JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICAN
Thursday, February 21, 1850.
lYotice. Br. O. A. .Iarvis will deliver the 4th
Lecture of the series, to be given, before the Len
ni Lenape Institute, on Tuesday evening, March
5th. at the Court House in Stroudshurg. Subject
41 Know thyself."
The public are respectfully invited to attend.
S. 0. BURNETT, Sec'y.
The Apportionment Bill, which we
published last week, meets with decided condem
nation. Even a portion of the Locofoco Press,
condemn it as an unjust affair as a great imposi
tion upon the people. The Locofocos of Craw
fard county have presented petitions against the
passage of this Bill ; and even the editor pf the
4 Pennsylvania,'1 unscrupulous as he is everywhere
acknowledged to be, repudiates and condemns it
as a gross and daring outrage upon the rights of
the people. It is too much for his strong stomach;
and we do not remember that he was ever known
to g.ig at any iniquity, however foul and nauseat
ing, before.
A minority report has since been made, which
possesses some little fairness, in contradistinction
to the other. This bill makes Carbon, Monroe,
Pike and Viyne a Senatorial District.
Q?3 George V. Yates, Esq. has been appoint
ed deputy prosecuting attorney for Northampton
county.
Coal in Bucks county.
We learn from the Doylestown Intelligencer of
the 12th insu.that some workmen quarrying stone
on the property of George Womer, have found
traces of Anthracite Coal in the quarry. It is in
thickness about an eighth of an inch, adhering to
the shale. The same paper states that some time
since, in digging a well near the same place, a
vein of the aime mineral, about 25 feet below the
surface measuring about eighteen inches in thick
ness, was found. There is a tract of land of about
seven acres surrounding this spot, the soil and ge
ological formation of which present an appearance
widely different from the earth of that region gen
erally. It is probable thai a considera ble quan
tity of coal may be buried there; but not sufficient
to warrant the expense of mining it. The vein
found in digging the well is nearly in a horizontal
position.
Washington's Farewell Address
the original copy was sold at public auction, at
the Philadelphia Exchange, on the 12ih inst., and
purchased by the Rev. Dr. Boardman, for James
Lenox, of New York, at about $2,300.
liT -4 Great Fire occurred at New Orleans on
Saturday morning, destroying half a million dollars
worth of property, including the Picayune office.
'anal Commissioner. Col. Wm. T. Sanders,
ot Harnsourg, formerly of Pottsville, is recom
mended by a writer in the Harrisburg Telegraph,
as ihe Whig candidate for Canal Commissioner.
Wafer Gas.
It appears by the following, which we copy from
the London Watchman of December 5, 1849, that
Water Gas can be manufactured with advantage,
and that the town of Stockport, is now lit up with
Gas. manufactured from water, and which is fur
nished so cheap thai il bids fair to furnish consid
erable revenue to the town :
The 'water gas,' invented by Mr. Stephen White,
has been introduced into Stockport, with complete
success ; some six miles of piping are laid down,
and the town has been lighted for about a fortnight.
The gas is stated to be brilliant, while the price is
such as. with an increase of consumption, will be
a substantial income to the lown.
Grizzly bears, weighing 1,000 pounds, have
been killed in California, and one recently sold for
1,500.
BOW THE LOCOFOCOS ARE HELD
TOGETHER.
ihe Lohesive rower of public blunder. 1 here j
are a few men m the Loccfoco party, in Pennsyl-
r :
ania, who play lhe game of corruption so boldly I
that they actually disarm opposition by their open
and avowed disclosure of their degrading senti
ments. We were struck with the truth of this re
mark,. a few days ago, when Mr. Porter of North
ampton, in his speech in "opposition to the election
of judges by the people, boldly declared that,
when a member of the Convention which formed
the present Constitution, he warned his brother Lo
cofocos in that Convention, that if they went on as
they had begun, to deprive the Governor of his
patronage, the Locofoco party in the State of Penn
sylvania, would soon be broken up, and that he de
sired to repeat lhe warning to his brother Locofo
cos in the present House of Representatives.
Was there ever a more bold, yet truthful admission
that the Locofoco party are "held together by the
cohesive power of public plunder?" But Mr.
Porter, instead of qualifying his language when
this construction was put upon it, seemed to glory
and exult in the fact, and made no attempt what
ever to explain away the force of the declaration.
Mr. Porter further 'declared that the proposed
amendment, or any change in the Constitution,
giving the election of Judges to the people, would
have the effect of giving at least two-thirds of the
Judges to the Whig party, and this was another
reason why he opposed it.
The people may now determine for themselves
the true cause of the bitter opposition manifested
by the leaders of the Locofoco party to the passage
of this important measure. Telegraph.
A Long Traill.
A train came over the Erie Railroad last Mon
day containingory-nine eight wheel cars, all fully
loaded with produce, &c. The train was a third
of a mile in length and is probably the longest train
ever drawn over a merchandize road. Among the
loading were 200 fat cattle, 400 or 500 sheep, and
and any number of live and dead hogs, flour, whis
key, &c. The business of this road when it reach
es the Lake will only be limited by its capacity
for doing it.
. The -jnnsylirsnrR canal will be-opened on
tho 7th of March,
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Feb. 11. Senate. Mr. Frailey, a petition for
a repeal of the $300 Law, also a remonstrance
against a division of Luzerne county ; one for re
peal of the Act of this Session changing the time
of holding Courts in Carbon county.
House. Mr. Myers read in place, an act rela
tive to public roads in Monroe county.
Mr. Porter presented petitions for ihe incorpdr
of Banks at Allentown and Easton.
Mr. Packer, for a law to revise the militia sys
tem ; also for a supplement to the act incorporating
the Mutual Insurance Company ; also for a new
county lo be called Penn.
Mr. WellSj one from Susquehanna county, rela
tive to an investigation of the affairs of the Sus
quehanna county Bank.
Mr. Porter read in place, an act for the protec
tion of labor.
peo jo. Senate. The Speaker laid before the
Senate the annual statement of the funds of the
University of Pennsylvania ; also two petitions
for an alteration in the charter of the Pennsylva
nia coal company, also three from Columbia Coun
ty, for a law to prohibit traffic in spirituous liquors.
Mr. Walker, one from the sureties of George
Moore, Treasurer of Erie county in 1832, '33 and
'34, praying to be relieved from their bond.
Mr. Walker, (Executive Nominations,) reported
favorably to the nomination of John Dick, as As
sociate Judge of Crawford county.
Mr. Hugus, (same,) reported favorably to the
nomination of George Bressler, as Associate Judge
of Clinton county.
Mr. Stine, (same,) reported favorably to the
nomination of John Grafius, as Associate Judge
of Clinton county.
Mr. Fulton (same,) reported favorably to the
nomination of Sherman D. Phelps, as Associate
Judge of Wyoming county ; all of which were
confirmed.
House. The private calendar was then taken
up and several bills of a local and private charac
ter passed final reading.
Feb. 13. Senate. Mr. Packer (Finance,) to
whom was referred the communication of the Au
ditor General on the subject of the accounts of the
joint Library Committee, made report that there
was a balance in the hands of J. P Sanderson,
Chairman in 1S47, of S261, and of J. B. Johnson,
in 18-18, of S 118, but that as the present laws rel
ative to defaulters are ample, recomme nded no
particular action.
Mr. Crabb stated that one of the gentlemen na
med (Mr. Sanderson) had full vouchers.
The bill to form a new county to be called Mon
tour, making Danville the county seat, was, on mo
tion of Mr. Best, taken up on second reading and
passed, yeas 16 nays 12.
House. The Speaker laid before the House a
communication from the Canal Commissioners in
regard to the destruction of Railroad cars belong-
ing to Messrs. Bingham &, Dock, and in favor of
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reimbursing saiu nrm tne damages sustamea oy
them.
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Mr. Conyngham, read m place, an act relating
to legacies chargeable upon lands, and recogniz-
ances in the Orphans' Court.
A message was received from the Governor by
the Hon. Alexander L. Russell, Secretary of the
Commonwealth, notifying the House ofhisap-
proval and signature of several acta of a local and
private character.
Feb. U.-Senatem. Streeter, a petition from
Susquehanna county for a general banking law,
based on State stocks.
Mr. Guernsey, one from Tioga county of like I
import ; and a remonstrance against any charter
otherwise
Mr. Walker, (Judiciary,) the bill providing for
the recording of the accounts of Executors, Ad
ministrators and Guardians. Also, the bill to
regulate sequestrations in certain cases
Feb. 14. House. Mr, Acker, a petition of 57
ladies of Chester county, asking for a law to pro
hibit the sale of intoxicating liquors
Mr. Conyngham presented several petitions from
citizens of Luzerne county, in reference to the
proposed new county of Lackawanna.
Mr. Beaumont, several of like import.
Feb. 15. Senate. In the Senate, on to-day,
numerous petitions were presented, but mostly of
a private nature, and upon subjects heretofore no-
ticed.
Mr. Sankey presented a resolution relative to
the final adjournment of the Legislature. This
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as the day for final adjournment.
House. On motion of Mr. Conyngham, the
House suspended the orders of the day, and took
up the bill from the Senate, providing for an elec
tive Judiciary.
Mr. Finletter, of Philadelphia county, being en
titled to the floor upon this 6ill, concluded the ar
gument which he commenced some days ago.
The question was afterwards still further dis
cussed by Messrs. Packer, O'Neil, Scofield and
McClintock, in very able and eloquent speeches,
in favor of the proposed amendment
Mr. McClintock still occupied the floor when.
the hour of one having arrived, lhe House ad
journed.
Feb. 16. Senate Mr. Sireeter, two peti
tions from citizens of Luzerne, for the passage
of a law authorising hawkers and pedlars to
peddle throughout the commonwealth ; also,
one praying the passage of a law imposing a
fine upon manufacturers and venders of goods
that are put up short of measure
M. Walker, from citizens, of Erie, for au
thority to borrow money ; also for a general
banking law based on state slock ; also, for
the abolition of the usury laws.
Mr. Crabb, a bill relating to breaches of the
peace.
On motion of Mr. Ives, the bill for tho better
regulatiou offences in this Commonwealth, was
taken up and passed final reading.
benate adjourned
House, Mr. Biddle, a bill supplementary to
the Mechanics Lein Law.
Mr. Hem, a bill to regulate suits against part-
ners.
Maryland. Some sensible member of the
Legislature has introduced a bill providing that
no application tor uivorce snail oe granieu, in
Future, unless public nonce has previously Depp
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given in a newspaper.
fflr. Ball and the Canal Board.
The following is the reply of the State Treas
urer to the resolution of the Senate, calling upon
him for information in relation to certain charges
made by the Canal Commissioners of a refusal on
his part to pay certain claims upon the Treasury.
The answer is full and explicit, and the conduct
of the Canal Commissioners in this and other mat
ters is held up in its proper light, and reflects no
credit upon them as men or as public officers.
The Commonwealth is fortunate in having so
watchful a guardian of the public Treasury as Mr.
Ball.
We hope the committee in the House of Repre
sentatives on this subject, will go on with their
investigation of it. Let the public have the. facts,
and let the censure fall where it belongs. If the
investigation proceeds, some curious facts with
regard to the conduct of the- Canal Board and
some of their officers will be developed.
Treasury Department, )
Harrisburg, February 10
), 1850. J
Senators: The resolution of your honorable
body of the 2(Hh ult. is before me. My absence
in Philadelphia on public duty has prevented an
earlier reply.
As regards the allegation of Canal Commission
ers and the complaint of Messrs. Norris, Brothers,
enquired of by your resolution, I have to reply as
follows :
Messrs, Norris, Brothers never personally pre
sented at the Treasury for payment nor did any
person for them, an order from the Canal Com
missioners for the amount they claim, nor have I
yet official notice that the State owes them. In
default of such notice, duty required that I should
refrain from paying away the public money.
Had those gentlemen presented such an order
I would have been justified in withholding pay
ment, the evidence being that Norris, Brothers
charged seven hundred dollars more for each loco
moiiva furnished the State than they charged the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company ; or in other
words', they furnished that Company with a more
expensive article for seven hundred dollars less
and received one thousand five hundred dollars of
the consideration in trade. So large a profit would
seem to justify a liberal credit.
The engines referred to were purchased, it
seems, under the authority given in the sixteenth
section of the last bill. This being true, it scarce
ly justifies the sale by the Canal Commissioners of
five -locomotives, worth at least $25,000, for the
paltry sum of $3,390, thereby sacrificing upwards
of $21,000; which evinces gross ignorance of the
value of properly, or a criminal neglect of duty.
Perhaps these facts would not have justified me in
hesitating to pay Norris, Brothers, had I been
drawn on for the money.
I never refused to settle the accounts of the Su
perintendent of Motive power on the Columbia
road. The rule of the office is to take up in its
order every item of business, and with this regu
lation 1 require a strict compliance.
I am not aware of having purposely refused at
any time "money appropriated to the management
and repairs of any of the other lines of the public
works."
Since I have been responsible for the manage
ment of the State finances I have not received
from the Canal Commissioners at any time, a mo
ment's notice of their intention to draw on the
Treasury other than was furnished by the actual
presentation of their drafts. While it is both my
duty and my pleasure to provide the ways and
means, to answer every call, nevertheless, the in
terests and credit of the State, as every business
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wun ims lveparuneni. 10 sucn a aegree nave
lhe CanaI Board caned on their antagonism, that
upon the appointment of officers, whose duties
bring them in contact with the Ireasury, they
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nave 001 wrnianea nonce or tne cnange. in tne
p0SCj the names ofofficers musV be known, their
persons and their signatures identified, as also a
knowledge that they have given the required bond,
bei?ie 7mone.y can be advanced them. The first
Dresentation bv the new incumbents, of drafts for
large sums of money.
Senators are aware that the treasury has a vast
number of payments Jo provide for besides the ca-
ucii appiojjriciijuus. n seems piuper, inureiore, in
a business view, that the Treasurer, whosoever he
may be, should have the co-operation of co-ordinate
branches of the government, rather than to
have so powerful an arm as the Canal Board ex
ercising their authority to draw money without
reference lo the general interests or credit of the
Slate. GIDEON J. BALL. State Treasurer.
Tlie Lower Classes.
While dining at a public house, a very profane
man was leading the conversation, and very in
dignantly alluded to some previous remarks made
in reference to the lower classes.
With an air of consequence, accompanied by an
oath, he remarked I should like to see some of
the lower classes.
A person sitting near him at the table, remarked
- 7" lf ',u win "ol be offended I will tell you who
wicy aic.
" O no, not at all, I should like to hear."
The olher coolly replied " They are generally
addicted to profane swearing."
Silence ensued, and the man of profane words
exhibited no further desire to see some of the low
er classes.
New Jersey Iron. The ore of iron, called
Franklinite, is found abundantly in Sussex county,
N. J., and it is said that the metal produced from
it is of a superior quality, requiring a much greater
force to sever a bar of it than the best Swedish
iron. IJesides us extraordinary tenacity, it is
quite malleable, even in casting's, and from these
qualities it is thought it will be sought after for
water and gas pipes, in preference to other qual
ities.
Singular Incident.
A stray turkey came to a neighbor's chick
en coop, the other day, in a famished condition,
and made repealed but unsuccessful attempts
to reach the supply of corn on the inside, It
was driven awav several times, but as constant
ly returned. After the poultry were fed in ihe
evening, our informant was surprised to see a
gentleman chicken in the coop, pick up a grain
of corn, and politely drop it on the ground on
the out-side, for his starving visitor, and con
tinued to do so until the supply was exhausted
although it was with difficulty he could get
his head through the narrow space between the
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Biais. we nave neard ol cats sucKiing mice,
and other similar anomalies have occurred, but
we believe natural history has not recorded an
exact parallel to lhe above case.
Lewisburg Chronicle.
Tha Rnnhflstfir Amonrnn envathn " mvs.
lenous knoukin nt RnhiPr nr m Innoth
nmpiainH in h -oncri k. iKo Aanrta, nlr.
j,s ,,f the Free Soilors rapninr on the Buffalo
Pimr
A Boston medical writer savs that it pro
duces chil-blains, chapped skin, inflamed eyes,
ana colds, to go io me lire suddenly when vou
are very cold. Accustom yourself to the
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warmth by -degrees.
California Indians.
A correspondent of the Salem Register, writing
from the Gold -Mines on lhet Yuba River, 286 miles
from San Francisco, says :
The Indians 1 have seen in California, are the
most miserable looking wretches I ever saw ; the
poorest clad and the worst featured of any of the
human family under the sun. They are a poor,
cowardly race of men, living upon roots, nuts and
acorns. Game they make but little account of.
VVe have numbers of them around our camp every
day. Most generally they are in a state of nudity ;
but some of them wear a shirt, while others are
dressed as well as any of the miners. We have
employed a few of them for a short time. They
will do a good day's work, for which we usually
give them a quart of flour, a little fine salt, and a
pint of sugar. They are just as well satisfied
with these, as a Yankee would be with his $14
per day. Some of them will pan out dirt from
some deserted claim, and perhaps obtain thereby
from four to twelve dollars, which they always
spend with us. We sell flour to them for $1 50
per pint, sugar ditto, and salt for $20 dollars per
pound. Of this latter article we have a large sup
ply, and have sold the' Indians considerable of it.
They are very fond of it, and eat it-as our Yankee
boys and girls would eat confectionary. If one
manages right, much money can be derived from
trading with and employing them.
Deaths in California.
Private loiters from San Frahcico, give the
gloomiest accounts of its condition and the
health of ihe population. One writer saya that
from sixty to seventy died weekly during the
month of December, and that from six to eight
were buried daily at the expense of the city
in default of friends. Many were hopelessly
sick. Another says he found upon his arrival
there several open graves, containing two,
three, and four coffins, no grave being closed
until it had received at least two coffins.
Many of those who had come from the mines
were suffering from destitution sustaining life,
says one, by digging clams and muscles upon
the sea shore, and by fishing, finding a lodging
at night, perhaps, in the lent of a friend ; if not,
in tho open street. The late fire, by decreas
ing the number of buildings at the moment that
the population was rapidly increasing, has ad
ded greatly to the tuffering of this class of
persons. With this increase of misery comes
also crime.
Doctors and Lawyers in Califonia. A
friend writes the New York Express, that a
very small bed room, upon the outskirts of the
town, costs him 800 a month. For an office 8
by 10 feel he will have to pay $1,000 a month.
He is a physician,but says that doctors are flock
ing to California by the cargo, and thinks that
the gold pills of the mines will pay better than
the blue pill of the druggist. We also see it
slated thai a Baltimore bricklaver is at work
jn ga prancisco with a Baltimore lawyer car-
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important Case.
i ae case oi uisseu vs. j-nmrose, receuuy
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decided in the United Slates Supreme Court at
Washington, establishes the title to a very large
amount of property lying near St. Louis. The
case was an appeal from the U. S Circuit
Court of Missouri, which had decided in favor
of Primrose, and this decision has been af
firmed by the Supreme Court. The property
in question consisted of from five to six hun
dred acres lying north of St. Louis, and esti
mated 10 be worth S500.000, though, includ
ing damages for occupation, &o, the amount in
question may swell to 81,000,000. Bissell
claimed under what is called a " New Madrid
Location," against a prior Spanish grant and
subsequent confirmation, and the decision es
tablishes the superiority of the Spanish grant.
Bissell has been in possession of his property
for twenty-six years and other parties whose
interests aro affected by tho decision, for near
ly the same length of time. Another case, that
of Stoddard vs. Mills, which involves a large
amount of property lying west of St. Louis,
has been decided on the same principles, since
the foregoing decision was made ; and there is
still another pending, that of Menard's heirs vs.
Massey, which may be affected by tho same
principles.
Heavy Powder Blast.
On tho now lino of canal of the Hudson and
Delaware canal company, now in progress of
construction in Ulster county, there have been
some large operations in tho way of blasting.
One charge threw out full twenty hundred
yards of rock, by measurement. Another,
more recent, threw oui ten per cent, more rock.
The charge in this case consisted of one hun
dred kegs, or twenty-fivo hundred pounds of
powder. I ho concussion was felt for miles
around, but without damago, except in the shat-
teridg of tho glass. It is described as like the
shock of a small earthquake. Albany Argus,
Feb. 14.
Franklin and marshal! College.
The measures necessary to secure tho union
of these two institutions have all been taken.
A correspondent of tho Baltimore Sun, writing
from Lancaster says :
The arrangement is, thai the Lutherans shall
retiro with their one-third interest in Franklin
College, supposed to amount to some $15,000,
and transfer it to their college at Gettysburg.
The German Reformed will raise a like sum,
io be returned in the place of the amount taken
out of the ireasury by the Lutherans, The
good people of Lancaster will raise $25,000,
to be expended in grounds and buildings.
The productive funds of Franklin and Mar
shall College will amount in the ond to $100,
000, and tho institution established on a firm
and safe basis. As flourishing as Marshall
oonege now is, it is believed that when united
with the Franklin at Lancaster, it will be much
more flourishing and prosperous. With one of
the ablest and most distinguished faculties in
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me lanu, ine ooiicge cannot out meet tne most
sauguine expectations of its friends.
Nice. The Hon. Lewis C. Lovin, M. C,
and Henry Warren, have had quile a fight in
Washington city. Levin, for some causo or
olher, called the latter a scoundrel, prefixed by
an oaih, upon which Warren struck Levin,
when they ought, until parted by fnonda.
The two most important plans for a compro
mise now under consideration, are the Presi
dent's and Mr. ClayV President Taylor pro
poses to leave ihe territories under their present
military governments and permit them, when
of sufficient population, to enter the Union as
States, settling the questionof Slavery fonhem
selves. The objection urged against this plan
is that it settles nothing for the present, and
therefore leaves the whole land in a ferment.
Mr. Clay proposes territorial goveruments, with
no Slavery restrictions, on either side, thus
Hinging the responsibility on the territories
themselves. The principal objection urged to
this plan is that neither the North nor the South
will accept it. The Slave States feel inclined
to compromise only on 36,30, or on Clayton'
proposition of a reference of the whole subject
to the Supreme Court. Miners Journal.
There are three things which cannot be made
too short and they are visits, pie crust, and
"communications" for the papers.
Tha meanest man in the world lives in West
Troy. In helping hirn out of the river, once,
a man tore the collar of his coat. The next
day he sued him for assault and battery
Cheap Postage.
Mr. Ashman has reported a bill in the House
of Representatives to reduce the postage on
letters, weighing half an ounce, to two cents,
when pre-paid, except letters to Oregon and
California, which shall be charged with 10
cents postage ; 10 abolish the franking priv
ilege and to provide for the payment of the pos
tage of officers of the Government from the
public ireasury. The bill is good, as far as it
goes, but it should require all letters to be pre
paid. The trial of David C. Knepley, for the mur
der of his father, was brought to a close in
Harrisburg on Tuesday. The jury retired
about noon and after a brief absence brought in
a verdict of not guilty, on the ground that the
prisoner was insane. The trial occupied near
ly two weeks, and was conducted with great
ability by the counsel on both sides.
Schoolmaster abroad again.
In a certain bathing-bouse, not a thousand
miles from Phillips' beach, is this notice :
' People are requested not to use anything
that are iu the bathing-house, except the board
ers.' The grammar of the above, is equal to thai
of the menagerie man's :
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the celebra
ted baboon, which picks nuts with its tail,
which is its natural food"
07"Tlie nominaiion of Col. Webb as min
ister to Austria, has been rejected by ihe Sen
ate. The ISinerals of Pennsylvania.
In sinking a shaft on Barclay's Mountains,
Westmoreland county, on the route of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, there was discovered
i ion I'umv nf Yntjlant hituminnn onnl Ivino
.;.hm n f,n nr Piahirfn inches of fiar.h nihr
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is a vein of coal on iMr. Storey's farm, through
which the road will pass, of more than one hun
drad acres in extent, and about eight feet in
thickness. This bed of coal, heretofore con
sidered of but little value to its owner, will
now, when ihe road is opened, be converted
into a mine of wealth, and may be transported
at a moderate expense to Cincinnati, St. Louis,
or even 10 New Orleans.
Curing Hams.
A distinguished gentleman of Indian has fur
nished us with hts recipe for curing hams.
He informs us that he has hams in his smoke
house cured after this recipe which have hung
there for six years. The flies never trouble
them. After his hams have been salted for
week h(j , ,hem on a boar(J ,Q d
When they aro dry, he scatters red pepper
freely over them and rubs some of it in tho
hock and in the upper end of ihe bone. He
smokes with hickory, and occasionally burns
pepper vines or dried red peppers during the
process of smoking. He also burns the vines
or the peppers in the smoke-house during tho
summer.
Corn is selling at Macon, Geo., for 75 to 80
cents per bushel, and corn meal $1, so great is
tho scarcity.
An "anxious father" writes thus : What am
I to do with my boy ? He is one of the wortt
unaccountables steals hi mother's sweetmeats;
worries cats, dogs, and girls ; fights all the
small boys, plays truant four days out of five,
and threatens to set iho house on fire if I do
not quit thrashing htm." 'Very dear and af
flicted sir, tho only remedy that we wot of in
such a case, is to have him run over hy a wag
on, kicked by a horse, or blown up by gunpow
der. He will then immediately become a fine.
intelligent, interesting, and amiable boy ; and
should he not sruvive tho operation, you will
have tho satisfaction of learning from all tho
papers that condole with you, that his loss was
deoply lamented by a large circle of loving aud
mourning friends and acquaintances.
Buffalo Express.
Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sis
ter. The commissioners appointed in Eng
land to inquire into the propriety of marriage
with tho sister of a deceased wife have report
ed that ihey "find, from a mass of evidence.
that marriages of this kind aro permitted, by
dispensation or otherwise, in all the continental
Slulos of Europe."
Seven American Mochanica were induced
lately bv an offer of lush Day. to stop at Cha-
fire8 and nut up a buildine. Before the build-
,na was completed, six of tho number were
dead. Tho seventh look Dassase home in tho
Empire City, and breathed his last the moment
8he dropped her anchor in Now York hatbor.
The number of Taxables in Luzerne County
is 10.991. and tho valuation of renl and person
al property is estimated at $4,921,386. The
population, according to the number of taxables,
is about 60,000 souls.
YHP Tim lamest Hotel in America has iust been
completed in Cincinnati, at a cost of '$225.Q0o. x
will lodgo 560 persona.
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