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g _ _ 1T”T > --- r ‘ Tln ~ :m “-t —<3s* • -■ - F*) T4i V O n. trni. 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.