TtlAt LE.II3ISI-1 REGISTER, ALLENTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY, SI:PM:DER 17, 1850 C. nAmcs; EmTon • r.r - IN‘v Goons.—Guth & Schlauch. No. 41 West Hamilton street, have just received a fin and heavy stock of new Fall and Winter Good. , to which they invite the attention•of the public. Advertisement will appear next week. Ne..v York tedgei We have before us a copy of the " Ledger of Romance, Literature, Fashions and Fine Ark." published by ;faints AV. Fortitno, 1.2 and 14 Spruce street, New York. at her annum, two copies S 3, four copies G, i i nt copies Sl2. It is got up in the be,t etvle of t pography, printed on a large sheet of nt paper, and filled with a valiiety of matter, embracing liter ature, news, poetry, music, and last but not least, a " matrimonial eiirresliondence," making it altogether the most elegant family weekly is sued. Its circulation is said to be larger than any weekly paper ever attained in this country. The number before us is also embellished with several line engravings. We should be pleased to see it on our table weekly. I 'irw,., ned. On Thursday night last a boatman from New Jersey was drowned in the Lehigh Basin at this place. It is supposed be laid himself on deck to sleep and accidentally rolled over board. His body was recovered the following day. He was about :15 years of age. A t;plendid Entertainment. On Tuesday evening next a rare and cxcrl lent entertainment will be given at the (.01 Fellows' Hall by the Luca° Family,—a emit pany of Pantemitnists, Ballet Dancers:, Vocal ists and Musicians. Entertainments lilac this are but seldom presented out of the large cities. and we would on this occasion advise all.‘vho desire to see something ‘rni tit seeing to turn out, as a longtime may claps'.! 'eve they \al have - something similar alllmied them. Somethin.v t:q• rop Mons. E. Petrel,::, trartling ace nt for John Englhdt & C 0 ..; " Patent liens 1)!ill,d Eyed \ce,lics,' iii laid s.:•veral specimen pnehs on our table. As WC 1.11 , w liqt little fil)tnit the rcyuisitc 111;:l1ILCS 111 01,-.:ll'y (4) :;1*,`:i"1111 ,. ...` styli articles good, we wi'l le, 1-1. ,•11h, itor of Co,de).*:;l.,:t,le . g Book factored instrument for the pitrii,:e it hi, I,,ve been our gr,od fortune to mal:e tri,l of. 7'. cyc—that impot tent consideration in this wea pon of the scatustre, , s is carefully prepared against the trouble of cutting or wearing away the thread, and it is a ideastn:e therefore to work with a needle so invariably sure. We have found that our own needlework has become pcculiary fascinating, since we have made these well-manufactured insti unients to aid' in its achievement, and We cheerfully recommend them to that wide ciass in our midst with Na how sewing is matter of daily utility —a family necessity, and an object of tducation." .May be had at the principal stores in town. The Approachiii As a matter of interest to our readers We be low give the time for the holding of the Agricul tural Exhibitions in this and the neighboring ( ountk Lehigh County -r.t Anentown, on 'rues day, Wednesday, Thu:.,day .and Friday, Sept ;;Oth, 2d and :1.1. Nurthamith.n.r.muty -at Nazareth, 'on Tuesday, IVetine , .day and Thurs,lay, 7th, Sth and (Jilt of r. Northampton t'onnty Farmer,' and leehatt ies' In,titute 1.::.:11;1,ition,-- 1.:3,t0n, On 'ru e s day, IVednesday, Thur, , i,ty n l Friday, 23d 24th, 25th and 20th of September. —at Newtown, on Wed • Bucks Comity Fai uesday Scpt. 24th. Burks Comity Fair.---at Rcakling, on IVed nesclay, Thursday, and Saturday, Oct Ist, 2d, 3d cud 4th. Schuylkill C'ounty Fair,—at Schuylkill Haven, on IVednesday, Thur,.lay : Sept. '24th, 25th and • Grcat 27.c.:11", On Friday t'eptenWer ;6th a tnantl I;vpubli• can Itlass . :\lceting is to be hull in .or l'orough. Several of the itiJA etninutit chanipi-n-; of that cause,—the 11on. Anon Ihirlinattl.., lion: Da vid Wilmot and Or. \Vilna:ll tiler, ha% e Bea their will:ft„:ne: , . , ; to lie ure:;ent and &liver addresses out the At chic:a About two weeks since a 12 •ear old dough ter of Mr. JACOB licKtm, hear Seidersville, Low er Saucon township, fell or a Pear tree and broke both arms just above the wrist. Maine Eleclion. The annual dcetion for State officers, menr bers of Congress, Legislatare, &e., was hid iu Maine on last Monday week The result is Republican triumph, they having cal thing,— from Ato Z. They elected every mem bey of Congress, the whole S ale S a Lc, except perhaps one, ;11111 111 . .1r than low-fins of the House. Hamlin's Rep.) mai nity over Wells :or Governor will be t.'.1.1,11m1, and Maui: 1.5 tam over the Demoei•atie told Whig eawiillates blued. Lust year the Ilepublieaus . and Know Nothings united were in a minority of ov4 7,- 000 i although they had a plurality. " For the past few years, the country has been This has become a great evil in our country, flooded with advertisements of various Gift En- and it is to be regretted that the party !Ass terprises, which is but another name for Lot- , are so generally lending their aid to its exten (cries, and a new mode of swindling. several sion. A stranger from abroad, were he to take of the leaders of these schemes in New York : up our newspapers at this time, would suppose an Tewhere have been taken up and fined or that we were a nation of gamblers, and that a' 'mprisoned, for obtaining money under false presidential contest was but. a mere game of pretences, and several others we know of ought ! the national proclivity. It is to be hoped that to be in the Penitentiary. A bold fellow, who we will mend our ways in this regard, not only assumes the name of J. PERHAM again announ- from cOnsiderations alncting our reputtetion as , ces his Gift E»frrprize and wishes us to pub- a people, but for the purity of elections,—a dish his sehetne for ten iiaels in the same ! , thing impossible so long as the practice is tole- This is about the sixth time we have received rated and encouraged as it is. Instead of the circular of !inn, though we have never dis_ diminishing, however, this evil seems to be graced the columns of the Register by inserting' gathering strength with the return of every his advertisements and notices. ! presidential election. So common has it be lie still has " marriageable gentleman ! come, that its moral impropriety has been al and fifty thousand dollars," and his " beauti- I most lost sight of, and it is pretty generally ful lady and. twenty five thousand dollars" as understood that if a party refuses to gamble by the'two grand pri:es of his sham lOttery. Now I betting on its candidates, it is unquestionable we have, no use for his lady' whatever, and evidence that they have given up all hopes of ! wouldn't give him a brass thimble for ten success. Without going into a discussion of acres like her: If we were disposed to patron.: the morality of bettin g on eleeMons, we have ice ' women in the market,' we could, doubt. ! always entertained one view of the suhject. less, find plenty of them, as • beautiful' as his, founded on its practical effects, 'which appeal's without traveling so far. ,tousto be satisfacteny and unanswerable. It fellow really wishes to get this . man and woman oil his hands, why dmi'l he let them marry each other and be dune w'th them ? How many fools in the land invest a dollar each in this contemptible and vile business ? On Saturday last a large and enthusiastic Republican Meeting was held at the house of IVILLIANt KISTLER, in Lynn township. The meeting was called to order by the appointment of Plum]. FETHEROLv, as President : and Philip Wertman,Jaeob Oswalt,Joseph Rickert, Chris tian Kistler, Div id Mainz and David Heil, as Vice Presidents. James Smith and Harrison Smtl,• acted as Seer:t arks. The meeting was addres...d by Pn.l. I. N. (;reAory in the Eng lish language, and E. H. Illtwh, Eq., of Beth lehem, in German. The best of feeling is said to have 'prevailed. On Friday afternoon a terrible riot occurred in Baltimere between a Fillmore fishing club and a party of men at the Seventeenth Ward Demorratk headquarters. Two men were shot dead, and some twenty others' wounded, sever al, it is believed. fatally., The fight lasted only a mina!(;;, but Iltc firing was heavy and severe. Neither of the men killed w e re engaged in tile fight, and most of those womnle4l were residents in the vicinity, attracted to the spot by the disturbance. , !,r 11171,11 The steatnar George Law arrived at New York on the 14th. On the 7th ult., Judge Terry was unconditionally released from custo dy by the Vigilance Committee. On the 18th ult., the Committee had a ,c rand review and parade, when their entire force, numbering near 5.00 well appointed troops were under arms. The Commit tie lia , l not °Mei:illy clkbanded but it was understood that their functions ceased for the present, with the imposing demonstra tion of die 18th. The several companies are, however, to retain their arms and maintain their organization, and it was understood the Committee would re-assemble in case of neces sity. Er..7The Lehigh Navigation Co. shipped, for the week ending on Saturday, August 30th, 38,576 tons, making for the season 743,688 tons, being 73,773 tons less than to the corres ponding time last year. For the week ending at the same time, !here were carried over the Lehigh Valley Railroad, 5,794 tons, and for the season 94,059 tons, which, added to the pres ent season's tonnage by the canal, gives an ag gregate tonnage figrun the Lehigh region of 837,- 747 tons, exceeUing last year's tonnage by 20,- :::,..- G ton= committee of the National Kansas So ciety galled on President Pierce at the White House, last week, to make respectful represen tations of facts Within their knowledge as to af fairs in unhappy Kansas, and to request " His Excellency" to interfere. The President dispu ted sonic of their statements, and attempted to ratite some of their arguments, and further in timated that there would have been no trouble hnd the Free State emigrants not talked so loud ly about making the Teri itory free, :Lskel the President if it was probable tln-re would be any change in the !,,,u,s a the i;overittneut regariling Kansas. The P:lA.letit cxelitinica Nu sirs ! there will be none :" 71%! . .1::% [l:, , 'A reliable breadstuff circular prepared in New York, shows that the total exports of breadstutls to Great Britain and Ireland, front the various ports in the United States, during the year ending on the 31st ultimo, were as fol lows, as near as can be ascertained : !lour 1,635,733 barrels, against only 172,- • 61 to about the same period in 1555 : wheat, 7 }•511.111'1 bushels against 309,077 : and corn, 6.722.206, against 5.784.555. The reports of the latter part of August front distant ports have to he added to the ttbovo•figures : but the statement is a sufficient illustration of the int toense increase in the shipments of.llour and w h o m, ( luring the past. twolve months over the year preceding. The exports to the continent of Europe. which are but a small fraction of those to Great Brizain, exhibit, an equally large increase. rD - The present postmaster at Jonestown, pp., Was appointed under. Thos. Je[h•rson's ad- MEM minis; Lie is nuw B l years ohl ,T - During August tits l'entral Pail road sold about 5275,000 mostly to actual settlers. I ST7'ST. PAUL, .11innesota, is now sail to have a population of ten thousand souls. In 1810 it tel not contain five hundred. During the tires- CD — Since the Ist of January last, thCra Uas eat season 28,000 persons stopped at three of been landed in New York from California, the the leading hotels. I sum of $21,520,47. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, SEPTEMBER 17, 1856. CM Enterprises. Republican Illectlng 1:!:,1 at ISaillmore. I.'ate News from Califlwein. Betting on Elections. is this : If one man lois . a moral right to bet on an election, every voter throughout the limits of the Union has the same right. Suppose, then, that every voter, at a presidential elec tion for instance, had a wager depending on its result, what would be the principle to govern -in the contest ? Would it he controlled by an enlightened patriotism looking only to the wel. fare and glory of the nation, or would that great prerogative of a free people, the elective franchise, be degraded to the servile instrument of the basest of human passions, avarice ? In this country, particularly, where we learnt to regard the government as a wall of adamant that nothing can move or battle down, when millions are at stake would men stop to count the cost or to deliberate upon principles ? It is wholly unnecessary to enlarge upon the sub ject and trace out such a state of things to their legitimate results. 'We may only ask, how long would our glorious constitution last should it once become inaugurated as the estab lished custom of our people ? The IYar to I:ain,as It is difficult for an unprejudiced mind to form a just opinion as to who are the outlaws in 'Kansas, from reading the reports as they come from both sides of the contending parties. The pro•slavery papers give fearful accounts of the-depredations of the abolitionists, whik on the other hand the anti-slavery prints are tilled with outrages perpetrated by the border ruffians. Sometimes we turn from these ac• counts with the wish that the whole territory might be cleared of its inhabitants, and the or iginal quiet of its prairies restored. Great al lowance must be made-for the reports we ge! from Kansas. The truth is bad enotot, but there undoubtedly are men interested in Loring Kansas news exaggerated and painted in horri fying colors. We copy front both sides : The Kansas //rraid of Aug. 2:1,1, says : Kansas is again invaded, and the work of de vastation. again commenced. Armed bodies of men from the north are marching over the ter ritury, ravaging peaceful settlements. destroy ing our coops, binning out• -houses, driving Off, imprisOning, and murdering our citizens. Out rage follows outrage with fearful rapidity. Re bellion, murder, house-burning, bloodshed, and every crime that can disgrace humanitv, are being perpetrated in our territory by Lane's armed band of marauders. No place is sacred' from the violence of the blood thirsty ruffians. Stealthy assassins rosin over the country. un- ' der cover of night, dogging the footsteps of un suspecting citizens, and ‘vatehing the opportune moment to strike the cowardly. blow.-- No man's life is safe from one day to another froin these Wood-hounds, if he has declared his opposition to the Abolitionists in Ktumas. They are wag- Mg a war of extermination upon ,/// pro-slavery men, They have boasted that they will drive out of the territory all pro-slavery men, or re - - (Moe them to submission. Let, us turn to the other side. Accounts of murders come to us from every hand. . A Mr. Hopps who married the sister of Rev. Mr. Nnte,! has been shot and scalped by a border ruffian.' His wife was not allowed to sec her husband's corpse Mr. Nut°, in his last letter from Lawrence,: stated that he was about leaving that place in I company with a small company of voluntenrs, l fir the purpose of recovering the body of Mr. rffij7Ps, together with his poperty, andwhile' on his brotherly errand he was arrested. on the 27th ult., by a party of men headed by a Mr. Emery, Who is a United States mail agent. In company with Mr. Note were some fifteen or twenty persons, among whom Was Mrs. Ihmps. Mrs. helps made her escape and has arrived 1 at the east. It was feared that the ruffians would hang Mr. Nute, • Advices from Kansas received at St. Louis, state that a battle was fought on the morning. of the 30th, at Ossawatlomie‘between 300 pro slaVery troops under Capt. Reed, and about the saute number of free miners under Capt. Brown. The battle lasted an hour, when the free soilers were routed, with the loss of twenty killed and seven wounded.--Brown and his son are both reported killed. Five pro slavery men were! wounded. All the provisions and ammunition were carried away front Ossawattomie, and the town burnt, . [O'CIIII.D ATTACKED DT RATS.—On Wednes day night last, a negro woman in the service of Dr. B. F. Chewning, left her infant child in the cradle in the kitchen ; and was absent .some time. When she returned; she found that the child had bee - ii attacked by rats, and its flesh eaten from both arms to the bone, and also a part of its legs devoured in the same way. The cries of the child were heard by the neighbors, but of cz;:rse they thought its mother was in at tendance upon it.--i•';t'dricksburg Herald. . (O'MOILMON LIPS 114 UTAIL—We have seen a letter' from a merchant in California, says the Salem Register, who writes that ho had an in .terview with a highly respectable gentleman, whose duties compelled him to dwell in Utah, for more than two years. He writes that " his description 4 of 311ormon ,.. jilet . a . nd customs is re volting to decency, and shows the sect to be a disgrace to the age. Ile estimates the number of fanatics—for they cannot be called aught else —at 80.000, and s. a stranger is watched, and his words note( , n n he time he enters till he leaves the place. t h of all you have is taken, also, even if you Be but a traveler. Brigham Young's hold open them is through t fear. He is a revolting character, and his tal i ent lies in blasphemy and obscenity of language, I united to keen perceptive faculties, that enable him to pick good tools out of a crowd of per t sons, and to detect those that will prove trou blesome. The latter he gives ten days to set tle up their (Meets, and sends tin In on a mission of live years to A ustralia, England, or elsewhere. if they do not go they arc secretly murdered ; and he says that ha knows of thirty who have 'been killtd for this ofince, but done so secretly that the murdererscannot lie detected.'Plough a strong minded man himself, he is so intensely , • disgusted with the vile doings of the people, that he has left the-country." Ax OLD Oxi , ..—T:te Newhuryport Herald says that Mr. &Amnon P. Felker, in cutting a slick of white oak timber, the oilier day, opened a tree toad that had " come down to us from former generations," as Welter said to his fish. Over hint had grown sixty seven grains, or rings of the oak, indicating that that had been his home for sixty-seven years at least, where ho had existed without air, without water, without food. At first he paid no attention to being turned out into the world again, and remained in a pc] lectly torpid state : but after lying in the sun a few minutes, lie marched oil' " Imp ping" mad, and just as fresh and vigorous as a new one. lr — r•A Cosrucr.—Some excitement was crea ted in Hanover township, this week, in conse quence of a conflict of authority. It appears that a school house' and residence is attached to the SchoenersVille elnirch. The Directors of the township engaged Mr. J. W. Held, of this borough, as teacher. Thq,organist of the build ing engaged Mr. Miller, of :4attcon, who took possession by moving into the dwelling. Mr. 11,1 d, a day or two alter presented himself, and ready to move in. Mr. Miller r;!ceived due no tice to quit within an hour, but during this pe riod a number of . persons, favoring the action of the organist, gathered and defended his right to occupy the premises. Miller, we believe, cmilinues in the occupancy of the dwelling. Miller and Nathan Lerch have prosecuted fur Times. cntr3 NARROW 'ESCAPE —On Thursday last & Rogers' circus company was about to cross a bridge on ent eying l'ort Wayne, la., when the driver of the npolonieon, to which was attached forty horses, four abreast, saw the bridge giving away. Ile applied the lash to his horses, and they sprang to their'sp , ',l at once; so that all but the wheel. horses 1 , , .1 the bridge. The four wheel horses, the a:, ,! o icon and the driver plunged into the river. , a hich at that spot was fifteen feet deep. The horses were immediately detached by sonic of the mem bers of the company, and swam ashore, and the car, in a few hours after, was released from its unfortunate position with but slight injury to anything or anybody: 1:a - Sisurr.an l'imslivrimixr.—A wealthy farmer named 'Simonds, re s iding some twelve Miles from Newbur;‘ll. on the Hudson river, " had a presentiment" ten years ago that he would die on the 2.oth of August, 1856. Ile set it down as a fixed fact, selected a spot for his grave, bought an iron fence for it, a fine tombstone and an elegant coflin, and had every thing in readiness for the solemn event. On the day fixed for the event he had a clergyman and a sexton at hand, ate a hearty dinner with his friends, and went to bed to die. He did his best, but his ghost would not be given up, and he now confesses his ludicrous fully. GT/PRICES or PRODECE ix NEw Youx.—Flour :old at tf286. , 10 for common to good state, up to per bariiiNtit - n - fra. ; enesee ; .rye flour, u I to S 5 for extra ; corn meal, *3.15 to s 1.12. Wheat sold at $l.-15 to 81.70 per bushel ; rye, SS to 00 cents : oats, 45 to 18 cents ; corn. 66 to 73 cents per bush el. Mess pork sell at *519.50 per barrel ; prime', $17.75: prime mess, $lB. Conutry mess beef brought $8 to 89.25 ; country prime, 86 to $7 : repacked Chicago,'BB.7s to $ll ; ex tra mess, $ll to $12.50. Live beef cattle brought 7 to 10 cents per pound—average, 81‘ cents. There is nothing to notice in.the retail market. Fggs are 6 for 12 cents, and butter 18 to 28 cents per pound. The Louisville Journal states that Mr. Alex ander, of Woodford, Ky‘, has purchased the celebrated race. horse Lexington. He met Mr. Tenbroccic in England, and the pm:chase was made. The price paid was 815.000. This is the highest price that 'was ever paid - for any horse in the United states. It is also stated that he ,has sold Lecompte to tho same gentle man for 810,000. • ir7 . TIT FOIL T.yr.—The people of New York begin to threaten that if the San Francisco Vig ilance Committeb does not stop sending all the rascals in that place to New York, they will be Compelled in self-defence to banish New York rascals to San Francisco. r 7 Since the opening of the pound in New York, eight thiusfind right hundred dog , •ef high and low degree, have been received into it. Why not have a pound for dogs in Allen town. We know of several that need pounding. Destruction of a Large Hotel. A Mammoth Printing Press. The Mount Vernon Hotel, at Cape May, was A New. York correspondent of the New 0$ entirely destroyed by fire on Friday night the I leans Picayune, in a recent letter, writes as sth inst. Five persons were burned to death follows in the flames. They were Air. Cain, one of the proprietors, with his family. It was the work of an incendiary, supposed to be an Irish woman, to whose husband Mr. Cain owed a hundred dollars, and who was heard to utter the most serious threats against Mr. Cain. She has been arrested, and sent to jail on the charge. The loss is very' heavy, but the.mort gage holders, we are informed, are insured to the atnount of from $BO,OOO to $90,000. Most of the fu-niture. it is said, had been removed. The body of Philip Cain, Sr., was found on the Sth inst., among the ruins of the Mount Vernon Hotel, much charred, but yet Capable of being identified. Near it were also found a number of bones, which are supposed to be those of his two daughters, Martha and Sarah, and indicating that the family were endeavoring to escape from the building together. The wo man under arrest, Bridget McGarney was dis charged this afternoon by the Mayor, he not deeming the evidence sufLient to justify her commitment for trial. It was the largest hotel in the world, and capable of accommodating 2100 visitors. It was originally deigned to have the buildings occupy three sides of a hollow square, or court yard, and the front range and one wing were up. One wing had never been commenced.— The building was constructed entirely of wood ; it was four stories in height in the main, with four towers each five stories in height. Three of these towers occupied the corners of the building, and one stood midway of the only wing. In addition to these towers, there was an immense tower six stories in height, in the centre of the front. The entire structure, both outside and upon the court yard, was surround ed with wooden piazzas that extended from the ground to the roof, with floors at• each story. The wing was a quarter nfei mile in len,!, , th, and the - front covered nearly an equal extent of ground. The dining room, which was 425 feet long, and 00 feet in width, was capable of ac commodating 3000 persons. There- were 432 rooms in the building. 10 - MURDERED AND NEABLY DEVOCILEII BY MB:S.—Paschal D. Craddock, a notorious in dividual living near Louisville, Kentucky, was murdered, apparently by several pistol shots, on the 26th of August, and his body was dis covered nearly devoured by hogs. his faith ful horse was found standing near by, proba bly the only witness of the deed. Craddock was a notorious character, and had been warn ed by a committee of a great majority of the most respectable citizens of the county. his im mediate neighbors, to remove front the county and State in six months. The allotted time expired on the 27th of August. At the scene of the murder, which was in a lane leading to the Bardstown road, wore discovered the tract: s of three horses, two leading to the road, and one to the woods. [Ti.'..' thimble mode of California gold has been presented to Mrs. Fremont by Messrs. Ketchum & Brother, of New Pork. It contain. three devices, the first representing Col Ft c utout planting the Amin iean Flag on the peak of the Rocky Mountains : the second a view of the National Capitol at Washington : the third an Eagle holding the national shield with a belt on which is inscribed the name ' fees;e.' Around the rim are the words 'Free Soil,' 'Free Speech Free Men," Freeniont,' the latter immediately under the name Jessie and in the same style of letter. It is said to be very beautiful. 133 -- Exammti Lioxiiss.—At about 11 o'clock Wednesday forenoon, a lioness belonging to Van Amburgh & Co., kept with other ani mals belonging to the same Menagerie, in a building atNewport, near Cincinnati, Ohio, en raged at her cub being taken from her, with her claws tore the iron bars from their fasten ing and breaking from her den, attacked and killed a dog that was kept about the premises, after which she seized a panther and lacerated him so dreadfully, that he died shortly after wards. A young tiger cub, which the splendid Bengal tigress now travelling with the caravan had given birth to about four months since, was the next victim to her .rage, after which she demolished several cages of !Are and value 14c birds. The keeper arrived at this juncture - and succeeded in chaining this ferocious brute, to the great relief of the surrounding neighbor hood, the people of which were afraid she would succeed in breaking from the building. Ir7UNIMIECEDENTED TIME IN llAnsuss. Those celebrated trotting horses, Flora Temple and Taconey, contended for a stake of $lOOO over the. Union Course, ten miles from N. York, last week—Flora in harness, Taconey in saddle —mile heats. The race was won by Flora in one heat, which she accomplished in the aston ishingly quick time of 2 minutes 241 seconds, distancing her opponent. This is the quickest time upon record in harness. Flora made the last half mile in 1 minute 111 seconds—an av erage of 30, feet per second. . , • J'A REMARKABLE Biavrr,—The Journal des Announces, of Lisle; announces that a married woman residing in a commune near that town, and who has twice been brought to bed of twins; has just been safely delivered of five children—three boys and two girls. All the children are well formed, but small, and are in good health. A singular phenomenon is stated by the journal to have attended the pregnancy of the Woman. During the last two months all the objects before her eyes appeared to be sev eral times repeated, but since her delivery her sight has returned to its natural state. The Rev. Mr. Gates recently married Mr. Joseph Post to Miss Martha Rads.: If that trio don't make a good fence, we should like to know what will. Perhaps when the London Times ordered a ten cylinder press from the Mesira. Hoe, it im agined it was leaving even the most enterpris ing of the American journals in the back ground, but it will soon find out its mistake, for I now learn that the circulation of the Philadelphia Ledger (running well on to one hundred thou sand !) has compelled the enterprising pi•oprietors of that paper, Messrs. Swain s Abel, to order from the manufacturers two twelve cylinder presses, at a cost of S10,000! To accommodate these gigantic pieces of work manship, the Ledger folks have been obliged to pu - rchaso• two adjoining buildings, at a heavy outlay, and in which the presses are to be placed. When these are in&duced, the Led ger will be able to print sixty thousand sheets an hour, or equal to one thousand sheets per nub- ute ! and all this immense circulation—building of the fastest presses in the world—and un bounded prosperity generally, is the result of an unflinching integrity ;. an indomitable per severance, and a business tact that sees no motto ahead but onward ! tri - SitocKm: cabinet maker, named Nathaniel West, residing in Merchant street, Philadelphia, on Monday evening mur dered his wife and attempted to kill himself. Ile gave himself two wounds in the breast with a dirk knife, one being quite dangerous. West and his wife had agreed to separate a week pre vious, and West had been absent since then. On returning, and finding his wife removing his furniture, against his will, a quarrel ensued which ended in the terrible tragedy narrated. Mr. West's sister and Li., three children were jn the house at the time. Jealousy was at the bottom of the Won. WALsrxe, ox WArmt.—Galignanrs Mes senger gives an account of a man walking on the river Seine, at Paris, recently, with appa rent ease. Ile had each tbot in a small trian gular box, securely fastened with straps round his legs, and in his hand he carried a Jong bal ance pole, sithilar to that used by rope dancers, except that at each end was attached a large intlat , d bladder. When getting drills balance he dipped the end of the pole, and the resis tance caused by the bladder touching the water' restored his equilibrium. ri - "Paper making in the United States has become one of on r greatest productive interests, in consequence of the unrestrained liberty of the press, the prevalence of common school educa tion, and the appetite for literature of all de scriptions. There are in the Republic, it is said, seven hundred and fifty paper mills in ac tual operation, having three thousand engines, and producing in the year two hundred and fit= ty pounds of paper. ' Pacery Goon. --" Fremont run oft with a it