The Lehigh register., September 03, 1856, Image 2

THE ITEGiSTETI.
ALLENTOWN, PA.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1856
I=
our first pnge to-day we give the last
of. a series of resolutions passed at the Ilepub•
lican County Meeting on the 111:11 instant. Al
so. a communication thnt will be found inter
esting by both political parti;.s.
Take Notice.
Scoundrels have been swindling the people,
of late, by going about and collecting sub
scriptions to various newspapers, pretending
to be authorized agents. Lest some of them
get on the track of us, (as there is e pretty rich
harvest for Ws when we can getit reaped,) wegive
notice that we have no agent authorized to col
lect for us.
spring Garden Academy
We would direct the attention of our read
ers to the card of the Spring Garden Academy,
Philadelphia. It is an Institution that offers
superior opportunities for the instruction of
pupils, and its location is in ono of the most
acceptable districts in the city. Circulars can
be had at Iloupt Stuckert's New York Store.
Scene Ist. Sunday evening—Lady coming
rom Church —unwhiskered gent. walks by her
ide—speaks of the drowsiness of the sermon,
&c. Lady agrees with him.
Scene 2d. (Come to a corner.)
Lady—" This is your road I believe."
Cent.—" Yes, but I would prefer going your
way if you have no objections."
Lady--" I had rather you would not."
(Gent. persists and walks on. Another
Gent. appears in the distance—the lady grows
Flap Presentation. • nervous.)
To-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock a large and
beautiful National Flag will be presented by
the ladies of Alkinown favorable to the cause
of Fremont and ,Dayton, to the Reimblican
Club of this place, in the lawn in the tear of
the Court (louse. The Flag is the donation of
a number of gentlemen in Philadelphia,--the
ladies having consented to act as a presentation
committee in their behalf. quod music and a
number of speakers will be present, and we
have no doubt the occasion will prove quite in•
teresting. In case the weather should prove
unpropitious it will take place at the Odd Fel
lows' Hall.
fa - Reader, by referring to our advertising
page you will see flint Messrs. Houpt & Stuck.
ort, of the New York Store, are still " up and
doing," and offer to your consideration every
thing appertaining to the Dry Guods and titro•
eery business, from fitshionahle silks and
" hooped" skirts down to Nrnsh-boards and
bard the very articles for young
lndies,--the former to ".cut a swell in," and
the latter to keep olf the " blues." Give than
a cull.
--- ".l:l..roter of the Coagressional Commit
tee on Kansas AtEtirs, presented in the House
erllepresentaiives, July Ist, 1856:"—This in
teresting and very impertnnt document has
been issued in a pamphlet of 32 pages, by Gree
ley & MeElrath, New York. Price -10 cents
per dozen orO 50 per hundred. I t s1:01/h1 ht:
rend by every titan in the United States, as it
gives a full official, and authentic statement of
the troubles in Kansas and the causes that. have
produced them..
We Deftaine
. In the good old time of chivalry, a knight
who wished to measure his strength with
another, sounded his horn under his castle Ivan
and waited. Brother Rauch, of the raney;
Ti mat, seems anxious to revive thiS custom. .l
Wishing to haim a tilt with us he has made the
welkin ring with his notes of defiance. It is all
ofno use, neighbor. The days of chivalry have
i e
r--relf
passed away. In editing n , er, in the in-'
terest of our readers, we ave quite as much to
do ns we can manage, without encumbei ing I
ourself With such controversies. So if you!
wait for us to come down, you will wait a long!
Hine, for we believe the renders of our paper do
not rare to peruse quarrelsome disputations.
Intelligent men, we apprehend, are al ways )
ready to repent to editors of newspapers who
are engaged in newspaper quarrels, what
Alurcutio said to the Capulets and Montngues,
"A plague n' LutL your lionses."
Few editors have indulged in a personal con-
troversy, and at its close could truly say that
they had neither lost their self-respect nor
fall
en in the estimation of judicious friends. We;
believe that at the close of the editorial career
of 'those who in times past have conducted
newspapers, the best men of the number have
looked back upon their newspaper squabbles;
with those of rival parties as the least profitable
portion of their lives. The mental vitriol they
have thrown upon their opponents has irritated,
corroded, and poisoned their own hearts: A
war of words is to be avoided if possible, and
where it takes two to a fight, the wisest course
is to follow the sacred injunction, " to leave off
contention befbre it is .meddled with." A ,
quaint English writer has, with great truth,
compared a quarrelsome, aggressive disputant
to a volcano ; the lighter portions of what it
vomits forth ars dissipated by the winds ; the
heavier ones fall back into the throat whence
they were disgorged. Whatever other offences
we may commit, we mean never to have a news
paper quarrel ; and whether our contempora
ries throw a squib, or level a heavy column at
us, we shall meet it all with what Chas. Lamb I
styled " the primitive discourser"—silence.
Scnio Interesting " Acts" of tho last Congress.
With very little„ trouble we have been ena
bled to sum up the following as among the most
important •' doings" in both branches of the
last Congress : On Irish waiter killed. One
Senator knocked on the head, and laid up for
six months. Two editors " licked"—Greeley
of the Tribune, and Wallach c f the Tlirshincum
Slat. One Representative blacked in the eye.
A duel—that did'nt come ell"—between Brooks
and Burlingame. A small epistolary shindy
between Brooks and General Webb. General
rows between Brooks and everybody. The
phrase " You're a Bar"—as we learn from a
' tally kept for the purpose--was used in both
branches four hundred and sixty-two times.— ;
The number of " drunks" on the floor was—in- !
calculable. Hail Columbia, E. Pluribus Unutn,
" Vot a Peebles."
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Re-opening of the Public Schools
The public schools of our borough opened
last Monday morning, after a vacation of sever
al months. During this time the pupils have
been aftbrded ample opportunity to recuperate,
but we incline to the opinion that if the ques
ion was put to vote among the youngsters
here would be a very decided vote against re
petting the schools at present. Boys and girls,
s a general thing, look upon the " breaking
ip" of schools for a good long vacation as one
f the most agreeable events of the year, and
he re -commencement of their scholastic duty
hey deem a decided bore. Boys are'too apt
o take schooling as they' take physic ; not
iecause they like it or because it is good for
hem, but becatFe they cannot help themselves.
Tragico-conifwita.
Scene 33. (Come to another corner.)
I.ntly—(stops and turns round) Mr.—lcon
stand this no longer—there has been enough
talk already, and you must go no farther with
EMI
tient. turns on his heel, bids her an eternal
farewell, and sluprc.
fa The tnriff on kisses is now, in Boston, ten
dollars ; in Rochester, New York, seven dol
lars ; in New Orleans, five dollars ! Thank
heaven ! we live in New Orleans, and from the
depths of our pocket. book pity those bachelors
of Boston and Rochester.—Vero Orleans Pica
yune, Aug. l3t/o
here in Allentown the rates are by no means
so indiscriminate as above; they are regula
ted by the quality and style. For instance an
ardent smack with a slight squerzc is regarded
as more valuable than a hands-offclipper. The
ladies, too, have different' estiniates of their
value. Some of them will send a fellow home
with glory at his heart, out of mete benevolence.
others will not bestoW a single one, short of a
pension of a thousand a year, for life.
11.11.11 T ON TUE RECORD.-Dr. Samuel C.
Bradshaw, of this district, voted against the
passage of the bill increasing the compensation
of members of Congress.
n - 1101111ERY. —The Jewelry Store of Chas.
J. Craig was entered last Saturday evening be.
tween i and S o'clock, and robbed of 2 gold
and 9 silver Watches. Mr. C. oll.rs a reward
of $lOO for the property.--Easion Angus.
[r7 - 01i !—Two young girls have been take❑
tip in Radford, for stealing whalebone, to make
fashionable hooped skirts with.
. . .
TH_E LEHIGH REGIST ER , SIii'PTEIIBER 3, 18b"O.
. .
California. I Kansas. 1 The Fall of tho Lehigh Valley Railroad Bridge. (Cammunicated for the Lehigh Regigter.)
1 DAVID H. HUNTER'S DESORIPXIIIR LETTERN
1 OF A WHALING VOYAGE, &o.
The steamship Illinois arrived at New York
on Friday. The Vigilance Committee still hold
the balance of power and defy the authorities
of the State. The law is emphatically in their
own handA, and justice is meted out according
to their own peculiar views. The Scute has
for a long time been inf2sttd with men of noto
rious character. Murder, robbery, tirson and
gambling has been committed with impunity,
at"--tillenders went unwhipt f.f jutice. The
liuthoritics cold not or would not tl win
to punishment or giVc protection to the citizens.
Then for their own defense they fumed them
selves into a commit tee, look the law Mt') their
own hands, anti the perpetratot•.s of the many
lawless acts met with condign punishment and
suffered upon the seta dd. The State is wild
with e x citement. The committee are strongly
fortified and are plepatpd to resist the govern
ment. Their forces are daily gaining strength,
while the State troops are but a handful. of
men.
By the laie news we learn that they exe:nted
two more men, Hetherington and Brace, the
' former for shooting a man named Randall, a
partner to him in the real estate business, for
pecuniary matters. They met on the 24th of
July, at the St. ;Nicholas bar. Hetheringfrn
commenced an assault upon Randall, and they
fired simultaneously at one another, six shots,
being exchanged. Randall fell, mortally wound-
ed. The regular police attempted to arrest
Hetherington, but they were overvivvered, by
the police of the Vigilance Committee, who hur-
tied Hetherington away to their head quartets. ;
Randall died the next clay. Hetherington was ,
tried by the Committee on the 26th, and hung
on the 29th. Philander Brace, wino committed
a murder a year or two since, was hung at, the
same time. About fifteen' thousand spectators
witnessed the execution. and there were four
thousand troops of the Committee ptesent un- '
der arms. All the approaches to the place of
execution were guarded by cannon. It is still!
doubtful what disposition will be made of the!
case of Judge Terry. who continues a Kisoner
inn the hands of the Vigilance Committee. This
appears to be the principal obstacle now to the
disbandonment of the Committee. Several at
tempts have been made to fire San Francisco'
and Sacramento cities. Disturbances between
the Americans and foreigners had occurred in
various parts of the State.
Poiiiical Prejudice.
Our country is just now the great battlefield
of opinion. It cannot he denied that the ques
tion of slavery is the all absorbing question of
the day. The public mind is in a slate of ex
citement, and agitation in both sections of the
Union upon it. It is the theme of conversa
tion and public discussion among all classes of
society. What the result will be of all this, no
one can predict. An endless diversity and
contrariety of thought pervades the masses of
the people, and each little faction is engaged in
a desperate efi:mt to demolish some opposing
system of doctrine, by rendering its advocates
unpopular. The use of the old-fashioned wea
pon, called argument, has been to a great ex
tent abandoned, and appeals to prejudice sub
stituted in its place. It is useless to under
take to combat the logic or refute the reason
ing of an antagonist. Such a method of con
troversy is not only rare, but altogether insuf
ficient, before the public. Innuendo, insinua
tion, low ridicule, and still lower abuse, arc the
most powerful instruments that can be employ
ed to make an impression, to gain converts, and
to secure the applause of certain portions of
society
The principle point in the Presidential con- I
test is based on the exciting question. The
Democrats affirm slavery may and should' go
wherever it can be sustained by a majority of
the people. Formerly this privilege only ex
tended to Territory south of 36:30 latitude,
but since the repeal of the Missouri Compro• i
mise, there is no limit other than the "nature
of things" creates. Fremont's platform is es•l
sentially and mainly opposed to the extension
of Slavery to unsettled Teri Rory.
Fillmore dodges in a manner the Sla very
point, but can be considered as standipg pretty
nearly in the foot prints of the Democratic par
ty, but carries the American idea—that. k,
amendment of the naturalization laws, and be
stowal of office only upon American born and
protestant&
What it Cost nations to Engage in War.
The figures which are given as the cost to
Great Britian for wars past and proSpective,
for one year, are enormous. That Power ex
pended $:251,000,000 in 1854, while all its
other expenses amounted to but $30,000,000.
The war tax of Great Britain in 1854 was near
ly three•fourths of a million dollars daily, or
$31,000 for every hour, all to be drawn out
of the laboring man.
The interest on the war debt of nations, nt
five per cent., will amount to 8.150,000,0'00
yearly. Then there is a considerable sum to
be raised fur war prospective in the mere prep-1
erafion for war in the time of peace. This
sum cannot amount to less than $450,000,000
more. This grand aggregate tax 0f5000,000,-
000, yearly, is imposed upon the people of the
civilized world, the earnings and industry of
the people, by wars past and prospective. This The hog business in Kentucky this fall
sum is equal to the whole value of all the ex I will not amount to more than one-half what it
ports of England,..France, and the United States did last year, because the severe drouth that
put together, It is twice the rental of all the has extended over the whole
‘at hogs are State now has cut short
real estate in Great Britian ; exceeds the net 1
the corn to such an extent.
selling on contract for future delivery at , A
profit of all the manufactures in Christendom. cents per lb..
It is equal to the yearly wages of four million !
(UF‘t oF Tot: CIIARTRIi OAK. " Char
live hundred thousand agricultural laborers, at
ter Oak'' which the Charter of Connecticut
a head. It would pay for the construe-
m the th
lion of forty-five thousand miles of railroad at 1 I
Thursday was un ohl Colony was concealed on
tree at tlt of May 1080,
hat time. fell On
$20.000 a mile. would support one million last. The people of Hartford will
two hundred thousand Ministers of the gospel. lose the old tree with regt et.
allowing each' $750 per annum: giving 'a reli
gions telleher and pastor to every Si'Vi'll hundred y es
_ Hm l a w c 6 or
' Qom - BUNDA NCR. 1,11:R WANT, RUINS 31.1 NV.—
hrxa ry —abundance of fol.
and fifty persons of the whole population of the y ; but abundabeu of money never ruined any
globe.
body—in the printing line—to our knowledge.
•
The news from Kansas is conflicting ; but On Tuesday evening last, at about seven
enough is known to authorize us to say, that o'clock, the eastern span of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Bridge, at Easton, gave way, while n
the telegraphic report in our last relative to an
i o n le d n g t e ot t i o ve n t: , n a i 7
~1 1 ) , u n s i h irift
haenothert
as
tctrohss
head the
attack by the free state men on the town oft
Franklin is not :tist aim d. Gn the - contrary. it ,one had reached the Ant Meti n tt j o u n s the . Ne e w Jen!
appears that the renewal of hostilities was com.; sey shore, the span gave way, carrying one en
meneed by a
long, of tbierc , s
and plunderers, Fine and tender into thb canal below, and leas
mg, olher en ono hanging amid the timbers
from N issouri, Georgia. a; al other Southern I al tt twenty het below.
Suites, ti 110 fi.Elitivd lift MS( 1 t'i S at - that place,! They hail previonelv crossed the Wan on
fri tit 'which they were in the daily habit oe; the lower track to Easton, and were returning
to Phillipsburg on the upper track witen the tic
,
making , incursions into the interior, or settle•
cident occurred. There were seven persons on
:
meats el the Free State tot n. destroying their i the engines at the time of calamity,two of whom
crops. steeling their produce, carrying off their, jumped upon the abutment an escaped. the
horses and cat tie, and murdering and maltreat- ! others going down with the wreck. George
Howe, fireman en the " Manch Chunk," a
in;; those who attempted to make a shots'
voting man about 25 veers of age, was 111411111t
t
of resistance for the pt at emien of their proper- - ), k ill,' , and Patrick' Riley and tarn to
ty. For weeks this system of plunder and more or less injured. The body of 'th
Ioe; Wrenhmc'
wits
outrage was borne, until it became impera- . recovered from the wreck soon after the occur
lively n'ecess rence. It was found under the boiler of the le
ery to arm and organize the Free
e t T i n t o n t s i t re tit i e n tl t i !r h water . . r
i with the head resting
State forces fur the common defence. Accord- : ,
ingly a band of some two kindred marched upon Was about 1511 f o e . tlt lon l g e sP l n ' i l l ie thi t a r t in g l a i v r e tf w t a h 3 t .
the Ruffian camp, and alter a severe contest and ! Belvidere and Delaware Railroad passes direct- .
thc lo lv beneath the the span some 30 feet below. s s of t! number in killed and wounded, the :
1. part of this bridge is also carried away, and
enemy were dislialgeil front their entrenchments ! the fragments falling into the Morris Canal be ,
and compelled to snrremb•r, , neath, has stopped the navigation for the pres-
Adv ices from St. Louis state that 2,500 Mis• Ont. As serious as the accident is in the de . -
sourians were read to enter the Territor struction of property, it is a most providential
on the 22(1 ult., and that the United States y y, I
m
circumstance that it occurred when it did, as a
few minutes later an awful destruction of life
troops and the Territorial militia were on the' would have been occasioned. The Philadelphia
more. , A dispatch from Chieago states that a train was due at the point, by the thile•tabh:,
at the precise moment of the accident, lift en
party of Missourians had attacked the Quaker i
7 o . 'elock. It was fortunately
Mission, end commanded the inhabitants to de- ! i m n ,t i l i t , e i s fi l n ef " t r . l e
liver up their horses and leave the Territory. i would have st ' o e p= n d l it 's e : etl ru h i ei O l :if i . s r e thethe Irvin
This demand was not complied with, and they; that gave tray. The New Y ) :wktrain was 1 1 ;1 ' ,0
were not able to enforce it. A Mr. w„. c.. nearly due, and would have passed over the
k boat was passing down the canal, and
1101 T, formetly of lentticky, had been shot nod'
I h b ' . i i t t a i a t i l t i .. ); escaped. a 4 it d
New '
j d' e h r e 4, conflictionitlt Reads
of . the Lehigh
scalp( 0 by Smile Missourians. Gen. Atchison,
was :lid to be in command of the Missourians, and the accident will () 1 ( ' -casion g a s se il t l i t o P t r is ru s P tTN I :
page of the coal trade to New York, as a couple
with t'ol. Doniphan as second and Capt. Reid '
fif months will be required to repair the bridge.
as adjutant. It was reported that the Free'
otnanceicttitosnntovtitilnt
interrupted. Be t iv d idere Road on the
State men had taken Tecumseh with a loss to lower he
ee
r
the pro-slavery party of :10 men. Also - that 1 The bridge was constructed - of timber in the
General Pommy was killed in the engagement. usual manner, with an arch at each end.
1 Workmen had been employed on the bridge 1101.
:_,
1:0-A FAST lions's: —The Milwaukee Wis
fo7lSill tells of a horse that recently died in
Oregon, 111. Ile was Very ogle, and would
not be harnessed except with saddle, and could
make extraordinary time. Ile could pass over
112 miles in 12 lion I'S. Ilil r nsital time from
Oregon to Enid:ford, 25 miles, was two honrs.
The doctor who owned him, and who alone
could title IMO, has bet n beard to say that du
ring six years past he has ridden him upWards
of twenty thousand miles, and that during all
this time he was never hnmen" to trip or stum
ble so as to arrest the tider's attention. He
was savage, because he was formerly .a wild
horse on the plains of Ail:3ll,ms.
ri - WATEtt Pim: IN PI:II , Abl:/.PIIIA•—There
are' (11 miles of pipe nOW Laid by the depart
ment lot. supplying the city with water. To
the Fairmount Wm ks there arc 121 miles of
pipe : In the Schuylkill water winks, 68 miles:
to the Delaware, 58 miles: and to the Twenty
fourth ward, 11 miles—giving the amount
above stated.—Deity Stem
.117 ,-- Alexander Hector, who was arrested in
New York
.some time since. on a charge of pass
ing counterfeit twenty. shilling gold pieces, was
; examined jast 11Ionday before United States
Commissioner Stilwell, in that. city. Upon the
proof it appeared that the alleged counterfeit
of the American twenty-shilling ::old pieces was
only on one side, the other side lain". an imprint
of the likeness of Washington. The discharge
of the prisoner was ordered, as the statute re
! quires that the counterfeit coin should be an ex
act similitude of the genuine coin.
1 .- "Vinty FAm.—A young gentleman who
was ardent iy arguing in favor of Fremont's elec.
tinn was replied to by a buxom young miss,
who expressed doubts of Fremont's success :
whereupon the genoemoto proposed to bet a
kiss that his candidate would win, upon these
terms : If Fremont is clio.en, you are to kiss
me—if Buchanan is elected i am to kiss yon."
We shouldn't mind gambling a little ourselves
after-this fashion.
Cr7rEXTRAORDINAIIY OP NATURE.—
Mary, a negro woman belonging to Dr. John
11. !hindley, near Mooresville, Ala.. gave birth.
on the 10th instant. to three living. infants, two
whites and one black. Ti will pnv.'4lo th'e med
ical fraternity to account fur this, singular
evelt,.— Rahn/Ond ThspaCh.
[O - The highest point reached by the MereU
r}, in the thermometer in klugland this sum
mer, as far as we have acemmtg, was on the
th of July, when it reached 74 degrees. July
5111, the thermometer was reported at 60 deg.,
which was the highest point on that date. On
the 8:11 of July it Only rose to 56 deg., on the
morning of July Bth the therumnieter indicated
only forty-nine degrees.
a77 -- SKtmrs.-- In the early Dutch times of N.
T. it is well known, the ladies estilliated their
wealth by the number of their petticoats. It
would appear that the same custom still pre
vails there, as the Home Journal saes:—" We
heard of a lady who has wore at One time, as
many as thirty skirts. We do not know what
is the usual number, but that seems to unto be
a few too many.
IaIIEMAIIK,IIII.E ClAsn.—Mrs. Julia Sayles,
wife of John Sayles, of Blackstone, died on the
14th ult., of dropsy, from which she had stiller
ed for live years. During this time she had
been tapped" upwards of one hundred and
. 14111 times, and more than //ire' thousand
pounds of water were extracted.— I Vow/socket
Patriot.
sawfish has been caught near Mobile
whose length was 10 feet 9 inches, breadth from
lin to lin across the back, three feet. and weight
about 3,000 pounds. The liver weighed 400
pounds, and furnished a barrel of oil. A thou
sand eggs, from the size of a marble to 12 inch
es in circumference,. were taken from the fish.
ring the day, keying the timber, and had only
partially finished. This brought the entire
weight of the engines, about 50 tons. upon
few of the timbers remaining unkeyed, and to
this the accident is attributed.
1.5 . 01.D11.11tti IN' TUK RPXOI.I•TION.--,The fol ,
' lowing statement of the number of troops, both
regular and klitin, furnished by each State du
ring the war, was prepared under authority of
Congress soon after the close of the contest.
Regulars. Militia.
N. Hampshire, •' 12.495 2 093
'Massachusetts, 68,007 15,1.15
Rhode Island, 5.903 428.:
Connecticut, 32.029 7.702
New York, 18,331 3,304
New Jersey, 10.726 6,055
Pennsylvania, 26.322 6.327
Delaware, 2,317 376
Maryland, 13.912 4.127 ,
Virginia, 25.665 5 620
North Carolina, 7,263 --
South Carolina, 6,417 --
Georgia,
2,676 - -
Total
[rPTIIE LINDEN TREE —A correspondent of
the Boston Transcript says the Chinese linden
Or lime, in addition to its being the very best
mid most beautiful shade tree, is of great import
once as a destroyer of the common ho•tse flu•.
In the season of flies lie had f o und that almost
innumerable quantities of dead house flies were
in the morning, under the branches of the lin
den, amounting to thousands upon thousands
the surface around being literally covered with
them.
IrT7A NATION or METIIODISTS.--ThC mission
to the Friendly Islands has been so successful.
that the nation of Methodists and the whole
population, from the king (who is a local
preacher") down to his meanest subject, attend
the Wesleyan ministry. These islands some.
tunes go by the name of Tonga. They consist'
of upwards of a hundred and fifty, and lie in
the Pacific Ocean, between latitude 13 degrees
and 25 degrees south, aml longitude 172 degrees
west and 177 degrees east.
ft 'All the sword blades made for the Eng
lish army ale the work of- four men, three of
when' are brothers. There is a secret in the
nuide of manufacture, known only by these nmr,
and which they are jealously guard. They se
lest their own assistants and have the right. to
discharge them at pleasure, when they do lint
like them. One of the brothers, at Enfield.
makes eighteen blades per flay. for each al
which he receives 2.s 9p. Ills average earnings !
weekly arc about fifty dollars.
TANNED.—St Lrnn , II: mon dig
ging potatoes in his garden, broke Immesh into
a pit. from which he took a larde quantity of
' tanned hides in good condition. A tannery
once occupied the spot, end the hides had been
in the vat at least 75 years:
117 The sage of the Butlido Republic thinks
that " if a young man spends two hours with a
young lady every night, and her old folks don't
make any fuss about it, and his old folks don't
make any fuss about it, the two young folks
may be said to be engaged."
THOMAS TITER has positively refused
to make a match for ::•",t25.000 to fight Mr. Do
mtste• Bumn.F.y, orPhiladel phia vim declined.
to fight on tiny terms, and sent the challengers
about their business.
Ea'At a late firemen's supper at Burlington.
Edward Bradley gave the following toast :
" Ladies of '56, like ihe firemen's bucket, well
hooped, and like firemen delighting in the exhi•
bition of their hose."
NEWSPAPER.—The newspaper is
about three hundred years old. the first of which
we have any record having been published at
Anvers, in Flanders, in 1550, by Abraham
Verhooven.
117.7'Strous.—They are now making shoes
without pegs or sowing. The soles are cement.
ed and also tho upper leather. They are said
to be stronger than those made in the ordinary
way, while they are vastly cheaper.
Massachusetts 'according to the Spring
field fltput/icon, will give Fremont nearly one
hundred thousnnd votes, and divide fifty thou
sand between his competitors.
fl The old maid who did not love scandal
nor hate young girls has been justly rewarded
with a husband.
177 What, man is there who, had he a win
dow in his . brenst, would not speedily close the
blinds ?
r=f - The mortality among children in our
principal cities this season, is appalling.
11:7'The daily supply oftroton water for New
York City is 50,000,000 gallons.
251,075
56,033
One day. while st:Il i t the neighborhood of
the Cape 'Vera Islands and in a calm, we Wert)
ill called on deck by die orders of the mate for
the porpose of tali:!g some black•tish, a scud!
of whieh were then frisking. puffing and blow
ing about a mile from where we lay becalmed.
ft fortunately proved to be my mast-hend and
f hail a bird's eye view of the whole scene.
The black tish is of the whale species, measur
ing from ten to twenty feet in length. and
makes from tow to three barrels of oil : it is not
however as nitwit for the oil that they are pur
sued and taken, as it is for the purpose of drill
ing and initiating the meat for the perilous cot.p
hats with the whale, and the Labor ions and sys
tematicprocess of cutting " trying-out,"
(boiling.) and storing away" the oil.
Ail around the stern of the ship and on our
larboard bow, the ocean was a blowing mass of
water, presentin,g the appearance of boiling
water, occasion e I by the breathing of these
fish, who were congreented in innumerable
numbers. The second mate's boat happening
to be lowered first was soonamong them and
taking in oars u5...41 ns paddles similar to those
used by the N. A. Indians, with which they
Got alongside of n fine large sired fish who lay
basking in the 81111 and rolling from side to side,
seemingly in ec:tacies with himself and the
world, little dreaming that.the " iron of fate"
iris agent entering his—blubber. The boat
steerer (1111rpiniller.) peaked his oar tool stood
uptight in die bow of the hunt, inspecting hit
rt:Toon a moment. the next it licW from hit
hands with unerring nim and was buried deep
in the vitals of the fish. All the oars were
peaked to keep clear of the water, and the boat
was soon traveling over the sea '• like a thing
of life." The other two boats which hail now
also been lowered tried to fasten to some of
them, bin the blood of the stricken fish harl
frightened the NA_ and although they would
not leaVe their bleeding companion, they very
cunningly and most provokingly managed , to
keep clear of their pursuers.
. _
17A very singular incident, says the Alba..
ny Knickerbocker. occurred to a friend of ours.,
on Wednesday. He has been in the habit or
carrying locotbco matches in his vest pocket
with his bank bills. While rumaglng his vest
pocket for some nioney, the matches ignited and'
set 4lre to a roll of bills. and before he discov—
ered it his looney was destroyed, and his vest
badly burned.
frfOnce upon a time it took thirteen years
work for a man to purchase a Bible. In 1272:.
the wages of a laboring man were less Chan four
cents per day, while the price of a Bible at the
same period was FASO. A common laborer in.
those days must toil on industriously for thir
teen long years if he would possess . a copy or
the word of thßi ! Now, the earnings of half a
day would pay the cost of a beautifully panted.
copy of the sacred oracles.
(0 - Amos It. ogr, Es. a le long
Democrat, and the Dem hte ocraticq ,-
candid if ate for
Congress two years ago in the Lebanon distriot,
alas declared his determination to support Fre
mont.
Ca - The New . Orleans Picayune of the Dth
inst., details an account of a runaway match
which lately occurred in that city, in which the
male party is said to be seventeen and the girl
thirteen years of ago. Rather a fast couple, wo
think. '
r - f - SACRED DAYS.—Christians keep Sunday ;
the Greeks; Monday : the Persians, Tuesday ;
Assyrians. Wednesday ; the Egyptians, Thurs
day ; the Turks Friday, and the Jews Saturday.
(CONTINUED PROD OUR LAST.)
SAN FRANCISCO, March, 1856.
Although any one ludging from appearances
at this time, would have thought us the hap
piest sett of jovial fellows upon earth, there was
still a concealed continual sorrow, a canker in
each heart. We had a good store of songs,
glees, &c., and hymns for the Sabbath, with
yarns to pass away the long hours of the mid
night watches.- It was the only recreation we
had besides our pipes and tobacco and was en
joyed to the fullest extent ; in fitcf, our officers
were completely misled, and believed us content
with our harsh asd tyrannical treatment ; but
we were all longing for liberty or home, and al
though the feeling was not expressed openly,
still dreams testified fully to the fact; each
night several of them were at home and one, a
great eater, dreamt nightly that ho was at
home in his mothor's pantry and waked up
with a pound-cake and pudding in his hand—
the poor disappointed fellow.
October Ist, 1S :l.—upon this day we had
very heavy weal her, being compelled to take in
nearly all rail, and during the reefing of the
fore-topsail my friend W —in had a very nar
row and miracolons!esenpe with his life. The
ship was rolling with tremendous jerks, creak
ing- and groaning in the heavy seas when we
went aloft to close-reef the fore-top-sail ; sever
al, among whom was W—in. had got out upon
the (Weather arm, when the ship was struck by
a tremendous sea. I was on the shrouds at the
time, and clung to them for life, but IV:.--nt
was torn from the yard and when I saw his
falling body through the spray around, I gave
him tip for lost. linn- ' ine my surprise when a
moment later I found him alongside of me on
the yard, unhurt and with his merry "Yee
am," aiding in furling the sail, which it was
found neces s ary to take in altogether. He had
been blown in a most miraculous manner into
the fore-top where he landed upon his back;
jumping up, 1 uhbing himself, and finding no
bone:: broke 11, hail came up to finish the job.
The stale or his mind as he statud was that of
perf•vt indilll relive and resignation.
Upon the Gil) of °molter we NUM' in sight of
the Cape de Veldt.. Islands. Tliey are very
similar ill appvitranee to the Western island',
but their inhabitants are darker cormlexioned
and more nearly assimilated to the Arrival) race.
The ship kept off at some distance and we had
no communication with the shore.
One calm amt quiet morning, and in an!evil
hour, " Salty" threw several pelves of mouldy
ship biscuit over the sides of the ship under the
eye of the Captain, who was watching in Ow
fore-rigging unknown to him. I was on the
point of warning him how he incantinusly re
!wilted the act, when a terrific yell burst from
overhead, and in a moment our bloated and fu
rious Captain slid upon deck, bellowing loudly ;
ru:hing to the bulwarks he seized the tad of a
clew• line and vigorously belaltred the back
and head of poor •• !Idly," Who stood up man
fully, looking the Captain directly in the
ey e without tha quiver of a muscle until the
pain and anguish became too much Ihr Immo
endurance, when large tears trickled down his
cheeks. When the fury of the Captain hnd
thus partially been vented, he desisted and
walked had: to the quarterdeck, when " Pall
ty'! suddenly wheeled and fulhm-ed him ; what
his ohject was I do not know, hut a timely or
der from the Captain sent hint to the mizzen
top-gallant-cross-trees and to stay there until ho
received further orders. This was in the morn
ing before breakfast, and those " further or
ders" came not until the shades of twilight
closed around its,
DAVID IL HUNTER
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