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comment upon this fitnifttl limine, tliati merely
to refer you to those grout Itatllo grounds of con
troversy! Internal Improvement* anil the Tnriir?
lint fur question* such os these, should wo not
now eujoy n profound political calm/ Am 1 uot
then justified in saying that our creed lendxio
puttfe and concord, whilst the contrary one isenl-
rnlated to keep tu forever in troubled water*/—
This question shall he uuswore'd, not hy iue, hut
hy'tma wiling response wi|l have -much more
weight shall any tip's which I crii say. The
Chief Executive MngiJfcate of the Union, as you
will Imve learnt from the public prints, has just
rejected the hill renew ing the charter of tho llnnk
•of the United Htntc*. He has hail the firmness in
tlio Cacti of tninncu and Intimidation, to do his du
ty, anil to prove tlmt he valued his rnunUy more
than himself—for llis adversaries had solemnly
■nifdcxnllinslv Corn arurd him, tlmt such a stop
•would cost nun his elceliini. And shall this -ill-
oini iiH prophecy he futfilledf Have ere come
to- this.-in little more thau half a century’from
nilr-piitisiool itirtlto that avarice, and the avarice
of-a/fir, ttio,4tn* become*o stroll'/, that the ener
gies of the tvltklMlcople cannot grapple with ill
1 lts-1 refl 1 »*•••» Ifnrts insttiHtc—that ij was it
ila-na which im.ii* ime -uhigly: sml that, wheth
er it w as fed hy pleuly or st irred hy tve.uh it was
tillk: imrpitnieliahle. 'But I had twit read uor
heard, mid lnnst‘1 shall never learn, tho fatal
truth tty it is more poteut than the constitution
of my cou.itry; and that lie w ho has heeti placed ■
as a sworn srr.iiuel upon the wati-lt tower, to I
guard that constitution, is to lie hurled from his
post, for disobedience to this high behests of
this monsti-r. Nn, gentlemcu, it cannot he; we
must be reserved 'for other uud higher destinies
than these,
••The Message sent to tho senate on lids occa
sion, at ouee >ho«vs the danger of federal en
croachment, mil gives us reason to hope that it
may lie arrested iu its march. We arc justly told
in that valual Ic paper, that most-of *the dangers
which, impend over our Union, have sprung I rum
uu abandonment of the legitimate objects of gov-
verumeut hy our naliuual legislation. Me arc
fold too, and I rejoice to hear it, from that high
kiinroo, that experience should teach us Wisdom—
that it.is time to pause iu our career, ami our
principles. Gentlemen, our government, so fruit
ful iu useful lessons of instruction to mankind, in
tills, paper exhibits a trait of character, ns valua
ble, as it is elsewhere unknown. It is this:—In
■every other country on earth, the Executive is
the iluparaincut from which danger of usurpation
nppnilt.-uiled—aud the Legislature is relied upon
ns the harrier against it. Here, on the contrary,
it is the Legislature of whom'the people cotn-
.plitu, and die Executive is seen offering itself as
■a hiliivark against the tide gif Legislative cu-
cronelmictii.
Gentlemen, f congratulate you upon this, inter
esting event.—1 congratulate "you upon tho late
veto. It h ts been henutimlly said tit it there is a
■ piiiiit-flf depression, as welt as elevation, beyond
Tvljicli human allairs seldom pass, ami from w hit'll
they uaturally return iu a contrary progress.—
JHy own opinion confirms the truth of this aphor
ism, fur, in all conditions iu which wo have
been placed, at every stage «f our progress, uo
matter how the political horizou may have seem
ed fur the moment to have been overcast, some-
tiling has occurred, which, liko (ho sun emerg
ing from behind the pasting cloud uhicli obscur
ed it, has cast a cheering ray of light over the
gloom, and brightened the prospect before us.
txch, in my estimation, is the late veto. After
that, we may indulge the hope, that the doctrines
which yon aid I profess, have reached their low-
•ext poiut of depression—that in the natural order
of things, the time is about to come again w hen
t!(cy shall rise to their true level, ami become
the standard of the true faith—when by a politi
cal cycle, tho legislature shall he brought back to
tho poiut from which its declination commenced,
■uud taking its pusitiou iu the political firmament,
by tho side of Hie fedora! executive 1 , shall, with
that body, constitute a constellation, to w Inch, as
to-the cymt..urc w e shall look to guide our course:
when each and every department, iu our com
plex Constitutional .System, shall move iu its re-
spcclivc'ortdt, mid thus each perform its allotted
part, towards the fuiiiluiciit of the great purposc
of tile Creator ol all—national strength cemented
by national harmony.
•'When, Gentlemen, that lime shall have come,
thou, indeed, will the gOldcu age of the Republic
have returned amongst uu—and so loug us it shall
continue, we shall enjoy all that happiness in fuel
which ottr ancestors nutieipatud in s/KcntoHon,
when they formed the constitution under which
we live."
Judge Barlmnr aaj down amidst the enthusias
tic huist* of applause, uud couctuded hy giving
the following toast:
The I’eopit oj Amherst—t thank them fortlicir
hospitality—1 admire them for their sound poli
tical principles.
TOASTS.
1. The Me mory of IVatkinglon—tho Father of
his country.—(Drunk standing.)
"A. The Memory of Thomas Jefferson—tho au-
ithor of the Uueluration of Independence, of the
aet for establishing Religious Freedom, and foun
der of the Uuiversity of Virgiuia—’(Drank stund-
ing.)
a. The Signers of the Declaration of Independ
ence—fli chetis.)
. 4. The Memory of Patrick Ilannj,
"The forest-horn Demosthenes,
Whose thunder shook tin: Philip of the lets.”
5. The Memory of James Monroe.
(}. State interpretation—The rightful remedy a-
gaiust federal usurpation.
7- The Governor of Virginia.
•8. American Liberty—Tho raiubow* of hope to
(the oppressed of every clime.
0. Our distinguished guest, Philip Pendleton
Harbour—the able expounder of the Federal Con
stitution—llis inflexible devotion tu Virginia prin
ciples, his many and important services tu the
S-into aud Nation ,sprc-cmiucntly entitle him to
tho gratitude and coufidcncu of the American pco
pie.
10. The Union—Tho beacon to light the tri
umph of civil liberty throughout tlio world.
'll. The President of the V. States.
12. The memory of Loicndcs—Tho Soutli lias
to deplore his untimely end.
13. The Fbir of Virginia. C> Cheers.
Lynchburg Virginian.
CHOLERA IN VIRGINIA.
A correspondent of tho Baltimore Chronicle
.communicates the following facts respecting the
-Choloradn Virgiuia. We leara that there were
•fifteen cases on beard of the United estates’ sloop
•of war Fairfield, none of which, it is presumed,
will bo reported hy the Board of Health at Nor-
| folk. *
• Extract:—;'••Before 1 get to tlio end of this let-
. ter, I will inform you of what has been dono by
the cholera since the hit report of the Board of
Health. I really do uot conceive that wo have,
as yet, any cause of alarm, though wo know that
tk» destroying angel is among us, is cuongh; the
the mere know lodge that there is an epidemic pre
vailing iu the town, if it- cuts off but few, yet it
preseuis a startling question,- when we como to
, reflect, and ask ourselves, who are to bo number
ed among this "fowJ"
“In Portsmouth it has proved fatal to several
persons. In Norfolk, threo tvhito persons only
have died: Mr. Munscll, an aged gentlemen, of a
• weak constitution, who ha* for somo time had «f
diarrhea on him, and a man and his wifo (a very
abject couple) recently settled in this place, in a
hovel in tlio Adds. The woman tvns taken on
Wednesday morning and died before the evoniug;
her husband, poor follow! to drown his sorrow,
drank himself into a state of stupefaction, and
on lus return from bespeaking his wife's coflin,
fell down iu the street and was carried home,
where lie was attended by a physician, who at
first supposed it nitty)’ a case of mani a potu:
hut lie soon perceived the fatal symptoms, and
tlio cholera in a little time had so full a hold on
him ns to tlefy the power of medicine. lie is still
living, having been kept alive eighteen hours hy
ilia saline infusion, but for want of proper atten
tion iu uttrsing. he may yot slip ofl*. There i> the
greatest difficulty imaginable in ohtaiiiiug help t»
the sick, where they have uoue at home.
“The coffees (colored pursmts) are uot to lie had
for love or money—and there are no white men
yet been found who will undertake such offices.
1 confess, as yet. 1 have seen hut few alarming
cases, tho worst was at Capt. Beverly Kcimon's.
lie ha* lost four servants since Monday. They
had all lived in the best ninmicr, and been parti
cularly careful of tlicir diet. His dining room
servtiub a mau aged 40, was first attacked, and
•JlITvativil; it. 2 f hour* after, the chambermaid
i.g. ii a u niting maid aged 17, ntul a little mu-
1-1110 girl, daughter of the intii) servant. They
were-all dead iu two days from the first attack!
I am iiuiini-d to think there must be sonic local
calls.-, though none can he perceived. Mr. Pan-
nell also lost a giii of J7, for whose attack by. the
disease uo cause can he nssigued. In most of the
other ms. s, h disease Inis littu traced to some
prt disposing cause, and very possibly nearly all
of them might h-tvo bccu saved hy timely can:'
and proper atieulii it.
'•'1 In- deaths in Norfolk since Wednesday 12
o'clock (46 hour ) arc 7, and SI cases rtinaiuiug.
The deaths ill Portsmouth Inst evening mill this
morning are 0: among them a Mr. Alexander
uud .Mr. lives, mechanics iu the Navy Yard, who
arc said to have chunk freely of cold water yes
terday while in a state of profuse perspiration,
two others of the cases are white persons, aud the
remaining two arc Marks.
A number of persons have Iw-en taken with
the usual symptoms in Norfolk, who soon got re
lief by lhe salt amt vinegar prescription, ur that
of spirits of camphor, aided by rubbing w ith flan
nel. ’
Portsmouth contains a population of probably
about 3000 persons, nearly one-third, 1 should
suppose, are colored.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman iu Suf
folk, received hy last evening’s stage:
••There were four deaths yesterday by malig
nant cholera. The eases were tinr.ommuidy se
vere, terminating in eight or ten hours from the
eummcnrciucut of the attack. Mr. R. \V. Oli
ver, a young gentleman with whom yon are well
acquainted, was the only white person attacked
yesterday, lie was taken about uiiio o’clock
in tire morning, and was a corpse before ten
o’clock at night. This melancholy event has
caused great e ccilcincnt, and a general gloom ap
pears to huug over our beautiful tillage. Four
cases have occtired today, which 1 greatly fear
will terminate f.it dlv. They arc all blacks!"
[Th.- writer mentions the name of number vic
tim in addition to those last mentioned, aud says:
-.•There will probably he four deaths before ten
o'clock tonight.”]—Sorf.dk Herald.
As yot. tlio terrible epidemic has been confined
in Norfolk almost exclusively tothecolored popu
lation, among which it is making fearful havoc.
We have remarked the greater ravages of the
disease among those w ho are lodged m -cellars,
or on gi'ouud floors, and submit it to the consi
deration of those better informed than.ourselves,
whether such situations inav uut he calculated to
induce the disease?—lb.
Fl i-.iucl belts w orn nround the abdomen, is said
to he a preventive of cholera.—lb.
Norfolk and Portsmouth.—We received the
Norfolk Herald, of Friday, hut no urwspnpcrs of
Saturday morning. Wo understand that private
letters state, there Is no abatement of the cholera.’
The follow ing is from the Herald of Friday:
HOARD OF HF.AI.TH,
Norfolk, 9th August, 1832.
The Board of Health reports for the 24 hours
ending this day at uoo|t, 48 new cases of cholera,
viz. 10 white and 113 colored persons—of which
have died 11. Deaths of case* previously ropor-
tsd, H—Total deaths 20; of which 2 were white,
and 13 colored persons. • •
Tlio. XL Broughton, Scc’rv.
Wc received no report yesterday, from Ports
mouth, lint learned 111 at tin: number of cases and
dc.-flp us per Inst report, n as somewhat diiuiu-
ishctT within tho last 24 hours. •
A letter which sve received bv Wednesday
evening’s mail, from Suffolk, written on that
day, says: “There is wo abatement -of Cholera
here, ns’ to the number.of cases; but it has evident
ly assumed a milder character, mid yields readily
to medicine. It is yet confined to tho Marks
with very few exceptions.—Richmond Compiler.
Elizabeth City, C.—Extract of a letter da
ted Kdctilon, August 0, to a gentleman iu Ra
leigh:
••Intclligcoco has just arrived hy llic stage, that
the Cholera is in Elizabeth City. One white
person was taken Inst uigbt and died this morn
ing. Mr. Long was taken this murning and fell
down in tho street. Oueofllr. M artin’s negroes
was also taken, nml two other negroes, iti ail 4,
besides the uuu that died.”
Cholera among the Indians.—A few days since,
nil luilitm belonging to Oueida Cm,tic, «3 miles
west of this city, was hired hy the captain of a
passing boat, to tmry a man who had died of the
cholera on hoard. Ilo was immediately seized
with tile cholera, and died. Np o(h«r cases have
occurred. The citizens aud authorities of Leuox
mid Verucit immediately supplied racdi$al aid,
provisions, clothing, &c. Tlio Indians are very
much alarmed, nml have abandoned drink, and
reformed at least for the present.—Utica Inttlli-
g.ttftr. -■
Alarming to Drunkards—Monsieur Ilnber,
who saw 2100 perish iu 25 days in one town in
Russia, says, it it a most alarming circumstauce,
that persons given to drinking have been swept
away like flics. In Killis, containing 20,000 in
habitants, every drunkard has fallen by the cho
lera; not one remains! nil tiro dead!
Extraordinary Charm against Cholera.—These
threo days past (says it Dublin paper of June 5)
the country has been in an extraordinary state
of excitement. Mosscngen are running and rid
ing through tho counties of Carlow, Kilkcnuy,
Wicklow, Westmeath, Dublin, King und Queen’s
county, Meath, WdRford, and Longford, leaving
a small piece of turf (peat fuel) at every cabin,
with the following exhortation: “Tho plague lias
broken out; take this, and while it^ burns, offer
up seven paters, three fires, and a credo, in the
natno of God and tho holy St. John, that the
plaguo may ho stopped!” The messenger lays
each householder under au “obligation,” as it it
called, to kindle his piece of turf, sot fire to seven
other pieces, quench them, and run through the
country to seven other houses whorein uo turf
has yet been left, and to repeat tho same exhor
tation, and under a penalty of faliiug a victim to
tho cholera himself! .Men, women and children
are seen scouring tho country with this charmed
turf in every direction, each endeavoring tq bo
foremost in findiug unsrrved houses. One man
yesterday, iu the Bog of Alien, had to ruu thirty
miles ere be could fulfil his task. The stories of
its origin arc various, but all agree that one piece
of turf was Messed by a priest, mid sent through
the peasantry thus, where it multiplied itself and
its pon.'rs of agitation sevenfold iu every ticiv
baud. Nothing like it Ims been heard ol since
the thno of tho clan gatherings. The police are
on the alert, mid messengers have been arrested
from Kilkenny, where tho blessed turf arrived at
uoou ou Monday, to this city, where it came
pouring iu last night. The authorities are suspj-
emus of Wltitefoot conspiracy and secret intelli
gence, but nothing lias transpired vet tu warrant
this view- Of the ulUir. Tho higher classy* re
ceive tho blessed turf, nml laugh at the thing as
*i hoax on the peasantry, w ithout troubling thent-
.selvos in-transmitting it further, hut the poorer
liimschuldcrs are one uud atl iu motion to avert
the cholera, and the curse of disobedience attach
ing to uegiort. No one- knows where the holy
tiro was first kindled. There are various accounts.
It is said that it was first scut from Kihuayuc,
from Blcssington, from N< w Ross, and from Kos-
orea; that lightning consumed houses in Now
Kv**i and that tho holy turf was kittled at its
fire, &c. hut it is ccrtaiu (hat tlio whole of the
central counties of Ireland are thrown into a sin
gular state of agitation. Yesterday, along the
whole lino of the grand canal, fruiii Dublin to
iijliaiiiioii-lrirlHir. people might be seen running.
Tho t'npiain of one of tlio packet boats that
arrived in this city last night, saw a turf-enn.-r
miming along the huuk ill the Bog of Allen, to
whom lie owed somo money for fuel. He called
to him,, “Faddy, get in, and 111 pay yon mnv.”
“I can't," replied Baddy, still running; “1’vc to
servo seven house* yet with the Indy tnrf, and Fd
rather lose thu money tlimt earn the cholera.”—
The priest*,-into whose parishes this wild fire has
spiemlj,confess themselves as ignorant of its ori
gin,as the peasantry tire.
The Norfolk Herald of the 10th has the follow
ing article:
IVutcr Melons.—A gentleman ia Portsmouth
writes to a friend here:—"As an Illustration of
the deleterious quality of water melons, Mr. Ber
nard informs me that the day before yesterday he
gave some of them to his hogs; iu a short time
two of them died; a third sickened and died with
three others yesterday. All of them were affect
ed with spasms anil vomiting. 1 think your
Council did right iu prohibiting this fruit being
brought to your Market.”
“This fact seems to he worthy of notice, espe
cially as the anatomical structure of the hog is
said to lie very much like tlmt of the human spe
cies—more so than that of any other auimat with
which wc are acquainted.
Her.gundy Pitch.—Reputed efficacy in Chote-
n.—The following is a somewhat singular ex
tract from a letter from a gentleman in Glasgotv
to Ids friend iu d.cith. “Last night I received
from my father, who resides ill Fraukfoit, a
proclamation from the Prussian mid Austrian
governments, hy which it appears tlmt thu an
nexed plaster is a most complete preventive a-
gaiust die cholera; of 10,01)3 people who have
put them ou, uot one has been attacked, though
mtltu midst of thu disease. 1 have immediately
communicated this simple preventive to our
Board of Health who highly approved of it, aud
are getting them made hy thousands. The plas
ter alluded to is of burgundy pitch, commonly
called strengthening plaster; the upper part of a
peaked form to he put on the chest and tho lower
part expanded, aud to cover the pit of the stom
ach.”
The “Burgundy Pitch Plaster,” is getting into
general use in the city iunoiig all classes, and wc
are of opinion that twenty five cents caunot-he
more judiciously expended than iu the immediate
purchase and applying of one of these articles to
the stomach and breast; for-it is universally ac
knowledged that its trial can do uo liarm, mid may
lie a preventive agaiust the prevailing epidemic
—Philadelphia Suturday Courier.
LATE FROM EUROPE.
Charleston, Aco. 13.
By the Br. ship Lady Routma, Capt. Jones,
arrived ou Saturday last, we have received our
regular files of Liverpool papurs to thu 28th June,
Loudon papers to the 27th, and Lloyd’s uud Lon
don Shipping Lists to the 25tlt, all inclusive.
The Cotton market, had improved a little, and
a very good business doing. *
The MU to -abolish tho puuishmcnt of death in
cases of forgery r.itd other felonies, was undergo
ing a warm discussinu iu the house of Lords, the
Chancellor, Locd Brougham, being iu favor of
the measure, mid Lord Tenterden, present
Chief justice of the King’s Bcuch, uud Lord El
don. being against it.
Tlie eiectious for members of tho reformed par
liament were about to he carried ou with much
spirit. Tlio tono of tlio Whig Press is decidedly
hostile to the Bauk of Euglatid, as at present
chartered.
France appears to bo in a more tranquil state;
mid it was oxpcctcd that an ordinnuco would be
issued on the 25tb Juue, raising the siege of Par
is.
The Viscoant Chatebacriand has addressed
a letter from his prison to the editor of the Quo
tidieune, iu which he recognizes the Government
of Louis Philip as only a Government de facto,
to w hich he is respousihle only for social but uot
political crimes, tio declares/ therefore, that ho
will uot recognize tho tribunals before which he
is about to be dragged, not even so far as to tell
his uamc, aud remarks that to his “present si
lence they may add, if they please, tlie silence of
eternity.” The Duke Fits James has put forth
a similar document.
Tho King of Eugland wag assaulted at the As
cot Heath Races, oo tho 16th June, hy a dischar-
S ;ed pensioner of the Greenwich Hospital. The
cllow threw two stones iu rapid succession at Ids
Majesty, one of which struck his hn and the oth
er tho cascmeut of the window at which he stood,
fortunately, however, be was uot injured. The
offender was immediately taken iuto custody.
Au address to tho Kiug had been agreed on by
both Houses of Parliament, in reference to this
outrage on Ids “sacred person.” ’”
Tho Cholera has again broken out with great
virulence iu Loudon and Dublin. Liverpool,
York aud Chatham are tulferiiig under its inflic
tions, aud in Ireland generally its ravages are
awfully cxtemlcd.
New York, August 11,
At half past I o’clock, yesterday, our news
schooner, EvcningKditioucamo up from packet
ship Ontario, Capt. tiehor, bringing us Ixmdon
W s to the owning of Jung.30, ami Portsmouth
y 2, iuclucivo. For tlio latest dales wc are
indebted to Capt. Sckor.
At the close of our extracts we have given a
highly interesting, aud tvo may say, important de
bate, which took placo in tlie British llouso of
Commons on tho 26th of June, relative to tho af
fairs of Poland. Tito tone of tlie speakers, with
vory few exceptions, is ono of uniningled indig.
nation and defiance. In fact; we should infer
from the strong language used, that a war with
Russia was rathor coveted than otherwise,—sun-
ported, as Eugtand knows sho would be, by the
powor off ranee... Wo however ma\e no predic
tions.
Tho cholera was increasing in Paris. Tho
London Courier of tho 2Qth states that it has bro
ken out with great violchco in tho House of Cor
rection, Cold Bath Fields. Seventeen prisoners
died on tho 28th.
London, June 29.—As tho cholera, which it
was hoped, had nearly left tho csnital. b«i V-'y
begun to rcucwjt* ravages, it is highly important
that every proper precaution should ho attendant,
and particularly that parishes aud water compa
nies should look to tho frequent and thorough
demising of streets, sewers nud dust holes.
On the evening of the 2!)th, in the House of
Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer nru-
iposcd a loan of £1,000,000 to those of thw Brit
ish West India Islands who have recently suffer
ed from hurricanes and servile insurrections. He
stated that tlie losses sustained iu cmisonlictice el
the calamities wereas follows: Jamaica £633,170;
Barbadocs §1,151,000; St. Lucia £81.000; St.
Vincent §220.271. He proposed t<- appropriate
one half of the loan to Jamaica, and the other
half to (lie oilic^slnuds.
After some dSmte, tho appropriation was car
ried in conmdttco of the tv hole.
London, June 30.—At the dale of tlio late ac
counts from Vienna, the death of tlio Young Na
poleon was hourly expected.
Parliament is expected to rise tlie first week iu
August; hut tho dissolution under the new order
of tilings, cannot take plucu before tho hrgiuniug
of November.
Liverpool. June 28.—Wo continue to lmvo a
good demand for Cotton, ami tho sales today a-
inount to 3,000 hags lint without any change iu
thu price*.
LATER FROM LIVERPOOL.
By thq packet ship Hibernia. Capt. Maxwell,
(says the New York Journal of Commerce,) we
have received Liverpool papers to June 30th, in
clusive. The 1st July being .Sunday, uo paper
was published.
The Cholera appeared to be rather abating in
Liverpool. New eases ou the 27th, 58, deaths
19; 29th, new cases 44, deaths 12.
A Liverpool paper of the 30th says, “The
Dublin papers inform us that the cholera is still
on tho increase in that ei*y. It Ims extended its
ravages to the comfortable and affluent classes.”
Total cases in Behind 12,121; deaths 4,0.40.
Tho Cholera lias been formally announced as
existing in Manchester. Two orthree fatal cases
have occurred at Stockport..
Advance in H'ages of Flannel Weavers.—80
great has recently Item the 'demand for flannel
goods which are the principal 'manufacture at tho
village of Milm-ow, near Rochdale, and whence
large quantities are scut for exportation, that last
week, we understand, mi advance in the prices
of weaving these goods was made, to the amount
of -id. in the shilling. This advance has not been
effected l>y any intimidation (w hich on the con
trary usually defeats the object sought,) hut was
voluntarily made hy thu manufacturers of that
place.
Latest from Bogota—We have (says the New
York Journal ofCoiuinerce of the 7th inst.) re
ceived, via. Jamaica, Bogota papers to tho lOtli
Juue. They contain intelligence of tho cholera
having made its appearance in Chili.
This fatal news, snvs the Bulletin de Popnynn,
has just reached ns, and wc consider ourselves" un
der obligation to give it immedinto publicity. A
letter fiann Santiago de Chili, from an tiuqucs-
ticmahWionree, dated 12th Feb. says,
“An epidemic called scarlnutina or cholera
morbus, has made its nppcaraucc in this enuntry,
with so much violence, that people die in the
streets in a few minutes after Icnving tlicir houses.
By the mail just arrived from Valparaiso, wc
learn .that 303persons Imvc died in that city tu 8
days; and during tile present weak 591 have died
iu this capital.”
Portau Prince.—By theschooucr Spccie, Cap
tain Lambert, we have received INtrt nn Prince
papers of the 8th and lfilli July, from which wc
learn that place has been devastated by a most
extensive conflagration, which commenced on the
dill. On tlmt day the fire broke out :n a house
iu ruins, situated opposite the barracks of tho
President's Guard, aud extended to the seashore,
consuming on its passage every thing it cheouu-
tered—tlie wind was high, and blew from tlio
cast, uorthenst and north. The ravages made by
the flames exceed those of the lfith of August
1620, and lfltlt of Doccmlicr, 1825, together.—
The houses iu sixteen entire streets were on fire,
those on fourteen are wholly destroyed anil those
in the two others are very nearly so. Notw ith
standing it was Sunday and the country people
for ten utiles rouud were generally in town—not
withstanding tlio ratlilnry corns of Port nn Prince
had just paraded before tile fire commenced, all
their efforts to stop it proved ineffectual, mid it
ouly reased in couscquctico of having nothing
more to consume. Tho water iu the fountains
had been stopped for some uitknowu cause.—
More than a thousand pcople nre wititout a shel
ter, and tlie place is said to have the appearance
of a town tnkcu by assault, in which the combat
ants disputed their prey mid their boot) iu every
street. On tho 14th, nt half past otto in the mor-
uing, a false alarm of lire was made, the object of
winch itwos soon perceived was to pillage the mer
chandize that was exposed. At 2 o’clock iff the
afternoon of that day a firs did actually again
break out in the Ccutrestrcct, hut it was soon ex
tinguished.
From Colombia.—By tlie brig Medina, Captain
Half, (says tho N. Y. Jour, of Commerce,) we
have received Carthagcna papers to the 6th July.
Their coutents are uninteresting.
Gouoral Santander, Presidsnt Elect of Colom
bia. arrived at Snntlia Martha on the Kith July,
having sailed from this port iu the brig Montilla,
23d Juue, In a letter to the Governor of Santa
Martha, dated New York. May 31, he announced
his expectation of lauding at that port, and ex
pressed a wish that the usual expensive formali
ties on lira reccptinu of public characters iu that
couutry, .-.ight lie dispensed with.
Tho differences with tho Republic of Ecqua-
dor. over which Gcueral Flores presides, appear
to bo iu a traiu of amicaMe adjustment.
From the Detroit Journal, Aug. 1.
INTELLIGENCE FROM THE FRONTIER.
By au express which arrived here Inst Sunday,
wo have dates from Chicago as Into ns llic 24th
nit. The William Penu had reached that place
with 4 companies of troops, nud we are happy to
learn no case of sickliest occurred while on the
voyage. Two or threo cases of cholera occurred,
however soon after the troops had lauded, aud
about tho same number hud occurred Ratting
those uuder the command of Major Whistler. A
fow of tho citizcus had been attacked with tin-
common disease, hut it tvas not apprehended
that it would spread much. The general health
of tlio troops was much improved. Theschoou-
ere Huron, Commerce, and Mareugo, freighted
with public stores, had arrived; mid the NupolSon
was near at baud.
Intelligence from Gen. Atkin ion had been re
ceived at Chicago by express, up to July 22
The swamp occupied by the niniit body of Iu-
djans had beeu penetrated, and Black Hawk and
hu warriors, with women and children, hud lied
as was supposed, towards the Mississippi, with in
tent to cross. They were pursued by Generals
Dndgo nud Henry, with 900 mounted men.
\Y lien the express loft Chicago, Gen. Scott wns
about to join the pursuing army in person, lottv-
mg the troop, t0 follow when fit for field service.
Gov./timer of .Missouri had jailed out uhout 1,200
• consequence of the above intelligence the re
quisition for mil 11 in from this Territory has been
countermanded. '
n black HAWK.
By the Schooner President, which arrived here
Ward? which ammtmee/" la i
talucd in the following letter W W 1 * <
litely furnished us. 6 ,0Kcr > v h.chT», beta
diligence of n battle Imviug been ,hc :
Get,. Dodge and his divi.io™,^ 1 '^,*
I- oxes, in which tho former were v ,, • b,Cs
particulars, as stated in Cam 1 , ll,,r,ou ’-
to (’apt. Clark, are th£.
Winuehngnes, left the Portage a («.» J 1 ®*
to proceed to Gen. Dodge’s armv aiai
to the Hue camp. On tsuu.C„’'
:n»t. (■nil. Dodge scut Ins t E n ’’-
(xcu. Atkinson of Ids mnvefteuts ii. ?"'
proceeded far, before he
nod Foxes’, trail, direct,ug theirJ
\Y..consu mer. He immediately
reported the circumstances t „ (j c ',
retreating. The night being very £2*1
found it impossible to pursue thent 'n ' 1
found when l’iirquctt left them, which *»
the next morning, sixteen Indians killed
one white man killed, and four wounded *w
qnett thinks not less than 10 Indian*fdl i„',L 1
gagemeiit. - ‘'nuncI
Gen. Dodge was to Mart thnt morning t<,
day) m pursuit, and had no doubt of ovenSl
them in the course of the day. Their ohicci i,
crr .s tlie \\ iscousiu at nhat is called die l"
and go dow n on the right bunk to the Mi«i sj
The force of “Gen. Black Hawk” was retT, 1
to amount to about three hundred; anil |> a ! 4
is of the opinion that it was nearly n || 0 f i?,]
Haw k’s army. The force under (leu. Dodo I
mg about uiuo hundred men, with but sitj-l
provisions, ho lias sent to Gen. Atkinson t„|
quest that all the mounted men under bis
mand might join him, which tv ill probably nml
end to the mar in u short time. ’ |
The Sacs and Foxes are in a starving C J
tiott, many of them being found dead on t|J
trail, and at their comp, perfectly cmaciaiwil
Geo Atkinson is reported to he sometthcfel
Rock River, and engngod in building a fort
Gapt. P. says it is probable A.’s company will
ordered home iu a short time.
Circuit School Teachers. Wc published in J
last mi offlcial communication of u society y
ed in this place to establish School Agencies. 1
.vet, the whole plan is not definitely exhibit]
hut one M-atu-lt of the scheme possesses such J
parent utility, that it certainly deserves an csrJ
incut. The design is that a teacher shall ed
some town or towus where the people are!
ahlo or willing to support a continued sdJ
through the year, nml engage iu tho care of.4
He is to keep each of tho schools one day!
each week. This will amount to fifty*-two dJ
every year; equal to tho two months which a
allowed to chihlrcu during tho winter met 1
The advantages of this plan, appear intlii
to lie greater than those of tlie usual iiaxltl
Borne parents have confessed that thrir chiliil
learn more at the Sunday School, llmu hy I
the rest of tho instructions received in the jef
The reason is. the child who attends Vi]
school, two mouths in succession, spends f
remaining tcu months of the year in idlcwj
Every thing acquired is lost by the time he I
gain commences attending school. At thes'I
day School how ever, tho subject is weekly J
seated to his mind, and time is not ailuweif
the valuable impressions made to become cl •<
This will ho the effect in these weekly sib
Tho improvement of the mind will be print]
to the eiiihl during the whole week, by the nn
sity of preparing fur recitation ou the day tint
school is In Session. The schools ruiidurtcdwi
plan must necessarily become places uf acini
and lectures, rather than of study. The usual It
catalogue of rules for the govcruitirut of schoi
would hardly have time to conic iuto action. I
Tito only objection that can be raised, !<J
tho experiment has bccu tried, is tin- iiiali'its 1
teasiicrs to sustain such a responsibility I
iu case such school* should be estnhlislied, t«H
sihllity would devolve more on the parents,
ought in nil eases.) 'ltierc would nccitarily dhoj
such an interest iu tho school on tlie put el f
scholars, as there is in Sunday school*. TIzJ
structor would pecotno purely a toacher, and#
a governor.
The plan a* developed hy the Chsirrann 1
doubtless go into nporation to seme extent. I
is yet to he seen whether teachers will come F
ward, amt whether thoy will he willing tu d
tiituo iu tlio practice.—Journal of Humanity.
A Prophet'—Tho following is extracted I
a lato Boston paper: “Married in tins nth
Sunday evening, hy Rev. Dr. Jenks, EWff^,
than Cossinitton, minister of tlio Gospel,
England, to Mrs. Ann Jems, daughter of GL
Alexander Wilson, and grand daughter * ■
Rev. John Moorchcatl, Frwhytenaa
Boston. God works in a mysterious sjOl
wouders to perform, must be truly *e*u®**f
in this most remarkable union, urasmuen u
tier Cnssiugtou, iu numbers of Ins p*r^
hymns, ha* foretold many years P :,st * • ■
tiiulnr circumstance relative to Ins »“ \
this Indy; together with a great
poriant bvents now about to h®,.™ '*'.(■
estiihlishing, increaaiog and huilmug up
/ion. This, collection of Spiritual IJ J
various subject* nuicuutJ now to *0 ,
sand, which tho undersigned hope* wm
ly published, iu older thnt the uhabtiauuss
ton mav know most uuturediy, «»» »l\ r
ami n faithful servant of Jesus that R
•heir city, where, foru_short time, *WX. L
an opportunity of hearing the pure g V?/ j||
ed to them, uuder tho demonstration _ , t
Spirit. Citizens; come nnd b**rf J o ff
and bear writueis with tho undcrsi 0
Tito cotton crops in JISl 1
Ik\vo Miflcred coiwiderthly J
hive beuu blwued withcepious
Wednesday Uut, und we tow.itaj ri
throughout the couuly. ^Ve belie
tlio crop is.gencrally n g°°d one.—• j
"" Cotton.—OBcUl notice !}■»** £2$]
Frgich Government tb«t »H og fe
ties oil 80a Island and Upland Gotto. ^
ed, and »hat hereafter the same >
exacted in France on the former, ^ ,,
Tho Nnshviilo Bonner or a
that Governor Carroll " l»
incut of Commissioner to lU -yc, *
considering its ncccpinnco '“”. en p nclJt e, *
tlie constitution of tho stala ol __ u 0 jJj u
continuance in the statnm " e D
Robert Vnux Esq- »f
declined the oppoinltnftB ' indW
Commissioner*, under tho san g|^ w n§,q
sideut Ims appointed H*nry --
iif Hartford, (Coon.) fit KfrlW*]
commissioner is Governor Moke J
rnliun. _ r .u. Act of < ' c3 'd
From tho provision* of tn woiiM*'"”:!
authorizing tho appoint'in tl0 po*‘r|
the commissioners #r . e . r ,; t *bo»rf , ? f at]
net apart territory and dufi c | 0 ibcd * |