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From a late number of the Edinburgh Retitxc.) j Astonishing Pacts Relative to a Fokmer Organic World. Dr. Buck land Mtw proceeded to the most important j and popular branch of his subject —to | give a description of the most interesting fossil organic remains, and to show that j the extinct species of plants ant! animals ! which formerly occupied our planets dis- ; play, erm in their fragments and relics, the same marks of wisdom and design, which have been universally recognized in the existlhg species of organized beings. After giviug some account of the sup posed cases of fossil human bones, and es tablishing the remarkable fact of the “to tal absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geo logical formations/ our author passes to the geoesU history of fossil organic remains: “It is marvellous that mankind would have gone on for many centuries in ignor ance of the fact, which is now so fully denuattrated, that no small part of the pradpEp |grface of the earth is derived from the remains of animals that constitu ted the population of ancient seas. Many extensive plains and massive mountains form, as it were, the great charnel house j of preceding geherations, in which the j petrified exuviie of extinct races of animals and vegetables arc piled into stupendous monuments of the operations of life and death, daring almost immeasurable peri ods of past time. “At the sight of a spec tacle,” says Cuvier, “so imposing, so teri- We, as that of the entire soils on which we tread, it is the wreck of animal life forming almost the entire soils on which we tread, it is difficult to restrain the im agination from hazarding some conjecture as to the cause by which such great effects have been produced.” The deeper we desend into the strata of the earth, the higher do we ascend into archoeological history of past ages of creation. We find successive stages .-Marked by varying forms j of animal and vegetable life, and these gen erally differ more widely from existing j species as we go further down into the | receptacles of the wreck of more ancient; creations. ! Besides the more obvious remains of testacea, and of larger animals, minute ex amination discloses, occasionally, prodigi ous accumulations of microscopic shells, that surprise us no less by their abundance than their extreme minuteness; the mode in which they are sometimes crowded to gether maybe estimated fioin the fact I that Soldani collected from less than an > ounce and a half stone, found in the hills i ofCascina, in Tuscany, 10,454 micro-! scopic chambered shells. * * * * Os several; species of these shells four or five hun dred weigh but a single grain: of one species he calculated that a thousand in dividuals would scarcely weigh one grain.” Extraordinary as these phenomena must appear, the recent,discoveries of Ehrcn berg, made since the publication of Mr. Buckiaud’s work, arc still more marvell ous and instructive. This eminent nat uralist, whose discoveries respecting the existing infusorial animals we have already noticed, has discovered fossil animalcules, or infusorial organic remains, and not on ly has he discovered their existence by the microscope, but he has found that they form extensive strata of tripoli, polcschicf er, (polishing slate,) at Franzcbard, in Bohemia—a substance supposed to have been formed from sediments of fire vol canic ashes in quiet waters. These ani mals belong to the genus Bacillarin, and inhabit silicious shells, the accumulation of which form the strata of polishing slate. The size of a single individual of these animalcules is about 1,228 th of aline, the 3400th part of an inch.—ln the pol ishing slate from Biiin, in which there seems no extraneous matter and no vacui ties, a cubic line contains, in round num bers, 23,000,000 of these animals, and a cubic inch 41,000,000 of them. The weight of the cubic inch of the tropoli which contains them is 270 grains.— Hence there are 187,000,000 of these ani- j malcules in a single grain, or the silice ous coat of one of these animals is the 18,- 000,000 part of a grain. Since this strange discovery was made, Mr. Ehrenberg has detected t he same fos sil animals in the scmiopal, which is found j along with the polishing slate in the terta ry strata of Bilin, in the chalk flints and even in the semiopal or noble opal of the j porphyritic rocks. What a singular ap plication does this fact exhibit of the re- ( mains of the ancient world? While our! habitations are sometimes built of the: solid aggregate of millions of microscopic j shells: while, as we have seen, our Apart-: ments are heated and lighted with the wreck of mighty forests that covered the primeval valleys, the chaplet of beauty, shines with the very sepulchres in which millions of animals arc eutoinbed! Thus has death become the haudrnaid and the ornament of life. Would that it were also its instructor and guide. Upper Canada. It will be observed by the following proclamation that a portion of the militia have again been called out in Canada, in consequence of information having been received of the formation of an extensive conspiracy in the United States, for the purpose of co-operating with the Canada insurgents. Adjutant Geneuai/s Office, j TORONTO, Oct. 2:i. j[ Militia General Order. His Excellency the Lieutenant Gover nor has received certain information that an extensive conspiracy has been formed, hy numerous unprincipled ami rapacious inhabitants of the neighboring friendly States, with a view to force upon the Province the domination of the said con spirators, and to visit the loyal inhabitants of this Province with lawless war, plunder ! and devastation. The Lieutenant Governor, in anticipa tion of an adequate exhibition of force | and activity on the part of the Govern | ment of the United States, who continue ! to declare a most friendly disposition to i wards Great Britain, has forbore to call I upon the loyal inhabitants ol Upper Cana ida, to prepare to defend in arms their ' families, and their homes; but the Lieu ! tenant Governor now conceives that the ! time is come when it would be unjust to • Her Majesty’s loyal people, to risk the ! consequence of a failure on the part of the most foreign friendly Government, to preserve peaceable relations towards these colonies; and therefore, for the purpose of preventing the apprehensions which might naturally arise amongst a poacea j hie population, in the vicinity of a rapaci-j ous enemy, the Lieutenant Governor is! induced to call out once more a portion j of the gallant Militia of Upper Canada, as a Volunteer Force, in the full confidence and certainty, that the wicked and law-, 'less designs of the public enemy will be j met by a corresponding exhibition ol the loyal and gallant feeling which has always distinguished Upper Canada, when engag-, ed in regular war,as well as when threaten ed with aggression from Pirates and Brig-, ands. The Lieutenant Governor will there-: fore forthwith issue orders to some disiin-j guislied Officers, to call out a portion of I the Militia for the Province. The Lieutenant Governor assures the ! : loyal subjects of the Province, that he is j in full possession of tlie designs of the en emy, who have nominally amongst them j many who have not forgot, their alle-| giance to Her Majesty, and their duty to 1 their Canadian brethren, and only appear in the ranks of the Brigands at present, to save themselves from insult and violence. By Command of His Excellency, | Sir George Arthur. ) RICHARD BULLOCK, Adjutant General, Militia. New Orleans, Oct. 23. Mr. Mii.ne’s Estate.— Since the death of Mr. Alexandre Milne, whose funeral, on Sunday afternoon last, was attended by a large concourse of citizens, there have been various ruinous as to the man ner in which he had disposed of his pos sessions. Wishing to gratify public cu riosity, we have made considerable in quiry upon the subject, and now state the result, believing that in the main our in i formation may be relied on as perfectly correct. i Mr. Milne died at the age ofjiinety -1 eight, possessed ol a property estimtrd at ; about one million and a half of dollars. I He was a native of Scotland, and left his i home when quite a young man. He ar i rived here a perfect stranger, and witli i out a penny; but, by dint of industry, cn j ergy and strict integrity, he succeeded in business, won the friendship of his fel low men, and laid the foundations of that fortune which, by the assisance of a pru dent economy, he was enabled to rear. In the enjoyment of his wealth, Mr.! Mil nc ever displayed the most generous and bountiful disposition towards the poor, j jThe orphans were particularly an oh- j iject of his regard—to this object he has! left the great hulk of his estate. With the exception of two hundred thousand j dollars, it is to he equally divided to four 'orphan asylums, viz: To the boys’ at La-1 fayette, to the girls’ in Povdras street: ( and to two others which are to be estal)-! lishcd at Milneburg, (the village at the j lake end of the Pontchartrain Rail Road)! —which latter two arc to be erected with funds from the estate. The 8200,000 above mentioned are to he distributed thus: 8100,000 for a char itable school in bis native town: and j about an equal sum among bis relations 1 and two ot bis sevants. His generosity extended likewise to liis debtors, as we j are informed that they were all released from their liabilities to him. Thus it appears that almost the whole of bis immense fortune has been distribut ed in relieving human distress. In a : good old age be descended to the tomb, j with the remembrance of a well spent j life*, and presenting a noble example of ! industry and integrity lo the youth who | are to be nurtured by the means be lias ! provided tor them. Many a little child, [ resent'd from poverty and ignorance, will rise up in after years and bless the name of Alexander Milne. The King of Naples lias lately publish ed a law AO a inst DUELLING. A chal lenge to light a duel, cither written or ver bal, is punishable by imprisonment in the ] third degree, with a disqualification for! ail public functions and the loss of all public pensions for two to five years after the expiration of the punishment. A per son who accepts a challenge is subject to the same punishment. Any act of vi olence committed against a person in con sequence of refusing to accept a challenge shall be punished according to the ex isting laws, but the rate of punishment! shall be increased one degree above what it is in ordinary cases. If a challenge; is accepted and the parties meet, but the duel does not take place, they shall" be punished by banishment and the loss' ot pensions. It the duel takes place, with-j out either party being wounded, they BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. shall be punished by irons in the first de gree, with the loss of pensions. If wounds follow, the wounded party shall be pun ished as above, and the party indicting the wound, shall be punished according !to the existing laws. Murder committed in a duel, shall be punished as assassiu | ation. The body of a person killed in a | duel, and also of one who shall suffer 1 death in consequence of a duel, shall be buried in a profane place, designated by ' the police, without funeral ceremony, and without any monument. Seconds, bear ers of a challenge, and all who take part in a duel, shall be punished as principals. Military men, besides being subject to the dispositions of their decree, shall be j punished by the military penal statute for insubordination. —[Advertiser. French Steam Ship. The famous ! steam ship-of-war “Le Veloce,” of 220 horse power, built at Rocherfort, with masts formed on anew plan, invented and executed bv M. Bechamiel, captain of a frigate, has just been ordered to Eu, hy the King, that he may have an oppor tunity to witness the manoeuvres of this superl) vessel. The service rendered by this invention to the navy is immense,) when one takes into consideration the, promptitude which is obtained by aves-i sel which may he propelled by the wind | and by steam, and when we compute the' saving which is made in the expenses ofi fuel. This vessel burns a ton of coal per hour, and in an hour at the farthest, the j machinery can be taken away, and the; masts so arranged, that the vessel can be! put underweigh, like a common ship ofi war. VVliat is the American government! about in relation to these naval steam projects? Surely, in matters of this char acter, the United States should not be behind either England or France.—[Etiq. From the A*. Y. Commercial Jldverliser. Population of Russia. — We trans- i : late the following curious enumeration! from a statistical account of the Russian j : Empire, drawn from official sources, and [ j lately published, hy M. Martin Kabalsky. j “In Russia there are no less than (80 different races, or nationalities, who j speak 40 distinct languages. The prin | cipal of these races are the Sclavonic,' | Latonnic, Tartar, Finnish, Mongolian; J and Circassian ; besides which there are j |of foreign origin the Jewish, Germans, j. Swedish, Greek, &.e., numbering about i 1,500,000. The Jews, about 800,000,1 in number, inhabit parts of ancient Po-' j land ; the Germans, about 500,000, are ! j principally assembled in the Baltic pro-1 vinces; the Swedes are found exclusive-1 I ly in Finland and the environs of Nnrew,' I countries formerly belonging to Sweden ; | j and the other residents of foreign origin j are established in various parts of the j ! empire, but chiefly in the cities. The 1 other races that form part of the Russian: ipopulation, exclusive of the Russians' I proper, or Muscovites, are the Samoye- 1 ! des, about 70,000 inhabiting the borders lof the Arctic ocean ; the .Kamschatdales! land other people of Oriental Siberia,! ! 50,000 ; the Esquimaux, found in Ameri can Russia, 50,000; and the Bohemians, lor Zingaris, scattered over almost every ; portion of the Empire, but most nume- I roils in the South and South West, ! amounting to about 170,000. I “The whole population of Russia in j 1832, not including the kingdom of Po-j land, was 51,070.517, and that of Poland, 4,037,925. “ This population is contained in 1840 cities, of which 1007 are in Europe, 121(Vj I towns or burghs, and 227,400 villages, j “St. Petersburg, the capital, contains! 1445,135 inhabitants, of whom 155,815! are women.” ! The several links in the great chain of railroads between the North River ! and Lake Erie, parallel on the Erie | Canal, are either finished or in progress. I— The Albany and Schenectady, and ' Schenectady and Utica Roads are both Unsuccessful operation; —~ the Utica and | Syracuse Road is expected to be com pleted by July next; the Road from Sy racuse to Auburn is in operation ; the Auburn and Rochester Road is under | contract; the Tonawonda Hoad, from ! Rochester to Batavia is in operation ; land the stock of the Batavia and Buffalo 1 Road, the last link in the chain, is sub scribed. In about a year from this time, there will be a complete line of rail-roads ' from Albany to Hutfalo, which will touch the Erie Canal at all the flourishing towns above mentioned. The travel on the links already completed is large, and when the entire chain is finished it must ! he very great. Opium 1 cmlrrs of Constantinople. — Talking of drinking and dramming, puts me in mind of the opium eaters, on a • number of whom tlie Sultan played a [capital trick some time back. He was Passing through a quarter of the city where they sold the noxious drug, and tiie thought struck him that, as the fa ! ther of his people, he was hound to put a stop to so pernicious a practice; so, without much more ado, lie pulled down all the shops, over the site of which 1 have several times had the honor of walk ing, and sent every single soul lie found in them to the madhouse, which happens to he close by; and there they remained with iron collars round their necks, and chained to the walls for two or three months, at the end of which time his sub lime highness let them out on their so lemn promise never to go mad any more. [Capt. Rose's Three Month's Leave. (From the .Yetc York Examiner.) it I A live Mermaid, .and no mistake, j A prodigious excitement previyls in Ire land, especially in the North, in conse quence of an actual liviug M> r.maid, which i was recently caught in a salmon net at Honneraw Point, in the county of Doue | gal. There can be no mistake in this fact, as five or six papers.corroborate it, in the important points; but the “Derry | Sentinel” and the “Fermanagh Journal,” are the most enthusiastic and particular 1n their descriptions. The first announce ment appeared in the Sentinel, as follows: A Mermaid, and no mistake. Avery general disbelief in the existence of the Mermaid is likely to receive a severe shock from the truth of the following statement. A creature in every respect answering the usual description of the “sea woman,” was caught lately in the salmon nets at Hunneraw Point, near Fa han, county Donegal. She is at present uuder the protection of a gentleman of that neighborhood, who has kindly permit ted the country people, who are flocking in hundreds about the place, to “see and believe.” The members of the London derry Natural History Society, we under stand, are to investigate this extraordinary phenomenon, for the purpose of sending an immediate report of their observations to the British Association, sitting at New castle. We understand that if the novel monster should survive the sudden change in her situation, ske will be sent to Vis count Melbourne as a present to the Queen; if not, the body will he preserved in spirits, and will grace the now forming museum of our local society. A minute j description shall be given in our next.” The effect of this notice was, that at least a fourth of all the inhabitants of Derry, who could afford the expense, pro ceeded in a body to Iloneraw, where they were admitted to an inspection of the siii ! gular creature; which is thus described in j tlie Fermanagh Journal. * The Mermaid. This is certainly a sea woman; and has such an expression of in ! tclligence in its countenance , that we are absolutely inclined to believe that it is a creature of reason, rather that of instinct. We do not mean to insinuate that it has any notion of abstract ideas; but the fact | is, that there is an appearance of confu j sion about it that would seem to indicate I sentiments of shame, fear, and supplica tion. It weighs about seventy pounds, j and is altogether human in its outward or i ganization, from the head to the navel, j where the fish begins to develope itself, j and the remainder is formed very like J the extremity of a large dolphin. The | skin of the face and the breast is a whit ! isli brown—the eyes are black, and the I nose purely aquiline; and its eye brows, (lips and chin, are models for a sculptor. i The liair is long and thick; and the crea ture's principal amusement seems to he to (stroke it downward with her webbed, but I otherwise, very perfect fingers. It looks to he twelve or fourteen years old; and rc j gards people, occasionally, as if it had an j inclination to speak ; and we are solemnly of the opinion that, when in its native ele ment, it makes its wishes known through the medium of its tongue. Altogether in deed, it is the most singular being we ev er witnessed, and excites feelings in the l breast of beholders, at least as much akin !to awe as to curiosity. Can it have a soul, and be an accountable creature?— | At all events, we shall examine it closely (this week, and report particulars.” We shall look with great anxiety for v pur next files of Irish papers, on the re- Vtcipt of which we trust to he able to fur- I nisli the readers of The Examiner with I some fuller information in relation to this (surprising phenomenon. Cheap Railroad. The Hudson Rail road, from the city of Hudson to West [ Stockbridge, at the line of Massachusetts, j a distance of 22 miles, with a high em | bankment, and deep cuttings of clay and j rocks, and a hard pan worse than rocks, is well built, and the whole expense of the I road—buildings, lands, engineers, cars, fixtures, A c.—does not exceed, 8450,000. This shows that economical managers, j have been employed. The great business which this road will probably perform, will he tile transportation of marble from Berkshire to the North River. There are vast quarries of marble in Berkshire, from which the New York City Hall, and the Girard College, at Philadelphia have been erected. The blocks are quarried and wrought into form almost entirely by water 1 machinery; slabs sawed, surface planed and smoothed, and columns fluted &c.— The greatest expense has heretofore been :in getting it to the North river. It is of various colors and qualities—pure white, variegated, and a pale greyish blue. At ties paper Harrowing. —There is no , class of men more imposed upon, through the thoughtlessness of the community, . than the publishers of newspapers. The ; product of their toil is looked upon as I common property. If one newspaper is payed for, all who can obtain the privil ege of reading it, think they have the same right to do so, although they do not contribute a mite to its support, that they have to walk upon the public prom enade or side way before a man's door. This is essentially wrong. Those who do not subscribe and pay for a paper, , have in reality, no more rigiit to read it I and enjoy the good it brings, than they have the right to step in a tavern and eat • breakfast or dine at the expense of the j landlord.—[Louisville Gazette. EGGS AND POULTRY,. A«jong all throughout all graces of society, eggs have been a fa i vorite food. But in all our cities, and particularly in winter, they are held at such prices that few families can afford to use them, at all ; and even those who ; are in easy circumstances, consider them too expensive for common food. There is no need of this. Every fam ; ily or nearly every family, can, with very I little trouble, have eggs in plenty during the whole year; and of all the animals domesticated for the use of man, the I common dunghill fowl is capable of ! yielding the greatest possible profit to j the owner. I have often heard it said that wheat is the best grain for them, but I doubt it;! they will sing over Indian corn with more! admiration than over any other grain.' The singing hen- will certainly lay eggs,! if she finds all things agreeable to her ; but the hen is much a prude, and watch ! ful as a weasel, and as fastidious as a hy pocrite; she must, she will have secrecy , and mystery about her nest; all eyes but | her own must be averted; follow her or ! watch her, and she will forsake her nest,! ; and stop laying; she is best pleased with j a box covered at top, with a backside aperture for light, and a side door bv! I which she can escape unseen. i A farmer may keep an hundred fovyls m his barn, may suffer them to trample j upon and destroy his mows of wheat and | other grains, and still have fewer eggs ; than the cottager who keeps a single j dozen, who provides secret nests, chalk ■ eggs, pounded brick, plenty of Indian !corn, lime, water and gravel, for them; ' and who takes care that his hens are not | disturbed about their nests. Three chalk eggs „in a nest are better than a single | nest egg, and large eggs please them; I have often smiled to see them fondle ! round and lay into a nest of geese eggs. | Pullets will commence laying earlier in ! life where nests and eggs are plenty, and 1 where other liens are cackling around j them. A dozen hunghill fowls, shut up away from other means of obtaining food, will require something more than a quart of (Indian coin a day ; I think fifteen bush* j els a year a fair provision for them. But more or less, let them always have enough by them; and after they have become ha ; bituated to find enough at all times a plenty in tlreir little manger, they take ( but a few kernels at a time, except just before retiring to roost, when they will j take nearly a spoonful into their crops; ! hut just so sure as their provision conies to them scanted or irregularly, so surely they will raven up a whole crop full at a time, and will stop laying. A single dozen fowls, properly attend ed, will furnish a family with more than 2,000 eggs in a year, and 100 full grown ; chickens for fall and winter stores. j [Con. Courant. i j Ingenious Calculation. —ln one of the spinning and power loom establishments in Bury, there are 1,140 looms at work. I An intelligent book-keeper employed at these works lias made the following cu rious calculation, namely. The shuttle |of each loom, in traversing through the I shed formed by the warp, passes over a (space of 4 feet 0 inches at least; some ! more hut none less than that. Whilst at : work, the shuttle is thrown 100 times per minute, or 27,000 feet per hour. The looms are in operation twelve hours I per day, consequently each shuttle trav erses 324,000 feet or Gl miles (140 yards in one day. Among so many looms, there will he always some standing from various causes. Allowing, then, 140 out :of tlie 1,140 to be the average number standing, and assuming that 1,000 are kept constantly going for twelve hours! each day, these shuttles will travel 61,363 ; miles and 1,120 yards each day, or through a space almost equal to 2 1-2 : times the circumference of the earth, in the short period of twelve hours. A Husband at Sight. Lord G. was * strongly advised by his physicians to mar ry, and lead a sober, domestic, and steady I life, as the only chance of improving his I shattered constitution. Accordingly he re ! solved to offer his hand to the first woman : who caused prepossessions in her favor.— Being one day in Kensington Gardens, |he went to shelter himself from a very heavy shower of rain in a covered seat, to j which two ladies had also repaired; one of them was Miss V. A conversation en !sued, during which his lordship asked them if they had a carriage in waiting; they replied in the negative; lie then en treated them to take a seat in his, and al . low him to convey them home; the offer ! was accepted. On their way to town Miss V. said she thought it was the easiest car riage she had ever been in. His lordship politely replied, "You may he mistress of it, madam, whenever you please.” Miss \ . blushed her thanks, and they were man and wife before the expiration of the month.—[English paper. It being agreed, at a party of twelve, that a disputed question should he set tled by the opinion of the majority; the six ladies expressed themselves opposed to the six gentlemen, and claimed the victory. A gentleman objected to this, as the number of votes were equal, say ing, ‘‘they were half and half.” “ True,” replied a witty fair one, “ hut we are the better halres.” ! Hand have known law yers and doctors,,, whose autographic out pourings the solicitor and apothecary alone understood, by professional instinct; and yet the bills in chancery of the form er, fairly engrossed, produced suits which are not yet decided the prescrip tions of the latter found their way into the patient’s system, and caused a. great effect. There is one thing, however, on which I have made up* my mind decidedly ; which is, that a person who writes so de testable a hand that he cannot read it himself, acts in an improper manner, and . abuses the gift which Cadmus was good j enough to introduce into Europe. * * * * # That the intellectual and moral char j acter of a person may be ascertained ; front his hand-writing, is a theory in ( which many are fond of believing. It seems, certainly, a more plausible one than those of chiromancy or phrenology ; but beyond a certain extent, I think it can be shown to be as visionary as either. Up to a certain point, however, it may be far more rational. The sex of the writer may be conjec tured with more infallibility than any other attribute: I “ The bridegroom’s letters stand in row above, Tapering, yet straight, like pine trees in his grove ; While free and fine, the bride's appear below, As light and slender as her jasmines grow." Still, you cannot always tell, from the appearance of a manuscript, whether a lady or a gentleman has held the pen. I had a female relative, who was a strong, stout-built woman, to be-sure; but she wrote a hand so formidably masculine, that the only suitor who ever her an offer, was terrified out of his negotia tion by the first billet-doux he had the honor of receiving from her. He was a slender and delicately made man, and wrote a fine Italian hand. [Knicker bocker. Served Right. —ln Zanesville, Ohio, some months ago, a clergyman was call ed upon to marry a young couple and he repaired to the house. The lady was present and all her friends, but the bride groom did not appear, and the lady in great grief had to dismiss the whole party. Recently the same clergyman had a sim ilar call, and all the parties were present, but when he came to the words, “you take this man to be your wedded hus band,” the lady said very emphatically, “No; I never will marry him; he served me meanly six months ago, and note 1 have repaid him in his own coin.” No entreaties could prevail upon her. It was the same lady who had been jilt.ed, and she returned the compliment in a more decided and mortifying manner to the tender swain. Curious.— As a train of railway cars was passing along an inclined plane on the railroad from Bolton to Kenyon, in England, moving at the rate of thirty or forty miles an hour, a man who was stand ing on the side of the railway threw a stone about the size of a hen’s egg in a horizontal direction, and with'considera ble violence, at the train. The stone was distinctly seen by a gentleman who was seated in the last car, with his back to the engine, and he remarked that when it had attained its maximum of velocity, it appeared, like Mahomit’s coffin, sus pended in the air a few seconds, within a foot of the gentleman’s head! He seized hold of it, and described the sensation as similar to that of grasping a stone in a state of rest, suspended by a thread Thus it seems that the train and the stone had both attained the same velocity. Bank Robbery. The Sinithfield Union Bank was entered on Saturday, between the hours of 8 and 10 in the morning, and robbed of $3400, all in the bills of the bank, a por tion of which can be identified. The cashier left the bank in the morning on some busi ness ; the robbers entered a vacant tenement over the bank and cut through the floor, by which means they effected a passage into the hanking room, and were able to carry off the money without the trouble of forcing the vaults. A reward of SSOO is offered for the recovery of the money and the detection of the robbers.—[Providence Journal. The Miner’s Free Press, published at Min eral Point, Wisconsin Territory, of the 9th ult. says—“ We understand that ten thousand i dollars of the money which was stolen at Fort j Crawford, (Prairie du Chien,) was found buried in the fort. It was taken by the soldiers ; one 1 of whom in endeavouring to get a supply, was ! discovered by the watch, who immediately ap prehended him. He said he had nothing to do with the persons who committed the rob bery, but accidentally seeing them securing it, was anxious, before he apprised any one of its concealment, to help himself, which he was about to do pretty liberally ; for when discov ered, he had already filled both legs of his ! pantaloons. The third keg, containing five j thousand dollars, has not yet been found. Several engaged in this speculation have been secured, the remainder have given leg bail.” Mr. Stephens, in his Incidents of Travel in the Holy Land, Egypt, Edom, &c. remarks that the curse provoked by Pharaoh still rests upon the land of Egypt; and that rats, fleas, and all those detestible animals into which Aaron converted the sands, are still .the por tion of the traveller and sojourner I had suffered considerably during thelast four days, but not willing to lose a favorable wind, had put off, resorting to the usual means of relief. To-night,' however, there was no enduring it any longer; the rats ran, shrieked, and shouted, as if celebrating a jubilee on account of some great mortality among the cats ; and the lesser animals came upon me as if the rod of Aaron hltl been lifted up for my special affliction.