DOMESTIC CREDITORS.
CIRCULAR.
Treasuiit Office,
JIarrisburg, Aug. 1, ',1842, ,
To the "Domestic Creditors of the Stale
Pennsylvania.
In order that you may bo able to under
stand fully the provision of the Ao of
Assembly, passed a) the extra session, in
relation to tho payment of the claims of the
Domestic Creditors, I havo directed tho
section of said act, relating thero to bo
published horcwith, to wit: "
Section 1. Bo it enacted by the Senate
and Houso of Representatives of tho Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
Assembly met: And it is hereby enacted by
the authority of tho same, that tho State
Treasurer shall be.and ho is hereby author
ized, empowered and -required to apply and,
pay out so mucn oi tno interest runus, as
may be necessary to meet demands on tho
Treasury undor tho requisition of law, to
various purposes designated by tho specjfic
acts of Assembly.undcr which sucb requisi
tion shall be made,(exc"pt the interest
guaranteed to Rrailroad and Navigation
Carapanies;) and tho Slate Treasurer is
also directed to pay out of tho said funds,
the sum of one hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars, to the Commissioners of
the Internal Improvement Fund, to be
expended if necessary for ordinary repairs
upon the finished lines of Canals and Rail
toad of this Commonwealth, and tho balance
whieh may bo in the Treasury on the 1st
day of August, November and February,
jiextcxcept the money which appertains
to the Motivo Power Fund, and such sum
not exceeding forty thousand dollars, as
the Treasurer may deem necessary to re
tain for purpose of meeting the current
demands on tho Treasury,) shall bo paid
by tho Slate Treasury to such creditors of
tho Slate as nave received, or are entitieu
credit for the amount of their elaims on the
books of the Auditor General, bearing inter
est from the fourth day of Mav. one thous
and cieh hundred and forty-one, by virtue
of a resolution passed tho seventh day of
April, one thousand eight hundred and forty
two, including tho retained per centage
on all work dono prior to the said fourth day
of May, and all payments heretofore made
to contractors shall bo applied to. work dono
prior to the fourth day of May, one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one, and also to
payment of such of the creditors as have
claim upon the State for labor anil- repairs,
and new work done, and damage?,
ot materals furnished, or fuel for Iocorao
lives on the finished linos of canals and rail
roads, prior to the first day of April last.
And when (he claims of the foresaid credi
tors shall have been paid, then to the pay
mentof all those having claims entered on
the books of tho Aditor General, for work
- a -. ..."i.uim nielli
lillnHi-A.I .1 J , .... a
t ii 1 uiiuv numbing
..uuu.uu uuu soriy-iwo: rrovided that the
oniraeiois on the Erio and North Branch
Extensions shall not ha emit.,' i i,-
act, unless they forthwith suspend all opera-
tinn tinnn coir! -T. im . . ..r
I l V "ur8uniii oinerwiso direct-
m uy law.Ana tnose creditors of the Com
monwealth.who signed receipts and vouch
ers for their claims, in advance or previous
" V"" "' ac'ai payment of the
nllall Uo anoweu interest up to the
uiO U, acuai payment, according to the
y.u,,o.o,i ui mo act ot tho seventh of
v , out. luonnna eight hundred and for-ty-two:
Provided. also, that all the credi-
.u.o ciiuucu iu d0 paiu under this act, shall
be paid pro rata in porportion to tho several
Bums due each.
The amount of available funds in the
Treasury on the 1st of August after raaking
ho payment &c. first provided for under
the act, being but small, (and the whole
amount of claims not having beea a?cer
ained ) and inasmuch as the pro rafa v d
dend if made at that time would bo small,
I have therefor ,io4 :. . . . . ,
"lUUgll II JS my de3jre tf,atJU..Urll-
dhuuiu DO naiil-aa. i .-Tr-aa uosBinie.innl In
will .o ,r :.nw g"nent
" ,,. """oer payment, as they
would hue been entitled to at Aueust and
SV! ,ad ,he P?y-ns bSsomadJ
..,, Hlso niioruthe opportunity
H"V P?.er g'nt made " 2
" wmtu " relation tho claim, &c,
JOB MANN,
Stato Treasurer:
"The following is an extract of a letter from
-A. BerUon, written to a friend in n.,n:,
" ,U Sli ce. HB ID Ml 9 onn.
UalA fnr iho n.:.i
. . .uvuu, -xuu are in
o oiuunij uioso wno are
,.ww,..u m, lllu resiliency, l
1Uy M L'dn nnv I I. - -
luenn uui OI inai
Tr ' , ' """""ig a nomina-
lon from the citizens of Philadelphia city
iiju Luunw: nnn. flpi-nnrtit, u t.i i:
nOllSlralinnn. mi mv nirl mn.i l
j , -wwvi.m.v. uv 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f. tin.
, , v mull iiuyo cscap-
id the observations, of such of my fiiends
n your quarter, as have classed mo among
he list of candidates or expectants, at tho
insuing canvass.'
Justice Wiley, convictfid nf ,;..:
tolen money, viz: tio large amount stolen
um i,ib rreuericK uanK.of Msrytand, is
l prison waitine for sontfinr n f?nim.
. . XWUUU1-
J the iudfmsni nf tlm 'fnnri Kotn.,.'
- . i w uuiiiouio uuuri riHR ntitrm.
A PPROPRrATION BILL.
The Harrisburg'Reaortor gives the fol-
wing synopsis of the Approptiation Bill,
as it passed both branches of the Lcgisla
turc upon tho report ot a Uommitteo or
Conference
Sec. 1 Authorizes tho State Treasurer
to apply so much of tho interest fund as
may be necessary to meet the demands on
the Treasury, mado under requisition of
law, except tho interest guaranteed to rail
road and navigation companies. It also
appropriates $170,000 to be expended, if
necessary, in repairs, and the balance in
tho Treasure on tho first Mondays of Au
gust, November and February except the
motive power funds, and a sum not exceed
ing $40,000, to bb retained to meet the cur
rent demands on tho Treasury to be paid
to such of tho domestic creditors, in a pro
rata proportion as havo claims on the
books of tho Auditor General, for work
dono or muterials furnished prior to the
4th of May, 1841 tho contractors on the
Erie and North Branch Extensions not to
be cntitlqd to the benefits of this act unless
they forthwith suspend all operations on
said works.
Sec. 2. Authorizes tho Governor to
borow tho sum of $870,000, at an interest
not exceeding six per cent, which sum is
to be specifically appropriated to the pay
ment of tho interest duo on the first of Au
gust, and to tho payment of tho interest
guaranteed to railroad and navigation com
panics.
Sec. 3. in case tho Governor is unable
to negotiate the above loan, certificates of
State slock to be issued to persons to whom
interest is duo. bearing an interest, oi 0 per
cent, and redeemable on the first of AugUBt
1843; provided that no certificate shall be
issued for a less sura than 815; all claims
less than that amount to be paid out of any
moneys in the Treasury.
Sec. 4. Authorizes tho Governor to sell at public
sale all the stocks bcloncins to tho Commonwealth
provided they shall bring an amount Which at the
rato of 5 per cent, interest, would produco au in
terest equal io the dividend received by tho State
on said stockf) for tho year 1841.
Sec. 6. Authorizes tho State Treasurer to receive
in payment of tho above stocks, certificates of Stato
stock or credits on tho books of tho Auditor Gener
al; and if such stocks shall not bo sold, then persons
holding certificates of stock or credits shall be per
mitted to exchange tho Batno at par for any of the
stock authorized to be sold by tho 4th section.
Sec. 6. Provides that no private act of assembly
shall bo enrolled in tho office of tho Secretary of tho
Commonwealth, or havo the force and effect of law,
until tho parties interested shall pay-into Uieucasu
ry tho following sums:
For every act incorporating or re-chattering. any
bank.with a capital not exceeding tho sum of $200-
000, the sum of $200; over $200,000; and not, ex
ceeding $400,000, tho sum off 400; over $400,000,
and not exceeding $600,000, tho sum of 500; over
$000,000 and not exceeding $1,000,000, tho sum
$800; over $1,000,000, the sum of $1,000; on every
law incorporating a canal or rail road company
$100; on every law incorporating a coal or iron
real and personal property now
purposes.
Scc. 8. .Provides that whern
uhc mm on a uonarcsniio actual value of all
taxable for state
nnv rnimfif etial!
assess and collcct'for stato purposes a less sum than
tho appropriation made to said CD-anly for academies
auuuunncs anu common school purposes,
said county shall mako up tho deficiency out of the
- . L . . conferenco struck out that
fPL. - .
j.a.w ui uioomrciauvoio tho l'eunsylvania canal
arm ran roau company, being from tho 8th to tho
3lst section.
Sections 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 30 and 37,provido
,. mo mica in wo iommon
wcillh. aecuons 39, 40, 41, 43, 43, and 44,authorizing
the Governor to give notice olandreceivo proposals
lor the sale of the improvements of tho Common
wealth, and to communicate tho result to the next
tvgioiuiUIU
The Centurv Plant j3 Grem fW.,-
ty We learn with great pleasure that our
ciucrjjrioirig inenu. Bernard Duke, has in
his possession the largest nnim. nr i.
r o I """" V. IJIU
-...M.jr ,ain, ui yjao nunureu vears-,
in. -I. , n , muu, )in
iportof the rarilv of
. i r ouuoiiug up us nower stems
me i airoon s green house in Albany has
.. vumog me aaionisnment oi all Amer
V . "u.Ke nas quey suffered his
doubly splendid specimen to pass on to
uuresounco wiinout a comment.completely
Stealinrr a mnrnl, nn ... ' . J
1 1 ? ui (juou ciuzens, who
i.wmiu iiuvo uvcrrun ins extensive ground
"uwj una wuuueriut production
o
iiaiuiv. ine piant, which is over
ll Vt. faa, In C
thirty
,vv ui uiiuuiuicrcncc, is now
in
I'cuccuii; io uower-stem being upwards
of twenty feet in height, and covered on
every branch with thousands of rich deep
yellow blossoms' Its appearanco is singu
lar, grand, and curious, and will, no doubt
B-wiuiiio asionisnment ol the whole of
tno lasiuuii anu ueauiy oi our c tv:
T)ii,in.. : .
wttmcg ouc iiuna ni inn a it. .n nn i
have flowered in America: ihn firi r i.;..i.
a small plant, plossomed on the grounds of
...... jxuuiiiun, r,sq. at ttio Woodlands,
thousand persons; and the second, which
bloomed at Lemon Hill.
'..w.w i , itu!, Tiaiicu uv univnrfio nr
rl.!l II ,. i. . WAUiuiiisu III
I luladelphia for the benefit nf il, Phiu.i.i
phia Orphan's Asylum, to about thirty five
housand visiiers. The present plant, which
, CAUiuiicu ai mo niasonic Hall, is
now ninety fivo years of ago, and was
originally growa by the same gentleman at
his conservatories. It has been, sinco his
death, tho property of the McMahon family
and is now in tho hands of Mr. Dqko'
The editor of the Savannah Republican
was recently presented with a watermelon,
which weighed forty-nine and a haf
Tho editor of tho WoBhing(onian,a Tom
perance paper published at Canton, Ohio,
gives tho following gtowing description of
Mr. Piko, a former partner of his, but now
editor of the Circlevitle Watchman:
Mr. Pike and I published a newspaper in
1837, among tho Miami Indians, in the
stato of Indiana. It was a great partnership
that. Wo had two advance paying sub
scribers, one of whom liquidated his sub
scription with white beans, the other with
saw logs. Godfrey, tho chief, took fivo
copies, and couldn't road a word. Our
paper was called the Peru Forester, which
being printed in the woods, tint title was
appropriate.
The town ot roru had many magnificent
names for its streets, such as Pearl, Btoad-
way, vc. which streets exhibited tho ani
mated and bustling spcclaclo of stumps,
trees, and weeds, as high as a man's hod.
The stirring events which transpired in this
interesting city imperiously demanded a
couple of chioniclers, and Piko and I Were
at hand to dischargo that important func
tion.
Piko wrote poetry, and I dipped consid
erably into stale politics, and discussed in a
learned manner every question of interest
to the few settlers and Indians. Pike was
a queer fish. Ho had more irons in the firo
than any man 1 ever Knaw. JJcsiues being
an editor and printer, he kept the Broadway
Hotel, was postmaster, justice of tho peace
land agent, pettifogger, canal contractor,
overseer of the poor, painter had been a
school master, and a day laborer, was
brought up a Quaker, was twice a widower
and the last lime I saw him ho was a
Baptist, had his third wife, and was an
auctioneer !
A Snake Story. It is said, of course
that it can be well authenticated' It occur
red on tho farm of Mr. Hayes, a few miles
from Lewisburg, Peon., and is related by
a correspondent of tho Philadelphia Led
ger: 'A son of Mr. Hayes, quite a small boy
was frequently in tho practice of craving
incessantly for bread, at certain hours of
the day, and from thence proceeded to a
small woods about a quarter of t mile dis
tant fiom tho house he repeated if so fre
quently that aroused (ho suspicions of the
family; the brother, therefore, resolved to
watch him, and the following, day after the
boy had taken his usual tour, he repaired
to the woods, and secreted himself within
the enclosure of a largo tree, and in a few
moments perceived two large rattle-snakes
usher forth from the root of the tree the
boy was seated at; the boy, who from all.
appearance was anxiously awaiting their
arrivairfed them with his little mite, fre
qucntly chastising them with a small wcap
on he had with him, and at other times
-gazippfln ihcmjYilexjuiisjtQLjdniirflUon.
tlcScriBpuT When ho was going to make
a descent on them, they retreated in good
order from their companion. Tho fnmii-
uuaiuus ior uio luuire salely or tho boy
possible. On the following morning they
. -.v Mv.uicu inuiii as snnn ia
u wiin mo assis-
.ai,uu vi buiue oi ineir ncignuori, destroyed
feet long.'
uiu iBiiiiics. i iiov rnciisurnrt nvnr tliroo
iuuiimu, lvuringtno nrsi six
monins oi the present year, the mortality
has been great in several towns bordering
upon both sides of Conneciicut river in
New Hampshire and Vermont. Up to the
month of May, .there had been, within a
icw miles ol Haverhill Corner' about one
nunureu deaths, nnncma v c hi dren. Tim
disorder most fatal has been a malisfiaht
putrid soro throatr Gradually has it ryipii.
oed lo adults, and tho disorder is in almost
all cased ratal when it fall r " tliroal
to ih .-- aw lungs. Jho towns of
uuui
. I I T
finil I .vtmnn All,.nl..l .1
mv4 ut u ai ciiuuiuii tin inn iinm
iiampsniro side of the river, directly abovo
Havorhill, have encountered a mortality to
an extent equal almost lo the destruction by
...u wuuicia in iojs in somo oi our cities.
ijyman nas a population of 1,500, and
liath 1,000 souls. The number of deaths
rrom the 1st of February to this timo,(8hort
.i.iiuu; iiua ocuu Bixiy m uatn,maK
inrr nl Itm .ifl r
6 u, .am ui uuo ueam per year in
every fourteen inhabitants Six persons are
aaiu io nave laid uninterred corpses in the
same day in Dath. An unusual mortality
,iao ui.i.uiicu amung woman in cnild bed
no less Man thirteen persons in tho samo
iuwii since mo latai leyer lirst made its an
nanrnntn 'PI .... '
iuuiuiii.i,. x iicJU wuro saiu to oe more
cases oi lever in liath last nen : tlmn ii.ar..
nau ueen at any previous time. Concord
risner.
w,,ftuf 4 uuciilc. ivb tenrr. rnm ihn
Georgetown (U. U.) Advocate, that last
u. i,u ijuii iiuiii x una-
delphia, the fust instalment of a l,a,l r
weeu mere arrived at that port from Phila
uiiy uerman lamiles, who, undor the au
spices of the German Agricultural Society,
nr. r- nt. I
am luuceeuillK io laKe Possession nl a nnr.
chase of 30,000 acres of land, recently
ihmju in nary anu Hampshire counties,
Virginia. The Advocate savs. 'thesa fi'u-
.Humus iiiu io uu succecueu next year by
fifiy more, and so continuo at the n,ti
r ti: i . . ' ' :
annual rate, until two hundred familial.
s;iaii have been settled on the land.'
Tho Wayno counlvyindianaiChronirdn
cuius, jruui iiiuianono IS. t iat tlio amnnnt
r : r.i; " .. .. . '
liquidated in tho bankrupt court at Indian.
opolis, so far.amounts to about two million.
anu a nan oi aouars,
Important Decision in Bankruptcy".
Judge Conklin, of the Northern District of
New York, has given an important opinion
in a recent case of bankruptcy. An assign
ment was made by a firm in Oneida county
on the 20th of April last. 'They directed,
in that instrument, that alt their property
and tho proceeds thereof should bo divided
null (liciriliiilcd nmnnrr their creditors bv
their assignees, in the samo manner as if
tho same were in tno nanus ot an assignee
under tho bankrupt act of the United States,
by virtne of proceedings duly had in bank
ruptcy. Their assignment Was accepted lo
by somo ot their creditors, as in itself an act
of bankruptcy, or at least as contravening
Iho purpose or Hie bankrupt act, anu tney
were petitioned against in bankruptcy. The
decision of his honor, Judgo Conklin, de
clares their assignment void, and at ihc
same lime notifies tho world that voluntary
assignments, whether they give preferences
or do not give them, must henceforth cease
under tho bankrupt law of the United Slates
Probably a consent in writing, lor consid
eration, signed by all tho creditors, might
uphold a voluntary assignment, uy acqui
escence, too, on the part of all tho creditors
in a particular instance, the trust created by
such an instrument might bo executed, and
not be disturbed aftcrwaids. But in cither
of these cases, the debtur should not himself
become a petitioner in bankruptcy, until tho
completion of the trust.
A TERRIFIC SCENE.
A correspondent slates that he was pres
ent at a Camp Meeting in the lower end of
Yorli county, on Btinday, me U4iti uit. anu
that between 11 and 12 o'clock in tho even
ing there was a thunder storm, which, for
rain and lightning, and loud thunder he
says he never heard equalled. The light-
nine: struck into the camp, and killed three
horses dead on the spot, besides stunning a
number of the persons present on tho occa
sion. The scene he describes as one of the
most terrific and awful; the shrieks of the
women, tho neighing of tho horses, and the
successive peals of thunder, preceded by
the most vivid shoots of lightnintr, made
tho whole spectacle one of great and awful
sublimity. No person was hurl. Lan.
Int.
An Old One. The oldest man in France,
M. Noel de Quersoniercs, is now one
hundred and fourteen years of age, having
been born, nt Valenciennes, in 1728, lie
resides in Paris, and a journal of that city
the Presso says he is not subject to any
imfirmity takes four meals a day shaves
himself reads and writes without specta
cles sings very agreeably sleeps sound
ly writes excellent poetry and his conver
sation is full of wit and sense, abounding
with anecdotes. It appears that at the
juventile age of ninly, Monsieur married a
venerable ago of sixteen, and that sho died
in giving brith to a son. Mons Q. stated
that his grandmother died at the ago of one
nunureu anu twenty live would havo lived
lnnn. l.i.t f.. - - lit III I
versing gaily, he will frequently invito hi
iuugci uui iui a ouvere laill Wlien COn-
s
menus toaiienu ins luneral in tho
next
century.
A NOVEL CASE.
A physician in Kontucky thus decribes
a most extraordinary case which has been
for a long timo under his care; in connex
ion with other members of tho faculty;
Our patient is a young lady, 24 or 25 years
of age.who has been subjected to a disloca
tion of almost all the joints belonirinir in
the human system, ever sinpo. iooa;"aiso to
violent cpoomo. (sometime last fall there
commenced forming in her mouth ossifick
matter, and iluring the months of November
mm uecember, there were taken from her
moutn some 25 or 30 bones, of various
sizes and shapes, after which she appeared
I'uiuuiiy iu ruiiuin ner nea wi. bin w ih n
tho last 40 davs Drs. G. F. W.
self, have laRen from the month, cars, nose
throat, left arm, side, and all tho way down
to the foot, bono amounting in all, during
iil-i iaai unless, 10 1UH. Une 1 linrr is vnrv
,0"r
remaikablo, that no mater where these
s .present themse vos. not a drnn r
oiood lollowa their dislodgment from anv
part of the body. Tho vounir lad v
cneeriuiness and vivacity amidst nil bor
I . - . - .
suuenngs, and appeared to eutorlain
doubt of her recovery.'
no
Serious if not Fatal Accident Ys.
torday, between 12 and I o'clock, as a man
named Hugh Patton, who resided with his
wile and three young children, in Cross
stieet, was encaned as a laborer on ihn inn
scaffold of tho new four story building,
ready for tho roofincr.at tho corner of Dimnn
and Centre streets, ho accidentally fell a
distance of fifty seven feet, and sinking,
I, i , . fa.
when "ear tho ground, on a long scantlintr,
duiiio imir uicnes wuck uy six wide, was
c r m o (nim int.nn it.;l. 1... l
taken up insensible. Ho was carripil-
the grocory of Mr. Firnie, near the place,
where he revived, and said he was verv
bidly hurt, complaininu of his back, and
was conveyed to the City Hospit?!, where
he is in a very critical state. It was not
ascertained that any bones were bmkon.and
his injuries appeared internal. How he
escaped immediate death is a marvel. N.
r. Courier.
The Wheeling, Va, Times says, that
owing to tho largo crops of wheat in
tho West, flour will no doubt snnn
sell at that place for two dollars per barrel,
From tho Kangaroo (Illinois) Journal of July 29
MOKE Ol-" THE MOJfMONS.
Wo learn from iho Warsaw Signal that
Orson Pratt has cono from Nauvoo. Ho
eft a communication with his friends, which
slaicd that ho had been iuduccd to take this
course on account of tho troatnicn'. of his
wifo by Smith, and of tho General manapo.
ment of tho affairs of (he church by him.
Wc learn Ironi other sources that Smith
finding his allompls on Mrs. Pralt wero
matters ol notoriety, went to her husband
with a manufactured story, that Ins wife was
a base woman, and that the fact was well
known to hint. I Ins communication had
such an effect upon Mr. Pratt at once
blasting his happiness tmd tho reputation of
a vuiuous woman inai mo wretched bus.
band left tho city.
It will be recollcclcd that Mrs. Schindlc.
in he; affidavit, detailing the altempt of
Smith upon her, said 'ho told her she must
never tell of his propositions to her, for ho
had all influence in that place, and if sho
told, he would ruin her character, and sho
would be undor the necessity of leaving.'
This same scheme has been carried out
in reference to Mrs. Pralt. Sho told' on
the imposter, and was maiked by him for
destruction. In a public speech in Nauvoo
on tho 14lh, Joo spoko of this lady a wo
man whoso reputation has been as fair as
virtue could make it until she came in con
tact with him in a manner only befitting
the lowest and most degraded vagabond in
existence.
There havo been various decisions of
lato in different parts of tho United Slates,
as to what articles of furlnituro aro 'neces
saries.' These decisions have arisen upon
the Bankrupt Law, but in the Court of
Common Pleas last weok, as we learn from
tho Boston Atlas, in a case depending upon
tho attachment law of Massachusetts, Chief
Justice Williams ruled that a toolh brush
is neither a 'tool of trade' nor 'household
fumituro' nor 'wearing apparel,' and was
not exemp from attachment; but nis honor
was clearly of opinion, that a thimble, in
actual use, could not bo taken.or debt in
Massachusetts.
Muskets. The United Stales musket is
far too heavy for the use of tho militia and
volunteer corps. This remark has often
been made during the last war, but has not,
it seems, ever been deemed worthy of
attention by those whoso duty it was to
have a proper representation mado on tho
subject. The United Slates go on from
year lo year making tho heavy mnskcts,
wilh ordinary old fashioned locks. I
prophesy that, in less than fivo yeais, tho
Government, at an enormous loss, will
"condemn" half the proscnt armament, and
direct Iho manufacture ot lighter muskets,
with percussion locks. Any one who Uvea
this prophecy of an Old Soldier; N.
will tupll rpnli7A tho tntih nf
r.
aianaaru.
DISGRACEFUL.
Mr. Oldridgo an old gentloma.i, aged
about seventy years a citizen of Providence
deacon of ono of tho Baptist churches thero
was notified on Thursday last to quit that
place under panalty of confinement in tho
Algerino Bastile. His offence consisted
simply in affixing on the pump in front of
his house a placard.upon which was wiittcn
tho words 'Free Suffrage Water. Tho
fellow who notified him lo quit is an office)
holder under Providcnco authorises who
calls himself MumfnrJ, but whose real
naniai --id to be Murphy. The old man
has left Iho placo. Is tho republican go
vernment guaranteed to the nennln nf nnh
Slate by tho Constitution? Rnliimnr n..
publican.
It is staled that during a recent debato in
the United States Senate, on certain bills
fol the relief of lheidow of the soldiers of
tho revolution, one was presented in beh alf
of a widow who had been the wife of ihreo
men, either of whom would have been
entitled lo a pension. Tho Senate acted
favorably to claim, and allowed her tha
three several pensions required. She is a
widow worth having.
Seventeen private soldiers of tho French
army, during Napoleon's career, by iheir
bravery and talents, raised themselves to tho
following disiinguised stations: Two
became Generals, two Field Maishals.nino
Dukes, two Princes, and two Kings.
Bituminous Coal has ririnik. imnn rn.
in Augusta, Oneida county, New York
I ho discovery was accidental, A Mr.
1 orter, on whose land the coal was found,
was digcinrr a well, and at ihn .lonii, r
of seventy feel.he struck Iho vein. Mr. P.
has been offered 620;000 for his farm hv
an eastern capitalist.
The Brookln Eagle says that the smntt
pox i prcailinc oxtensivclv in tlmt
and that measures have been taken by tho
Hoard ol Heallh to shield iho public from
contagion
A Choral Humw Several h
German emigrants arrived at Buffalo, No-v
York, about sunrise, a few davs since, and
when landing, (he whole of'ihem strtink tin
one of their national anthems. The efTfirt.
says the Buffalo Commercial, in tho calm
stillness of a dewy morning, the spires
the domes of a silent city .just touched with
iho golden beams of a July sun, was almost
sublime'