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Wc cpy tit* following article from the I
Ile of yrierday, at the requoii of Mi*r
Si -binidt au.l II imilum, mid iJOHOVvith much
pleasure, a* we ugres with our contemporary !
in decry respect concerning it.
N. 11 >fe<r*. Kcbniidi oml Hamilton, re- .
quest nil K litor* throughout the United Htate*
who may have inserted the niandrrou* article
njmi t th • (Irani II- it K-t.it.- I. ittery, termen
hy S. J. Hylvcii-r, tho hrother of Sylvester j
who u agent for this lottery, to give the aril
lie published ill the Her of which tile follow- ■
in/ 14 a copy, one insertion m their paper,
uni ueinl their account to New Orleans for
collection.
Omni Ileal Est.lc l^otlcry.
Having had our aiiciiima drawn loanuriicle |
in S. J. Sy I teste t’* Reporter, lending lo throw |
discredit o i the above loliury, w hich article ta ;
copied, at his request, hi main papers through-!
out the United Hlalt, and feeling some inter
est in I In; succest of the undertaking, Ixieatme
we believe it to he lairly aud huiKiratily con |
dueled, hi- have taken some pains to make cn- |
qtiiiy, un i find that thu article mliide I to. con j
i tins several cnoucous slalemeiils, which Strn I
deem il proper to rectify, m ismticii ns tin- pro- |
party at stnUc is situated hi N-w Orloiu*.
Tne statement purport* to Ire grounded on j
un articlelirst published in the Journal of Com- ;
mercc. mi ihr mb of June, mid on another i ► i
l ie Florida Herald on the 3Uih of May.
In the first of ikes!! sriicl ■*, it is asserted j
that the prize's which ar • put up m Sl.fi 1 Ml • > j
ure not worth that amount, ami certainly it is
w |l known lliat it i- custom iry to value pro
party in a lottory over iu real worth ; for luiw
else could the c\| cnees be defrayed/ - I’ is
true that the selicui - prize of (lie tickets Is .jlfi.
and the si lling price i but Un difference j
between these sum.-t forms the profit <d’ Ibe i
managers, agents, and silb-ngnubi, Th -one
paper goes on lo say that the prizes of the
hunk stock arc not worth i heir assumed price;
but that paper probably overlooked in (he
scheme Ihe announcement that llio-e prizes
were payable in cash if require.), giving the
winners the choice to take the stork il it be
worili a premium, (mid smu j of them are now
worth 18 to %) |>er cent premium,) or the cash
at par for tlio-c under pur.
The Flori la Herald says that the managers
have no fight to draw in Florida. Il is true,
that n grant pas ej the legislative assembly of
Florida permitting Messrs. Sehtiiidi and Ham
illon to draw a lottery of real e*U e situated in
Now Orb ten, and that the Him nor put bis
veto on the bill ; but it is tint on .lie strength
of the vetoed till, that the lottery tsuihc drawn
but in reality on a grunt gi.ua m lis:it 10 the ;
county of Duval, to raist) liy means of a lottery
of money or real estate, the *uui ol i<t,oto
tnii I<l a court house. This grunt the eouinie
sinner*sold lo Messrs. Sciiinnltund Hamilton,
Inr tjltUW t. and it is upon it thut the G.-and Ileal
Ratals Lottery i* lo be drawn on lie first De
cember next, in Jacksonville, Florida.
Hut itwnske I, why not draw it New Orleans,
if no fraud is intended ? Uccau-e there was
nut sufficient lime to obtain u grant in Lmiisi
an,i, befnrethe breaking up of. ihe Senate. A
fill fur that purpose had pa* uJ ihe Legislature,
Iml came up 100 laic to be gut through the sen
ate, and the proprietor* of tin'lottery not wish
ing to delay the drawing, then applied lo Flor
ida, where they ultimately pun based the above
mentioned grant of J 834. It must be inmiutc
rial to the public w here- the ltd lory lie draw n,
provided it be fairly and honesily eou ducted,
it ought, we think, to bo sufficient to the public
in other stutes, to know, that in this city where
the property is situated, the citizen* tire snus
lied with it* valuation; and can it, moreover
be belitived not to lie wtuilui Iraif or a quarter,
ls me Journal or fnnitlp'l'ie insinuates j
w hen,
The Arcade, estimated at si7tMl.ooo, rents for
#37,<)!>J per an uni.
The City Hotel, e-ijiuulCjl id $5 K),000, rents
for $28,000 per annum.
The other building* m proportion, and the
hank stock to the amount of tslN3,o t • i pay a
hie iu cash at par if required; which last men
tion'd prize* ewilenily, I'nie.u loss to the pro
prietors, us some of the stocks arc at a premi
um, and will be called lor by, the prize holders.
The above remarks are grounded on facts
kn nvii lo ourselves and corroborated by infor
ma'ioti just received .fioui the managers, to
which we add Ihutthuy HstuUous, that tliepro
eee 1* of the tickets uto daily deposited in our
ba iks in the name of respi.i table trustees, us
announced in the srliruie, mid cannot be draw n
out except on transfer .of the prizes. In New
York the ticket* are deposited with a house of
the highest standing, vim delivers them to the
agent* on their paying lor the same, and which
in mey he remit* to our banks.
’ in iaet, it appears to us. Ural every thing that
co ild I*’ desired Ini* so lur been done for the
safety of the public; us a proof of which, we
would mention the rapid sate of the tickets, a
circumstance which shows the confidence ol
the public tv* bo unshaken.
Fbom ths llakovim (sa.) llium.d.
The Kitrly tieicttm. —'Flu; Indian trP>es
who inhabited the mrtle valleys to the north
and wrt of this place, [tain. so fit W Ai . .an
learn bat little trouble lo the hardy pioneers
“nfo made the first seiilemonls in tins neigh
borhood. and consequently we have hut in t!<■
of legeudary lore relating to the red man: but
\ve are rail without incidents worthy to be
chronicled. Tilt’ tract. of land of which we
have spoken was, lews than one hundred years
ago, heavily covered with timber, and a favor
ite limning ground with the Indians, (mumof
all kinds- especially deer -was abundant, and
Vvcn the wily pnuiiinr was frequently seen b)
the hunter.
How changed in the fact* of nature now.
Where a century ago, the Whan roamed thro’
the forest in undisturbed possession of his na
tive sail, a succession of fair farms, yielding
ibeir thousand tlo the industrious owners, now
meets the eye I A generation has passed away
-and lo I the aboriginal inhabitant lias disap
peared. and sesnvfy deft a trace t>ehind that
such a being ever exertedi Hut I nut digres
sing.
The stream which now*-crosses the Carlisle
road a few miles from) tins village, winding its
way towards the Coaowaga. was then not in
ex stetice. The numaroue springs which sup
ply it emptied their watt ora nito tin low grounds
(diming what would now tie denominated a
“'sw amp!”
Near one of these springs, at the |>eriod 1
speak of, on a cool evening, might have been
seen an early settler in the act of K nulling a
tire; hi* blanket was unstrapped, id it was
evident that be iv,is preparing to pa - the night
there, so as to resume bis sport ea the next
morning. A tried and faithful and; „. the com
panion of many a wearisome jo ..tin y through
the forests, lay.at a short distance, apparently
vailing for his master's, bidding to cmne for
winL Soon the accustomed call was guen,
tuid the noble animal approached and laid down
at the place indicated.
The hunter, wrapping his blanket around
him. stretched himself by the side of his rifle,
and with his bead on the dog—whom he always
use-1 fora pillow when out—in a few minutes
was lasi asleep. He had not slept long before
his dog gave such signs of uneasiness as to
awaken hiflt —supposing that it was caused by
the approach of sonic harmless animal, attrac- j
ted by the blaze of the fire, he made the dog |
resume his place, and again fell asleep, but err j
live minutes had elapsed, the deep growling of;
his watchful guard a second time arouse ’ him ;
from his slumbers.
Thi* lime he arose, rubbed hi* eye*, and cn- ‘
desv ouri-d to ascertain the cause of thu* unuu- ■
•a l <iiiutbanco but could diwfver nothing- A |
| third time he resumed his place, and prepared ,
jto sleep. The dog; however, still restless, oc- j
i lsionuily dieting low growls, which filially J
became sc> liEqucnt, a* to induce the hunter to ,
1 grasp hi* rifle, and gradually raise liimw ly on
i fiijJine'S. Shielded III* eyes from tbeligutof
; ill# fir- by the piilin of his hand, he followed
ihe steadfast g i/e of his trusty d< g. and soon
1 detected til the daiknes* beyond Hie light of
In* fire two glitening eye*, which ill them-
I solve, would have been suflicieut lo paralyze
| the ueivaa of an ordinary man. instantly the
| rifle was cautiously raised, mid inanolhet mo
ment the unerring Imll sped it* way through -
tie- Ilium* ofa monster.
D gave one fearful howl, sprang high into the
i air, mid fell inanimate to the ground ! The
| hunter sstisfie 1 that he had altin the prowling
i bcat reloaded the rifle, quietly eompo-ed him
i self to sleep,‘and was no more disturbed by hi*
dog until the gn v tint* of the ca t gave notice
of the upproncliing day. He quickly arose,
strapped hi* blanket on his back, and procee
ded to examine the disturfer of his sleep
j Judge of hi* surprise when lo- found, notthirty
yards from where he slept, nil enormous pan
j .iiiii, eleven sod n half feet in length! ‘Veil ,
| might tlie hunter have exclaimed —
“My dug (die irustiesl of his kind)
With irrumnb iud.ua ray mind;”
| for to tli it faithful animal he undoubtedly owed
his lisp.
Header, this is no fiction. The panther was
shot long before th* American Devolution, and
I have no doubt but that many of you have
more than once ‘celebrated ihe anniversary of
our independence not far from the spot where
| ihe occurrence I have related took place—lit
i tie thinking lhai dm fair field* before you had
once abounded with the fleetdeer, the bear, the
panther, wild cut, and wolf, mid had been the
favorite hunting ground of the Indians arid ear
ly settler*.
TiieGiikat Hka It a cn. How is ir ?
Within the past few days we have had four
or five reports from as many captain*, res- ,
peeling the kiritish Queen and Great We*-
lerri. Captain Eldritlgc arrives here in the
Margaret Heott, with the report that they
were ori the II I instant, 7-1$ A.M. in let.
ID !Hi, long, (kl 110, the Drilish (fueen fifteen
miles ahead. This was important for ull
those who had bet on the Great Western to
hedge. Soon after, another vessel, the lie
j vis, arrived, the captain of which almost
! swears that he also saw them on the ild. in
10 10, long. (VI, the Great Western
ad twenty miles. Ucts again ran high
dll the W estern, and the hedgefs rehedged.
\ short time after this, Captain Pickney of
the Pmlntig, from Lisbon, crime into port
with the remarkable intelligence that at 7
o’clock on the morning of the ild, just thirty
minutes before Captain Eldrich saw them,
lip ini -<eil the British Queen and Great Wes
tern, the latter thirty milks ahead ; ami to
cup the climax, a report rea died Boston
which staled that one of them, it is not
known which, was seen on the fllh instant,
in long. (iill-$, returning to New York
perchance damaged -
These reports heat those of ihe Flying
Dutchman. Here are three ship masters
who saw, within an hour of each other,
these fatuous steumers steaming ahead,
and in that time the Great Western had lost
fifteen mile* and gained thirty, and had
consequently made forty miles in sixty i
minutes. If the Great Western continues
*ll the wayjover to England at this rate, she
will make the passage in about six days,
anil heal the British Queen out and out.
There is in ilepcn J.iuce. however, to be
placed o.i an vof the u reports: We ne
ver knew a report of a vessel being in such
latitude and longitude on such a day cor
rect.
Vvikhicvn HcvntiNo Bum. A couple
of wnggislt doys having tak m n neat oflior- ;
nets an I Mugged up the entrance, took it to
an Irishman vi ho happened to lie leisurely
passing up the tow|uiih, while the boat in
which lie was passenger was getting through
the lock, and sold it lo him for a nest of
Vmericati humming birds. His instructions
were that lie should not allow them to come
out except iu a light room, ami to entice ,
them back lie was to heat upon their nest,
which would induce them to return lo their
habitation. With this information lie has
tened on hoard t!ie boat, and culled upon
hia comrades lo go wilt him into the cabin
to examine the qualifications of this rare’
sprcionieii of ornithology, liavitfg given
the tie*l to his partner, with Instructions to
call them hack if anv person should come
“Tii interrupt them, I’.it pulled oul the plug,
w hen one eame and lit upon his juind.
•'Och, faith, took what a beautiful craturc !
surely, nicer ould Ireland had the like.”
Just then several had conic out and one had
planted his sting above Patrick’s eye.
“Och ! tluimlci and turf, bale the hive,”
criedlld,’ and, throwing his arms around at eve
ry Iresh sting. “Bad luck till ye Jamie,
why dont you bate the hive,” while poor
Jamie used wh.it little time the Minuets left
him it) pounding tho nest.
Warns Multicaulis. —This is the climate
and soil for the ‘big animal, - ’ Here it grow s
spontaneously, luxuriously. Bernal leaves
wi e brought into our ollicc this morning
from the nursery of our townsman, Gener
al Thomas Brown, measuring fourteen
incites in length, and ten inches in bredth.
There's a Yankee in town who rather cal
culates that he can make ‘pretty considera
ble of a natural I'orlin,’ bv working these
leaves up into umbrellas- (io it Jonathan.
Good things me said of all distinguished
and notorious personages, objects and
tilings ; but of all illustrious characters who
have lived in the tide of time,’ it would seem
that Major Genera! Mir us Multicaulis is
most jocosely spoken of.
Down East, il is said, that a Morus Mul
ticaulis church has been erected.
In the same ‘land of steady habits,’ a
chiiii was christened Morus Multicaulis :
and somewhere on the Eastern Shore of
: ”-vyland, an old lady on hearing of the
’i ofan acquaintance, said she's posed
icd of the Morns Multicaulis fever,’
as the disease prevalent in that
j neighborhood.
What a prodigious chap old King .Morus
,is ! Why, he has turned the strong cur
j rent of politics—-changed politicians to gal
j lants and lovers —made poelsout of inathe
i inatioians—converted, as bv magic, the hov
el of poverty, into the palace of wealth,
ami given rise to more Jcu < resprits . puns
and wellerisms than any sprout, root or
branch, that ever sprang from mother
earth.
THE MOINTOSII GOUNTT HERALD.
Haltixorf., auo. 17. —North Easterly
It commenced raining yesterday
morning before daylight, accompanied by -
a northeasterly wind which gradually in
creased in violence to a regular gale. Be
tween seven and nine, A. M., the rain fell
in torrents, Tree* were prostrated in va
rtO'l* parts of tho city and its vicinity, but
we have heard that any further damage
was sustained. The steamboat Alabama,
from Norfolk, came up about ten, A . M.,
having encountered extremely rough weath
er during Iter run up the Bay. There is
ground for.apprehension that the shipping
along the roast may have suffered injury.
The gale yesterday produced a sudden
’ and marked change in the temperature, and
resembled somewhat the equinoctial storms
which usually come on a month later. It
serv ed to remind us thut the summer is fast
hastening awnV, and lo herald the coming
ol the Autumn days—“the saddest of the j
year.” The season ha* b&n delightful
pleasant beyond the general course of Hum
mers, and in noting these symptoms of its
approaching end, we feel like one who is
about lo seperate from a pleasant friend.
W e regret to learn from the Upper Marl- |
tiro’ Gazette that the storm of wind a id ;
hail which passed over a portion of Piincc
George’s County on the hfli iut., was the
cause of damage to a large number of plan
ter:!. The injury commenced in the vicini- ,
! ty of Palmer’s Tavern aod terroinaied a
lew miles below Nottingham—-extending
along the Piscataway Branch for about two
milt *; then crossing the Branch and run
ning in thedirection of Brandywine—doing
more or less damage upon every farm for
a distance of about IS mile* iu length and $
in hredth. The Tobacco and Corn crops
are considerably injured. One gentleman
estimates his loss at about -10 hhdf. ; others
have lost and been injured to the amount
of 1.000 to *ISOO. The loss in Tobacco
will not he short ofUOOhhds.
Noble. Generosity. —At a meeting of an
, association of the Methodist Episcopal
church in the .South, preparatory to rcle
t brating the Cetilennielanniversary of Meth
odism, and for the purpose of establishing
a fund, the interest of which, a partis for
, the support of superannuated ministers,
their widows and orphans, and the cause
of education; Col. Wm. C. Preston, from
South ( arolina, bring one of the audinence,
1 rose iu the coilgregrlion and briefly slated
that he did riot belong 10 the Methodist
sthurch, neither did any of his family, nor
did he expect thev ever would, hut added
that he considered himself under peculiar
: obligations to that branch of the Christian
church, it being mainly through the instru
mentality of hi* grandmother, who was
the sister of Patrick Henry and a member
of the Methodist church, and bad the charge
of his education, that he occupied the sta
tion he now held in the United States, and
i then added— Mr. Hceretary put my name
! do t n far ONE TIIOUHANT) DOLL\HS! !
which was promptly done, an I a* promptly
; paid.
Frow the I'ickcnsiille Alabamian, July “0.
lloHKil) Mcbdek On Monday even
ing lust, one of the most tin proved and
horrible murders was committed in our
town, that we ever recollect to have seen
recorded. Mr. William B. Finley, one ol
j our most quit t and respectable citizens,
was deliberately shot down by a desperado,
named Gerald. It was our fortune to be
sitting immediately by the side of the de
ceased at the lime he met his melaucholv
late—There had not been ail angry word
interchanged. Gerald conceived himself
i aggrieved at some jesting temark made by
Mr. Finley* He mounted hi* horse which
| was near, drlibct itelv drew a pistol from
his pocket, ami shot Mr. Finley (still un
suspecting, even uftcr the weapon was
drawn,) through the heart, and then gallop
ed nil’. IL-was, however, promptly pur
sued by our citizens, ami taken whilst at
tempting In swim the river, lie is now in
prison, the justice of the law.
On tlie next day Mr. Finley was follow
ed to the grave by a large eon to arse of re
latives and friends, who lament hi* untime
ly end.
,1 Hot Temper. —Hir W alter Scott says,
in his Diary, that he was exceedingly diver
ted w ith the following anecdote : “Colonel
Blair told us that at the commencement
of the battle of Waterloo there was some
trouble lo prevent the men from breaking
their ranks, lie expostulated with one
•man. Why, my good fellow, you cannot
propose lo beat the French alone ! You
had better keep your ranks. The man,
w ltii was of the 71st, returned to his place,
saying, ’I believe you are right, sir, but I
am a man of a very hot temper.’ There
was much bon honunio in the reply.”
The following particulars of the murder
: of Ridge and lioudinot are furnished by a
Massachusetts paper Mr. liidge married
the daughter of Mr. Northrtop. of Lee ; her
sister the widow of the late Hudson W.
Ball, who at rived there on Saturday last,
directly from the Cherokee Nation, was at
the house of Ridge, at ihelirrre he was put
to death.
She stated that about day brake on the
10th of June 4 Indians entered his house,
took him from his bed, earned him a lew
rods from the door, and stabbed him with
knives in more than *JO places. There
were 30 or 40 Indians about the house at
the time : some proposed to burn the build
ings, but others prevented, saving that their
orders were to destroy no property. Mrs.
Ridge and children had left the plantation
and gone to a white settlement about 50
miles distant.
Maj Ridge was shot from his horse, the
day previous to the murder of his son.
Boudinot was decoyed from his house by
j one of the Indians, under the pretext of visi
ting a sick friend. At a short distance from
his house* two others sprang out of the
woods, and the third together dispatched
him. It was supposed that these murders
were committed at the instigation of John
Ross, who is the leader of the party oppo
sed to a removal beyond the Mississippi.— :
.Yeipurl Sentinel.
The editor of the Baltimore Patriot has
seen a gentleman w ho, w ithin a few days,
sold 10 acres of m-irus multicaulis, now ,
growing on his place near that city, foi S-*.
000 and some odd hundred dollars.
FROM THE NEW VORK COURIER.
Fngilinm and its Results. —About l
o'clock on Monday afternoon, a couple of
worthies named Robert Lee, a rope maker ;
from Williamsburg, and Philip Doyle, a
noted pugilist of the “ Hook,” went out to j
the neighborhood of Tompkins’ Hquare, j
where thev stripped to the buff and fell to
work at each other in a most furious en
j counter, according to the most approved
style of •* the ring.”
‘information of these “goings ou“ was
sent to Justice Taylor of the upper police,
who with all haste despatched a posse of
officer* to the scene of action. On reaching
the spot they found a large crowd of specta
tors assembled. Doyle and hi* friends, it
appeared, had retired from the field, and
were no where lo be found. Lee was found
stretched upon the grass in an apparenlly
i lifeless condition ; hi* face and chest mau- j
gled and bruised in a most shocking man- j
ncr. A cart was procured, and the woun
ded man wa* thereon conveyed lo the po
lice, where after having his wound* dre
-1 sed, he was senttp the Hospital at Bellevue.
The whole nnmbet of mills in Lowell, is .
ut tile present time ‘in. Those of the Boon j
Company, four in number, were the last ,
ereted ; they are looby 45 feet, five stories
, high Anew company is now erecting :
four or live additional mills. The whole j
number of operatives employed in the mills j
is Ho 17, and their wage* amount lo one j
million seven hundred and forty thousand j
dollars a verr, averaging a fraction over ;
ikIMW to each individual. Besides these, the .
Locks and Canal Company employ 500
men, and can furnish machinery complete ,
for a mill of 5000 spindles in four months.
There are used in the mills, nearly 50,-
000 bales of cotton a year, also 4**lo rords
wood, 11.500 tons anthracite coal, and 500,-’
000 bushels charcoal, 66,2*‘) gallon* oil, j
1425 tons iron, and 3000 barrel* Il >ur for
s.arch.
■—
A Providence Dandy, —A correspondent
of the Providence (R. I.) Journal lias giv
en the editor an account of the ‘stirring up*
of one of those hantmals.’ Two little urch
’ ins had come across one of them, w hose lip
] was pretty considerably shaded with dark, !
grizzly looking hair, in their travels up i
Westminster street : •
\V hat’s that?’ asked the younger lad.
‘That,’ replied the other, why that—-that j
is I dorit know what they call it, but it be
longs to the carivan.’
‘To the caravan !—why l wonder how it
got loose —perhaps it will biteV
*.N i, I guess not; poke a stick ot it and
see.’ Not at all ufraid’ the younger did run |
after it, and coolly poked a stir!, at it.
•You impertinent little rascal,’ exclaimed !
the ex piisitc, turning suddenly round; ‘tie- |
sist, or I’ll chastise ye ! datn’ine, il I will
not!’
Hey !’ criek the astonished urchin ;
•Hiary!—yea vnu low, vulgar, ill lurn. i
! illiterate sramp I'll übs ju.italize you in an
I instant !’ and rasing hi* foot too suddenly
to effect hi* purpose, a* ill luck would have
it, seam gave way and one leg of bis pan
tnlooii* was entirely ripped apart.
‘Burst hi* boiler.’ burst hi* boilet! scream
ed the lads, and away thev scampered.
The best of the joke was, three ladies
stopped by the tv a. and witnessed the
whole affair, apparently with much gratiti
i cation.
Editor Courier & Enquirer : —I send you
here with the copy ofa piper found on the j
shore of the East river, at Throgg’s Neck, j
| enclosed in a small phial, on the 2‘.)lh of last i
month, which I request the favor of you to
publish.
The brig William Sc Mary, of Norfolk,
Virginia, was wrecked on the 22 I Febuaty,
|n|<, near the middle of the Atlantic, ntr
: her wav to Liverpool, I, William M. Jones,
the-Captain, being the last man left on;
i board, mote this; if any one gets it he will \
, conler a great favor on niy friends, by
; publishing it in the Richmond Enquirer,
e iite lat Richmond, V#., or if he cannot
alflml to publish If, tie"wili request the fa
vor iirEoiiio one who can. I enclose a lock
of my hear for my friends : the tinder will
j please give it them, if called for.
Fours, dt; MITCH EL SMITH.
White Slone, Augull Ist, 15(39.
Good Feeling. —The sheriff of Watren
county, Mi. recently seizing property for
debt, the owner leveled a gun ami snapped
it at him. While lie was re-capping, the I
sheriff tired and wounded him with several j
buckshot, in (he side, and then took his
weapon from him. After the fray, w hile his
| assistants were packing up the plunder, the
sheriff and the debtor sat down, the Vicks
burg Sentinel says, ‘and had a long and i
friendly chat on politics, and matters and
j things in general’
Bite ofa Cat. —lt is stated i;i the Boston !
Medical Journal, that the bite of an enra-:
ged cat will produce violent specie* ofi
hydrophobia, in illustration of which the
following’ instance is.giving ;
“ A milkman having remarked a cat of- j
ten coming to steal the milk in his dairy,
lay in wait for it. and attacked it with a ‘
i hatchet. There was a considerable con-j
test, until at last, the cattinable to avoid a
blow, lejped at the man and seized hitn by
the chin, whence there was no possibility
of detatehing it, sav® by cutting offits head,
j The patient was carried to die hospital,
and the preventatives of hydrophobia ap
vlied. On the22d day the fatal spmptoms
made their appearance ; he experienced
match difficulty in swallowing water, but
this he overcame w ith great fortitude , the
; difficulty increased; the wound became bed;
the patient grew furious, endeavored to
bite every one that conic near him,
bound in chaines, and immediately broke
them in pieces, leaped from bed, ran up
and down the hospital, attempting to bite
ail he met; till reaching the outer door, in
order to escape, he was seized with a shiv
! cring and fell dead. On dissection the ap
; pcarance of this case was precisely the same
as those of hydrophobia.
The Harrisburg Keystone says—Gov. Por
j ter has sufficiently recovered from his inois
; position at Hotiidavsburg, to resume his jour
| ney to the Bedford Springs.
Pcff Paste. —The chief cook at the United
States Hotel, Saratoga, receives, it is said,
SS'O per month for his services.
The Governor of Missouri in a Scrape.
—A good story is told of Gov. Hoggs;
“By the ordinances of the City of Jeffer
son, discharging a pistol within the city
- limit* is punishable by fine. The Govcrn
jor broke this law and was hauled up he
j fore the mayor, and lined five dollar*. The
; Gorernor protested—contending tnat he
I had the jiowcr to remit the fine. The May
-1 or denied thi* doctrine, and was about pre
| paring a mittimus to lodge the Governor in
J jail, when some of bis friend* forked over
and released live dignitary from “ durance j
’ vile.” As their is no precedent in the books
we commend this rase to the attention of
| jurists.”
Power ofa Sword Fish. — Wc yesterday
had the pleasure of inspecting a piece of wood,
, cut out of one of the fore plank* ofa vessel, the
Priscilla, from Pernambuco, now in this port,
through tAiich was struck about eighteen in
ches of the sword fish. How it came there
need not to be explained. The force with
winch it must have been driven in afford* a stri
king eimpltfic tuon of the power and ferocity
of the fish. The spot in which the vessel was
struck wa* about half way between the cotn
urencem -nt of the coppering and keel. Pene
trating the copper, the sword had mad-.- its wav,
first though the outer plank of Scotch iarch,
three inches and a hah in thicknes, then, tra
versing an open spaceof ten or twelve inches,
it had encountered another plank of oak, and a-1
bout four incite* in thickness, which was also
ptereed. the point of the sword coining clean
through to the other side. What renders this
feat the more surpstsiiig is, that the Priscilla is
quite anew vessel, this having been her first
voyage. Capt. Taylor, her commander, slates ,
that when near the Azores, as he was waiting i
the quarter deck at night, a shock was felt ■
which brought all hand* front below, under the [
impression that the ship had touched upon a]
rock. This was no doubt, the time when the j
occurrence took place. A great number of
whales bad been playing about the vessel the |
day before, and it i* probable that the sword fish,
which is a deadly enemylo the whale, had ‘mis
taken the Priscilla for one of the objects to
which it was in chase; in other words, it had
thought Iter “very like a whale.” On the pas
sage home Ihe vessel was observed to leak a
great deal, on which account, after discharging
her cargo, she was hauled into the Graving
Dockland, having yesterday undergone an
examination, the discovery was made a* to
what had happened. The plank had been
I split a* well a* pierced, as that, (hough tl.e
; sword remained in the aperture il had made,
! i*. ‘.vs-inot sufficient entirely to keep out the
j water. — Ltieerpaol Courier.
The Use ofStectaclfs.—The last number
j of the Boston Medical and Burgical Journal has
t the following remarks, in reference to the use j
|of spect.ieles. They are ‘'important if true,’’ |
j and we see no reason to doubt their accuracy: i
•It i* one of the gros* mistakes of approach- j
i mg age. that people at such limes imagine a j
j iiecc.-sity for spectacles, when, in fact, in
! eighty case* out of a hundred, the eyesight is
j positively injured by them.-. If we temper
with our eyes and interpose glasses between
I the cornea and tho object, a re modification ami
I re-adjustm mt of the parts w ithin neceasa nly
follow—aud when this new arrangement has
! once been established it is no easy matter to
restore the organs to their former primitive
condition. Age bring* with it a relaxation of
the tension of all the tissues, and the eye suf
fers temporarily- with the entire system, but
soon reacts, having within its own constitution
a principle of adaptation, according to the cir
cumstances, habits and condition of the indi
vidual.
From forty-five to fifty, a period when glas
ses are t rroncwasly supposed indispensable,
were they not resorted to at all. although there
baa defective vision at the former focal dis
tance, tn reading, for example, the sight would
soon begin to improve, and finally, to all intents
i and purposes, m a majority ofinstanecs, would
lie re-establish’ a- It is a law, and strange it is
I that it* indication* are not more observed, that
j the eye. at every period of life, will accommod
ate itself to the wants and necessities of the
individual—provide I it is not artificially de
ranged. Imperfect vision, the evils of near
sightedness, and the misfortune of not seeing
distinctly in old age, were never heard of as
being universal tiil opticians had. become nu
! merim*. . Wc do not deny the utility ofspeetn
| eles after th'-y have been once resorted to; but
i we perfectly agree with Dr. Willaee in say ing
: that they are rarely net djllffly. Near-sighted
’ children are often kept in that state though
j life by being early furnished with concave
| spectacles.—Withhold them altogether, and
| the. eye would, in exuei obedience to the laws
of its organization, adapt itself to the labor re
quired. But when the glasses are once put
on, they must ever after be retained.
Incalculable injury has been the result of
the fashionable folly of weiring quizzing glas
ses. Both gentlemen and ladies in the spring
tide of youth, whose eyes are without a siu
i gle defect, peep through these useless append
ages of supposed gentility, till a permanent and
j incurable difficulty ensues, which time has no
j power to corieet, which consists in a want of
! agreement in the focus of the two organs—
Unless the surface on which the image imping
es on the retina perfectly agrees in both eyes,
there will be distorted and indistinct vision—
such as this kind of objector prospect glasses
produces.”
A llistorial Anecdote.— lt is said that
some months befoie the eccentric and bru
tal Paul, Uzar of Russia, was murdered by
j his palace, he gave his eldest son, Aiexan
| der, leave to ask any favor he thought pro-
I per, promising to accord it lo him. The
; young Archduke, begging that his father
i would not be offended, thus nobly express
; ed himself : “ I request, sire, that any ver
; bal order against anv subject may not be
i put into execution until four and twenty
; hours shall have elapsed.” This was a se
vere rebuke to the tyrant, whose caprice,
ill-temper, and unjust nets are matters of
history. Nevertheless, he granted the bold
request of his son, aud confirmed it by proc
lamation.
From Canada.—Trouble* will never ceasin
Canada. By advices from Cobourg to the 29th
of July, we learn that several persons from this
side have been captured at Cobourg. complete
ly armed for some desperate enterprize. One
of the number revealed the piot. which was to
murder the more prominent of the royalists.
Among the prisone is said to be S. P. Hart,
editorofthe ••LewistonTelegraph.” The rev
elation of the plot caused quite an excitement
at Cobourg. There are said to be many more :
engaged in the same enterprize, who are yet |
at large in the province. Premeditated assas-!
sination. whatever may be the pretext, will find ;
few apologists in any civilised country. They j
were to murder the Bouldens and R. Henry,
and rob the bank.
The Norfolk Beacon says—“Mr. Hen
ry Alarkley, of this place, held a public sale
of morus multicaulis trees on Wednesday
last. We are informed that trees hrouffht;
from 35 to 55 cents.
t miMERUIAL. I
Ni.w York. August 20.
Bunk Note* Exchange.
N. York Safety Fund, 1-9
Peniitylvau.a, u.-.r a 2 1-4 <1 is
Maryland, 1-2 a 3-4 Baltimore 1-9 ”
Virginia, 1 1-2 Richmond Ia 1-2 ”
N. Carolina, 3a3 l 4 3a 3 1-2 ”
Georgia, 4 a 5 Savannah, 3 ”
8. Carolina, 9a 9 1-9 Augusta, 4a & “
Florida, 13 a 21’ Cnarlraion 3 “
Alabama, K> aIS Apalachicola, 20 ”
lavaiaiana, 2 1-9 a 3 jLiile, It al2 “
Kentucky, 5 a C New Orleans, 4 “
Tjnneaare, 7 a 8 lami.v ille, 4 ”
Mlatiaaissippi, 15 al7 Nah*iUe, 4a 6 ”
.Vfiuotri, 5 a 6 Natchez, 26 ”
Ohio, 5 a 6 Si. Louis, 5 ’’
Michigan, no **je Cincinnati, 4 ”
Indiana, 5 a 6 Detroit, 4 a 5 “
Illinois, 4 a 5 2 1-2’
The two great evils which have been the ac-
tive cause of this great derangement of the ex
change* are, the indebtidness of uearly all
points to New York, and the depreciation of
the currency of all the si t e south and west
of us, as compared with the New York stan
dard. These evils are now to be remedied,
and one of the greatest difficulties in the way
of a iarge fall business, the derangement of
the exchunges, will be removed’ The first
cause, which is the indebtedness in favor of
New York, will be canceled much earlier
this season than almost ever before. Already
ha< the new’ crop appeared in the southern
markets. At New Orleans,on the 6th instant,
i -ix bales were received, and sold at from 12 J
to 15 cents lo northern spinners.—The staple
| was such as to promise well for the coming
crop in tiiat quarter. This receipt is 22 days
’ earlier than an v that reached market last year.
J Ywo bags of Georgia cotton have also reached
i market.
Bui a short lime must, therefore, eiaps be
i fore the b dance of trade in favor of Nswr York
i will be largely reduced, and if the proceeds of
! the crop are applied to the redemption of their
I outstanding paper, the states of financial affairs
will be rapidly improved. But if the recom
mendations of the great ‘‘holding couvcntlou”
are lo be rule of action, much difficulty and
disaster* must ensue. The great tnuss ol south
ern poet notes, stocks, bills, and paper of alt
kind*, would have been much reduced had not
the banks of that section, instead of applying
the proceeds of their crop lo the redemption of
their floating paper, made il the basis of fresh
pneha >es of cotton, aud fresh issue* of float
ing paper. This policy led to depeciatiou in
soitthi-rfl p iper to an extent which, o far from
leaving them a profit on the crop tow ards ex
tinguishing the old d>*bt, has rather increased
it.
The bank* have sustained an immense loss
in the fall in price, winch the stock now on
hand in Liverpool i likely to sustain. The
banks and dealers, backed by banks, generally
advanced at the rate of 15 cents per pound,
! while the present stock will, at the best, not
| bring over 10 cents. The difference will stand
! a* follows :—The amount on hand at Liver
! pool, according to our last date*, was 470,000
uaies.
470 (1 bales, or 188,400,000 lbs ,
at I > is .... $28,260,000
” ” ’’ tOcts., 18,8-10,000
Levs, s'J4vO,ooo
Toe loss on exchange and protested paper
will be much larger than litis amount. .In*
loss is, however, a very trifle when com
pare I with the immense loss the planters and
consumers generally have eiiUurcd in the high
price* of merchandise and produce of other*
states, winch w re caused by the redundant
currency attendant upon the immense cotton
advanced ot the banks. The whole southern
people have contracted an immense bank,
debt for which their cotton is answerable,
while the proceed* of that debt did not yield
them in supplies within 2'J per cent of the
un nit lor which their crop is held, for the
, reason that those supplies are furnished front
1 New York anl other states where the curren
j cy is less it)darned, and* therefore, much more
valuable that) that which the southern offers in
peytmut. The people of the south set in
now to havedi*covered this s tet, and tile bank*
of that scctioiiTire rapidly reducing the circu
lation in ire n -arly to the New York standard.
The policy of the bfiliOirrii hanks should be
contraction and economy for a long time to
eom New York and the eastern states do
uoto re it;,.re than they can pay, if they can
r'tfltse their astelS. V* heir, however, a heavy
debtor, like the south and west, purchases
goods season after season, and when the crop
is ready for market atiemptstohold it aud pay
the norther i creditor in post notes, and that
vv.thout prospect of final settlement, and in
the mean time the foreign creditor of the New
York importer is clamoring for his pay, it is
full time for our banks to force settlements
by aH means in their power. This they have
done by steadily contracting and keeping the
circulation as near a specie standard a* possi
ble. The coinptaiuu of lightness in the mon
ey market front every quarter of the south are
now the sure, evidence that the cure is about to
‘be effected by curtailment at every point, un
til the currency of the whole Union is once
mors uniform. Our posilitn w ill then be good
—a uniform currency, and large crop com
ing uaturlly to market, and the prcceeds ap
plied :o its legitimate purposes, nothing will
be wanting beta regular system of settling
balances pro aptly and often, to preserve the
uniformity of the curiency, and prevent the
over expansions of speculative I anks.
The Cincinnati banks are rigidly pnr. uing
the policy of demanding prompt settlements’
The. immediate consequence is a depreciation
in Ohio country bank paper of2a3 per cent.
—Th* result, if persevered in, w ill be a uni
form and healthy currency. The process ren
ders money so scarse that five percent per
month his been given for money on good
notes in Cincinnati. The dements of prosperi
ty are rapidly reorganising themselves.
Captain Eldredgc, of the ship Margaret
Scdtt, which arrived at New York on the
Bth inst., from Liverpool, reports that he
saw the steamer British Queen and Great
S Western, on the 3d instant, at 7A. M., it)
■ lat. 403 R. ion. C 45 30, distant from Saui/yr
Hook 375 niles, very calm at the time, bswli
going on in fine style—the Briiish Queeu
about 12 miles ahead.
Dr. Dyolt's Case—no new triad. —The
decission of the Court of Criminal)! Sessions,
on the application for anew trial in the
ease of Dr. T. W. Dyott, was given on Sat
urday last by Judge Conrad. The opuaiun
of the learned Judge uras brief, but sosmd,
able, analytical, and appeared to cover the
whole ground, both as regards the lavs aid
the facts in this important case. The mo
tion for a acw trial was over ruled ;amu we
; learn tnat the Doctor will be brought up on
Saturday next, to receive sentence.—/5f07.
: Enq.
i. ‘ .
One of our neighbors, who is oftentimes
particularly thirsty, accounted for the foet
on the ground (hat he was record on salt
ssh !
“Du make yourselves at'heme ladies,'’
said a female to her visitors, o&e day. “I’m
; a: home myself and-wish you all were.