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Prom Sargent's New Monthly Magazine for Feb.
The Marquis in Petticoats.
BY N. P. WILLIS.
Reader, I introduce you at once to the Mar
quis de la Chetardie—a diplomatist who figur
ed largely iu the gay age ot Louis XV., —and
the story is but one of the illuminated pages of
the dark book of diplomacy.
Charles de la Chetardie appeared for the first
time to the eyes of the King at a masquerade
ball, given at Versailles, under the auspices of
la belle Pompadour. He was dressed as a young
lady of high rank, making her debut— -and, so
perfect was his acting, and the deception alto
gether, that Louis became enamored ol the dis
guised Marquis, and violently excited the jeal
ousy of “Madame” by his amorous attentions.
An ecctaircissemcnl, of course, took place, and
the result was a great partiality for the Mar
quis’s society, and his subsequent employment,
in and out of petticoats, in many a scheme of
Btate diplomacy and royal amusement.
La Chetardie was, at this time, j ust eighteen.
He was very slight, and had remarkably small
hands and feet, and the radiant fairness of his
skin, and the luxuriant soilness of his profuse
chesnut curls, might justly have been the envy
of the most delicate woman. He was, at first,
subjected to some ridicule for his effeminacy,
but the merry courtiers were soon made aware,
that, under this velvet fragility, lay concealed
the strength and ferocity of the tiger. The
grasn of his small hand was like an iron vice,
and his singular activity, and the cool courage
which afterwards gave him a brilliant career
on the battle field, established him, in a very
short time, as the most formidable swordsman
of the Court. His ferocity, however, lay deep
ly concealed in his character, and. unprovoked,
he was the gayest and most brilliant of merry
companions.
This was the age of occult and treacherous
diplomacy, and the Court of Russia, where
Louis would fain have exercised an influence
(private as well as political in its results,) was
guarded by an implacable Argus, in the person
ot the prime minister, Bestucheft. Aided by
Hambury Williams, the English ambassador,
one of the craftiest men of that crafty period,
he had succeeded for some years in defeating
every attempt at access to the imperial ear by
the secret emissaries of France. The sudden
appearance ol La Chetardie, his cool self-com
mand, and his successful personation of a fe
male, suggested a new hope to the king, howev
er; and, called to Versailles by royal mandate,
the young Marquis was taken into cabinet con
fidence, and a secret mission to St. Petersburg,
in petticoats, proposed to him and accepted.
With his instractions and secret despatches
stitched into his corsets, and under the ostensi
ble protection of a scientific man, who was to
present him to the Tzarine as a mademoiselle
Deaumont, desirous of entering the service of
Elizabeth, the Marquis reached St. Petersburg,
without accident or adventure. The young la
dy’s guardian requested an audience through
Bestuchetf, and having delivered the open let
ters recommending her for her accomplishments
to the imperial protection, he begged leave to
continue on his scientific tour to the central re
gions of Russia.
Conge was immediately granted, and on the
disappearance of the savant, and before the de
parture of Bestuchetf, the Tzarine threw off all
ceremony, and pinched the cheeks and impress
ing a kiss on the forehead of the beautiful stran
ger, appointed her, by cne of those sudden
whims of preference, against which her minis
ters had so much trouble to guard, leclrice tnli
iae et pariiculihrc— in short, confidential person
al attendant. The blushes of the confused
Marquis, who was unprepared tor so affection
ate a reception, served rather to heighten the
disguise; and old Bestuchetf bowed himself out
with a compliment to the beauty of Mademoi
selle Beaumont, veiled in a diplomatic congrat
ulation to her imperial mistress.
Elizabeth was forty and a little passe, but she
still had pretensions, and was particularly fond
ot beauty in her attendants, female as well as
male. Her favorite, ot her personal suite, at
the time of the arrival of the Marquis, was an
exquisite little creature who had been sent to
her, as a compliment to this particular taste, by
the Duchess of Mecklenberg, Strelitz—a kind
of German “ Fanella,” or “ Mignon,” by the
name off Nadege Stein. Not much below the
middle size, Nadege was a model of symmetri
cal proportion, and of very extraordinary beau
ty. She had been carefully educated for her
present situation, and was highly accomplished;
a fine reader, and a singularly sweet musician
and dancer. The Tzarine’s passion for this
lovely attendant was excessive, and the arrival
of a new favorite of the same sex, was looked
upon with some pleasure by the eclipsed re
mainder of the palace idlers.
Elizabeth summoned Nadege, and committed
Modemoiselle Beaumont temporarily to her
charge; but the same mysterious magnetism
which had reached the heart of the Tzarine,
seemed to kindle, quite as promptly, the affec
tions of her attendant. Nadege was no sooner
alone with her new friend, than she jumped to
her neck, smothered her with kisses, called her
by every endearing epithet, and overwhelmed
her with questions, mingled with most child-like
exclamations of wonder at her own inexplicable
love for a stranger. In an hour she had shown
to the n**w demoiselle all the contents of the
little bou dr in which she lived; talked to her
of her loves and hates at the Russian court; of
her home in Mecklenberg, and her present sit
uation ; in short, poured out her heart with the
naif abandon of a child. The young Marquis
had never seen so lovely a creature; and, re
sponsibly as he felt his difficult and delicate
situation, he returned the affection so innocently
lavished upon him, and by the end of this first
fatal hour, was irrecoverably in love. And gay
as his life had been at the French court, it was
the first, and subsequently proved to be the deep
est passion of his life.
On the Tzarine’s return to her private apart
ment, she summoned her new attendant, and
superintended with condescending solicitude the
arrangements for her palace lodging. Nadege
inhabited a small tower adjoining the bedroom
ot her mistress, and above this was an unoccu
pied room, which at the pressing suggestion of
the fairy 1 ittle attendant, was allotted to the new
comer. The staircase opened by one door into
the private gardens, and by the opposite into the
corridor leading immediately to the imperial
chamber. The Marquis’s delicacj* would fain
have made some objection to this very intimate
location; but he could hazard nothing against
the interests of his sovereign, and he trusted to
a speedy termination of his disguise with the
attainment of his object. Meanwhile, the close
neighborhood of the fair Nadege, was not the
most intolerable of necessities.
The Marquis’s task was a very difficult one.
He was instructed before abandoning his dis
guise and delivering his secret despatches, to
awaken the interests of the Tzarine on the two
subjects to which the documents had reference,
viz: a former partiality ot her Majesty for
Louis, and a formerly discussed project of seat
ing the Prince de Conti on the throne of Po
land. Bestuchetf had so long succeeded in cut
ting off’ all approacli of these topics to the ear
ot the Tzarine, that her Majesty had probably
forgotten them altogether.
Weeks passed, and the opportunities to broach
these delicate subjects had been inauspiciously
rare. Mademoiselle de Beaumont, it is true,
had completely eclipsed the favorite Nadege
and Elizabeth, in her hours of relaxation from
State affairs, exacted the constant attendance of
the new favorite in her private apartments. But
the almost constant presence of some of the oth
er maids of honor, opposed continued obstacles
and interruptions, and the tzarine herself was
■ot always disposed to talk of matters more se
rious than the current trifles of the hour. She
was extremely indolent in her personal habits;
and often reclining at length upon cushions on
the floor of her boudcir, she laid her imperial
head in the lap of the embarrassed demoiselle,
and was soothed to sleep by reading and the
bathing of her temples. And during this peri
od, she exacted frequently of the Marquis, with
a kind of instinctive mistrust, promises of con
tinuance for life iu her personal service.
But there were sweeter hours for the enamor
ed La Chetardie than those passed in the pre
sence of his partial and imperial mistress. En
circled by sentinels and guarded from all intru
sion of other eyes, in the inviolable sanctuary
of royalty, the beautiful Nadege, impassioned
she knew not why, in herljve for her new com
panion, was ever within call, and happy in de
voting to him all her faculties of caressing en
dearment. He had not yet dared to risk the in
terests of his sovereign by a disclosure of his
sex, even in the confidence ot love. He could
not trust Nadege to play so difficult a part as
that of possessor of so embarrassing a secret
in the presence of the shrewd and obsefving
tzarine. A betrayal, too, would at once pul an
end to his happiness. With the slight arm of
the fair and relying creature about his waist,
and her head pressed close against his breast,
they passed the balmy nights of the Russian
summer in pacing the flowery alleys of the im
perial garden, discoursing, with but one reserve,
on every subject that floated to their lips. It
required, however, all the self-control of La Che
tardie, and all the favoring darkness of the
night, to conceal his smiles of the /urine con
fessions of the unconscious girl, and her won
dering* at the peculiarity of her feelings. She
had thought, hitherto, that there were affections
in her nature which could only be called forth
by a lover. Yet now, the thought of caressing
another than her friend—of repeating to any
human ear, least ot all to man, those new-born
vows of love, filled her with alarm and horror.
She felt that she had given her heart irrevocably
away—and to a woman! Ah, with what deliri
ous, though silent passion. La Chetardie drew
her to his bosom, and with the pressure of his
lips to hers, interrupted those sweet confessions!
Yet the time at last drew near tor the waking
from this celestial dream. The disguised di
plomatist had found his opportunity, and had
successfully awakened in Elizabeth’s mind both
curiosity and interest as to the subjects of the
despatches still sewed safely in his corsets.—
There remained nothing for him now, but to
seize *a favorable opportunity, and with the de
livery of his missives, to declare his sex to the
twine. There was risk of liberty in this, but
the Marquis knew not fear, and he thought but
of its consequences to his love.
In La Chetardie’* last interview with the sa-
T.ixl who conducted hiinto Russia, his male at
tire had been successfully transferred from one
potthianteau to the other, and it was now in his I
possession, ready for the moment of need I
With his plans brought to within a single night I
of the denouement, he parted from the tzarine,
having asked the imperial permission for an
hour’s private interview on the morrow, and,
with gentle force excluding Nadege from his
apartment, he dressed himself in his proper cos
tume, and cut open the warm envelope of his
despatches. This done, he drew his cloak over
him, and, with a dark lantern in his hand, sought
Nadege in the garden. He had determined to
disclose himself to her, renew his vows of love
in his proper guise, and arrange, while he had
access and opportunity, some means tor uniting
their destinies hereafter.
As he opened the door of the turret, Nadege
flew up the stair to meet him, and observing
the cloak in the faint glimmer of the stars, she
playfully endeavored to envelope herself in it.
But, seizing her hands, LatChetardie turned and
glided backwards, drawing her after him to
ward a small pavillion in the remoter part of the
garden. Here they had never been interrupted,
the empress alone having the power to intrude
upon them, and La Chetardie felt safe in devot
ing this place and lime to the double disclosure
of his secret, and his suppressed passion.
Persuading her with difficulty to desist from
putting her arms about him, and sit down with
out a caress, he retreated a few steps, and, in
the darkness of the pavillion, shook down his
imprisoned locks to their masculine abandon,
threw off his cloak, and drew up the blind of
his lantern. The scream of surprise which in
stantly parted from the lips of Nadege, made
him regret his imprudence in not having pre
pared her for the transformation, but her second
thought was mirth, for she could believe it of
course to lie nothing but a playful masquerade,
and with delighted laughter she sprang to his
neck and overwhelmed him with her caresses—
another voice, however, joined very unexpect
edly in the laughter!
The empress stood before them !
For an instant, with all his self-possession,
La Chetardie was confounded and dismayed.
Siberia, the knout, the scaffold, flitted before his
eyes, and Nadege was the sufferer! But a
glance at the lace of the tzarine re-assured him.
She, too, took it for a girlish masquerade!
But the empress, unfortunately, was not dis
posed to have a partner in her enjoyment of the
society of this new apparition or “hose and
doublet.” She ordered Nadege to her turret,
with one of those petulent commands which her
attendants understood to admit of no delay, and
while the eclipsed favorite disappeared with the
tears of unwilling submission in her soft eyes,
La Chetardie looked after her with the anguish
of eternal separation at his heart, fora presenti
ment crowded irresistibly upon him that he
should never see her more!
The empress was in slippers, and robe de nuit,
and, as if fate had determined that this well kept
secret should not survive the hour, her majesty
laid her arm within that of her supposed mas
querader, and fed the way to the palace. She
was wakeful, and wished to be read to sleep.
And, with many a compliment to the beauty of
her favorite in male attire at the door of her
chamber.
But the Marquis could go no further. He
had hitherto been spared the embarrassment of
of passing this sacred threshold, for the passee
empress had secrets ot toilette for the embellish
ment of her person, which she trusted only to
the eyes of an antiquated attendant. La Che
lardie had never passed beyond the boudoir
which was between the antechamber and the
bedroom, and the time had come for the disclo
sure of his secret. He tell on his knees and an
nounced himself a man.
Fortunately they were alone. Incredulous at
first, the Empress listened to asseverations, how
ever, with more amusement than displeasure,
and the immediate delivery of the despatches,
with the commendations of the disguised am
bassador by his royal master to the forgivness
and kindness of the Empress, amply secured
his pardon. But it was on condition that he
should resume his disguise and remain in her
service.
Alone in Iris tower, (for Nadege had disap
peared, and he knew enough of the cruelty of
Elizabeth, to dread the consequences to the poor
girl, of venturing on direct inquiries as to her
fate.) La Chetardie after a week fell ill; and
fortunate, even at this price, to escape from the
silken fetters of the enamored Tzarinc, he de
parted under the care of the imperial physician,
for the more genial climate of France—not
without reiterated promises of return, however,
and offers, in that event, of unlimited wealth
and advancement.
But, as the Marquis made his way slowly to
wards Vienna, a gleam of hope dawned on his
sadness. The Princess Sophia Charlotte was
newly affianced to George the Third ol England
and this daughter of the house of Mecklenberg,
had been the playmate of Nadege Stein, from
infancy, till the time when Nadege was sent to
the tazrine by the Dutchess of Mecklenberg.
Making a confident of the kind physician who
accompanied him, La Chetardie was confirm
ed, by the good man’s better experience and
knowledge, in the belief that Nadege had shared
the same fate of every female of the court who
had ever awakened the jealousy of the Empress.
She had doubtless exiled to Siberia; but, as she
had committed no voluntary fault, it was proba
bly without other punishment; and, with a play
mate on the throne of England, she might be de
manded and recovered ere long, in all her fresh
ness and beauty. Yet the recent fate of the fair
Eudoxio Lapoukin, who for an offence but little
more distasteful to the tzarine, had been pierced
through the tongue with hot iron, whipped with
the knout, and exiled for life to Siberia, hung like
a cloud of evil augury over his mind.
The Marquis suddenly determined that he
would see the affianced princess, and plead with
her for her friend, before the splendors of a
throne should make her inaccessible. The ex
citement of this hope had given him new life,
and he easily persuaded his attendant, as they
entered the gates of Vienna, that he required
his attendance no farther. Alone, with his own
servants, he resumed his female attire, and di
rected his course to Mecklenberg-Strelitz.
The princess had maintained an intimate cor
respondence with her playmate up to the time
of her betrothal, and the name of Mademoiselle
de Beaumont was passport enough. La Che
tardie had sent forward his servant on arriving
at the town, in the neighborhood of the ducal
residence, and the reply to his missive was
brought back by one of the officers in attend
ance, with orders to conduct the demoiselle to
apartments in the castle. He was received
with all honor at the palace gate by a chamber
lain in waiting, who led the way’to a suite ot
rooms adjoining those of the princess, where,
after being left alone for a few minutes, he was
familiarly visited by the betrothed girl, and
overwhelmed, as formerly by her friend, with
most embarrassing caresses. In the next mo
ment, however, the door was hastily flung open,
and Nadege, like a stream of light,fled through
the room, hung upon the neck of the speechless
and overjoyed Marquis, and ended with con
vulsions of mingled tears and laughter. The
moment that he could disengage himself from
her arms, La Chetardie requested to be left for
a moment. He felt the danger and impropriety
of longer maintaining his disguise. He closed
his door on the unwilling demoiselles, hastily
changed his dress, and, with his sword at his
side, entered the adjoining reception-room of
the princess, where Mademoiselle de Beaumont
was impatiently awaited.
The scene which followed, the mingled con
fusion and joy of Nadege, the subsequent hilar
ity and masquerading at the castle, and the par
ticulars of the marriage of the Marquis de la
Chetardie to his fair fellow maid-of-honor, must
be left to the reader’s imagination. We have
room only to explain the re-appearance of Na
dege at Mecklenberg.
Nadege repaired to her turret at the impera
tive command of the Empress, sad and troubled;
but waited wakefully and anxiously for the re
entrance of her disguised companion, in the
course of an hour, however, the sound of a sen
tinel’s musket, set down at her door, informed
her that she was a prisoner. She knew Eliza
beth, and the Duchess of Mecklenberg, with an
equal knowledge oflhe tzarine’s character, had
provided her with a resource against the impe
rial cruelty, should she have occasion to use it.
She crept to the battlements of the tower, and
fastened a handkerchief to the side overlooking
the public house
The following morning at daylight, Nadege
was summoned to prepare for a journey, and, in
an hour, she was led between soldiers to a car
riage at the palace gate, and departed by the
northern egress et the city, with a guard of three
mounted Cossacks. In two hours from that
time, the carriage was overtaken, the guard over
powered, and the horses’ heads turned toward
Moscow. After many difficulties and dangers,
during which she found herself in the charge of
a Mecklenberg officer, in the service of the tza
rine, she reached Vienna in safety, and was im
mediately concealed by her friends in the neigh
borhood of the palaee at Mecklenberg, to re
main hidden till inquiry should be over. The
arrival of Mademoiselle de Beaumont, for the
loss of whose life or liberty she had incessantly
wept with dread and apprehension, was Joyful
ly communicated to her by her friends, and so
the reader knows tolerably well some of the
passages in the early love ot the f ar-tamed beau
ty in the French Court in the time of Louis
XV—the Marchaioness de la Chetardie.
Caution in settling accounts —a legal
trap.—By a case lately decided in one of our
Courts, it turns out to be the law, that when the
principal of a debt is received an action cannot
be maintained for the interest. This is a point
of law which it concerns the mercantile part of
the community to be familiar with, for it is a
case which may happen every day in ordinary
dealings. The policy or reason of the rule is
not very plain, and it seems to be one of those
remnants of barbarism which have not yielded
to common sense. Such however is plainly the
law. A creditor cannot receive the entire prin
cipal without sacrificing the interest to which
he is just as much entitled as the principal it
self. Let him leave a little of the principal,
though only one cent, and he is safe, but on no
account give a receipt for the whole.—.V. Y.
The Word Tariff.—lt is stated that thefword
“ Tariff” is derived from the town of'Tarifa, on
the Spanish coast, in the straits of Gibraltar,
and the most southern town in Europe. Tarifa
was the last stronghold which the Moors disput
ed with the Christians, and is still within three
leagues of the empire of Morocco. When the
Moors held possession of the pillars of Hercules
it was here they levied contributions for vessels
entering the Mediteranean —whence the generic
name.
From the Boston Fosl.
Debating Society.
“I move that the question be read.” Secre
tary reads—“ Which is the truest science, mes
merism or phrenology?” “Mr. President, the
question has neither negative nor affirmative.”
President—“No matter—Dr. Jiggs for mesmer
ism—Captain Jewkes for phrenology.” Mr.
Saunders—“l would ask, Mr. President, it the
question does not intrench itself against the
constitution? We are not to discuss religion
nor politics in this society: now, free knowl
edge is a sectarian pint, and if we are agoin’ to
discuss that, I shall withdraw from this socie
ty.” President—“ The word has a different
meaning in the question, and has allusion to
the protuberantic devilopments of the cranny
urn.” Stump—“ All this is outer order; there
aint no question afore the. meetin.” President
—“Dr. Jiggs, will you open?” Dr. Jiggs—
“Mr. President, I have not entered these walls
Uris evening, prepared to speak on this question;
I-ur-rah-am-ur-rah-in favor of mesmerism as I
understand it. Mesmerism is a kind ot somno
lence, and is mentioned by Tycho Brahe, when
he said, “Blessed be that man who invented
sleep.” Under the magnetic influence of mes
meric sleep, man has travelled through the ab
struse regions of-of-Mr. President— the chime
ral atmosphere of the most unbounded meta
physical incongruities; he has analyzed time
and space, and soared into the mysteries of the
esse and existere, like-like-like-any thing! My
oppernent will no doubt extend his ferocious
mouth against my argument; but, sir, my ar
gument is based on the experiments of Collyer
and the philosophy of Dods! Sir! I say, sir!
mesmerism is the key which oversets the dipnet
of time, and discloses ,o human visiology the
intricacies of miraculous interpositions. But
phrenology, sir, what is it ? the child of gall and
bitterness. It maps out the human skull like a
terrestrial globe, and its professors, to make
good the resemblance, have whirled their brains
on their axes, and equal-knock-tialized their ex
uberances on the oxsipital and piratical bones.
I reserve my remaining remarks for the rejine
der.”
President—“ Captain Jewkes!” Jewkes—“l
aint prepared to say nothin’ on thisquestion—at
least—-no—but then sence I heam the doctor, I
would say a few words on the ideas chalked
down here on my hat. Phrenology is the sci
ence of the knowledge-box, and knowledge is
free: hence phrenology. But mesmerism is
the science of sleep. It says that one man can
put another to sleep; so can opium. It deduces
man then to the level of a pyton-ous drug. My
antagonist has made use of a great many lonff
words, and his speech would go twice round the
world and tie.” Stump—“l call the cap’n to
order for personalities.” Jewkes—“Didn’t the
doctor call my mouth ‘ferocious?’ Retaliation
is the first law of nature. He needn’t say noth
ing about mouth! Just look at his, Mr. Presi
dent; it goes clean round, and makes the top of
his cranny-um, as he calls it, an island. Mes
merism and its supporters are humbugs, sir—
yes,"sir, humbugs, sir. They pick out a sleepy
headed fat boy, who drops asleep of himself,
and pretend that they willed it, when they
couldn’t a helped it if they had tried. I con
clude, sir, by moving the question.” President
—“Those in favor of mesmerism, hands up, 14;
phrenology, hands up, 14; a the. Gentlemen,
you have decided that one science is just as true
as the other. The society is adjourned.
Burning ot* a Russian Theatre. —Recent
English papers give an account of the burning
of a Theatre at St. Petersburg, which occasion
ed a terrible destruction of human life. The
fire broke out behind the scenes, and the direct
or of the theatre ordered the curtain at the back
of the stage to be drawn up, that every one
one might be aware ot the imminence of the
danger. Thick smoke and flames and smoke
poured out toward the body of the house.—
Laughter was suddenly turned into pallid fear,
and shrieks of horror burst from the bosoms of
thousands, who but now had been convulsive
with mirth. Grasping what was nearest them,
all rushed toward the outlets.
These were too few for the magnitude of the
theatre, and it was very slowly that the foremost
made way for those behind them. So much
the more rapidly did the flames communicate to
the resinous fir planks, and quickly advancing
from scene to scene, they soon penetrated into
the body of the theatre, still swarming with peo
ple. As ill luck would have it, one of the large
folding doors at the entrance, which opened in
ward, had in the confusion been accidently
pushed to, and resisted all efforts. Thus only
half of the main entrance was available lor es
cape in this critical moment, and the retreat of
the audience was of course proportionably de
layed.
The police would not at first suffer private
individuals to render assistance, that they might
keep the conduct of the business to themselves.
A tradesman nevertheless, contrived with a
spade to break down a board on one side of the
theatre, and to drag sixty half suffocated per
sons out of this harlequin’s hell through the ap
erture, with imminent peril of his own life.—
The Emperor Nicholas rewarded the worthy
man with an order, as he was poor, with a pen
sion ot 2,000 rubles.
Meanwhile, the people in the street, as may
be supposed, became aware that the matter was
no joke. The tearful tidings soon spread thro’
the city that Lehmann’s theatre was on fire,
and that thousands of persons in it were likely
to perish. It is impossible to conceive the con
sternation and despair that seized all Petersburg.
There was not a family one or more of whose
members might not be among the wretched suf
ferers. When the Emperor, on the first news of
the fire, hastened from the Winter Palace, to
the spot, women ran up to him and cried, “Sir,
save, save! My son is among them! —And my
husband is there!—My brother is not out yet!—
“Children,” replied the Emperor, “I will save
all I can.”
When the fire was over, when the flames and
life were extinct, and all who were within lay
in a burned and charred heap, the melancholy
business of removing the dead was commenced.
The sight is said to have been beyond) all idea
harrowing and appalling, when, on clearing a
way the limbers had fallen in, the mass of bod
ies was gradually discovered. They were pull
ed out one by one with hooks; some were com
pletely carbonized, others roasted like chesnuts;
many had only the hair of the head singed; ma
ny with glazed eye, burned hair, and charred
faces, had on their holiday clothes and decora
tions which the flames had not reached, on ac
count of the close pressure ot the throng.
These presented a far more repulsive specta
cle than those which were entirely burned. In
one part of the building, which the flames had
spared, were found dense masses of bodies still
standing upright, like a host of shades from
the nether world. A female was found with
her head hangingover the gallery, and holding
her hand andher handkerchief before her face.
A gentleman who witnessed the operation of
clearing away the bodies, told me that he could
not touch food for three days, so frightful were'
the images that had incessantly haunted him
afterward, and a lady, who had looked on from
a distance, was so shocked that she became de
lirious, and raved for several days both sleeping
and waking.
The number of the victims was subsequently
stated officially to be 300; but a person told me
that he counted with his own eyes 50 carts, each
of which contained from 10 to 15 bodies. Peo
ple who pretended to know from good authori
ty, represented the number as so large that I
dare not repeat it, lest others might think the a
mount too improbable.”
The Silver Bullet.
The readers of American History will recol
lect that intheplanofthe campaign ofßurgoyne
it was intended that Sir Henry Clinton should
ascend the Hudson from New York, and join
Burgoyne at Albany. Fortunately, however,
neither of the parties succeeded in reaching the
point in junction. Clinton, it will be remem
bered, commenced his voyage up the Hudson,
taking Fort Montgomery, defended by Goveru
orGeo. and Gen. James Clinton, in the High
lands proceeding thence North of JEsopus,
which was captured and burnt. Immediately
after the capture of Fort Montgomery, Sir
Henry Clinton dispatched a spy as a messenger
to Burgoyne, announcing his movement and
thus far its success. The spy was furnished
with a letter enclosed in a silver bullet—the sil
ver being coated with lead, and the bullet mixed
with others of real lead, which he carried with
affected carelessness in his pocket.
The spy, however, was taken in Dutchess
county, near Red Hook, and searched. On
handling the bullets, it was discovered that one
was much lighter than the other. ‘‘Why, this
can never be a bullet,” exclaimed one of the cap
tors; ‘it is too light.’ The spy thereupon snatched
the bullet from the hand of the other, and instant
ly swallowed it. The circumstance was reported
to Governor Clinton, who directed a surgeon to
take him in hand, for the purpose of bringing
the missive to light. An emetic proving inade
quate to the object a powerful eatharic effected
the purpose, and on opening the bullet the follow
ing letter was extracted therefrom:
“Fort Montgomery, Oct. 8,1777.
“rVe«s void, and nothing between us but Gates.
1 sincerely hope this little success of his may
facilitate your operations. In answer to your
letter of 28th September, by C. C., I shall only
say that I cannot presume to order, or even ad
vise, for reasons obvious. I heartily wish you
success.
“Faithfully yours,
“H. CLINTON.
“To General Burgoyne."
The man upon whom the bullet was found
was hanged as a spy, upon a tree, in a little
place called Hurley, about three miles from
jEsopu.—now Kingston. We have received
this scrap of history from the circumstance that
General James Tallmadge, one of the heirs of
GovemorClinton, (George,) exhibited the bullet
and the original letter at the the His
torical Society on Tuesday evening.—AT. Y.
Commercial.
Riots in Canada. —Several riots—severe and
bloody—have recently occurred among the la
borers on the Lachine Canal in Canada East.
They seem to have had their rise in the clan
nish enmity between the Corkonians and Con
naughtmen, and on the night ot Thursday the
•2d, u ere extremely violent. Several men were
shot and many wounded, one of whom had
died. Again on Saturday night the same diffi
culties recurred. The rioters, were, however,
dispersed—the (‘orkohians proving victorious.
Th* others have determined la leave the works.
Wise Counsels.
The following well written and excellent items
of advice, are by Mr. Horace Greely, editor of
the New York Tribune. He is addressing the
young:
Avoid the common error of esteeming a col
lege education necessary to usefulness or emin
ence in life. Such an education may be desira
ble and beneficial—to many it is doubtless so.
But Greek and Latin are not real knowledge;
they are only means of acquiring such knowl
edge; there have been great and wise and sur
passing useful men in all ages, who knew no
language but their mother tongue. Besides, in
our day, the treasures of ancient and cotempora
ry foreign literature are brought home to every
man’s door by translations, which embody the
substance, if they do not exhibit all the beauties
of the originals. II your circumstances in life
enable you to enjoy the advantages of a college
education, do not neglect them—above all do
not misimprove them. But if your lot be differ
ent, waste no time in idle repining, in humiliat
ing beggary. The stern, halt-respecting inde
pendence of your soul is worth whole shelves of
classics. All men cannot and need not, be col
lege bred—not even those who are bom to in
struct and improve their mind. You can never
be justly deemed ignorant, crj-our acquirements
contemptible, ifyo'u embraee’and fully improve
the opportunities which are fairly offered you.
Avoid likewise the kindred and equally per
nicious error that you must have a profession—
must be a Clergyman, Lawyer, Doctor or some
thing ot the sort —in order to be influential, use
ful, respected—or, to state the case in its best
aspect, that you may lead an intellectual life.
Nothing of the kind is necessary—very farfrom
it. If your tendencies are intellectual—if you
love Knowledge, Wisdom, Virtue, for them
selves—you will grow in them, whether you live
by a profession, a trade, or by tilling the ground.
Nay, it may be doubted that the farmer or me
chanic, who follows his intellectual pursuits
from a pure love of them, has not some advan
tages therein over a professional man. He
comes to his book in the evening with his head
clear, and his mental appetite sharpened by the
manual labor, taxing lightly the spirit, or brain A
while the lawyer, who has been running
dry old books for precedents, the doctor who has
been racking his wits tbr a remedy adapted to
some new modification ol disease, or the divine,
immured in his closet, has been busy preparing
his next sermon, may well approach the even
ing volume with senses jaded and palled. There
are few men, and perhaps few women, who do
not spgjd uselessly in sleep or play, or frivo
lous employments, more time than would be re
quired to render them, at thirty, -well versed in
History, Philosophy, Ethics, as well as Physical
Sciences.
The Newark Daily Advertiser of Wednesday
evening says—
The Conut blazed out conspicuously about
sunset last evening, the long bushy tail stretch
ing from near the southwestern horizon to near
the zenith. Some fearful imagina ions, filled
with the follies of Millerism, were foolishly
frightened at its aspects. Some recent writer
says—
Os 501 Comets that have entered the solar
system 24 have passed between Mercury and the
Sun, 47 within Venus, 58 between Venus and
the Earth, 73 between the Earth and Mars, and
302 between Mars and the orbit of Jupiter, and
no casualty has occurred to primary orsatellite.
The Comet of 1770 passed through the system
of Jupiter without producing the slightest effect.
Still many people are alarmed at these erratic
bodies, these rail cars of the stellar regions, the
mystery of whose office and destiny makes their
astronomy of intense interest. With reference
to the danger of a Comet’s striking the Earth,
we here add that the Comet Encke, whose period
is only 1207 days, and nearest the Earth of all
the Comets known, cannot come in collision
short of a period of 210,000,000 of years, which
calculation is based on astronomical facts.
The present phenomenon more resembles the
zodiacal light, which we should have called it,
if the eastern magi had not pronouced it a Comet.
Some observers here also discovered the nucleus
last evening with glasses, soon after sunset, near
the Southwestern horizon. The length of the
tail is from 30 to 40 degrees and is verv beau
tiful.
New Railroad Invention.—A patent has
been taken out at Paris, by M. T. Wroughton,
a private gentleman in London, for various im
portant improvement in railway travelling. In
the first place, he has a coach so constructed and
suspended in its proportions that it cannot over
turn, and runs with such smoothness as to occa
sion no unpleasantness to the traveller, and
comparatively little friction to the rails. Second
ly, he has a new bleak ofsueh easy construction
that a child can work it, and which can be gradu
ally or immediately brought into action. Third
ly, the conductor, by means ot a spring at his
loot, can in a moment when there is danger,de
tach all the train from the locomotive; and last
but not feast he has invented a beautiful piece
of machinery by which the conductor of the first
carriage can at any pail of the road ascertain
the precise rale of speed at which is
travelling, and so prepare himself for the acKm.
of the break or spring so as to avoid all danger
to the passengers from the negligence or im
prudence of the engineer of the locomotive, or
any other cause.
A keel boat together with its load, consisting
of near one hundred bales of cotton, was acci
dentally destroyed by fire on Tuesday last, be
tween this place and Breaux’s Bridge. The fire
burnt with such rapidity that those on board had
barely time to make their escape.
This unfortunate accident will be severely
felt by several of our small planters, whose
whole year’s labor and income have thus been
destroyed in a moment. — AUakapas Gazette.
TV An inquisitive country gentleman thus
accosted a boy who was tending pigs:
“Boy, whose pigs are those I”
“The sow’s, sir,” was the prompt reply.
“Well, then, whose sow is it?”
“Father’s.” ,
“Well, well, who is your father?”
"If you will mind the pigs, I will run home
and ask my mother.”
A Nuisance. —A grand jury in Indiana has
presented the practice of dunning as a nuisance.
A Novel Speculation.—A company has been
established in Boston calling itself the Bangor
Snow and Ice furnishing company.” Among
other things, they have contracted with the city
government for the remova I of all snow and ice in
the street, which they convey to an extensive ice
house in the vicinity. In the summer they in
tend to dispose of it to gardeners for purposes
ofirrigation and manuring, mixing salt with it
to make it melt.
Freshet.—< )ur correspondent at Cheraw, un
der date of the l‘2th inst. says, when speaking
of the river,—“it is rising fast and nearly out of
the banks. Wc fear it may be something like
it was two years ago thismon(h.” — IVinyak Ob
server.
Greediness op Office.— It is state! that
there are already twelve hundred applicants for
office, under the new Collector of Philadelphia.
A Rich Prize to an Antiuuary.—A recent
foreign account says that a Flemish gentleman
lately bought of a priest (Romanist) a collection
of old liooks, among which he found the 6th copy
—only think—the till! copy, only 5 had ever before
been printed—ot the Ist printed edition of the
bible! In 1816,as is stated, another copy ofthin
same Ist edition was sold to then KingofFrance
—who was of eou rse Lou is 18th, for about 3-1000.
JjfMtcuAEL Hare, of Union township,
Erie county, Pennsylvania, a soldier of the
Revolution, died on the 4th inst., at the advanc
ed age of about 116 years. He was the oldest
of the many worthy pensioners on the roll —had
been a resident of Erie county about forty-three
years—walked twice a year live miles to Wa
terford for Ins pension, aril retained nis natb?Al
faculties to tin- last, tie Was honest, brave,
and patriotic. His age, though not positively
known, is generally believed to have been as
given above. Funeral honors were paid to his
remains at St. Peter’s church, Waterford.—
Peace to his ashes!— Erie Gazette.
Fovrrierism.—A Fourrieristinstitution call
ed Ike Sylvania Association, is about to be estab
lished in the vicinity of New York, a tract of
land having been purchased for the purpose.
The President of the association is Mr. T. W.
Whitley, an eminent artist; the Secretary is
Horace Greely, editor of the New York Tri
bune. Among the stockholders is the name of
Edwin Forrest. The system proposed is akind
of common stock, in which those w r ho laborare
interested, and receive a compensation in pro
portion to their skill, Ac. An institution of a
similar character, composed of Germans, has
been in operation in McKean county, in Penn
sylvania, for near a year past.
Maine Fur Trade.—The Portsmouth Jour
nal says that Maine supplies more fox skins
that any other territory of equal extent in the
work!. Two years since, a New York trader
went to Mairiej and in less than a fortnight re
turned again, with nineteen thousand fox skins,
for which he paid about 5'25,000. It was esti
mated that 10,000 foxes had been killed in
Maine that Winter.
yVThc attempt to get up any sympathy tor
Messrs. Wte and Cushing, in consequence of
their rejection by the Senate, will utterly fail.
The case 1 ies in a nutshell. They, were thro’-
out the 27th Congress, the constant, zealous,
untiring advocates and defenders of the Presi
dent and his Administration. They were pro
mised during that time, by the President and
his Administration, office At the end ot the
tenn the promise was redeeine<b—for servicer
rendered. Office was tendered. The Senate re
jected the bargain. In what does the case un
der consideration differ from that of a hired ad
vocate who receives a fee for his defence of a
client? And are not the Senate right in thus
thwarting the designs of those who would make
the high offices of the Government rewards for
personal and political devotion to those in pow
er ?— Alec. Gaz.
Confidence.—The editor of the Boston Post
-.ays: “All that is necessary for the enjoyment
of sausages at breakfast, is coufi ter,a."
The Comet.
> The following account of comet, is given in
I the Encyclopedia ot Geography, and will be
• found interesting and instructive at this time:
Comets.—The fixed stars and the planets are
always visible when not obscured by the supe
rior light of the sun; but the class ol bodies call
ed comets are seen only when they are in that
part of their several paths which lies nearest to
the sun: at alt other times they move through
regions of space far beyond the reach of our vis
ion, even when assisted by the most powerful
telescopes. The motions of the comets are,
like those of the planets, performed in elliptic
orbits according to Kepler’s laws; but, unlike
the planetary orbits, the ellipses which the com
ets describe are extremely elongated: so that
the small portkn of their orbits through which
we have an opportunity of tracing them, coin
cides very nearly with a parabola, the curve of
which is the limit of the ellipse when its great
er axis is indefinitely increased. The inclina
tion of the orbits of the comets is very various:
some move in planes almost coincident with the
• elliptic, and others in planes nearly perpendicu
lar to it. They move also in very different di
rections, the motion of some being direct and
of others retrograde.
The comets differ widely from the planets in
their appearance, as well as in the figure and
position of their orbits. When a cometis first
seen, it is usually surrounded by a faintly lumi
nous vapor, which becomes more bright as the
comet approaches the sun, and at length shoots
out into a long luminous and transparent n aiti,
very much resembling n streamer, and extend
ing in a direction opposite to the sun. The
dense part of the comet, which both to the naked
eye, and when viewed through a telescope, re
sembles much the planetary bodies, is called the
; nucleus; the faintly luminous vapor by which
it is surrounded is called the co.aa; and the long
luminous train proceeding from the comet in an
opposite direction from the sun is called the IniZ.
Between the nucleus and the coma lies a part
' fainter than the former, but brignter than the
[ latter, and in which thenucleus a. pears involv
, ed: this is called the head of the eomet.
L The length of the tail is very various. Some
| rfimes it extends only a few degrees; in other
l&Sses, it lias been found to reach over more
1 than a fourth part of the heaven*: it a comet
’ does not come very neai the sun, the comet does
. not shoot into a tail, but retains tiie appearance
of a nebulosity round the eomet during the
whole period of its being visible. Thetailsome
times consists of two or more di verging streams'
of light, and is always so transparent dial the
smallest stars are seen through it without any
sensible diminution of their brilliancy.
Nature of Comets. — In ages of ignorant e, c jm
ets have always, from lheir extraordinary ap
pearance, been sources of superstitious terror to
mankind. This fear has been dissipated by the
light of science, which has shown tliat the ap
pearance of comets are regulated by the same
laws as other celestial phenomena. We are
still, however, almost entirely ignorant of the
l nature of these bodies, though a great many liy
; aothesis have been formed concerning them.
' They were considered by some of the ancients,
r and particularly by Aristotle, as accidental fires
or meteors generated in the atmosphere of die
‘ earth; but this opinion is obviously groundless,
j II they were connected with the earth or its at
i inosphere, they would partakeofthe diurnal mo
! tion on the axis, and could not therefore appear
to have a diurnal revolution in the heavens
• along with the oilier celestial bodies. Besides,
1 their having no diurnal parallax proves that
; they are at a gieat distance from the earth;
' while the fact of their apparent motion being al
! fected by the annual motion of the earth shows
r that they are situated in the planetary regions.
' Observation has demonstrated that, like the
’ planets, they are permanent bodies, an I, in all
I probability, derive their’light from the sun.
From the small portion of the orbit ol any
1 comet, which we have an opportunity of obser
-1 ving we cannot ascertain with sufficient accu
racy the elements necessary for determining the
' period of its return; but supposing that their or
-1 bits are not disturbed by any cause in those dis
tant regions of spat e through which the greater
’ portion of the paths of comets lie, it is evident
that by accurately observing all the comets that
: come within view, and carefully recording the
results, in the course of ages, the return of ma
ny comets may be detected, and their periodic
, timd® ascertained. Hence the greater axis of
the orbit of each may be determined by Kep
’ ler’s third law; and the comet’s feast distance
[ from the sun being found by obsei vations, ihe
I less axis will also become known. In this
manner the periodic time of some comets has
been found, and their return predicted.
Dangerfrom Comets. — As the comets traverse
the planetary regions in all directions, it is nat
, Ural to inquire whether there is not a possibili
ty that some one of them may approach so near
to the earth as greatly to disturb its motion, or
i by an actual contact to produce the most disas
trous effects. Upon this subject, there is no
reasonable ground for fear. If it is not abso
lutely impossible that a comet may come in
contact with the earth, the probabilities against
such an event happening arc as million to one.
Among bodies so small in eotnuarisoi’ "Jt!; the
clinedin all directions, and are of all dimcn
. sions, how small must be the probability that
any two shall come in contact! Small, how
ever, as this probability is for any one age, if
- we take into account a long series of ages, the
I probability may be greatly increased.
It we suppose the earth actually to receive
! such a shock, it is easy to imagine the caiam
-1 itous consequences which must follow. The
axis and motion of rotation being changed, the
r waters of the ocean would leave their ancient
: position, and would be precipitated towards the
t new equator. A great part of the human race,
and of the lower animals, would be drowned
by this universal deluge, or destroyed by the
, violent shock impressed on the terrestial globe.
Whole species of animals might be annihila
ted. All the monuments of human industry
and invention would be overthrown. In such
a catastrophe we find, too, a cause adequate to
account tor the ocean having overflowed lofty
’ mountains, on which it has left incontestible
. evidence ot its presence; and to explain how
the animalsand plants of the south may have
existed in the climates of the north, where we
, find the remains and impressions of them.—
Lastly, such an event accounts for the recentnes
of the modern world, the monuments of which
go back scarcely 3000 years. The human race,
reduced to a small number of individuals, and
to the most miserable condition, would tor a
’. long time be mainly occupied in providing for
’ their preservation amidst the wreck which sur
rounded them, and would lose all remembrance
' of arts and sciences; anti when, by the progress
' ol civilization, they at length became sensible
J of the want of these, they would find it neces
-1 sary to recommence, as if man had been newly
placed upon earth.
It seems impossible to contemplate thepic
! turc of calamity here drawn, without being for
f cibly struck with this singular coincidence; that
• if we suppose the period of the comet of IGBO
. (which in that year made a considerably near
approach to the earth’s orbit to lie 575 f years,
and count back, from the year 1680, seven rev
t olutions, ora period of 1028 years, we reach
r the year 2319 before Christ—the year of the
. deluge, as fixed by ehronslogers.
It we take into consideration the great veloc
t ity with which the comets move in approach
i irig to and receding from the sum, it is evident
t that tbs mere approximation of a comet to the ter
f restud orbit, would be pro liiclioc of little or iu>
5 effect.. Accordingly, though a comet is said to
: have eclipsed the moon, in which case it must
» have been very near the earth, no sensible es
! lect was produced.
In addition to the above notice of the Comets,
we give a portion of an article on the same sub-
> ject, translated from the fifteenth edition of Fran
coeur’s Astronomy.
Comets, which were formerly regarded as
1 meteors, engendered by the atmosphere, are tru
-1 ly stars very far from the earth; they are plan
: ets which describe an ellipsis excessively
' stretched out of which the ran is the foctwjthey
1 are often accompanied by a vaporous tail, thro'
> which one can even distinguish the little stars..
r This is only at first a nebulosity which sui-’
5 rounds the comet; it increases in proportion as
s it approaches nearer to the sun, and forms
■ sometimes an immense train which reachesnow
and then to 90 degrees in length. The shapes
of comets, moreover, are verv uncertain. The
- tail of that of the year 471 fi. C., occupied a
- third of the heavens, according to Aristotle;
f that of the year 130 B. C., at the birth of Mith
. jidates, appeared during 80 days as large as the
. sun. Ten years before, there had been seen
s one which seemed to inflame all the sky. Jus-
- tin reports that it had a brilliancy superior to
f the sun, and occupied a fourth of the sky. The
i comet of the year 45 B. C., was very fine, and
e it was supposed, alter the murder of Julius
- Caesar, that it had come to announce that event,
t That of the year 117 was, they say, very fright
s Jul. According to Freret, that of 479 was able
- to eclipse the sun in an extraordinary manner.
In 400 one was seen in form of a sword, which
stretched from the zenith to the horizon. That
-of 531, surnamed Lampiadas, was very large
s and very terrible. The moon was a little larger
s in appearance than those seen in 1 066 and 150 G.
r As for the rest, there is reason to believe that
- they have mixed much exaggeration with the
, truth; and since nature has been better studied
- we have had no example of comets of such ex
i traordinary size and brilliancy. The most re
markable have appeared in 837, 1106, 1402,
1456, 1532, 1618, 1680, 1759, 1769, and 1811
That of 1618 had a tail of 101 degrees in length;
‘ that of 1680, one of the most celebrated and
■ most remarkable had a tail from 70 to 90 degrees:
’ that of 1744 had six tails disposed in fan form.
’ There are those to the contrary, which have no
tails, nor even that sort of troubled lights which
. is called beard, or fibrous or nebulosity. The
' phasis which was observed in that of 1744, has
: made us believe that these stars are opaque bo
' dies, formed by a mass which accompanied a
vaporous train of uncertain intenseness and
size. The opinion of the opacity of comets, is
confirmed by the last experiments of Arago, on
the of the light of that of the year
; 1819.
A comet never has any tail when it is far
from the sun, but as soon as it is thirty millions
of leagues from it, this vapor commences to
tonn, and enlarges, in proportion as it approach
es the sun. The developement has acquired its
greatest dimension, little after the perihelium.
Afterwards, in proportion as the comet increas-
es in distance from the Sun, the tail diminishes;
ft is sqoit nothing but a cloud, mid t.t last the
comet itself ceases to be peiceptiblei
Daniel Webster has written a letter to
the N. Hamp*hire Sentinel, in which he says:
“The slander, that I ever made any such decla
ration as, "lake care of the rich, and the rich will
take care of the poor," is a base calumny and
falsehood.”
Machine.—A laic Paris account
says that a second report to the Paris Academy
ot Sciences respecting he Gcrohjpe, the new and
magical apparatus ter printing, is even more
favorable tlmu the first. Book's are reprinted
by lithographic process. Dupont, a printer ol
Periguex, has reproduced thus the whole of an
ancient work, orthography, vignettes, characters,
a perfect beautiful lac simile.
From Lima.—The New York Journal ofCom
mercc has received from its correspondei t, ad
vices from Lima to the 6th November. The
war between th.* Peruvians and Bolivians was
going on wilhgreat bitterness—the success being
with the Bolivians. We take fiom the letterthe
following paragraph:
“The yellow fever bi pke out in Guayaquil ear
ly in October, an! has been raging with great vio
lence.—Many of the principal inhabitants a
mongst whom is Mr. diaries Luken, an Amer
ican meichant, hadalrcady fallen victims. Our
dates from thence are up to Oct. 22d.
The Comet*
The following communication, presumed to
be from the pen of the venerable Noah Web
ster, is taken from the columns of the New Ha
ven Herald:
Messrs. Editors—The present comet is con
sidered as a very brilliant phenomenon, but it is
tar inferior to that which 1 saw when young, ei
ther in 1769 or 1770. That rose in the morning
before the sun, and its stream of light extended
nearly from the horizon to the meridian, 80 or
90 degrees. It proceeded from a point and lie
came wider at the extremity, like a dove’s tail.
It covered five times the space in the heavens
which the stream of light frran the present com
et covers. This light always appears opposite
to the sun, and is probably the light of the sun
modified by the nucleus or atmospheres of the
comet, in some measure like the streaks of light
which we often see iu summer, occasioned by
the rays of the sun passing through vapor in
different degrees of density.—The vulgar notion
is that when these streaks appear, the sun
orates ora. er, when the appearance is made sole
ly by the light passing through vapor, or be
tween portions of it.
The tail of the comet is not fire, and it might
sweep over us, without our perceiving it. In
deed, this is probably the case sometimes, when
a comet comes directly between the sun and
he earth. ' W.
Correspondence of the U. S. Gazette.
New York, Monday, P. M.
Disastrous EAiirnqxAKß.—Capt. Knowles,
of the schor her Ellen, arrived this morning
from St. Thomas, informs me that previous to
his sailing, several passengershad arrived from
Guadaloupe, who describe the earthquake there
tas having been most disastrous. It commenc
ed al 1(1 o'clock in the morning, whilst the in
habitants were at breakfast, and in a few sec
onds every house and buildin" was laid pros
trate. The loss of life was
UOtl inhabitants only one-third escaped. The
Amerieaii Consul was buried in the ruins, and
dugoutVith both legs shockingly injured—he
underwent an amputation, but died immediate
ly after. 4000 bodies had been taken from the
ruins and carried out to sea to prevent a pesti
lence. Os a regiment of soldiers, 800 strong,
70 only were left alive.
Mr. Ridgely, a comedian f om Philadelphia,
with his son, marie an extremely narrow escape
—unharmed—by springing from a window.
Goon.—A member from Tennessee (Locofo
co) is said to be chosen lor Charge d'Affaires at
Venezuela. A good story is related about this
learner! personage. The President remarked to
him in a patronizing tone—“ Well, Mr. , I
believe I must send you to Venezuela.” The
grateful member was quite oveicome; and re
plied modestly that he was much obliged to the
President, but he feared the climate of Canada
would be too cold for his constitution! So runs
the tale.— Balt. Pat.
The intelligent Loco above alluded to. is Mr.
Watterson of Tennessee.
From the Bristol Mercury Feb. 11.
Tin: lath Awvci. Gales.-—The sacrifice of
life and property at sea during the lastsix weeks
has been, we regret to say, without parallel in
the history of our mercantile affairs. ' On refer
ence to Loyd’s books and other authentic dqpu
'’ents, itaptiears that the total number of-*:,
-str- o—ALt-*, .oe ureaami —.con the
night of the 13tliof last mouth was about 180,
and that the number of persons who perished
with them amounte Ito not fess than 453. On
the coast of England 151 vessels were wrecked,
and 190 lives lost; on the coast of Ireland, 5
vessels, were* lost with 101 lives; on the coast of
Scotland, 17 vessels were wrecked and 39 lives
lost; ami on the coast of France, 4 vessels and
100 lives. The value of the vessels and cargoes
has been roughly estimated at X585,0'J0, viz:
the. vessels at .£105,000, and thecargoes nt £IBO,-
000. On the three following days alter the 13th
numerous other wrecks occurred, to the extent o!
neatly 60, the losses of whicn are upward of
£250,000; this, with the others, making a total
ol £815,0(10. To this is to be added the grea
loss of vessels that occurred in the course of the
storm of Friday and Saturday last.
WtiAT uastiih Whig Congress Done?—The
Washington correspondent of the New York
American, among various other acts of the
Whig Congress, enumerates the following:
The Whigs found the annual expenditures
of this Government §39,060,006! They reduc
ed them last year to §24,000,000, and this war
to §17,000,000!! This will be officially shown
by the annual statement of appropriations soon
to be published by the Clerk of the House. 1
take this opportunity to call attention to the
fact, that in that statement under a new law of
Congress, the expenditures of the Post Office
Department are for the first time thrown into
the general charges, that department having for
merly been made a separate account, balancing
its own expenditures by it< own receipts, gen
erally about 84,500,000. That item must there
fore be subtracted, for a fair comparison. I
exclude also the interest on the Van Buren Na
tional Debt.
From the National Intelligencer.
Vrogress of Mesmerism.
A distinguished professor of this new* an.l
valuable art or science (whichever it be) has
we perceive, ascertained a new principle in it,
viz. thatilstransmission is governed by the same
law as that of Light; that certain bodies reflect
it, and that it is returned from the surface of the re
flecting body at an angle equal to that in which it
strikes it. All these are properties quite foreign
to the fluid which has hitherto been looked on as
the agent in Animal Magnetism; and though
they thus serve, for the moment, only still more
to obscure what was already by no means lucid
eventually they will no doubt serve for the basis
of a new and surer theory of the existence of
Thought as a positive and material substance,
not a mere spiritual thing.
The following is an extract from a letter writ
ten by Dr. Collyer, of Boston, to professor Eliott
son, ot London giving an account of this discov
ery :
“Deas D.k th: On the Bth of January, 1813
I performed a most extraordinary experiment,
and repeated it several time* with like success.
It is a* ft>!!b ** :’.la ly wlii ha*l !>ee*i inngne
tized by t.re Mi. Claru, ol Canandaigua,
kwas introduced to me. 1 found her extremely
"susceptible to the nervo-electric agency and could
present ideas to her mind in the naUmig oriui/.u
rnl state by the concentration of tny own thoughts.
I always advocated the philosophy that the nerv
ous fluid was governed by the same code of laws
which govern heat, light, etc.—as radiation and
reflection; and actually made this lady perform
the same class of phenomena which is the won
der of travellers in the East. She was required
to look into a cup of molasses, (any other dark
fluid will answer the same purpose,) and when
the angle of irradiance from my brain was equal
to the angle of reflection in her brain, she dis
tinctly saw the image of my thoughts at the
point of coincidence, and gave minute descrip
tions of many persons whom she could have no
idea of. She saw the persons and things in the
fluid only when the angles of thought converged.
I am not aware tuat this experiment was ever
performed before, except by the In dans in the
East.
Believe me, as ever, yours truly,
ROBERT H. COLLYER.
Albany, New York, February 1,1813.”
Let us endeavor to deduce some of the new
principles which must follow from the law in
Animal Magnetism which Dr. Collyer has thus
established.
Henceforth it is clear, men may learn how to
think with other people's brains instead of their
own, which will certainly be a great advantage
for many persons in private life and some in
high public trusts, to whom nature has given in
sufficient head-pieces.—lt will favor the estab
lishment of a just equality among men, by abol
ishing that unjust monopoly which some few
aristocratsuf the Intellect have enjoyed. Hence
forth no man will be able to have any property
even in his own thoughts; but there "shall be a
community of ideas as well as of goods.
It thought is reflected from miiror-like bodies
of course it has the power of refraction as w«ll
as reflection. It therefore c< uld be transmitted
through lenses; so that men whose mental ac
tion wants intensity will be able to get their
thoughts thrown into a focus when they like.
Nor is this all: it will be easv after this, by
means of proper optical instruments, to collect,
from a hundred or a thousand heads at once,
their thoughts, and direct them all into a single
brain ; so that yon can produce any quantity of
intellectual power you please. Th-' invention
of the steam engine i* nothing to what this will
be.
Ncwspajicrs.
It T J O II .. NEAI..
The mightiest eugi.v in our*.a, is a .news
paper. Vv hat are armuand treasuries, navies
and foi ls, ami magazines ami foundries, or sen
ate-chamber., and taws, in comparison with
newspapers—where newspapers arc free? Os
what avail ate public meetings or coml in: lions,
or conspiracies, or revolutions indeed, where
newspapcts aie not free .’
They are not so much the Argans, or the ex
pounders, or reservoin*, as they are the genera
tors of public opinion.
We are a newspaper people. With us news
papers are the fourth pow er ot the stale —or ra
ther the first power, wallowing up all other
powers. They are the presidcut-makeis—the
lawgivers—the judiciary—the .supreme execu
tive —with a pardoning power beyond all that
was ever claimed lor any earthly sovereign.
What the newspapers of a land like ours a
gree to uphold—become*, thereby established.
What they combine to denounce—whether in
morals or in manners, in literature or in science,
in law, physie or divinity, cannot live. To be
troubled with a. bad epitaph after your death,
is bad enough ; but to be haunted by a bail epi
taph while you are yet alive and breathing—to
have it burnt into your forehead—bran.led upon
your very door-posts—and literally hawked a
bout the streets, and cried by the newspaper
boys—that, tve take it, is a little too ba I. Yet
newspapers do this continually; and one might
as well be buried alive as offend them, unless
like Mr. Cooper, he chooses to make a fool of
himself, by punishing them as they deserve.
Show us a man, or an action, or a law, good,
bad or indifferent, which the newspapers, band
ing together, may not make hateful or praise
worthy, according to their own good pleasure,
in the estimation of the great multitude, who
read nothing but newspapers, and we will un
dertake to show j’ou a race of “anthropophagi,
or men whose heads do grow beneath their
shoulders, jus: back ol the hill yonder.
People so love to see themselves in print ’
“A book’s it book, although there'* nothing in’l.”
Hence every bodj* rushes into print through
the newspapers ; and what is still more alarm
ing, although every body knows this, nobody’s,
faith in newspapers would ever appear to be
shaken, except in matters of fact. A man whose
opinions upon any subject, even upon the limes
or the weather, or upon matters and things in
general, would neither be listened to, nor toler
ated, much less repeated, if uitered by the mouth,
has only tv whip into the nearest newspaper
office, and write down, what he durst not say
aloud for his life, lest ne should make himself
ridiculous forever, under a fictitious name, or
editorially, to find himself quoted on ’Change,
or perhaps in the halls of legislation, before the
sun goes down, to the unspeakable amusement,
not only of the man himsellj but of all who
know him best. .These thing are of daily oc
currence. We could mention a score of prodi
gies, who have become terrible, in spite of them
selves, writing anonymously* for the newspa
pers.
Again, forty*-nine fiftieths of all the papers in
our country, belong to a party; even thpse which
pretend to be neutral, are al ways changing with
the subscription list; and speaking more or less
plainly—now on this side, now on tha*, and
now on both, according to the "Books." And all
papers belonging to a party are either advocates
or partizans, else the party would not acknow
ledge them, nor even trust them within their
houses. As advocates o- partisans, they are of
course one sided—so that tew expect the truth
of them. And when by chance, a newspaper,
supposed to belong to a parly, ventures to speak
above its breath of anything questionable in the
doings thereof; or the simple truth of any man,
or of any measure, not ot its party, it is always
believed to be turning, and front that hour is
looked upon with distrust, and narrowly watch
ed.
And what is the consequence? A man who
loves a newspaper for itself—who understands
its capabilities—who knows, that by the help of
newspapers alone, if they are honestly and ably*
carried on, he may educate a family, gets airaid
of them, and is obliged either to give Wi**in up
altogether, or to confine himself to busine.- s pa
pers, which he must have, and cannot do with
out —mere catalogues,shipping lists, advertise
ments, and price-currents—or to double and tri
ple the dose, and take newspapers on both sides
and on all sides—at a prodigious waste of time
and money—before he can make up his mind
whether the chief magistrate of the union, with
all the heads of departments are so many demi
gods or idiots—knaves, blockheads or madmen
—worthy of a treadmill, ora lunatic asylum, or
of temples and altars; whether they are states
men or blundering schemers—philosophers or
visionaries—orators and reasoners, or clamor
ous fools, who have been qualified for lawgivers
by the whims of a people—ten thousand limes
their superiors in wisdom, understanding and
experience. For, to the People, mark you—to
the very People who have chosen these wretch
ed dolls—andgairnlous, wheezing, superannua
ted zanies—both sides appeal for confirmation
of what they say; affecting the profoundest ven
eration tor the wisdom and honesty of those, the
very best of whom, when called apart and con
r **;raL***l to the service of their country in the
lllllls <IUI. ■ ~*■ |, u ; .** .I 1 T J _ A. ‘ . !_-■ -
ed nincompoops.
Luckily for mankind, however, these combina
tions among the newspapers rarely happen, to
any gieat extent, except for political purposes;
and then!— lo, the changes that have taken place
in the opinions and policy of our general gov
ernment, upon all the great questions ol the age
within the last five and twenty y ears; upon com
merce—manufactures—taxation —banking—ne-
gro slavery—state rights—and executive, power
—what are they, after all, but a reeonl of news
paper adjudications for the same period!
On the other occasion, where they combine
to cry up a new aetor, or to cry down a new au
thor; or bring about a war, or drive a man into a
duel by questioning his courage, and then, by
making mouths at him to get him indicted; to
disturb John Quincy Adams, or Mr. Cooper,
the novelist, in their glorious self complacency;
to establish a leptttat ion for Brandreth *>r Swaim,
or Mrs. Restall, or Dr. Williams, the oculist, or
anew razor strop —our only safety, as a people,
kinking or unthinking, lies in the fact, that
they never pull together tbr a longtime, and
thai there are upon the average, about as many
papers of established reputation upon the one
side as upon the other, of every possible ques
tion.
But—the Quarterly Review, Capt. Trollope,
and our amiable friend Boz to the contrary, not
withstanding—these newspaper comforts are by
no means peculiar to our country; although
newspapers here, as every where else on earth,
are essentially cltaiacteristic of the People, and
arc no more capable of being interchanged than
their laws and customs. Our worst papers are
no worse than scores to be found in England—
our best, quite equal to the ablest in Great Bri
tain; though, in two or three particulars, interi
or, while in others they are greatly superior, to
those of France and Germany. The great bo
dy of them, constituting as they do the People's
LiAzary, are so essentially American, that they
belong to our institutions, just as much as our
system of equal rights, or representation. They
are part amt parcel of Ourselves, and with all
theii faults, have a strong and healthy influence
upon the public mind. Not that our newspa
pers are what they ought to be—or what they
will be, after a few years have gone by; but
then, they are suited io our present wants, they
correspond with the condition of our people,
and are in fact as many maps and charts of the
public mind—of its ever-shifting currents of
opinion—of its ever changing purposes and
character—of our hopes and our wishes.—
Would you have advertisements ot new goods
confined for a twelvemonth? a list of shipping
intelligence, o" of deaths and marriages, or of
auction sales stereotyped? Then why ask of a
newspaper m this country, that it should retain
its shape, tide, editor, politics or opinions, for a
single twelvemonth? Where all the elements
of society are in everlasting commotion—would
you make .. landmarkot a newspaper? Where
the peopl- . :e the Sovereigns, and the newspa
pers their unquestioned Ministers, would you
have th' :., follow the fashion-, or arragement
common „.noug a people over sea; our elder
brethren, if you please—where newspapers,
though powerful for some purposes, are power
less for all others —where the more rigorous and
sprightly are forever shaking in their shoes, if
her majesty’s attorney general but looks hard at
them—while the average humdrums of the day
never turn to the right nor left, for a dozen years
upon the stretch?
Here, no prosecution could be maintained for
a slander upon the government, or the heads of
the government: here, it never enters our heads
to believe that a newspaper could sow sedition
to bring the powers that be into contempt—or
that it is ever worth the while of a great man to
appeal to the courts for redress against any,
even the most wicked and slanderous falsehood,
circulated to his prejudice. A few months, and
all these lies are forgotten and laughed at, for
capital jokes, and even while most active, ap
pearing as they always do in political papers,
they are sure to be disbelieved, whether true or
false, ] robable or improbable, by at least one
half of the whole reading population of the coun
try —and to be credited by tne other half, condi
tionally ; as it were, until the election is over,
or the "party slandered has been chafed or bul
lied into “defining his position.”
Oversea, on the contrary —in that land which
we are supposed by the newspaper story-tellers,
and police-reporters of the day, who may happen
to fmd themselves here with theirpassages paid,
to have always m our eye; and whose fashions
in every thing—even in newspapers—these gen
try hold it to be little better than high treason
for us not to follow blindfold; although a news
paper may now and then venture to charge its
annointed sovereign with murdering his daugh
ter and poisoning his wile, as in the case of
George the Fourth, the princess Charlotte, and
Caroline of Brunswick; and although at ano
ther time, it may go so far as to charge one of
the blood royal, the Duke of Cambridge, for in
stance, with ever so many horrible crimes, mur
der, among the rest; and hall the noble houses
of the land with bastardy; and although hun
dreds of the most respectable newspapers of the
empire may give the loathsome details of such
a case as that of Queen Car oline —at full length
—.lay after day, and week' after w< ek, with all
the minute particulars of Colonel Berkley s co
habitation with Miss Foote, belore hr mmlied
her off to a nobleman of high rank—or ol Ed
mund Kean* beastly licentiousness and more
I eastly love-letters—of Harriet Wilson’s am
ours, aud of other case- never heard of, norailu-
ded to in an American newspaper—for since the
fmmdUimi of thi; republic, v , ( . 110( I|ad s()
many as a dozen trials foi
pic of any consideration i;r standing in society*
and no case whatever with those
which happen daily in and alxiut London and
ar** repeated in all Ihe London newspaper.'
Although these things may happen, have hap.
petted, and do happen daily, as Hungs o! course
tn England, and sometimes without being foi.
lowed by prosecution; still the law has us ter
rors there, and, on the whole, may l.e regarded
as a wholesome and prujier restraint upon the
newspapers. Set them above the law there-*as
they are here : enable them to east ofl'all fear—
as they do sometimes, finding prosecutions pro
fitable, and penalties only a ebea|>er way of ad
vertising—unit in no one particular are they a
single whit more, generous or truthful, or digni
fied, or courteous, than the basestol ours, tin
principled blackguards at the best, their cowar
dice and treachery, their filthiness and their
falsehood are all of a piece.
Time was, when, like the French, we had but
few newspapers ; and they were written lor by
the abl**: t men of the country, without pay. A t
the outbreak' oflhe revolutionaiy war, ami after
the treaty of eighty-three, up to the consumma
tion of their great work, our whole literature
was a newspaper literature, and the strongest
minds, and best hearts alive, were engaged in
wholes.line newspaper controversies that shook
the wot Id. The Adamses, the Otises, the Frank
lins, the Hamiltons the Jeffersons, the Madi
sons, the Jays- were always at work upon the
public mind, through the newspapers.
And then, after this—up to about the year
1812 when there were not in the whole of these
United States, per adventure, so many as half a
dozen editors employed—proprietors being their
own editors, ami almost always printers, de
pending upon gratuitous, and in ninety nine
casesout of a hundred, upon anonymous'eontri
butions, and extracts from one another to make
up their sheets—papers went on multiplying
over the land, as a mere experiment in business
—a new branch in the book-trade or job-printing
—till every village in the country has its one,
two, or three, and sometimes its half a score of
newspapers: most of which were never heard
ot at the end ot a twelvemonth, when the sub
scription fell due, and patrons were asked for
something more than their names.
About this time, editors began to lie thought
ol at a tegular salary. Proprietors were com
mon enough, who were called editors and oc
casionally wrote a paragraph or a stickful! —or
perhaps an essay—there was Duane, for exam
ple, and Alexander Hanson, and Colman, and
Major Russell—but there were no editors, pro
perly speaking, till about the time of Paul Al
ien's appearance in Bronson’s United States
Gazette.
Since then, although newspapers have multi
plied like the Frogs of Egypt—in worth as in
quantity—they have been gradually and steadily
growing better. Hardly one ot the whole two
thousand now flourishing—after a fashion pecu
liar to newspapers—within our boundaries,
would permit such poetry, or such prose indeed,
to appear in their colunpns (always excepting
political papers and quack advertisements) as
made up the larger part of our best magazines
and book literature, forty years ago.
Two thousand newspaper ! Let us see what
they cost our people, and how good a penny
worth they get for their money.
Suppose each paper to have upon the average
one thousand subscribers-*—an estimate below
the truth, if we consider the present price of the
most popular; hardly a fourth part ol what they
were a dozen years ago; let us lake for their
average cost to the reader, three dollars a year,
including postage, a moderate computation, cer
tainly, when we take into view the dailies and
high priced weeklies—then have we, for the
yearly cost of each newspaper, which somebody
must pay tor, the wronged printer, the wronged
type-founder, or the paper maker, no less a sum
than three thousand dollars. This, multiplied
by two thousand, the total number of newspapets
piiblshed in our country, (Valtemar collected
specimens of more than that number,) gives a
grand total of six millions of dollars lor the
yecrly cost of this fourth estate to the American
people! Add the time wasted with newspapers
—and the tax would be trebled. And then,
what becomes of these newspapers?—Of the
Jive hundred 'millions of copies at lust, circulating
over the whole length and breadth of the land,
at the rate of more than a tnilllion and a half
per day, forty-nine fiftieths perish with the going
down of the sun. Not one in a thousand, or
perhaps in ten thousand, is to lx? found alive at
the end of the week—and before a month isover
the only copy on earth, must l.e looked for on the
proprietor’s file, or in the hands ot a collector.
Ami yet, with all this worthlessness and waste,
who that knows their true value, would venture
to say that newspapers cost tins country more
than they are worth? People read newspapers
who l ead nothing else. People read newspapers
e-Zu'ii ait J where they read nothing else. To the
great laxly ofottrinen, women and children, a
newspaper is a drama ot the universe. To call
il the Would, or the Times, or the Globe, or
the St n, is by no means to overstate its value
in their eyes. To them it is the only World
they are acquainted with; a Sun, without which
ift iii forever -OHrii' ra
world or the new, what know they, but by the
help of the newspapers? They have no books
bcyotnl the Bible, an almanac, or a stray
Thomas-a-Kempis, or Josephus, or a tattered
copy ol Noah Webster’s Thud Batt—and how
would they be able to guess at the doings of the
test ot the world—at the rise and fall of empire
—the condition of Europe—or the progress of
knowle Ige—ay, or of what their own rulers were
doing for them, but for the newspapers? There
are ten milliotis of people in there United States
who never heard of the invasion of Russia, nor
the overthrow of Napoleon—nor Napoleon him
self-except through the newspapers; andwho,
at this hour, but for the newspapers, would not
know that such a man ever existed, to say noth
ing of the ten thousand sceptred shadows, that
have appeared and disappeared upon the thrones
of the world within the last halt century.
Do our newspapers cost too much, then, even
at this price?
But perhaps it may be said—the reason why
your people have no books, is because they have
so many newspapers; and newspapers won’t
keen.
Worthy of profound consideration. Hu t for
our newspapers, it may be, that our people
would have libraries of their own—lamily libra
ries—bequeathable from sire to son. The mer
chant of New York, or Philadelphia or New
Orleans, where they ate still more extravagant,
who take half a dozen daily pa pets —and multi
tudes are they who takea dozen ortwenty—pays
at least sixty dollars a year, and with postages,
about seAenty-five. Let him continue this for
twenty years, ami he will have expended fifteen
hundred dollars, which with the accumulated in
terest will amount at the end of that time,
to about tico thousand dollars — sufficient to pur
chase a libr ary large enough and good enough
for any household purposes. And what has he
to show for this ? Nothing.
Yet more; newspaper reading, to the busy man
whose time is money, and to whom good books
and maps, and large librarins are accessible, is
the idlest of all reading. It is in fact such an
undesirable waste of lime that men of business
in our large cities—like editors—'never think of
reading a newspaper; or if they do are never to
be caught in the fact. You might as well hppe
to eaten a physician taking his own medicines,
or a vintner drinking his own wines, or a lawyer
pleading his own case.
After all, therefore what is tube done? That
newspapers in this country are not what they
ought to be is true. That they are altogether
too numerous and too worthless —taking them
together, in the lump, notwithstanding a hundred
exceptions—that in most cases they are alike
ruinous to the proprietors and the paper maker,
wearisome to the reader ami exhausting to the
hearer—is a Iso true. That a much wiserappli
cation ol money and time might be made, by
men of business and of liesurc, in the neigh
borhood of books and libraries, than they now
make under pretence of informing themselves
and theii f emlie*, is also ttue. Hut v.hat of
that —« h..l of all this / Il the que lion to be de
cided is, whether we shall have our two thousand
newspapers, with all their faults, at the expense
of twenty millions a year, if you please, instead
of six; or no newspapers—or even a system of
newspapers like that of any other people upon
earth, even ofthat people who are held up to us
so modestly by one of themselves, for a pattern,
beyond which and above which, give us our A
merican newspapers!—for the same reason that
we would cry, give us our equal distribution
of wealth, of learning, or of intelligence, of po
litical power of rights and duties—of air and
water —with no overgrown capitalists in either.
But is there no help for the evils that are ac
knowledged to exist in our newspaper system?
Must the whole be torn up by the roots—or must
we leave it untouched—unprofaned—till itover
spreads the land with its rank and frightful lux
uriance? For ourselves, wc hope much in this
matter. Ournewspaper are wonderfully improv
ed within the last dozen years Still greater chang
es are in progress. Magazines are still to do the
work of newspapers, in a department which, on
account of their convenience and cheapness,
they have hitherto monopolized; and newspa
pers are to extend themselves into new depart
ments of science and the arts, and to become
profitable and respectable; fewer in number, but
ten thousand times worthier to de held in remem
brance, and to be found in the workshops nda
about the firesides of the people—where teyh
have heretofore held undisturbed possession.
But of these things more hereafter.
Professor Jackson has presented to the Na
tional Institute at Washington, an ingot of pure
tin, from a lot ol ore discovered by him in Jack
son, N. H. The compact tin ore ot this mine
yields 73 per cent of pure tin.
Sweet Sensibility.—“ Why do you cry?”
said a bystander to a miser who was witnessing
an execution. “Alas!” said the miser pointing
to the criminal, “that is one of my suspended.
debtors—he owes me fifty dollars.”
£i“The Yazoo Whig states that a report is in
circulation in Mississippi, that Mr. Graves,
State Treasurer, will in all probability become a
defaulter to a heavy amount. This is a grave
charge, and we trust may not turnout to be true.
M iVuhs at rue East.—ln Salem, Stephen
P. Wet.b has been has been re-elected Mayot
by a large majority, and in Lowell, Nathaniel
Wi > relit.
< «IAULK«TON, .March IH.
1 he bu»Hit'KA ot (Ih> uiiht week lia* not only hern lijilil
but the iM.irket hua exhibited a dejfiee ot inactivity uu«
uMial ai Ihi> reuboii. 'l’lie urrivaln ot produce, it i» true,
Lite la en light, uliich ha* checketl wliojt».ah* Opel a*
ions; bin there i). H general coinpiuint of the promt
stagnant. • lade nt |rude
Collun- J hr liniiled i.niotihl of l.iumew done in I'p
iitt noticed in cur report ot the
11th inst., bus been followed Ly another ot even greeter
wereanxiouelyawaiting
to th* *r Cr ’ “ <,reat Wc>tarn. and from Haturday
lookbn k °f 0,1 puicbuar.;
prnkm ‘’'J I,a, r» " n whith raua of the
riacfoS .. k Were F“ d ‘ 0,1 'i’»«ur>day ttave advicea
•eenim l? “ lur ‘ h «r reduction m Upland, nbu t.
<!.*■«-, d ’”''P« r “ l rw4 '!“* market, a, durmx
c husrr»* i. . • ‘l‘ , < l»'ie dor* not satiety pur-
market will r e at whst
giving ciuotati/mra ’ nu” or 1 . we refrain from
bags, and the fcsi | efc rcc \' pU, t of
;n atdf; 5 M t.u. ifio . r “I, I*** 1 *** following pricaa
at s*; Art at M ; *’4* ■**
uf-“UC.G|; 4<;V,cl b ? ,’i
viuue to the «<l*iceiat VjVtolTib 5 “*“* 103 ***'
OF COTTON.
1H43. IM2
Block on hand, Hept I Iruo I’pl’d, b'pi'd
Received Miice March 10. aFjO*
“ pre v iou»l y.. *
Total receipt* . T:
1
Exported since March 10 ~
“ previously .*.*.233311
Tolalaxpon.
On chipboard, not cleared t.lrzi f ...
Deduct from total receipt* IM |C7
Remaining on hand, March 17 33.669 aai<i
..u ’ b *' cl * 11 Hood demand tor Rice thro’
mu the week Ju,t closed, end tbe operation.
have been m favor of holder.. ThTreeeipt. .me. on*,
review ol the till, m.tant are 3117 tierce., and the
in th.- :M72 lu . |tl . e u , lt ,e lollow.uc
price. 174 at H; 110 al 17-16; 42 at 14* 107 at 1 W-IS
u n't*;o 1 to. m l 6; I*?H>; Mod
ii’sw 3r 291 2 t : e lO ■“* 2 “-“i 7I " ■“ 2 i ; •“ d >«0»«
oF! m ,|U I ' '"f'-rmr to fair If ®2 ; eood fair td
prune 2® 2|; choice kk'j
Grotn—There have been no arrival, of Corn, OaU,
tion"." 1 ~Oy , " l< '' °" r 1 "‘“’ "‘" 1 W ' h ‘* v ‘' ,ra ” d quo'.*
week have been con.
hued to Baltimore Howard meet and Virginia for city
consumption, within the range of out quotations #4} (ti
1 Lc.rd—a'Hotfiiug hav been done in either w
tide fjnee unce our last
The receipt* since our last are 1319 sacJCft l.iv*
t r . P i°A O k^U Mou .« ht We continue to quod
til,10(41) 41.2 b sac k.
(.irtrtTieii Ihe* absence of arrivals, and the limited
demand tor goods, have suspended fperaliono in the
leading article* comprised under this head, via : Htlfar,
Coitee and Molasses. Between 30 and 40 hhds l.ouui
ana sugar in small lots, sold at prices ranging irom 44
to u ets lb. “ *
Ercht.itgPH Nothing doing in either Foreign or Do
uiialtei <>Ur *l u<>,a, * ona previous week remain
. former quotations lor Liver
There iaVrv little Colton 01
We <>u!!L . B il Or 1 ,<? l ,orlb ‘‘ rn P™* lhe Hut** -
and 60 e. V t,?u.:
rv.o, „ a x Havannam, March IS.
IT. uffT Vi r cu e , d i h,n £ e lhe ‘“*'»nt, 5,448 bale*
UpLind, mid 16b bales Hea Island, and cleared iu the
same time 2,214 bales Upland and £O3 baios Hea Island
‘ e . av,,, f. hand inclusive of all on shipboard not Heer
Znd Bru‘ e i h H “ lock 01 a3 ** a Vpland
and 2.>fo bales Hea Island cotton, against 16G08 bales
1 pland and 2231 bales Sen Island, at the same period
last year. r
vv T1 ? of advices per steamer Groat
W estern, and the continued inclemency of the weath
er, have produced an inactive condition of the market
several large holders, unwilling to accede to the views
ot buyers, have withdrawn their stock, and are awaiting
.ri* ‘ . of '*** expected acotints from England
I lie tiiiiited transactions of the week were < onJuctad
at tuljy previous prices. We omit quotations until bu
iiuesK wears a more settledappearance, remaiking that
sal:» were eilected at 4f (at o|c, and we are informed
tliat among the lots w ithdraw n from sale, there are par
cels that would bring a traction over the highest prir<
obtaim d this week.
Tbv >ulv> during the week, ie,<h »hnut 1,786 m
t" 1 . 1 "''” I I J’! 11 ?" •• <l, •14 xl 44, IIH at 4|, 48 at 41, 6M *1
6. 49 atl 16,1 16 at i>|, 207 al 14 al M, 259 at A34 *1
r>B.l. atf.{, 19 al 6,-10 at 61, an J 130 at dje-
Receipts ot cotton al the following places since Ist
September, 1H42: H
r, „ IM3. iStSL
tleorgia, March 16 220,262 152.931
South Carolina, March 9 271.193 171'491
Mobile. March 3 32H.521 W< Iu
New Orleans, March 7 7AH.IIR , r 2i6,4Uli
Honda. Feb2fi 102,310 5H,607
Aorth Carolina, Feb 25 6,042 6,040
Virginia, Jun |<j 5,0(19 14,230
T . ... . . 1.721,445 1.1M.420
1 he follow mg is a statement ot the stock of cotton on
hand at the respective places named :
IM2-3 18412.
Savannah, March 16,1843 36,566 1H.K39
South Carolina. March 9 45,078 :Al«8
Mobile, March 3 127,091 99,662
New Orleans. Match 7 193,344 IM.MJ2
Virginia,Jun 19 2JOOO 1,600
North Carolina, Feb 25 2,000 900
Augusta A Hamburg, March 1.. 23,534 24.299
Macon, March 1 11,875 9,‘JUI
Philadelphia. Match 4 1.340 1,fi79
New York, Feb 22 30.000 15,000
471,828 367,329
STATEMENT OF COTTON.
I'pPds
Stock on hand September Ist, 1842 .2630
Received this week 54 jh
do previously
217892
Exported this week 2214
do pteviotisly 182626 184840
Stock on hand and on ship board not cleared
on the l€lh
...... . fitnt hmt yt-ar.
Hint k "It hand, f.*,! ftppt . IR4J 9U
Received this v eek 8188
Received previously . . .’12731®
1'16438
Exported this week h>lß I
Exported pieviousiy llilttt 119830
Htock on hand including all on shipboard not
cleared on the 10th March, 1842 10608
Rice.~ K limited business without any perceptible
change 111 puces. Hales 730 casks, vis; 48 at 1 916, NO
al 1 ”' w ' lf,G •’ **' ll *•**> ■" d *'*"•*'
perlUoll>«. 1
LiGitifi.— The market is well supplied, and sales of
several lots were made within the. range of unotetioils'
a choice lot, 101X1 lbs Georgia Hams, lor family use, sold
at 8c per lb. 7 ’
Cum. There is a considerable supply in store, and
rather inactive business. Hafos o f 3(11) bushels Beach
Island from wharf at 371 c bushel.
GYorenw.—The weather was w unfavorable all the
week, that business was limited to tilling h feu- ordeis
toi plantations and supplying city retailers. No aller
iition in current rates since our last report. The stacks
in store me uhunilant, and prices quite low for the sea
son. Bales from wharf ot 20 hhds Tuba Molasses at 174
(a) 18c, and U) bbls New Oilcans at 17| 0 18 cento
gallon. *
SJI.—X moderate stock and (air demand. Salei
Irom shin side ot'3ooo bushilsat 20fc bushel. No
cirgo sales of sack teported this week.
Exchi we.-—Sterling in fair demand. Belce at 1(4 to
IMf —the former is the Hank rate. Domestic—N. Ydrk,
sight, J pretu; 5 days, >..1.«, f dis; 30 days, 1 dis; 60 days.
H-to’ctdis. ■
t reigld*.— To Liverpool remain without c hange—the
curient rates arc jd tor square and ll*l6d for round
balescotton. No vessel up foi Havre—last quotation
l|c. —Coastwise—in New York, cotton regular lutes •
round 61, square 7Gc per bale: Rice, nominal, 50 (d Wj;
H<i *t(.ii. cotton* | (o' |c lb; Philadelphia-, lest rngags
meuts reported, cotton, round and square,
Georgian.
OT A N io“.MEDICINES. War
runted genuine. A fre.h supply juut re
ceived and for sake low by
dec 15-wlOt WM. K. KITCHEN.
BERKSHIRE PIGS.—A few
/Sjjpq-PHir of choice pure blood, can be had by
applying at my farm, joining the South Common*.
m 11-wlm ’ D.A.XIEL MORRISON.
BALES and 25 cases Lonsdale
Nunkeens, for hhlc, at New York prices,
by BAKER & HUTCHENS.
Also, 5 cases Piinted Nunkeens, a new article,
jan 6 trw&wOiM
BOLTING CLOTHS and SCKEEN
WIRE.—The subscribers lespcctfully in
form their iriends and the public, that they atill
continue to manufacture, at their eshibli&biiit-nt,
in Charleston, S. C., Screen Wire of all sizes, for
Wheat Mills, Kiddles and Screens, lor Dutch
Fans, Safe and Fine Flour, Sand, Cockel and
Wheat Sieves, with a general assorunent of ini-"'-’
ported Dutch Bolting Cloths, of the first quality,
for flouring mills, from No. 0 to 11. all ot which
will be sold on reasonable terms.
J. S. JONES 4k Co.
Charleston, S. C. March 21. w4t
SEMINARY FOR YOUNG I A1)11>,
AT THE MAND HIl l K.
C\N tin* I 7tli of April m *xt, u Female 1
/ fccHvob wid be opened by Mis. P. S. Whit
man, at the Sand Hills, in the house opposite the
residence of Gen. Flournoy.
Mrs. W. will give instruction in the Common
English Branches, and in the Latin and French
languages. Connected with this School, Mr.
Whitman will have a class in the Sciences
teaching from the hour of 12 till 2 o’clock.
THE PRICE or TUITION PEH QUARTER.
In the Common English Branches $6 50
In the Languages and Sciences 10 00
Pupils cun enter at any time during the quar
ter without paying retrospective tuition.
m 20 sw2idbw2m
A GENTLEMAN who has had sev
eral years experience in Ilia prefeseion,
wiabes a situation as Teacher in a respectable
Academy. He is perfectly acquainted with the
Latin and Greek Classics, speaks French fluent
ly, a full course of Mathematics, History, Philo
sophy, &c. Satisfactory references shall be giv
en. Explicit communications addressed to “J.
F.” through the Post Office, shall be immediately
attended to. wtf nt 16
GRISWOLD’S WARRANTED
COTTON GINS.
IF practice makes perfect, who then can
claim a better right to perfection in the trade,
than Samuel Griswold? His Gins have been in
use in this State for twenty years or more.
The subscribers would inform buyets of Gins,
that they continue to carry on the making of the
above named Gins in numbers sufficiently great
or small, to supply all orders they may receive,
either through agents or by letter. The improvt'J
ments they have made, are such as will, upon
first eight, satisfy any one of their great utility,
possessing at the time simplicity, which is one of
the most important tilings to be looked to, when
it is considered tliat they are managed mostly by
negroes, who know nothing of complicated ma
chinery. Importing their steel direct, they are
sure of getting the best article that is made, and
therefore feel an assurance in giving satisfaction
in that particular. They deliver them promptly
in any part of the country free* of chatge, and
warrant that llit-y do well in every way. We
will not resort to the plan of some builders, by
giving certificates in the newspapers, but Mill
merely ask those wishing to buy, to ask almost
any of their neighbors if they know any thing of
Griswold’s Gins. We challenge inquiry and in
vestigation. Gur agents, Itawever, carry with
them a few certificates, which have been kindly
offered.
REPAIRI NG done with despatch
GRISWOLD & JOHNSON.
Clinton, Junes co., Ga. eowfitn m 21