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I'he Slave Trade. —A letter ti it-
Ri.. J neiro says —‘ Slave; vessels
jirriv every tlay or two from the
coast of Africa, with full cargoes of
ironi two hundred and fifty to three
and four Hundred negroes. A day
or two since, I saw a drove ot them
onshore for sale, with a little white
hov driving them along Ike street, a
they drive sheep in jmr country.
The negroes are driven to a market,
and tried, to see that they are sourn:
in limb and body. They are sold
fr>r from two to t rce hundred dol
lars each.
“ It was certainly a heart-rending
sig t; and when I beheld the poor
negroes on shores performing all
kinds of labor, even such as our hoi
ses and oxen are accuAonied to d<
at home, I rejoiced that the human
laws of the United States furnish um
own slaves with such a comparative
ly happy lot.”
General A! xnnder Srtfvth. of V
ginia. has offered himself a- a.cam
date for Congress,- —‘ under tl.
sense of the duty which he ow e-, i
his country at this crisis.” llow pa
triotic !
m
A Society ha.-- been formed i-
Wales to promote matrimony E
member binds himself to be married
within a year
Author of the Waverly Novels.
It is with no orilinary degree o
satisfaction, says the York Spec
tator, that we announce Mie fact that
Sir Walter Scott, has coni' ssetl him
self to be the entire and sole author
of the Waverly Novels. The secret
was directly and finally divulged at
the Edinburgh Theatrical Fund Din
ner, on Friday the 27th of February
In reply to his health being propose I
by Lord M. adowb.mk.
Progress of Steam —A few years
since the Paragon, then the swilt
est steam-boat on the Hud on, mad.
her passage from Albany to N. York
in twenty-seven hours, which w.i
pronounced a “ remarkably short
one ; now there are two boats cjn
the river, which perform the dis
tance m about" twelve, hours. Ihe
New York Enquirer says — ‘ perhaps
nothing can-place in a stronger point
of view the velocity of these boat
than the fact, that when they are at
the top of their speed, and are going
in opposite directions, they will pas
each other at the rate ot a mile m
two minutes, hging a degree ot switt
ness rarely witnessed even on a race
course !”—JV*. Y. paper.
Baltimore, April 25,
The British brig Itob Hoy, which
arrived at this port yesterday morn
ing from Jamaica, was ordere I by
the Collector to depart w ithin twen
ty iuui hours, agreeably to the Pre
sident’s proclamation the -
tions from the Treasury Department.
Blockade of Buenos Ayres —The
imperial squadron apnear to have
committed great irregularities in en
forcing the blockade, and the Brazil
ian tribunals have made some very
severe decisions as to vessels and
their cargoes sent in for adjudication,
placing the proof of innocence on
the captured, &.c. Th se things
will not he allowed ; and, so far a
the citizens and property ot the 1..
Stales are cone rued, th “proce
dure will be correct and ” But the
presence of our vessels ol war on the
station has prevented many excesses.
Ollier nations or states having less
baergy or means, appear to have
coen shamefully used.
Mexico —The London Timm?,
says that Prussia has lollowed the
example of Great Britain and the U.
States, and signed a commercial trea
ty with the new Mexican republic
Thus, one by one, the links which
formed the ponderous chain ot tin
holy dliauco given way under their
own feet.
Th<» phases
this F.rlips- ni
Re Un- el si i
f am the 9ubji i.
ed figure .- let
lesser concenti
rirc. C, represi i.\
the Earth's sl-au
aw,thronah son *
riarlion if which
the Moon passes
in Tier eclipse.
The smaller
.circles 11, U, and
K, represi nt the
position of the
Moon at the be
eiijning, middle,
and end of - In E
elipse. 1 he -pace
ti K, is the eclip
tic ditierence, or
that part of the
orbit which
is intereeptci; be
• lin ti • «sos
her orbit and the
, cl tl- .. ip-
Tb di-fa le
from H to E. ly •
ing in tliv c .!ih’s
shadow, Ibrougl
which ihe iiioi ii
p isses from >he
beginning to l!
end oftiwecii -<
is, by compi.
tion, about <
geographic m
At the noil
the moon t.
J ' 'j- 1 V*
Fy. 2-
We bavc an article on lilt*, *prepar and at some
leu-, h, on the phenomena and method ol com u
ting the phases o a Lunar Eclipse, with precepts
sos predicting their occurrence lor any number of
years or centuries'o come, it is too lengthy to
appeal in this paper; we therefore select only the
ELEMENTS .LYD PIUSES OF THE
MOOJY 8 ECLIPSE.—May ! I th, 1827.
visible throughout this hemisphere.
IX 11. M. 9.
1 True time of Full Moon, A. M. 11 2 50 00
2. Moon s True Latitude at the
s me moment, N. Increasing, 29 ‘5
.3. Moon's reduced Latitude, 28 5G
4, Mdon s Horizontal Parallax, -GO 52
5. Nun’s Horizontal Parallax, 9
G. Moon s Senndiameter, 1G 35
7. Sun’s Semidiameter, 15 52
8. Moon s Horary motion in Longitude, 37 26
9. Sun’s Horary motion in do 2 25
10. Moon s Hor. mot. from the Sun in do. 35 1
11. Moon’s Horary motion in Latitude, 3 28
12. Semid. of o’s Shadow at the Moon, 45 10
13. Semid. of ©’s Shad, -f Semid of© G 1 45
14. Semid. of o’s Shad.—Semid. of © 28 35
15 L of © s visible path with Ecliptic, 5° 39 14
These Elements having been accurately computed
from the best tables extant, we derive the phases of
F,-om the Christian Watchman, April it).
Death of Mrs. Judton in India.
By the arrival j! the brig Mars,
from Calcutta, Capt. Titcoiub, lot
days from Sami Heads, we hate tin
,litres ii.g nit liig nee ol the dcati
of Mrs. Judson Hev Mr. Yates,
of the English Baptist Mission at
Calcutta, who came passenger in
'the Mars, is the hearer of letters
giving this information. He is on
\ isit to our shores tor the recovery
of his health,’much impaird by re
peated attacks of fever. Mrs. Ju.i
-on died about the 2U!i or 25th o.
October, hut the attendant circum
stances ar not particularly known
Some of them are stated in the let
; r below, kindly furnished tor onr
paper by an obliging friend. Prev.-
ously to Mrs Judson’s illness, Mr
Judson had departed for Ava, wit
the British Commissioners, as then
interpreter. He had agreed to ac
ompany them at their sotieitatio .
m the hope of prevailing oh the Em
peror ot Burmah to consent to la
tree exercise ol the Christian reli
gion is his dominions. It was n
probable that Mr Judson was mu
acqtia nted with his loss till the
of December, orbegining ol Janus
We learn further* by the Rev. Mi.
Y <tes, that in the church at Calcm
la, of which he is Pastor, 3U were
aided in the last year. 11l- place is
supplied for the present by two
brethren in th ministry recently
from England, and by the occasional
labor- of Rev Mr. B ardman, who
with Mrs Roardman is still in Cal
cutta. Mr. Mrs. lluugh are also
m the city.
A stiorl time before Mr. Yates It* t
Calcutta he had the pleasure
-cemg'the venerated D . Carey, win
enjoyed uncommon health, and win
was able to perform his xccustomen
labors, and to preach with great ai
ceptance. The College at S ram
pore was in a prosp rous state.
There are in the city o C leutta
including the church at Fori Wit
11 in, seven Protestant ctiurchc ,
lour of the English Establishment,
iwo of the Baptist and nomination al
one of the Scotch Presbyterian*.
.The circulation of the Bible in 1
|,a, and the increasing means ol ug
rury and religious information, aQ
operating, though jttlwitly, a fliC
Hae tibirrunt .rtes, pacisquc inurum, pajjpre suhjectis et deueltarc 3upcibo j Kail..
Mil* rdgevuie, "Monday, Mvy l s , T 827.
•
the Moon s Eclipse as follows :
Millrdgevitle, May , 1827. D. KM. S.
Eclipse begins 11 1 16 32 H M
Darkness increases for te * 1 33 23 “
of clips*, “ 250 00 “
Ecliptic Difference, “ 4 54 “
Ecliptic i 'pposition, “ 254 54
End of Eclipse, “ 423 23 “
Whole Duration, “ 3 GSG “
Digits Eclipsed, “ 11 52 28 “
This clipse will be so nearly total that if tin
whole face of the 'loon, were divided into
equal parts, only three of them wouldbe visible above
the darkness of the earth s shadow.
The Phenomenon ol a l unar Eclipse is too well
understood to need explanation —from the- Earth
there projects into the open expanse, opposite to
the Sun, an enormous Shadow lar exceeding tK«
distance of the moon from the earth: Through this
shadow, if not above or "below if, the moon passes
at a certain period in every lunation; that is, at
every Full Moon. The size, or diameter of the
earth’s shadow at the **noon, varies with iter Geo
centric distance. As the moon can never be longer
than ;h. 5 in. sec. in passing through its centre,
nor less time than three h. > m Jtisec., it follows
that*tl;e diameter ol this shadow at the moon s dis
tance from the earth, varies from 23< i to GQ2 >
jniles ; supposing the mean motion ot the Moon from
the Sun, to he 1 j j 4 Geographic miles perh9ur.
wonderful moral renovation in that
ext nsive country. she uniform
influence of literature and science i
ine destruction o idolatry, even
vhere .he Christian religion is no!
embraced. One instance not long
-nice occurred, in which a Hindoo
ol large property, the owner of an
dol temple, removed the abomina
tion from the building—destroying
lie idol, and and. moiishitigtrie ferti
le. The circumstance produced in
he vicinity a great excitement.
The Hindoo c ollege in Calcutta,
wholly supported by the native.-,
i- indirectly doing n uch good, b.
cattering information. Its numb ■
of students is believed to excee
20U; and although the principle- • ,
Cliristiamtv are not acknowledged
tite literature and science which tin
-liihlistim- iit teaches, art; favora
Ale to civilization, and calculated !•
bring idohnry into the most perfect
contempt.
J sa Grevillii, or GrevilU’s China
Rose.
[The enterprise and perseverano
plaved bv Mr Prince, is almo
•reilibl . Ills e tabhshinei.t do<
it- way, much credit to our cou
T
Roses. —Perhaps among all l
'tomshmg productions of the veg.
i ible kingdom, ihere is not one mo
remarkable than a rose recently i
troducetf mto Europe and tiiis cou
try from China, and thus descriU
hi London’s Gardener’s Magazm
and puhlisbed at London :
“ It isa Grevillii, or Greviile’s C
na Rose. —The shoot ot this ro
grew eighteen licet in a few week
•nd is the most singular ol tlie ro
| be that ever came under my of
••r vat ion. It now covers about oi
lUndred teet square, with more tti
huudr and tru'-es ol dowers —son
• fthese have more tnau fifty bu
n a cluster, and tho whole will av
ge about thirty in a truss ; so ti
ie amount oi llower buds is litt
-s than three thousand. But is
► ost astonishing curiosity i- the v
t ty of colours produced on the bn-i
first opening—white, ligld-blu i,
, per--blush, light-red, dark-re
arlet ami purple, all on the sam
Tms rose grow* in th
■pßiner of the Multiflora, hut is eu-
WJu-owd by thu wujcu 1 1> jcut
iches -hi' and
dmv represi
1 by thi; tar^
;> r c ri-l" C.
I*. • ->-
ii travelling from
I .0 a
the eclipse -
p ic small cin
'•i. G, represi n
• le situation m
•be raoun at tin
i-imcnl of grrat
-t obscuration
vet as this cri
graving was n
originally design
ed tOOjh'Nt th
phases of tl**f re
seut eclips--, the
sin ill crescent®
which reaches a
bove the earth's
shadow, is e\eu
too large by near
ly one digit, or a
twelfth of then’s
diam ter. *
At the point E,
the © wholly e
tuerges from her
obscurity, bright
er lor her mourn
ing, upuu whose
fair orb, fur the
spate of THREE
toURS and ssv-
T LIINUTES, the
-ii had refused
s beams.
larger and more rugose than the
common Mult ill ra ”
This rose has been introduced in
fo tlie United States, and we are in
formed that about filtv plants are
now in the possession of Mr. Prince,
•>f Long island. Among other roses
peculiarly beautiful and ot lecent in
troduction, is the single white-Multi
floru. the double white* evergreen
Multiflora, or Bahksian rose. The
number of China roses* at* pres* nt
cultivated jn the collections at Long
land, exceed ninety varieti s; and
•f roses of all the diff rent species,
! he number of varieties exceed six
hundred.—A*. Y. paper.
DOMESTIC WINE.
A farmer near Dayton, Ohio, made
ast tall thirty barrels of wine from
he wild gr.ip ; one living near
Germantown, made one hundred bar
els. Most ofthis was made of mid
iie siz and blue grape, less than the
’ape. Here is a field of enterprise
he most unbounded and sure in pro
fitable result. The native vine,
v mil cultivated, produces in increas
• 1 abundance and improves in Iln
ur; market price sls per barrel.—
ii.cinnj.tli Western Tiller.
The woman of sensibility, who
o-erves serenity, and a good toni
■r amidst the insults of a faithless
■id brutal husband, wants nothing
an angel but immortality.
From the Augusta Chronicle.
The newspapers generally,through
it the State are beginning to break
i ju id upon the subject ot the next
iuhermitorial election, but whether
r no*. tUfre will be a warm contest,
, in fact, any contest at all seems
>b a matter of some - little doubt
> .me of the Troup papers contend
iat there will be no opposition,& a
•y are well aware that Col Camp
-11 is acandidate.they may possibly,
the* Macon Telegraph intimates,
under the impressions that Mi.
•orsyth will withdraw his preton
lons. if indeed it can he fairly saei
hat he has any or, at least, that he
as ever advanced them, il he ha
Ve do not know (hat lie is actuali
. candidate, for w.* believe his mini
is not, as yet, been*announced a
i 11. ‘Tis true that “ various r.
orts are :o jCireulatiaa," and voim
[Vol. 11. &o. No. 71.
if the Federal papers have spoken
>1 him as a candidate : but wiieth*
ney have authority for so ,dom
-e do not knotv, and we have som
oubts that many of th • citizen- o
this State will consider him a fair
candidate, “ on what they consider
unquestionable authority.” And
h ykhavc also lauded him to the
-kies for virtues which we humbly
Qjnceivc are to be discerned only
through the medium of their own
party mirror, and have loudly and
boisterously talked of “ his superior
claims” which they have not shewn,
.aid which they must be sensible are
admitted only by themselves Bui
till this docs not prove that he is a
candidate. They m ly, if they please,
advance the “ superior claims” ol
the Great Mogul, the Cham of Tar
tary, or the three tailed Bashaw ol
Tunis; and “let them talk;” bat
we shall not waste words upon such
matters. We too, might speak of
"claims” which will bear a compari
son even with those “superior” ones
ofMr. Forsyth, and which may be
urged in opposition to them, it oc
casion requires it; but at present it
were w orse than useless, as, “ for
reasons we have before stated, and
which appear to us to be sound, we
think there will be no opponent to”
Col. Campbell.
The last Constitutionalist ii dread
fully offended that any one should
have presumed to provi? tiiat Mi
Forsyth is a Federalist , and affe<
lo believe it impossible; but at the
one time like a cautious General,
tak s care to secure a safe retreai.
n case of accident, by endeavorm
lo prove, by an extract from tl.
Southern Recorder, that ' Southern
Federalists were good Republicans."
The Troupiles fiave already becoftn
ensible that Mr. Forsyth’s political
character will not bear the test ol
-crutiny, and consequently begin L
•rtify themselves lor the defence oi
weak parts. It will not be for'
,"tten what sticklers they, and par
icularlythe Constitutionalist, have
been for the name of Republicans,
ay bandying about the words “ lte
iiblicun party” &c &c. on all occa
-lons ; yet now that their Magnus
Ajidlo s about being .proved to be
a rank Federalist, they are beginning
t i make 4 hold def-tice of Federalism,
bv an attempt to shew that “ South
r» Federalists are good Republicans. "
-—And these ar the staunch soiili
sant Republicans! that turned ifp
their noses at the very name of Fed
eraii ui ! Faugh! The late enqui
ries into the political career of Mr.
Forsytln have kicked up a consider
able dust iq the wigwams of these
immaculatcs, and the late “signs of
thq times” look very ominous among
them. However, we would advise
them not to show such visible signs
of alarm so soon, or they will ere
long be literally scared into hyster
ics for the evidence as yet scarcely
entered into. Yes. Ys 1 they may
well be alarmed, when they recollect'
(he precious documents which mark
the winding footsteps of’ their politi
cal hero. But have a little patience
gentlemen. “ Keep cool” arid wail
for tbe documents ; unless indeed y»
are really seriou- in your defence oj
Federalism , and if so, why bring them
forward yourselves, and rely upon ii
there will be no difficulty in provin,.
Mr. Forsyth a rank Federalist at
heart* Perhaps you Tiave also go
Ins celebrated speech respecting the
save Us the trouble of publishing
that too. If you feel disposed to
take this stand, depend upon it there
will he no want of the “ raw mate
riel,” for we tiave a goodly portion
of it entirely at your service ; but ii
the weight of this duty is thrown uj>-
on ourselves we shall “ bide our
time.”— lb.
From the A', w York American.
The doctrine of non committals, so
much urged at present by the Argus,
i- a favourite one of Mr. Van Buren,
and means, when duly interpreted,
that until his arrangements are all
matured, he pr fers that the state of
New-York should withhold its opin
ion. In the last contest lor Presiden
cy. this was precisely the game ol
Mr. Van Buren. While all the oth
cr states in the Union were discuss
ing with warmth and earnestness the
merits of the various candidates be
fore the people, Mr Van Buren per
onally, and through his Argus, dis
suaded from such Ji-cu-sions—lhey
were premature; they were unneces
,jrv; thev were mischievous, as ten
ting to divide brethren of the sa~ie
lith. .This language was held by
his astute senator up to the very
ve of his departure from Washing
on at the close of session previous
. that in which the minority caucus
i ide its nomination; and on his pari
was held in good faith, b -cause, u,
* that time, he had not made up
I »u> OWO iWfld or what perk,Mgs tnav
[OR $4 IF NOT PAID IN SIX v 'ONTH3.
lie considered m his case a syuoui
mous phrase, mad his own bargain.
Beiore leaving Washington, howev-*
er. he had, for the first time, a con
fidential personal interview with Mr.
Crawford, in which all his doubts
were resolved. He came forth from
it, a decided partisan of that gentle
man, an 1 immediately the seals thafc
were upon his lips, and upon the col
umns of the Argus, were broken; and
they spoke out unalloyed,
southern doctrines. From that mo
ment, the indiscretion and danger ot'
prematerc committals vanished-and
M w York, with her million and u
half ol freemen, was under the suf
ferance! and by the order, of Mr.
Van Buren, permitted to think and
-peak, provided her thoughts and
-peecli were of the orthodox Virginia
-tamp.
The same course exactly is now
pursuing. The Senator is on a tour
at'reconnaissance to the South, on re
turning from which, and having as
certained how, in nautical phrase,
ihe land lies, he will be prepared
again to issue his mandate, and all
ihe believers will be required to
obey This is the true ant! only in
terpretation of non-committals; and
w!k n thus explained, is there a free*
man who* deserves the name, that
will not feel his indignation rising
against such a doctrine and practice?
Fur to what does it lead? We talk
of ours, as a g vernment of the peo*
pie—vet the people are told‘from
authority, that in a question of the
most vital importance to them, and
which they have the sole right of
determining, they must not inquires
I r themselves —they must not pre
maturely agitate it—they must nob''
exercise their own understandings,
hut wait till the leaders of the party
shall give out their views in all theso
matters—till the men of influence
shall have ascertained how much
their influence is worth in exchange;
and then this docile people—this
flattered, cajoled, and betrayed peo
ple, is told, this is the only republi
cs n candidate—this is the only truo
party man who will administer tho
government as a political club ad
ministers its funds, for the benefit of
the affiliated; and him, therefore,
you muA support, or the party is un
d< ne.
77te royal family of Britain. —Mr.
(lump calculated, lately, in tbe Brit
i*h house of commons, that tho
amount of the sums on the British
pension list, paid to the different ju
nior branches of the royal family,
was 234,000 pounds sterling, in ad
dition to the lb 1,200,000 for tho
king. *
Journal of Paul Jones. —A copy
■f this valuable and interesting man
u-cript, in the best of binding and
nid handsome writing, is now in
Portsmouth, N. 11. It was copied
from the original by Paul Jones him
-i If, tind presented to Loui- XVI. on
the Ist. of Jan. 1786, as win he seen
by referring to Jones* life, page 353;
and is shortly to be published, togeth
er with some correspondence relatj
mg to our revolutionary war.
Russia. —An official account states,
that in the 4 year.- from 1823 to
1826, 50,980 persons were carred oft* •
>v extremely sudden death, in tho
Russian empire :—4591 were mur
lered ; 4,687 committed suicide.
There were 664 robbers; and 11,-
318 criminals and vagabonds were
arrested; there were 11,683 fires,
by which 17G churches and convents,
4,501 dwelling houses in the town?,
and 76,029 t.ouses in the country
were reduced to ashes.
The law for the abolition of slave
ry in the state of New York goes in
to force cn the 4th of July next. A.
meeting oftlie Africans held in AN
baoy, resolved, on motion of Rev.
Mr. Paul, to express their gratitudo
by a public celebration on the day
following their jubilee.
“ Richer soil” than Rochester —A
lot of land m this tillage, on Gcuncs
see-street, a few rods above the ca
nal, eighteen feet in fi-pnt and fifty
six feet deep, was sora the other day
for S3OOO ; being at the rate of jp 16€>
Cti a foot! If we recollect aright,
the highest price for which any land
has been sold in Rochester, of which
we have received any official infor
mation, was at the rate of 151 dol
lars a foot.— Utica Sentinel.
Oroftnal Anecdote. —A schoolmas
ter in one of the neighboring towou,
while upou h s morning’s walk pas
sed by the door of a neighbor, who
was excavating a log for a pig's
trough. ‘ Why,’ said the scholmas
ler,' Mr. , have you not furni
-urc enough yet 1 !’ ‘Yes,’ said the
-nan, ' enough for my owu famiiv.
ut I expect to hoard the master
Ids wiutcr, and an arakiag mefigpa,
liotg, 1