3effcrsomau ttqmblictm.
'rimrclny, June 19, 1851.
XV il iG STATB3 COWVE.HTIOiir.
TO TJfE 1VHIGS OF PENNSYL
VANIA. A State Convention will be held
in the City of Lancaster, on Tuesda)T, June
24th, 1951, for the purpose of selecting Can
didates for the offices of Governor, end Ca
nal Commissioner, and also forjudges of the
Supreme Court
IfENRY M. FULLER, Chairman
R, Rundle Smith, Secretary
Feb. 20, 1851.
S-Thc" attention of the reader is di
rected to an advertismentiu another col
umn, headed " Saw Mill and Timber
Land for Sale."
Godey's Lad)s Book for July, is
before us. This is a Lady's number, the
eonfcerit3 being exclusively written by A
jnerican Ladies a happy idea. It is, in
our opinion, decidedly superior, and well
worthy of them. It is beautiful ! The
wisdom and talent of the women of our
country, as exhibited in this number, is
of itself well nigh worth the price of a
years subscription. And then the en
gravings, complete in design and execu
tion aptly illustrating the various sub
jects so wisely ehosen and ably treated
by the fair writers. We advise our read
ers to send for Godey's Ladys Book it
should be in every family circle.
JTcxclici-iI Convention.
The Democratic State Convention, to nom
inate candidates For Judges of the Supreme
Court, met at Harrisburg on the 11th inst,
and nominated the following named persons
as their candidates, viz :
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black, of Somerset
" James Campbell, " Philadelphia.
" Walter Lowrie, " Pittsburg,
" Ellis Lewis, " Lancaster.
" John B. Gibbons, " Carlisle.
The nomination of these men is conceded
to be a Buchanan triumph. It is just the kind of
:t ticket that is easily to be beaten, and that
will be defeated If the Whigs act wisely and
make the right kind of nominations.
Slate Conventioai.
The Whig State Convention, to nomin
ate candidates for Governor, Canal Com
missioner, and Judges of the Supreme
Court, meets at Lancaster on Tuesday
next, the 24th inst. Gov. Johxstox,
having already received the approval of
various County Conventions, and having
carried with him in his course the appro
bation of the great majority of Whigs,
will no doubt be nominated as the Whig
candidate for re-election. The question
between the parties is distinctly made up,
and there never was a better chance to
gain a glorious victory upon a well fought
ileld..
Short Irc.se.
It is rumored (we cannot vouch for it),
that some of the ladies of Erie contem
plate the adoption of " short dresses."
Well, if the ladies will, they will, .you
may depend upon it. and so we have
very little to say. Should they see fit to
attach icings to their person?, and follow
the suit of the son of Dedalus, who flew
too High and lost his pinions and fell in
to the Icarian Sea, why the duty of the
lords of creation would be, to get out a
boat with all possible expedition and pick
the dear creatures up.
It is aiiogetherpossiblethateven the 'slip
pered pantaloon" to say nothing further
about "short dresses" wiGy become the
ruling fashion in this city, and we advise
all Benedicts, " to see to it' as Cicero
fcaid, that their authority receive no det
riment, nor pass away with the unmen
tionables, so long embiatic of matrimoni
al monarchy. If all the anticipated chang
es should come to pass, it is to be hoped
that one "skirt," at least, will be preserv
ed as a suggestive souvenir of the times
that were. Erie (Pa.) Gaz.
We understand that some ladies
of our town intend introducing the Turk
ish costume Short SHrts and petlUoons
on the Fourth of July. Hurrah for
Independence.
Those ladies arc cautioned against
wearing stockings with large holes in the
Jieel.
Jenny Lind and Barsum. Jenny
Lind has dissolved her connection with
the great showman, and it is said that
she will giye concert at her leisure in
-various parts of this eountry, and at uni
form prices. r
General Scott.
In answer to many inquiries as to the age
of Gen. Scott, and the date " of services,, the
Cincinnati' Chronicle makes the following
statement: . .
Winfield Scott was born on the, 13th of
June, 1786, and will, therefore, be 65 in June
next
Admitted to the bar in 1806, and practis
ed a few months in the Petersburg (Va) Cir
cuit Appointed Captain of Light Artillery in
May, 1808
Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Sec-
! ond Artillery in July, 1812. ,
Fought the battle of Queenstown and was
taken prisoner 13th of Oct., 1812.
Appointed Brigadier General in March,
1814.
Fought the battle of Chippewa, July 5th,
1814.
Commanded the main body of Brown's ar
my in the battle of Niagara, (Lundy's Lane,)
! July 25th, 1814.
Brevetted Major General, July, 1814.
Maintains peace in the Patriot troubles, in
the afrair of the Caroline, 1837.
Aids in the pacification of the Maine Boun
dary in 1839.
Captures Vera Cruz, 23d of March, 1847.
Wins the battle of Cerro Gordo, April ISth,
1847.
Wins the battle of Contreras, 19th of Au
gust, 1847.
Wins the battle of Cherubusco, August 20,
1847.
Stormed Chapultepeck, on the 13th of Sep
tember, 1S47.
Entered the City of Mexico in the morn
ing of the 14th of September, 1847.
Thus has Windfield Scott been forly-two
years in the service of his country, having
made some of the most brilliant campaigns
on record, and never failed in any undertak-
Finc for Paius SmalIHfote.
A man named Peiffer was tried before the
Mayor of Allegheny a few days since, and con-
victed. on the testimony of another named
Hartmeyer, of passing small notes, contrary lished ; but, from the returns from some local-
Tlie Depopulation of Ireland, j Dr. D. H. B. Brower, of Bntler county is
The Dublin Evening Post states that ofii- j urged as a candidate for Canal Commissioner,
cial returns of the Commissioners, relative to . by a correspondent of the IJarrisburg Tele-
the population of Ireland, have not been pub- graph- He made an able, honest.and fearless
representative in our last Legislature, is a
Ltsca Natto Whoever can account
for the following phenomcnoH must have par
taken of some Tree of Knowledge,' that it
has not been our good fortune to meet with
A very curious pear three is to be seen in the
that itiesitisapprehended'thatthe entire census highly popular man and, would make a first garden of-a Mr. Green, Gowanus, within
to our law. The circumstances were,
Hartmeyer asked' Peiffer to give him change ; will exhibit a, decrease in the population of
for a ten dollar irold piece, but the latter said , nearly tioo millions since 1841. The Post
u f ,i uMtTimtf o-iirlnrr ln"m 1 ffivcs instances of the decrease. In the small
small notes. Hartmeyer said that would do,
rtnrmlnrirtn a T
and took them, but afterwards brought suit
Mayor Flemming fined the defendant one
hundred dollars.
03Bills were found by the Grand Jury of
Carbon county, at its last session, against C.
M'Geddy, John Kirchnen and Joseph B. Wel
ler, for passing small bills.
The editor of the Fishkill Standard tells a
good story about a friend of his who was in
New York when Fillmore and the procession
was passing up Broadway. About opposite
the Park, a number of gents were in the
forth story-window shouting hurras for the
036 ; now 4,780 ; Limerick in 1841, 48,393 ;
now in round numbers 44,000 ; in one of the
Baronies of Queen's county, Shenemarague,
the popoulation has diminished from 17,014 to
11,500; in Carlinford, county of Louth, the de
crease has been from 1,110 to 887. The pa
rish, of Annadown, Galway, in 1841 had a
population of 7,108; in 1851 it is reduced to
I 3,663, or very nearly one-half. The Leeds
Intelligencer, in remarking upon this state
ment, says :
" The rotten edifice of Irish agriculture
fell into ruins in 1846, with the failurenof the
potato crop. The first fearful consequences
of this to the peasantry were famine and
President, when a tall fellow in the crowd
whom he took to be a Vermonter, looked up j deaths in frightful numbers, and each succeed-
at the window, and asked in a voice that , inS year has seen those more or less actively
could be distinctly heard by the whole crowd, ' at work in Winning the population. Up to
Mister, what office will you hev 1" thia da-v the rate of daily waSe& (where such
j can be bad) in the West of Ireland is too
The Cash System. j small to afford adequate sustenance, even of
The evils of the credit system, in minor the humblest kind, to multitudes of families
business transactions, are the experience of whose heads contend with one another for
almost every one. The remarks below, ' employment. Half feeding is proverbially
from the " American Mechanic," apply as prolific of disease, and death still makes ma-
well to most kinds of business as to publish- ny, though almost unnoticed, ravages among
the Irish peasantry."
nig
mg.
Extraordinary Escape.
We find in the last Abingdon Virginian the
following account of one of the most remark
able escapes on record. It was almost mi
raculous :
"The children of Mr. George Hickan, a ;
called upon for the amount due, they would
citizen of Scott county, were playing togeth
er in a field, near the mouth of a fathomless , probably be prepared to meet the demand
sink-hole. In their gambols one of them a j "But the publisher of almost every country
boy about eight or ten years pushed his lit- newSpaper knows it would be out of the
tie brother, about four years old head long o- question for him to employ a collector out of
ver the hedge and down into the deep dark
"With publishers of newspapers, in com
mon with business men iwmorallv. the cash 1 TIie " Battery" of the city of New York is
system is preferable to any other; to publish- j to be enlarged to twenty-four acres, being
ers, who rely or nearly so, upon their sub-' more than twice its Present area which is
scription list for support in the prosecution of j ten acres three r00(ls and thirty-two poles,
their business, it is indispensable. Such a j and increasing its river front from sixteen
thing as newspaper credit should have no ex- 1 hundred and twenty to two thousand-one hun
istance anywhere. Nothing is gained by it, ! drcd and twent' feet- To enbct this enlarge
either by the proprietor or subscriber, but the j ment' the dePth of water covering land to be
former must necessarily be the looser ! filIed UP varies at hiSh tide frora eloven to
There are thousands of upright, well-mean-! forty-eight feet, and yet this work has been
ing men, who subscribe for newspapers and" ( contracted for at 27,152 the contractor ex
who intended to nav for them, but the idea of' pecting to receive, for the privilege of depos-
writing a letter to the editor, enclosing two
dollars, nerer entered their heads though if
iting dirt and rubbish, a compensation suffi
cient to reimburse the cost of building the ex
tensive bulkhead and wall which are to pro
tect the works from, the action of the sea.
pit below. It was some time after the
child was missed, before any certain informa
tion could be drawn from , the others as
to what had become of him ; and it was only
by threats of severe punishment, that finally
overcame their fear and extorted from the
boy who did the deed, a confession of what
had happened. An effort was made immedi
ately to ascertain the situation of the little
fellow, and afford him relief if he was not be
yond its power. Ropes were tied together
with a stone attached to one end and an at-
tempt was made to fathom the depth beneath
Strawberries are so plenty in New York
that they have been selling for several days
the profits of his subscriptions : so manv of ' for three cents Per basket- The receiPts
his patrons continue vear after year taking on Wednesday by the Frie Railroad were 69,
, . , " , .. , . oOO baskets, and it was estimated by some
the paper without advancing a cent, while he dealers in th market that the ntir e receints
. v 1
' by the various conveyances could not have
! been far short of half a million of baskets.
is paying cash for his printing material, cash
for his paper and labor, and everything ne
cessary to carry on business. Here then is a
loss not attributable to any design on the
part of the subscriber to defraud, but the le
gitimate fruit of a worse than worthless sys
tem. They would pay. if waited 'upon ; but
the printer cannot afford to spend five dollars
for collecting three, and never gets his pay.
" Again Mr. A. has the paper sent to his
address four or five vears; his bill bv this
but more thdn sixty feet of rope were employ- t;me am0unts to ten dollars ; he dies, or runs
away, or perhaps becomes bankrupt ; here is
another "profit and loss' account for the prin-
ed in vain; no bottom could be reached. A
lighted candle was then let down, but its light
gave no hopeful indication, except that the , t,or
pit was free from choke damp or impure air, j jr b. also, who lives some five hundred
as far down as the candle descended. Night : ranes distant, has had the paper mailed to
came on and all further efforts had to be for
that time abandoned. On the next day fur- j
ther trials were made of the depth of the pit
with no better success. In despair the fran-
hira three years without making payment,
when suddenly the editor is addressed thus :
" Sir Your paper addressed to Mr. B. is not
taken out of the office. Reason gone to
tic parents were about to give up all hopes of ; California."
recovery or
relieving
their little innocent,
Horrible.
A man in Greenfield, Hancock Co., Indi
ana, recently shot his own daughter, killing
her almost instantly. lie was arrested, tried
1 and found guilty, and sentenced to imprison-
mont for life. It appears that the man, Ken
edy, had abused his wife so outrageously that
she had appealed to the law for redress ; and
the daughter, a married woman, was one of
the principal witnesses against him. After
the trial he was heard to say he would kill
her, and even the afternoon before the trae
dv, he was at the house of his son-in-law and
swore he would have blood. In the even in"
I as they were sitting in the room, all at once
j the daughter who was looking towards the
! window, started and throwing up her arms
' moved towards the bed, when the sharp crack
j of a gun was heard, and she fell shot through
the temples. Her husband ran to the door
She
AbIiIa frnm nncoa nf tliic Irin. f!ifrp nrn
and preparations were beincr made to close : ; wr mmmnnUv nmWs nf vpnr lihprnl . ana awcoverea ivenneuy maKing on.
up the mouth of the pit, to prevent a like oc- j Ininded inen who are particularly anxious j lived lonS enouSh to state' before she exPed
currence in the future, when it was sujnrest- , rnr lhp Rnrr.PSR nf o.voTvthm nf litorarv I that jt was her father she saw trough the
for the success of everything of a literary
ed and agreed upon, thatanotherandafinalcf- . character, and who, by way of encourageing
fort should be made by letting some individ- ; tjje enterprisg, are always ready to enter their
names on the subscription book, but never
think of paying.
JBaei
al VicItfcfoMr;?.
Vinlrs'hiiro'. June 12.
A duelvcamc off here this morning be
tween Gen. Freeman, tlic Whig candi
date for Congress, and Gen. Smith, of.
Jackso n, his Democratic competitor. G en
eral Smiti was seriously wouuded in he
hhoulder, on the fifth round. The cause
of theduel syas a letter written by Gen: J
ral fernith to some ot the papers, , and
which was published, denouncing Gen
eral Frcyn.anad :a ftpwanl and libeller.
Xh? affair Jiacaute2tatxc5tcmpnt.'
ual down by ropes to examine the nature of
the abyss and ascertain if there was any en
couragement for farther efforts to be found
below. A brother of the lost child undertook
the fearful task.
Cords were fastened around his waist and
limbs, and one to his wrist, by which he
might indicate to those above his wishes ei
ther to descend or to be drawn up. He was
swung off and slowly lowered, until having
gone to the depth of about fifty feet, he look
ed below him, and there shone through the
thick darkness two glistening eyes intently
looking upward. In another moment he was
standing on a shelf or angle in the shaft with
the child clasped to his bosom. He fastened
the little fellow securely to his own body,
and bidding him take the rope firmly in his
hands, the signal was given to draw up.
The child hung convulsively to the rope, and
in a few minutes, they rose within view of
the hundred. anxious spectators, who had as
sembled to witness the result, and when the
first glimpse of the little fellow alive caught
their eager gaze, screams and ehouts of joy
from the excited multitude filled the air, and
big tears of sympathy started from the eyes
of every beholder. After the first paroxysms
of delight had subsided, the child was exam
ined to see if it had sustained any injury, and
extraordinary to tell, with the exception of a
little bruise on the back of its head, it was
perfectly sound and unhurt. The only com
plaint it made was that it was hungry, being
nearly 27 hours under the ground. To in
quiries made of it, it replied that it saw a
light, and heard it thunder. From the na
ture of the pit, it appeared that the little fel
low had fallen perpendicular, distance of '40
feet, upon a slope or .bend in the shaft, and
from that place had slided down'jO' feet far
mer, to the spot where, he was found,Ieaning
against a sort ,of pillar or wall, and gazing
upward.- Allow he. escaped instant 'destruc-
it beyond all account.
window with a gun.
Swindlers and Beooar.s. There have
lately arrived in New York nearly a hundred
Italian beggars, armed and equipped with
irA r nno rt thn n nroc uhora inn nn rz nn t l r o
the Erie Railroad stop to allow the passen- ProVC them "Political exiIcs" "shipwrecked
.... . , , r . - i passengers, or persons who have been rob-
gers an opportunity to get breakfast, an mci- i , , ',
, . ii i l m bed, &c. These persons, there is good reas-
dent occurred not long since, which striking- ' 1 ; ' b
i u-u-t u ! u . , on to believe, are professional beggars, whose
ly exhibits the difference between a man s r efa
, , . .. r , t .business at home is begging. About thirty
wants and his capacities. " I have had a 06 0 J
boiled egg and a cup of coflee," said a trav- . have &one to fleece the Sood aml charitable
eller, as he passed over a dollar bill to pay of Philadelphia. It is supposed there are
- , . . c .. ttt I ' twelve hundred of these now in the United
for that amount of provisions. " We charge
twenty-five cents," responded the Jandlord, f
"and each person eats what he wants.
The expression that came over the traveller's '
countenance as he received this response J
showed that much light had broken in upon
him, and the way he proceeded to make up
for lost time was a caution to eating house
proprietors. Seven boiled eggs, four cups of
coffee, and a large slice of cake disappeared
in a hurry, and as the whistle sounded for re
Inportant Decision. In a case of attach
ment against a witness for failing to obey
a subpeona to attend before a United States
. Court Commissioner, Judge Betts, in Circuit
I United States for the Southern Distiictof
New York, has decided that when a witness
lives or resides more than one hundred miles
: from the placce of trial, he is bound to obey
suming the cars, we heard him calling for tlie 6bpana to appear and testify before a
"sliced apple pie," failing to obtain what he , Commissioner, under the acts of Congress,
called for, made a frantic grab with both ! and a disobedience of such subpecena is con
hands at a pyrimid of doughnuts, a half doz- . tcm t of court for which attachmcnt against
en of which served him tor the remainder of ,. .,, , A . , r . T , , , .
the day. N. Y. Tribune. j h,m wl11 be sustained. In the Judge's decis-
I ion, he remarked that this had been the prac-
No Moiic Corns. Chamber's Journal dis
closes a secret which it avers will relieve Jm
mananjty from a load of misery not the les3
difficult to bear than it h? unpitied or ridiculed.
Jt says :
(i The cause of corns, and likewise of the
torture they occasion, is simple friction : and
to lessen friction you have only to use your
toe as you do in like circumstances a coach
wheel lubricate it with some oily substance.
The best and the cleanest thing to use is d
tice of the Circuit Court for the Southern
District of New York for twenty years. This
decision should dispel the doubts of any Uni
ted States Commissioner, who has entertained
any, on this point of practice, and greatly fa
cilitates the taking of testimony.
07" Mr. Terry, editor of the Lynchburgh
1 Virginian, having made some comments up-
on me course orur. &aunaera, a member of
the Virginia Convention, was attacked in the
streets of that place on the 6th inst, by Jos. C.
little sweet oil, rubbed upon the affected part Saunders, a son of the Doctor, and a murder-
(after the corn is carefully pared) with the j ous fight, with revolvers was the consequence,
finger, which should be done on getting up jn J Young: Saunders died the next day . from his
the morning, and just before stepping into 1 wounds, and Terry is also reported as having
1 fj tT r i5v. , il- ii ..i.t l-: .
ul'u ai pignu in a iew aavs jne nam wui , hiuub uieu.. i uuu&wum yno enueavoreu 10
n
rate Canal Commissioner, we believe if he wck or Awo of the entrance to the Green
were nominated he would walk into Clover to . '0tod Pf Half of the tree is at pres-
j ent m full blossom, and the other half merelv
some purpose. j m leaf. Every alternate year each blossoms
The abundance of summer vegetables and ; gg StgjC
fruits now in the New York market is so great ( The side that does not blossom this year will
as to create general surprise. Beets, turnips, Mossora and yield a crop of sour fruit the next
new potato of the largest she, Sreenpeas ; ffta SSiMffSi jEE?
and tomatoes, are to be seen on all the stalls 1 Brooklyn Star. "tyieiuea.
of the small markets in
city.
every part of the
Tlic Bar of the United Stares.
A complete register of all the lawrPtM
the United States, just published bv Mr T jV
: . .1 j: e ir it, d -my-
The census recently taken in France shows ingstQn th(J editor QJf ihMonthly Jml'
a total population of 35,000,000. The num-j flne, makes the aggregate number of per.
ber of foreigners domiciled, of all nations, ex- sons in the profession 21,979, being about
qeeds 1,000,000. Of these upwards of 75,000
are English, in various parts of the country,
which is considerably less than previous to i
the revolution, when it exceeded 150,000.
one
InittvoF fn nirflFtr flfYortT lilt Tl ArnA tnU.t.!.
lanjui w vvuajt 44iiii iiuuuibu iJUUlUiniS
The following shows the proportion of lawyers
in the several States :
The Methodist Church Suit. The New
York Cemmercial says: We learn from the
Christain advocate and Journal that the book
agents of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Alabama, 692
Arkansas, 264
California, (returns
I n
acting upon the suggestion of the Court m the : jjJj,
late trial respecting the church property, I jnm"nS'
have proposed to the commissioners 01 the
Church South, " an adjustment of their pre- j
ferred claims by a legal arbitration under the j
authority of the Court." We are glad to
learn this, and trust that the South will, with
equal promptitude and cheerfulness, meet the
proposal favorbly.
incomplete,
Connecticut,
Delaware,
Dis't of Columbia
Florida,
, Silver in Pennsylvania. A mine has re
cently been opened about two miles from
Phujnixville, Chester county, which yields
about thirty three ounces of pure silver to the
ton, and fifty per cent of lead. The West
chester Jeffersonian says that the whole val
ley of the Schuylkill teems with mineral
wealth, such as lead, copper, iron and coal.
CThe trout-fishing exploits of Major
Freas have been cast completely into the
shade of insignificance by a party of young
Pottsylvanians, who, as we learn from the
Emporium, returned last week from a high
ly successful fishing excursion to Loyalsock
Creek near Ellis' tavern, in Cherry town
ship, Sullivan county, during which, having
been absent six days, they caught upwards of
fifteen hundred Trout, many of them large
and fine. The party also shot a number of
wild Ducks and brought home with them in
triumph, a large Bald Eagle, which they
fortunately captured alive. It measures sev
en feet from tip to tip of its wings. Reading
Gazette and Democrat.
Awful Tragedy.
An awful tragedy took place in Roxbury,
Mass., on the evening of the 8th instant A
young man, representing himself as a stran
ger from Hope, Me., called at the house of
Dr. A. G. Cumming, a very respectable phy
sician, and requested medical advice. The
Doctor being out, Mrs. C. invited him to step
into the parlor, where he sat down, took off
his cravat, and complained of pain in his side.
At that moment a little daughter of Dr. C.
came running into the room, when the man
instantly drew a razor from his pocket and
cut the child's throat from ear to ear. The
mother sprang forward, and in her efforts to
protect her child, was herself badly cut in
the hand. She then fled from the house with
the servant girl, pursued by the assassin.
The neighbors were alarmed, and rushed to
the spot, when the man cut his own throat,
and fell dead in the street. The girl also died
instantly. She was an only child. The
man's name is supposed to be Ephraim G.
He was doubtless insane.
Daggett.
The first Locomotive ever used
Lackawanna Valley was "fired up
in the
' on the
Iowa,
Kentucky,
Louisiana,
Maine,
Maryland,
Massachusetts
Michigan,
68
335
50
61
115
698
710
732
243
886
479
527
543
1040
422
Minnesota, 24
Mississippi, 700
Missouri, 584
N- Hampshire, 303
New Jersey, 307
New Mexico, 13
New York, 4374
North Carolina, 435
Ohio, 1639
Oregon, 20
Pennsylvania, 1739
Rhode Island, 112
South Carolina 433
Tennessee,
Texas,
Vermont,
Virginia,
Wisconsin,
735
499
442
1278
477
TIie ZVurtltcrn Gold Mines.
The papers and people in the viciuity of
the reported gold discoveries in Maine and
Canada, and particularly those of the Kenne
bec region, are getting more and more exci
ted on the subject. The Hallowell Gazette
has constituted itself the special advocate of
the genuineness of the discovery, and the or
gan of the adventurers who have repaired to
the placer. Saturday's paper has a long list
of parties from different quarters, said to have
started for the Chaudiere, and of specimens
of the metal which have been sent down to
the river towns. We have not too much faith
in the realization of the sanguine expectations
of the adventures and their friends, but we
shall soon learn more about the matter. If it
turni out as represented, there will be plenty
of visitors to the Chaudiere region this season,
though not exactly on a tour for pleasure.
The Gazette tells large stories of the amount
taken from this new El Dorado 20 to 40
a day ; states that letters from the country
were most sanguine and encouraging; that
some two thousand persons have started for
the mines, and that numbers ure arriving dai
ly from Boston and New York, bound to the
same destination. Boston Courier.
Lynch Law.
A little case of lynch law occurred on
Wednesday last, a few miles from Princeton,
N. J., which was so well tempered- with jus
tice and moderation that it deserves to be re
corded. A party of laboring men were at
work on the road leading to Clarksville. A
negro man, well known to all, was in the par
ty, and hung up his clothing a short distance
from where they were at work. A couple of
way-faring men came along and stole the ne
gro's clothing, comprising his coat, (his Sun
dy best) a vest, and a little small change in
one of the pockets. The theft was discovered
a short time afterwards, and the whole party
started in pursuit of the travelers. They
overhauled them finally and found the stolen
articles in their possession. The little party
organized themselves into a sort of " flaxseed
Court," convicted the travelers of the larceny,
and decided that .they should be tied to a
tree and receive ten lashes a piece, " well
laid on," by the hands of the injured negro.
The sentence of the court was carried into
effect, by the negro the travelers were then
released, and pursued their journey, no doubt
satisfied that the affair was so soon over.
Tren. Gaz.
The Charitable Highwayman. It is said
of Ponlter (a better sort of highwayman) that
one day riding on horseback on the road he
met a yong woman who was weeping and
who appeared in great distress. Touched with
compassion, he asked her the cause of her
1 uf?KrtIntt trlion cVio tnlfl lilm n nrnflitnr n t-
Legget's Gap Railroad atScranton a few days j tnn , . bllii;ffi . , one to , V. ,
j , 0
since. It is used for transporting the rails, &c
Many persons were present to witness the ex
hibition.
An interesting boy, son of Mr. James
Mooney, of Minersville, died suddently, last !
week after suffering several hours with !
violent convulsions and extreme pain. A '
post mortem examination by Dr. T. B. Hale,
at the request of the parents and friends, dis
covered a quantity of laurel leaves in the
stomach and bowls of the child, by which it
had been poisoned.
she pointed out and threatened to take her
husband to jail for a debt of thirty guineas.
Poulter gave her the amount, telling her to
pay the debt, and set her husband at liberty;
and she ran offloading the honest gentleman
with benedictions. Poulter, in the meantime,
waited on the road till he saw the creditor
come out ; he then attactcd him and took back
the thirty guineas, besides everything else
he had about him.
The Crystal Palace Eclipsed. Mr. Duff,
in his speech at the anniversary meeting of
the Weslyan Methodist Missionary Society
in London, thus describes one of the Heath
en Temnlc3 of India :
JEffccls of Railroads on Affricul- j jn Seringham you have the hugestheath
tyrai Product!. f en temple that can probably be found frora
The effects of railroads in modifying the the North to the South pole. It is square
agriculture of different sections, is illutrated ecn side DeimJ a mu in length, so that it is
by the example of Massachusetts. Since ur miles round. Talk 'J'
it jn , tDnn m . . , , , ace! Why, as a man would put a penny in
1B40, about bUU miles ot railroads have been his pockctj
you might put your Crystal Pal
laid in this State. Accordinir to the returns ' nrn in the pocket of this huge pagoda.
of the assessors, it appears that the number
of horses increaseased from $0,030 in 1840,
to 74,060 in 1850. This is remarkable, espe
cially when we consider the fact that the
The walls are 25 feet high and 4 or 5 feet
thick, and in the centre of each wall .rises a
lofty tower. Entering the first square you
come to another with a wall as high, and four
more towers. Within that square there
railroads have displaced many lines of stages j another, and within that again another is
,i.:-u l 1 1 . ' crowded by thousands of Brahmins. The
uu wiiiuii numerous uorecs were empiuycu , , . , s . . . 1...
. , . , . , : great hall for pilgrims is supported by a tnou-
and it shows that the increase of business an(1 -jj each cut of a siDgie block of
occasioned by the railroads, gives employ- stone
ment to an increased numger of horses.
From the same returns we learn that cattle j TJjere 1?0 mina" inXancas
havc increased from 278,737 m 1840, to 299,- ! . J . , , . t onn, . . . n
600'in 1850, while the same period, 8heep . ter county, and wheat enough raised-to keep
have declined from 343.390 to 179,539. The f them all bu$y.
produce of wheat has declined from 101,178
i. .... t : -
bushels to 28,487, while Indian corn has in
creased from 1,775,073 bushels in 18-10, to
'2,395,856 in 1850.
A loafer happened in at one of the
07" The Roman Catholics are, apou.t tp
establish a nunery in Providence,- Rhodfr I-
land.
(KrThe canal tolls in Njsw York, up to
diminish, and,a few days more Jt will cease, separate the parties was also so severely woun-1
when the nig)Jfly, application .may bediscon- . ded that , his life is despaired of. The con-' tnefnewsr ivyo
turned. ' ' j-fljet created great excitement in Lyhcbburg. vanco, was the reply.
printing oinecs in liynn, aay or two of Mav. have exceeded those of last
since, and asked'thc question, Whats 1 year, SI62,03),OOT notwithstanding reduc:
dollars a year, va w- tion-on railroad uonj ; and 25 per-cent reauc-
lie Ewenbed. ! tion in hoat and flour.