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ALLENTOWN, PA.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1855
I:l:7'Gsmian A. CROFOT, No. 7 . 3 South Fourth
street, Philadelphia, is authorized to 'receive
advertisements for thispaper.
0:71r. B. PALmsit, in Brown's New Iron
Building, N. E corner of Fifth and Chestnut
streets, Philadelphia, is also authorized to re
ceive advertisements.
Row York quarterly..
The July No. of thiS Quarterly has been ly
ing on our table for several weeks awaiting a
leisure moment for its examination. But when
we cut its leaves our attention was so much
taken up with it, that we have read with great
pleasure most of its articles. It is a very
vigorous journal, fresh and fragrant as the early
spring; and we wish it the success which it so
richly merits.
Stopping Newspapers.
A certain man hit his toe against a pebble
stone and fell headlong to the ground. He was
vexed, and under the influence of anger and ac
tive self-sufficiency, he kicked the old mother
earth right saucily. With imperturablo
ho looked to see the globe itself dissolved,
and come to naught. But the earth remained,
and only his poor toe was injured in the en
counter. This is the way of man. An article
in the newspaper touches him in a weak place,
and straightway ho sends word to stop his
paper. With great self-complacency he looks
on to see a crash, when the object of his spleen
shall cease to be. Poor fool, he has only hit
his own toe against a world that does not per
ceptibly feel the shock, and injures to no extent
any ono but himself.
Caught Again.
Lam Ocns, who succeeded in making his
second escape froM our Jail about two weeks
since, was- on• Thursday Ittst again arrested at
Stroudsburg, Monroe county, and lodged in his
old quarters on Saturday morning. .As he has
proved himself very smart at Jail breaking the
Sheriff determined to put a stop to that kind of
fun and now keeps him chained to the Ifoor.—
The news.of his re-arrest, and the secure man
ner in which he is now kept, will no doubt be
gratifying to the citizens of Simeon township,
where he had since his last escape committed
sundry depredations, and many persons were
constantly on the look-out for fear of their pro
perty being fired:
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Allentown Dank. •
To-morrow an election for thirteen (Erectors
of the Allentown Bank will be held at the pub
lic house of CHARLES LIRA:. The Commission
ers aro making all the preliminary arrange
ments in their power for an early commence
ment of banking operations. They have rent
ed for a Banking house the building at the
corner of Seventh street and Market Square,
formerly occupied by the Northampton Bank,
and at present as a restaurant..
Violation of the Sunday Law.
On Saturday last, Philip Klee, the " mine
host" of a Lager Beer House in the suburbs of
of our town, known as the " Anchor House,"
was brought before John D. Lawnll, Esq., on a
charge of violating the Sunday Liquor Law.—
Several witne&ses were examined, from which
it appeared that Philip was guilty, and he was
fined $5O for violating the law, and required to
enter security for his appearance at the next
Court for misdemeanor.
There arc several stories afloat about the af
fair, and we have endeavored to obtain it as cor
rectly as possible. It appears that several
young men went to the " Anchor" and prevail
ed upon Philip to sell them some Lager,' and
after considerable coaxing succeeded in getting
it. After it had been drank a spurious .51 bill
was tendered by the Berson who called for the
beer. 'Afterwards a dispute arose about the
bill, and the person who had passed it " got up
his blood" and threatened to prosceate him for
selling beer on Sunder. The party then left,
and on coming obt-doors met oflicer llankey
and told him that Philip ought to'be informed
upon, as they had drank Lager and. paid for it
The officer then told them that he would have
- to inform against him, and would require them
us witnesses
Such we believe were the facts of the case,
and . we think it is about the meanest trans
action that liar turned up in town for some
time, although no blame can be attached to the
officer, (as is the case,) as he is sworn to up
hold the laws. 'These men that induced Philip
to sell to them, Ivhen:they knew it was in viola
tion of the law, they are the persons that ought
to have " the slowly moving finger of scorn"
pointed at them. It is not likely that the
law would have been violated if they had kept
away from the place on -the Sabbath; as all
law4ibiding and good citizens should. That
the "Anchor" is a place of bad repute is well
known, and we would not be understood that we
in any way strive to uphold it by siding with
-Philip in the above case. Last winter he was
involved - in several difficulties, brought before
Court, and made to stiffer the penalty of the
law. And why ? Why, for maintaining .a
nuisance. And who committed the nuisance?
Immost 'instances it was done by persons who
got, drunk at otliZr places about town, and
then, on account of the obscure locality, went to
the " Anchor" to give vent to the "wet dam
-nation" they had previously imbibed. As
regards this late prosecution, we look upon
it as a small business. It is .perfectly right
that the law should be carried out to its fullest
extent, and. that all gifilty violators should be
punished, but then it is wrong that a man be
dragged into a difficulty and afterwards be
irayed, as' was done in• the above instance.
It is perfectly right, and we gladly see it, when
tbman is prosecuted from a virtuous: sense of
justty fbr openly and willingly violating
. the
law, but adislike to a.° it done to gratify
spleen: •
tgiottr.
The weather during. last week was ;very
warm, the thermometermnging from 92 to 98
in the shade. On Thursday, however, ,it felt
exceedingly summery, and the clerk of the
weather seemed disposed 'to• see hoW early he
could get up steam, how long he could keep it
up, and how,intolerably hot ho could make the
article when it was up. Ladies gasped, gen
tlemen puffed, fat folks dripped, lean ones
drew themseWes out to a gaunter length. A
general desire to be packed in ice seekied to
pervade reeking humanity. Every, body we
saw on the street stuck their arms out and
walked spradling like a duck. None of the
girls were squeezed as we know of—reckon, it
wouldn't pay. When the heat gets up to 98 de-,
grees, as it was, it begets a trying time among
printers, taxing them to their utmost to steer
clear of having their " rollers" decomposed.—
Few persons are aware of the exact process of
inking types, or the materials used in this op
eration. 'Composition rollers, composed of glue
and molasses, boiled until the materials assuthe
a stiffness and elasticity, are used for this pur
pose. These rollers are admirably suited for dis
tributing the ink equally:Over the types; but are
always affected by sudden changes in the
weather. In the winter when the thermometer
is in the vicinity of zero they become almost as
hard as pieces of wood, and it is difficult to I
make them ;elastic ; while during warm weath
er, when the mercury is raging about the nine
ties they are affected pretty much the same as a
tallow candle by the heat, and arc frequently
converted into a liquid state.
On Saturday last Mr. DANIEL &mu came up
Fifth street on horseback, and when in the vi•
cinity of the new Church the horse stumbled
and fell ; in the fall the leg of the rider was
brought under the horse, and broke just above
the anclt.
What is more noble and admirable than a
young man rejoicing in his strength, his youth
and his purity, grappling strongly with the
world, to sustain a widowed mother and orphan
brothers and sisters, devoting his powers to
their happiness and competency ? We have
several instances of such manhood under our
observation in our town, and we confess we
love such young men. They have a glorious
future before them, for such merit never goes
unrequited by the even hand of Justice. •
There is another picture we have seen, here
and elsewhere, though, thank Providence, more
seldomly. It is A young man dressed in silks
and wools, gloves and perfumery, lounging
about, while a decrepid mother and father and
little brothers toil night and day for his sup
port. He shamelessly abuses a father's love
and a mother's tender sympathy—he is a dis
grace to his kind. How many of our readers
can see just such characters as the above oppo
sites in the area of their acquaintance. Let the
ono be cheered on in his noble struggles by
kind words and kindlier assistance, but let the
" slowly moving finger of scorn" be pointed at
the other till he is hissed from his home or dri
ven to activity and usefulness.
Connecting the SChuylkill Cool Region with N. York.
Ellwood Morris, Pl•q., Engineer and Superin
tendent of the Dauphin and Susquehanna Rail
road, has been reconnoitering the route for a
Railroad from Auburn. Schuylkill county, to
intersect the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Allen
town, leading directly to New York. Mr.
Morriq is one of the most talented Engineers in
the country, and he has discovered a route by
which a road can be made from Auburn to Al
lentown, a distance of 38 miles, with a grade
not exceeding 10 feet to the mile running East,
and' 32 feet running West. By this route
Pottsville would be brought within a distance
of 140 miles of New York City—and the road
can be made at a cost of about $1,200,000,
and for $2,000,000 fully equipped from a large
business. The following are the distances:
Miles
Pottsville to Auburn, - • - - 10
Auburn to Allentown, - - -38
Allentown 'to Easton, - - 17
Easton to New York, - - -75
Total, -
The Miner's Journal says : By this road the
whole Coal Region of Schuylkill County will
have access to the New York Market by Rail
road direct—aild as this is the most direct route
from New Yorlq to the great West, being ahnost
an on. line, as the MapS Wilt show—we feel con
fident that the road will be made forthwith:—
The Report of Mr. Morris •will be issued in a
feu' days. '
The Reading Gazette in speaking of this pro.
ject says : This route we believe, takes in 8
miles of the Reading railroad, from Auburn
to Hamburg, and thence strikes across in a
straight line to Allentown. It:would therefore
bring New York within about the same distance
from Reading, as Pottsville, if the above table
of distances be correct, viz: Rending to Ham
burg, 17 ; Hamburg to Allentown, 30 miles ;
Allentown to Easton, 17 miles; Euston to New
York, 75 miles ; total- 139 miles. The con
struction of the link between Hamburg and Al
lentown, is all that is wanted, to open to Read
ing, as well as the whole Schuylkill coal region,
this short and direct route to New York. Mr.
Morris, we are. informed, is sanguine that the
money will be raised to make it. A through
train, from Reading, would run to New York,
in about 5 hours—nearly as quick as The time
takes between Philadelphia and New York
By means of the Dauphin- and Susquehanna
road which connects with the Pennsylvania
Railroad, 5 miles above Harrisburg, this would
be also the quickest and most direct route for
Western travellers to New York.
1:I•Flour is selling in Kentucky at $5 per
barrel. Some chance for poor folks existing
now.
Warm lVeathez;.
Accident.
Homilies.
Mold Robber Arrested.
Col. Arthur Hughes, Special Agent of . the
Pest Office Department arrested in this city on
Thursday morning, a man named Adam H.
Smith, recently a clerk in the Post Office at
Richmond, Northampton county, on the charge
of robbing the mails. The prisoner, on being
taken into custody. confessed to taking one
letter, containing $4OO, mailed at Stroudsburg,
for the Easton Bank. He had purchased with
this money a horse and wagon, and had been
on a pleasure excursion to Harriaturg, Carlisle,
&c., with a female companion whom he. had
persuaded to run off with him from Plainfield,
near Richmond. The horse, which was still in
his possession, and is valued at $175, he gave
into the charge of Col. Hughes. He had dis
posed of the wagon but_ a fewrhours previous to
his arrest. Several letters had been missed for
some time from the Post Office at Richmond,
where Smith had charge of the mails temporar
ily, and a couple of weeks since suspicion had
rested on him, from his having in• possession
several $lOO bills. Hearing these suspicions
he made immediate arrangements to leave, and
telling his wife he was obliged to be absent for
a'day or two, lie went over to Plainfield town ,
ship, and induced a young girl, to whom h . ,2 had
been paying his addresses for some time, to
run away with him. The young lady is said
to be of a highly respectable family, and pre
viously bore a good reputation,. Smith had a
hearing before Alderman &homer, who com
mitted him to prison to await a requisition from
the United States authorities.—Reading Ca:.
Latest. Foreign News
The Arago, one of the Havre steamers, ar
rived on Monday at New York, after a passage
I of twelve days, with four days later news from
Europe. The interest of every Arrival centres
in the news from the Crimea, and the progress
of that eventful siege. The most important
event from that quarter is the death of Lord
Raglan, the Commander-in-Chief of the English
army. The melancholy news was received by
Lord Panmure • from General Simpson on the
afternoon of the 30th ult. For some days pre
viously, Lord Raglan had been suffering from
indisposition, but until 4P. on the 28th,
his Lordship progressed to the satisfaction of
his medical attendants. Afterwards alarming
,symptoms developed themselves, attended with
difficulty of breathing, which gilidually increas
ed. Front SP. M. he was unconscious, and
from that period he gradually sunk until 25
minutes before nine, at which hour he died.
The event has plunged the whole army into the
most profound grief. ft is stated that Major
General Simpson had succeeded Lord Raglan
pro ton. ,
No new movement had occurred in the Cri
mea. From the Baltic the news is that the
frigate Amphion ran ashore near Sweaborg—a
fire was commenced: upon her from a Russian
fort, which she returned, and 'caused consider
able damage in the fort by an explosion. This
probably accounts for the report by the last
steamer that Sweaborg had deen bombarded,
and all the stores destroyed, Sweaborg is one
of the most formidable places of defence the
Russians have in the Baltic, and is not to be
attacked with impunity. From England the
are news interesting. Lord Grosvenor's Sunday
bill restricting the working people in some of
their usual pursuits and enjoyments on that
day, has produced a very formidable manifesta
tion of popular indignation. The first Sunday,
fifteen thousand persons assembled in Hyde
Park, who compelled the nobility and gentry,
by hooting and outcries, to leave their carriages,
while taking an airing. The authorities made
preparations for the succeeding Sunday ; but, '
in spite of the preparations, a crowd of work
ing men, numbering one hundred thousand per
sons assembled in the Park again, and the same
scenes were re-enacted, with the addition of an
assault 'upon the police. The Sunday bill had
to be withdrawn by its author to quiet popu
lar tumult, at a limo when the government
need all the moral force and physical aid the
nation, can give to enable it to conduct the war
with advantage.
MIME DAYS LATER.By the arrival at Hali
fax olthe steamer Canada, we have later news
from &Colic, Lord Raglan was buried on the
3d of July, amid great pomp 'and military dis
play. It was rumored in the camp and at Con
stantinople, that General Pellissier was about to
be superseded.
The Sardinians and Turks have'made an ex
cursion into the interior of Tchernays, and cap
tured numerous works of art. Gortschakoff
has sent for 20,000 additional troops, and Gen
era} Liprandi's army has been reinforced by the
arrival of another division. The war has al
ready cost the belligerent nations half a milli
on of lives. Russian accounts from the Baltic
say That the allied flotilla had, without effect,
fired for eight hours against the batteries at the
moletly of the N , and had then withdrawn.
Subsequently the lde a descent on Kotka Is
land, destroyed the government stores, and then
attacked Fort Revel without effect. On the sth
of July the bulk of the allied squadron was off
Cronstadt. The Russian Secretary of Legation
in Portugal had been on a secret mission to
France-and England, and has been discovered
on board au English steamer, on his return.—
The French Legislature has voted the required
loan of seven hundred and fifty millions of
francs, besides increasing the taxation so as to'
yield seventy millions more per annum,
HORSE STOLEN AND 'THIEF CAPTURED.-4
horse for which $l4O had been paid by a Boat
man was stolen last week from the' Stable of
11. M. Fetter, in South Bethlehem. After dili
gent search the horse was discovered at Diehl's
tavern in IL Saucon, Lehigh Co. The horse
had been sold to Mr. D. for $35. The thief
was captureckand lodged in the Lehigh County
Jail. Ile is an Irishman named Theodore Sig
mutid.--Lehigh Valley Times,
1[1:7".
'James Myers,lhe clown of Seth llowe's
circus, is not dead. He was performing only a
few days since at Hamilton,.Canada West. .
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• EXTRAORDINARY (7 ASE OF FASCINATION OP A
'Gtar i , DT A &Am—tire learn from the New
Hampshire Patriot of July 13th that :
About two weeks since a little girl, near six
years of age, named Colista Hill, of Gilmanton
Centre, was searching for berries in the field,
when her attention was arrested by a pecplinr
sinetng noise, and on looking up, she perceived
two large black snakes, one of which was in an
erect .attitude and gazing fixedly on her, ac
companying its vibratory motions by, as she
says, " a most beautiful singing."
She first attempted to run, but found herself
utterly incapable of so doing. She then looked
at the snake until she became so pleased with it
that she took it into her lap, and held it until
she thought it asleep, and then fled to the
house. Fora numben of days.she visited the
_Snake unknown to her parents, who finally dis
covered her feeding it front her hand. She cool
tinned feeding it regularly every day t , becom g
more and more attached to it, until li`would
wind itself around her arms and neck, and even
take food from her mouth. Finally she was pre
vailed upon to place it in a box on condition it
should not be hurt, and in that it is still kept,
except when being fed.
Hultdreds in the vicinity have wen it, and it
is the opinion of the medical men who have
seen her that she is completely fascinated, and
that the deadly reptile would prove fatal to '
her. Her parents lkad many tempting offers to
permit her to be taken About and exhibited I
with the snake, but though they are-poor, they
have sense enough to refuth - ali -such offers.—
The snake is over four feet long.
We have the above from a gentleman who
has visitedthe girl and received the facts from
her and her parents, and of course it may be
relied upon as substantially correct.
Is LAGER BEER INTOXICATING ?—A man was
tried at Poughkeepsie, New York, the other
day, for violating the prohibitory law by selling
lager beer. The question arose whether or not
it 'was intoxicating drink. On this point, there
was a diversity of opinion. Several persons
swore that it had intoxicated them, while
others, among them two German physicians,
testified that it was not intoxicating. The phy
sicians, however, stated that they had never
drank any of it in this country, but in Germa
ny, where it was made of malt and hops. The
testimony of ,pne witness was as follows :
Christian Clause, sworn—l am a German ; live
in Poughkeepsie ; lager beer is not intoxicating ;
LI have drank sixty glasses in one day. Cross
examined—The glasses I drank held a pint
each, and I swear I drank sixty in one day in
a space of twelve hours, and felt no effects from
it. [This man was a very small one, and the
jury and court and audience laughed heartily
on his giving this evidence.] As the jury con
victed the defendant, it is presumed they con
sidered Poughkeepsie lager intoxicating.
OPENING OF TUE CENTRAL RAILROAD ROUTE.-
The great Central Railway route from Phila
delphia to St. Louis is at length complete and
fully opened to travel. On the 4th instant,
the anniversary of our national independence,
the event was duly commemorated by an ex
cursion over the Ohio mind Mississippi Railroad,
and a celebration, at which the people of St.
Louis rejoiced, as they had great reason to do,
over the accomplishment of a thing to which
they had looked forward with so much solici
tude. There is now a continuous railroad from
Philadelphia to St. Louis. The route is 1023
miles long, made up as follows :--Ohio and Mis
sissippi—St. Louis to Vincennes, 146 ; Eavens
ville and Crawfordsville—Vincennes to Terre
11oute, 58 ; Terre Route and Richmond— Terre
lloute to Indianapolis, and Bellefontaine—ln•
dianapolis to Union, 84 ; Bellefontaine and Indi
ana—Union to Crestline, 122 ; Ohio and Penn
sylvania--Crestline to Pittsburg, 187 ; Penn
sylvania Central—Pittsburg to Philadelphia,
353. Total 1023.
THE LOUISIANA KNOW NOTEINGS.—The fol
lowing is that portion of the Platform of the
American party of Lousiana, which objects to
the application of the principles of the eighth
article of the Philadelphia Platform to American
Catholics :
" While we approve of the platform adopted
by the late National Council of the American
'party of PhiladelphiaNe reject the application
of the principles of the eighth article to Ameri
can Catholics, as unjdst, unfounded and entirely'
unworthy of our country. We shall forever
continue to protest against any abridgement of
religious liberty, holding it as a cardinal maxim
that religious faith is a question between each
individual and his God; We utterly condemn
any attempt to make religions affiliate with any
party which holds sentiments not in accordance
with these."
HOW TO CURE GALLS PROM TOR HARNESS OR
SADDLE.—Major Long, in his valuable account
of his expedition to the Rocky Mountains, says
that his party found White lead moistened with
milk, to succeed better than anything else in
preventing the bad abets of the galls on the
horse's back in their march over the plains
that bordci the Mountains. Its effect in sooth
ing the irritated and inflamed surface was ad
mirable.
SOMETIIING NEW UNDER THE SUN.—Wo have
before us a sample of corn, from a lot of two
hundred and ninety-thice.;bags brought to this
city a few days since in barque Tally Ho, from
Winneebah, coast of AfriCa! The importation
of this useful article froni that quarter is a cir
cumstance we never before heard of. The cord
resembles our white Southern corn, but the
kernels are somewhat smaller. It is said to
weigh welt —Boston Traveler.
BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS. — The applications
now . reach 190,600; of these 132,600 have
been enveloped and briefed, 14,044 allowed,
and 11,120 warrants issued. There have been
allowed 30 applications of revolutionary sol
diers, and 173 of widoWs of soldiers of the rem
lution. .
A Ilmucts Dalira.—The family of Mr. Da
vid Carrington, of ilethani,lia'ving, been trou
bled with an offensive scent about their premis
es forabout a week past, which smelled' so much
like decaying offal, that Mr. C. and his work
men commenced a search last Friday to ascer
tain the cause of the nuisance. After a diligent
search they discovered the dead body or a man
among the under brush, near their residence.
The body appeared in a sitting posture, and
was partially decayed, but not so much as to
render recognition impossible. After an `ex
amination of the features and form of the de
ceased, it was ascertained to. be the body of
Henry collyer, of Woodbury. Further enquiry
has brought to light the cause of his death. It
seems that the unfortunate man was of intem
perate habits, and left his home on the 4th of
July to have " a good time." He went to Sey
mour, and was seen there on the morning of the
4th, where he procured a tin pail and went to
the distillery of Stoddard Chatfield, situated on
the border of the town of Bethany, where (it is
said) he stole' liquor enough to fill his pail, and
then became grossly intoxicated.
On the evening of the 4th of July he was seen
in that vicinity, and he probably made his Irv'
into the brush where he drank se freely of the,
liquor that he died. His body was not found
until Friday, July 13th. When discovered, the
body was in a sitting: posture, with the pail of
liquor before him, and his head leaned forward
so as to coinpletely immerse his face in a pail of
liquor !
A more terrible death than this, from The ef
fects of liquor, was probably never recorded.—
Away from his family—from home and friends,
he perished helpless and alone, on our national
birth-day, as a true discipline or devotee of
Bacchus.—New Raven Journal:
OUR PROIIIIIITORY LIQUOR LAW. -Our liquor
law is an abortion—a humbug— a nuisance—a
perfectly dead letter. Except in the occasional
arrest of a man overburdened with liquor, we
are not aware that it is in the slightest degree
respected, from Coney Island. to Lake Erie.—
The Germans quaff their lager in larger quanti
ties than ever, the Irish their whiskey, the
French their wines, and the natives a little
of everything, as if it were a virtue thus
Ito express their open defiance of this sense
less law for the encouragement of hard
drinking The liquor sellers have also the
advantage of free trade. No licenSes are
granted, so they have nono to pay for.—
The law is thus a perfect godsend to the low
grog shops, where the iniquities of bad liquor
and hard customers arc ` most abundant. In a
word, from the practical working of this law,
professedly intended for the total abolition of li
quor drinking, human ingenuity could not devise
a more successful expedient fur the encourage
ment of intemperance. Seeing is believing.
What will be the next device of our Seward re
formers for the improvement of the morals of
the community, it is impossible to guess.—
Where is The Carson League ? New , York
Herald.
A SAD CASE.—At St. Louis, Mo., the other
day, a shocking murder and suicide occurred.
A young man named Blessing, whose sister had
recently escaped from a convent and fallen into
dissolute habits, went to a house of ill repute,
and finding her there, persuaded her very
quietly and with much apparent good feeling.
to take a ride in a carriage with him. The,
went out into the country, and alighting to
take a walk, lie drew a revolver, and shot. her
fatally twice through the head. her dead body
was subsequently found on the spot. Return
ing to the city, he spent a gay evening in drink
ing champagne with some of his relatives, after
which he killed himself:
Wwn AS WAS A WlM—The New York
Pose tells a story of a merchant in that city
who, when first married, told his wife that for
every scion she produced he would place at her
disposal $3,000. After a lapse of years he fail
ed, and upon informing his Wife of his embar
rassments, she quickly placed in his hands
bonds to the amount of $30,000, as the products
of her industry, remarking at the same time,
" You see, Charles, that I have not been idle;
and if you had been half as industrious as your
brother over the way, I should now have
$60,000."
STEARBO DESTROYED --.....--
. BY FIRE.—The Stearn.;
boat John / T Stevens, was burnt at White Hall ,
BordenOWn, on Monday night, 16th inst.,
where s 4 lay at her wharf. She was an . elegant
boat, a§ handsome as any on the Delaware.—
The origin of the fire is not known. Three col
ored women, sleeping in the small cabin, were
burnt with tho boat. The other hands who
were sleeping in the boat escaped. The boat
cost $llO,OOO, and was built in 1846. She
was insured. .
CmNA WIIIIAT.—From one grain of thi spe
cie of wheat sown on • the farm of G. W. Blue,
of Hampshire county, (Va.) tho present year,
sixty-two stalks sprang up, each stalk bearing
an, average of any-one grains. Whole number
of grains produced from one 3,162 !
RAPID BALLOON TRAVELING.-MT. S. Rams
gard made a successful balloon ascension from
Springfield, Mass., July 4. lle ascended 15,-
000 feet, passed several thunder•storms below,
and landed in 30 minutes at New Salem—air
line distance traveled, 30 miles, being at a Nolo
'city of a mile a minute. •
A MG Tazz.--There is a black walnut tree
about twenty miles north 'of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
in the county of Allegan, which measures
thirty-three feet in circumference two feet from
the.ground. The body of the tree, now in par
tiaL decay, is about fifty feet high, the limbs
mostly broken off. This is probably the great
est tree in the West.
[l:7 4 Tliero is a girl in Montreal, 18 years of
age, who can exist for three months without.
tasting food.
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131431eness is the gate of all harms. •
0:7 Great cities are Satan's universities..
IL7The Delaware what crops are &Orions;
- Cl::Cape May is a failure so far liiiiltea,tora .
[' Huckelberries" are in Market. Only
10 cents a quart.
(Never let your tongue go Wino your
•
thoughts.
117711 is anticipated that potatoes will shor tl Ysell at 37i cents per bushel.
[l 'The old line Whigs are organizing in all
the Wards of Philadelphia.
BZ . The estimated wheat crop of this coun
try for 1855, is 1 14,500,000 bushel's.
o:7The poputation , of New York State is
estimated at 3,700,000. •
-- There are 35 young ladies in the remade.
Medical College in Philadelphia.
Ir7°The census now being taken indicates
that Buffalo has a population of 00,000.
[O - He who can he " a gentlman when he
pleases," never pleases to be anything else.
07. A. three-legged horse, having two legs
behind and one before, velocipede fashion, arri
ved at New York from - Porto Rico on Monday.
ri - The ladies of Virginia are trying very
hard to raise $200,000 to purchase the Mount
Vernon estate.
Irnt requires 2,200 full grown trees,'or the
mature crop of forty-four acres of woodland to
furnish timber for a single 74 gun ship.
(1 - Tlie St. Louis Republican says that sev
eral lots of new wheat had been sold in that
city, at prices ranging from $1.28 to $1.35.
ID - James B. Clay, son of Henry Clay, and
formerly Minister to Portugal under the Taylor
AdMinistration, has taken the stump in Ken
tucky, in opposition to the American party. - •
1, -- .Att impudent editor remarks that the
practice among ladies of holding up their
dresses with both hands while walking the
streets, arises from the love of show ?
.117 Ladies manifest a praiseworthy insensi
bility to ridicule by continuing to wear their
bonnets round their necks, and dresses which
sweep the pavement.
()`?The dwelling of James Thompson, in tho
village of Brant, near Buffalo, N. Y., was fired
by incendiaries on Saturday night, and Mr.
Thompson, his three daughters and two grand
daughters, all perished in the flames.
The Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald says:
Flour has fallen from $0 to $3 per hundred.
Any quantity can be bought at the latter fig
ure. We have no doubt but that it can be
bought for $2 in a few weeks."
- 1 --- A . few days since a son of Phineas Drew
aged 11 years, met his death from a rush of
blood to the head, caused by the very danger
ous habit, among boys, of standing on the head,
at Newburyport, Mass.
(ICTo enjoy to- day, stop worrying about kr
morrow. Next week will be just as capable of
taking care of itself as this one. And why
shouldn't it ? It will have even days more ex
perience.
EtLAGER BEER .RECEIPT.—To make tb' keg
of lager, take a bandfull of bops, a thimbleful
of malt, one pound - rosin, one quart soft. soap,
stir its contents into a slop bucket—shako and
fill up with water, the dirtier the better.
1:1:71Ve clip the following from a country
paper; hope its patrons will take notice :
" Five hundred more subscribers wanted to pay
heavy additional expenses. An unexpected
crisis has arrived, and its no cri-sis at all ;
a cri-bu/i."
fIJ execution of the prohibitory liquor
law, in New York State, is very unequal. In
New York city there has been scarcely a show
of enforcement, while in Brooklyn the authori
ties carry it out vigorously, seizing the liquor
and closing the taverns.
" Soma PUMPKINS."—There is a pumpkin.
vine growing in Mr. Willfam Coulter's garden.,
in Monongohela city, Pa., that has already
attained the enormous length of two hun
dred and twenty five feet. The vine has twenty
five pumpkins on it.
tr_J - A friend of ours said he would always
have remained single but ho could not afford it.
What it cost him for " gals and ice-cream,"
was more than he now pays to bring up a wire
and eight children. Bachelors should think of
this.
USA Goon TOAST.- The following sentiment
by Col. Train, at the'Dorchester, Mass., 4th of
July celebration, is very neat The Ladies.-
➢fay they add virtue to ,beauty, substract envy
from friendship, natlPty Amiable aceomplis•
ments by sweetness of temper; divide time by
sociability and economy, and reduce scandal to.
s lowest denomination
COUNTERFEIT QUARTER3.--Couilterfeit twen
ty-five cent pieces are in• circulation, bearing
date of 1853. They are executed with tolera-
ble neatness, but are quite light and brittle,
besides being a trifle thinner than the genuine•
quarters. They will' be readily detected by
any one in the habit orhandling coin.
FLoun.—The Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal, ot"
the Gth , inst., states that a person who dears:
largely in flour in that city, offers to give bond?
and security for, the delivery, by November.
next, of fly() thousand• barrel's of flour, at five
dollars and a half per barrel, to any one who
will give good security for the payment of the-
money. 4
SINGULAR Acomerr.—A singular accident oc*.
curred at Newton, Sussex, Co., last week. A.
lad named Moore, went , into his litther's
where he found a fine large dam open. YU took
ul.`the biralfe, and• hi anticipation of a 'savory
meal thrust his tongue into its mouth; where.
upon it closed its dockst, &stalling upon the
boys'tongue: so tightly that thie blood began to ,
ooze from it, the pain being h4gliteatid tht
unsupported: weight of the hanging clam. the.
case seemed, tbr a time, quite an alarming one;
but a neighbor soon•freedAhe lad fram•bis pain
ful situation by cutting the muscle wbioh
enables the animal to open and shut its sheik
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