directly addressed to myself, though concisely and
simply worded, have been so elevating and so sug
gestive as to Furnish exhaustlcss themes for rellcc
tion and inquiry.
The timid and superstitious accept the idea of-a
satanic influence; th'c rationalists incline to that- of
an unconscious human agency. These have been
anxiously looking to Mr. Burr for a. complete eluci
dation of the mystery. lie has given us some in
teresting lectures on the plastic powers of the Im
agination, the magic of Phantasy, the impressible
temperament of Genius, &c. &c. But since he as
sumes that the phenomena which have puzzled so
many common-place, matter-of-fact, wideawake
people to he the result of deliberate trickery and
deception, his brilliant forces, deployed so impos
ingly before the onset, seem to remain for the pres
ent quite hnrs du combat. They cannot well be
brought to bear on the subject announced in his
programme, except for the purpose tVexpligucr cc
qui iVesl pas. lie has, it is said, detected quite a
number of little boys and girls in attempting, to
lend a hand in the movement of chairs and tables
.when the spirits obstinataly refused to manifest
themselves ; but, on the whole, public opinion is
not materially effected by these cclaircissemcnls.
It ennnot be doubted that there is muck chaff a
mong the wheat; yet, were every professed medi
um in the City to be detected in attempting to de
ceive, it could not invallidate the evidence on which
my own convictions arc grounded. I am not, how
ever, disposed to question either the candor or the
sagacity of those whose investigations have led
them to a different result "I cannot," says Em
erson, "dispose of another man's facts or allow him
to dispose of mine."
We must rest satisfied in obtaining a key to our
own. Experience, in teaching me self-reliance,
has also taurht me the wisdom of maintaining this ;
position Nevertheless. I hope soon to find you
in the ranks of the faithful, since your paper was
one of the media through which I first received
the new liffht.
Sarah 11. Y hitman.
jfrffevsonian Republican.
Thursday, April 10,- 15I.
IVIctliorfist Ministers.
The annual session of the Philadelphia Methodist
Episcopal Conference, was held at Smyrna, Dela
ware, last week. Among other, changes, we no
tice that the Rev. Mr. Sisty, late of this place, has
has been stationed for the coming year, at New
town, Bucks county. Ur. Barns of Easton, has
been transfered to Manayunk, and the Rev. J. K.
Taft, chosen to supply his plcace. The Rev. J.
A. Watson, has been appointed to preach in the
Church in this place.
Omissions in lite Census.
The tables, says the National Intelligencer, re
turned by the Marshals and filed in the Census of
fice, profess to include the names of all persons re
siding within the United States at the time of the
enumeration, and it is important that these tables
should be as correct, as the nature of the case will
admit Appeals will be hereafter made to those
records to ascertain facts of importance to families
and individuals. References are now frequently
made to the Census Bureau to ascertain from the ;-
documents in the office, facts relating to the place
of residence of families in 1790. In view of these
-circumstances, the attention of all individuals who
may have reason to think themselves overlooked
by the assistant marshals is called to these facts,
with a request that they will furnish to the super
intendent of the census the name, age, color, sex,
and condition, (free or slave,) and birth place of
each member of the family, with their place of res
idence on the 1st day of June last
Lawyers in the United States. Livingston's
Law Magazine, states that there are twenty one
thousand iiine hundred and seventy nine lawyers ' a Mrs. Doran, who had been during the day coin
in the country, or about one to every eleven hun-! plaining of a severe toothache, undertook to cure
dred Inhabitants, male and female, old and young, j
black and white, Jew and Gentile, hond and free.
Death Wahraxt Signed. The warrant for
the execution of George PJiaroah, convicted in
Chester county, for the murder of Tuichel Sharp-
less, has been issued by Governor Johnston. It
fixes Friday, the 29th of August, as the day for his
execution.
"OrLcttcrs from Europe received by the last
steamer, state that over 100,000 persons are pre
paring to embark for this country during the
months of May and June.
Nn Ummr nn Rnndnu'Vho Tlistrirt Atfnmnv '
of Schuylkill county, in accordance with instruc- !
tons from the Court, has ordered the proprietors i
of the different Hotels and licensed-Drinking Es- j
I
tablishments, to close their bars on Sunday, under
penalty of prosecution.
'Euie railroad. The Directors of the Erie
Railroad Company state, in a report which they
have just issued, that the road tvill be completed
to Dunkirk on Lake Erie, probably on the 1st,
and certainly on the I4th of May next The en
tire cost of the road is set down at the amount of
20,500,000.
A Strong Union Itfau.
,A. correspondent of the Florence (Ala.) Gazette
is rather strong in his .expressions of disapproba
tion of .those who are in favor of the dissolution of
the 'Union. He say si
A man of that character could .not get a meal's
victuals or a bed to sleep on at my house. My
dqgishould not bark at him. If I was to catch a
buzzard eating the carcass of a disunionist, I would
shobt it. They are the last of all creation ; fit for
nothing but to be winked at by negroes, kicked at
by 'mules, gored by bulls and butted by rams.
, New Counterfeit. A new counterfeit $5 note,
iRelicf issue, on the Bank of Middlctown, lias made
its appearance in Philadelphia. It is well execu---ftedjand
calculated to deceive the u.n;ary ; but on
,aQlose inspection appears durl(or han the genuine,
andiuHfettnct. ,.;
Collodion of SlaCo Taxofi.
The Board of Revenue Commissioners have re
commended to the Legislature the passage of a law
containing the following provisions :
1. Making it the duty of the County Treasur
er to collect the State Taxes and pay the same to
the Treasurer of the Commonwealth.
2. Requiring the Treasurer of each County to
attend at the place of holding elections in the sev
eral townships, wards and boroughs of the Com
monwealth, on or before a day to be fixed by law,
for the purpose of receiving the State taxes from
which a certain per centage, as determined by the
Legislature, shall be retained by the County Treas
urer, as his compensation for services, rendered the
Commonweal tli.
3. Taxes unpaid after the day designated by the
! Treasurer, shall be paid to the County Treasurer,
at his office, before the 1st day ot Uctober ot every
year; after which time the Treasuror shall issue
his warrant to the Sheriff, authorizing and requir
ing him to collect the unpaid balances, with the
addition of five per cent, for his compensation.
4. Making it the duty of the County Commis
sioners to allow such abatements and exonerations
as they may think just and reasonable to tjie Sher
iff, up to the 1st of January annually, after which
time the Treasurer to charge the Sheriff, with the
unpaid balance.
Mount Vernon. It is said that
Mr. Washing
ton, proprietor of the Mount Vernon estate, was
I asked by the President, a few days since, the price
at vdiich the United States Government could pur
chase Mount Vernon for a Military Asylum ; and
that the reply was, that for two hundred acres a
round the' mansion, he would ask two hundred
thousand dollars ! Mr. W. remarked that the of
fer of two hundred thousand dollars had beeu made
to him by private individuals, and that of course,
he would expect the government to pay the same.
The place will, at this price, remain in private
hands instead of being the property, as it should
be, of the American people.
Or The legislature of New Jersey have abol
ished the property qualification law.
Qr The Indian population of North Carolina
is 710, and all of them are engaged in agriculture.
Carpenters' Strike. The journeymen carpen
ters of Washington city have J struck" for higher
wages. Heretofore they have received from one i
dollar and twenty-five cents to one dollar and seventy-live
cents per day. They now demand two
dollars.
Sale of Jenny L'nuVs Furniture. The furni
ture supplied to Jenny Lind, in New Orleans, was
sold there on the I8th ult. The amount of the en
tire sale, for the twelve rooms, large and small,
more or less furnished, was 3060 50. The fur
niture in Jenny Lind's parlor sold for 1150 25 ;
that in her dining room for 380 75; that in her
sleeping apartment for 375 20, the lowest article
bringing 12.
A man in Roxbury, Mass. had agreed to fight
with another. The night previous to the day on
which the combat was to take place, his wife went
to an apothecary's shop and inquired the quantity ;
of laudanum necessary to put her husband into a.
sleep from which he would not awake until after .
the time fixed for the fifjht to come off. She was
told the quantity, but, to make the thing sure, her !
kindness prompted her to add to the dose mention- . ger has been laid in Spain between the Duke of
ed, and she administered so much that it proved Osuna and the celebrated banker, Salmanea. It is
fatal. She told the whole story her objects her . horse against railroad. The duke bets that his hor
regrets and the coroner and the authorities have ; Ses shall beat the locomotive on the Madrid and
wisely determined that the woman was not subject Arnjuez Rail Road, which is 27 miles long. Sev-
to criminal proceedings. Very lenient for the law ;
administrators of the 'Old Bay Slate.'
Remarkable Death.-Oii Wednesday evening
ifc by a in0(lo which had been recommended to her '
as Highly crncacious, ana winch, m several mstan-
ces had been successfully put in practice. The j
prescription was, to mrucc a compound ot sulphur,
beeswax and onion seed, and burned in a dish,
Uyhile the face of the afilicted person was to be
held over it until the pain in the tooth was
gone.
Mrs. Doran tried the remedy, but unfortunately
inhaling the gas from the burning compound, fell
over and expired in an instant. N' O. Delta.
The Tea Plant.
Dr. Junius Smith, who is so sedulously endeav
oring to introduce the tea plant into this country,
BB' iu a ""iuiiu,auuii uiu pruwi, mat
"ra0 f hlS plants WereI?st durin the last winter'
"10Ugh f" f SeVCral illchcs in de1 uPon
the,m; are wdl -rown' and finclr Vded,
l.r lliml-fl ... 1.1 '1. 1 fill
""u num ubuwiibiica. xne ex-
Pense fjhe cu ture he believes be Iess in th
uimi'u ouiiua man in uid jjusl.
They have no railroads in China, and the cost
of the transportation of its tea over bad roads, some
of it on the backs of men, 800 or 1,000 miles on an
average, is equal to about one-eight of its value at
the place of production. The Chinese and Hindoo
live cheaply, and work for small wages. They
perform much less lahor in a day than a negro well
fed on the most substantial food, corn-bread and
bacon. Taking thereforethe greater value of a
day's work in America, the diminution in freight,
and the cheapness and despatch of transportation
over our railroads, the conclusion of the Doctor is,
that'tea is to become a staple product of the Uni
ted States.
New Motive Power. An engine has been
completed at the American Machine Works, in
Springfield, (Mass.) in which air takes the place of
steam as the expansive force. It is to be sent to
the World's Fair. It is said to- work well, and
shows that air can produce the same effect as
steam, with one-twentieth part of the fuel, and less
danger of explosion. A patent has been secured.
If all this be true, the inventor must have found
some new way of making available a force which
has often been tried before, with no success to be
compared w.ithsteam pawpr.
:The -books of subscription for the capital stock
of this Company were opened in Newton, on Fri
day of last week, and about 2150 shares taken or
a little over one fifth of the whole amount. The
value of the stock taken here was aoout$108,000
of which Oliver Ames & Sons subscribed $25,
000: David Ryerson, 10,000; Joseph E. Edsall,
10,000; 'John I. Blair 10,000; Ebon Abers, $2,
500 ; and the residue was taken in sums of from
82,000 down to 250. About one hundred indi
viduals, according to their means, becamesubscri
bcrs, consisting of farmers, manufacturers, profess
ional men, mechanics and traders. All classes and
interests among us, have identified themselves with
this important improvement: and thus the " ball is
set in motion" under worthy and favorable auspi
ces. The books on Monday were opened at Blairs
town ; on Tuesday at Columbia ; on Wednesday at
Lafayette, and on Thursday at Hamburgh. We
have not heard the aggregate amount subscribed
at the above places ; but feel confident that by this
time (Friday) 100,000 have been added to the sum
taken at Newton. We think the books will go
out of Suscx and Warren, with at least half of the
whole capital of 500,000 subscribed; and if that
amount shall not be deemed our full share, it will,
we hope, be handsomely increased when the books
shall be returned to this State and opened for fur
ther subscriptions. ,
Upon the whole, the enterprise appears to be em
braced in full earnest, by our citizens; and our
rmifirlnnnn is nmv nrnater than ever, the hills of
Sussex and Warren, in lesss than two years, will
be made vocal by the whistle of the Locomotive.
Since writing the above, we learn that the Com
missioners will hold an adjourned meeting at the
Cochran House in this place, on Tuesday, the I5th
inst, when the Books will again be opened for sub
scriptions to the stock.
The probability is that a Committee of the Board
will offer the Books at other villages in the Coun
ty, of which due notice will be given.
To make the construction of this Railroad a per
fectly sure thing, it is essential that our farmers,
according to their means, should take Twenty,
Ten, or Five shares of stock each. The notion
that the work will bo readily accomplished, with
out those Iwho arc most interested putting their
own shoulders to the wheel, is a most pernicious
one, and should not be entertained by any man who
is able to pay for a single share of stock. Sussex
Register.
The die for the new three cent piece, ordered to
be coined by the last Congress, the Phila. Ledger
states, has been finished, and the coinage would be
' proceeded with at once at the mint, but for a defect
, in the law, which makes no provision for procuring
the silver and copper to commence with. In con
sequence, the coinage will be delayed until the
' proper steps are taken by the authoities at Wash
! ington to remedy the deficiency. The new coin
in size is between the gold dollar and the five cent
I piece, but it is so much thinner than either that a
! blind man can easily distinguish them apart by the
' touch. The face of the coin has a capital C, with
three numerals indicating the value of the coin
. embraced within it. Around the edge areI3 stars
for the original states. On the reverse is a star
having m its centre an American smciu, ana a
round the edge, "United States of America,. '51."
IIORSE-FLESII AGAINST StEAM.
A singular wa-
oral horses are employed, and are to be stationed
thus : A jockey and horse are to be stationed at
Toledo gate of Madrid to ride the first league and
deliver a paper to the second who is to be in readi
ness with another horse to ride another league, and
so on. It is said that the duke calculates that each
icafrUe may be done in seven minutes makino- forty
ninc minutes for the whole distance his horses will
iavc to run. The high road on which the horses
nm ;s seVen leagues in length
The wager is for
a million reals. 125,000.
The War isi Southern Africa.
The British Cape colony, originally settled by
the Dutch, but captured from them by the English,
has an area of about 120,000 square miles, to a
population of about 150,000. The population of
Cape Town, the capital of Southern Africa, is up
wards of 20,000. Graham's Town, near the
eastern extremity of the colony, is the only,
remaining one of any importance. Here arc
stationed the Government troops, on the borders of
Caffraria, for the protection of the frontier. From
this point, to the northeast, extends the Kaffir ter
ritory, following the line of the sea-coast. The
Kaffirs are described by Hugh Murray, in his
Encyclopedia of Geography, as extremely hand
some in their external
ri. , ...vwj
pastoral in their habits. The men, especially, are ;
tall and muscular, and the females, though less '
beautiful, possess features almost European, and vi
vacious and intelligent eyes. Their skin is of a
deep glossy brown color. The men are employed
in raising cattle, and milk is the chief subsistence
fcf all classes. A cow is never killed except on
high occasions. Their king is said to have a force
of 15,000 men constantly equipped for war, and, on
urgent occasions, can arm 100,000 men, who, it is
presumed, comprise the entire adult male popula
tion. It is with these people, aided by the Hotten
tots, that the British colonists are now contending,
and with whom they have had some hard fighting,
with nufavorable results.
. A Mr. Callender, of York, Pa., died suddonlyin
the. cars last week, on his way home from Harris
burg, where he had just effected an assurance upon
his life, of $5,000. The Insurance Company in
sisted upon a post mortem examination, and had
the contents of his stomach forwarded to Philadel
phia, for analysis. The result was, that a large
quantity of arsnic was discovered among them.
rMr. C. rather overleaped the mark, in thus at
tempting to defraud. an .Insurance Company.
Kmkkox and War ran Bail Eoad.
Pennsylvania ILegfelatKfe
March 31. In the Senate, the bill incorporating
the Farmers' and Mechanics' bank of Easton, pas
sed a second reading. The correspondence be
tween Gov. Johnson and Daniel Webster relative
totheHuiscmann. letter, was transmitted to the
Senate.
In the House, the appropriation bill was under
discussion, 20,000 was appropriated to the Dela
ware Division.
April I. No business of general interest was
before the Senate. Messrs. Brooke, Packer and
McMurtrie, were appointed a committee of recep
to the Hon. Daniel Webster.
The supplement to the various acts relating to
tavern licenses came up in order, was amended,
and passed a final reading, by the following vote:
Yeas Messrs. Brooke, Carothers, Carson, Cun
ingham, Fernon, Forsyth, Guernsey, Huge, Law
rence, Malone, Myers, Robertson, Sanderson, Sa
very, and Matthias, Speaker 15. -
NaySMcssrs. Baily, Buckalew, Crabb, Fraily,
Ives, Jones, Konigmacher, M'Caslin, M'Murtrie,
Muhlenberg, Packer and Walker 12.
In the House, various private bills passed first
reading. Among them one to incorporate the By
berry and Andalusia Turnpike Road Company. A
resolution was adopted to receive Hon. Daniel
Webster in the hall, in the evening at 7- o'clock,
as the guest of the State. Messrs. Runkel, Pack
er, A. E. Brown, Armstrong, Henry, Brindle, and
Monroe, were appointed the reception committee.
April 2. In the Senate, the bill providing for
the election of Judges passed in the Committee of
the Whole.
In the House, private bills were the order of the
day. The bill amending the charter of the Fire
Insurance Company of parts of Philadelphia, Mont
gomery, and Bucks counties, passed finally.
April 3. In the Senate, the bill re-annexing
Montour to Columbia county, was lost Yeas 14,
nays IG.
Various private bills were .passed finally.
In the House, the bill to rccharter the Easton
Bank was taken up and discussed without coming
to a vote.
April 4. In the Senate, the bill relating to the
election of Judges passed second reading.
In the House, the appropriation bill was discus
sed. A section appropriating 250,000 to the
North Branch Canal was adopted.
April 5. In the Senate, the bill relating to the
election of Judges was passed. The bill revising
the militia system was ordered to be engrossed.
In the House, the General appropriation bill was
discussed till adjournment.
April 7. In the Senate, the bill granting pen
sions and annuties to soldiers and widows of sold
iers, of the Revolutionary and Indian wars, was ta
ken up and passed.
Mr. Brooke submitted a resolution, providing for
a night session every night through the week,
which was adopted.
Mr. Myers moved that the orders of the day be
suspended, for the purpose of proceeding to the con
sideration of the bill authorizing the Banks of the
Commonwealth to issue notes of the denomination
of one, two and three dollars, which was not a
greed to.
The bill revising the Militia system of this Com
monwealth, came up in order and was passed
yeas 16, nays 13.
The bill to incorporate the Allentown Savings
Institution, passed final reading. Yeas 12, navs
10.
The bill to increase the Capital Stork of the
Southward Bank from two hundred and fifty thou
sand to four hundred thousand dollars was passed,
Yeas 17, nays 14.
The bill supplementary to the act providing for
the reduction of the public debt, was taken up,
discussed, and postponed indefinitely. Yeas 17,
nays, 13.
In the House, Mr. A. E. Brown rose to a per
sonal explanation, denying the statement in the
Pennsylvaman, that he was secretly opposing,
and openly favoring the passage of the bill for the
recharter of the Easton Bank.
Eie iveclt atea- frosss Europe..
ARRIVAL OF STEAMER BALTIC
IStew York, April 3. Tne steamer Baltic, Capt.
Comstock, with Liverpool dates to the 22d ult., ar
rived here about nine o'clock. She brings 50 pas
sengers.
The political intelligence, general, possesses
but little interest. The English Ministry was still
in an uncertain state.
From the Continent there is nothing of impor
tance. At Liverpool, Cotton had advanced -Ad, with sales
of the week of 42,3000 bales.
Breadstuff's were firm, and in better demand.
Provisions were advancing.
The Manchester market was steady.
The Havre Cotton market was firm.
The ship Ivanhoe, reported ashore off' Montauk
Point, was seen ashore on the round shoal of Nan
tucket, on the 24th February, with all her sails
set, by the Joseph Walker, at Liverpool. There
is no doubt but that she has gone down with all on
board.
The debate on the Papal Agression bill was
resumed on Thursday evening. In the early part
of the debate a scene took place, which at one
umu uiu luir to urmg uie uiscussion to an abruut
luriiinuuiuu.
Mr. Grummond, a member from Surrey, rose to
address the House at about 9 o'clock, and spoke
his mind pretty freely, whereupon the ultra mon
taine members commenced a regular and organized
system of interuption.
Mr. Grummond, naturally irritated, gave utter-
i : j.:
, ancc to certain expression, regarding nunneries and
muuum uniaviuo, uu wniun uiu uitrarmontists arose
and shouted and shrieked, some running towards
t,ie memDGr Ir(jm burrey, and threatening him with
personal violence. A more outrageous scene of
tumult was never witnesed within the walls of any
public Assembly. It was finally, however, quelled
and the debate proceeded with.
The great speeches of the night were those of
Sir James Graham and Lord John Russell. The
latter gentleman distinctly avowed his continued
adhesion to the Durham letter, and declared that
further aggressions should be met by further meas
ures. Sir James Graham opposed the bill, and consid
ered the present measure uncalled for more espe
cially as it was a penal enactment, and a reversal
of our former policy.
Incombustible Hemp Rope. The, St. Louis
Republican contains a very interesting notice of
the trial of incombustible hempen rope, recently
made in that city. A piece of prepared rope and a
piece of wire rope were put into a blacksmith's fire.
The heat was intense enough to weld the strands
of the wire rope together, whilst the hempen ropo
was only slightly charred on the outside. Anoth
er test was made : a piece of rope and a small bar
of iron brought to a white heat; yet the cordage
was but little, if any more effected by the fire than
in the previous- experiment.
Rhode Island Election'. The election in this
State on Wednesday last, resulted in the defeat of
the Whigs, in consequence of a local fued in the
ranks growing out of .the recent election of a U. S.
Senator. Philip Allen was chosen Governor by
600 majority, and Wm. B. Lawrence, Lieut Gov
ernor by 250 majority both Locofoccs.
George G. King (Whig) is elected to Congress
in the Eastern District, and Benjamin B Thruston
(Opposition) in the Western District.
In the Senate, 13 Whigs and 14 Opposition are
elected, and no choice in four towns.
In the House, 25 Whigs and 31 Opposition are
elected. In six towns there is no choice.
Fowl Industry. By an essay on the latest .dis
coveries and improvements in the breeding and
general management of domestic fowls, we find
that these little philo-progenitives turn their love
of a family to some account: By the ceusus of '40,
it appears that the value of this branch of produc
tive industry amounted to nearly $'12,000,000.
The value of poultry in the single state of New
York was 2,373, 029; and it is estimated that the
total value of poultry in the United States, at this
time, is not far from $20,000,000.
Reccipcfor Burns. Take lime water as strong
as it can be made, and add to it as much alum as
it will dissolve, after which add one ounce of sweet
oil, which will turn it to a jelly, like opodeldoc, if
the lime is strong enough. This should be kept
by every family in a tight bottle in some place
where it can not freeze, and should be immediate
ly applied.
A Mr. William Hoyt, of Indiana, says he has
invented apian by wliich music of the softest and
most pathetic character may be produced on steam
boats by the agency of steam. It appears that the
steam is made to operate upon a number of pipes,
placed across the boilers of the boat, furnished with
certain whistles that are governed by a set of keys
by which the steam is let on or shut off' at will.
The Potato Rot. It has been stated that Mr.
John T. Snyder, of Franklin, Bergen County, in
this State, professes to have discovered an effectu
al remedy for the potato disease, and that he has
applied for the premium of $10,000, offered by the
State of Massachusetts for the discovery of a rem
edy. His plan is to scatter a handful of ashes a
round each vine upon the first appearance of the
disease.
Seamless Bags. A Mr. Adams in Manchester,
N. H., has invented a machine for weaving ba"-s
without seams." The machinery is said to be verv
simple, and can be adapted to every description of
bags, from a bed tick to a shot ba.
Potatoes. Several arrivals from France, at
different American ports, have brought large quan
tities of French potatoes, reported to be of an excel
lent quality; and even some cargoes from the
same fertile couutry have, we observe, reached Ire
land. To think of Ireland and the United States
importing potatoes and from France, too ! What
a lesson to our American agriculturalists.
A Tiew Epidemic.
A friend of ours went home to dinner from his
place of business, the other day, in his usual state
of health. His appetite was good, his pulse even,
and his digestive powers unimpaired. Scarcely
had he taken the first mouthful of soup, however,
before he discovered that it possessed an unusual
saccharine flavor. He set his plate aside and tried
the fish; it was decidedly a sweet shad. He had no
better luck with his roast beef and vegetables. Ev
erything he tasted became sweet, and he at lait
gave up in some alarm, and started to consult his
family physician in relation to these extraordinary
symptoms. The medical man looked at his tougue,
felt his pulse and tried the other usual tests, with
out reaching the cause of his disorder. He looked
puzzled ; but at last a happy thought struck hinr
"My friend," said he, "there is a superabundance
of saccharine particles in your blood. The symp
toms is very unusual and alarming. It is a case of
hedurepsis." Hereupon, with a grave face, he
wrote an imposing prescription and delivered it to
our friend who posted off to commence his course
of cure. Next day, fortunately, there was no re
turn of the symptoms ; because in the meantime
the powdered sugar had been poured out of the
salt cellar. N. Y. Tribune.
A Woman's Vengeance. About I o'clock P. M.
yesterday, a woman came to the brass lamp manu
factory of Mr. William Carlton, on Beach St., and
inquired what time a young female employed in
the shop of Mr. Carlton in polishing brass work
would return from dinner.Soon after the girl in
quired for made her appearance. The strange wo
man immediately confronted her and threw the con
tents of a bottle of sulphuric acid (oil of vitriol) in
her face, destroying her eye-sight, and pealing the
skm and flesh completely of her face. The agony
endured by the girl was painful to witness. eShe
was immediately conveyed to her home in Hudson
st, and medical aid called in. The object of the
fiendish woman is said to have been the gratifica
tion of her revenge and jealousy. The girl has
not been able to speak since the affair.
Boston Mail, 1st. "
New Counterfeit on the York Bank.
A cowerfeii $10 note on the York Bank, was
presented at the counter of the York Bank, on
Monday last. The counterfeit was of ihe last
plate; daied Feb. 1, 1847, Letter A., No. 1426,
payable to J. Hahn. The medallion hoads on
the ends are coano!y done; the whole appear
ance of the note h bad blurred and black; the
paper is darker than that o(hv gemti&e bills ;
and the signatures are poor imitations. This
is tho firsi counterfeit $10 dollar bill of the
York Bank evor heard of. York Republican.
They are doing some good things . in
Philadelphia. Lounging of boys (whethel great
or small) on corners of the streets, is broken
up. It has also been decided in a recent case
before Judge Parsons, that a person has no
right to occupy the street before any person's
house or place of business, without his consent.
Thecal a cabroaa hod planted
himsolf and cab before a hotel ; he was order
ed away by the landlord, and taken away ba
police officer; he complained of tho treatment,
but in Tain. "