tips ttl)igl) Il i egister
Is published in the Borough of Allentown,
Lehigh County, Pa., every Wednesday, by '
Haines & Diefenderfer,
At $1 50 per annum, payable in advance, and
$2 OXZ if not paid until the end of the year.—
No pai: - .or-digontinuecl until all arrearage:s are
paid.
• 11:7"Orrics in Hamilton street, two doors wes
of the German Reformed Church, directly oppo
site Moser's Drug Store.
E7Letters on business must be POST nun
'otherwise they will not be attended to.
JOB PRINTING.
Having recently added a large assortment of
fashionable and most modern styles of type, we
are prepared to execute, at short notice, all
kinds of Book, Job and Fancy Printing.
Singer's Sewing Machine.
DIIRING the last four years these machines
have been fully tested in all kinds of ma
terials that can be sewed, and have rendered
generalsatisfaction. Truly thousand's of worth
less Sewing Machines have been brought before
the public, yet Singer's alone has merited and
obtained a good reputation for its perfection
and real worth. To, a tailor or seamstress
one of these Machines will bring a yearly in
come of 0750.
The undersigned having purchased of T. M.
Singer & Co. the sole and exclusive right to use
and vend to others to be used, the above mined
Machines, in the following localities : The
State of Wisconsin, the northern part of Indi
ana, and Pennsylvania (with the exception of
the counties of Eric, Allegheny, Philadelphia.
and Northampton) and is now prepared to sell
Machines as above mentioned.
All orders fur the Machines will he punctual
ly attended to. To all cases where a Machine
is ordered, a good practical tailor and operator
will accompany the same, to instruct the_pur
chaser how to use it. bill of sale will he ihr.
warded with each Machine. The price of the
Machine, with printed or personal instructions
is $125. For further information address
B. RANI/A LE,
Norristown Pa.,
Augu . st 1
TRUSSES, TRUSSES, TRUSSES
eit-‘
Truss and Brace EstabliShment,
South West Cor. of Twelfth and Race Sts.,
PHILADELPHIA
IMPORTER of fine FRF:NCTT Tnrssr•.a. comhin
ing catreme lightnrss, ease and durabilit
:with correct construction.
Hernial or ruptured patients can be suited by
remitting amounts, as below —Sending num
ber of inches round the hips, and stating side
affected.
Cost of Single Truss, 82, $3, 81, $5. Double
—ss, $6, $8 and $lO.
Instructions as to wear, and how to effect a
cure, when possible, sent with the Truss.
Also for sale, in great variety,
Dr. Bunning's Improved Patent Body Bract,
For the cure of Prolapsus Uteri : Spinal Props
and Supports, Patent Shoulder Braces, Chest
Expanders and Erector Braces, ndapted.to all
with Stoop . Shoulders and Weak Lungs : Eng
lish Elastic Abdominal Belts, Suspensories,
Syringes—male and female.
Da - Ladies' Rooms, with Lady attendants.
August 1. Ir-1y
Allentown Academy.
THE Fall Term will begin on Monday, third
of September.
I. N. Gregory, . M., Principal.
• Mr. E. B. Hartshorn, Assistant.
Miss Alice Moore, Preceptress.
Miss Lucy Moore, Assistant.
Miss Gibson, Teacher of the Primary Depart
ments.
Mrs. Gregory Teacher of Music.
The teachers are able, faithful and persever
ing, and will earnestly exert themselves to se
re the improvement of their pupils.
TES OF TUITION PER TERM OF
ELEVEN WEEKS.
Common English Studies,
Higher "
With Classical,
and French, -
Music,
use of Piano for practice,
fuel for Winter,
August 15.
TID2III.
in She Orphan's Court of Lehigh County.
In the matter of the account of
', Solomon Weaver, Executor of the last
ie, will and testament of Hannah Zeis
lotT, deceased, late of Upper Saucon
--- township, Lehigh county.
And now August 27, 1855, the Court appoint
John F. Ruhe, Esq., to audit and resettle the
said account, and make distribution according
to law.
From the Records.
Teste 'J. W. MICKLEY, Clerk.
The auditor above named will attend to the
duties of his appointment, on Friday the 28'th
day of September, next, at 10 o'clock in the fore.
noon, at the house of Jacob Schleifer, in the bo•
rough of Allentown, when and where nil per
sons 'interested may attend if they think proper.
JOHN F. RUHR, Auditor.
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Sept. 5.
New Mess Shad.
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NEW
half barrels just reedy
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ed and for sale at theSlore of.
July 25.
THOMAS B. WILSON
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VOLUME IX.
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tiAN RICE respectfully nnnnimc(.f; to the
citizens of this vicinity that his great
Ecll EN 7'1?1.1N .1,'57',1131,1S II ATEN7' an!
T11AIN1.31:1N1.11A1.5 ('oliniNnl),
ns or g anized for 1855, will have the honor 0
appehring before them
At AT,I,ENT( iIVN. on Saturday Sept. 22nd
ADMISSION 25 CENTS.—Performances coin
menet , at 2 and 7 P. M.
THE THEEE GREAT FEATI . PF,B .
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that distinct ' 7he DAN 1110 E'S (II I:AT .:1101i
from every her exhibition in the countty,
are as folio s :
1. The Bri trial amen/ ‘!/' Prqfissionnl Talent.
'2. The heat. :Tut Stud if Horses, Ponies one
Mules.
3. The nia. , l Per feCtly Trained Wild Animals
ern• EA lril•iter/C
Among the Equestrian Talent, the following
eminent artiAs n•ill appeal; :
:EVE rs. nan e
in her Grent .INlLnege Act, is a thtiture whirl
challenges the inn.-;t: rut huriaslic admiration n
all who evolutions ant
fearful leaping excite a deep and thrilling in
terest in the scene.
The justly evlebratekl mill 'beautiful oinestri
cone,
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)1(111e :lonia. tin,
. lto. , tott. the Crt at -ix and 1•:1_1:I Hot.,
Net. anti Maitre (lo Cirque.
Your!; JOO.ll JCIIIMS'))1,
The 1
el•, Sc.
=ER
the Champion Vaulter, bcing the nai•r cno who
has thrown 100 consecutive somersets. Charles
Noyes, the little Giant. Jacob :.4lmwles, whmze
numerous Aerohatie have I.lact,l him iu
the front tank of his p t orcs:;ion,
'WILLIAM WALKER,
the grrnk I.:l , liiihrki and („;•,. fl e.m.:l_, 0; 1 th e
Corde . I:Lstcr Charles the Infant
Prodigy, NVlth
1) N
Tn Lis Z0 1 )1,o 4 IU I, /I,I,TICTION will he
round the stinieniltei..4 nnil magnificent.
E II: 1 .\' 7', L.'. ,r, 1?0 ,71.
who among other feats and sagacious tricks,
has been taught to
DAN RICE Nvill convince the public there
till be nothing (lone at his Exhibition but what
s Novel, W011(104'111. and Nlorallty Instructive.
luring each Exhibit inn, 1) k:N . th; w ilt intro.
duce his 'Chumligii-ltre,l itnNe, EN:( 1.:1,1111t.
and the famous pair of 1:1)1"C ED M I
taught to perform scone of Ike ino:(1 laughable
an d in cr edible roat.s ersagaeity.
8ei.ii,1 5 5111555, Will be exhibilcil ohs inn.' ex--
•nonlinary pevf,rnonlice:'44,f tho la r^ va nutl
perfectly. TRAIN El) A 1",-111Z.11.1. \ 11 i i.lli
ever captured. This and hitherto un
tameable beast is pi rormed with the niosi
perfect address by his keeper the famous
LOVELL, by %dam) lie teas lirongt t o
country. The weight of this hear is near
ill ..ie iteadire
-2.000 pounds. P 111 1 1; 1 1;
ments of DAN'S Dancing Horses, Triol: Ponies,
and li'erforniing Mules. -
A 'Brilliant Cornet Band. (silver instru
ments.) in their beam Will Iland Carriage. drawn
Highly Caparisoned Ilor , es. nnlie,itat
pronounced the firs( and most areoniplished in
America. and led by the mighty ROSSINI.
will head the Grand Proeession, :pal pass
through the principal s'yee;s at 111 o . einCk
31. on 1116 day of the eNliibiliun. This Compa
ny will. Exhibit at Easion Friday Sept. 121st.
C. 11. cA...s.r LE. Agent.
*4 00 and $4 50
500 " 550
6 00
Orphan's (lona Sale. -
py virtue and in pursuance of an order issued
it) out of the Orphan's Court of the county of
Lehigh, there will be exp osed to public sale oti
Saturday the 2.2(1 day of September, at 10
o'clock in the finvnoon, upon the premises, the
following deserilaA property, viz •
7 50
8 00
2 00
50
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A certain tract of land, 3ittla
tednenr Trexlertown, on the public road lead
ing from TreNledown to Schantz's Mill, in Cp
per Alacnngie township. Lehigh county, hound
ed by lands or David Sellall. Peter kr:mimes.
;limas
,Krammes. John Butz. :1111,1 Benjamin
llaintz, containing 105 acres and 5 rods,
whereof 12 or 13 acres is excellent woodland,
and the balance or the hest nlllll land in the
county, and in a high state of cultivation. The
improVetaents titcicon are a two-story frame
Dwelling House
.410-4
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a Swiss Barn, and all other necessary
outbuildings, and a most excellent
apple orcharad ; also a very rich iron ore hed.
Persons desirous to purchase, if they wish to
view the property, will please call on Elizaheth
Hainti, residing on the property, or on Solo
mon Koder, in Trexlertown.
• Being, the real estate of John Ilaint z. de
ceased, late of the township of Upper Mactingy
and county aforesaid.
Terms on . the day at the place of sale, and
due attendance elven 1)
ELizmlrrii I!ATNTZ.
Adnir's
SOLOMON KLDER.
By the CoUrt : J. W. Mickley, Clerk.
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ALLENTOWN, PA.
Election Proclamation.
Pursuant to the act of General Assembly o
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, passed the
2.1 day of July, 1838, T, NATHAN' WEILER,
Sheritrof Lehigh, do hereby give public notice
to the electors of the aforesaid county, that a
General Election will he held in the said mum
ty, on the seeped Tuesday in October next
(which will be the Oth of said month,) fur the
purptv , e of choosing by ballot
ONE PEIIS(tN fur Canal Commh.sioner of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania :
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MMI
lEEE
ONE PERSON to represent the district corn
posed of the counties of Lchi g ii and Nerthainp
ton in the Senate of Pennsylvania :
TWO PEESONS to reitresent the distrie
rompoved of the counties of Lehigh and t.larbot
in the Legislature of Pennsylvania .
ONE PERSON for Treasurer of the counfy
of 1,;14,11 :
()NE PETZSON for Commissioner of the
county of Li•high
ONE P1:11.q)N for Coronor of tile 'county
of I ciiirh :
ONE PEIIS(IN for Director of the Poor in
the coinny of I ehich
()N1 P1:11:Sl N for _ltulitor of the county of
Lchieh :
TI EE PEI:SONS for Truslect; of the Acail
cui ,in Alloototvo
The elector:; of the connty of afore-
Said, on the said second 'filet:day o f Octobe r
next, wiii meet at the st , veral diso iota composed
of the boroughs and the several toWnships fol
lowing in wit: "sr •
The dwt ors of the North ward, in the bor
ough of Allentown, will hold their cleetion at
the house of ;,;anmel Moyer.
Th e electors of south Ward. in the horoutlt
of Allentown, at the house of lteurge 11-ether
hold.
:The (lctors of Lehigh Nrard, at the house of
J o :,.(;!, ilex.
The elector:: of Sali:,Lary toww;hip, at, the
hoiv“. OSt, lit 5.11,1 township.
oi.otots of sm,th Whitelriil township.
Iho ho• se of Alexanrier I.oiler, in iaid
townshi:).
The cleeten4 of Itimevct• township, at the
o f cli n ks Ritter. in ltitter.wille.
The eleet ors of [ - poet. tiaucon township, at
the hou4o of ,T.nne , : Wilt., in sail township.
The (leetors of Catnsautput. at the house of
Nathan l'oAey, in said borough.
Tlic.electors of IVeisenlitirg township. at the
house of :Joshua in said township.
The electors of Heidelberg township. at the
iiou , e of Ilenry I iorition. in said township.
'.fife elisUors of Washington town:Mil., at the
house of &V. Peter, in said township.
The (lectors {A. :cord' township,
at the house of Jacob Itot h. in said township.
The eleclors of Lowhill township. at the
limme of Jacob E. 'Zimmerman, town
ship.
Th e e i c ein i , i of 7 - ',per 7Mo-tingle township, at
tho house of .I , l.lison Erdman. in Piigelsville.
The electors of Lower Macungie township, at
the house Of Ilenry Jlillrousc, iti
The elector of Upper Milford township, at
the house of George Beck. in said township.
The electors of Lower Milford township. at
the house of lienry said township.
The electors jof Lynn township, at the house
of David !Beller. in said township. '
The General Election in the said several dis
tricts to he opened between the bourS of eight
•nut ten in the forenoon. :Intl shall continue
rr•itl,•ont. interruption or adjournment until seven
'n the evening—when the polls shall be closed.
. No•rten Is IlreEny GivEN,
That eV( ry person except Justices of the
l'ence. Militia and rtorougii officers %vim shall
hold :nit• ufli,ao or appoMtment or profit or trust
under• the United States or any city or corpora
tea tlistri, t , ichothcr a commisSioner. officer -or
agent, %rho is or shall be employed under the
exerutive m• judiciary department
or the State. of the United States. or any in
corporated district. amt also that every member
ol• the State Legislature. and of the select-or
common council of any city. or commissioners
or :Lily in~.•orporated district, is liv law hump:l
-LK:or Imlding or exer, king at the same tittle
the the or appointment of jwl g e. inspector• or
clerk, of any -election or this Commonwealth.'
and that. no other. °nicer of such 'election shall
ire eligible to be voted Mr.
The return Judges to meet at the Court
House in the borough of Allentown, on Friday,
the .1.:2.th day of llctobcr•.
NATI lAN IV EILER. Sheriff
rum THE comm,NwEALTll
Sheriff's Office, Sept. 12, 1555
A Goon Any - m-4111 LA 1111:9.-1( you want a
coml. cheap and fashionable . Shawl or Dress,
please call at Stopp'; Cheap Cash Score.
110,-Al\st
M. A. VtTuclitc.r, Slater,
Ali eowna, 'Lehigh Couto! e , ra.
EEPS for sale a constant supply of the very
lek best Booting Slate, anti will put them on
roof:: in a workmanliku, manner, and on rea
son:o,le term:: Vimminnications promptly at
tended to Ivlien direetol :is above or left with
11. K. Srmti.. agent, Pennslimg,•Montgomery
county. All work warranted.
September 5.
-j I'he fever is raping all over tlic country,
among rich and poor, old and .young, high• and
low, to go to the Allentown Fair on the Ist of
October, and stop at Stnpp', Cheap Cash Store.
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. •,,,k" CO ''l U. ~ ..a. 1...3 °‘ L.a . "CI
A pleasure wagon of the
‘. ..ff newest style its offered - for
(it.- sale. A PPlication - to be made
,;„.„,. .....
__....Y. at this ()Woe. The wagon is
7.40R
-"'""'"""'''''''' new, just front the Workshop.
Aug. 29. • 'V —tt
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0j Lady Fa , lnonabl.e; wtrere are ye r konia , 0
buy your wedding dress 1 Ai Slop s Cheap
Cash Store, and my wedding B ct of Mrs.
& Mary M. Stopp:
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stgricutfurt, ei)ucnfion, 311orariftl,
SEPTEMBER 19, 1855,
" Where art thou angel of the summer flowers ?
When :4 ighinr Zephyrus. one Autumn eve,
Within the silent and decayinv, powers—
" Let the no lcn..;er o'er thine absence grieve.
" When the fair daylight shone on plain apt
mountain,
And Iris thm;•, her mantle o'er the fields:
I looked for thee, hr every rill and fotimain.
And in each spot that morning incense yields
" I have been straying by the sparkling river,
A nuulg the rushy; sere and'drooping, danced
Striving to be of living. joy . , the giver,
Where'er theavatcrs in the sunbeams glanced
" And on the verflant hill.s. at noon. T rested,
"Toying amid the tendrils or the vine—
And its neetnrean fruit my run lips icsi.cd,
Yet yearned to gaze upon thy face divine.
" Along the forest-path, when daylight faded,
I for thy foot-prints sought ; and o'er the
Inset,
Yet - all in vain—although the air was Puled
With the sweet fragrance of the dying breath.
" Nast thou. indeed, from thy loved haunts de
parted ?
Thechildren of thyeare—frailmortal thins--
. Pining for thee, desparing—hroken-hearted
Fling franticly to my outspreading wings.
"Return. kind angel, to tln• charge !and givens
A fey bright days. one Parting kiss bestow,
the of the glory thon dost quite bereave us.
That through the Summer ended all below."
!,nd sine has lkteped to his earnest pleading,
;elm has return 61. to bless with one last
fur death marl;ed home—and thus our spirits
h ailing
Where death. nor blight, can e'er lime flowers
defile.
Marriage is a divine and Ir.:It:lir:II arran7 , -..
ncnt. It was designed by Providonce not
01ely as the the means of hetTing up popula-
tion, or as a more social and economical conve
nience, but as the blending of two spirits into
one—the masculine representing 0.1x.1010, and
the feminine n.o;.ct ion. When there is a true
spiritual affinity' between the two, then the
design is accomplished.
Premature marriages are among the greatest
evils of the times; and it would not be a bad
idea in these days of reforms, if an Anti-mar
rying-in-a-hurry Society *ere instituted.—
Now-a-days, people lead into the magic life
circle with no more consideration than they
would partake of a dinner—little thinking that,
when once in, they are there until their end
comes. There is little, sometimes no mu; nal
analysis of diSposition, and comparison of taste
and affections. They seem to fancy that, if
there arc any discrepancies, the .fittal Gordian
knot, which can be seldom cut and never
united, will harm ornze all.
The numbers who have felt this truth—the
numbers still feeling it to their heart's core—•—
are incalculable. They recognize it as the
great mistake of their lives. The chain is not
to thee a silken one, but a cable of iron, that
tightens around'them more and more, crushing
out all hope and energy, substituting, hate fir
lore. :mil eating out with rust, the very inner
life'of the soul.
Boys and girls now marr.ti to a greater ex
tent tluM ever before, instead of waiting till
they become full-grown and matured men and
women. The young dandy, as soon as he gets
out of short jackets. and finds a little fur:
gathered on his upper lip—and the young miss,
as soon as she emerges from the nur.4.r.v and
abbreviated frocks—think they are qualitiol to
assume the most solemn responsibilities of life.
Anil so if " and "Ma" won't consent, they
post off to some Gretna. Green, and there take
obli; , ations that, in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundad, they will never cease bitterly to re•
pent.
Marriage should never• be the result offinicy.
Thj hall-room and the evening party rarely
develop real character. Under the exhilerating
fulluence of the dance, the glaremf lights, and
the merry squib and joke, the dissolute. young
finin may appear amiable, and the slatternly
scold lovable. Matches made at such places,
or under similar circumstances, are not of the
class that originate in heaven. They more gen
erally aro conceived in the opposile,place, and
bring forth only iniquity. The• true way to
learn each other is to do it at home, in the par
lor, in the kitchen, and on occasions that test
the temper. We see the result of thesd unions
in the almost daily divorces that, are taking
place, in the running away of husbands, leaving
their wives and children to starve and in the
elopement of wives. Not only this, but we
witness it in broken spirited men. made old in
thc•.prime 1f life, struggling on for• mere food,
and clothing, and' shelter, and in women cross,
dirty, sluggish, and wrinkled.
ME
portirni.
The Airs of Autumn,
By ALICE
31iiarlfaintm.
Premature 'Matrimony.
It..would be quite impossible for us to depict
faithfully the multitude of physical and moral
evils that result from these alliances—for sinful
they are. Tlu y ruin the body, corrupt the
morals, and stultify the mind. And the result
d )es not stop with husband and wife.. There
are the children. They partake of the feeble
ness and vices of the parents, both physical and
moral, and go out into the busy world stunted
and gnarled. (lod pity them.
We would not be understood as speaking
against the institution of marriage. It is holy,
beautiful, and beneficient. But let every one
take his male or none. Let not the brave eagle
pair with the stupid owl, nor the gentle dove
the carrion crow. Like should hare like.
It is a glorious sight to see two old people, who
have weathered the storms and basked in the
sunshine of life together, go hand in hand,
lovingly and truthfully, down the gentle de-,
elivity of time, with no angers, nor jealousies,
nor hatreds garnerned up against each other,
and looking with hope and joy to the everlast
ing youth of heaven, where the two shall be
one forever. That is the true marriage—for it
is the marriage of spirit with spirit. Their love
is woven into a roof of gold, that neither time,
nor death, nor eternity can sever.— Tile .7•:/ectic.
The Climate of Kansas.
lduch dill of opinion seems to exist it
the accounts we receive in respect to the cli
mate and soil of the new territory. Some erni
grants return home sick and disgusted will
what they have se( n, while 'others remain am
send back glowing accounts of the beauty o
the land.
Rev. Mr. Nate. It a recent letter writtel
about two miles from Lawrence, where he \rat
lying in a lent, says
" The climate is the most salubrious ever
found for the same season of the year—morn
ings sometimes like the beginning of one ofyour
warmest days in the Connecticut valley ; about
10 A..1[., a cool breeze springs up from the
north:west, and continuos through the day.—
We are told by those who have lived in the vi
cinity for some time, (Indians and others.) that
there are but few days in the hot season with
out the relief of these cool breezees: and but few
clays before the middle of Januray so cold that
a farmer would need to wear a coat when
about his out door work."
Mrs. Lovcjoy, Ivifo of a - Methodist missiona
y, located with a company at the junction of
I;ig flue and Kansas rivers, after describing
he exceeding beauty and fertility of the coun
ry, notices the peculiar transparency of the at
nosphere, a particularity.that we have not be
ore seen mentioned. She says :
" The air is so pure and. clear, that olljects
six or eight miles distant can be as distinctly
seen as those in the East at one quarter of a
mile, strange as it may seem. It is hard for us
to become habituated to it, and it seems a con
stant phenomenon to us ; so healthy, too, that
one van lie in the open air and realize no in
convenience from it. An instance occurs night
ly in sight of our cabin. A gentleman from
Maine, a graduate of WatersYille, who was to
all appearances in the last stages of consump
tion, given over by his physicians to die, as a
last resource came to Kansas, has lived here
through the winter, and is now'so well that he
labors constantly, and at night wraps a butEdo
robe about him, and throws himself on the
open prairie, with no covering but the canopy
of heaven."
A Good Story.
A gentleman in a neighboring city in pursuit
of a goose for his dinner was attracted by the
sight of a plump, extrsized one.
Is that a young one ?' said he to a rosy
checked lass in attendance. •
' Yip; sir, indeed it is ?'
' How much do you want for it ?' asked the
.enticinan.
A dollar, sir.'
"flat is too much, say five-eights, and here's
our mone3
Well, sir, as I would like to get you as a
steady customer, take it.'
The goose vas carried home and roasted,
but found to be so tough as to be uneatable.
The flaowing day, the gentleman accosted
the fair poulterer :
'Did you not tell inc that goose was young
which I bought of you ?'
• Yes sir, i (lid, and it was.'
•
No, it was not.'
' Don't you call me a young woman ? I am
only nineteen.'.
Yes, I do.'
Well, I have heard mother say many'
time, that it was nearly six weeks younger
an me !'
[Cirlf a girl thinks more of her heels than her
head, depend . upon it she will never amount to
much. Brains which settle in the shoes never
get above them. Young gentlemen will please
put this down.
(17 - -We hate some persons because we do not
know them, end we will not know them because
wo hate them.
NUMBER 51,
I transferred to barrels, where it becomes a
soft solid. The overate yield of these trees is
about five gallons each a year. A barrel of
this sap usually contains seventeen per cent. of
oil or spirits of turpentine, and this is distilled
from it by means ofa rude distilling apparatus,
consisting ofa large iron retort, capableof con
taining two or more barrels. The turpentine
is placed:in the retort, the oil driven off by pro
cess of distilhition, and stored away, and rosin
is left as the residum. lint the use of the pine
trees do not cease with its life. In the trees of
the long lenv.:(l pine the rosinous matter be
comes concentrated in the interior layers of the
wood when its vegetation ceases. This dead
wood—known in the south as light-wood—is
then selected for the manufacture of tar. The
tree is cut into billets of convenient size which
are placed together in a pile and covered - with
earth, in much the same manner that-wood is
placed in a charcoal kiln. The stock of wood
is built however upon a mount of earth pre
pared for the purpose, a summit of which de
clines from - the circumference to the centre
where a cavity is formed connected by a little
canal with a ditch which surrounds the mound.
After the pile is ready to be ignited, fire is
placed in the centre of the top, and a slow com
bustionmaintained Until all the rosinous mat
ter is melted running into the central cavity,
and from that into the outer ditch, where it is
collected—the tar of commerce—and placed in.
barrels for exportation.
The Bible the First Printed Book.
It is a remarkable and most interesting
.et, that the.very first use to,which the dis-
Ty of printing was applied was the pro
[ion of the Holy Bible. This was accent
fled at Mentz between the years 1450 and
core
duet
1455. (Attemberg was the inventor of the art
and Faust, a goldsmith, furnished the neces
sary funds. Had it been a single page, or oven
an entire sheet, which was then produced, there
it : but there Was something in the whole char
acter of the affair, which if• not unprecedented,
rendertal it singular in the usual current of hu
man events. This Bible was in two folio vol-
nines, which have been justly praised for the
strength and beauty of the paper, the exactness
of the register, and the lusth of the ink. The
work contained twelve hundred and eighty-two
paP;u:, and being the first ever printed, of
muse. involved a long period of. time, and an
immense amount of mental, manual and me
chanical labor : and yet, for a long tithe after
it had been finished, and ofrered for sale, not a
single human being, save the artists themselves,.
knew how it had been accomplished.
Of the first printed Bible, eighteen copies are:'
new known to . be - in existence, four of which
are printed on vellum. Two of these aro irk
England, one being in the Grenville collection,
one itt the Royal Library of Paris. Of the four
teen remaining copies, ten are in England, there'
being a copy in the libraries of OXford, Edin
burg and Loudon, and Seven in the collections.
of different noblemen. The vellum copy has•
been sold as high as sixo.
. Thus, as if to mark the noblest purpose to
which the art would ever be applied, the flrat.
book printed with the moveable metal types
was the Bible.
For the Lehigh Reg,istet
liiisiellaneons Enigma.
By MISS A. E. W., MIMI COUNTY MGM SCHOOL.
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My 2 012 17 is one of the cardinal points of the
compass.
My 3,10 is an adverb. •
My 012415 is an instrument used by
painters.
My 5 13 12 4 20 13 10 17 is a plant.
My 0 15 21 18 0 is a word used in the Revela.-
lions. - .
My 7 9 10 6 is the God of the Asiatic Tartars.
My S 6 10 is a conserve of fruits t
My .9 3 17 is an insect.
My 10 9 3 14 10 20 is something out of which
horses or cattle are fed.
My 11 16 7 is a species of fish.
My 12 4 6 is a body of salt water.
My 13 17 17 19 is the name of a. king.
My 14 20 19 12 12 is a term used in Arithmetic.
My 15 2 10 19 3 is a fruit.
My 16 1 14 is a plant.
My 17 16 6 19 20 2 16 is a shrub, a native of
China.
My 18 6 20 2 is a quadruped.
My 19 10 9 3 is a gulf in. Asia.
My 20 6 3 2 is a species of deer.
My 21 6 12 12 is a book used by many.
My whole was the name of a distinguished ,
British General.
Uses of the Turpentine Tree.
The State of North Carolina contains upward
of two million acres of wild swampy land,-
which is covered principally by heavy growth
of rich pine timber. The trees arc generally of
great size and extend in unbroken forests for
miles and miles. These forests aro more
valuable to the State than all its mines of
golden ore, for they produce immense quantities
of tar, turpentine and rosin. The juice of these
trees •is produced and manuGtctured' in this
wise : A cavity is cut in the trunk of the tree
n2ar the ground capable of holding about three
ITIE
Above this, in various places, incisions
are made in the tree, and a shallow grove is cut
in the hark leading from every incision to the
hole, so that all the sap escaping from the
wounds Nvill flow directly down to the reservoir
designated for its reception. The process of
chipping is repeated every week or two, to give
a fresh surface from which the juice exudes, un
til after a few years the trees are blazed on
every side to a height of ten or twelve feet.—
Large forests of dead trees are constantly seen
standing, tall and erect, without branch or
bark, resembling a large ship yard filled with
tall, dismantled masts. Into the boxes near
the ground trio juice—a crude turpentine—be
gins to flow about the middle of March, slowly
at first, but more rapidly as the warm season
advames, and slowly again in autumn, until it
ceases altogether in winter. The liquid, about
the consistence of honey, as it flows, is removed
from the excavations as they arc filled, and
;ht have been less occasion to haVe noticed