:7 - According to the statistics gathered so
far, the city of New York has increased nearly
200,000 during the past five years, and its
population will aggregate 750,000.
07To make cheap Maderia wine, take eight.
cockroaches and a gill of alcohol, add a pint of
water and spoonful of cider vinegar. If you
want a heavier body add more cockroaches.
fri - Con the last trip of the United States
steamship Atlantic, Capt. West completed his
two,,hundred and thirty-fourth voyage, which
is about equal to 703,000 miles of ocean travel.
(17•GRAssnorrEaS, in countless hosts, aro
sweeping over the fields in Texas, but they aro
fpllowed by immense flocks of a peculiar kind
•
bird, which feeds upon them.
p7What is it that goes when a wagon goes,
stops when a wagon stops ; it is of no use to•
the wagon, and yet the wagon can't go with
"out it ? Why the noise, to be sure.
[l:7'lt is not generally known to the peoplo
that the law requiring the registry of births,
marriages and deaths, was repealed by the Leg
islatur of last winter.
11771Lcivolso or Wiwi..Esm.x.—Six negroes
belonging to Mrs. Flint, near Alexandria, La.,
have been sentenced to be hanged for the mlr
der of Mr. Win. Walters, the overseer of the
plantation.
O:7'A MAN CUT IN Two.—On the 22d tilt., a
man named John Spooner fell across the carri
age of a circular saw, near Dunham, Canada,
and before he could recover himself, was literal
ly sawn in two, causing instant death.
lU - There is an advertisement in a Kentucky
paper of a minister far sale. He was a slave to
a man recently deceased. It was stated in the
advertisement that he holds a license to preach..
Churches in want of a pastor take notice.
07A man named Bachelor, a resident of
Illinois, has recovered $24,000 from a rail
road company at Brant, Canada, as a compen
sation for having both legs broken by a colli
sion.
(r7The imports into New York since Janua
ry laSt, amount to 664,560,702 ; but in 1854,
Up to the same time, they wore $90,496,908.
In the exports of cotton and breadstuffs this.
year, there has been a falling off of no less theta
$8,328,782.
EITIte soil of Siberia, at the close of the•
summer, is fund still frozen for fifty-six feet
beneath the surface, so that the dead having
lain in their coffins for one hundred and fifty
years, have been taken up unchanged in the.
least.
• sz7-The census-taker found a woman in Mace
don, N. Y., 23 years old, mother of four child
ren, the oldest of whom is 12 'years, nest 8.
third 3, last one year. The eldest was of
course, born when the mother was twelve years.
old.
B:7one of our exchanges says it requires.
3,500 sheep to be kept a whole year to support
the Lawrence (Mass..) mill's with wool for one
single day. They produce 1,600 shawls per
day, and consume cochineal to the value of
660,000 per annum. Three years since there.
was not 500 inhabitants in Lawrence, and now
there are 10,000.
fly Colonel Hugh Lindsay publishes himself
in the Hamburg Schnellpost, as an independent
candidate for the State Senate. He pledges
himself to vote for the repeal of the " Jug Law,"
and to oppose _" all other fanatical Church leg
islation." He also states, in an "N. 8.,'
that ho will " vote against Simon Cameron for
U. S. Senator."
SALE OF TEE PUBLIC! WORES.—On the 24th
inst., the Main Line of Public Works of thia
State, with all property appertaining to them,
to be sold in Philadelphia. It is rumored.thaa
the New-Yorkers will endeavor to effett their
purchase, for the purpose of diverting the West
ern trade to their city. Philadelphia inulit
wake up, or she will lose what trade New 'York.
now suffers her to hold. While Philadelphia.
consumes time in pondering upon a projiot,.
New'York acts.
StONTAIOIOI7B COMIIIISTMS.—Iires from this
source are very often -charged to incendiarism..
In Sandusky, Ohio, lately, a case of! this kind
occuredd Some painters having been. at work:
painting the ,now Presbyterian church, a cotton.
rag saturated with oil wasleft upon one , of the
seats. Next day, on going into the church, a
large hole vyis Eland burnt in the seat" and the
rag was in ashes,evidently the result of spon
taneous combustion.