justly const. equality and general into it las ceasird to be a matter of doubt in the present age whether or not free schools exert a better and wider influence in moulding society, than any other. The old theory that popular educa tion was not beneficial to an individual unless it directly benefitted him in the education of his children, is generally discarded , , as it should be,. and we have learned that one of the best means for performing the dutieS we owe to our fellows, is to educate them. It is more consistent with the divine principles of religion, and more in in harmony with man's nature to support pub lic schools, or we might say, to build school houses and prevent crime, than to build prisons to punish it—to pay the school master, than the jail keeper or the hangman. It may not be out of place here to state, that Miss Mettick, one of the Anchor cyprians, who we mentioned a few weeks since as having been arrested in a stable and cast in prison, could not read or write, and not even spell her own name. It is not likely that this woman would have led such a dissolute life, if she had been sent. to. school.— Ignorance undoubtedly plunded her into it.— Remember, what we expend fir free educational purposes, may be of untold worth to some one who, without it, would lead a vagrant's life ; that it may be the means of arousing to action the latent talent of some poor boy, who is una ble to educate himself. but who, by this means, may prepare his mind for future usefulneSs.— We know that our labor is not only advantage ous to the scholar, but directly beneficial to our selves, for whatever raises the standard of in telligence of morality in society benefits all the members composing it. The labor expended in education, unlike that of the mechanic or husbandman, produces last ing results. The former develops the mind, the imperishable principle of man ~the latter im proves only his physical nature, which soon perishes. The effect produced in moulding the immortal mind, is a lasting memorial of the labor of the educator, fur lie engraves on tablets which time cannot destroy, and the impress will endure and even brighten through the ages of eternity. Surely, a rational being can expe rience no higher enjoyment than to know that he has aided in the noble work of popular edu cation. The new and important feature in the com mon school system of our State, of having a Superintendent in each county, which has had a year's trial, proves of great value to the cause of education. lly this system honest and com petent persons are selected as teachers. Under the old system incompetent persons were very frequently appointed, and much complaint was prevalent. Happily this is at an end. It is not sufficient for the success of our free schools, that they are furnished with competent teachers, and the necessary expenditures paid. The patrons should feel a personal and living interest in the welfare of their children and the school. They should visit it and ascertain for themselves whether their children are progress ing as they should. The presence of parents in the school room gives an exhilarating influence to scholars, and causes them to turn to their studies with renewed energy and vigor. Pupils are learning something more in school than merely what they glean from text-books. Their minds are being deyeloped morally as well ns intellectually. They are forming habits which will .accompany them through life, and which will exert an unbounded influence over them, for good or evil. Tlie child should sec by the action of, the parent, arid by his frequent pre sence in the school, that he is interested in things which so greatly perthin to his welfare. The school is also .the nursery of business habits. It is a rule which will hold good in 'nine cases out of ten, that when the scholar has been tardy at school, or delinquent in his les sons,.the man will not be prompt and correct in his business transactions. It is a natural result of his education. He becomes dilatory in his business from the habits he acquired at school; habits which are more easily formed at that time tharrany, other because the mind is More impressible. - The parent can aid the teacher Much in cor recting these habits. He can aid him also in arousing in the mind of the pupil a deeper in. terest in his studies, and in the success of the school. • Especially in our own town, is there a lack of interest in the important subjects of com mon school education. Not that the people do not amply proel L. pecuniary means for the free education of the young, tu. that they aro wanting in that which costs far „ d. i s equally valuable—a feeling of interest in the prosperity of our schools, at once energetic and active. Let that feeling be commelisurate with the importance of thp subject, and the .town will soon be noted for its schools, and in future times for the intelligence of its citizens. • Larceny. On Wednesday noon last, Alex. Mell. , good stout lump of an Irishman, was fas cinated by a, ham at Wilson's store. and " quite intirely" forgot that 'it was not lawful in this " devil of a counthry" to appropriate anything to his use without paying for it, and in company with another " broth of a. boy" named Billy Mellon, carried off said ham, but before they had pioceeded far with the " craythur" they were overtaken by some of the clerks and the ham taken from them with but little cere mony. Storekeepers, look out for your hams, they are a rather dangerous "institution" in the eyes of these " sons of Erin." Pet rifrict 1011. Last week the workmen engaged in digging the trench in the meadow, about a hundred yards front the Little Lehigh creek, for the lay ing of the new pipes from the Water Works to the Spring. dug up about nine feet from the sur face a quantity of hickory nuts in a petrified state. They were of middling size, and in their character of stone every natural feature of the original nut was most clearly preserved. How long they had lain there it is impossible to tell, probably many hundred years. It is believed by many, and no doubt correctly, al though no one is now Jiving who has any recol lection, that the stream at a time had its course in the locality where they were found, and that by gradually changing to its present course they had become imbedded in the sand. A merican Home, Mauch Chunk Thd proprietor of the " American louse," 'at Mauch Chunk, has engaged our young friend D. M. KnAus, formerly of this place, as super intendent. " Davy" has had a hand in hotel managing before now, and has won fame in the business, which is sufficient guaranty of the prosperity of any house he is connected with, where prosperity is possible. De is a gentle man of agreeable and affable manners, kind and courteous, and we trust his large circle of Allentown acquaintances will not neglect him when they go to Mauch Chunk. Fire Alarms On Thursday afternoon last a fire was dis covered in the stable on the lot belonging to Mr. Daniel Keiper, on Hall Alley, near Hamilton street. The firemen were Promptly on the spot but did not go in service as the lire was extin guished by some of the neighbors befor it done any damage. There is something very myste rious about the origin of this lire. Some believe to have been the work of an incendiary On Saturday night another attempt was made to fire the same stable, by breaking one of the panes in a window and throwing in several kindled matches, which however fell on a piece of carpet, and failed in causing an ignition. The alarm on Friday evening was caused by a red glaring light' appearing south-east, re ported to be the distillery of Messrs. Edelman & Co. The fire department was out' in full force, but when they reached Dietrich's Mill on thC opposite side of the Little Lehigh it turned out that a quantity of cooper's shavings had been set on fire near the distillery. Wonderful Escape On Friday night last a wonderful feat of som nambulism occurred 'at Hart's Hotel, in Cat nsauqua. A young man engaged as barkeeper in the house, named PETER SCIIIVENTZER, a mem ber of the Allentown Brass Band, got up in his sleep and fell out of the third story window on a brick pavement below, and strange as it may appear, the only injuries he sustained was the breaking of an arm above the wrist, a small cut on his .head, and a slight bruise on ono of his legs. ' Surgical aid was immediately called for and his wounds dressed, and on Monday he was able to resume his duties in the house. Shocking Occurrence. - . On Tuesday the 21st instant, a little six year old daughter of Mr. SOLOMON WOODRING, of Upper Macungy township, this county, met With a terrible accident. Sho proceeded to the garret, and innocently took hold of a gun loaded, with shot, aliti seating herself on the upper step of the stairs, pulled the gun with the cock on the floor towards her, whicli caused a dischtirge, the whole load entering the thigh of the little innocent, breaking the hone, and causing a shocking wound. Drs. "Henry J. Haberacker of Fogelsville and Charles. H. Mar tin of Allentown; were immediately sent for, who with their. artistic skill dressed the wound and the little sufferer is now fast recovering. ' Seeding Time. ) We see in different parts of the country the. farmers aro already beginning to get ready for ' • ' rains being busy in hauling out tA. oc. ti olhers with plowing. 'Po i 4 . ,. de,. I as . if wo were 5.,-, approaching very , -' ~,, 4-41 ,p." , R oson of the year. From appeaft " , Nwo .shoula j........, that a large quantity of grain will be sown. Agricultural Meeting. A meeting of the Comthittee of Arrangements of the Fourth Amival Exhibition of the Lehigh County Agricultural Society was held at the House of John Y. Bechtel on Saturday, August 25th, 1855. Present, Hiram J. Schantz, John Gross, Paul Balliet, Edward Kern, John Bortz, Robert Oberly, Peter Troxell, Aaron G. Benninger and C. Pretz. Resolved, That the following plan be adopt ed-to regulate the delivery or sale of articles on exhibition after the Fair is ended, namely, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the third day of the Fair, the doors of the Exhibition Hnll shall be closed leaving it in possession of the com mittee of arrangements and such assistants as they may select, who shall then hand the ar ticks to their proper owners through the win dows or doors, and such articles as the owners may not take away, or otherwise dispose of, shall by consent of the owner be sold at Public Sale which shall take place on the same after noon on the Fair Ground, and a regular account of the articles sold shall be kept in order that the.owners may draw the proceeds of sale. Resolved, That Hiram J. Schantz, C. Pretz and Owen Schreiber be a committee to negoti ate with the Hon. Asa Packer for the use of the Fail Road, in order to afford citizens along the line from Easton to Mauch Chunk an opportu nity- to send and receive back stock or any other articles they may wish to exhibit, free of charge of transportation. Resolved, That A. G. Renninger, Dr. Charles H. Martin and M. D. Eberhard, be a committee to appoint Clerks, Doorkeepers, and other as sistants. Resolved, That the Secretary be required to notify by letter . all the members of the differ ent committees of their appointment with an urgent request of punctual attendance. Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to publish in all the papers, that all who have pjlid yearly contributions and wish to.become full members shall call on the Treasurer and take up their certificates previous to the next Fair— as per resolution passed Feb. 6, 1855. Resolved, That Charles Witmnn, Paul Bal liet and Ishac Hartman be a committee to at tend the exhibition of the Montgomery County Agricultural Society ; Edward Kern, A. L. Rube and A. G. Benninger, that of the Bucks County Society ; John Bortz, Peter Troxell and Jesse M. Line, that of the Berks County Society ; Owen Schreiber, Robert Oberly and John Gross, that of the Northampton County Society ; and Dr. Thomas .B. Cooper, Dr. David 0. Moser and E. D. Lcisenring that of the Philadelphia County Society, and that the Secretary of this Society send to the President of each of the aforesaid Societies, three tickets of admission to our Fair. Resolved, That the committees on Horses and Cattle be and are hereby requested to call on the President previous to entering on their du ties, in order to receive instructions for award ing premiums not included in the hst. Resolved, That inasmuch as there is now ample room for the exhibition of live stock and all other articles, therefore the farmers, the mechanics and all others are earnestly invited to send in their articles in order to make the exhibition as interesting as possible. L. PRETZ, Sec. pro. tem. County Meetings In Northampton. On Monday the 20th instant the Democracy of Northampton held a County Meeting at Easton, and was largely attended. After or ganization, the meeting was addressed at con siderable length by the Hon. Richard Broad head, touching upon all the political qmittions of the day. A series of strong national resolu tions were then subrriitted and adopted. They declare the attachment of the Democracy of Northampton to the Constitution and the Union —that they know no North, no South, noEast, no West ; strongly denounce Know Nothing ism, and, in reference to Governor Reeder, de clare that he has discharged his duty in Kansas nobly and manfully, and that their confidence in him is undiminished. The American party held their Countymeet ing at Easton, on Tuesday the 21st inst. It was largely attended, and quite enthusiastic in tone. The resolutions passed reaffirm the lead ing doctrines of the Philadelphia platforn, but strongly denounce the repeal of the Missouri Compromise as a gross and wicked violation of a solemn national compact. Nothing wm said in regard to Gov. RENDER or the Nationsl Ad ministration. The following gentlemen have been duly announced, or suggested, as candidates, subject to the American-nomination : Senator—Dr. Jacob P. Scholl, Bethlehem Samuel C. Shimer, Col. Wm. W. Hamrsersly, Saucon ; Mnj. John Best, Williams . . Asrembly —James E. Middaugh, L. Mt. Bethel ; Jacob J. Shall, Moore ; David B. Hazen, L. Mt Bethel. Commissioner—Joseph Heller, L. Mt. Bethel ; Abraham Leh, Allen. Treasurer—J. C. IVireback, South Easton. Director—Chas. L. Whitesell, L. Nazareth. BEIM COUNTY.—Tho Whigs of Berls held their annual county meeting last week. The resolutions re-aillrm their old party doetrine— take ground against Pierce and Slavery exten sion, and in favor of the administration ofJames Pollock. A Convention is called on the third Saturday of September to form a Whig county ticket, to be supported at the next election. REEDER BEFORE THE CABINET.—Tho last number of the Montrose Democrat, edited by Ex-Speaker CHASE, says it has reliable informa tion that of President Pierce's Cabinet, Judge CAMPBELL and Mr. MAncr stood by. Gov. REED ER to the last, using all their efforts to induce the President not to so far outrage the country as to remove him. But their counsel, wise and just as it was, passed like the idle wind.—Phil. Sun. Applications will be presented to the next Legislature for the incorporation of about next The Polities of the Day.' Tfie two great political parties that have so long controlled this nation, says the Saturday Evening Mail, have been almost annihilated in the political whirlpool that has carried all par ties into its vortex within the past year. The storm with its-fierce ragings is now nearly past, and we can 'now look on calmly at the position which different principles and different sectional feelings are assuming. The old Democracy are again rallying around their old principles, and beneath their old banners. And the result of the recent elections gives them fresh courage and hopes that." Sam" in his " thunder treads" has not crushed out all vitality ; in the different States they are nominating their tickets and preparing themselves for renewed hostilities, and a bard and desperate struggle to regain their lost supremacy. The Know-Nothings, or as they aro now styled, the American party, are confident in their superiority, and in the growing power of their new but powerful party. Its mysterious and rapid growth, was surprising and wonder ful, it sprang into being and strength in an hour, as if by magic. There could have been nothing more conducive to its success, than the circumstances and times' which give it birth. The Whig party, which had been nearly the sole opponent of the Democratic party, had been swallowed up in defeat by the campaign of fifty-two, and its members, like the crew of a gallant old vessel that had been foundered, were ready to man any new craft, no matter for what port she was bound. Besides the immense power given to the Democratic party, carried with it corruption, and consequent dissat isfaction among its members, many of whom were willing to associate themselves with any party to correct this abuse of power.— Power always carries with it corruption ; give any party, church, government, or nation ab solute power, and you make it corrupt, and to keep the politics of the country pure, we should, therefore, have two great political parties so nearly balanced that when one deviated from the patlis of right and truth, the other would gain the ascendancy. This feeling more than anything else broke down the Democracy of the country, and built up its opposition. And the same cause will eventually break up the Ame rican party if it retains its heretofore astonish ing success. The Whigs throughout the Union, but more particularly in . this State, are using their best efforts to again resuscitate their party. They are not content with their new associations, as they had not that influence in it that they fondly imagined their numerical strength would give them.- In this effort, time alone will determine with what success they will meet. The Free Soil party kicked out as they were by the last National American Convention, by the adoption of the slave resolution, are again trying to re-organize, and prate loudly about the Kansas outrage, and the violation of the compromises. Out of this chaotic mass of poll rl;flLrnn"ne nrsrl coM;nnnl;crric. it it impossibility to predict what party or what principles will control the governmert after the dissolution of the present administration. The result of the campaign of fifty-sfir will alone determine it. But in the mean time we Itavb every assur ance that while parties ai struggling with might and main fur the dency, this great ..nuntry will still go o easing in 310... ..i, wealth and populatioi gradually spreading itself until the whole oundless continent be ours. Decrease of the Irish Emigraton. There can hardly be a question that we have passed the highest point of. the Trish emigra tion to this country, which, last year, became so alarmingly great that the depopulation of Ireland, by the emigration of its native inha bitants to the United States, did not appear to be a wholly improbable event. But the tide of emigration has been checked, let the causes of it be what they may and ive have reason for believing that it will continue to decrease.— The Roman Catholic priesthood in Ireland were in danger of being left without any flock over whom they could exercise pastoral con trol, and they are now endeavoring to arrest the movement towards this country. The London Times publishes a terrific appeal from an Irish Roman Catholic priest, long a resident in the United States, but now in Dublin, urging his wretched countrymen not to emi grate to this " land of liberty," where they will be certain to lose all faith in things holy, and all respect for " the man of God," meaning the Pope. The reverend gentleman draws a frightful picture of the depraved condition of his countrymen in America, and warns those at home to avoid our shores, if they would not forfeit all hope of happiness in this world and the world to come. But the most remarkable part of his exhortation is contained in the fol lowing warning to avoid America, lest by coming hero they should become Know- Nothings :° " It is better, then, to live and die at home, as faithful Catholics, than come here with but a chance to be better, and in danger of becom ing lax in faith and morals. Better is it that the Irish should leave their sons and daugh ters behind them with the precious gem of faith, than come here and leave them exposed to the evils of inditrerestism and infidelity.— And it is a fact undeniable, that the greater number of the children born of Irish parents in this country, have more of native feelings, native antipathy to the Irish, and' more of ir religion, than perhaps those whose forefathers have been Americans."—Brothcr Jonathan. INTERESTING DISCUSSION. —On Monday after noon, September 3rd, the Liquor Law will be discussed by mutual agreement, in the Public Square, at Easton. The following is the ques tion : " Was the Liquor Law passed by the Ameri cans, or by Representatives of all parties ?" Col. Philip Johnson will contend that it wan " passed by the Know Nothings." 11. Rauch will contend that it was no party issue, passed regardless of party, and that the Americana are no more responsible for the law than any other party. • A PIRNDISH Orritenz.—A young than, named Patterson, was committed to the Chester coun ty jail, last week, for an attempt to commit a rape and murder upon the body of a Miss Work man. The parties both reside in West White : land township, Chester county. It seems that Miss Workman accompanied a female friend to her home near by, and upon her return, With Patterson as a companion, he attempted improper liberties, which she stoutly resisted., The fiend then seized her by the neck, choked her, and jumped on her to hold her down, but still failing in the accomplishment of his pur pose, he seized a club and beat her about the head, and afterwards took a stone and fractured her skull. Discovering that his object was to kill her, she had the presence of mind to feign death, and laid perfectly quiet. Patterson then went away. After he was gone, she got up, but being unable to stand, she fell down and dragged herself a short distance, where she re mained until she heard the voice of friends who had come out in pursuit of her, Patterson'hav ing returned home to the house where they both boarded and related a story about being attacked by to men who had killed . Miss Work man, and he offered to lead them to where they would find the body. The young woman, though dangerously injured, is expected to re cover. The case has occasioned great excite ment in Chester county. SINGULAR. STATISTICS.—The population of the globe is estimated' at 900,000,000. It is also estimated that a number equal to the en tire population of the globe existing at any one time, passes away three times in every century. As the present population of the earth has in creased from a single pair created about sixty centuries ago, and half of the present popula tion might be taken from fair estimate of the average number who have been carried away during each of the one hundred and eighty pe riods, or thirds of centuries, during which the earth may have been inhabited ; which would leave 8,100,000,000 for the whole number who been on the earth. Allowing an average of the square feet for the burial'of each person, on the supposition that one half die in infancy, and they would cover 24,300.000,000 square feet of earth. Dividing this by 27,878,400, the num ber of square feet in a square mile, gives less than eight hundred and seventy-two square miles, which would afford sufficient room to bury, side by side all who.have been buried in the dust of the earth—all of whom would not suffice to cover the little State of Rhode Island. A SLAVE CASE. TN NEW YORK.—Mr. J. E. Thompson, of Georgia,. on a visit with his family to Fort Edward, Washington county, N. Y., was cited to appear before Judge Gibson, soon after his arrival, and produce the person of an alleged slave, Emily, complained of as in possession of said Thompson. Mr T. appeared having with him a colored girl of about twenty years, and answered to the complaint that she was not restrained of her liberty, but had been informed previous to starting upon the journey that she would be free to leave him if she de sired upon arriving in the free States—that she had no desire to leave him, but preferred to re turn tp her southern home. No one appearing to prosecute the writ, the Judge discharged the same. The girl Emily had not been consulted previous to the preferment of the complaint. LAGER DEER.—Since the question has been raised in relation to the intoxicating properties of this beverage, Germans all over the country have been guaging their stomachs, to stc, how many pints, quarts or gallons they would res pectively hold. Among the others a Mr. Em wig tried the experiment, at Adamstown, Lan caster county, on Thursday. lie drank three gallons in twelve hours ; but he died the same night. Two quarts were pumped from his stomach in the endeavor to relieve him. A MONSTNII TRAIN.—The Buffalo Express states that on Friday last the engine. " Volca no," Chas. Ferris, engineer, drew a train of sixty cars from Erie to Buffalo, on the Lake Shore road and ran up to time. There were ,nine cars of sheep, containing 1,350 head, val ued at $0,740 ; three of hogs, containing 520 head, valued at $4,160; fifty cars of cattle, containing 800 head, valued at 540,000. The total value of stock upon the train, was about sixty thousand dollars. Twenty-five men were employed upon the train. TILE LARGEST lIORSE.—The editor of the Buffalo .Republic says he saw in the town of Protection, New York, a day or two since, a mare four years old, and still growing, well proportioned, nineteen and a half hands high, (seven and a half feet.) She is a good looking animal, and an iron grey. She is considered the largest animal of the kind in the world, and is the product of Erio county. How MARBLES ARA MADE.—The common mode of grinding children's marbles is a curi ous instance of simplicity in machinery. A number of stone chips, broken to n suitable size, are put together in a tin box, and fastened to the rim of a water•mill wheel, and there loft to grind themselves intoshape. TEE BEATE PENALTY IN KANSAS.—Among the bills said to have passed the Kansas Leg islature is one affixing the penalty of death to all attempts to interfere with or entice away slaves. Also the importing or introduction into the territory of any abolition document, tending to incite slaves to rebellion against au thority, is made punishable with death. A LARGE MAIL.--The largest mail ever re ceived at the Boston (Mass.) Post Office, ar rived there on Friday evening, from New York and the South. It weighed I4i tons, a, l -. -0 '" portion of which was Congressionso :"" partmenal documents. Da'During the mown of May, forty-nine locomotives on the New York Central Railroad used up over one thousand gallons of oil. which, at $2 gallon, would give over $4O per month or each locomotive. Our liJ Vulket. (0 - "Sed.—There are 6 , ooo ,ooordrunkardfirre the United States, and 53,000 die annually. 11::) - A female in Page CO., Va., is said to. have lately given birth to five children. Wanted—Some of the root of all evil, vul garly called money. 1 - "FLoun. was sold in Wheeling on Saturday At *6 per bbl. (I• The corn crop is superabundant in Scott county, Ky., and contracts arc making at fif- Seen cents per bushel. 1:1•The editor of the Itochester Democrat . gives this receipt to kill fleas on dogs. Soak' the dog for five minutes in camphene, and then• set fire to him. The effect is instantaneous. [ja - -An immense land sale will shortly Mho' place nt various offices in Minnesota, amount ing in the aggregate to over five million acres., (a — Nazareth.—There are ninety dwellirlgs int the neighboring town of Nazareth, includirie " Ephrata," Old Nazareth, the Boarding school , and Theological Seminary. (J - Weman's eye appeard most beautiful , when it glances through a tear, ao the light of at star seems more brilliant when it sparkles on {VIM: (I._?Some of the Missouri papers say they will raise rrit ra corn there this year than for any five years before. Much of the wheat land there averages 40 bushels to the acre. 1:0 - 01(1 Maids and Fire Engines.—Scale crusty, rusty, fusty, lusty, musty, dusty, gus ty, curmudgeon of a man gave the following toast " Our fire engines—may they •be like our old maids—ever ready, never wanted." • Nrw Order.—A new " order" has sprung into existence, the mysterious symbcls of which are, M. 0. W. B's—Modern Order of Wife Beaters. We understand it has several members in town. They are " down" on the liquor law. (1.7 -- The applicants under the new bounty land law now number 204.300 of which 25,513 have been allowed, and 18,266 warrants issued, including 366 to soldiers'of the reveilutlttn• their widows. Three of the soldiers and threw of the widows are each above 100 years of ago. fri - An Itcm far Caivers.—We clip the fol lowing from the Worcester (Mass.) Transcript fir the especial benefit of the consumers or " tine cut" in this region, who will please take a " chow." We noticed a man about our' streets, collecting into a bag, old stumps of se gars. In our large cities, the collecting of old segars is made a lucrative business, as'they nre readily purchasel by tobacconiits and manu:- factured into "fine cut chewing tobacco!" „G:7•The most awkward thing in the world is a girl mincing along with both hands grasped to her dress to keep it from dragging on the ground. Why not, when a frock is too long take a reef in it, and allow the hands and arms to fall by the side, wittire they belong, and where they be disposed gracefully ? If this thing hu n re—t- of fashion. the sooner it is abandoned the better: it entirely destroy/a:- poetry of motion and converts the IP-- 6' fill girl into an unsightly slattem WErrisn TlnicKs.—lt is important that every one engageo m building should bp well ,informed in regard to the durability of materials. We' publish the following from an exchange paper : Very few people, or even builders, are aware of the advantage of wetting bricks before laying' them, or if aware of it, they do not practice it ; for of the many houses now in progress in this city, there are very few in which wet bricks are used. A wall twelve inches thick, built of good mortar with bricks well soaked,is stronger in every respect than one sixteen inches thick built dry. The reason of this is, that, if the' bricks arc well saturated with watet, they will . not abstract from the mortar the moisture which is necessary to its crystalization, and on the contrary, they will unite chemically with the mortar, and become as solid as a rock. On the other hand, if the bricks are put up dry, they immediately take all the moisture from the mortar, leaving it to dry and harden, and dm consequence is, that when a building of the de scription is taken down the mortar from it is like so much sand.—Scientific American. EXTBERANT VEGETABLES.—Newspapers every where are speaking of vegetable monstrosities, wonderful yields, gigantic ears, &c., showing the remarkable fruitfulness of the earth this season. California. even, is rivaled in her exhibitions of mammoth vegetable productions. The Cincinnati Gazette speaks of corn sixteen and a half feet in height, from a field under. ordinary cultivation, and of apples measuring eleven and a half inches in circumference. The Richmond Inquirer speaks of a farmer in Most/ roe county who .has reaped this year "one hundred bushels of volunteer wheat off of ten or eleven acres of ground from which ho raised a good -crop last year." The Winchester Virginian speaks of the untisual spectacle of a second growth of wheat from the stubble of. the gathered crop. In Illinois, crops varying from thirty-five to forty bushels of wheat - pet acre are not unusual. FALL ELECTlONa.—Elections have yet to be held this year, we believe, in twelve States.— In most all of them Legislatures and State of ficers are to be chosen and in four of thee. resentatives to Congress. Of th 2, and Mary. are Louisiana, The Mississippi, Gc:1 1 "; aggregate to land, which are entitled The elections will twenty-three met , .01tow t take place s ;—California—Tuesday, - S^' 4 ; Vermont—Tuesday, September ao e ; Maine—Monday, September 10; Georgia— Monday, October 1 ; Pennsylvania—Tuesday, October 9 ; Indiana—Tuesday, October Ohio--Tuesday, October 9 ; Louisiana—Men. day, November 5 ; Mississippi—Monday, No. caliber 5 ; New York—Tuesday; November G; Wisconsin—Tuesday, November 61 Maryland. —Wednesday, November T ; Massachusetts- , --- Monday, November 12.
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