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' MONDAY MORNING. MAY 5. ’
A B:g Rcmur.—The New Y’ork Commercial
- says: It has been whispered in Wall street this
(Wednesday) morning and yesterday, that the
result ol the President’s deliberations with his
Cabinet, on the Oregon question, was a delenni-
—ftaHon to follow the example of the British Go
vernment on the Maine boundary affair, ami
send a special Minister to London. Even the
Minister has been named—Mr. Van Btiren—
and we have heard also, in this connexion, the
name of another distinguished leader in the
Democratic party. We have not been able to
trace the rumor to any authentic source, and it
is very possible that it has no other foundation
than the scores of on dits which are always
generated in the precincts of political gossip,
when the minds of men are strong!}’ fastened up
on any public question of importance.
Editor's Fable.—“ Veronica, or the Free
Court <>l Aarau,” and “ The Gambler's Wife,”
being Nos. 50 and 51 ot Harper's Library of
select novels; and No. 24 of Harper’s Illumina
ted Bible, have leen laid upon our table by Mr.
S. A. Holmes.
Highest Price.—On Monday last, says the
Lynchburg Virginian, three hogsheads of to
bacco, of the crop of Mr. Wm. F. Wood, of
Campbell, (made on the Old Iron Works plan
tation, about seven miles below Lynchburg,)
were sold at Martin’s warehouse, at ihe follow
in : prices: No. I brought S3O 25; No. 2, $22
75; and No 3, sl3 Allot'them were bought
by Messrs. Maurice Langhorn & Sons, manu
facturers, and are intended for their Southern
customers.
Naval.—The New-York Repress of Satur
day says:—“The ship of the-line Columbus,
•now lying at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, has
been out in commission to-day, and will
~ about the2sth May, to China, to takeroutfriitx
andsr H, Everett, as the CornjyjWfoner to
JSf’The National l/siligencer of lire Ist inst.
'ton 1 Roads, with sealed orders, early on Sulday
morning, ta destination is supposed to be the
Gull of Mexico.
The entire United States force in the Gulf of
Mexico will soon be as follows:
SteamT PrincetonlOguns.
Ship Saratoga2o “
Shi i St. Mary2o “
Brig Pornoise.. 10 “
Frigate Potomac. 44 “
Ship Vincennes.2o “
Ship Falmouth2o "
Brig Somerslo “
Total number of guns 154
Jason L. Pendleton, Captain of the brig Mon
tevideo, charged with being engaged in the slave
trade on the Coast of Africa, which by the law
is piracy, has been tried at Baltimore and ac
quitted. He was sent home by Mr. Wise. There
is one other case of a similar natuie to be in
vestigated. The Baltimore papers say that the
District Attorney will probably abandon it.
It is stated in the Newport (N. H ) Spectator
that Edmund Burke, late member of Congress
from New Hampshire, has been appointed by
the President, Commissioner of Patents, has
accepted the appointment, and will immediately
enter upon the discharge of its duties.
a
F*r Agrarian outrages continue to be com
mitted in Columbia county, New York. On
' Monday night last a Mr. Bogardus, occupying
a hou<e which he had recently purchased 1
a distress warrant, was vi-ited of
men in disguise, lami-
ly out of demolished
BMMroaporis of Specie into New York last
exceeded the exnorts. The former were
- $26,149, the latter 80,600. The New York Cou
rier and Enquirer says: The total amount of
< exports to the 24th inst, are little over $2 000 000.
Theexpons for the month of April, 1844. were
over $3,000,000. Il is therefore probable that
the exports tor this month will fall short about
$500,000 of 'he corresponding month of last
year.
Another ineffectual attempt to elect a member
ot Congress in the Ninth District of Massachu
setts was made on Monday last.
The August Interest.—The Pittsburg
American says—“ James R. Snowden, Esq.,
Treasurer of the Stale oi Pennsylvania, is now
' inthi s city. Prom a conversation with this gen
tleman we learn that the interest due on the
State debt, can only be partially paid on the first
ot August, and that bills will be issued for the
■ unpaid part, redeemable out of ti e first monies
which come into the treasury.
The Philadelphia U. 3 Gazette states that,
two editions of Capt. Wilkes’s Narrative of the
Exploring Expedition have already been sold,
and that a third is nearly through the press ot
the publishers, Messrs. Lea *f- Blanchard, and
in a tew days will lie ready to ineel the demands
of these who have not yet been able to procure
copies In London, where but four volumes
had been issued, it is attracting great attention.
The reporter of the Boston Post, after giving
the result of the trial of a -ery pretty girl for
dealing in bad bank bills, and whowaspronounc
edgieilzy, indulges in the following philuaopiiical
remarks:
“ By this trial the sustained, but
>w—-BOLw'thout effects to a portion of the
coinmurStyL -*t*he grand jury should never in
dict a very’pretiy girl if they can possibly help
it, for when such a prisoner is on trial, the irre
sistible desire to be present keens a great many
very’ respectable men, far advanced in years,
away from their business or families.
Twice this very term has the fact that a de
sirable looking woman has been on trial, spoil
ed the dinner of several very valuable silver
iiairbd and bald-headed citizens. Sympathy tor
beauty in distress is one of the strongest feel
ingsthatcan move the manly bosom, and seems
to increase with age. But we have never known
it to burn so warm at to induce any of hesean
cients to offer to become bail for a beauty, alter
the foreman has made to the clerk the fearful re
sponse—’Guilty.’*’
The Oregon Uoebtion.— When an heirtoa
property attempts to forestall the results ol time
and kills his relation to gain an immediate pos
session, an indignant community stamps its
burning brand unto his folly and crime. Our
haste io reference to < >reg >n may have less guilt
in it, but not less folly. We run the hazards ol
war, and all the miseries which war brings with
it, to get immediate possession of that which
..-. time must inevitably make ours.
Nine or ten AmericanstooneEnglishmanare
S now settling there; when, therefore, the popula
tion of that counlrv shall reach filly thousand,
tony-five thousand will be Americans; when it
ahail reach a hundred thousand, ninety thousand
will be Americans. Now, does any man in his
sober senses believe that these ninety thousand
are going tn take their notions of civil freedom
and ot civil government from the remaining ten
thousand’ Does any man believe dial these
nhrety thoqsaad foiger their lineage, lose
"lhelr sympaihy with republican insti'u'tions. and
swear allegiance to the British Crown ? There
is just about as much danger that the people of
Maine or Vermont will go over io Great Britain
as that the people of Oregon will. It is a slan
der on their intelligence and love ot freedom to
* predict su h a result.
All, therefore, that we have to do, in order to
come into secure possession of Oregon, is to let
iier a! >ne. Time will make her ours, without
Tiny fighting either with goose-quills or guns.
She is bound to us by the great laws of affinity
and sympathy, laws which can be defeated only
by rashness and folly. She will come into our
arms just as naturally and inevitably as vapors
rising up troin the sea, floating off to distant
mountains, and th»re becoming condensed into
showers, return in exulting streams to their pa
rent ocean. But suppose worst comes to worst,
and we have to fight tor Oregon; even fn that
event the longer we put off the conflict the better
tor us. With ninety thousand Americans there
and ten thousand English, or one hundred and
eighty ’housand Americans and twenty thou
sand English, who can doubt what the issue
would be? We can see reasons why England
should wish to push this matter to an issue now,
but none wbv America should, unless it be that
Hotspur-ambition which overleaps itself and
falls on the other side.— North American.
Lieuten int Fremont is now at St. Louis, or
ganizing an exploring company ot voting men
to form an expedition to the walers of the Pacific.
He desires none but your.g men of intelligence
and good character. The expedition will la-’
tor three yaara, and its operations probably ex
tend from the B ack Hills to the Western Ocean
and from California to the northern limits of
Oregon. Thoso who have a taste for danger
and bold, daring adventure may npw have a
chance
Morse’s Elkctki-Maonetic 1 kleorafh. -
“A Note of I’reparali-in."— If aflbrrls us much
pleasure to inlvrm our patrons and Ihe public
that ten miles ot prepared wire, for our Tele
graph, is already wending its way to this pot,
on board the good ship Rolla, which sailed from
New York on the 13th April. As soon as it ar
rives tf.e important work will be commenced.
At present weave busily engaged in trying
to make arrangements, by which the whole pub
lic will share equally in the advantages of this
undertaking, and it will not be our fault il we
Ho not succeed; it is our most anxious desire
to divest it o! everything like ane.xclusive char
acter, and to make its giant powers of equal
benefit and utility to all.
During the eat ly part of July we hope to be
able to open a communication with the Bay St.
Louis an<l Pass Christian, and before the sum
mer is quite over, allow the s< journersai Biloxi
and Pascagoula .o taste ol its utility. By this
means the merchant, enjoying the cool and in
vigorating sea air, can at'any moment ream
from his man of business here the stated trade.
The lawyer can hold converse with his client—
even the physician can at a distance ot 100 miles
examine the symptoms of and prescribe for his
patient—v hilethe more fortunate unacclimated,
who can afford to absent himself from our city
during the season of disease and death, can ob
tain, each moment, information from the sick
couch of his less happy fellow’ adventurer.—
These are a few of the advantages which we
design placing within the reach ot the citizens
of New Orleans. To accomplish this, and
much, much more, is now the sole object of our
care ai.d exertions; with such purposes as these
in view, the public need not doubt our ultimate
success.— N. O. Crescent City.
American Ingenuity m ast Vigorous in Ad
versity,—ln Mr. Ellsworth’s report, it is stated
that the branches ot the arts which have been in
a prosperous condition during the past two
yea rs—cotton ma n u tact u res, for ex a m pie—ha ve
received a smaller number ot contributors from
inventors than I hose which have been in a de
pressed state. Thus it would seem, truly, that
American Character always exhibits its most
brilliant qualities, its greatest energy and vigor,
in adversity. Improvements in other countries
keep pace with the general state of things; they
rise with prosperity, and sink with adversity;
whilst here it is the converse of the proposition
■dtirere, they seem to be the effects of prosperity;
and here, the causes. So closely has this been
observed, that, without any other source ot in
formation,the condition of the various branches
Os industry could be ascertained from the ar
chives of the parent office.’ One ot the free trade
peiperssays, " the moment government Interferes
to citizens,
bn government :
and renounce their tnvtt ingenuity and
energy. Protection is, then, it seems, as fatal
to energy, to enterprise, skill and invention, as
it is to economy and equality.”
The Sicilian Frigale Urania, Captain Let
tierr, 57 days from St. Helena, 46 guns and 335
men, arrived at New York on Saturday, and
anchored in the North River, off Castle Garden.
She fired a salute, which was answered from
Governor’s Island.
Mr. Ashhcl Smith, the Secretary of State ol
the Texan Republic, arrived at Neu’ York on
Monday last, and departed thence the next day
for Boston. It is said that he is on his way to
England and France, and is to sail-in the At
lantic steamer which leaves Bcs’on to-day. Mr.
Smith did not pass through this city, and hence
the rcpoit, originating in another paper, that he
reached here last week, in company with Mr.
Saligny, the French Charge to Texas, cannot
be true.— Nat. let. Ist inst.
The President and the Clerks.
The following copy of a “Circular,” ad
dressed by the President ot the United States to
the Heads of Departments, which has been the
subject of much conversation and some news
paper commept, we copy from the New York
Express, to which paper it had been communi
cated by a correspondent from Washington :
(circular.)
Washington, April 11, 1845.
Sir: In executing the laws there is no duty
which appears to me more imperative than to
take care that officers who receive tne public
money shall promptly and fully perform the du-
Wffesalaries. Justice to the pubhe., and a proper
regard tor the clearly expressed wiH of Congress,
require that this shall be done. ’TEhose who
cuine to the seat of Government on public busi
ness should not be unnecessarily
negligence or inattention of heads of biMH
clerks connected with Ihe Executive '
inents. 1 tlierelore invite your attention^H? V
thirteenth section ol the act of
proved on the 26th of August, 1812—“ An act
legalizing and making appropriations lor such
necessary objects as have betu usually included
in the general appropriation bills without au
ttiority of law, and to fix and provide tor certain
incidental expenses ol the departments and offi
cers of Government, and for other purposes”—
and to the twelfth section of the “ Act to re-or
ganize the General Land Office,” approved on
the 4th of July, 1836.
I desire that you will cause the monthly re
ports, required by the actol 1812, to be regularly
made, and that you will transmit them to me.
The law contemplates that the distribution of
labor amongst the clerks shall bear a fair propor
tion to tbeir compensation ; and it is unjust th*
the meritorious and. faithful should have to pep
form the duties of such as may be found to be,
negligent, idle, or incompetent. To prevent this
injustice; it is essential that each clerk shall at
tend regularly in his office and discharge his
own appropriate duties. It is desired that each
head ot a bureau shall cause to be made a daily
statement, showing the absence of each clerk
from his duty during office hours, the causes oi
such absence as far as he may be able to ascer
tain them, and that this statement accompany
the monthly reports.
1 also desire that you will accompany the
monthly reports with a statement of any com
plaints which may be made to you of any clerk
in your office who may have contracted debts
since his appointment, and does not pay them
agreeable to contract. Disclaiming any right to
interfere with the private affairs of officers of
Government, I am that they shall
be embarrassed io the performance ol their nub
lie duties by the just importunities of disap
pointed creditors, who trusted them on the faith
of their compensation from the Treasury,-.
Believing that the duties reqaiteff of' the offi
cers and clerks employed in the several Execu
live Departments are by no means unreasonable,
and impressed with the importance of a prompt
and efficient despatch of the public business, 1
desire ihat you will take measures for the due
execution of the laws to which 1 have called
your attention. Respectfully, yours,
JAMES K. POLK.
Inundation of the Country of the Rhine.—
We learn Irom the New York Sckneltpost thrwt
there has been a most extensive and wasting
flood upon the Rhine. Owing to the intensity ol
the winter, immense masses of snow had accu
mulated in the Upper Rhine country, the melting
of which has caused such deplorable calamities.
In Cologne the streets along the river are said to
be under waler, which at the dale of the intorma
lion (Matgh 31) had reached the lower stories,
and was still rising.
The only coinmunicaiion between the streets
on the bank ot the river, and the higher pans of
the town, was in skiffs. On the opposite side ol
ihe river tjje town ol Deuiz was nearly over
flowed, the part that escaped forming an island.
Ina pleasure-garden on the same side of the
riper the upper branches only ol the trees were
visible. The whole flat country around Co
logne is represented as in a similar condition—
thedikes broken down, and.lbefrightful devasta
tion continually on the increase. Such afl iod,
it is said, has not occurred for nearly two genera
tions.
Great apprehensions are entertained of suffer
ing from scarcity of provisions, diseases, and
lack ot employment lor the poor.
The flood is said to extend from the borders
of Switzerland to Holland. Vast numbers oi
peas miry had lost every thing but lite.
In the fortified town of Coblentz, the water had
reached the port-holes of the fortifications, and
passengers were landed horn the steamboats
over the ramparts.
Half of the city of Dusseldorf was under
waler. The great manufacturing town of El
herfieM.sfiti in il i n n i i. 'ill lHHll'iil ol the Rhine,
has also suffered severely.
A heavy calamity has, as we see, overtaken
the whole valley of the Rhine—one of the fairest
. portions of the earth. There is no one who has
ever visited that lavored region whose heart does
not warm »l the recollection of its beauties.
The flood has now laid jt desolate, bqt its natural
fertility and its many advantages are such that
we mny hope for its restoration to its former
prosperity and beauty.— N. V- Mirror.
Emigration from Europe to America.—
The late arrivals from Liverpool have brought
large numbers of emigrants, and many ol
them will prove useful citizens to their adopted
country. One ship arrived at Boston, week be
fore last, with sfyenty families who were sent
out, bound for Wisconsin, by a society in Eng
land, which has been formed in this way.
Every man having a family and paving to the
society one shilling a week is entitled to mem
bership. An agent resides in Wisconsin, who
receive* Jrom time to lime lire funds, and as of
ten as they aiiiount to SIOO he buys aO acres of
land—builds thereon 3 log house and fences five
acres, which are planted.
The society are sending out Isinjlies to take
possession as last as the funds enable iqa agents
to prepare the houses and lands. When the fa
milies arrive each finds his house and 80 acres
in readiness for his reception. The agent fur
nishes him in addition with SSO for the purchase
of stock, tools, &c., for all of which the society
receives a yearly rent of $25, for ten years, at
ihe end of which time the tenant is entitled to the
fee of the land with all the improvements, stock,
&c.—making himself and family indepemlsfit
for life. This society have n»a4« arrangements
with Harnden & Co., to take their emigrants in
Europe and land them at their own doors in
Wisconsin—which protects them from all delay
and imposition, and relieves them from all care
and trouble about Custom House arrangements.
These are merely the pioneers of those who
i have made arrangements to come hereafter.—
: N. Y, Com. Adv.'
From the St. Louis Reveille.
i Sophy and the •• Fellers.”
Every body knows that the West is a great
place for getting married in, and il is pleasant
■ to know that thm lair ones are just as satisfied
with their condition afterwards. We don't
1 know who “Clarinda” is, or how or where her
■ letter first liecame public, but here it is:
Hollenbecks Grove, Illinois, 1800 4- 44.
, Dear Clarinda :—I got here two weeks ago,
and here I certainly shall end n.y days. Mr.
, Garris- n ihat came out with me left me al She
kigo, and I was glad on it. for I never did see a
feller slick to a gal as he did to me, and it warn’c
■ for nothin’ nether—but he dicin’ talk of marry
, ing me, but was just hangin’ round me, but 1
’ told him to keep his distance—that’s the way to
’ use such fellers. . I’ve a notion hees in a fix
with a gal down in KfiihftJck-Mtny how, I
wouldn’t look at him now, for I've had five
. fellers to spark me since I cum here and another
’ wants to cum, but I give him the bags. One of
my sparks has got three quarter seeshuns and
' hons, is six foot tall, and tour yoke oxen, and is
a widdorer, and wants to marry me next week,
but I shall wait a little and see if I can. do enny
better, tor between us, widdowers are so queer,
and talk right up so, they alwis friten me—but
. howsumever I spose they don’t mean more than
uther men. This country is verry large and so
is men and the ptarys they say is rollin’ but I
don’t see but they are as still as any other plase.
Meeting is scarse here and wheatdon’tfetch but
2and6-hay and potatoes they a I most give away,
and sich lots ofchildren—the unfeehn’mothers
feed their babys on pork and potatoes on account
of milk sickness in this country, a puty way
to grow babys I guess you’ll think.
Now you must come out, 1 know’ you'll make
your tonin here. Jim says there’s only onegal
on the hill ofbig prayry, with golden hair like
yourn, and sh<- got an offer everyday in the
week after she got here. Now she’s got a hus
band, anise hous and farm and a pair ol twins.
You can’t help likin’ the country tell amy il
she’ll come here she won't have to keep a wish
ing and a lucking for the fellers as we use to in
Westlrook—out there theyr rile arter you be
fore you thi..k of it. Tell mother 1 hope she’ll
come to see me as soon as I get to house keep
in’and if she thinks on it she may bring them
little red sock-in the till of my chest. When
you come be shore and go with the steamboat
Cheespeck, Captin Dilsy, at Bufferlow—he is
the nicest man on the. water, was so good to us
all. I almost love him it he is a marryed man.
Give my love t<» Jane, and ask her how she and
Bill gits on, aniTif hees popped the question yet.
l She may have him for all me—l cau do better.
I can pick my likins among the fellers here.
Nobody cant help likin this country. No more
from your lovin Cusin till detb.
Horn to be a Connoisseur.— Sposin’ it’s pictures
that’s on the carpet, wait till you bear the name
ot the painter. If it’s Rubens, or any o’ them
ild boys, praise, for it’s agin the law to doubt
them; but il it’s a new man, and the company
ain’t most especial judges, criticise. A leetfr
out ol keeping, says you ; he don't use his greys
enough, nor glaze down well; that sbadder
wants depth; general effect is good, though
parts ain’t; those eyebrows are heavy enough
for stucco, says you ; and other unmeaning
terms like these. It will pass, I tell you—your
opinion will be thought great. Them that judg
ed the Cartoons at ■ Westminister-hali knew
plaguey little more nor that. But il this is a
portrait of the lady of the house hangin’ up, or
it’s at all .ike enough to make it out,stop—gaze
on il—walk back—close your fingers like a spy
glass, and look through ’em amazed like—en
chanted—chained to the spot. Then utter, un
conscious-like, “Thai’s a most beautiful pic
tur’, by heavens' that’s a speakin’portrait. It’s
.veil painted, too; but whoever the artist is, he
is an unprincipled man.” “ Good gracious I”
she’ll say, “how so? “Cause, Madam, he has
not doneyou justice.”— Sam Slick.
Hayti.—The Boston Post has advices from
Aux Caves to the2Bih ult., received from Capt.
Beaman, ot the schooner St. Thomas. Capt.
B. states that a great excitement existed when
he left, in consequence of the discovery of He
rard, the banished ex-nresident’s plot to take
possession of Hayti. Il seems he was to land
on the south-west end of the island, collect his
forces there friendly to him, ana take posses
sion of all the principal places by surprise.
The whole was discovered by the interception
of some of his letters. Many suspected citi
zens were arrested and in prison. This threat
ened revolution had a disastrous eff et on busi
was strictly blockaded. No
allowed to leave the port,
b .a:, under any pretence; the
seizure and imprisonment ot crew,
’it was'decreedihat any banished person found
on ihe island should be forthwith shot; the lact
ol his appearance being proof enough that he
was concerned in the conspiracy against the
government. It was believed that the early dis
covery of the plot would effectually prevent its
consummation.
Advices from Cape Haytien,to the 11th inst.,
also received at Boston, mention nothing deci
sive in relation; to matters between the Hayti
ens and the people of the Spanish port. The
President (Guerrier) was at St. Marcs, very ill
It was surmised that ex-President Herard was
on his way from Jamaica to the west part ol
the island. Gen. Perriot was in command at
the cape; from his reputation, ana from the
high character of his advisers, it wassupposed
that good order would continue throughout that
important arrondissement. Let tfangs go as they;
• might in other parts of the island,
American Artists abroad.—There are said
to be fourteen American artists in Rome, em
ployed in the active pursuit of an honorable re
nown in their professions. Os these, eleven are
painters; and of the others, one is an ingraver,
one a sculptor, and one an architect. We
chronicle such facts with pleasure, It has been
a common reflection made upon this country by
European writers, that no taste exists amongst
11s for the Fine Arts. It were an idle task to
take room to controvert such an opinion ; the
“ muster roll” ot those eminent in the various
departmen's of art, who claim their birth upon
the soil of the Western Hemisphere, would fill
a column. It will be found that as our im
measurable forests are reclaimed from their pri
meval wildness, men ot gsnius will spring up
to illustrate the world of literature and of ait,
whose energies at an earlier stage of our na
tional existence would have been given to tfie
cause of civil liberty and the institution of new
modes to protect human rights.— Picayune.
Nauvoo Fortiftcatio"»
We learn by a gentleman direct from Nau
voo, (says the Warsaw Signal of the 2d April,) ■
that a new revelation has been received in rela
tion to the Temple. The work on that struc
ture is to be almost entirely suspended for the
present, and the whole energy of the Saintsis
to be devoted to the building ot a wall or ram
part around the edifice. Tnis wall is to enclose
six acres, the Temple being in the centre. It is
to be fourteen feet high, six leetthick.and com
posed of solid stone masonry. The work on
this new monument of folly has been already
commenced, and hundreds ot hands are em
ployed in carrying it forward.
The philosophy of the matter in our opinion,
(addsthe Signal,) is this: The Temple being
nearly finished, it was concluded by the leaders
that unless they had some new enterprise by
which to gull the Saintsoul of their money',
they would soon be without a pretext for swtn
dliog them, and therefore they have commenced
this work, and hqve told their dupes that the
Lord will not appear in his glory until this
rampart is finished, for it is the wUI of the Lord
that it shall be completed before the Temple.
The Signal asks : Will the poor deluded fol
lowers ot th®e Mormon leaders suffer them
selves to be longer imposed upon bv these shal
low pretences? If they will, 'here is no hope
of reclaiming them from their insane fanati
cism.
The Temple has been but a-gull-trap, where
with to cheat the honest nut of lheir subsistance
for the benefit of the leaders. There has been
1 at least one million of dollars donated for the
I erection of ihat edifice, while fifty thousand
Would have advanced it as far towards comple-
I lion as it now is. Os the tens of thousands that
1 have been .collected abroad, we do not believe
> one .dollar has been appropriated to the build
ing. Ail that has been done has been done by
r the tithing labor of the poor di;nes.ir> and th ij-
JiAnwoe. —Ptn-R: Ur yeafsTfie tenth part of the
, labor of fifieen hundred men in this county has
been bestowed on the Temple, which is amply
> sufficient to have completed if.
J A Great Improvement.— Mr. J. P. Dimpfel,
’ a scientific gentleman from France, who has re
sided many years in this country, has invented
I and successfully applied an attachment for io
t comotlves, by which the cinders and carbonic
acid gas escaping from a furnace, are returned
and consumed. ,
We had the pleasure of witnessing its opera
tion on Thursday afternoon, upon the Norris-
- town Rail Road, with a lew gentlemen invited
t for the purpose, and were fully satisfied with its
I success and utility. The construction of the
1 attachment is apparently simnlc, although it ap-
- pears to have cost almost a life-time of experi
t ments. A partition in the chimney of the loco-
- motive divides it so as to form an upward and
. downward passage, and at the bottom of the
s downward passage, is a fly wheel, worked by
- steaiq and surrounded by a bed of gravel. The
> fire being kindled and the top of the-chimney
- closed, the operation of the fly wheel creates a
f strong draught, by which the flam*-, smo(:e, heat.
b &c., of the furnace, which would otherwise es
cape through the chimney, is drawn downward,
• filters through the gravel, and is driven tinder
s the grating of the furnace, where it adds its ac-
- pymulated body of heal, fuel and draught, to the
s fife irvtx *’ f h.i-h it escaped. The Directors of
- the Rail Road ,wno Jiave tested this itnprove-
• ment, think it will save al least fifty per centum
j ol the fuel without anv inconvenieuce, apd it
t will be nearly as beneficial to tjie passengers,
e who often have their clothes injured by ignited
, ■■ v:iadgr»i from a locomotive, and their eyes en
t chwiged. We spe confident that ladies who
s travf! upon rail roa<i», wij,' always express a
1 prelerence for s? r - Dimpttl’s op ac
-1 count of its protection from sparks, (we mean
r not to punjjriqil vretrust he will reip due reward
b fur his ingenuity and pprseyerance.-philadel
1. phia Ameitsan ~
“ \Cbvonick anb Seinnui.
~ aJg iFaTr
TUESDAY MORNING. MAY (J.
t Agency. — Mr V. B I’almuk m authorised io act as
» our agent for all business countctecl with his office iu
, the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Bal
** timore. His office in New York is 160 Nassaa-atreet;
I Philadelphia, 69 Pine street ; Baltimore, 8. E. cornet
r of Baltimore and Caiverl-streeU; Boston, 16 Htate>sl.
Messrs. Mason & Tuttle, of ork, are also the
agents of the Chronicle and Sentinel in the city of
New-York.
The Whig Conveution.
The Savannah Republican of Saturday con
' tained the following article suggesting the first
. Monday in July, instead ol the fourth Monday in
I June, as the better day for holding a Convention
’ for nominating a Whig candidate for Governor.
1 Although the first Monday in July would be
s preferable to us of Richmond, because ol the
session of our Superior Court in June, yet we
] are willing to forego our preferences for the
s I .tier day, it our Whig friends determine upon
> the former. The suggestions of the Republican
' are, however, worthy of consideration, and we
t commend them l > the attention of those who
1 have suggested the fourth Monday in June as
[ the day for holding the Convention.
. The Whig Convention.—The entire press
t of the State has now spoken, and a Convention
, ot Whigs to nominate a candidate forGovernor,
s and for other purposes, has been determined
t upon. The time for holding that Convention
' has not yet been precisely settled. Itisgeneral
ly conceded, however, that it will be either on
t the fourth Monday of June, or the first Monday
I in July. Il is not a matter of much importance
• to us which day is selected, but we do not think
t it wise to press the delegates to an early meeting,
under the circumstances. Manyofthe Whigs
in the several counties concluding in their own
t minds that a Convention was unnecessary, per
mitted the meeting of the Spring Courts to pass
without tatting any defiinite action on the stib-
■ jecl. Such shouldhavetimelocirculalenotices
of the proposed meetings sufficiently to have
them as numerously attended as possible
Otherwise, the Convention may not fairly re
present the voice of the Whig party on impor
tant questions. Aswearetiihaveaconvention,
let il Dot be a formal, halfway affair; let it be a
body composed ol men ot sound Whig princi
ples, of experience, of wisdom and-r-ft+mrrs«ri=-
Inen whose opinions when expressed', will be
appreciated and respected by the whole party.
TbaZa convention composed of such material
could begotten together by the fourth Monday
In June, is barely possible; that such would be
the case on ihe first Monday in July, (a fortnight
thereafter,) we think much more likely? Besides,
we are not disposed to favor protracted political
struggles—thev have a most unhappy effect
upon the moral and social condition of our peo
ple. In the present case, it is especially uir.e
cessarv, as our candidate is well and favorably
known throughout the State, and is at this mo
ment as fairly before the people as he will be
after the deliberations of the Convention have
been made public, and his name has been for
mally announced. With these views firmly
impressed upon our minds, we are not dispose.!
io accede to the proposition for an early conven
tion ; nor do we think that the people of this sec
tion should be called upon by the Milledgeville
press to do so, especially after they have mag
nanimously yielded the more important point
in regard to the propriety of holding a conven
lion at all. Besides, the first Monday in July,
was the day first suggested, and therefore should
be adopted. We are happy to find that in this
opinion we are sustained by our able colempora
ry of the Columbus Enquirer. In the last
number ol that paper we find the following para
graph:
“ The Whig Convention.—J udging from the
information which we have received through the
Whig press of Georgia, we are inclined to the
opinion that a majority ofthe Whig party are in
favor of a Convention, to assemble in Milledge
ville, on thefirst Monday in July. As the mi
nority on this question will doubtless vield to
the wishes of the majority, with a hearty good
will, we respectfully urge our friend’to proceed
to call their primary meetings ard select good
men and true, who will discreetly discharge the
duty which may b“ imposed upon them asdele
gates to the Whig Convention. We insist upon
it, no one should receive the appointment who
will not pledge himself to attend at the time de
signated.
“ Let us have a full convention, as matters of
profound interest will come up tor considera
tion, and in which every citizen of Georgia is
deeply concerned.”
Whetherthe Convention be held in June or
July, it is important that'the Whigs in every
part of ihe State should be up and doing at once.
Let meetings be called immediately in every
county; let every good Whig make it an object
io be present at such meetings, and as the En
quirer suggests, let not only the best men be se
lected, but such as will pledge themselves to at
tend.
The Madisonian says that Mr. Everett has
asked permission to return home, and recom
mends Mr. Calhoun as his successor. Doubtful.
We understand, says the Washington Con
stitution, that the President has appointed Dr.
James H. Tate Consul to j
—-TitoU. S. Journal says the appointment of
Charge des Affairs to New Granada has been
tendered to the Hon. B. A. BidlacK of Pennsyl
vania.
Changes in the Washington Press.—The
Globe of Friday appeared under its new name,
“ The Union,” and the Madisonlan-as “The
United States Journal.” Messrs. Ritchie
Heiss are now in full charge of the former,
and Messrs. Dow & Fisk as the editors and
proprietors ot the latter.
Burnett, the ptlot of the steamboat Swal
low, was arraigned at New York on Wednes
day, and pleaded not guilty.
U. S. Treasurer’s Weekly Statement.—
By the weekly statement ol the U. S. Treasurer
we learn that the amount of public money in the
various depositories subject to draft on Monday
last, was 86,885,332. Os this amount there was
deposited in Chesapeake Bank, Baltimore, Ma?
. ryland,s34o 33; Bankvf Baltimore, Baltimore,
Maryland, $79,684 86, Bank of Washington,
Washington, D. 0., $126,462 09; Bank of Me
tropolis, Washington, D. C , $627,331 73; Pa
triotic Bank, Washington, D. C., $128,718 49;
Corcoran & Riggs, Was u ington, D C., $395,-
008 61; Francis Dodge, Georgetown, D. C,
$50000; Bank of Potomac, Alexandria, D. C.,
$16,846 77.
1 fie funds for the payment qt the interest on
ihe seven percent, stock of the State of Qhio
have been deposited in New York.
The Ijrge two story wooden building, known
as Mears’ soap tactoiy, al Egst Cambridge,
Mass., wqs entirely destroyed by fire on Tues-
> day-
The amount of Treasury Notes outstanding
on the Ist instant, it is officially stated, was
$923,351 -10.
New York and Pittsburg.—The N. Y.
Journal of Commerce says that the voluntary
contributions for the relief ot the Pittsburg suf
ferers, have enabled the Mayor to remit $20,000
so lap, and considerable sums more are yet to
come in.
Arkansas River.—The Van Buren Whig
of the 15lh ult. says:—“ The Arkansas river is
now lower at this place than it h ' . r. ■
- !»>.*.u our oldest*settlers. Indeed, we
have had a remarkably dry reason fpr the Iqst
’ eight months, during which time the river has
been up but once, and then it was barely high
enough to admit small boats to this place or
' Kort Smith.”
' Baker Sugar.—The “ Patriot,” published at
: Albany, Baker Cy.,Ga., says: We were shown
1 a sample a few days since, raised by A. R.
Wright of this county, which was pronounced
. by good judges to be equal to the best New
I- Orleans sugar. Mr. Wright has made 14 bbls
’ of 230 lbs. each, off of about 3 acres of lanfl. —
' This at 8 cents per lb. woqld aupurd to more
- thap $
1 New Discovery in Relation to Stone.—lt
: is staled in the Sheffield (Eng.) Mercury that a
» scientific gentleman residing at Ipswich, Mr.
Frederick Ransome, engineer, has lately dis
’ covered a method a hereby the hardest stone can
j be brought into a consistence resembling com
, mon putty, so that jt cap fee cut and moulded
r into any shape, for useful and ornamenta 1 pur
, poses, without alteiing its general character and
f appearance; for it becomes as hard, and in
- some instances, even harder than when sub
’ jected to the process. Anotherpcculiarity ofthe
1( process is, ikai qny eo|or or variety of colors
1 can be impartei) to its solid substance so mat an
endless variety of shades can be produced, and,
3 as it is capable of being polished, it effectually
-’ resists the action of the weather. It can also
be used as a seincct, andean be brushed over
the surface of wood, so as to render it fire
proof.
Governor Jon tn; of Tennessee is the Whig
candidate for Congress in the 7th Congressional
distitet.
The pofilLation of Canada al the present
time is 693,649. l»f these there are, natives ol
i the country, of French origin, 518,565; natives,
of British origin, 85,075; England, 11,886;
Ireland, 45,012; Scotland, 13,341; Conliuental
, Europe, 2,353; United States, 11,911. The
r proportion of deaf and dumb to the whole popu
lation is greater than in all other countries, ex
cept Switzerland and Baden, In Canada it is
1 to about every 957; in Europe 1 in 1537;
United States 1 io .every iJwO. In the world,
so far as known, 1 in 1556.
Excavations at Pompeii.—The latest exca
vation made at Pompeii has been exceedingly
interesting. A house was laid open in the quar
ter of the people. Twenty workmen were em
ployed at the task, and the entrance room fur
nished about twenty-five articles, vases, cups,
altars and bronze pateroe. In another room,
from which a narrow passage led to the kitchen,
the tinning of the saucepans was still bright.
A large boiler, two jars with handies, light and
transparent, objects exceedingly rare in collec
tions, were also found there. The next exca
vations were to be made in the workshops of
the town.
Business in New-York.—The New-York
Courier and Enquirer has the following :
We continue in an agitated state in respect
of our foreign relations—not that anyone thinks
war is at hand, but that many fear through lite
complicatiqr of difficulties that war may at last
come. We do not deem >uch a result possible
with common prudence on the part of this na
tion, and yetthe bare apprehension of it causes
doubts and hesitation both in the stock and mouey
market X
At this seison there is generally great activi
ty in home business—and such is the case just
now, for prtßUCe does not feel the effect ot the
warl’kerimfrrsandappret ensions. Indeed thus
far the whof effect is confined to operators in
stocks «hi« It rise andlall as rumors more or
less auguagormore dr Jess probable, prevail.
The buHinessof the year was expected
• tofa+HiiLWr!llSToT-tast “year-a-ms .especially
lm’poriatl3v* n d the estimates by (he Tiea-m:
ol receipt Horn the customs lor the current year,
were al i considerably lower figure than those
of the pist year. The result will turn out as
ibreseet. Thus far the duties received at this
port, as,compared with those tor the same tiuie
last year, have fallen off more than a million and
a hall ol dollars, as may be seen by the annexed
stateme|t:
Receiptifrom Jan. 1 toApril27 1841.87,136 302
Do , do. do. 26,1815. 5 549,207
Decrease in 184581,587,095
The same jelative diminution will be found
in the Custom House receipts at other ports.
From the N. OB e, 30th nil. ’
From Texas.
By the arrival ol the steamship New York,
Capt. Wnght, we have received our files of
Galveston papers to ihe 26th inst. They are
filled, as fray be expected, almost exclusively
with the sibjeclof Ann xation. The Galveston
Civitianr-a paper opposed to annexation —ap-
proves ot ihe lime selected by the President lor
convening an extra session of Congress, an.l
thinks that the gravity and importance ol the
measures involved, and the propriety of delib
eration, reflection and investigation, and of pre
senting to Ihe people and their repre.-entives, all
the matter'bearing upon the question, are such
as to render the avoidance of a precipitate and
irregular course proper and necessary. The
Civilian further declares that all ij| desires is
to see the issue fairly made up, lor all parties
to have a hearing, and for the will ol a majority
to tule.
On the 21st a meeting of the citizens of Gal
veston in favor of Annexation, was held at the
Tremont House. Some of the presses repre
sent it as latige and enthusiastic. The Civilian,
per contra, avers that not a fourth oi the citizens
of the town were present; and adds that the
friends oi ladependence in that quarter are
neither dead por asleep.
It is denied that Dr. Smith, who has been
sent to England on a special mission, is an
enemy to annexation. On the contrary he is
proclaimed in ardent friend of annexation.
Wiih respeetto Gen’l. Houston no one, says
the Civilian, knows what course be wil, take,
or whether ht will emerge from the quiet seclu
sion with which be has surrounded tiimsell in
his jural abode in oraer to take any part what
ever in theagjtation of thequestion.
“Seeing tje siaieinent which is going the
round ol the newspaper press in the country
calculated w create ihe impressions ihat the
Ameiican Minister, Maj. A. J. Donelson, had
not been received on Ins recent arrival at this
place with tie courtesy due to him, we are.
pleased to beauthorised by him lo say Ihat this
impression will be erri neous. He informs us
that he was preseutesUay the Honorable Ashbel
Smi'li, Secretary iof .Slate, the morning after
bis arrival, to hijs Excellency Hie President,
who, afthcuglrCt>fr#!>ed to his tied, received him
kindly and ill ejchi-npe-l Ibjafc**, l * ij< '
a i , n;t . i.. „
we are also inlorjßHMßrom a statement to
Maj Do.nelsotiVrjhe proposals respecting an
nexation which he was authorized to submit to
this Government, he was frankly told by ihe
President that early stej s would be taken to
submit the whole subject to the people. The
only doubt then in the President’s mind was as
lo the propriety of calling Congress; he stating,
however, his impression that this step was ne
cessary and proper."— Nat. Register.
A new steamboat built in Texas, at Cincin
nati on the Trinity, was launched a few days
since, and sent down to Galveston with five
hundred bales of cotton on board. The hull is
140 feet long and 26 teet broad, and.can carry
eight hundred balesol cotton.
Business in Galveston is very brisk, and
ponderous warehouses, fair dwellings and
white cottages, rise up like creations ol some
tales of romance.
From the Washington Constitution.
Official.
receipts and expenditures.
The receipts into the Treasury dqring the
quarter ending the3lst uit. were, as nearly as
can be ascertained—
From Customs,.... ~56,375 575 71
“ Lands 485 532 20
“ M iscellaneous sources, 20,000 00
$6,881,107 91
The expenditures during the same period
have been—viz:
Civil List, Miscellaneous, and
Foreign Intercourse,Bl,7o3,4o7 96
On account of Ar-
my $1,131 826 56
Indien department,.. .52 930 07
Fortifrcatioßs, 86.412 50
Pensionsl,4o6,l99 19
I 52,647,368 32
Navy,....1578,631 fro
Interest on the Public Debt,.. .... 38 062 71
Reimbursement of Loan of 1811,. .4 912 686 94
“ “ 1813,.. 400,000 00
Reimbursement and interest of
Treasury Notes, ‘841,048 01
sl2 126,904 97
R. J. WALKER, Sec’v ot Treasury.
Treasury Department, April 31, 1845.
The New-York Commercial Advertiser thus
scientifically describes an animal rather com mon
in that city, specimens ol which are also seen
elsewhere:
Smelhing Nice.— Otir friends in the country
maybe aware ihat New-York city pos-esses,
among other treasures, a commodity ol feather
less bipeds known distinctly as “soap-locks."
They are generally boys on the verge of man
hood—old enough to be impudent ar.d brutal,
but not old enough to have sense, modesty, or
wind panta-
-TOOns very lull in the lower |iS*t o t the leg and
spreading out all over Ihe flannel waist
coats, hats of a peculiar roundni\l anc j ver y
elaborate sqspepder?, gcaeraily some
number worked on the crossing place- J , X- ,i, p
back. Tbeir speech is for the most part scurri
lous and profane, their deportment unmannerly.
Delaware County Anti-Renters.—Three
more of the prisoners, Lewis Knapp, Anson K.
Burrell and Ezekiel C. Kelly, have been tried
and convicted. Affidavits were presented and
arguments heard re fiver of miti? al “ ,n P un *
ishmenj, alter which the Court look time tq
advise.
From Society Islands.—Accounts from Ta
hiti to the 20th of December represent that the
islands still remained in possession of the
French authorities. General Miller, the British
Consul General, hjttj arrived several weeks pre
viously. The arrival ol a French frigate from
Valparaiso was daily expected, with despatches
Irom the French Government. Although the
accounts ol the arrangement between the British
and French Governments had reach'd Tahiti,
it was not the general belief that the French in
tended to restore Goeen Poinare to her rightful
authority.
Starvation in Poland.—-Letters from Poland
rtate that the distress there is frightful; people
wCre dy'ing at times of hunger, sometimes of
cold. The harvest last year was destroyed by
the overflow of the Memel. The destruction of
cattle occasioned by want of food was consider
able. The prospect for this year is no better, for
halt the winter grain is gone, and the great
masses of snow still lying on the ground threaten
fresh inundation'.-.
One million of dollars is annually expended
in the State of New York for the relief of pau-
that too tn a new ednntry where
laixir is well paid, and provisions abundant.
One person out ofevery twenty-six, It appears,
by the report ofthe Secretary of State, is a pau
per, and lull one half are foreigners.
’ 7'ww the York Coin ier and Enquirer.
1 Steam Navies.
We published several days ago a detailed
and authentic list of the war steamers of Eng
land, which, hi contrast with our tack of such
I an armament, was lilted to attract attention.
We now annex another notice oftlie progress
’ made by other European nations in adopting
1 this new element ol uaval warfare. It appeals
I that even the humblest of the Mediterranean
, Powers—decayed Venice, and Sardinia with
its single seaport—go ahead, in war steamers,
of lire nation from which proeeeded*the first
■ successlul application ul steam to purposes of
, navigation; and which counts itself third and
almost second among the maritime Powers ot
> the world.
ft is no reproach, perhaps it is no disadvan
tage to the United States, that they have not
kept pace vrith the Goverments of tr.e Old
World in building and equipping vessels oi
, this kind—lot as yetthe whole matter is more
or less experimental,and, with one “fixedfact,”
■ that steam may be advantageously employed to
propel vessels of war, there is the greatest un
certainty as to the mode in which this agent can
be best employed.
, It would therefore have been idle for us,
while others were making experiments on a
large scale, by the result of which we could
profit, to go to the expense of building fleets ot
steamers which later improvements might
render useless, or measurably interior; but we
were bound, and to that we meant to come, to
have at least a show of steam force capable of
protecting our own harbors and coast from in
' suit. It is a reproach to Congress and the Ex
ecutive that we are without such means of de
fence; and that even the very inadequate force
of this sort which we have is not ready for ser
vice. Our finest steamship, a really efficient
vessel, the Mississippi, is in dock we believe
in Boston—al any rate, she is not in commis
sion nor ready for service ; and yet war is talked
of on all hands—a warol which, come when it
may and from whatever quarter, the event is
to be decidcti by steam engines and Paixhan
guns.
Our voice, as all know, is not for war; but
it is always, as it always has been, lor such an
amount and disposition of our naval forces, as
in any and every coniingency would place us
in a condition to vindicate our rights.
Here is the communication that has suggest
ed this long preface:
For the Courier and Enquirer.
Tub Steam Navy of Great Britain.—The
force of the steam Navy of Great Britain, as
slated in your journal sqme-days jim-e-,—vs—v
great, that we, wtioliave literal!^ none at all
to oppose it, should consider well our situation
before rushing headlong into 'a war. The
writer has had an opportunity cf visiting many
English steamers of war and oSf being at sea in
some of them; most of thoseyfft the larger class
are fitted with a troop-deck,/which is always in
complete orderto receive 250 to 300 soldiers to
be transported to any given port. Such steam
ers as the Geyser, Firngmr and Devastation, ot
about 1,109 tons are in this way.—
With twelve or ol this descrip
tion always on a stauon, as ti e Mediterranean,
for instance, a I a roe military force can be
transported to anyjfoint in a very shoit space
ot lime. The stumers, moreover, arealways
at hand to ai l prilling ships, to tow them into
position, &c y * The steamers ol the class above
named caj>f but lew guns, but all of the large
caliber, two or three of them on pivots, and all
shot or shells. The newsteam
frigate*, such as the Avenger, Retribution, and
Terrible ate of much greater force in steam
power and guns.
'-This inerese of steam-power does not apply
alone>q England. The sieam Navy of France
is very jfowerful, and improving in all respects
every moment. But we must not look alone
to these great Powers; other nations, that we
have usually looked upon with the greatest un
concern as naval opponents, are last going ahead
ot us in steam, and should we be,saucy in their
waters we might find them ugly customers.
It is only a few years since that there was
some delay on the part ol Naples in paying an
instalment, as per agreement, on its debt due
this country—j L-might disposition to repudiate.
Our Comjpalmer on the Mediterranean station
was oydefed to repair immediately to the port of
-Naolfs with all his force, consisting of a line
of battle ship, on? or two frigates, and three or
four smaller vessels, to demand payment, and
in case Ulis was refused to Mrea/en force to
compel payment. The gallant Commodore die
his duty and in handsome style, and lhe money
waspaid. If our gallant Commander now on
that station were ordered to do the same thing
with lhe force he has, or even with double or
treble the force, we are inclined to think he might
be told at least to be civil. The King of Naples
has alre dy seventeen large steamers-of-war in
commissioner nearly ready for sea, well armed,
well manned, and well appointed in every re
spect. Austria is becoming a power not to be
despised for her steam navy, by us at all events;
she has already ten large apd powerful steam
ers-of-war in commission or nearly ready tor
sea, and more building. Even poor neglected
Venice could show in September, 1843, a great
erMeam force in her d ckyards, whete lie the
bonesof Bticentaur, than all the dockyards of
our great, big, bragging Un*ed States of Ameri
ca. The kingdom of Sardinia, with her one
little port of Genoa, beats us very considerably
in efficient steam navy. It is in vain to say
that this force, in lhe hands of these people, is
nothing. It is very important, and will render
us powerless in the Mediterranean in yase nt
aw ■ unmemlv>rr of »
Tike characters oppose to it. There are plenty
of skilful engineers, navigators, &c. to be ob
tained from all quarters, and they /unemployed
in any number on board these vessels in he
Mediterranean. All these small Powers find
that steam force is the most effectiveand avaiia
ble force they can have. It is true, we need,
not trouble ourselves much about steam force
as long as it is confined to the Mediterranean •
but if we are determined upon bullying all the
world, we may as well-see that we have some
protection against it at home. Al present the
British Government ha ve only to place one or
two large steamers off"each of our harbors and
they can take every vessel that enters, as we
have nothing to oppose to them. These ves
sels could receive constant supplies of coals
from Nova Scotia, and also from Bermuda, the
Bahamas, and Cuba, where they have large
depots. Steam is a new power on the ocean, the
importance of which our Government, notwith
standing its bellicose propensities, seem not as
yet to have sufficiently considered-
War Meeting— Scene in Philadelphia.— The
U. S. Gazette ot lhe 2d inst., furnishes lhe fol
lowing account of a tpeefing in Phi|a lelphia:
'I lie W ar Meetipg.
Among the amusing scenes yesterday, being
the first ol May, was lhe meeting in the State
House yard, called of
“ The Citizens of lhe City and County ol
Philadelphia, desirous io repel the aggressive
pretensions ol the British Ministry, as recently
proclaimed in bolhihetr Houses of Parliament,
and to uphold the Chief Magistrateol lhe Ame
rican Union, in his determination to maintain
inviolate the territ rial rightsand national honor
of the American People.”
Everybody knew that there had beena quarrel
about the preliminary meeting anti that the bat
tle would be re-lbught in electing.tfficers. About
four minutes before | o’clock, two gentlemen,,
known to be ot opposite tactions, viz: Col. R.
M. Lee, and Col. A Cummings, mounted the
stage, when immediately Col. Cummings pressed
lorward and nominated Thomas McCully, Esq
lor President. At o r ce Cid. Lee nominated the
Hon. C. J. Ingersoll f-r President The stage
was immediately crowded, arid in the front rank
were Col. R. M. Lee, ai.d fl. 11. Brewster, Esq ,
the former heading the Pallas faction, and lhe
latter heading the Buchanan facliop. ft was
announced amid contradictions, that Mr. MCul
ly was elected President, and some resolutions
were exhibited and, perhaps, read by Mr Brew s
ter. Then commenced a scene of shouting and
shoving, groaning and clapping, such as we
have not seen for years; and once or twice the
eadersofeach faction were tumbled off lhe stage,
othe manifest delight of the multitude.
> There seemed to be some good nature ope
rating in thy ludicrous mess. Col. Lee asked
his party to move to lhe other side, but none
moved; whereupon Col. Cummings jeered him
with bis inability to stir lhe people. “They
don’t go at any rate,” replied the gallant Col.
Lee .
There was a time of confusion such as we
have no power to describe. Alter this scene
had continued for about an hour and a quarter,
while the leaders were huzzaing and groaning
by turps, bowing to the audience, and attempt-
speak, Col. Page, who is counted one ol
the a | s(J denominated by his
opponents vj (lnkers •> presented
himself at the northwec . ()f|he • h
south being the front, andct> nced speaking.
There were not many to n „ ne
and he seemed to have gamed a x j h «
mg able to speak, when Mr. Brew. loo |/ a j_
vantage of the diversion, got Mr. ’
put the question on the resolutions of th; vo „ n „
democracy, and pronounced them carried? . =
mediately that pany declared itself triumph. n[ ‘
and adjourned.
Col. rage continued to sppak. Mr. Stoever
had been called to preside over what we may, in
order to avoid giving offensive epithets, call the
northwestern portion ofthe meeting. Mr. In
gersoll having declined,
Several persons spoke, and at last, Mr. Kelly
addressed lhe meeting—we could not hear what
he said.
Os course, no person thought of poor Mr. Polk,
except as lhe disposer of office, and all this hub
bub, instead of having anything to do with
Oregon, Texas, Mexico or Great Britajn, was
about the offices in the gift of lhe Executive.
So far as it regards a war with Great Britain
the convocation mqst have beep tremendous for
that country. Should the whole meet the ears
ol Gneen Victoria, in her present delicate si na
tion, it is difficult to say what would be lhe re
sult.
The proceedings oft he meeting will, of course,
be published in the Democratic papers litis morn
ing, apd we would pol be dstbni'shed, if some
thing should come from it.
As it was, Mr. Brewster and Col. Lee got
great credit for their perseverance, and we may
add good nature. What else they will get we
tannat say.
The truth is that the whole was a contest be
tween two factions of the locofoco pany, in
which the young democracy may be said to
have got their resolutions through the first.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 7.
I Our Foreign Relations.
' The subject of our foreign relations (says the
Baltimore American) continues to call forth re-
> marks from the newspapers. Ina matter of this
> kind it is to be expected that a diversity .4 views
’ should be entertained. If the United Slates and
i Great Britain mean only to wrangle with one
. another, then doubtless the worst aspect of the
f case has already been exhibited—for mere
I wrangling cannot well go any further.
1 “ Ifyou said so, then I .said so,” quoth Touch-
stone in the play, when be was giving specimens
of lhe various modes by which one could get out
of a quarrel. So, it is suggested, the British
Government and our own, when they come to
1 analyze one another’s wordsand meaning,, may
i find that although the “retort courteous,” the
“ grip modest,” and the “counter-check quarrel
some” have been interchanged, no direct issue
has been absolutely formed. “We trust it will
appear,” say-- the Boston Dailj’ Advertiser, "as
we have before suggested, that the language of
the President, in the passage of his inaugural
Addiess alluded to, has been taken in a broader
. sense than it was intended, and that the declara
tion was not meant as a declaration of opinion
on a controverted question, at least to th-- extent
in which it has been understood.” This suppo
sition is grounded on another that “doubtless
the Secretary of Stale was called on for ar. ex
planation by the British Minister”—and the in
ference is, that the explanation was satisfactory,
as “otherwise we should probably have had
some rumor of lhe misunderstanding.” To this
we have only to say that the language of the
Globe, if it be official, indicates any thing rather
than a satisfactory state of the negotiations at
Washington. It might give reason to suppose
that negotiations were, suspended altogether—or
likely soon to be so.
The New York Journal of Commerce speaks
of our having no cause ol apprehending difficul
ties on accent of Texas citber from Mexico or
. -t i '■ .v-;. - in
in oUr relations with
her, is the Oregon question. But even this must
be very badly managed indeed—much worse
than our present A-Uninistraiion will be likely
to manage it—in order to breed a war. The late
declarations of Ministers in the British Parlia
ment weie designed, we take it, as an offset in
part fbr the bullying non-enxe which was so
freely poured forth in our own Congress during
the last session. The Inaugural of President
Polk, rightly understood, said nothing on this
subject which ne ed be offensive toEngland. He
spoke of our right to Oregon as being dear and
conclusive, but he did not say thewholeol Ore
gon. He spoke ot our neople going there to
settle, as they have a perfect right to do under the
Treaty, in common with British subjects. He
spoke, also of the faithful fulfilment of our
Treaty obligations.
The British Ministry know little oi the tem
perament of President Polk, if they suppose he
is a political enthusiast, w ho rushes to conclu
sions without regard to consequences. When
thev are better acquainted with him, they will
find him cool, refl cling, just, yet lesoluie—a
good man to deal with, lor ibose who want only
what is right, and are willing to act on the same
principle in return. As to Oregon, we must
yield something, and so must England. We
can’t expect to have our extreme rights in a case
like this. The title of neither party is indispu
table, though we think ours is much the best.
England seems to be equally confident in regard
to hers. It is however only a small pan of Ore
gon which is fairly in dispute; for she offered
long ago to quit all clai n South of Columbia
river, and East ol lhe N. W. branch ot the same,
which crosses the 49ih degree ot lat. only 300 or
400 miles fror the coast We, on lhe contrary,
have offered to yield all North of lat. 49. So it
is only the N. W. portion ot Oregon that is
making all this fuss. The question must be set
tled, either by arbitration or compromise. The
latter is the best way, and the present the besi
lime. This is the only boundary remaining un
adjusted between us and our powerful commer
cial rival—and we never shall have another.
So there is some encouragement to try.
The possession of the Columbia river is one
of the main points of the controversy—the very
thing which both parties are reluctant to yield.
One of the grounds of our title to the Oregon is
the fact of the discovery ol that river by Capt
Gray, of Boston.
We give the loregoing views, however, with
out designing to discuss the question. An ami
cable settlement of the difficulty, without a sa
crifice of the national rights or the national
honor, must be desired by all rational men. But
it cannot be disguised that grave doubts of an
amicable settlement do rest upon lhe question as
it now stands. 1 here is nevertheless time suffi
cient to allow of calm cmisf ie l -- 1 '’" 1 ri 1 t'UA'—-
■lain adtliffT Unless an extra session ot Con
gress is called, there is no probability that any
further steps will be taken in the matter until
next December.
Annexation—Mexico.
The following, says the N. O. Bee, is an ex
tract from a letter addressed by one of tfig most
influential and respectable citizens of Galves
ton, to a friend in this city. Its statements may
be relied upon :
“ I am 'Qiosi happy to assure you that thede
monstratiorfs throughout lhe country, have been
most unanimous, warm and decided in favor ol
closing at once with the propositions now be
fore the country Without further delay; and ap
prehensive, as many men in different counties
were, that onr Executive and most of his im
mediate partizans woftld do every thing they
dared to do, to postpone and ultimately defeat
the measure, meetings Were held in several
<■onnt.es proposing that the people should at
once move in the matter by requesting their re
speclive members ol Congress to assemble about
lhe middle of May, to advise and deliberate on
the matter. Our President, however, at length
issued his proclamation to convene the Con
gress in Jun ’, vith which we are content, al
though most of us believe it was made so late in
order to give the British intriguers time to ma
ture all their plans for its defeat. But as public
sentiment is so entirely overwhelming, we were
satisfied that lhere was no chance for the suc
cess of their machinations, and consequently
acquiesce in the late day fixed by the President,
rather than throw the country in a state of an
archy and contusion It there had been the
least fear that the enemies of annexation could
have succeeded, we should have gotten up a
revolution instanter. Yours, &c.”
In connection with this subject, says the Bee,
it is worthy of remark, that although the few op
ponents of annexation in Texas, base tfieir op
position upon the beljel that Mexico is prepared
to offer Texas a formal recognition of her in 'e
pendence, on condition she declines the proffer
ed union with this country, we find nothing
either in the tone of the Mexican press, or In
the action of the Mexican Congress, to justify
the opinion that Mexico will abate one jot ortit
tleof her claimsup.m Texas. On thecontrarv.
the entire scope and tenor of the late advices
lead irresistably to the conclusion tha’ Mexico
is determined toassenand maintain, by all th?
resources in her power, her pretended rights
over the Territory whifh shy terms “ The De
partment of Texas.” The solitary document
upon which rests the impression that Mexico
might be disposed to acknowledge Texan inde
pendence, if coupled with the condition of a re
fusal of annexation, is the memorial of Senor
Cuevas to the Chamber of JJeputle?, in which
that measure is extremely hinted at as preteia.
bie to the absolute certainty ot annexation. Yet
it seems that such a sentiment is wholly repug
nant to the feelings and prejudices of the Mexi
can Congress, for the joint commission which
reported on the 7th insl. the two projects pub
lished in Wednesday’s paper, make no allusion
whatever to the independence of Texas, but de
clare in the most unreserved manner, that Mex
ico “ will maintain her rights to that Depart
ment.”
We know something ol the Mexican charac
l'r. It is deeply impregnated with the
P r, u- and indomitable obstinacy derived ti'bm
its Span. . ~ , '
, r o source. Mexico may be unable to
vindicate h , , ~. , ,
r claims to 1 exas by an appeal to
arms, s e ma, p et j oorne q j n sn p en silence and
conscious impott. ... , .
„ . ce to witness lhe incorpora
tion of that youngs , - .. . , .
, . . J ,4 flourishing republic in
the American confedv , , z
~, . , , . -cy; but she will not
yield one particle of her e , . T
. . -mmed soyereigntv
of the country. V,'l;at foreign
v . pience may be
enabled to effect; whatthe impudebv
- . , . .. - , . . 'xnpenng
of Great Bri'ain may bring lorth, it
to say, but left to herself and to her imt
perturba
ble hauteur, Mexico would rather see. ,
. . ~ . ’ , do
minions dlsrpempered piece meal, t»
the smallest concession, injurious ma * c
nlon, to her pride, dignity and right*
The papers say that there hav« 'aeerf
mtrvals iq ths Xsw-Vork Custom Hou,.’ 1 ' e
a few days. Th» BostonAtlasintirrq'” 111 r
the Tylerians in the Custom House a' es ,h "
Office in Boston, are to be decapitated i" 1 Pns
days. P a fe *,
Plauce in India.— .i letter t>> a gemlvm'an tn
; Baltimore, dated Hoogly, Dec. 22, 1844, states
that the plague was tnakinc tearful ravages nt
; Cabool, where it bill never appeared before,
- and fears were entertained of its spreading
, through Bengal.
’ The Paris (Mo.) Mercury .says they have
' nevet seen so gloomy a prospect for abundant
! crops a» at present. There has not been rain
’ enough to lay the dust for months. Seed which
has been put in the ground cannot veg-tale un
less it should rain. Wheat is dry to its roots.
Complaints are made relative to tobacco plants,
andfears are entertained on that subject.
The steamship Caledonia, for Liverpool, took
her departure at 25 minutes after 2 o’clock on
Thursday afternoon. She ba« 68 passengers, of
whom 11 stop at Halifax.
In the list of passengers in the Caledonia, for
Liverpool, is lhe name of Mr. Ashbel Smith,
Secretary ol State of the Republic of Texas.
The Swai.low —The Albany Atlas says it
is not true that the remains of the child oi
Judge Mather have been lound.
CY A letter from New Haven, Conn., says
“The woods are again on fire on Long Island’
and were burning brilliantly as we passed-
This is the third time lhey have been set on
fire this spring by sparkA from the locomotives
of the Long Island Railroad, and lhe aipount
of damage has been very great. Although at
a distance of at least 31) miles, we could clearly
see the flames of the burning forest, under a
bright sun at It) A. M.”
A Heavv Day.—The Baltimore Patriot of
Saturday afternoon, the 3d inst., says: It is es
timated that at least a million of dollfrs were
paid in bank to-day, in this city. Having had
occasion to visit several ol the banks, we learn
ed that lhere would be- few or no protests, and
these confined almost, entirely to some small
collection notes. Our commercial.community
■ ft***■—■*■ lii.il -4
The Fragrance up Onions —Onions do not,
certainly, add to the sweetness of a lady's breath,
though in fact they really do add to the fragrance
offl'wers. Let our lady readers plant a large
onion near a rose bush, so as to touch its roots,
and our word for it, it will increase lhe odor ol
the flowers. The water distilled from those
roses would be far superior to any other. This
is strange but true.
The cotton manufacturing stocks continue
the favorites at the East. Amoskeag is 39 per
cent advance, 800 l 20 Middlesex 24, York 29,
Massachusetts Mills 18, Suffolk 21, Tremont
15. Otis 20, Lawrence 11, Salisbury 10, Dwight,
18, Perkins 15, Nashua $570 per SSOO. N. E.
Worsted par, dividend off. Its dividends have
been 57 per cent, in 18 months.
Mail Lettings.—The Madisonian ofthe Hi.
inst. says:—This day, at 9 o’clock, the Portmas
ter General, with his Assistants and the Clerks
ot the Contract Office, detailed for the purpose,
proceeded in the large room on lhe Southwest
corner ol the General Post Office, to declare the
names of accepted bidders in lhe routes under
proposals for contracts in New-England and
New-York, commencing with the State of
Maine There were quite a number of bidders
congregated in the large audience room at the
hour appointed. Old men who had spent their
lives and fortunes almost in the service of lhe
Department, mingled with new bidders fresh
from the people, with the glow of youth upon
their cheeks—and all were confident, fearfully
confident, of success. We could not wait for
lhe full declaration ol the bids, but irom what
we heard we are quite sure that our estimate,
that the bids would bes() per cent, lower than
lhe last contracts, will be more than realized.
> The Washington Daily UUion-4-now the ac
knowledged “organ” of Mr. Polk’s administra
tion—referring to the rumor that Mr. Van Bit
ten would be sent on a special mission to Eng
land, says: “ We havea briefanswerloallthis.
We understand that the mission to London has
been offered to Mr. Pickens, ol South Caroli
na; ahd this is the first time we ever heard lhe
high name of Mr. Van Buren associated with
such an appointment.”"
Verily the administration of this government
is in a deplorable dilemma, when such a mis
sion is tendered to such a man as F, W Piel.-’
_ - ' . imiuy i Oliri lawyer H— Fd
Citron. <f- Sent.
From lhe Charleston ( Fat.) Republican, April ID.
A Remarkable Phenomenon.
Kanawha Sall Works.— lt has been known to
the public fur some two years that several ex
tensive’salt lurnaces in theKanawlia salt region
have bein operated exclusively by gas. The
gas forcing upthe water from a depth of a thou
-and or fifteen hundred feet, and then being col
lected in a barrel, which serves as a gasometer,
it is conveyed by a pipe to the furnace, furnish
ing all the processes of the manufacture of salt
to its completion in an establishment capable ot
making a hundred barrels in a day,and at night
brilliantly lighting up the whole works; thus
saving lhe expense of a steam engine lo pump
up the water; and all lhe fuel and lights.
Last week, in deepening one of lhe wells of
Messrs. Dickenson & Shrewsbury, the auger
struck a stream ol gas, at lhe depth of
one thousand feet, that in quantity anti
force far surpasses anything of the kind
heretofore discovered here, or pet haps in the
world. The auger was pressed up with such
force as almost to overcome the exertions ot the
workmen t > hold it down while they could un
screw the detachments. The way bein?
ed, lhe gas having lull play,-miTa column oi
water one hundred feet, (and if tubed, would no
- -doubr-mise it double that distance) occasionally
discharging stones from lhe size of a musket
ba I to tliatot a Jren’segg almost with the fbreeof
a grape shot from a piece of ordnance. When
we were there on Tuesday last, all hands were
engaged in active efforts to get down a plug to
check the force of lhe gas, so as lo enable them
to insert lhe tube.
They hqve, we learn, partially succeeded, and
in a low days borb rhe gas and water will be
turned lo a good account. Serious apprehen
sions were verv justly entertained ot the destruc
tion ot rhe turnaces in the immediate neighb .r
--hootl, as well as the residence of Mr. Wm
Tomkins, should this immense body of gas take
fire, which it was thought might Ot cur from a
sieam boat passing on the rtvyr, so extensively
was it diffused in the aimosphere. A strong
guar I is kept qp night and day to prevent such
a catastrophe Qn Saturday, the third well
from the one we are speaking of took fire, and,
with the most active exertions, was not extin
guished till considerable damage was done to
the works.
That onr readers may have some idea of the
ex'ent of Nature’s laboratory or gas manufac
tory on the Kanawha, we will say that gas
enough issues, from this single well lo light tBl
lhe cities in the United Stnies, and «e diink we
might salely throw in London, Paris, Bt. Peters,
nurg, and a half dozen other big cilies pl Eu
rope.
Some entertain fears that both ihtgas.and4»«.
saltwater wllf
the opinion that lhe upper stalum, lhe outskirts,
lhe suburbs only of the treasures of salt ano
gas, as well as many a subterranean wonder,
are just now being reached. No matter whese
dominions down there raay.beencroached upon,
whether those of Pluto or iE'ilus, our enterpri
sing s ilt manufacturers are a« determined to ex
plore them, annex them, and revel in their
palaces, as the annexationists are by and-by to
revel in lhe halls of the Montezmnus.
Handsomely Done.—A letter from Lexing
ton, Kv. to a gentleman in this place, speaking
ol Mr. Clay, says:
“He (Mr. Olay) has been largely in debt,
but within the last week Ins entire indebtedness,
(amounting to near $30,000.) was cancelled, anu
his notes delivered to him irom Bank! The
great deeply affected and asked
wlio LatKione this thing. I We know not,’ was
the fenly, ‘the money was deposited to your
ergdit and your notes are cancelled. It need
concern you who did it; it was not your
’enemies.’”••• Spruerville Reporter,
As this letter has been made the subject
of invidious comment In journals hostile to Mr
Clay, we shall not now violate any confidence
by stating lhe facts more clearly. The truth is
this : Mr. Clay, who has not, for many years,
incurred or owed a debt on his own account,
had involved himselfby endorsing loy a relative
who became deeply and failed.—
The debts came upoD Mr. Clay lo such an ex
teAtJnai his property must have been swept
away to pay them. The circumstances came
to the knowledge of some of Mr. Clay’s politi
cal friends'find admirers (tcig of whom knew
him personally,) and lfiey quietly subscribed
the sum necessary to. relieve him from embar
rassment. I'lte first intimation he had of it
was by the return of his cancelled notes.— N. Y.
1 ribUM.
Fifteen Days Later from Biq de Janeiro.
- By the arriva. of the b/ig Castro, Bearsc, at
Phifadslphia, os Monday, from Rio de Janeiro
•9th March, we are-in possessii n offifteyu days
■ later intelligence. In a politics’point ot view
-•verv thing was said to be tranquil. Thedil
•iculty which existed between the (Jnjted States
md Brazilian Governtneijls, in reterence to the
U.S. brig Pm joise, had been amicably adjusted
hiough the interposition of.our Minister, Mr.
Wise. In commercial affairs the greatest acti- I
■ vity prevailed.
. .
t' rurt th>. Sui/uriitMit pHoitcan
The I’rofesslons.
What is said in the subjoined article of the 9
prole.Sion of the Law, is tqnally true in refer
ence to that ql Medicine-and it is lamentably 7”
but tootrue in regard to both. Every State a|. reW
most in the Union, has from one to three
, cal Colleges, where young men arc "taken in*' 1 ’Si
and ■■ turned out” annually, ns if by machinery— - t
i one, two, three, ami even four hundred at a time.
i 1 hesc men, armed with their lancets and pill- AS
boxes, crowd cverv city, town and hamlet in the
land. Many of them of fine intellects and at
tainmet.is, are doomed to dragout a miserable A’?
, existence for years before lhey can realize even
a reasonable competence from their professional
pursuits. Others less firm and persevering, '
yield to the temptations which surround them
and become professional loafers or vagal onds*
A few only are eminently successful. Such a
state ol things is well calculated to awaken the
r attention of parents and guardians to the causes
ot lhe evil. Why is it that young men will
close their eyes to lac's, and desert other respec
table pursuits to choose a life ot such almostcer- 7
tain poverty and dependence? Is it because •
they are averse to Imnest labor, or because they 5
court lhe kind of quasi respectability which a
professional position entitles them to in society ?
it ei her. they ate not to be envied in their lean
and beggarly condition- their fancied aristocra
cy—their professional torpidity. We have at
this moment in our eye two men who com
menced their career io life colemporaneoosly.
The one, of brilliant powers, ol estimable cha
racter, of rich and resjiectable connexions. The
other, of moderate endowments and pretensions,
the son of a poor widow. The former was at’
traded by the s ow and promise of professional
fife, the latter was content to be bound an ap
prentice to an industrious tradesman. The one
is now a loafing, vagabond gambler; while the
poor apprentice boy is the holder ot about two
hundred thousand dollars’ worth ot real estate In
thecityol Philadelphia—a respeclable, mfluen.
tial member ol lhe community in which he lives.
The difference in their circumstances so far as
humanity can discern, is attributable solely to .
the difference in their choice ot pursuits. The
one was tiatned to industry and frugality, while
the other, compelled to keep up appearance* in - ,
genteel circles, was forced to lhe hazards ol the
game, and finally ruined. The case here men
tioned is but one ot the many which every re- ' :
fleeting man’s experience will attest as being
only too common in the lan.l We ailnde to -ft s
" A l -rrtf
tally are entitled tn great respect vifieeouoi of A A;
both their intellectual anti moral attainments; it'
is referred to only for the purpose of correcting '
that perverted public taste which is al present
driving hundreds <4 our young men to destruc
lion, through me high way ol lhe ptofessions. '
In our own city, how lew youth, compara
tively, direct their attention lo the tn-chnntc and •
other similar pursuits? How few have select- c
ed the wild ano adventurous Hie of the sailor to
s.-ek, by industry, the respectable and responsi
ble positions ol masters and mates in ottr mer
chant vessels? In all our extensive acquaint
ance, we know of but two or three instances in
the lari few years, ol young men «ho have had ■
firmness enough lo brave lhe dangers ofthe sea
rather than remain io idleness at home. Such
examples deserve lobe made honorable men
tion of. The great commercial and"maritime
interests ol the country demand that oUrlhm**"K
should be both officered and manned by the *
right sort ol men. Every State—every seaport
at least, should furnish its proportion til those
who are to conduct and defend the commerc of 1
the country Congress should make provision
by law for the more intimate blending of our i
commercial and naval interests. As in Eng
land, all our mall steamers might be officered "
by persons holding commissions in lhe navy.
Provirion might also be made for the easy
transfer ot men of tried charactei and approved
acquirements from our commercial vessels to '
the navy tn time of war.
Such a provision would add respectability to
the character of the sea-larer; it would open a
wide field of employment lo the voulh of lhe
land in time of peace, it would add to our secu
rity in times ol conflict with other powers—and
aboveall, it would draw off*hundreds of ambi
tious young men, who are otherwise destined to
dragout a miserable existence in the learned ;
professions. Who will move in the matter ? '
From the V S. Gazelle. f
The Law PwoyKssioN —We are astonished
at the daily paragraphs that meet our eye ofthe
numbers ol young men lately admitted lo prac
tice law in the different Sta'es of the Union.
Probably no avocation yields a poorer return or
is so much overstocked. To be-a good lawyer
requires not only brilliant talents, great tact and j
profound knowledge, but a capacity ior mental ■
n IH)I ipfilinn fcimh a<t ir>iL* tnon linuii o iisio t,sw
application such as lew men have a taste ior. A
anil lew constitutions can entlure. As Lord
Eldon remarked, ' a man paust work likea dray- .
horse and be paid like a pauper.' Nor is sue- t
cess sure, even' with all Ute requisites we have ri -
mentioned.' Chance often elevatesthe hardstu
dent to fame, but as often retains him in obscuri-
’ ly. Ol the bar of Philadelphia, for Instance. Si
' we can speak from an intimate knowledge; and
we could point to more than one lawyer with a
1 head already beginning to grow grey, who, with . '
even’ qtlaiification lo adorn its highest walks,.-
has been unable to struggle up, merely because
he has never yet had a case, or n sticcesgloni:7ltfEßSg
t'..-A /.IcAis.'iiicre arc five times as many
lawyers as there shonldby, both here and else- Al
where; and, in consequence, tour-fifths of the
profession must starve. The evil is increased
by the tendenujt of clients to seek an attorney of
ackrrowledgerlwputatioD, thus preventing the
, man ot as yet unknown fame from obtaining a
-tart, it is true, some kind hearted friend may
entrust a case to the aspiring young advocate j
but it is rarely such a one as is calculated (a ■
make an impression, and years may pass before
even this opportunity occurs Ur a youth without
influence. We know two men who have htick
distinguished success in lhe last ten years, but
they owe their position to an acquaintance with
loreign tongues and lhe foreign clients this
brought them. The greatest lawyers, both of
this and the past generation, were years before
they made enough to support themselves; and
tew men, whatever their abilities, can hope to
pay their expenses until after many a Jong term,
oi suspense and heatt-burning. ” ,
The business of lhe courts every whers during
the last few yearx, ins declined <me-k>alf, in
consequence of the .bankrupt act,aud other laws
cancelling the claims ot creditors. There is
really more done at conveyancing, both here
and elsewhere, that attbe mor- Irgiliiniurtiini "
nessof the I Vi't tHA ninnluir <.r lawyers has
--mrrrTTed two-fold in the last ten years, so that
actually the chances ol succtss are scarcely one»
tourth ol what they were in 1835. But all the
I resent leading attorneys had made their repu.-
unions at that period. What chance then has.
a young man now in lhe profession? Teo to.
one he wifi not pay hi-office rent the first year -
fifty to one he will not make his expenses; a
hundred toonehe will never rise loopulenceog
lame. Amid st ch fierce competition there are
scores of chances even against a man of ability
anti acquirements, unless he is backed by an
i fiuenrial family, or meets with some lucky
case which at once lilts him into notice. We
coulu point to young men ol ten years standing
at the bar, well read and ot strong intellects who
tlo not makeas much asa Market street
We could point to others who started Itfq srailet
the same auspices, but who are now nsevoca
bly doomed lothe lowest walks of ',!*<profession,
because they took to pettifogging W rhem
selvesfrom starving.
We do not mean to say that a man without
influence, must fair al th? bar, or that another
with it muM succeed. Far from it. Bui If *
y.mng lawyer has a moderate income, sufficient
tor the superfluities ot lite, he is in lhe best pos
sible Condition for success; lor, while he can,
afford to wait until ne can build up a right kind,
of reputation, he is yet thrown upon ttis e»«t\.
lions to achieve both position and lortuftg. On,
ihe contrary many a toting man ol ability, in
u-try and acquirements, is aysua.ly /driver*
trom the profession, because he cannot aiffbld t<> .
wait long enough tu build up a name. ( • *
Parents who are seeking a pursuit foij iheii!
sons, and young men who are »rntneHM>? ItlfemMMMi
• in lilt-, .ike iriesc ihings
-ideraiion. The tame acquired by some of our
great lawyers is, we grant, a fascinating thir.i*
in the eyes ot voting ambition ; but R shuukl be
recollected iheie is hut one Wvbster, anil ten
thousand blank*. In no other pursuit are st*
many dirti' Ultiesto be overcome; or in no other
is the amount of talent and labor required s« -
great. Mqny a youth who might have succeed- \
ed as a mechanic, merchant or farmer, has
dragged through life a broken-hearted lawyer,
or sunk at tfiv outset after a struggle or two Ink*
a knavish pettifogger.
Whal is the reason ot this? A false notion
ihattbelawis a more hanoroU.: pursuit than
trade—a notion derived from Englund and fos
tered there because lhe proses- ion has long been
ihe dernier resort, I the younger aristocracy. But
in this country, we should learn to know, and to
act up to the knowledge, that all pursuits which,
are honest, are alike honorable.
The Gas WELL.'noticcil in tbe subjoined ex
tract, isoneol the most remarkable naturalcu
riosilies in the world. We have sees one of
these wells, an,i witnessed the application ol
the gas to the purposes ot fuel for boiling down
lhe syk wafer. Thetumesof sulphur and the
intense heat of the llamc are apt lo suggest ihe
idea that this wonderful gas comes from no.
“fairy region blest,” but irom the gloomy realms
ot Tartarus:
“ 7’itc Great Ros Hell.— We learn that the
workmen at the famous gas well of Messrs.
Dickin-on & Shrewsby, noticed in car last
nave succeeded in slopping off about ihree
fourihsof the gas, and that they will in a few
days have it tubed and ready for making salt..
We are assured tha* this well cat* forni-h gas
sufficient tonw twenty furnaces.”- Kanawha.
i j Hydrophobia —A distressing case of this
dreadful disease occurred in Buffalo, N. Y. 23rd
inst, ending in death. Tire subject was an
Irish laborer in the Buffalo Steam Engine
Works, named Robert Fergusson. The Mayor
of Buffalo has published a proclamation call
ing attention to the ordinance on the subject of
dogs running at large.
The Portsmouth Journal states lhal two,
doll irs eighty seven and a half cents were paid
into lhe custom-house of th.at town on Monday
| last, being the fir-t and only money received
there for duties since January 1,1845.