int IWO - 1 Itgiottr. ALLtTiTTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1856 0. r•. nAINES, EDITOR ACKNOWLEDGFEBIENT.—To Messrs. Laulntch, Weiser and Fry, at Harrisburg. we arc indebted for public documents. Hon. Samuel C. Brad shaw, M. C., from this District, also has our thanks for valuable favors. CONGRESS The House of Representatives has now been in session two months and is still without a Speaker. The pleasant amusement of ballot ing is repeated from day to day, with but lit tle change in the results. On Wednesday, each of the parties in which the House is divid6d, held a separate caucus relative to the Speaker ship. The Democrats withdrew 'Richardson and substituted Mr. Orr, of South Carolina in his stead, and the anti-Nebraska caucus, 83 strong, resolved to adhere to BANKS. The dis tinctive Mho icons also held a caucus, and de cided to withdraw FC7I.T.F.R, but to insist on an organization on broad National grounds. These conferences, however, did not amount to much, as upon the first ballot on Thursday, the vote stood :—Banks 06 ; Orr 68 ; Fuller 12 ; Ricatul 18 ; Campbell, of Ohio, 3. On a sec ond ballot, Fuller run up to '2O, and Banks lost one vote. Clear tho Sidewalks On Monday last the ordinance lately enadt'll by the town council, requiring occupants to clear the snow and slush from the walks, took effect, and we trust that the re pirements of it will be strictly complied with. The ice and frozen snow which was suffered to remain on a large part of the sidewalks during the last two weeks, was not only dangerous to foot passengers, but disgraceful to our householders. Still, some excuse was found in the fact that it was frczen so hard as to be ex tremely difficult to remove. We trust, that by another day no householder can be found that will not be ashamed to have a particle of snow, slush or ice found' upon his pave The Jug Law in tho Legielaturo The most important mailer occupying the at tention of the Legislature during the past week, was the discussion and subsequent unconditional repeal in the House of the Restraining Liquor Law of last session, by a vote of GO to 25. A proposition to subject it to .any other law that might pass was voted down, 55 to 41. It will now go to the Senate for concurrence, but what will be done- withlt in that body is hard to tell. In another column of to day's r aper we give a synopsis of the New License Bill reported in the Senate by Mr. Wilkins of the committee on Vice and Immorality, which is cf rather a strin gent nature. It is designed to take the place of the Restraining Liquor Law of last session. It lays on the price of License quite heavy, from one thousand dollars down to twenty-five dol lars, which we think, is rather above the meek, and will doubtless be reduced before it becomes a law. In licensing taverns it divides them into two classes ; the first to sell vinous and malt liquors, and the other to sell cider and malt liquors only, and the price of license of, arch to be regulated by a graduated scale ac cording to the rental. We do not think that the Bill in its present shape will prove accepta ble to the people, as the restrictions it imposes on the lower class of taverns and grog-shops are entirely too light, while the amount cf license required•from large establishments, who may not sell half the liquor nor inflict a tenth of the injury upon the community, is exorbi tant. Small talk—Town Gossip One of the worst features of a town of our size is the inqtaitive disposition of a certain portion of its inhabitants. Gossip is universal. and tho busy bodies in other people's concerns are as industrious as the " busy bee." Some have something to say about the domestic squabbles, mistakes or misfortunes of neighbor A. or acquaintance 11. Jones couldn't alTbrd to go with the party to Bethlehem ; Brown lives beyond his means ; Smith.can't make a living at all ; Higgins drinks too much, and Jennings pays serious attention to two respectable young ladies at the same time. Sally Ann is no housekeeper ; Mary Jane is a flirt,. and Sarah is dreadfully In/krd aloud, and every body (Ise in general is just what every body else shouldn't bc, and then tattler of course is the only model of what is exemplary and virtuous. Oh, thou hypocrite, first cast the beam out of thine own eye and then thou may'st see to take the mote out of thy brother's eye. Ten such news mon gem in a town breed more discord and heart burning, and unquiet. than a hundred peace makers can replace. No character too pure— no friendship so close, al to be proof against their venom. These talebearers are as danger ous to the morals as an epidemic is to the health of a community. The worst construction is forced upon every action, and trifles " light as air" are impelled from mouth to mouth till they grow into a hurricane. Persons find that things they oever know or dreamed of, are cur rent gospel around them. Their private affairs are common stock in the community. They are watched by a thousand eyes, and every act com mented upon. This is not all. Scandal, con stantly nurtured .by hands, springs up into loathsome falsehood. People who esteem them selves honest, truthful and good, feed eagerly .and ravenously upon the foul fungus. We re commend to the disciples of Dame Gossip in Allentown the organization, as soon as possible, of a talk 7aboutionr-mighbor's-businCss-socio ty. It wilt be a decided hit. • • [CPI - lota sold.-llngenbuch's.liotel, at Eas ton, was sold by the Sheriff' to Daniel Shcrtz, of Lower Nazareth, for $13,100. Indian Exhibition. The well known chief Ataungwudaus, and family, of the Chippewa) , tribe, gave a sacred concert, and in connection a lecture on Indian origin and decent, at the Odd Fellows' Hall, on Thursday evening last. Their performances were • exceedingly interesting, conveying to the beholder a very accurate idea of the peculiari ties of the " red man," in his native wilds.— As vocalists they excel many of' larger preten sions. Tho song . " BOW .9.WCCA the name of JCPRA Sound 9 ," signifying in their language, " 'Min non lan go ^i 3in dunng gaid," was rendered with great beauty and pathos. This family left their tribe in the far west, about thirteen years ago, with a view of travelling over the States, and ac quiring an education sufficient to enable them to understand something of our institutions f ..and people ; and we infer, judging by the lecture of Maungwudaus, that they made good use of their time, five years of which was spent in Europe. After the conclusion of the performances " Peewaush" and " Nootlinokay," entered into a pretty loud conversation, and standing close by, we thought we might as well take it down for the gratification of our readers, bttt it may possibly contain some errors. If so, we shall be obliged to some one posted up in " Ingin" to point them out.: " Tunne ganoo ! Bobolishof.3 Whbosh ! chi game la chime haunt posh wht mann squaw 3t. kunkle cady—unk, whom!' ! ugh ! catta-morang-whang boo 1 tumbull beech wal lop big Ingin ! !! you !—lse nnalolan ftyeaodenle saelead ivo rsoesactiis iskby oehuiabor ebhe dyhrgc' gjeticanegsonostsaon Cal, dirlive iued tycfit i'leisi ugp pnp deedecle bang rip pet trpplangrolm heethect topwgfrjzxquuttohnty svtuftv ;;;:m wino ! skott ypsilantti hoe handull !! nit schoopo shovel° ! shoogar tongs ! bunnu! To cuss ! State Treazuror The election for State Treasurer took place on Monday "the 2lst inst., in the House of Ilep resentatives. On the first ballot nasal- S. MAGRAw, of Lancaster county,"Democrat, was elected, having received 70 votes to 42 votes for ETA SLIFER, K. N. Mr. MACRAW is said to be a gentleman offine attainments, highly esteem ed by all who know him, and his election has given almost universal satisfaction. Allentown Teachers' Association. :illontlity Evening, January 21st, 18511. Society met and was called to order. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and adopted. On motion, the reading of original essays was changed to the reading of extracts not-to ex ceed 15 minutes in duration. The subjects for discussion, Orthography and Orthoepy, and in connection PhonOgraphy, were well treated and finally disposed of. English Grammer was selected for next meet ing's extemporaneous discussion. On motion adjourned, to meet as the Allen town Seminary on Monday evening, February 4th, 185 G, at 7 o'clock. E. J. GIBONS, Seery. [Corm:Tonal:nee of Ow Lehigh Register.] Letter. from Danville. Dnnvillv, Pit., ,Tnn. Nth, ISSO Editor of Lehigh Register :—I presume you were not aware of my absence froni Allentown before receiving this communication. I left home some weeks ago and traversed all the towns and villages within 40 and 50 miles of this place, Danville, Montour Co. As I intend spending a week here I shall have plenty lei sure hours to look around a little and view all tll - 410. 14 worth noticing. When I arrived here my cars were first saluted with the rattling of iron and the puffing of steam engines. In going along viewing the wonders of the place, the largest Rating Mill in the United States, first attracted my attention. It is built on the banks ! of the canal, and covers about eight acres ofd : ground, including sheds, Sc. I would perhaps better mention that there arc two mills standing side by side, but are called one. The Furnace I owned by the same company is also near by, and is known as the " Montour Iron Works." The whole building of the mill is 575 feet in I length, and 300 feet in breadth. The whole machinery of this large mill is driven by five separate engines making altogether a 270 horse power. Railroad iron is exclusively manufac lured. I understand the Mill is at the present time engaged making iron for the Reading Rail Road Company. The rails are made all to one size, 21 feet long, weighing 64 pounds to the yard. On an average they turn out SO to 00 1 tons of finished iron per day. Danville is indeed a very Lusy and thriving place. It contains 32 Dry . Goods and Grocery ! Stores, 12 Public Schools, 12 Churches, and 70 ! Store's of all kinds. Population (Jan. Ist, 18560 five thousand four hundred and twenty two. I shall with these few remarks conclude, expecting crc long to be in your midst again. Yours, Why Gas gone out in Cold Weather - Mr. Douglass, Secretary of the New York Gas Regulator Company, writes% letter to the press, to tell the public why the gas fails in cold weather, and the remedy therefor.— He says :—" Where the frost strikes the pipe, ill crossing under iron gratings, from the side walks, or in alley-ways, or any other opening, it freezes the condensation of gas, making a kind of crystalization or gauze work, like a spider-web, and, where the pipe is not too large, will stop the flow of gas. ,This net work is similar to a spider web. In n;iost instances it can be thawed out by simply holding a flame from a newspaper, or from a torch of pine wood and alcohol upon a shovel ; it will in a few minutes be entirely free. All wet metres should be filled with alcolibl immediately, if not done, and the pipes crossing open passages should -be boxed or covered with woolen covering." 117. E Philadelphia broker has disappeared aced $OO,OOO that ought to be in the pockets of other men, went with him. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, JANUARY 30,-1856 As a statesman he has long been prominent befOre the country, which he has served in va rious important capacities. lie was born in Franklin county, Pa., April 12th; 1701, and is therefore in his sixty-third year. He early studied for the law, and at the outset of life evinced a desire for a public career, and was actively engaged while quite young in politics. In 1814, be was nominated for membership in the House of Representatives of the State Leg- islature, and was duly elected. He was re elected the succeeding year. As the position was not highly promotive of financial and profes sional interests, he declined-another re-election. lle was chosen to represent his district in 1820, and took his scat in that body in the following. year. He continued a member of the Rouse of Representatives until the Fourth of March, 1831. Soon after his firth election, he declined rendering further service:, and withdrew to private lire. In 1831 General Jackson proffer- ed him the mission to Russia: which he was induced to accept. Immediately after his re- turn in 1834, he was chosen to fill an unexpie- ' ed term in the Senate of the United States.l In 1830, be was elected fur a full term. and in 18-13 was re elected to the same post. He was selected by President Polk, in 1845 to fill the office of Secretary of State, the duties of which he discharged till the close of Mr. Polk's administration. - On Mr. Lawrence's return from England, Mr. Buchanan became his sue- • cessor. Francis J. Grand, the correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, now travelling in Europe, says—" Nothing can ,exceed tl ounostentatious carriage and simplicity of the American Ex- President en his whole journey through Europe. Ile goes and sees everything, yet nobody finds out who he is, and what elevated station he oc cupied till he id gone. In Paris. while at the Hotel in Louvre, the landlord never knew his guest rill some American had inquired for Ex- President Fillmore ; and the same thing oc curred in Marsailles, Nizza, Genoa, and Leg horn. When the people learned who lie was, there was considerable cmpressement to serve him, but he afibrded them no opportunity.— Living in the simplest manner, and exacting nothing that is not usual with the most unpre tending and unassuming gentlemen, lie only leaves people with regret that they cannot show him sonic proof of their respect, or some attcn tion corresponding 'with his station. Mr. Fill more has now been in England, France, Prussia, Austria, and Italy, and will have seen all Europe before he returns to the United States. Ile. has everywhere been the unobserv ed observer of the people and their institutions, and will return to the United States a better judge of European governments than the whole body of unfledged diplomates we are in a habit of sending abroad, thnt thy may become ac• quainted with court gossip and court manners, much to the detriment of their knowledge and usefulness in foreign parts. The manlier in which Mr. Fillmore travels is the only Ono by which an American can really become acquaint ed with Europe, and learn to love and cherish his own country. I hope to meet him again in Rome ; and shall be delighted to pay him again that respectful homage to which his many pri rate and public virtues, tho true republican simplicity of his character, and the distinguish ed services he has rendered our great country, entitled him. What a source of pride to be aisle to call oneself the fellow-citizen of such a man At a meeting of the American Geographical Society in N. York last week the intrepid Arc tic explorer, Dr. Kane. read a paper giving en interesting account of the Great Polar Sen. Dr. Kane and his party reached the latitude of eighty' degrees, which is the moat .ncrthern point ever reached. The lowest temperature of that region was shown, by the thermometer to be between 70 and 80 degrees. The alco holic thermometers were uttmly useless, and chloroform was almost solid. This was the temperature nt which Dr. Kane made his ex plorations. Prom this point the travelled along the Greenland coast, and discovered a new land, which lie named Washington. Thi ; land was flanked by a range of lefty mountains stretch ing out far to the north. In pursuing- this course, the travel became extremely interest ing. Ile found before him a field of ice, and over it an open water, which has since been called the Polar sea. This body of water 'had no ice formed on it, nor' on its shores. Not a particle of ice could be seen at an altitude of 300 feet, in any direction as far as the eye could see. The Water was warmer than any yet . found in the Arctic region. A pie swept over this water, but brought no drift with it.— All animal life in that region visited this sea, seals were shot upon its shores, and svery de scription ,of duck . catne — tit it. There are no facts known that enable us to form any definite opinion ns to what exists beyound about 82 de grees north latitude, and 80 degrees south lat itude. The north magnetiC polo has been dis covered in latitude about 70 degrees, and the south magnetic pole has not yet bemdiseover ed, as it is walled in by ice between lofty moun tains. Its itosition is said to be furtiter from the equator titan the north magnetic pole. The mountains that surround it are mostof them 10,000 feet above the sea, and are vol6anic in their action:— The atmosphere of the Arctic re 7 &oft' is unlike our atmosphere. Lieutenant Perry, when on Mellville Island, in latitude north about 75 degrees, said that in his walks on shore, over snow and ice, objects that np- i Peered to the eye to be over half a mile oflcould be reached in a minute's walk at a slow pace. The atmosphere was such as to deceive the oyc when measuring distances. • P. F. E 07 - Dan Rice is performing at tho Boston Circus. Hon. James Buchanan Millard Eillmo:o The Croat Arctic Sca Later from Europe By the arrival of the steamship Africa, at New-York, on Wednesday last, we have Liver pool dates to the 91.11 inst. Russia had not re plied to the proposals of Austria, but 'it was thought she would offer' counter :propositions rather than give a positive refusal. The grand Council of War in Paris was on the eve of be ing held. The news from the Crimea is to Dec. 25th. The French had blown up a por tion of the docks at Sebastopol. The confer ence at Copenhagen in reference to the Danish Sound Dues had been indefinitely postponed. • The arrival of the Baltic, on Thusday, puts us in possession of three days' later news from Europe. The Czar's•answer to Austria's peace . propositions has not, been received. The mem bers of the Council of War have assembled in Paris. The rumor prevalent last year, that the Emperor Napoleon intended to place him sclf at the head of his army, k again revived. A letter from St. Petersburg states that the na- i Lien is sincerely desirous for peace. Nothing of importance has happened in the Crimea or in Asia. The St. Petersburg War Council has, it is stated, caused n great change in the plans adopted for the spring compaign, and may lead to the Russians evacuating the Crimea. Den mark- preserves her sttidt neutrality. The Swedish Minister of Foreign Affitirs has issued a circular in which he admits Sweden's alli ances with the Western powers, and censures the aggressive spirit of Russia. Advises have been received from Montevideo to the close of November. On the 25th of that month a rev olution broke out, and lasted four days, during which time more than a hundred lives were! lost. The report of Herat having been taken by the Persians is discredited. . naading and Lobigh Railroad The following is a copy of The first two sec tions of the bill introduced in the State Senate, on the Bth,inst., to incorporate a company to construct a railroad from the city 61 Reading to connect with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, at or near Allentown. AN ACT to incorporate "The Reading and Lehigh Railroad Company." SEcrios 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority gfthe same, That Mester M. Muhlenberg, William Strong, George M. Lauman, William M. Baird, Hora tio Trexler, Wm. M. Mester, Edward M. Cly mer, George D. Stitzel, and Charles 11. Hunter, or any five of them, be and they are hereby ap pointed commissioners to open books, receive subscriptions, and organize a company, by the namd, style, and the title of " The Reading and Lehigh Railroad Company," with power to construct a railroad from a point at or near the junction of the Lebanon Valley and Philadel• phia and Reading Railroads, in the city of Reading, in the county of Berks. to any point on the railroad of the Lehigh Valley Rail Road Company, either in the county of Lehigh or Northampton ; and the said railroad company shall be entitled to all the privileges, and be subject to all the provisions and restrictions prescribed by act entitled " An Act regulating Railroads," approved February ninth, except so far as is otherwise provided by the act. SECT. 2. That the capital stock of said com pany shall be five hundred thousand dollars : Provided, that the said company may from time to time, by vote of the stockholders, in crease their capital stock, if it should be deemed expedient, to an amount sufficient to complete said road, and to carry out the true intent and meaning of this act. Achico to soung M The associations which young men arc apt to form, in towns and cities, result in disgrace ful and melancholy ends. linAl company is the pest of society, and while it ruins thousands, it likewise brings pain and misery to many a fond mid affectionate parent. Young men who are easily weaned from their once loved homes, must lack firmness of mind, and can• not be well acquainted with the deceits of the woild ; would they but listen to the voice Of experience, and be more willing to obey the wishes of their fathers, Litter remorse would be a stranger indeed to their abode, and joy and comfort would reign in its stead. It is, sur prising how soon young men become infatua ted with the doings and sayings of persons of doubtful character, knowing as they do, that such beings are. never respected Where good Morals predominate ; and nothing is more pain ful to behold, than a youth entering the haunts of crime, fearing no one, and ridiculing the admonitions of a virtuous friend ; inevitable ruin his reward ; an early grave his portion. Tho Coal Trado The Trenton Gazette, of one day last week, says : " The first train of cars direct from Mauch Chunk to Trenton, arrived here yester day,. with a cargo of Sugar Loaf Coal from Judge Packer's mines, consigned to our towns man, Col. Jonathan Cook. The trains, loaded at the mines, can come direct to Trenton in six hours, about 120 miles. This is only the be ginning of a heavy coal business over the route thus newly opened. The Amboy Company are building a vast basin in this city for the re ceiving and re-shipping .of coal, Workmen. have been engaged upon it during the whole winter, and it is expected to be completed in .the spring. A large business in the Coal trade will thus be brought to our doors, giving em ployment to a new 'population. A train of forty cars came down frOm Easton on the Belvidere road on Tuesday, loaded with flour, whiskey, and other produce, some of which was for New York, but most of it for Philadelphia. The whole amount of freight was nearly 240 tons." ag-The whole amount of real and personal property in Rhode Island is valuod at $llB,- 000,000. • No Great Friend to the Hatters 'o saw a hat last week on the head of ono of our subscribers who called at our office, that he had worn FOR TUE LAST FORTY YEARS. Of course he did not wear it every day, but kept it for Sunday use and wore it occasionally on holydays. It was still a 'ld looked as though it would last fo ire. The owner assured us that, i of style made it a fashionable hat every nee or six years. We mention this little circumstance to show what can be done by economy and hone dearly most of us pay for the privilege of "keeping in the fashion." With a little care this man has made a single hat last him many years, and it has answered his every purpose. We have often made the acquaintance of sons of worthy farmers who could make a Sunday coat last some ten or twelve years. Such hab its of economy were characteristic of the Ger- Man Farmers, but they too arc fast giving way, and we see the sons and daughters of the Pres ent generation gradually becoming snore " fash icnable." The boys arc not content to follow in the footsteps of their 'fathers, but drive their horses, wear Shanghai coats, and even sport a Moustache, while the girlS seem entire ly to have forgotten the good example set them by their mothers. They have learned to know that costly furs arc handsome, that the fash ions of the bonnets change four• times a year, and that coming to town in a handsome new buggy or an expensive sleigh, is more respect able than riding in an old-fashioned sleigh with a tulip painted on the back, or a wood sled. We remember the time when the coun try girls who visited town on Battallion day carried their shoes and stockings in their hands 'Mil they approached the town, when they would sit down by the road-side and pull them .n ; but those days have passed-forever. We car very few of the boys of the present day will make a single hat last forty years—Bus- lon .1 7 Us A Girl burned to death by Fla!d and a Terrible o Murder at IViiito Haven. *7 Two weeks ago yesterday, a girl by the name of \'aria Burns, was burned to death by the explosion of a'fluid lamp. The accident oc curred at Brown's steam mill, three miles this side White Haven. When the lamp exploded the fluid flew all over her and in an instant she was wrapped in flames. She ran out doors and those 'ricer by rolled her in the snow ; but before the fire was extinguished she was roast ed from her neck down. Her funeral took place on Friday following. At the time of the funeral, some Irishmen were employed on the dam at White Haven, in cutting ice for filling an ice house. They left their work to atteml the funeral, and three Germans were employ ed in their place doting their absence. On their return on Friday evening they went down to the ice and abused the Germans for taking their places, but nothing serious occurred at the time : all went home. Next night (Satur day) as these three Germans were going quiet ly home, this same Irish party rushed out upon them with three axes, dealing blows indiscrim inately upon the three with the blades of the axes. One of the Germans, Henry Guisse, received a cut on the top of the head. The sharp part of the axe cut through the skull and into the brain. The blow would have cleft big scull opeh had not the handle of the axe struck the back part of the head. The, other two Germans, Lewis Kespole and John Meyer were badly but not dangerously cut. On Monday Martin Padden, Coriniek Me• Donnough, Edward MeEnelly and Philip Me- Andrus, were arrested and taken before 0. L. Staples, T.,41., who admitted them to bail in ' one thow , and dollars each. The excitement was so great that the Odd Fellows Hall where the hint was held, would not hold all the at tendants. Guise died on Tuesday morning. when Padden and MeEmily were brought to jail at Wilkes-Barre. The other two, McDaimons!' aml McAndrus were broOt over on Thurs day, and the four are now in jail, in chains, to await, their trial. John niAndrus was also named on the warrant but could not be found- Two others upon whom suspicion had fallen, left the phi .a 2: when the tbur were taken. Guisse had a clear mind up to noon of the day before Ire died, and he testified that Padden gave him the fatal stroke. One of the other Germans says he was so busy warding off the blows from his own head that lie could scarcely ob serve what was going on around ; but when he saw Padden at the trial lie said " that is the man who struck Guisse." Por the foregoing particulars of one of the coldest blooded mur ders on record, we aro indebted to a friend who was present at the trial. They can be relied on as correct. Guisse is said by those who knew him, to have been an inoffensive man who would not injure any one in word or deed.-WiThesborre Record, 23 d. inst. [One very cool night last week a jolly old fellow from the-country who had partaken too freely of " old kill dad" started for homo, on his horse, but had not got far before he fell off: Dr. , passing that way discovered him in a sitting posture, holding his feet up to the moon, calling sonic invisible person by the name Cril ley to " pile on the wood for ho had a d—d cold dm?' • 117-Queer World.—Some brothers and sisters have an odd way of showing their love to each other. A young gent now at one of our hotels is passing off a young lady as his sister, yet, strange to say, they both occupy the same room ! Funny world. Well, it is ! [ -- "Atuong the " products" of Boston in the year 1855, are two millions Jour hundred and thirty-ciirld thousand dollars worth of " distilled liquors," and two, hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars worth . of beer. Tolerable smart business under a very stringent Maine Law, fur a single City. The importation of for eign liquors into the country is probably in creasing. : • A Novas TELEGBAPII Misrnm.—The direo tors of the New York and Washington•Mignetid Telegraph Company were to have had a meet.. ing in Washington last week but wen prevent.- ed by the obstructions on the railroad. Thin did not, however, prevent the directors from communicating with each other, for the Balti more Sun says: At the appointed hour tho President took the chair in Philadelphia, and the directors in Washington, Baltimore, Wilmington, and New York promptly answered to the call o(the roll, when the business commenced. Resolutions • were propoSed, and motions were made in ono city, and seconded and debated in the others, with as much promptness as though all had been present in one room. In the course or about two hours the business was all transact" ) ed, a dividend was declared, and the meeting adjourned. Twm.vs TONS OF Orsirats DAnx.—Few peo ple arc aware of the immense quantity of oys ters that are shipped West during every win ter. A business—in supplying the west with this c,tomotlity-of a vast nature, has grown' up of late years. A paper at Springfield, Mas sachusetts, relltriing to it " The cities of Albany and Troy, and other western places .in part, are being supplied with oysters through this to an extent which, even though it should cover the whole supply. is a little remarkable. Two car loads, comprising in the whole P 2, tons, or :2.500 gallons, pass through this place for Albany. In addition, Springfield receives some 300 gallons daily from the same ihex haustible beds at Fair Haven, Connecticut." EFFECT OF MECHANIC tr. SKILL.—'Io show' how mechanical skill and labor add to the• value of raw matetial, the Britath Quarterly' lirreew gives this instructive calculation: A bar' of iron valued at :7:5, worked into horse-shoes, is worth c,10,50 .; needles, $355 ; penknife' blades, ::-4:1:2;35 ; blurt buttons, $20,480 ; bat= once springs of watches, $250;000. Thirty- , one iounds of iron have .been made into wire upwards of one hundred and eleven miles in length, and so fine was the fabric, that a part, of it was converted, in lieu of horse hair, into a bariister's wig A llonsn, SLEunt AND THREE Peas°Ns Lost vnaount ICE.—The Detroit Free Pre ss or Tuesday-, says that on Monday last a man, woman and child were drowned while attempt ing to cross the river from that city to Cana- - da. They were in a sleigh drawn by a single horse, and had nearly reached the Canadian , shore when the horse broke "through the ice, or' as is supposed by some, Ml through an hole, drawing the sleigh and its unfortunate. occupants after him. The horse rose to the surface for a moment and then all were swept' away by the swift current beneath the ice:. The accident was noticed by several persons) standing upon the shore, who homodintely itroeeeded to the spot, but were too into to , render any assistance. Tosans Faozm FAST--In Cincinnati, on' the 10th, one boy induced another to put his' tongue against a fluted iron lamp post—the' thermometer at the time indicating a tempera ture tier below zero. The tongue stuck fast, or course, and the poor boy suffered great agony.- &vend passers endeavored to release him, but in vain. Matters were in this situation fir over five minutes, when a gentleman named TArt.on: went into the Telegraph (rouse and brought sonic hot water and whiskey, with which he bathed the tongue of the sdiTering, boy, finally liberating about one half, leaving the other sticking to the post, where it remained for the balance of the day, a warning to youngsters how they recklessly lick cold' iron in freezing weather. The luckless boy was taken to his. home in extreme ac.enr. • A MAN AND Ms BOTTI.It DUO OUT OF Tint SNO —A few days ago some men- were engaged in' cleaning the snow from the sidewalk near IlneW foundry, New York, and after Jigging away a. bank of several feet deep. much to their sur prise, they came across a man sleeping quietly' be;:ide Id.; bottle. .11 . e s had taken lo lging on• the walk the evening previous. end gut snowed: under. Ilis breath had made a hole in the snow, and thus he was furnished with fresh air. VALUABLE RECRUITS FOB TIM MORUONS.—TIicr ship Emerald Isle last week brought to NeW York 348 Mormons all in good health. Among: the lot were 43 unmarried females, 16 of whom• had with them 20 children. One Alice Jack— son had five little responsibilities, the other 66 teen averaged from one to three each. It is to be presumed that these ladies will take natuy.. ally to the spiritual wife system, as they de monstrate the moral claso whence the followers. of Brigham Young nre recruited in Europe. L.tw•lhm f lr:a.—lt is announced that the Mis souri Legislature,. which has just adjourned, passed seven hundred and serenty acts! Think of those poor devils, the people, who are ex pected to make themselves familiar with the( laws of the country ! " Ignorance of the law excuseth no man," we are told. CURE Fon Fut.()Ns ON mg FtNents.--The'Sci . - • enitfic Anicricen says, the past year we liavo known the spinal marrow of an ox or cow, ap plied by three different persons, with the most , satisfactory results, in relieving4min and sem.- • ing speedy cures of their. felons. The spinal marrow should be applied fresh every four hours for two days; HALF 11011.4 E, HALF ,ALLIGATOR. - Mr. John' Lawrence Bailer, in the Louisville Times, of- fers to bet from $5,000 to $3'0,000 that her can jump five feet further on a dead level than any man in Kentucky, three feecfurther than any man in the United States, on foot further than any man in the world, or that he can stand flat footed upon the earth and leap a_brick wall flf. teerifeet high and four thick. ]
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