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[From the Columbus Enquirer.] AUGUSTA BANKS.. The course poVsued by the Attgnsta Banks, towards those of the interior, has lteyn sash as t» cripple them ia their op erations, embarrass the whole community by reducing the circulation, and produce great distress in the very middle of the business season, when money is usually most plenty. In consequence of n great portion of the merchants of the State making their notes payable at Augusta, it gives the banks of that place the control of touch of the circulation extant. If these institutions would pay out Hie notes ol other Banks so received, this would not be felt as an inconvenience, but under the present policy of running them home im mediately, it is not difficult to sec that our batiks must curtail their business, ns a matter of safety to themselves. The charges urged against the Augusta B inks, ore of a serious nature, and if true, will not add to their character for fair and legitimate transactions. It seems that, for the purpose of controlling as much of the Northern funds, nccumiilntcd by oilier banks, as possible, they refuse to pay out their notes and call upon them for frequent settlements. That if the banks, called up on will not redeem their notes with North ern checks, at such a rate as is prescribed, they propose to take notes of other banks at a half to one per cent discount, which if agreed to, they immediately present for redemption upon like terms. This is a sort of a shaving, brokering operation, dis graceful to any institution professing to do business in an honorable manner, and ru- inous to the interests of the people. It is understood that a proposition was made, that the notes of the banks in Georgia and South Carolina should ho received at aJI the banks in both States, and that a bank holding a balance after settlement, should receive interest, at a certain rate, for a reasonable time, if it itas not disposed to pay out their bills. This arrangement, so highly beneficial, not only to many of the banks in Georgia, but to her merchants generally, it is understood, failed in con sequence of the Augusta Banks refusing to enter into it, unless the rate of interest was made much higher than was proposed. The people have complained loudly of mo nopolies, aristocracy, Ac. and at one time tfe feared that the mania would end in a prostration of all banks, by making a sac rifice of them at the shrine of Benton’s mint-drop and hard-money humbug; and we extremely regret that the banks them selves should give cause for dissatisfaction, or make it necessary for our institutions in the interior to resort to a law of doubt ful constitutionality, for protection. It is due the whole community, that the Banks in Augusta should discontinue their present ruinous course, or satisfy the peo ple of its correctness. The Swartwout Defalcation.—Ac cording to Secretary Woodbury’s reports to Congres»ihe defalcation of the late col lector of this port amounted to a million and a quarter of dollars. Let us see how this sum compares with the salaries of the President of the United States from Gen eral Washington down to Mr. Van Buren. Gen. Washington was in I &onn non office S years and received ) 1 ~ ' John Adams, 4 years, 100,000 Tlios. Jefferson, 8 years, ‘200,000 James Madison, 8 do. 200,000 James Monroe, 8 do. 200,000 John Q. Adams, 4 years, 100,000 Andrew Jackson, 8 years, 200,000 M. Van Buren, 1 year to | 0 „ ...... March 4 1838, j ~° , UU Total, § 1,225,000 Here is the sum precisely equal to the salaries of the Presidents for forty-nine years, at sixty eight dollars a day. What a prodigious amount of money! Besides that, the collector was in office nine years, and his emoluments are stated to have been at the lowest estimate, §20,000 an nually-making an aggregate of §IBO,OOO. Add this sum to a million and a quarter, and it appears that Mr. Swartwout has re ceived from Uncle Sam the snug little a mount of ONE MILLION, FOUR HUN DRED AND FIVE THOUSAND DOL LARS, or a fraction over FOUR HUN DRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN DOL LARS A DAY FOR NINE YEARS!— Unele Sam must have an immense revenue to support his family. The bairn, it seems, was not disposed to make two bites of a cherry. Who would not be a Sub-Tres urer?—[N. Y. Sunday Morning News. Indians. —About 200 refugee Indians are said to be concealed in the hammocks ’.be caMe.in.arni of St. Andrew’s Bay, between 30 and 40 miles north of this place. A detachment of IT.l T . S. troops are in pursuit of them.—They have as yet committed no depredation and excite but little alarm in the neighborhood. collision occured be tween the Steamer Oconee ascending, and the Steamer Oceola going down, the river —about six miles above Apalachicola.— The boats came together with a crash— and we regret to aaj that it was attended by tlie loss of several lives. One man from the Oconee, and three we learn from the Oscebla were drowned. We have con versed with several passengers on the Oco nee, who says that tliere was no misman agement on the part of the officers of that boat, she being in her proper position and backing her engine at tlie time of the accident. The accident occurred about 10 o clock at night, and the Oceola is much damaged—the Oconee suffering but mile or no injury.—[St. Joseph Times. .5. Washington, Febi 9t Important and Acceptable News.— Commodore Bechamel, of the French arm ed steamer Veloce, arrived in this city oi Thursday evening from Baltimore, ac compnnied by Captain De Challie, hi: first officer. The Veloce arrived ai Baltimore on Tuesday in fvc days'f roir Havana. Tlie Commodore, when he em tered the Chesapeake, intended toproceed up the Potomac direct to Washington, but on ascending tlie river some thirty or forty miles, found his progress arrested by the ice, when lie put about and proceeded to Baltimore. But for this impediment we should have found a foreign-frigate prob ably anchored off' our navy yard, two hundred and fifty miles inland, before any one was aware that such a ship was on our coast. We state this fact in connection with the rapid passage of the Veloce from Havana, to mark the important revolution which has been, suddenly as it were, crea ted in navel operations by the all power ful agency of steam —a revolution which, bv placing Europe and America, practic ally, within half the distance which form erly separated them from each other more deeply affects our own country and its position in regard to foreign states than any other. By obliterating so much of tlie vast distance which separated us from the Eastern continent, it almost incorpor ates us in the family of European nations. It certainly imparts to us new relations, and imposes fresh duties; and it would ar guc more of madness that of thoughtless ness to disregard the lesson which it teaches us. We are happy to learn from a gentle man who accompanied the French officers from Baltimore, that hostilities have been J terminated between France and Mexico. I Through the intervention and mediation of Admiral Douglas, .commanding the British fleet on the Mexican coast, terms of accommodation have been mutually agreed on l»y the belligerents, and hostilities had ceased. The particulars will doubtless reach us before long. HIFLE SHOOTING. The New York Spirit of the Times remarks : A member of the Savannah (Ga.) Rifle Club is about to call and show us a spec imen or two of their rifle practice, that will, perhaps, “knock the hind sights off’” j the rifles of Gotham ! A member of the Savanfiuh Club lately made 10 successive shots, off hand, measuring 27 5-8 inches, ‘ and 20 successive shots measuring 01 5-8 inches, at their “usual (list nice,” which ! is 120 yards. He says in a note —“ 1 shall be in vour city in the course of two or three weeks, and will accept your challenge to bet you a basket of Cham pagne, that if II Aititi.vuTON visits Savan nah, he will he beaten at almost any dis tance, and in any manner and shape, save at a rest.” “Done,” say we, and if Lieut. Harrington cannot “put your eye out”— that is, your hulls eye—-we will call in Capt. P., of the same beautiful corps, or, if need be, bring up a corps de reserve in the veteran Col. A. 11. S., who “makes a perfect mash” of a swallow on the wing, at a hundred yards—more or less!! Abolition in If elate are. —The following brief but significant report was lately made in the Legislature of Delaware by Mr. Jones of Wilmington: “Mr. Jones on Friday presented the following report: “The committee to whom was referred the petition of 311) 'teamen of the eity of Wilmington and county of Nete Castle,’ praying for the ' abolition of slavery throughout this State,' beg leave to re port : “That they consider the petitioning of ‘ teomerf to our National and State Legis latures (which they regret'to see is be coming so general a practice) as deroga tory from that refinement and delicacy which should, under all circumstances, accompany the female character, and as an unwarranted interference in subjects that should more properly belong to their fathers, husbands, or brothers. “Your committee are also decidedly ol the opinion that the petitioners whose names are affixed to the memorial under consideration, would confer more real be nefit upon society, if they hereafter con j fined their attention to matters of a do mestic nature, and would be more solicit- I ous to mend the garments of their hus bands and children, than to patch the breaches of the laws and Constitution.’’ Latest from Ptru. —Letters have beer received at New York from Lima to Dec r:U. There had boen no lighting sinc< the date of our previous advices; but iht Chilian army appear XO‘ have* become a ware of their perilous situation, and or tfre approach of the army ofthe protecto General Santa Cruz, they (the Chilians evacuated Lima, and proceeded to tin North. There is no doubt that befon this time they have been compelled ti leave the country. Such has been, o w ill be, the issue of the invasion of Peri by the Chilians. The fireman’s Ball at the Park was i great affair—some 4 or 5000 present, am the decorations and tovpef ceil of such at immense throng, waltzing on the floorei stage or filling the tiers of boxes, had i most imposing effect. The Investigating Committee honored the occasion—thi only one we learn on which they have in termitted from their arduous labors tha occupy them incessantly night and day.— [N. Y. Star. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. FROM HAVANA. -1 The brig Audubon, from Havana, ar - rived here yesterday, having sailed on the i 20th. The Captain informed the Editor -of the Courier that intelligence had been s received at Havana, of the arrival of a t French fleet in the West Indiaseas with i ten thousand troops destined to att against ■ Mexico. The* fleet had been\ spoken I with off Martinique. About a week pre vious two English seventy-fours‘and two frigates arrived at Havana from Cruz. It was reported that the English Admiral ' expected to be joined immediately by a large fleet from England.—Thtre were many French vessels of war in the port of Havana, and scarcely a day passed with out the arrival or departure of some ; French vessel of war being announced. The presence of so many vessels made ev ery tiling high in the provision nlarket. — Perhaps good speculations might be made by the shipment of Western, produce. From the signs of the times, jt seems probable that there will be itnncnse ar i rnaments concentrating upon th« Gulf of | Mexico, for the sustenance of wYich vast 1 supplies will be required.—[N. O. Bulletin. Animal Magnetism. —The London Lancet, which has contained rjports of the wonderful experiments ini animal magnetism, by Dr. Elliotson, hits lately changed its tone in regard to the subject. The editor, in the number for Dfccember 1, thus speaks:— “Is it true that any physicians or sur geons of any of the Loudon Hospitals are insulting public decency and abusing tlie confidence which has been reposed in them by parents and guardians, by still practising animal magnetism on the sick and deluded patients ? If there be such a hospital—if there be such officers be longing to any establishment in London —the sooner the governors take serious notice of what is passing in their institu tion, the better will it he for the inter-* ests of the charity, and the reputation of the science of medicine in this country. I After the exposure, the extraordinary, but most complete and effective exposure j of the folly of believing in the reality of* animal magnetism—accomplished to the satisfaction of every sane spectator, at aj private residence in London—we had thought that the humbug would no longer be tolerated in any of our public institu- j timis. If, however, we arc correctly in formed as to what is passing, at least in . one of them, we have been deceived in this expectation. We have a duty to dis charge to the profession in this affair,! and it shall be executed to its fullest ex tent. The nuisance shall be attacked,i the humbug shall be pursued, milil.it is .thoroughly and finally abated. Our duet | object in writing this notice, is to solicit immediate information oinhe subject to which it relutcß. If there he such a hos pital as the one we have described, the medical school with which it is connect ed must be speedily and irreparably ruin ed, unless the immotal quackery be at ’ once put down by the governors, or other controlling body of- the institution, in which the heinous enormity against com | mon sense and female delicacy is perpe trated. Sincerely shall we rejoice to find that we have been misinformed by the rc \ ports question. Voyage of discovery. Yatching which belongs exclusively to the gentlemen of England, is about to be turned to other purposes than pleasure alone, by James Brooke, Esquire, who lias arrived in Hamoaze, in his schooner yatcli Royalist, of 142 tons. This gentleman is about to start on what may be termed a voyage ot discovery—to explore tlie Indian Arch ipelago. He proceeds to Borneo, calling on his way at tlie Cape of Good Hope and Singapore, where his researches are to commence, probably, subsequently ex amining some of the interesting grounds of tlie Pacific, returning to England by Cape Horn. It is the first instance of any gentleman devoting bis life and for tune to the attainment of geographical knowledge in those distant and danger ous seas, an'd the voyage of the Royalist yatcli will hand the name of her spirited owner down, deservedly, amongst those of our most enterprising circumnaviga tors. The voyage is expected to occupy about three years. She is armed with six guns, and carries twenty men, and is in every way prepared for the pirates of those seas. Mr. Brooke is a member of the Royal] Western Yacht Club. He leaves this port in a few days.—[Plymouth Herald. Ls'ieiUsr or M~sahd.<Shrcp.-^Q a® buck and tw: of «Kr, - aUahta have been imported, via Savannah and Augusta to this place. r l hose feeling an interest in the heretofore much neglected i science of Agriculture, and rearing do i mestic animals, particularly those intend ed for the table, have evinced tlie most lively interest in tlie welfare and success ofthe importation. Wm. Dearing, Esq., I has presented the proprietor 500 acres of land, in Rabun county, where they will be located.—[Athens Whig, 9th inst. Commodore A. J. Dallas has been ap pointed to the command of the Navy Yard at Pensacola, and will enter upon its duties as soon as relieved by Commo dore Shubrick, in the command of the West India squadron. Commodore J. M. Mclntosh will relieve Commander Latimer as second officer of that yard.— [Army and Navy Chronicle. Steamboat Casualty. —The steamboat J. Stone, Capt. MeodaJl, hence for Dari en, aboot six o’clock on yesterday morn ing described a steamboat, supposed to Be the Ocmulgee, Capt. Blankenship, 1 from Darien, for this port, ahead, and toH! the man at the helm to follow the star board marsh so as to . avoid her. The large bell of the J. Stone was rung so as ( to give notice to the persons on board the other > boat—the small bell rung to notify the engineer to proceed slowly, and Capt. Mcndail, then ran on to the wheel house and called to them to stop. The engineer of the J. Stone then stopped the boat, when the Ocmulgee ran into the J. S. and stove the larboard side, carried away 35 feet of the guard deck, stanchions, wheel, and side hwuses, which were all lost over board, broke wheel shaft and damaged the engine slightly, and sustained other damage. The Ocmulgee encountered some damage and subsequently towed the J. Stone to the city.—[Georgian. FnoM Mexico. The New Orleans Courier of Saturday evening states, that ail arrival at that city from Vera Cruz has brought accounts to the 24th of January. At that time, the city had few other inha bitants than the consuls of foreign nations with their families. The castle of San Juan de Ulloa was occupied by French troops. In the vicinity there were about 12 French and 6 English men-of-wnr. The French admiral exercised undisput ed authority. All vessels which had ar rived with cargoes from New Orleans, were about returning, without having been allowed to discharge. There was no news from the interior of Mexico, as all intercourse was prohibited. Grand Project. —Gov. Porter of Penn sylvania, in a message recently sent to the Legislature, recommends to them to take such measures as may be necessary to procure the location of a Railroad from ■ the city of Pittsburgh, through the States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, to St. Louis. 1 A letter writer says: “ Now if these Wes tern States should agree, in connection | with Pennsylvania, to locate a Railroad j between these two points, either by the funds of the different States, or of com | panics of private individuals, in connec tion with those States, it would make one j of the most splendid lines of internal im | provements in the world—a line of con tinuous railroad from the city of Philadel phia to the city of St. Louis; being per haps about one thousand miles. But be sides, it being a continuous railroad from , St. Louis to Philadelphia, it would also ; be a continuous railroad from the former place to Washington City; because there j is now a railroad from that place to Wash -1 uigton City, with the exception of twenty four miles, which will also soon be made, * or, in the other direction, it might be continued to New York and Boston.” The new ship Gen. Park hill, Capt. J. D. Wilson, arrived at St Marks on Friday the Ist inst. She is a beautiful vessel of l six hundred tons burthen, measures one hundred and thirty one feet on deck, thir 'ty feet beam, and twenty one feet hold, j and will carry two thousand bales of cot ton. We understand her cargo is ready for immediate shipment. We have before I stated that she is for a regular packet be tween this port and Liverpool. The ship Geneva, Capt. Hale, will clear to-morrow for Liverpool, with a cargo of sixteen hundred hales of Cotton. It is truly gratifying to every friend of a direct European trade, to w itness the in | terest manifested by our enterprising citi , zens, and the disposition to try at least the experiment with their own ressurces, instead of waiting for Legislative assist . ance. We believe the experiment cannot fail, at least so far ns our friends are con cerned. In other Southern ports the like l feeling prevails, and the time is not far dis tant, when we shall be able to rely alone j oil our own merchants for supplies, instead of an abject dependence on northern im i porters. —[Tallahasse Floridian. j Peat of a Somnambulist. —The Baltimore Sun tells of a chairmaker of that city who got up in the night, went to his shop ! and procured an adze, and thence mount ied the roof of his dwelling and entered | the chimney—giving it a thorough scrap ing from top to bottom. After which, he again ascended to the roof and cleansed his neighbor’s chimney in the same way. While occupied in this humane service, the watchman’s hourly cry awoke him, 'and in this perilous situation, making his predicament known, lie was fortunately ‘extricated with no other harm than a coat | of soot. Horrible Inhumanity. —The Haverhill (New Hampshire) Republican announces the fact that in the jail in that town there is n man sixty years old, who has been in carcerated eight years for debt, and for a considerable portion ofthe lime for prison charges only ! Such a fact is a disgrace to the state which permits such laws to remain upon her statute book, and a damning blot upon tlie character of the town, where the fact must be known. If the citizens were men of common na- I lures, they would set the old man free bv an immediate subscription, and denounce , his persecutors as unfit for human society ; —[N. Y. Sun. , . Spunk. —“Marnl, may’ntl go and play 'horse to-day?” • “No, child, you must stay in the house.” j Now, look here, marm, if you don’t let me, I'll go and catch the measles —I | know a big boy that’s got ’em prime ! We have been informed, verbally, of a melancholy occurrence which took place at Wiilingford on Sunday night, the 20th instant. Three young men were employ ed watching a coal-pit, near which, as is customary, a cabin was built to protect the workmen from the inclemency ofthe weath er. The young pien had retired into the cabin, which was well supplied with straw and it appears they also had a fire. From the account the young men gave, they must all have fallen asleep, and when they awoke they were completely envoloped in flames, and being somewhat bewildered, they could not readily discover the en trance to the cabin, but finally succeeded in getting out, though their clothes were entirely consumed, and their bodies and limbs literally roasted—in this horrid condition they were able to reach the house of Mr. Aldrich, the father of one of the young men, a distance of about half a mile, but in a situation not easily to be imagined. One of them died on Tuesday'following, another on Wednes day, and we have not learned whether the third survives or not. They were from 15 to 19 years of age.—[Rutland, Vt. Herald. Boundary Trespassers. —The editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, has infor mation from Bangor, Me., that an expe dition was on foot at that place which had caused considerable excitement. For the purpose of driving ofF, and arresting the trespassers on the public lands in the disputed Territory, whether'frotn one side |or the other of the boundary line, the Legislature_ k has authorized the employ ment of an adequate force, to be iinmedi i ately despatched on sleds, fully equipped | for the purpose, under the direction of the Sheriff for ihe County of Penobscot, Hastings Strickland, Esq. and the Land j Agent, Mr. Mclntyre. One hundred ! men were to be enlisted at Bangor and ! fifty at Oldtown, under Stover Rines of the latter place, as Captain. They are picked men, ail able bodied, and, it is said, are to receive a dollar a day. The State furnishes horses, sleds, arms, ammunition, &,c., and the expedition was to have been ready to start on Wednesday. Bomb Cannon. —Repeated experiments, under the inspection of scientific engi neers, have demonstrated the superiority of this new weapon invented by the French. It is said to possess as much superiority over the old shot and morter, as fire-arms do over the bow and arrow, or the spear ' and sword of ancient times. At the bom bardment of San Juan de Ulloa, the tcr i rible efficacy of this military engine, was satisf.ictorily'proved by the rapid demoli tion of that fortress, deemed impregna | ble to common artillery. Hereafter, the battery of a foot or vessel of war will not be deemed complete without the addition of a few bomb cannon to tlie usual arma ment. The Army and Navy Chronicle J urges upon our Government, with good j reason, the importance of granting to our i officers the opportunity of becoming practi ; cally acquainted with this gun. The re port was, that the steam ship Fulton would ! be furnished with four of these machines jas part of her equipment, and no doubt their general adoption and use through the . navy will follow.— [N. O. Bulletin. Excellent. —A correspondent sends jus the following/which occurred recent ly in a neighboring town. After service j a few Sabbaths since, a young lady, who 1 was a stranger in the place, accompany ing the Clergyman and liis consort home, requested him to give the young gentle men a lecture upon staring at the ladies during service. He at once replied, “in deed I will, Miss, and my[te.xt shall he, turn away thine eyes from beholding van ity.—[Morristown Jersevinan. i ’ Printer’s Fee Extra. —The Maumee : Express records, under Ithe appropriate head, the a couple, in that region, and adds:— Accompanying the above we record the Printer’s fee, in the shape of threeNublime loves of cake, and a bountiful link of splendid pork’semengw, full three feet in length; and then warn’t there finejtimes in this office, for the space of a short time? A citizen who was a moderate drinker, I was besought by?a temperance agent to affix his signature to an abstinence pledge. He declined—giving various rea sons: at last, however, lie finished by ob serving: “Well, I’m willing to subscribe a little to help you along —put me dozen for six months. | There is an Editor “down east,” that goes ahead of any thing we ever heard of. lle is not only his own “ compositor, pressman, and devil, but keeps a tavern, jis village school-master, captain in the | militia, mends his own boots and shoes, makes counterfeit Brandreth pills, peddles essences, and tin ware two days in the 1 week, and always reads sermons on the Sabbath, when the Minister happens to be out of the way. In addition to all this, he has a wife and sixteen children.” We thought we were a pretty smart fellow, but tliis Editor beats us “all hollow.” THE LAWYER'S SUIT. Say* Thoma*, “Harry, can you tell How lawyer* do, to dre»s so well?” Says Harry, “Yes, you may rely on’t, To get a sl it, they’ll strip a client." Says Edward, “No ! they closer nip him, 1 They first obtain the *ait—then strip him." New Orleans, Feb. 11. Important from Mexico. —We are in debted to a passenger on board ihe French ship Bordelars, Packet, No. 3, arqjved yesterday afternoon, from. Yera Cruz, (which port she left on the 28th ult.) for the following:— General Santa Anna has been appoint ed President of the Republic of Mexico; he is now residing in Mange de Clava.— Gen. Bustamente was organizing an army of 4000 Mexicans, to march against Gen. Urea, who is stationed with the Federal army at Tampico. A proclamation had been issued, ordering all the French resi dents in Mexico to quit the country before the sth of the present month,. All vessels, no matter what nation, were prohibited from discharging their cargoes in Vera Cruz. The city itself was almost totally deserted, there being only a few foreign ers, together with about 100 Mexican soldiers remaining there. All the ports of Mexico, without exception, are blocka ded; there were about from 16 to 20 En glish and French vessels of war off Vera Cruz, also the American sloop of war Levant. Scene at the Death or a Virginia Slave Owner. —The Richmond Enquir er introduces the following scene in an obituary notice of George E. Harrison, son-in-law of Mr. Ritchie, who was a wealthy planter: On Sunday last we saw the bed on whicli his remains were resting, surround ed by all his slaves-not the domestics of his house, who were all devoted to him, but Iby his field hands. They were dissolved i in tears and pouring forth their most pite ous wailings. Avery intelligent slave, in whose arms his master accidentally died, j and who spoke of it with an intensity of feeling which would have done honor to any man, was addressing his brethren in the most plaintive terms “Well may you weep—you have reason to weep.— You have lost not only your master, hut your friend and your father.” The in terment scene of the next day baffles any description which we could give of it.— The negroes of his own and his brother’s plantations, of both sexes and of all ages, flocked around the grave—all comfortably clad, in a snow storm. Tears, groans, all the manifestations of the utmost distress, were poured fourth over the closing gravu of their master. They bid him “good bye”—they called hirn their friend and their father. Mr. 11. has remembered them in the kindest terms in his will. It speaks of them by name—makes the most humane and liberal provisions for them specially— and enjoins his Executor to treat them all with every kindness, and points out the manner in which it was to be done.— He has bequeathed also §SOO to the Colo nization Society. Perhaps no man could so severely in flict the castigation reproof, as the Poet Burns. The following anecdote will illus trate this fact. One night at a tavern in Dtimlreys, the conversation turning on the death of a townsman, and the approach ing funeral, one of the company not cele brated for the purity of bis life, said to Burns, “I wish you to lend me your coat for the occasion, my own being rather out of repair.” “Having myself to attend the same funeral,” answering Burns. “I am sorry I cannot lend you my sables; but I recommend a most excellent substitute— throw your character over your shoulders —that will be the blackest coat you ever wore in your life-time. Eating. —Every animal eats as much ns it can procure and as much as it can hold. A cow eats but to sleep, and uleeps but to eat; and not content witheating all day long, “twice it slays the slain,” and cats its dinner o’er again. A whale swallows ten millions of living shrimps at a draught; a nursling canary bird eats its own bulk in a day, and a c<\Jerpillar eats five hun dred times its own weight, before he lies down to rise a butterfly. The mite and the maggot eat the very world in which they live; they nestle and build in their roast beef; and the hyena, for want of bet ter, eats himself. Yet a maggot has not the gout, and the whale is not subject to sciatica.—Nor does Captain Lyon inform us that an Esquimaux is troubled with the tooth-ache, dyspepsia, or hysterics, though he eats ten pounds of seal and drinks a gallon of oil at a meal, and though his meal last so long as his meat. But if eating is to produce diseases, which of all the nosolgy would be absent from the carcase of Capt. Cochrane’s Siberian friend, who eat forty pounds of meat, with twenty of rice porridge, at a sitting. .jft- A word to Youno Men.— How Often are we pained to see young men, after the business ofthe day is finished, loung ing about fashionableplaces of resort; when the hours they nightly devote to the pur suit of pleasure, as it is wrongly styled, might be so usefully occupied in the cul tivation of their minds. A young man has each night at least four hours before retiring to his rest, which he might oc cupy in reading and writing. Now say he goes into business at the age of twen ty, and remains unmarried for five years— he will then have for mental application, during this time, 7300 hours. What stores of knowledge might be acquired in this time! How much useful informa tion might he obtain! Even after he mar ries, his family duties will not detain him from an opportunity of instructing himself in literature or science.— [Lon. Lit. Reg.