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20,000, and even 30000, constitute the great mass of the population, and on them devolve the whole .’abors for the establish ment. Theirs is the office of searching for and collecting tie precious fluid which not only furnishes their daily food, as well as that of their young, and the surplus of which islaAl up for winter stores, but also the materials from which they rear their beautiful oombs. In the little basket-shaped cavity of their hind legs, they bring home the pollen or farinaceous dust of flowers, kneaded by the help of the morning dew into tiny balls, which forms an important ingredient in the nourishment of the brood; and also the propolis or adhesive gum ex tracted from willows,&c., with which they attach their combs to the upper part and side of the hive, and stop every crevice that might admit the winter’s cold. The natural term of the worker’s exist ence does not extend, we think, beyond six or eight months. It is the opinion of Dr. Bevan, that all the bees brought into existence at the queen’s great laying in spring, die before winter. But many never reach that period. Show ers of rain, violent blasts of wind, sudden changes of atmosphere, destroy them in hundreds. In the clear, cold mornings and evenings of autumn, their eagerness for for aging entices them abroad early and late ; on lighting on the ground, many are chilled and quickly perish. And should they es cape the blighting atmosphere at the close of autumn, a bright sunshine in a winter day, when the ground perhaps is covered with snow, brings them abroad in multi tudes, and the half of them never return. The sole office of the male, or at least the primary one is, to pair with the queen, lie is the father of the hive. Indolent and luxurious, betakes no part in the internal operations of th ‘ domicile, and never leaves it with a v lew of sharing in the labors of the field. WJicn ne ventures abroad, it is only in the finest weather, and during the warm est part of the day. He is easily distin guished from the workers by his large size, by his heavy motion in flight, and by his loud humming sound. His life is extremely short. THE PRIEST AND THE PENITENT. The following is from a Dublin journal: “ Have you any thing else whereof your conscience should be purged?” asked Fa iher O’Connor, of a kneeling culprit at the confession. “ Yes,” replied the penitent, “ 1 have committed the mean sin of theft. I have stolen this watch. Will your reverence accept of it ?” “ Me !” exclaimed the pious priest, “ I receive the fruit of your vilkany ! No; instantly return the watch to its owner !” “ I have already offered it to him,” re plied the culprit, “ and he has refused to receive it; therefore, holy father, I beseech you to take it.” “ Peace, wretch !” rejoined the priest, “youshould have repeated the offer.” “ I did repeat it, your reverence, but he wouldn’t touch it.” “ Then,” said the priest, “ I must ab solve you from the sin you have com mitted.” The purified thiefhad scarcely departed, when the astonished father discovered that it was his own watch that had been stolen from the place where it had been deposited nea. the confessionary ! WHO IS MR. 8188 ? “The Whigs of Georgia, will have a United States Senator in place of Mr. Bibb.”— N. Y. Atlas. [The Editor of the Atlas must have been indulging his Aiftulous propensities when he wrote that. Ed. News & Gazette.] The following notice was lately fixed upon the church door of Ludford in Here fordshire, England, and read in the church ; viz., “ This is to give notice, that no person is to be buried in this church yard, but those living in the parish ; and those who wish to be buried are desired to apply to me, Ephraim Grub, parish clerk.” Advertising, (says the Portland Adver tiser,) is to trade, what steam is to machi nery—the grand propelling, go ahead power ; and yet there are some persons so blind to their own interests, as to ponder over a cent which would yield them a hun dred to a thousand per cent. “ Dr. Porson,” said a gentleman to the great Grecian, with whom he had been dis puting—“ Dr. Porson, my opiniou of you is most contemptible.” “ Sir, ’ returned the Doctor, “ I never knew an opinion of yours that was not con temptible.” “ The number of newspapers published in Mexico, isfifteen. They are all of a very small size. The price is never less than $25 or S3O per annum.” [Our opinion of the civilization of the Mexicans is greatly improved by. learning that they pay for their newspapers so gene rously. Ed. News & Gazette.] The North American tells an extraordi nary story of the effects of extracting a tooth. On the 23d of September, a man resid ing in Russell-street, (running from Eight to Ninth and Shippen to Fitzwater streets,) Philadephia, had a tooth drawn, and his jaw bled fortwodays. Hethen called in, one after theother, Drs. Stevens, McClellan and Coats, and to the present date their combined wisdom has not as yet proved ef fectual, though several expedients have been resorted to, such as cobwebs, burnt eosk, burning with nitrate of silver, and searing with a hot iron. From two o’clock on Thursday morning until ten, he bled so profuse us to be obliged to sit and let the blood run from his mouth. From that time until lour o’clock in the afternoon, the bleeding was continually lessening, but was then sufficient to cause death if relief could not be soon had. This is certainly a singular ease,and one of which the faculty should take particular note. REVERSES OF FORTUNE. The United States Marshal, who has just completed the census of Cincinnati, mentions these incidents : ! met a man who had ruined himself by intemperance, and was subsisting on charity, that I knew in Pittsburg in the year 1815, owner of a fine property and store worth $50,000 at that time. The property alone, I have no doubt, would since have brought $150,000. I found in the person of a day-laborer in one of our foundries, a man who had once owned a large iron establishment in Scot land, on the Carron side. He had become involved with others, and rendered thereby insolvent. My sympathies were the more strongly excited here from the simple digni ty, which forbore repining or complaint,the family manifested in the case. I found also,the widow of a distinguished professor in an Eastern college,who was at the time eating her humble supper with her daughter, under such eircumstnces of pen ury, that their very table was formed of a board laid across an old barrel ! I have found in the city two cases of age between the oldest and youngest brother, worthy of notice. In one instance the oldest brother was 69, the youngest 25. In the other when the father was living and aged 73 years, one brother was 46 and the other 2. BEAUX OF FORMER TIMES. We question whether the celebrated Beau Brummel, and even the equally celebra ted Romeo Coates, were not mere Quakers in their dress, eompaired with some of the distinguish dressers of the former days. Sir Walter Raleigh wore a white satin pinked vest, close sleeved to the wrist; over the body a brown doublet, finely flowered and embroidered with pearls. In the feather of his hat, a large ruby, and pearl drop at the bottom of the sprig,in place of a button, his trunks or breeches, with his stockings and ribbon garters, fringed at the end, all white ; and buff shoes, with white ribbon. On great court days, his shoes were so gorgeously covered with precious stones as to have exceded the val ue of £6.600,and he had a suit of armour of solid silver, with a sword and belt blazing with diamonds, ru bies and pearls. King James’ favorite, the Duke of Buckingham, could afford to have his diamonds tacked so loosely on,that when he chose to shake a few off on the ground, he obtained all the fame he desired from the pickers up, who were generally les Dames de la Cour ; for our Duke never con descended to accept what he himself had dropped. His cloaks were trimmed with great diamonds;hatbands,cockades,and ear rings, yoked with great ropes and knots of pearls. He had twenty seven suits of clothes made, the richest that embroidery, lace, silk, velvet, silver, gold, and gems could contribute ; one of which was a white uncut velvet, set over both suit and cloak, with diamonds, besides a great feather, stuck all over with diamonds, as were also bis sword, girdle, hat, and spurs. When the difference in the value of money is con sidered, the sums thus redicuously squan dered in dress must have been prodigious. M. DE TOCQUEVILLE ON THE CHA RACTER OF AMERICAN WOMEN. M. de TocquevMle, after speaking of the free and pleasurable condition of single wo men in America, and contrasting with it the austerities ofmarried life, thus contin ues :—“Butno American woman falls into the toils of matrimony as into a snare held out to her simplicity and ignorance. She has been taught beforehand what is expec ted of her, voluntarily and freely does she enter upon this engagement. She supports her new condition with courage, because she chose it. As, in America, paternal dis cipline is very relaxed and the conjugal tie very strict; a young woman does not con tract the latter without considerable cir cumspection and apprehension. Preco cious marriages are rare ; thus American women do not marry until their understan dings are exercised and ripened ; whereas, in other countries, most women, generally, only begin to exercise and to ripen their un derstandings after marriage. * * * When the time for choosing a husband is arrived, that cold and stern reasoning pow er, which has been educated and invigora ted by the free observation of the world, teaches an American woman, that a spirit of levity and independence in the bonds of marriage is a constant subject of annoy ance, not of pleasure ; it tells her, that the amusements of the girl cannot become the recreations of the wife, and that the sources of a married woman’s happiness are in the home of her husband. As she clearly dis cerns beforehand the only road which can lead to domestic happiness, she enters upon it at once, and follows it to the end without seeking to turn back. The same strength of purpose which the young wives of Amer ica display, in bending themselves at once, and without repining,to the austere duties of their new condition, is no lesspnanifest in all the great trials of their lives. In no country in the world are private fortune more precarious than in the United States. It is not uncommon for the same nian, in the course of his life, to rise and sink again through all the grades which lead from'opulence to poverty. American wo men support these vicissitudes with calm and unquenchable energy ; it would seem that their desires contract as easily as they expand with their fortunes. The greater part of the adventurers who migrate every year to people the western wilds, belong, as I observed in the former part of this work, to the Anglo-American race of the Northern States. Many of these men who rush so boldly onwards in pursuit ofwealth were already in the enjoyment Os a com petence in their own part of the country.— They take their wives along with them, and make them share the countless perils and privations which always attend the commencement of these expeditions. I have often met, even on the verge of the wilderness, with young women, who after having been brought up amidst all the com forts of the large towns of New England, had passed, almost without any intermedi ate stage, from the wealthy abode of their parents to a comfortless hovel in a forest. — Fever, solitude, and a tedious life, had not broken the springsof their courage. Their features were impaired and faded, but their looks were firm; they appeared to beat once sad and resolute.” A BOTTOMLESS LAKE. A writer in the Troy (N.Y.) Mail,gives the following account of a remarkable pond in Sussex county, in the State of New York. “White Lake is situated about one mile west of the Paulius Kill, in the town of Still Water. It is nearly circular. It has no visible inlet, but itsoutlet is a never fail ing stream of considerable magnitude.— The name is derived from its appearance. Viewed from a little distance it seems of a milky whiteness, except a few rods in the centre, which by the contrast appears per fectly black. The appearance itself is singular enough, but the cause is still more remarkable. “ From the centre or dark portion of the lake,at stated seasons,innumerable quanti ties of shells are thrown up, of various si zes and forms, but all perfectly white.— These float to the shore and are thrown up on the beach, or sink into shallow water. Hundreds of bushels might be gathered from the shore after one of these periodical up-risings ; and the whole soil for several rods on every side of the lake, is composed of these shells, broken or decomposed by the action ofthe weather. In the centre of the lake, bottom has never been found, although it has been sounded to the depth of several hundred feet. “ Where then is the grand deposite from which has been swelling up since the mem ory of man, these countless myriads of un tenanted shells ? It is possible though far remote at an elevation of several hundred feet above them, this bottomles well, may by some subterranean communication, be connected with the grand shell marl depos it® in the Eastern part of the State ?” THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. This apparatus was called info action last week, on the Great Western Railway, in consequence of an Irish gentleman hav ing left, at one of the stations, fifty or sixty miles from London, his greatcoat, contain ing a very valuable snuff-box. On arriving in London he made known his case. The telegraph was set to work, and in three hours he was put in possession ofhis coat. On receiving it he exclaimed—“ I may tell this story in Cork, but who will believe it ?” Bristol (Eng.) Journal. THE LOST BIBLE FOUND. Most of our readers have seen historical notices of the misfortunes of the family of the Rev. Mr. Caldwell, of New Jersey, in the Revolutionary war. Mr. C. was pas tor ofthe Presbyterian church at Elizabeth town, and like most of the clergy of that church, at that time, was a zealous Whig. His activity against the British made him a mark for their vengeance, and in one of their frequent incursions in that neighbor hood, when he was from home, a company of soldiers surrounded his dwelling, and one of them deliberately Uvelled his mus ket at Mrs. Caldwell while on her knees at prayer, and killed her instantly. The par ty then retreated, carrying off several arti clesof plunder, and among them Mrs. Cald well’s family Bible. Not long ago, and more than sixty years after the event we have been recording, an old woman living on Long Island, called on one ofthe grand children of Mrs. Caldwell, at Morristown, N. J., and presented this identical Bible, containing the family record as made by the soldier who stole it; and various mem oranda by subsequent possessors. Found Out. —A gentleman who hap pened to have a son very weak in his in tellect, was continually recommending si lence as the best method of hiding his imper fections. It so happened that his father took his son to an entertainment, and for want of room to sit together, they were obliged to take separate seats. After din ner, two gentlemen opposite the son, differ ed in opinion upon a subject they were discoursing about, and rather than have any serious dispute, they agreed to leave it to the gentleman opposite them. They then stated the case and desired his opinion, the son was silent; they waited a little lon ger, and then desired him to decide, still he kept silent; the gentlemen looking steadfastly at him, exclaimed, “ Why. the fellow’s a fool!” upon which the son started up and cried out, “ Father,father, they’ve found me out!” CONJUGAL LOGIC. “ My dear, did you not buy a handsome shawl for fifty dollars ?” “ Yes, my love.” “So I thought. Well, it is lying on the floor in the other room. As the times are hard, and I can scarcely pay my notes, I hope you will be a little careful of your fine clothing.” “ Oh, that is of no consequence, for the shawl must be cleaned before it is used again.” “ My dear, one of the children has just thrown your handsome shawl down the cis tern.” “ Indeed, I am really sorry, but if needed washing, and I will have it taken out presently.” ... On the next day, the husband desired his lady to accompany him a short distance in to the country, she dressed for the purpose. “ My dear, why don’t you wear your new shawl ?” “It is not taken out of the cistern yet; I will attend to it, the first thing, when we come home. You know I could not wear it all dripping wet.” A week afterwards, a servant hooked up the shawl by accident, with a cistern pole. This elegant article was now transformed into a dirty rag, and punched full of holes. “ My dear, if you had taken it out when I first mentioned it, all would have been well.” “ Oh, no, my love, it would never have been fit to wear, after having been put into that muddy cistern.” “ But, my dear, if you had picked it off the floor when I first mentioned it, it would never have got into the cistern.” “ I suppose it dropped from the table where it was laid, which I am sure could not be helped.” “ But, my dear, if you had put it in its proper place, when you first took it off, it would never have fallen from the table.” “ And if I had kept myself in my proper place, I never should have been the compa nion of such a wretched, miserly body as yourself.” “ My dear, you are always too dilatory. If you had not deferred that speech until after our marriage, you never would have been taken from the arms of your beggarly old father.” “ Then I never should have gone from under the protection of a gentleman to shel ter under the roof of a fellow.” “ I wonder, my dear, how a lady of your refined and exalted notions, can continue under the roof of a fellow.” “ You will give me time for the horses to be put to the carriage.” She rings, and orders the carriage, puts on her things, and moves slowly towards the door. “ My dear, are you really going!” “ Yes, but why do you speak so kindly, if you hate me ?” “ I did not say that I hated you, my dear.” “ Did you not ? But the shawl.” “ Let that go, my dear. It is not worth a thought.” “ Now, you speak like yourself. What a dear love.” They kissed affectionately. After this little scene, the lady always did as she pleased with her shawl, and her “ dear love” compounded with his creditors, in a few months, while his loving wife ran off with a Colonel. Another State for Harrison. —A clergy man in New Bedford having recently mar ried a couple in the holy bonds of wedlock, called at their residence shortly afterwards to pay his respects to the bride. A sprigthly conversation ensued, of course, and, among other pleasantries, our clerical friend en quired of his fair entertainer, what she thought of the connubial state ? “Oh,” said she with characteristic readiness of reply, “ I think it will go for Harrison !” How easy it would be, and how much satisfaction would be derived from it, and how much more orderly and business-like would it look, if people would just file and preserve their papers after reading them. It is true, yesterday’s paper may be a very stale affair; but keep it for your grandchild to read, and he will find it a richer treat than wine of the same age. “When I look upon the tombs ofthe great said Adision, “ every emotion of envy dies in me. When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out. When I meet with grief of the parents upon a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compas sion. When I see the tomb ofthe parents themselves,l consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow. When I see kings lying by those who depos ed them ; when I see rival wits placed side by side, or holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes ; I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of man kind. When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died as yesterday, and some of six hundred years ago, I con sider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our ap pearance together.” Good Advice. —The New-York Signal gives the following seasonable hint to news gatherers : Friends of an Editor ! don’t bother him and crowd around him when he is ma king out his Election Returns ! “ You bore him. Don’t ask him what the news is—he has not found it out himself. Say nothing to him till he has got through. Be more careful to offer your salutations to those that are poor, or who may have been in any way distressed, whether in mind, purse or prospects, than you are to your more affluent acquaintance ; for, rest assured, that they will feel your neglect more acutely than either your equals or superiors. ©[£<§)TO[]A EUECTQW KETQiWS, The following Table is published for convenient reference, in comparing the returns of the present Election with the preceding ones. w . | M *t PRESIDENTIAL VOTE. CONGRESSIONAL VOTE VOTE FOR GOVEfINOt r~*■>* > , * > Highest Highest COUNTIES. &J g‘ on the on the 2 Ticket Ticket U £ S, ? Elected, defeated. § a 5 s. 3. ? Dawson. Colquitt. Appling - - 100 117 132 102 Baker - - - 201 240 278 136 Baldwin - - 731 533 337 326 2 29 278 Bibb - - - - 18 680 678 710 496 Bryan ... 58 89 36 7 99 Bulloch - - 25 386 7 365 312 7 Burke - - - 593 195 518 287 114 585 Butts - - - - 230 398 393 189 Camden - - 189 228 166 129 Campbell - - 202 530 481 166 Carroll--- 268 450 526 200. Cass 147 ‘506 658 706 481 Chatham - - 591 647 560 630 330 260 Chattooga * - 213 268 228 168 Cherokee - - 363 512 480 326 Clark - - 630 319 637 352 372 593 Cobb 428 558 425 687 679 335 Columbia - - 470 223 480 271 252 374 Coweta --- 50 687 683 719 550 Crawford - - 435 459 419 446 479 255 Dade --- - 23 147 139 24 Decatur - - - 405 248 280 310 DeKalb - - 664 759 636 750 653 466 Dooly .... 228 331 300 137 Early .... 241 362 360 165 Effingham-- 158 55 173 75 66 143 Elbert -- - 9.78 105 911 132 79 905 Emanuel - - 131 177 152 114 Fayette - - - 130 408 539 475 286 Floyd ... 271 266 271 284 330 188 Forsyth - - 348 457 334 512 417 298 Franklin - - 441 815 689 306 Gilmer - - - 84 340 273 79 Glynn - - - 113 29 33 131 Greene - - - 894 127 860 96 71 786 Gwinnett - - 125 ‘ 713 679 619 608 Habersham - 290 761 350 810 594 384 Hall .... 445 504 556 652 506 470 Hancock - - 482 241 476 260 301 376 Harris - - - 944 - 397 465 792 Heard ... 329 376 389 264 Henry -- - 931 794 856 781 835 649 Houston - - 97 673 620 655 449 Irwin .... 63 187 257 14 Jackson - - - 30 548 569 520 506 Jasper --- 495 494 514 511 507 440 Jefferson - - 457 89 439 99 198 .456 Jones -... 107 500 45s 503 447 Laurens - - 443 7 5 389 Lee- ... - 303 131 215 233 Liberty - . - 65 153 116 87 139 Lincoln - - 317 123 294 152 195 244, Lowndes - -’ 415 126 224 349 Lumpkin - - 355 736 316 740 651 249 Macon - - - 355 326 337 243 Madison - - - 357 286 325 296 509 279 Marion - - - 359 312 224 332 Mclntosh - - 16 102 146 128 119 Meriwether - 741 788 766 671 Monroe - - - 796 675 822 730 802 671 Montgomery 202 7 10 242 Morgan -- - 478 278 494 322 322 460 Murray - - - 242 482 572 89 Muscogee - - 235 971 833 850 861 Newton - - . 988 355 971 398 467 850 Oglethorpe - 654 127 612 132 104 479 Paulding - - 248 263 231 216 Pike .--- 532 626 492 349 Pulaski --- 37 213 312 313 160 Putnam -- - 468 310 448 350 245 524 Rabun ... 27 314 295 11 Randolph - - 544 591 508 490 Richmond - - 939 406 900 495 372 449 Scriven - - - 180 199 174 238 134 211 Stewart - - - 893 771 793 751 Sumter - - . 454 370 392 407 Talbot ... 152 896 818 855 787 Taliaferro - 431 47 402 60 33 414 Tattnall - - 250 24 68 276 Telfair - - - 191 132 189 174 Thomas - - 436 .-146’ 203 312 Troup 1134 432 646 940 Twiggs 24 380 424 461 327 Union - * - -. 96 415 448 20 Upson ... 632 293 638 311 393 544 Walker - - 383 509 471 237 Walton - - 102 531 677 623 442 Ware - - - 205 53 225 7 ‘Warren * - 552 243 585 336 317 429 Washington 593 453 583 527 514 583 Wayne - - 77 80 109 20 Wilkes - - “ 438 353 464 387 361 426 Wilkinson - 47 467 505 490 391 39619 35562 34634 32081 The Knavery Exposed. The following letter from General Har rison to Mr. James Lyons, of Virginia, ex poses the true character of the “ last card” of the Locofocos: “Cincinnati, October 21, 1840. “My Dear Sir :—I have received a handbill which contains a letter said to have been written by me to Arthur Tappan and others, in which I proclaim abolition prin ciples. It has my name to it, but isa VILE FORGERY. On the day, 2d of October, I was at Columbus. “ Yours in haste, the mail just closing. “WM. H. HARRISON.” “ Jas. Lyons, Esq.” The JYorth-Eastern Boun dary. A correspondent of the Boston Mercan tile Journal, writing from Bangor, says : Two of the young men who accompanied the Boundary Commissioners, have arrived in this city. lam informed that the whole ground has been carefully examined, and that the Commissioners are on their return. The report will probably come to us by the way of Washington ; and until we get it, we must put up with such information as may casually fall from those connected with the expedition? I am informed that there is not a doubt upon the minds of the Commissioners, that the line claimed by the Americans is the true line ; and that no person who makes the examination with the intention of ascertaining the truth, cart arrive at any other conclusion. This, I have no doubt, is correct; and all we want to bring this irritating question to a close, is energetic and determined action on the part of the Government. The Apalachicola Gazette, of the 24th ult., states, that a few days since, in Mid dle Florida, three white men were taken on suspicion of aiding the Indians, in their de predations on the lives and property of our citizens. It seems a company of men were on a scout in search of Indians, accompa nied by several of the bloodhounds, and were led by several trails to,the house g# these men, which at length.',|jndpoed commanding officer to have them arrested; and on examination, found they had scarce ly freed themselves from the paint, with which they had been painted to prevent detec lion. They also found, on still closer exa mination, other proofs of their connection : with the Indians. This is, we believe, the , first arrest ever made of white men for a i connexion of the kfnd, and it is a convinc- I ing proof of the utility of the dogs.,