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CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL. AUGUSTA. FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 24. Harrison and Tyler Met ting. Yesterday was a proud day for t ie friends of reform, and most nobly did the ci zens of Au gusta respond to the call which ha< been previ ously made for a public meeting. As we pre dicted in the morning, there w?s i crowd, and the spacious room in the Masonic I all, was well filled with the largest [political meeting over as sembled in this city, composed of Mie most re spectable and orderly class of citi: ens. Never have we seen an assemblage mor j deeply im pressed with the necessity of refonr in the Fed eral Administration, and more d Remained to unite their zealous efforts to accorn dish that ob ject. Their zeal amounted almost t > enthusiasm, and the cordial manner in which tl sy responded to the Preamble and Resolutions.; ave the most cheering evidence that the cause of Harrison and Tyler, is the cause of the People. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. Jen kins and Crawford, who enchaiuec the audience in the most breathless silence, sa e only when they were interrupted by repeated, pud, long and continued bursts of applause. '1 ime will not permit, at the late hour at which v\ 3 write, to af ford our readers a detailed account of this trium phant and eloquent vindication if the patriot Harrison. They illustrated mos forcibly tho importance and necessity of a chan ;e in our ru lers, and in a strain as beautiful as it was spark ling and eloquent, enforced upon t! e meeting the prooriety of recommending Warn iam H. Har hison, of Ohio, and John Turn ,of Virginia, to the confidence and support of the people of Georgia, for the two first offices in the Republic. For an account of the proceedir. ;s of this nu merous and highly respectable me ting, r our read ers are referred to another part of this day’s pa per, the adoption of which, we sh ill subsequent ly endeavor to enforce upon the w tole people of Georgia, as the only means of reli< ving the coun try from its present rulers, and the eby restoring the Constitution to its original pu ity. From the Savannah Republicai , 2 1 st inst. From Havana. By the brig Oglethorpe, Capt. Jones, arrived this morning from Havana, we a e indebted to our commercial friends for the 101 l twing: Extract of a letter , d ued ‘•Haval a, April 15. For the last five or six days, I ie demand for produce, particularly Coffee, has b< en quite active, and prices in this article have rise 1 from 6 to 8 rls on the quotations per annexed Price Current, to which I beg to refer you for further particulars. Our easier holidays commence .to morrow, and will not be over until Tuesday t ie corning week, all business is of course suspended. I do not think, however, that prices of Cofee will recede, as vessels are now arriving in fl-eejs —consequent- ly, freights must undergo a decline. £4 15 was paid to Russia yesterday.—Fi\c essels leave to morrow for New Orleans and M ibile, the mas ters not being willing accept goir g rates.” From the New Orleans bulletin. Invasion of Texas. The arrival from Texas yes tore ay of the steam packet Neptune, brings intellige ice of the defeat of the Federalists, near Nice, on he Rio Grande; their retreat with great loss to Sin Antonio, in Texas, and the pursuit by an arn y offifteen hun dred Centralists, supposed to be within a day’s match of San Antonio. Whether the Central ists, under Arista, contemplate! an invasion of Texas, is not yet ascertained. The impression is, the pursuing array will stops within a short distance of San Antonio, and clLmand the sur render of Canales and his troops.| The smallness ot the enemy’s foice contradicts she supposition that they meditate an inroad apsn Texas, It is aho staled that a truce had been {entered into be tween the Mexican and Texiai Governments, which would prohibit any moves rent of the kind. However this may be, the new has created no little alarm in Texas, and the pc rotation are arm ing to meet the invader, if sued: should be his character. The sudden appioa h of the Mexi cans, seems to have taken the I’exian Govern ment by surprise. No prepar; lions had been made to receive them. The tfon eat >an Antoine consisted of only three compiini s. The nearest re-inforcement was a detachtnept of three hun dred men, under General Bu ledon, at the city of Austin, whose arrival was expected in two or three days. It was thought thajt this small body of Texians aided by the fag Jive Federalists, would present a front formidable enough to stop the progress of Arista. The Houston papers expres- the opinion that the only object of the movemen was the capture of the defeated enemy, and that no idea of taking possession of any part of Tejcar ever entered in to the plans of the Centralis; General. The event which occurred was (0 I e expected. For in case of defeat, the Federalist have no place of refuge but Texas; whither, cf ourso, the victo rious enemy would pursue tl em. In such a state of things, the public authorities of Texas are deservedly censured for neglect, in not keep ing a well equipped military force near the fron tier, to keep in check the successful party. The inhabitants, however, are used o arms and fight ing, and if time enough is allowed to gather them, an army will soon be raised ; th it can soon drive back Arista and iiis fifteen hu idred men. The . next news from Texas may be awaited with the deepest interest, as we shall tl en learn whether the advance of Arista is a mere pursuit of the fly ing Federalists or an invasion iff Texas.—ls the latter should turn out to he the plan of the Mexi can General, the event may be leemed important. The Texians will not rest cent ntthis time in re pelling the foe. They will puifsue the retreating invader, preach up a crusade against the fertile and tempting provinces of toe [interior. and gath ering around them the adventurous, daring and ambitious spirits that now 1 throng the United States—inarch an army of lien thousand men across the Rio Giandc, and begin an invasion that must end, no doubt, in tab conquest and en tire subjugation of Mexico. The same result, in the ordinary course of things, jnay be counted on as certain; but the event would be greatly accele rated, should the movement If Arista prove an actual invasion. ! Another Linch-Pin oft ! -We keep a lun ning Presidential account with Air. Van Burcn. This enables us to see how the land lays. In 1636 Mr. Van Buien was elected President by a majori ty of forty seven Votes.—Of t iis number Connec ticut and Rhode Island contribi ted twelve. Con- 1 necticut withdrew her elgii .• votes on the first Monday in April. On the 3d Wednesday in Apiil Rhode Island withdrew her fc fr voles. By sub tracting 12 voles from the v hole majority (47) given to Van Buren and adding them to the votes given to Gen. Harrison, we ha e made a change of twenty-four votes, which i; 01 e half of his major ity ! With such beginnings v[e go into the great conflict. Those who do not know and see that the result is to be triumphant and glorious, must l e dull of comprehension and d m of vihon.— Alba ny Journal. Public Meeting. ' At a Meeting of the citizens of Richmond conn- j ty, opposed to the present Administration of the General Government. Gen. Thomas Dawson, was appointed Chairman, and Wm.M. D’Antig nac, Secretary. A. J. Miller, Esq., moved for the appointment, by the Chair, of a Committee of five to report to the meeting ; whereupon the Chair announced A. J. M ILLF.R, A. Johnston, John Mi fledge, Peter Bennocii, John W. Wii.uk, That Committee, who after a few moments’ absence, returned with the following Report and Resolutions, which, after some remarks by C. J. Jenkins and G. W. Crawford, Esqs., were adopted with only one dissenting vote. The question as to the candidates for the Pres idency being settled, it becomes a matter of im portance, to the people of Georgia, to determine to whom their support will be given. Neutrali ty under these circumstances is a dangerous po sition to assume, and is incompatible with the genius of our institutions. —Georgia claims, from her geographical position and territorial extent, her increasing wealth and growing population, her long and do voted attachment to the sacred principles of the Constitution, a voice in this struggle, that should be heard, and an influence that will rebuke the audacio ifs minions of power, and cause them to feel the just indignation of an injured and insulted people. Let, then, that voice be uttered. From the primary assemblies of her People, and from the ballot-box, let that rebuke go forth, and with it the meed of com mendation to him whose past history testifies that his greatest desire is honestly to do his duty. If we examine the early political career of Mar tin Van Buren, we find him advocating princi ples which the South has ever regarded as hete rodox ; warring against cardinal doctrines which sustain our federal compact. liis opinions in relation to slavery are, at least, questionable, and though they may not amount to Abolition, are far from being such as to justify a warm support from the South. He objected to the admission of Missouri into the Union, unless slavery was prohibited by her constitution ; and more recent ly, when called on to avow his sentiments in re lation to the power of Congress to abolish slave ry in the District of Columbia, he had not light enough before him to enable him to determine the question. He has. during his administration, with untiring obstinacy, continued to press upon the people, measures of doubliul expediency, which have tended to derange the currency, de stroyed the credit of the people, and nearly that of the states, and introduced confusion and dis tress, where before, existed harmony and pros perity, And when called on for a redress of grievances, he has replied, “ the people expect too much from the Government.” His adminis tration has been expensive and extravagant, and the public money has been plundered by manv of those to whose custody it was confided, or used to control the exercise of the elective fran" chise. Such a man, and such an administration we cannot support. Another candidate is presented for our suffrages, William Henry Harrison, the able General, the gifted statesman, the honest man—and we urge his support upon the people of Georgia. His history is inseparable from his country’s glory.— Born in Virginia, the land of Washington, Jef ferson and Madison, he was early taught to devote himself with patriotic ardour to the service of his country, and no evidence can be found of his having faltered in that service. With a commis" sion from President Washington, he left thequie 1 enjoyments of home, and joined the army unde r Wayne. He bureau active and gallant part in the campaign of that General against the Indians, and contributed to its successful issue. As com mander of the North-western army during the late war, he turned the tide of success, which had set in favor of our enemies, and victory re turned and remained perched on our banners.— His deeds in the field are fresh in the recollec tion of us all, and merit the gratitude of a free and gallant people. In the Congress of the Uni. ted States (as Delegate, Representative and Sen ator) we find him diligent and faithful in the dis charge of his public duties, giving to the world full proof, that with more than common endow ments, he had qualified himself to serve his coun try in any sphere. Clear and beautiful, his speeches gave utterance to the sentiments of the purest republicanism. He has been charged with lieing an Ab olitionist. Let his vote in favor of the ad mission of Missouri into the Union, and his often repeated opinion that Congres cannot abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, (expressed too in a State opposed to slavery,) and his pledge to veto any law which might be pass ed for that purpose, stamp contradiction upon the calumny. And so far from manifesting hostility to the South, of which he has been accused, we have found him in Congress, at one time voting with our own Berrien and Cobb for appropria tions to improve owr harbors, to which Mr. Van Buren was opposed ; at another, con tending in favor of the claim of Georgia for mi litia services on the frontier more than thirty years ago; and at another, advocating the claim of South Carolina for unallowed’expense sin the war of 1812. Those who know Gen. Harrison best, have manifested their confidence in him, by as sociating with his name that of John Tyler, a Virginian of sound politics, a man whom Geor gia has delighted to honor, and who would not for a moment permit his name to be connected with that of ono whose opinions were at all doubtful upon subjects so vitally connected with the welfare of the South. Let us then rally for the contest. Let us raise 1 he banner of reform, and with “Harrison and Tyler” as our war cry, march on to victory, nor stop until the present ruinous and corrupt admin istration be overthrown and patriotism and hon esty established on its ruins. The committee report for adoption the follow ing resolutions, viz: Reaolved, That this meeiing recommend to their fellow-citizen? of Georgia opposed to the | present administration the forrr.ation of an elec i toral ticket, pledged to vote for William Henry Harrison, and John Tyler, for President, and : Vice President, of the United States. Resolved , That we will use all honorable | means to eiTsure (he election of such a ticket. Resolved, That the Chairman of this Meeting | appoint a committee of ten to report to this meet : ing the names of four suitable persons to repre | sent Richmond County, in the Convention, to be held atMilledgville, in June next. Resolved, That said committee be authorized to fill any vacancy which may occur in such dele gation. * The Co nmittee of ten, appointed under the third Resolution, was composed of the follow ing gentlemen : Jon v Kerr, W. W. Holt, Paul F. Eve, M. M. Dye, E. 13. Beall, A. Sibley, C. J. Jkxkixs, H. Bowdre, A. G. Bull. G. T. Doktic, Who retired and, after a few moments’ returned and nominated the following persons as Delegates: Maj. T. M. Nelson, P. F. Boisclair, Esq., Col, John Milledge, Gen. Thomas Dawson*. which nomination was confirmed. On motion of A. J. Miller, Esq., Resolved,That it is expedient to send delegates to the Young Men’s National Convention, to be held in Bald" more, on the 4lh of May next. Whereupon, Dr. F. M. Robertson, and R. Y. Harriss, Robert Clarke, and Alfred Baker, Esqrs. were appointed delegates to said Convention. C. J. Jenkins, Esq. than moved that the pro ceedings of the meeting be signed by the Chair man and Secretary, and published; which was adopted; And, on motion of James Gardner, Esq. the meeting adjourned. Tiros. Dawson*, Chairman. Ww. M. D’Antignac, Secretary. I . From Jamaica. The Jamaica Royal Gazette of the 21st ult. receiver, at the olfice of the Baltimore American, states the agricultural prospects of the island to he deplo able, and that it is “utterly impossible to look forward with any pleasureable hopes to the future prosperity of Jamaica, unless immedi ate and unlimited immigration is encouraged.”— A memorial, addressed to Sir Charles Metcalf, from the Parish of Manchester, and signed by numerous proprietors of Coffee plantations, has the following passage : “ We beg to assure your Excellency, that the present agricultural state of this parish is truly deplorable, and our coffee fields generally present a neglected and ruinate appearance. On but very few pronerties has there been any land fallen for coffee since that planted in 1837. And where anv further attempts have been made, they have (except in one or two instances) proved (from ! the determined opposition of the laborers to any thing like continuous labor) abortive.” In field labor, four days a week is said to be the utmost that can be procured from laborers, and that only from five to seven hours a day.— The memorialists complain of the increase of crime, particularly theft—which is said to have | reached an alarming and unprecedented extent. From the Baltimore Patriot. Pennsylvania Legislature. A short recess.—The Legislature of Penn sylvania adjourned sine die on Thursday night, about nine o’clock, and met again next morning, at nine o’clock, in pursuance of a special message or proclamation from the Governor, convening | them on the 17lh inst. The message was com- I munirated to both Houses about the hour of ad journment. In the Senate it produced consider able excitement; but the House took it more qui etly. The cause assigned in (he message for this course on the part of the Executive, was the fact that the Legislature had made no provision for paying the interest on lae State debt, or for rc i pairing and continuing the public works. The sums required for these purposes, and to main ' tain the faith and credit of the State, until the i meeting of the next legislature, the Governor es i timates at about $2,200,000. And he promises, i for the guidance of the Legislature, that one of the reasons for giving so amp'e time to the hanks in regard to resumption, was, that they might furnish the needful, in this lime of need. The Legislature met again at nine o’clock on Friday morning, pursuant to the Executive pro j clama.ion. The Senate at once passed a hill i making an appropriation of the amount of above I two millions, in accordance with the suggestions of the Governor—that is, for debts and repairs. , It was sent to the House, but not concurred in :by that body. An amendment, making an ap propriation for “extensions,” was added to the ! bill. This amendment, in turn, the Senate refu j sed to concur in. A committee of conference j was then appointed, who leporte’d, the same eve ning. a sort of compromise bill, which was nega ; lived by the Senate, by a decided vote; and thus the matter rests, at the date of our last advices | from Harrisburg. Mr. Van liureu’s Liberality. i The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser in giving ' an account of a Log Cabin dedication at Tona | wanda, at which hundreds of the hardy Ycoman i ry of Erie and Niagara counties assisted, intro duces the following anecdote in illustration of the benevolent propensities of Mr, Van Buren. ‘ Speaking of Mr. Van Buren, our readers will | remember that, in firing a salute in honor of iiis j advent atTonawanda.a man unfortunately had his ; arm blown off. How much, think you, did Mr. | Van Buren give tin man as a partial recompense | for a calamity so well calculated to excite all ihc | generous feelings of our nature 1 Twenty dollars —less than half what a surgeon would charge for ; his services. That pitiful sum we were assured ■ ; was all that Mr. Van Buren, with a princely pri ' vate fortune and a salary of twenty five thou sand dollars a year, tendered the unhappy man in recompense lor an accident which well nigh caused death, and which has rendered him i incapable for life. In 1825 a similar accident hefel a man who was assisting at one of the en thusiatic welcomes with which the Nation’s Guest was every where greeted. Lafayette no sooner heard of it, than with characteristic gene rosity, though comparatively poor himself, he sent the man one thousand dollars. Nothing could show more strikingly than do these two acts the noble, generous character of the one, and the sordid callous selfishness of the other.” Alluding to the Carnival in France, Mr. Walsh writes, —“ The journals of a religious cast furnish a dreadful account of the sacrifice of furniture, „pparel, and other effects, made by the working people tgi the Mont de Piete, in order to buy or hire with the proceeds fancy dresses, masks, and vehicles, and to wallow lor two successive days and nights in drunkenness and libertinism, which inflict, for several months, or the rest of the year, misery and vice upon their families.” OIUGIN OF THE TERMS “HaRD ClDLll” AND I, “Log Cabin.”—The Baltimore Republican, a prominent Van Buren paper, speaking sneering ly of Gen. Harrison, says: “ Give him a barrel of hard cider, and settle a pension of two thousand a year, and our word for it, he will sit the remainder of his days content in a log cabin.” Everv Administration from President Wash ington to President Jackson, contributed to the payment of the National Debt. Lnder the latter President the whole debt created by our two wars with England, was extinguished, and a large Sur plus Revenue accumulated. There was no Debt for Van Buren to pay. He has, however, du ring the first three years of his wasteful Admin istration, exhausted the Surplus Revenue and loaded the People with a National Debt ot more j than $20,000,000. — Albany Journal. Suffering on the Frontir. — One of the prisoners among the Cuinanches, Mrs. Wetister, i whoescaped and came into San Antonio a few | days after the terrible slaughter, was twelve days, j after leaving the Indians, wandering about before she reached a point of safely, carried her child the whole time, and gleaned her subsistence from the fruit of the prickly pear, which abounds in those regions. Several times she saw maraud ing bands of the enemy, but contrived to elude them. — N. 0. Bull tin. The last accounts from San Antonio state, that the messenger sent to the Cumanches, after the slaughter of their chiefs, had not returned, although sufficient time had elapsed- It was ap prehended they would murder their prisoners by way of retaliation. The conduct of these Indi ans is represented to be exceedingly treacherous —so much so as to place them beyond the pale of civilized warfare. Unless they sue for peace, and make atonement for the past. theTexians threaten to hunt them down like savage beasts of prey, and declare a war of extermination. Provoked as the whites have been by the cruellies of the Indi ans, committed upon defenceless woman and chil dren, it is not to be wondered at if their feelings are wrought to a pitch of exasperation, that seems extravagant to those at a distance. — New Orleans Bulletin. Remarkable Prophecy of the Emperor Napoleon. —As regards England. France, Rus sia, and other European States. (Being a sup pressed passage from both French and English editions of Count Las Casas’s Journal.) “In less than twenty-live years from the pre sent time,” said the Emperor Napoleon to me, one day, f as we stood viewing the sea from a rock which over-hung the road —‘• the whole Eu ropean system will he changed. Revolution will succeed revolution until every nation be- I coin' s acquainted with its individual rights. De- j pend upon it, the people of Europe will not long I submit to be governed by these bands of petty ; sovereigns—these Aristocratic cabinets. I was ' wrong in re-establising the order of rabies of j France but I did it to give splendor to the throne, i and refinement to the manners of the people, who were fast sinking into barbarism since the revo lution. The remains of the feudal system will vanish‘before the sun of knowledge. The peo ple have only to know that all power emanates from themselves, in order to asseit their rights to a share in their respective governments. This will be the case even with the boors of Russia; yes, Las Casas, you may ILe to see the time— hut I shall he cold in my grave-when that colossal but ill-cemented empire will he split into as many sovereignties—perhaps Republics—as there are j hordes or tribes which compose it.” After a few more reflections on the future pros pect of Europe, bis Majesty thus continued : “Never was a w:b more artfully woven over a nation than tbit hnrrib'e D bt which envelopes the people of Ragland. It has been the means of enriching the Aristocracy beyond all former example in any country, whilst it has, at the , same lime, insured as many fast and powerful friends to the government, as there are individuals who receive interest for that money, so extrava gantly squandered to crush liberty in other coun tries, But, even that must have an end; some accidental spark will ignite the combustible mass and blow the whole system to the devil! If this mighty debt were due to foreigners, these ctmn'ng islanders would not hear the burden an hour ;bul would, on some pretext or other, break with their creditors, and laugh at their credulity; hut they owe the money to individuals among themselves, and are therefore likely to enjoy the pleasure of paying the interest for generations to come. “* France, too, has got a debt. These Bour bons think to maintain themselves on my throne, by borrowing largely of ihc present generation, in order to lay heavy taxes on the next and future ones.—But I know the French people too well, j to suppose that such a system can oe long tolera ted. 1 know they have too much natural affec- \ Hon fur their offspring to entail upon them a National Debt like that of England, however , artfully incurred. No, no ! my subjects are too 1 sharp-sighted ; the property accumulated for their | children, to be mortgaged to pay the Russians and English for invading them, and for the res toration of the vitlle cour des imbeciles, who now insult them ! They will, after a time, make com parisons between them and me; they will re collect that the expenses of my government were defrayed by impost during the year; that my | wars cert France nothing ; that I left her not. one Napoleon in debt; but that I enriched every | corner of her territory. Such comparisons will ! not be very favorable to the Bourbons; the i French will cast them and their debt from their i shoulders, as my Arabian steed would any straw- I | ger who should dare to mount him. Then, if; I my son be in existence, he will be seated on the . throne, and amid the acclamations of the people; ! if he be not, France wil‘ go back to a Republic,- j for no other hand will dare to seize a sceptre which it cannot wield. The Orleans branch, j though amiable, are too weak, have 100 much of j other Bourbons, and will share the same fate, if j they do not choose to live as simple citizens, un- i der whatever change takes place.” Here the Emperor paused a few raorr.ens, then, waving his hand, he exclaimed, in an animated tone, his dark eye beaming with the enthusiasm of inspiration : “ Franee once more a Republic, other countries will follow her example—Germans, Prussians, Poles, Italians, Danes, Swedes, and Russians, will all join in the crusade for liberty! They will arm against their sovereigns, who will be glad to make concessions of some of their rights, in order to preserve a minor authority over them as subjects; they will grant them representative chambers, and style themselves Constitutional Kings, possessing a limited power. Thus the feudal system will receive its death blow; like the thick mist on that ocean, will dissipate at the first appearance of the sun of liberty. The wheel of revolution will not stand still at this point, the impetus, will he increased in a ten-fold ratio, and the motion will be accelerated in pro portion. When a people recover a part of their rights, as men, they become elated with the vic tory they have achieved ; and, having tasted the sweets of freedom, they become clamorous for a larger portion. Thus will the Slates and princi palities of Europe be in a continual state of tur moil, perhaps for some years—like the earth, heaving in all directions, previous to the occur rence of an earthquake. At length the matter will have vent; a tremen dous explosion will take place —the lavaof Eng land's bankruptcy will overspread the Europe an world, overwhelm Kings and Aristocracies, hut. cementing the democratic interests as if flows. —Trust me, Las Casas, that, as from the vines planted in the soil which encrust the sides of Etna and Vesuvius, the most delicious wine is obtained oo shall the lava, of which I speak, prove to be the only soil in which the Tree of Liberty will take firm and permanent root. May it flourish for ages! You, perhaps, consider these sentiments strange and unusal; they are mine, however. I was a Republican but fate , and the opposition of Europe, made me an Emperor ! lam now a spectator of the future. Newspapers. —A return has been laid befo’-c the House of Commons of the number of stamps issued to newspapers in London and the country, from the year ending October 10, 1836, to Octo j ber 10, 1 839, together with the number of papers | and the amount of stamp and advertisement du- I tv. It appears from these that the greatest in | crease has taken place in the English provincial cress. In the year ending October 10, 1806, the total number published was 194 the stamps is sued 8,535,396, and the amount of duty £113,- 804. In 1839 the numbers wore, 241) newspa pers, 20,187,780 stamps, considerably more than double the amount in 1836, and the duty £B3- 528. The advertisement duly paid by the pro vincial papers has also inc eased considerably; the total amount in 1830, being, £43,007, and in 1839. £53,002. In the London papers, during the same period, the number of advertisements had increased from 539,808 to 033,490, the duly being in the re spective years £41,238 and £48,511. The num ber of papers of all sorts had increased from 71 to 125. and tiie stamps issued from 19.241,640 to 29,352,283 and the amount of duty had fallen from £256,556 to £121,833. In Scotch papers there has also been a consi derable increase ; the number of stamps issued in 1836, being 2,654 438, and in 1339, 4,014.894, producing a duty of £16,644, while in 1836, it was £36,392. The advertisement duty had in creased from £10,669 to £13,737. In the Irish papers the increase is very trifling, the total number of stamps issued in 1836. being 5,144, 582. ami in 1839, 5,622,124. The ad vertisement duty had increased from £8,395 to 9,438. It thus appears that the increase of the circu lation of newspapers, in these three years, has been in the following proportions:—lrish 10 per cent; Scotch 14 per cent; London 53 per cent; and Provincial 87 per cent. The increase altogether has been 24 millions of copies, which would bring in a revenue of £15,000 a year for paper duty, supposing the newspapers remained of the original size, but most of them have been enlarged ; so that the increase in the paper duty for newspapers alone may be safely reckoned at £25,000 a year. The increase on the advertisement duty has been £2(1,500. Mathew Caret. —The name of this veteran author and publisher has been for a Jong time familiar to almost every reader in America. He was a native of Ireland, and came to this coun try immediately after the close of the revolution and settled in Philadelphia where by the exercise of his abilities, and his persevering industry, he in a short time acquired wealth and an enviable reputation. Though eminent as a writer, and well known lor his participation in almost every political discussion of the last half century, Mr. Carey was most cclebr ted as a philanthropist. The streams of private charitv were continually flowingfrom his hand, and his list of pensioners swelled to a number that was almost beyond the means of individual bounty, yet none went emp ty away. The cry of the noor, the widow, and the orphan, was never in vain at his door. He regarded with deep interest the efforts of the j young in business, and never failed to lend his aid to those who asked his advice, and apparent ly deserved his approval and assistance. He died on the sixteentn of September in the eighty-first year of his age, from injuries received in failing from his carriage, a few days previovs. To Prevest Hess from Scratching.— According to the Boston Cultivator, a farmer in Framingham says he can prevent the scra'ching of hens in his garden, and has often done it, by simply tying together two of the locs of one foot. Each foot has three toes, and the two outside ones of one foot are taken up and tied together over the middle one—thus the hen cannot scratch with the tied loot when she stands on the free one, and she cannot stand on the tied one alone and scratch with the other. A Chapter on Hats. There is no people so ingenious at expedients as Yankees. A Yankee editor down East, who ought to know all about it, gives a chapter on the use of hats, which is very good in its way, though the custom spoken of is not so strictly a New England one as represented. “It would never,” said the aforesaid Yankee editor, “enter the heads ; of persons out of New England to use their hats I for any other purpose than as a covering for I their heads. In other parts of the globe, when a I man bows graciously to a friend, he takes off ids I hat. Such a custom cannot he adopted here ; for a man’s hat is his pocket book, his satchel, his pantry, his clothes bag, his tool chest, or his su gar box, as occasion may require, and if he should shake off his hat in a hurry, awkward circum stances must needs ensue. We once knew a ! young gentleman, who having purchased a do ! zen of eggs for his mother, forthwith popped 1 them into his hat. On his way home, he met a I pretty girl, with whose charms he had long been | smitten, and wishing to be particularly polite, he j took off his hat, preparatory to making a low i bow. The twelve eggs obeying the laws of gra j vitation, were precipitated to the pavement and instantly smashed to atoms; and the beautiful j white garmentr of the astonished girl, were be i spattered with the yolks. She never forgave I him. i How often during a windy day, do we see a | hatless wight chasing a cloud of papers, which have made then escape, and arc borne away on ; the wings of the wind. It has been remarked by foreigners that the | natives of New England are generally round j shouldered. This is undoubtedly owing to the i enormous weight which they carry on their head?, j A lawyer is seldom seen with a green bag in his {hand- His legal documents, and sometimes his law books are deposited in his hat. A physi cian’s hat is not unfioquently an apothecary’s shop, in miniature; a merchant’s hat is crammed with samples of merchandise; and a stage dri ver's hat i« stuffed with bundles and packages. A person about to make a short jomney seldom burthens himself with a trunk, but takes a change of apparel in his hat; a late member of the Mas sachusetts legislature, representing a town nut more than twenty miles from Boston, alwayscar ried his dinner to the slate house in his hat ; and we have seldom seen the hat of an editor, which was not stuffed with damp newspaners, stolen paragraphs, and unanswerable duns!” An important discovery has been made by M. Didron, during his recent archaelogical tour in Greece and Turkey, of a Greek manuscript, about 900 years old, containing a complete code of relig ious monumental paintings. This document, found at Mount Athos, gives full instructions con cerning all subjects and persons that ought to he painted in churches with the age, costume, and attributes that each figure ought to have. A coppy of this manuscript is making at Mount Athos with the greatest care. Another manuscript containing a similar coda on religious architecture, is believed by M. Didren to exist at Adrianople, and he has some 1 opes of obtaining it. Comparative Arrivals, Exports and Stocks of r ton at New Orle ms, for the list nine J, . from Oct. 1 ,to April 18. s rs "* Years. Arr'ls. Exa'ts. c. r ofocA-t 1840 755957 602943 9 " 1839 492896 361697 T, lß^ 1838 590388 47131) 1837 510136 421798 1836 408101 418752 „ 45 1833 460034 376633 T l9 l iS34 392297 294567 .IT 4 ' 7 * 1533 353669 292415 104836 1832 258821 183583 537S 37 osoio East India Company.—A return ha, h | Panted by order ot the house of commons n f? { territorial revenues and disbursement of U p India company, for the years 1835 1837, with an estimate of both for' I s results, which are all the publv r.r , * 4 ‘ ie very favorable kind. “f was that succeeding the abrogation of tt/r" ter as a trading company, and i n vvhi . ter part of their commercial assets we, . prea ’ there existed a surplus of income ove* rea!, ' zp( f’ ture of £8,000,000, after deducting a sum STiS 1 ’ 000,000 set apart for the formation of a au ar * fund for the proprietors of East India 1836 the surplus was£2 000.000; i n IR3~' , 470,000 ; and for 1838 the estimate of surnl • £ L .300,000. The public debt of the Eastlnd'* company, at the several residences, on the 1, * April, 1837, is stated at £30,400.000, and the terest on it at £1,440,000. The rate of i paid for the various loans varies from 4m u per cent, but the average is about 4 3-4 p er Cem Time. Time is the most indefinable, yet paradoxical of things: the past is gone, the future k n ot come, and the present becomes the past even while we attempt to define it, and like the flash of the lightning, at once exists and expires.-! Time is the measure of ail things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloscr of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Like space,iti s 1 incomprehensible, because, it lias no limits, and it would be sti.l more so if it had. It is more ol> scure in its sources than the Nile, and in its ter. rr.ination than the Niger ; ami advances like the swiftest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent It gives wings of lightning to pleasure, but the feet of lead to pain, and lends expectation a curb but enjoyment a spur. It robs beauty of her charms to bestow them on her picture, and builds a monument to merit but denies it a house ; it is the transient and deceitful flatterer of falsehood hut tried and final friend to truth. Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing, is permitted to take all; nor can it ne satisfied until it stolen the world from us and us from the world. It constantly flies yet overcomes all things by flight, and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of Death. Time, the cradle of hope, but tiie grave of Ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counsel lor of the wise, bringing all the dread to the one, and all the desire to the other; but like Cassan , dra it warns us with a voice that even the sagest j discredit too long, and the silliest believe too late. ; Wisdom walks before; opportunity with it; and 1 repentance behind it; he that has made it hi» friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy, will have but little to hope from his friends.— Lacan. Methodists.—The doctrines of Wesleyan ! Methodism are now preached in more than 200 different languages. From Oxford, where it was first attempted, they have gone and erected their standard in every town in England, in western and southern Africa, Ceylon ami continental In dia, New South Wales, Van Diemans’ Land, New Zealand, Toga, Habia Islands, Vavou Isl ands, Fejee Isl mds, the West Indies, the Cana das, Scotland, Ireland,Sweden, Germany,France, Cadiz, Gibraltar and Malta, Nova Scotia, New Foundland, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, Isle of Jersey, Guernsey, and Alderney, the Friendly Islands and Texas, besides our own 26 lulled Slates. There are in England 3,000 Methodist chap els and 270,000 members; 3,339 Sabbath schools, 341,442 scholars, and 59,217 teachers. In Canaria, there arc 14,000 members; in Ire j land, 26,244. In the United States the Metho | dist Episcopal Church has 28 annual conferen j ces, 3,106 preachers in actual service, 216 super | anuated, or worn out in the service, and about 5,800 local preachers, and 2,420,000 members attendant upon their ministry; besides 80,000 converted Indians. And there are in immediate connection with the several conferences, 6 colle giate institutions, and I university, besides many minor and private establishments. Four of these are west of the Alleghany mountains, and three in the Atlantic states.— Ch. Index. Cdf VVe think proper to reclaim the following “ Calculation, ” as we find it going about among all ourexchanges, and only from the literary journals ; of New York, which first noticed it, have we re j ceived the proper credit. We do this in justice to | our philosophic correspondent “ Straws ,” it hav ! ing been one of his first contributions to our pa -1 per.— 'Picayune. A Calculation. Four hundred million breaths make up The sum of human life ! So oft man draws tiie air of heaven, In pleasure, pain, and strife. For three score years his bosom heaves With breath drawn carelessly— Yet while he draws that measured air, Twelve hundred millions die ! Oh ! think—ye of the reckless heart, Who dare the smiting rod — That with each scornful breatli ye heave. Three souls are called to God ! J.M.F. i While on so serious a subject we will take the j occasion to transfer to our columns, fur the firit time, this most remarkable and surpassingly beau tiful verse of Professor Longfellow’s. The hearta “ muffled drum 1” What sermon ever awoke such solemn thoughts as must irresistibly follow this reflection ? “ Art is long and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to. the grave !” The Gallon Law.—An old fellow in R aD ‘ I kin county, lately made the following argument : against the law. “ I’m agin it, because supp ose | a man’s got two dollars, and he wants some su gar and coffee for his wife and children. A o *.’ he can’t buy less than a gallon of whiskey, an that costs two dollars. Well, what’s his and children to dc for sugar and coffee 1” Ih eres no getting over that logic. MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Savannah, April Cleared. —Br brig Margaret of Levin, -mi ' Halifax. . Arrived. —Ship Whitmore, Watlington, St Cr° ’ Brig America, Treadwell, St Croix ; Scbr Iran • Milligan, St Augustine ; Steamboat Etin, ta ’ Augusta; Steamboat Lamar, Creswell, Went to Sea —Br brig Catherine Gardner, ’ ada. Charleston, April Arrived yesterday —Scl r. Industry, Da' l: a lotte, (N. C ) „. , . sebr Cleared —Ship Eutaw, Allen, Liverpool, Hebe, Downes, Wilmington, (N. C.) Went to 'ea yesterday.— U- L. brig Moon, ges, New- York.