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LANCASTER EXAMINER AND HERALD. flSratniiur fjeralb Mr. Websters Remarks ou Mr. Lllmores Death. ashington.

May 30. After Mr. Butler and Mr. Yulee had each pronounced written eulogies upon Mr. Ellmore, Mr.

Webster rose and pronounced, in his usual pleasing manner, the following 1 sincerely sympathize, Mr. President, with Biouisrviy HympHuiiitvi iur. runiuuQi; wim LANCASTER, Fa. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1850. The Gain of Advertising.

The Philadelphia Bulletin says: The increasing demand for newspapers, and, in connection with it, the extension of advertising, is working a great advantage in business, especially among retailers. Thirty years ago, a store, once established, was sure to keep its custom, unless its proprietor recklessly and blindly neglected his affairs: but now no establishment, however popular, can retain its patronage unless it advertises, and advertises extensively. This is as it should he. People instead of running up and down to hunt an article they may happen to desire, have now only to glance over the columns of the paper and learn at once where their wants can be supplied. Profits, too, are less in consequence of the competition; and hence the public is supplied cheaper than formerly.

A retailer who wishes to make a fortune now, must expect to sell a hundred thousand dollars worth of goods where he used to sell twenty-five thousand, and to make but one quarter of the profit he did before. He cannot continue the old prices without osing his custom. His only chance to outstrip his neighbors is to advertise, to advertise extensively and continually. js useless for himto complain of this, as some do, who cannot understand the times. He must adapt himself to circumstances or he will, sooner or later, be insolvent.

He has, indeed, but one thing to do, and that vigorously persisted in, will make him rich it is to advertise to advertise, and again to advertise. l'rankliii-HIarsliall College. A meeting of the friends of Franklin-Marshall College will be held in the Court House, this evening, for the purpose of taking measures to carry out the provisions of the new charter. Several eminent gentlemen will address the meeting. It is very desirable that all who feel an interest in the college should attend on this occasion.

Horticultural Exhibit iou. There will be an exhibition of Flowers, Fruits, Vegetables, and specimens of domestic manufactures, at West Chester on the 14th and 15th days of June, which will be worth visiting. Theexhibition will be held under the auspices of the Chester County Horticultural Society, and from the spirit with which that Society is conducted there is little risk run in predicting something unusually attractive. The hall in which the exhibition will be held is the largest and finest one in the State, out of Philadelphia, and on this occasion will be overflowing with the beauty and fashion of Chester and adjoining counties. Pennsylvania Looking up.

From the day that Gov. Johnston assumed the duties of the Executive office, the finances of the State have been in an improving condition. Under locofoco rule millions were added to the State debt every year, the interest was suffered to go unliquidated, the stocks depreciated, and the very name of Pennsylvania was a by-word and reproach among the nations of the earth. But no sooner did Gov. Johnston assume the reins than be set to work to restore prosperity, credit and character to the Commonwealth.

How far he has succeeded let the history of the last two years answer. Instead of increasing the State debt, he has originated a Sinking Fund System by which thousands have been already paid. The interest has also been paid promptly in gold and silver and the Treasury kept in a condition to meet all the extravagances of the Canal Board and the expenses of Government besides and all this without any increase of the burdens of taxation. No Governor has ever done so much for the benefit of the people of the State and no one deserves more honor and gratitude at their hands. Within a week we have had another gratifying evidence of the prosperity of our financial affairs a report from the State Treasurer and Auditor General, in compliance with the provisions of an act passed on the 10th May last, in which they say that the sum of $250,000 may be appropriated to the completion of the North Branch Cana, without any increase of the State debt, and without any embarrassment to the treasury in the payment of over four millions of dollars appropriated to other objects.

The estimated demands upon the Treasury for the year ending May 31st, 1850, including this appropriation for the North Branch Canal, are $4,039, 17G. The estimated revenue is so that after paying all, there will still be a surplus in the treasury of $26,798. Heading Journal. Sending Letters to California. (Extract of a letter from San Francisco, March, 31, 1850 Now for the benefit of those writing to their friends in California, let me say that it is quite customary for houses here to refuse to take from the Post Office letters addressed to their care, unless the postage is pre-paid.

When the Hon. Senator, from South Carolina, whose you hear that it is not unusual for them to have painful duty it is, within so short a period, to from 50 to 100 letters per each steamer, and announce the death of another colleague. I many of them for thoee who are entire stran-sympathise, sir, with all the people of South An Carolina, by whom, as I know, the gentleman 8ers yu.wlU 866 each makCS now deceased, was greatly respected and lov- do small item to advance on letters that may ed. I sympathise with that domestic circle to not be called for in months. Where parties whom his death is a loss never to be repaired Rere have given directions to have their letters and, sir, I feel that the incident may well be the subject of condolence, when a gentleman Pressed to the care of others, let their friends so well known in the other branch of the leg- by all means pre-pay the postage, else their islature, so much experienced in the affairs of letters may be lying in the Post Office while public and official life in his own State and th yain from the mincg t0 tbeir cor who had so recently come into this body with every qualification to render here important respondents in San Francisco for them, public service, and with every prospect of use- iul public life, except so far as that prospect Col.

Fremonts Possessions. Col. Fre-may have been dimmed by serious apprehen- mont received official advices by the last Cali sions with regard to his health, is taken from fornia of the cxtent and richnesg 0f his among us. I T. Sir, I had the good fortune to be acquainted min3 that even to him appear incredible.

If with Mr Elmore some ten or twelve years ago, he can hold the land upon which these diggings when he was a member, and, I may say, a lead- are, and in which the gold is said to be incx- characrer as a man of integrity and uprightness there will be no estimating his wealth, of creditable and respectable talents. I re- He is daily making leases to adventurers, the gret his departure from the Councils of the Na- per centaKe upon which will make his income tion, because a person of his qualifications, of his habits of investigation grows every day more enormos- I learn that previous to a 1 useful the longer he remains in our political California for Washington, he was working thir-service, in possession of his faculties, and in the ty men, and that the net monthly proceeds which performance of his duties. It happened some were id oyer t0 him wcre equal to a hundred years afterwards, anu now not many years at since, I formed a personal acquaintance more Pouns Pure E0 a month- But this would intimate with the deceased Senator. I had the he but a trifling income, in comparison with pleasure of seeing him, sir, among liis own what it must be, if the accounts of the richness friends, and cultivating his acquaintance in the and ld hia land which he re midst of those relations of society in which he 6 was regarded as an ornament. I owe to him ceived by last mail, are corroborated bereaftr this tribute for his kindness and hospitality, by actual receipts.

Washington corresponded I shall ever cherish his memory with sin- dent N. Y. Tribune. cere regard. Dead Security.

Not long since, a young Patent Extensions. Parkers I man arrived in New York, and took board at a Water Wlseel. house in Pearl street, where he soon fell sick Washington, May 29. and after a short time died. The landlord of It is perhaps a matter of importnee to a large the house was his creditor for $5 and his fear number of inventors, as well as mill-owners, of losing it was so great that he locked the that it should be known that the Committee on corpse up in a room as security for the debt.

Patents in the House of Representatives, on tbe Some of the boarders of tbe house got up a sub 9th day of May inst, reported a bill for a scription to bury the body, the landlord pur further extension of the privilege secured by a chased a coffin worth $5 or $6 for which he patent to Zebulon and Austin Parker for an charged $12, and when the friends came to at improvement in the application of hydraulic tend the funeral, and the hearse was at the door, power in water-wheels, issued on the 19tn Oc- he refused io unlock the corpse unless he was tober, 1829, and extended by letters patent of paid the $5 that deceased owed him, otherwise renewal dated 4th October, 1843. he declared he would send the body to potters This patent is one that has for some time past field. The young men, shocked at the atrocious excited considerable interest in the country, conduct of the vampyre, borrowed the money, Considerable litigation has attended the attempt redeemed the dead body of the unfortunate of the Parkers to enforce their claims for in- stranger from his clutches, and buried it at fringement, and there are flow understood to Williamsburgh. Almost every boarder in the be several suits in existence. Tbe patent has I house has left or will leave the premises, already run more than twenty years, and yet The MemoRV of Fulton It has long the Committee propose to farther extend the seemed to us astonishing that there has never Proposed New Coins.

The North American thus describes tlie specimens of coins lately struck at the Mint The cent piece is designed as a substitute for the present copper coin, and contains the iroportion of silver one tenth expressed in egend. The effect of this infusion of precious metal, small as it is, besides lightening the color perceptibly, is to reduce greatly the bulk of the com of that denomination, and to make it much more convenient and portable. Its weight $ins, while that of the present cent is 168. It is simulated that is, it has a targe round hole in the centre, which is a novel feature, and has been introduced for the sake of the following advantages: It extends the diameter of the piece to a proper measurement, being the same as that of the dime, which is as small as could be desired for such a coin- it affords a distinctive mark, by which tlie piece may be recognised and safely paid out even by the touch, it affords a facility to retailers to put the pieces up in barrels, say of a hundred or thousand, by stringing them, or putting them on an upright stake or file and lastly, the complexity of manufacture will throw some impediments in the way of counterfeiting, if that is to be apprehended. Should the bill pass, dies for this piece will we learn, be got up with more care, and more show of art, than in this specimen, which is only a temporary illustration, for the use of Congress.

The three cent piece is an alloy of three-fourth silver, and one-fourth copper its weight twelve and three-eighth grains its diameter just midway betwen the gold dollar and the half-dime. The bill provides that its devices shall be conspicuously different from those of the other silver coins and consequently we have a radiated liberty cap on one side, and a wreath enclosing the Roman numerals III, on the reverse. It is also distinguished from the half-dime by a smooth border. It has the white appearance of pure silver. This coin is proposed as a convenient adaptation to the prices of many things, and to make change but there is also a special object contemplated in relation to it.

The country is weary of the worn out Spanish money, the fips, levies and quarters, which, for the last century nearly, have had so prominent a place in its currency, and which are all adapted to our decimal system. At the same time, every plan for forcing them to the crucible, as long as people hold them at their nominal value, or even a slight fraction under it, is sure to fail. The only resource left is to coax them to the mint, by exchanging them at the nominal value for national coin. This, however, could not be done with justice to the public treasury, without issuing, as many countries do, a miner coin, with a legal valuation somewhat higher than the intrinsic as the present cent is, and as the new cent will also be. As a matter bearing upon this proposition, the Director of the Mint, during the last winter, addressed circular letters to respectable dealers and others in various parts of the Union, inquiring into the frequency of the appearance of the Spanish small coins in currency, relatively to our own small coins.

There was no other way of basing an estimate of their actual amount, and this, it was believed, would give an approximation. The answers were tolerably accordant at least as to the Eastern, Middle and Western States and left the conviction that the Spanish quarters afloat, rather exceed in value our own quarters while the eighths and sixteenths will count at least half as much as our dimes and half-dimes. In all the period of our mintage, to the end of 1849, there have been issued, here and at New Orleans, In quarter dollars, $3,713,075 In dimes, 3,311,710 In half-dimes, 1,595,975 A California Tlie following is a list of the articles composing the cargo of the ship Potomac, W. A. Gardiner, master, bound for San Francisco from this port: 103 casks bacon, 20 boxes meat, 31 boxes and lObarrels bread, 420 barrels flour, 34 barrels dried fruit, 60 half barrels pork, 1 case cigars, 80 half, barrels brandy, 1 barrel Irish whiskey, 5 barrels beans, 200 boxes preserved meats, 12 boxes sardines, 12 kegs saiseratus, 10 sacks coffee, 1 hogshead sugar, 2 barrels loaf sugar, 132 boxes and casks of hardware machinery, 106 pieces of iron machinery, 144 pieces hollow ware, 14 grindstones 200 kegs shot, 50 kegs nails, 3 boxes axes, 1 box adzes, I bundle shovels and spades, 2 corn mills, 12 large iron wheels and shafts, 3 drays, 1 cart, 3 iron safes, 4 saws, 50,000 bricks, 60 boxes soap, 30 tons steam engine machinery, 3 large boilers, 112 boxes candles, 8 barrels spices, 109 cases dry goods and clothing, 39 trunks clothing, 2 boxes books, 37 cases dry goods, 21 cases hoots and shoes, 2 boxes tobacco, 8 cases furniture, 5 gold rockers and washers, 5 boxes saddlery and harness, t5 cases of scales, 2 pianos, 6 hammers, 1 anvil, I bellows, 17 tool chests, 100 mortars and pestles, 12 bales moss, 100 kegs paints, 100 sacks salt, 4 rolls carpetting, 25,000 shingles, 1000 clapboards, 9177 pieces of lumber, for house frames, Surely, there is here a great variety, and we doubt if in the land of notions they could load a ship with a larger assortment of more useful articles for the California market.

We hope to be able to record the departure of many similar cargoes during the next seasen. 2V. O. Picayune. From the N.

Tribune. Free Soil at "Washington. There was a whole volume of philosophy, Political and other, in tlie Army Order of tlie Great Frederick The commander of Cavalry who waits to be charged shall be cashiered. Waiting to be charged implies irresolution, dashes confidence, invites defeat. In the natural order of things, the party of Progress prevails; tlie party of passive resistance is vanquished.

The solid rock is vastly stronger than the trickling streamlet yet the latter wins upon, wears, and perforates the former. Movement is tlie talisman of success to lie in cold obstruction i3 the extreme of discomfiture is death. The present Session of Congress commenced with a decided majority of members certainly in the House ooiumitted to the principle of preserving all the Territory of our Union as Free Soil for a Free People. Not one hundred out of two hundred and thirty Members were or could have bocn elected except on the understanding that they were actively devoted to the Free Soil principle. And yet, when a proposition was made to affirm that principle, it was permitted to be voted down, because the mover was obnoxious and his motion ill timed.

This was a great mistake and a great disaster. It gave the Propagandists reason to believe that the Free States were not in earnest that they did not heartily desire to have the Territories shielded forever from Slavery. It dealt a blow to tlie cause of Freedom from which it has not yet recovered. That resolution should have been sustained no matter how unseasonable or who was the mover. And its supporters should not have been content with mere resolving The cause of Freedom had three points to make at this Session the Admission of California as a state, with her Constitution and chosen boundaries the organization of New Mexico with her ancient and rightful boundaries; and the application of the Wilmot Proviso to this and all other territory.

Admit that all these could not be carried, the way to secure as much as possible lay through claiming the whole at the outset, assuming the initiative, carrying the best bills possible through the House, and demanding the concur rence therein of the Senate. If it should prove necessary at last to sacrifice one to secure the other, that necessity would have been apparent, and would have amply justified those who submitted to it. But what have we seen Six months of the Session have nearly passed, and what has been done 1 There has been an attempt to affirm the Wilmot Proviso which failed; an attempt to pass a California Admission bill which was baffled an attempt to admit tbe Delegate from New-Mexico which was permitted to sink with scarcely a struggle. And, worst of all, there has been absolutely no earnest attempt to shield New-Mexico from tlie rapacity of Texas by affirming her natural and rightful boundaries Meanwhile, our Western and South-Western journals are freighted with such advices as the following, which we clip from the San Antonio Western Texan of the 2d inst. tUT The people of Texas will be gratified to hear that the County of El Paso has been duly or- aimed.

Maj. K. IS. Neighburs, in a letter, dated lona Ana, March 24, to a citizen of this place, says I have no doubt you will be plea-ed to learn that I have beon successful in orgamziu, this cun ty, (El Paso). Tbe election went ofl fine style, on the 4th day of March, and at seven: 1 ifie pre cincts, especially at this town, we had ball in honor of the extension of civil law.

Tins is a fine County, and has some 5.000 inhabitants. The County gave 760 votes, all of which were lor Austin except three for Huntsville, and one for Pan Anto. nio, and will pullover 1,000 vules at the next election. find no opposition here on the part of the United States authorities. Cot.

JMunroe has issued orders to alt the troops to sustain the lull's of Texas as soon as they are extended. 1 cannot tell how far 1 shail succeed in luy mission 1 find my means very inadequate. Hereupon the West-Texan proceeds to say It is well known that the General Government has failed to give the people of Santa Ke protection from the Indians surrounding them; that there is almost a daily loss of both life and property that they are constantly harassed and annoyed and would it not have been seemly in our Government, while demanding of them to submit to the laws our Legislature enacts, and to pay taxes for its support, to have extended to them some of the benefits to be derived from a connection with a regularly consti tuted Government, by sending a few companies of Rangers from this part of the State, and tlie authorizing among themselves as many more as may be necessary to give them entire protection from the savages, aud peaceable aud quiet possession under our laws of their lives and property The cost might be to the 8tate some few hundred thousand dollars, but the territory is worth to vs twice as many millions, and our title to it would have been questioned jornot another moment. Now it is in the face of facts like these that we are expected to keep quiet trust New Mexico to winks and nods that all will be right-with her and rest content with hurrahing 4 The Cuban Expedition. The New Orleans Delta of the 23d ult.

says the whole force of Gen. Lopez was not intended to exceed 2,000 men that they were to be of tried courage and skill, and to be organized and despatched in the most secret and quiet manner. These men, being all Americans, and having served in the Mexican campaigns, and being mostly armed with Jenning's patent rifles, would be, it was thought, more than a match for quadruple the Spanish force that could be brought against them. With this force it was Gen. Lopez's intention to throw himself upon some point where he has a number of friends, and by a coup de main to capture tke arsenals, of tlie Spaniards, seize the public funds, arouse the people, and invite all friends of liberty to rally around his standard.

In the selection and organization of this force. General Lopez relied chiefly on young Americans from the South and South-west. The troops which left New Orleans consisted of three regiments or battalions, of a few hundred men each. These were, at least, the only organized bodies that left that port. There were other detached parties which were to have sailed from Chagres, and others, still, that have departed from Texas and other parts of the United States, for the same destination.

These statements were made by the Delta before the intelligence of the landing of Gen. Lopez had been received. That was announced in New Orleans on the 25th. It is now pretty evident that the whole force did not exceed 600 men, and of course those other detached parties have no existenoe. JSS The Washington Union discovers a mares nest every day of the week and if its incubations do not hatch a buzzard, or an owl, a monkey, or an elephant, of some sort, it will not be for lack of labor.

Out of the one Galphin it has magnified a hundred, and has so twisted and turned inside out and outside in the original, that it seems to think nothing is good and genuine but a kick at the Administration generally, and General Taylor in particular. The last sitting of the venerable hen of the exorgan is upon the Cuba egg, and the result of the incubation is that there is "weakness, incapacity and ignorance in the men who conduct our public affairs." The proof of this is found in the fact, if fact it be, that the Administra tion has become the tool of the Southern monarchy, and upholds the cruel tyranny which Spain practices in the island of Cuba. Was ever a more monstrous or more deliberate falsehood perpetrated thaa this The Executive has done no more than lie was bound to do by his oath of office no more than law and public sentiment required him to do no more than what Mr. Van Buren, as the Chief Magistrate of the country, did during the Canadian frontier troubles, and what the editor of the Union supported him in doing. The Union loses no opportunity to side with the enimies of the country, and the enemies of liberty and of peace.

If respect is commanded for the Government, and for those who represent its honor and its interests, it declares, as in the case of the French Minister, that it is provoking a quarrel with France. If a treaty is made with Great Britain, the practical effect of which is to prevent the British from colonizing on our continent, itdeclares we are sold to the British. If good faith is maintained with a nation with whom we are at peace, as with Spain, and a prompt effort made to preserve the integrity of our flag, then the Administration is weak, incapable, incompetent, ignorant, monarchical, If the Government objects to fitting out skips armed for battle against a nation of Europe with whom we are at peace if it hesitates to wink at buccaneering and rapacity, why, forsooth, it is Austrian, Spanish, British, or something worse Nothing is done relative to our diplomacy in which the Union does not cry out, Fee, faw, fuin, 1 smell the blood of an English man. Dead or alive, 1 will have some. Let the Union put its fears to rest.

Old Zack will neither sell us to the British, the Spaniards, or anybody else, nor will he ever cry fifty-four forty or fight, and then back out. Well, will the venerable hen of the Union lay another egg, and give us a new brood of chickens -V. Y. Express. American Cotton.

Thedemand for American Cotton so far exceeds the supply, that an order from St. Petersburg, received by the last steamer, for four or five cargoes will have to go unanswered. The old stock has been diinin islied not alone by the deficiency of tbe crop which is very considerable, but by the expansion of the manufacturing system of Europe, and particularly of England. The Census Bill. have at length an official programme of the Census Schedules, and as early as possible the work under them will commence.

The Marshals and their troops of subordinates will be upon the wing, and light upon every city, village, hamlet, dwelling, owner, and occupant in the land. The deaf are expected to hear, the dumb to speak, and the blind to see. Slaveholders are to own upas to their slaves, and the cattle raiser as to his horses, mules, cows, oxen, etc. Age, sex, and color, all are to be answered for, and everything two-legged, four-legged, or nondescript, is to be enumerated. This custom of knowing all about everything is not agreeable to all minds, butit just suits the inquisitive spirit of the age, and is necessary to wise legislation and correct opinion.

Statistics is a science which teaches men more of men and things, moreof improvements made and which may be made, than anything else we wot of in the world. There is a moral in every one of them, whether they relate to creations animate or inanimate to productions of the land or machinery to the fruits of the earth or to capital, labor, education, health, or anything else. The Census Bill which has met the approval of of Congress has six schedules, and we shall refer briefly to each of them. The first relates to the free inhabitants, and the name of every one, with his abode on the 1st of June, is to be given. Profession, occupation, place of birth, married or single, age, deaf or dumb, pauper or convict, insane or idiot, white or black, nonability to read, if over 20 years of age, are all to be given.

Schedule two, relates to slave inhabitants, the owners of slaves and the number of slaves; the fugitives from the slave States, and the number manumitted, with their age, sex, color, and natural afflictions. Schedule three to productions of agriculture to the names of owners, agents, and managers the acres of land improved and unimproved the cash value of farm, and value of all farming implements the horses, mules, and asses the working oxen, milch cows, and other cattle; the sheep and swine; value of live stock, and of animals slaughtered during the year the bushels of wheat, beans, peas, buckwheat, barley, potatoes, (Irish and sweet; clover, grass seed, rye, corn, oats, flax seed, the pounds of rice and tobacco, the bales of ginned cotton, (400 lbs. each) the value of orchard products, market gardens, pounds of H. monopoly. Tlie Crops and tlie Country.

The crops do look fine. Farmers say the prospects are unprecedented so there is little danger of starvation, though if the tariff remains as it is we are likely to have little enough money. Well food is better, and though bad legislators may make bad laws, their power to legislate, fortunately, does not extend to the seasons, and seed time and harvest remain as usual in spite of the Tariff of 46. The meadows give promise of great quantities of hay, but the corn is backward. It is a grain that requires warmth.

Cobbett made an effort to introduce the growing of Indian corn into England, but failed. The climate was too cold and moist. Nature never looked gayer. If the dogwood were an exotic, what infinite admiration would be expended on its silver brilliancy, as it unfolds each calyx, white to excess as no fuller on earth can whiten. Then as a pretty contrast the Judas tree (flowers and no fruit) blushing like a young lady in a pink bonnet, gives variety to the scene.

Flowers flowers in every direction on the hill sides, in the fields and meadows. In the fissures of the rocks may be seen the delicate columbine and the tender anemone, on their summits rich masses of the phlox, known as mountain pink, and the green carpets amid the moss on the $8,620,760 So that, unquestionably, there is now six millions of dollars worth of small Spanish silver money in our currency. The weight of the proposed three-cent piece is so adjusted as to enable the government to make the exchange without loss to itself, and there will be none to the party applying. The bill provides that the three-cent pieces shall be paid out at the mint, and its branches, in exchange for those and some other varieties of small foreign silver coins current amongst us, but for no other kinds of coin or bullion. The effect of this provision any one can foresee.

Washington, June 1. What makes you think the Omnibus is kicked over upset in the mud Henry Clay seldom stalls when he himself is the team Sixteen Northern Senators, I am pretty well assured, will finally go for the OmniLu; if so many are necessary and more, not for the Omnibus per se, but for the Omnibus cut up into cabs. There is a growing impression among Northern men that this slavery question must he settled, and that if the settlement is put off, JYew Mexico will be blotted from the map by Texas. The raving animosity of the Southern nulli-fiers against all settlements creates a favorable disposition on the part of most Northern men to settle the excitement now. California on her admission to the Union.

The Alta Californian, in speaking of the delay in the admission of that State holds the following language: The position which the ultra Southern members have taken we do not believe will be sustained, but they are struggling with a determination worthy of a better cause it is their last death struggle, however, for should the question be decided against them slavery is restricted to certain limits, and they will by degrees become utterly extinct. cannot discover with what consistency the admission of California is opposed on this ground, when the sensible citizens of the South have for years admitted that slavery was an evil bequeathed to them by their ancestors, and of which they could not rid themselves, although they would be glad of an opportunity of doing so. And yet in the teeth of this argument they deny the right of California and her free citizens, collected equally from slave holding and non slaveholding States, ciding for themselves whether they will be inflicted with an acknowledged curse. been erected, on some bold eminence on the banks of The Father of Waters, a fitting monument to the memory of Robert Fulton. This is one of the things talked about, as the Home Journal would say.

But it has been all talk so far. We are glad to see a movement, in the direction of accomplishment, has just been made at Louisville. A meeting of citizens of Kentucky and Indiana was held in that city on the 18th to take into consideration the best means of erecting such a monument. It is proposed to place it on a bluff, on the West side of the Ohio, within the limits of the pur chase made by Fulton in 1813. This purchase embraced a front ou the river, upwards of two miles in length, and comprises many elevated and picturesque sites.

Hon. Elisha M. Huntington, of Indiana, has been chosen President of the Association. For Oregon. A company of seventy emigrants have left Taney county for Oregon.

They were well equipped with wagons, and had some 300 head of cattle, horses, The origin of this emigration is told in the Osceola Independent. A few years ago, two youths destitute of worldly goods, made their way to Oregon. There they remained until attracted to California by tlie gold discoveries. They were among the first to reach there amassed money enough to place them in affluence, returned this spring to their old neighbors, gathered up the household of their fathers and their neigh, bors, and all are now on tlieir journey to Oregon. St.

Louis Hid. Liquid Gold. On Tuesday, the 28 ult. there was melted down, and cast into ingots for roll- Correspondence of the Examiner Herald. New York, June 1, 1850.

What is the everlasting Yankee Nation about, that some measures are not taken to forward notions to the great worlds fair, to be held in London next year. Have we been all brag about our wooden nutmegs and other prolific productions in Connecticut. Pianos. Pumpkins, Watches, and Steam Ships of New York; Bottles, Pottery, Shad, Melons, Cabbage and Peaches of New Jersey Pig Iron, Pot Metal, Cotton Yam, Carpets, Cut Glass and Fire Engines, of Pennsylvania, together with sundry manufactures of the South and West. If our ingenious friends intend to astonish the they must be up and doing, or if they are all talk and no meaning with it, they must after this hold their tongues.

It is anticipated that the exhibition will be of a magnificent description, and as nations will vie with each other in all that is useful or ornamental, either in the Arts and Sciences, we hope some of our citizens who have hitherto contended at our State fairs with credit to themselves, will have courage enough to try their skill with the old countries, and endeavor to show that Jonathan can do a little besides boast. Last week our respected friends the Broadbrims, held their annual meeting, and as usual the heavens poured down during their stay, except one day. It has got to be a common saying that the Friends bring wet weather, and it seems to be the case, for whenever they assemble in this city Tain is sure to accompany them. They closed their session on Friday, and left us on Saturday, since then the weather has been charming. The Cuban expedition has failed in every sense of the word, and the piratical flag which floated on the top of the Son buildings, has been ignominiously hauled down, or hooted down, for from the day it was unfurled it has furnished food for mockery to both men and boys.

Sufferers in the Plainfield explosion thought if the money the flag cost, and the immense sums paid for extra telegraphic news from the pirates had been paid over to them in good money, it would have been more honorable to the Beaches; and afforded comfort and bread to many poor people. How some men professing to be overflowing with philanthrophy, can spend their money in extending the area of freedom to those who do not want it, and at the same time can deliberately sit down and rob the widow and orphan, and shave the poor mechanic with worthless Wild Cat, pass-eth my understanding. This may be patriotism, but it is certainly dishonest. What a beautiful contrast is the manner Mr. Grinnell has taken to show his patriotism to that of the individuals about the Sun office.

The two vessels fitted out by Mr. Grinnell, to go in search of Sir John Franklin and his brave men, departed a few days ago. They have left our shores with the good wishes of millions, and whether successful or not, the worthiness of the cause will be a lasting memorial to the name of the projector. The quick passage of the Asia has been much discussed by those interested in the steam marine. It is believed by those who have studied this subject thoroughly, that steam navigation has arrived at its highest perfection.

Extraordinary short passages of nine or ten days may occasionally be made but it is believed that the vessel will never be built that will make average passages of eleven days, for one year, between this port and Liverpool. The Asia left Liverpool at 1 P. on the 18th, and arrived in Boston on the 27th at 1 P. being precisely ten days, beside going into Halifax and landing her passengers and mails, which of course was a detention of several hours from the regular course. The Atlantic was to leave Liverpool on the 29th, and may be expected to arrive on the 10th, which will give her twelve days to make her voyage irect.

Since the arrival of the Asia, our produce markets have been quite animated. Corn has advanced 5 to 6 and large quantities are being shipped to Europe. This advance has come quite opportune, and our farmers and merchants are taking advantage of it. It was requisite some demand for produce should take place in some quarter, as the exportations for California have almost ceased, and there are large stocks on hand throughout the interior. KESWICK.

For the Examiner k. Herald Spring Grove, May 28th, 1850. Allow me to call the attention of your numerous subscribers, mostly farmers I presume, to the address, from the Philadelphia Agricultural Society, to the Farmers of Pennsylvania. Published on the fourth page of this paper. It is a matter of surprise to me, that the object the address proposes has not long since been accomplished.

Hitherto, however, there may have been some excuse for non-action, in the proverbial caution which generally prevents farmers from engaging in new schemes, and untried experiments but now, since we have seen the Agricultural Interest of so many of our sister States beuetitted to a very important degree, by the formation of State and County Agricultural Societies, the advantage of such societies cannot be considered doubtful and it would be doing rank injustice, I think, to the intelligence of the great mass of farmers in the State, to suppose that the invitation now extended to them, to meet in Convention at Harrisburg, for the formation of a State Society, will be neglected. In the proposed Convention, it would ill-become Lancaster County, the "Garden of Pennsylvania as it has been term-ed, to be unrepresented. I would, therefore, suggest to the farmers of this county the propriety of assembling in Lancaster this fall, say on the third Tuesday in November, for the purpose of appointing suitable delegates to represent them in Harrisburg the ensuing January. Hoping that these crude remarks may elicit some expression of feeling of the farmers of this county towards the proposed Convention, 1 remain, yours, W. B.

J. For the Examiner Herald. A MATHEMATICAL QUESTION. If the greatest diameter of an ellipsis is fifty five feet, and its transverse forty, what is its Euperfiees? Gazette. Rev.

John New land Mafeit. The death of this celebrated pulpit orator is announced as having occurred on. Saturday, the 25th ult. at Mobile. AY are not informed of the cause of his death, which is stated te have been sudden He has been preaching for over a year past in the Southern States, principally in Mobile, and it is understood with something of the brilliant popular success which marked the early stages of his public career in this country.

Few men, any sphere of action, have displayed more fascinating powers of oratory, and his eminence in this respect, combined with many erratic traits of character, have given a wide celebrity to his name. Distressing Calamity. On Friday, May 24, the house of Alpheus Earl, in China, St. Clair co. was burned, and aged mother and two children perished in the flames.

The daughter of the old lady, who had been at the east, reached the spot the day of the Another Invention. Mr. Charles Dawson, of 395 Strand, London, has constructed an instrument capable of performing mechanically an unlimited number of musical compositions. It is called the Autephon. The inventor in describing it says Though it can play no musio of itself, it can play any music that may be arranged on a sheet of paper supplied to it, returning tbe sheet uninjured when tlie piece is done, to be again inserted if a repetition be desired, or to be replaced by a fresh sheet if another be required.

From tlie descriptions we have seen of this invention, it appears to be constructed on the principle of the barrel cheese and butter, flax, hops, silk cocoons and hanks, show where lately bloomed tlie frag-maple sugar, tons of water and dew rotted rant eptgocu so often born to blush unseqn. hemp, hogsheads of sugar (1000 lbs. each) The showy honey-suckle is opening into full gallons of molasses, and value of home made bloom, and the dark foliage among the manufactures. rocks, shows where the many-tinted laurel Schedule four, names the products of indua-1 and the gorgeous rhododendron will soon try, the name of each corporation, company, display new beauty. The Press.

In the charge of Judge Betts upon Jhe duties whieh every citizen owes to his government to aid it in performing in good faith the obli gations of its treaties, he regretted that any of the press should pursue a course calculated to create jealousy and animosity with friendly powers, and spread the persuasion that we, as a people, are animated by feelings of hostility towards them, and disposed to encourage and even engage in open acts of war upon their territories. Yet, he said, the right of individuals or collected masses to declare and publish unreservedly their opinions in those matters cannot be repressed or called in question through any action of the criminal courts. The bright butter-cups, the delight of children, shine in green meadows, and wild geraniums, nod among the waving grass, to the passing breeze. Millions of little hous- Tlie Parker Murder, Manchester, N. II.

Monday, May 27, 1850. The Wentworths (Asa and Henry) arrived here yesterday afternoon about 4 oclock, in custody of Sheriffs Dearborn and Goodwin, of Exeter, and Sheriff Lamprey, of Hampton, as stated in to-days Bee. They were retained at Exeter over Saturday night, and on Sunday morning at 10 oclock, they were taken by private conveyance across the county to Manchester. They are both in custody at the City Hotel, there being no prison nearer than Amherst 12 miles distance. Horace Wentworth, who was arrested at Lowell, and Win.

C. Clark are in custody at the Manchester House. Last evening Horace expressed a wish to see his brothers, Asa and Henry. His request was granted. When he passed into his brothers room at tlie City Hotel, Henry, who was out in the entry conversing with some friend who had called to see him, looked up, but as soon as he discovered Horace lie went to conversing again, and it was not till after he was sent for that he went into the room where Horace was.

The meeting is said to have been a very cool one. Henry asked Horace if he had written to their mother, telling her about their trouble; Horace replied that lie had not; that he had not written to any one that they (the officers) would not let him see any one, and that he did not desire any person to see him. He is reported to have said that all he cares about is to get his own neck out of the scrape I Thursday morning is decided upon as the time when the examination will commence. Horace and Clark demand a full examination. Asa and Henry have been advised by counsel to hear the Government without putting in any defense.

Asa insists upon making liis own defense and doing his own cross questioning, hut he will probably be persuaded out of that idea before the time for examination arrives. Clark still insists that he can prove an alibi. He appears to be greatly troubled in mind about something probably as to how he shall prove his alibi. Car. Boston Bee.

or individual producing annually articles of the value of $500, each kind of business, capital invested in real and personal estate quantity, kind, and value of raw material used, including fuel, the kind of motive power, the average number of hands employed, the number and cover Wltl a whlto every elc cost of male and female labor, and the annual nation, and the graceful May-apple, keep, quantity, kind, and value of each product. ng with its fellows in some choice spot Schedule five relates to social statistics, os cherishes its single but beautiful blossom the aggregate value of real and personal estate How nicely the shrftbbery about the farm the State, county, parish, town, and road tax; houses looks quince trees in full bloom, the colleges, academies, schools, free and other- and the pink and white lilacs. And then wise the amount raised for schools, and receiv- tbe garden, what beds of tulips that pride Consecration. According to announcement, the new Episcopal church, in Columbia I ing, in the melter and refiner's department of was consecrated to the worship of God on the Mint, about seven hundred thousand dol-Tuesday morning last. Bishop Potter, of the lars worth of gold; and on the same day, of gold Pennsylvania Diocess, performed the service, preparatory for assay, there was melted nearly assisted by Revs.

Mr. Bowman, of Lancaster, one hundred thousand dollars more. The whole Mr. Thompson, of York, Mr. Lyman, of Pitts- weight was about 3600 pounds; and if rolled burg, and the pastor of the church, D.

E. Lv- into a sheet a3 a half-eagle, would yield 545 man. The consecration sermon was preached square feet. In these three dimensions, of val by Rev. Mr.

Lyman, of Pittsburg, who dwelt ue, weight, and superfices, tlie days work makes principally in his remarks on the true nature of a very respectable brag. If we present it in worship. Our unfavorable position, in conse- solid measurement, however, the story is almost quenceof the number present, prevents us from spoiled. Imagine it all fluid at once, and yet giving a synopsis of the discourse. In our it could easily be contained in a royal foot-bath next we may give a description of the building, of three cubic feet.

Bulletin. and such facts connected with the origin, pro- Painful Accident. About 9 oclock this gress.and completion of the church as will no morning, a most painful accident occurred in a Our Yankee friends, says the N. O. Bulletin, can do other fixins besides making coffee out of peas.

Late in the season, last summer, we were conversing with a gentleman at his store door when he observed, pointing to a large lot of buckwheat meal which was tiered up, in quarter and half barrels, that he had just sold all of it at a very low price, for shipment to Boston, and upon our inquiring of the purchaser, who was standing with us what was the object of sending such an article to the North, particularly as it was no doubt sour, and of course unfit for its usual use, he replied, 1 rather guess a good part of it will come back in the form of ground mustard, ginger, pepper, garden and of every hue. of lettuce, and onions, in forwardness, calculated to bring into the eyes of all admirers much cultivated and evident- ed for them from public funds; tbe libraries and newspapers the public paupers, and their color, birth, and cost Sunday schools the churches, their names, and tlie number each will accommodate the criminals convicted and in prison during the year the average of wages by the year, month and day, and whether with ty PPular bulb, or without board; and the average and short crops. Schedule six, asks for the name of every person who died during the year; the age, sex, color, whether married or single, month of death, place of birth, disease, profession, or trade. Thus ends the list, comprising ninety-two questions in the six schedules. The informa- of the country See the meadows a state of tears of gratitude of that Reported for JUt' The become revived.

been held, and of joining in. similar to that will only cost ten tbe Examiner Herald. Lancaster, June 4, 1830. Lancaster Fencibles bid fair to Two meetings have already about 50 signified their intention The uniform will be nearly worn by tlie regular army, aud house in the rear of No. 170, Orchard street.

A Mr. Joseph Stone, who had been carrying a pistol in his pockets, pulled the weapon out to put it away, but while doing so, the lock caught in his clothes, and the pistol went off, and shot his wife. There were 15 shots in it at the time, doubt prove interesting. Spy. Drowned.

J. IV. Fisher, Deputy Cor oner, held an inquest, on Thursday evening last, over the body of Burd Ropp, a boy aged about twelve years, who was drowned at Marietta four weeks ago. To the parents of the boy, the loss against Mr. Clays Compromise.

We cannot do it. That Compromise is not to our taste we want no compromise at all unless we are forced to one for tlie rescue and security of New Mexico. If those leading Members of Congress who are now forging thunderbolts to hurl at the Omnibus had acted promptly, heartily, wise ly, from the beginning of the Session, they might have dictated terms instead of submitting to them. But they have trifled, shuffled, dallied trusted to the chapter of accidents, until it is quite probable that the Proviso will have to be waived and an exorbitant bonus paid to Texas to rescue New-Mexico from her clutches. And still they wait, and grumble, and let California and New-Mexico be bustled aside for a month at a time, and never bring tlie House to a vote on tlie Boundary which Texas has already overleaped, and is now busy forming Slave Counties out of tlie Free Soil of New-Mexico Is this a time for the gabble of Non-Intervention If they mean any tiling, why not do something, or at least try Rely on it, whenever the question shall take this shape that either New-Mcxiio must be surrendered to Texas, or the Cornpro mise taken as a whole, the latter will betaken.

We have no doubt that, in that case, it should be. Now if the leaders in the House who profess such anxiety to defeat the Compromise bill are sincere, let them show it by their works Let them pass the California bill, admit the Delegate from New-Mexico, or at least establish the Boundary between the latter and Texas If they either cannot or will not do these, or at all events the last of them, they render the passage of the Omnibus plan if not inevitable, at least in our judgment desirable. or twelve dollars. The com-tion expected is as to the year ending June 1, 1 pany expects to be ready for parade by the 4th 1850. Should all the information here enumer- of uly.

ated be received, it is plain enough that the jSS-The building of the new Presbyterian country will not only be much wiser than it is, church has already been commenced, and is ex-but be put in the possession of knowledge which pected to be completed by the first of Novem- is peculiary distressing, as we understand that which lodged in the right side of her head.be-this is the third child they have lost from the hind her ear. She fell to the floor senseless. A same cause. Verdict death from accidenta physician was sent for, who dressed the wound, drowning. Spy.

and she may probably recover. He was arres- ted by Officer Morris, of the Chiefs Office, and Fisher, held an inquest on mor(J abmt tban the wound big Thursday afternoon, on the body of a white wifc had recM HewastakenbeforeJusf.ee Timpson, but a certificate from the Doctor who male child, found in the barn of Henry Wortz, may be turned to a most useful account. in Washington. A post mortem examina I ber. When finished it will be the largest place of worship in the city.

The Congregation meets in the Lutheran Sunday School Room until their building is completed. Fire. A flouring mill, saw mill and several attended his wife, exonerating him from blame, and stating it to be an accident, was handed in, and he was released. JY. Y.

Sun. A Large Family. A venerable gentleman and his lady, and their descendants, sixty in nnmber, from Cooper, Me. arrived at this port on Wednesday in the steamer Admiral, on their way to St. Anthonys Falls, Minnesota.

The family of one of their sons numbers twelve tion was made by Drs. Asm. and H. H. Bit-ner who stated that the child lived after its birth.

The jury returned a verdict of death by means unknown. The supposed mother of the child, will be arrested and probably have a hearing to-day. spy B'Counterfeit half dollars are in circula- A Countryman of his Money. Nearly a week since an aged Swiss gentleman, named David Boarman, residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, who was in New York for the purpose of purchasing goods, in passing up Broadway, called into a Mock Auction Shop with the intention of purchasing articles of fancy dry goods which were being knocked off, as he thought, at exceedingly low rates. The first article upon which he offered a bid was a piece of Irish linen, that was soon sold to him, and as he was paying for the same he exhibited a wallet well stuffed with bank bills, which a fellow acting as book-keeper in the concern took a particular fancy to, and in order to obtain possession of the treasure, said to Mr.

Boarman, I am a little deficient in funds just now I wish you would lend me $50 for a short time, and I will soon return it to you. The proposition was acceded to, and the clerk, by similar means, obtained from the old gentleman the sum of $208,46, it being all the money he had with him. After that part of the financiering was accomplished, the proprietors of the shop sold to their victim various articles of goods, and for each piece thus bought they would charge him in the bill with fifteen or twenty times the amount, and in this manner the bill was soon run up to the exact amount of the money obtained. They then presented him with the bill of goods and at the same time produced a package containing the goods, which was probably worth about $50, which they told him was what he had bought with his money. Mr.

Boarman refused to accept of the bundle, and after waiting ou promises over a week, yesterday made a complaint before the Chief of Police, who, after hearing the history of the case, dispatched Capt. AA'iley of the First AVard Police, to demand of the watch and dry-goods stuffers a return of the money. The Captain soon returned, having been successful in his mission of mercy, and handed over the money to Mr. Boarman, who was so grateful for his good luck that he could not find language to express his gratitude, and soon left the office fully resolved never again to be done brown by the Gothamites. British Iron.

Immense quantities of foreign iron are coming into New York, and we hear of six thousand tons imported by one New York house to meet home orders I other smaller buildings, on Mill Creek, East thus, the freight excepted, (and much of it Lampeter township, in this county, belonging comes, in foreign bottoms) taking a quarter to Benjamin Eshleman, were, on last of a million of dollars to Great Britain for Thursday evening, burnt to ashes. It is an article as easy of manufacture, and as probable the fire originated in the Mill, by the natural to our land of minerals, as flour or friction of 80me of the Machinery -PL a nnn and barn came near sharing the same fate, the corn. The importation of these 6,000 tons 6 latter building having caught several times of iron is an occurrence not of one week, hut during the progress of the flames, and was only of many, and they contribute vastly to the by the 8imost auperhuraaa exertions of foreign debt which we are just now so large-1 the neighbors present. There was quantity ly increasing. The price of railroad iron I of grain stored in the mill, which, with all the is very low in England, but is kept up to books and valuable papers, was entirely de-about per ton here, by the heavy stroyed, making the loss to Mr.

Eshleman a freights. The Erie Railroad Company alone heavy one. The property was insured to the have received ten thousand tons of British I amount of $4,000, but this sum is not sufficient iron since the 1st of April, at New York, and three thousand tons at Quebec, to be landed at Dunkirk via the Welland Canal. N. Y.

Express. for the loss. Jffl' The Druids' Hall will again be open for exhibition in a week or two, when those citizens who failed to see it a few weeks ago, will have an From the Teachers Magazine Parochial Schools. The system of parish schools, adverted to in the March No. of the Magazine, deserves attention not for its excellence, but because it is a direct at.

tack on the existing Common School system. It is a retrograde movement, which, if universally adotped, would lead to most disastrous ends. If one church or society of Christians finds it neces. sary to withdraw from the general educational plan, why not another? why not all? Each denomination has its own peculiar doctrinal views, which, if insisted on, would demand equal separation from others; and in the event 0 all acting on the parochial princple, what wouldf the end bel Evidently the destruction of our present republican method of education. To whom will the Presbyterian rhurches bequeath their share in the Common Schools? They propose to establish a purer order under their supervision.

They leave the mass to take care of themselves other communions take the alarm and leave also. In consequence, the laws become null and void; the he schools die, and ignorance claims those who re so unhappy as to be outside the hallowed pre-cincts of a sect May such a consummation never be and that it may not eventually occur, let every one, loving his country and the institutions of freedom, look coldly on a movement so calculated to cast odium on one of our most republican institutions. Common Schools are the only places where sectarian distinction meets a rebuke, and when we see how distasteful they are to the bigotted of all denominations, we know by this proof they are just what the world needs, to shake down the old foundations of aristocracy and caste, in matters of common weal, and lift the mass of society to the level of educational privileges. The Parochial system declares war on our present mode of instruction, as may be seen by its practical effects and deserves opposition for the boldness of its attacks let lovers of the good of their country oppose themselves to this formidable array of false orthodoxy and stand up in support of the cause of the people, so embodied in the admirable system of Common Schools. C.

M. Death of another South Carolina Senator. lion Franklin II. Elmore, U. S.

Senator, from South Carolina, died, at Washington city, on Wednesday night, of consumption. Coming so soon after the decease of Mr Calhoun, whom he succeeded, the event is of an unusually impressive character. Mr Elmore has had an uneventful career os a statesman. He was in the Congress of 1837 -39, but since that has been out of political life, filling the office of President of the Bank of South Carolina. On the 10th of April he was appointed by Governor Seabrook to fill tlie vacancy in the Senate, occasioned by Mr Calhouns death.

He took his seat as a Senator, April 18th, and his career has terminated in six weeks after taking his seat, and not quite two months after the death of his predecessor. Mr Elmore was a warm disciple of the Calhoun school of politics. His talents were respectable, but not brilliant. It was difficult to find a successor to Mr Calhoun. The untimely removal of Mr Elmore will increase the embarrassment of South Carolina, in obtaining a champion during the present exciting period.

Tilings in Philadelphia. The Loco-Foco candidate for Canal Commissioner, William T. Morrison, is from Montgomery Co. He is a member of the present Legislature, of medium talent and but little known beyond his own vicinity. Though his nomination was confirmed unanimously, I cannot believe that he will be unanimously supported by his party.

He was nominated by the Cameron influence after many unsuccessful attempts to get Mr. Hubley. During the ballotings Saml Overshine and Lawyer Ronkin, as he is sometimes called, two noted Loco-Focos, were oharg-ed with having attempted the virtue of Mr J. S-Donahue, a Delegate from our County. A Committee was appointed to investigate, whose verdict was Overshine and Rankin guilty some, Donahue none.

The facts in evidence were that Donahue borrowed $180 from 0. R. as he was short of funds, but nothing that squinted toward a requst that D. should vote for Hubley was elicited. The only point that puzzles me is, if D.

wanted $180 to bring him home from Williamsport, getting out of change, how many thousand did he carry with him for traveling expenses went there and back again last Summer, remained a week and it did not cost us the total of $20. Mr. Y. Humphries, one of our enterprising forwarding merchants, of the firm of Humphries, Dutill died very suddenly last evening. About 9 oclock he stepped into Congress Hall and took a seat, looking so badly that a gentleman present asked if he required assistance.

No answer was returned, but Mr. H. fell back in tbe chair and expired instantly probably from an affection of tbe heart. Mr. H.

was much esteemed for his business probity and enterprise. A lad, named Jolin Cassidy, nine years of age, while playing with others in an old Tannery, corner of Fourth and Willow streets, commenced excavating with their hands the bottom of one of the vats, the frame work of which had been removed or rotted away. This brought the loose earth down, covering several of the boys, and when Cassidy was found ho was dead with his neck broken. The Police officers of the Northern Liberties have been armed, and Mayor Wilkinson has prohibited the ringing of all bells on fire companies houses, the alarm to he given only by a Hall bell, selected for the purpose. Fire-Damp Explosion at Pottsville.

A fire-damp explosion took place at Pottsville on Tuesday morning, at the mines of Bainbridge Byerson, on Mill Creek, near Port Carbon, as the operatives were going in to their work. Thirteen of the men were burned badly. tion in Columbia a number having been pas- males, and another the same number of females, sed ti differant persons on Thursday last. They Boston Atlas. are well executed, but may easily be detected Powder ExpIosion.

A boat loaded with from their weight and sound. Spy. railroad iron took on board a quanity of pow der at Frankfort, near Utica, on the 31st ult, Indian Numerals. and two of the hands went amidships, supposed Some singular developments appear on this witb tbe intention of stealing some of the pow- subject in the inquiries which are making under i the authority of Congress at the Indian Bureau. der i one of the had a bShted PPC frm It is found that while we are paying large an- if is thought the powder ignited, producing a nuities to many of the tribes who are still in terrible explosion, making a complete wreck of the mere hunter or barbaric state, these tribes tbe boat and severely, if not fatally, injuring do not comprehend the simplest rules of addi-tion and division.

None of them have the tw0 men' slightest idea of mental arithmetic. Theycan- Deaths by Drowning. On the 17th not multiply or divide a figure. And they have aQ interegting daughter of Mr. Gabriel Spatz no clear appreciation of even moderate sums, of say five or ten thousand dallars, unless the op Pnn township, Berks between 4 and pieces of coin are spread out before them.

But years of age, was drowned iu the Union Canal, for all large sums they are in the dark, and are near her fathers residence. An inquest was opportunity of examining it. All the furniture and fixings have an antique and rustic appearance, and to those curious in such matters will amply repay a visit. By close inspection the goat can be seen peeping out from the The Locofoco Nominations. The Loco foco State Convention at Williamsport has nominated William T.

Morrison of Montgomery county, a member of the last Legislature, for Canal Commissioner Ephraim i ceiling, but as he is perfectly docile no fears Banks, of Mifflin, for Auditor General and need be entertained of his harming any one. J. Porter Brawley, of Crawford, for Survey- At a meeting of the Commissioners of or General. the Manheim, Petersburg, and Lancaster Plank Road or Turnpike Company, in this city Gov. Johnston has offered a reward ofl Monday, a Committee was appointed to pro $1000 for the detection and conviction of the ceed to New york to obtain information rel-murdereror murderers of Cornelius Moon the construction, cost, of Plank watchman of Moyamensing, who was shot Roada aml report to an adjourned meeting of down in the performance of his duty a few tha commissioners on the 17th inst.

The nights ago. The Governor is determined to put a stop, if possible, to the Philadelphia riots. periority of these roads over every other, has been fully proved by practical demonstration Iron in New York. The Clinton County Whig has an article, which we give the greater part below, showing how the high price of Cotton, gor something quite as potent, operates in that County. The AVhig says From a carefully prepared table we learn that on the Saranac river there are 41 forge fires.

Of these only 20 were in use on the 1st January last, and 14 of this 20 have stopped since the 1st of May. The number of hands employed at these 20 fires was 255 the number of tuns bloom iron made annually, over 3,000 of bar iron 550 tons the number of horses and cattle employed, 118 the number of ore beds worked, the agricultural products used annually, over $100,000 ana the capital employed $224,000. In the above number of hands employed, agricultural products used, these employed in making coal, working ore beds, are not included. Each person employed supports on the average five persons in his family. All can perceive that the business of these 20 fires (now reduced to 6) is of great advantage especially to the laboring and farming interests of tbe county, and every one should be ready to do all in his power to secure for it that protection which will not only foster and sustain it, but also put into full blast the remainder of the 41 fires now out of use.

Beside these we have on Salmon river 18 fires 10 only of which are now in use. On the Ausable, within this county, are 54 fires. have no memorandum of the number out of blast on that river. Each of these fires when in full use, of course employs its proportion of hands, feeds its proportion of their families, consumes its proportion of the products of the form, and uses its proportion of coal and ore and with a good market would bring into our midst a remunerating price for all these. It is useless to say one word upon the policy of protection, as it regards this particular interest, the value of that policy being known and acknowledged of all men of all parties.

IV have a right to speak on this subject to our law-makers in AV ashington, and we have the assurance that if we speak with the earnestness which should be excited by our sad experience, our prayers will be heard. Mutilated Bank Notes. 111 a suit brought against the City Bank of Montreal, on a two dollar note, of which payment had been refused, on the ground that it had been cut and mutilated by some party, with a view of making, by a certain combination of pieces, a larger number of notes than was originally issued, Judge Bruneau, of the Circuit Court, after a days deliberation gave judgement in favor of the bank. entirely unable to understand mental division. Some of them cannot count a thousand.

Bundles of small sticks, tied up, is the ordinary mode of counting. Their arithmetical root is clearly decimal. Five fingers on each hand, held up, is a decimal five toes on each foot, appealed to, converts this into a vingtigesimal. There are separate words for the digits, from one to ten. Mi-tes wa.

The nine former are then added after the latter to nineteen. Twenty is denoted by a new term, mi tun-a. The digits from one to nine are then added to this word till twenty-nine. Thirty 19 a compound meaning three next morning that they ascertained the cause tens forty, four tens, and so on, to ninety- of his disappearance, by finding his dead body nine One hundred is a new term, twank. in the brick-pond.

An inquest was held by The terms one, two, three, uttered before rr 1 this, render the count exact to one thousand, Andrew kurr, and a verdict rendered which is called a great twank, and the samel accordance with the facts we have stated, prefixture of the names for the digits can be repeated to ten thousand. This is the Algon-, quin mode. But the pieces of money, or things "urJ in case of Nicholas trial of any kind, must be shown, to enable them to for murder, yesterday returned the verdict of understand the sum. There is no rule of mnl- guilty of murder in the second degree tiulication, division, There is absolutely I -i, no mental appreciation of sums. This denotes ninety-nine years lmpris-how carefully, how simple and pains-takingly onment in tlie penitentiary.

The prisoner bc-moncy transactions should be conducted with lived that he would be found guilty, but had the Indians, and how liable they are to misun- fiied the term of confinement ia liis own mind derstand otters made for their lands, and to r. misapprehension or deception. a en ear3- Even this, he frequently of late The more advanced tribes are better arith- complained to the jailor, Mr Martin, bethought Dieticians. They have profitted by education, a more severe punishment than the crime aland more by intermixture of races. The Choc- lcged to bim called LouU InteUieen.

taws have native terms to ten hundred thou- sand. By adopting, at this point, tlie English terms million anil billion, with a peculiar Note Signed on Sunday. A defence was orthography, they can compute higher. The get up against the payment of a note, in Boston, agent tor the Cherokees reports original terms for very high sums-whicli, however, there is last wfk that ll was ftnJ Paul over reason to believe, not one in a thousand of the 8 Sunday, lyliich the Court held to be a good common people understands. defence Manufacture of Diamonds.

The Paris correspondent of the London Times says: The scientific world has been in a state of commotion during the whole week, in consequence of the publication of the discovery of the long sought for secret of the fusion and crystallization of carbon. The Sorbonne has been crowded for the last few days to behold the result of this discovery in the shape of a tolerably-sized diamond of great lustre, which M. Desprezt, the happy discoverer, submits to the examination of every chemist and savant who chooses to visit him. He declares that so long ago as last autumn he had succeeded in producing the diamond, but in such minute particles as to be visible only through the microscope, and, fearful of raising irony and suspicion, he had kept the secret, until, by dint of repeated experiments and great labor lie had completed the one he offers to public view. Four solar lens, of immense power aided by tlie tremendous galvanic pild of the Sorbonne, have been the means of producing the result now before us.

The diamond produced is of the quality known in tlie East as theblackdiamond, onesinglc specimen of which was sold by Prince Rostostoff to the late Duke of Duke of York, for the enormous sum of twelve thousand pounds. j)- Some days since an Irishman wlio was drunk, went into a drug store in Rochester, Beaver county, and asked for some medicine. The young man in the store told him he could not have it till he got sober. This enraged him, and he drew a knife andstabbed the young man iu the neck, causing his death almost instantly. The Irishman was arrested.

wherever they have been introduced. Martic disappearance, created so it has the living, have made for the benefit The Richmond Whig 8ay3 hear loud complaints from the country about tbe scarcity of Tobacco plants. In some countries, they say it is not possible to make half a crop and every where the crop must be late on ac-oount of the smallness of the plants. The city of Philadelphia continues to be disgraced by the riots of her firemen. The latest occurrence of the kind is thus noted in the Bulletin About one oclock this (F riday morning, an organized party of armed rioters, forced open the door of the Moyamensing Hose house, in Eighth street below Fitzwater, with a crow-bar, and quietly took out the new carriage of this company.

Then muffling the bells, they noise-lessly proceeded with the apparatus out Fitzwa-ter street, to the corner of Long Lane and Prime street. i atter cuttng and slashing to pieces the hose that was on the cylinder, they built a hot wilh wood from a brick rJihtUTDt, The watchman of the Dmtrict attempted to prevent the mischief but were threatened with death by the perpetrators of the outrage, and were obliged to retire- Fly tN the Wheat. We regret to learn from our Maryland exchanges, that the fly has appeared in the wheat, and in some places greatly injured it. The Centreville Sentinel says the wheat in that vicinity has been attack- ed, but the crop is probably too far advanced to I been ascertained1 is among be materially injured. The Cambridge Demo-crat says the fly has greatly injured the wheat that county, within few days past.

The Easton Star says the prospect for a heavy yield of wheat in that county never was better, altho there are some complaints of the ravages of the fly. Thomas Johnston, late of whose 11 sudden and mysterious about two months ago, much excitement and speculation, in Ohio. Mr. Johnston and wife an assignment of their property of their creditors. New York Dairies.

There to statistics in Ewbanks forthcoming The Western Travel. AAe are glad to learn that the Pennsylvania Railroad is to be opened to Huntingdon on the 10th instant, alter which time, the enterprising proprietors of the Pioneer and Express Packet Line will run two daily lines between this city and Pittsburg, the whole distance being accomplished, in comfortable cars and commodious boats in the short space of fifty-three hours. This will be a gratifying announcement to the travelling public, with whom the Pennsylvania route is daily growing in favor as its advantages and conveniences are understood. Daily News. are, according report, 1,000,000 milch cows in N.

York, which on the Church Destroyed by Lightning. The I average yield in" dairy product $20 per year Congregational meeting house in Leominster, for each head, and competent judges estimate was struck by lightning on Monday the gross value of the dairy product of the morning and entirely consumed. gtate at 50,000,000 per year. Mr. E.

AV. Hutter, formerly editor of tlie Intelligencer of this city, was licensed to preach the gospel by the German Lutheran Synod, of this State, at its recent session at Pottsville. I I.