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From the St. Limit Republican.
MORMOSg AND MORMOMSM.
"We are indebted to a pious and intelligent
gentleman of this city, for the following
description of Mormonism, at iida to bo found
At Nauvoo, and of Jo Smith, it leader. The
intelligent reader will scarcely believe that
each humbuggcry could be ueceatftilly prac
ticed, nt this day, upon thv moat credulous or
riorant of the community, ytt it is so in this
.instance
Nauvoo, Nov. 4, 1S41.
1'swr Sir: We wore yesterday en'uyine
the hospitality of Joseph Smith, the loading
Trophet of the Latter Day Sa ints, the Mormons.
JVe are. this morning em the declivity of Zion's
Hill, taking a last look at their city. We aland
among heaps of limestone rock, that are feat
using into a temple a fac simile of that Tem
ple which was built by Solomon, and trod by
the r a.viour. The devoted Mormons are ham.
uictMig busily at weik and giving it each the
tenth of their time ; and from this up, the half,
cr even -the whole, both of time and propc-m.
Eetbro ii!", is the beginning of a great city u
noble botiom Jand, -already half covered with
Lotrns.- flhzr.er ut. also, the Huffs and timber
tire thickly scattered with thern, extending
tack n couple of xnilee or mere. Crowds of
peple.liom England, many of them poor, are
.pouring in. How they are to support them
wives, -ot hftjsupported, Heaven only knows.
It seems aa ifthey muet bo driven, by sheer
licrejaity, to 'spoil the Egyptians,' (i. e. all
who are not Mormons about them ;) and it is
not surprising that their name is in bad on or
with their neighbors. Tho notion that thero is
a community of property, among them, is alto
gether false ; and many must and do suffer.
Some few I have met at St. Louis, hastening
luck to England, 'while their money holds
out.
The Mormons gathering is a singularly in
terestwg phrase of our limes. They are, too,
ay what 3'ou will, a singularly interesting
people. As a people, I am ready to believe all
C'xxl of them. "Would that there were among
them as much of Christian intelligence as of
the Christain spirit.
Of the leaders, or rather their chief leader
Joseph Smith, I say nothiug by way of private
opinion. At our request, however, I give
through you, somewhat reluctantly, I-confess,
:.n account of my interview with him. As he
promptly discovered and revealed to me that
I was worthy of no man's confldence, I cen
certainly betray no confidence in this ceae, try
as I may. The facts as they lie fresh in my
memory, are simply these : Yesterday after
liooo in my company with a friend, I entered
the house of this strange man, intending to tres
pass bat a few minutes on his hospitalities. I
expected to have seen a person of some dignity
Mid reserve and with at least, an, ontiili nf
r.v. iic -c ropnet was asleep, in his
rocking chair, when we entered. His wife
und children were busy alwut the room, iron
ing, &.c , and one or two Mormon preachers,
lately returned from England, wore sitting by
the large log fire. After having been intro
duced, the following talk ensued.
A. 'You have tho beginniug ot a great city
here Mr. Smith.'
(Here came in the more prominent objects
of the city. The expenses of the temple, Mr.
Smith tliomght, would be SCOO.OOO or gttOO,
000. The temple is 137 feet side, by S3 feet
fro.it; and by its plan, which was kindly shown
us, will fall short of some of our public build
ings. As yet only the foundations are laid.
Mr. Smith then spoke of the '.'ah-a' reports cur
rent about himself, 'and tupp;;sed we had hearJ
enough of them.'
A. 'You know air, persecution sometimes
drivea the wise man mad.'
Mr. S. (laughing.) 'Ah, sir, you must not
put me among tho wise men, my place is not
theie. I make no pretensions to piety either.
If you givo me credit for anything, let it be foi
einir a good manager. A good manager I do
claim to be.'
A. 'You havo great influence here, Mr.
Snv.th.'
Mr. S. 'Yes, I have, I bought 000 acres here,
a few years ago, and they all have their lands
of mo. My influence, however, is tccleiiianti
u.l only ; in civil affairs 1 am but a common
citizen. To be ture, I am u member of the
City Council, Lieutenant General of the Nau
voo legion. I can command a thousand men
to the field, at any moment, to support the laws.
I had hard work to make them turn out and
form the Legion, until 1 shouldered my niut.ket,
and entered the ranks myself. Now, they have
nearly all provided themselves with a good
unilonn, poor as t'aey are. Uy the way, we
had a regular 'set to' up here, a day or two
innce. Tho City Council ordered a liooor so!-
. - 1 .L . t . . . . l I
aZ 7, 1 1 ; ;
and he still remained, they directed thath.s j
D,,uum u P""-'u oown aooui t.rs ears. rev. r..i. nnd to protect manufactures. I will
They gave me a hand in the scrape ; and I lwd j not go through the list of Presidents or prece
occasion to knock a man dnwn more than once. , d m.s .m the snl.jcct ; this has been done by my
. uij ...uaicrta ki t'rong an oppoMliun, t!,nt it .
tv' 1 I ir dWn' hB kn0ckeJ d"wn- 1
e beat him off, at last ; und arc dcterminnd
t-i have no grog hops m r about our ground..' j
(The convcrfation flowed on pleasantly, lin-
!.l my friend, to fill a pause that scarred re- i
i-.rred to my calling as a preacher )
Mr. S. 'Well I suppose (turning from me)
he is one of the craft trained to his ciced.'
A. 'My creed, sir, in the New Testament.'
Mr. S. 'Then, sir, we shall see the truth
ilike; for the arripture says 'They shall see
-yetoeyc. A.t wt.osre true men, must read ; extreme ;t, every ir.calet man ahould be alrnv amount of capital employed in the cotton cul
U4 Libia alike, imiH they i.ot !' Jin pro.icuucing that doctrine unconstitutional. tare as foilov. s ;
A. 'True AJr.'Smith ; and yet I doubt if they
will see it precisely alike. If no two blades of
grass are precisely alike, for a higher reason,
it seems that no two intellects arc.'
Mr. H. (getting warm,) There I told you,
go. You don't come here to seek truth. You
begin with talcing the f lace of oppjsition.
Now, say what I may, you have but to answer,
'No two men can see alike.'
A. 'Mr. Smith, I said not that no two could
see alike.; tut that tio two could see, on the
wholo precisely aliko.'
Mr. S. 'Docs not the scripture say, 'They
"hall see, eye to eye 1'
A. 'Granted, sir, but be geod enough to take
a case. The words 'all' and 'all things' wew
brought up s meaning, nt onetime, universal
creation. And again ; 'One believeth that he
may eat all things, i e that is any thing, or, as
we say, every thing-.
Mr. S. 'You miry explain away the hible, sir,
as much as you f lease, 1 ask, have you ever
I heen baptized !'
A. 'Yes, sir, I think I have.''
Mr. S. 'Can you prophesy J
A. 4 Well, sir, that depends on the meaning
you give tho word. I grant that it genemlly I
means, to preach the gospel. In this sense, sir,
I can prophesy."'
Mr, S. "Vim lie, sir, and you know it.'
A. 4It is as eafry for me to impugn your mo- j
tives, Mr. Smith, as for you to impugn mine.'
Mr. S. 'I tell you, you don't i-eek to know the j
trr.th. You are a hypocrite. I saw it when i
you first began to speak.'
A. 'It is plain, Mr. Smith, that we differ in
opinion. 'Niow, one man's opinion is as good as
another's, until some third party comes in to
strike a balance between them
Mr. S. 'I want no third rnrtv e'r- You are
a foul, sir, to' talk -as you do. Have I not seen
twice theryenrs that you have 1 Joseph Smith
is 3G yearsold ; tho speaker, 'A., was ten yenrs
younger. I say sir, you are no gentleman, I
would not trust you with my . purse acrossthe
stnwt.'
Here my friend interposed, saying, '1 don't
believe, Mr. Smith, that this gentleman came
to your house to insult you. lie had heard all
sorts of accounts of your people, eud came sim
ply to see with his own eyes '
Mr. S 'I have no ill feeling towards the gen
tleman, lie is welcome to my house, but what i
I see to be the truth, I must speak out; I flat j
ter no man. I tell you sir, that man is a hvno- '
crite. You'll 2nd him out, ifyou're long enough
with him. I tell you, I would'ut trust him as far
as 1 could see him. What right has he to speak
so to me t Am I not the leader of a creat peo
ple? He, himself, will not blame me for spea
king the truth plainly.'
Here kiud expressions passed on both sides,
and we were rising to go.)
M K miinir (ronilm
"breid and salt with us, our tea is on the table.'
We staid, accordingly, and made up around
his smoking and well filled table.
I have been careful, especially towards the
close of this talk, to give the words that were
that were used, omitting nothing but con
versational by-plny, and some of the filling up.
Tho skeleton is complete. So much for this
man at his own fireside.
Ricccli ot Mr. lludaou of . II nut.
The following ia an exlract from the .jech ef
.!r. Hudson of Mas,, in favor ofpiotection to A- j
... I
mencan inOostry :
I
Gentlemen have spoken of a protective tariff
as an exploded doctrine. An exploded doctrine ! j
hpn. U'liprA. arA lie u-lntlil U'na this Anrtrinn '
exploded ! I demand. It was the doctrine of
the Constitution. It had the support of the
President and the first Congress. Yes, sir,
General Washington, who was President of
the Convention which formed the Constitution,
in his first messages to Congress, says: "The
advancement of agriculture, commerce, and
manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I
trust, need recommendation." In compliance
wuu n.s suggestion, 1110 nrsicongress, 111 their j
: i 1 " . . . V t . 4-n . .
iraij.uww aet-i say nrsi, ior u.m.gn it stands .
Buconu 111 me laws, me nrsi act was simply an
act binding all officers of Government to the
I 1 tl 1 ' 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 . nn I ... nAoi k. rm . L . .
'" boiciiih ouwi 10
o iiK-re to thai sacred instrument the first
Cjnirrcw. cornDosfHl in no mnll HoirrpA nfthn
" ' w. w
very me,, who formed the Constitution, m their j
tir,t pubhc act employ this language in the
prea.nb.e: "Whereas it is necessary, for the
r . , v-. , j t IWI M1V j
support of Government, for the discharge of
the Coiled States, and for the encouragement ;
ar.u proiociioii 01 manutuctures, that duties be i-,w is it With the product of the South ! j wood by buying it when gjeetk Albany Cttiti
laid upon goods, wares, and merchandise im- Take their great staple, cotton ; of what is that i rutVr.
P"rt,;J : ; the product ? ef labor or of capital ! Of capi- j
"De it enacted," &c. This act then goes tal alm.t exelusK-cly. Their lands are capital ' K"'"" Maemwa-We went yeterdy to
on io provide f. r discriminating duties. Now, I and their slaves are capital, made so by their ! "'C mach",e ,h"p of Mfl U,,'rhw E"n"' No 6
. . . i ' J : 1 1.. -1 i . u . 1 . . .:
' CarC Ml nKlMr t,'t'8e dtltie9 be high or low.
It is suffieiont that they were laid to raise a '
tnen.l from Vermont, Mr. Sunt;;! but I will i
,rcliidp f ineral Wash-
mut,,,, ,o n io the pn sent Executive, unless j
it tho Hder Adams has recognised the doc-!
tn,.c of prot-uing domestic industry, and has !
reeoum.rndej encouraging manufactures.
v lien It uidnngtoii the President of the Con
vei.tiiiu that framoj the IWslitutiim ; Madison,
the writer nf that matchless inslrttmeut; and
Jefferson, the great democrat expounder of it,
concur in the opinion that Congress has the
ritfiu 01 proiei ung manulsctures. and omrht to
We have been told upon this floor that dis
criminating tariff was a tax upon Souhorn la
bor, to increase Ncrfhern capital. The Con
test, gentlemen tell us is botwecn Northern
capital and Southern labor 1 Mr. Speaker, I
wish to assail no part of the country ; but, sir,
I am compelled to say that the truth is the re
verse of this. It is Southern -capital ugainst
Northern labor. The North has frequently
been tauirted as being rich and grasping. Gen
tlemen na-ve pointed to our manufacturing
villages as evidence that wo were fattening
upeu the the -labor of what they -denominate the
great producing States. But why do gentle
men pointto our manufacturing villages! Let
them look to our soil, rough and rugged as it is,
and compare our cultivated fields with t'ieir
exhausted soil and half cultivated plantations,
and ask themselves whether thry cannot ac
count for this difference, by onr habits of indus
try, and the character of 1 lie labor rve employ.
Nor is it true ihntonr manufuctories are car
ried on or owned by the wealthy, to the extent
that gentlemen would represent. Many ofour
cotton and woolen mills are owned and opera-
ted by men of small capital the laborers in the
mills owning a portion of the projerty. Many '
species of manufactures prosecuted m MA!Sia. j
chvsetts and I speak of my own State ,miy j
becanse I can spenk of her more understand-
ingly than of any other) require but very little 1
capital. We manufacture boons tnd shoes to j
the amonnt of H,000,0(0 annually This
laTee 6tim is to a preat extent the; nni.lur f!
I . . " r
labor. The coovcrsror. cf a rtw hiile into shoes !
ly human toil. Hie manufacture of farniture !
and chairs amounts to f I 200,000 annually, and ,
labflr is the principal ingredient in this product.
The same istruc of hats, which are manuf.ic
tuied to the amount of about $700,000 perycar.
The annual product of straw bonnets and palm-
leaf hats is .s-,000,(X0: and this besins and '
ends in labor and labor, too, mostly performed
by women and children. By the oflieial sta- !
tisticsef Massachusetts, it will be seen that !
there are produced annually of these little arti- j
cles, these household manufactures such as ;
straw and palm leaf hats and bonnets a very
largo amount. In some towns where such ar- ;
tides are manufactured, the amount of dollar
ister. times the amount of the population of the
town; and in some few cases twice that
amount that is, a town of 2,00(1 inhabitants
will produce of straw, palm-leaf, and articles
of this diameter, f 20,000. and in some cases
$40,001), though, in the latter case, a portion of
the article, partly manufactured, was o btiincd
in the adjucent towns. These articles are, to
a great degree, tho product of 'labor, and are
produced principally hy the women aud chil
dren. And it is by unremitting toil, by patient
and continual application, that these products
are brought forth. Hy means such as these
i j..j..r mm ninnies, oi lone widows and
destitute orphans, are supported.
And I would gladly ask my friend from
Sou;h Carolina whether he can present a pic
ture like this from his own State ! whether
tlie females or the males tliere will submit to
toil like this! lie knows
they will not..
And still he speaks of
our manefactur.es a j
though they were all men of overgrown capital
rolling in luxury and in wealth ! I will give ;
the gentleman a specimen of Yankee manu- !
tactures. There are gentlemen within fiilecn
- ur 'w 'y iiniesoi my residence wno mamiuc-
t,,rC WOOden Ware' AhJ haf' j
do 'u suppose they produce ! I will tell yon.
. I
J l,cy manufacture pails, and wash-boards, and '
mop-handles, and clothes pins. And where do j
you 8Upposc they finJ a markcl for thcge B,ap,e
commodities? I will tell you. They send
them into the Western wilderness! They
have actually an agency in Missouri, to which
these articles are sent for sate.
We have another class of manufactures of a
different character. Onr cotton, woolen, glass,
iron, and paper manufuctories turn out an an
nual product about equal to the capital inves-
ted. Take all our manufactures together, and j
"" F"""' ...u-in.iu mure ,
Umn the capital invested. Not that the annual
product is so much clear gain; far otherwise
ine interest snu insurance on me capital anu i
fahrio. the costr.f flie raw material, the cost of I
. . . ....... .. '
the labor, and other incidental charges, are all
AAtA 1 r.t . ..., .,
I vv uv uv.a vJvi-ia an isv'h o, vviit(jai) tun j a,isii
ofl an annnall product Greater than the canital ,
inv.ee,ed, and still prosecute their business at a '
OM. j
From this view of our manufactures, it will j
i (uiii uiit view ui our inauuiuviiiri-?, u win
be seen that our fubrics are in a great degree
the product of labor, and not of capital. But
own laws. In strictness ot speech, they have
no labor, in the sense in which that word is
used, as distinguished from capital, in the pro.
duction of their cotton crop, if we except the
overseers and tho few white men who are em-
tdovod. Bv tho institutions and laws nfth
South, their slaves arc property-capital in the
same sense that our machinery is; and, when
they talk of protecting their labor, they rnenn if
they mean any thing, prot.-cting tkeir property.
In this view of the subject, I claim no origi-
nality; Mr. Woodbury, that Northern man
with Southern principlesMr. H'oodbury, the
late Secretary, whoso authority will not bede
spu'eu by my friend from South Carolina, pre
vents the same view, in his Report unon
cotton in lK'trL He eslimstes tl,
estimates the whole
Capital in lands f12,000,000
Captial in slaves, 4P3,tKHIfWW
Capital in horses,-cattle, &c., . . 20,400,(10
Floating capital, for taxes, tool,
overseers dec, ..... 30,000,000
Making a grand total of . , $771,000,000
Wflh these facts staring them in the face,
will Southern gentlemen on this flour have the
effroriteryto tell nsthat the doctrine of Pretec
tion is a contest between Northern 'Capital and
Southern Labor! t is a contest between
Southern Capital, or what is wado Capital by
their laws, and the free I-abor of the North.
The gentleman from South Carolina laments
that any thing should be said tending te array
one part of the Union ajrains. the ether; and
yet in the same speech, he speaks of Northern
Manufacturers as oppressors, plunderers, rob
bers. The gentleman tells us that, if the pro
tective policy is adhered to, the Constitution
will be destroyed; and ho more than intimates
thai the Union will be dissolved. I regret that
any gentleman should so far forget hwlnty to !
himself and his country as to speak of sdrssel-1
,nff,e Vmon; yes, sir, I am more grieved '
1 alarrncJ at "'is tlrreat ; it has been re pea-;
o often that it has lott all its terror. lis-
W)lve the Union"! 'ho would sulH-r by such !
n CVCTrt ' ICt eewt'emen count the coat be-'
ore lRtc '"'ohing snch horrid con- J
scq1"?'" I ill (t dwell upon a subject so j
pninfiil- But, if the Union must bo dissolved, j
he the responsibility iijnn those who commit '
. .... '
Uic KHlaI act.
I have no disposition to array one portion of
l"c L nicn Sin soother ; I would strcntghen
the cord winch binds tlicm together. And I
bo! ieve that the measure before us is one in
which we have a mutual interest- 1et a dis
criminating tariff be wisely adjusted, distin
eM"ih,? lux line and necessaries, botwevn
rl'cls which come in competion with onr own 1
industry mid those which do not, and it will j
Prwc bona of onion, by imparting the grea-
lest E1 10 ",c greatest number. Such a j
tariff W0,llJ promote alike the interest of the
'Mlit nml tlle ,t efit' t,,e 1N:,,rli, n,J 'ho South, !
a,,d t''f"'c'1 FP"' through the hind. j
Tire Flnancri oftlie Xatlnn.
Mr. Evnn. who is ilia hm in of the Commitirr nf
Finance in the House f HrirrKcntiitrvi'a at Wa- :
xhingtin, made some intrrratuii; ta'rmi'nm a day j
or two agi He eslimutes the receipt for the p re- j
wilt Year, thin :
Kixcipls into Ike Treasury fur I8-tt.
From Ou-toms. $15 600,000
CiMoni on Coixiii rrc. iTeJ in I b4 I, 3.t00,(UH)
Miscell .neous, 150,(100 j
Treanury rV.iti'S, .r0,000 j
5?l$,5O0,000
ExpcnrtsfoT IS43,
me necretery of the Trennuiy rtim:ite them
at ?25,7SO,000. Mr. Kvana hopeg they mny ! I
reJuied to $33,0(10,000. Meni, to meet them an !
above, ft 9,000 ,000. Of this H7.000.000 i to tw
paid for public debt now, leaving $10,0011,000 de
ficiency. This, with the I'fficit nry of tlie piesent
year nuj the lament of present will mike a pub-
lie debt of 17.000.000. The inuiuiu f ih l...n
.,lthlri. tlM
f 12000(0lK) anJ ,8 alI)1)U1,t of rro noWt
II0W )ro,)OHeJi .ooo.OOO i. ,,Mr!y equal tothi.
dch,t tovpn.illf ,he eM.uliture. to be no more
u1!ln 453.OOO.OOO. which U . n..ua, of ,.,.,
Joubt
It i obvious of counr, that the Treaty Note
Uii ia needed as an independent measure, and ihat
the balance of (he loan (insien.l of deducing the
five million, from the lon, a, p.oposed l,y the
Hou,e of Ici,leselJliv(.0 u nm.Mjry m lhe t!u.
vcinment.
According to Dr. Doll's experiments on the
quantity of hel produced by several kinds of wood
and ci al, if birkoiy wio.l is f 8 pt rciffd, lhe relative
value of other kinds of fuel are as ftiows: Whiie
oak 6,8S, while ash ?6,H4, white beech $5,52,
hard m.i;. 4,H0, white elm $i,6i, soft mi pie ft,.
2. button w.iivl 4 1ft i.iirh ..ina 'icl k;.
W9i Schuylkill cost 7,79, per ton! Lehigh 7.4s,
, a(.kawmn. 7 1S i!K(M,. u, ., . . . w , .
46, Liverpool coal 18,28 lhe 100 bushels, Rich-
moi d coal 1742, hickory charcoal 14,11, maple
9 09, 01lk 9 0l( pine 6 37 &e &e T,le u
..j,u r-, ih. r n..i,... c ... .
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ClUj,
The table will be uf great uhc to every buy
er of fuel tvhowishea to study economy in his pur
tlorea. It should be recollected by the aellcr, that
wooJ u(10n an ,Wigfi ,ow, 4a in 100 ,(y j,
Hence the disadvantace of uLi.,ff en
ling.
wood
be r, 1
d to market. And the buyer should rjinem-
hat he loses 13 ner cent nfthe valna nf lii
y.MJ BlPtl.V .tkoiiu, iu wen III iriauuii
a WniitmR machine, the invention of one of our
canning brethern uf the East, Mr. Kit-hard Walk,
er, of I'orumooth, N. H. The machine is called
the Patent Kotsry Knitting f.oom. (t is a very
small affiir, not more than twenty-two inches in
length, twelve inches wide, and eighteen inches
high. The movement wheels of the machine are
very few, hut Tory eccentric. The needles, or
teeth, however, are wonderfully ingenious. The
machinery ia propelled ly ste-on; and a young
wnmsn can, with perfect ease, attend to three of
these machines, and with them weave Nisirr
ruas of stockings a day.
What would Bailie Kichol Jarvie uy, whose
father was a weaver in Glasgow, when three or
four pairs would have been a glorious day's work I
We wish tiiat some of our cit.iens, who fel cu
riou in such unite , would visit the place, and
J act the Hijveiuenis of lhe machinery-. '. $ Cai,
THE AMERICAN.
ffalurday, -January 2S( .843,
jT On Sunday evening about "8 o'clock,
the iee on the Susquehanna very suddenly and ve
ry nnex'pectedly took leave of us. An ice dam, It
appears, had been firmed about four miles up the
North Urinch, which -suddenly gave wsy. The
water at this pflare roue very rapidly about five oi
six feet, and carried off our natural bridge, just as
we had commenced using it. The ice was about
IS inches thick.
fy- The mails between this fdaee and ITsTriik
hwg have hproirre so irrrgobsr, lml we frequently
receive OHr earlient mlelligencefrom Harristmrg Iry
way of I'bllsJHpSis. Hnrri4iurg papers published
en Wednrsday, are often not recerved utitil Satur
day, By the present arrsngement, letters an rving
here, nmst lay over one diej' btforethey can I an
swered. These things should be (oolced mte by
onr citizens.
fXj Walkik's SFiKVTCirrrn.Tlxr, LinaxnY.
This excellent publication has been recommen
ced, and makes its nppearani-e in tn airerent cos
lume or effver. Tc Jarqurrit, a new and most
mtrresimg rnrvrl, by G. P. U. Jsme, is now in the
course of f abKcatkin in its nnrrihers. Persona J
wisliing to suliscrfbe for the "l.ilirary,'" can do so 1
by calling at this office, the editor naving I wen ap
pointed agent far the pvtilhther.
iXj"Ta T.tniKs'' Wa of Fasiox, in the
title of a new peiioifical, puhKabed monthry, hy Mr.
V. J. i'eterr-on. Ledger Buildings, Philadelphia,
rereive,! some weeks since, but mislaid. It con
tnitis, In-si'Us a hnnilrame engraving and a plate nf
faliionn, a fund of iulereMing reading mnlter.
Teru.s, $2 per annum, or three coj.k's for J5.
fj" KvtitT Yoi th's tiiT.r.rrr, is the title of a
new work publi-hed weikly in the efficp of the en
terprbang trtjlilislirrs of the New World, in New
Voik. The first numln-r of which wv have just
received, i a beautiful specimen, enriched by sever
al h'indsiime engravings on wood. The liaiclle U
puliliphi d in quarto form, and i-i deigned cliii fly
for the u-e of children. It will give entire the nioM
mpular wotks on youth, hy such suthora as Miss
Kilgi worth, Miss Martineau, Mis. HotH.iud, Mary
Howitt, Mise M.lfur'1, and otlier popular writer'.
The terms ere, for one copy, aent to any part of
Noith America, $2 a year; for two copies, f3;
for four copies, $5; for ten copies, 10 nmit.
Iu be paid in adraarr. When four copies for SS,
or 11 n copies tut 10 are onlerej, the remittance
niu-l be m:tdc in current money, of New York 01
-New England, und the pupets direclcd to one ud
drrss. (J- Bostos Notion. This excellent paper has
commenced publishing the popular novel nf "Jack
Hmton," ley (he author nf Crudes O'Mulley, with
other interesting mnlter.
j- The Treasury Note hill has passed the V.
S. Senate, by a vole of 21 to 20.
j" Congress, it is suppo-ed, will adopt CH,000
as the ratio of representation. This will give Penn
sylvania but 25 instead of SS members, and New
York '.16 instead of 40.
Mr. Adams presented a petition from Haverhill,
Ma-., for a dis-olution of the L'nion. It caused
a great excitement.
Cj' The Committee of Ways aud Means have
reportel a bill to tax coal 25 cents icr ton. They
might as well tax iron ore and limestone. We
hoj there are but few members favorable to t poli
cy ao ruinous to the true interests of the sUte. It
is strange, that instead of endeavoring to facilitate
the progress of the coal trade, they should attempt
to cripple it. If we attempt to place a duty upon
coal, our consumers would most assuredly pi ti'ion
Congress to repeal the -duty on foreign coal. Tire
fable of the goose ihat laid the golden eggs, would
hardly slford a parallel to such a suicidal act.
Appointment by lhe Governor,
Assns V. Parsons, 10 be Secretary of the Com
monwealth. Appointment by the Secretary of the Commtn
teeaM. -E. W. Hcttkr, formerly uf Lehigh coun
ty, to le Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Judge Parsons will no doubt make an able anJ
rfficit nt officer. He is a man of great energy of
character, and of untiring industry,
Mr. 1 1 utter waa formerly editor of the 'Magician,'
and subsequently of the 'Yeoman.' He is a young
man i f fine talents, and well worthy to occupy the
station to which he has !een appointed.
iudjie 131 the has been nominated by the Gover
nor, as President Judge of the district made vacant
by the appointment of Jtnlge Parsons.
(rj- The nomination of Judge Rogers waa con
firmed by a vote of 30 to S. Joseph Enght by a
vote of 20 to 13.
Ovid F. Johnson waa appointed Attorney Gene
rat, for three years.
IZy Some of thepupers have been commenting
severely upon the haste of the appointment of J.
W. Forney, of the Lancaster Intelligencer, aa Pro
thonotary. The appointment was one of emergen
cy, ner was Mr. Forney the first among the appli
cants. Mr. Forney, like bis brother typo, E. XV.
Hatter, Esq., recently sppoinied lpuiy Secretsty
of li s Commonwealth, is a self-made and talented
young man. They are both deserving and well
wotihy of the station to which ihiy bate Urn appointed.
Lfgislal'iVf.
Considerable opposition has been made to the
nomination of lodge Rogers, In the Senate.
Mr. Fleming made a brief address in opposition
to the nomination. He referred to the "Buckshot
War," arguing that Judge Olhson, by and with
lhe concurrence of Judge Rogers, was appointed irt
1838, hi order that tht Supreme Cdort should us
lirin the party then in power, "right or wrong."
The major, We think, might find ma'ters of much
more importance and interest, to his con-tiiuents,
in support of which he couU "raie his freble voice.'
Mr. Headly presented a peril ion from members
of the bar of Cornmhia and NoTthnmberland coun
ties, praying tlrC Senate to confirm the nomination
of Judge Rogers.
On motion of Mr. Gibbons, tha fulthtr considers'
tion wss postponed until Tuesday.
The Nicholson Court is fikely to be abolished.
Cj" The bill for the division of the county tint
lieen defeated by a large msjorfry, without a single
rrfn.rnttmce. This speaks well for out Reprcscn
tativc Mr. Montgomery.
j" The Oirirrd Bank was i losed on Wednesday-,
ffj" Some ludies'hsve presented a petition to the
I.egi litore, for the a'holKicmr.f capital punishment.
Tltey rfueiit te ia recommended as a substitute,
that the offender -stiitnld tie compcrled to live with
two wives the remainder of bis life. If the women
were la-.v.m;rtti rs, what a hustle the world woulJ
present.
fXj" Mr. Afivirs presentei a petition to Congress
a le w days sinee,in wtitcli lire petilioirers state that
they ennsi.lei Mr. Adams ns having been afflicted
wttli a sort of mTamania upon ttw subject of sla
very, for the lat i-even yeans Mr. Adams wished
to be 'heard in defence, but Mr. Wise oljected.
Tavern Hefners,
We are frequently asked when notices for lice n
ees should lie published. In answer, we shall
mitely state, the sooner lire publications are made
the bettiT, bul that all notices sent iu by the first
of March, will I in time. Publication must be
made in the nearest papers.
The "Siinbury American'' quotes from the
Boston A tins the speech ofa member of the Bri
tish i'arliineiit against I-Vce Trade, lie be
I ieve it is not customary for Democrats in the
United States to resort toeither of those sources
for correct political sentiment. Wilksbarre
I-'uriner.
We rej-r. t that any Jonrnit should 1 so restiict
ed I'V par'y views, ns to have its vision always
rnited by party I. lies. The tariff que.-lion is i ne
which shonH, and we hope wfti, stand above party
tactic. We can hardly believe that there ia an in
lelligvnt ritiren in I'cnnsjivania o-po-d to a dis
criminating tsntV, unless from sini-ter views, he
should be willing to make the interests of his state
conform to the interests of President makers. The
ritixens of Wyoming Valley, particularly, have a
deep smt abiding interest in a unit'. iShouhl fo
reign coal and iron be introduced into this country,
and our es ablis!:inents broken up, none would suf
fer more severely. As the bee i capable of extract
ing honey from the most poisonous plants, so we
mny draw li g-ons of instruction from tho most des.
pntic governments. Has our Triend of the Farmer
forgotten that M irtin Van Uuren recommended the
Sul-Treasr.ry plan, on the ground that it bad lieen
adapted and approved by nearly hII the monarchical
governments of Europe. If so distinguished a de
mocrat can resort to such sources for "correct poli
tical sentiment," it certainly should not be consi
dered so gieat a lirg fVar in one less humble in his
preieririuiis, to follow his example.
ffj" Our friend, CoU Wright, of Luzerne, who is
generally remarkably good natured, must have got
his dander up considerably, a few days since, in
the Hou-e of Representatives, in answer to Mr.
Pefnrd of Fayette, a new member, who wa; con
stantly preaching on the subject of political econo
my. Mr. Wright, after advising him to study a
lecture on -common sense, delivered by the late
Judge Hnpkinsen, concludes with the following en
comium upon the abilities of his adversary :
"This sir, is the second time the gentleman
has made an allusion to the 'glorious relief bill.'
In regard te that, I have only time now to say,
that I cast my vote tor that measure through
motives and considerations which he has nei
therthe brains nor capacity to concieve of, and
tho less bethinks about it, the less will be the
danger of distracting his intellect. Ii'he will
hereafter interfere less with other's business,
and attend more to his own, he may regain the
good opinion of the House, and save himself
much trouble and difficulty."
Cj" Mr. Thorn, the celebrsted Scotch sculptir,
ia now a resident of New Yoik, and is superintend
ing the fine Rnthic Cirving in the s'one work of
the Trinity Church. Like most men of genius, he
is perfectly leg sidles of money. While at Patter,
son, N. J., he executed a be mt ful statue of Wa
shington, which he left some speculators have for
f Kill, which would jut as readily have sold fur ten
limes the amount.
fXj' The M iners Journal ssy s t
"About fifty pas-iengers arrived at this place
on Wednesday atlenuxjii and about teventy
left for I'hilndelph a on Thursday morning.
Befi sre the Railroad was opened three stages
carried all the passengers."
In anticipation of the increased travelling, it is
said four linea of stages will commence running
In the spring, between Northumberland, this place
and P'ttsvi!le, The whole distance to Philadel
phia ran be performed in thirteen hours, anJ the
fare will not much exceed four dollar. It will I
death to Ide Harriaburg route, as a trip by that
route to Philadelphia will occupy two days, and
the expenses will be almost double.
Ctoh On Csmolxs, have been male al
Alton, III., which are said to be belter, and will last
longer than sperm candle. They leave no un
pleasant smell, and rsu be sold at 25 cents per Ih.
The world must soon become enlightened. This
discovery LoulJ be ranked with the J'hytical eM
enci a.