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TRAVELLt&G.
It is sxid, that jta no faftaer year has ]
there taen eo touch traveling within the j
( tilled SIMM, as during the present year; I
laitlMi«ot>is ascertained with certainty,
froOa the records of steamboats, rail-roads,
&c. Hie increase has been remarkable—
uearly double that of any preceding
year. Not only has land trarel increased,
but that across the ocean between the two
conliirentr has been much augmented the
present season. Emigration to this coun- j
try has not perhaps, been so great, —hut
passing to and fro for pleasure and obser
vation; has-been excessive.
■ ft may be * curious question for decis
ion, whether the greatly increased facil
ity* of travelling are a cause or effect in
thin order of things, —whether the press
ing demands for the means of travelling
head urged into being the improved and
multiplied facilities, or vice versa. The I
troth of the case probably is, that the
speed, ease and comfort which the activity
of invention has furpished to the hands ot
is the principal moving cause in this!
matter. A great prbportiou of the travel- j
ling at this day n fancy travelling- Every I
inducement is held out to all "to push
along keep moving.” Our packets and ;
steamboats have become palaces —their ]
cabins, parlours furnished with all the j
elegancies and luxuries of stationary
life. Our car-trains have become moving j
cifrra, —4beir accommodations, commodi-!
ous sitting rooms provided with cushion
and mirror by day, and lamp and couch j
by night. Space, in the new order ot,
things, seems to be forgotten, —and time
is entirely kicked out of the question.
Steam! steam is the great motive at the
bottom of all this, —a power, which, a few
years ego, wasted all its mighty strength
in “the desert air, now moves the world
eri masse. Wood and water now supply
the place of bone and muscle; —the wild
ly enslaved horse may now he turned out
to run at freedom in his native wilds, —
rtnd the winds of heaven may almost lull
themselves into an eternal calm as no lon
ger required by the wants of man.
The nice calculator may discover in
all this progression, an influence unfavor
able to the advancement of mortality,—
a subtraction from the aggregate of indus
try —temptations to the spending ot time
and money, too general among the mass, |
—and an increased facility, and a broad-!
field opened, for the indulgence of habits
of dissipation and dishonest operations
There is nothing without its disadvantag
es on one side; but they should recollect,
that the plans for moral improvement, the)
philanthropic and religious enterprises
which distinguish the age, are all expedit
ed by this facile order of things. Inter
course, too k general, and from remote
points, — it is the grand civilizer of man, j
naturally savage, —and the ameliorator of j
human society. Without it the world i
would yet have been barbarous and un
taught. All, then, should have inter- j
course witli their fellow men, —the more]
extensive the better. llis moral, social,;
and professional wants require it. Who;
has not had his head enlightened, his heart'
bettered, and his hands strengthened, in
the duties of his life, by going abroad
among his fellow creatures, imbibing their
views by direct intercourse, and glean mg
from the broad field of human operations!
God speed the means of human intercourse,
then! —[Salem Obs,
Administration of Was .ington.—
"A generation has passed away since
Washington closed his political life; and
when we now review all the acts of his
administration, the measures which he
adopted, the principles which lie avowed,
and the resolution upon which he acted,
to make the patronage and ofliccrs sub
servient to the interests of the whole coun
try, and not to surrender them to the base
and groveHing, and corrupting influences
of party’; when we review these things, we
cannot but confess ourselves struck with
a reverential awe of his transcendent pu
rity and greatness. He gave no oflice
whatsoever, except to merit and for merit
—to private virtue, and for acknowledged
talent, and for the [public good, lie con
sidered the patronage of the government
as a sacred trust, created for the good of
the whole people, and to he employed for
the good of the whole. It never entered
his head to conceive, that the time could
ever possibly arrive in this free land, in
which the patronage of government could
be employed to bring down the people to
the footstool of their rulers, or to organ
ize a biyui of oflice holders to manage
clectrogg, or to intimidate or corrupt or
Influence electors. In the presence of
Washington, the man who should have
given utterance to the suggestion of such
a system, would have shrunk mto abso
lute nothingness by a withering look, •
which would have branded him as the
foulest cf :;aka.v folds country.
“There was a pure atmosphere then in
llie regions of the balls and official resi
dences of the government. Men breath
ed ffeely then, and thought and acted as!
freemen, who held their liberties in their '
own hands, and not at the uterev of ru-!
lers; and the first attempt to trample upon
them, would bare taught the usurpers the
jesaou—'“who would he free, themselves
must strike the blow." Let the young
men of the present day read the history
of the admit)Miration of Washington, so
forcibly and truly written out in the pag
es of Marshall. It wiH purify them from
« thousand vague generalities. It will
recall them to the principles on which the
government was originally formed. It
trill teach them the utter \vorth!e a snes? of
all mere political fheoriw, and the inval
liable authority of experience. It will
teach them that no republic can be well
or wisely governed, except by men of high
intellect, comprehensive knowledge, in
corruptible integrity, and disinterested
patriotism. It will teach them that tlie
demagogue is the worst enemy ol the
people, and his kindred character, the
courtier, is tlie worst enemy of the inon-j
arch. It will teach them the truest course
of ambition is to found its favors and j
its honors not upon the huzza of the mul
titude, but upon the solemn judgments,
lof the wise and good, upon the distant
I praise whose voice speaks from the hearts
] of millions, and gives hack from the tomb
i the deep echoes of its own thankful-!
incss.”—[New-York Quarterly Review.
THE “KEY OK DEATH.”
In the collection of the curiosities pre
served in the Arsenal at Venice, there is
a key, of which the following singular tra
dition is related:
About the year 1000, one of those dan
gerous men, in whom ciftraordinary tal
ent is only the fearful source of crime
and wickedness beyond that ol ordinary
men, catnc to establish himself as a liter- !
chant or trader in Venice. The stran
ger, whose name was Tebaldo, became
enamored of the daughter ot an ancient
house, already affianced to another. He
demanded her in marriage, and was ol
course rejected. Enraged at this, he stud
ied how to he revenged. Profoundly j
skilled in the mechanical arts, lie allowed
himself no rest until lie had invented the]
most formidable weapon which could he j
imagined. This was a key of a large]
sizeflhe handle of which was so con- i
structed, that it could be turned round
with little dillicnlty. When turned, it
discovered a spring, which on pressure, I
launched from the other end a needle or L
lancet, of such subtle fineness, that it en- j
lered into the flesh and Imried itscil there i
without leaving external trace. Tebaldo i
waited in disguise, at the door of the,
church in which the maiden whom lie ]
loved was about to receive the iTnptial j
benediction. The assassin sent the slen
der steel, unpcrccived, into the breast of;
the bridegroom. The wounded man had j
no suspicion of injury, hut, seized with \
sudden and sharp pain in the midst ofj
the ceremony, he fainted, and was carried]
to his house amid the lamentations of the j
bridal party. Vain was all the skill of
the physicians, who could not diveuc the
cause ol this strange illness, and in a few i
days he died.
Tcbaljbj,. again demanded the hand of
the her parents, and receiv
ed tyspqjp# jefusal. They too perished
mlsel)]* io4?w days. The alarm w hich
these. de;t)|iSt, which appeared almost mi
raculous, occasioned, excited the utmost
vigilance of the magistrates: and when
on close examination of the bodies, the
small instrument was found in the gan
grened flesh, terror was universal; every
one feared for his own life. The maiden,
thus cruelly orphaned, had passed the
first months of Iter mourning in a con
vent, when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her
to his will, entreated to speak with her
at tiie grate. The face of the foreigner
had been ever displeasing to her, but
since the death of all those most dear to
her, it became odious, (as though she
had a presentiment of kis g"ih) and her
reply was most decisive in the negative.
Tebaldo, beyond himseif with rage, at
tempted to wound her at (lie grate and suc
ceeded; the obscurity of the place ; *e
vented his movement from being observ
[ed. On her return to her room the maid
jeu felt a pain in her breast and uucover
■ ing it, she found it spotted with a single
1 drop of blood. The pain increased; the
surgeons who hastened to her assistance,
! taught by the past, wasted nolitne m con
jecture, but cutting deep, into the wound
ed part, extracted the needle before any
mortal mischief had commenced, and sai
led the life of the lady. The state inqui
| sit ion used every means to discover the
1 hand which dealt these msidumis and ir
j resistible blows. The visit of Tebaldo to
the convent caused suspicion to fill heav
ily upon him. llis house was carefully
searched, the infamous weapon discover
ed, and he perished on the gibbet.
Anecdote of Sre vm Navication. A
j smart dapper little fellow, with a pattern
i book under his arm, called in at one of
our large carpet warehouses: I have come,
I sir, for some orders, hero is my pattern
book—should be happy to serve you.”—
(The proprietor, after turning over the
I leaves, said to the agent “Will you have
i the goodness to leave this book for a day
or two, and I will send it to your lodg
ings.” I arrived in the Great * Western,
Itook with me a valise and six clean shirts,
! only used three oil the passage. J have
ran about from stOFcr to store until I have
received orders for one thousand pieces of
Brussels carpeting, you are the last per
son I have called upon. lam constantly
jon my feet. 1 dine, when lam at leisure,
at any eatinghouse that is nigh, and I pay
for uiy lodging at oigbt; so 1 have really
no settled habitation, i must return m
the Great Western to-morrow, as 1 shall j
have been abseqt from home, when I get
hack, full forty days. You are the last I j
have called upon, and any orders you may j
1 please to give me ean be executed and j
j sent to you complete jq six weeks from
this per steam ship.” Commentary is use
less. This travelling agent, in 24 days j
from the time he left home, received or- !
ders for Sioo,ooo of carpeting.—[N. Y. I
Evening Star 1
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
Chinese Corn.— Mr. Grant Thorrurn, I
of Htfiet’sCove, gives the following ac
count of the accidental discovery of anew
species of com Irom China, which he has .
for sale:
"Some three years ago, a merchant in
New York, while emptying a box often,
observed therein a few grains of corn.
Concluding that corn from China must
be something new under our tan, he had •
them planted, so they grew and multiplied.
—Last spring I received from a worthy j
friend a portion of said corn—it s anew
variety—so 1 gave it the name of China s
fall prolific, or tree corn; as it strikes off
in two, three, and frequently lour branches j
in appearance like a small tree, ami pro
duces an ear at the head ol each branch,
whereas the common corn shoots out the
ear from the side of the stalk, it grows
from eight to ten feet high, produces an
abundance of fodder, is a large w hite flint
twelve row corn, and ears from lento]
fourteen inches lung. I counted six luni-j
dred and sixty grains on one ear; it was !
planted on the 10th of May, and had ears
fit to boil on the I Oth of July, its pro
duce was much curtailed by the long
drought, but not withstanding I counted,
two thousand one hundred and twenty
grains, the product of one stalk; being
an increase of two thousand from one.
Antidotf. of Arsenic. —The perioxide
of iron is said to he an efficient agent, in
counteracting the effect of arsenic w hen 1
taken into the stomach. In a recent case,
in this city, it was advantageously admin
istered by Dr. It. 11. Thomas to a man
named Biddle, w ho had in a mistake swal
lowed twenty grains of arsenic. The
first dose given was half a fluid ounce of
the hydrate in the wet state, about the
consistence of cream, in a tumbler of cool
water, which was six hours after the ar
senic had been swallowed. At the same
time a large dose of magnesia was given
which was repeated every two hours.
The doses of the hydrate were repeated
every ten or fifteen minutes in two ounces
of water. In the course of ten hours
the patient was considered out of dan
ger, having taken eight ounces of the
suspended hydrate, and three or four dos
es of magnesia.— [Providence Courier.
Great Salf. of Mokes Mclticaclis.—
At the auction sale in Baltimore on the
4th inst; above 1:2!),000 Chinese Morns.
Multicaulis trees were sold, at prices va
rying from ‘JO to ill cents per foot, meas
uring to the utmost extremity, and count
ing the also. This amounts to -SI ‘-21
for each tree of five feet in height. So
great is the demand, that it is proposed
to have another large sale at that place.
The auction sale at Germantown, Pa. 1
was attended by an immense concourse,:
and the trees sold for above JO cents per 1
foot. The silk culture promises so abun
dant a harvest to those who engage in it,
that the demand for trees from every sec
tion of the Union is far greater than the
[supply, and if the whole crop of the en
-1 suing season were now ready for sale, it
would lie easy to find purchasers. At
Burlington, N. J. where they have exten
-1 sive cocooneries, a sale of 2.43 ) trees was
; made a few days since, In Mr. Gnuirnere
for §2,•>!)!), and another of a thousand se
lect trees for §2,003, being two dollars
each.—f U. S. Gaz.
! L
| A Dear Kiss. —A curious trial was re
cently hell at Middlesex Session, in En
gland. Thomas S.lreland, the prosecu
tor stated, that on the day after Christ
mas he was in the tap room where the
defendant, Caroline Newton, and her sis
ter, who had come from Birmingham,
were present. 'Pile later jokingly ob
served that she hud promised her sweet
heart that no man should kiss her while
| absent. It being holiday time, Suveland
! considered this a challenge, and caught
hold of her and kissed her. The young
; woman took it as a joke, hut her sister,
the defendant, said she would like as lit
tle of that kind of fun as he pleased. Si
] velum! told her, if she was angrv he would
kiss her also; he then tried to do it, and
they fell to the ground. On rising, the
woman struck him; he again tried to kiss
her, and in the scuffle she hit oil'his nose,
which she spit out of her mouth. The
action was brought to recover damages for
the loss of the nose. The defendant said
lie had no business to kiss her. If she
. wanted kissing she hud a husband to kiss
her, a better looking man than ever the
prosecutor was. The jury without hes
j nation acquitted her; and the chairman
| said, that if any man attempted to kiss a
woman against her will, she had a right
to bite off’iiis nose if she had a fancy for
] so doing.
Mr. J. Duncan, watchmaker, at Glon
luoc, has lately constructed a small steam
; engine, on the high pressure principle,
tfie novelty of w hich consists in the steam
] acting twice m the cylinder before it es
capes into the atmosphere, by which there
is a saving of half the (uel and half the
water which a common engine of the
j same power would require. By the ap
plication of the air-pump and condenser it
can work on the low pressure with the
1 same saving. Some scientific men, who
. have seen the plan, think it admirably
I adapted for locomotive engines, or for
i vessels making long voyages.
Fact. A lady was asked at the
Springs during the past season, " how
she liked Crnhbe’s Tales.” “ I never
knew that crabs had tales,” she
with a look of grave aud innocent won
der.
Destruction of a Rhivocf.ros.— Some
short time ago intelligence was received
oil board 1 one of the company’s schooners,-
cruising off Sugar Island, at the mouth of
the river Hoogly, that a Rhinoceros had
latterly infested the neighboring villages,
and that the animal had destroyed several
of the native roots. A beast of this kind ■
is seldom seen itr this quarter, though it j
is impossible to ascertain how numerous j
they may be in the interior of the island,!
or in the suuderbuuds contiguous to it. j
In conseipience of this information, Lieut
Soiiter, and Mr. Lewis, an officer in the;
pilot service, agreed to put, if possible, a
stop to any further mischief there might
arise from so formidable an enemy being
suffered to remain at large, and, as they 1
were aware that neither muskets nor ri
fles would have any immediate effect on
the horny mail of the animal, they pro
vided themselves with two six pounder 1
carrouades, which they contrived to con-j
vey into an adjacent portion of the jungle,!
close to a large tank, which the beast was!
in the habit of nightly frequenting, in or-]
der to slake his thirst. There waijorie'
track which he favored, leaning down to]
one of the sides of the t ink. Having di- !
reeled the guns to a particular spot in his
path, loaded with grape, they, bv means
of a rope ladder, ascended a soondree tree, 1
situated on the opposite side, from which 1
position they could conveniently com
mand an opportunity of discovering, by
the aid of the moon’s light, any animal
that might pass that way Having wait
ed patiently for more than two hours,
they beheld a huge beast coming down
the defile, when Lieut. Sotiter descended
-by the 1 iddcr, and waiting a favorable
i opportunity of bringing one of the guns
to hear upon the beast, applied the fuse
to it, and discharged the contents in a
volley at the object. After some minutes
they cautiously reconuoitered the spot. ]
but could discover no signs of their hav-!
mg done execution, and consequently re
turned that night to the vessel. In the
morning, however, attended by a com
pany of Lascars, and some natives ol the ;
neighborhood, they repaired t > the seme j
ot the l ist night’s excursion, and oil ad
] vanciug some little way into the jungle,
[they detected the beast apparently re
! dining at the base of a soondree tree.
; Not quite satisfied that he was dead, they
] ascended an adjacent tree, and discharg
ed their rifles at him; but finding that lie
remained motionless, the Lascars venlur-j
ied to approach nearer to him, when they j
j pronounced him lifeless. On examina-j
tion, it was found that three of the shot,
had penetrated deeply into iiis body. Be- j
ing too cumberous to remove, they cut a]
! few strips or throngs from the hide, which ,
they brought away, and took to Calcutta ]
] as trophies of their success in ridding the
; villages of so formidable an enemy.—[En- ;
Iglish Paper.
A Dangerous Lady. La Matipin, the
, successor of La Rochois, a celebrated
| singer, may he noticed on account of her,
j wild and lawless character, and tire
strangeness of her adventures. She was
horn in 1073, and married at a very early
i age, l»ut soon ran away with a fencing;
mister, from whom she learnt tlie use of]
i tht: small sword. After remaining for
; some time at .Marseilles, where, she nur
j rowly escaped the punishment of being
] burnt alive for setting fire to a convent,
she went to Paris, appeared on the opera
] stage at the age of two and twenty, and j
] was for a considerable time the reigning
I favorite of t lie day. H iving on some
occasion been affronted by Dumeui, a sing
: er, she put on male attire, watched for him
in the Place des Victoires, insisted on iiis
drawing the sword and fighting her; and
o,i liis refusing, caned and took his watch
and snuff box. Next day, Dumeni having
| boasted in the opera house that he had
j defended himself against three men who
had attempted to rob him, she told the
whole story, and produced his watch and
.snuffbox in proofs of her having chastis
ed him as a coward. Thevenard, another
singer of note, was nearly treated in the
same manner, and had no other way of
escaping but by publicly begging her
pardon, after hiding himself in the Palais
Royal for three weeks.—[Hogarth’s Mem
oirs of the Musical Drama.
Revenue or Boston. The amount of
revenue that w as secured, during the three
first quarters of the yea; 1537, was,
First qu.-.rter 1837, §753,451 05
Second do. do. 027,844 80
Third do. and >. 807,507 12
§2, 185,862 07
First quarter 1833, §483,3.i() ol)
Second do. do. 465,765 84
Third do. do. estimated at 1)01.487 00
§1.037,553 33
Early Rising. The difference be
tween rising every morning at six an 1 at
height, in the course of forty years amounts
to twenty-nine tnousand two hundred
hours, or time years one hundred and
twenty-one days and sixteen (mors, which
are equal to eight hours a day for exactly
ten years. So that rising at six w ill be the
: same as if ten years of life (a weighty con
sideration) were added, wherein we may
command eight hours every day for the
cultivation of our minds and the despatch
of business.
Divio end. The Bank of the State of]
Georgia has declared a dividend of four ■
per ceut, on their capital, for the last six
mouths.
HOLLAND.
Actuate correspondent of the New
York A meric .in thus writes from Am
sterdam:
Every one who visits Amsterdam,
makes an excursion to Saardam, the place
where Peter the Great worked at ship
building, in order to learn the art, and
carry it to his own country. The book
says that, "In JGO6.N singular personage
presented himself at Saardam in the dress
of u sailor, and hired himself as a ship
wright to one of the builders. He ate,
drank, slept and worked with the other
carpenters, anti by his jocularity, and a
certain superiority which he could not
conceal, acquired the name of “Master
Peter.” Several weeks elapsed ere it was
suspected that Master Peter was any
thing more than a journeyman shipwright,
but when it was at length discovered
that tin; Czar of all the Rnjssias was
concealed under this mean appearance,
his companions began to treat him with
the respect due to his rank.—Master
Peter, however, insisted that all their
former familiarity should be resumed,
and continued to associate with them,
vntd he had become a good pilot, an
excellent shipwright, and had thorough
ly acquainted himself with the construc
tion of every part of a ship of war.”
I saw the ship-yard where he worked,
also the small cottage where lie resided ,
it is now covered with a substantial build
ing, in order to preserve it from the
weather, and to hand it down to poster
ity. It remains just as Peter left it.
Hundreds of names of visiters, from Em
perors down to simple cits, are written
and carved upon the walls and weather
boards. In running over some of them,
I chanced to light upon that of my hus
j band, with the date of 1822.
Custom House Prodigality. —lt ap
pears from the official documents sent to!
Congress by Secretary Woodbury, that
cert,on collectors of the revenue received
last year from the treasury, in the form
of salaries, $227,935‘(K), more than the
whole amount of revenue collected by
them! At Saco, Maine, four revenue
officers received more than fifteen hun
dred dollars, while they did not collect!
one cent of revenue! At Edgartown,
Mass, six revenue officers, three of whom
received two thousand five hundred dol
lars salary, collected only “ twenty-five
cents!” At New Loudon, six officers,
were employed, who were paid more;
than four thousand dollars, while the
amount returned as collected by them I
was one dollar and nineteen cents! At
St. Mary’s, two officers were paid trcrlce\
hundred and thirty-six dollars, and col- j
lected only one dollar and thirty-five \
cents !
Is it at all strange, (a cotemporary j
well inquires,) when such things happen, j
that tire expenditures of the government
are “ retrenched” from $12,000,090 a
year up to nearly $40,009,000? And is
it at all strange, that, when hordes ofj
salaried revenue officers are thus em-|
ployed along the sea-coast to collect, not
revenue, hut voters, the administration {
should he able to carry a State like!
Maine, which, with its inlets, has more
sea-coast than any other three States in
the Union !—[Newark D. Adv.
I
Now that the people are nearly satis- j
tied as to what parties their represent a- !
fives from the various counties belong, it
would he well to inquire, who of those j
different parties are Internal Improve
ment men. This subject will probably
compose the leading feature of the coin
ing Legislature, and upon which rests the
main interests of the State, according to
her present relative position with other
cmninunitjes and other interests. Local
feeling and party prejudices •within our j
own borders will probably cause much j
wrangling and disputation, hut we hope,
and believe that there will he sufficient i
talent, good sense and imparinlity, with '
enough of the energetic spirit of the age, '
to legislate for the good of the entire State, |
and carry out her leading and important
measures, and that without the enthral
ment of sectional views, and narrowmind
ed policy. The immense resources of our
State are unquestioned, and it only wants
an impetus and proper direction to he
given towards developing them, by the
State Legislature, for it to put in such j
train as to insure ultimate and great sue-!
cess. We look forward to the comple
tion of such results with confidence and
pleasure.—[Macon Post.
Escape from Jail. —lnformation has;
been received in this city, that Daniel \ r . \
Palmer, who was awaiting his trial in the
jail of Jones county, for the murder of
James Gunn, lias succeeded in effecting ;
his escape. The governor has issued his
l>!oclrmntion, offering a reward of $29!)
for the apprehension of the fugitive, to,
which as we understand, the brother ofj
the deceased has added the further sum ;
of
We arc requested to state that the
match race between Maj. Rowell’s Truf
fle colt and Col. A. 11. Kenan’s for $599
aside, will come off over the Miiledgeville
course <m the second day of the appro idl
ing racer. Pine sport is anticipated, as
there will he a large number of crack
nags on the ground.—[Federal Union.
The Globe says that the Locofocos will
“die in the last breach,” and the New York
Evening Post says tint they will “die in the
first breach.'’ So it see,ns that they expect
to die ill a pair of breeches. Some of them
must make an important ndJition to their
wardrobe first.— Lou. Jour.
CORN TRADE OF GREAT BRITAIN.
Tfce great interest felt in this country (says
UM Philadelphia Commercial List) in relation
to the crop of wrhefet in England, and the rela
tive duties accruing on foreign wheat imported
into that country, has induced u« to publish
t)ie following authentic , regulations, Under
which the com trade of Great Britain is at
present conducted: *
of Jet 9 of George IV, Chapter GO.
And whereas it is expedient
Graih, Meal, and Flour, the growth/prodUce!
and manufacture of any foreign country, or of
any British possession out of Europe, should
be allowed to he imported into the United
Kingdom for consumptioni upon the payment
of duties to be regulated from time to time,
according to the average price of British Corn,
made up and published in manner hereinafter
r fT I i ' r fd 5 be it therefore enacted, that there
shim be levied and paid to his Majesty, Upon
all corn, grain, meal, and flour, entered (br
home consumption in the United Kingdom
from parts beyond the seas, the several duties
specified and set forth in the tabic annexed to
this act; and that the said duties'shall be
raised, levied, collected, and paid, in such and
the same manner, in all respects, as the seve
ral duties of customs mentioned and enume
rated in the table of duties of customs inwards
annexed.
If imported from any Foreign Country.
Wheat.— According to the average price
of W heat, made up and published in manner
required by law, videlicet: £ s . and.
Whenever such price shall be G2s.
and under 635. the qur. the duty shall *
be per qur. ~ ' 1 4 8
i W hen the price is G3s. and under 645. 13 8
i When the price is 635. and under6ss. 128
When the price is 655. and under 665. 118
When the p.-ice is 665. and under 675. 1 0 8
i When the price is 675. and under 68s. 0 18 8
When the price is 68s. and underdOa. 0 16 8
When the price is 695. and undet,7o*. 0 13 8
When the price is7ls.andunder 725. 5 6 8
When the price is 725. and under 73a. 0 2 8
When the price is or above 735. (110
When under 625. and not under 61s. 1 5 8
And in respect to each integral shilling,
or any part of each integral shilling, by which
such price shall be under Gls. such duty shall
! be increased Is.
A FRIGHTFUL STEAM-BOAT DISAS
TER.—FORTY-THREE LIVES LOST.
The London correspondent of the Philadel
phia Inquirer has sent a letter by the Royal
William, detailin'; the following particulars
of a most appalling steamboat disaster.
“ The Forfarshire steamer, 100 horse power,
from Hull to Dundee, was dashed to pieces
on Wednesday last on a rock, when, mel’tii
elioly to relate, 43 persons found a watery
grave. About 4 o’clock on Thursday, blowing
hard from the N. E. and showering rain and
sleet, the boiler gave way, which was the
cause of the sad catastrophe. The captain
was observed with his wife in his arms, cling
ing to the wreck, when a sea came and swept
them oft. Among those who perished were
a gentleman and his family belonging to Dun
dee, who were returning from St. Petersburg
after a residence there of fourteen years.
There wene 22 cabin passengers, % 9 steerage,
(including 4 children) and 22 of a crew, mak
ing in all 53 persons, out of which only ten
were saved to tell the tale. The captain,
John Humble, was considered an excellent
man, and was much esteemed, while the con
duct of his mate is the subject of severe com
ment. When the danger first appeared, he,
followed by four of the crew, took to the boat,
and shortly after it had put off, the vessel
struck and parted in two, the stern drifting
southward, and the fore part remaining on the
rock.”
I send you the? following instance of female
intrepidity, in connexion with the above mourn
ful catastrophe.
William Darling, the keeper of the outer
lighthouse on the Longstonc rocks, observed
the wreck about five o’clock in the morning—
that is, about two hours after the vessel had
struck. From the fineness of the weather,
he could not discover whether there were anv
men upon it. Between seven and eight, A. M.
he at last perceived some men, and asked his
daughter, Grace Horsley Darling, to accompa
ny him in a cobble boat, with a view to assist
and save the unfortunate people. She at once
consented. It may be remembered that Darl
ing was quite certain he would not be able to
get back to the light house, without the help
of some of the men lie saw on the rock, and
his calculation of returning was founded on
that assumption. He and his daughter, anti
cipating such help, left Mrs. Darling to attend
to the light house, and rowed their little boat
round by the southern sides of the three inter
vening rocks, to the spot where they saw the
shipwrecked persons. This was about a mile
upwards, and the sea was all broken water.
When the men on the rock saw a young slen
der woman pulling the boat to their rescue,
their joy was almost frantic.
Darling and his daughter succeeded in get
ting the boat to a spot where they could gel a
landing, and took Mrs. Dawson, and four of'
the men, and brought them to the light house.
Here darling left his daughter, Mrs. Dawson,
and two of the men, nnd took tvm of the men
back to the rock, and brought the remaining
four persons. The danger was most immi
nent, but the experiment was successful. This
is one of the noblest instances recorded of fe
male heroism—and the writer, who saw this
young woman, was struck with the singular
modesty of this courageous female. It is to
be hoped that this act of self-devotion will be
duly rewarded. A boat put off from North
Sunderland the same morning, but Darling
had already effected the deliverance of the
unfortunate people.
New York. —The value of real and
personal estates, in New York, has,
within the last three years, been fixed by
the assessors nearly as follows —lNjii
was a year tolerably prosperous, whert
tlie value was estimated at $309,000,000.
lu 1837, the year of the revulsion, the
value fell to $263,000,000. During this
year, as we learn from the Sunday News,
the value has increased more than half
a million. The next year, it is antici
pated, theretwvill be a considerable in
crease.
Gov. Everett, in his speech at New Bed
ford hi behalf of the Bunker Hill tnonu
merit, said : “ Had X the wealth of the In
dies, and the strength of a giant, l would
c irrv the top of that shaft beyond the
flight ot the Eagles—nay, I would raise
it to the home of the sunbeams!”