Eli Iqigl) Ittgidrr. ALLENTOWN, P.A.. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 0,195 G. O. F. DAINI4, EDITOR I.l'We are under continued obligations to the Hon. S. C. Bradshaw, M. C., from this Dis trict, for public favors. Also, to Messrs. Dau bs* Weiser, Fry and Getz, at Harrisburg. 3:7'We invite the attention of our readers to the 9 ard of Dr. H. A. Grim, in to-day's paper. Having located permanently in our borough with the design of practicing his profession, he can at all times be seen at his office at the Eagle Hotel. He graduated with fligh honors at Philadelphia, and we cheerfully introduce him to our readers. ConcTocs—Speakor Elected The House has at last come to an orgapiza tion after a contest of nine weeks, during which time one hundred and thirty-three ballots were token. On Saturday afternoon last, Nathaniel P. Banks, of Massachusetts, was chosen by a plurality vote of 103, being five votes short of I a majority, andthree over the next highest can• I &date, Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina. Now that this protracted and unprecedented strug gle has been brought to an end, it is to be ex• pected that the Members of both houses will make good use of their time, and devote their exclusive attention to the important affairs of the Nation. Dr. Kano's Now Work Dn. KANE'S forthcoming' work, giving a full account of his late voyage to the Arctic re gions, is now in the hands of Messrs. Childs & Peterson, of Philadelphia. and promises to be one of the most magnificent and elaborate works ever issued from the Press in this coun try. There arc to be no less than three hun dred illustrations, among them twenty-four steel engravings, including portraits of Dr. Kane and Mr. Grinnell. The work will be is sued in two handsome octavo volumes, as ear ly as possible, at the low price of i for the set. Cold Weather We believe that the month just• passed has no parallel for the continued intensity of cold weather, and the one just commenced bids fair to out-do its predecessor, On Saturday it coiri =heed growing colder, and on Sunday morn ing the thermometer indicated three degrees below zero. Monday, morning however, was the coldest we experienced in our office the pre sent winter, although we believe the thermom eter was but one degree below zero. It was so cold that when our compositors wet type with boiling water a slush of ice would form over it in a short time, and to work off papers would have been altogether out of question, as the paper was froze as hard as a rock. Tho Sleighing If good sleighing and fine coil weather can make business lively and people happy, the past siN weeks must have produced an unusual amount of these Nvoridly enjoyments. Even that oft referred to venerable personage, " the oldest inhabitant," has no recollection of such a long uninterrupted season of sleighing.— Everybody and their wives 'seem . to have been on a sleigh ride, while business generally has appeared to be uncommonly brisk. So much for plenty'of snow and good sleighing. *Ng. Franklin Fire Incur:mu) Company An immense amount of property in the bo rough of Allentown and surrounding country' is insured in the above named Company, which is without doubt one 6f the safest in the United States. In another column we give a state ment of the assets of the Company, on Janua ry 1,185 G, published in conformity with an •Act of Assembly, which shows that besides a capital of 8400,000, all paid in, it has property to the amount of over a million and a half of dol lars, invested in the most undoubted real estate and other securities, for the additional indemnifi cation of insurers. The company paid losses by fire during the . yeaFamounting to the enormous sum of $237,501 40: Applications • for insu rance made either personally or by letter, will be promptly attended to by A. L. RUTIN, Esq., agent for the Company in Lehigh county. no Now Store Tho place to buy goods cheap, is where they advertise. Who ever heard of skin-flint mer chants making a display by advertising ? On the contrary, if you see persons advertising their-goods and wares liberally, go to them and you will find their character to correspondp— whole-souled men, whose motto is " live and let live." Such is thii ease with L: Strouso & Co., at No. 9 West Hamilton street. They have a Very large and entire new' tock of goodk, which they. seU at reasonable prices. High Prices of Produce—Huoksthrs. . (Communicated.) During the last year or two our county has I Tho Election of Sporther—fusion of Demoorats been scoured from one end to the other by a 1 and 'Knew Nothings. - number of hungry hucksters who buy up all The last week's session of Congress demon kinds of produce, such as poultry, butter, eggs,' straws beyond doubt the "fit;ibility" of all Vegetables, &c., and then send them to the city I political elements. We have before us the re . - m markets, thus greatly raising the prices for.thearkablb, but, nevertheless, truthful fact, of a home consumers, andfrequently causing sun hlfusion of Democrats and Know Nothings on a a scarcity of some of the above named articles, South Carolina nullifier, in the vain lope of that they can not be obtained even at any price. defeating Mr. Banks, the Republican candidate, for Speaker of the National Nouse of Represents,- Compare the present prices of produce along- 1 fives.. lint if we look at the fact in a proper side those three years ago, and you will find that they are nearly double. Any quantity of light we must admit that it is not so rcry re 'linkable after all, for", as parties bedtime weak, good Wily could then be obtained at 12 and ' 16 cents, eggs 8 and 10, chickens 25 and 30 p er as a general rule, they fuse, in older to make a pair, and other things in proportion. This in- shine. . B I which party, or rather fiction,— ld by politicians that when Farties st crease over the above rates is not brought about for we ar c ' . because the production of these articles is not! cannot slam alone, on their own hook,. they becomeftctions,—which party, we repeat, is to as great as it was then, but because we have ' wear the laurels of this new fusion ? Is the a greater number of hucksters, who find it ' a very remunerative business to carry these ! Democratic party to belterged into the Know articles to the city markets. And yet these* Nothing party, or thelinow Nothing into the speculators in the necessaries of life are per- ' Democratic party ? The election of Mr. Banks milted to carry on business without even pay- I has demonstrated beyond a doubt, the fact that the Republican party can stand alone against ing a license ! Why not they pay a license as well as pedlars of other goods and wares ?--- all other parties combinAd. The N. Y. Tribune Will not our people move in the matter ?_ , classes the votes as fuiliiws :—For Aiken GO ; The following article from the Easton Alwits Democrats and 31 Know Nothings for Banks meets our hearty . approval, and shows that : 102 Republicans and 1 Know Nothing. the people in that county are in no small 1 REPUBLICAN. degree pestered by the same evil : 1 -- " lireicsvi:iis.—Our ElMon movliet, of late year. The Tonchor's Cennty Convention. has been nearly ruined by the huelisttrp,mul ire think Mr. Enron : —This laudable enterprise wore it high time our citizens should tal‘e action to I , :medy a very favorable aspect some time. ago, but has the evil. These huelisters !Irvin the habit of :eouring now, as it seems, entirely changed countenance tile county in search of an 10.1, "ri,,,,,:,,, — l .O ry, fur the worse, but upon what reasonable apol eggs, butter, vegetubley, &e., tthielt they tni;t• to the ogy I am not a bl e to contrive. city markets ! . If this practice is suffered to continue , I am only disagreeably surprised that the the time in not far I liAant when we shall have to par- enterprise of a Teachers' and Directors' Associ ohaFo the pro•luce we require in Philadelphia tic New . ation of the County has not already been un- York ; in oilier words, we will have to tonThase and . been dertahen, and especially since our County has hring (etch to our county the produce that has received full of , aAi panoply officers. huchstered out of il. We think, therefor:, our l . i t:_ zees would do well to petition the Legidat ore on thh: ! But to speak satisfactorily, and at length, of subject There it no rearou why the.e. peddler-' the actual claims and eventual results of such should not ho rerpthsed to p a y a pod 1.01112 , 1 license, an Association would leave no other room in for the privilege of Fending every-thing eatable. out of your invaluable paper. To raise our Common the county. A petition like the following, we thing, Schools from their now, almo.§t primeval degra states the case fairly: • • dation—the humiliating reflection that they are To the ¬,: and Ilmor ry . Rrrri-Ro.,tertirr., ify... : so. far front their proper perfection, and from The undersigned citizens of ti;C county of N.,rth- ! ampton, respectfully represent, that laWs relating to . having that salutary influence to which the plan lICWICCTS and Peddlers, are not sufficiently stringent is adapted, should stimulate, not only every In protect the community from imposition, nor is the • license, as at present rated, saltines • t, • m compsnoon , lover of education, but of his country, to devise 1 to the mount fixed upon the I, gitimate tra.traderand ft speedy and eflictual remedy. salesman. The enmity it Oyer-rim with cowls of ; haul:ern and ped,llars, who gather the produce of the' The Common Schools of our County, though farm, often in exchange for other wares and goods. freed somewhat from their primitive rudeness which they carry with them. thus Preve"li"g said' and imperfection, have for sonic years, and are produee from reaching its proper market place. "'I ; 7 " , I e n abling them., hy meann Of VI .mblitalhop. to I: x I Or! now making very little progress toward actual exorbitant prices for said prodm ~ y,,,,,1,.iiii,,,iari• improvement : and the remedy for this is, at would pray your honorable bodies i'or the pas,a!zt or , . . . 1,!: fixing license ranging from one to thre.‘ lom. icaNt it is a main auxiliary, to form a County e l a w d fi „:ll„,f.', ~,,,,,ii,,g t o the eieount sold, noon all Association of the teachers and directors. bawler:' and pibn ser,—wlno buy to sell iiizain. such _ it? produce of the farm it; poultry, butter. eggs and dried And why delay Or why has it been so long defi!rred ? Upon what arc we Wailing ? Are fruits, believing that it would remove the great evil under which the coimmtnity is now suffering." ..,-----. . we waiting the time when the schools arrive at Fire. ' perfection under their present tutelage, or un- On Saturday evening last the dwelling !muse' tit they relapse into more than primitive rude of Mr. SAMUEL KLEPPINGER, near Siegfried's ness, and We might almost say, barbarism ? Bridge, was totally destroyed by fire, together The latter lets rieihaps an equal chance with with neatly all the household goods and about , the forum r. It is evident that a County Con s4oo in gokLand silver. Mr. K. and his wife vention, or Association, would in the first at were absent from home, and during the evening . tempts, not be very numerously attended by the hired girl went up stairs with a candle and teachers and'ilirecturs, but this, is far from jus accidently set fire to some article while getting tifying its total neglect. Ido not know why her clothes ready for a sleigh ride early the fol- Teachers' Conventions from certain districts are lowing morning. The fire was shortly after- not as necessary, yea more so, than ministers' wards discovered, but had made such headway , } . nods and conferences, and the meetings of that hardly anything of value could be saved. bodies politic ? These bodies assemble to The entire loss of Mr : K. — iv - Z . :ire not able to consult, arrange, and adjust the matters that state, but learn dint there is a partial insurance , come within their rest relive provinces ; and oa*Arprop erty. si.....-- may we not speak even of the necessity of Con-. Death of Edward F. Young. ' ventions and assemblages of teachers, whose,-•f affairs are of infinitely more difficult arrange that We learn by telegraph from Mauch Chunk, EDWARD F. Vorfsa, conductor on the L. , ment, and whose influence is of known prepon- V. Railroad, died at that place at fifteen min- derance for weal or woe, the latter certainly utes before 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, after' if misdirected. a few hours' illness. Ile was known to many ' Most of our teachers I presume will recollect of our citizens, and the courteous, affectionate, that an attempt at forming a County Associa and manly bearing of his generous nature to- lion was made some years ago, and had also wards his acquaintances secured bibs the friend- partially succeeded, but was again finally ship of all. The tear of sympathy Will be brought to a nullity. dropped by those who knew him best, and It was more improbable not to succeed then, could most appreciate his virtues. ' than now, from various reasons : WC have since 1.1:1.4.- received n head to our school officers, an ac- Nowa from Europe. By the arrival of the Steamship Arabia, at lalifax, on Tlmrsday, we have advices front iverpool to the 10th ultimo. The news is of he highest importance, indicating, the speedy eclaration of peace between the Allies and ussia. The Vienna correspondent of the Lon on Times, telegraphs underdate of Wednesday, the 16th, 10 A. M., that Russia has uncondi- ' fic tionally accepted the propositions of the Allies. ! cession of known value in almost any affair ; but we ntleff no special reasons now to induce us to make the attempt ; the decay of the last movement was but owing—not to any unfore seen catastrophe, but to the lethargy and in difference of those who held its destiny in their 'hands. The claims of education are written ! on every page of the past, and need not be spe cially urged here ; and those who are the de clared. ; guardians of its interests, are only re- This is reported authentic. The news caused ! ponsiblc for its neglect. In our township both inunense.sensation. The funds rose three per teachers and directors are ready and willing to cent., cottons farthing,and a panic ensued in TureseuLarul-ailveinate lijeir educational inter : the other markets. The next day an Flitgris i .ests upon the occasion of a County Convention, government published a despatch from Minister ! and have also as such, declared to be their in- Seymour, nt St. Petersburg, as follows : ! ablation, both publicly and privately. " Russia agrees to accept the proposals ash bars i A FRIEND OF EDUCATION. of negotiations." This qualified announcement I N„rth Whitehall, January 2Sth, ISM% curbed the excitement, and the alarmists begin ___________. _ _........ , to fear that Russia merely wants to gain time Prices of Produce in Now York. I by deceptive negotiations. There is nothing Flour sold at $8 to $8 12 per barrel for the new from the Crimea. ; poorest grades up to $ll for extra Genesee.- -ire.. I Rye flour sold at front $5 to $7.12 per barrel. Law of Libel. ' Corn meal, $4 to $4.25 per barrel. Wheat sold J. L. GETZ, Esq., of the Pa. house of Repre- I at $1.90 to $2.15 per bushel, and rye at $1.29. sentatives has submitted a new bill relative to'; Oats 41 to 50 cents per bushel. Barley, 2 row- Libels. It provides that on the trial of indict- ed, sold at $1.13 • per bushel' in store. Salt ments• for writing or publishing a libel, the.; pork sold nt from $16.25 to $lB per barrel.— truth of the matter charged as libelous may be Salt beef at $9 to 16 per barrel. The plentiful given in evidence ; and if the jury in any such supply of beef from the country last week cans case shall find that the act was induced by ed a decline in prices. The rates were Bto 104 1 good motives, and with no malicious intent, I , cents her pound. In veal no change, but sheep and that the matter so charged is true, it shall ; and lambs declined. Swine sold at 6 to 61 operate to the acquittal of. the deflAidents ; cents for live weight, and 71 to 8 cents for that in actions for damages for the writing or dead. Poultry is high. Wild turkies have publishing a libel, where the truth is pleaded! , been sold in market at $3: to $5 each. Part and given in evidence, if it be found that the ridges have been brongltt in frozen from the same was written or published properly for , country—said to have been killed by the cold public informatiou, and with no mischievous or ! ;__and and m sold . at the remarkably low price of malicious motives, the jury may find for the de-! $1.25 per dozen—which is cheaper than beef. fondant or defendants. Butter sells at 18 cents for poorest, to 32 cents _ .. per pound for the best. Eggs 5 for 'l2 cents. Potatoes have advanced 25 cents per bushel, and appleS sell at $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel. I — Ylisa Andrews, Esq.; aged 94, said to be the oldest lawyer in the United States, died at Ipswich; Mass., on the 10th inst. THE LEHIGH REGISI - ER, FEBRUARY 6, 1856. Important Legal Opinion Wo understand, that applicatioin was recent! ly made to the Philadelphia Contributionship Insurance Company ..to subscribe...l'or bonds of ' the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, at seventy-five per cent. Horace Binney, Esq., being one of the Directors of the Insurance Com pany, the application, it appears. was referred to him by the Finance Committee. Mr. Pin ney, on inquiring by what authority the Rail road Company offered to sell their mortgage ' bonds below par, was referred to the following general Act of Assembly, approved the 2Gth day of July, 1842 : '• That whenever arty railroad or canal company hos borrowed money, and given the lender thereof a bond or other evidence of indebtedness in a larger sum than the amount actually received, each transttetions shall not be deemed usurious, or in violation of any hen• of this commonwealth, prohibiting the talting of more than six per cent. interest." Mr. Binney declared that this act, under which most, if not all the Railroad Companies in Philadelphia have sold bonds below par, is merely retrospective, and is not a sufficient au thority for the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, whereupon the Insurance Company declined to subscribe for the Railroad bonds.— As Mr. Binney's opinion carries with it much . influence in this community, parties affected adversely by it, in the ease here recited, will doubtless have the true interpretation of the act of Assembly fixed by a decision of the Supreme Court, now in session in this city.— Heretofore, the provisions of the act were sup posed to be ample to authorize any Railroad Company to Al their bonds below par, but if a lawyer of the rank and standing of Mr. Bin ney has gisien un opinion to the contrary, it is proper that the Supreme Court should be ap plied to for an opinion.—Philadelphia Deily Evening Argus. The Distinguishing Genius of the Ago Nature, now and then, brings forth such geniuses as Newton, Shakspeare, Talleyrand, Milton, Nelson. Napoleon, Washington, Frank lin, Jefferson, Luther, Cromwell and Jackson. Their powerful intellects compelled the world to admire them. The genius of the present nge is DISCOVERY. In the progress of the arts and sciences, this age is immeasurably superior to any former one. The present century stands pre-eminent for its wonderful discoveries in the sciences and arts. 'Among these, the noble science of Medicine has made great progress. PROFESSOR. HoLT.owAY has 'discovered and prepared a remedy for the diseases of man in whatever clime destiny-may have given him birth. 'We have, in a former article, introduced to our readers this distin- I guished physician, whose reputation is already engrafted on the world's history. As a physi cian. he has copied Nature, and among physi cians, he stands the acknowledged Emperor. Both in the sale of his medicines• and in the number of patients that have taken them, lie is unrivalled. Professor 110..11 _.oway has labored to supply the human family with a permanent remedy for their disease's, to which the afflicted may have recourse with a moral certainty that they will be cured. There is no disease to which they will not afford relief. Ills Pills and Ointment, prepared from selections from the vegetable kingdom, with great care, will drive disease out of the system. Thousands of the most intelligent minds of all nations, men dis tinguished in every sphere of life—the states man, philanthropist, conqueror, and those whose highest aim is to do good to their fellow men, unite in their praises of the remedies dis covered by Professor Holloway for the removal of disease. In uniting in this general recommendation of the remarkable virtues of Holloway's remedies we only perform a Christian duty,.which the the press should never neglect. Those who are eminent for the good[ they do in the world, have a just claim upon the press for aid in ex- tending the good to the extent of their power. Therefore, we have determined to express our opinion that Ilom.owAv's PILLS and OINTMENT arc adapted to the removal of disease, and have restored milliofis of the sick to health.—New York Atlas. How THEY VOTE FOR SPEAKER.—The Wash ington correspondent of the Albany Journal thus describes the 'process A deputy clerk I rises and slowly and distinctly pronounces the full name of each member, " Mr. William Aiken," Mr. " Charles Albright." repeating it three times if, there is no response : and so on in • alphabetic order through the two hundred and thirty-four. As his name is called the member answers aloud, " BANES" or " RICHARDSON," or whoever lie votes for. If he has any explana tion or retnailill - .6 - firate in reference to his vote, he•makes it at the same time. After the roll has been gone through with those who were absent or did not vote when their names were called (there are always ten or a dozen such) rise and request their votes to be recorded, which is accordingly done. A second deputy has kept tally on a printed list, which ho now passes over to the one who called the roll. Ile read's, " Those who, voted for Mr. Richardson are Messrs., ," &c., and so on in reference to the others. This recapitulation occupies seven or eight minutes, calling the roll about twenty. A last opportunity is now of fered. for any absentee to record his vote. Fi nally, a third deputy, who has been counting up, hands the result in figures to the clerk, which he announces, " Banks 103, Richardson 07," &c. An idea may be formed from this how tedious the process is. Six callings of the roll, without any debate, occupy as much time as is usually spent in a daily session. PINED FOIL WEARING A SIIAWL.—A young man named KIRK ANDERSON, has been arrested in St. Louis, Mo., for wearing a shawl, on the ground that it was not the apparel of his sex. The case came up on Friday week, and ANDER SON was fined $5O. It has created intense ex citement among the' shawl wearing gentry of St. Louis. SAD EFFECTS OF .INTOXICATION.—Mach ex citement was created• at Trenton on Thursday morning, by the report that a boy had been murdered by his father and brother. It ap pears that a family named Carey lived in a state of squalid wretchedness in a single room in Spring street, and that during the whole of Wednesday night the fiti her, mother and elder son were drinking and quarreling. 'Tice young- er son, John Carey, a boy of thirteen years, had been sent for a qUart of ruin, which was drank by the family, and his brother William then de-' sired him to fetch another quart, which the lad did not wish to do, and he was struck by his brother, and fell, or was thrown, down stairs. Tile father had also struck the boy for trying to prevent him beating his mother. There was an indentation in the wall, caused, it was sup posed, by the boy's head being struck with vio lence against it. The mother was heard Mary that Toni, her husband, had murdered her boy. When the neighbors discovered that the boy was dead, the coroner was sent for, and the doctors having examined the body they express. ed the opinion that the boy's death was caused by strangulation. After hearing the testimony, the jury retnrn ed the following verdict: That John Carey, the deceased, came to Lis• death from injuries received at the hands of Thomas and William Carey, in a manner tin known to the jury. THE LARGEST NURSERY IN AMERICA.—The nurseries in the vicinity of Rochester, N. Y., I are the most extensive on the continent. From I only a few acres in extent, as they existed fif- teen or twenty years since, the nurseries with in ten miles of the city now cover at least one !thousand densely planted acres. The cost and Annual product of these nurseries may I be reckoned with some degree of accuracy ! by taking as the basis of calculation the esti mates of several intelligen,t, nurserymen of that place—that a well managed acre would yield, at an average, from two to three hundred dol lars—the expense varying from fifty to seven ty-five per cent of this amount. It would, of course, be greatly controlled by the kind of trees raised, the proportion of ornamentals. &c., but still more by the judgment, energy and skill exercised by the manager—for under the direction of some the cost exceeds the profits, and the business consequently soon comes to an end. SALUTATION EXTRAORDINARY.-At a ball, on New Years' evening, a - tree was prepared laden with various gifts, as a price for the couple who should waltz the longest: Some fifty couple entered the lists, commencing at a quarter past nine.—At 12 o'clock all but three had "gin eout," and soon after onei.f the three ladies faint ed, creating some sensation. George Cross man cleric of :•qlits Huntley, and his sister. won the prize, having waltzed for three con secutive hours, traveling in that time a dis tance of five and a half, miles !—Bt(ff. rms. Etnpty heads can turn around with as little inconvenience as a top. People who enter the lists to waltz against time are short of weight" at both ends—light heads and light heels. FdRIVNATE INVENTORS.—The Value of Agri cultural Machines is best shown by the profits of their inventors. Two of the reapers are said to have made fortunes for their fortunate inven tors. McCormick, who resides at Chicago, is believed to have already accumulated an im mense fortune by his pattents, while, Manny. who resides at ltockfo•d. ill., has been almost equally successful during the time he has been in business. These men have done something more than merely to amass money for them selves. They have done marvels for American agriculture. Jews.--The number of Jews in the great cities is thus stated : New York, 12,090 ; Philadelphia, 2,500 ; Baltimore, 1,800 ; Lon don, 20,000 ; Charleston 1,500 ; Amsterdam, 25,000; Hamburg, 9,000 : Berlin, 5,000 ; Cra cow, 20,000: Warsaw, 30,000 ; Rome, 0,000 : Leghorn, 10,000 ; Constantinople, 80,000 Je• rusalem, 0,000 ; Smyrna, 9,000 : Hebron. 8,000. In Berlin there are :2,000 Christian sews, also some thousands in England ; 59 clergymen of the Church of England are con verted Jews. TUE —Thereisnow a rare opportunity to get a near and unsurpass ed front view of the falls of Niagara, as the ice bridge is very strong and safe below the falls. Individuals last week went from the Canada -side to Goat island on the ice, a thing that has not happened for rt - qiiniier ef - it-outury previ ously. A. NEW HOTEL IN LONDON.—Application is to be made to the British Parliament for an act incorporating " The Imperial Hotel Com pany," who purpose to erect a splendid hotel on the site of the National Gallery in Trafalger Square, London. The capital is ko be ono mil lion sterling, in shares of ten pounds each.— The entire extent of grOund to be occupied is three and a half acres. LAW AGAINST LADS SHDUGERS.—Thero is a seduction bill before the Kentucky Legislature, to which an amendment has been presented which, if adopted, will create some stir among the ladies. It provides that any female guilty of attempting to seduce a young man by wear• ing low neck dresses, and other captivating ar ticles of attire shall he punished with the same penalty affixed to cases of seduction. The gay deceivers will be obliged to correct their hab its, should this amendment bo adopted. 0311 new variety of Wheat from Chili, has been received by the Commissioners of Patents. This wheat is very productivo—a crop of five hundred bushels having been raised from thirty four bushels of seed. , Our (Cip 13ttoktt. fIJ cent will break a million of,dollam tr7A convention of Republicans is to be held at Pittsburg on the 22d February. 0 - Fanny Ellsler, it is stated, was married to a wealthy butcher in Germany. [a - Some of the trees in Boston have been split open to the core, as if with an axe and wedge, by the recent frost. 1:0"The Kansas Hereld of Freedom thinks the population of that Territory will beloo,ooo by spring. [3"' Ws all Around My Hat," as the hypo crite said when he put on mourning for his de parted wife. (0-The lion. JAMES BUCITAITAII has resigned his office. ns Minister to England. and the Hon. GEORGE M. DALLAS has been appointed by the President !to fill the vacancy. 1J StormySundnys.—Twenty eight Sun• days in last year were stormy. Of the last twenty Sundays. eighteen have becen stormy.— Last year we had a succession of storms on Friday. t".:7 - The three mills tonnage tax on the Penn ' sylvania Railroad last year yielded the State ' , 12.9.2:30 55—and on all the roads $161,125 • 25, or about one-thirty-third part of all the revenue. ,677 - " The papers are publishing that horse flesh is " equal to the finest beef" for eating.— We should much prefer an invitation to ride after n 12.40 nag than one to dine on him. It may all be a: matter of taste, however. (0 Somebody who has tried it says t—Tho hardest thing to hold in this world is an unruly tongue. It beats hot smoothing iron and a kicking horse considerably. (13The sweetest sounds in nature, are those of a pretty wife, calling you to a warm and smoking breakfast. Hominy, chops, and coffee and rolls go together as naturally as nonsense, young woman and satin slippers: 1177 - A Flour - and Grain League has been formed nt Lynn, Mass. There are six hundred stockholders, and the operations, thus far have been highly succesful. • I: — The Managers of the Maryland lotteries have issued a card, cautioning the public " against the numerous swindlers who circulate by mail and otherwise, fraudulent Lottery Schemes." The safest way is to buy neither the spurimis nor the genuine. 17 -- //e trim is passionate and hasty is gener ally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hyp ocrite. of whom you should beware. " There's no deception in a bull dog." It is only the cur that sneaks up and bites when your back is turned. r'77 — A poor man who don't take a newspa pvr is not oniti• poor, but will always remain so. The less men know, the less they earn.—Folks who labor for 50 cents a day, always sign their name with an X. QJ The ice on the Delaware in front of Phila delphia. has been in fine order for skating, and thousands of ladies and gentlemen, gaily attir ed. have been enjoying it in sleds, chairs, on foot, &c. Temporary tents and hotels are erected on the ice to furnish refreshments. An Irishman called at our office one day with an advertisement, and like a prudent men, inquired what it would cost. He was informed that for one insertion, the price would ho $2: subsequent insertions, 75 cents each. " An' faith," said he, " I'll only have two subsequent insert ions !" in— Young man never marry a girl who has the slightest inc!ination to flirt. •If you do you will in after life heartily regret it. A good wife can never be made out of such. a heartless creature. She would keep you in hot water continually. Girls calculated to make good wives are as plenty as apples and you may as well have a good ono as a bad one. IT" The correspondent of the New York Tribune states that in one portioh of that city there are no less than four " bogus Sunday Schools," with a large number of collectors, who raise from $l,OOO to 55,000 per annum " to early on the operations of the schools, and the other ninety to support a set of lazy han gers on." Some of these " religious operators" arc the veriest scoundrels in the world. [l -- We understand on last Sunday KL),IO the --- church, a young gentlematf—s modest young, man—and a very polite one, was sitting in a pew, near a good looking young lady: on looking to the floor ho thought he saw lier handkerchief lying—trimmed, with edging, whereupon he procdeded to show his go/-an-try, he seized the supposed hankerchie but ho had got hold of her peti—skirt, ho ditrii6lits footsy , loolsy stared him in thee&-iiill—. Tenons and get squeezed 717"/ The Supreme Court recently decided that " one about to purchase real estate at public or private sale, is not bound to make further in quiry as to existence of incumbrances, than what he may learn from the publicrecords. A secret lien will not bo enforced against the estate in the hands of a bona fide purchaser, without notice, and by parity of reasoning, payments of which he had no notice, by record or otherwise, ought not to be used to prevent the sheriui's sale from ditesting the lion or a mortgage." Phcasants, in severe seasons like the pre sent, when they are cut off from their usual food, by heavy falls of snow, feed upon the leaves of the laurel and other poisonous leaves, and also upon .berries, which impart to their flesh a disagreeable flavor, and indeed render ing it not only deleterious to health, but is many instances destructive of life to those pm , taking of it. The caution, therefore, shostot bo. particularly observed now when so way. Or these birds are to be lbuttd fbr salt:4.oons the facility, by the scarcity of food. of catching them.
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