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[From a late London Paper ] GRAND EIGIIT-OARED LITTER MATCH. The great contest between the gentle men of ilkj Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, which bus for some week' past engrossed the attention of the cog. nnsccnli, not only of the Universities and those generally attached to river sport-, but of sporting gentlemen of every grade, c.ime off yesterday, from Westminster to Putney, a distance which has been most judiciously selected as calculated to trv the lasting power of aspirants for fame in this vigorating sport. The- well-known qualities t»l the men, their youth, st.imiifn, and long-established game, had warranted the cu.iclttsiou that this would he the very nc plus ultra of rowing, nor were the most'sanguine disappointed in their ex pectations. Tills was not their first ap pearance, the same parties having before entered the lists, from which tiie Cantabs, it is said, through the superiority of their boat, came off victorious. Since that period the Cantabs have been twice in a wager from Westminster to Putney a gainst the great I.eandcr Club. In the first struggle, which was in I *37, Cam bridge plucked the laurel from their brow;: but in the contest of last season bet ween the same parties it was a succession of fouling from their nearing the llorselem until their arrival at Putney, which bridge the I.eamler went through first, and claim ed the honor of the day. The umpire, . Mr. Soarle, ho wever declared tins to he no match, and much dissatisfaction prevailed j amongst the thousands who had laid out money on the issue of the race. In this’ contest the auri sat ru fauns was cast on one side, the whole aim being to discover j which of tliotwo Universities could pro-! duco the best rowers. The Cambridge crew were the favor ites, simply, we believe, from the suppo sition ill it having rowed two matches on : the particular water appointed lor \ t r day, they would lie more tm fait at their work, and the odds of 5 to 1 were freely given and taken to the amount of thou-1 sands. The very (lower of each < 'ollegc boat had been selected on both li mils.— They had been tried and approved, and were the? very men lilted for a struggle in which for six miles they had to wo;k with almost breathless activity. The match Ind originally been appoint ed lor last Thursday; but by mutu and cm-' sent it was deferred until yesterday. I'm 1 some days past both crews have rowed the distance, and have been intently w itch- : cd in their movements* by sporting men So great had been the interest on this j ••oiliest that every long boat li id been eu-i gaged lor some days p Ist, and crack v*. a-, terincn could count two or three nr!j*- ments deep. On the first making of tin match, as we have stated, the odds were , 5 to 1 in favor ofCumhritl m; but they in creased in sonic circles to 7 to I, and li the time approached for startiu ;(5 r> I might be considered as tin? stand ud Id ting, as the weather was most unprojutious; j but the interest was so extraordinary tint there were but few wh > gave the weather j a moment’s consideration. At two o'clock the “note of prepara tion” sounded, and as the tide increased towards high water, the respective club galleys turned out from the causeways of Soarle, Lyons, Roberts, Chandler, A t\: and moved towards the starting-place, t!i.• wind blowing fearfully from the north-east. At half-past four the combat nils made their appearance. The attendance on shore was the most extraordinary we ever witnessed. Wcst-j minster Bridge, the Bislmp's-walk, .Mil-! bank, Vau.xhall, and Putney Bridge pre sented one solid mass ofspeetators, anxious to obtain even a glance of the gentlemen. Putney Bridge beggared all description. An old inhabitant of the town of Fulham declared that lie had never witnessed such j ail animated sight. From tile Middlesex' to the Surry side at as early an hour as four o'clock there were dozens of fashion ably-attired persons and at the time the j contending crews came in sight, the bridge j .was absolutely impassable. The barouch es and carriages filled with ladies were two abreast, and, on a moderate calculation,! there might have been one hundred and lifty horsemen. At twenty minutes to five! o’clock the gentlemen were at their sta tion-, and a liner set of men for such ail ’ arduous undertaking were never seen.— They looked in the best condition. The I Cambridge gentlemen went to the outside station, as it is termed, at the pier of Wot minster Bridge, the Oxford gentlemen having won the inside and best position When the signal was given they took it ad mirably, and for the first four or live! strokes appeared to do nothing: but their “p*te4, when the v)’»v 'was well on was.won der lul. They were stroke and stroke un til they neared tlie Ilorscfcrrv. where Cambridge showed a slight lead. Their antagonists disputed the advantage with all the strength they could muster, but in vain. Oil the Penitentiary the Cambridge tntti had increased-their advantage, and went in advance through Yauxliali Bridge, j In eacli succeeding mile the difference of their strength and style was more inani-i test. ’Pile Cambridge gentlemen arrived! first through Putney Bridge, amidst deafen- j ing shouts, one minute and twenty sec vuids in advance of their opponents. The distance was done by the winners! in thirty-one minutes and a half; the los ers had a slow stroke, but that of the win ners was like lightning, although at first 6ig!it they appeared under-boated. I or some years past the Hotel named j below has been the choice of many Geor i gims visiting New York. W e are pleased to sec it puffed so neat ly. [Ed. Adv. Washinctox Hotel Broadway.—A ! few days ago vve had a talk with a gentle | in in who lived, during the pad winter, at the Washington Hotel, though he lias rc icently gone into the country. “I want you, Mr. 13 , to say something handsome about the Washington Motel.’ "You do?—a pull" you mean, 1 sup ipose.” I “Ye«, a puff—a calm, sober puff, as 1 you call it, of its merits for they are rare and numerous.” i '“Well, my dear sir, puffs cost some thing, Ibr paper, type, labor, are not pick led up in the streets, like bad characters. As my countrymen say “wir.it will you -give'” “I'll give yon five dollars for a good one.” “Give me five dollars!” said I in aston ishment—“a boarder leaving a Hotel of fer live dollars to a popular paper to put in a puli'! Win inv deir sir, you bewil der me—the tiling is a phenomenon.” “Whit do you mean by a phenome non.” •‘I am astonish al that there is a Hotel in New \ urlv tor which a hoarder, on leaving it, would give a cent to praise it. It is a phenomenon. There are dozens who would give live or ten dollars a piece to blow up Hotels, lull 1 never found one uililllg to ne a cent lor praising the pi ICO they lilt. 1 was ojieled the other diy il 1 would pool.'h a certain eipiiv ueal Iran uli ui ol the .'-lor li mse.” “Well, that inn be- bet ! run assure van tli it tiie Vv a •hing'un i itej deserves all I say.” “Say not another word. A gentleman who, on leaving a Hotel in New \ork, is whiling to g.-c live i! .dais for the inser tion ol a publication oil ns merits, that I ml is i|mo Milli.iieut evidence o! its rare merits.” And here-tin; C'luvcr- itioii ended lull not w itliont sail -i\ ing n.: a .1 ihe Washing ton II olel 111 Ist hav e ■ lai aa'.'j; nr mil it . lint \et known to die • o’.a ■ 'J ne o a:le 111.in and ill • family It-n ■ no-.v g-ei“ to liieir ■ country lions;*, and thus h it a lew u - ni nes to those who w i-ii a eo.ii loi t line h ib it'itmn capital moms— mil beds—and excellent attend an ;.*.— .V v \ urh Her ald. Tin* fi!ln w mg rem ; i!. ■ n.l a* ive to A - rieati Securities are* iVom the London a 1 (ruing ( dirontcle: •M.mv per-on; who are iiirtcquaiiitcJ with tiie manner in whieii Amn :an se curities are held in this country, have ex pressed surprise that n»> material thairecui tum in their vaiue has occurred since the proceedings of the Governor of .Maine, vv:*h re-pft to' tiie lioundary qurdinu, li re in ;de know n. Tills arises entirety limit tlieir lieiiig no sj eculatiou in them, and the purchases, wdvnevcr t’ • \ are made, !nueg ,'coin investnien!-', vv:!h a view of obi ntiiii * a bet!* r rate ol interest than they can g t at home; and therefore, as iotig a- tin* dividends are regul irly paid, there will he none <*! those violent .!actu ation.- which so often take place m the stocks which arc extensive*'. specn!.,h il in at t in* Sliidi •! veh.itige, w here tile sli ditest event i- take.: advantage of by one party or another to produce an effect o:t the jMici The I: .lilcr.i of American stocks eviilentlv apprehend nothing vary scrims from the < .*cure:::*es in M ;me, for, as we stated I lie dav I n lore vcsicrd.iv, there hav e been scarcely any sales since we were in possession of tin: news o:i this snlijeei.— Great misconception also prevails as to the amount of tin* debts ol the ditlermit States of the American 1.1110:1 and the ex lent of the stock*held here, which il will perhaps, be important to remove at this moment. It has been repeatedly stated that these debts exceed lit the aggregate the amount of the American national debt previous to its liquidation, but it will be found, bv reference to any statistical work on America, that i:i IS 16 the national debt was at its height, being then *127,- 709,003, or about 25,530,00 U/.; and the debt of the different States collectively now amount to •*?I 20,530,001), or about 1 1,1 10.009/. In islti, moreover, the pop ulation of the Ftiiled States was only S.OdO.f!. but now it is estimated at up wards of 10,000,000, winch necessa rily makes a very material differencu* in the ratio of the present debt as com pared with the national debt ol that period: w Inle in IM<> the production of cotton was under 53J,(j0i> bales, vvh-reas m ISJ] tiie crop exceeded l.ti Off' b dcs, being in value about 15.05'9,- Oil'd ’. sterling. In 15:57 the national debt was tiuallv paid off, and tlien lore it is 011- ly fair to argue tint if tli," I ;i:ted States could exliugtii-h 25,000,000/. in 10 years, her growth in wealth and population since that period ought to be a guarantee tor the loncs subsequently raised by tlie indi vidual States. The national debt was in curred for the expense of war, and was a dead loss to the country; but the money borrowed by tbe individual states is for productive purposes, such as canals, rail roads, banks, &,c., the revenues of which are specially pledged, in addition to the faith and general resources of the States.— These are facts from which the public can draw their own conclusions. All the different States do not, however, it must be borne in mind, present the same solid security, but the investments in this country have chiefly been in the BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. better descriptions. As regards the sale of American securities, it must also be re collected that the United States are noto riously good customers of this country, their imports from Europe even now very 1 considerably exceeding the value of tlieir exports, and the balance principally is paid for through the sale here, in Holland, France, iAc, of tlieir public stocks; so that we have an interest, in fact in the successful introduction of American secu rities into the European markets, and tins is a pomt well understood in our manufac turing districts, where these stocks are held m large amounts. All, however, w inch we shall venture to recommend is, that the public should examine into the character and object for w hich each of tiiesc State stocks respectively have been creat ed, and not allow themselves to be alarm ed or led away by statements which con stantly appear without any foundation whatever. Os the Si” 0,700,000, the present debt of the American Union col lectively, >75,000,000 is the proportion stated as set apart for internal improve ment, about £‘10,000,000 for banking, and the remainder for miscellaneous ob jects. The debt of these States, as com pared with the population, is about seven dollars, or about a guinea and a half, to each individual. To make the matter more easily understood, however, as re gards the debt, vve have formed the ac companying statement to show tho amount of tiie liability of each State, and the ex tent held m this country. It is taken chiefly from the reports of the Account ant General and other public documents, and does not include the amount of pub lic Mocks, sh ires, Ac.: but in specifying the .sums held in England vve include the stocks placed here as securities for loans, a Inch.are to some extent. The whole or greater p irt of'the Kentucky and Tennes s <: debts we believe, is so deposited, al though we have reckoned them amongst the quantity h* Id as investments. The a moiiut in England, it will be seen, is a •bout I 1.003,000/. sterling, or rather more than half tiie w hole debt st ati'.s. I Five per Cents. ;Six per Cents.' i -itat.. H**hl in f.ug. Pennsylvania. | ,-gU-F .m:* ' | Near: Ter jt!-l,>w.u?'Oj .0 L 1 : :s .- till. 19.225.e' £0 ! o.nui ■ I '' -T: *.r> )“ '.* .<••!«.<<' 1 N-'V.' \ -rk, v.O‘,7 .(:"■/ A-i-.hg i .Fa;.!.'” " o,no| .*’:: >; I.fnti.uo.i Alaa a; 1.1, 1■ ■ ,-o.t.re' 1 ' ] • 1 .- a '.il; in •» g.! :.1 • '], t ■ at. 1 ae 1 Maryland, ! 7 . ft.;'-gA.noi»; s.-’. i-J.'.i-u 1.7; eg.:” t>! I ,**»UM»«*-> Dili ». 1 ... 5..* Je.eiM* li.l . o -‘ I ,'.'g 1 | ].' ' Mi.-.- .ssite.i. ' r, On' ->S, (ic/iv: 7 .• 1.i0e.-" , t.on.ili U Mais:: .-in!.,, -Its. ; -1 .0 il -l.'-’ It * f 1 I -3• j M ■.: . ! I-o.v7i. (g.O,;* ! 7s •• ! -'a m» * Vr■;n. l. . !-”,V'i|n' ci . 1 4.1'.' ‘.7nu •• •' in' 1 ! , S o' :t'.ir kna. -I.7' u.'mu. I• .7. .!.77'» •• I.■' eij.... v, |, - - < 7. *•« fi g.' tiu In 1 ~ !"o.e o . 1 .- .1 ' * I.’ -7 a ! •) [Fro ■: 1!„. M'lXlg-.dle !>••<• -rder.] We li.ivc barely room to refer the friends of Stale K ighis to tin; proceedings of the Gubernatorial ( '(invention. The friend* of our principles must have felt high grati fication to witness the cordial Incline .and harmonious action of this great body of their parly —a larger assemblage we pre sume, titan lias ever before met in Geor gia, for a similar object. It seemed to be the desire of all, to con tinue in bis present position, the honest patriot and cllicirnt and independent offic er, who has tilled the Kxecutive (.’hair of Georgia for the last two years, so much to the honor and interest of the State; and but one feeling of regret, on his declining a re-nomination. The resolutions on tins subject adopted by the Convention, are eipially appropriate anil just. (>f the gentlemen principally before the public eye for nomination, Col. Lamar having some tune since declined, and it being known to the friends of Mr. Daw son, that he desired to do so, which at the tirst appropriate opportunity heinadopnb liclv known to the Convention, Mr. Dougherlv being absent, and therefore un able to put lus veto upon the w ishes of the Convention, the triends o! all were en abled eordiailv to unite in a nomination alike creditable to the party, and carrying null it so imoiw w-e.ighl with the people. All we have now to perlorm is, to do our dutv at the polls, vote in our strength, and all will be well. The disregard for oilice generally by the members of our partv, and signally ex hibited in the present instance, by many of our prominent men, must convince our political adversaries, that in our contest with them, our objects arc of far higher importance than the mere distinctions of ollice—that in subserving the true interests of the country, our party feel that they have obtained their highest reward. Coiu'onr.AL l’i nisiiment in the U. S. Aiimv. —Two U. S. soldiers, convicted of desertion, at Detroit, received 50 lash es apiece, had their heads shaved and their bodies branded, and were then drum med out of the garrison. | From the New York American.] In our shipping arrival we have to no tice the entry of the first vessel (the Ve rein, Capt. Lange.) that ever approached our shores direct from Cologne, in Prus sia. It may be interesting to our readers, to take some notice, not only of this first arrival, but to give a short account of the port from which she has arrived. “The town of Cologne used to be In former times (300 years ago) a place of very great trade, for which its seat in the midst of a rich and fertile country, and its beautiful situation on the left bank of that splendid river, the Rhine, well quali fied it. Subsequently, the trade fell into utter decay; but still the people retained tlieir spirit of enterprise, without the means of going into it, owing to the misrule of the various bad governments which they had. This spirit of enterprise has not on ly retained itself through all the bad times but likewise a feeling of characteristic na tionality, and .>certain pride of tlieir an cient town of Cologne, so reputed even in the time of the Romans, still cliegshed. j “Within these last twenty years, and I since peace has been re established, the town has by degrees begun to flourish, I trade lias become active, ami with it the I old spirit of enterprise is revived again; the River is covered with steamboats, and other vessels—the steamboats go as far as Basle into Switzerland, and belong to a company at Cologne. A Company lias also sprung up for making a Railroad, w i;li a view to connect Cologne with Ant werp, and this Railroad is now making. Tims Companies are starting in all direc tions, and amongst them is one for a direct Sea Navigation Company. “Independently of a wish to raise tlieir ancient and cherished town again to some! 'eminence, by establishing a direct inter course with countries beyond the seas, ■ , there were more substantial reasons which induced a Company to propose forming a direct intercourse—the Dutch (Rotter dam, Amsterdam, and also the port of Antwerp) medium to which it is necessa ry to have recourse, in want of a direct : communication; and the great expenses with which it is attended, would be entire ly avoided. “Cologne lies in the? Prussian lliieti i>!i province, and is under the dominion ol the King of Prussia, and by an net of the Congress of Vienna, the river Rhine is open and free to all the vessels of the boundary States, and consequently a ves sel may go down all the way into the sea and cross the Atlantic with her cargo without any difficulty. Tims the princi pal object w hich the Rhenish Sea Naviga tion Company had in view when it formed itself was to open a direct sea navigation, and to avoid the unloading and reloading at an intermediate port ami the great ex penses attendant thereon.” \\ e understand this vessel will imme diately return with a full cargo, being the first that was ever shipped from hence di rect to Cologne, and will keep up a con tinuous intercourse. (iniirt’i of 'roirns along the f.tilers. — History, we believe, furnishes nothing comparable to the growth of the towns along the shores of our American Lakes; embracing an extent of 5,000 miles, w hich is more than the coast of all the Atlantic States, including the Gulf of Mexico. It will be seen by the following table, from the Cleveland Herald, that the population has quadrupled within eii'lit years, since AST'. Population. Towns. I>3o. I s;SS. Buffalo, S,tis3 ”0,000 Erie, 13,500 < ’lev eland, 1,071i S, 100 S.mdtiskv Cilv, 100 1,500 Lower Sandusky, 351 1,500 Perrysburg, IS” 1,000 Maumee, ”50 ”,000 Toledo, 30 ”.000 Detroit, 6,500 Monroe, 500 3,500 Chicago, 100 5,000 Milwaukee, ”9 3,500 Michigan City, 10 1,001? Newburyport, 10 1,580 Navarino, 100 I*soo Huron, 10 1,500 Dunkirk, 50 1,500 15,383 66,000 There are some thirty towns on these shores not named above, most of which commenced tlieir existence since 1830, and which if included, would of course show a greater ratio of iucrejjjp. Thus it appears that our town population lias more than quadrupled within eight years. Business has increased in a still greater ratio. In 1830, the number of vessels which cleared at the port of Cleveland, with cargoes, vvaso*27; in 1838, it was 3,- f>”B, being nearly times in numbes, and more than twenty times in tonnage. The value of exports in 1830, was 8377- 107, and in* 1838, the value of those ex ports that arrived by the canal exceeded five millions of dollars. The value of im ports in 1830, was estimated at less than one million, and in 1838 at over nine mil lions. It is probable that Cleveland ex ported, in addition to that received by the canal, to the value of near a million. Tims that single port must have sent abroad, of the produce of Ohio, about six millions of dollars in value. Spungers.—There are too many gen tlemen paupers at the present day—gen ! tletnen who do nothing—who are tnain itained by the pjblic—by their relations— or by their wives. They are great nui ; sauces. —[Picayune. Crime and it? Wages. —The follow ing account of the sentence of Dr. Chaun- ' coy, in Philadelphia, is from the Evening Star. Ilis participation in the death of Eliza Sowers, will be recollected. An affecting scene occurred on Mon day, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, i Tbe spacious room was crowded to ex cess; and tbe solemnity of the bench, con sulting upon some topic of judgment, in dicated that they were about to execute an important and unpleasant duty. In the midst of the concourse of lawyers and gentlemen within the bar, sat an elderly man, about 50, of genteel appearance.; He was about to be sentenced to an ig nominious punishment. Ilis face inti mated to the observer, that recollections of his home, and his large family, were darkly and deeply penciling an additional agony in his heart. * He was a man of classical education, and that always refines the feelings; but he was induced to enter upon the delicate! and dangerous businesaF of dealing with I ! life and death, and he realized that the; brilliant scholar was incapable of catching! the healing art hy intuition. A young \ and erring girl fell by his band, and the law called it murder; bis plea of profes sional duty, and of tender care for her reputation availed not; he had done an! unlawful act, and the inflexible comment ary of the law gave to the act the aspect of the highest penal offence. The Court; by its organ, the president, directed the prisoner to stand up. He evidently made the effort—and again, and again, to obey the direction, blit failed; bis agitated frame became palsied. He was overheard to say to bis counsel beside him. “For God’s sake, save me from this ceremony.” But the ancient; formality of the law must lie complied with. A violent effort brought him to liis feet; p;Jc, haggard, and staggering, the lineaments of his face speaking the lan guage that imprisonment, misery, and dis grace among men impress upon the most hardened; the Judge impressivciv prefac- • ed a short address to the sentence—he spar cd the unhappy man an oration of dag gers; the judicial fiat was spoken—he fell upon his seat, unmanned: his tears and sobs broke out audibly. lie is now in solitary confinement, at labor; in a cell of the Francisville jail; and five long years his earthly career is as it were, suspended. Wild WOl I.!> BE A C'ttlM'NAl.. The twenty-third anniversary of the American Bible Society was held at New York, on the 7th inst. The lion. John Cotton Smith, of Connecticut, the Presi dent, presided, assisted by numerous Vice Presidents. It appears from the annual report of the treasurer,' that the receipts during the year were 95,126 dollars ti” cents, and the expenditures 98,21)5 dol lar? cents. The increase of auxiliaries since the last anniversary is twenty four. Among the legacies reported was one of a thousand pound sterling, bequeathed by! Janies Douglass, Esq. of Cavers, Scotland. "Flio calls for supplies of the holy scrip tures in various parts of the world, amount to 50,000 dollars: many of them are so urgent that the hoard had made grants in anticipation of the receipts to the amount of 33,000 dollars, and as there is less than one-fourth of this sum received into the treasury, the hoard recommend the friends of the society to take early measures to supply the deficiency of 35,000 dollars, as well as to supply the treasury with funds to commence a second supply of the scrip tures to the destitute in the United States. ! During the last year 131,937 copies were issued; wliole number 2,588,-235, printed in seventeen different languages. The annual meeting of the American! Tract Society was held at New York on the day previous at the Broadway Taber nacle. The receipts during the year a (mount to 131.295 dollars 40 cents, ex ceeding those of 1837 by more titan 25,- 000 dollars. The exercises were of a ve ry interesting character, many addresses being delivered by reverend gentlemen of New York and Philadelphia.—[Augusta ’.Constitutionalist. Nicely Caught. The New York I American says: “We have more titan j once given our opinion, that the sending j of anonymous anil abmuve notes or letters ; with the intention of giving annoyance, is about the meanest business in which a creature calling itself a man can he em ployed; and there is no small villainy which vve more delight to see detected and punished. A dabbler in this petty ; ware has been found out by the editor of j the United States Gazette, and is to be ! exposed.” We presume that we have an equal : share of these interesting missives, with our contemporaries,—but vve notice one fact respecting them, which seems invari ! able. They are never written or spelled ; correctly, and the senders of them have often been deprived of one advantage by being anonymous,—since, had vve known them, we should have infallibly sent them j a teaclter of English, free of charge. [Pliila. Gazette. Anew vegetable has been introduced in London which bids fair to outdo the Chinese corn, Morus Multicaulis, Rohan 1 potatoc, and cotton seed at fifty cents a i kernel. It is a species of clover from j Bukhara, which grows to the height of ten or twelve feet, can be cut every month and multiplies at the rate of 300,000 | seeds. ! The price of “Liberty is eternal vigil ance!” as the debtor said when tlie con | stable was “following in his footseps.” LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, Transmitting a statement of Expenditure, ex clusive of the Public Debt, for each year, from 182* to 1838. Treasury Department, June 27,1838. Sir: In obedience to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 25thj instant, I have the honor to “lay House a. statement showing the amount ot expenditure, exclusive of the public debt, for each year, from 1824 to 1838.” I am, very respectfully, your obedient ser \ ant, . LEVI WOODBURY, Secretary of the Treasury. lion. J. lx. Polk, Speaker oj Ho. of Peps. Stall ment showing the amount of expenditures of the United States, errhisiv* of the jrublic debt, for melt year, from 1824 4(t||B37 inclu sive, staled in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Representatives of the ‘2sth June , 1:C8. For the year 1824, §>'15,330,144-71 l)o 1825, 11,490,159-94 Do 1820, 13,002,3! 0-27 Do 1827, 12,053,095-05 Do 1828, 13,290,011-15 Do 1829, 12,600,100-02 De 1830, 13,229,533-33 Do 1831, 13,801,007-90 Do 1832, 1(5,510.388-77 Do 1833, 22513.7.75-1! Do 1 >34, 18,425,117-25 Do. 1835, 18,51 1,950-28 Do 1830, 38,808,1(54-04 Do 1837, '39,1(54,745-37 Note. —The above sums include payments for trust funds and indemnities, which, in 18-57 was £5,610.404 30. T. L. SMITH, Register. TREAS*DRY DePAItT.'IE. NT, Register’s tlljicc June 27, 18-38. 1 his sum is subject to s nail variations on the settlement of the accounts of the Treas urer. [The expenditures for the three first quar ters of h-38 (according to the Annual Report ol the Secretary of the Treasury made to Con gress, December, 1838.) amounted t0£28,427,- 218.— fv.it. lute!!. [From the Red Lander, Sap Augustine, March The Cross Timber is a continuous se ries of lor,"sts, extending from the woody region at the sources of the Trinity, in u direct line north, across the interminable prairies of northern Texas, ami the Ozark territory to the southern hunk of the Ar kansas river. This belt of timber varies in width from five to fil'tv miles. Between the Trinity audited river it is generally from five to nine miles wide, andis so remarkably straight and regular, that it appears to be a work of art. When viewed from the adjoin ing prairies on the cast or west it appears in the distance like an immense wall of woods stretching from south to north in a straight line, the extremities of which arc lost in the horizon. There appears to he no peculiarity in the surface oftiiq, ground over which the Cross Timber pass es, to distinguish it from the surface of the adjoining country; but where the country is level the region traversed by tlie Cross Timber is level; where it is undulating, and where it is hilly, that also is uneven, conforming in every respect to the gener al features of the adjoining country. The tress composing these forests are not dis tinguishable by any peculiarity from those which are occasionally found in the ad joining prairies,or intlio bottoms bordering the streams which intersect the Cross Timber. Oak, hickory, elm, white oak, post oak, holly, and other trees are found tit it. The elm is often found in it, grow ing luxuriantly far from any stream, and in apparently poor and sandy soil. Tim black jack, a species of oak, is found throughout its whole extent from the Ar kansas to the “Black Jack Ridge,” at the sources of the Trinity. The Cross Timber in its general di rection does not perceptibly vary from the true meridian. Dr. Irion inform ed us, that a few years since, he accom panied a party of surveyors, who measur ed a line extending 40 miles due south, from the bank of Red river, near the Cross Timber; and found to tlieir surprise that the western border of the Cross Tim ber continued parallel with this line through tiie whole distance. As might naturally be supposed, the Cross Timber forms the great landmark of the western prairies; and the Indians, and hunters, when describing tlieir route across the country, in their various ex peditions, refer to the Cross Timber, as the navigators of Europe refer to the meredian of Greenwich. If they wish to furnish a sketch of the route taken in any expedition, they first drew a line repre seining the Cross Timber, and anotlie representing the route taken, intersecting tiie former. Thus a simple but correct map of the portion of country traversed in the expedition, is at once presented to view. The remarkable uniformity which char acterizes the Cross Timber, and its ap parently artificial arrangement, under a particular meredian, has induced some ! persons to believe that it is a work of art, and owes its origin to the unknown race of men who have erected the mounds and | ancient fortifications of the Mississippi | valley. We can hardly imagine, however, for what useful purpose it could have been intended, unless as a land-mark to distinguish the boundary between two na tions. But whether it is the work of art ;or of nature, will probably never be de termined.—The lines of civilization are rapidly extending towards it, and soon the scrutiny of science will be forever [checked by the destroying axe ofthepi ! oneer. A Mississippi Editor puts sheriff's sales . under the head ol “awful occurrences.”