EXTRACTS VROM THE REPORT Or 'ERE POST ok „MASTER GENERAL.. . . . ':The number-of Post Of in the Uni te*tates nt the close of the, lyenr endiug ..Idrie 30; 1849, was 10,747, , there haying . beer 924 established and 338 discontinued: within - the year, making an increase with irt.tho year of 586. The number of postmasters appointed, within the ending June 30, 1849, was,: Pl 4 ,that t nuMber, 2782 were appointed in consequence of resignation ; 183. were ap pointed in consequence of death ; 284 wen! appointed iii consequenee of , (41ringos of sites or offices ;..2108 were appointed i n • eetiFtequente 'of removals ; 11 we r4‘ ppoi ted in consequence of comm'ssions expired .411C11.0p*Iewcd;. 26 were appointed in consequence of commissions renewed ; wetit - rgitiolitted in cotiseqttence, of' becom- Pit.F.itlebtial by income exceeding ''lo 06;'927 were appointed in consequence of noir' offices. The number of mail routes in the Uni ted fftates on the Ist driy of July, 1849, tia4'4;943, and the number of contractor's 4,190. Tho length or these' routes Tans' 167,703 Ort : these iimites the mail was transpor ted 42;547,009 Miles, at the cost of 82,- 428,515: i ;Fhb gross rcrelitic for the year, ending Sune3o,lB49,amounted t 054,905,176 detilled'from the following sources: Piotn letter postage , including stomps to d, 83,83",),,762 62 FrUin neivspaver and pampli ; ldt poslege, 819,016 20 Frotti mi4cellancons' items, 3,254 21 Figni' fines, 43 75 From dead letter money sold, 84,705,175 28 From the appropriations made by tho 12th section of the 'act cif bd 'March, 1947, for mail services to the b ffovern tnent, The expentlitu,res during the year were, for Transportation of mails, $2,577.409 71 Compensation to p'stmas's 1 ,320,931 34 Ship, steamb't, way let'rs 86,174 45 Wrapping pa- 23,936 03 per, Office furnitur' Advertising, • Mail baps, BlankS," Maillocks,li'ys arid stamps, Mail depreda tion§ & spe-, cinl agents, Clerks for .post .1 219 60 61,813 32 20,802 38 20,276 71 4,586 50 21,228 00 317,218 an offices, M i scalancous 70,437 09 payments, Post-office laws & iogulat's, • Excesspfgross revenue for the year, $426,127 15 The whole number of letters charged with posts passing through the mails the past year, reckoned on the postage receiv ed, agreeably to_a basis heretofore approv ed,,arnounted to sixty-tWo million. It has been said that the newspaper and pamphlet postage is not in proportion to the cost of their transportation ; but it is not to' be therefore understoed that any increase of that postage is 'proposed. It has long been regarded as sound public policy to promote .the circulation of these publica tions by chop postage, and it may be ad visable to proceed further in this policy, especially in promoting their circulation in the vicinity of their . phices of publication, provided no decided injustice be (Mine to the,post-masters within the same vicinity.' The.most obvipus and prominent feature now,in our postage is the double price, ten cents, charged on all single letters carried over three hundred miles. The reduction of this ten cent postage, and charging all single letters at five cents each, would much simplify the manner of accounting, and render.the same both more facile and perfect,--would remove the dissatisfaction arising from the great difference in the postage in different offices,' even in the same vicinity, but separated by this artii- ' trury line ; and would promote and encou- ' rage the correspondence and intercourse, by mail, between the most distant parts of the .country, which most need and demand! it, in - . precise proportion as their other, means of intercommunication are slow and' unfrequent. In the.last year there was received 2,- 100,000 dead letters, all of which have been opened and examined. Of these, 4964 contained money to 'the amount of $32,069, have been registered and the! same sent for delivery to the owners, and 993 letters 'containing other enclosUtes of value. • • •T 9 show the great increase Of service, rind tl leconsequent demand for the, inc rea se of thoTorce in the Deptrtmentolie, follow ing oriparative statement is made : Ii 837,,the number ef post offices wasl 1.1,767p0w 17,164-7417 having been established since June last: Number off dead letters in 1837, 000,000—now: 2,- 100,000. Number of quartelly returns! iii,1837 48,000--now 73,009. Number . or mail' contra In 1837, 1682-4190. Length of follies in 1837, 141•,242—n0w 176,703. Annual mail transportation in 1837, 32,597,006—n0w 42,644,967- The number of cOininuniCiitions reeeiV • 'annually - it be The verdict of the coroner's inquest up on the mutilated remains of Dr. Parhman was rendered on Thursday afternoon, charging Prof. John W. Webster with the murder. _The investigation lasted ten days, aida , very large number of witness:. es We're txainined, but their evidence, co'• ering Efolue,,tlighty pages of lot:Ilse:1p, is withheld by , 'instruetion, of the Attorney General mita the meeting i of the Grand .ter' , Who are to institute farther investi-: gations in the ease, and report during the month. of January next. The followina is the vc , filiet.---;•Phila.. Daily Nays: • • SUFFOLK, 59.--An inquisition taken at, the city Boston, within the county of, :'4u111,11:, the' I"3th day of December, in the, year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun-, tired and forty-Dila:Ow:ON Jabez Pratt, 'Esq., one or the coroners of said county, upon the view, of sundry parts of the body ofa dead man, viz: thorax, kidneys, pel vis, two thighs, left leg, and sundry bones! there lying dead, by the oaths of Osmyn Brewster, John L. Andrews, Pearl Martin, Thomas Itcstieaux, Lewis Jones, llarum Merrill, good and lawful men who being charged and sworn to inquire fi ns ' the com monwealth when, why, & by what means , said dead man came to his death, upon, their oaths .o say that they' all have been j demenstrated to be parts of one and the sane: person ; that these parts of the hu man frame have been identified and prov ed to be the remains and parts of the dead j body and limbs of Doctor George Park hum, late a citizen of said Boston, aged a- 1 bout 6U years ; that he came to his death by violence at said Boston on the 23(1 day of November last, or between the hours of, one and a half of the clock on the after noon of that day, about which time he en tered alive and in good health into the Massachusetts Medical College building,: situated in North G rove street, in said Bos ton, and the hour of four of the clock in the afternoon of the thirtieth day of No- j vember last, when a portion of said re-1 mains wore found concealed in and under the departments of Doctor John W. Web- I ster, of Cambridge, in the county of Mid-1 dlesex, in said College building, in which building the residue of said remains were I afterward discovered; that he was killed in said College building by a blow or blows,' wound or wounds inflicted upon him with some instrument or weapon to the Jurors unknown; and by means not yet known to said Jurors; and that said blow or blows, wound or wounds, were inflicted upon him, and said means were used by the hands of said Doctor John W. Webster, by whom he was killed. In witness whereof, the said Coronerand Jurors to this Inquisition, 'have set their hands and seals, the day and year above said. Jabez Pratt, Coroner. 09 50 200,000 00 $4,905,176 9R 81 75 $4,470,019 13 ff 2 a The Murder of Dr. Parkman. Osmvn Brewster, F►'n .1 L Andrews, sec'y Pearl Martin, Lewis Jones, Front the Boston Transcript of Friday. We learn that Prof. Webster's appear ance to-day is precisely the same which it has been of late—that although he has read the finding of the coroner's inquest, it has not disturbed him in the least, and he remains perfectly calm and self-pos sesse•d. Ile is in good health, and appar ently quite contented in his situati(in, and satisfied with the treatment which he re ceives from the officers of the jail. It has been reported that his cell was better furnished and his fare more sump-, tuous than other prisoners. We are in formed that his accommodations are only improved by the allowance of some foot mats, but it is true that hid i food is furn ished by his friends from Parker's restau rant in Court Square. Prof. Webster's time is wholly employ ed in reading on epistolary correspond ence with his friends. Although it is un derstood that lion. Franklin Dexter has declined to'act as counsel for defence, he is still admitted nt the jail as such, in com mon with Edward D. Solder, Esq. One Crime prevented 1n Another.— The Lalyette (In.) Courier, of November, 23d, says that an old and substantial air liner of that county, named David Jones, recently became enamored of a young wonian, the wife of a neighbor, mulled Cantwell, and notwithstanding the ninon strances of his friends, determined to lope with her. Accordingly on Sunday , evening, 11th ult., he told his wife of his s intention, and that he was going to meet the woman at a certain place, about a mile from his residence, whence they intended to elope. Ills wife endeavored to dissuade him, saying that she feared it was only a plot to get him from home with his money' and rob him : but he persisted, and about ten o'clock mounted his horse and started. On,the following Morning he was missing, (although Mrs. Cantwell still remained at home,) and some were of opinion that he ! had gone off alone; but traces of blood found near.the place of assignation, aroused the suspicion in the minds of his neigh bors tha Pe had been, foully dealt with, and a search vas made for him. Ile was soon found shot through the heart, with a rifle I ball; anti robbed. .The husband whom lie attempted to injure has been arrested on suspicion. It is said to be no uncommon thing to find beautiful girls in the State °Maine, running wild, subsisting on berries and a corns. When a girl wants to got married she makes for the woods , where she roves about until a young man goes" out on a wife hunt. Ile catches sight ofa girl, and gives chase. She runs, and the young throws a lasso, by which she is it. Ho then takes her on his shoul carries her to the highway, where is a carriage ready, ties her feet and together,' and takeS her home. A ;ter is sent for and they are marriod. knot being tied, the young woman ,nteS: perfectly docile and submissive. MI ~~,, We copy the fiAlowing condensed view of the resources and prospects of PennSyl; vania from Bicknell's Reporter, an able commercial paper published in Philadel phia. It is gratifying that the condition_ or the' great central State of the Union' justify such a flattering picture of her capacity and ; prospects loin a journal of such high chatacter, and one entirely free from politicallfins s "Oun ST.yrn, Ova POSITION', ANT) OUR RESOURCES. — There is no part of the Un ion more richly ( ndowed with the natural resources of permanent prosPerity than the State of Pennsylvania. Although this is a subject which has frequently occupied the columns of ihe piess,• we propose to con sider it in a single. and comprehensive view. „The geographical portion - of the State is, the first place, highlyfavorablo to the successful prosecution'JoldOmtner cial enterprises, while it is situated Mid*ny between 'the North and South, with ttnO. pen the from its shores to the valley of the I‘lississippi, through the Onio river and the northwestern lakes, and also to the ocean. Its climate is mild and health ful, and our public works, composed of railroads and canals, traversing its most important sections, constituto convenient avenues for the transportation. Of every species of merchandise, both to and from the Atlantic cities. "Pennsylvania possesses as the basis of, its resources, a broad and public domain, yielding all the products of the middle! States in great abundance, abounding in large quantities of limo, especially adapted to the fertilization of the land. And it will hardly be questioned that agricultural en terprise is here prosecuted with n skill and success which renders its market equal to any in our own country or in Europe. "lint it is in the great amount of its mineral wealth that the State is made es pecially distinguished from any other part of the country. The vast beds of bitu minous and anthracite coal which it con tains, and its mines of iron, render its re sources much greater in this respect than any other State in the Union. It is, we presume, generally known that the great mass of the anthracite coal, which is em ployed !hroughout the country, is here mined to the annual amount of about twelve millions of dollars. The other spe cies also supplies a large quantity to the manufacturing enterprise of Pittsburg and other places. Indeed, our vast supplies of, coal and iron, render Pennsylvania Mel prominent workshop of the country. In order to be convinced of this fact, we need only to look at the industry of the State which is employed in mining and manu factures, and the amount of coal and iron, raw and manutiictured, transported to the city of Philadelphia. "The progress of the coal trade of the State is a subject of some interest and im portance. From a pamphlet, which would appear to be entitled to credit, since it was prepared by an associate editor of the Mi ners' Journal—a paper which is largely devoted to the interests ofthe coal and iron trade—we learn that as early as the year 1770, several loads of anthracite coal were despatched down the Susquehanna, it having been used in the shops of black smiths previous to that period. Compa nies for mining and transportation were soon formed, and in 1820 three hundred and sixty-five tons were lust sent to mar ket. In order to exhibit its advance for I the last four years, WO subjoin the follow i ing table, for which we are indebted to public documents Years 1845 1946 1847 184 R Thomas 'testier:lux, Haruin Merrill. 1111 PellriSylVallia and her Resuarees.:' "There is, also, in Pennsylvania, an a- bundant water power winch operates or propels numerous manufacturing estab lishments of woolen and cotton, and in the amount of those products which are furn ished, the Keystone stands among the most important States It is distinguished, also, for the skill and elegance with which the more ornamental kinds of mechanical work are here executed. It moreover possesses in its quarries of pure white marble, a material peculiarly adapted to architectural decorations, and of no little value, when we consider the prospective iniproveinent of a State which now posses i sex an amiable, industrious, moral, and reflective population of nearly two mil- I lions." The Brothers Montesiittioll and the Homicides At Si. Louis. The deplorable and almost incomprehen sible event which produced so much sen sation in the publie c 4Atd ut St. Louis a few weeks ago, rink s 'Vlach grief in sev eral families, ' , have excited equal sensation tit*OZ in France. The last steamer, Uri* out from Mr. Rives, our minister at Paris, a letter of his own to Senator Benton, with many letters and of ficial documents to himself; and others to Senator Benton, Senator Cass, and the Hon. Mr. Winthrop on the subject of this most melancholy occurrence. These let ters make known the fact that the father 1 of these young gentlemen, (the late Count Montesquion) labored under insanity, and destroyed his own life two years ago, and that their elder brother is lam insane in Paris; and hence raise the irresistible in . ference that inherited insanity must have broken out in the two brothers at St. Louis. All the letters speak of them in the same terms, as being remarkable for the amiability of their characters and their "mild and inoffensive manners ;" that they came to the United States for information . and recreation, and especially .to see the Western country, and with ample means and credit. Thoy descend from a family l in France not only of great historic name, but distinguished for private virtues. The celebrated 'Duke Do La. Rochfaucauld Liancourt, author of the "Maxims,!' .is their grandfather on. the mether's side: the present Duke De .'La.Rochefoticatald . .. „ . . writes in their behalf as. his nephews.— The General Oudinot, (Duke) of Reggio, and 'General Arrighi, I(Duke) of Padua, also writes in their behalf ns relations.— The-Count Montesquieu himself belonged to the distinguished and amiable family of the. same name. Malty Americans •in Paris, among them Mt. Win. H. ASpinWall, of New York, also Writes and with all the deep feeling which the view of thb•Pgoni- . zed condition of the Unhappy mother and' relations so naturally inspires. • These letters and official attestations are all for warded to St. Louis, to have their effect in explaining a transactien which seemed to be incomprehensible.--L-Nitional ligencer A Convention of Editors and Publishers recently assembled at Coluinbus, Ohio.— Edward: IL Campbell or Cincinnatti, was called,tci the chair. The following.propo sitions were laid before the Convention : 1. For a law for preserving at each county seat files of the newspapers printed in the e.oiiray. 2. Te"make ouch papers competent evidence to prove notices contained in them. 3. That legal notices shall be publish ed in at least two paper , thcLcOunty, if there are so many. 4. For a law providing for the com pletion of the documentary history. 'of the State, and its publication. The Convention resolved that the &s -ent system of posta g e is unjust to the wes tern press, and that Congressbe memora lized to provide for carrying papers thir ty miles free, and to prohibit the carrying papers out of mail to places where there is a post office. The Convention also referred to a com mittee a series of resolutions, asserting -1 That they would not receive ap prentices, unless regularly indentured, nor for a less period than five 'years. That they will employ no one as a jour neyman, except he has served a regular apprenticeship. 3. That a State Typographical Asso ciation should b e formed. . 4, That gratuitous advertising has become an onerous tax, and that all kinds or notices should be charged as advertise• ments, and if done for transient persons, paid for in advance. 5. That they disapprove and will dis countanance ill-natured personalities in ed itorial intercourse ; and observe the am enities and courtesies which should murk the intercourse of gentlemen. O. To decline gratuitous advertising for Eastern Magazines and mammoth weeklies. For about one week, previous to the be ginning of this week, the mail passed through this place east and west every other day. This was a good arrangement, and one by which we received a daily mail, allowing a delay at Curwensville from the evening till the next morning.— The Sentence of Mills the Seducer. But now another change has been made, Jonathan Gibbons Mills, who sonic time by which the mail goes west in the eve since was convicted of seduction, in the I ning, and returns the next morning, with- Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county, and out bringing any thing except what it car in whose case motions in arrest of ju d g e ' vied past our office the evening before in meat an for a new trial, were made by the through mail—or unless it is that his counsel, has been sentenced, and all motions overruled, by Judge Parsons.—; which has laid at Curwensville some 36 The sentence was in the case of seduction, I hours. For instance: Last Tuesday by imprisonment for three years in Dauphin the mail from, the cast, we received four county Prison, costs of prosecution, and a! papers. The next morning, by the mail fine of $lOO. In that of the two attempts to procure abortion, one year on each in- 'from' the west, e received some twenty dictment, with costs, making five years —rather more'than usual—all eastern pa solitary confinement in all. In the two pens, and some of which should have cases of fornication and bastardy, al reached us the Friday previous. Is not which he was convicted, the usual penal.' this tooprovoking? ally was imposed. Before sentence was / 1 passed, Mills read a long statement to the; There are heavy complaints made in Court, detailing his past and in justifi- many quarters about the disarrangement cation to himself. F ro m it appeared, he' of the mails, and certainly we never had was born in Chester county, learned the so much reason to complain before, printing business in the Record office in West Chester; then studied dentistry in the same town, alter which he removed to Danville, and married ; his ife dying lie camo to Harrisburg, his operations here what he did, and what he received is written above. 7. That the publication of long patent medicine advertisements, for a great length of time, ought to be discouraged, except at the regular rates of charge. Tuns. 2,002,877 2,333,404 2,970,577 3,063,503 Dates from Santa Fe, to the 30th of Oct. have been received at this place, which brings farther accounts of Indian depreda tions. The troops had taken five Apachese prisoners who had been of fere.i in ex.! change for Mrs. White and daughter.--' Mr. Aubry had also offered, in addition, the sum of one thousand dollars. Information had been received, that thirty-six California, emigrants had recent ly beenkilled by the Indians, near the Cop r Mines. The troops stationed near El Paso, had started in pursuit of the en emy; but, at last accounts, had not met with them. Three Mexicans had been killed at El Paso, on the 6th of October, and several others were reported to have been murdered near Santa Fe. The In dians were daily committing fresh depre dations, and had become quite hostile to the emigrants. Dates from Chihuhua, to the 30th of September, represent the chol era as raging fearfully at that place. Not less than 75 to 100 deaths were occurring daily. A new Fort called Fort Barkoy' had been established on the Moro river : and Lieut, Simpson had selected a site for a fort in Navajo county. AwFur:DEATa.—A workman engaged in a plaining mill in Syracuse, N. Y., was caught in the machinery, on Friday last, which whirled him round with great rapid ity and tremendous power—his, arms and legs at every revolution striking the knives of the Planer l In one minute his legs and arms were torn from hid,-body, and scat tered in thousands of fragments, about . the building, some of which were thrown out of a window into the river I—and as soon as the machinery could be stopped, his linibless trunk fell to the floor, utterly de nuded, save .the cravat about his-neck. I , • The Printers of Ohio Later from Santa Ee. ST. Louis, Dec. 11 THE DOLLAR. Clearfield, Pa., Dec. 21, 1849. 1:* -- F4• A. PENNEMAN, Esq., of Phila. delphid, is urged in several infliletnial'quarl, ters for the office of State Treastiter. C*—The Harrisburg Union takes . a de cided stand in fhvor of Anus S. Watt, moNT, of Clarion, for Speaker of the next House of Representatives of :his State.— Mr: IVieC. is vet a young man, but he has abilities that bid fair to elevate him among our foremost statesmen. ()tr . Our snow has - almost entirely dis appeared, giving place to an abendande of mud. The river has been 'quite hiDli since Monday, the, result,of the late rain. This will fill many of the streams and start a number of saw-mills that have . been standing almost entirely idlo for several months for the want of water. . (3" -- A. Convention composed ~of Iron tnnsters, was recently hold in Pittsburg, at which strong resolutions were adopted, urging upon Congress a specific instead of an advalorenz duty on iron imported into this country. In plain English, they ask t;i , , i• n proteepin P:?. P 24 per ton on common bar, .and; from .10: to 612 on pig metal, instead of 'the , o:Acetic:in a thirty dollars on the hundred dollatiS' Worth, as is now afforded by the existing tariff. Improvements in Newspapers. It is particularly gratifying to see the almost universal improvement that has ta ken place among the country newspapers of Pennsylvania within the last year or 18 months. Pennsylvania can now boast of a more numerous and neatly printed plu►- lanx of Country Newspapers than any other State in the Union. Among the la test improvements of this kind that have came under our observation, is that of the Lycoming Gazette, which now presents a really handsome and model-like appear- EOM Onr Mails—Truly Provoking. THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS. No Speaker Yet.. . MARRIED—On the 6th inst., by M. We have the proceedings of Congress Ni c h o l s , 1.; —sq., Mr. ROBERT LITZ, of Boggs; up to and including Saturday last—being trm nship, to Miss ROBE BVTLEIL, of Loy ! the twelfth day spent in the effort to elect a rence township. On the 13th inst., by Rev. P. P. Lae Speaker. On Wednesday of last week,l ai „ r. JOSEPH DUNKALBAROER to MISS Sr' W. J. Brown, (dein) of Indiana, received S NAII BENNER, both of Pike township., 112 votes, and wanting only two to elect! In this place, on yesterday, by the Rev. him; but just as they were about proceed- M. T. Merwin, Mr. Titom.ts M. CADIVAI• LADER, of Curwensville, to Miss N. ing to another ballot, which would no CARLILE, of Luthersburg doubt have resulted in his election, it was, discovered that he had been making dis-' graceful overtures to the Free Soilers, in order to procure their support. He had pledged himself to Wilmot that if elected Speaker lie would constitute the Commit tees on the District of Columbia, on the Territories, and on the Judiciary, in a " manner satisfactory to him and his friends." This discovery defeated Mr. Brown's prospects for Speaker, prevented the organization of the House, and has al so destroyed Mr. Brown's reputation as a high-minded and honorable Man. On Friday last a motion was adopted that no further 'debate be allowed- until the House is organized. So that now the members can do nothing but vote. The 47th ballot took place on Saturday. Mr. Boyd,(dem) of Kentucky, had 86 votes; Mr. Stanley, (whig) of North Carolina 56 votes; the balance of the 226 members were divided among various candidates. The House then adjourned over till Monday, when it was presumed that an election would be made. The Senate, on Saturday, resolved to appoint a Committee to wait on the Presi dent and inform him that thgy,,were ready to proceed to the consideration of Execu tive business, and then adjourned over till Monday. Letter writers from : Washing tor}, .speak with much - confidence; that, ma ny oflthompOintments, oeVresidem;i.for;l {.on will encounter seriotik4potitu:ifrinr‘„ some of the let,u.log • Whig S9nators 7 ,-,7 Should this be the case we . .may encet , lots of excitement. • Important to NIII Owners, The following paragraph was handed: to us, with reqmst, to give it n phicc in our eolumng; for the infamatiolLof thoseT4 our citizous who are using "Re 7 action Wa ter, Wheels" in their Mills. , While we,. , cheerfully comply with- that request, wt. %- are not to' be understood as endorsing the justice of the clairri of Parker to darangeSi.. for alleged infringements of his patent. , ' On the contrary, we think that if the ex•• isting laws relating to. the granting of pat ents, and the ,rightsi9f ,pnteptees, sustain his claim,, • as is to be .inforred ;from . this decision, it is high time that those laws were so altered or amended as to protect the innocent. A number of our saw-mill owners have lately been sued' before the U. S. Distriet. Court, at Pittsburg, for the use of the4;i: wheels, and the case referred to below is said to be analogous, covering the whole„! groUnd. How this may be, it is not for ttii to say. Those more immediately interes !o! ted must see to it. A patentee should be protected in liift o l rights, to the end that he may be rewarded!' for his labor and genius, and for the good he has conferred upon the community:' But does it not sometimes happen that tqo much is claimed, and granted by these let -A ters patent T If so, we are much mista.l ken if this is not one of tha,t character- Parker's patent seems to invest him With all the rights pertaining to the discovery . : .of the principle of re-actien, water wheels ci and would also seem to preclude any fui-,l ther improvements upon that principle. .' If this is a correct view of the case; w© feel very certain that the District court wii4 not sustain the demands of the claimants:: Important Decision. We noticed,'in the Daily News of the 21st inst., • that the case of Parker vs. Hulme, the trial of which occupied thC , U. S. Circut Court, for two weoks, has, finally been determined in favor of the plaintiff—the jury returning a verdict in' his favor of $75. This action was institu ted for the recovery of damages resulting. , from the infringement, by Hulme, of Por-1. kers's patent for horrizontal percussion and reaction wheels. We arc led to be— lieve, from the extraordinary efforts made by the defendant, and those who had op-f posing claims, that this was made the test case, and consequently that Mr. Parker's right is .permently and definitely settled. We understand that Hulme was assisted in his defence by Messrs. Rose, Hotch—. kiss, and several other gentlemen, who are interested against the Parker claim. Tho case was hied before Judge Kane, . and we understand, has been reported in full, and will shortly be published by the. in pamphlet form.—Brookville ,Star. One of the Mississipi papers expresses surprise that the Rev. J. N. Man should„ make converts, by his preaching, so rapid-{ ly as he is said to be doing in Arkansas;„ and after speaking rather slightly of the the Reverened gentleman, says it Vas a., common saying with a venerable desciple of Wesley, N 1 ho has long since gone to his rest in heaven, that in making a calcnla- , tion of the number "soundly converted" under his preaching, he always allowed about twenty-five per cent for "shrinkage,' ORPHANS' COURT SALE. Y brute of nu order of the Orphans' Court of JD the CL unty 01 Clearfield. n ill be sold at Flab. lie sale at the Court houso in the buroagk of Cleat field on Monday the 4th day February, 1659; 00 ACRES OP LAND? , situate in Brady township. beginning at a dies• ry. thence by land of Levi Dale west 145 perch• os to a Linwood tree, thence by land of Jared Ingersol north 116 3.4 perches to a post, thence by Laud of Michael Crow, jr., east 145 perches 10 post, thence by land of John Casrueny, sea, 116 3 4 porches to the place of beginning, beta part of the Carper Staiver tract and known No. 195, and the same promises which C. 110 a by deed conveyed to. Samuel McGarr, record,' at Clearfield, in Book E, page 141. Pore hare money to bo paid on confirmatiop,' sole by the Court. , . MICHAEL HOLTZMAN, Ad'mr of Samuel IlicGarr. Clearfield, Dec. 13, 1849. SEALED Proposals will be reecived . by Commissioners of Clearfield county on day 31st December, mut . for furnishiog Fuel. inking care of the court house, &co during! ensuing year. Also—for the office of Clettl the Buatil for the year 1850. Attest W. A. WALLACE, • Dec. 14, 1849. NOTICE horoby given, that Henry IWO of Woodward township, Clearfield county!) duly appointed toy agent, and all porsons indebn . , to me hy, Notes or Book account, without respect ] persons, are required to pay the same to Mid Hogarty, or to Lim subscriber, and to no othefit sort, on or before the •vqok of thq next Febtal court. Any'rnoney paid to Richard or James II lips, on my account, after this date. will not NV ceptod )) s •• wm. ?ono N0v..24, 1849. • • 1118 SPII PROPOSALS. TO THE PUBLIC. EINE n W !ME
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