ont Irtrigij Irgistrr. ALLENTOWN, PA WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1855. I] - •GEoTtam A. CROFOT, No. 73 South Fourth street, Philadelphia, is, authorized to receive advertisements for this paper. DJ"V. B. PAL!IER, in Brown's New Iron Building, N. E. corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, is also autholized to re ceive advertisements. Dividend DEelored. The Directors of the Philadelphia and Wilkes. harm Telegraph Ccmpany have declared a div idend of 4 per cent. for the last six months, payable Mier the 20th of August. Resignat ion. On Saturday last JACOB DILLINGER, Esq., re signed his seat as an Associate Judge in our Court. He has served on the Bench for a num ber of years, and the news of his resignation will no doubt be received with regret by many. Be is a gentleman of talents, courteous in his manners, and respected for his amiable quali ties. • Heavy Tl ler Storm—Horse Killed. A heavy thunder storm passed over our town and a large portion of the county on the even log of the 2.1111. We heard of a number of houses and barns being struck by lightning, none however being seriously damaged. I fit the neighborhood of Crachersport the sto,m was very severe. One of the best horses belonging to Mr. ClMithrs TooNELL, of south 'Whitehall, was killed in a pasture field. The horse had been standing near a large walnut tree which wits struck, and after the fluid had descended about half-way it hranched elf and struck the horse, killing hint instantly. GIME ~00ut half-past 11 O'clock •on Saturday night last a frame stable belonging to Mr. Csouct•: ACKER.; in Church Alley, between Chew and Gordon streets, was entirely destroyed by fire. It is not known how the tire originated, but it is supposed to have been the work of an ivendiary. Edit twin I Labor To prepare a sufficient variety of reading matter for a weekly, containing but a few ad vertisements, is a laborious task. Our readers can form no adequate idea of the numerous sources from which the various articles are derived ; and how many exchanges are ex amined and thrown aside—no article or.item being found worthy of publication. We have every week a large number of papers and pain phlets,to look over, and frequently the selections and items in one umber of our paper are gath ered from forty or tiftPjournals. •To select the useful, the new, and avoid the republication of the same articles, requires much time, patience, discrimination and recol lection. In some seasons, what is termed news, is more abundant than at others ; and then a journal will exhibit a greater variety than in duller seasons. Correspondents are apt, at times, to make their communications too long, and then there must be less variety. At times it is important to give a longer article than usual—this trespasses upon the space that smaller articles might occupy. A journal must often be controlled by circumstances. Attempted ArNon—Strne* by Lightning Last Saturday night a week a Web:limn named CHARLES HARRIS, at five different times set fire to the barn of Mr. JOSEPH GERMAN, at Lebarsville, in this county, but a 'time ly discovery on each occasion frustrated the scamp in carrying out his evil design. lie was arrested and on the following morning lodged in Jail at this place to await his trial at Court. Strange as it may appear. however, the fol lowing evening (Sunday) the barn and house of Mr. G. were struck by lightning, and the for mer entirely destroyed by fire, together with a quantity of hay, straw, and farming imple ments. The house, however, was not injured to a great extent. The light ningdeseended the chim ney, then ran along the stove pipe down to the stove, melting one of the legs, and then passed Mr through the floor into the cello• wall. Mr. G. estimates his loss on the hum at S 1 and has an insurance of swo in the Lehigh County Fire Insurance Company. lII= At an election held on Thursday last for a Board of Directors of this institution, the follow ing named gentlemen were elected : Jacob Diflinger, George Probst, Jesse M. Line . , Aaron ti. Henninger, Chalks Kramer, Stephen Barber, Welcome B. Powell,' Solomon L. Keck, John Apple, Ilnain J. Shantz, Joshua Seiberling, Dr. William Wilson, Stephen I ;rail: At a meeting of the Boar! of Direi:tors held on Monday last, JAcoa 1)11.1.1m:int, Es 1 ., was elected President, and Wn.m.tm 11. Dm 'ten, Cashier. The other officers will be elected at some future meeting of the Directors. The new Bank being now organized by the election of an able Boatel of Directors, and the officers being competent and experienced, it will go into op eration at an early day. Remo v c d The President has appointed John L. Daw son, of Pennsylvania, Governor of Kansas, vice A. R. Reeder removed. Dawson was an effec tive member of the last Congress, voted for the Nebraska Kansas bill, and was a strenuous ad liocate.of giving homesteads to actual settlers ; at each session he introduced a bill for Mit purpose, which passed the llouse, but failed ill the Senate. Camp Meeting. On Friday the the 7th of September a Camp Meeting will •:ommeneo in the Woods owned by Mr. Jonas Tresler, near Breinigsville. All per sons are invited to attend. Doylestown Agricultural Exhibition. The premium list for the Universal Industrial and Agricultural Exhibition to be held at Doylestown is pUblished in the papers of that borough. It takes place on Tumsday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, the 21st, 22d, 23d and 24th of August. The total amount of cash premiums offered is $3,130 besides 44 medals and 250 diplomas. The following named gen tlemen from Lehigh have been selected to serve on the Committees h i ve named : Ilonsr•.s--Stallions, Paul Balliet. The first premium s for the best imported Stallion is $2O ; best native Stallion for draught, $l5 ; best native Stallion for road $l5. Reati t Horses— Peter Troxell, Jr. The first premium for the best gelding for road is $8 ; best mare for road $B. CATTLE—Durhams, Hiram J. Schantz. The first premium for the best full blooded Durham Bull is $lO ; best Durham Cow $lO ; best Dur ham heifer under 2 years $B. . Devons, Charles Scagreaves. Best full blooded Devon Bull $lO ; best Devon Cow $lO ; best Devon Heifer under 2 years $B. Mixed Durhams, Joseph Amey: Best Bull, $lO ; best Cow, $lO , best Heifer under 2 years $B. Mixed AlderneYs, T. P. Hoffman. Best Bull, $lO ; best Cow, $lO ; best heifer under 2 years, $B. The "Baby Show" to be held in connection with the exhibition is a new feature in this section of country, and will no doubt attract a . large share of attention. The following arc the, premiums : For the largest, healthiest, and i best looking infant under 5 years and over 1,1 age to be taken into consideration, $5OO ; sec ond do. do. do. $lOO ; third do. do. do. $5O ; largest family of children, the parents of whom are both living, $lOO. Now here is .a good chance to make fire hundred dollurs. Such an amotint in these dull limes and hot weather ain't to lie sneezed at. It would indeed he gratifying if we could announce after the exhibition that " Little Lehigh had done better." That we have in our einotty as big : healthy, and good looking Infants as arc to be found anywhere we doubt not—if we may be allowed to judge from the looks of the grown up it jhutl-Lespecially the female porthin,—whose age, however, is net always to be taken into consideration. 'ft is a settled fact that every married woman—we mean every mother, no mat ter where she resides, thinks her baby the smartest, prettiest, nicest, best, the biggest for its age, and the oldest for its size, that can be scared up in the country. Tak ing this into consideration, we have no doubt some " smart brats' trill be entered front our county,— that the department will be crowded with tender pledges, and that Young America ' will add another note to the chorus formed by ' the bleating of alteep, the grunting of puckers, and the bellowing of cattle. The %V enthcr, Lc The weather during the past eight or ten days has been very unfavorable to the farmers. as we have had rain nearly every slay, proving a serious drawback to housing the grain that had been cut. In some places the wheat stand ing in shocks had colonic need growing. If it' should now clear up, it will sulflr but little in jury. , But all things work together for good.— Last year at this time everybody was complain ing of drouth, now the general complaint is. too much rain. Man is never satisfied, and if eery one could have 'rain and sunshine to his mind we should have very queer weather. We have seen persons from different parts of this and some of the adjoining counties, and all agree that the yield of the crops is larger than it. has been for a number of years. In addition to the goodness of the crops, the quantity sown was much larger than in former years, so that our farmers have every assurance of realizing a fair compensation for their labor. We therefore have good reason to be thankful to Ilim who rules the seasons for the ninny rich blessings Ile has bestowed .upon us, and may we deserve a continuance of Ilis divine favors to the end of the season, is our heartfelt desire. The news from all quarters, of heavy crops, has had a marked effect upon the markets. In Philadelphia, last tveek wheat declined about S 5 cents per bushel, and Flour $1 per barrel. At Wellsburg, Ohio, a lot of flour was offered at $7 a barrel, without finding buyers. The holders refused $lO a barrel a few weeks • ago. In the Net Orleans market corn was sold on the I Ith instant at $5 cents, which had been purchased on speculation a few weeks previous at $l.lO. In all parts of the country the decline is the same. Accounts by the last Strainer state that the prospects of an abund ant harvest are promising in England and Fran'ec, as - well as in this country. Tlie papers. speak veiy highly of the enormous yield. Pe- . tattles arc Laid to be in'great abundance in England. A careful gleaning of the various conjectures as to the amount of wheat just harvested in this country leads to the prediction that the present crop has been more prolitic than for the past ten years, by many thousand bushels. The price, consequently, has materially flmllcn in our market—wheat bringing 51.75 per bushel. This is a marked contrast to the rates of last winter, when hundreds were compelled to forego its use on account of the exorbitance of the price but still some little time will elapse hef;tre consumers to a small extent will realize the benefit of the change, lint for the many headed monster who must he fed mainly upon American flour and pork—tee Dunn the allied hosts mow battling in Europe—there could be no well-founded apprehensions c f the immedi ate recurrence of an era of starvation prices ; yet, upon the issue of the European war, in a considerable measure, will 'depend the future prices of breadstutfs in this country. Struck by Lightning. During a very severe thunder storm which passed over Catasauqua on Monday afternoon last, the house of Dr. FRANKLIN B. M.6tT11 , 1, was struck by lightning. It descended the chimney and set a bed on fire, which was hoW eVer promptly put out. Fortunately none of the inmates were injured and the building es caped with but slight damage. ONE OF THE WIIA.LIS IN TROUBLE. On Sunday night officers Hankey and Ehrig arrested one of the " Anchor" g'hals in a stable - in Church Alley,and placed her in the Station House until mdrning, when she was brought before John D..Lawall, Esq., for a hearing.— She presented rather - a " bard" appearance, and from her statement it appeared She had been engaged by the proprietor of the Anchor as a prostitute, and also that they had sent her on to Easton to get fresh " recruits," where she succeeded in enlisting a " fallen angel," named Jane Sigman, and brought her on. For a while things went on " merry as a marriage bell," but last week, Catharine, the landlord's wife raised a " muss" with the woman under arrest and drove her off the premises. On Sunday evening she returned, but was thrown with water and again driven from the house. She then took quarters in the stable where she was arrested. She was committed _to prison in de fault of $3OO bail. The Stole Works On Tuesdiy evening, the 24th, at, the ap pointed hour, the Main Line of the Public Im• provements belonging to the Commonwealth, was offered at public sale at the Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia, by John B. Myers, Auctioneer, who stated the conditions of the sale,• end that no bid could be accepted for less than seven millions five hundred 'thousand dol lars, but not a single bid was made. Gov. Pol lock was present, and after giving five minutes to the persons present, it was discovered that no bids were likely to offer, and the whole mat ter was adjourned sine the. COL. KORPONAY This gentleman who was engaged in this place as a teacher of dancing about two years since, we see is one of the officers of the British foreign legion, and is in command of a portion of the new recruits enlisted in the United States, and which arc at present stationed at Niagara, on the Canada side. Ile was former ly in the Ansttiait service ; subsequently served under Col. Doniphan, in the Mexican war. Clol4lren's 111 ;Ltd Not being very old ourselves, we arc natur ally the advocates of " Cldhlrcn's Hights."— But %viten we see them swearing through the Streets with cigars in their Mouths when they should be in bed or studying their lessons, we cannot help thinking that their' parents give them more " rights" than are good fur them. Such specimens of -" Young Ameri,'a" give a poor promise fur their future: They won',. make Franklins or Washingtons. Wheat. Growing Pennsylvania contains sonic of the largest wheat growing districts in the Union. The aggregates of the following counties, as stated in the census of 1850, arc unequalled by any thing at the West or South, viz: Lancaster, 4.865.111: Franklin, 837,062 ; Westmoreland, 668,476. The largest wheat growing counties of Ohio are thus reported in the census : Stark, 590.594 ; Wayne, 571.877 : Coshocton, 416,- 918 : Muskingutn, 415,847: Seneca, 474,787. Lancaster, Pa., it will be perceivell, is one of the chief agricultural wonders of the country, and the Ohio districts are far inferior to the productions of ours, of which the following are those lying along the routes of our various rail ways : Lancaster, 1.365,111 bushels ; Frank lin, 837,062 : Bucks, 577,668: Chester, 547,- 498 i Cumberland, 487,182: Bucks, 403.909 ; York, 578,828 : Centre, 433,612: Union, 353,: 095 ; Huntingdon, 365.278 : Mifflin, 305.994 Montgomery, 309,255 : Dauphin, 308.879: Adams, 317,842. This is exclusive of West ern Pennsylvania, wbose chief wheat counties are stated thus : Allegheny, 526 850 bushels : Fayette, 804,102 : Washington, 558.182 ; Westmoreland, 668.476. Of these Allegheny, Westmoreland and Washington are of course our tributaries, but Fayette can only be made to continue so by the construction of the Uniontown branch railway, as the Connellsville road, leading to Baltimore, passes through the county. Of the chief wheat counties in Ohio which we have named above, Stark and Wayne are along the Ohio and Pennsylvania railway, and Coshocton and Muskingum along the Steu benville and Indiana road. • Manufacture of Rum. Probably the only manufacture in the North ern States which is carried op,urofitably at the present time is that of rtrrn, andthis was never before so profitable as at the pr - ennpa - 1.92. The distilleries all through theconntry Itivnorders for - . many weeks and months ahead, itt/Pribtts which yield them a hundred per cent. profit, state of things has been occasioned by the prohibition of the distillation of grain in France and Belgitnii, which has caused large orders from those countries for rum from the United States. Every packet ship from New York for France and Germane, now carries out all the rum which can be had in the market as part of her cargo. The article sells at 47 . to 48 cents a gallon, and the profit may easily be calculated when it is known that the Molasses costs but little more than 20 cents a gallon, and 100 gallons of mo lasses will make 05 gallons of rum. A large portion cif the molasses in the United Slates has just liven bought up on French account. At Portland, 2,000 hogsheads , were purchased last week for shipment to France. • PRICES PIiODL , 'CI; IN NEWTort .—flour has declined upon all northern and western grades fully 25 cents per barrel since our last publication. Southern pour exhibits a fall of fifty cents per barrel: Red and white southern wheat sold at 81.75 to $1.95 per bushel ; Jersey wheat 81.80, and red Canadian $1.70 per bushel. Rye sold at $1.20 per bushel. Oats sold at 58 to 62 cents per bushel. Corn sold at 89 to 90 cents per western mixed. In the cattle market the range of prices was as &Mows : Cows and calves, $25 to 800. Sheep averaged from $1.50 to $6.50 ; lambs from $2.50 to $6 each. . Aztrems ix KeNses.-Dates to the 23d ult. from Kansas, state that Gov. REEDEIt has taken upon himself the responsibility of vetoing all the bills that have yet been presented to him. He states in his message that There is nothing objectionable in the bills themselves; but that lie does not and will not consider the. Legislature hs being in legal session. Ho bases this opinion upon the fact that the Legislature has removed from Pawnee without authority, and in contravention of the provisions of the Kansas NebraSka bill. He also informs the Assembly in a very peremptory tone that if it persists in its removal the Executive and the Legislature must act independently of each other. The Legislature took the vetoed bills under consideration, and passed theM over again through both branches by large majori ties. Great excitement prevails in consequence of this act of the Governor—the Legislature is determined to insist upon its course, and the Governor is equally stubborn in his refusal to recognise the laws they pass. :What the result will be is at piesent beyond conjecture. The complexion of the Legislature is well known, and the manner in which the members were elected. The New York settlement called Council City has about fifteen hundred inhabi tants, a saw mill, post office, Sabbath school, hundreds of acres in crops, and a general scene of prosperity and perfect health. When the election was held the inhabitants were , few, and 200 armed men came in a body, took pos session of the polls, voted in their own men, and retUrned to Missouri, having never since appeared on the ground. Such wits the man ner in which many members of the present Legislature were generally chosen. LATEST FORM:N . \r•.ws.-13y the arrival of the Steamship Atlantic, at New York, on Wed nesday, we have news from Europe to the 14th July—one week later than previous accounts. There is nothing of special interest. 1.0 . rd John Russel, having been severely censured for his ministerial conduct at Vienna, has resigned the post he held in the British ministry, and it is thought his resignation would lead to important Cabinet changes. Sebastopol has been sub. jested to a two day's canonade, but without ef fect. The besiegers were erecting immense works against the Malakoff tower and Bedan battery, but the besieged were erecting equally formidable works behind their defences. From the activity shown by the besiegers it is thought that another general assault will soon be made. A sortie was made on the night of the 7th, by the Russians, against the works in lit of the numion, but Wit limit elfeet-- iere are strong indications of an approaching canipAS On the Danube. Advices from Asia report the repulse of the Russians at Kars, while other accounts state that the Turks had evacuated that place and fallen back on Erze remit. Schamyl is again reported dead. An insurrection in a Russian Siberian re:ritnent is reported. In Spain the insurrection has laen suppressed. The visit of Queen Vicforil to Paris is fixed for the ith of August. NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE.—To procure the early transmission of foreign steamers' news, the " associated press" have an agent f)r the arrival of New York steamers at the Sandy Ilook lighthouse. Ile has fifty carrier pige , ns which are trained for the purpose of conveying news from the steamships to the shore. A man in an open boat, in all kinds of weather, drops alongside of the steamer as she bears directly upon Sandy The news is thrown over in a water-tight can, and the news being talc..n out, a single ..;lieet is affixed to a bind's leg.— The man gives the signal to the bird, which raises his wings and away he goes, with all his powers of locomotion, in a straight line for the office, going a distance of three or four miles in as many minutest and popping in at the win dow, is received 'by the agent, who transmits the intelligence over the wires to New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and thence to St. Louis, New tirleans, and all parts of the coun try, so that the news is frequently received over a large part of the United States, and published before the steamer leaves the quarantine. Ftnirr Bmwtu.:x SCI.I.IVAN AND MI: LIGAx.—A savage light took place, on Satur day night, between William Mulligan and Yan kee Sullivan, in which the latter was terribly bitten about the face and head, and otherwise battered. The circumstances are nearly as fol lows: A dispute arose between Sullivan and Mulligan at a - cock pit, and thelatter challeng ed the former to a " fist light," which was de clined—but, upon being urged, the challenge was accepted. It was agreed—so it is alleged —that the contest, should take place in an apartment of Tyson's gxchange, and thither the principals repaired, followed by a large number of persons interested in the quarrel.— Clam arriving in the passage way, Sullivan was felled by a blow from some weapon, and while upon the floor, was beaten, stamped and bitten in a shocking manner—a man of less hardihood could not have existed under• the amount of punishment administered. Su livan was removed from the scene. and is now confin• ed to his bed from the injuries received. POPULATION OF THE Emern. = The latestoesti .mates of the population of the earth make it eleven hundred and filly millions, viz :—Pa gans, 676,000,000 ; Christians, 8:20,00,000 ; 31ohaminedans, 1-10,000,000 ; and Jews, 14,- 000,000. of Christians, the Cbureh of Homo numbers 170,000,000 the Greek and Eastern ChureheS 60,000,000, and Protestants 00,000,- 000. " WIIO 1, CAN BEAT Tins ?"—The Scioto (011i0) liazette of the 21st just saps :—A far mer up in the Barren sowei 'bight acres of wheat. It is now harvested; un t il it stands ono hundred shocks to the acre ; or eight hundred shocks iu the whole field. Every two shocks average a bushel, makiug 400 bushels of wheat to the eight Acres, or 50 bushels to the acre! CALIFORNIA NEWEL—By - the arrival of the Steamship " Star of the West " at New York, on Wednesday, wo have news from California to the Ist instant—two weeks later than pre vious accounts. The Steamer brought 363 passengers, and $055,000 in gold dust. The Democratic State Convention has renom inated Cov. Bigler—the vote in the Conven tion was 226 for, and 150 against him. The Convention adopted a platform resembling the last Baltimore platform, with an additional re solution denouncing the Know Nothings. A naval battle is reported to have taken place off San Diego, between the Russian fri gate Whilemena and the French corvette Ega lite. After a severe conflict the Fend' com mander, rather than strike his flag, jumped in the' Magazine and blew up the ship. All on board are said to have perished, and the Rus sian frigate lost 08 killed and 150 in wounded. The story is, however, said to be a hoax. 'The Fremont Lad case is to be taken back to the Supreme C rt on a bill of exceptions. The Oregon Legislature is democratic through out. -The majority of the Don. Joseph Lane as delegate to Congress is 2200. The advices from Oregon and Washington Territories report the mining and agricultural prospects generally encouraging. The State election in California takes place on the first Wednesday in September. Ex- Governor Foote, Hon. E. C. Marshall, llailic Peyton, David S. Terry. and other leading Southern politicians, have been delivering speeches and addresses throughout, the interior in fhvor of the Know Nothing movement. They have been enthusiastically received in every directiOn, and it is thought they will make the tour of the State. Business in California has been lively during the month of June, and no more heavy failures or defalcations have taken Place. A RELIC:If/VS Cen young gentle man happened to sit at church in a pew adjoin ing one in which a young lady, fur whom he had conceived a sudden and violent passion, and was desirous:of entering into a courtship on the spot but the place not suiting a formal declaration, the exigency of the case suggested the 11,llowing plan. lie politely banded the fair lady the Bible open, with a pin stuck in the following text-2d epistle.of John, sth —" And now I beseech thee, fair lady, not as though wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we hail front the beginiting, that we love one another." She returned it, pointing to Ruth, ii. Bath—" Then she fell on her face and bowed herself to the ground and .said unto him, why have T found grace in thine eyes; that thou shonbl take knowledge of me. seeing T ant a stranger?" ll' returned the book pointing to the 11th verse of the epistle of J 0101—" Tha•- ing many things to write unto you, I would not write with paper and ink, but I trust to come and speak face to face." From the aboi=e inter view a marriage took place the ensuing week. A 111" TEEN yEme EAR-ACllll.—The Athatly.lle gister says : A young gentleman of this city yesterday extracted from his ear an apple seed whidt has been in his head fi n • fifteen ,'arc When a small boy lie amused himself hr putting the seed into his car, from which he endured as lie says, all the noise of a saw mill. l'ln'•sicians tried in vain to extract it, and it was left final ly, causing only occasionally suffering. For a few. days past lie has sulli•red from an internal swelling, and finally removed what:he thinks is the long•lost apple seed. It had sprouted so that it could hardly be recognized ! OM) or I.l.tl).—The Scientific American says :—" Common red wafers scattered about the haunts of cockroaches will often drive away if not destroy them." These wafers, like candies are colored red by oxyd of lead, a most deadly poison ; and so is the acetate of lead, or sugar of lead, aslt is sometimes called, on visiting cards, which, being' a little sweet ish, has been knoWn to destroy young children * to whom they were handed to be amused with: Fashion for once acts sensibly in discarding glazed cards, using instead Bristol board, More pliant, less cumbersome,•and really more deli cate. FIVE Nmsoxs Ditowxvu.—A dreadful acci dent happened near Egg Harbor, N. ,T., on Sat urday last. Five persons, a Mr. Watson, his wife and child, Mr. Fuller, and Mr. Young, of Philadelphia and Camden, were droWited in the Tuckahoc river, while out on a pleasure excur sion in a skiff. The boat was capsized in a gale, as the gentlemen on board, being inexpe rienced in sailing, were unable to manage it.— Two ladies, Mr. Watson's sister, and a Miss Fitzgerald, who were also of the party, were found at 5 o'clock on Sunday morning, cling ing to the boat, and almost exhausted. They had been in that situation, for nineteen hours, without a morsel of food. Wnrrs BLACK Bean.—A son of Moses E. Green, of West Bradford township, Chester county, capturcd . a white black bird upon-his father's premises on Friday the 13th instant.— It was taken from the nest before it could fly ; there was another young bird in the nest at the same time, but it was as black as jet. He has it in a cage, and hangs it near the nest, when the old bird comes and feeds it. Its eyes arc of a blueish tinge. Sr AMUSING G ROWTIL —One Of onr Worthy far mers who cultivates his lands milk the Bound Ilill to sonic purpose, measured a stalk of corn one moKning, lately at 6 o'clock, and upon measuring it the next morning at the same hour, he was surprised to find Oat it had grown ten and a half inches in 24 hotirs.-11 - sitchestcr Reptthl ican. A PRAIRIE TN V ESTMET. —John' Eindly, Jr., purchased forty acres of prairie land, six miles from Bloomington, Illinois, broke it up and put it all in fall whinit. Upon this ho raised this year 1,110 bushels of the first quality. di b 5 nub enbs. Ballo who can suppress a moment's anger may prevent many days of sorrow. ' I:17) - A monster turtle, of 408 pounds, was at the Moultrie House, Charleston, on Saturday. 11:7 — New hay is selling at Syracuse, N. Y., at • from $0 to $1,2 per ton. 11 - A colored woman recently died in Morris Co., N..J., aged 125. Tho banking capital of Philadelphia is about eleven million of dollars. ' (17 - c - The Halifax papers state that mackerel are selling at one penny per dozen. [o7The churches in Naples are two hundred and seventy-five in number. la - - Put a spoonful of horse radish into a pan of milk, and it will remain sweet for several days. frOontracts for several hundred barrels of flour are said to have been made at Cincinnati for $5,25 a •barrel. fa — On Tuesday, forty or fifty barrels of peacheS were shipped from Norfolk for New York. Price $3 per barrel. 117" GEN. SIMON' CAMERON has offered to give $lOOO towards securing the location of the Far mer's High School in Dauphin county, Pa. Ca - GOVERNOR BIGLER has accepted an invita tion to deliver the annual address at the Agri cultural Exhibition to be held at Powelton, 24th ward of Philadelphia, on the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th of September next. ID The constant " tossing of the head" which is universal with ladies, does not arise from coquetry as many suppose, but from the necessity or constantly pushing on the bonnet with the shoulders. r - i -- The sufferers by the bombardment of Greyttovn have presented their claims before the Court of Claims at Washington, amounting, says the New York Herald, to about $5,000,- (100. / -- 'Ptrown, of the Centre Democrat, suggests to the American party the propriety of expell ing front its conventions " such restless spirits and soulless intriguing politicians as Ex-Gov. Johnston and a few more of the same ilk." 7lf truth is beauty, beauty isn't always truth, since the prettiest girls are famous for their fibbing propensities. A flirt will giro birth to more white lies in one day than truth can shake a slick at." Have your wits about you and see. r27 - The State Treasurer will certainly be able according, to official letters from Harrisburg, to meet promptly the interest on the State debt, Inc August 18111, without borrowing. Quite a number of counties have paid up their quota of State tax in advance. [a — During the six months ending with tho beginning of April last, nine hundred and sixty live children were born in the territory of Utah, two hundred and seventy-eight persons diCd, four hundred and seventy-nine were babtized in the Mormon faith, and eighty-six were ex communicated from the church. 7Lightning rods will not protect buildings at a radius of four tithes the height on the rod above the building—a radius of twice the height is safe. If the rod is ten feet high above the building, it will, if properly constructed, pro tect all parts of the house at a distance of twen ty feet from the rod. These facts are important to be kept in mind, • :: - ?The Annual Movable Committee of the Orand United Order of colored Odd Fellows, will meet on the first Wednesday of September next, in Reading. A procession in honor of tho occasion, will take place on the following Fri day. The proceedings will be of great interest to the colored citizens of the State. A large attendance of the Brethren from various parts of the country is expected. Ear•Par.vroxs appear to be so abundant that the price has come down in some, parts of the country very rapidly and very, considerably. In Lancaster they arc selling at 75 cts., the Doi/9 of that place says, and considerable con tracts for future delivery have been made at fifty cents per bushel. In Syracuse, Now York, contracts have been Made for future delivery at lifircn cents a bushel. This is an extraordinary decline from t"-;2. and $3 a bushel, which they sold at last winter. 0 POSTAGE TO CALIFORNIA.—It is well to ob serve that the postage to California, whether by overland or the Isthmus, per single let ter ifot weighing more than half an ounce, is declared to be ten cents by the recent act. Pre-payinent here, as in Other, cases, is required. - letters for the Pacific continue to be put . into post offices on this side, short paid. A TEDIOUS JOIIRNEF.—The Milwankie (Ala.) Tribune says that in November, 1848, a gen tleman in Baldwin, in the interior of the State, mailed a letter to a grocery house in that city.— It was not received or heard of until last week when it came exactly to its destination, after an absence of nearly seven years ! It would be pleasant to hear that letter give an account of its travels during that long period. RELICS OF A PAST AGE.—Twenty Cedar trees. sixteen inches in diameter, were found by the miners at Monte Cristo, Ohio, at about 650 feet from the surface of the earth. The trees were within a few feet of each other, and imu bedded from ono to . two feet above the bed, of . the rock: The earth around them had formed'a sort of cement almost the consistency ofrock. The wood appeared natural, but rather soft. SOMETHING FOR THE SEASON.—We see it stated' that a Mr. L. H. risk, No. 1 North 6th street, Philadelphia—whom we take, by the bye, to be a genius and a public benefactor—has in vented an article much needed this hot weather and for which he deserves to be immortalized. It is a shirt collar warranted to stand' any amount of hot weather without wilting down. It is made of tin, painted quite life-like, is a regular stand-upper,' and will not require much washing. For - shot weather and eta . necked generation it is just the thing.
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