alp Trijigij Itgirittr. Alf Eltls.1 1 DIV PA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1856 C. F. MINES", FDITOIt R7 - Wc have been requested to state that Rev. 11. A. H 01,11,4 will preach in the M. E. Church, in this place. on Friday evening next. Local Nowa Again we would say to such of our fricnd throughout the county who lied inclined to write, to send us facts, incidents, and new, ol' a local character. Nothing is so pleasing in a country paper as a weekly summery of news and occurrences that transpire in the commitni ty where the paper is pultlished. Ten lineq from every township in Lel4:l eneli wed:. about the most important !natters that tran:;- pire, would make a sheet that woiild be read by our subscribers with more avidity than ant• romance that could be written. and would prove , pleastint not only to readers, but equally t;o to writers. Every young man who has any taste for writing, would find it agree:tide and instruc tive, to spend a few• moments each wet k in putting such items on paper. This, and this only is the way to maks one home }strnals teresting. Then friends and subscriber:,, send us items for the " Ite,zister." Yon will rind that whilst you feed others with nonsas intelligence, they too will furnish you with a feast that will be relished. To Storc,:xer , .ns. ‘Vo were last wed: csentv,l bp ' Wilson & Iluic, of Easton. with n li.utle of their pure chuilied Cider Vinegar, and on giving it a trial 'found it to be a superior article, and recommend it as sttch to merchants and others. By purchasing of them, thr fr. 'Alit lie tween that place and the cities call he saved. which we suppose no small item. Sec ad vertisement. Tso Liconso Bill The most eagerly looked for, and most int. portant intelligence from Harrisburg, is the action of our State Legislasure in regard to the • License Law. As we stated in our last. Mr. Brown's bill of the Senate was rent to the Ifouse, there aimnded, returned hack to the Senate, and that hotly refusing to rollour with; the House amendments, a Committee or COO. Terence was appointed by the Senate and I mse, who have thus far been unable to conk , to a conclusion, and as there exist some hard points of difference to get over, it is believed that I hey will not agree, in which ease it is doubtful whether a License bill of any hind can he passed the present session. In Lehigh county. we &here the existing Licenses expire on the Oth of April, and even if the Committee of Conference - should agree upon the details of a bill, and become a law, as a substitute for the Restraining Law of last session, several ‘veeks would elapse before new licenses could be obtained by our hot Is. Its provisions expressly state that time week's I notice of an intended application for license to sell, must be published in the nearest news paper, before a liceme can be legally granted. Aller.tord - a Acaacray. The annual exhibition of the pupils of this i Institution took place at the oda Fellows' 11:111 on Friday evening last, and was attended be YU:I7. probably the largest audience ever convene:l , , within the walls of that edifice. The exercises. ; 11 ' 18 i;;, IcaltYual . all over the country. • -which were well sustained, and creditable alike: ' AI ha" mine:apriviltge nit allowed in any to the. Principal and pupils, coasisted priori- : either : you bave the tho wheel of custom in certain little in; eresting pally of aelamm ions, interspersed with vocal ; o t at all necessary to name. Now, if and instrumental music. Some of the male; :l you neglect this opportunity to fix things for scholars evinced uncommon talent for elocution. ; the better, you deserve to live and die old maids and all of whom performed their parts respecta bly. The musical talent evinced 1;y; some of; —die your own suicidal hand ; and depend upon it, if you neglect this, your own interests . the scholars was also highly commendable. On 1 end the demands of the publiC, we, shall never the whole,-the exhibition demonstrated a degree of prosperity, on the part of the Acadt my.:plead for you again. which must; be highly gratifying toil; prinei.; The: c are a MN.: timid frost-bit tc'n bachelors who dare not pop the question, poor creatures, pal ; and the number of pupils, in attend:um during time last year is it guarantee that our pin i Ks of ;perfection, they would if they could, people appreciate his eflbrts, and that they take and ii they couldn't bow would pride iu maintaining .such an Institution in I low girls just go to work and gert id of these their midst. ; shrivelled nuisances—use up the last remnant of 47.Th0 Harrisburg Telegraph, (American) gives a list of 86 anti-administration papers ii Pennsylvania, of which 26 cuppert the Fill more nomination, 35 openly oppose it, and 25 occupy neutral ground. Liquor Stopped It is almost impossible to allow three months of a year to pass away., without getting up a war rumor concerning the 'United State's and Great P.t stain. The press of England has re cently been talking loud about a war with the United States, just as though such a thing would happen within a few months. The news papers of this country have genetatty mad of the blaster raised in London. 'that a little difficulty has occurred, and will very often oc cur, between the two nations is certain, hat what is the use in flying into a pm.sion so soon about it ? We may thi ea ten to whip each other as much as we choose, but itdooks very silly to a third party who may be looking on. We believe, however, the recent danger of a war has Mown over : at least we arc so tisurcil late advices from England. The Providence Journal talks very sensibly on the subject : The London Chronicle thinks, that as John Doll has paid some millionS for a fleet which may not be wanted, and would like to have smUctldog for his money, he might not object to take it out in a little fighting With the Yan kees. Ile can most unquestionably do so if he has a fancy for that sort of thing there is no, oo the face of the earth a country that ran be more readily pushed to a war than the [idled States, and such articles as that in the Chrooi de are admirably calculated flir the pnvocatlim. Nothing could be more foolishly wicked than , war between the United Slate.. arid Groat ttlii.2l7oJ Lower MaCMICV. titian : but if the people or Em;land want it. Iht -'sittittlay last several houses were thew can undoubtedly have it. li, however. the iidered by burglars in Lower Maciingy. They main. purpose is to find some use for the fleet first entered the Poise of Ilenry Gabel. and , !ar . which John .Bull has paid so much for. and ritd oil' several P.m consisting chiefly of aliich, it must added _treads to the profit o• the dot;v of liu; elotldng. Al another place, the same night, land. we would sirrgest that it he sold at atic• they enter( d a house and succeeded ..,c,etting t kn. and the proceed:: applied towards the pay in gld,'ii ii,•ll was kept in a drawer, and , unit of the debt which he has incurred in the exeliam:ccl an eld pair of boots for a new pair. sot vice of his ''. . august who drove him into the war and now driving him into peace. and also an old Intl for a new one. Country But he must consider that it is by no means I.coplo cannot lit• too careful of their hottscs, thnt he may so on meal that, site ,t the country is full el travelers just now. TlE:tins', the same ally who has not linen over el ai halite . for good faith in his r.litival ac gements. and who hats already fulfilled his Ihi Mmolay morning. the 11 1 111 instant. the ; purpose in English alliance carpenter shim of r. William Leinberger, near Tho Prohibitory Liquor Law, , commonly known as the " Jug Law," went into operation in Montgomery county last week. The tavern kccperS in 'Norristown found it necessary to make an increase' over ,their - old rates; in order to meet expenses, and have agreed upon the fallowing as a list of prices: Transicnt boarders, per day, Dinner llrcakfno-.t and supper, Sapper, lodging and breakfast, Supper, lodging, brudifast, and horse one night, Ilaif peck of oats, Ilan, Lotlging only, In earlvm county the Licenses expired on tilt: gih inst. A Convention of I lot el keepers was held on Saturday, but have as yet not heard of its proceedings. The Mauch Chunk /annual speaking of theexpiration of the licen ses says: " The 1 htel Keepers, as we can learn, closed their bars, content to await the action of the present Legisl a lure. The sudden cutting °IC liipior catts . ts some very long and dry laces, on the part of those who would be willing to " worry . ' down a little of the critter —but as the old saw goes, " it is as it is," and likn true pliilosophers the public must learn Co do withent it." EiNG I:llliet's Tavern, in North 11 - hitch:lll township. i lV:1S in (' irt•ly 1•41 (Ll 1)y lire, tol.:(11( r Nei:ll all its contents, consisting of a lot of reaulymade ()no of the most, fearful disasters veliich has work, londier and tools. II was caused by o w • halm( mud upon the I telaware since the horning of the William Penn, some twenty years ago, sparks from a stove, While one of the occurred oil Saturday night, between 8 and 9 was kindling a tire in the morning, 1,1111 sPr" l o'clock. by the destructimi of thesteam ferry boat with sneh rephlity that nothing could he saved. New Jersey while freighted with pass; tiger.; and The building was insured in the I,vhigh County cnissing the river to Camden. The New Jersey Wahmt street wharf at half`-pall 8 o'clock. Menial 111S111111Ce Company. The entire los.s upon lier regular trip, there being, as nearly as is about ! .. ..?" . .)00. Diming the high winds and can lie ascertained, about one hundred and ten stonily weather attendant upon tin present , pos.: 'igen; on hoard. Among these were :•ev season of the year, too ntheli care cannot be end ladies and ehildren, and a nund.A.Tr4colined returning home front Us taken with the il:•es about k.iii•lki.„;s. The New Jersey, when she lift. Walnut streCt - wharf, headed for the canal th,..nigh Bol'olllol. .721.2 tio".!. in Finuling this cic , keil 111,1 Willi ice. the Ike followiog is l'he (.11 izens • 1 11 ( 10 ; 1. ' 1 d' turned her course towards the lead of the Ticket" for t' a tu•main t uut .rough. The ticket I :inn 1, with the intention of above the semi liar which stretches northward Mr a eon is a G nod 03e, cor n ; ,ri.:in g as it ,10(!s, sumo of sidirable distance. A heavy cake of ice hope. the best citizens, dod her way at Walnut snaet, and for a moment Bonzes , : - Pivid Thrones. tdiseked her progress almost ontirel .lt this 1.0119 e 11 19 . 1,11 " llilier, ILn i.l •\ T° l " l.l ''''• moment :onoke was seen to is.me from the tn• • 'faint's W• j'• 11 " ..pa t e room, and the cry of lire was heard irons adu zon voices. Upon the alarm hiring ( ' 0111:11i:Li1011CI'S BiCry, !'.1 . :71 , 1 a seene o r the wr,io:l terror and confusion pre -I.:inanin 1. nulled. Women and men ran i . rom one end el ' 1, , tat to the other, frantic with fright, the con s table l'i"e"to• children on board elineine• to strz.mzers Juni:re--William I 6.0.45, fi •'lends, and appealing to rn saved. The Ilinnes Tnspector— William loetz. :•pread with the greatest rapidity, and but a Assessor—Josiah IC `;rent. . I iry few minutes otanet bt..11/1e the after part of Auditor—Aup,ustus ;nen. tkc r was enveloped in fire. The passen.•: Since the above was in type, the fulltexiiqt ticket has liken brought Ittirgc , ss—Solommt PANT. l'ounc it —John 11. I(nausa • Peter 11. Harrison Ilon•cr, David A. Tonibitr, •lariiit. Street Commissioners —Jonas Itiery, Itover. 114:11 dndcc of Ele,i),iiis—(l. laspecior--Valentitie 'V. ICcacct•. Ar...iessoi.---.losiali IC. Skin. Augi:tiis 11. I illmrl, (3 years.) Goetz, ( 1 ) - car.) Schmml Directors— Jame.; Lackey, Freihricl; E'oerliard. the tribe. Spare not the widowers, they de serve the same f:tic, if cf suilleiaat age. Go to work, put on Four exquisites,- rattle your silks, :wing your hoops .:bout the abodes of the un married, put on your ruffles and beaus, and let the bonnet hang &Tended ! upon the back of the neck, and then when the next year rolls in, you can hold of the fruits of your work, and exclaim ''sotli•r little things to come unto us." WAR r,xrraisz3 • The existing war has already cost England 8250,000,000, which is six times as Much ac the wlwle of the expenditure of the government for the same time for purposes of the peace. It is sad to think that such a vast sum, capa ble of giving so much beneficialemployment, should be tvasted for purpriseS of destruction, and fin•. spreading misery over a large surface of Europe. Add to it the expenditure of France, and we obtain an enormous aggregate, as much loss to the nations themselves ns if it were cast •~ppto the sea. Russia, too, must have lavished lit her millions, besides impovei ishing the coon-. try, and decimating the people ; and in the whole, we have a gigantic example of the calcium hich the ambition of one man can inflict tiering. world. ply upon a THE LEHI - GH REGISTER, MARCH 19, 1856. c,••1 no :'7l 1:25 12. FEARFUL PAICIDIENT AT PITILADELPEIA gerr; rushed forward to escape the ftiry of the (It vont h!g, element, many with their cloaks, shawls. and other appal el ill a blaze. and all s , •rt arcing in the wildest Z11:11111. The captain. who was in the pilot-home at the time of the • fright ful OCCUITVIIee Ileseended al the ea rliest mw ' trent, and, with the rest of the hands, used every elf 4-1 to cheek the progress of the flames : the pilot in the meanwhile endeavorin.!; to make the pier below Arch street. in order to put th e rai ; - sentrers on shore. The Nev Jersey. when within hut a very re W . f. et or ihe wharf. sheered off. and the riled 11(1S0 falling in, bringing with it the chains connecting. with the ru.hkr rendered all attempts to make the point pro p sed futile : and the burning vessel theretbre floated up the stream with the tide, which was setting in strongly at the time. 'Before this time. however, the fire was raging with the wildest fury, almost: enveloping the unfortunate passengers in flames, and driving them forward to the very verge of the deck. Many in their extreme alarm jumped into the water regardless (:f everything but escaling front the burning steamer. Before this time, however, most of the passengers had jumped over board, some of whom managed to get upon cakes of ice and others were taken from the wa ter by personF, in small boats. Many of the pas sengers, :11110117, whom were sonic females. re mained on the boat until the binming of their chnhes drove them to leap into the water. The pilot and two or three other persons sue • ceeded in leaping safely ashore when the boat neared the wharf, but others fell short. and were either drowned or were rescued by those who were on the wharves and upon the vessels lying along them. Boats were put out front the shore as promptly tt possible ; a number of tire com panies were upon the wharf, and tome of the members were instrumental in saving life.- 1 lose was laid in readiness for putting the water on the flames, in case the boat was secured to die wharf. The boat floated over towards the bar and fl• nally lodged on the bar among the ice. She was towed afterward by a ferry boat over to the Jersey shore, were she now lies sunk, her paddle boxes alone visible at low water. The fact of the pasF,engers coming on board in the night, renders it very uncertain how many persons were on board at the thne of the accident, and most of their naMes would be un k nown.except as far as the individuals would be recognized by actin:Milani:es on board who have escaped. There are five dead bodies renvered, but some thirty persons are still missing, most of whom aro supposed to be either burned or drowned Thcre fire seventy German papers in the United States, edited and published hyl/freign cTs, of which 33 are Republican in politics, 11 neutral but anti-slavery, and 20 Democratic.— There arc others, mostly local papers, and of less influence, who may be about equally divi ded; a majority of which arc 'Published by native-born citizens. [l:7onr townsman, Dn. DUNOWSKV, the Con tractor to erect the (las Worlis in Danville, is there, preparing tp 6 mnmenee operations. THE WAR CRY 01' I,tl i 41. - The German Press (CorreTondenve of the Philadelphia Perav•ylvaninn.) Lctfer frcra . Allxitown OWN, P:I., .`Limb 7th 1850 To ge .7,/,tors n( tier I'rvur ;vi'wutiatl You cannot believe what an interest we take in reading your paper since, it. has come out in its new pataphernalia. Ire also rejoice that Philadtlphia at longth has a paper which con tains, not only the news of the city, but of the ;Mato. 11,2 sides. Pennsylvanians need no longer subserihe fair New York papers, in order to be informed of the news of our own State. Allentown, although no yet in her i;tfancy, is alout emerging from that gloom of darkness which has so long bedimme.l and retarded her progress. But rt„few years ago the population ors: hub four thotzs!lnd present-it nun bars (i . vht thousand. ..daitufactoi ies are sptinging up on cvcry side, and the money which has so long laid dormant in the pilfers of wealthy old fat iner,;, is now being developed in improve• BEE '.1.1e Allen tot% n and fort Clinton Railroad is about being located. 'l•he people are very amkion:.; about the Allentown and Norrktown Railroad, which would give them a direct line to Philadelphia ; whereas, just now, it is more convenient for them to tali.e their produce to New York, and consequently they also purchase most of their goods there, to the detriment or your merchants. 1 . 611 will hear from tne soon ME Th 3 The Cunard stctutt,l,itd fintn root on the I,:t in:tt.. arrivea at I lalifax on the ittaliing a remarkably tiniet: passage for Ilk season of the ytar. IL is with deep regret that we have again to announce that no tidings are received of the stem - If:ship Then. is a report, it is true, that the screw Ste:llller Pri,n/Mr,:, on her passage from New-Vork, encountered large fields of ice . upon which there was a quantity of broken cabin furniture, which, it was though', might have belonged to the P(*teific.. But even this hope -of having discovered some trace of the missing - steamship-rests on a very ':.bender f mutt t 'the Peace Conferences had assembled in Paris, and, Mien the left. hail • hi:en in session four days. (In the authority of the London Ael n r, a la.pOlt had been spread abroad and hail created no little consternat that the Conf.rences were about to terminate in a break-up. It was said that the Russian Plenipotentiaries had advanced the new and unexpected objection that the proposals should nut he decided upon in the present Confer vacs.;, but in a ga 'writ' assembly (.1' he repre sentativcs of all the European Powers. The' London Tinos, how ever contradicts this state- merit, and when we' remember that the ..I(tr. r (jar,. hits unite earned a rep:tuition for announc ing Om ,nut startling, hut, itnlhrtunately for itself. the most in ,erred information upoh the exciting topic; of the day. we are not dis• Is - rsed much reliance neon the story it has now, in all probability, concocted. It is also alleged that Russia. while site is even will ing to concede the di-mantling of Nicol:MAl, re; fuses to aband.m her Prote.?toraiv over the, Christian sul.jce's of the Porte. This is also highly improbable. from the contradictory' ()pinions ti c prevailed in relation to the Con fennmes at the time the left Liverpool. it seems to be piety ie that nothing de !inite wit; \tilltt had been said or done by the Plenipotentiaries during the four days they had been in session. II MIS VOll - likely that if Peace followed upon the pending negot iqt ions, a general European Con- Would immeliately he convened to re-ad just the Balance of Power. Among the mbanllancons news el liy the tulegraph, i; the rumor that OM tut Parmt bad resigned his command of the Ottoman 'ontinent. in the Crimea, an armistice until' the end of March had been officially announcod to th... armies.. It was not, however; to aired the existing Idoekade of Flussian .\ II xeitentent in relation to the threntenell rupture between Great Britain and the [tilted Sint to IltlV StlbSidtal ill England for the time Lein (77 - CiREAT lox IN PHILADELPHIA.— On Wedlles4lay evening Of last week an im mense Matt; Meeting rm. Pillinore, Done!son and the Constitution. teas laid at Concert hall, in Philadelphia. 'Pile American nominations were enthusiastically unlined. Hon. John M. Scott, presided assisted by a large number of Vice PreAden s. A !:teries of 1:solut ions Nvere adopt ed, and elotpunt addresses delivered by the I lion. J. M. Scott.. lion. Henry M. Puller. Hon. Jac-oh ilrootn, lion. Henry I). Moore, Win. I). Baker. Ksq.. and lion. Chalks Gibbons. They elicited much applause, and prove that spite of cohine,ts, intlitrer. n-e and malignity, that the people or the 'Coiled States, en niasse, trill sup.: port the Anwricatn`notninees for the Presidency. .7.7.Nrw ‘mr.-onat: --It is now settled that the State has been carried by the Auterieans and Republicans, they having a majority.; in both branches of the Legislature. If :datealf the American candidate for tlovernor is not elected by the popular vote, which is yet doubtful, he will by the Legislature in joint convention. :; -- .11 - ousrs Pon:lust:m-11e Lockport COW .- jot', of Feb. 15th, relates that a Mr. Farnham, of that place, threw out some cotton carrots from his cellar, which were partly frozen. They were eaten by his horses, and four fine colts died of inflammation of the stomach. Farniers.should be caul ions about giving do. cayed vegetables of any kind . to cattle. CTI'TP.N.WITY or• LIFE 1N .1 0)1/Sr.--A goose on the farm of James Budd, near Pemberton, N. was missed in the snow storm of the sth ult. Search was made, but without avail, un til Saturday. 9th inst., when gooscy was dis covered in a large bank of snow, alive, and ap parently uninjured by its five weeks" impri sonment. Sl.AvEit v.-A roan named I,lt•rint. has been fined $lOOO, and forfeited six slaves at New Orleans, for selling them in such a manner as to separate mother and child; con• trary to the laws of Louisiana. fr7 - 1..t50 SALES iti. TOWA.—In eight hours and fifteen minutes of one day, at the Council Bluff; Land Mice, teeently,2.Bo land warrants were located amid ninety-rive cash entries made. fr7r - The Philadelphia Mayor has discharged 191 policemen, as required by a recent act of the Councils. n - The horses in Now York have Suffered beyoml endurance. in consequence of snow. The spirit of the Times says that no less than nine hundred were killed or died in that city during the late snow season. UTAH %Z.lNl7.ti Tut.: Nl.tuAztxx 1)o-ATti.—The grounds helonging to the I iiited States Arsenal, at t o n Rimge, 1,1., embrace an area of twenty-std en miles. Tit the three magazines there are :10.000 pounds of powder and 0000 round of 'cartridges for small arms and cannon. The storehouses contain :15.000 muskets, rifles, ear ' bines and pistols : 2500 sabres, 100 cannon. 000 000 cannon halls and shills, 10.000 pounds canigter, and accoutrements for 100.000 liwn. The total value of the land and buildings, with contents, is over .'blooo.ooo. 7. l 7rit.r.moan A K Noyn Ntt.-111 the New York K. N. State Council. at Canandaigua, Ow statement made in the Philadelphia Convention that Mr. Flu.lnim: was not a member of the Order, was contradicted by the President of Council 177, of Dotfalo, who gave the assurance that he himself was present when the obligation of each degree was administered to Mr. Pim.- mom.% and that he is a member of the Order in good standing. 1 31713arrAT. Crossly, negro, was arrested in New Castle county, Delaware, on the 2.d instant on a charge of coming .into that State chntrary to law. For this act, he was lined 850, and being unable to pay The line was committed to jail, whet•e he Was liable to be sold it' the fine was not paid. Crossly had been working for Samuel Wilson, of New Garden 'township. Ile has been taken before Judge Mdligan, and liberated—on the ground, we suppose, that he had been a resident of that State. Fri - A SmAirr Sitomm.umt.—Mr. Francis D. Rhodes, who has worked for many years thy Nathan Breed of this city, made in fifty days 792 pairs of ladies' shoes, thi' which he received 22 cents per pair, making the sum of 8174 24, which he earned during that time. lie has fre quently made over $5 in a day by working on the bench. Ile is not only a smart, but a good Workman.—Lynn Bay State. llncrit Evfn.toRDINARY.—The last with her of the herald, published at Camden, Ark., contains the following ; "A few days since a negro woinan belonging to Col. John Dockery, the worthy President of our railroad, was delivered of four children at one birth—three girls and one boy , their aver age weight is seven pounds each. When last heard from, the' mother and her little darkics were doing well." • r..0 - 7 - INNsyl.v.inu Ml r ITIA.—Tt appears from the Adjutant General's report that the military force of Pennsylvania together with the public arms aro as follows : Number of companies in the State, 382 ;• uniformed men, 16,805 ; field pieces, 80 ; muskets, 10,438 : beyonets, 0621. 10 -- E7c-President Filltnore was entertained by our Alinisterat Naples, lion. Robert Dale Owen, on the 7th of February. 13:713EAu. Putnam Outdone:— One day last Week a large bear was seen on the Schrader branch of the Towanda creek, and a number of hunters turned out to capture brain. He was tracked through the snow for three days, and finally found, securely en sconsed in his den, a fearful looking cave, on• the bank of the 'creek. All efforts to dislodge him from his retreat having failed, William Northrop made preparations for " bearding the bear in his den." Furnishing himself with . a torch and his trusty rifle, and with . a rope tied to one leg, a la Putnam, to expedite his retreat, should it be necessary, be entered the cave. The ascent, for about . eight feet, was nearly perpendicular, and crawling about twelve feet further. the aperture widened sufficiently to admit of his standing upright. The light of his torch showed him the bear sitting upon his haunches, at the further side of the cavern, awaiting. the attack. Aiming at (lie eyes, which gleamed from the torchlight, he fired, and made his exit as speedily as possible. ;Having every confidence that his aim had been true. and the shot effectual, in a short time lie returned. and' nuul the animal dead. A rope having been procured and fastened to the bear, it was drawn out hr the aid of those outside. lie was I;flinil to lie a ninnstrom: animal, weighing over 500 pounds.--Bradj;Jrd 'error/cr. 7s - NEI.IN , ; Luc to Moi•NTAIN% The 811111)111'y American says Judge Ilelfenstein is making the excavation or a tunnel through the Broad muntain, the special object of his atten tion. Ile has recently- made a trip to Europe fbe the.purpose or raising funds, and it is to be hoped that he has succeeded, as we should like to -tie the enterprise accomplished. The Amer ican informs us that this tunnel would be something over three and a half miles long, but such is the nature of the mountain through which it is inlowlcd to he driven, that while the work Winild be progressing, sufficient coal could be taken out to pay a considerable lior tion of the expenses. Its excavation would be. to some extent, like driving a vast coal shaft. which would ultimately be used for a highway.': tommn Ta.km: op TAN [Num) STATEs -- The total receipts of Coffee in the United ;hates for the year . ending; December :11, I 555, were 1.704 857 pkgs., weHting 2:18.214,5:13 ttgain4 receipts in 1854 of 1.813.604 pkgs., or IB''.-17:1853 lbs. While the consumption in. 1855 teas '216,418.175 lbs.. against a c'onsump- Don in 1851 of 179,481,9tit4.1b5.. being the large increase in the consumption of 1855, over that of 1854,•0f more than 311 per cent. The consumption of the Southern portion of the l'nion is, and always ha.i been. much great er in proportion to the population than that of the Northern and Eastern States. owing to the Etc!. that the bulk of the residents of that sem ties of the country use colfoe as a beverage. both at the morning and evening meal. and indocd not a, small part consider the voirce urn an 'indispensable accessory even to the dining.' table. r -- ;'' . lhdloziwiis (bra Ilif ni null / ' IRS astonish ing Remedie's for Scrofula.—Mr. I.lenry Judd, of Detroit, Michigan. was in a most. alarming 1 state of he.:1111. lie had been a great sidiever! from thr a number of yoars, and raudiy :dl lei of his body broke out into sores, Fen ,lermg hits an object of horror Lo every one, he tried some of the most reputed remedies known. but they ilia not totteh his complaint, and in , tbe greatet alarm, he consulted a friend as to what course he omllit to adopt, when Iloilo way's Dint:lie:it and Pills were recommended, which lie commenced using, and by persevering tvitli these remedies fo• a short. Limo. he Was; perfectly cured after every other remedy bad ht•ep shearing machines are now coming into general use. The apparatus is a box about the size and something (if the shape cf a co lt , 111011 brick. It is fastened to the arm of tlu• shearer; who works the cut tiug part by moving a lover with his hantl so as to produce a rapid oscillating. motion of the knives. The knives are shieltletl by gnarls, similar in principle to those which are used Mr mowing machines, anti although theycan be made to cut very close, it is impossible-for them to cut the skin. The machine works more rapidly than shears, mid cuts more evenly. EC7*I r ERRIDLEI SUFFERING AT STIA.—The bark Amelia,) seized by the United States govern ment at Port au Prince,) left on the first of De cember, and had not, been at sea many days before the vessel commenced leaking, and sail ing badly,Made very slow progress. On the night of January sth, when near New York, expecting the next morning to bo inside of Sandy Hook, the wind, which had been westerly and south westerly for a few days pre vious, shifted to the north, and from that point all around the compass. Finding the vessel was a complete wreck, and being out of pievil sluts and water, all hopes of making a port in the United States were given up, and they at tempted to go into Bermuda, but that was not accomplished. Supposing there might bo some provision in the hold of the vessel, an exatnimi; tion took place, when a barrel of rice and bread was found, but in a damaged condition. They then discovered the hold was swarming with rats. They went to work and caught the rats, which, with the ice, kept them from starring.— They were in this condition for twenty two (hp. At daylight on the morning of January 28th, h vessel was discovered which proved to be the English brig Ida, Captain Williams, three days from St. Johns, Island of Antigua, bound to London. A boat was sent on board, and re turned with part of a half-barrel of flour, and nothing vise. With the rats and the rice, they rared quite well. They made the port of St. Thomas, on the first of February, having been sixty-two days at sea, and most of the time ex periencing the greatest sufferings. IVcm.in NEW Tom: firs•.—The money article in the New York Times shows the enornums individual and city wealth of New York. The figures are taken from the reimrt of the City Compti•oller, and the Times says:— •' They exhibit the almost imperial wealth of New York at five hundred and twenty-nine millions of dollars to 024,000 inhabitants, or 88,815 qualified electors, equal to $5,965 to each elector. The separate wealth of the City Corporation, $42,681,769, including the .Cro ton Aqueduct, is five fold greater than the pub.. lie debt of 8,466,130 that encumbers it. The area of 750 acres set apart and assessed for the new Public Park is equal to 7,700 building lots, 25 by 100 feet each. The property has been taken for this object at an assessed valnation of 85,189,969. to which is to be added the cost of grading, incloAng . and ornamenting the grounds. The money to these ends will be raised bt• a city loan, which, under such an exhibit of wealth and incinhrance, need scarce ly bear five per cent. per annum to command its par value." 1 . 111: PCLII.U! LANDA.—A report prepared at the General Land Office, in compliance with a resolution of the House, but not yet published, shows the amount of Territory subject to the act of August, 1854, to graduate, and rtilluch the price of the ptild!c lands to actual. settlers and 'iii ivators, as follows: Of the first class, one dollar an acre, there are 18.708,759 acres : of the second, at 75 ets. 15 051.118 acres : of the third, at 50 ets. 11,- 510.920 acres ; of the fourth, at 25 ets. 6,485,- 839 acres ; of the fifth, tit 19 , 14 ets. 25.114,35 t, The Land is divided among the States as follows: Ohio 711,495 acres ; Indiana 458100 loves : Illinois 1,381 010 acres ; Wisconsiltrt.7. 906.057 acres ; Michigan 8,785,800 ncretr; fowa 575.480 acres ; Missouri 13 850,030 ; Arkansas 14,212,610 acres: Lousiana 7,806,- 310 acres ; Miss. 7,7',12,013 acres ; Alabama 14 081.502 iteres : Florida 8,048,500 acres-- making in all 77,651,007 acres, rr7SAD EFFErrS or REVERSED Pausrxcrs. —We learn that a farmer near Galt, Canada West, who hail SOO bushels of wheat, for which 'he mind been ofrered the high prices of last sea son, but chose to keep it in the hope of getting more, hung himself last week. Another farmer near London, hail three years' crops on hand, which he had • refused to sell at the extreme rates of last Fall. Ile is now insane, his rea. son giving way at the prospect of having to sell at a greatly reduced price. —Rochester liwerat. !1 - 7 BEcistox AINST A BtuTtsn Cosset.. —The British Consul at New York, Mr. Bar clay, has had a judgment of $1,500 awarded against him as damages for failing to come up to his bargain, he having engaged a vessel to take, persons recruited for the British Army,, in violation of our laws, but which design he abandoned, after the arrest and indictment of one of the agents. The Consul referred the matter to arbitrators, and their award was $1,500, the claim being $2,700. frf --- Dnuatn Surn.LED.--Some double:shelled eggs have been shown to the editor of the New Haven Palladium, The outer shell of ono measures 9 1-2 inches lengthwise, and 7 inches around it. Within this was another perfect egg of the ordinary size. The hen that pro duced this singular specimen was a common barn-yard fowl. • &WHAT A EOOLISII EXPECTATION !—The London News calculates, in case of a war with England, that the Abolitionists will be on their side: This shows how little knowledge the writer in that paper has of our pCople. (1:7 - Ton .DRAll.—Kisses are rather high at Vinegar Hilt, Illinois. A justice there charged John Waters $2O for kissing a lady twice. Mr. Waters will beware• how he steals pickled kisses on Vinegar Hill. 07Lucicv.--A lucky fellow at New Orleans bought three tickets in a Havana lottery late by, and all turned up prime, 860,000,8400 an $2OO. El:7lklr. John G. Moser, an old farmer; long a resident of Ashland co., o.,died last week. During twenty-one days immdiately preceding his death he refused to partake of medicine or nourishment of any kind.
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