Iltat MstriAticar. aststus.---111 " tostateditthe Scientific American that the right to a portion of Ward's patent shingle machine was recently sold Al batty for $35,000. A portion of Robert non is sewing rnarliine has also been sold for $30,000. This is en invention which Can be'carried in the pocket, and will en. able a seamstress to do in one day the or dinary labor of a week. Machines of this kin./ are about to be constructed in New Ilaven ‘ Conn., by the Messrs. Jerome, at ll4os piece: the manufacturers are now constnicting the machinery, and expect to sell orders in January. Ilowe'a paten t ; sewing machine yields, it is said, $50,00 for license to use it. and Singer's ins chine -pats $75,000 into the pockets of owners. Rights to the use ol a corn platter have beeu sold to the amount ol 00.000.. Clark's imam pump sold for 10.000. A portion of the right to an 'ap ple. paring machine, $2,1100. Creamer 'a I ;talent Car brake $20,000. Such re wards ita these for American inventions. I are irtainly stimulating to mechanical geuitui and the only wonder is that itw'te are noeten mechanical inventions where one now exists, where these is so wale ' a fiild for its exercise in almost every de partment of business. CHILD ATTACKED AND BITTEN BY A Rwr.—A most singular circumstance oc. mired in the house of Mr. Wm. Crawford (formerly , keerer of the old Si. Charles.) on . Penneyleaning? Avenue. last Mon day night. A young daughter of his, a mere infant, was lying in the bed asleep, when• she was attacked by a huge Nor way rat, which began to inflict bites on her arm and hand. A little boy in the same bed anoke and endeavored to drive the animal away but he too was bitten in three or lour placer on the hand. The girl's hand from the wrist to tbe end of the thumb was bitten in a dozen difrtir eel places and she is qnite seriously in jured. •The screams of the children at. treated the mother to the bed and nut un til then did the vile beast leave them.— He was afterwards caught and summary vengeance executed on him. PICNNBYLVAN IL Micrria.—A Military State Convention is to be held at. Harris. br4g on the third Monday of January. to advocate some amendnient to the militia lawa. 'A Harrisburg Piper says of it : •'The object in view is the improve. mem of the volunteer , system. to accom• plisk which it fs proposed to obtain the enactment tif a law providing that compan ies hereafter organized shall consist of at least aizty. rank and file; fixing the mili• tut fine at two dollars; the payment ol all expenses from the fund thus rais• et ,in each county ; providing • penalties for .evading assessment of militia tax; ,a certificate of membership, in a volunteer coioliany to entitle , the holder to a credit of two dollars on his State tax." 4 PIIMEING CASE OF MINISTERIAL DEERAVITF.—The Rev. James P. lett plogs,litie pastor of the Frst Methodist Church, of Rolle, N. Y., has been indict ed.and subsequently arrested. by -the Methodist, ecclesiastical authorities, upon a charge orgross immorality, and is to be tried, on the 18th inst., upon Charges krt.- ferreilagainst hirn. A young woman at. Fairfield Academy is said to have Vilen..ln correspondence with Jennings, and, from intercepted letters, it is report ed that the church. the cause of morality and tba peace 01 familes have been moat heartlessly • and shamefully sacrificed.-- Jeopiegs has a family. The . above is from the Moluiwk Courier. The Utica Herald adds : The girl is young—only 17, and one of ihe moat .respectable families in • the town Ofßome.' Her parents. and.we be here herself, were members of Jennings' church. 'f he family reposed the moat impliet.confidence in ham, permitted him torinike their house his home during the abienett of his wife to the East ; requested him to watch over the conduct of his daughter and reprove her for her occasion al - giddinese—in filet, rather placed her under hie charge and bestowed upon him a thousand expressions of confidence. While they were doing this, he was compassing her ruin. During a residence of some weeks at her father's house he had pecufiar opportunites for carrying on his infernal purposes. After the girl had been sent off to school her reverend se dueer.opened a correspondence with her. In these , letters ; various meetings and as signations were appointed, some of which were' fulfilled, and some providentially mitteartled.. We are told that the style of the letters written by Jennings to the girl is,most disgustingly filthy. The case is one of the most painful on record, - Hitherto Jennings is said to have born! an irrepreanhill.le character. He wairCoirtinendetl for his kindness of heart and l eiiiinebt'plety unversally. SIIIT:10B-A ULF , . IN Tim CARS —A suivas brought on Thursday last before Justice Girdnrr, at Jersey City, against the. New York ant! Erie Railroad Co., by Barnum, for an over-coat which wag ittiden from his seat in the cars on that The train stopped at Port Jer vis, ane the plaintiff seeing a notice post ed ttp