"Scffersoxiiau Republican.
Free BiUtltius Bill. rennsyivauiu l.s"u""
This bill, which passed the Senate, is too lengthy j Mareh 24 In the Senate, a resolution1 directing
to have a place in our columns. The following ' the committee on finance, to inquire into the expe
synopsis of it we find in the New York Tribune : : diency of reporting a bill authorizing the Canal
Commissioners to lease uoiumoia ranruuu aim mu-
The main features of the bill are the depositing
of State loans with the Auditor General, from ,whom
the depositor will receive back 90 per cent of their
market value, not exceeding par, in countersigned
bank bills of such denominations as may be desired;
the banker or bankers first proving to the Auditor
General that 20 percent, of the amount of counter
T2iurMlay April 3, 1851.
Graml Rfiisical Concert.
The Military Band, from Philadelphia, will
give a Concert at the Court House, on this (Thurs
day) -.evening, at 7 o'clock. They were in the
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Juneau uuuur rn. ,. u.k, wuu . the required difference
well known m this community. It will no doubt I - .? A..Am nana. :a
be a rare entertainment. Admission 121 cents.
Later from iexa.
The Steamship Globe arrived at N. Orleans on
the 22d, from Galveston, brings dates to the 18th.
The Galveston Journal says that 'a gentleman of
Indianola has received a letter from General Cass,
i in which he says he " will be a candidate ior
the Presidency, at the ensuing election, if he should
be nominated by the National Convention of the
Democratic party." The letter is of recent date.
The same paper says that many of the farmers
have finished planting corn, and are now busily en-
See advertisement in another coulmn.
To the Public.
0T It gives us pleasure to be able to state that
Stroudsburg and vicinity are rid of the Small Pox
entirely. We have been informed by the proper au
thority that there are no cases at all at present; and
it is confidently believed, that, with the care that
is used, there will be no more, unless they should
be imported here from abroad. The public may
rest assured of the correctness of this statement
Weliope the alarm, therefore, that has prevailed
for a considerable time, in the surrounding neighbor
hood, will be put to rest Our friends need not be
afraid of visiting Stroudsburg after this. t
tive power to the highest bidder, and refer the bids
to the next Legislature, was adopted.
In the House private bills occupied the day.
March 25. In the Senate, the resolutions of the
House fixing the day of final adjournment on the
lfith of Anril. was taken un and passed. The bill
signed bills is held in gold and silver for banking i Dr0vidinn- for the payment of the 1st and 2nd Re- j gaged in planting cotton. The weather is warm,
purposes, wnicn proportion oi coin is required to ne i jment 0f Pennsylvania Volunteers, who served m and decidedly lavoraoie ior uieiarmer.
the Mexican War, was passed, yeas 22, nays o. A warehouse on me commercial vvuuu, w
Tn the House: several bills of a private nature ! veston, belonging to Capt Lufkin, fell into the bay
i rm tlip lfith inst.. with a loud crash. It was full
March the Senate, this morning, passed
a bill to repeal the sixth section of the act of March
3d, 1847, to prevent kidnapping, preserve the pub
lic peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers
heretofore exercised by judges, justices of the peace,
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all the times kept on hand, on pain of forfeiture of
the privileges of the law. Any failure to redeem
in gold or silver, on demand, works a sale of the
assets and a winding up of the bank. When the
price of loans pledged shall become insufficient se-
jVaviga&iau Opcssed.
The Easton Whig, of the 2d inst, says the water
has passed down the Delaware Canal, and coal and
freight boats are daily arriving and departing from
that place. The new lock at the head of the Ca
nal tis not yet completed, but is rapidly progressing.
OCT Elections for State Officers and Members of
Congress took place in Rhode Island yesterday.
The election for State officers, &c. in Connecticut
take place on the 7th of April. On the latter day,
also, another trial is to be had to elect Members of
Congress in the 2d, 4th, 5th and 7th Districts of
Massachusetts.
(r About 2500 persons have of late died of
Cholera at Bombay. The mortality of the month
for the Island of Bombav is close on 3000.
.Another ILocofoco 5efalcaf ion.
Peter Ahl, Jr., who was elected Treasurer of
county in 1S49, has resigned his post in con
sequence, as the Lccofoco papers there say, of 'un
fortunate difficulties.' These unfortunate difficul
ties, consist of a defalcation of some eight or ten
thousand dollars scratched, erased and altered or
dersalterations on the books in the Commission
ers' office, and some other matters involving a high
criminal offence. Had he been a Whig, we sup
pose the act would have been characterized as a
Robbery of the People's treasury Forgery and
Corruption and by other choice terms but as he
has been a good Loco foco, such things are only
'unfortunate difficultie.
.Virginia Elticlioits Positioned.
The bill postponing the Congressional elections
in Virginia, until August, and the State officers
until October, has passed both Houses of the Le
gislature, and is now a law. If the convention
shall have completed its labors by the 1st of June,
a vote will be taken on the amended constitution
in August, and if ratified, the election of all officers
provided for under it will take place in October.
Tlie EJomtty JLaud Grant.
It is officially stated that up to this time about
one hundred thousand applications have been re
ceived for the benefit of this law ; and every day's
mall adds from five hundred to a thousand to their
number. The office is now issuing between one
thousand, and twelve hundred a week; and it will
require more than eighteen months before the
claims now on hand can be disposed of, or matured
into warrants. All persons interested in the law,
or desiring information in regard to it are request
ed to address their communications directly to the
Commissioner of Pensions.
1$
"A CSock for Sixty Cesa(.
after eight days' notice the Auditor General is
authorized to reduce the amount of circulating
notes, provided that he shall not reduce the amount
below $20,000 ; or to dispose of the securities and
wind up the concern. Associations under this Act
are limited to 15 years, and the amount of capital
at not more than $o00,UUU, nor less than $50,000;
the name of the bank, the number of shares into
which the capital is divided, names and residences
of shareholders, the period at which the Association
shall commence and terminate, are all facts which
have to be proved and filed in the office of the Pro
thanotary of the County, and in the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth ; a certified copy
of such record to be deemed and taken as sufficient
evidence in all courts of law. The Association
thus organized is allowed to elect officers, and to
do a general banking business, the act holding
each stockholder liable in his individual capacity
for the circulating notes, and for every contract
debt entered into by the Association. Quarterly
statements similar to those now' made by existing
banks are required, and a failure for thirty days to
transmit the same to the Auditor General, authori
zes that officer to close up and redeem the circula
ting notes. The State Treasurer, in paying the
semi-annual interest on the loans deposited as a
base' for banking is required to deduct therefrom at
the rate of two per cent, per annum, the same to
be appropriated to the State Sinking Fund, and to
be considered in lieu of tax on dividends and stock,
Excepting the State loans. Banks, east of the
mountains, formed under the law, are required to
keep their notes at par in Philadelphia, and those
west of the mountains at par in Pittsburg, under
penalty, of two mills per annum, on every dollar of
the average amount of circulation for the preceding
year. The amount of capital under the law is Inn
ited to ten millions in the. first year after its pas
sage, and two millions more each year during the
five years next following. The State Treasurer,
Secretary of the Commonwealth and Auditor Gen
eral are to constitute a Board of Examiners, whose
duty it shall be to examine the returns as made,
and determine the snfficiencv of the security, and
order more security or a return of circulating notes
as to them shall seem safe and equitable. The
bill also imposes a penalty ot tine and imprison
ment for countersigning and delivering to any
bank more than 90 per cent, of the market value of
the bonds pledged as security.
Tlie Philadelphia OoS4icos'IaBp.
A few weeks since the Secretary of the Treas
ury commissioned A. H. Dunlevy, Esq. of Ohio, to
investigate certain charges prefered against the
Collector of Philadelphia, charges on which are
i based a request upon the administration to have
him removed.
The charges are, that the Collector keeps in
his employ a person, not only notoriously incompe
tent to the proper performance of his official duties
as a weigh-master, but who stands charged with
perjury on the legislative records of the State ;
that moreover the Collector together with the Sur
veyor of the port had a hand in procuring ficti
tious signatures to certain letters, purporting to
have been written by members of Congress urging
their own confirmation.
There are other minor charges, we believe, but
these are the principal ones. The investigation is
closed, and the result is now before the Cabinet at
wasnington. now it decides in tne premises,
few days will probably determine.
of merchandise at the time, including a large quan
tity of cotton and lime. The latter coming in con
tact with the water fired the barrels, but the fire
men prevented a conflagration which would have
destroyed a large amount of property. As it is, a
aldermen and jailers in this Commonwealth, and considerable quantity of goods was lost or damaged
trom tailing into tne water.
The Journal has received a letter from Judge
Gamble, of San Patricio. This letter is dated the
24th ult, and gives quite a gloomy picture of the
condition of the country hording on the Nueces.
to repeal certain slave laws.
The section repealed is as follows:
"It shall not be lawful to use any jail or prison
of this Commonwealth for the detention of any
person claimed as a fugitive from servitude or la
borj'except in cases where jurisdiction may lawful- j It seems there are a large number of Indians down
The Abandonment of the Prosecution of tub
Cuban Invaders at New Orleans is. thus stated in
detail by the Picayune :
The third trial of Gen. Henderson, charged with '
beginningvand setting on foot the late expedition
against Cuba, has resulted in another mistrial. It
is understood that on this occasion the jury were
divided, eleven for acquittal and one for convic
tion. On the second trial they were six to six.
on the first trial there were eight for conviction
and-four for acquittal. The chances for conviction
have thus diminished with every trial, and it is
very evident thatanother attempt would result in
another mistrial or an acquital. In fact, these fail
ures, under such circumstances, are substantially
and morally an acquital, and so the Government
has understood them. On the dismissal of this ju
ry, the District Attorney of the United States aban
doned the prosecution, and has entered a notfe
prosequi, not only in regard to Gen. Henderson,
but to all the parties under indictment for a parti
cipation in the affair.
This morning, in announcing this, Mr. Hunter
said that he had been anxiously deliberating aa to
what should be his duty as the prosecution officer
of the court, in the contingency which had occur
red. Three juries had been empannelled, and three
mistrials had been had. The cases growing out
of the Cuban expedition had so much attracted the
, . . -i ! ;., 4.1, nn,.,vitir rtnmvniftiurr nil onrtc nF?pnrfilnt!nn5
ly be taken by any judge, unaer xnu pruvu ux m u - ? ,
ADartv ot thirteen mustanffers came uuo rorc.r 1 . ,
a
vMr. Chauncev Jeromn. nf
hasactyally made a time-piece, which, he will war
rant to .keep good reckoning, and which he sells
for sixty cents at wholesale, and one dollar at re
tail. The works are all made of brass. He makes
upwards of eight hundred a day of these articles.
The Great CalEioiic Cathedral.
The Catholics are contemplating the erection of
a..magnificent Cathedral at Washington, estimated
to cosfone million of dollars. This amount is to
be -.raised by contributions from all the Catholic
Congregations in the United States and many in
Europe. It is expected that the Archi-piscopal
See of Baltimore will, when this cathedral is com
pleted, be transferred to Washington, and as the
Archbishop is to be promoted to the primacy, it is
urged that there is a peculiar fitness in making the
national Seat of Government the place of residence
of the head of the Catholic Church in the United
States. The building, which is to be of marble or
etoneV.will be constructed in the richest style of
architecture, with windows of stained glass, tow
ering steeple, and immense bell.
0rTom Hyer is out with a challenge to fight
anyiman in the world for 10,000 a side, and of
fersany man from England $3,C00 to meet him
here. Tom should have a chance to try his phys
icalstrength upon some of the stone blocks at Sing
Sing.
P . S. A man named Gooduson lias accepted the
challenge, and the fight is to take place some time
aiextfell out of the United States, for ten thousand
collars a side. The New York sporting gentry
are making large bets on the result
The largest hog we ever have heard of in the
U. .States was slaughtered a fewjkys ago, bylMri..
tjeo.jp; ititter,- oiiicioryrown,MoHtgonaery couhw?
yielded, when xlressed the extraordi-1
Ixmrjvijht of t wine fiwitZted end seventy:4wo
The Novo. Scotia Giant.
The Hingham, Mass. Journal says: "We have
seen the Giant a veritable giant, and no mistake.
Angus McKaskill is but 19 years old, so it is said
is now nearly eight feet high, and is still a grow
ing. He is well proportioned, intelligent looking,
and, by the time he attains maturity, will be a tall
one indeed. His shoes are sixteen inches long, and
and his cap as big around as a Hingham bucket ;
everything else about him in the same proportion.
The gentleman, under whose charge he exhibited,
states what, if a fact, is a remarkable one, namely,
that seven years ago, that is, when Angus was 12
years old, he was known and noted as a dwarf; he
was then but three feet high, and weighed only 84
pounds. Since that time he has grown eight iuch
es a year on an average, and has not done yet.
He now weighs 400 pounds and has strength in
proportion. He offers to lift a couple of barrels of
flour at once, (provided he may have them for lift
ing,) or to forfeit their price. His mother, how
ever, cautioned him when he left home against in
dulging in uncommon exertions of strength; for as
yet, said she, "Angus is but a tender boy f
this act; and any jailor or keeper of any prison, or
other person, who shall offend against the provi
sions of this section, shall, on conviction thereof,
pay a fine of five hundred dollars; one half thereof
for the use of the Commonwealth, and the other
half to the person who prosecutes; and shall, more
over, thenceforth be removed from office, and be
incapable of holding such office of jailor or keeper
of a prison, at any time during his natural life."
The following is the vote on the final passage of
the bill:
Yeas Messrs. Baily, Brooke, Crabb, Fernon,
Forsyth, Frailey, Frick, Fulton, Guernsey, Hoge,
Jones, Konigmacher, Muhlenberg, Myers, Packer,
Sanderson, Shimer, and Matthias, Speaker 18.
Nays Messrs. Carothers, Carson, Cunningham,
Haslett, Malone, Savery, and Walker 7.
The bill to provide for a registration of mar
riages, births and deaths passed a second reading
in the House to-day, and was ordered to be trans
scribed yeas 54, nays 36.
In the House, the bill providing for the election
of Judges of the several courts of this Common
wealth, passed. It-was amended so as to provide
for a separate ticket for Judges of the Supreme
Court. All other Judges are required to be learned
in the law, to be voted for on separate tickets, ex
cept so far as relates to Philadelphia city and
county.
The bill providing for the registration of births,
deaths and marriages, was ordered to be transcribed
for a third reading veas 54, nays 36.
March 27. In the Senate, tiie bill regulating
hing in the river Delaware, was under discus-
sion. several private nil is were passed.
In the House, the general appropriation bill was
under discussion in the Committee of the vv hole.
March 28. In the Senate, the Committee on
the Militia, reported against the petition praying
for a heavier fine for neglect of militia duty ; also
against the petitions praying for the passage of a
law providing for a more effectual mode of collect
ing militia fines.
The bill to regulate fishing in the River Dela-
ware, came up in order, and the several remaining
sections having been agreed to, it was read a sec
ond time and ordered to be transcribed. The rule
was then suspended, and on the question, shall the
bill pass, it was agreed to yeas 15, nays 14.
In the House, the Senate requested the House
to return that body the bill amending the act in
corporating the Marshall Savings Association of
Philadelphia city and county.
The House refused yeas 31. A section in it
repealed the act of last session authorizing the in
corporated districts of Philadelphia to subscribe by
a majority vote to the stock of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Tha Senate passed it inadvertently.
The appropriation bill came up in Committee of
the Whole, and was considered till the adjournment.
March 29. In the Senate, various nominations
for associate judges were confirmed. Among them
that of Isaac C. Wykoff, of Northampton county.
In the House, the appropriation bill was under
discussion
Murrell on Saturday, the 22d ult., who stated that
they had been attacted by a party of twenty-five
Indians on the Agua Mulice, in which attack the
mustangers had one man killed and three woun
ded. Lieut Underwood, with nineteen Rangers, had
been out on a scout, when he discovered the trail
of a large body of Indians, who had crossed above
the Rio Frio, and had passed down the country on
the west side of that stream. From the sight it
was supposed the Indians were from eighty to one
hundred strong. Lieut Underwood immediately
sent expresses off to convey the information to the
several posts, while lnmselt and party made prep
arations for a vigorous pursui. Twenty-five men
started from Capt. McCulloch's camp on the Aran
sas, as soon as they received the news. Capt. Mc
Culloch was out on a scout himself at this time on
the east side of the river.
They have a " Prophetic Cow" up in Union
county, which, according to report, is marvellously
gifted with, the power of speech, and has lately
made some confidential reports in very fair English
housand persons had been drawn before impartial
jurors could be obtained; and under the act of 1825
the marshal of the district is limited to the parish
in the summoning of jurors.
Under these circumstances, said Mr. Hunter,
even if we should be fortunate enough, after weeks-' .
of labor, to empannel another jury, he could not
hope for any other result than a fourth mistrial.
He should, therefore, with the consent of the
court, enter a nolle prosequi in the case ; and as
he could not adduce any stronger proof against any
of the parties indicted for like offences, in partici
pating in the Cuban expedition, he would enter a
nolle prosequi in every case. Mr. Benjamin, his
colleague and associate, concurred with Mr. Hun
ter in the propriety of this course, and accordingly
all the prosecutions are abandoned.
This disposes at once of the cases of Gen. Quit
man, Judge Smith, Gens. Gonzales, and Lopez,
Cols. Pickett, O'Hara and Wheate, Messrs. Haw
kins and Smith, and Capt Lewis, the captain of
the steamer Creole, who have been waiting for trial
to some of her peculiar freinds. One is that the
world is to come to an end, sure, on the 16th of, under these charges, and of a large number ofoth-
. t . nn. 1 rnnti'nr. 1 ora n'lin linirn hoon rlftn?nnf1 hprn nt. CrrP.lf. CDSt and
next June: xhcj umuuim uuutupuu 10 ucuuug i , to
quite a sensation among the two-legged calves of
that region.
inconvenience, awaiting the demands of the Gov
ernment, as witnesses or parties accused.
Sheep Breeding in Vermont. The wool grow
ers of Vermont are beginning to realize the import
ance of obtaining full-blooded merino sheep, and
they are gradually being introduced tnto that State.
Mr. Jesse Hinds, of Mendon, imported last month,
thro' the agency of Mr. John A. Tainter, of Hart
ford City, two ewes, at an expense of .200 each.
About two years since, Mr. Hinds purchased of
Mr. fainter a buck six months old, for $100.
This buck is said to be the finest sheep in Vermont
The ewes will yield an average of twelve pounds
of wool. Mr. Hinds has a large farm, and devotes
himself chiefly to the breeding of sheep, and finds
a ready market for them among the wool growers
in Western New YorlcBost Traveller.
OCT A woman arrested in Philadelphia recently
for stealing the cloak of a clergynan, and when
asked how she came to commit so heniousa crime.
she promptly answered, that she only meant to
borrow it for a day or two, to ascertain how a per
son felt when they hid their sins under r cloak.
The functionary, however, gave her. distinctly' to
understandfithat such garments were
"likes of her," by sending her "dow
Immense numbers of cattle and horses, so wild '
that they feed at night and lie hidden by day, are
said to inhabit the vallies and canyons of the Sier-
McKinley, a Texas ranger, who. has thorcughly
traversed the region from the Pacific to the plains
of San Joaquin, thinks the wild bulls are far more
California MoBa!s.
A California correspondent of the London News
furnishes a sad picture of the morals of Eldorado.
"Perhaps the blackest page of American Califor
nia is the historv or lives of the females. Hus
bands arrive here with their wives and families,
but they are not generally long on shore when danfferous than grizly bears.
their better-halves cut connections ior otner anu
, t . . . i j Iflelancliolv Deatli of a Poor Debtor.
richer men; so that the poor disconsolate husbands, . s , , ...
, - . . ii i . 4.1 J.ne miamOUS UUruiUllV tu wmvu u uum man,
instead of mining for gold, have to nurse their i . , ' , ;mnw;mL
'wee anes.' Young damsels, however ugly or de- ble at the hands ot-a S0UiJess creditor, where the
formed, are soon picked up and spliced. Fire and law for imprisonment for a debt prevails, is pain
sword are no barrier to men's passions here, nor is ' fully illustrated by the following tragic occurrence
age a preventive."
in Boston :
" John Jay Bradley a man of liberal education,
a Greek scholar, and formerly an editor of a pa
per, died in Boston jail on Thursday, where he had
henn confined for a week past for a debt He was
x
Virginia distanced.
According to the 'census returns of Virginia,
there is still a standing army of 83,000 chivalrous ' n the last stage of consumption when sent to jail,
sons of the Old Dominion who cannot read or write; ' and could scarcely get up the steps for weakness.
. mi.. Jli i. ..R,,nJ , .nlnnrn dimim.
but Virginia, it would seem, is obliged notwith- j c" pereiuuuuv c;u Bu
standing, to knock under to Indiana in the preva
lence of ifmorance
less the monev was naid. Deceased had certain
risrhts in propertv which were not available at the
According to the census just ; present time, which prevented his swearing out un-
taken in Indiana, there are 175,017 Hoosiers over der the poor debtor's act unless he assigned them
21 vears of age who are in the same blissful state to his creditor. He never attempted to get released
- & ... . Q(, nnn . v. . . i and was a little insane. His father was applied to,
TIbc I&aiockers Msiockccl.
A Dr. Bell, of Buffalo, New York, has published
a letter respecting, the Rochester knockings, in
which, in the opinion of most people, the Knockers
are knocked in the middle of next week, as the
phrase goes. It appears that Mrs. Fish arid her
sister undertook to convince Dr. Bell of the spirit
ual character of the Knockings ; and, for this pur
pose, agreed to perform before him and a few
friends. The result of the .experiment was to con
vince the spectators that the ladies themselves pro
duced the mysterious sounds, by snapping certain
bones of the knee together, which they have the
faculty of doing as some people have of cracking
the finger-joint. Dr. Bell, suspecting this to be
the origin of the sounds, placed his hands on the
knees of Mrs. Fish, and felt the bones move when
ever the sounds were made, and only at that time.
He confirmed this view of the case, by insisting on
cushions being placed between the feet of Mrs.
F. and the floor, when, in consequence of, there
being no proper medium, in connection with, the
lady to continue the vibration, no sound- was pro
duced ; though, the instant the cushions were re-
-if ignorance be bliss as the 83,000 in Virginia.
A Tower of. Skulls.
Lamartine, in his " Pilgrimage to the Holy Land,"
writes as follows :
" When I was about a league from Nias, the last
Turkish town almost on the frontier of Servia, I
saw a large tower rising up in the midst of the
plain as white as Parian marble. I took the path
which led to it. I desired a Turkish lad who ac
companied me to hold my horse, and I sat down
under the shade of the tower to enjoy a few mo
ment's repose. No sooner was I seated than rais
ing my eyes to the monument I discovered that
the walls which I supposed to be built of marble
or of regular rows of white stone, were composed
of regular rows of human skulls, bleached by the
rain and sun, and cemented by a little sand and
lime, formed entirely the triumphal arch which
now sheltered me from the burning sun ; there
might be from fifteen to twenty thousand. In
some places portions of hair were still hanging,
and waved like linchen or moss, with every breath
of wind. The mountain breeze was then blowing
fresh, penetrating the innumerable cavities of the
skull, and sounded like a mournful and plaintive
sigh. These were the skulls of fifteen thousand
Servaians who had been put to death by the Pacha
in the last insurrection at Servia. Servia, how
ever, is now free, and this moment will teach their
children the value of independence by showing
them the price at which their forefathers purchas
ed it.
but he refused to interfere. There had been a
quarrel between father, and son, but it does not
appear that the former knew fully of his son's con
dition. The creditor must have imbibed all the
spirit of a Shylock, to send a dying man to end his
days in jail for a debt of 6200."
Gcaseral Scott.
The Whig papers in Indiana, almost without
exception, have placed at the head of their columns,
the name of General Scott as a candidate for the
Presidency. The Indiana State Journal, in speak
ing of the proposed nomination by the National
Whig Convention, says that so far as popular sen
timent in that State is concerned, there never be
fore was such unanimity in the selection of a can
didate, and if the name of General Scott should.be
j placed upon the ticket, Indiana will certainly give
inn her electoral vote.
CUBA. The total value of imports into the
island of Cuba in 1849, was 20,320,460 of which
$7,567,247 were from the United States. The to
tal value of exports during the same period was
2,436,547 of which $6,301,658 were to the
United States. The total number of vessels which
entered the different ports of the island during the
same period, was 3213 of which 1639 werelfrom
TT;J C? mi. i. l.i n i
r,7 tha .nfQrwi,i , '. j;tiu,b oiii.H. j. iiu loiui numu6r oi vessels
u i r n n u .u c.i tlxr 1 j which cleared during the same period, was 286G
.4u..u. w uuiubw uiuac iviiuua.- j o! wnicu i'yi were to the United States.
ers- produce the strange sound by snapping the
toe-joints, in all cases effecting it by mere volition,
without the slight muscular motion requisite being
visible.
A TaliiaBite Brick.
It is said that the Swedish Nightingale stumped
her toe against a loose brick of one of the pave
ments in New Prleans not since, and that an ed-
- y j itbr who was in her train, immediately picked up freight coming fn
e not for . the the consecrated article, and has been carrying it j road, and passing
;n below.' j iirhia hat ever since. Railroad to Phila
Reduction of Fare by l!ie Harrisburg
ana Lancaster ISailroad Company.
llarrisburg, March 27. The Directors of the
Harrisburg and Lancaster Railroad Company met
this afternoon, and passed a resolution reducing' the
fare on passengers over the road to three qent3 per
mile, to take place on and after Tuesday, the first
of April. They have made a drawback, in con
junction with tho Canal Commissioners, on all
from the Cumberland Valley Rail
over their road and the Columbia
delpina.
Fo regis News.
ARRIVAL OP THE CANADA.
By the arrival of the Canada at Halifax, we have
one week's later news from Europe. It is however
of but trifling importance. The Russell ministry
has been again defeated in Parliament A disso-
ution ot Parliament and a new election, are ex
pected.
Cotton has declined slightly. The U. a. J? ngato
St Lawrance, with the American contributions to
the world's fair has arrived at London. She made
the passage in 22 days. A large body of Hungar
ians and Polish Refugees, had arrived at Liver
pool on their way to America. There is no news
of importance from the continent.
fcVMr. Whitnev. the moiector of tho great
Railroad to the Pacific, sailed for England in the
last steamer from Boston. He has been called to
England to make arrangements for superintending
the construction of the great Canada Railroad, and
" f 1 1 4l 1 1
goes out for the purpose ot deeming wueinur no
will undertake it or not The plan ot tne JLngiisn
road is to reach the Pacific at Fuca Straits, oppo
site Vancouver's Island, ana the route is saw to oe
quite as feasible as that proposed from Lake Michi-n-an
to Puget Sound, and the territory over which
ft passes is represented as being the best wheat
country in the world.
Secretary Corvi,n Decifliou on IQr.
Hunter' Bill.
Washington, March 27. -The Secretary of th
Treasury takes ground that he does not fel au
thorized now to change the construction especial
ly in the absence of any explicit legal designation
of freight, as a dutiable item, presuming that as
Congress was, aware of the long practice of the
department on the subject, its views would have
been clearly expressed respecting it, had the legis
lature intended that tho change should b intro
duced, of including freight The matte? wasijully
discussed in cabinet before arriving at a deciiion.
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