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would assign bef, by sensuality or by contempt;
admired,Ml not respected; desired but not es
teemed; ruling'by fashion, not by affection; im
parting her weakness,' not her constancy, to
the sex which she should exalt; the source and
the mirror of vanity.” “We see her ns a wife
partaking the cares, and cheering the anxiety
of a husband; dividing his labors by Iter do
mestic diligence, spreading cheerfulness around
her; for his sake sharing in the decent refine
ments of,die world, without being vain of them;
•placing all her pride, all her joy, nil her hap
piness in (he merited approbation of the man
she honors. As a mother, wo find her the af
fectionate, tha ardent instructress of the chil
dren she has tended from their infancy—train
ing them up to thought and virtue, to medita
tion and benevolence, addressing them as ra
tional beings, and preparing them to be men
and women in their turn.”
REMAINS OF THE DELUGE IN OHIO.
Tho follow’trg is an extract from an article
in a recent number of Silliman’s Journal of Sci
ence. It is from tho pen of Caleb Atwater,
Esq. of Olfo:
These are so numerous in this state, that it
will not be expected that I should do more in
this article jhnn mention a few of them, and
the places where they are found. If one tree
furnished Mr. Schoolcraft matter for an inter
esting and valuable memoir, how shall 1 con
dense my remarks, so as even to refer to tho
great number of similar facts existing in Ohio]
In the vicinity of the Ohio river, in the coun
ties of Washington, Meigs, Gallia and Law
rcncc, ami on the waters of the Muskingum, in
Muskingum and Perry counties, I have care
fully examined not a few of tho fossil trees,
there existing. Among them I noticed the
following, via: Black oak, .black walnut, syca'
more or button wood, white liirch, sugar rna
pie, (acer saccharinum,) tho date tree or bread
fruit tree, cocoa-nut bearing palm, the bamboo,
the dogwood, and I have in my possession, the
perfect impression of tho cassia and the tea leaf!
Of ferns I have beautiful impressions of the
leaves, and of the bread fiuit treo flowers, ful
ly expanded; fresh and entire! I have speci
mens of so pe.foct, and faithful to nature, as to
dispel all doubts as to what they once were.
The larger trees mo found mostly in sand
stone, although the bark of the date tree, much
flattened, I ought to say perfectly so, is found
in shale, covering coal. I am aware that a
mere catalogue of fossil trees, shrubs and plants,
is not very interesting—that the Geologist
wishes to know among many particulars, in
what formation they exist, and the exact spot
wiiore they are found. I am in possession of
all the particulars. Every stratum from the
an. face downwards, has been carefully measur
ed, in some places, .to tho depth of 400 feot,
and I have correct diagrams.* The date is a
large tree, not very tall, and having numerous
and wide spreading branches. . - <
Nino nnle3westof Zanesville, lying on the
brink of Jonathan’s creek, and near tho road
leading to Somerset, Lancaster and Circleville,
is the body of n bread fruit tree, now turned to.
8uiidstoue, as M. Brogniart found the tropical
p! trtts’imbodded in France, mentioned in a for
mer numbor of this Journnl. It contains a con
siderable quantity of mica in its composition.
The c.issia was found in such sandstone in the
Zanesville canal; The bamboo is mostly im
pressed upou iron stone, at Zanesville; espe
cially tho toots and the trunks and leaves, are
found in rajo«oeous sandstone. The iron stone
is sometimes ai _ _
tlto leaves of fern, am
mado of bamboo leaves,
bamboo rants. It hap
pens frequently, that tlio. trunks of small trees
and plants are flattened by pressure, and the
bark of them pnrtiplly turned into fossil coal,
Thus thft shale, bftener contains a hark, how
become fossil coal, aud n stratum of shale in
sutccssidn, for several inches in thickness.
'Before I Itfave : Zanesville, I wish to ninko a
passing remark or. two, on the subject of find
ing the fossilremains of tropical plants here.—
Tbo dato, tUO bamboo,' tho cocoa-nut bearing
palm, tho cassia, the tea plant, &c.‘nro found at
**iis day only in tropical'regions, or in n cli-
ito where there ii very little frost. At Zanes-
this
m
ville, so sovero is the winter at present, that
the mercury sinks several degrees below zero.
Two questions naturally, present themselves
to ihe mind—has our climate become coldor
than farmorly? or havo tho tropical plants
changed their nature? * It is known. that
several tropical plants have by degrees been
removed, farther and farther to tho north, and
at length become naturalized to a northern
climate, I refer particularly to palm a christi.
But whore is the plant which has been driven
from our latitude to Cuba? I know of (tone.
II ts the climate of the world generally become
colder, then? I say gonorully, for somo coun
tries probably have. Some writers suppose
that the dimato of England Ins changed in tills
manner. We havo good evidence that during
eighteen hundred years past, the climate of
Romo and Palestine have undergone d great
change, as the writings of Horace, Virgil, and
others of the Augustan age, clearly evince:
"Vides, at sits itet nivc csnditlum
Soncte; nec jam suM'mosnt onus
Silvas Isborantes; gchtque,
Flumina, constiterut acutot
Dissolve trigus, ligna euper'foco
Large repooebs.”—
What a picturo of tho winter which prevail
ed at Rome in tbo Augustan age? Such a pic
ture would now best suit the mcridfah of Que
bec. In other passages of tho same author, we
icarn that tho snow was so docp near ;Rome,
that the deer pushed it aside by tlieir breasts,
os they wero pursued by tho dogs. Who now
secs tho roofs of houses at Rome, or even in
Paris ready to break down with snow?—Ii
David’s time there was snow in Palestine, and
allusions to frost, snowand hail nro frequent in
tho Psalmsand in the writings of tho prophets.
Tho inhabitants of Palestine aro no longer in
the habit of attacking lions in their dens “on n
snowy day,” for no such days now exist in that
country. .But Italy and Germany, and indeed
all Europo are no more what they were in tho
days of David, of Horace and Virgil. Those
vast forests, which formerly generated so much
•I have not leisure to copy these now, and! may
Want them in a lar|0 work at some future day.
moist tire', cold weather, snow, hail and rain, are
swept away by tiro hand of roan, and the cli
mate is meliorated. But no such eauso has
operated here, and the fact being ascertained,
that tropical plants and animals once existed all
over the world, clearly proves that tropical cli
mate was mice equally extensive.
The supposition that these tropical plants
were transported northward by the ocean, un
fortunately for such an opinion, is disproved by
tho fact, that some of these trees, or Jatlter
roots and a part of their trunks, stand upright t
evidently on tho spot where they grew, and o-
tliers, with every root entire, lie to appearance
exactly whore they fell when turned up by the
roots. Again, if floated from tropical regions,
how happens it that their flowers wore uninjur
ed? These show all their original beauty of
form; they are fully expanded, and could not
have been transported from any considerable
distance. Scarcely a day could have interven
ed between the period in which they wore in
full bloom, and that in which, by that catastro
phe which long since overwhelmed our globe,
they were “embalmed” in the spot where they
are now found.
foreign.
. uel
Zanesville. , If hereafter I find leasure to describe our
coal fields they will be noticed.
Antiquities of Oliiq.—lu excavating the earth
fora Iockpit,about half a mile west of Newark,
Ohio, a large number of human hones were
turned up by the plough. They were not more
than two feet below the surface of the earth, in
a pla :o where there was an elevation of the
ground, of about 30 indies, but not sufficient to
entitle it to the name of a mound. They were
all carbonised, or burnt, wero of different sizes,
aud amountod to the number of ten or fifteen.
They were all covered with a greater or less
quantity of very beautiful transparent mica.-—
O ue of the skeletons was completely covered
with the mica, and by way of distinction buried,
it short distance from the remainder. This
was a largo frame, and like the rest, was carbo
nised. The quantity of mica would amount,
according to the statement ofa gentleman who
was present at tho time of the discovery, to
eight or ten bushels.
No mounds which have .over been opened hi
tho western country have contained tho re
mains of any human beings carbonised and cov
ered with mica in this manner.
From the Tendon Quarterly Rei-icw.
GAMBLING PRIESTS IN SOUTH AMERICA.
Greatly as the revolution may have diminish
ed the power of tho priests at Buenos Ayres it
self, our traveller soon found that they still
swarm in tho other towns of the 'Viceroyalty,
practising and encouraging laziness and imrno
rality. At Mendoza, they are stated to load a
most dissolute life, most of them having fami
lies; and ’’several living openly with their chil
dren.” Their chief aniusements, it seems, is
cock-fighting on Thursdays and Sundays.—
Captain Hoad visited their nrqpa. “It was
crowded with priests, Who had each a fighting
until nnilri tii, aim^iwl -it gnu surprising to SCO.
FROM INDIA.
Tho Boston Daily Advertiser announces
Calcutta papers to the 28th of December. It
is mentioned in one of those papers, as a prool
of tho newly acquired English possessions on
the Jcnasscrim coast, that samples of cotton
havo been already produced, in quality superi
or to Hie Banda, which had been consider
ed the best-grown in Hindostan. They were
flattering themselves with the hope that this
cotton would become a competitor in tho Eng
lish market with the American Sea Island.
Orders were received at Portrmouth on tho
lOth to discharge from the transport service, all
the ships which were hired in December, to
carry troops to Lisbon.
Rear admiral sir Charles Ogle is appointed
to the command of tho North American sta-
FROM WESTERN AFRICA.
A letter from Liberia, received in Washing
ton City, dated at Monrovia, February 5, says:
“Lieutenant Norris arrived on the i2th of
January, and expects to sail for St. Thomas on
the i2th of February. The twelve pound guns
and ammunition have been received and landed
safely, and. in good order; and tho presence
and services of the Shark have proved equally
how earnest and yet how long they were in ma
king their bets. 1 ” By Mr. Miers’s account the
priesthood are guilty of tho greatest baseness
and immorality in every part of the couutry,
and tho first to encourage gaming and every
species of licentiousness, lie says:
“It ij'the custom throughout South America, and
more especially In these united provinces for every ha-
cicpdado, [land-holder,] to hniid upon some central
part of his estate n pulperia, [tipling-bousc, ] and a chap
el close together; the latter as the means of drawing
„ . rawing
custom to the former, which forms no trifling branch
of profit. On n feast day, tho people within a certain
distance, repair to the puiperia. Drinkingand gaming
are carried on without intermission until tho hell an
nounces that the elevation of the host is at hand; in an
instant thoy all rush out of the pulperia, leaving the
stakes, whichtare sometimes considerable, on tho table,
and with demure faces kueel before die host, tbe ele
vation of which is about to aave their souls from dam
nation; they groan and cry uloud to the Virgin to t
tcct them, and, in their momentary devotion, mi|
ho taken-by a by-standcr for penitent and sincere
T - ■
Christians. But the moment the service is concluded,
,ain; and those who have left their
II.flock back with precipitation to pro-
Ly; in n moment tall their religion is for
they r
stakes undccidei
lect their property; inn moment Dll tnelrreligi
gotten, nil aro occupied in betting mid drunken revel
ry; in whichthe friar who has beenthcorgnn in effect
ingthe momentary penitence and sorrow, and has Sav
ed their souls from perdition, stands foremost in the
general 'debauch, which is continued till late at night."
In .Chile, they havo lost nothing whatever of
S eir iusoloncc and intolerance and, very little
that influence which they havo always
oxcrciscd, more especially, over tho fe
male mind, in that roostWicked and de*
testiblo .practice of extorting - confessions of
their littlo wanderings and weaknesses, and
worming out of thetp secrets, which lay whole
families at the mercy of these unprincipled
vagabonds. “The streets of Santiago,” says
Capt. Head, “are crowded with a sot of lazy,
indolent, bloated monks and priosts.” Ho is
indignant that tho men .should all touch their
hats to these drones-^ who; ho says may bo
scon talking openly with women of tho most n-
, class of
bandoned class of society—and that tbo com
mon people, though they laugh nt their immo
rality, persist in going to them fop images and
pictures, and in sending thoir wivesnnd daugh
ters to confession.
Tho Dumfries Courier says, it is worthy of
remark, that London porter has lately been
discovered to possess ’tho wonderful power of
inducing leeches to bite with astonishing avidi
ty.' They should be immersed jn the porter
for about a quarter of a minuto before thoy aro
applied to tho sxin.. Edinburgh alo has not
by any means tho same effect, a circumstance
which is hot a littlo remarkable.
An*Ohl Bachelor In Ohio by way of a set
off against Gen. M’Cluro’s proposition to tax
Bachelors instead of dogs, proposed as follows
—hear him. “Let every one who is tired of
conjugal felicity, pay a certain fee to tho state
for a divorce, according to his ability; and it
will not only supercede the necessity of taxing
dogs, but there will bo no need of taxes of any
kind. And if government will give mo the ex
clusive privilege of unmarrying all thoso who
wish to be unmarried in tho United States, I
will pledge myself to pay off the National Debt
in fivo years."
seasonable and advantageous to the Colony.—
Not a slaver lmd attempted his operations be
tween Trade Town and Cape Mount, (which
limit at the two extremes, the line of coast, a-
long which it is an object of great solicitude in
us, to effect its final and entire abolition) 3ince
the date of my last letters, until five days pre
vious to the arrival of the Shark, when a
French schooner from Martinique, landed her
cargo at Little Bassa, for two hundred slaves.
Tho Shark, in detaining this vessel on tho 3d
of the month, fur a few hours, in order to in
vestigate Iter character, prevented her escape
from a French man of war, then cruising in
search of her, aud which at that moment hove
in sight. Site has been sent to Goreu for con
detonation.”
A bulletin issued from the office of the Co
lonization Society, on tho i7th April, says—
“letters have been received from Liberia up to
the ntli February, representing the colony ns
in tho enjoyment of health, peace and pros
perity. The colonists are engaged in con
structing new and more extensive fortifications,
and various other public buildings, and aro
making great- improvements in their condition.
The agriculture of the province promises well
for this year. Tobacco is seventy-five ceuts
the pound, and none can be bought even at
this rate. A valuable grant has been obtainod
of tho Junk Territory, forty-five miles south of
Capo Monserado, and a factory commenced at
that place. The establishments at St. John’s,'
Grand Bossa, Young Sister’s, and Factory Isl
and, aro still maintained, and promise impor
tant advanfages. The Colonial Agent, .Mr.
Ashmun, expresses his determination to visit
the United States early in the ensuing sum
mer.’ -
tfROM SMYRNA.
Smyrna papers to the i2th January have
been received at Now York. 1* heir contents
are highly favorable to the G»6eks; and, as u-
sual in all speh cases, furnish evidence that
that paper does sometimes assist, however un-
•willinqly, in the dissemination of truth.
Iii beginning wjth tho latest paper, wo find,
the dissensions at Hydra havo been completely
terminated through the influence of Conduriot-
ti; and that Colocotroni is on perfectly good
terms with. him. Some of tho arrangements
for a comh|ned attack on Athens, for the relief
of Fubvier and the citadel, are confirmed.—
Sixty thousand francs had arrived from the Pa
ris committee, which had long bocirexpectcd.
A report was spread at Smyrna, on the 7th
of December, that captain Hasting’s steam
boat, which had been seen on her passage from
Syra, was to join tho Hydriot squadron at Sa
mos, to make an attack on the Turkish port of
Scala Nova, near Smyrna. The editor some
times affects to speak contemptuously of die
Greek, navy; but ho gives this report with
trepidation.
The Greeks still held tho fortress of Gra-
bousi in Candio, which tho Spectator complains
of as affording great facditics to predatory ves
sels. Indeed u letter from Canco says they
are blockaded by Greek pirates. It is situated
on a rock, on the western point of the island
of Candia; thirty miles from Cance, and com-,
mauds a small port that has two entrances,
one of which is only acccessible to small ves
sels. Tlio fort has thirty guns nnd thr6e hun
dred men; commanded by Doscalos Cummi, of
Celinq, with two Suliots for his principal offi
cers. They have fitted up a large schooner
from Napolt, ns a galliot, with 24 oars, and
several barges; and have declared the island
under blofeknde. ,
The British vice consul for Rhodes has late
ly been captured, on his way from Caramania,
Who carried him to Simia, under a promiso ofa
ransom. Tho pirates however wero fired upon,
at his request, and escaped after losing some of
t heir-numbers-— — - ,
Tho Scraskier Pacha, at Constantinople,
had nearly recovered from his wounds. The
troops are said to make great proficiency in
On tho birth of his child, (which has sinco
died,) Mr. S. Canning liberated eleven Greeks,
who luid been imprisoned for various causes;
and the account of tbe child being burie.O, in
the Greek-Church, is confirmed.
• M. Forneti has arrived atCahee, in Candia;
as French consul; ’and M.'S. Sauvcr has gono
to the Dardanelles, as vice consul from tho
same country.-
Tho Austrian vice admiral Paulucci had ro-.
cently left Smyrna for .Venice, in tho frigate
Elbe, having performed his service of six
month, as fixed by the Aulic Council.
Portugal and Spain.—It was confidently
reported in London on the i2lli March, that
sir H.. Clinton had written home in the strong
est terms for reinforcements. The.gallant gen-
were eral, it is said, has declared five thousand ad
ditional troops absolutely necessary.
Madrid dates of the 22d February state, se
veral British regiments had been engaged with
the Portuguese Royalists,. and had -bealen
them. Tho aiddocamp of general Clinton was
killed in the action. [We doubt the fact of
there having been any engagement of the
kind.]
It is stated by a gentleman from Madrid and
Paris, where he had the best opportunities for
gaining information, that if Ferdinand, situated
as lie now is, if he were the most sincere peni
tent that ever confessed his sins, he could not,
with ihe present government of Spain, pursue
an honest course of policy. He is obliged to
pander to the bad passions of the rabble, and
they are instigated to . gross excesses by the
priests. The state of society in Madrid is re
presented to be dreadful.—Families aro ha
rassed by spies and informers, and tlie head of
a family does not know how many of its mem
bers act in that capacity.
Letters from Madrid state, that new difficul
ties have just arisen between the Spanish min
ister and Mr. Lamb. The latter has complain
ed that the principal part of the arms found on
the Portuguese rebels, are of tbe manufacture
of Seville, which aro under tho control of the
Spanish government, and could uot be deliver
ed without its consent.
It was rumored that a chango in the Spanish
ministry was to take place. Orders lmd been
sent to Paris for the return of the duke San
Carlos.
Alarming accounts have been received from
the Dutch establishment in India.
Constantinople, February 8.—Tho English
ambassador has renewed his proposals relative
to the pacification of Greece, and in a note
which ho has just presented, has demanded in
the first place, the cessation of hostilities. It
is believed that this demand will be supported
by tho ambassadors of Austria and Russia.
London, March i2.
Wo are concerned to say that Mr. Secreta
ry. Canning was indisposed on Saturday and
yesterday. Tho right lion, gentleman receiv
ed visits yesterday from Lord Grenville, Lord
Morloy, and a number of other persons of dis
tinction. ' <4
Greece.—The third victory gained by Ka-
rniskaki is confirmed. The booty taken at
Volizza was much more considerable than at
first reported. Salona is in the hands of the
Greeks. Knraiskaki, after his victories at Ara-
kova and Volizza, where, he took fifteen hun
dred horses; all kinds of ammunition, provi
sions, etc. surprized and cut to pieces, near Lc
panto, acorpa of one thousand Turks, who were
marching to Salona to relieve, that placo. Part
of Karatskaki’s troops'are to bo sent to the ar
my of Elcusis.. Two hundred Pcloponesians
have already repaired thither, and two thousand
men, under colonel Gordon and Petromichal-
ly, are going by sea to tiie Pirceus, escorted
by tho American frigate, commanded by Mi-
aulis. All these forces, united, are simultane
ously to attack tho seraskier, Rescind Pacha,
who has approached Athens from which he had
retired in consequence of the victory at Arako-
va, thus giving Colonel Fabvier an opportuni
ty to enter the Acropolis with ammunition and
provisions. •„ . *
Accounts have been received at Previsa that
two vessels, laden with provisions, were nt Pa-
tala, waiting orders from Karaiskaki; and that
kry had mado himself master of Stamnias,
r Missolonghi.
These favorable circumstances, says a letter
to the Geneva Greek committee, prove how
useful our' consignments of provisions havo
been, since tho Greeks have thereby been en
abled to resume offensive operations.
Tho Augsburgh Gazette mentions that tho
Porte, on the 4th of February, declared, thro
the Reis Effondi, that it would reject oil diplo
matic overtures in favor of tho Greek insur
gents.
Paris, March t.—Letters from Prussia say,
that Prince Phokler Muskan, who was marri
ed to tho daughter of tho late Prince Harden
burgh, has divorced her, to marry the widow of
King Christopho, a negress of Hayti, who is
still young, if wo may believe tho German cor
respondent.—[She .might have carried her
charms to a better market, by coming to t)io
Southern States. A certain most excellent per
sonage would, in all Jikolihoodi, have, bcutr
happy to exchange for her smiles his heart,
and a participation of power, together with , a
Trans Atlantic throne in prospective, infinitely
more splendid than' that on which she sat in
the palace of Sans Soucs. How unlucky her
stars! Miss an American Autocrat to marry a
beggarly German Prince!] ‘
The president opened the meeting
jveti o'clock, undone of.the'membersn/
ceeded to read the constitution. Upon
to article thirteenth, one of the electors nM J
Barbaran, observed that it appeared to him
just to deprive a citizen of his rights, beca^
lie did not know how to'write, when; perhj?
ho might possess all the virtues of a good fn?
er ofa family, and every other necessity^
lification; that a period ought to be prefoj
after the expiration of which, this provi* ’
might take effect. His voice was immediate)!
lost in cries; upon silence being obtained,/
reading of the instrument was resumed,
this person was called but of the Hall by
Intcndant, who demanded of him nbw.ho do!
cd to oppose the dispositions of the Liberate
adding that if he should be so imprudent as ,j
indulge in any further observation, he wo-jy
have reason to repent of his'temerity!
poor man, thus intimidated, returned to ii.
Hall without daring to open his lips afterward,
even to protest against the violence made
of to obtain his suffrage. " •
During the reading of the constitution, c
one of ih e j
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
London papers to tha t2th of March havo
been received at New York. Tho resolution,
proposed by Mr. Canning, to make sixty shil
lings the average price of wheat tho quarter,
with a duty of twenty shillings, diminishing two
shillings for every shilling in rise of price, lmd
been agreed to in the houso of commons, with-
division.
out a i
[The English “quarter of corn'” is eight
bushels, so that sixty shillings the quarter, tho
average price proposed, will be equal to ono
dollar sixty:six and a half cents.]
was taken to distribute to every i
lectors, i tickot, containing tho following w orfe
“Bolivar president for life and autacrat.\
Freyre himself took charge of this distribution
and towards 2 o’clock, the reading ljpj^g ^
islted, tho majority of the electors, oppri
and sold to power, cried out jn a loud *
repeatingthe words contained in the ticket!,-
In this way was the constitution admitted.....
Many of the electors then wished to retin.
to dinner, and for tho purpose of eluding th
necessity of signing the proceedings drawn o
But the government had fores en that if ^
meeting wero of short duration, no one would
credit that tho adoption of the fundtuneoal
compact lmd been the result of a mature eli
mination and profound discussion; as the pa.
amble to tho proceedings stated. Accords;,
ly centinels had been stationod in tho doors rf
the Hall, to prevent the electors from leaving
it until 7 o’clock in the evening. A cold col
lation, had been provided, and, tho clecion
passed the period of their imprisonment at tk
table. A similar course was observed initio;:
of tbe other collegos.-
[From the Condor de BoHeia, of the 29lh of Seplirltr,
^ 182GJ,
Discourse pronounced try ltolivor to the Elected
Colleges of the Province of lama, onheing pre-tst-
ed with the act admitting his Constitution.
“It is with great satisfaction, I hear that the
Electoral Colleges have accopted tho Consul!.
tion which I gave for tho Republic hearing i
name. Tbe Council of Government, desires;
of fixing the fortunes of tho country, consulted
me, and I'agreed that it should bo offered'
tho people of Peru.—This Constitution is t!
work of ages; inasmuch as I have brought to
gether in it all the lessons of experience and lb!
cotsncilsand opinions of tho wise. I congnt'-n
late tho representatives of this province in thi!
they havo adopted it. They have conforms!
their opinion to mine, in respect to tho polio
cal interests, stability, happiness, and traniji
of nations, ft will not bo able, to be sure,
preservo them from tho great'disasters whirl
change tbo face of the earth, ovcV’turn,Vgcni*
piros; but it will shield therhTroni’all momen
tary evils, which are, nevertheless, of great
transcendency to tho generation who suflet
Mok
near J
them.
“But Peru possesses eminent men, .capable
of exercising the first m
to them it be
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
[Translated jfor the Jjhode Island American.]
ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF LIMA.
The following account of the proceedings
in the electoral collcgo of Lima, at tho adop
tion of tho Constitution framed by Bolivar for
Bolivia, was drawn up by a gentleman of un
doubted veracity, who was present at that far
cical ceremony: .
On tho i4tlr of August in the afternoon, the
electors were notified verbally, by the ward
commissioners, to attend on tho Wednesday
following, :6th of the same month, at 9 o'clock
in tho morning, in tho Hall of tho University
of Saint Mark, for the purposo of approving
the constitution.
Accordingly,’ somo of tho olectors, to tho
number of porhaps sixty, (Lima reckons three
hundred,) 'met together at ten. o’clock in tho
place designated—Tho Intcndant of Police,
Freyre, then caused some twenty copies of tho
constitution to be distributed, of which somo
of ihe electors had no knowledge.
longs td obtain it T cannot, therefore,
of tho charge. I owo myself to Columbia,
and should sho permit it to mo, 1 will, rji’n
case, save my. conscibnco touching the sanctiai
with which you havo honored'me—for Ism
chained to the service of Peru, in as'fcrx 1
dopends upon mysolf."
Extract of a letter, dated Lima, December 15, 13
to a gentleman in New York, received by tbe Hi-
. goto united States.
“Wo havo had great doings at this times
Limay owing to the declaration of the now cm
stitution, which was yesterday sworn to bjflk
public authorities. Bull fights, serenades, illu
minations, etc. followed; and, to crown al'
fountain, which usually runs water, is' nt;
at present to run claret. Two long poH
greased so as to muko .them-slippery, W
crowned with a silver vessel, in which nre otr
hundred doubloons: the whole to be the p«
porty of tho ono who can climb to the top ^
take tho prize. The attempts arc sufficient k
make ono .burst with laughter.”
Latest from Peru.—From Bogota, papers
to March.i3th, have been received at
York; from which it appears that General Sui
ta Cruz published a decree on the 28th ofb r
uary, convoking a constituent congress for ih”
ist of May, to form a constitution adapted t
tho country, and to oloct a president and yi«*
president. »* .
This measure proves tbe force and thetn-
umph pf tho Constitutional* party. Bolivar,
whatevor his motives may have been, has l«b
ly appeared friendly to anti-republican priw*
pies. Whether lie. is or not, it is clear tW
Peru, as well as a largo proportion of Cow®**
bio, will not tolerate them. The , ’’ m ”
tion of Santa Cruz virtually ovori
Bolivian constitution, adopted in December,
Peru, and, in our opinion, seals its fate
ver. Its resolute opposers in Colombia, fi 00 *
eral Santander and his friends, were, well pl csi *
ed with tho nows,.which was brought to Bog”'
ta by two Colombian officers; and every cS "
pression of joy was exhibited in that capital.
This blpodlcss revolution was comment
at Lima, on the 26th of January, by
lombian officers, who elected general * illi
mente for tho commander in chief, and arres
ed their chief officors, to send thorn l 1 p a ' ( V
They then passod a kind of protest against
revolution of Paez, nnd tho proposition t°.
Dictator in Colombia. A mooting of “J®
tizens was also held in Lima, which rePj*Jf ’
ed that tho constitution of Bolivar had h«
dopted under constraint. This induced
Cruz’s proclamation. Tho result of this
ly important measure will bo, in all hi
liability, to discourage'any design agam st
strict republican system in South America-
Mr. Thomas Cam
unanimously elected
sity. of Glasgow,
ipbcll, tho poet, ha*
Lord Lector of the