LEWISBURG CHRONICLE & WEST BRANCH FARMER.
Old Orchards.
Danblry, Conn., April 15,1Sj1.
J'rof. J. J. MAri;s. Dear Sir: What
means must I mate use of to cause tuy
apple oiclurd to produce fruit T and in
( rdcr that you may be the better able to
direct me, I would state that my orchard
l.iis lecn set out thirty years; that I have
taken first rate care of the tree?, by serap
iuu' and applying soft soap with a scrubbing
Iru.-lias often as every alternate year;
:ioliavc manured them as often with
'.iu compost manure, with oyster fIicII
l'.iue mixed with it Lave kept the tops
peu and well spread by trimming, and
l v these means cnubincd, produicl a I
luilihy appearance iu the trees aud a fine
growth of wood but very little fruit. 1
have trees whose bodies vi:l measure
twelve inches iu diameter, with large well
ppread tops, that have never produced a
barrel of apples. This id especially the
case with mv Siutzonburjrs. The soil is a
1 iaia, rusting on a clayey sub-soil. A
voar ago last fall I turned the sward under
t-t half of the orchard, and last season I
M.wed it with buckwheat, aud intend to do
tlie same this season. Previous to the
:ilvc plowing it had been grassed and
Mowed for ten years. I hope the plowing
will have the desired effect. This season,
1 think, will at least partially test it. If
vou can surest any treatment that will
be likely to do f an niate lt ruic
through the columns of " The Working
Tanner,'' you will confer a great favor
upon me, and perhaps some others, of
vour subscribers. Can I put in the sub
p il plow without injuring the trees ? Is
lucre danger of severing too many of the
r.iotfc ? 1 have an orchard of two hundred
:nid fy fuince trees, which were taken
from the Nurseries in Flushing six years
:, which promise wolL I hope even
this season to have several bushels. I
keep the trees on a wngle stalk, suffering
unroots to grow from uuder and near the
surface, as the quince is prone to do. Is
this correct treatment ? I have also one
Luudrcd peach trees coming into bearing
this season ; they arc remarkably healthy
aud promise well. I give them, and also
in v quince trees, the same treatment that
1 do my apple trees. I am doing whA I
can by precept and example, to influence
my neighbors to pay more attention to the
cultivation of fruit.
Yours very respectfully, R. n.
You did well to plow up your sod, and
l.uve treated your trees properly. If you
j-lionld wish to clean them again, do it with
a solution of one pouud of Uleacher's No.
1. soda, dissolved in one gallon of water,
us recommended ly Mr. Recnic ; it is
superior to soft foip, ke. You can not
raise buckwheat ""id app'c from the same
piece cf laud and havemany ap pies. Too
many constituents of apples are to be
found iu buckwheat, to let both succeed,
l'low under your buckwheat when half
grown, aud the apples which may set upon
the trees will perfect, aud next year plant
liu buckwheat in your orchards. Unless
you use a large djsc of lime in your com
post, add more around the trees when you
plow under your buckwheat. The ashes
ft the bark and leaves of apple trees con
tain 15 per cent of lime, and if yours have
ttood oO years, they have probably exhaus
ted most of the lime. Buckwheat is cele
brated fjr preventing orchards from giving
jood app'c crops. If your orchard is wet,
drain it ; if uot wet, then at least use the
tub-soil plow and loosen your clay sub-soil.
Ordinary caution is only necessary in sub
niling among apple trees ; it will rather
benefit them to cut off tome of the roots
and let them throw out new fibres in
search of food. Root pruning is often
resorted to to induce fruitfulncss, and
despiU! the many arguments which have
been offered against it, I have found prac
t'nally that old orchards are improved by
it wheu done to a fair extent. I have an
old orchard which was considered worthless
a few years since, which, since sub-soiling,
manuring, and liming, has borne good
crops of apples after having refused fruit
f, r many years. Rub off new growths
whea young, instead of cutting off when
Manure your quince they are rank
feeders and will pay for manure. Use
cold and not heating manure add some
ashes aud continue your treatment as to
trimming-
lo not suppose that peach trees will
succeed with the slight disturbance of soils
tisnallv given to other kinds of fruit trees,
tW r.Hiuire more Wah their trunks
j - i
with
the soda wash recommended above,
and shorten them in, as recommended in
our former numbers, and you may render
them much longer lived aBd wore profi
table. In trimming our quinces, put out the
cuttings for pear stocks, and if you do not
want them for your own use, we can find
vou customers for them. X. Y. Working
fanner.
Plank Roads.
Albany has oue pknk road in connection
vmh the city. The t?-affic i the direction
f the eleven miles laid down, has in
, reused 110 per cent. ; farms lying conti
cuous to the road have ineread ia value
t.O percent., from the acquired facilities of
t:.k:ng produce to markeS. The road was
commoted iu Sept., 1849. .
A short plank road of only 2 J miles
nonce's Trry and L:-.ns'mglurg, and siuce
ii c"niictiOii
t a3i-- ha 1 ubl d Utwocn
tiiv :x p!-e.
One hundred and sltty-thrce rtifee of
plank road connect Utica with the scr
rounding country, and since their construe
tion business has increased 100 per cent.,
and in all weathers, whether in the spring
or fall, the city presents a bustling and
animated appearance, and as a necessary
consequence, the population has increased
25 per cent., aud property 15 per cent.
On the Rome k Utica road, property
some few miles from Utica Las gone up
25 percent.
On the Utiea k Frankfort road, proper
ty has advanced 15 per cent.
Rome, Syracuse, Salina, and other pla-
ces exhibit equally favorable results.
WEIGHT OF LOADS.
Farmers take one and a half solid cords
of green wood to market, where formerly
a half or three quarters of a solid cord was
considered a load ; 80 bushels of rye or
100 bushels of oats, when formerly they
carried but 40 or 50 bushels. This is
done at the rate of four miles an hour,
whereas three miles with a team was in
tolerable order. A manufacturer of Utica
formerly transported from the railroad to
his establishment, a di.-ttnee of seven
miles, ten bales of cotton ptr day, with
two teams, which made each but one daily
trip ; but on the recently constructed
plank road, one team performs the journey
twice, delivering 15 bales per day. The
average weight of a bale of cotton is 5 cwt.
therefore one team is now equal to the
work of 75 cwt., while on the old road it
was equal to only 25 cwt ; and these loads
are considered fair average burdens, with
out the energies of the team being unfairly
taxed.
ViUAT PLANK ItOAT8 DO FOR THE STOCK
HOLDER. The tolls authorized to be collected in
New York are not toexeced three-quarters
of a cent per mile for a vehicle drawn by
one horse ; one cent and a half for a veh
icle drawn by two animals ; one half cent
per mile for every additional animal, aud
for each horse and rider or borse lead, one
half cent per mile ; while jurors, witness,
troops, aud travelers attending religious
worship, arc exempt from toll. With the
above rates, the profits on some of the lines
have been as follows :
Troy k Lansingburg Road,20 per cent.,
besides laying by a largo surplus the
stock is in few hands and can not be pur
chased ; Utica & Nothcrn Road 9 per
cent., laying by a sufficient surplus for re
building ; Utica & Frankfort Road in five
months declared adivident of 10 per cent;
Utica & Burlington, 20 per cent.; Salina
k Central Square Road has declared 7J
per cent, every six months and its stock,of
which only 80 is paid in, is worth 110 ;
Rome k Oswego, 10 per cent, laying by a
sufficient surplus ; Aurora & Buffalo 25
per cent; Charlottville 20 per cent, and
lays by a sinking fund the stock can not
be purchased. Other instances are given,
all showing it to be one of the most profi
table kinds of stock.
REPAIRS OF TITE ROAD.
The repairs which a plank road will
need for the first two years are but trifling,
depending much upon the mode in which
the road is constmcted the expcnse,how
ever, increases each year until the eighth
year, when the planks have to be relaid.
Mr. K. assumes that one man can keep-
miles in repair during the first years of the j
road, and gives the following estimate of
expense ; first year, $2; second year, $5;
third year, $7 ; fourth year, 810 ; fifth
year, $10; sixth year, 815; seventh year,
?20 ; averaging annually for seven years
810 per mile.
Posts Inverted.
It is now generally believed that posts
will endure much longer if inverted, than
if set in their natural position. The fact,
it is said, " has not been satisfactorily ex
plained." Xow it appears to me that the difficulty
in explaining this, is the same with that
of explaining the circulation of the sap.
The mechanism, if any their be, in the
green tree, remains the same the in dry. In
the green tree the sap ascends through the
pores, or tubes, in the wood, and descends
between the wood and bark. Hence, if a
post be set in its natural position, the
moisture from the ground will ascend in
the same way, if not on the same principle
that the sap ascended in the living tree.
Ilcnec such a post will lc found wet, or
moist, internally at some distance above
the surface of the ground. If set in an
inverted position, this will uot often be
the case (as the circulation would be
downward instead of upward.) Hence
such a post will generally be dry within,
even below the surface of the ground. As
moisture hastens decay, the former must
perish sooner than the latter. Rural Xew
Yorker.
Water may be forced through the capil
lary tubes of a tree only toward its top.
On this principle the finer woods are some
times changed in color for the use of the
cabinet maker. A hole is bored in the
side of a tree, and a bent hollow tube has
one of its ends driven into the hole, while
the other end of the tube is carried uy
nearly the whole height of tie tree. Any
solution may then be poured ito this tube
from the top, and from the pressure aris-
l iug from the height of column, it will be
j lui
i foi
reed into the tree in an upward direction
only. In this way woods have been colored
j in France while growing, and by the in
troduction of solutions of metallic salts,
they may bo rendered nearly imperishable
by rot.
Posts should be placed in the ground
with the butts up ; then bore a bole in
the butt, throw in a small quantity of cor
rosive sublimate . or common copperas,
(sulphate of iron) and drive in a plug of
wood. If the former be used, the centre
tubes of the wood will become kyanized,
and be thus rendered indestructible by rot
and less liable to crack or wind if the
, . al ... . . . ..
tatter, tueposts will last much longer than
when left without such addition.
If posts be first placed with the ends in
a tub containing a solution of common
copperas for a few days, and then in clear
lime water, the lime will be changed into
j 8'ilplnte of lime as received iuto the wood,
thus leaving the capillary tubes of the
wood filled with plaster of paris, (sulphate
of lime) and their surfics coated with
oxide of iron, precipitated from the cor
peras. Wood so prepared will last many
years longer than if used in an unprepared
state. A'. 3'. Working Fanner.
Cold Water and Health.
The following says the Baltimore Sun,
is Mrs. Swisshelm's direction, in the Pitts
burg Visitor, as to how a lady should wash
herself. It occurs in a long artiele to
young ladies upon the necessity of cleanli
ness and the free us 3 cf edd water, as
promoters of health, youthful bloom,
strength and spirits. As we have before
said, it is good practical advice, which,
doubtless, the experience of many excellent
ladies will endorse, prudes to the contrary
notwithstanding. Those who need the
advice should apply it, and thank Mrs. S.
for it :
" You only want a basin of water, a
towel, a rag, and five minutes time. When
you get up in the morning pin a petticoat
very loosely at the waist, draw your arms
out of your chemise and let it drop to
your waist, take your rag well wetted and
slap your back and shoulders, rub your
arms and chest, throw handfuls of water
around your cars and back of the neck.
Then throw a towel across your back aud
"saw"' it dry rub fast, until you arc quite
dry, put on your chemise sleeves, draw on
a night gown to keep you from chilling,
while you tuck your skirts up under one
arm, until you wash and dry one limb,
drop that side and do the otl cr likewise,
and be sure that the small of tliti back and
the sides get their full share of rubbing,
this done, sit down, dip one foot in the
basin, rub and dry it,put on your stocking
and shoe and then wash the other."
Ship Load of Elephants.
The bark Regatta arrived here yester
day, from India, freighted with nine living
elephants, a zebu, or Burmese bull, six
teen enormous serpents, including a brace
of boa-constrictors of 24 and 16 feet in
length, besides a wilderness of monkeys,
the fretted porcupine, and other live var
mintt, all consigned to Messrs. P. T. Bar
num and Seth B. Howes, intended for the
great Museum Caravan to be exhibited in
Newark on Tuesday, the 6th. One of the
most curious features of this Noah's Ark
collection is a calf elephant, about nine
months old, and weaned from its dam on
the passage from Ceylon, being but three
feet high, and as docile and playful as a
kitten. Another is one of the native
chiefs of Ceylon, who accompanies the
show in charge of the elephants. This
entequ-ise, the greatest, probably, since
the days of the Flood, has been conducted
and brought toa successful issue by Messrs.
Stebbins, June and Geo. Nutter. The
elephants were hunted and caught in their
native jungles by Messrs. June and Nutter,
accompanied by 160 of the natives. Their j
capture was effected by driving 250 of
them into a Arrow, or rude pcn,constructcd
in the jungle, out of which they succeeded
in securing thirteen two having died on
the passage, and another being stolen from
the drove. The Regatta has made her
passage home (13,000 miles) stopping at
the Cape of Good Hope and the Island of
St. Helena, in 112 days. The elephant
hunters were three months and four days
in the jungles before they effected their
object N. Y. Tribune, 5th.
Neglects of Parents.
These are giving great trouble to the
country, and unless there be some plan to
correct them, they may work the ruin of
the Republic. Look at the scenes of vio
lence, incendiarism, robbery, and murder
with which the land is filled ; look at the
report of Auburn State Prison of January
last, and see in all of it the results of the
neglect of moral training at Lome.
" Of 732 convicts at this prison, 572
were never instructed in any trade or call
ing; 308 had been deprived of a home be
fore 16 years of age ; 304 were without
occupation at the time of arrest ; 381 were
intemperate ; 468 had received no moral
or religious instructions ; and 512 had ne
ver read the Bible, or attended divine ser
vice." The same testimony would be furnished
throughout the land of the want of moral
and religious instructions at Lome. How
ever much such neglects may be found
among parents who have no regard for re
ligion, the thought that any Christian pa
rent should be implicated in similar guilt,
is perfectly appalling, and yet we fear that
Christian parents will not be found entirely
innocent. Ctica Baptist Register.
Thomas V. Dorr has obtained hit res-!
I pralion to citizenship in Rhode ls!and.
BOH
H. C. HICKOK, Editor. O. H. WORDEBT, Printer.
At I1.S0 cash In advance, 1 "6 in three months, (2 paid
within lb year, and i'50 at the end of the year.
Agents ia Philadelphia B Palmer and E W Carr.
LiCtcisburff, Pa.
tDcdncsdarj morning, Ulan 11, 1851
ADVERTIZE! F-xerotors. Administrator. Pablie
Officers. City and Cnvntrv Mi-reliant. Manufacturers,
1 Mechanics. Iln.iness Men all who wish to pnvure or to
! dispose nt njtiun? w.mw do w. u to trwe untie of the
name utrouun luc "jwuonrg Lvirwninr. I nie paper nas
a sood and inereafinjr eirrulation in a community eontai-
D1113 at larxe n proNrtton of aetlre. aolrent producers,
consumer!, and dealers, an any other in the State.
ft-Wanted at the Ijewisburg Chronicle
office a Jour, aud an Apprentice now.
B-guThe Summer Session of the Univ
ersity at Lcwisburg, commences to-morrow
(Thursday, lothinst)
BaiCourt Week at New Berlin, begin
ning 011 Monday next
Scott Jleeting Tuesday, 20th.
Agricultural Meeting Wcdnsday ,21st.
fctrl'resideut Fillmore and most of his
Cabinet were to be in Philad. on Monday,
on their way to attend the Grand Jubilee
of the opening of the N.Y.& Erie Railway.
8,Next Tuesday, all the friends of the
Susquehanna Railroad are invited to meet
in Convention at Sunbury. We regret the
day pitched upon had been previously ap
pointed for a political meeting, and during
Union Court, as those prior engagements
will prevent many staunch friends from
attending at Sunbury. But let all go who
can, and evince their interest in the great
enterprise.
fe3Wc call attention to the "Lightning
Rod" advertisement of Mr. Hoover in an
other column, and earnestly call upon our
citizens to take iirompt measures for the !
protection of their dwellings. The public
buildings, especially, of our town, should
be made sde without delay. The safety
of crowded congregations is surely a mat
ter of ie importance. If not duly at
tended to, people will be apt to absent
themselves, rather than rush needlessly
into danger.
8The Union County democratic Con
vention, assembled at New Berlin on Mon
day last, and nominated Bobert B.Barber,
Esq., as Senatorial Delegate, and Maj. Chs
II. Shriner as Representative Delegate, on
the part of Union county,to the Harrisburg
Judicial Convention.
John V. Barber, Maj. Rodcarmel, and
Capt. lloush, Scnatoiinl Conferees?.
J. Swineford, Esq., and Maj. Lyndall,
Representative Conferees.
Judges Lewis and Wilson were recom
mended as nominees for the Supreme Court.
Distressing Accident. On last Sat
urday forenoon, the youngest child of Col.
Eli S'ifer of this place, a son aged about
nineteen months, was accidentally run over
by a two-horse wagon, loaded with tan
bark, aud instantly killed. The child (which
had wandered into the street but a few mo
ments before) approached on the opposite
side from the horse on which the driver
was seated, and the wheels were passing
over it before any person was aware of its
danger. The horses were going at a slow
walk at the time, and no blame attaches to
any one. The universal sympathy felt for
the bereaved parents was manifested by the
largest concourse at the funerl,on Sabbath
afternoon, that we ever witnessed here on
any similar occasion.
JGaTThc Constitutional Convention of
Virginia has been greatly divided on the
question of a basis of representation. The
Kast"rn or jdavc-holding portion insists
upon the present plan, based upon whites
and blacks both, while the West or non
slavcholding portion ask that whites only
shall form the basis. The Eastern portion
now hold the majority of members. Mr.
Botts and a few others from the cast,have
proposed a compromise, giving the East
and the West an equal number of mem
bers of both branches of the Legislature.
The three systems were recently submitted
to a popular vote in the City of Richmond,
by way of testing the general feeling, with
the following result :
Mixed basis 5G0
White basis 385
Compromise 232 1177.
S"The Blair County Whig appears
in a beautiful new dress, and the Sunbury
Gazette is enlarged to the full size of coun
try newspapers. The encouragement to
printers under the new Postage Law, pro
mises to do much towards improving the
usefulness and independence of the coun
try press. We hope they may not be dis
appointed of the hoped-for reward.
Frosts Fbuit. The late frosts, it is
said, have done extensive injury to fruit
trees in Delaware. In Ohio and Kentucky
the damage from the same cause has been
very great. In the region about Baltimore,
there is reason to apprehend that the
fruit has experienced great injury.
"The following inscriptions displayed
at the Cbrystal Palace in which theWorld's
Fair is held, shows some of the different
ways of saying the same thing :
Dm '.lichen Bird nich erliubt. Germin.
II n'eil pas permii tie fumer. French.
Non permcno di fumate. Italian.
No e permi.tiJo fumer. jpanixh.
No smoking allowed. Yankee.
-On Tuesday of last week.snow fell t
! Hazelton, Luzerne county, to the depth of
1 t'ynzccn tuant.
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Ji'ST Sol One of our subscribers
writes us thus :
"Your Chronicle, continues to bless
more than myself. I am too good natured
to refusl to lend, and so it goes the rounds.
Pity that any community should be
plagued with a class of beings whose par
simony will not allow the lawful gratifica
tion of such commendable tastes as are
exhibited by my borrowers."
We will (confidentially) inform our cor
respondent how to fix such friends. Just
tell them the Chronicle is a first rate pa
per that it wants a fiw more subscribers,
yet that they arc more able to pay for it
than you arc and that you will order it
for them, forthwith, (making them hand
out the money in the mean while.) Three
or four of our subscribers have done this,
doubling our list in their respective neigh
borhoods, to the great rejoicing of Printer
& Co., old patrons, and former borrowers,
now independent readers.
JSrTbe Levitfoten Gazette, notices the
departure of Geo. W. Elder, Esq., and
Mr. C. Stratford, of that town, for a sight
of the World's Fair also of Mr. R. C.
Ross, late of this place, for a trip up the
Mediterranean Sea. and thence a journey
on foot through Italy, France, and other
0
portions of Europe.
By the way we are told there are SO
houses to rent in Lcwistown. Send half
of them up here, neighbors, and we'll as
sure them occupants. We have heard
many calls for houses to rent in Lcwisburg,
but know of none whatever. Any having
a tenement to let would do well to advertise
it. There is also a demand here for jour
neymen shoe makers, and carpenters, and
day laborers.
'The Perfection of Reason.' At a
trial the other day, in the serene and
ancient village of Sunbury, we were met
by the following curious pleas, duly filed
of record and relied upon by the opposing
counsel, viz :
1. Deft never got the money at all.
2. He did not get that much.
3. He paid it all over to plaintiff.
If all three of these pleas should ulti
mately be sustained, we imagine it would
be a funny coincidence.
Plank Roads. This species of public
improvement beginning to attract much at
tention in Pennsylvania, we solicit infor
mation respecting them.
A gentleman from Ohio last week in
formed us that they were the most popular
thoroughfare in his section, not costing
over 81,000 per mile (timber plenty and
land level) and generally bringing in 10 to
15 per cent dividends.
ISS"A fire broke out in Montrose, Tues
day morning last, which destroyed all the
buildings, save two, on the west side of the
Public Square. Loss, 650,000. Supposed
to have been fired by the accomplices of a
gang of counterfeiters, recently arrested,
but who did not effect their escape.
gr3&,The South Carolina Convention has
adjourned. It passed a scries of resolutions
affirming the right of a single State to secede
from the Union with just cause that South
Carolina had just cause but howsomcver
they wont go till they get ready !
Notice The notes of the 'Appalonican'
are to be patented, and no other 'organ'-ist
may set its 'strains' to his own words, no
matter how 'gently o'er him steals' its in
spiration. A special edict
8$T'Daniel Gotshall, formerly a printer
in Lewisburg, has resumed his connection
with the press, as editor of the " Indepen
dent Banner," of Canton, Ohio.
B,Wc see it stated that the Montour
Iron Company, at Danville, will have the
making of the rails for the Williamsport
& Elmira Rail-Road.
l-Horacc Greeley is on a visit to the
World's Fair and the Continent He will
correspond with the "NewYork Tribune."
8,Late Foreign advices contain noth
ing important, except that there had been
a further decline in cotton and breadstuffs-
New Almanac Fair weather and no
accidents hindering, Telegraphic Thunder
maybe expected next week at Lewisburg.
r&Nothing more definite from the Cu
ban would-be revolutionists.
Departed this State That White Hat,
with a man in it
Completion of the Erie Railway.
The great Erie Railway, in the State of
New York, is completed. A train has
passed over the whole line, from the Hud
son River to Lake Erie. It is understood
that freight trains will traverse the entire
road ; and that regular passenger trains,
connecting with boats on Lake Erie, will
be organized and put in operation early in
May. Nearly nineteen years have past
since the Company was organized, and the
road is just completed at a coast of about
Twenty Million of Dollars. Its length is
four hundred and sixty-five miles, includ
ing the Newburg branch, all of which,with
the exception of 53 miles, has been con
structed since 1845. Previous to that
time, misfortune and extravagance had at
tended the enterprise ; but a new directo
ry then coming in, they have matured an
achievement, which, for magnitude and
commercial importance, has no parallel in
any similar enterprise yet accomplished on
this continent The next thing, is to see
Baltimore in connection with this grca
work. It will be done probably in much
less time than has bceu spent upon the
present road, as charters arc now existing
through the intelligent and'coTfrprehcTisivc
action of the Pennsylvania Legislature, for
roads which it is designed shall accomplish
that purpose both for Baltimore aud Phil
adelphia. Elmira, N. Y., a point consid
erably cast of Duukirk, is the spot at
which the intersection may be made, a
road coming thence to Williamsport, Pa.,
to which point the contemplated Sunbury
road from Harrisburg is to be extended,
and with which our own Baltimere & Sus
quehanna, and York & Cumberland roads
already connect. Thus, besides reaching
the great anthracite and bituminous coal
fields in Pennsylvania, through which the
Sunbury road is to pass, the Baltimorean3
have a grand ultimate connection in pros
pect, which must needs induce them to
subscribe as liberally as possible to the
latter work. This subject should not be
lost sight of by our capitalists and enter
prising business men. Baltimore Sun.
As Axxotino Accident. Tlie St.
Louis Intelligencer says that a few days
ago, " a lady living on JiiJdc street, be
twecn Tenth and Eleventh, was engaged
. e 1 .1 , 1
before ber mirror in going through her
toilet exercises when the glass suddenly
receded from her as the entire front wall
of the building parted company with its
neighbors, and with a tremendous crash
fell into the street. The lady, in utter
astonishment at the suddenness of the
motion, was left standing in dishabille,
though, singularly enough, entirely unin
jured. In consequence of the recent gra
ding of the street, the earth beneath the
wall had been partially removed, and its
sudden giving way was the cause of the
accident"
Boston, May 9, 10 P. M. Letters re
ceived by the Curopa bring intelligence that
the Baptist Missions at Bangkok, in Siam,
were entirely destroyed by fire on the 4th
of January last, including ilia Missionary
dwelling. The fire originated in the house
of a native, near the mission, and spread
with such rapidity that on! a few artic
les were saved. The printing office and
stock, ilie bindery, type foundry, libraries,
dnd nearly all the personal effects of the
Missionaries were consumed. The loss is
not less than 10,000. The Missionaries
were received into the residence of the Por
tuguese Consul. Mr. Chandler will return
with all speed to America to repair the
loss.
Mr. Senator Foote having given efficient
aid, at the late session of Congress, in the
creation of a new bureau in the State De
partment, Mr. Secretary Webster asked
him to name some one of his own friend
for one of the most important clerkships.
Mr. Foote named Mr. Kingman, his old tu
tor, who taught him Latin, in Virginia,
more than a quarier of a century ago.
Mr. Kingman was appointed, with a salary
off 1800 a-year. The incident is highly
creditable loall parties.
A Romantic (') suiciJe occurred in Xew
Orleans a week or so ago. A husband and
wife, named Roussel, owing to domestic
differences, ngreeo to poison themselves with
arsenic. The wife mixed the dose, and of
fered a part to the husbnnd, who at firs)
hesitated, when she said he was too much
of a coward to drink. The husband then
drank his portion, when his wtfe sat her's
aside and took a g'ass of brandy instead
The man died; the widow was arrested,
and. after an examination, acquitted for
the lack of statutory provisions bearing on
the cause.
Mrs. Pritz of Manheim, attempted to
chastise a small child with a switch. The
child began to cry violently, became much
excited, placed its hands to its mouth, and
checked respiration, which it had often
done before. During this fit of passion, it
fell upon the floor where the mother left it
supposing it would recover from its fit.
The mother shortly afterwards returned to
her child, and upon taking it up she found
it dead. Lancaster Union.
A most dei raved and desperate gang tf
men, numbering irom thirty to forty, were
recently arrested in Jackson county, Mich
igan. The sole occupation was destroying
property on the Central Raiiroad, by pla
cing obstructions on the track, counterfeit
ing, horse stealing, burglary, and robbery.
Among the persons arrested are three jus
tices of the peace, five physicians, one
judge, and four constables.
A counterreit Gold Dollar, well calcula
ted to deceive, is described in the Philadel
phia Ledger. It feels greasy to the touch,
is rather thicker than the genuine, is of
lighter color, and has a dull, leaden ring.
The wording "United S;ates ol America,"
and the word "Dollar" are dull, and have
not the sharp, clear appeal ance of those of
the genuine.
The Freeman's Journal says that " His
Grace," Archbishop Hughes is in excellent
health and spirits at Rome ; that he de
votes his leisure to writing, and is probably
about to issue some new publications, and
that the Pope has shown him particular
regard, sending him, on the first Sunday
of Lent, two splendid fish from his own
table !
At a late trial, somewhere in Vermont,
the defendant, who was not familiar with
the multitude of words which the law em
ploys to make a very trifling charge, after
listening a while 10 the reading of the in
dictment, jumped up and said : "Them 'ere
allegations is false, and that 'ere alligator
knows it"
During the thunderstorm yesterday, the
Congregational Church in Fair Haven was
struek by lightning, which ran down the
steeple, and entered the audience room,
tearing op several slips. Charles Mallory,
while at work in the vicinity, was struck
by a flash during the same storm and ins
tantly killed. N. Haven Jour. 1 0th inst.
The Roman Catholic Cathedral of St.
Pauls at Pittsbore was destroyed by fire
on the 6rh inst. Loss over insurance about
30,010.
A paper mentions that the Kev H'esl
sponge trade is becoming important. The
article was discovered only about six montha
go, and now many people are engaged in
procuring it for market, where it letchea
fram ten 10 twelve cents a pound.
Seven tons of wild pigeons were brooaht
to New Vork on Friday by the Erie
road, and it is stated ihat no less than ter-enty-fivetons
have been brouahtio marki
! over the same road, chiefly from Steuben
aim Aiiegneny coun'ies.
Pittsburg, May 9.-S. S. Bennett,
stage driver, was arrested this morning by
Shallcross and O.tinger, pot-i ffice ,gem
on the charge of robbing the U.S mail, on
the Allegheny MounuiB He was com
muted to jail.
Forty-three persons were killed by t he
rail roads in Massachusetts, durina the year
1850, and thirty-four severely injured
Only three passengers were killed hHs
actually occupying their proper places in
the cars.
A suit for damages was tried at Norris
town.last week, brought by Abraham Geh
man against Charles Schwank. for trw
seduction of his daughter. The jury gave
a verdict in fuvor of the plaintiff for 22 -500.
A parson in Inly has been sentenced to
two years' imprisonment, for omiiting to
pray for the litnixror of Austria. We had
no idea that royalty placed such an esti
mate on prayer.
A warrant has been issned to secure one
hundred and sixty acres ot p&hJie land to
Mrs. Anna Harrison, widow cf Ex-President
Harrison, for his services in the way
of 1812.
Ex-Chancellor Walworth was married,
on the 17th tilt, at Jacksonville, Illinois,
to the widow of Col. Hardin, who was
killed at the Battle of IWna Vista.
Western writer thinks that if the propes
way of spelling tho' is "though," and ate
"eight," and bo "benu," the proper way 10
spell potatoes K jionghfeightenux.
la the Supreme Court of Rhode Island,
Miss Julia A. Perkins, recovered three
thousand dollars of Mr. Francis Ilersc),
for breach of marriage promise.
The Legislature of Connecticut has re
elected Mr. Seymour, Governor, and the
remaining State Officers from each party.
Shocking. A few days since, a little
girl in York county, had her cheeks entire
ly bitten ofTby a vicious dog.
Three thousand seven hundred and six
ty steerage passengers in New York, Tues
day and Wenncsday.
Gov. Shannon, of Ohio, has returned
from California, well laden with "rocks."
nmutouvs SHarfctt.
Corrected this Day.
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3ats 35
Flaxseed 100
Dried Apples joo
Buttei 2
E'3s 9
Tallow 10"
Lard ....,7
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Bacon g
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