GENERAL SUMMARY.
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GENERAL. SUMMARY. A seminary is about to be establkhed near PhiIa- dclphia, for the education of young en for the min istry. They will be required to labAr in agriculture or mechanics three or four hourg each day.

 We frequently see notices n the papers similar to the fOlIOwing-bnt believe the custom has not yet reached his Hand of steady habits :-"During the past week. we received present of another most i- terestag slice of bride cake printers good wish es are of any consequence the fair donor, we ten- der her ours in profusion."

 The mouth ofthe Oregon, where it was contempla- ted to tho settlement, s45O0 miles from S,. Louis, Missouri, and more thHn COCO from Washing ton. Establish a settlement there, and Yankees will be the first to resort tu it.

 A number .f mad dogs have lacly been killed in Hebron and Granville, N. I. They had bit.en seve- rai hogs and horses. woman died of decided yellow fever, accampa- nied with black vomit, in Philadelphia last wcek

 The snow in the vicinity of. Quebec is upwards of four feet on levoL Much injury has been sustained, partH ularly in the settlements, hythe weight of the crushing down the roofs ot barns and other out houses. ss3

 Hon. Thomas B Reed has i.een elected Senator in Congress from the satn of Mississippi six years from the 4th of March next. n

 $30O.000 of;he notes of the Commonwealth Bank of Kentucky, were recently erderedto be burnt at Frankfort. ss .4

 The corporation ofthe city of Albany have elected John Townsend, Mayor ofthe city--his former con- peii,or, MT. Bloodgood, having declined.

 The wife of Mir. John Jacobs, near Halifax ,ogeth- CT with three ofhcr children and two scryan. girls, were burnt to death on their bedsthe house became so enveloped in flames before was discovered, that none of the inmates couId make their escape. A new novel by the author of Wayerly is announ- ced, by the title of "Annc of Geirsten, or the Maid ofthe Mist" # Mrs. Royal is at Ilarrisburgh, Pfnn. reporting the proceedings of the Legislature Her third Black Book is in the press at Washington.

 MOsris Canal, 5sc.-This institution has made ap-

 ication to the Legislature for the loan of the credit the state, to the amount of $50O,OO0, to enable them to complete the Canal. 'The statement of the concerns ofthe company fnrnished shows m existing debt Of 37O777 and estimates tle whole sum ncces- sary for the completion of the Canal, at $287 ,54. Trenton Emporium. The duties paid by the Auc,oneersain the ci,y of New.York during the last year amount to $s25,59l. Letters from Washington state ,tat Mr. Wrt, thc Attorney Generate of the United States, has had a para'ylic shock, but was recovering.

 A petition is before the Legislature of Ohio to tax bachciors--it will not do-bachcors are too mulish race to be driven into matrimony. t#

 An English writer says, half an acre of land under ordinary cultivation, is sufficient to supply an inyid aal with gvain--and one acre to ma.n,an horse. May be go, in England.

 The Rev. Dr. M'Asley, of N6Ss- Fork, sI,as been unanimously elertcd pastor of the Trst Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.

 The Tallahasse paper of the 9th January says "Secohd cropa of cucambers, snap beans, squasbes green peas, and tomatos, have been gathered the past year, and the two last are still to be found in many gardens."

 The Newark Eagle states that an extensive bed of valuable coal has been discovered near the Morris Canal, Patterson, N J. Itrontains 74-lOOshs of car bon, 24-i0Oihs of bi,umen, and 2-lO0ths of eart,.

 There is law in Iceland which gives the priest the power to forbid any marriage, if the woman can not read. .5aa.s sys

 B'isk times Troy, one day las, week, 645O per sons and l250 seighs, passed by certain store in River-strees, between sunrise and euaset

 6ov. Murphy, Of Alahama says taat the quantity ol ardent spirits drank in hat state the past year. s less by one third than in any previous year. Vast quan- titles are consumed at their annual elcc.ioneerine barbecucs. s.as... g.

 A-"g young fellow was lately robbed in Phila- delphia. The r"bber knocked him down with his lT and then came near putting to his existence with Several = cases have happened in that . lately, and it is proposed to add to the criminal code on their account.- WiliiamstOun Adv. "

 Mr. Wlis, the poet, proposes to publish in Boston a periodical to be called the American Monthly Mag azine, similar n its general design to the London New Monthly.