forTMTA NT -PT?PTTRT TO A-TSl4nemPlo3rment 10 lwelve edilors and.reporters.-ihir-JEFFERSONIAN
KJjiPUBLlOAJN proofreaders, thirteen press-
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Thursday, November 14, 150.
; rTIiepiau Exhibition.
TJie.TjitspiA.N Societv of this place, -gave two
exhibitions last week at the Court House, to crow
deckhouses. The whole performance went off
jth,cce,.and every character in the several pie
res was well and admirably sustained. The farce
of-s The Omnibus" and the popular one of "Boots
alUieiSwan- called forth the most enthusiastic
applause. Those who are connected with the So
ciety deserve great credit for their enterprise in
ca'tering to the public amusement, and we sincere
ly hope that we shall soon be favored with a simi
lar exhibition by those who tread the " boards."
monument to George Taylor.
'The bones of this patriotic signer of the Declar
ation of Independence, who represented, us in the
councils of the nation, in " times that tried men's
souls," repose at Easton without a stone to mark
the spot, where ail that was mortal of the patriot
lies.
To enable all to participate in electing a monu
ment jn the Public Square to the memory of the
deceased, the Boston Sentinel suggests to the Bor
ough Tathnrs'lb direct subscriptions to be started,
of'Sl each, and that they supply any deficiency
from the Uorough Funds.
A Tough fStory.
We find a tough story going the round of the
papers as 'a statement of facts' of an old lady, 81
years ofage, who recently died at Law re nee vi He
from a tumor in the abdomen. A post mortem ex
anination was made, after sawing through a hard
oval shaped substance taken from the body, it was
found to contain a fully developed female child!
Trie old lady was remembered to have been con
sidered cncicnle about forty years since, and all
the, preliminary preparations were made for the
reception of the little stranger, but it never made
its. appearance until brought to light by the recent
disclosures of the doctors. It is moreover stated
on the authority of a highly respectable physician
that the child bore signs of at leat a probable re
cent living existence.
.. R. Flanigcn, assumed the proprietorship of the
Philadelphia Daily News. The editorial depart
ment is in charge of John P. Sanderson, late pub
lisher. QjT'The alleged insanity of Judson Hutchinson,
one of the celebrated family of singers, proves to
be a hoax, as appears from an interesting letter,
written by one of his brothers and published in
the X. Y. Tribune. .Where did the story origin
ate. .
KT Congress meets on the 2d of December.
Another war of words, and lots of big speeches
may be anticipated, but it is very doubtful wheth
er" there will be any action on the great leading
topics wfiicVare likely to agitate its deliberations.
Storms and sunshine will alternate, but it is to be.
hoped that some of -those who talked to so little
purpose last session, will endeavor to act the part
of-ihe more wise and thoughtful.
Scott and Brown The Lachawana Journal
comes to us this week with the following flag at
its editorial head: For President in 1852, Gen.,
Wiiifield Scott, of New Jersey, for Yice-President,
Gov. Thomas Brown, of Florida; (subject to the
decision of a Whig National Convention). .
'Tit e Corn Crop The late fine weather has
proved highly fa"orable for the housing of the
.corn crop, and throughout both Pennsylvania and
.New Jersey it is as excellent in quality as abun
dantin; quality.
(L J)r. Warren, of Boston, recently took from
the,stomarh of an .Irish girl, at the Massachutts
General Hospital, by means of an incision, a tape
worm forty-one feet eleven inches long !
'Arrcst of a Counterfeiter. An individual
was arrested in Norristown, a few days since, for
passing, counterfeit, bills, of the Merchants' and
Manufacturers' Bank of Pittsburg. He was ma
king some purchases in a store at the time of his
arrest. ' -
TROUBLE WITH THE WESTERN INDI
ANS PRAllllE SET ON FIRE GREAT
LOSS OF PROPERTY, &c.
Cincinnatti, Nov. 9, 1850. A despatch from
Kanesvill.e '.Mo. states that a tremendous confla
gration has occurred in that region, caused by the
Omaha Indians, who, set on fire the dry grass on
the prairie. Tlie wind was very high at the time,
andjtbe flames spread with such rapidty that a
great many of the fences, outstanding crops, and
some builings, for miles around, were envolved in
one sheet of fire. The Indians, just previous to
the conflagration, were discovered in the act of
setting fire to the prairie in a number of places.
THe'Omahas inhabits a portion of the Missouri ter
ritory, some sixty miles above Fort Leavenworth.
They a re described as y ne of the .most dangerous
and treacherous pf the Indian tribes, and wilL.be
likely to cause the pioneer farmers of the back- i
woods a great deal -of trouble. -
A -Mongrel Fjsh. It js not.often we ,are dis
posed to itemize ichthyologiqally; but remarkable,
hshe8.renot to he despised. We were shown yes
terdajr a singular specimen of the genus, which is
apparently a natural compound of the catfish, bul
frog, ..eel and another variety, possessing only one
eyes colored a dirty brown, streaked with blue ;
and :about eighteen inches in length. It was
speared in -the Agawa'n rirer, near Springfield
Mass
, , ' auiuc, ,aua is now in me posses
ff VroCG. P. Benson .of this City,-4iV. Y.
sion
Tribune
AWihintaTfPw .-m.MiB-- nititasia iV u'U
.commuted thi fMiyarnen3ihg district 'of P)1iia'.;Vnd('colectedfartheuWaslnng'on t'Na'lOQah .MonU
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ajie assaeinsgin-avfwviea'soj arc :at large. ' -
9litl.I9l.ICS Ui IUV -, vaa.u-,.
In a recent article, the N. Y. Tribune gives the '
following particulars in relation to different de
partments of that journal :
1 4 The Tribune is now in its tenth vear. ,It was,
J stalled originally by Mr. Greeley, as a penny paper,"
and was for some months conducted by him alone,
except the commercial department. It now gives
men, four engineers, and other persons in the press
room, four permanent correspondents in Europe,
three regular correspondents at Washington, two
in Canada, two in California, one in Mexico, one
in Havana, one in central America, one in Phil
adelphia, one in Boston, one in Baltimore, &c.,
&c, four wrapper writers, four clerks, sixteen
hands in the mailing department, three errand
boys, twenty-eight carriers in the city and vicini
ty, in all, above 130 persons. The issues of the
Tribune are in round numbers 18,600 daily, 41,
400 weekly 1,700 semi-weekly, 3,300 for Califor
nia, 500 for Europe, making in all 160,200 sheets
weekly, and 8,330,400 annually. Taking the ra
tio of increase since April last, as a basis, the cir
culation of the Tribune in April 1851 will be a
bout 35,000 daily, 45,000 weekly, and the aggre
gate annual circulation will be 10,000,000 copies.
The paper employs about one ton and a half of
type, and consumes weekly, seven and a half tons
oi paper, 3oU pounus otinK. me pruning ia uuue
on one of Hoe's four cylinder presses, which is
driven, by a ten horse power steam engine. The
weekly expenditure of the estadlishment is $2,800;
which is at the rate of 145,000 per annum.
Cost of the Jeiiny Li ml Concerts.
A writer in the Express, in justification of Bar
num's adhering to the present prices of tickets,
states the expenses of the concerts as follows :
He pays Jenny $1000 per night, at all events,
and this before a division of the profit ; the Hall
he pays S300 per night for ; to Benedict $25,000
yer year ; to $3,27 all the expenses of travel of
every kind of a great suit of persons, consisting of
servants, secretaries, &c; salaries of servants ; an
immense outlay for numerous orchestra ; officers,
&c. and other attendant expenses, which cannot
be particularized, and which will swell the night
ly expenses to over $3000, and at some concerts
to $4000. Now deducting the tickets, for the
press, there are about $3,2000 seats in Tripler
Hall, At $1, if every seat was filled, Barnum
would sink money nightly.
Who are the Galphiii's Now ?
It appears from the Report of the Select Cdm
mittee of the House of Representatives, upon the
Public Printing frauds, that Father Ritchie, who
expressed so much holy horror, at the payment of
the Galphin claim, and indulged in such length
ened homilies upon the enormity of allowing it,
has had his hand into the public Treasury clear
up to the shoulder. By making out false bills, us
ing a poorer quality of paper than that contracted
fort and other means, he has defrauded the Gov
ernment out of at least ONE HUNDRED THOU
SAND DOLLARS, and not satisfied with this,
has attempted to get extra compensation, before
finishing his contracts.
Father Ritchie became the public Printer, by a
system of meanness and fraud, perfectly cbntemti
ble in a man making any pretensions to moral hon
esty ; and if he had suffered some would Have
been entitled to no sympathy whatever. But a
man who has the finesse to get $37500. for what,
by his contract, he was only entitled to $657, is
a sufficient adept in the art of Tascality, to make
money out of anything ; and Father Ritchie has
done this. By another operation making a dif
ference of $1 45 on each ream of paper used
he has made a fraudulent gain of $30,000. This,
however, he defends with the plea that it is custo
mary i but he does not say whether he justifies
picking pockets and robbing hen roots, which are
by far the most ancient customs of getting money
dishonestly, on the same grounds ! Who are the
Galphin s now I
DTP An exchange under the head of "Sporting
Intelligence,' tells of a tea drinking match that
came off lately, at which the woman who won the
prize, disposed of no fewer than nineteen cups;
and then challenged the party for another imme
diate trial ! She must have been a perfect sucker
as -well as an old ma;d. We knew an old maid
once who 'said, " for her part, she did't see how
any body could drink eighteen or nineteen cups of
tea-rnme or ten was sufficient for her,,at any one
time !1.' and itho.ught her a perfect mistress of. the
art of guzzling, but this ratherbeats even , the ap
ple dumpling story. - -
Mrs. Tyndale.
A cot respondent of:the New York Express giv
ing an account of the Woman Rights' Convention,
says :
Mrs. Tyndale of Philadelphia, related her ex
perience in conducting an extensive and compli
cated mercantile business. Her husband (who
I had been the largest importing merchant in the
world, as Mrs. Mott informed the audience,) sud-
I Jenly deceased, leaving Jiis affairs in.an.embat-
rassed; situation. After proper deliberation, she
concluded to continue the business herself. She '
found debts to a large amount, which she felt it
her duty to pay to the Utmost farthing beifeving
as she sincerely did, that '"honesty is the best ffol
icy. The creditors expressed their confidence in her
abilities, by extending to her every indulgence,
and in a. few years-she found herself frpe , from
iqop with a lucrative business on her hands. She,,
employed girls as, well as boys behind the coun
termand found the former far superior to the latter,1
iand recommended that liiey should be employed
in preference to boys? Atnhe age of fifty, she
proposed to retire,and 'leave the business1 fn the
hand of her children who were sufficiently ad
vanced in life to be entrusted with the condupfihg of
affaiis." Put she could not sit still. The .indus
trious ,hab its thus .acquired hiust.be exercise, and
she had sine's devotee) her time to the cause of
charity and doing good. Mrs. Mott related that
Mrs. Tyndale planed a large and convenierit'store,
with her only common education to aid her.
J inrty mnousandn;duiiar3;.ncany anavo uDeonf
w .
ment 'this ypar
THE ELECTIONS
Sew Yorfe.v t
VThe contest for Covenor is still in doubt, but it
is generally conceded that Hunt, Whig,-is elect-
Zed. The Legislature is Whig -wmcn secures a u.
S. Senator, in place of Dickinson, and which will
balance our los3 in New Jersey.
The Whigs have also elected a majority of the
-members of Congress. '
A . special despatch to the North American, from
Albany, says: "We have elected a Whig Govenor,
a Whig majority in the, Legislature,, andeighteen
Whig members of Congress;
New York City.
Kingsland, Whig,' is elected Mayor . by about
5000 majority. All the Whig candidates for Con
gress In the city are elected except, in the 2d
district. 'There Hart, Loco is. successful from a.
division among the Whigs, there, being two can di-.
dates in the field.
The State Legislature .fe Whig and a majority of
the members of Congress.
Ifew Jersey., ,
New Jersey is about making, a change.: Fort,
Loco, is elected Governor by over 5000 majority. -
The Legislature is Locofoco. - Such changes are
sometimes necessary. One year's trial, is gener
ally sufficient to bring about a return. We shall
therefore count N. Jersey certainly Whig next
year.
The Whigs here elected two and probably four
of the five members of Congress.
' Michigan. :
...
The Whigs here elected iwo and probably three
members of Congress.
Wisconsin.
Milwauhe, Nov., 7. The returns from all
quarters are very meague. Charles Durkee and
James D. Doty are probably elected to Con-,
gress on. the Free Soil Democratic Ticket. It .is.
conceded that the Congressional delegation will,
stand one. regular Democratic and two Free soil
ers. Messrs. Durkee and Doty,, were "opposed by
regular Locofoco nominations, and received the
support of the Whigs., We rejoice at the re-elec-tfon
of George Doty, because he voted in favor of
the Protective Policy on all occasions, and for this
reason rabid Locofocoism repudiated him.
fcfA Good Example. At a meeting in Geor
gia, after a violent debate, Colonel Abbott offered
the following resolutions, which were carried.. by
acclamation :
1st. Resolved, That this meeting is d
-d
mad.
2d. Resolved, That this meeting-'riow adjoufhvj
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Increase oj Lroia ana &uver.u is esumaieu
that the gold and silver imported into the U., S.,
r . f .U ... IJ W.l nhnri !
irom various paris oi mc wmiu, uvci auu
the exports, during the last three jears, amounts
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to one hundred, millions of dollars.
ITPTen Thousand Dollars. A man named
John M. Daniels died in January last, at Rising
Sun, Indiana, leaving an unincumbered estate
worth 810,000. No heirs reside or are known , ,
that region, but it is supposed some relatives of ,
the deceased live in the northern part of the Slate
of New York. Daniels was a dealer in lumber.
It is represented by some that his real name is
John McDonald. An attorney at Rising Sun pre
tends that he has found, heirs for the estate, but this
story is looked upon with suspicion. The admin
istrator of Daniels is Thomas Kimpton, of Rising
Sun. If this notice should meet the eyes of any per
sons interested, they are requested to communi
cate with him, and editors will confer a favor by
copying.
A child living near Cincinnatti was recently
h ,v.a thrn-t hv a Wp bull doD. and was
so seriously injured by the brute that its life was
desoaired of. The do? seized the child by the
throat, and the more he was pounded to make him
. . . . ... rni 11
Illin)IS Finances. It is slaved that at the pres
ent time there is not a banking institution in the
State. The consequence is, her currency is rags
instead of the hard chink. Her farmers handle
little else in the shape of money than the promises
of the banks of other States. For this privilege
they pay annually not less than six hundred thou
sand dollars. Her neighbors, by means of bank
issues, treble and quadruple the amount invested
--making their capital pay them eighteen to twenty-five
per cent. ; and Illinois pays them this -per
centage on every dollar she handles of their is
sues. Then, supposing the currency of this State
to be ten millions, she pays to other. States and
their capitalists annually, in the shape of interest,
not less than $600,000. Pittsburg Gazette,, .
A Lusus Natural. A cob of Indian corn, which
in size and shape exactly resembles the human
hand, has been brought to: our office. The four fin
gers and thumb are distinctly marked. The
thumb alone is a little defective, being larger in
proportion than the thumb of the human hand, but
m all other respects the resemblance is perfect.
The fingers are delicately formed, and the whole
presents a counterpart of a. fine female hand.;
This curious object grew upon, the farm, of David
Clarke, of Danby, Tompkins county. The owner
was in the act of taking it to a friend of his, who
he said was minus a hand, when the person who
exhibited it to us obtained ppssesion of it. The
corn having been boiled off, the cob remains an.
object of great curiosity. N. Y. Sun.
Frightful Steamboat Accident.
The propeller M earner XelegrVpfi'Capt Clay
pooje. of the Ericsson Line, on her passage;
from Philadelphia to, Baltimore, fours.! her bpiH
ers off Newcastle On I hursday .evening kill
ing fifteen persons and wounding twenty.4
They were mostly emigrants. The wounded
were conveyed to the arsenal, which was
thrown open for their comfort, and half a' dozen
physicians were, in aiienaance irqrn. v,uming
ton. We have 119 furiher rartcqaj:9, ,.
Gallantry. A sailor who had spent healy
all his days on the blue waters, and knew lit
tle of land gear, came ashore yesterday1; and in
passing Up street saw a little woman gping a
long with a large muff before her. FJe stepped
up very ppitelyt and offered to carry jt.fpr herj
as he was going the same way. r . .
For
or my'nari,J said a Grahaniite u I ne
fall pari tc'ula'r about myVfctualsV U cb
ver
was a
buld
livo,fln fried heel-taps. . . (1, . r
'Incd hccUaps' rep ifida-wag,
whtti, j? tc.alcd, Vlwe-brcurJ.'
let go the harder he held on. ne people Droe ..a nrooose9 building a iail to correct t
the dog's back, and, after inserting a lever in his , s ts ,hal ,he expenses of the govern
mrmth. nripH his iaw? ooen and releasea the sul- ? . , , . . . ,.
Iliu u till 1 ..." i -- j I ...... I n w ,4 1 .n mlohnrl ft rwt thlnlr. ,1 , n , ,
CICI, uuk inn n o
pieces hung loose. J
Greai Hail-Road JTJcetinffi
We lake jhe following abstract of the pro,
cee'diiigs.of a Rail-Road Meeting, atNewburgh,
onthe 23d. of OctoGer, from the Excehior :
' The meeting was convened to receive and
confer wiih a numerous delegaiion of gentlemen
from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the South
ern Section of Orange county, in relation to
the construction of a Rail-Road from the termi
nus of the Newburgh Branch Rail-Road at
Chester, to the Coal region of Pennsylvania.
Thomas. Powell, Esq., of Newburgh, was ap
pointed President ; Hon. J. E. Edsall, of New
Jersey, Vice President ; J; HTBFown, Esq.,
of Sussex, N, J., and J. J. Monnell, E?q., of
Newburgh, Secretaries.
,.G.Q?. Haines p.f.JN. J, stated the object of
1V.0 maoiinrr nrntpntino interesting stailalics of
the agricultural and mineral riches of Sussex
and Warren counties, and pledging that part of
the State' for their share of means necessary to
carry the enterprise through.
Col. Peter B. Shaf.er of N. J., presented
some Interesting facts in reference to the right
of way through that State. He said the un
conditional right'of way had been gratuitously
ceded by the farmers over whose lands the
road is to pass.
Horner Ra.msdell, Esq. of Newburgh, ad
dressed the meeting at some length. He said
this project of connecting Newburgh with ihe
coal fields of Pennsylvania, had been agitated for
twenty years. The iNewourgn orautn, auuu
nineteen miles in length, the first link in the
chain of Rail Road, is now completed. The
ballance of the road to the Water Gap, about
56 miles in length, can be constructed for $13,
000 per mile making the whole cost about
$750,000. The grades will be found easy,
not exceeding 30-feet to the mile. '
The distance from Newburgh to the coal
fields at Scranton, on the Lackawana is as fol
lows, :
From Newburgh to Chester, . , 19 miles
Che'ster to Columbia, . . 56
Columbia to Scranon, . 50
ii
Total. 125
He gave very full statistics of the coal busi
ness of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Com
pany, and of the Reading Rail-Road Gompany;
spoke of the agricultural and mineral wealth of
Northern New Jersey, and painted in glowing
language the beamy, and fertility of the Wyo
miiig yalley. No reasonable man could doubt
b'ut that the. proposed road would richly repay
the time, labor, and capital expended in build
ing it.
Resolutions were adopted and a correspond
ins committee appointed.
Extracts from a letter from John I. Blair, in
reference io the Legget's Gap Rail-Road were
read. He states that the length of the Legget's
q
P
Will. DC
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graded, and eight hundred men are at work
. TT . I . . ...ill Kn nnmn olsri
upon H. iiiigtiteen mues win uu uinupicicu
this fall. The whole will be completed by JJe
cember 1851. The Iron works at Lackawana,
and the Legget's Gap Rail-Road, have grown
f oriinat aUempt at Newburgh in 1835
ai,.Road from thai place to the
lu v
cum iiciua.
A. model message.
The Cherokee Advocate, of October 12ht,
contains the message of John Ross, principal
Chief of the Cherokee Nation,, to the Legisla
ture of his tribe. He laments the death of
President Taylor, adding due moral reflections
theron, expresses peculiar regret at the death of
Dr. Wra. Butler, late U. S. agent among the
Cherokees, returns thanks to Divine Provi-
dence lor tne goooness oi me crops, rejoices
that peace and good order generaly prevail in
the nation, while he laments at the growth of
a dags of intemperate and thieving characters,
hem
ment
spen-
eable that a census of the people be taken, in
order that the appropriation lately made by the
United States Government, may be justly dis
triputed and all in but a little more space than
is occupied by this paragraph. John Ross is.
a. man of business and wastes no words.
Construction of the Fugitive law.
The Buffalo Express says, that by a decision
just made in one of the exciting Detroit cases,
the act absolutely annuls a deed pf emancipa
tion, and enables fraud and villany to snatch
any person black or white, from a home in a
free state, and transport him to a slave market'.
And we are assured by a Judge of our Supreme
Court, that this decision is in conformity with
the spirit and evident intent of the law. The
Detroit case and decision are as follows :
A. negro was brought before a Commissioner
as a fugitive slave from Tennessee. Tho
Counsel for the negro presented an affidavit
duly sworn to by the former, stating that he
was manumitted by the deed of the present
claimant for $700, which the latter had receiv
ed for the same, and that the deed is now in
the hands of tho negro's friends in Cincinnatti.
On this affidavit tho counsel for the prisoner
moves that the case be continued until the.deed
of emancipation can be procured and used as
evidence. The Commissioner decides that the
deed would be inadmissabie, if procured ; that
he has no power to inquire into any ueienco
the negro may have against the claim, but only
to determine whether the case represented on
the part of the claimant be sufficient 10 entitle
him to a certificate for the removal of the negro.
If this decision be sustained1, no colored man
north can be: safe for a day. If a deed of free
dom is annulled by the act, there will be pur
juries enough to send into .slatfary every color
ed, man and wojnen north of Mason and Dix
on's linq, TBighamptpn Republican, ; w
UCFAway up in Vermont, a long tirne ag
an Irish "help" hau1 spoiled a lot of candles, by
letting them fall into a hogshead of rain water.
The patience of her mistress gave way entirely
under tho disaster, and she retired 10 her room
in a passion. While trying, unsuccessfully ,' to
calm her excited feelings, by taking violent ex
ercise in the rocking chair, an oder more pene
trating than agreeable assailed her nose, and
caused her to exclaim-r- , .
" Mercy flakes,.Brjdgei,iwhatM ihe matter
pcutf the caudles JU'jho hut.oyen.for to dhry
Cooping in Baltimore.
The extent io which the practice of " coop
ing" has been carried on in Baltimore this fall,
is astonishing. Out readers would not believo
-that the parties who practiced this mode of e
iectioneering would venture to " coop" and put
the lowest vagrants, but it seems from the fol
lowing extract that very prominent citizens,
even the Mayor of the city, and the Attorney
Ceneral of Pennsylvania, were shut up in these
pens. We copy from the Baltimore correspon
dent of rhe Tribune :
The election campaign of the last two weeks
has been fraught with every species of corjupj
lion on the part of the Locos. . Colizaiipn,"
as it' is termed bringing rotors from other
States, District of Columbia, &c, was carried
on quite extensively. Then again, 41 cooping
was resorted to throughout the ciiy. Houses
wera rented, and every poor devil of a white
man that could be caught drunk in the streets,
was forced into one of ihese dens, kept intoxi
cated, and drugged with opium, and on elec
tion day forced to vote in a dozen different
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wards. A building used as a nospitai uy mo
cornnraiinn. was made a general receptacle for
these loafers, together with the inmates of iho
Almshouse, and is said to have produced auu
voters, by voting each one several times. Not
only loafers but respectable men were tnus con-
fined, and either kept all day ;wnig'u.u
voting, or being drugged, were lorceu io u.e,
being disguised so they could not be recognized,
a precaution that the "cooping committee, also
used, in order tnat tneir victims uugm
tify them and make them pay the penalty of the
outraged laws. Col Stansbury, our present
Mayor, Francis Gallager, Esq., James Wilkes,
Eq., and others, got into "coops" by various
modes, and wiih difficulty escaped their captors.
Col Kane, our Collector of the Port, was also
seized, aud an attempt made to "coop" him,
but a good revolver soon dispersed his assail
ants. These acts were also committed at night,
and at opportunities which were watched for.
The most high-handed outrage of all, however,
was. the capture of the Hon. Cornelius Darrah,
of Pittsburg, the Whig Attorney General of
Pennsylvania, vtho happened to be in the city
on the day preceeding the Governor's election.
Pie was caught in the street on Thursday night,
the 2d ult. and confined in one of these "coops"
throughout the 31st ult. the day of election, be
ing badly maltreated.
He addressed a note during his confinement
io Hon. Reverdy Johnson, asking his interven
tion. When released he could noi identify any
of the scoundrels, all being disguised by false
hair, wiskers, &c. From these few incidents
you can judge of the despera'.e deeds of tho
Locofoco party.
Preservation off Apples.
A correspondent gives the following account
of the most extraordinary preservation of ap
ples we recollect to have seen. He says :
" 1 send you an apple which 1 bought in ihe
all of 1848, of my neighbor; Among others, it
was put into my cellar, in open casks ; and a
bout the first of January. 1849, I overhauled
them and put three barrels away, packed in
plaster of Paris first a layer of plaster and a
laver of annles, and so alternately till the bar
rels were filled. They were then headed up,
and stood till the early part of the summer
when I overhauled and asssorted them anfl put
them in a box in layers of dry oak saw dust.
The box had a lock and key, and has been
locked up, only when we got apples out to use.
Wo continued using oui of the box, till some
lime after early apples were ripe, and I sup
posed they were all used out, but at a town
meeting, ihe 11th of March, 1850, it being
stormy I told my men to assort my apples,
8nd fill that box again with saw dust and apples.
Upon unlocking the box and taking the saw
dust out, to our surprise there were three ap
ples in the box, and all of them perfectly sound.
The apple I send you having been kept in a
warm room, has commenced, as you perceive,
to rot. The above is submitted respectfully,
for the benefit of all lovers ofgood apples.
Pennsylvania Copper and Lead. We are
gratified to learn thai an extensive copper and
lead formation has been discovered in this State,
near the Schuylkill river, and only about twen
ty miles from this city ; and the extent of the
metal is. from present appearences, such as 10
warrant the expectation of a very large busi
ness arising out of it. Some of the veins have
been successfully worked within the past year.
The average yield of 2000 10ns has been 20
per cent, of pure copper. The lead and silver
ore, which is also abundant, has been assayed
and carries about 85 per cent, of lead, and will
yield of silver about S35 to the ton. The Per
kiomen mine, which is near the newly discov
ered veins, has been worked to the depth of a
bout 300 foet and more than a quarter of a mil
in length $6,000 have already been received
for ore, and about four hundred tons more have
been mined but not yet sent to market. This,
with the new veins, gives evidence of a field
of mineral wealth which promises 'o add to tho
fame of Pennsylvania as the greatest mineral
region in the world. Evening Bulletin.
The Tiro Sexes. !'
When a rakish youth goes estray, friends
gather round him in order to restore him to the
path of virtue. Gemlenessjand kindness are
lavUhed upnn him 10 win him back again to
innocence and peace. No one would ever sus
pect that he had ever sinned. But when, a
poor confiding girl is betrayed, she receives the
brajid of society, and is henceforiK driven from
ihe ways of virtue. The betrayer is honored;
respected and esteemed ; but his ruined,, heart
broken victim, knows there is no poare for her
this side of ihe cold and tolitary grave. " Soci
ety has no helping hand fur her, no airiile of
peace, no voice of forgiveness. There are
earthly moralities ; they are unknown to Heav
en. There is deep wrong in them, and fearful
are tho consequenpes,
4 .
Absence of Mind, A hen, instead of sat.-,
ting on her eggs, got upo'n a heap opjg-uon,
froth which she hatched out a large number 'of
spikes.
In time of peace prepare for Whr.- On Cape
Cod, when a young lady is engaged 10 be mar
ried; she suffers hpr finger-nails to grow long.
90. that linocaso she should be obliged. to throw.
he.r5olfUnher resorvod riehis; she may.'-como:
'io tho .scraich witih some prqsncct of success.'
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