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THE WIFE’S APPEAL.
Y<*u took me, William, when a girl,
Unto your home and heart,
To bear, in all your after life,
A fond and faithful part;
And tell me, have I ever tried g
That duty to forego. •"
Or grieved because 1 had no joy
When yon were sunk in woe?
No—l would rather share your teais
Than any other’s glee,
For though you’re nothing in the world,
You’re all the world tome—
You make a palace nf my shed,
This rough hewn bench a throne;
There’s sunlight fir me in your smiles,
And music in your tone.
I look upon you when you sleep;
My eyes with tears grow dim ;
I cry •* OParei»t,of the poor,
Look down from heaven on him j
Dehold him toil from day to day,
Exhausting strength and soul;
Oh ! look in mercy on him. Lord.
For thou canst make him whole.”
And when al last reviving sleep
Has on my eyelids smiled,
How oft are they forbid to close
In slumber, by your child !
I take the little murmurer,
That spoils my span of rest,
And feel it as a part ot thee
I lulled upon my breast.
There’s only one re’urn I crave,
I may not need it long ;
And it may soothe thee when I’m where
The wretched feel no wrong ;
I ask not for a kinder tone,
Foi thou wert ever kind ;
1 ask not for less frugal fare—
My fare I do not mind.
I ask not for attire more gay,
If such as I have got
Suffice to mate me fair to thee,
For mote I murmur not;
But I would ask some of the hours
That yon on •* clubs” bestow—
Os knowledge which you prize so much,
May i not something know I
Subtract from meeting among men,
Each eve an hour for me ;
Make me companion of your sou*,
As I may safely be ;
If von read. I’ll sit and work.
Then think when you’re away;
tedious I shall find the time,
Dear William, if you stay.
A meet companion soon I'll be
For your most studious hours ;
And teacher nf those little ones
You call your cottage flowers f
And if we be not rich and great,
We may ba wise and kind.
And as my heart can warm your heart,
Ho may ynur mind my mind.
Fire at the Philadelphia Academy or
Fine Arts.—Every friend of the Arts will read
with sincere regret the annexed accounts of a
fire at Philadelphia, which has destroyed some
of the most valuable specimens ot painting and
sculpture in this country:
Fire.— Last evening a little before eleven
o’clock, the alarm of fire was given, it proved
to be the Academy ot the Fine Arts. The fire
was the work of ah incendiary, who had effected
an entrance in the rear ot the building, and com
municated the tire underneath the Statue Gal
lery, which was entirely destroyed with all its
contents. The fire spread to the Library room,
and a large number ot pictures were destroyed
bet >re they coaid be removed, in consequence
of the dense smoke.
With great efforts, the valuable Library,
chiellv a present from Napoleon Bonaparte, was
saved, though considerably injured. The fire
communicated to the pictures in the Rotunda,
and several were destroyed—some of them of
great value. Among the number were Muril
lo’s great picture of the Roman Daughter,
valued at #3OOO, and Dugald Stuart by Raeburn.
Most ot the pictures were removed from the Ro
tunda and Nonh Gallery. Allstun’s picture ot
the Dead Man Restored, was saved, and Death
on the Pale Horse, in a mutilated condition.
About one o’clock the whole of the North
Gallery was io ruins.
Thus the torch of an incendiary has nearly
destroyed the largest and best collection ot works
ot art in the United Slates—and which has been
the labor ot near forty years in collecting. The
loss is irreparable, and will be felt by a large
number of artists and amateurs ot painting and
sculpture.— North American, 12lA inst.
Government Deposites.—A Washington
letter in the N. Y. Tribune says:
The Secretary of the Treasury has nearly
completed his arrangement for the more secure
deposite ot the Public Revenue, The princi
ple of the new plan is the reduction ot the num
ber of Deposite Banks, and the requirement of
additional security on the part of those which
may be selected. In addition, the right of i-su
ing small notes will be greatly restricted or ta
ken away. At present there are seven Depo
site Banks in the city otNew York. From tour
of these certainly the public deposites will be
removed—perhaps from five. Two Banks on
ly, as 1 understand, have as yet been finally de
termined on. A third will probably be selected.
it the security shall be satisfactory, and a readi
ness to comply with the other conditions shall
be shown. The same course will be pursued
throughout the country- At present thearuonnt
ot funds in the Treasury may be computed at
about seven millions, and the pohey of the Go
vetnment in reference to their distribution for
sate keeping evinces a settled hostility to Banks
and incorporated CoHjpauiqs.
T Great Fire ta Quebec.
Bumberot persons burnt out, and lelt without
a shelter, is about twelve thousand, constituting
nearly a third part of the population ot the city.
The House ot Assembly, the custora-haus*-,
school-houses, churches, and other ptjhJie
buildings, were appropriated as temporary
places of refuge, and a soup and bread shop
were established tor the immediate- relief ol
the destitute. A meeting ot ebtzens was held
on the 20th, at which committees were appoin
ed to take measures lor the- relief ot the suffer
ers, and to collect tunds for the purpose. Up
to the 30tb, bodies had been found
in the ruins.
The (fyfbu. Mercury of Saturday last gives
a list ofthe streets which had suffered trom the
fipe, with the number ot houses destroyed ia
sach. There are fourteen streets in which, so
house remains standing. The number at
houses burnt is 1,630—n0t includingout-houses
stores, &c., to the number of 2,000. TE» toss
of property is estimated at a million toa million
and a halt of pounds, or tour to six actions ot
dollars. About five thousand persoas. were fed
from the provision made by the committee lor
the relief ol sufferers.
Fires.
The dwelling house oi Mr. John Prentiss,
near Fonda, N. Y., was fired by an incendiary
on Friday night last, and consumed. A grand
son ol the occupant, aged H years, and a ser
vant girl of the same age perished In the flames
A person named Staring had been arrested on
suspicion ot being the perpetrator of the deed.
One ot the extensive cotton factories at Ware,
Mass., was entirely destroyed by fire on Monday
afternoon.
On Tuesday morning the Middlesex House
at Concord. Mass., was burnt down. Loss
$000; insurance SIOOO.
The large paper mill of Messrs. Norton &
Col; at Hampden, Maine, and five dwelling
houses adjoining it were reduced to ashes on
Sunday last. Loss $20,000; insurance $lO,-
500. ’
The Michigan Railroad depot at Ann Arbor
has been entirely destroyed by fire, together with
an adjoining warehouse, containing 15,000 to
20,000 flour barrels. Loss about $ 12,000.
The Merchants’ Bank.
We learn that Mr. William Gunn has been
elected Cashier of ibis Bank, in the place of
Mr. Briggs H. Moultrie, resigned. The chang
es that have occurred tn the administration of
this institution for the two last years, may have
created impressions unfavorable to its'eredit,
but we are satisfied that any inference of a pre
judicial character based upon such changes
wou'd be unfounded. The reason why there
have been three changes during the past year in
the office of Cashier is, that the business ot the
Bank is so limited, that it will not justify a man
of business capacity to give his exclusive lime
to the duties of the office, for the small salary
that his services are actually worth. This, we
believe to be the only reason why those appoint
ments in this Bank have been so temporary.
A word more as to the credit ot this Bank.
We repeat now from our own conviction, what
we last week said upon theau hority of the Pre
sident. The Bank is abundantly able to take
its present circulation, however worthless the
stoek may be to its stockholders. The bad
debts, which are extravagantly large, and which
have been a subject of remark, were contracted
prior to the removal of the Bank to this place;
no bad debts, we learn, have been made here.
This was doubtless owing to the limited busi
ness that it has done for the last two seasons
Respecting the future policy of the Bank, we
shall give our own views as we have a right to
do.— Macon, Akssenger.
Commercial Bank.
Wc are informed that the charter of this in
stitution has been sold bv its late and original
owners to Messrs. B. H. Moultrie, Wm. B.
Johnston and others. We are not advised that
there has been yetany organization of the Bank
or who are to compose its stockholders, direc
tion, officers, &c. We presume that such a
company will be formed, as will, from their in
dividual means and credit be able to sustain
the well established reputation of the Commer
cial Bank, which, during all the fluctuations
with which our place has been visited, never
has suspended specie p-yments. Our city is
very much in need of banking capital, and we
are glad to hear that this sound and unencum
bered institution is about to be revived.— Macon
Messenger, 12/A !».</.
Henry Warr, lately arrested under the Ash
burton treaty for a forgery committed in En
gland, has been delivered up to the officer who
followed him here, or rather Mr. Commissioner
Morton has decided that the evidence is suffi
cient to warrant his surrender. Mr. Sturtevant,
counsel for the complainants, proceeded to
Washington on Saturday, to procure the war
rant for his delivery from the Secretary ot State,
and he will be taken back in the Great Wes
tern.— N. Y. Courier.
Chronicle anfr Sentinel.
A 17 GUST A , G A .
TUESDAY MORNING, JUNeTT
Death of General Jackson.
The Nashville Bunner of the 9lh inst. con
tains the following Postscript:
General Jackson Dead I—We learn, just as
cur Weekly is going to press, that General
Jackson died at the Hermitage yestetday {Sun
day, Bth of June) at six o’clock P. M. He had
been in feeble health, as our traders are aware,
lor a long time, and his disease, which was ac
companied by repeated hemorrhages ot the
lungs, terminated in dropsy.
We understand that he preserved his intel
lect to the last, and that, in his dying moments,
he requested that he should be buried in an
unostentatious manner and without any mili
tary parade. His funeral will take place at
the Hermitage to-morrow (10th instant) at 11
o’clock A. M.
Wc hear that the Mayor and Aidermen of
the towu have requested that the citizens shall
meet this alternoon at 4 o’clock to take into
consideration the most appropriate manner of
testifying their respect for the distinguished
dead.
We are indebted to the courtesy ot the Editor
of the Constitutionalist tor a slip from the of
fice of the Nashville Union of the 10th inst.,
from which we make the following extracts :
“He breathed his last quietly, calmly, and
» ith entire resignation, amidst the beloved
members of his family and a lew intimate
friends who were present. Death had no ter
rors for him—he met him v ith composure, and
with a full confidence that he was prepared for
better world. Death could not havr taken
him by surprise at any moment for more than a
vear—he has been ready at ail times t< obey the
dread summons. When the messenger finally
came, the oki soldier, patriot and Christian was
looking cut for his approach. He is gone,
but his- memory lives, and will continue to
live.”
Gen. Sam Houston, from our sister Re
public of Texas, reached Nashville on Sunday
evening. He was immediately informed of
he extremely dangerous illness of Gen. Jack
son, and without delay proceeded to the Hermi
tage. Wc regret that he reached there a few
minutes after the Old Hero expired. He was
there in time to grasp the hand ofhis friend, but
it wascold in death. H> was there in time to
aid in closing the eyes of his friend, bill not to
receive the warm welcome of friendship.”
The Hedge Case.
We have been requested to publish the three
documents connected with this subject, which
will be found in our paper to-day.
The case was settled by a decree of the Dis
trict Court of Georgia, in May, 1830. The plain
tiffs appea'ed from the decree of Chancellor
Harter ; but the high tribunal before which this
appeal brought the case, affirmed the decree,
which ended the controversy in the courts of thia
stxtc for ever.
Such of our readers as take an interest in the
subject, may be pleased to have an opportunity
of examining these papers.
Delegates to the VC’h'g Convention.
Columbia— T. White, G. Jones, 1. N. Heg
gie, S. Crump.
Hams—A. F. Johnson, C. J. Walker, F. M.
Davenport, M. Jones.
Meriwether— J. H. McMath, H. J. Hodnett,
F. Kendall, J. Campbell.
Talbot— E. H. Worrell. J. Character, J. N.
Carter, Geo. Evans.
Stewart—J. Thornton, C.S. Gaolden, A. W.
Hill, D. C. Sears.
Virginia and New Eng'and.
In enumerating the causes which bare con
tributed to the depressed state of the industrial
interests of Virginia, the Richmond Whig
says:
“ The Democrats have for twenty years ruled
Virginia I Havethey so ruled her as to advance
her interests, to develope her magnificent re
sources, to improve the state of her people, to
make the poor less poor than before, and to ex
pend to alt, the opportunity ot pu string hap
! piness with an increaseed prospect of finding it.”
“We repeat the State has groaned, and
dwindled and dwarfed under Democratic Jack
son sway, until she has becom-, what with her
real decline io dignity, and her still more fatal
decline in political weight and relative social
position. Pretty nig! the most contemptible
is that ot every State thus ruled.
Allowing for the difference in physical abilities,
some have attained a sort of comparative con
sequence in spite of the evil influences ot bad
government; but none have developtd them
selves as they would Have done under rulers
possessing a full knowledfee of the sure means
of'securing prosperity, and a fixed determina
tion to secure those means! Massachusetts
flourishes under Whig rulers against the most
adverse circumstances of soil and climate.—
Other States are tn debt, and are slowly pre
scribing a portion of their incalculable native
wealth against the adverse influence of Loco
fbco legislation.”
“Should any of our readers doubt thecorrect
ness of the position ot the Richmond Whiff as
above laid down, we re er them (says the Sa
vannah Republican) to an able article from
Fisher’s Magazine in another column, con
trasting the extent, resources and condition ol
Virginia with those of New England. We are
greatly deceived if the startling facts which it
contains- are not well calculated to open the
eyes of some who have habitually worshipped
with their faces toward the 11 Old Dominion.”
Virginia has certainly given io the Union many
great men—many noble, gallant spirits. It is
well for the country that their policy has pre
vailed less in her councils than in those of the
State, where, if we are to believe the statistical
facts presented, it has served only to lock-mp
her natural resources and depress the industrial
interests of her people. Virginia, however, is
not alone in this respect. Her experience is not
the only one from which the American people
should learn a lesson. Locofocoism under
various names, has prevailed elsewhere besides
in Virginia. What is said by the Whigs in re
gardto the rule in the “ Old Dominion,” applies
also to G eorgia. Here too, with only occasion
al interruptions the Democrats have been time
immemorially in power. They commenced
their career with an overflowing treasury, and
an almost limitless public domain. The one
was squandered and the other frittered away.
The party continued to legislate and financier,
until finally in 1843 they abandoned the State
to the Whigs.
“The election of Gov. Crawford and ot the
Whig Legislature of that year was effected just
because the people had become sick and dis
gusted with the miserable huckstering ofthe do
minant party, and had resolved upotra change
at all hazards. With the new men they have
obtained a new and more prosperous state of
things. Against the present Administration,
and even against the acts of the last Legislature,
we have yet to hear the first well-grounded, well
sustained objection —and yet the very men who
voluntarily abandoned the Government, or who
were forcibly ejected by the people, are re-or
ganising and preparing to regain power. What
must an honest and reflecting people think of
such a state of things, and particularly of the
reasons which they assign for their conduct?
The tax-payers are gravely told that although
the present incumbent is a most worthy and
competent officer, and although he has done
much for the credit and honor of the State, still
he must be sacrificed because he does not agree
with the Democracy on questions of national
policy! With them, the character of the State
is nothing in comparison with a mere party tri
umph—her credit, her financial policy—every
thing must be jeoparded, in order that the men
who have "ruled her but to ruin,” may be re
stored to power and permitted to fatten again
upon the spoils. Let the honest, hard-working
yeomanry oi the State, take a salutary lesson
from the experience of Virginia—let them read
the article; contrasting her condition with that of
New-England, carefully—let them apply it to
both State and National politics, and we have
no apprehension of the result. Men may theo
rise as they please, but that policy is the true
one which best stands the test of experience.
New-England has generally been governed bv
Whigs; Virginia, generally by Democrats—let
the people look upon one picture and then upon
the other, and decide accordingly.”
Apart from the influences which the contras
of these two graphic pictures should exercise
upon the people in the. selection - of thrir rulers
in Georgia, and in fact, throughout the entire
South, there is another aspect in which the arti
cle is full of interest to our people in directing
their energies and pursuits. The entire South,
like Virginia, has relied for success and pros
perity upon agriculture; and therefore may with
great proprietylie placed in the same category
with that distinguished “ Mother of States and
Statesmen.” May we not then profit by the ex
perience of our past efforts—aye, and may we
not gather from the history of New England
lessons, that will enrich our people while we
are attaining that greatest possible desideratum,
the greatest good ot the whole people ? We
think so; and it is this view of the subject to
which we desire to invite the reader’s attention,
a desire, we think, prompted by more elevated
motives than a mere patty triumph.
Relying with confidence upon the statistics of
the article from Fisher’s Magazine, we ask its
carelid and attentive consideration. We there
see contrasted the effects, upon the prosperity
and consequent happiness of a people, one por
tion of whom devote their whole energies to a
particular branch of industry, while the other, by
a wise forecast, have prudently diversified their
pursuits, and have blended agriculture with me
chanics and manufactures. The contrast is,
indeed, a bold one, and the results of thetwosys
tetnsas striking, as they areconclltsive, so far at
least as the history of these two sections of the
Union are portrayed in the article to which we
allude. To us, the true policy of the South—the
agricultural States—is as clear as the noon day
sun. We have seen what New England has
accomplished in her sterile soil and bleak cli
mate, by this wise division ot labor, and it re
quires not an inventive or exuberant imagina
tion to anticipate equally glowing results in the
genial climate and fertile regions of the South,
by the adoption of a similar policy. Shall we
adopt it, or shall we fold our arms and quietly
sit down to contemplate and brood over our own
'ruin, the certain consequence of our inertness?
This is indeed an important inquiry, and one
which comes home with great power and force
tothe bosom of every patriot and philanthropist
in the land. L»t them therefore weigh well its
import and act accordingly.
Appointment by the President.—Corne
lius W. Lawrence, Collector of the port of
New York, to take efiecton the Ist of July next,
in place of C. P. Van Ness, resigned.
Passengers by the Western.—The Great
Western sailed from New York on Thursday
afternoon, with upwards of a hundred passen
gers.
The Montreal papers announce the death of
Lieut. Gen. Sir Riehard D Jackson, command
er of the forces in British North America.
The Naval Court Martial at Washington for
the trial of Capt. Voorhees is still engaged in
hearing testimony in the case.
The Quebec Fire.—The committee of the
investigation of the Quebec fire have made
their report. The total number of houses de
stroyed was 1630—46 streets being completely
swept. The loss they put down at $5,000,000.
The insurance cn these buildings amounted to
$411,340. The insurance companies have
made arrangement with the banks to meet all
claimsagainst them lor losses. Forty one per
sons have been found dead, thus far, in the
ruins.
The North-west Passage.—The Secretary
of the Navy states that “information has been
received at that department, that her Britannic
Majesty’s ships “Rrebus” and “Terror” are
proceeding to make a further attempt for the ac
complishment of a north-west passage by sea,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean. In com
pliance with the request ot the British govern
ment, communicated by her Majesty’s minister
at Washington, and to the end that the govern
ment of the United States may manifest its in
terest in this effort to advance the bounds ol hu
man knowledge, all officers in the naval service
ol the United States are hereby authorised and
directed to afford every assistance in their pow
er, in case ot need, to the commanders of these
Uiieoon b'ffvfiß—The St. Louts New
Era says that such a crowd pressed forward to
join Gant. Fremont’s expedition, that when he
attempted to make explanation, he could neither
hear nor be heard, and gave up as a bad job the
task of explaining his views to them verbally
He finally stated that he would give them the
desinrd information through the public papers,
and the crowd adjourned.
Ijj'Mr. Phleger, of Wilmington, Delaware
has invented what is called a cone propeller for
steamboats. By its aid, a two horse engine
propelled a boat 23 feet long and 6 feet beam,
six miles against the tide. It is supposed to be
a greait improvement.
Most Unfortunate.—The Pittsburg Post
says:—“One of ourmost worthy citizens has
been bumtoutno less than four times within
the last two months. He was oneof the many
hundreds who suffered on the 10th of April; on
the 27th of May he was again caught in the fire
on 7th street; from there he moved to Bjighton
Beaver county, where his ill luck appeared to
follow him, and he was again burned out by the
fire tha>t occurred in that place. Since then he
has been purchasing things to make another
start, and we understand they were all consumed
in one of the buileings that was burnt on Penn
street, on Tuesday morning.”
Tobacco, says the St. Augustine News,
seems to be the product to which our farmers
are turning their attention, hundreds are making
experiments in its cultivation, and with much
success. We prophesy that this will in a few
years be the principal export from East Florida.
O’The University of North Carolina, at its
annual commencement on the sth inst., confer
red the honorary degree of LL.D, upon the Pre
sident of the United States; the Rev. F. S.
Hawks, ot Mississippi; the Hon. John Y. Ma
son, Attorney General ot the United States ; and
the Hon. Willie P. Mangum, late President of
the United States Senate; all of whom are
alumni of that institution.
George J. Homer, one of the wealthiest and
most influential merchants of Boston, died in
that eity a day or two since.
Wreck.—The Charleston Courier of Satur
day says:—We learn from Capt. Jorgens, ot
the schr. Andrew Gray, arrived at this port
yesterday, from St. Jago de Cuba via Baracoa,
that on the 7th June, 12 days out, in the May
guana passage, at 9 o’clock A. M. spoke En
glish wrecking sloop Jane, bound lor Nassau,
(N. P.) on board of which was the captain and
crew of the American sloop Alert, from this
port, who reported that his vessel had been
wrecked on Atwood’s Key, four days since—
the vessel and cargo totally lost.
Capt. Peter Flowery, of the schooner Spit
fire, tried in the U. S. District Court at Boston,
last week, for intent to engage in the slave
trade, has been found guilty. He was, bow
ever, recommended by the Jury to the mercy oi
the Court.
The Weather.—At 7 o’clock, AM., 10th
inst., the thermometer in Baltimore stood at
80®; at 1, P. M., at 86°; and at 4, P. M., at 86°.
In New York on Monday the greatest heat
was 92°. In Philadelphia, on Monday, many
thermometers were at 100°.
lowa.—On the 2lst ultimo a bill was passed
by one branch of the Legislative Council of the
Territory ot lowa which provides for submit
ting to a second vote of the people the draught
of a State Constitution which was lately re
jected by them. The vote was yeas 11, nays 1.
This bill was made the order of the day in the
other House (ol Representatives) for the 29th
ultimo.
The case of vlcNulty was before the Circuit
Court yesterday, when the District Attorney re
plied to Mr. Hoban. The argument of the
learned gentleman being ended, the Court has
taken the case under advisement. We under
stand a decision will not be made before next
week.— Nat, Intelligencer, of Saturday.
From Fisher’s Magazine.
Virginia and Ncw-Euglaiid Compared.
From the dawn of her existence as a colony,
through.every stage of her subsequent progress,
as a provincial or independent territory, the
Slate of Virginia has been inhabited by a peo
ple devoted to the pursuits of agriculture.—
When discovered and colonized by Englishmen,
the region now comprised in Virginia, and fa
miliarly called “the Ancient Dominion,” was
one continued dense and very partially broken
forest. A lew savage tribes were found along
the tide waters, but the imetioyyas scarcely in
habited, even by savages. The lapse ot a lew
years onl” was required to cause the feeble In
dian inhabitants, alter several struggles lot ex
istence, to disappear before the European emi
grants, who, disappointed in their searches alter
mines of the precious metals, soon turned their
attention to planting as their sole occupation.
English capital was not wanting to encourage
the eat ly a venturers. Efforts al first were made
to introduce the culture of the silk and vine,
but these requiring much care and professional
knowledge, were unsuited to an infant colony,
although the climate and soil were well adapted
<o those products. Tobacco, a t lant which Vir
ginia was found to yield ot a fine quality, soon
supplied the desideratum of a resource from
whence the friends of the colony tn England
could obtain returns for their capital. This ar
ticle therefore became the great staple commodi
ty olrVirginia, forming the principal article of
export until the American Revolution. Since
that period the planters have turned their atten
tion mote to the cultivation ot wheat, Indian
co n and other grains, as well as other products
of agriculture.
None of the North American Colonies settled
by British emigrants, it is believed presented
greater advantages to agriculturists than Vir
ginia. lilies between those parallels ot lati
tude which include the finest climate on the
old continent—Morocco, Syria, Asia Minor,
Greece, Sicily, Naples and the southern part of
Spain. Mr. Jefferson, in his notes on Virginia,
observes, that the proceeding on the same paral
lel of latitude westwardly, the climate becomes
colder, till you reach the summit o ( the Allegha
ny ridge. Thence descending to the waters of
the Mississippi Valley, the temperature in
creases, and to such an extent that the climate
is several degrees warmer in that valley than in
the same latitude on the shores of the Atlantic.
With regard to the productions ot Virginia, Mr.
Jefferson says, “It is not easy to say what are
the articles either of necessity, comfort, or luxu
ry, which we cannot raise, as everything hardier
.than the olive and as hardy as the fig. may b
raised here io the open air.” Mr. Darby re
marks. “ that though the soil increases in fertili
ty advancing from the seaboard, still density of
population is in a near ratio to proximity to the
place ofortginal settlement on James River.
It we make every just allo a ance tor the space
actually occupied by mountains and other un
productive tracts, still there would remain 50,-
000 square miles at least, capable of sustaining
a .nean distributive population, equal to any one
of the best inhabite d of its existing counties, say
Henrico, ineluding the city of Richmond Such
a ratio would give Virginia upwards of fivemd
hons of inhabitants, a number far below the
number which it could support.” Another wri
ter (Mr. Flint) in describing Virginia, says:
“ This State is traversed by so many considera
ble streams, that pursue parallel courses through
the level Atlantic belt, and the navigation of
these streams has been so much improved by
artificial means that most ol the transport of the
State is by water, and commerce is in this way
brought to the doors ol'the people. To the pro
ductions common in the Northern and Middle
States, this State adds the sweet potatoe, the
finest tobacco, and in the southern pans cotton
asacrop. The productions ot the North and
the South meet here, as in Tennessee, in the
Western country. The temperature, soil and
e'rcumstances, are supposed ta be favorable in
the highest degree to the cultivated grape and
the silk mulberrv. Nature has given the State
every advantage ot position, climate, and navi
gable rivers.”
A region thus highly favored by nature, and
peopled with a race of farmers and planters
principally of Anglo-Saxon descent, it will be
admitted,condones the circumstances requisite
to test the truth of the political dogma, which
has bt en so long prevalent in Virginia, and in
culcated but other professed friends ot free trade
in ti e United -tates, namely, that agriculture,
unsuppert-d by manufactures, is the best and
most profitable employment for the p.ople ot
this country; that, in the language ot Mr. Jes
ferson, “our workshops should be in Europe.”
Although that statesman afterwards changed
his opinion, and became convinced that it would
be best “t< place the manufacturer by the side ol
the agriculturist,” the leading politii ians of Vir
ginia have adhered to the original doctrine, and
in this they are supported by the advocates of
free trade generally.
If the notions of this school ol political ec m
omists be correct, in which, by ti.e way, thev
agree with all the old English wrtfrs on the
subject, in asserting that it was for the interest
of the mother country to furnish the colonies
with every article ot manufacture necessity or
luxury might require, while it was best fur the
colonies in ret it rn to s« nd all their raw mate
rials, from agriculture, the mines, or the forest,
to the mother country—then surrlv, would Vir
ginia, wh> re the doctrine has been strictly car
ried out, present an example of substantial pros
" Vv neie, tnett, sha'll'we look lor a section oi
ll e United States, possessing no advantages in
priority of time of settlement, in extent r f terri
tory, in phys cal resources, in navigable waters,
in climate, in natural position, or governmental
protection; and where other industrial pursuits
have been mingled with those ot agriculture?
Fortunately such a territory is found in the six
Eastern States, usually called New Englund.
The first settlement in Virginia was com
menced in 1607, at Jameatowr, while the first
colony planted in New England was a few years
allerwards, viz: in 1620, at Plymouth. Both
sections may therefore be considered as nearly
of the same age in point of settlement, both were
-ettled by Englishmen, and lhete i- a striking
similarity in extent of territory. Mr. Manin,
a Virginia geographer, states the area of Vir
ginia ai 65,624 square miles; Mr. Darbj’ says
“the area of this State is usually underrated
as by a careful measurement of the rhombs
the superfices are within a fraction of 70,000
square miles.” ( The area ot England and
Wales is but 57,812; Scotland, 26,016; and
Ireland, 31,874 square miles.”
The area of the New England States is thus
given by the best authorities, viz:—
Square Mlles. Acres.
Maine 30,000 19 200 000
New Hampshire. .9 280 5 939 200
ermont 10 212 6 535 6*o
Masssachusetts... 7 500 4,800,000
Rh-ide Island 1.306 870,400
Connecticut 4.674 2 991,360
Total 63,026 40,336,640
It is ritus shown that Virginia is superior to
New Englan 1 in extent of territory ; the advan
tage must also be conceded to her in climate, in
fertility of soil, in the variety of agricultural
production, in her natural posilion, in the ex
tent of internal navigation, thus affording ave
nues to market, with equal facilities for foreign
or domestic commerce. It might also beshown
that Virginia possesses great advantages tor
manufacturing, and that in materials she is su
perior to any other Stale. “Few countries,”
says Martin, “possseses greater advantages
than Virginia lor success in manufacturing;
she has labor cheap and abundant, inexhaustible
supplies of fuel, and almost unlimited water pow
er.” “In minerals and fossils,” says Flint,
“ Virginia is considered the richest State in the
Union. Quarries of the most beautiful marble
and freestone, blue limestone, pit coal, and iron
ore, are found in inexhaustible abundance, and
in places too numerous lobe designated. Black
lead, lead ore, rock crystal, amethysts and eme
raids are discovered. Porcelain clay and chalk
are common, and almost all the uselul fossils.
The extensive belt of hill and mountainous
country, in which gold is found in every form,
commences in this State, nearly in the midland
legions, and extends S. W. many hundred
miles.”
We have alluded to these natural resourcesol
Virginia, to show her capabilities ol employing
a large population in manufacturing and min
ing, and thusdiversify the industrial pursuits of
het inhabitants, but it is not here our purpose to
point out advantages which it is the policy ol
Virginia Statesmen, of the free trade school, to
suffer to remain dormant, and obtain supplies
fortheir own wants from the products of Euro
pean minesand manulactuies—payment being
nade for the same in such of the products of
rhe soili.f Virginia as it may please Europeans
to take, and subject to such duties and restric
tions as those transatlantic countries may im
pose.
The early colonists ot New England were fa
vored with a less genial climate, and generally
a less fertile soil, than their brethren ot Virgi
nia; but by turning theirattention, in addition to
agricultural employments, to the fisheries, to
Ihe traffic, and the fur trade with the Indians, to
the lumber and provision trade with the West
Indies, in exchange for the produce of those is
lands, ana to domestic manufactures, this diver
sity o! industrial pursuits soon more than com
pensated for the physical disadvantages under
which they labor. Accordingly, we find the
population of New England, in 1701, was esti
mated at 120,000, while that of Virginia was
but 40,000. fn 1749 New England was stared
to contain 385,000 souls, and Virginia 85,000
Edmund in a work published in 1757,
estimatesthe population of Virginia at between
60 and 70,000 whites, and nearly 100,000 slaves.
The physical strength of the colonies was
shown during the Revolution From 1775 to
1783, inclusive, New Englandfurnished 118,251
continental soldiers, and 20,334 militia; while
Virginia furnished 26,678 continentals, and
5,620 militia for the Revolutionary service,
during the same period. Thesttms allowed by
the United States forexpenditures bv the seve
ral States, were to New England, $35,311,340;
to Virginia, $19,085 981.
The relative condition of New England and
Virginia, at the present time, is shown by the
following statements. They present a compa
rative view of the substantial elements of pros
perity, as well as moral and intellectual im
provement in these two sections o' the United
Sta'es—the one a population of diversified in
dustrial employments, and improving all their
advantages—the other a population chiefly agri-
cultural, its manufacturing, mining, and com
mercial advantages but partially developed, im
porting from abroad a large portion of the man
ufactures necessary for the supply of iisinha
bitants, and most of which could readily and
advantageously be made within its own borders.
Comparative view of the present condition qf New
England and Virginia.
New England. Virginia
White populationin 1840-- 2,212,166 740.958
Free colored du. do--- 22,643 49 872
-Slaves, do--- 23 448 987
Total population in MO-- 2,234.821 1,239 797
Persons emp’il in ngric’ure. 414,138 318 77'
do. do. in manu’res. 197,’58 54,147
do; do. in mining. B'l 1995
do. do. In commerce 17 757 6,361
do. do. in navigation 44,068 4,354
do. do. in lea rn e d
professions 11,050 3,866
Whitesover 20 rears of age
who cannot read and write. 13 OH 58.797
Students in colleges- - - • ... ‘2.957 1 097
do in academies*43 654 11,083
Scholars in primary schools 574 277 35 331
Cap. einp’dln manufac’".-8=6.824 ’29 11,350 851
do do in for’gn cotn’ce-19 467,793 4,299 E OO
do do in fisheries-14 59' 294 28. 83
do do in lumberbus’ess 2 096 041 113210
Bankins capital in 1940-• •-62,134,850 3,637.400
Estimates of the Annual Products by Professor
Tui her, of Virginia, on the basis of the Censi. s
of 1840.
New Eng'and. Virginia.
An’lproducts ngriculture-874.749 5898’9 035.921
•do do manufactures.-92 781 1 5 8,349 2'l
do do commerce 13 529 7’o 5 299 451
do do mining 3 a 01638 3.321 6’9
do do forests 3,361,2 a 7 617 760
do do fisheries •••• •■ 9 424.555 95,t73
Total annual products-81°7,657.294 $76 769 053
Summary of the Population far Fifty Years.
Whitepopulattonin 1790-992 781 442,115
Colored do I*9o- *•• 17 042 306 191
White do 1800- •• • 1,214.558 514 280
Colored do 1800-4- 18 657 365 9 0
White do 18'0- ••• 1,451,985 551,534
Colored do 1810—•
White do 18 0- •• • 1,63’ 4'5 603
Colored do 1820-lt< 21,393 I®"???
White do 1830.1.4,913,339 694 300
Colored do 1830 21.378 517,105
White do 1810----2,212.165 74.96<
Colored do IQ4Oa--- 22 65 ; 498 829
Increase of whitesin 50 yr»-1,219 384 298.853
do of colored 5'13 192.536
do of total population’-1,224.997 491.499
The per centage on the total pop
ulation io fitly years, in rlew England, is 121
3 10—in Virginia, 65 6 10.
The emigration from New England for *he
last fifty years, is estimated to have greatly ex
ceeded in proportion that of Virginia.
Post Offiee Robbery.
The follovring account of recent robberies
committed by the Post Master (a Dr. Patterson,)
at Rome, Geo., we find in the Rome Journal,' t
the 14th inst., which illustrates most beautifully
that system of proscription, for opinion’s sake,
which prompts to the turning out of faithful
officers, to give place to brawling panizans.
Post Office Robbery.—The Postmaster at
this place is now confined in the county jail,
charged with having at different limes abstract
ed money from letters passing through his of
fice. Notwithstanding he' still persists in his
innocence, the proofs against him are so clear,
that no doubt rests upon our minds of the pro
priety of exposing his guilt. It seems that he
had been suspected lor a month past; and that
the Post Office Agent and the Postmaster ot
Augusta, h d both been here secretly, at least
once, and had left with discreet persons, the
numbers and descrip'ions ol seve al notes,
which were believed to have been taken out
at this office. Although the Agent had by ex
amining the mail both bes re arriving and
after leaving the office, satisfied himself that
the money was abstracted here, yet it does not
seem that he tell authorised to cause an arrest
without more positive testimony. Mauers
went on in the usual way up to the 9th instant,
money of course still coniinuing to pass through
the office. On the nightol the Ist inst , the of
fice of Col. T. C. Hackett, which adjoins that
of the Postmaster, was entered between the
.oursol 8 and 12 p. M.,and a small trunk con
tainingslo6o, and valuable papers was taken
out. The runk was found next morning near
ihe Jail robbed of all but $lO and a draft,
which was left in the hurry we suppose of the
robbery. The same n gbl the office ol the Clerk
of the Interior Court was broken open, and
#BS taken trom a desk secured by an outside
and inside lock. The Postmaster was imme
diately st spected of both these thefts by those
ptivv to the roobery ot the Post Office, and a
watch was set upon him. In the meantime,
upon the 4th iii-t, our village was visited by a
Mr. Daniel, of Paulding county, who had lost
money by mail. He charged the theft with
little ceremony upon the Postmaster, who paid
him #lB5 after pledging him to secrecy, and
taki g his receipt in case the money shoulu
ever be discovered elsewhere. The Postmaster
intimated that the robtery might possibly have
been made by his Deputy, and that he would
rather lose the money than that he should be
exposed. We will observe by the way th ' the
Deputy has not incurred even a momentary
suspicion, and had ceased doing duty in the Ol
ed to i i office, which awafed tiis suspicions.
The fact that Mr. Dante! had recovered his
money became known to Col. Hackett and
others on the Bth inst., and tm the morning of
ihe 9th, Cot. H. found abom $430 in the
trunk ot a woman living older the same root;
she gave up the moneyas the Postmaster's, ano
stating the amount to be about S7O. It is
suspected that she mistook the bundle. The
Postmaster was immediately put under a pri
vate watch,and soon alter ieto the hands of the
Sheriff upon a Bail-writ fordeht. In the course
ot the day he placed about $530 in the hand
of Mr. T. Tread >ay (taken also from the
trunk i fthe same woman) to secure him in a
debt t e owed him, and to induce him to become
his security upon tl e bail. Mr. T. gave this
money over to the Sheriff. Added to that re
covered by Col. Hackett—that paid over to Mr
Daniel and money given up by the Postmastei
and S3OO which he is known to f ave loaned
makes between sl7 und 1800. It is not be
lieved that the money stolen from Col. Hackett
has been touched as yet. Col. H. is not able
accurately to describe his money, but the major
portion of.it is not of the description ol that
taken. The Posto aster stoutly denies having
t ken it, and intimates that he knows who did,
but has told so many different stories about it,
'hat no one places any reliance ut on what he
says. He is a man ol small nropertv, and had
been compelled to mortgage that not many
months since. The circumstance that he was
in possession of so large an amount of money,
was strongly suspicious, but the fact that the
very Bills that ll.e Post office agent has missed
were found amongst those given to Mr. Treau
away, is confirmation strong as proof trom
Holy writ.
The Postmaster was imprisoned on the eve
ning of the 9th. and up to this date the 13th,
no farther facts have been elicited. We feel
convinced that Co). Hackett’s money is still
missing, and it is impossible to guess how much
more. The Postmaster’s appointment wa
amongst the first of the new administration,
and there is evidence to prove that no time was
I- st in converting to I is own use a lair share ol
the public plunder.
The above notice of the robbery has been
penned under the in presrion, that it would be
generally circulated, and the Postmaster may
have honest friends at a distance who woulo be
pained at a disclosure ol his name. With our
own readers, especially those in the cm ntry.
we have no suet, delicacy. It is well known
here that Dr. Patterson isia Democrat, and has
for many years filled the office of Clerk ot the
Infr. court", and was a candidate for the Legisla
ture at the last election, and spoken ot lor the
next. It is as well known also, that he was
an active participant in procuring petitioners
lor the removal of hi- predecessor, who bad pet
lormed the duti's ot his office with fidelity for
rour succe-sive years. The efforts for the re
mi val of Colonel Stewart, were pursued for
ihe last two years.,f Mr. Tyler’s admini (ration
« iih all the malevolence that private malice ot
nany rancour could inspire. The same Post
Office agent who succeeded it catching Dr
Patterson tn the trap he set for hi nr, put C< I
Stewart under the most severe scrutiny, and
doubtless baited him also. But he did not bile,
and we had opportunities of knowing that he
enjoyed the entire c< nfidence i 1 the agent. Out
ol some of the circumstances connected with
these efforts tor his removal, there grew an ac
tion upon his part of slander, and his conduct
underwent again the most searching investiga
tion. No fact vas elicited that left the leas',
stain upot his character,and perhapsthestrong
est evidence produced against him, was that of
this same Dr. Patter-on, who testified in the
• resenee of his God, and before the open Court,
that he did not think it safe to transmit money
through the Post office. Prior ti this time he
had himself been appointed Postmaster, and
commenced bis robberies, and doubtless l,ad
his peckets well lined at the n oment < f giving
his testimony. We tl ink it due io Col. Stewart,
to I ring to notice this fact. 7he violence ol
party feeling may have prejudiced against him
mant candid persons. He has been subjected
to the bitterest political proscription, and it is
doubtless now a st-bject of congratulation with
him, that his character has escaped, after under
going the test of such evidence as we have been
describing.
This Post Office robbery discovers another
beauty of that maxim, “that to the victor belongs
the spoils.” We have witnessed under our
own eyes the case of removal, for political rea
sons, of an officer who was fa’lhful for four
vears, an. the appointment of a successor who
began fingering the spoils almost the moment he
was seated in office. It will be said that it is
praticed by alljparties. Wecare not, wedepre
eate it in all parties. Let it be understood that
upon the incoming of every administration the
"ins” are to give place to the “outs,” and our
elections will degenerate, as in too many cases
they have, into a mere struggle for pay an.’
perquisites of office. We recognise a pronrirlv
in the change nt ail officers within the province
ot whose duty it lies to carry out the peculiar
measures of an administration. It is in fact so
important, that it is almost necessary that the
President should have the selection of his own
Cabinet, Foreign Ministers and all those with
whom he must have close and confidential inter
course, but to carry oui the change down to the
Clerks, Custom-house Officers, and country
Postmasters, is productive ot no possible public
good, and too often most injurious in its con
sequences.
No further positive information has been ob
tained up to this date, relative to the robberies
that have been made in this place. Rumor is
busy with her thousai d tongues, and we hear
lhat Dr. Patterson has made overture.' to an
individual that if ht will break hirn out of jail,
and carry him halt a mile from town, he will
give him money enough to answer his purpose,
and that he will then have enough left to keep
him in lojfee for a while. It is also said, that he
had it ade his arrangements to leave on Tues
day last lor that b 'Urne whence no robber re
turns, the “area of Freedom” not being suffi
ciently expanded this side of the Sabine. It is
believed here, however, that this visit will now
be deferred lor a few years, and he will remain
to enjt y the blessings ol a good government
without so long a journey.
From the Charleston Courier, of the 13 A inst.
From Havana and Mexico.
The Mexican steamer Nepluna, Capt. Par
kinson, arrived at 'his port yesterday, in the
short run ol 3 days from Havana, bound to New
York—pul in here for a supply ol tuef.
Wc are indebted to Capt. P. for Havana pa
pers of the Bth inst.
Capt Parkinson informs os that the Br. mail
steamer Medway arrived at Havana on the 7ih
inst. from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the
Ist inst, hat ing on board as passengers General
Santa Ana, lady and family, who haa been ban
ished from the Mexican territories. They were
to proceed to Venezuela. The Br. mail steamer
Dee, also arrived at Havana on the 7th inst.
with General Bustamente on board, on his way
to Mexico.
In one of the Havana papers we find it re
corded that the French Legation had been in
suited in the streets of Vera Cruz, just previous
to the sailing of the Medway, and that the Min
ister had demanded from the Mexican govern
ment immediate reparation for the indignity of
fered, or the alternative of furnishing him with
his passports.
Gen. Santa Ana was received with every de
monstration of respect on his arrival at Havana,
beingescoited to his lodgings by band-ot music,
while little attention uas paid to Gen. Busta
mente, thus showing that popular opinion was
quite unfavorable to the newly constituted au
hurities of Mexico.
We have no positive particulars as to the
course pursued by the Mexican government, in
banishing Santa Ana. but Capt. Paikinson in
forms us that he understood that the decree pre
scribed an absence of ten years—that his private
property was respected- -'hat he had with him a
laige amount ot money, and was in good per
sonal health and spirits.
It is stated that all anticipations of war be
tween the United States and Mexico had sub
sided—and a strong practical evidence that such
was the case, is the fact that the Neptuna, the
property of Mexicans, had been ordered to New
York to refit, which would of course not have
b>-eu done, it the owners were apprehensive ol
such an event.
Capt. P. reports that no Freights were offering
at Havana when he left—the whoie number ol
vessels in port were waiting for the new crop.
From Rio Janeiro.—The bark Emmons,
Capt. Mansfield, which arrived here yesterday
trom Rio Janeiro, was boarded, when off ihe
latter port by the U. S. ship Bainm- ge, and
searched, in order to arrest the captain and offi
cers of two American vessels, supposed to have
been engaged in the slave trade, and who were
about to lake passage to the United States.
Capt. M. informs us that coffee was very scarce,
and held at high prices. The late arrivals from
Rio de la Plato at io Janeiro, state that the
French Charge de Affaires at Buenos Ayres
had consented to the strict blockade of Monte
video, ano that the French Admiral would com
ply therewith It is also officially announced
that the Monfevideans had been defeated at a
place called India M-mta, near Ma'denado, and
entirely dispersed ; Gen Rivera making his es.
cape with only thirty men. The Vlontevideans
were driven into the province of Rio Grande,
and compelled to deliver their arms by the Bra
zilian authorities.— N. Y. Cour. <f- Enq. 10th
inst.
Correspondence of the North American.
New York, June 9.—P. M.
The weathercontinues intensely hot, and the
ground in the vicinity of the citv is asdrv and
parched as lava. Everything suffers severely
tor want of rain.
The continued decrease in the arrivals at the
hotels shows that the fears of small pox are
greateras th-hot weather comes on. These
fears are utterly groundless. There is nothing
like the extent ■ 1 the contagion that there was
during the month ol May, the streets are far
cleaner, and the temporary alarm created, has
caused an universal vaccination, that for this
season at least, will prevent any greater extent
ofthedisease than the city is always subject
to. New York, during no previous summer,
has been healthier than at present.
The Great Western, which sails on the 12th,
nfiuui, luiuim
Railroad Company and the people along the
line, have-been amicably adjusted, and a good
feeling towards the company now prevails.
The New P..st Office Law.
1 he follow ing, from the ( live Branch, print
ed at Doyle-town, (Pa.) contains some infor
mation which may be generally uselul:
“Having facilities for neat weighing, I have
taken the pains to ascertain how much may be
included in “halt an ounce,’ which is the max
imum for a single letter, and which may be sent
within three hundred n iles for five cents. I
have weighed six varieties ot wnting-papet,
three of letter paper, and three of foolscap, and
two kinds of envelopments, large and small.
The result here to b* staled is the weight ot a
single sheet, on an average of ten sheets, ot
each kind. The papers are all of good quality,
and such as we are all used to, for size and
weight:
Letter paper, first variety, 136 grains.
Do second do 134 do
Do third do 131 do
Foolscap paper, first do 172 do
Do second do 169 do
Do third do 161 do
Small envelope 42 grains, large envelope 62
grains.
Wafers, usual size, 1 grain; sealing-wax,
usual quantity, 5 grains.
The ensuing deductions are based upon the
heaviest paper to keep within the mark. An
avoirdupois half ounce is 218} grains. We
may, therefore, send as a single letter—
1. One and a half sheets of letter paper, seal
ed with wax or « afer.
2. One sheet of paper, with large or small
envelope, wax or water.
3 Cne sheet of foolscap, with smal. envel
ope, sealed with wafer.
4. Cne sheet of letter paper, with a quarter
eagle ($2 50) enclosed, and secured with wax,
and the letter sealed with wax.
5. Half a sheet of letter paper or light fools
cap, with a half eagle enclosed, secured and
sealed with wafers.
6. A sheet of letter paper may contain a dime
and a half, or a half sheet may contain a quar
ter dollar.
7. A sheet of letter paper may enclose seven
bank notes, and be sealed with wax; dr thtee
bank notes, and the whole in an envelope.”
Pittsburg.—The Pittsburg American of
Saturday 7'h inst., has the following paragraph :
“We yesterday dived into the heart of the
burnt district. We waded through the dus'
ankle deep, and groned our way through an
atmosphere also filed with the same element.
Few even in tl e city are aware of the extent of
the building going on. It fc is probably among
the remarkable features ol the late fire that the
stone foundation walls ot almost every house
was so much burnt as to require to b- rebuilt.
Woods street, from Diamond alley to Water
five < mire squares—is rebuilding on both sides,
without excepting, we h live, a single lot. The
same is the case with Water street, from Mar
ket to Grant. On the cross streets the building
is not so regular, though here thev are also
very numerous. One feels almost at a loss to
know where the materials are found fbr so large
and unlooked for a demand. The fire is not yet
"ntirely out. In one or two places we found
the blue smoke rising from out masses of brick
which had fallen into the cellars."
F'Res —The mill d< stroyed at Ware, Mass ,
on Monday last belonged to the Olis Manufac
luring Comnany. The loss is estimated at
about S9O 000; insurance $45 000.
A destructive fire occuredat Danvers, Mass,
on Tuesday afternoon, which is said to have
been occasioned by the carelessness of children
playing with friction matches. The fire spread
with great rapidity and destroyed eighteen build
ings before it was subdued;
The steam nail factory of Mr. J. Robinson
at Malden, Mass., was entirely destroved hy fire
on Wednesday morning. Loss 83000; insu
rance S2OtX).
Cheerful Company.—A companion that is
cheerful, and free from swearing and scurrilous
discourse, is worth gold. I love such mirth as
does not make friends ashamed to look upon
one another next morning, nor men, that cannot
well bear it, to repent the money thev spend
when they be warmed with drink. And take
this tor a rule: you may pick out such limesand
«uch companions, that you may make your
selves merrier for a little than a great deal of
monew “’Tfs the company, and not thecharge
that makes the feast.”— Isaac Walton.
An editor having read in another paper that
there is a tobacco, which if a man smoke ot
(hew it, “ he will forget that he owes a dollar
in the world,” innocently concludes that mant
of his subscribers have been furnished with the
article.
Verv Peculiar.—Conversing one day will
a fashionable and prettv belle, the facetious Mr
L observed, that “ ladies that lisp wishet
to be kissed." The young lady had before spoke
unaffectedly, but replied. “ Tho I’ve beard thay.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 18.
•• In all parts of the country new cotton fac
tories are either building or contemplated, and
in New England there is an especial tendency to
this now lucrative investment. These exten
sionsol the cotton manufacturing interest are
now heralded wit ll great satisfaction by ultra
tariff journals, but their effect upon that interest
may hereafter induce a different state ol feeling
with those who rely upon the profiis of this bu
siness to build up a fortune in a short time.—
There is at present, and lias been tor some
months pas', a great demand for cotton fabrics
of domestic manufacture, but the number of
spindles now making, and the increased pro
duction they will afford will certainly give a
large addition to it e supply, with the na'ural
result upon prices and profits.”— Bos'on Post.
The “natural result upon prices and profits”
to which the "Post," an anti-tariff paper, here
alludes, is a reduction ol both; the consequence
ot which would be, that the consumer would
obtain his goods cheaper than he now does,
while the manufacturer would be compelled to
content himself with smaller profits than he ob
tains at present. This is truly an important ac
knowledgement, coming as it does from the lead
ing anti-tariff organ of the Democracy of Mas
sachusetts, and sustains fully the position here
tofore contended for by the Wbigs, that the effect
of a stable, well-regulated tariff would always
be to reduce the prices of manufactured articles.
This position ot the Whigs has been reiterated
again and again by the Whig journals and
speakers, wherever they have entered upon the
defence ot the tariff policy, and as stoutly de
nied by their opponents. Indeed, so reckless
have they been in their denials, that many of
them have contended, that whatever rate of duty
was imposed on any given article, the price
would advance just lhat much. Yet in the face
of these denials, the experience of every man in
the country admonished him that the value of
almost every article declined under the opera
tions of a tariff, and we now have the declara
tion of the Boston Post that tt e cert (tin effect ol
the Tariff will be to cheapen the prices ot goods
and reduce the profits of the, manufacturers of
this country.
Such tacts and such acknowledgments from
■ such a source, seem to us to possess much
force in the argument of this grave and impor
tant question, and should go far to open the
. eyes of the people, and show them to what ex
i tent the demagogues and political hacks of that
party had essayed to mislead them.
Writings of H. S. Legare.
Messrs. Buroes & James, of Charleston, have
issued proposals for publishing the writings of
thisdistinguished son ot South Carolina.
The materials for the proposed publication
will consist, partly of selections from the pub
lished works of the author, and partly of origi
nal matter. They will comprise :
1. Selections from his Contributions to the
Southern Review and ihe New York Review.
2. Detached Portions of his Diplomatic Cor
respondence.
3. A Journal of the Rhine.
4. Oration’ and other Miscellaneous Matter
together with some ofhis Private Letters.
To be prefaced by a Sketch ofhis Life, and
embellished with his Portrait.
The work to be published in two volumes, on
good tvpe, properly hound, and to be delivered
to subscribers at $5 per copy.
A Prospectus for the work has been left in
our counting room where those desirous of sub
scribing can have an opportunity to do so.
M'srule—The Missouri llepubliean says,
that that State has been entirely under Locofoco
rule ever since she came into the Union, 25
years ago: That the people have been paying
high taxes during all that time, —higher than in
many States, and nearly as high as ihe highest:
That she owed no debt when she came into the
Union: That she has never engaged in a single
work of Internal Improvement, or had any de
mand upon her Treasury except for the support
of her Locofoco office holders. And yet she
now owes a heavy State debt, the interest of
which is $75,000 a year! And the deht is
increasing annually. Gov. Edwards has been
going from Bank to Bank, trying to borrow a
few thousand dollars to pay a part of the in
terest !
This is the nearest approach that we ever
heard of, to a government that cost more than
it is worth.
’ The Louisvjtlle Journal says: “Jtt)»t
> charged Mr. Giddings with having franked
1 home, was nothing more nor less than a chemise,
franked not by Mr. Giddings, but bv that exem
plary locofoco, Emory D Potter, of Ohio, to his
• wife, and marked ‘pub. doc.’ Potter refuses to
• explain, and throws himself upon his dignity.
Well, that’s too good. A fellow, who labels his
wife’s under clothes as public documents, must
have a vast deal ot dignity to throw himself on.
l She ought to prosecute the scamp for a libel.”
, 55" A man named Maxfield lately ran twenty
I miles in England in 1 hour 59 minutes and 30
■ seconds. The performance is unparalleled.
Special Minister to England.—The Balti-
' more Patriot of Saturday says: A letter from
Washington, dated yesterday, says—“there is
a report, which I believe is well authenticated,
that the Hon Louts McLane, of Baltimore,
has been offered a special mission to England,
in relation to the Oregon question.”
, We have the same rumor here in Baltimore.
Mr. McLane has heretofore represented the U-
States in England, and should the rumor of his
appointment as special Ministerprove to be ccr
rect, as we hope it may, we may congratulate
Mr. Polk in having made a selection which
will give assurance to the country that the inte
rests of the U. States have been confided to able
hands.
Temperance Law in Connecticut.--The
new Temperance bill introduced in the Senate
in place of that previously passed by the House
and rejected by Ihe former, passed the Senate
on Thursday, 14 to 7. It provides for the ap
pointmentin each town of three commissioners,
on whom is conferred the whole power of grant
ing or refusing licenses. This will put the
whole matter in the power ot the people; if a
majority are opposed to granting licenses, they
will of course elect Commissioners to carry out
their views.
55“ I'he Nashville Whig speaks highly ol
the portrait of Gen. Jackson, which has just
been taken by the artist Healy, for Louis Phi
lippe—the King of the French having commis
sioned Mr. Healy to take th" portrait of seve
ral of our prominent citizens fbr his gallery in
Paris.
Fire In Fayetteville. (N. C.)
Extract of a letter received in Charleston, dated
“Wilmington, (N. C.)June 14.
“I have just received a letter from Fayette
ville, stating that they were yesterday morning
visited by the most destructive fire which their
town has exnerienced since the destruction of
theirtown in 1831. The fire broke out 2 o’clock,
A. M., and in three hours the two business
squares, including their large hotel and the two
printing offices, were in ashes.”
Largest Cylinder in the World.—There
was cast at the works of the West Point Foun
dry, on the 12th, a Blast Cylinder of 126 inches
in diameter and II leet in length, weighing 10
tons. It is intended tor the Mount Savage iron
Comnany, near Cumberland, Md. and is to blow
lour Blast Furnaces of the largest class, making
400 tons of iron per week The time occupied ,
ut running the iron from the furnaces to the
mould was 63 seconds.
Missouri State L-'an. We learn, through i
the Governor’s oigan—the Herald—that he es- ,
lected a loan from the Palmyra Branch of the <
State Bank of Missouri, fbr one year the sum <
•f $15,000, loss S9OO, one year’s interest. This ,
sum, with the previous loan from the Jackson
branch, was sufficient to pay the interest due by t
the State on the 16th and 30th of May and Ist of t
June—being all the interest due until Nuvem- (
bar and December next. The loan by the Pal- (
myra Branch was opposed by the Directors, on f
he part ol the private stockholders, but carried t
oy the State’s directors.— St. Louis Rep. ,
Operatives.—The Newburyport Herald, re- a
ferrtng to the paragraph which we published a v
lew days ago, trom the Lowell Courier, relatin"
to the success ot a person engaged in one ol the r
mills in that city, says:
“Two facts came to our knowledge yester- ,
lay. The first is, that one ot the new houses ;
now going up near the centre oi this town i» r
>wned by two young women, who work in ’one fl
4 our mills; and the oth r, that on the subscrip- o
ion paper for a new mill, circulating yesterday i
t .renuon, we saw the names ot several manu- |,
acturmg operatives, prudent, industrious and ti
c ? ."‘.‘i 1 ’’ pnt down for one or two shares b
of SSOO each.” ,
Correspondence of the Chronicle and Sentinel.
White Sulphur Sprl gs.
Writs Sui.prus rspamos. near Gainetvillt, >
June 14,1815. (
To the Editor:— Enclosed, you will find an
advertisement of the White Sulphur Springs,
(the advertisement will be found in another co
lumn ;) and as this place is comparatively un
known, and 1 have derived so much benefit from
the water, I shall embrace the present opportu
nity to recommend them to the public, and par
ticularly to invalids.
1 left home the 21 st of April, and by easy sta
ges and short stays on the way, 1 reached here
the first day ot May. I was laboring under
dyspepsia, complicated with a disordered liv
er, which had well nigh completely prostrated
me. I was reduced from one hundred and
eighty to a hundred and forty-five pounds.—
There was scarcely anything save gruel, tea.
and a piece of corn bread, (and but little of
that,) that I could eat, and even these would oc
casionally disagree with me. 1 had not been
here more than two weeks before 1 could in
dulge in a little fowl, and can now eat almost
anything, and my stomach and liver perform
their functions well. I have nearly regained
my wonted health and strength, and hope to re
turn home by the first ol July. All this has
been accomplished in the short space of forty
five days.
The waler possesses Tonic, Diaphoretic and
Diuretic properties, in an eminent degree, and
on some, acts as a mild aperient. I believe
the water is admirably suited to all those diseas
es usually grouped together under the term Dys
pepsia, complicated with a disordered liver; it
is also good for diseases of the skin, rheuma
tism, and neuralgic affections. In diseases of
the skin and rheumatism, I learn trom highly
respectable gentlemen here, that it has effected
extraordinary cures -in short, when we take
into consideration the climate, together with the
various waters, I doubt whether there is a place
in the Union that offers so many inducements
■tothe invalid; at least, 1 know of none. Mr.
and Mrs. McAfee, 1 am confident, will do eve
rything in their power to render the stay of per
sons pleasant and agreeaMe—their table is
good. Your brother,
W. S. JONES.
Whig Meeting In Habersham.
Ata Meeting of a portion ol the Whig parly
of Habersham county, in relation to the nomi
nation of a candidate for Governor, the follow
ing preamble and resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, The Whig party ot Georgia con
template holding a Convention at Milledgeville
on the 7 h of Joly next, and from our great dis
tance from the Seat ot Government, we cannot
send delegates to said Convention, without
manifest inconvenience:
Be it therefore resolved, That we deem it un
necessary to send delegates to the State Conven
lion t« be held in Milledgeville on the 7th day of
July next, for the purpose ot selecting a can
didate for the Chief Magistracy of the Slate.
B solved 2d, That having unbounded confi
dence in the patriotism, talents and principles of
his Excellency, George W. Crawford, we re
commend to the said Convention his nomina
tion for re-eleciion, pledging him our undivided
support, and fully believing he deserves the sup
port ot every Georgian; and we challenge a con
trast of the princip'es and policy of his admin
istration with those of any Governor Georgia
ever had. WM. M. ALLEY, Ch’tn.
T. Allan, Sec’y.
Senatorial Convention of Newton and Wal
ton Counties.
The Whigs of the thirty ti.ird Senatorial dis
trict of the State of Georgia, composed of the
counties of Newton and Walton, having deter
mined to hold a convention at the Social Circle,
on Mpnday, the ninth day of June inst., for the
purpose of nominating a Whig candidate to re
p esent said district in the Senatorial branch ol
the next Legislature—each county appointed
thirty-six delegates (being three from each mili
tary district); and upon that day the following
gentlemen appeared as delegates from the coun
ty ot Newton, viz:—Messrs. John L. Travis,
D F. Montgomery, Christopher Carter, A. W.
Evans, George Hays, John Bass, Felix Hard
man, John Webb, C.C. Wright, James Glass,
John P. Austin, H. Maddox, David Rogers,
Moses Trimble, John Johnson, John Puckett,
James R. McCauley, Charles Hudson, B. F.
W.Goss, D Crawlord, Richard Loyall, Samuel
Broadnax, Lawrence Baker, Lewis Zachery,
Reuben Ransom, Thomas Nelms, A. Overton,
aames wt.-wntre, josran mown, 'mwnas An-
derson, John Loyall—3l, five being absent.
And from the county of Walton the following
viz:-Eldridge Harris, Thos. Hutchins, M.
Herndon, John C. Brewer, John Scott, John
Gresham, R. P. Blatrden, Wm. L. Walker,
B. F. Hammock, H. H.Camp, Win. R. Smith,
Solomon Adams, M. W.Lewis,G. T. Symmes,
T. H. Mitchell, James Lochlin, Eli A. Smithe,
T. M Jones, James D. Walker, C. Hammock,
F. Hill, B. T Russell, E. Henderson, P. A,
Haralson, J. Richardson, Jr., Arch’d Preston,
Geo. W. Malcomb, Willis C. Norn's, Paul
Blassingam, Rice B. Green, J. Hughes, J. A.
Clark, Jno. Ramsey, Wm. P. Easley, John P.
Allen Samuel A. Brown—36. The delegates
having assembled, the Convention was organ
ised by appointing Capt. John Bass of Newton,
President, and Benj. T. Russell of Walton, Se
cretary.
On motion of Capt. John Webb,
Resolved, That the delegates present from
Newton should have five additional votes in the
Convention, so as to make the numherol votes
equal from all the districts in each county. The
President having announced that the conven
tion was now ready to proceed to business, the
name of Peter G. Morrow, E»q. of Walton
county, was announced as a sui’able person to
represent the district, and upon him was cast
the uranimous voted the convention.
Upon molten of Maj. P. A. Haralson,
Resolved, That each and every member of
the convention will use all honorable means to
proc ire the election ofthe candidate now nomi
nated.
Upon motion of David Crawford, Esq., the
President appointed the following gentlemen a
committee to inform Judge Morrow of his
nomination, viz : David Crawford, Esq., Dr. Jno.
L. Graves, and Maj. Paul A. Haralson.
On motion of Dr. John L. Graves, it was or
dered that the proceedings of the convention,
alter having been signed by the President and
Secretary, be forwarded to the Whig papers in
A ogusta, Milledgeville and Madison for publi
cation.
The Convention then adjourned sine die
JOHN BASS, President
Benj. T. Rusts l, Secretary.
The Public Money.—We copied from the
Washington Correspondence of the New York
Tribune, slating that the Secretary ofthe Trea
sury had nearly completed arrangements for the
more secure deposite of the public money, &c.,
which has called forth Ihe following reply from
the official organ, the “Union.”
The Union says-The above article is found
ed, to a great extent, in error. No permanent
system has been adopted by the Secretary ofthe
Treasury. He is engaged at present in secur
ing the public moneys, and rendering the mint
most active and efficient; increasing th? depo
sits in the mint, and the coinage, especially ol
dimes and half dimes, to be used under the new
Jost office law. The independent treasury bill
has been repealed ; and the Secretary is further
embarrassed by the provision of the act of 17,h
June, 1844, recognizing to a certain extent the
then existingdeposite bank system, and deelar
ing, further, “ that no changes be made except
for non-compliance with the instructio-ns of the
Treasury Department or the failure to furnish
sufficient security ” This provision was no
doubt designed to be changed, whenever the de
mocratic party should come into power in the
two houses of Congress. That the Secretary of
'he Treasury will carry out bis specie doc
trines to the extent permitted by Ihe law, and
especially that he will increase the coinage is
certain. But he will not attempt to violate’ or
evade ihe law, to carry out any doctrines he
mav entertain.
In the mean lime, in reply to some insinua
tions originating in the Herald, and exaggera
ted trom conjectures of what a Secretary wrigi/
do, into suggestions of what was done, in the way
of loans to himself, we feel called upon to brush
out all these unworthy suspicions, by declaring
that Mr. Secretary Walker never has had, and
never will have, any individual pecuniary trans
actions, directly or indirectly, with anv depo
site bank, or any other depository of the go
vernment.
We repeat, the Secretary is contributing his
proportion of public duty to facilitate the in
troduction ofthe new post office law. He has al
ready drawn upon the places ofdeposite lor Mex
ican dollars, Ac.,to be sent to the mint and branch
mints in ditf. rent sums 0f530,000, 70,000, 100,
000, and 50 000—to the amuunt, in all, 0f5250.
000, to be coined into dimes and hall dimes, fin
h“ use of the people under the m w post office
law. More will be sent, to the full extent au
thorized by law. The next issue will probably
be of quarters, when a sufficient number oi
dimes and halt dimes is coined.
A fire brokeout about 4 o’clock Sunday morn
ing, in a small wooden building on South Broai
street, owned by the estate ol Dr Lawrence and
occupied as a dwellingbv Mrs. England, which
was, together with the out buildings attached,
entirely consumed. Before the engines reached
the scene, the fire had communicated to the
wooden dwelling house on the adjoining I ot,
owned and occupied by Mrs. Thomas Lloyd,
which was also destroyed. The stables in Ihe
rear ot Mrs. Lloyd's house, were pulled down
to prevent the fire from extending, and one ot
the axeman, a mulatto boy, named Levi More,
was seriously injured by a part of the bu ding
falling on him while at work.
I here was no insurance on any portion of
the property destroyed. The furniture of both
houses was saved, though murh injured by its
hasty removal Mrs. Lloyd’s loss is estimated
at trom $3,a00 to 84 000; as, m addition to the
loss ot her house, re are informed that in the
hurry ol moving, she unfortunately lost some
SIOO to SSOO in Bank bills. The loss of the
estate ol Dr Lawrence is estimited at about
SBOO to 81,000.
Various rumors are afloat as to the origin ot
the fire, but it is generally supposed to have been '
the work ol an incendiary. We are informed
that a negro woman has been arrested on sus
picion, and will t>e examined before the Mayor
this morning— Savh. Be/mb.
Magnetic-Printing Telegraph.—The New
York Journal ot Commerce of Thursday says—
We have seen a specimen of words printed by
a machine with the above title, but have not yet
been made acquainted with the mode ot work
ing it. All we can sav is, that if such letters
can be produced by telegraphic wires, and pro
duced rapidly and accurately, as we are assured
they can be, this invention, tor practical useful
ness, far surpasses any other of the kind which
has yet been brought before the public. The
name of the inventor is not yet publicly an
nounced, but we expect to be able to communi
cate it, and other particulars relative to the in
vention, in the course ol a lew davs.
New-York Statistics.—The State Registe
contains a mass of statistics of interest, from
which the Tribune extracts the following: r
The number ol Colleges in the State is 12,
Students, 985; of Academies and Grammar
Schools, 501; Scholars, 31,563; ot Primary
and Common Schools, 10 871; Scholars, 501,-
156; Scholars at public charge, 26 266 There
are 48.715 white persons over twenty years of
age who cannot read and write.
Mill Taxon valuation, 592,008 57; Fees of
Treasurers and Collectors, 30 881 40. Nett
proceeds of Mill Tax, 561.127 17.
There are 391 periodicals published in this
Slate. Os these there are 13 Daily,6Semi-
Weekly, 2 Tri-Weekly, and 83 Weekly Whig
Newspapers. There are 8 Daily, 3 Semi-
Weekly and 95 Weekly Locofoco papers.—
There are 9 Daily, 5 Semi-Weekly, 1 Tri-
Weeklv and 83 Weekly papers which are neu
tral, Religious, Literary, &c. There are 2
Daily, and 1 Weekly Native papers in the
Slate.
. In glancing over the list we notice 5 Agricul
tnral, 5 Temperance, 5 Abolition, 4 Irish, 4
, German, 2 French, 1 Welsh, 2 Odd E'ellows, 1
Masonic, 1 Miller, 1 Mormon, 1 Fourier, 2
Tailors’, 1 Military and 3 Bank Note Publica
tions. There nre also 5 Republications of
B ifish Magazinesand Reviews in this city.
C ft is difficult to find the exact number ot pub
lications issued at any one lime, owing to the
mortality among newspapers. We have matte
some correct!' nsot Mr H 'llev’s list, some pa
[ pers having died since they were made out.
There are 85 incorporated Banks and6s Bank
ing Associations, making in all 150 Banks in
I the State, with a capital ot $13,734,833 In the
connlies of Alleghany, Clinton, Cortland, Frank
lin, Hamilton, Queens, Richmond, Rockland,
Schoharie, Sullivan and Wyoming there are
( no Banks. There are 14 Savings'Banks in the
State.
There are 40 Foreign Consuls resident in
this city.
. There are 638 3-4 tniles of Railroads in ope
ration in the Stale, which cost for construction
sl9 606,737 30, for repairs and running $799,-
752 81. The receipts have been 81,893 658 59.
Fr'M the Indian Council.—The Van
Buren (Ark ) Intedigencer ot the 24th ultimo
’ says:
! “The Creeks are now in council upon mat
- ters of importance to their own as well as
I several ol the bor ering and adjacent nations.
These were, a few days since, eleven of the
' wild tribes represented, but the Catnanches and
Pawnees have refused to meet them The
, Creeks exceedingly regret this, as they have
’ ever shown a disposition to cultivate friendly
■ relations with all their neighbors. We were
~ informed that there were about three hundred
Creeks, besides numerous other trities present,
among whom were the ‘ Niowas,’ a tribe from
’ the west of the Rocky Mountains, who brought
i, in an enormous pipe to smoke in council with
the Creeks.”
’ A correspondent of the Intelligencer writes
1 from the couneil ground in the Creek Nation
'. on the 13th as follows:
I “There are at prrsentdeputations from eleven
tribes —Creeks, Semiuoles, Choctaws, Dela-
1 wares, Piankeshaws, Shawnees, Ptolies, Cad
! era
object is to clear the ‘white-path,’ and cover
over the blood that has been recently spilt by
’■ the Creeks and Pawnee Mahas.
. "The Camanches returned an angry answer
, to the Muscogee messengers, allowing them to
escapeonlv with their lives Thevssid: ‘We
’ accept ynttrtobacco, and have smoked it; you
, have lodged with its all night; take back the
i wampum ai d th* broken dogs ; they are f H | sei
and your people have a forked tongue.’ It is
> said and believed that oneof the messengers
, (and the onlv one who spoke the Camanche
language) played falsely with the Creeks. They
(the Camanches) further alluded to a meeting
’ this Moon, at the great Sall Plains, with all tl e
1 prairie tribes, to concert measures of action and
defence. This has created concern, on the part
of the Creeks particularly.”
:s Wonderful Land Slide—A correspondent
t- of the New York Evening Post writes as fol
, lows of a recent Jani slide at Warsaw, in
J Ulster county:
” “Never within the recollection of our oldest
citizens, has Nature given such awlul demon
strations of her freaks in this vicinity as hap
pened here a lew weeks since. On the night
of the 3d of May last, a large tract of land,
comprising a portion of the farms of J. A. B.
Dimond and Jas. G. Bruyn, broke loose, and
was carried by the force of its own gravity
' about one hundred and sixty yards, car-ylng
with it fruit trees and various others of large
size, some still standing in their upright posi
" tion, others torn from their beds and scattered
in most beautiful confusion. What hascaused
this rupture no one has, as vet, ascertained.
Nought was heard of the ‘move’of this mass of
,f milter, save as one ofthe neighbors says, he
() heatd the sound of a 'rushing mighty wind.’
. The first intimation wc had of any thing un
co mon having taken place was, that the
Rondotit creek below the slide was, on the sol
e lowing morning, completely dry. On ourar
a rivai at the place we found that the earth had
s broken loose about thirty feet from the stage
road leading from Kingston to Wortsboro, run
ning parallel with the road for about a hundred
and twenty yards, forming a chasm at the point
where it started of about one hundred feet per
pendicular; the whole body containing about
’ sixty acres ol land.
“In its passage it crossed the Rondout stream,
> literally clearing the bed ct all obstructions, and
- depositing its contents to the height oi about
fifteen feet in the bed ofthe stream for about one
hundred and sixty yards, lornting a dam at one
dash across the whole stream impervious as
masonry could nnke it. The waters above
proved what has always been considered impos
; sible, namely, their powers of running ’up
stream.’ This it continued to do lor the dis
tance of about two miles, to a place called
Hixon’s dam , where, alter finding its level, it
> recoiled, and, with the helpofhuman hand-ami
its own powers, it forced its passage through
the adjoining lands, to find its own channel be-
' low.
"While writing this 1 am informed by one of
our olth'st inhabitants that a similar occurrence
took place about sixty-five years ago.”
The Free Primary Schools in Boston.—
Bv the fifiy-fourth Annual Report ol the Pri
mary S hoofs of 80-ton, w<* learn that 27 vears
ago, the town of Boston appropriated SSOOO lor
the purpose of establishing 20 primary schools.
There are now 122; and $60,000 is their cost
annually to the city of Boston. Os the original
School Committee ol 36. onlv 9 are now living.
In all the schools there are 8173 pupils—2B6s ol
wnom are over seven vears of age. Within six
months, 957 have been fitted for the grammar
schools. There are 13 school districts, and all
in good condition. This is one ol the best of
the very many noble enterprises in which the
city of Boston is engaged.— Newark Advertiser.
Walking.- On the utility of bodily exercise
as a preservative cl health, a writer in a London
periodical lays it down as positive that “ walk
ing is the most p rlcct exercise of the human
body; every artery, from the heart to the ex
tremities, propels the blood quicker and more
equally in walking than in any other exercise.
The blood is drawn from the head and upper
parts where it is most slow and languid, abd is
circulated with rapidity to every pari.”
Antidote for the Bite of a Rattlesnake.—
Alt intelligent lady from Tioga county, Pa. in.
torrns us that the settlers in that section ol the
country cate little lor the bite of a rattlesnake.
She states that a piece ol common indigo made
into a paste with spirits ot camphor, and ap
plied to the wound, will prevent any serious
consequences occurring, and tn fact al once neu
tralize the poison.
Persons woo nave recently arrived at St.
Louis from the Rocky Mountains report that
Ute trade in buffalo robes will yield very little
thisyear in consequence of the failure ot the
lunting season among the Chains, Sioux,
Pawnees and other tribes of the plains. These
tribe* were kepi in a constant state of alum
last winter, apprehending an attack from the
Delawares, Shawnees and other tribes neater to
the while settlements, and they were afraid to
leave their homes to hunt.