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fife * FOREIGN SCLAVS, Turin, April IS.—His Britannic majesty’s brig- Calypso. Vhich sailed from Algiers on the 6tu and arrived at Ge noa the 11th' inst. haS brought to our court news, that oil the 3d there was concluded by the intervention of tile prince regent of England a treaty of peace and perpetu al friends!lip between his majesty the king of Sardinia ‘and the Dev, of Algiers; and for this treaty no money has been paid; but it is solely due to the generous friendship of the British government, and the iniiuence of lord Ex mouth. In virtue of this treaty the commerce of Sar dinia is to be resneeted by the l)ey, his successors and subjects, in the Same manner .is the commerce of Eng- jand. The consul of his majesty is to be on the same footing, and treated with the same respect, us the consuls of other friendiy powers. The first fruit of this treaty is tie deliverance of 51 Sardinian prisoners, who have al ready arrived ,.t the Lazaretto of Genoa. Paris, . If itf 29.—Letters from Genoa of the 17th say— Eight Algerines, who had been, made slaves, have been set at liberty by the order of the government, and walk - at pleasure about Genoa. At. the smiie time, orders have been given to the port captain to receive the Algerine vessels when tnev appear in thisjiort, observing oniy the necessary measures of health. "A vessel which arrived lately at Leghorn from the Le vant, has brought the most distressing news from Smyr na. The inhabitants, harr.-ssed by the continued ill treatment of me Turkish aguiis, m.*de .an attempt to shake off the yoke of those tyrants: but they calculated Upon assistance which did not arrive, and the Turks have again acquired the ascendency. Several of the most dis tinguished iiftiubit&nts have paid the forfeit of their lives for this attem pted insurrection; others have been arrested, punished, an 1 severely fiiied; some have escaped, and -r- ftape, wftcJiis sffp^fly fortifiiid, \n wiiidft are eansL-mfiy .ept Jinriinense' quotingsof'.munitions of war, and provi sions. Beis now building villages around ins paLct3, which -an be protected by its pow-erful (batteries. His troops amount to nearly 30,cXk>, well disciplined, armed and p~id. 1’he affairs of the kingdom appear to be as well conduct ed as in‘the best organized government in the World.— 1’he king resides constantly ih- his palace of Sans Save- The last paper contains an account of the arrival at-the Cape of one of Petion’s lieutenant colonels;«(the Cheva lier Jean Louis) having surrendered himself to Iring-Heu- ry and claimed his protection. He was graciously refceiv- .sour? river is one of the, ugliest in the world;—being , .. . * i a • .1 a L - ti I 1.* _ _ _ I ... ■ a, . m 11, - 4- K ia^a tl' ed;—admitted to the grade of colonel in the houschoiu troops of tiie black knaf, and his family amply provided for. He represented ihe tyranny and cruelty ot Pen op as excessive; and enumerated -the officers who had recent ly been put to death by him. Little credit, however, ought to be attached to the reports of tale-bearers. The tlaylian gazettes bear tne motto, “Itiberty, Indepen dence, or Death.” Tne king’s arms on them do not vary much from ttiose of England;—having two Lions ram pant:—The motco on the garter, is “God, my -tight, and my Sword.” The escutcheon bears a Phanix, with die motto, “/ rise ft utn ashes.” We believe it does not comport with the pacific poll- policy of Louis 18th to attempt the subjugation of Si. Do- mingo. From the Southern Patriot. PITKIN’S AMERICAN STATISTICS. Nothing call be more grateful to the hopes of the patriot, than tlie If SipVg.^eWs^rou^a rich feSt# depth, loan arc frequentr depth” logs arc frequency dug up; and the well water mentioned “fi. r ’ . w, . A, . v*T?5b*1.. ^ I _ The same pa] unquestionably partakes of the Savor of rotten wood. From St. Cion-Ls, following the dividing ridge about one hundred and fifty miles west, the proportion f.f tim bered land to the prairie is not greater, than as one to twenty. Above that, the country gradually improves; is well timbered, has good water anil is infinitely richer lirid, of a durst chocolate colour. This country (general ly known as Boon's settlement) abounds in Salt Springs, some/of wliich are large enough turn a Mill. The Mis- vea# muddy olid meandering very much, generally throw ing all tlie bottom on, one side or the other which are commonly one mile, and not unfrequently four miles wide. There can be no just discription given of tlie fertility ofthesc bottoms;—suffice it to Say that no land under the heavens can be richer. They are uniform.y high and dry, and never inundated, lakes are very common Immediately under the bluff. which arises from this singular fact. A creek putting into the river rarely ever crosses the bottom, but winds along under the hills, expanding itself occas.onally into a lake, until it adds its mite to the river at the foot of ahill. Those lakes are not unfrenuent- Amongst the objects which attract public notice were ti'.e other day struck with the appearance of a iy s :lt and produce fish in the greatest abundance, of a verv s iperior quality: The bottoms are all well timber ed,’with black walnut, huckury, buck-eye, box-elder, pcc- con, cotton tree and pawpaw.^ The Mississippi, about the junction, is a gentle, clear stream, .bout half a mile in width; which gives it greatly tiie preference in point ofim ig..tion, but it is supposed ,, l... ... . tim niiiiilw.r zv4 K..TV1I1C .'\V* Pi*. new facilities of knowledge that are tube more unhealthy front tiie number of bayous, or re fluent currents. It will be recollected by the reader that rived at Leghorn. 4 BarssELs, May 8. In the Journal de la Belgique, of tills date, is a petition from a coachm iker at Brussels, to tne president of the Tribunal de Premier Instance, stating tliat he had sold to loriLByron a Carnage, &c. for one thousand eight hun dred and eightv-two francs, of which he has received three hundred and forty-seven francs: but that lus lord- ship, who is going a Way the same day, refuses to pay him the remaining one thousand and thirty-five francs, he begs permission to seize the carriage, &e. This being- granted, he put it into the hands pf tiie proper officer, who went to signify the above to lord Byron, and was informed by the landlord of the hotel, that his lordship Was gone without having given him any thing to pay the debt, on which the’officer seized a chaise belonging to ids lordship as securityTor the amount. Lo v no x, May - 14. Saturday’3 Gazette contains a notice, that if any person is convicted of enticing the artificers of this kingdom to go into foreign countries, he will be fined 100/ and im prisoned three months; and for the second offence fined at the discretion of the court, and imprisoned twelve montns; also for seducing any person connected with tlie manufactures of Great/Britain to settle abroad, 5 JO/ and twelve months for tiie first offence, and for he se- eond 1009/ and two ye_rs imprisonment. One of the Paris journals his published the following anecdote, to which tlie law for. suppressing divorce gives •a certain appropriateness. “In Zurich, the husbmid and ‘wife who ap.ii fora divorce on tne ground of incom patibility of humor, are shut up togetucr for a fortnight in a tower on tne l ike. They have only one ap.-rtaient, one chair, one knife, he. so that for sitting or sleeping, eating or resting, they are completely dependent on each Ollier’s complaisance. It seldom happens that they are not reconciled before tiie fortnight expires.” POPULATION, &c. OF AUSTRIA. In the Indicature, a periodical work on statistics, poli tics, and history, published at Vienna by the baron tie Lichtenstein, tliere is tiie following statistical sketch, drawn from tiie best sources, of the provinces and po- pidation of tlie Austrian monarchy as they stand since the treaty with Bavaria on the 14tii of April last: 1. Austrian states; 1. The country below the Ens, in extent 365 5-10ths square miles, with 1,048,000 inhabit ants. The cointry above the Ens including the Inniver- tel and the portions of the Hanfruckviertei, newtv unit ed, 21)8 6-lJths square miles, and 623,Odd sotus; tiie duchy of Styria, 399 square miles, and 798,100 inhabit ants; tlie d*uc,'ny of Carinthio, 19d square miles, and 378,000 souls; tiie duchy of Carniola with Idria, 190 square miles, and 377,000 smtls; the county and princi pality of the Tyrol, with the tribunal of tVeiis, and die lord ships of tiiy Voralbcrg, excepting that of VTeiler, 514 square miles, and 692,000 soms; tlie duchy of Salzburg, without the districts of Lussen, Triscndorf, Titmanning, and Wagen, fur the portions sr dated on the left bank of tiie rivers Saizacli and Saal, 162 S-ljOtiis square miles, and 164,000 souls. 2. States of Bohemia: the kingdom of Bohemia, with the districts ofEgra and Aten, 951, 4-1 Jtns square miles, and 3,203,000 souls; the ’ m~rgr«.V«te of Moravia, with the Austrian part of tlie duchy jef Siiesia, 551 8-lUtlis square miles, and 1,703,000 imiabitants. 1 Tne kingdom of Galicia, including tlie Buckovine) dauy developing themseves, to enlighten the American j the'description here given points to that small portion people on their own concerns. Tne author ot me 0 { the Missouri territory, which is now so rapidly popu- 3. and the district of Truopoi, recently re-united thereto, 1514 square mites, and 3,645,OdO souls. 4. The kingdom of Hungary, with toe provinces and districts of the kingdom, of Sciavonia and Croatia, 4112 square mil A, and 7.900,000 soms. 5. The grand duchy of Transylvania, with its annexed military frontier, lo46 8-lOths squal-e uiiies, and 1,665,051/ souls. 6. The kingdom of 1) dmatia, with the districts of Ragusa and Cat'ai-o, 394 square jnjjt-s, and 315,000 sou is. 7. The’ Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, divided into the governments of Lombardy and Venice, 839 4-1 Jlhs square miles, and 4,2'9d,UdG. souls. 8. The countries of tne Austrian military frontier m Croatia: the commandems of Curlstadt and Woradin, 231 square mites, and 295,000 souls. 2. The Bannat frontier, 47 3-10ths square miles, and 95,000 souls. 3. . The frontier province of Sclavonic, 135 square miles, and 230,000 souls. 4. Tr.ty Hungarian Bannat, 145 square miles, and 171,OdO souls. 5. The military fron tier of Transylvania, 137,OoO souls. Total, 12,046 sqiure miles, and 27,956,000 inhabit ants. r TRT \LS IX FRANCE. Some singular trials are going oh. in France, in the ju dicial way—nothing is more common there; than to con demn a man unheard—tins principle is cofitrary to our constitutions—and all our ideas pf j ust ice—but “they or der these things be’tter in France.” A man there is con- . demned par contumace—because he will not answer, though he is turee thousand miles away—once they car ried a joke a little further—they undertook to hang a m-n in effigy when he had been wise enough to keep ins own neck out of the noose—no doubt he must have felt a . great deal of pun from being thus nitiig in effigy! Rigault and Tnomaison were lately tried in Paris—-Ri- gault wis absent, and sentenced to death—Tnom.uson was present,-and acquitted Their-crime Was the same— but the only one whom they could.punislq they acquit- ted! sit. General Lefebvre Desnoties is flow trying in effigy in Paris—the man himself is sleeping in a sound skin in Bal timore. On the 4th July, lie ft it all tile - benefits of this security—and gave the following to.iSt: “To tiie gene rous citizens of the United States—every unfortunate stranger finds here a family and brothers.”—Richmond Compiler. From the Boston Cenlinel of July 3. HAITIAN PAPERS. Captain Nash, from Hayti, has politely favored us with the gazettes of Cape Henry to tlie 24th May. They are principally filled with well written articles on the internal affairs of Hayti; and furnish indications of a fixed resolution in its monarch and subjects to live free and independent, or perish in defendmg their rights.— These papers are constant in representing Petion (who governs in another part of the island, and who is a mulat to) as an enemy to tlie freedom of the blacks-—as being 'the'tool of France and desirous of returning under her dominion:—and as, capable of every species of crime and dissimulation. On the other hand they exhibit king Henry (Christophe) as the pattern of even' royal excellence;— as resoived to maintain the independence of Hayti—to court the commerce and friendship of all nations—to ex ercise toward them a strict impartiality;—to patronize the .arts and humanity; and make his kingdom and reign res pected for it3 strength,, resources* and love of justice.—- He has a place In the mountains, about 18 miles from the people “Onvz Branch,” merits every encomium for the quantity of statistical information which he has disseminated, but Mr. Pitkin is the firs, who has benefitted his contempo raries, with a regular statistical work on their own chon- try. This valuable publication is divided into ten diop ters, in wtiichare presented edifying views of our com merce before the revolution, and before the establish ment of tiie national government, in 1769—tne condition and progress of it since, of our expor.s, wuenier d. riv ed from agriculture, manufactures, the fijics. r tin see —our imports, tiie amount from each coin -< c re venues, expenditure, public debt, post : lie i f -biis.i- ment, tonnage, ike. To each chapter e tiinl i.c illustrative tabi.es-—lesides these, there ,.re twenty one tables of die statistics of Great Britain, winch enable the reader to compare tlie progress of the two rivals. iVt are Happy to see that Dr. Seybcrt, tile .ibic representa tive of Pniladeipliiii, has a similar work ready for tin- press. Every investigation of such subjects, inv.n i.-biy confirms that presentiment of national grandeur much ciiaracterises the republican. Tuns, liow calculated for such ail effect, is the-following simple statement of the tonnage of vessels built in America at various periods, viz. ■Year. Tonnage. 176'J 2d.,/dl 1770 20,610 1771 24,1 .-63 13:<4 1/J, OO 1810 127,575 loll 146,691 The ensuing extract will evince the value and the in teresting nature of Mr. Pitkin's production; ['EXTRACT.] PROGRESS OF AMERICAN COMMERCE. “That the mcre.se of American tonnage lias been without example, atieastin modern times, wiiiappear, on comparing it with the increase of tlie tonnage of ottier commercial nations, are! particularly Great Britain. “ In 1581, in the reign of Elizabeth, a period so much celebrated in history, tlie tonnage of Eng land w.<s only seventy two thousand four Hundred and fifty; mi amount for less, tlt.,n is now owned in either of the ports of Bos ton, New-York, Philadelphia or Baltimore. In 1700, tlie commercial tonnage of England w«s estimated at 273 693. —In 1750, at 6o9,798, and in l.i/U, , t 1,269.329, liming lading. That is, from Si, Louis three hundred miles up, between the two livers, winch run ne..riy parallel lor one hundred miles. The wuole territory contains by computation 50o.0oo,000 acres: whereas not more than 10u,00o,0o0 Cali be said to be dcsi able. Wiiat then are the great advantages which that couri- trv possesses over \ lrgiliia, or ot other parts ox lac We tern country? New Orleans, being the grind emporium of the wes tern Worid, the Missouri has maiuf stly the advantage.— A deep navigable water, at all seasons of tlie year be- : ween four and five hundred miies nearer market tin n ii>' of tiie country east of a longitudinal line crossing at tiie fails of Ohio. The st, pie commodities of the country are, (or will be) corn, flour, beef, pork, tob-cco, ,.nd cotton: lead, furs, and poultry. It also abounds in stone coal and plas ter: .md as already st -ted, in Salt Springs. It possesses ; fertility of soil beyond comparison: and ..t such reduced prices that tlie sm 11 capitalist may cst. biisb himself li .nhsomely ;fs an agriculturalist. A salubrity of climate, eq i.J th Frederick county. The objections ire those which are common to all new countries. The w nt of good society will here- moved in a short time, als the country is rapidly popula ting- and many of the new settlers are persons of proper- f.annch.-—The i of iflcJchandue, among whick it contains the following paragraph he oner Efus, of about cnetiuiidnj tons burthen, bujilt by captain A. Stanard, was launch-s from the ship yard, at Black-Rock, on Tuesday las; __ This fine vessel ijs owned by Messrs. Grosvenors’&. cock and \V. Miller, of this village. Our country along the Canada frontier, is advanciris in population Smd prosperity as, rapidty as any ou.tr part Of the uiiionl All is life and activity, bustle and bn. siness. The ..ndient forests resound with the stroke of tlie axe, and the lands are rapidly cleared, whiie be i ti ... f.ic’ " ’ • ful villages, andlarge manufacturing establishments ris« up in places whijeh yesterday were just as nature m.,de them! It is ever with great feeling that the editor d<- lights to notice the progress of his country to the fuiT, t s s d he believes that articles on suchsi k oi her strength, ana ne Dciievestnat articles onsuchsi.b. jeets are quite as. important to ids readers, :JS acScr-pq on , of “Miss Charlotte A. Guelph’s” petticoats to the people of England and their copyists m tiie United Siates!L JViles’ Register. some Durham Boat of tlie ordinary size r ,or of ..bout vi, barrels burthen; she was not intended for frtig.it. b, * for passengers. She had a substantial rounddioust, i) feet in length by 8 in width, well fitted up with sides q painted canvas, such as stage cOathtj have; 16 or .) passengers can be tolerably accommodated in this bo. The question toihe master naturally was, from wfitn c J came you? from Schenectady; n<« interruption in tiie na vigation? none, thrall instant, at this season; we had mep. tiian enough of water fora much larger vessel. Lponj reference to Mr! Lay’s large map of tlie state of York, published in 1813, we find tiie old portage betaetp Mohawk river, a|t Rome, and Wood ci-e.k, i j -Lout fi, u , miles in length, is now made n. vigabie by a Canal ti, t large barges; so (that the tourist or traveller can Sciienecfiuy, arrive in .Montreal, witliout and return in the same m.-maf. Wi n:,.Lt tiiese r* n.a;i] on a circunistaliFe not considered a matter of winder a the United S'atts, where sc .rcely any enter;u-ize 3 looked upon as such; but wt certaniv do make t' e through a view iff letting our fellow subjects in Canid, know how far they are behind their migm. .;>• in • . nViprovemtir.s of internal navigation m a c. -mtrv i .™ possesses so many natural advautag June Jilontreal de, “-V, 1 tv .uul education. The want of a gooJsupp ilv of timber is unquestionably the greatest evil tliis country labors un der at present. COLONEL D VNIEL BOON yet living. 1 This man was the first emigrant to Kentucky, and Conti- rlererl i-s founder, A. D. 1 ” 91 / His was the first white fa mily in Kentucky. The following is an extract of a letter from an officer at Fort Osage, Missouri territory, dated April 20, 1816. “We are ordered to this post, where we arrived on the 24th of M. rch; from Beile-Fontaine, fifteen miles above St. Louis. This fort is beautiful v situated on the : bank of the Missouri river, above four hundred miles above its mouth, and on the boundary line between the 1 Missouri territory and the Indian lands not yet purchas- j ed. There are three or four small settlements on the riv er between this post and its mouth. Our nearest white little more than doubled in each half centun , from 17od i neighbors are those of Boon’s settlement, about one hun to 1800. Oil January 5tii, 1813, the British tonnage amounted to 1,579,715. The state of New-York now owns as great, and the state of Massachusetts a much 1 er • greater amount of shipping, than was owned by England a little more than a century ago. ' “ For many years past, tiie United States have owned a much greater amount of tonnage than any nation except Great Britain. About tlie year 1787, the amount of tonnage employ- j dred miies below us, near the mouth of Le Moine river, and about sixty miies above tlie moutli of the Osage riv- Tbe greater part of the country between this place and the mouth of the Missouri, over which I have travel led o" hunted, is equal or superior to -any part of the United States in point of situation and fertility; and, un less some unforeseen occurrence should prevent, this vast ti-acts.must one day be tlie garden of \merica. “Our nearest residents and daily visitors are the Big and ed in the foreign trade of France was little more tiian one • Little Os. ge nations and the Caw nation: some of these million—of this Fiance owned about tliree Hundred thousand; the rest was foreign tonnage. Tiupnwig; uon of France 1ms decreased since that peri od. In 13./0, the number of vessels employed in tlie foreign commerce of France, that entered inwards, was 75ol, their tonnage 273,sd>6—of this 98,305 tons were rmnch and 174,833, foreign. The number of vessels that cleared o it warns the Same year w; s 8,636 their tonnage 312,967; tiie French owned 104,637 of this—and the residue was own ed by foreigners. “In 1804 the number of trading vessels, belonging to the states and nations around the Baltic, including those of Norway and Holstein was four thousand one hundred and thirty four, and their tonnage about four hundred and ninety tliree thousand four hundred and seventeen British. The shipping of the Baltic has not probably m creased since that period—the American tonnage ” t.ierefore more than double tin.t of ail the maritime nations of the north of Europe. “Therapidincre .se of American tonnage, after the commencement of the present government, in a few years .umost excluded foreign tonnage from the tr. de of tribes are also with us. They are numerous and pow erful, but friendly tons. nations The L-iwrv and Sane arc below us on the Grand river; they are frequently with us. Though they took an active part in the late war against us, they now profess friendship—but we keep a sharp eye on their conduct. None of the tribes farther north or west have visi ed us. Some of them are expect ed in tiie course of tlie summer. They are not so friend ly; tbev continue to commit murders and robberies. “I intend, by next autumn, if 1 can obt .in permission, to take two or three- xv.iiles and a party of Osage Indians, and visit the salt mo mtoin, lakes and ponds, and see the The following is an extract of a lette- to tiie editor c{ the Albany Register, dated Sacked’s Harbor, June3. “A horrid accident happened yesttnL.y at tins p ;dM . a soidffr drilling out tlie contents of a shell whir-, been long charged, neglecting to keep it wet, the uiipk. meiithe was using elicited fire; the shell exploded, arfl the poor fellow who was seated on the ground anc had been holding it between up jtgs, was most normal in nj. ltd, one leg, one, foot, and one arm were tom complete- iy off, anti his scull partially fractured. JPortunutdv though a number of soldiers were very near, only one other Was wounded, and he slightly. Tlie suftenn-' man lingered about nine hours, and expired last tveia mg.” PtiTTSBuno, June 22. -Maple Sugar.—The board of assessors of the town o- Plattsburg- have taken an estimate of the quantity oi’ Sinn made the last season, by each individual assessed—ivn.cj gives an aggregate of 64000 pounds. Much of tri Sugar is of a tpufity not inferior to Aluscovado—which is sellingat 25 cents per pound. At an average of sixties cents, the sugar made in town would amount to sonic- thing more than 10,000 dollars. Chamisersbittir, (Fenn.) July!. Hcrricave. On Tuesday last we were visited br i severe hurricane—the wind blew direct from tne notit and south, and meeting, produced a whirl that twisted off a great number of trees, branches, &c. About tfce middle of the storm, hail fell in some parts of the countq as larg e as bulled walnuts, and one \v_s picked up in this town, which after being carried by hand tiventi pi. ces, weighed 132 grains. The wheat, tye, &.c. have b-ei much injured. ilcng the raounti-ins. n-tur J curiosities of the country The salt mountain is but five or six hundred miles west tills pi -ce. “We have been honored by a visit from colonel Boon, tin first sei tier of Kentucky; hi lately spent two weeks tlie nited States.” Pitkm’s View—-page 394. It is this prodigious advancement which has enkindled the jealousy’of that power which iias Lately- monopolized the trade of the worid; she foresees the champion who i-, to combat her tyranny and expose her arrogance.— From the past we are authorised to expect that in five and twenty years we shall have upwards of three millions of tonnage and three hundred thousand seamen. The American republic will then be the sword of the sea, and give to the old nations that freedom and equali ty ill commercial pursuits for which they have for centu ries nnpotentiy contended. A REPUBLICAN. The following description From the Alexandria Gazette. ST. LOUIS. of a portion of the Mi^r soun Territory, has at our request been furnished by y .n intelligent and highly respeetJue young gentleman of this county, wiioiiaS but L.teiy returned from a tour to that country; tiie spirit of emigration to that territo ry is rapidly increasing, and, ss it will no doubt, at no very distant period, form an interesting portion of our Republic, we cannot but suppose tiiat tile description here given, limited as it is, v. iii prove interesting to ma ny of our readers—of one fact the reader m..y be assur ed, that from the character and respectability of the au- tiior full f’aitn and credit may ue given to ins statement. — Htlitar Gazette. St. Louis is situated on the hank of tiie Mississippi, about fifteen mites below the confluence of that river and the Missouri: about the lattitudc of 38, Ion. 5o: It is a healthy and beautiful situation, with a lofty, but gradual ascent from the river, which is here one nine wide:— 1’lie streets are much confined and irregular, some hous es projecting beyond tlie rest. The Americans are how ever, improving the place with better buildings, placed farther back, and widening tlie streets. West of tlie town the country is handsome, but is a prairie, destitute of timber for six or eight miles. As vou approach the Missouri, tlie soil improves, and a good supply of timber is always found near that river. St. Charles is on the north side of the Missouri, twen ty-one mile's above its mouth, somewhat confined in its situation between the river and tlie high ground north of it. About three miles below St. Charles, tlie ridge that runs between tlie waters of the Missouriand those of the Mississippi, has a very abrupt termination; tiie French call this spot the Marmel. it affords one of the most beautiful landscapes west of tiie Alleghany mountains.— A level andfertiie plain below, in extent from seven to nine miles, from river to river, and about eighteen to the c * ijunction, clothed with a beautiful verdure, and.large herds of cattle grazing on it. This plain is inconceivea- bly fertile, but has no timber, except what is confined to the Missouri bottoms. , The Marmel has evident marks of having once been the point of confiuencej and the two rivers pressing each other have formed an eddy, and a deposit of all the loam Brought from the upper, country; gradually receding until each has found its rest ing place under tiie liigh^iands. As an evidence of this; with us. This singular man could not live in Kentucky when u become settled. He has established a colony or settlement, as mentioned, on the Missouri, about one hundred milts below us, which hr.s been ne riv destroy ed by Indians during tlie late War. The colonel cannot iivc without being in the woods. He goes a hunting twice a year to the remotest wilderness he can reach; j and hires a man to go with him, whom he binds in writ ten articles to take c. re of him, and bring him home, dead or alive. “fie left this for the river Platt, some distance above. Colonel Boon is eightv-five years of ..ge, five feet seven inches high; stoutly made, and active for one of his years; is stiil of vigorous mind, and is pretty well in formed. He has taken part in all tlie wars of America, from before Braddock’^ war to the present hour. He has hem respectable state appointments, both civil and military: h is been a colonel, a legislator, and a magis trate; he might have accumulated riches as re-dilv as any man in Kentucky—but he prefers the woods, where vou niuv see ium in tlie dress of tiie roughest, poorest hun ter!” West-Ohes-tir, (Penn.) July 3. On Third day afternoon, W est-Clu ster and itsvlri were visited with -a violent thunder storm or gi:/>- rents of rain fell, ,.nd pretty generally large hi.il; ft, iiateiy tlie fail of h_ii was momentary, <>r fron- ..s li the most destructive effects might haVr bee a appulfM ed; we have heard of no m fferiai injury having Lm re ceived by any of our neighbors; several panes of gjs were broken in the large new s;one house bcionyit ,4 >5 Ezra Cope, near this place. Here we wish v c. ,i: stop without putting tilt ctvuibditt 'tithe remainkref our narration to the test: intcraungic i with tin hJis the yard of colonel MClei urn of tins p 1 .ce, there fit considerable nnii.ber of st- tics, from the size of a in ...at to the Siz * of tiie end of one’s finger. From a m.- j. ci.d observation of these stones, they appear, s. nif t them, to be what mineralogists " o-i call field s r. some of taem quartz or white ttiid. That smnts w :* above size _nd qualities descended with tiie rain in*G •• yard of colonel M'CielLn, we h it ins ami bis ’ 's.» severation for, testimonies that will be received -> 1 - utmost respect by all who know them.- they both p.prt to be positive as to the fact: to remove am doubt.-, the subject from their own minus, ti.ev had the s' o picked up as they fell, before they bad become qi-asac from their fall. The field -par is a strange-.- liar, is net of tiie above quality of stones within s.verol r. . .- ! \Vest-Ches er. Those who receive with sceptical nf the relation of any uncommon occurrence, will fit..: too: historic page is not altogether barren of incidents of aa kind we have just been penning. I AMERICAN ANTiqUrriES. The Georgia Journal, in discussing the subject when, by wffiom, and for wiiat purpose, the mounds so common in various parts of our country were made, give the opinion of colonel Hawkins, who thinks they were in tended as places of l-ti’uge during the freshes, the Indians being formerly in the habit of settling on rich flats, bor dering on streams subject to inundation. Mr. Jefferson, it is well know n, supposes that they were erected by the Indians and designed by them as receptacles for their dead. To tins latter opinion we are inclined, and we shall mention a circumstance which we do not recollect to have seen noticed by any of those writers who have treated tins subject. These mounds are not peculiar lo tins country alone, but are to be found in alt the coun tries ot Europe, where the hand of art has not destroyed them. In tiie high-lands offccotlami, Wales and in the Gnsons adjoining Switzerland, many of them stih exist, and whenever they have been opened, a quantity of Ira nian bones have been found. In place however’of being general receptacles for the dead, ye are rather inclined to suppose them to have been tlie receptacles of the bones of those who fell in battle, and that they were erected on the spot where tlie action, took place. In Britain w herever they are found tradition also records the very spot to have been the seat of a remarkable bat tle.—Linchburg Press. LAKE COMMERCE. The Niagara Journal of the 18th inst. has its “ship news” head like tiie papers on the sea-bosa-d. Il notices tiie arrival at tiie port of Buffalo, of one brig, tliree schooners and one sloop, from the ports of Detroit and Erie, with hemp, flour, Stc. and the clearance of three other schooners and a boat, laden with salt, dry-goods and groceries, &e. for Erie, Pomfret, Cleveland, ami Pat terson’s creek, Upper-Ganada. The same paper, under the head “Port of Lewi,town,” from the “4th to the 11th June,” notices the arrival of the United States’ schooner Lady of tl*e Lake, lieutenant Adams, from Sackett’s Harbor—and of four merchant schooners and two. boats, from the ports of Oswego Gcamsiwc river, Smfrstt’* f^ui|yv^B, Maher Scott, the poet, and the Apparition. A correspondent in tlie Kentucky Reporter, g v ' : tlie following description of the celebrated 1L» Scott:— “Walter Scott is said to be a stout, broad shoulderri, brawny and fleshy man, with light hair and complex' i and eyes between a bine and a grey, thick nose, rourfi fatfface, sleepy expression and a lame leg.” This As cription is tolerably correct, to which we shall addafc* particulars. Mr. Scott’s nose is not only thick, but turned up, aifl of that character which a disciple of Lavater would pro nounce stupid. Walter Scott, while at school aud at col- lege, was regarded by his associates as a dull but indrt | tnous student. His talent for poetry did not appear un til at a late period. \V e believe, that he never wrote a sin gle line until the age of twenty-six. His first attempt w f ere translations from German Tales. In the wintir ot 1799, soon afterthe appearance of some verses of this des cription, the follow'ing singular occurrence was narr rt“ by him, which we have directly heard from tiiat gent. m-n to whom he lias dedicated the "fourth book of his Mari'' % and who breaktasted with Mr. Scott the morning l - r ’ wards. Mr. Scott and a friend had gone one eveoinsr to Edinburgh Theatre, but returned after the plaj, witnsut waiting tlie farce, to Boyle’s tavern, w hich w as the - sl house to the theatre; preferring a literary and social con versation to tlie amusement of a farce. " The door " J closed, and they were seated over a good fire and a b<<- tie of wine, discussingthe merits of the German po 111 ?,' when, on a sudden, a venerable looking figure, dr-> s ™ in black, with grey hair, appeared, placed on the opp' st ride of the table, ..nd fronting tlie fire. Without utters® a word, he detiberately reached his hand to Mr. Scott f lass, Wliich was empty, filled it w ith wine, bow ed to r - cott and his friend, drank ofi’his bumper, and ‘ niroc ®j ately disappeared, the door seemingly remaining the time. The story was immediately circulated thro' 1 ?-* the town, to the no small amusement of Mr. Scott s ac quaintances; the greater part of whom attributed t |lc ;-' e pearance of the black gentleman, to the true cause, effects of tiie wine, but both tlie poet and his ^ were unquestionably impressed with the belief, 1 . ti. had been visited bv a suncrnatural stranger.—Lynct 4 had been visited by a supernatural stranger Press. To Destroy Cock-Roaches.—Take common and strew them along the closet or rooms freq uc this offensive species of vermin, and it wiii destro. ^ onethat eats of it. I have found it effectual. « is .., n otiS- bly, red lead, contained in the wafer, that is P 01 ’ ^5 Small scraps or cuttings can be obtained at a cuW Rt wafer aukers.—Philadelphia .