THE LEHIGH FIEGISTEII. -ALLENTOWN I PA. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 18 0. F. RAINES, EDITOR ; pa - Just as WO were going to press a part of tho linos by "Lohigh" wore aceiduntally thrown into "pi." They will appear in our next. Who Votes Intelligently , Intelligence and true patriotism go hand in hand. Ignorance and misrule are cotempora neous. And not until the school•house has clone its work in the most remote and obscure places, will the Union bp governed wisely and justly by the sovereign people. Su long as ig norance retains a fast hold upon the masses of tho people, so long will the masses be carried away by the high-sounding titles which hive been conferred upon the different political fac tions by experienced and cunning party lead ers. But when the promothem fires of intelli gence shall have penetrated, lighted up and •urified the now 'dark and benighted recesses of our social system—and not till then—we shall expect the choice of our rulers to be made with a view only to the furtherance of the true principles of justiff and freedom. Not long since we overheard a conversation between two gentlemen relative to the election in this coun try. One of them observed, " You have elected Mr. —, but yoi couldn't elect Fremont." " No, sir," replied the other, " there are not quite school houses enough." That remark is full.of significance. Look at the contrast in six States, according to the last census : In Pennsylvania there are of all grades of high schools 524 with 23,751 students ; in New Jersey 225 %vith 6,844 students : in'lndiana 131 with 6,185 . students. Total 880 schools and 39,786 students. • In New York there are 887 schools with 40,- 328 students ; in Ohio' 206 with 15.052 stu• dents, in Wisconsin 58, with 2,723. Total 1,- 151 schools and 67,102 students : This was more than in proportion to the inhabitants at that time ; but since then WiscOnsin has very nearly three times as many schools and ,stu dents. Of common schools. Pennsylvania had 9.- 001 with 413,706 scholars ; New Jersey 1,473 with 77,920 scholars, Indiana 4,822, with 161,- 500 scholars. Total 15,356 schools and 653,- 136 scholars. New York had 11 580 schools with 670.221 scholars ; Ohio 11,001, with 484,153 scholars ; 'Wisconsin 1,433 with 58,817 scholars. Total 24,607 schools and 1,218,101 scholars. Difference in favor of the latter, 9,311 schools and 505,056 scholars—a difference out of all proportion to the number of inhabitants and the facilities for education. And here is the great source of intelligence for the masses of the people ; from it alone can we hope for a nation of educated freemen. Of daily papers, Pennsylvania had 24 with an annual circulation of 50,410,788 copies ; New Jersey had 6 and 2,175,350 copies ; ants 9 and 1,153,099 copies. Total 39 papers and 53,744,210 copies yearly. Of tri-weekly journals Penn. had 2 and 78.000 copies annual ly ; N. J. none, Ind. 2 and 195,000 : Total 4 and 263,000 copies. Of semi-weekly Penn. .had one with 62,000 copies, the other none. Of weeklies, Penn. had 251 and 27,359,384 copies ; N. J. 43 and 1,900.258 copies ; Ind. 26 and 2,926,734 copies. Total 399 papers and 32,180, 378 copies yearly. Now York had 51 dailies and 63,028,585 copies ; Ohio 26 papers and 14,285 633 copies ; Wisconsin 6 papers and 1.053,563 copies. To tal 82 papers and 79 267,563 copies. Of Tri weeklies N. Y. hall 8 and 776,000 copies ; Ohio 10 and 1,047,930 copies ; Wis. 4 and 198,000 copies. Total, 22 papers and 2.022,180 copie's. Of semi-weeklies N. Y. had 13 and 3,116,360 copies, the others none. Of weeklies N. Y. has 308 and 39,205,020 copies ; Ohio 201, and 13,- 234,209 copies ; Wis. 35, and 1,395,992 copies. Total 644 papers and 53,936,121 copies. • Grand totals, Penn. &c. 443 papers and 76.- 249,598 copies, New York, &c. 862 papers and 138,342.224 copies. Difference in favor of the latter 310 papers and 52,092,626 copies an nually. Since 1850 the former Slates, and particular ly Pennsylvania and New Jersey, have increas ed their annual circulation but little, while the latter States have nearly doubled theirs. Of semi-monthlies, New York and Ohio have one-third of all in the Union. Of monthlies a little more than one-third ; of quarterlies s.out of 10. In all these elements of intelligence it will bo noticed that New York alone will out number. tlio three States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Indiana. ' Of white persons over the age of 20 tvho can hot read or write, Pennsylvania had - 66,928, New Jersey .17,248 ; Indiana 70,540. Total 155,716. New York has 91,293 ; Ohio 61,- 030, Wisconsin 6,351.. Total 158,084. But of these 30,000 are found in the three cities of New York, Brooklyn and Cincinnati —all distinguished for their votes in favor of Slavery, which makes the disparity in favor of the States voting for freedom enormous. In the former States there are 133,515 na tive born, who cannot read or write, over the age of. twenty, in the litter only 89,179 or less than one-third the ratio of the others ! Be sides, as we shall demonstrate, the great body of this ignorance in all the States, is concentra ted in those counties which give pro• Slavery majorities. Wo sum up the whole thing by States as fbl lows : Of those in tho States which voted for Buchanan who cannot read or write above 'the age of . 20, and native barn, there are 679,681. In those States which voted for Fremont there are only 108,673 ! Difference in favor of the latter 581,008 ! 10'1w in soiling at St. Thomas at $89.60 por ton. . The President's Message In another part of to-day's paper we give a carefully prepared abstract of President Pierce's Message to Congress. It is generally allowed to be just such a document as wo might expect from trio representative of a party which em-- ploys bludgeons instead of arguments, and the senators of which scold like street drabs on the Senate floor. After what we witnessed at the last session, we should have been very unrea sonable if we had looked foranything betterthan the language of party rancor, in which Mr. Pierce so freely indulges. More than one-third of the whole document is devoted to the Missou ri Compromise—to its repeal, and to the work ings of . the Kansas-Nebraska legislation,, in which, some sense and more nonsense, some truths, with more falsehoods, some sound max ims with more partisan flummery, are rather ingeniously and sophomorically blended togeth er. The President states that the repeal of the Missouri Compromise did not renew the •agita tion of the Slavery question, for he . coolly as sumes that the Missouri Compromise was not only " obsolete," but unconstitutional. The , Missouri Compromise was passed by a Con gress which contained some of the first lawyers I of the country ; it was approved of by the Cab '• inet of James Monroe, and was regarded as a solemn compact for some 34 years. Acts for the organization of Territories and for the ad misrion of new States, which contained exactly ! the same principle in regard to the extension of Slavery, were signed by George Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jack son, Van Buren and Polk. They were affirmed to be Constitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. Notwithstanding the author. ity of all the three great branches of the Govern ment, Legislative, Executive and Judicial, Pres ident Pierce has undertaken to decide that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. . The President's attack upon the Republican party, by the assumption that associations have been formed " inflamed with a desire to change the domestic institutions of existing States" by abolishing slavery therein—the 'Washington National lutelligencer justly but temperately replies : " Whatever repugnance may be felt in the Free States, north and west, to slavery in the abstract, or t) its practical extension north of the line prescribed to it by the legislative act of 1821, we have too high an opinion of the general respect felt in these States for the Con stitution and its compromises, and for the in defeasible rights of the Southern States, to give credence to the sweeping charge of the Presi dent. It is as unjust, wo think, to attribute to them any such sentiment or purpose as it would be to impute to the patriotic people of the South a desire to overthrow the Govern ment because one or two newspapers and a few monomaniacs in a particular locality rail against the union of the States and advocate its dissolution. There are doubtless causes of complaint, not all of them imaginary, both North and South. but we have too much faith in both sections to - admit the justice of the President's allegation. In the most violent de bates of the lust session we heard Northern Senators, distinguished for their extreme opin ions on the Kansas question, not only publicly repudiate the remotest wish or intention to in terfere with slavery in the States, but avow their readiness to shoulder their muskets to de fend the people of the South, if need be, in main taining their authority at home. " We are not extenuating the extravagances of fanatics in the North or in the West ; but, will all deference to the President, we must say that lie has gone too far in imputing revolution ary sentiments or designs to so large a portion' of the people of the Free States." Taking the whole document under considera lion, it is not of much weight, and after being read will, like its author, be laid aside with a' feeling of regret that his inaugural and first' message should be so inconsistent with his last. Frank Pierce canto into power on the 4th of March, 1853, by an overwhelming majority of I rho suffrages of the people ofthe United States —he stood on that day sustained by the almost unanimous voice of this free people—he had before him the most brilliant future that ever mortal man enjoyed—he had been elevated to power on the strength of that Uxtos sentiment, which had trampled both Northern and Southern sec-' tionalism in the dust—he had only to call' around him a Cabinet composed of men devoted to the Compromise measures of 1850, and to ! place in power none who opposed that adjust ment, and he would have seen no such agitation as followed his departure from this policy, but he would this day have been the most popular man in the whole expanse of the Union, instead of baing, as he is, a wretched outcast—n political defunct, with no mourners following him to his final resting place. Is there a living man so false to truth, as to deny that all the evils which have afflicted, and which now afflict the country, are tracea ble to the ineffable stupidity—the inordinate vanity—the inflated pomposity of Frank Pierce, who, not content with being sustained by four fifths of the people of this country--sought to purchase up the enemies of the Compromise of 1850, by promoting them to positions of power and influence--to mix oil and vinegar -- and to strengthen his claim to the people's confidence by ostracising, discarding, and humbling those patriotic and pure-minded men who had stood by and preierved the Union in the illerilsof 1850 ? The Baker Trial. New York, Dec. 7. The jury in the case of Baker, at Newburg, for the murder of Bill Poole, in New York, Vivo years ,ago,. did not agree upon a verdict, and were discharged yes terday afternoon. The jury stood six for man slaughter in the third degree, and six for ac quittal. Baker was remanded to the custody of the Sheriff of this city ; and arrived hero by the afternoon train. His counsel gavo . notice that ho would apply at an early moment to have Baker liberated on bail. New Banks. There will be thirty-two applications for new banks, re-charters and extensions, before the next Legislature. Whether the Lancaster Bank Rill have any influence over the Legislature, rennins to be seen. THE LEHIGH REGISTER, DECEMBER 10,. 1856. Congress re-assembled at Washington at noon on Monday. Out of three hundred and two metnbers comprising' the two Houses, but thirty-nine 'were absent. The Senate despatch ed the usual routine business with Old digni ty. The House proceeded to qualify its newly I elected members, and when the credential of Mr• Whitfield, the delegate from Kansas, was pre sented, Mr. Grow, of Pennsylvania, objected to its reception. A warm debate ensued, and much excitement prevailed. Finally the ques tion of the' admission of General Whitfield was decided in the negative by a vote of ninety seven yeas to one hundred and ono nays. Pending a motion to reconsider this vote the House adjourned. On the - assembling of the two Houses on Tuesday, the President sent in his Message. In the Senate, at the termination of the reading of the Message, Mr. Hale attacked the position of the Executive with regard to the motives and objects imputed to the IF:publican party. The discussion assumed a wide range, and was con ducted with much spirit on both sides, Messrs. Wilson, Trumbull and Seward,' and Mason, Brown and Cass, participating. In the House, the reading of the Message was postponed, that body spending the entire day in discussing the admission of the Kansas Delegate, (Whitfield,) and adjourned without disposing of the question. On Friday the Senate was not in session. In the House the reconsideration of the claim of Mr. Whitfield to a seat in that body again came up, and an animated discussion took place.— Upon a division which was had upon the ques tion, it was ascertained that a maj rity of three were in favor of his admission. Further action on the subject, however, was at length deferred until yesterday, but how the matter was di-- posed of has not yet reached us. Tho Pennsylvania Electoral College The Electoral College of Pennsylvania met in the Senate Hall of the Capitol, at Harrisburg. on Wednesday last. All the Electors. (twenty seven number) were present. The Hon. William Wilkins, of Allegheny, was unani mously chosen President. Wm. B. McKean and William 11. Miller, Secretaries. The votes for President and Vice President were taken by ballot, and were all given for James Buchanan for President, and John C. Breckinridge for Vice Presid.ent. Triplicate certificates of the vote were signed by the Electors—one to be deposited in the of fice of the Secretary of State at Harrisburg, one to be transmitted to Philadelphia, and one to be sent to Washington. The names of the candidates for bearers of the returns were drawn from n box. James S. Campbell was drawn as the bearer of returns for Washington, Thomas o.sterhaut to Phila delphia. and Vincent Phelps to Harrisburg. Mr. Buchanan having sent an invitation to Harrisburg, inviting the members of the Elec toral College to call and see him at " Wheat land," and to dine or to take teafwith him. The invitation was accepted, and the members of the College ref aired to the domicile of the President elect, at Wheatland, and dined with him at 1 o'clock P. M., on Thursday. ' Mr. Buchanan's Inaugural Sentiments., On Friday last, the students of Franklin and Marshal College, Lancaster, Pa. pain a vis it to Mr. Buchanan, when, in answer to a con gratulatory address by one of the students, Mr. B. stated that " the ottiect of his administration would be to destroy iectlimalistn,—North and South—and harmonise all sections of the Union under a national and conservative government, as it was fifty years ago. That if he could be the honored instrument of allaying sectional excitement and restoring the government to the principles and policy of the fathers. he would then feel that he had not assumed the arduous duties of the office in vain !" If such are really his sentiments, we doubt not they will llnd . a liberal response from all Union-loving conservative men. Let us wait and see what the future will reveal. ECT7A Quarrel has broken out in Kansas, be tween Gov. GEAR Yand Judge LEco3ovE and Marshal DoNat.Dsox. It appears that a pro slavery man named Hays had been arrested for tho murder of a Free-State man named Buffon, and after the Grand Jury had found a trim bill, LECOMPTE left him go on bail. Gov. GEARY or dered Marshal Donaldson to rearrest him, on the ground that murder was not a bailable of once. The Marshal refused and tendered his resignation. The Governor then procured an• other officer-who arrested Hays and romandid him to prison. We arc glad, for once to see Gov. Geary show so much grit. PROBABLIt M.AItRIACM o' JAMES BUCHANAN. —The gos'sip concerning Mr. Buchanan's alli ance with the widow of a deceased President, the accomplished Mrs. Polk, grows stronger and stronger, and actually begins to partake of probability. In lady circles it was hinted that his equally accomplished neice is opposed to tha union, and wants 'to preside, over the White Howie herself, and do all the honors thereof. She acted in that capacity for him Whilst in London, and of course thinks' herself equal 'to it here ; she is right. If the alliance does take place, it will be the first instance in American history of a President elect marry ing.—Baltimore Patriot. U :7A SnARK AS WAS A &ARK.—The New Orleans (La.,) Picayune tells the following:- A few days since the captain of a' ship at anchor outside the Pass, threw overboard a sharp hook, baited, which was speedily swallowed by a shark of the spotted kind. The shark, which was got on board with much difficulty, measur ed 17 feet 11 inches long, 9 feet in circumference, and his liver exactly filled a beef barrel ! Ile had seven rows of teeth, and in his pauch was found the body of a man, partly decomposed. Ills jaw bone was taken to the city, and was found largo enough to take in a sugar barrel ! Congress. FIRE AND SAD CASUALITL-Our firemen wore called out on Thursday :Afternoon about 3 o'clock by an alarm of fire proceeding from Sixth street, in the neighorhood of Pine Alley, occa sioned by the burning of a frame tenement in which a widow lady by the name of Adams and Mrs. Neigh were living. The promptness and energy of the firemen, who were upon the ground before the fire escaped from the room in which it originated, enabled them to subdue the flames and save the building and adjoining houses from destruction. The fire was first discovered by bars. Adams, who had been absent from, and was just re turning home. Her horror upon opening the door and discovering the room filled with smoke can be more easily imagined than described, for in that room was the all of this worlds, goods that she possessed. But her anguish, when she found that her child had been suffocated and was lying dead upon the floor can be conceived only by those who have suffered a like affliction. The shock which the sudden realization oft he calamity produced rendered her for the time en tirely oblivious of the rage of the fire, and with the child clasped to her bosom she sat down and wept at the head.of the stairs without giving any alarm. A neighbor lady who happened to be passing the door, noticed the smoke and called attention to it. All the furniture belong ing to the poor women was consumed, and the apartment was very much charred and black ened.—Easton Daily Express. O:7MASUPACTURN O 6 Futr:•Anxs.—The ma chinery now employed by the United States Government for the manufacture of fire-arms is of the most perfect description, and it executes its work with wonderful celerity and precision. Probably in no department of the mechanic arts has the inventive powcr of the human mind been exerted with more remarkable results. One complete musket can be turned out every eighty minutes of the working day from the raw material. To produce the musket entire, two hundred and nin3ty-four machines and nearly five hundred distinct mechanical processes are involved. The barrel is made of iron, costing two hundred dollars per ton, mostly procured frcm Norway, though a very excellent quality is received from Salisbury, Connecticut. The iron is. cut up from - bars into pieces of ten pounds weight and fourteen in length. After being drawn out to forty inches under, a high heat, the bar is curved and welded on steel rods. The barrel is then bored out, and re duced in weight from ten pounds to four and a half, after which it is polished with emery on revolving wheels, and the quality of the work manship is not exceeded by any in the world. r7A MAN SALTED DOWN BY HIS OWN RE QUEST.-A singular circumstance recently oc curred in Miller 'county, Illinois. An old man named Wilson, aged eighty-six, died, having made arrangements with certain persons not to bury him, hut to have his entrails taken out and put in a box and placed beside his coffin, which he has had over ten years. Ile was then filled with salt and sewed up with a grapevine, or something of that sort. He was then carried to the repository of his coffin—a cavity in a per pendicular bluff, about fifty or six'y feet from the bottom. About two hundred persons were present. ri - SAusnass.—There has been quite an ex citement in Detroit, by the discovery that a German, there, has been making sausages out of horse meat. Well, this is a matter of taste. In Paris, and in many places on the continent, the sale of horse meat, as an article of food, is legalized, though they find some trouble in over coming the prejudices of the people. An ac count of a grand dinner in Paris was lately pub lished, at which the principal flesh was horse meat—roasted, boiled, &c. The guests found it excellent. Whether the use of horse flesh fbr sausnges,in Detroit, has had any influence on the dog market, is not stated. rrj -- REMOVAL OF A LARGH Tl3loll..—An ova rian tumor, weighing one hundred pounds, al most solid, and one hundred and live pounds with the fluid, extracted fl•om a woman, by Dr. Dunlop, of the town of Ripley, on the Ohio river, was exhibited to the students of the Ohio Medi cal College, by Professor Blackman, and thence was conveyed to the Miami Medical College ibr the inspection of the students of that institution. The woman from whom the tumor was so boldly and successfully extracted, was living four days after the operation, and wns improving. She resides in Brown county, and is aged about for ty-one years. BURLINGAME &twin.-- A Banquet was given in Fanouil Hall; Boston, on Monday a week in honor of Mr. Burlingame. Over ono thou sand persons were present, including a large number of ladies. After a sumptuous repast, speeches were made by Mr. Burlingame, Henry %Wilson, and others. Then followed toasts, and letters from distinguished pervps. who had been invited, but were not present. Mr. Burlingame rose from a sick bed to be present, but remain ed, only a short time al% or making a speech. 11711olloway's Ointment and Pills, aro the ❑nest remedies for Bad Legs.—Francis Tom kinson, of Ottowa, Michigan, had the misfor tune, six years ago, to break his leg, which was imperfectly set by the doctor, the consequence was, that it formed itself into an angry wound, and despite of the various remedies ho tried he could not get any thing to'cause it to heal, and it was feared by all who know him, that ho would be lamo all his lifo. About fbur months ago he commenced using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which soon caused an improved 'ap pearance in the leg, ho continued them for nine weeks, and the leg is sound, to the astonish ment of all who know him. Present to Mr. Buchanan.—lt is stated that the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina, are about to purchase a splendid carriage, and pre sent it, to Mr: Buchanan, the President elect. irrThe next Assembly of Massachusetts will contain but sixteen opposition members to 329 Republicans. LOCAL AFFAIRS. Ir 7" The weather continues very changeable, varying in a few hours from pleasant 'sunshine to rain, cold winds, and freezing. The " Allentown Bank" calls for an in stalment of $5 per sharp, payablo on or before the Gth of January next. A Returned Soldier.—Col. KORPONAT, well known to many of our citizens, lately return ed to Philadelphia from the Crimea, where he was in service for a period of nearly two years. 07' The Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com pany have declared a semi•annual dividend of $1,50 per share, which is equivalent to three percent on the Capital stock. Surprise Parties are coming in vogue in our town. One came off the other evening in— guess it was New York—at any rate it wasn't in Seventh street. Too bad, this hoaxing busi ness. ('Handbills, Cards, Circulars, Ball Tickets, Ivitations, Blank Forms, and Job Printing generally, executed at this office, as neatly and cheaply as in the city, and with all possible dispatch. The North Pennsylvania Railroad it is said, will be opened to Freemansburg about the 16th inst., thereby furnishing, in connection with the Lehigh Valley Railroad, a direct communi cation between Philadelphia and Allentown.. 11l Jewelry at reasonable prices can be pur chased of E. W. Maison, 278 Ridge Avenue, Pailadelphia. Our friends in purchasing Holi day presents, in the shape of watches, chains, jewelry, clocks, etc., should pay Mr. Masson a visit, and inspect the articles he has for sale. " Fowl" Transactions.—Our citizens must keep a sharp eye on their hen roosts, as several were of late entered and the inhabitants thereo carried off and made to go the " way of all flesh.". It is rather unpleasant to be thus de prived of poultry. President Judgeship.—lt is stated that Judg Maxwell has proposed to Judge Findlay, wh was elected President Judge for this district a the last election, to amicably submit their cas to the Decision of the Supreme Court, and tha Judge Findley has accepted the proposition. The matter will be brought before the Supreirn Court at the earliest time possible. This tours we think will meet the public approval. 137' We have seen s number of our youn men in the last few days limping very bad.— On Monday our " devil" came into the office in the same fir, and thinking something serious had befallen him, we enquired what ailed him. " Confound it," said he, " I was fool enough last night to take one of them " hooped dress es" home from church, and the darn'd thing' barked my 'shins. Wonder if the " hoop-de dooden-do" is " ketchin ?" Elocutionary Reading.—Mrs. E. P. JoNSON, formerly a Public School Teacher of Allentown, proposes giving an instructive and interesting entertainment in Elocutionary Readings in prose and poetry, from classical and admired authors, to•morrow (Thursday) evening, December 11th, at the Odd Fellows' Hall. We would advise all. who have a taste for elegant reading, to be present on the occasion. Tickets to be had at tho door of the Hall. Shocking Death.—The clothing of a daughter of Mr. Augustus Getz, caught fire whilst near the stove, in a school house, near the Hanover and Allen township lino, on Thursday last dur ing the noon hour, and without presence of mind'she ran into the open air, when her clothes commenced burning in a blaze, there being a high wind at the time. She died on thii same evening.at 8 o'clock. We learn that there were only a few of her school companions- present when her clothing caught fire.:--Beth, Times. Beware of Money.—Owing to the numerous counterfeit notes that are in circulation, it has become not a little perilous to deal in rag paper. That which is not counterfeit, may be upon one of the many broken banks which infest the community. Gold and silver are .the only safe and constitutional currency, and might always be relied on ; except that the rascals have be- come so skilled in making the. bogus gold dol lars, and the counterfeit quarters, that the most skilful judge is required to detect them. About one year since, a series of suc cessful forgeries were perpetrated on several of the country Banks, including the Germantown, Easton, Trenton and Allentown Banks. The amounts obtained were generally from $lOO to s2oo—a sharp look out was kept for the villain, no clue was obtained of him, until a few days since, when the officers of the Bristol Bank were notified by the Police of Philadelphia that they had caught him, and were holding him for recognition_by the diMrent parties he defraud ed. The forgery on the Allentovin Bank, we believe, was in the name of John Laubach, of Allen township. Dealh—A Terrible Accident.—On Tuesday morning of last week, at about 4 o'clock JAus..s Nssnirr, assistant engineer at the Thomas Iron Works, at Ilokendauclua, met with a dreadful death, by being crushed and torn in the fly-pit wheel. It is not definitely known how the ac cident occurred, but as he was seen sitting near the pit shortly before ho was missed, it is sup posed he was overcome by sleep, and drawn into the pit by the crank-pin of the flywheel. After ho was missed from his post, search was made through the Works, and not finding him, they examined the pit, and to their horror found him in the condition above stated. The unfortunate man was about 2G years of age, and leaves a young wife to whom he was united in wedlock, - at Mauch Chunk, only a few weeks previous to this melancholy occurrence. The bereavement doubtless falls on her with crush ing force. Conhopolitan Art Association.—This institu tion offers additional inducements this year for persons to subscribe for Magazines through its medinmship. In addition to the magazine here tofore procured, every subscriber will receive a copy of the Art Journal, a work published quarterly by the Association, at one dollar a year, making four dollars worth of reading and a chance in the distribution for three dollars.— For any further information, call on the Editor, who has been appointed Honorary Secretary for this place, and will be pleased to give all the information at command in reference to the institution. A Vile Offence.—A German named Schinder Hennes has "been speculating during the past summer in the hogs that have died at the dis tilleries in the vicinity of Easton, Pa., skinning them and frying out the fat, as was supposed, for chandlery purposes, and recently transport ed some of the lard obtained from these deceas ed hogs to Newark, New Jersey, and disposed of it to the merchants of that city. Ile was ar rested and convicted of the rascality, but was allowed to go free by the paymen • • fine, and by giving a pledge to ' do 83 no more.' The Easton Express,.from which these facts aro taken, thinks no punishment too bad for such a wretch, and few, we think, will be disposed to contest the opinion. SINGULAR 11" Titus.---A little boy was drown ed last week inihe canal at Herkimer, N. Y. They raked the canal, tired cannon over the water, all to no purpose. They did not suc ceed in finding the body till a young lady in a boat recommended them to take a loaf of bread, make a hole in it, put in some quicksilver and fasten it in, and then put the bread on the wa ter, and it would float until it came to the child. She said she had seen it operate with success. No one had any- faith, but ,they tried it, and sure enough the bread floated a few' rods and then stopped. A boat came along and drove it from its place, but as soon as the boat passed. returned to the same spot, and they took a hook and found the child in that place, Ile had been in the canal two days. COV&RED WITII ;QUM) IRON.—A terrible ac cident occurred at the Miami Foundry, Cali, fornia, a few miles above the' city recently.— A. German by the name of Rabbo, a moulder. while engaged at his work, received a large la dle full of melted iron on his lower extremities It ran int) his boots and set his clothes on fire. and it was some time before the flames were extinguished by the throwing of water. The flesh come off with his boots, and the poor fel low suffered excruciatingly. Both his legs it is thought must be amputated, and even with thlit his recovery is doubtful. A Com) TOLE COMM:J.—Some German papers are endeavoring to prove that the distance be tween the earth and the sun is increasing an•. nually, and argue from it, that the increasing humidity of some summers and the loss of fer tility by tho earth are to be attributed l to this circumstance. In the course of six thousand years from the present time, they assume the distance will be so great that only the eighth part of the warmth we now espy from the sun will be communicated to the earth, arid then it will be 'covered with eternal ice. fl CONGLOMERATION OF HORROBS. —A lettcr from Morgan county, Illinois, to . the St.. Louis (Ho.) News, says that a little girl, diughter of a widow, named Ironmonger, was killed and partly eaten, by a vicious sow, near Jackson ville. The shock of the horrible spectacle killed the mother also, and on the next evening a camphene lamp explodal, wherehy ono child was burned to death, and another so dreadfully injured that its recovery is despaired of. 113'Therti are 700,000 pianos in use in this Country.
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