V.AC --;" JCUCrSOUmn UCpUb-ltraU. Thursday, November 20, 1851. ID A meeting will be held at the 'Court house in this Borough, to-morrow evening, (Nov. 21t) for the purpose of forming a Sing ing School. Mr. W. II. Lowry, of Easton, will be present. Citizens generally are re quested to attend. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The drawing: for the term of each of the newly elected Judges of the Supreme Court j of this Stale, took place on Friday last, at i Harrisburg. We arc informed that Jeremiah j S. Black drew the three year term, and is Chief Justice during his term ; Ellis Lewis .lrmv 5v vonrs. J. B. Gibson nine vears. and j . Richard B. Coulter drew the full term of fif teen years. Slrondsbxii'S Library. At a special meeting of this Company, held ; i i-.t .t en : officers were elected: President Samuel S. Stokes. Vice President James II. Walton. Trustees Geo. H. Miller, William Davis, Jas. H. Kerr, John N. Stokes, Lewis Vail. Auditors James II. Stroud, John D. Mor ris, J. L. Ring wait. . Treasurer Wm. S. Roes. Librarian Miss D. Barton. The following resolution was then adopted: Resolved, That Article XIII of the By Laws allowing persons not stockholders, to take out books, by paying a certain 'sum, be annulled. Also that shares be sold for three dollars, until the first of January, 1852. Foreign IVev. j The steamer Cambria, at Halifax, from j Liverpool, brings dates to the 1st inst., from mat port, l lie iews is not ot great nnpor- j lanes. Kossuth has paid a public visit to London, and was received with the liveliest enthusiasm. Cotton had declined during the week, from d.to d. per lb. The trade at Manchester is without change. The Corn market was dull, particularly for flour and wheat. Lady Franklin has made another urgent gent appeal to the Admirality, to send out a powerful steamer to explore the passage which Capt. Penny thinks exists. The appeal is -strongl- sustained by a portion of the press, and many persons of influence. The Christiana Affair. The persons arrested for participation in the affair at Christiana, in Lancaster county, will be tried on Monday next, the 24th inst, in the Circuit Court of the United States, at Philadelphia. The following are the Jurors ! summoned to attend : Adams Wm. R. Sadler, Robert Smith, James Wilson. Berks Peter Adams, Samuel Bell, Wsn. Keim, Diller Luther, Jokn Miller, Matthias Richards, John S. Shroeder. Bucks John H. Bazley, Michael H Jenks, Josiah Rich, William Stavely, Wm. Stevens, Caleb N. Taylor, Wm. Watson, F. VanzanL Carbon Robert Butler, Thos. Connelly. Chester John II. Kinnard, Abraham R. Mcllvaine, David West, Wm. Williamson. Cumberland John Clendenin, Levi Mer kle, John Rupp. Dauphin Simon Cameron, Joshua Elder, Valentine Hummel, John B. Rutherford. Delaware John O. Deshong,. George G. Leiper, David Lyons, Sketchley Morton, Geo. Smith. Franklin Joseph Culbertson, John Darby, J Geo. A Maderia, Martin Newcomer. Lancaster John Beck, George G Brush, David Cockley, James Cowden, Edward Da vies, Solomon Diller, Jacob Grosh, Frederick Hippie, James M. Hopkins, Peter Martin, James Penny, John Reynolds, Jas. Whitehill. Lebanon John Krause, Geo. Mark. Lehigh Jonathan Cook, Jacob Dillinger, Lesher Trexler, Andrew K Witman. Monroe Moses W Coolbaugh, Chas. Say- lor, Franklin Starbird. Montgomery Ephraim Fenton, Daniel O Hitner, Isaac Mather, John Smith". Nortliamplon Jacob Kichline, Peter S.i-r JMichler, Samuel Yohe. i Perry Robert Elliot, John Junkin. I Philadelphia city Matthias W Baldwin, 1 -Andrew C Barclay, Patrick Bradv, Samuel : Breck, John A Brown, Joseph D Brown, Geo. Cadwallader, Hugh Campbell, Caleb Cope, Robert Ewmg, Frederick Fraley,-James Har- per, Erskine Hazard, John Horn, Elhanan W. Keyser, Hartman Kuhn, Lawrence Lewis, Thomas McKean, Charles Massey, Marraa duke Moore, John-R. Neff, Robert Patereon, Wm. Piatt, John Richardson, Evan Rogers, Samuel E Stokes, George W. Toland, Jona than Wainright, Robert F. Walsh, John G. Watmough, Thos. H White. Phila. co. David George, James Gowen. Pilce Albert G Brodhcad, Solomon New man. Schuylkill Jacob Hammer, Isaac Myers, Strange N. Palmer. York Jas. McConkey, Hugh , Ross, 'Sam uel Small, Philip Smyser. ' y. Wayne Paul S. Preston. JO3 People die at the rate of ifivc , a minutp, faking the whole world together.- A Political Falaliiy. In-a personal conflict some time since Judge j Thornton, of Ala., struck Chancellor Clarke on the mouth, wounding his fingers against his teeth, The Judge's arm had to be ani mated in order to save his life. i OCrThe Order of the " Lone Star," is the. . f ..mi. nivonwutiMt nf n spprnt r.Iliir- octer-in the United States, whose object is to "extend the area of freedom to all the world7 ' Cuba in particular. j Two old men, upwards of 70 years of age ' each, amused a crowd of spectators in Provi 1 dence the other day, by a grand rough and tumble fight, and finally ended by rolling one another in the gutter until separated. Ana , all this, not in consequence of liquor, but from j that "green-eyed monster," jealousy I The Cap! ui cr of Geu. E.opa. It is stated in the New Orleans Bee, upon the autority of a private letter from Havana, that Juan Gastaudo, the officer who captured Gen. Lopez, has been assassinated while trav- elling in the interior of Cuba Iron Wagon. The Albany Register notices a buggy wa gon invented by Judson and Dewoolf, made entirely or iron-uooy, running gears anu an, , ecent the shafts which were made of snrin"-1 I steel. T. t..,.:r..l .l , llfaUVS umi it M3 a u.auiuu, awu aj . concern, weighing about 300 lbs., and with more strength and durability to all appear ance, than those now in use. OOJava coffee has, it is said by the Milton ; (N. C.) Chronicle, been successfully grown in a piece of ground about a mile from that town. It was produced by a shrub only two years old, which sprouted from a grain of cof fee planted on the north side of a house, and the fruit is described as looking in all respects like the imported article. 07" A remarkable case of canine sagacity is reported to have occurred upon the Morris & Essex Railroad a few days ago. A New foundland dog belonging to Mr. James Bishop is sajj to have seized an infant which was crawling upon the track, on the approach of a locomotive, and carried it out of the way of danger, 07 The monster eleghant " Columbus," nearly equal in'avoirdupois to Barnum's whole nine elephant team, died at Lenox, Mass., on Saturday, the 8th inst., from injuries received recently while falling through a bridge near South Adams. He weighed 10,760 pounds, and his tusks are valued at $300. Inhuman Cruelty of a Step RI ether. Polly Olmstead has been found guilty of the murder, by slow cruelties, of her own step-child, in Illinois. "It appears that Olmstead married again in about three weeks after the dcatli of his first wife at which time the child was about five years old. This was about eighteen months ago. Soon after the marriage the new wife confined the little girl in the kitchen, and there kept her most of the time tied, and with out fire. In this situation she was forced to remain up to the time of her death; having no food allowed her except half a pint of coffee or milk and a piece of cold cornjjrcad every day. No bed-covering was allowed her in any weather further than a single scanty quilt. This fiendish woman often amused herself by . beating the child in the most outrageous man ner, and on one occasion compelled another child to choke her until she was black in the face. She continually forced her to eat rot ren fruit and vegetables of various kinds, to- :.u isi.i. ....... , yctuei wiiii uiimr nun which it wouiu noi oe seemly to describe. Sometimes she would , fasten the little creature under the kitchen floor and leave her there for hours. Other details were given which are too shocking for publication. The poor little sufferer often wished hereon dead. On one occasion she escaped from the kitchen and was seen trying to climb a pole which stood in the yard. Upon being asked where she was going, she replied that she was going up to the other world to see her mother. The heartless Etep mother ordered her down with curses, and i the trembling little creature fell, in her weak ness, her head striking violently against the wall of the kitchen. The jury found the woman guilty of man- slaughter, and she was sentenced to two years' service m the btate Prison! Xew counterfeit 5 notes on the Philadelphia Bank are in circulation. w i k i ' i i,i j They are letter. A variously filled up. The general appearance of the notes is not good: the medallions and the faces of the females in the vignette are imnerfect. "UNDERWOOD & BALD and Draper k Underwood," are omitted. The dots ; , . , r. ( between jthe words " Five Five" on the : ; upper and lower margins are oblong in ( the good notes, and square in the coun terfeit. The Rcvolntio7t in Mexico. New Oit- . lea.ns, Nov. U-lho steamship Louis- lana arrived attbi?portto-day,with advices liom u-aivesron, xesas, tne tn inst. j ill t tne troops out ten, wbo were station I ed at the llinggold barracks, have deser ted and joined the insurgents. The Mexi can Government are concentrating their forces at Monterey, and General Uraga has been appointed to the command of 5000 men, with whom he intends march in" at once to the seat of war, for the purpose of suppressing the revolution, if hc can. From the National Intelligencer. A teller from Major Jack Down ing. ' We were really rejoiced yesterday to re ceive the subjoined letter from our old friend and favorite, Mnjw Downing, who, from his long silence, we hnd begun to icar nau gonu wu inuai uiiiatrjvuo u uvi . now to hearlroin nun more iruu,u:nu. su itors Nat. Intel. Downincjvili.e, Down East in tiii: State of Maim:, November 10, 1851. Mr. Gai.es & Sexton: My dear old friends, if you are yet in the land of the livin, I long to have a little talk with you about the'affnirs of the nation. And if you aint in the land of the livin, but have dropped oft since i ve been ! away to the gold diggins of Californey, if I irniril rnntrivp tn lot me knowitl'll ffo to one 0f tjie ..Sperrjt rappers" (cousin Nabby knows one of 'em) and try to have a chat with you that way. And my old friend Mr. Kitcnie too, I want to have a chat along with him. But I don't know where to find him, for Un cle Joshua tells me he isn't in the Washing ton Union paper now, and they've " carried him back to Old Virginny." Now that's vc very bad ; it's treason agin the Government. How can the country get along through a a Presidential campaign without Mr. Ritchie? ! They never have done it, and it cant be done; it s impossible. 1 dont know who Hieyvegoi in his place in the Union, nor I dont care: but I know they never will find one that can fight agin the Federalists like Mr. Ritchie. Hnu'tnnnK f imns hp's snvorl tlir r.fllintrv from iuw many u... . a ,u u.w bem eat up by Federahfcts; and, what fa very frr von re icuiuinuun., lie v-uuiu u-iu J 1.1 Hrrlit fifrin nm fnr vp.n rs & ajj deaJf jestns well as he could when they was alive. There's to be a great battle for the next President, and wc cant get along without Mr. Ritchie. He ought not to have gone oil so ; he owed his services to the country, and he ought to be ketchc.l and brought back to Washington un der the " fugitive Slave law." That law is carried out every where hero to the North, and we expect it to be carried out to the South. What is sass for goose is sass forgandar. If the South wants to keep the North in the U nion, she must give some good strong proof that she is willing to fulfil and carry out the fugitive slave law. And she couldn't do it any better than to ketch Mr. Ritchie and car ry him back to Washington, and shet him up in the LT7ii07i paper office, and tie him down in the editorial chair, and put a ream of pa per before him and a pen in his hand, and set him to writing about the next Presidency. Then the dark fog that now hangs over the whole country would- begin to be blowcd a way, and parties could begin to see where they are again; and the knots and the snarls of politics would begin to be unravelled, so that we could all toll where to take hold and pull with a fair chance of doing some good. Then we might stand a good chance to get a President next year. Bat as things now go the chance looks slim enough. Times isn't now as they used to be, when we hadn't only two parties, and every body could tell who he was fightin against. Then a single blast from Major Ben Russell in the old Boston Ccntiucl would call out all the Federalists in the country, and make 'em draw up a straight line ; and then another blast from Mr. Ritchie in the Richmond En ! quirer would call out all the Republicans in ( to another line and when these two parties I were called out there wasn't nobody lelt but ; women and chilJrcn and then the two par ties had a clear field before 'em, and march ' ed up face to face and had a fair fight, and ; they always knew which got whipt. But things isn't so now-a-days. There's more parties now than you can shake a stick at. And they face in all manner of ways, so that when you are fightin for one party it would puzzle a Philadelphy lawyer to tell what par ties you are fightin against, or to tell who is whipt when the battle is over. I didn't know things was in quite so bad a snarl till I got home 'tother day from Calfiorny, and sot down : and had a long talk with Uncle Joshua, who told me all about it. Uncle Joshua is getting old, but he holtls Ins age remarkably well ; 1 think full equal to Mr. Ritchie; and I dont see but he keeps the run of politics as well as he used to, Sa-s I, "Uncle Joshua, what's the prospect about the Presidency !" " Well," says he, " Major," he always calls me Major says he, " Major, there aint no prospect at all." now so, says I ; " now can you make ifai ou Well," says he, " there's so many parties now, and they are all so mixed up 'higgledy- . P"&S,edy UydL ya cant see through 'em with the longest spyglass that ever was made. That's why there aint no prospect at all." "Well, now, uncle" Joshua," says I, "jest name over all these parties, so J can begin to hae some idea of them." " Well," says ho, "we'll begin first south side of Mason and Dixen's line. There's the old Whig party, and the old Democratic par ty, and the party of Union Whigs, and the party of Secession Whigs, and the party of Union Democrats, and the party of Secession Democrats, and the party o' abso lute, unqualified Secessionists, and the party of Co-operation Secessionists. And then if we come to the north side of Mason and Dix on's line, we fipd the regular Whig party, and the regular Democratic party, and the Union Whigs, and the Abolition Whigs, and the Union Democrats, and the Abolition Dem ocrats, and the Silver-gray Whigs, and the Wooley-head Whigs, and the Hunker Demo crats, and the Barn-burner Democrats, and the Seward party, and the Union Safety Com- rnktee party! and the regular Free-Sile party, and the regular Vote-yourself-a-Farm party." H.ere Uncle Joshua paused a little,and Aunt w.? " our Uncle Joshua must have a womlprf,, niemory 10 keeP all them hard names m his head ; for my part, I dontsee how hedocs it." iti, Nri,L un .l,! u " j . Uwuu.u - -u " " J .iiju lltjl IJUI1UD and laughed, and says she, "Now cousin Jack, wmcn party do you belong to !" Says I, "I'll be hanged if I know. If the Old Gineral was alive I moan Old Hickory I'd go with his party, let it be which 'twould; country. Tho 01d Gineral w& to fight for the country against Bank mon- sters, and Nullification monsters, and all sorts ot monsters." " Well, now," says Uncle Joshua, how do you suppose we are going to work to make a President, with all these parties inthe'field, fightin cross-handed, and catty-corners, and every which way 3" "I'm sure J cant see," says I, " unless we can get up a party that will surround the whole of 'em, as? tlio Irish corporal surround- ed the halMozon sold! that he took prh- "What do you think of Mr. Calhoun's plon.";said Uncle Joshua, "that's laid down in his works jest published !" "What's that," says I, "Idontthink I've heard of it." "Well," says he, "he recommends to choose tiro Presidents, one for the North and one for the South, each side of Mason and Dixon's till it is signed by both Presidents. How think that would work! " Well, I guess," eays I, "if the country depended upon laws to live on, it would starve to death as sure as the ass between the two bundles of hay." At that cousin Nabbyspoke up, and says she, 'More like the country would be like a bundle of hay between two asses, and would get cat up prettv quick." Uncle Joshua'couldn't help smiling, but he looked round as sober as he could, and says he, "Come, come, Nabby, you hush up; what j do you know about politics ; " Well, now," says I, "let us look at this plan of Mr. Calhoun's a little, and see what it amounts to. His notion was, that there was two parties, one North and one South of Mason and Dixson's line, and that under one President they never could agree, but would alwa)'s be quarrelling and fightin and crowd ing; but if each party could choose a Presi dent, then they would get along smooth and quiet, and live as peaceable as lambs. Now, if the doctrine is good for two parties, it is good for twenty. So, if Mr. Calhoun was riffht , the best way would be to let the twen ty parties, that are now quarrelling like cats and dogs, go to work and each party choose a President for itself. Then what a happy, peaceable time we should have of it." "Well, you've fairly run it into the ground now," says Uncle Joshua, " and I guess we may as well let it stick there. I'm more troubled about electing one President than I am two, or twenty ; and I should like to get your idea how it can be done. 1 know Gin eral Jackson used to think a great deal of your opinion, and may be you can contrive some plan to get us all out of this burly burly that we are in, so that we can nikc a Pres ident next year when the time comes round. "Well,",says I, "Uncle Joshua, according to what you say about the parties now-a-dayB, all split up into flinders, and cross-grained every way, I don't think there's much chance for any of 'em to elect a President, especially if Mr. Ritchie don't help. But, for all that, I think the thing can be done, and I think there's two ways of doing it. One way is, to get up a new party that shall surround all the other parties I mean a real constitution al party, an out and out national party; a par ty that will stand up to the rack, fodder or no fodder, and go for the Union, the whole Un ion, and nothing but the Union, live or die. This party would have to be liiade up out of the twenty parties you have named, so I guess we might as well call it the party of 'Na tional Comc-outcrs.'' "The 'toher way would be, to get up a sort of revolutiou-annexation-manifest-destiny-glory party, and have a great banner painted, with Cuba on one end and Canada on 'tother, and what there is left of Mexico in the middle ; and get up a great torch-light procession from one end of the country to the other, and hire Kossuth when he gets over here to make stump speeches for our candidate through all the States. If we didn't elect him, I'd go into retiracy and settle on the banks of Salt River for life." " Well, Major," says Uncle Joshua, " I think a good deal of your notions, and I wish you would think the matter over, and draw up some plan for us to go by, for it's high time we was doing something." So, Mr. Gales & Seaton, I remain your old friend, MAJOR JACK DOWNING. Jcvi'ssh Custom--A 11 Case. lutcreslitis The Philadelphia Ledger describes an in teresting case at law which was commenced on Tuesday before Judge Kino, in the Court of Common Pleas of that city. It is a feign ed issue, joined between P. S. Rowland, the the plaintiff, and IIakius Coleman and Isa bella his wife, defendants, to determine the question whether a former husband of Isabel la, who was the plaintiff's brother, was in debted to the plaintiff at the time of his death in 1840. The plaintiff was the executor of the will of his brother, Mrs. Coleman's first husband, and claimed a balance of two or three thniisnnr! flnllnrs rpmriinlnrr in hie hnnrlc nfn. paying the debts of the deceased, as part of certain advances made by him to the deceased, ttiijuuuuiig i ail lo uuouloiu.uuu. But the money matters 3 (says the Ledger) are not the most interesting- tures in this case. 1 he widow, and the Jewish law, still partly m force here, form the most attractive points to the general reader. After the ac- connts of the deceased brother had been set tied by the plaintiff, the widow refused to al him to appropriate the balance to the payment of his claim for advances, and several lawsuits were the consequence. But she, Jome time afterwards, became desirous of changing her widow's weeds for a bridal garland, and the consent of her deceased husband's brother, the plaintiff, became necessary to the consum mation of her wishes. Under the old Jewish dispensation, a widow, who had no children by her first husband, was bound and had a right to demand the hand OTOer late husband's brothers in marriage, commencing with the oldest, and going through the whole collate ral line not previously engaged or disposed of. If the brothers refuse the widow in marriage, she has the privilege of taking off a shoe from the refusing gentleman's foot, and, what is very indelicate in a lady, to be sure, of spit ting in his face, and declaring, in the language of the law, " here is a man who refuses to build up his brother's house." A difficulty now presente'd itself. The brother would neither marry the widow himself, ncr con sent to a marriage with any one else, unless she would admit his claim to the balance in question. The widow, of course, was anx ious to bestow her hand upon Mr. Coleman, and after several disputes and interviews, admitted the plaintiff's claim to obtain his as sent thereto. After her marriage, however, she took legal advice on the subject, and the present suit was'the consequence. She de nies the validity of a release, extorted from her under tho circumstances above narrated and, with her husband, claims the balance remaining in the hands of the plaintiff, as ex ecutor of the will .of her late husband. The case will probably occupy several days Messrs. W. L. Hirst, VV. B. Reed, and St! George T. Campbell appear as cousel for the plaintiff, and Messrs. J. Mclntyrc, David Paul Brown, and George M. Dallas for'the defen dants. JJST The Hon. Andrew Jackson Ogle, of Pa, it is said, is likely .to receive the' , .niumimcni 01 unargc to Denmark. " ' i What Becomes ot Uio Gold ? A correspondent of the National Intelli gencer says, before tho adjournment of the last Congress the columns of the journals that favor a moderately protec tive tariff with specific duties, gave forth warnings, predicting that if the revision or modification of the tariff of 1846 -was postponed to another Congress, grave fi- nancial and commercial irouuxus wui inevitably be the result. When, these predictions were made, the whole country was apparently prosperous ; and people generally, especially the young in busi ness, imagined themselves getting rich at railroad speed. These people must j have supposed that, in view of the Cali fornia gold mines discovery, there could be no end to good times ; and notwith standing the startling fact that this afore said California is yet far short f reim bursing us in gold one-fourth of the cost of the four hundred millions of property we have sent her, they have clung to the trade with undvinff tenacity gold hav ing such charms ! Sma 1 as the amount of gold received from California is, com pared with the amount of shipments to that State, the crisis which has come up on us would have been averted but for the export to Europe of about as much gold as was received from California. This gold nas been exported to pay the balance of trade, and hence extensive lanures, money at wcive uuu t-u cent, per annum, and ail me consequeu- Ait ti a . i i n il. C ces. Ail inese trouDies, an mwe suuim ces, &c, might have been prevented if the last Congress had granted what tne peo pic asked, viz : A tariff shaped to make exports at least equalize imports, anu pre - vent enormous frauds. Itisnotyet too kite to do some good ; but, before the ensuing Congress can act in the matter, much mis - chief will have been done. Whilst we are now feeling severely the consequences of our folly the folly, are, madness of shaping our revenue laws to break down our cotton mills, lessening the home demand for our breadstuffs, provisions, &c, and, as a thing of course, reduction of prices, Europeans are not only enriching themselves by flooding our country with goods, but they take away our substance, the precious metals. The Bank of England is full of American gold, and as to the Bank of Prance, she has managed to pile up enough of the eagles ' since, and for a time worked at his trade to carry her through a five years' war. as a carpenter. He professed to have The -truth is, the foreigners batten up and been a temperance lecturer, and produced laugh at us and some of them have grown various certificates to this effect. lie un rich by defrauding us, and will continue dcrtook with remarkable zeal to sho7 to get richer till there te specific duties, up the spirit rapping mania, and wrote ' some nrosv rieees in the papers on this Free ISaiikiiig. Under a properl' restricted free bank ing law, a safer system of banking may be produced. Now a bank may or may not be good. No one knows. As long as they have public confidence all is well, but we are constrained to believe that if this is withdrawn, one half of the banks in Pennsylvania would make bad failures and note holders would lose heavily. Under free banking, every note holder knows there is 100 for every 90 of notes in circulation, if good stock security, of selling at par in the market. This secu rity will always be as good and saleable as Beal Estate itself. According to the old sjstem, banks are only required to have 33 cents of specie in their vaults ; for 81 of notes in circulation, but some I of them at this time havenot half or fourth the law requires. Under the free bank ing, they are required to have 20 cents on the do'lar. In this they can obey or not as under the present system. A free banking system should be limited in go ing into operation, so that a currency would not be increased more than one or two millions in one year. This would ' TirfiVfiTlt. inflation. There can be no safer or more rational system of banking than that which gives "ood stock security and wuv should it not be adopted in nrefer- ' ence to an increase of Danks under tlic ' x . n -ru mir nnn wr , us, ge. Ihere is only one feature I wlucn bears against it in the minds ot all those opposed to State indebtedness. When stocks are made the basis of bank- ing, it acts as a preventive of paying off that indebtedness. It creates a strong influence in favor of creatine indebted" ness. so as to produce stocks, and will perpetuate them. While it docs this, how- fivfir. thoxr inntr lio mnrlo Tvma nf revenue to the State, to aid the payment of interest, and thus lessen the burden of direct taxation. We observe some exceed ingly verdant comments in newspaperdom on this subject, and judging from appear ances,we apprehend the question will give but little trouble to the coming Legisla ture. Pottstoim Ledger. Hard upon Lovers. A law exists in Virginia, which is some what onerous on those matrimonially dis posed, requiring the candidates for the hymenial bands not only to take out a license before the ceremony can be per formed, but also to go before the proper officer and give bond that the Common wealth shall not become chargeable with the support of the issue of the union. To avoid the publicity and inconvenien ces arising from a compliance of this law is often an object with parties, and to ef fect it a Gretna Green is made of the bridge at Harper's Feny, which span ning tho Potomac from Maryland to Vir ginia, affords a neutral territory, on whieh the rites can bo solemnized without a com pliance with the laws of cither State. Two marriages took place on the bridge last week. California Vegetable. Near Sacramen to, rhubarb grew from the eeed in a sin gle season so big that five stalks weighed five-pounds. In this State it takes three years to get large plnnts from tho seed. Census of the Stale. We present in another- portion of our paper of to-day,the official returns of the census of Pennsylvania, prepared at the Census Bureau in Washington, and pub lished in the Republic and Intelligencer. The totals generally agree with those we have previously laid before our read ers. In Western Pennsylvania, as appears from the table, there are 185,993 dwel ling houses ; 190,612 families ; 553,569 white male inhabitants ; 524,838 white females; 178,406 white inhabitants of both sexes; 6,705 colored males; 6,611 females ; 13,316 colored persons of both sexes ; 1,091,723 persons of all kinds ia the district ; 10,814 deaths during the year ; 77,399 farms in cultivation ; 6,154 manufacturing establishments, producing 500 and upwards, each, annually. In Eastern Pennsylvania there are 200,223 dwelling houses ; 217,885 fami lies; 589,294 white male inhabitants; 590, 02 white females ; total number of white persons 1,180,056 ; colored male inhabitants 18,252; colored females, 21, 655 total colored persons 40,007 ; total population of the district, 1,220,063; number of deaths during the year, 17, 504 ; number of farms in cultivation 50,- 178 : number of manufacturing establish- mcnta in the district producing each .?5im , and upwardg annually, 13,882. In the whole gtate t arc 3oG o1G I ' dwelling houses; 408,497 families; 1,14:.',. 863 white males; 1,115,600 white fe males ; 2.258,463 white persons of both sexeg 25 057 colored nlales, 28,2GG col . Qred fernaeSj 53,323 colored persons of both scxeg Tofcal popuiation of the State, j 2)31 1,786 ; Number of deaths during the . 28,318 : number of farms in culti- yet vation. 127,577 : manufacturing estab lishments. 22,036. This is a gratifying picture of the progress of Pennsylvania. The statistics embraced in the table are invaluable for reference. North Amm. CO 71. From the Iloncsdalc Democrat. A tfotorios Wolf. A certain man named W. G. Baker, dropped down upon Bethany hill, three miles north of this borough, afewmontLs subject; and, professing conversion o God and to water baptism as practiced by immersion, he was duly plunged in the Lackawaxen by the pastor of the Baptist church in this borough, who had great hopes from so promising a conver sion, and who did not suspect, when pro nouncing the holy words over him and raising his dripping whiskers from tho stream, that he was immersing a wolf. So rapidly did this new convert rise in the esteem of his christain friends, that he was put forward to exhort in the meet ings, and during the illness of the pastor was set in the candlestick of the Baptist church to give light to all its members. So beautifully did he shine in this new position, that he became an object of at traction to the young widows and maidens, who gathered around him and courteous ly received from him marked attentions. In the midst of his experimenting on the pious credulity of the good people with whom he mingled, he thought him self, or it was suggested to him, that as he had now advanced a step toward the clerical profession, it was but right to ad vance a step toward matrimony; for bishop A. A. A. A it is written, must be the husband of one lorBMU1 UL tt,dt uu'" Pamon and four sweet habes -whom hc "au lult 111 u,u "--suuuiluo lork, while he should go to England for a lecracv. hc encased the affections of a young lady of respectable parentage, in ) o J t i ;f ' y , v" - , kinS "cr his bride, she having all things 1 Prepared and in readiness to become so, when ccrt:un sPmt3 raPPed dismal ,uusie jnto ln3 ears about sorae of his formcr . pranks, and it suddenly came to liglit ' that towgtt in sheep's clothing, he was ; onl' a .wolfr whereat hc fled ; and this h i to caution all faithful shepherds against admitting him into their enclosures. This wolf may easily be detected. He is of medium size, about thirty-five years old, sports a pair of large black whiskers, is very self-important, takes great interest in the ladies, is opposed to tight lacing, professes to be a great temperance lecturer,-is very fond of good,, cider, talks a good deal about Homanism, is preparing, he says, a course of lectures on the sub ject, and is withal a downright cunniDg wolf. He has been baptized by immer sion three times already, if not more, in different parts of our country, has started to preach as many times, has as often courted, if not married, and has been repeatedly nabbed in his villanies.-j-An excellent discourse on the wolf in sheep's clothing, was delivered last Sab bath, in the Baptist Church in this bo rough. For further particulars the pub lic are roferrod to that discourse, as it gar this wolf a good shearing. Now this is to desire of all editors tip side of the rocky mountains and in Cali fornia, who are lovers of humanity guardians of the fair sex, for the sake 0' religion and virtue, to take this wolf tho ear in their editorial tongs, and bold him up to view that all may mark him : and wc advise all ministers of rclig.n not to be in a hurry to make an ecclesi astic of him, even though he should shave off his whiskers, for think of him what L 1. n la nciflinT innrfl TlOr 1C'3 than n " wolf in sheep's clothing." John the j5aptki
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