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[From the Savannah Georgian.] FROM FLORIDA. The following is an extract of a letter from an officer of the army, to a gentleman ill this city, dated Camp near the Oklawaha, 5 miles from Pilot ka, Jan. 24, 1K39. I will give you a short description of our. land of Flowers. Lord ! what a cog nomen for Florida; in the first place, nfWr crossing the Oklawaha river we cot a road from the point of passage to Lake George, as perfect a barren as the foot of man over trod upon, scrub oak as high as a man’s head; this occupied us fire days, when we camped at Silver Springs. Ex pectation was high as to the probability of catching Indians, in fact we had been inforiMd by our Indian guide, Tomoka John, that there was a large body of re fugee Creeks waiting to give us a recep tion. Our blood was up in spite of scrub oaks, and no water, besides a broiling sun; we marched and marched—advanced and retrograded but “de Ingun no dar.” Well says our Major to Sampson, (negro guide,) you see there are no Indians here, where are they? Well massa you see dey are all gone, if dey no in de swamp dar, dey ober todder side in de big hammock, wa ter all round, if dey no dere, dey must be off yonder (pointing South,) if dey no dere Eh ! ! dey must be all gone, me dorno where—so ended the grand expedi tion (to the Oklawaha) consisting of twelve companies. After this the whole of my regiment on this side went to Key Biscaync and Fort Pierce, excepting my company, which is here building a picket work. I came near nabbing a few of the scanips the oth er day, five of them had fired on a teams ter, shooting him through the right breast, wounding him badly. This was up Deep Creek, about two miles from which place I was at that time. I started immediately with twelve men and came up with the wagon, which was striped of its cover; all the corn bags being emptied and the bags taken. We traced them upwards of a mile by the grains of corn spilled and their trail, when we lost them in the worst swamp that ever white man saw. But two days afterwards came our part of the fun and plunder* I was ordered with my whole company to reconnoitre Deep Creek down to the Oklawaha river, a distance of three or four miles. After arriving at the mouth we saw a small fire. A tree was felled immediately, and we crossed over to see what was the matter. We soon discovered we had pounced upon them unexpectedly. They left every thing “in statu quo,” in the midst of their cooking; cnonti was on the fire—cups and pots were filled with water — eveu powder-horns and (vouches, hows and arrows, petticoats, moccasins, cloths, &c. were strewed thickly round; every thing we did not care to carry off was pitched into the creek. 1 warrant they will rue the day they stole the wagon.— We got back the identical cover and corn bags. 1 did really pity the poor devils for their destitution, —we took them all. The war is stopped for want of argument. Wc can do nothing, for no one knows where the Indians are, and of course wc cannot move against them. FLORIDA WAR. Governor Call in his message to the Legislature of Florida, now in session, has presented an interesting view of the Florida war, and shown that, after three years of military operations, bravely and (vcrseveringly carried on, at a great loss of lives, and an immense expenditure of mo ijey, the state of things is worse than ever; and lias most urgently recommended the passage of the bill (with some chang es) now pending before the Senate for the armed occupation and settlement of that part of Florida which is now overrun by the hostile Indians. The part of Gov ernor Call’s message relating to this subject has been ordered by the Senate to be printed, for the information of the Senate and to aid them in legislating to the best advantage on the bill in question. Mr. Benton gave notice that lie should call for the consideration of the bill on Monday next; having now received the opinions and suggestions of Governor Call, in addition to those of General Her nandez and the Surgeon General, Doctor Lawson, all eminently qualified to give opinions, ahd all concurring cordially in favor of the bill, not only as the best, but as the only means of terminating this harassing and desolating war. FLORIDA WAR. Mr. Benton, chairman of the Commit tee of Military Affairs of the Senate, has reported a on/ from that committee pro viding for “the urmed occupation and set tlement of that part of Florida, trhich is H4Ht orerrun and infested by marauding bands of ho stile Indians.” The principal of the bill is to grant land to the settlers who will go to the parts of Florida indi cated, eAabhsh stations, and maintain their possession until the country is paci fied, and the Indians removed. Three hundred and twenty acres of land is the quantity proposed to be granted to be se lected by the gutters themselves, eacji for himself, aooovding to priority of set tlement. Provisions for a year, and also ammunition to be to the set beyond the latitude of the Vithlacoochee. Wc believe that this bill as been reported upon full consultation with the Secretary at War, several offi ver=, who have served in Florida, and ma ny ....habitants of the Territory, and that they all concur with th t Senate s commit tee in believing that this bill presents the true, safe, expeditious, cheap, and effec tual method of bringing the Florida dis turbances to an end. Accompanying the hill is a letter from the Surgeon General, Dr. Lawson, in answer to inquiries from the chairman of the committee, in which he presents the most cheering prospect of the facilityof obtaining good land, healthy stations, and plenty of provisions for the settler The letter has been printed to accompany the hill, by order of the Sen ate, and is herewith [.resented to the pub lic and we take the occasson to say that Dr. Lawson’s views and information are entitled to the highest confidence, the whole being given from actual experience and personal examination, and bottomed upon both military and medical services in the peninsula of Florida. The Doctor having had a military command and serv ed much in tl.e Territory, and especially in the extreme southern part of it, which he so well and so interestingly desribes. [From the Savannah Georgian.] SILK CULTURE. Our readers who arc interested in the culture of silk will highly appreciate the practical knowledge of Mr. Spalding, embraced in the following note, jvitli which we have been politely furnished by Mr. Bond. Savannah, 20th January, 1830. Dear Sir—At your desire, 1 say, that my Morns Multicnulis plants are altogeth er derived from a single tree which my friend Dr. Fort, of Milledgeville, obtained at an early period from Mr. Prince, of N. York. Air. Wylly’s are derived from mine; Mr. Couper’s arc altogether front three plants brought by the Rev. Mr. Bartow, from Prince’s Nursery. Mr. Couper and myself, for two years past, have pressed our neighbors to the culture and have given away thousands of plants. I have now 23 acres containing about 22,000 young trees planted at 3 feet by 10.— This distance has been selected for the greater convenience in gathering the leaves into small carts provided with wicker baskets for the feeding of the silk worm, and is a distance adapted to the size of; the Alours Multicaulis which is in truth! rather a shrub than a tree. My mode of! planting, if a nursery, after digging the! soil well, to trench about three inches! deep two feet apart, then place a two bud-’ ded cutting in the trench a foot apart, giving a little upward inclination to the cutting, so as to meet the season whether wet or dry. When the cuttings are placed in the trench, I strew over them a little well prepared manure and then cover them about two inches deep with soil, ; marking the spot where the cuttings are! placed by a small stick, that the grass*! may he mole carefully hand-picked. I find that a sandy soil is preferable to clay, and I believe it will he better and safer to send plants or cuttings from the south to the north, because in preparing them here, they will arrive at the north while! the season is yet soft and the soil in a; good situation to receive them, whereas! in bringing them from the north here, he-! fore they have had time to root, our sea-j son becomes hot. and dry. I draw' this! conclusion from my son three years ago having Imported from Prince’s Nursery, through the medium of Major Bowen, of Sava..nali, 8100 worth of cuttings, say 1040. They looked well when they ar rived on the Ist May, and altho’ carefully; planted, not more than 00 of them grew. In my own case 1 rarely lose more titan 1 or 2in 100. It. cultivating them in the field, root crops, say potatoes, turnips or cabbages may be grown with them ad vantageously, but beware of culmiferous or grain crops, rye, oats, ike., for the roots spreading over the surface will ac tually cither kill, or greatly injure all young trees. You may make wi.at use you please of this letter, if you believe it can he of any service. I remain, dear sir, Your obedient servant, TIIOS. SPALDING. Tuos. P. Bono, Esq. THE GEORGIA BANKS. In reply to numerous applications made to us to notice the course pursued by the Georgia banks, for some time past, and the pressure and embarrassments produced by that course, we beg leave to observe, that it was not to indifference, nor a reluctance to touch the subject, should be ascribed the delay iu offering our views upon the causes and effects of the pressure and embarrassments. We are seeking all the information that can be obtained; and wc hope very shortly to Uc enabled to comply with the wishes of our friends in the country and the City. Iu the meantime, we beg our country friends to believe, that tl.e banks of Au gusta arc not more hostile to the country banks, than they are to one another in our city; that the interior suffer less by the course of our banks than our citizens themselves; and that if the banks of the state are not compelled very shortly to adopt another course, the most serious injury will he sustained by the commer cial and agricultural interests of our state, of which the banks must have their share. [Augusta Constitutionalist. If (Her isms. —“ The closest ties will some times be broken,” as the criminal said, when the rope with which they were hanging him snapped in two. “ 1 think we had better drop the subject ,” as the man said when the judge asked him what he had to sa v against sentence of death being : passed urea him. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. [From the Now Orleans Boe.] AFFAIRS IN MEXICO. We are indebted to tlve politeness of : one of our subscribers for the following extract of a letter, dated “Mexico, 29th Dec. 1838. “Matters are in such an anomalous state now, that surely they cannot remain |so much longer. Here we had a three j day’s ministry of Gomez Pedraja and his confederates for a reform of the constitu ! tion of 1824, say from the 12th to the loth inst., during which wc had a regular tumult,unaccompanied by any other excess than ringing of hells and a few broken windows, and cries in the streets of “viva la union” and “viva la federacion” —all of which amounted to nothing after all.— The troops remained firm and threatened to leave the city and proclaim Santa Ana a dictator. “Upon this Bustamente quarreled with his new fangled ministry, who retired, and •once more left the political field to the ‘centralists’ —but confidence in Busta mente is gone and he has had the greatest difficulty in forming anew ministry, com posed ofTorua for the war department, Go roztija for foreign affairs, Col. Corlina for finance, who by the way, is a much better colonel for the ‘Battalion de Comercio’ than a minister of finance, and Lobrija, brother of the administrator ofour custom house, for the interior. Meantime the interior of the country was rather troubled, hut all is quiet again. Our communica tion with Tampico continues to be cut off by Canalijo with his troops, and hither to the efforts to persuade General Urrea to give up his ‘federal’ plan and submit to the government lias proved unavailing. “How government will manage to raise funds is not very clear. Hitherto it has subsisted on patriotic loans and a few con tributions ultimately the clergy must pay for the war, which will serve them right as they are preaching it up in their churches.” The Merchants. During the debate on the Swnrtwout Defalcations, Mr. Hoff man said, it had of late become the prac tice it. every way, and on all occasions, to assail the character of our Merchants, who. seemed to be regarded bv some as a caravan on the desert, that every wander ing tribe might think it fair to attack and plunder. But who are tl.e mcrcl.auts of this country? They were men whose honor and enterprise have done as much to elevate our national character as the gallant achievements of our army and navy; and whose integrity and faith, dur ing our late financial difficulties, hail call ed forth on the floor of the British Parlia ment, a tribute of praise from the Chan cellor of the Exchequer—men ' who had j left less than 8500 unpaid, out of more than 82,000,000, which had been return ed upon them protested from England. W here did their enemies find motives for this perpetual attack? Was it to be found in that spirit of enterprise which had carried our flag to every sea and every dime, and had paid into our very Treasu ry the sums which had formed this ali ment to speculation and defalcation? Was it to he found in the early history of our Republic? Are not gentlemen ad monished of its injustice, by that picture which adorns your Rotunda, when they sec and know that lie who is sitting in his Chair of dignity and peril, receiving the Declaration of our Independence from a Jefferson and a Franklin, was a Boston merchant—the proscribed and patriotic Hancock? Let me tell the gentleman from Md., that Commerce is, and always has been, the handmaid of Liberty; and its protec tion or destruction, has always been the unerring indication ofa wise and free, or a t weak and arbitrary government. Let me remind him, that tl.e weak and vacillating reign of the (ill. Henry of England, was still more darkened by legislative enact* ! incuts against the freedom of commerce, whilst the same page of history, which jsliines with the achievements and wisdom of one of her best Kings, was illumined jby laws to unfetter trade and protect her j merchants.—[Alex Gaz. Severe Cold at the North, —At Al bany, Jan. 23, 8 degrees below zero. At Saratoga Spa, Jan. 24, 7 A. M., 33 degrees below zero. At Ballston Spa, Jan. 24, 7 A. M., 33 degrees below zero. At Albany, Jan. 25, G 1-2 A. M., 14 degrees below zero. At Boston, Jan. 21, 7 A. M., 14 de grees below zero. At Charleston, Jan. 25, daylight, 10 degrees below zero. At Chelsea, Jan. 25, 8 A. M., 7 degrees below zero. At Dorc'nsVct, J an. 24, 15 degrees be low zero. The Morality of Railroads. —When Queen Elizabeth wished to accomplish an important undertaking, she commenc ed what she called “ turning the pulpits” —giving the clergy tl.e key note of tl.e enterprise, and the people were soon made to chime in, in most sweet concord. It was a capital notion, at least so think a railroad company in Massachusetts, and they are trying to turn it to account. The “Western Railroad Corporation,” in order to insure the success of their ap plication to the legislature for aid, have addressed circulars to all tl.e clergymen in the state, urging them individually to deliver a “discourse on the moral effects of railroads!” We beg to suggest to the clergymen ns a text suited to the subject, 1 Peter iii. 9 : “ Rendering railing for railing.” — [Boston Transcript An Affray. Yesterday, about 2 o’clock, P. M., in the principal street in this city, two young men, both of whom had resided here for several years, had a quarrel about the settlement of an ac count, which led to blows, and resulted in one of them plunging a Bowie knife, to the depth of between three and four inches into the side of the other, imme diately under the ribs. The wound was inflicted with a Bowie knife about ten or twelve inches it. length, and there is ev ery reason to believe that it will prove mortal. 'Phe inftictor of the wound was arrested, and taken before C. M’Clure, Esq., for examination. We gather from the notes of the investigation before us, that opprobrious language was first used by the party stabbed, retorted by the other, and the first blow, as near as could he ascertained, was given by the former. They clinched and both fell—in that pos ture, or when rising from it, the knife was drawn and the wound inflicted. The defendant was required to give hail for his appearance for trial at the regular term of Court to the amount of 81000. Which being done he was released. We have here another awful instance of the consequence of that most perni cious and disgraceful habit, the wearing of deadly weapons. When w ill the dic tates of wisdom aud reason prevail among our young men, and banish this accurs ed practice from the land.— [Natchez Courier. Air. Secretary Woodbury, in his re port to Congress, has ransacked the ar chives of the Treasury from the com mencement of tl.e government, and after exhibiting his usual knowledge ofarit/nna tir, discovers that by using the Banks as fiscal agents there is now about one mil lion of dollars unavailable funds. This is too much to loose. But why has he ,so studiously concealed the amount of losses sustained by the government offi cers? Not a word is said about the over-! whelming amount which has taken legs and fled beyond the seas.—Are the mill ions on millions which the dishonest Sub- Treasurers of the country have stolen and carried away, more available than the amount lost by the hanks? We pre sume not. And yet the one is blazoned forth and held up to the public censure whilst the other is unnoticed and unre buked. If Woodbury is an honest man in this matter, ho would do to fool a wis er crowd than wc arc.—[Columbus Enq. A SiNoui.Aß Cass.. —A poor weaver in this town, of the name of Grime, was, a short time ago effected with a pain in his stomach accompanied by other peculiar sensations; he took several courses of medicine, without experiencing any relief. “At times,,” says he, “I felt as if some thing was moving about in my insides.” ] lie continued iu this condition about a week, when the pain began to descend; he then tried outward applications, such as rubbing the pair, with warm flannel—still there was no abatement of the pain.— When the ailment reached the knee, the pain was excruciating; the patient sat up most of the night, rubbing tl.e afflicted part before the fire, until he felt a little easier; he was then about to draw on his stocking, when he perceived something sticking out from the calfof hisleg; he immediately drew it out, and it proved to be a tailor’s large sized needle, considerably corroded. He is now iu a convalescent state.—[Preston Chronicle. The Coi.lec f.. —We arc happy to state that the prospects of our Slate University continue in the highest degree flattering. There are now in attendance 111 students, and 8 or 10 more of those who were here at last term are expected to return. The professors are all at their posts, prepared, alter a few weeks’ rest and recreation, to re-enter upon their accustomed routine of| duties, and zealously to continue the ardu ous and faithful labors in which they have heretofore been engaged. They are de serving of the confidence of the people of Georgia, and we rejoice to find that their talents aud exertions are appreciated. [Athens Banner. W. L. Yancey, Esq. who was convicted of Manslaughter at the last full term of our Court, and sentenced to a fine of fif teen hundred dollars, and imprisonment of twelve months, says the Greenville Mountaineer of the 25th inst., has had his sentence commuted by tl.e Governor of this State to 8500 fine and three months imprisonment; which time expired on the 22d inst. and Mr. Y. was released. The petitions forwarded to his Excellency, were signed by upwards of 1000 respect able persons, and a large portion of them citizens of. this District. [Charleston Paper. Education in Virginia. —Some remark able facts are stated in the Message of the Governor of Virginia, showing an un expected degree of ignorance among the people of that ancient commonwealth. He says, that of 4082 applicants in 1817 for marriage licenses, 1187, or nearly one-fourth, were unable to write their j names. In 1827, of 5043 applicants, 1100 could not write; and in 1837, of 4014 applicants, 1047 were unable to ! write. This shows but a small increase | of the blessings of education among the people of that State. All the applicants! were males, and the Governor supposes! that education is more generally diffused among that sex than among the females. 1 he Governor recommends some materi al changes iu the school system. —[Rich- mond Whig HAVANA. The exports from the port of Havana, during 1838, are valued at sixteen millions iof dollars, in which the article of sugar alone amounted to nine millions. The Spanish government has ordered to be sold the property of the Bethlehem convent in Havana. The plantations and slaves of the convent are estimated at about three millions of dollars, the houses and lots in Havana, at about three hundred thousand dollars. [Savannah Georgian. General Banking in Georgia. —We ■have been informed from Milledgeville, that the banking business under the late i law, seemed to he in quite a flourishing, ior rather increasing condition. Not less than ten or twelve companies are forming and rapidly progressing in their prepara tions to commence operations. A compa ny had been formed in Sumter, one in Early, one it. Troup, one in Stewart, one in Elbert, another in Decatur, and an in dividual of our city proposed going into the business. In Jasper, Coweta, Cher okee, Cass, and De-Kalb counties, meet ings have been called to make arrange ments for organizing associations.—[Au gusta Constitutionalist. Extraordinary Discovery of Homan Skeletons. —Dr. Allmatt of Wallingford, lias written an account of some most interesting discoveries which have been recently made at Shooter’s hill, near Panghbourn, Berks, on the line of the Great Western Railway. Several human skeletons, in a high state of presevntion, having been disintered, which are the re mains of Roman soldiers, who fell in all probability during their sanguinary con flicts with the ancient Britons. Small sepulchral urns of rude workmanship, but elegant and classical devices, were in the graves, and upwards of forty Roman coins, of gold, silver and brass, of the reigns of Do.nitian, Constantine, Julian the Apostate, Constantiuus, Gracia..us, Liciuius, Lupicinius, the Proprietor, (who was invested with regal authority) and seve ral others. Spear-heads, battle axes, and spurs of British and Roman manufacture, were also found. Some of the graves contained consider able ...asses of charcoal, without bones, indicating that honours had been paid to the deceased warrior, and that his remains had been burnt previous to interment.— Some of the coins arc in good preservation, hut others are worn, cankered, and illegi ble. The hones are well preserved, hav ing laid in the dry gravel, about four feet from the surface, immediately overlying the chalk, and one of the skulls was heavi er and more consolidated than natural, owing probably to its being in the inci pient state of the process of petrifaction. Horrible, infliction of the Lash on a Marine by anew Instrument of Torture. —Another of those disgraceful and execra ble scenes took place recently at Wool wich, on the person of Alfred Edley a private in the royal marines. The poor “condemned” (for that is the tern, among the soldiery) human being, by an abhor rent law which stamps indelible infamy on the character of an enlightened age, and brands England with the stigma of barbarism, revolting to civilized Europe, was paraded about ten o’clock, to hear a sentence promulgated, which was to mutilate his frame, not to be effaced but by the decomposing process of the grave! lie had been guilty of the old crime of disposing of his “kit” or “necessaries,” to procure a few shillings to supply his wants, which he refused to explain, &c. for which, altho’ his own property, he was to receive one hundred lashes, or nine hundred stripes! The poor fellow strip ped without a murmur, and disdained to entreat mercy in a quarter where he might as well have attempted to drown the wind by his whistle; the scene of blood com menced under the auspices of the sur geon who is placed on the arena of this sanctioned atrocity, not to allay or miti gate the sufferings of the victims, but in sure the neck of him who has to carry out the demoralizing and accursed law into effect. The groans and writhings of the unhappy object could only be equalled by one enduring the scalping process of the tufted Cherokee; the quivering flesh yielded to the practised strokes of the brawny arms of tl.ose used to this work of blood and torture; the mutilated back presented one broad mass of lived flesh and clotted gore, which was still lacerat ed with renewed vigor, until the misera ble wretch had received the full quantum awarded.—But the “cats” with which he was punished have not passed unnoticed by the observations of those feelingly alive to this horrid mode of punishment. —lnstead of whip-cord, they are made of cotton close wove, with three over-hand knots.in each tail! and the plea for the adoption of this refinement of torture is, that the “cats” are less liable to clot with blood! and do not descend with such ponderous weight, thereby bruising, and endangering the culprit’s life: yet it is ad mitted they inflict more excruciating ag ony, by cutting to the quick! The poor fellow was conducted to the hospital, evi dently laboring under great exhaustion; and three others, Rowley, Hopkins, and Smith, for a similar offence, were march ed off to Colbath fields prison for differ ent terms of imprisonment, with a j»ortion of the period in solitary confinement. [Weekly (London) Despatch. Colton was quoted it Columbus, (Ga.) on the 31st ult. at 12 to 111-2 cents. | GALE AND FLOOD IN NEW YORK. | [From the N. Y. Jour, of Com. Jan. 26,11 P. M.J i Severe Gale. —One of the severest gales we have ever experienced, visited i this city on Saturday afternoon. The day previous the weather was mild, with a moderate breeze from the Eastward, , and indications of a storm. In the course j of the night, rain commenced failing, and the wind at this time got quite fresh, in clining to a gale.—This description of weather continued until about two o’clock P. M. on Saturday, when there wss a rap id increase in the uproar of the elements, and by three o’clock a regular gale was upon us, from SSE.—For an hour and a half there was a constant rush of wmd, at times its violence was terrific, i The dispersion of sign boards, the thrashing of window blinds and shutters, | the scattering of slates and otflicr appur tenances of buildings, Flic whistling of rigging, and the general roar of the tem | pest, were the first incidents to which public attention was directed;, but anoth er danger soon became apparent, in some respects more formidable than all the rest. The tide was rising rapidly, and, driven* forward by the wind, soon covered the wharves, and then invaded South street nearly the whole of which, including the side walk, was for some time under tl.e water, to the depth of one to three feet. Up Maiden Lane, Broad, Fulton, Beck man street, Peck Slip,&.c. the water reach ed Front street, and in some of them even passed beyond Water st. In all these streets we saw boats plying,—cotton bales, barrels, &lc. floating,—-and when the wa ter subsided, some hundred of tons, we should think, of thick ice from the har bor were left in the streets. A great ma ny cellars were filled with water, and the damage to goods must in the aggregate be very considerable. A number of buildings suffered more or less damage. The shipping at the wharves lay as qui et as could be expected. There was a gooJ deal of disturbance among them, but no bones broken, that we arc aware of. Several canal boats were driven up on the wharves and even into the middle of South street. We have great fears for vessels on the coast, as the gale drove directly on shore. [From the Southern Whig.] The main Trunk of the Georgia Rail Road is progressing with astonishing rap idity—the whole line appears like a bee hive. Those who wish a summer resi dence in the romantic Cherokee, will soon he gratified by a mode of conveyance that seems to suit the old and young, the grave and gay, the man of busineSs and of leisure. The locomotive monsters will soon be seen surpassing in speed the high mettled racer passing along mountain side and over deepest glen, bearing in their train the luxuries of distant lands, in exchange for which wc will return treasures from our mountains, and bread stuffs from our valleys. We will not then send to the Baltic for wheat or even to the New York Canal; nor will we send to Fulton Market for beef. The famous Coosawattee and other-bot tom lands, shall give us plenty and to spare; our sheep shall graze on the moun tains, and from the rocky cascade shall arise tl.e hum of industry the loom and shuttle and the thousands of spindles shall send a thrill to all within hearing.— Why then are hundreds talking of the West and of Texas? Millions of our fel low mortals would think this a paradise. Mail was not created for an idle being;— he that would be happy, must he industri ous and his mind employed. Let us ail re solve to do something, however small, — ’tis no longer a disgrace to work. Let one of us cultivate the Mul(»erry, another the Peach, and a third the Apple. Why should Georgia pay thousands of dollars for apples to the other States —that pro duce them on lands worth fifty dollars per acre, when we have better lands for orch ards selling at fifty cents per acre? Let us all resolve to be industrious for one year, and every thing about us will alter as if by magic. A Noble Dog. —The Boston states, that while a gentleman, his wife, child and dog, were walking near the Providence railroad, the child, unpcrcciv ed by its father, strayed upon the track. At that moment the train of cars was coming forward,at full speed when the dog jumped forward, seized the little trembler by tl.e waist, and brought him safe from the track; scarcely had he accomplished this feat, when the lumbering locomotive came puffing by. Butler Found Gui.ljy. —The trial of Thomas Butler, charged with murdering young White, at a house of ill fame in this city, a short time since, was brought to a close last evening, when the jury re- shortly returned with a verdict oigiUy of Murder in the second degree. The junishment of this crime is im prisonment in the Penitentiary for life. [Cincinnati Whig, Jan. 23. We cannot account for the rise in the price of leather. —[Lynn Recorder. We can. The leg-treasurers are using up shoe-leather so fast as to keep the mar ket in a state of almost complete exhaus tion.—[Louisville Journal. If a Whig were born in the sea, he would be agudgeon. —[Pennsylvania Dem ocrat. If a Shark wore born on land, he would be a Sub-Treasurer.—[Louisville Journal.