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tangible difference in value between property and life. This policy re minds us of the reply of Judge Burnet, to the horse-stealer, who upon being asked what he had to say, why judg ment of death should not be passed up on him, and. answering, “that it was hard to hang a man for only stealing a horse,” was told by the Judge, ‘Man, thou art not only to be hanged for stealing a horse, but that horses may not be stolen.’ That punishments should be proportioned to offences is just and politic we' admit, but that there is a lamentable deficiency in the justice and morality of this new coun try overlooking the alieni appetens which is so manifestly a nuisance to their neighbors and strangers, is equal ly notorious. We have frequently heard of this pony club.—It is said by a Traveller who passed this place some time since directly from Car- roll, that this stealing association has be come so dexterious in its profession, that if the d 1 had been in the shape of a pony, he would ere this have fallen a prey to its agility. “Pony club” is but a limited name and will by no means give a correct idea of this neighboring combination—“cow club,” “hog club,” 8c,c. may properly be added. The Canadas.—We do not believe, says the N. Y. Daily Advertiser, there is any serious wish in this country to have the British provinces annexed to the Union. At the south, such an event would be deprecated,because it would pave the way for the establishment ol at least four new States at the north, which would not be likely to be relish ed at the south. To this Slate, &. more especially to this city,the incorporation of tlic Canadas, and particularly the lower province into the union, would be an evil.If the U. S. owned the St. Lawrence to its mouth, it would ne- cessaiily draw away from this market, a large quantity of produce, which is now brought here, and a proportiona ble supply of merchandize would be derived to the upper parts of this State, and other contiguous regions, from Montreal and Quebec, to the in jury of the trade of Nevv-York. That the Canadas will, first or last, be de tached from Great Britain, there is a strong probability. Whether they will, in that event, be/annexed to the United States, or be established un der an independent government, the future will determine. few minutes, returned to the court a verdict of $4000 damages. The lar gest verdiet ever rendered in the coun ty in similar case. A motion for a new trial was submitted to the court by the Defendant’s Counsel, on the ground of excessive Damages, but was promptly rejected. Harvard University.—The com mencement at Harvard University was on Wednesday, 29th ult. The Governor and Lt. Governor of the Commonwealth, and members of the Council, were escorted from Boston to Cambridge at an early hour by the Boston Company of Light Dragoons. Among the gentlemen invited to attend the performances, and the dinner in the hall, were the President of the U- nited States, Mr Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gov ernor Coles, of Illinois; Mr Tucker, Principal of the University of Virgin ia, Professor M’Vickar, of Columbia College; Senor Viaauree, of Peru; Professor de la Luz, of St Carlos Col lege, Havana, and many others. The number of young gentle men who received the degree of A. B. was fifty two; and the degree of A. M. was conferred on twenty-six. The degree of Doctowin Medicine was con ferred on nine. No honorary degrees were confcr- ed. We were particularly pleased, says the Christian Register, with this deviation from the former course.— The profusion with which the small colleges have recently scattered round their title honours, makes modest men qshamed. ' Jlncient cannon raised from the sea.— A fisherman of Calais drew up a can non of very ancient form, from the bot tom of the sea, by means of his nets.— M de Rheims has since removed the rust from it, and on taking off the breech, was much surprised to find the piece still charged. Specimens of the powder have been taken, from which, of course, all the saltpetre has disappeared, after a submersion of three centuries. The ball was of lead, and was not oxidized to a depth greater than that of a line.—Journal des Debats. H.iRRISBURG, Aug. 9, 1828. Caution to Seducers.—$4000 ver dict. The case of Peter Bowlinger, against George Kallor for the Seduc tion of the Plaintiff’s daughter, was tried in our county court, during the August Term which has just closed its session. The Jury after retiring a Gipsies in England.—About sixty years ago, the number of Gipsies in England was calculated at forty thou sand; and I have no doubt, that they are now more than double that number. Indeed, I should be inclined to call them above one hundred t hou sand: and all these jieccssarily living by means of fraud, theft, robbery, or some species of crime and imposture. 1 say necessarily, because, whatever their disposition may be, they haVe ac tually no alternative: they must prac tice, crimes to support existence. For such is the prejudice against them, that they cannot procure any respect able occupation, and they are betray ed by their very faces; the counte nance of a gipsy is recognized in Eng land almost as readily as that of a ne gro. Perhaps the English gipsies are the only people in the world who are born under cruel doom of perdition.— Enviable indeed is the condition of the naked savage, compared with that of our gipsies. It is a curious fact for which I pledge myself, that a tribute precisely the same as was paid to Rob Roy M’Gregor, and other freebooters in the wildest parts of the Hi hlands Scotland, a century ago, under the name of black mail, is, at this day. actually paid by farmers within ten miles of Loudon to Hie gipsies for pro tection; or, in other words for not stealing their property.—(Ves. Meth. J\tug. A HEROINE. A distressing accident occurred at Temple, N. H. near the farm-house of Gen. Mile, on the 11th ult. The stage passing from Nashua to Peter- boro, having two men uesides the dri ver on the driver’s seat, the seat sud denly gave way and the three men fell to the ground, the wheels of the car riage passing over the two outside men. One of them, Ohadiah Perry, of Temple, was so severely injured, that he died in two days after. The oth er was much bruised, but is expected to recover. The driver was not se verely injured. The horses took fright from the falling of the seat and men, and sat out upon the run; and the particulars which follow, copied from the Amiier^ Cabinet, relate to an event which cannot but excite gen eral admiration, exhibiting a degree of presence of mind in a female, and a fortitude and magnanimity rarely equalled by any of the male sex, un der similar circumstances: “There was but one passenger in side the stage, Miss Abigail R. Brown, ot Peterborough, who was reading at the time of the fall of the seat, and'did not perceive the acci dent, till the stage, coining in contact with the branches of the trees, roused her attention; when she discovered her danger, the horses be ing in full speed. Although alarmed, she did not scream, nor attempt to jump out without consideration. Feel ing deeply her perilous situation, she considered the best method of her res cue, or preparation for ihe probable event. She began with speaking gen tly and soothingly to the horses, and felt encouraged by its apparent effect in checking their speed. She open cd the door of the stage, let down the steps, adjusted her clothes to prevent their being entangled, and stood on the steps while the horses ran the distance of near a mile, over several hills and by several houses. In the course of the race she discovered a head a load of hay in the road, and beckoning to the driver to turn out, he was enabled to do so, in season not to come in contaek with the stage, and he used his exertions to stop the hor ses in vain, as did others who were met. She continued on the steps of the carriage until nearing a hill of some extent, when she increased her endeavors to check the horses by her voice, hoping thereby, with the natu ral effect of raising the eminence, so far to lesson their vilocity as to be a- ble to jump off with safety, which she happily effected. On alighting to the ground, she started forward at the risk of her life, still speaking soothing ly to the horses, till she was enabled to seize some part of the harness, turn the horses, stop them, and hold them in suspension till assistance came up to relieve heir from her anxious and perilous situation, exhibiting a forti tude and presence of mind bordering on heroism, which not one man in a thousand would have manifested on so alarming and.trying an occasion. John Tanner.—Many of our rea ders will remember that this person passed through Detroit, about eight years ago, on his way to Kentucky, to join his relatives from whom he had been separated for thirty years, du ring which he had beer, among the In dians ol the northwest. Mr. Tanner is now in this city. He has with him a narrative of his life and adventures, written by Dr. James of the United States Army, vvhuh will probably be published in New York or Philadel phia, in the courss of a few months.— A gentleman well qualified to decide upon the merits cf the work, in a let ter to the editor >f this paper, dated Fort Brady, May 15, says:—“Being a man of a strong, unbending, and nat urally discriminating mind, he (Tan ner) has been converted by his editor into one of the nost fruitful channels, through which hformation respecting the manners, modes of thinking, &c. of the Red Man, has flowed into our sea of Indian literature.” At the age of nine years, Tanner was seized near his father’s house in the vicinity of the mouth the Great Miami, by a party of six Indians from Saginaw, under the father of the notorious Kishkanko, who was also of the party and quite young warrior. The object of seiz ing him, was to supply the place of a young son of the wife of old Kishkau- ko, who had died of disease, and for whose loss the mother was inconsola ble. The party succeeded in getting this captive to Saginaw, where he re mained, about two years, when be was sold to the widow of a distinguished chief who lived near Mackinac, It was known to the traders that he was a captive child, and some had threatened to take steps to have him restored to his parents—and in conse quence of these threats, the Indians removed him to the distant country near the head waters of Red River. Here he remained until after. Lord Selkirk had abandoned his project of making a settlement. He became acquainted with Lord S. and was of ten of essential service to him. He beeame a chief-took a wife, by whom he had several children, and was re spected and feared by the Indians of the tribe by whom he had been adopt ed. During his residence with the Indians Mr. Tanner lost all knowledge of the English language; but by per severance, and with the assistance of kind individuals, he has acquired the means of communicating his ideas in his native language with considerable facility.—Detroit Gar. N. B. Mr. Tanner, the subject of the above notice, called on us this morning. He has the manuscript ac count of his own adventures among the Indians, which he intends publishing immediately. It will make about 400 octavo pages. Full confidence . may be reposed in the talents and charac ter of Dr. James, who has prepared the w'ork for the press. The public will look with a lively interest to the publication of this volume.—JV’. York Statesman. VALUABLE SUGGESTION. “If there be a qualification in which a female ought to excel, it is a tho rough and practical acquaintance with the arts hnd duties of domestic life. She may be ignorant of other branch es of human knowledge, and deficient in more refined attainments with com parative impunity, hut embellishments cannot supply her deficiency in these. These constitute her peculiar and ap propriate employment, and far from being beneath her regard, they adorn and beautify the most distinguished of her sex. “The sentiment may not exactly accord with the opinions of the pres ent age, but it is one that ought to be inscribed on the heart of every female, that industry and economy are her true glory. There is no apology for a slothful woman. A slothful woman is more fit for a domestic drudge, or the slave of an eastern despot, than for the elevated station which free dom, civilization, and Christianity have assigned her. A woman who is occupied in little else than receiving the courtesies of the other sex, having every want supplied by obsequious at tendants, if she does not become tor pid by inaction,, is almost always the victim of that morbid sensibility, which, while it can weep over the ideal scenes of a novel or a tragedy, has no interest in the affecting realities of human life, and.passes through the world without communicating happi ness (or feeling responsibility. “Few appreciate the obligations* cares and labors, of an industrious fe male; and few, I fear, are sensible of the perpetual self-denial which she is called jto» exercise in the perform ance of her laborious and reiterated duties. Her eye must be every where in her own proper sphere; her author ity .every where in her own retired dominion; her hand on every spring in all the departments of domestic labor; and c3ieerfulness and care constitute the prominent excellencies of her character. A female that has been induced to believe that she was made for nothing but to be beloved & admir ed, & who is never pleased but by alie nations of idleness and dissipation, has never learned to estimate her true worth and excellence, and is a stran ger to the high destination of a wo man.” 'EARLY RISING. There is nothing that contributes more to the maintainance of health and elasticity of muscle than early ri sing. To breathe the fresh air of the morning before the freshness of the dew has passed, not only tends to a joyous lightness of spirits, but imparts to the animal powers a tone that noth ing else can produce. The late riser, after lying in a close room for hours, comes down to his breakfast with his senses benumbed from the effects of his slumbers, and partakes of his re past, more as a thing of course than in obedience to the demands of nature, and when he has finished his meal, goes forth to business oppressed with lassi tude and want of general energy. The early riser, on the contrary, so soon as the quantity of rest which the body requires has been indulged in, comes forth in the early morning, when eve ry thing breathes freshness. The flowers, as if invigorated by the dews of the preceding night, exhale' their richest hues. Animated nature wa kens in obedience to the God of Day, and the beasts of the field go forth to enjoy the verdue whilG moist and un touched by the glowing kisses of the sun. There is a sprightliness upon the face of creation that infuses itself imperceptibly into his feelings, and enables him to enter on his daily du ties with animation and confidence.— When he goes to his first meal, it is not with carelessness or loathing, but with appetite and relish; the body calls for food, and the organs ready to receive, draw from it nourishment, while in their turn they transmit it to every part of the system. The mus cular fibres are braced up, and instead of lassitude or weariness, there is a sensation of activity throughout the sys tem. But independently of the health- fulness produced by early rising, those who practice it not only experience the earliest beauties of the day, when creation, unwrapping itself from the sable mantle of night, stands forth ar rayed in charms of a new being, but they add much to the term of their actual existence. Sleep is the coun terfeit of death; our energies, lulled into a state of inactivity, we lie in sensible, whilst Tiirte, hurrying .on ward, hears us to the portals of eter nity. It is worthy of notice, but which few attend to, that he who sleeps eight hours out of four,and twenty, is cut off from the great end of being useful to his fellow men for one third of his time in life, and that every moment rescued from this state of oblivion, is so much added to our mortal existence. CHEAP RECIPES TO INSURE HEALTH. 1. Rise Early. Walk or ride an hour or two, then eat a substanstial breakfast. Let your ether meals be moderate, and use exercise freely before going to bed. ' This recipe has lately been recommended, in strong terms, by Sir Astley Cooper, and ma ny others of the most eminent physi cians in London. Its first direction is consistent with Frankiin’s well known maxim: Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Its last direction equally agrees with the well known couplet: After dinner sit a while; After supper walk a mile. 2. Keep your feet warm, (i. e. by exercise,) your head cool, (i. e. by temperance;) and your body open, (i. e. take care to avoid costiveness.)— This was the golden rule of Boerhave, the greatest physician in modern tfr probably in.ancient times; who con cluded his advice by saying something to this effect—“If people would only observe these plain simple rules, and would avoid a current of air as they would nu arrow, physicians would he altogether useless.” 3. For Children.—“Give them plenty of milk, plenty of flannel, plen ty of air, and let them have plenty of sleep, and they will seldom, if ever, ail any thing.” That is, niilk is their best diet; they should he warmly clothed; permitted lobe much out of doors; and should be allowed always to sleep till they wake of their own accord. These are the deliberate re commendations of the ablest of men; and tiiey are the obvious dictates of nature. PROBLEM-TO THE CURIOUS. An Eagle, at the North Pole, on looking towards the South, espied a Dove, which was immoveably fixed directly over tire point in which the meridian of Cape Horn and the parallel of GO decrees, South latitude, intersected each other. Urged by his natural rapacity, he started in stantly for the Dove, and flew in the direction which the meridian of the Cape indicated at the moment of starting, (without regard to the diur nal motion of the earth) at the follow ing rate, to wit: In the first hour 320 miles: Second hour, 315, and so on, continuing to decrease 5 miles each till he reached the Dove. How ma ny revolutions will the earth have per formed, ,in the interval, between the Eagle’s starting, and that of pouncing on the Dove? What Empires, King doms, Principalities, Dukedoms, Dutchies, States, Rivers, Lakes, Bays, Seas, and Oceans did lie pass in his flight? What was the nature of the curve, described by his shadow, on the surface of land and water? and at what point did the curve cut the several Empires, Kingdoms, Prin cipalities, &c. passed over? also at what points did the curve cut the par allel of every ten-h degree of latitude between the Pole and the point over which the Dove was suspended? Not. Intelligencer. Ealing one's self.—As one of our Hudson River steam-boats was about leaving the wharf on Saturday, two sturdy fellows were seen hustling through the crowd, with as much im patience as if they feared she would fly before they could reach her. Too eager to wait till he had fairly reach ed her, one of them, to the infinite a- musement of the passengers and by standers, vociferated, an application in his broad just-come-over dialect, as follows: ‘Captain! Captain! or are you the mate? (and not W'ait for an answer,) What will you ask to sail us to Albany—an’ you to ate us! or what will you ask and we to ate ourselves? JV*. Y. paper. lellow Fever.—The Yellow Fever' has made its appearance in Charles ton, S. C. It is there called the Strangers Fever. POCKET BOOK LOST. A BOUT the middle of July last was stolen out of my Pocket at'my house, a large Washed Leather Pocket-Book, containing one note on the State Bank of Georgia lor $10, one note of hand on Eli jah Hicks for §85, payable sometime in October next; a receipt of Henry Megyr of the State of New York, for two notes on John Byers of the said State, and some other papers not recollected. To any per son getting &. delivering said Book, papers and money to me; 1 will give ten dollars, and five for the apprehension of the rogue, I do hereby forwarn all persons from tra ding for said note of Elijah Hicks. And I also forwarn Elijah-Hicks from paying said note to anyperson excepting myself. GEORGE HARL1N- Coosewaytee Cherokee Nation, August 13. 1828.—24-tf. NOTICE. I N accordance with the resolution of the National Committee and Council, pass ed October 24th, 1827, requiring the Treas urer of the Cherokee Nation to call in all the money loaned out under the provisions of a previous act, on or before the first Mon day of October next, I hereby give notice to all such as are indebted to the Treasury, to come and redeem their bonds by paying principal and interest, on the day that they become due, as such bonds cannot be re newed after the first Monday of October next. No indulgence will be given, and those who do not comply with the above re quisition must expect to find their bonds in the hands of Officers. JOHN MARTIN, Treas. of the Cb- Nat- New EchWa, July 2J, 1829.