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LANCASTER EXAMINER AND HERALD. (gyamincrQcifliti. LANCASTER, Pa. S. The 1 At an elwlton MhLMCMter and Litiz Haines, Wra.

M. Meredith I Turnpike Road on Wednesday Nov. 6ihf bers, have also been mentioned in con- f0 lowing officers were elected, viz nection with this post. There willbeabun- I PRESIDENT Emanuel Shaeffer, Treasu-dant material from which to select a first rer Jacob B. Tshudy, Managers John cpnator Dougherty, Thos.

Baumgardner, Adam Keller John Hohstetter, Christian H. Rauch, Chris- OC? Slips containing the latest election tian Kreiter, John H. Spickler. news can be obtained at this office. Can this be True? The Rev.

Theodore WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1848. v. Parker, it is said, stated in his sermon otl Sunday, that there was a court in Boston which contained sixteen tenements, each of which contained several families, and that of the children born in this court, one-half were born blind, and the eyes of the other half are more or less defective. Wonderful Case A post mortem cxamina-tion of the body of John Hays, who died at Philadelphia hospital from the effects of a pistol wound, received two days previous showed that A new Post Office has been established I the ball had lodged near the lower extremity of in Fulton township, called Rock and Mr. the heart, a small portion of which as found to Fine GrapeS.

We are indebted to Mr. John N. Miller, who keeps a thriving nursery at the head of East King street, for some excellent Isabella Grapes. Mr. M.

has superior Grape vines, evergreens, for sale. (C7 The American Law Journal for No vember contains quite a variety of matter in-1 teresting to the profession, and to intelligent readers generally. The Sufferings, Perseverance, and Triumph of Genius. There is at present in England an American who went to that country to endeavor to interest the capitalists in a new bridge which he has constructed. His name is HemingtOn, and he is a native of Virginia.

An account of his progress is given by himself in a letter to the late Dixon H. Lewis, and is published in Hunts Merchants Magazine. When he arrived in England, in January, 1847, he was without money and 6pent tha first five months in vainly looking for some-jody with enterprise enough to encourage his plan, living all the time on less thhn three pence per day. He slept upon straw, for which le paid a half penny per night. His limbs became distorted with rheumatism, and ho was literally covered with rags and vermin, consorting as he had to do, with the lowest beggars in London.

Still he did not despair. The incidents of the succeeding three mouths lie does not relate. His sufferings were so great that his head turned gray. He had to pay to usurers JC10 to obtain a shilling for admittance to the Royal Zoological Gardens, where he suceeded after much mortification, in getting the ghost of a model made of the bridge. The model, although a bad one, astonished every body.

Every engineer of celebrity in London was called in to decide whether it was practicable to throw it across the lake. Four or five of them, at the final decision, declared that the model before them was passing strange, but that it could not be carried to a much greater length than the length of the model. This was the point of life or death with the inventor. He says: Iwas standing amidst men of the supposed greatest talent as civil engineers that the world could produce, and the point decided against This one time alone were my whole en- me. TIio Power or Kngland.

The manufactures of England have con stituted the great power of the nation. They have given to the country a commerce and wealth unequalled by those of any other power and must continue to add strength to the government so long as they flourish. The rulers of England have had the good sense to foster and protect domestic industry by a protective tariff, and have never yielded the principle even in the necessaries of life, unless when compelled to relax it in cases of great emergency', such as the failure of the crops. The labor of her operatives sustains the government, the navy and the army and the crippling of the former would necessarily weaken the ability to maintain the latter. But, whilst England has thriven and continued to thrive, by the protection of domes tic labor, she is most earnest in her endeavors to induce other nations to adopt the principles of free trade.

Taking from others such articles only as she cannot dispense with, she would induce them to become customers for her manufactures, even at the sa crifice of their own operatives. So great is her jealousy of rivalry', that she excludes Ire-land from the benefits arising from domestic manufactures; and idleness, poverty and discontent, are the natural consequences. Sym palhy lor the distressed condition of Ireland has excited a feeling of inveterate dislike to their oppressor and a desire for the overthrow of the English power is not unfrequent-ly expressed by the statesmen and writers of the United States. Money is is subscribed and forwarded to aid the Irish people in re sisting their oppressors and that too, in many cases, by individuals who are doing all they can to maintain British power and au thority, by the adoption of the policy which she most desires, of opening our ports to the reception of her manufactures, instead of protecting and supporting our own. Down with England, they cry in one breath and in the next, they call upon the country to uphold her colossal power by adding strength to the main pillar of her support, her manufactures.

We have little confidence in the sympathy for Ireland, of any man who will thus contribute the means to hold her in bondage and suffering. 'PENNSYLVANIA FOR AS GOES PENNSYLVANIA SO GOES THE UNION. Sufficient returns have been received to show that Gen. Taylor has swept the State of Pennsylvania and of course the Union We give all the returns which reached us up to 5 oclock this morning. They are of course partly estimated but there is no mistaking the result.

The current of popular feeling is bearing, with irresistible force, General Taylor into the first office in the gift of the American People. All the efforts of all the office holders, from Maine to Texas, failed to avert the decree. The People willed it, and it mu6t be so. The American people may look for a mild, peaceful and economical, yet judicious and firm administration for the next four years. There will be no aggressive wars to shock the moral sense of the nation and harrass honest industry with burtliensome taxes.

Gen. Taylors administration will be in every respect the opposite of Mr. Polk-s. Taylor. Cass.

Schuylkill 1,200 Chester, 00 Phila. city county 8,500 Delaware 600 Berks 4,400 Dauphin A few townships show a large gain for Taylor. Majority about 1,200 Cumberland The Carlisle district shows a gain for Taylor of 120. DELAWARE STATE. The State of Delaware has gone for Taylor by 815.

S. W. P. Boyd appointed Post Master. Lancaster County Bank.

At an election held in this city on Saturday last, the following gentlemen were elected Directors of the Lan- caster County Bank for the ensuing year, viz John Landes, (fanner) Benjamin B. Herr, Henry Benjamin Owen, G. G. Brush, George Lauber, David Bair, John Forney, C. B.

Herr, John H. Bossier, Gabriel Bear, Abm. W. Russel, Thomas Baumgardner, Abraham Stoner. Appointments by the Coroner.

John Wright, Esq. Coroner of Lancaster county, has appointed the following gentlemen Deputy Coroners, to act within their respective districts, viz: C. H. Rauch, Esq. Warwick.

Francis Carpenter, Esq. West Earl. Levi Miller, Esq. Ephrata. David May, Esq.

Manheim borough. Joseph T. Anderson, Esq. Marietta. John Webster, Esq.

Fulton. Ryland B. McAllister, Esq. Martic. Dr.

George Moore, Columbia. George Btrod, Esq. Elizabethtown. Jno. S.

Stager, Esq. New Holland. Jacob Souder, Esq. Springville. John Myers, Esq.

Salisbury. Mr. Wright, the high Coroner, resides in Millerstown, three miles from Lancaster, where persons desiring his services will find him. We understand Mr. W.

intends insisting upon his legal right of doing all the business within ten miles of the court house, in Lancaster. All persons will be careful about infringing on those rights. Sales of Real Estate. The following sales of Real Estate have recently taken place in Earl township Twenty six acres, estate of Peter Plank, sold for 54,000. One hundred acres, with large Mill thereon, assigned estate of Jacob Erb, sold for 518,575.

Eighty-seven acres, of Jos. Landis, sold for SI 20 per acre. These sales show that property in Earl township is by no means decreasing in value. The Mechanic Arts. The true value of the mechanic arts, is become more extensively known, and the rights of the toiler more firmly and honestly advocate J.

We are glad to see this it is evidence of a more divine spirit in our popular literature, than when priest and poet held the working classes to be nothing but appendages of the rich mans estate or the titled nobles pompous train. The article which follows this is selected from the New York Sun of last week, and we justly deem it to be a clear and energetic exposition of the value of the Industrial Arts and the benefit of those arts to every country that encourages them. We publish it for its real worth and with the hope that more attenlion and encouragement would be given to our inventors and mechanics, for itis a stuborn fact, that while huge tomes are printed for the benefit of our agricultural interests, and information contained therein collected by our Patent Office, a few pages only are devoted to the mechanical interest of our country, and the most important information in reference to last years inventions, has not yet been printed Tbe interests of our mechanical classes are sacrificed in a great measure to those of another class. Our inventors have justly complained of this, and we hope that this will call attention to the subject in the right quarter. We seek no more than even-handed justice.

Value of Manufactures to a Country. Whoever enhances the value of material for use or trade, is as much a producer as he who produces the material itself. Though the soil ts the basis of production, inasmuch as its mines, forests and farm fields yield the raw material to labor, there are after transmutations and transformations which in carrying the raw material to its fiual uses add to, double, and often give a thousand fold value to that material. The flax, hemp, cotton and wool of the farmer owe more than fifty per cent, of their glory to other hands, before they arrive at their highest uses and value, Thus communities may flourish in wealth and production, without turning a furrow, delving in a mine or hewing down a tree in a forest. Manufacture is equally noble, useful and productive as its basis, agriculture; and no nation can be rich and powerful in com merce that does not foster Few conside how much manufacture adds to the wealth of nations, by enhancing the value of its raw ma terials.

How much more the ship is worth complete from the hands of ait than the tim her, iron and hemp of which it is composed or the broadcloth, than the wool and dye woods used in its fabric or the boots, than the leather in the tanners vats. A pound of cotton wool worth as raw ma teriai ten cents, has been made worth twenty five dollars by the process of spinning wo ven into muslin and ornamented in Jamboon its value has been raised to seventy-five dol lars. An ounce of Flanders thread has been sold for twenty dollars, which made into lace, the same ounce has been sold for two hundred dollars. Steel may by manufacture be made three hundred times dearer than standard gold, weight for weight. Lead manufactured into small printing type, is increased twenty eight times in value.

Iron made into needles is increased in value seventy-five times; into the finest scissors nearly five hundred times as blades of pen-knives seven hundred times as sword handles, polished steel, one thousanc, times. Thus, manufacture is the best friend of that labor which brings forth the raw material, and the manufacturer from ten to a thousand times a greater pruducer than the cotton grower and the miner. The raw material is the basis, but the manufacture is the crown of national wealth, and the chapter of political economy which man should most study is that which relates to arts by which the value of his raw material is increased ad-infinitum. These are the arts of manufacture. Scientific American.

Stringy Cabbages. The Post has the following joke of a hard case, who was accustomed to coming home late at night in a corned state, and taking a cold bite, which was usually set out by his kind and forgiving wife. One night, beside the usual dish of cabbage and pork, she left a wash bowl filled with caps and starch. The lamp had long been extinguished, when the staggering sot returned home, and by mistake, when proceeding to satisfy his hunger, he stuck his fork into the wrong dish. He worked away at his mouthful of caps for some time, but being unable to masticate them, he sung out to his wife ViU wutuatiy whetv aid JOU cauoa- ges they are so stringy I can't chew them." My gracious, replied the good lady, if the stupid fellow aint eat all my caps that I put in the starch over night Extraordinary Invention.

Among the articlP9'of merit at the Annual Fair of the American Institute, the New York Express notices flour mills, not much larger than the crown of a mans hat, which will grind 60 bushels of wheat per day into first rate flour; they can be purchased for 5150, complete with bolting apparatus. There were corn mills on exhibition which do their work admirably, with nearly the same expedition, and costing even less. There were there important machines for the manufacture of cotton and woolen cloths, which may be said to advance such machinery in the series of machines by which cloth is now made, to enable the manufacturer to reduce the cost several mills per yard should a corresponding number of improvements annually appear at our Fairs for the next ten years, a yard of good unbleached shirting, will be made for one cent per yard. Man Burnt to Death. On Thursday evening last, a most melancholy accident occurred near Kennet Square, Chester county, Pa.

An old gentleman named James Holland, between 70 and 80 years of age, during the absence of the family, as he was in the habit of doing, had entered his barn, as is supposed, with a light, for the purpose of procuring feed for his hogs, and by some means unknown, the hay or straw caught fire fiom the candle, and in a few minutes the building was in a New York city gives 5,000 for Taylor, and elects four Whig Congressmen gain of three. Boston gives 3,500 for Taylor. Lancaster County sends greeting to the Wliigs of the Union, in a MAJORITY FOR TAYLOR OF Corrcspomleiee of the Examiner Herald. New York, Nov. 5, 1S48.

Desperate diseases require desperate rente dies is as true as it is trite, and the saying is re dueed to a desperate truth in the ranks of theo i Hunkers just at this time. Never was a man writhing in the pangs of the cholera, more agonizing, than are the officia the public crib. The India rubber man is as stiff as buckram, in comparison to their contortions. In order to strike the eyes and hearts of the hard fisted voters, a torch light procession was got up by the office-holders, office-seekers and hangers on of old Tammany, on Thursday evening but it was such a sorrowful affair that the old women and children who had been reluctantly drawn out of the streets, lanes and allies, to witness it, declared it was a perfect humbug. The True Sun computed the procession contained 20,000, and declares it was the most magnificent spectacle ever witnessed in the city.

The Globe counted men, boys, horses and vehicles, at several points, and the most to be seen at any one tine was about 1300, and seventeen minutes the longest time taken to pass any point. As a disinterested witness I should say there were about 2,000 in the procession, one half of whom were office-holders, and those dependent on them for support. It was without any exception, the most magnificent failure ever attempted by any party, although plenty of notice had been given, and every arrangement made, that was likely to cause a large gathering. In fact it was as much like a funeral procession as any thing else, and more than one than one Whig joked the solemn looking mourners, if the coffin was coming. Even the drnmmond light that was specially engaged for the occasion, and mounted in an omnibus, was so disgusted that it went out, and no coaxing could induce it to cast even the smallest kind of glow over the defunct party.

I should like to have seen some of the Centre county democracy here, just to have noticed a blacksmith at work on a platform. What an idea in a Hunker procession They who have closed the iron mines and rolling mills throughout the land, mocking and insulting the unemployed laborers. They who have shut up mills and factories, by an unjust tariff which enables foreigners to fill the land witu railroad iron, coal, Such men to show up industry by so barefaced deception deserves the scorn and reproach of every mechanic and laborer throughout the Union. Wkat do these tools of minions think the working classes are made of, surely not of flesh and blood. But wbat care they, what they are.

They have hoodwinked them at every election, and intend to do it again, and for one, shall have no pity on the poverty-stricken mechanics, if they suffer themselves to be led by red nosed, brazen faced politicians, whose souls are devoted to the plunder of the public purse. If these deluded beings could only see the scheme laid down in the low groggeries for their votes, how utterly astonished would they be. The vilest plans are concocted to secure men, of no thinking minds men, who for a glass of vile apple jack sell their votes, and for years afterwards repent of their folly. Such men as these are the prey to seize upon, and such mens votes neutralize those of intelligence, worth and ingenuity. The campaign is ended the Whigs have done their duty, and if Gen.

Taylor is elected, fortunate indeed it will be for the whole Union. Peace, industry and contentment will fill the hearts and minds of the people, and a few years will revive the now prostrate agriculturalist, mechanic and laborer. Of politics we all bid adieu for a season, and if all who write are as heartily tired of them as I am, they will rejoice that hereafter their pens will be employed on subjects more interesting both to themselves and their readers. The city has been a little excited for tbe last two or three days by a report that some cases of cholera had appeared. 1 hardly think any decided cases have yet occurred, but the alarm may have a beneficial effect, and cause the authorities as well as individuals to lie prepared for it.

As it has shown itself in England we may- expect it ere long, and as New York is the filthiest city in the continent, and the general depot for emigrants, we may feel assured it Will make its debut here. A fire broke out last night in Brooklyn near the site of the late disastrous one, by which sev- short distance from the Ferry. By the timely aid of the New York companies, and a heavy rain, the fire was got under. It is reported that two members of Hose Company no 15 of this city are buried beneath the walls of one of the houses, and another taken out with both legs broken. The United States Court has been engaged several days in the trial of E.

G. Greenwood, mate of the brig Col. Taylor charged with killing one of the seamen on the high seas. After a thorough sifting of the case, by the counsel on both sides, the jury brought him in guilty of manslaughter and he was sentenced to pay a fine of $1000 and be imprisoned for three years. This case was or.e of that difficult character which sometimes arises, and which no jury can convict for murder, yet it may be conclusive to in their minds, but for want of one link in the chain of circumstantial evidence, the prisoner escapes.

Quite a stir is raging amongst certain men a-bout enlarging the Battery. Some spectators headed by Beach of the Sun" see an enormously profitable job in it, and have managed to get an ordinance passed in the Assistant Board of Aldermen to have it done. In the other branch of the city fathers, it is held under advisement, and as the people are getting their eyes opened to the humbug, it is likely to fall through. These speculators kill the bantling themselves by representing that the enlargement can be done so low, and the outlay from the city funds so trifling in comparison to the benefits to be derived, that some of our tax-paying citizens have figured it out, and find the cost to be so enormous that it is not likely to go any further. The battery is very well as it is, and our citizens are not prepared to pay taxes for improvements to gratify the whim3 and caprices of every upstart politician or editors of penny papers.

We are in the midst of a storm the rain descends in torrents, and the wind being high, en- dangers the shipping which may now be on the roast The Washington which sailed before the Hibernia has not yet arrived, though momentarily expected. KESWICK. 7 Days Xater I'roin Europe. INTERESTING NEWS FROM THE CONTINENT. I ogress of tbe Cholera in England Boston, Nov.

3. The steamship Hibernia, with Liverpool dates to the 21st has arrived, and the following is an abstract of the intelligence brought. Livf.rpool, Oct. 21. The weather during the past week, has been still very unsettled.

During the early part, a good deal of rain had fallen, but a variation in the wind has brought about a complete change in the atmosphere, and a bracing cold has succeeded the previous damp weather. The harvest is completely got in, and during the next fortnight the preparation for autumn sowing will he general. In Scotland the potato crop is still reported as good, whilst that of Ireland is immensely short. The crop of oats is, however, good, and the markets generally partake of the same want ot spirit prevailing in England. I part speculation is at an end, and the large supplies which are flowing in from the Baltic and other ports, tend effectually to keep down prices.

The alarm which was at first created By th 8 appearance of the Cholera has sensibly abated. The Register-General of London has reported 30 additional cases up to last Saturday, but on the other hand the general health is better this year than in ordinary years, there being only 991 within the bills of vnortality against 1,154, upon an average of the three last years. There is only one case reported at Birmingham, and at Manchester not a single ease has yet occurred. Liverpool has so far escaped the pestilence. In the city of Edinburgh the ravages of death seem to have been rather more extensive than any other place, whilst the port of Leith has comparatively escaped.

Its appearance, however, at the little fishing village of New Haven, establishes without a doubt the fact of its malignant presence in that quarter. The Government has already become satisfied that the precautionary measurse of Quarantine, are altogether unnecessary, and have determined to do away entirely the regulations which enforces the observance of quarantine, even in the cas where deaths have occurred from Asiatic Cholera on board of vessels coming from Continental ports. 4 IRELAND. The Lord Lieutenant in reply to a deputation of the inhabitants of Dublin and its vicinity, declines giving any direct answer to the memorial beyond the assurance that full weight will be to the recommendation of the highly re-pectable jury which tried him. The formalities for bringing the writ of error have all been complied with by the legal advisers of OBrien, but the official privilege of refusing the certificate, with which the Attorney General is invested, will not be exercised by that officer until after his return to Dublin.

M. ODonoghue after some hours deliberation by the jury, has been found guilty, and a recommendation to mercy accorded in consequence of his having withdrawn and disconnected himself from his associates previous to any overt attack. The trial of Thomas Meagher commenced onr Monday, and the interest which had subsided at Clonmel during the trials of McManus ami ODonoghue, has now revived. The Catholic prelates at Dublin have come to certain resolutions, which are highly important in one point of view as a collective body. Whilst they implore the government to employ for the mmediate relief of the poor, all the funds at its iisposal, and use all its influence to effect such an equitable adjustment of the relation between landlord and tenant as shall stimulate an outlay of capital, and ensure the employment of tht able bodied, and increase the produce of the soiL VIENNA.

The stupendous events which are passing in the neighborhood of Vienna and the Austrian Empire has kept all Europe in alarm and amazement during the week. Last week, we announced the breaking out of an insurrection at Vienna, on the 1st. On the 8th ult. the Ban of Crotia, Jelaehich, at the heaff of a numerous army, was advancing towards' Pesth, with the view of suppressing the insurrectionary proceedings in Hungary, but when the intelligence of the revolution in Vienna reached him, he instantly turned his columns in the direction of Vienna, and advanced with rapid strides towards that capital. Ausburg, the Emperors General, who had previously taken up his military position at Belvidere, in the suburb Vienna, had kept the population in hourly alarm of a bombardment, and during the night of the 11th and 12th of October, the inhabitants had undergone all the terrors of a momentarily expected seige by two armies.

Reports say that Jelaehich has retired towards Neustadt. It would seem that Prince Windishgratz, who lately distinguished himself by his decision at Prague, has proceeded towards Vienna, to command, under the orders of the Emperor, the combined armies of Jelaehich and Austria. It is very probable that these armies have retired from the neighborhood of Vienna at any rate, if they have decided not to bombard it, they may take up a position to cut off all supplies, so as to reduce the inhabitants by starvation. The Diet has 100,000 men under arms to defend the Austrian capital, but a vast number of these must be in favor of the Emperor, altho every ellort seems to be employed to exasperate and inflame the population against the Court party. On the other hand, there cannot be less than 100,000 regular troops encircling Vienna at this rfibment, as reinforcements appear to be pouring in from all quarters.

The Emperor has retired to Olmutz in Moravia. He carries with him an efficient force, and from that point he will be able to move countless thousands of the Scalvonians, who are ready to-carry on an internal war against their German fellow subjects. The French hold aloof and do-not move. Russia stands ready with an army of 200,000 men upon the confines of Poland, to throw the whole weight of her power into the-scale of the Emperor, and support the Sclavonian quarrel. The railways are being torn up for many miles around Vienna, and the communications are so interrupted, that regular correspondence cannot be obtained from either Vienna or Berlin.

ITALY. These events are producing serious results in Italy. Hungarian soldiers have demanded leave-to withdraw to their -own country, and the position of Redetsky appears to be perilous. If Charles Albert should seize the present favorable moment to cross the Tcino, he may drive the Austrians out of Lombardy faster than he was-lately expelled himself. The present events may speedily change the whole aspect of afiairs over the face of Europe.

Corn Markets. The arrival of breadstuff both at Liverpool and London from abroad, have been very limited during the week owing chiefly to the prevalence of easterly winds. There has been great firmness exhibited during the past few days. Buyers are of the impression that prices have touched the lowest point. Large i quantities of grain and produce are known to be I on their way to this country, and unless an unexpected demand springs up, we should say that there was not much chance for advance worthy of notice for some time to come.

American i wheat is 7s. 4d. to 8s. 9d. Flour sells slowly at 31s.

to 32s. for American. Indian corn is meeting an improved inquiry for export to Ireland and has recovered from its late reduction. Tie present rates in Liverpool are, yellow 35 to 36s. White, 35 to 36 for yellow corn meal 15s.

51-to 18s per barrel. 1 ergiesever aroused. I never talked before I was haggard and faint for want of food my spirits sunk in sorrow in view of my mournful prospects clothes I had none yet, standing over tnis model, did I battle with those men Every word I uttered came from my inmost soul, and was big with truth every argumen carried conviction. The effect on these men was like magic indeed, they must have been devils not to have believed under the circum stances. succeeded.

My agreement with the proprietor was, that I should superintend the construction of the bridge without any pay whatever, but during the time of the building 1 might sleep in the Gardens, and if the bridge should succeed, it should be called Remingtons Bridge. I lodged in an old lion's cage, not strong enough for a lion, but by putting some straw on the floor, held me very well, and indeed was a greater luxury than I had for many months. The carpenters that worked on the bridge sometimes gave me part of their dinner. On this I lived and was comparatively happy. It was a Jittle novel, however, to 6ee a man in rags directing gentlemanly looking head carpenters.

The bridge triumphed, and the cost was ts, and was the greatest hit ever made in London. The money made by it was astonishingly great, thousands and tens of thousands crossing it, paying toll, besides being the great attraction to the Gardens. Not a publication in London but what has written largely upon it, although I have never received a penny, nor ever will for building the bridge. The success of his invention gave him however, celebrity, and he says it also gave him credit with a tailor. I got a suit of clothes and some shirts a clean shirt.

Any shirt was great, but a clean shirt God, what a luxury Thousands of cards were left for me at the Gardens, and men came to see the bridge from all parts of the kingdom. I first built the mill, which is the most popular patent ever taken in England. The coffee pot and many other small patents, take exceedingly well. The drainage of Tixall-Meadows is the greatest triumph I have yet had in England. The carriage bridge for Earl Talbot is a most majestic and wonderfully beautiful thing.

Dukes, mar quesses, earls, lords, their ladies, are coming to see it from all parts. I have now more orders for bridges from the aristocracy than I can execute in ten years, if I would do them. Indeed, I have been so much among the aristocracy of late, that what with high living, being so sudden a transition from starving, I have been compelled to go through a course of medicine, anu am just now convalescent. Of course, any thing once built pre eludes the possibility of taking a patent in England, but its merits and value are beyond all calculation. A permanent, beautiful and steady bridge may be thrown across a river half a mile wide out of the reach of floods, and without anything touching the water, at a most inconsiderable expense.

The American patent is well secured at home I know, shall continue to build a few more bridges of larger and spans, and one of them a railroad bridge, in order that I may perfect myself in them so as to commence fair when I reach America. I have a great many more accounts of my exploits since I came to Stafford; but must defer sending them until next time. I beg you will write me, for now, since a correspondence is opened, I shall be able to tell you something about England. I know it well. I have dined with earls, and from that down down down to where the knives, forks and plates are chained to the table for fear they should be stolen.

Blown down. During the violent storm last Saturday night, the chimney of the fac tory now being built in this city was blown down. The chimney was about 110 feet high, and fortunately fell in such direction as to do no damage to the main building. Dodds Discourses to Young Men. These discourses contain much highly valuable advice to Young Men, in a very pleasing and attractive form.

The work has long obtained a high popularity in England, and is deserving of an ex tensive circulation here. Sold by Judd Murray price 50 cents. Most gloriously has the Old Guard performed her duty. Much was expected of her, but the magnificent majority she yesterday rolled up in the cause of peace, pros-perity and human liberty, far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of our friends. Every man did his duty.

With few exceptions every available vote was polled on both sides and the result may be considered a fair expression of public sentiment upon the issues represented by Gen. Taylor and Gen. Cass. Well has the Gibraltar county main tained her claim to the title. She has shown that in the line of giving large majorities in a good cause she is not only unapproached out unapproacnaDie.

The Elephant and the Applewoman. On Friday, while Raymond Waring's me' nageries was passing through Harlem, the big elephant, Tippo Sultan, in a most unpoetic manner encompassed with his enormous pro' boscis the contents of an old ladys fruit stand making a mere mouthful of her whole stock in trade. But the most ungracious part of the transaction was, that not content with devouring the poor womans pippins and gingerbread, his highness had the impudence to break her table and chair, and gave the unfortunate bankrupt a toss some 10 or 12 feet out of the road. Remarkable Rescue. The Boston Tran script states that on Friday evening, as the Dorchester and Milton train was starting on it way from the Old Colony Depot, a female having a child of two years of age in her arms, attempted to jump from the platform of the depot to the cars.

She missed her footing, and with the child fell between the cars. With great presence of mind a young man, named Clarence A. Dorr, of Dorchester, immediately sptung to her assistance, and seizing her by the hair, sustained her in that po-sition until her shrieks and the shouts of the passengers reached the ears of the engineer, and he stopped the train at a fortunate moment, it would seem, as but a second previous the womans hair gave way, leaving masses of it in the young mans hands. The child fortunately rolled into the middle of the track and the train passed over it safely and moth' er and child were taken into the cars and proceeded on their way. Bloody Tragedy Three Men Killed and Severed Wounded The town of Yellville, in Marion county, Arkansas, was on last Monday week the scene of one of the most fright- L(t vi liurv ever known.

We would premise, that for many years there has been waged, between the Tutts and their friends, on the one part, and the Everetts and their friends on the other, a most deadly feud. On Monday they all met at Yellville. Jesse Turner spoke there that day, and after the speaking, the two parties, armed to the teeth, had some words, and drew up in battle array but the matter was quited, and no outbreak took place. Towards evening, and when the people had pretty generally left for home, the fight commenced. A man by the name of Wadkins, of the Everett party, shot down Jack King.

At the same time, Sim Everett fired at Sinclair and missed him. Sinclair returned the shot, mortally wounding Everett. Kings brother was shot at by Bartlett Everett, the ball grazing his shoulder; he in turn shot Bartlett Everett dead in his tracks. After Sim Everett was shot, he gathered a rock, and pursued Sinclair; but finding King, who had been shot in the beginning of the fight, he turned on him and mashed his skull in a shocking manner, and expired while in the act. King lived until morning.

Wadkins was badly beaten. He was taken into custody, but made his escape that night. -t 58 DISTRICTS. The Pennsylvania Cultivator. Tiie second number of a new Agricultural periodical, with the above title, just commenced in Harrisburg, by Foster A has been received.

Its muwiwi u. wen as seicuieu ucies'contam much information of interest to the farmer. It is published monthly, each number containing 32 large octavo pages, illustrated by a number of wood engravings, at the low price of $1 per annum. Etiquette for Ladies. We are indebted to the publisher, Mr.

George S. Appleton No. 148, Chesnut street, Philadelphia, for a neat little volume, taste fully bound in Crimson cloth, entitled True Politeness. A Hand-Book of Etiquette forJLadiet By an American Lady. It appears to lie a complete manual of good behavior for ladies, in all the situations and circumstances of domestic and fashionable life.

Price for a copy, 25 cents. It may be transmitted safely by mail, at a trifling charge for postage. have been carried away in its passage. This is almost an unheard of novelty in surgical experience. I Serious Accident.

We learn from he York (Pa.) Gazette, that Dr. James Cooper net with a serious accident on Saturday last. He accidentally, it appears, let his gun fall, when it went off, and the whole load passed tlnough his ankle, completely shattering the bone. Vermont Legislature. A bill ejempting homesteads not exceeding 5500 in valie, from attachment, was ordered to a third readhg in the House on Friday, by a vote of 109 to 9 Three Suicides.

Chauncy Cook, i clerk hanged himself at Brockport, N. on Friday night. He had recently inherited a foitune of four thousand dollars. No cause is assigned foi his committing suicide. David Brown banged himself at the residence of his mother, in Boston, last Saturday night, in a fit of insanity.

On the same night, Ebenezer E. Taylor, a me chant, cut his throat at Newliampton, N. alio in a fit of insanity. tCP" Dysentery has prevailed to an alarming extent at New Haven. The Palladium itates that 500 cases have occurred within tht last three months, mostly among children.

Suicide. A man named Robert Stevenson committed suicide at Philadelphia, a few days ago, by drowning himself, in consequence of being robbed of a large sum of money belorging to the Marine Asylum, of which institution he was the steward. A Fence. We see an account, in one of our exchanges, of the marriage, by the Rev. John Gates, of Mr.

John Post to Miss Sophia Rails. If this match dont make a fence of the first quality, we should like to know what will. Melancholy Accident. A young rnaniam-ed John Bold, son of Mr. Nicholas Bold, near Littlestown, Adams county.

met his ceath very suddenly on the 23d while quar-ying limestone, the ground having caved in and crushed him to death An Important Invention. The Winchester Republican has been shown the model of furnace, (for which a patent has been taken sut,) for the purpose of making malleable iron from the ore. It seems to us to be an invenion of great importance to iron manufacturers, calcu. lated to produce a saving of $10 per ton O'er the present mode. It is the invention of Mr.

Lorenzo Seibert of Shenandoah county, an experienced manufacturer. i Burned to Death James Holland, ai aged farmer of Chester county, lost his life by his barn burning on Thursday evening last; he being unable to escape after he discoved the lames One hundred bushels of grain were also destroy ed in the barn. Singular Circumstance. There resiles in Delaware, some few miles from Tempefeville, in Queen Annes county, a respectable farmer having daughter now about eleven years old, who, until attaining her fifth year, labored under an unpeuiiueiiv ui speech u-htai, o- curable. At that time for some trifling indiscretion her mother spoke quickly and sharply to her and boxed her ears and singular to relate from that moment for four months the child sever uttered a word.

At the expiration of that time however, when the afflicted mother had become almost frantic at her supposed instruien tallty in depriving her child of even her impaired speech, this faculty was again restored and what is still more incomprehensible, without the slightest impediment of any kind a blessing which she has unintoruptedly enjoyed to the present lima. Horrible. The Alabama State Guard of the 24th contains an account of the killing of a little boy in the neighborhood of Sy lla-cogga, Talladega by his own father it a fit ot derangement. The man named(Rhodun, had been partially deranged some time on Ihe subject of Biblical offerings. In one of thtse fits he killed his son, and then piling rails and other wood upon the body, he set fire to the whole.

The wife finding out what he hid done, sent for the neighbors. When afterwards asked why he did so, he said that he was making an offering of a lamb. The body was considerably burnt before it was taken from under the pile. Rhodum is confined for the present in jail. The Great Western streams are all at a very low ebb.

The Missouri is full of sandbanks, and on the Upper Mississippi at the lower rapids, there is only two and half feet of water. A Discriminating Youth. A gentleman traveling in Tennessee, stopped at a house for the night, and during the first meal observed an urchin pulling at a loaf of bread. At length the yongster remarked, Mammy, heres a hair in the bread. The old lady remarked that it was only a piece of corn silk.

Corn silk, the mischief! replied young un, how come corn silk to have a nit on it That boy, in our opinion, is bound, some day, to fill a profesrorship. EF Traveling on the Ohio during a stage of low water, is thus described in a letter to the New York Post We embarked on board the Caledonia, a new boat drawing fourteen inches of water, descending the Ohio. Did you ever undertake a trip from Pittsburg to Cincinnati at low water If you never did you can form but a faint idea of it every inside door to the state rooms had been removed, to reduce as much as possible the draft of water. The doors left on resemble window blinds, and to keep out the cold at night we were obliged to fasten up bed spreads. We took all the freight in a keel-boat that was floated off a day before us.

There was a wood scow by our side, and within every few hours the passengers were transferred to it, while the empty boat was driven over the bars by the power of steam. The river, in many places, was as shallow as a running brook in the country. Below Wheeling we dismissed the keel-boat, and took our freight in the boat. From one hundred to a hundred and fifty passengers were taken in safety and with comfort to Cincinnati, and not a boat passed us. At Cincinnati we had just time to transfer our baggage to the mail bout, and the next morning we were with our friends in Louisville.

Melancholy Suicide. Mr. John Hilde-brant, a German, committed suicide by hanging himself at Cumberland last week, while laboring under temporary insanity, caused by the sickness of himself and family. Second Crop. Mr.

John Wilson Igleheart ot South River has sent to the editor of the Annapolis Republican, a Pear which he pulled lrom a tree on his Farm, that has blossomed the second time this year and bore three Pears. Election of U. S. Senator. Tha Vermont Legislature on Tuesday re-clected Hon.

William Upham, Whig, to the United States Senate for six years from the 4th, of March next. A Comfortable Dividend The Sun Mutual Insurance Company of New York, have declared a dividend of 40 per for the the last year, ending the 30th ult. The earned capital of this company, now amounts to nearly one million of dollars. Death of Brig. Gen.

Kearny. We regret to announce the death of this distinguished officer, which took place, Tuesday morning at St. Louis He was born at Newark, N. and was about 55 years of age. He entered the army in IS 12 served at Queenstown at Lieutenant, in which capacity he entered the army in 1812 was promoted to a majority in 1824, Lieut.

Col. in 1833, full Colonel in 36, and a full Brig. General in 46; was in command of the expedition against California and New Mexico during the Mexican war, and by his prudence and bravery secured the reputation of an able commander in the battle field, as well as judicious military governor. Frightful Railroad Collision Serious Loss of Life. An extra train of cars from Salem, and another from Lynn, came in collision on the Eastern railroad on Thursday night.

The Boston Transcript says The Marblehead train consisted of an engine, tender and two passenger cars, with a delegation from Marblehead, who had been over to hear Gen. Cushing; and the train from Lynn, of an engine, tender with two baggage cretes, and three or four passenger cars, with a delegation from Salem, to join the torchlight procession in Lynn. The shock was terrible, breaking the Marblehead engine and lender, and passenger car into a thousand pieces, and damaging the forward end of the second car. Not less than six of the passengers in the Marblehead train are already dead and others are dreadfully injured, some of whom, it is said, will probably die of their wounds. The conductor, engineer and fireman of the Marblehead train were somewhat injured but it is hoped not seriously.

Some of the passengers in the first car were thrown a considerable distance by the concussion, but escaped injury. The engine of the tiain from Lynn vras considerably damaged, and the tender troken up the engineer was slightly injured, id two or three passengers who were stand-rig on the platform of the forwatd car were badly bruised, but no person in the cars re-leived injury. Electoral Votes. The following table exhibits the number of electoral votes each State is entitled to. The whole number is 290, making 146 necessary for a choice Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Taylors majority 5,338.

The Cholera. The certain near and irresistible onward march of this dreadful scourge of God has now become unques tionable and appalling. At this moment the mysterious influence is in progress over the wide ocean to this shore. The elements here are already undergoing the revolution of change of relation which developes the disease or predisposes to it. The next news will probably be that it is in Canada and the Northern and Eastern States of the Union.

Its attacks will be made principally on the crowded centres of population. Its route will be along the fresh-water courses of the whole country, the lines of the rivers and canals and lakes, from which it will extend only over the softer formations, alluvial, diluvial, and tertiary rarely over seconday and transition. High primitive regions will be quite secure against invasions from it. These things are quite certain unless the disease varies essentially from the character which it assumed sixteen years ago. It manifests itself at present in Aleppo and in Berlin, Hamburg, London and Edinburgh, in a very malignant and fatal form.

The proportion of deaths to the whole number of cases is very large, at least as large as was ever known at its former visitation. It will be here soon, beyond aperadvenlure. Of course, the newspapers are insisting that the Government shall do something to prevent it. If the Government can, it certainly ought. The best advice that can be given to those who are not yet seized with the malady, blit suffer much from the terrors of anticipation, is Keep calm.

Avoid all undue excite ments and depressing influences. Be equally careful to shun all excesses and and all unusual abstinence. Form no new habits. Make no sudden changes in mode of life. Be temperate in eating and drinking but see that the body does not lack its accustomed nourishment and support.

The approach of pestilence or any epidemic is not a proper season for the sudden execution long cherished good resolutions of reform in diet, Yet be very careful to avoid those articles of aliment which have at any time proved indigestible or the cause of any unpleasant symptom. There is a sufficient variety ot acceptable and nourishing food, after all such have been proscribed and excluded. A well selected, judicious, generous diet is at such a time more desirable than at any other. Be as cleanly as possible: but beware of the exhausting effects of frequent drenchings, sousings and half drowning in cold or hot water, in which so many feeble persons wash away half their strength. It is impossible to be too clean but it is easy to be washed too much.

Shun all unusual exposures to heat or cold or wet, fatigue or bad air and in all things be as moderate, discreet and sensible as possible. If you are finally attacked with the disease send for the doctor, irnmpdiately. A White Rat. Mr. Samuel Houston, at Mr.

Hubers Fountain Inn Hotel, in tliis city, has in his possession a most perfect specimen of a white Rat. He caught it in the cellar of the hotel, where it has been observed for some time past. Like the Rabbit, it lias red eyes, 'and may be classed with the Albino. Governor's Election 1848. The following table of the majorities given bv the several counties of Pennsylvania at the recent election, wfll be found useful or the purpose of comparing the majorities or President in the same counties: C7By dint of unprecedented exertions the locofocos increased their majority 9 in the city.

The vote was much the largest ever polled 2,011 votes being cast. The blaze. The barn, together with about one hundred bushels of grain, was totally destroyed, and sad to relate, the old gentleman was consumed in the same. Nothing but a portion of his body was found, all his limbs being entirely burnt up. One of the boldest roberies that ever took place in Philadelphia, was perpetrated on Wednesday.

The office of Mr. Wilkins, broker, No. 3 East Avenue Arcade, was entered by means of false keys, between two and three oclock in the afternoon, whilst the proprietor was at dinner. The thief or thieves attempted the money drawer, but finding it locked pryed up the top of the counter until they were enabled to shoot down the bolt. They then carried off the contents of the drawer, amounting to six hundred dollars in notes and silver, and made their escape.

The store is upon an avenue through which persons are constantly passing. Stores were open on each side, and there were so many means of detection that danger of at rest would have been thought enough to deter the most daring. For the Cxamuier Sc Herald. OS THE DEATH OF MRS KING respectfully dedicated to thoe dbreft. Ah yes, she is pone, the lovd one, the cherished, Like a tlowrets breath when it beauty hath perishd, Her memry will linger a sweet touching spell, Twill link vein spirit, though severed ye dwell She.

in that bright orb, where blight never cotnes, Will chant holy anthems with angelic ones Courage fond mother, nay weep not so wild, Canst thou not, in spirit commune with thy child? Can St thou not behold her in realms above Arrayed in pure garments, her song fraught with love, Love for earths children who dwelt with her here, Whose presence shell welcome in that holy sphere. Thou wilt miss her that bright smile will greet no more, Her brief life is ended, her sufferings are oer. How little I dreamd when I last kissd that brow, Thai I should be singing her requiem now, A shrill of deep anguish crept into my soul, I wept long and wildly, nor tryed to control The sobs that came struggling up, up from heart, And the tear-drops thut gatherd all eager to start When I thought of the dear one whose dear face was hid From our fond gaze forever, beneath the close lid, I'll seek out at even the star she loved best, And fancy that bright orb the place of her rest, hen twilight is flinging a light misty shade, Oer forest and streamlet, oer hill-top and glade, Ill fancy this lost one has heeded my prayer, And beckons me upward to dwell with her there. Husband, reft mourner, dost weep for thy bride. The dread rival, death, stole away from thy side, Even thou couldst not hinder the angel of death, To kiss the last sigh, from her fluttering breath, The mate of thy bosom, Ihy first virgin love, Behold her an angel, in realms above Lone sister, thy lost one, whose white arms oft wove Around thee in tender affection and love Or, hand in hand, wandered where wild blossoms grew, Ere the sunbeams had kissd from their bright leaves the dew.

And listened enraptured at natures sweet voice, In love-thrilling accents, bade all to rejoice. The love link that hound ye, has rudely been riven, But twill he re-united in yon peaceful heaven, Shell be thy good angel, in the changeful sphere, Averting each danger that throngs round thee here Tho sevetd awhile, yet in Heaven again, Thou'lt find each dear link in loves mystical chain. Near LaxcaURS, 143. LIZZY. was resorted to and by that and means of a less reputable character, they made a small gain.

If the Whigs had had their tickets marked a great out cry would have been raised but in the present case they no doubt consider it highly democratic A Strange Story. The last Glasgow (Mo.) News tells a stiange tale of one of the early settlers of Saline county. He was a Frenchman, who about twenty years ago became dissatisfied with the prospects before him, and left his wife and daughter to seek other means of mending his fortune. For several years the wife and daughter awaited his return, till even affection compelled them to think him dead. They struggled along in poverty until the daughter grew to womanhood and married, as did also the mother both of them remaining in straightened circumstances.

Last week, however, an old grey headed man went to the humble dwel-e aughler, and after surveying her Said Do ou know, the name of y0ur father to which she replied by giving it. Then said he, I am your father After their mutual greetings he brought in two bags of goU con taming 540,000 and gave them to hmdauX ter, and offered her husband the best farm could find in the neighborhood. He knew his daughter by a scar on the forehead, from a wound received when a child. It is not stated what arrangements were made with his wife. A.

Fat Joke. A lady, being desirous of getting rid of the offal, fat, grease, that had been accumulating in the kitchen, remarked to an Irish girl that had recently come into her employ, that the first fat man she saw in le street to call him in, that she wanted to ff8 Sd creature, thinking the a apPVied to mans size, and not ,1 ustness, a little while after, on going to rt saw a man whose corporation justi-informing him that missus wanted to see him and he would be so kind as to step in. He did so, and was sea9 i 1 The girl called her mistress down stairatotha fat man. When she had descended the iahs she was informed he was in the parlor In the parlor exclaimed Mrs. jf1 what is he doing in the parlor She hurried in, and there discovered a gentlemanly looking personage, with his hat off waiting to hear the cause of his detention.

The lady whose presence of mind did not forsake her, imme-diatelv saw the whole mistake, and apologis-d for the ridiculous error. The fat man Teft vidently much amused at the joke. orthily Acknowledged. The followug which we copy from the Journal of Commence strikes us a very handsome acknowledgement of a very worthy action, the acknowledgement being all the more creditable to the father of the young lady, from its having been made when the excitement of the crisis had passed away i In the latter part of the summer, a young daughter of Mr. Corcoran, (of the firm of Corcoran and Riggs,) of Washington city, was-playing with some friends on a wharf, in the rear of the grounds of Capt.

Charles at Stonington, and stepped into a which, by some accident, was loosed and. drifted from the shore. The child frightened, at the danger, jumped overboard. Mr. Gordon Smith, a boat builder, who was near swam in and rescued her at the last moment: of struggling.

Mr. Corcoran was in Europe at: the time, engaged in business as is widely known. He has since returned, and we saw last week a letter from him to Mr. Smith, expressing his gratitude and inclosing one thousand dollats as a testimony of it. This is a reward at once unexpected in the receiver and noble in the giver, doing honor to the heart of the father.

Mr. Smith is, we are glad to be informed, a worthy recipient, highly esteemed by all who know him. Wooden Gunpowder. From sundry recent experiments, the fact is established that, fine saw dust or rasped wood, steeped in a. mixture of concentrated sulphuric and nitric: acids, and afterwards washed and dried, will explode similar to common gunpowder, and: if managed rightly, with much greater force-The greatest wonder about this is that th fact had not been discovered earlier.

ofSc-- A lad of about 7 years had been missing some time, and his dreadful fate was not known until the dead body was discovered by some workmen who were emptying the vat Coroner Chas. Smith he an inquest on the body, and the jury returned a verdict accordance with the above facts. Boston Courier Cholera and it Cure. The English papers received by the Hibernia, still teem with cures for the cholera; all infallible, of course, though Ihe ingredients of each, in their nature and effect, are, in many cases, as opposite as the poles. The London Daily News, remarking on this subject, takes occasion to make the subjoined very sensible remarks, which will apply with equal firce in this meridian, perhaps One word about remedies.

We would say the public, trust none of them, try none of tlem. Of the one hundred and one nostrum? and courses of treatment, recommended by evert good natured noodle, that fancies he has been cured of cholera because he took certain remc-des, there is but one ingredient of any potency in the disease, and that is opium. Where a medical man is not near, and the premonitory symptoms of cholera are present, this remedy may be taken in any of the forms recommended by the Board of Health, with advantage. It should bs remembered that it is a powerful poison, and tliat an overdose may destroy life, and that young clildren are not susceptible of its action, and slould take less in proportion than adults. As to calomel, colocynth, black pepper, assafertida, carbonic acid, petroleum, castor oil, and the rest ol the things recommended by the good natured piople aforesaid, all we would say of these is them.

A Giant Pear Tree. In the State of Illinois there is a pear tree which bore in the year 1834, 184 bushels of pears, and in 1840, 140 bushels. The tree is said to be 40 years old, and to measure 16 feet in circumference near the bottom of the trunk. Extensive Surgical Operation a pain ful operation was performed on Wednesday last, by Dr. Atlee, on a patient of Dr.

Sender-ling, residing in Kensington, an adult named Valentine Dedaken. The operation consisted in removing the entire side of the upper jaw, a small portion only of the molar bone was left, sufficient for the support of the eye. The operation was performed in less than ten minutes, and was born throughout by the patient without uttering a groan. He is doing well, ud is entirely out of danger, Philad. Inq..