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Western A.vriQriTiESi— Every day we seosc»ne account of discoveries made in different parts of the United States. Splendid caverns in Arkansas, rivaling the famed grotto of Antiparos—petrifi ed warriors and dogs amongst tlic Alleg hany mountains—tuins of a magmticient city on the shores of lakes and many oth er wonderful things, have been brought to light by men whoseein %o have devoted theiT time and means to such researches. We heartily wish that sonic such anti quarian spirit would rise amongst 11s. It would find ample materials wherewith t<» gratify its own curiosity and that ol‘ the public. Even in the county of St. Lou is there arc many spots of this kind of re search. We know the fact that, on the Riviere dcs Peres, at the distance of a bout several miles from the city, there are a number of graves which from all ap pearances, seem to have existed there for centuries. They are on a high bluff, near whose base the stream passes, and from their length they would seem to he the ten ements of men who were far superior in size to those of the present day. On the shores of Maramec river, near i the town of Fenton, there was an immense cemetery, containing several thousand graves, all of them remarkably small, the largest not exceeding four feet in length. The cemetery is now enclosed and culti vated, so that the graves are no longer i visible. Wo have seen several articles! which were found in tin? field, having been | overturned by the ploughshare. Amongst the articles were several pieces of ear-! them ware, well glazed, a small bowl of; earthern ware, remarkably well executed,: and particularly, a lower jaw bone, in size that of a child two years old, but contain ing the teetli of a man of forty. We were informed that, before the cemetery was enclosed and cultivated, there could ! be seen at many of the graves head and foot stones, with inscriptions on them \ which none could understand. We recollect to have seen a statement of these facts in some paper a few years ags, hut nothing was elicited beyond mere wonder. Might not a little research at the places : we have named he productive of some-: thing new in natural history, or throw some light upon the history of the coun try.-[St. Lou is Bulletin. Evanescence of Fnort.in v. It is well for both rich and poor to he often remind *ed of the extreme changeahlem ss of their condition in this country. Judge Story remarked, with great justice, as well as force, in his speech in the Massachu setts Convention : In our eouutrv, the highest man is not above the People ; the humblest man is not below the IVo- they have not addi tional power. Nor does wealth here form a permanent distinction of families. Those who are wealthy to dnv pass to the tomb, and their children divide their es tates. Property thus is divided quite as fast as it accumulates. No family can, without its own exertions, stand erect for a long time under our statutes of descents and distributions—the only true and le gitimate agrarian law. It silently and quietly dissolves the mass heaped up by ! the toil and diligence of a longlife of en terprise and industry. Property's con tinually changing, like waves of the sea. Ouc wave rises, and is soon swallowed up! in the vast abyss, and seen no more. An other rises, and, having reached its des tined limits, falls gently awav, and is sue-1 craled by yet another ; which, in its turn' breaks and dies away silently on the! shore. The richest man amongst 11s may be brought down to the humblest level : and the child with scarcely clothes to cov er his nakedness, may rise to the highest ollice in our Government. And the poor man, while lie rocks his infant on his knees, may justly iiululge_the consolation, that,, if he possess tpleuts and virtue, there is no office beyond the reach of his honora ble ambition, it is a mistaken theory that government is founded for one ob ject only. It is organized lor the protec tion of life, liberty, and property, and all the comforts of society—to enable us to indulge in our domestic affections and quietly to enjoy our homes and our fire sides.—[Salem Gazette. The interior of a Gun Bun;. The Wolf having sailed for Simon's Bay, 1 took leave of my cape friends ; and mounting a horse wagon, went to join the ship. 1 again embarked, and we stood away up the coast. The captain of tlic Wolf was one of the best natured and most eccentric men 1 ever nu t in command of a ship of war. A strong and hardy seaman, 111 boats, or in battle, he had fearlessly exposed his life; and he was made of stuff to go through any work. Much against our wish, lie gave up his; own cabin to Capt. Sliervvan, royal navv,! (a specialjusticejand myself, and slept on the deck. At three o'clock in the mor ning I was awoke l»v a monkey jumping into my cot —a trick of the captain s— and got rid of the intruder only by rolling him up in his cloak. Some time afler vvyds, two gamecocks crowed alternately from two opposite lockers ; and hull-dogs worried one another under the table. Un the cabin floor were sacks of corn, bar rels of flour, boxes of empty bottles, old j shoes, and paint pots ; from the beam hung bird and buckskins, horns, boats' fenders, a fiddle, triangles, (See.; and on deck, sheep and goats, pigs and poultry, had free range to keep them healthy. In tui'jr' . >!f was a in ; r un of curi osities, and a floating menagerie. [Gaps tain Alexander's Voyage of Observation.] _ ; Beetroot. Since the introduction of this valuable root into France, or rather ! since its extensive cultivation for the mak ing of sugar, the French government and chemists have been indefatigable in turn ing it to the best advantage. ThcJirwr-i ,nnl ties fit halt now states, that M. Dub riinfaut has discovered a method of ex tracting potash, equal to the foreign im ports, from the residue of the molasses af ter distillation; which residue had previous ly, after producting some alcohol, been thrown away as worthless. This important j process supplies 1 -lit li of pot ash to the quan tity of sugar obtained, and is calculated at 7,000,000 killogrammes per annum ; the price of which would amount to from ! eight to nine millions of francs. The I manufacture of sugar from beetroot is so rapidly increasing in France, that the du | ties on imported sugar, for the first nine months of are 4,093,803 francs less than for the corresponding nine 1 months of IKB. Pi.i: \si-res of a Troimcai, Ci.imate. i Insects arc the curse of tropical climates, 'l’lie vet.? rogue lays the foundation of a tremendous ulcer. In a moment you are covered with ticks, chigoes bury them selves in your flesh, and hatch a large col ony of young chigoes in a few hours. They will not live together, hut. every chigoe sets up-a separate ulcer, and has his own private portion of pus. Flies get entry into your mouth, eyes and nose. You eat flics, drink flies, breathe flies. Liz ards, cockatrices, and snakes get into ; your bed ; ants eat up the hooks ; scor pions sting you on the loot, and every thing lutes, stings or bruises; every se cond ol your existence yon are wounded by some piece of animal life that nobody has ever seen Indore, except Swammer dam and Merriam. An insect with elev en legs is swimming in your tea cup, a nondescript with nine legs is struggling in the small beer, or a caterpiller with several dozen eyes in his belly, is hasten ing over the bread and butter ; all nature is alive, and seems to he gathering ail her entomological hosts to eat you up, as you are standing, out of your coat, waistcoat, and breeches. Such are the tropics. All these reconcile us to our dews, logs, va por and drizzle—to our apothecaries rushing about with gargles and t iuctures— to our constitutional coughs, sore throats, and swelled faces.— [English pape r. The Bin a• -. Hr. art. — “People talk an everlasting sight of nonsense about wine, women and bor as. I've traded in all ol them, and 1 tell am, there aint one Ih.ki'A'ii'f.hk'OiiYhv.' ”' 'i oli' 11 oar' i < *I k s 'say * Git, such a man is an ugly grained critter, he’ll break his wife's heart ; if a woman s heart was as brittle as j ipe stalk : Ihe female hear!, as far as niv experience goes, is just like anew India rubber shoe ; you* may pull at it, till it stretches out a yard long, and then let go, and it will fly right hack to im old shape. 1 heir hearts are made ot stout leather, I tell you ; there s a plaguv sight of wear in ’em. 1 never knowedbnt one case of it broken heart, and was in t' other sex, one Washington Banks, lie was a sneezer. He was tall enough to spit down on the heads of your grenadiers, and near about high enough to wade a cross ( harlestown liver, and as strong as a tow boat. T guess lie was somewhat longer than the moral law and the cate chism too. He was a perfect picture of a man ; you could nt limit him in no par ticular : he was so just a made critter : folks use to run to the winder when lie passed, and say there goes \\ ashington Banks, beaut he lovely .’ 1 do believe there was'nt a gal in the Lowell factories that want in love with him. * * * Well, when 1 last see and him: lie was all skin and hones, like a horse turned out to die. He was tee-totally dellesh ed—a mere skeleton ; I am dreadful sor ry. says 1, to see von. Banks, looking so pecked : why you look like a sick turkey hen, all legs ; what on airtli ails you ? I am dyin, says he, of a broken heart.— What, says I, have the girls been jilting you ! No, no, savs lie, I brant such a fool as that neither. Well, savs 1, have you made a had speculation ? No, savs he, shaking his head, 1 hope 1 have too much clear grit in me to take on so bad for that—What under the sun is it then ! said 1. Why, savs lie, 1 made a bet the fore part of summer, with Leftenatit Ohy Knowles; that l could shoulder the best bower of the Constitution frigate. 1 won mv bet : but thr anchor iras >0 <tnr neil heavy it broke un/ heart! Sure en ough he did die that fail, snd he was the onlv instance I ever heard tell of a brok en heart. [The Clockmaker. Mungo Park’s Sox.— lt was at Ac cra that.Mr. Thomas Park, son of the celebrated traveler, was landed as a mid shipman from the Sybiitc, with three years leave of absence to travel into the interior, ami search for his father. He was a fine tall Scotch lad, only nineteen years of age, and without any knowledge of the world. His death lias been com monly ascribed to poison, administered to him in vengeance for having imprudently ascended a fetiche or sacred tree : hut the real cause was his obstinacy in rejecting <he advice of the resident merchants of Accra. He lived for three months in the town, and though he had frequent invita tions to take up his quarters with the Eu ropeans. he preferred remaining in a hut BRUNSWICK AJfvbCATE. f with designing natives, who plundered him. There he indulged in drinking spir its ; married ai* Accra wife by way of learning the ianguage, though the dialect of Accra is totally different from those in the interior, and took long \yalk*‘in the heat of the day with a view of har-i dening himself. The consequences of| these imprudencies were, that when he set out to cross the Volta, his constitution was already completely broken ; he’ was thin and -weak ; he caught a feVer after, a few marches, and fell another victim to- African discovery.— [Captain Alexan der’s Voyage of Observation. Mr. Jefferson’s pi.axs in youth.- A late number of the Southern Messenger contains some letters of Mr. Jefferson, written in early life. From one of them dated 1704, when the writer was only -1 years of age, we have made the following extract : “I shall shortly he where my happiness will he less interrupted. I shall salute i all the girls below in your name, partic ularly S— y P— r; dear Will, 1 have j thought of the cleverest plan of life that j : can be imagined, yon exchange vourlandl for Edgeliill, or I mine for Fairfields, you; marry S—yP —r, I marry li—a 11-1,! join and get a pole chair and a pair of; keen horses, practise tiie law in the same ! courts, and drive about to all the dances in the country together; how do you like it! Well lam sorry you are at such a distance I cannot hear your answer, however you must let me know it by the first opportu nity, and all the other news in the v.Grld , which you imagine will affect mo. lam dear Will, vours affectionately, T. JEFFERSON. The Insoi.f.nce of some of the reck-; less agitators who attempt to excite the people by their mad practices, is insiiHer alde. On the Fourth, the American Flag—the Flag of the Union—the Na tional banner—was suspended from a cord extended from Concert Hall to the, Illuminator office nearly opposite. In scandalous derision of this glorious em blem, every star and stripe of which is as j dear to the true American citizen as “the apple of his eye,” a rascally placard em anating as we learn, from the Illuminator office, was suspended by the side of the Flag, bearing in large letters, on one side, “Slavery’s Cloak,” and on the nth-j or “Sacred to Oppression.” It remain-! ed only until it was noticed, when it was soon torn down. It is creditable to the assembled citizens who saw the scanda lous scroll, that their insulted feelings uere not urged to violent exasperation a-, gainst the nernetrators of the outrage.,! sum mar tue neon was treated with tiie contempt it deserved.—[Bos. Transcript. The iAst of tiif. Yemassf.es.—This once powerful and warlike tribe, it is well known, after being nearly exterminated and driven from Carolina and Georgia came to Florida, where they continued to reside for some time near St. Augus tine under the protection of the Spanish Government, and thence went into tiie interior. A tradition we are informed exists among the Seminoles, that they were driven by the Creeks and Musco j gees upon an island in the everglades, where they all perished except one man and woman. Jumper claim:; descent from these two, as aKo Alligator , though he, not so pure in blood as the former. These two are the only representatives of that numerous tribe the 1 eiua.<.<re<. who once inhabited tho whole coast of South Car olina and Georgia. All Indian prophecy also exists among the Seminoles, that like the Yemassees they are to be driven on an island where they are to perish. This is implicity be lieved by them, and fatalists as they are, who believe they are not to die before their time, can it be expected that they can be brought to emigrate?—[Florida Herald. livroeitn v.—There is much hvpoc ricy in affecting to give up the pleasures of the world from religious motives when we only withdraw from it because we find a greater gratification in the pleasure of retirement. “My dear children,” said an old rat to his young, one, “the infirmities of age are pressing so heavily upon me, that 1 am determined to dedicate the short remainder of my days to mortification and penance, in a narrow and lonely hole which 1 have lately discovered ; hut let me not interfere witii your enjoyment— youth is the season for pleasure—be hap py, therefore, and only obev mv last in structions—never to come near me in my retreat. May God bless you all !” j Deeply affected, snivelling audibly, and wiping his paternal eyes with his tail, the old rat withdrew, and was seen no more for several days, when his youngest daugh ter, moved rather by filial affection than by that curiosity which is attributed to the sex, stole to his cell of mortification, which turned out to he a hole made by his own teeth, in an enormous Cheshire cheese. Riches. —It often amuses me to see; how a liap-hazard, neek-or-nothing voy age, which by some rare good fortune en riches a common place individual, in creases his reputation for talents. All the small fry look up to him ; he begins to talk with great emphasis, but no dis cretion, about matters he don’t under stand ; and his great talents are at least rewarded by being incorporated into a> banking institution! It would seem that the acquisition of riches is consider ed as unequivocal proof of great clever ness, which is the mercantile phrase for wisdom. But in my opinion, any man may grow rich if he pleases. It is only to become the slave to gain ; to think, and work, and dream, for money, and to repress and starve every liberal impulse of the mind. Thirty or forty years stick ing close to this, will inveitably make a mail rich enough to consult his tastes, or his passions; just at an age when he has no tastes, and for the most but one passsion. This is what is called gaining the world and losing our soul—an ex change very common in this world. — [Paulding. [From the Bangor Journal.] Miss Martinf.au on American Morals and Manners. A paragraph has been travel ing through the newspapers for the last three ! weeks, upon which we were disposed to com ment severely-. It is an extract, (which here follows) in several respects an unfair one, from “Society in America,” by Harriet Martineau, 2 vols. The work comes to hand as our paper goes to press: “The vacuity of mind of many womon is, I conclude, the cause of a vice which it is pain ful to allude to," but which cannot honestly be passed over, in the consideration of the morals and the health of American women. It is no secret on tlic spot, that the habit of intemper ance is not infrequent among women of station and education in the most enlightened parts of the country. I witnessed some instances, and heard oi more. It does not secin to me to he regarded-.with all the dismay which such a sympton ought to excite. To the stranger, a novelty so horrible, a spectacle so fearful, sug gests wide and deep sub jects of investigation. If.women, in a region professing religion more strenuously than any other, living in the deep est external peace, surrounded by prosperity, 1 and outwardly honored more conspicuously than in any other country, can ever so far cast offsolf-restrait, shame, domestic affection, and tiie deep prejudices of education, as to plunge into the living hell of intemperance, there must be something fearfully wrong in their position. “An intemperate man has strong temptation to plead: he began with conviviality, and only arrives at solitary intemperance as the ultimate degradation. A woman indulges in the vice in solitude and secrecy, as long as secrecy is possible. She knows that there is no excuse, no solace, no hope. There is nothing before her but despair. It is impossible to suppose than that there has otherwise been deapair throughout; the despair which waits upon vac uity. I believe that the practice has, in some few cases, arisen from physicians prescribing cordials to growing girls at school, and from the difficulty found in desisting from the Vise of agreeable stimulants. In other cases, the vice is hereditary. In others, no explanation remains, lmt that which appears to be quite sufficient, —vacuity of mind. Lest my mention of this very remarkable fact should lead to the supposition of the practice being more common : than it is. 1 think it right to state, that I hap pened to know of ..seven or efoht ©•«”■ ll » Llio i higher classes ot society in one city. The ; number of eases is a fact of comparatively i small importance. That one exists, is a grief which the whole of society should take to heart and ponder with tiie entire strength of its un derstanding.” j This extract is but one page and a few lines : out of tu'o volumes, containing together up wards of 800 pages, and the circulation of it, as an arant courier of-the whole, was calculat : ed, it M ill be found, to give an unfair impres sion of the M ork to the public. "With this re mark Vo beg to enter our protest, on tiie oth er band, against the statements of the para j graph. In no respect are they creditable to the au thor. She witnesses comparatively frequent instances of the intemperance, of “women of j station and education.” In such a case, then, does she not become strangelv associated Math the alleged vice ?. It Mail not be .said that she was otherwise than a voluntary attendant on | such scenes. Miss Martinoau M-as more. She ! was tiie hospitably entertained guest in these j circles, according to the shewing of her own : m ork. We must fear the question of an early j sower of strife might here he asked, 'ls this thy kindness to thy friend:' She may have I witnessed this vice disgracing a portion of the j families with M hich she mingled. But while j some were disgraced, can she forget v.ho were ! afflicted by it. ? And may not.her work, little j likely to reclaim the vicious, be at this mo ment deeply lacerating the innocent? We have rarely seen an equally fragrant breach of the confidences of social life. 1 But ivo dispute the general truth of this ; statement. This vice does not prevail as an j object of serious “consideration” in regard “to the morals and the health of American mo men” of education. The instances, as we be lieve, though ever to be deplored, and in that, sense too many, are few and of a solitary char acter. 'J'ho writer, too, has observed Ameri can society with British moral feelings, and it M ill honorably bear a comparison with that of the Mother country ; perhaps with any other on the globe. During a residence in the U nited States of more than double the length of Miss Martineau’s, an intoxicated female lias never, that lie remembers, been seen by him. We still trust, however, that tlic Americans will give this work a patient persual. Asa whole, this paragraph is more offensive than any tiling else we find. It is no specimen of the Mork. Another new theory in regard to a merica. A paper lias been read befpre the Geological Society of London, by Mr. Roy, in which he advances the opinion that there exis ted in former times on the continent of Amer ica an immense inland sea, bounded on the West by the Rocky Mountains, from the table land of Mexico, to parallel of forty seven de grees of latitude; on the North by" the barriers separating the head M aters from the Lakes lrom those of the Northern rivers and extend ing below Quebec ; and on the East by the Allegany Mountains extending to the Gulf of Mexico. The area of ihis vast sea, was 960,- 000 square miles. Singular Libel Suits. Two Printers to the English House of Commons—Messrs. Hansard and J. D. Nichols—have been sued . for printing documents for said house, which are alleged to have contained libels upon the plaintiffs—John Green and a Mr. Stockdale.— Tiie Commons M ill probably defend their prin-! ters in these suits. Texas. We learn from an individual who came passenger in the schooner Texas, (join Velasco, arrived yesterday at the Balize, (says the Louisiana Advertiser ,) that on the ?th inst. a boat from the brig Belvidera, of New York, in attempting to land, was swamped, and five persons drowned,viz: Mrs. Ward and child, Mrs. Rowley and child, and Mr. Lapis Curtis, all of Onondaga county, N. Y. The remain ing persons in the boat, supposed to amount to five or six, were saved. Capt Thompson, of the Mexican navy, with the other persons who escaped at the same time, had arrived at Velasco previous to the sailing of the T. His reception was extremely cold. It is said that to him Capt Wheelwright is indebted for liberty. Ilis agency in the en deavor to effect it being made known to the Mexican authorities, a secret warrant for arrest was issued, but evaded by flight Capt Powell, of the Texian army, was shot at Columbia, by the surgeon of the company of which he was in command. It was caused by some trifling altercation. The ball passed completely through him. The major part of the army are on furlough ; the remainder are inactive and quiet No ap prehensions were entertained of any hostile movements of the Mexicans. Gen. J. Pinckney Henderson, minister from Texas, to the Court of St. James, arrived yes terday, by the steamer Orleans, from Galves ton. It was stated that Gen. Houston had proceeded to Nacogdoches to meet the Indians in friendly treaty. The lice says—“By the schooner Kosciusko, Burns, from Galveston which place she left on the I3th inst, we learn that the U. S. Sloop of War,Boston, was off that place on the lftli proceeding to Pensacola, with despatches from Commodore Dallas to the General Government. It was stated to the officers that the Commo dore had been unable to procure any satisfac tion from the Mexican authorities for the out rages committed on the American flag, which makes it appear likely that he had despatched the Boston for further instructions.” [Savannah Georgian. From Trinidad. We learn from Dr. Fon taine, passenger in the brig Marcia Jane, Capt. Davis, arrived at this port yesterday from Trinidad, via St Thomas, 10 days from the latter place, that the day before leaving Trini dad, an insurrection broke out among the black troops at St Josephs, some eight miles from Port Spain, who assaulted their officers and gained possession of the arsenal, where they supplied themselves with ammunition.— 1 he officers made their escape and proceeded to Port Spain, where they rallied a force, met the insurgents and dispersed them, killing some 15 or 20 in the encounter. A few only made tuoir escape to the bush—the rest were captur ed. None of tlic whites w ere killed, the ne groes having most of them blank catridges.— A frigate had sailed from Barbadoes to take the prisoners in charge. The Marcia Jane brought $19,000 in spe cie. [New Ilaven Herald. Look out for thf. Imposter. Williams, the Oculist, has had to decamp, sans eeretnonie, from Nashville, Tenn., for mal-practice. This fellow lias carried on a successful came of em in y ie g ou th and WV»«t, f or some time, and at Charleston had the impudence to battle it with the ‘Riglars !’ If people will be duped and fleeced by these vile impostors, then let them be punished for their egregious folly. James Smith,F.sq. Editor of°the Nashville Cumberland Presbyterian, and a minister of the Gospel, who lias placarded this impostor in handbills, dated Nashville, June 30, 1837, says—W illiams, soon after his arrival, had the impudence to hand over to his foreman, a mass of the most disgusting bombast and falsehood, which was to be inserted as editorial, with a bribe ot S2O to back it. ’Twos ‘no go’—the parson was too honest! The hodge-podge which \\ illiams dished up, stated him to be, as usual with these ‘varmint’members of every medical society since the days of Esculapius, and physician to every throne of Europe since the reign of Chaiiemingne; Napoleon's own bedside favorite; has cured every body ; one man, (whom wp, the editor, have seen!!) in Nashville blind for 70 vears!! This was a Hectic too much—though Parson Smith lives in a ‘whole hog’ country, lie couldn’t swallow this morceau with all his bristles, though the ears were greased and fastened back with Benton’s yellow boys. A denouement conse quently took place. The Editor says—‘Let it not be said in Great Britain, that a strolling English vagabond can buy up the American Press, to subserve his vile purpose.’ So says the Evening Star. Hem ! Wonder how many editors feel small at this rebuke ? [Cj|kixy. Sharp Practice. A week or two since the papers noticed the somewhat noticeable 1 fact, that a number of convicts had been sen- i tonced at Quebec, to transportation to Eng-; land—to be thence conveyed, we presume, to Botany Bay. It seems that the turbulent rogues were minded to steer their course in some other direction, for they had not yet gone out of sight of land, when sure information ; was given to the captain that nineteen of them ! had managed to throw off their fetters, and had arranged a plan to master the crew and officers, | set them adrift in the long boat, and retain possession of the ship. It. luckily happened that almost immediately after this discovery a brisk gale sprung up, and the rascals grew very sea sick, and of course very helpless; to use the expression of the pilot, who brings this in formation, they were all “as weak as cats.”— Thereupon the captain had them brought up, one by one, from below—stripped to the buff and belabored with a cat-o’-nine-tails, till: they roared for mercy. Then they were care- j fully hand-cuffed and heel-cuffed and other- j wise provided for—and the sjiip went on her way, with a reasonable prospect of fulfiling | her voyage in perfect safety to all parties. = ! [Quebec paper. Romantic escape from prison. Thurs day, a Frenchman, confined in the debtor’s prison, effected his escape, through the ingen ious connivance of his wife and sister. About five o’clock in the afternoon they were admit ted to the prison, as usual, the sister having a large basket on her arm, supposed to contain female attire. Shortly afterwards the prisoner was supposed to go up to liis room, when the two others departed. Sometime after their departure, the keeper to his astonishment, dis covered that the debtor had escaped, by dis guising himself in the female attire brought in the basket, ala Sir Robert Wilson, at the time of the French revolution. A reward of SIOO is offered for his apprehension. [N. Y. Exam iner. Western and Atlantic Rail Road.— The preparations for the survey and location of this important work, have been made with the greatest promptness. Col. Long, the chief En gineer, has been at tills place for a week past, and during that time has despatched three Brigades of Engineers prepared to commence operations, and prosecute the survey with en ergy and efficiency. The route will soon be determined upon, and from the known skill and high reputation of the officers engaged, we do not doubt that the selection will be made with judgement We are farther informed that a general re connoissance, embracing an aggregate dis tance of nearly a thousand miles, and having reference to no less than six distinct routes, leading from the Chattahoochee river to the Tennessee Line, and through the region like ly to be traversed by the Western and Atlantic Hail Road of the State of Georgia, has alrea dy been made by Col. Long, the Cliief Engin eer, with a view to the selection of the most favorable route for the contemplated Rail Road: also, that a special reconnoissance, for the purpose of determining the particular lo calities, through which the surveys ought to be carried between the Chattahoochee and Eto wah rivers, has been made by Gen’l. Bris bane and Capt. Stockton, on a great variety of routes situated between these two rivers. We are happy to add, that the several Brig ades, constituting the Engineer force'about to enter upon survey of the Road, have been organized and assigned to their appropriate duties, as follows, viz. Brigade No. 1, conducted by Gcn’l Bris bane, assisted by Mr. Brown late of the U. S. Army, to the survey of sundry experimen tal lines, between Montgomery’s Ferry and the Etowah river. Brigade No. 2, conducted by W. S. Whit well, Esq. assisted by Mr. Norris, experien ced Civil Engineers, the former from Boston, and the latter from Baltimore, to the survey of routes between the Etowah and the Tennes see line. Brigade No. 3, conducted by Capt Stock ton assisted by Mr. Vining, late assistant En gineers on the Central Rail Road of Georgia, to the survey of experimental lines or routes,’ between Warsaw and the Etowah river. The Instruments, waggons and baggage, of the several Brigades, arrived at Athens on the 24th June. The Brigades were organiz ed ; —their outfit completed ; and parties took up their line of march towards Warsaw, on the 28th and 29th of the same month.—[Athens Banner. * Ihf. hard times not so hard as they MIGHT RE —AND A CAUTION TO A FEW JdIERS. All know that there is a general cry of hard times, and to us, who have been accustomed to better, the present scarcity and suspension of business is a severe trial; but, instead of des pairing, and giving ourselves up to murmuring and discontcdncss, we should reef our sails till the squall is over, and make the best headway we can. If we should take a peep into some other countries, we should there see a class of people, who think themselves pretty well off, in a much worse condition than ourselves.— According to a late writer, seven and a half millions of the people of France cannot get wheat or wheaten bread to eat, and they live on barley, rye, buckwheat and chesnuts. A common hand thinks himself pretty well used, if he can get forty dollars a year for his work: and half that for a woman, to do ordin ary work, is good wages. In many parts of Scotland, meat is only eaten on Sundays.— Among the Nottingham stocking-weavers, very few of them can earn over five shillings a week, and often have to work 14 or 15 hours per day, to do that. Judge ye how well they can live by such wages, and yet hero wages arc treble in amount, provisions cheaper, and our condition vastly superior in many other respects. So it seems tec are not so Ixullu off as might be, though it is true it would bo pleas ant to be better accommodated in regard to the times. The sailor who fell from the mast head and broke bis legs, thanked God that it was not his neck ; and we may follow his ex ample, and thank God that, notwithstanding v?e arc writuing under the lash prepared by our own lollies, wc are not visited by the plague, the earthquake, or the pestilence.— YV ithout wishing to moralize too gravely, we would beg leave to whisper a word in the ears ot one or two whom we have met with in 01 r peregrinations, and who seem to take it in such high dudgeon because they cannot get such extravagant wages as they did a year or two since, that they will not work at all, but sit about in the way ot others. Better wear out than rust out; and if at the end you die a poor man, it can never be said over your grave, here lies an idler. Os all epitaphs, heaven pre serve you from that If you cannot get great ?vages, get smaller; and if you cannot get any, set yourself to work. If you have nothing for tlic hands to do, set the brain to work. Study. Improve your mind. Read something useful, if it be nothing more than old Almanacs [Maine Farmer. Arrest for counterfeiting. The Phila delphia Sentinel says considerable excitement prevailed last evening, in the neighborhood of Poplar lane and Fifth street, in consequence of the arrest of a young man, of genteel ap pearance, for coining spurious half dollars.— The Police, who are always on the alert, had kept a sharp look out, it appears, for several days past, having suspected something of the kind, and on Monday evening, about 8 o’clock, they obtained the necessary information—pro ceeded to his residence, and arrested him in the act of coining half dollars—a. large amount ot which M ere found on the premises, with all tl‘ e necessary apparatus for doing business on a large scale. He made a desperate attempt to escape, but it M-as all to no purpose. He was safely lodged in prison, and will undergo an examination before Mayor Conrad, when the case will be regularly disposed of. Horsewhipping Extraoreinart. Yes terday, as one of the clerks of the alms-house department was proceeding along' Broadway, lie observed an altercation between the driver of a dirt cart and the conductor of one of Brow er’s omnibuses. Get out of my way or I’ll smash your whole concern, says the omnibus man. Oh! ye’re a fine fellow truly to be mount ed upon that sw ell drag, and not able to get cut ot the way of such a bit of a baste as I’ve got, says Patrick the street sweeper. On which Jarvey descended from his iox, and be gaifbelaboring the poor mud man over the shoulders and back in such a way as he will not be likely to forget for the next six weeks. The gentleman who had witnessed the affair, got an officer, secured his high-mightiness of the whip and brought him before the magis trate, who straitway committed him to Bride well. (N. Y. Era.