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SOUTHERN RECORDER. VOL. I MILLEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1320. No. 25. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, (on tuespays) J1Y & GIM.YTL.1ND <y It. M. ORME, AT THREE DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, OR FOUR DOLLARS AT TIIE EXPIRATION OF THE Year. ILf* Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the customary rates. CONGRESS OF ’76. It may gratify some of otir readers to Tiei u»e the following very brief notice of the signers of the Declaration of Inde pendence. It will be seen, that of num bers of them we have no account; and yet the article is furnished us by a gentle man whose sources of information areas various as those of any person in this vi cinity. Of the whole number, one tilth part were natives of this Stale.—The Survivors are only four—John Adams, William Floyd, Charles Carroll, and Thomas Jetfcrson....lYorcester Gazelle. Delegatesfrom New-Hampshire. Josiah Bartlett—Born at Amesbury, Mass, a Physician : previous to the Rev o lution, a member of the Legislature, and afterwards Chief Justice and President of the State of Ncw-llampshire. Died May, 1795,aged 66. Willum Whipple—A Brigadier-Gene ral of the Now-11,impshire troops, in 1777, aftervvards a member of the Coun cil, and a Judge of the Supreme Court. Died November, 1785. Matthew Thornton—Chief Justice of <iie county of Hillsborough, and after wards a Judge of the Supreme Court. Died June, 1803, aged 88. Delegate* from Massachusetts. John Hancock—Born at Braintree, President of the Provincial Legislature, and afterwards Fresin'pnt of the Nation al Congress, the first Go vernor of Mas sachusetts after the Revolution, first e- lecled in 1780, and again in 1757. Died Oct. 1793, agen 56. Samuel Adams—Born at Boston, 1 722. Secretary of the State, and President ef the Senate of Massachusetts, elected Lt. Governorin 1789, and Governorin 179-1. Died Oct. 1802, aged 00. John Adams—Born at Braintree, Oct. 19, 1735—now living, in his 85th year. Elbridge Gerry—Born at Marblehead, 1744, a Delegate to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the U. States, Envoy to France 1794, Govern or of Massachusetts, and Vice President of the United States. Died November, 1814, aged 70. Robert 'Treat Payne—Born at Wcr- mooth, 1731—Attorney, Judge of the Supreme Court, and member of the Council of Massachusetts. Died May, 1814, aged83. Delegates from Rhode Island. Stephen Hopkins—Born in Provi dence, 1707—several years Governor of the Colony, a Delegate to the Con gress at Albany in 1754, Chief Justice of ■Rhode Island, died July, 1785, aged 79. William Ellery—Born at Newport, 1727—sustained various civil offices pre vious to the Revolution, afterwards Com missioner of the Loan Office, and Collect or of Newport. Died February 1820 aged 93. Delegates from Connecticut. Rover Sherman—Born at Newton Mass. 1721, one of the Assistants and Judge of the Supreme Court of Connec ticut, Member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United S Representative and Senator in Congress Died July, 1793, aged 72. Samuel Huntington—Lora at ind ium), member ofthe Legislature, Attor ney Geueral, Judge of the Supreme Court, and member of the Council of Connecticut, President of Congress in 1779, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor, and Chief Justice, and in 1786 elected Governor of Connecticut. Died January, 1796, aged 64. William Williams—Speaker of the House of Representatives, and member of live Council of Connecticut. Died August, 1811, aged 80. Oliver Wolcott—Elected Governor of Connecticut in 1796, and died Decern ber, 1797, aged 71. Delegates from New-York. William Floyd—Now living in his 87th year. Philip Livingston—A Delegate to the Congress of 1765, and agaiu elected in 1774. Francis Lewis. Lewis Morris. Delegates from New-Jcrscy. Richard Stockton—A Judge, and mem ber of the Council of the Province. In 1776 he had an unequal number of votes on the first balloting for Governor of the State with Mr. Livingston, who was sub sequently chosen. Died March, 1781. John Witherspoon-Born in Scotland 1722. Came to America, in 1768, and was President of Princeton College from that time until his death Nov 1791, aged ^Francis Hopkinson—Born in Pennsyl vania, Judge of the Admiralty and ot the District Court. Died May, 1 '^E John Hart. Abraham Clark. t Delegates from Pennsylvania. Robert Morris—Born at Manchester England. SupcriuteuJ<iul of the. I iffiW* Ivvir ces of the United States from 1781 to 1785, afterwards member of the Assem bly of Pennsylvania, and a Delegate to the Convention which framed the Constitu- lion of the United States. Died, 1806 aged 72. Benjamin Rush—Rom in Pennsylva nia 1745, Physician General of the Mi litary Hospitals, for the Middle Depart- menis, in 1777, Member ofthe Conven tion which framed the State Constitution, and Treasurer ofthe Mint of the Uni ted States ; one of the first Physicians and medical writers of the age. Died April, 1813, aged 69. Betij iniin Franklin—Born at Boston, Mass. 1706 ; Member of the Congress of 1754; Agent of several of the Colo nies in England, 1757 ; President of the Convention which framed the Constitu tion of Pennsylvania, 1779. The same year he was sent Minister to France, and, together with Lee and Deane, for med the treaty of alliance ; assisted in forming the Treaty of Peace with Eng land, 1783; President of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, 1785. Died April, 1790, aged 85. John Morton—Speaker of the Assem bly Pennsylvania, in 1775 ; afterwards a Judge of the Supreme Court. Geo. Clymer—Joint Treasurer of the United Colonies, with Air. Ilillegas. iri 1775; Delegate to the Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States ; Supervisor of Excise for Penn sylvania, 1761 ; first President of the A- cademy of Fine Arts Philadelphia, 1805, Died January, 1813, aged 75. James Smith—Appointed in t780 Judge of the High Court of Errors and Appeals for Pennsylvania. J George Taylor—Member of the As sembly previous to the Revolution, and of the Committee of Correspondence in 1774. James Wilson—Alember ofthe Con vention which framed the. Constitution of the United States, and of Pennsylvania ; ppointed in 1791 .Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States ; Professor ol’L vW iu the University of Pennsylva nia. Died September, 1798. George iioss—A Alember of the As sembly previous to the Revolution ; af terwards Vice President of the Execu tive Council of Pennsylvania. Delegates from Delaware. Cmsar Rodney—Member of the Con gress of 1765 ; Speaker o r the Assembly of Delaware, 1774. George Read—Vice President ofthe State ; Judge ofthe Court of Appeals in cases of captures by sea ; Alember ofthe Convention which framed the Constitu tion, and Senator of the United States. Thomas M. Kean—Speaker ofthe As sembly previous to the Revolution ; Alember of iiie Convention which train ed the Constitution of Delaware in 1776, and the first Governer of the State ; President of Congress in 1781 ; Chief Justice and Governor of Pennsylvania. Died Jan. 1817, aged 84. Delegates from Maryland. Samuel Chase—Chief Justice of the General Court of Alary land, and after wards a Judge ofthe Supreme Court of the U * d States.—Died June, 1811. William Paca—Judge ofthe maritime Court of Appeals, previous to 1782, and was that year elected Governor of the Stale ; appointed in 1789 District Judge of Maryland. Died 1799. Thomas Stone—died October 1787, a- ged 44. Charles Carroll—now living. Delegates from Virginia. George Wythe—Born in Virginia, 1726 ; Speaker of the House of Bur gesses, and Chancellor of the State.— Died June, 1809, aged 81. Richard Henry Lee—President of Congress 1784 ; afterwards a Senator from Virginia.—Died in June 1791, aged 68. Thomas Jefferson—now living. Benjamin Harrison. Thomas Nelson—Alember ofthe Coun cil, and elected Governor of the State in 1781.—Died Jan. 1789. Francis I.ightfoot Lee—died April, 1797, aged 63. Carter Braxton. Delegates from North Carolina William Hooper. Joseph Hews—died Nov. 1779< John I’cnn. Delcgantcs from South Carolina. Edwards Rutledge—A Member ofthe Council, and elected Governor of the State in 1793. Died Jan. 1800. Thomas Heyward. Thomas Lynch. Arthur Middleton—President of the Council ofthe Colony beiore the revolu tion. Delegates from Georgia. Burton Gwinnett—President of the Council of Georgia. Killed in a duel with Gen. M’lutosh, May, 1777. Ionian Hall—Governor of Georgia, in 1783, Died Feb. 1791, aged 66 George Walton—Chief J ustice of the State ; Alember of the Convention of the United States ; Governor of Georgia, and Senator in Congress, Died 1 eh. NATIONAL PAINTING. From the JVt if- Fori Daily Advertiser,of July 6. It is with great pleasure we learn that Col. Trumbull’s splendid painting of the surrender of Cornwallis,” executed for the Federal Government, and design ed for the Hall of Congress, is finished, and is about to be exhibited to the pub lic at Washington Hall, in this city.— This magnificent picture, winch com memorates one of ihe most brilliant as well as most interesting events ofthe War of Independence, w ill he better un- lerstood, by refreshing the inemors with the following historical facts immediately connected with its great subject. Lord Cornwallis, one <5f the ablest and most distinguished officers iu the British service in tins country, during the years 80 and 1781, had overrun and sub dued a large portion of the southern country. Among the achievements which had attended his victorious career was the capture of the city of Charleston, ind the victory at Camden. Indeed, such was the success ofthe expedition, that it seemed to threaten, at least, if not to ac complish the ruin of Ihe cause of Ame rican Independence. In 1781, consider ing his great object so far accomplished that his immediate presence was no lon- r necessary at the south, he moved with the principal part of Ins troops in to Virginia, where, for a while, he was equally successful. But the admirable mhined movement of Gen. Washing ton and our French allies from the north, and of Count de Grasse, with the fieet and army of France, from the West In dies, turned the ec.ule, and forced the British General to shut himself up in York-Town, Virginia, and attempt to defend himself there, until he could he relieved by aid from the British army at New-York. J1 is hopes and expectations from that quarter failed him ; and on the 16th of October, 1781, he surrendered his whole, forces to the combined arms of America and France. This great e vent, which was produced by one ofthe most consummate displays of generalship that is to ho found in the history ofmili- tary operations, put an end to (he war, and I’d to the acknowledgment of our In dependence. When the British army captured Char leston, General Lincoln, who command ed the American forces in that city was, by Lord Cornwallis, denied the honor ol Alarching out with colors flying. The British General, who, by the reverses of war, wh3 now under the necessity ol surrendering his army, was denied the game honor, and at the same time obli ged to deliver up his sword to the same American officer whose submission he had superintended and directed at Char leston, about a year and a half before. The American troops, on this interest ing occasion, were formed on the right of the road leading to \ork. YVashin ion and the American general olheevsor. their right—the French troops on the opposite side of the road—Count Ro chambeau and the principal officers ol the French army and navy on their left. The British troops marched out of the town “ with shouldered arms, colors cas ed, and drums beating a British or Ger man inarch”—they passed between the two lines of the victorious armies, to a lace appointed, where they grounded itn-ir arms, and returned to their en campment. 1'lie time chosen by the painter is the moment when the principal British Of- ficers, conducted by General Lincoln, are passing the two groups of American uid French generals, and are entering between the lines of the victors. By tins means, the most distinguished figures ofthe three nations arc brought together sufficiently near to udlmt of their being lortraits. In the distance and centre of the picture arc seen the entrance of the toon, with the captured troops march- _ out, and a distant glimps of York riv er, and the entrance ofthe Chesapeake, as seen from the spot. This painting occupies a canvass of 12 feet high by 18 feet,.and contains no k*s than 34 portraits, nil of which, except the few British officers, are likenesses taken by Col. Trumbull from tbd life. The force and cfleet which arc derived from the military display, and the line figures of the officers, a great part nt whom are mounted, cannot he described, nor easily imagined. To he realized, the work itself must he viewed ; and we have no doubt it will be considered by rsons of taste and feeling, as one of the first specimens of the art which mo dern times have produced. We never see it but with new emotions of admira tion and delight. The opportunity ol viewing so many of the distinguished ■Jiaracters of the revolutionary ■var, both >f our owa country and of Frmce, who were engaged in the service, assembled an so interesting an occasion'—-to view a lelineatiou of their living countenance ind ofthe scenery by which they were surrounded, brings home lo ihe eye : that ever fell to the lot of any known na tion. As they are nvtde up of contradic tions, it would he unjust to give them uny uniform designation. There is scarce a virtue that adorns (lie mind, or a vice that disgraces human nature, but may he ascribed to theta, as a part of their na tional character. But the former are often rendered ineffectual by misapplica tion, and the latter qtnlfied by a levity of manners, which shows them not to be constitutionally prevalent. An English man will treat his enemy with great gen erosity, and his friends with ingratitude and inhumanity. Ho vill he lavish of his wealth w hen he Inn hut little of it, and become a miserable wretch when for tune pours tier favors uto his purse. He will brute the utmud. hardships, and encounter the severtW trials with heroic fortitude, and will (town or hang himself because the wind ban the east. He will lend large sums to 'stranger on the slightest security, and refuse his nearest relation the means of subsis tence. To-day, his heart extands with social benevolence ; to-mornw, lie is cold, sullen and morose. Jo-day, he possesses the wealth of a nabob; to-mor row, lie refuses a sixpence to i bugger, lest he should lie himself reihcod to a want of th it sixpence. In a vvetd, con tradiction and absurdity make in Eng lishman. The extreme ignorance of tin com mon people of this civ ilzled countiy, can scarce he credited. In geueral, they know nothing beyond the particular branch of business which their jarish happened to choose for them. This, indeed, they practice, with unrcnUling diligence ; but never iliink of extending their knowledge further. A manufac turer has been brought up a inuket of pin-heads : He lias been at this businas* 4U years, and of course makes piu-lieals with great dexterity—hut he canum make a whole pin for his life. il« thinks it is the perfection of human na ture to make pin-heads.—He leaves o- Uier matters to inferior abilities. It is enough fur him that he believes in the Athandsian Creed, reverences the splen dor of the court, and makes pin-heads. This ho conceives to be the sum-total ol religion, politics and trade.—He is sure that London is the finest city in th • world ; Blackfriar’s Bridge the most su perb of all bridges—& the river Thames the largest river in the universe. It is in vain to tell him that there are many rivers in America, in comparison ot which the Tnataes is hut a ditch ; that there are single provinces there larger than all England, and that the colonies formerly belonging to Great Britain, but now Independent States, are vastly more extensive than England, Wales, Scotland M Ireland, all taken together. He can not conceive this. He goes into his best parlor, and looks ou the map ut England, 4 feet square, and on tlitf other side ol the room, lie sees a map ot North and South America, not more than two feet square, and exclamee—“How can these things possibly lie!—It is altogether quite impossible!”—He has read the Arabian Nights Entertainment, and he hears this wonderful account of Ameri ca—lie believes the one as much as the other—that a giant should rise out of the sea, or that the Delaware should be larger than the Thames, are equally incredible to hi in. Talk to him ol the British Constitution, lie will tell you “ it is a glorious Constitution /” Ask him what it is and lit is ignorant of its first principles I! But lie is sure that he c in make and sell pin-heads under it.—Mention the free dom of elections, mid lie will tell you that he docs not meddle iu these matters; that he lives in a borough ; and that it is impossible hut that squire Goose Lap must represent lint borough in I’arlia- ment—because squire Goose Cap is ac quainled with the Prime Minister—and his Lady comes every Sunday to tire par ish church in a hroauled grown, and nts in a pew lined with greencloth. .tow then can it be otherwise ? But these are things in which he is not concerned, lie believes in the Athanasian Creed, ho nors the King—and makes pin-head*— and what more can be expected of man ? I am an American—I was rocked in Ihe cradle of liberty—l have arrived ut a certain age without once deviating from those opinions which do so much honor to men who find their ow n happiness in that of others without any distinction of party or classes, and who contemplated with respect and even reverence the subjects of Spain or any other country, w hen their sentiments are in unison with the sound precepts of the Christian re-sUuited States. I have documents in my who (as I before stated) stand in need of each other, and who, united by an ami cable treaty, would not envy the whole world. • > ■ 1 lore my country most cordially. I possess the purest friendship for the Spanish nation, and I am desirous of see ing the bonds of amity most strictly ce mented between both. All the above ideas Imve been printed in the papers of the to the heart, a train of feelings of the most solemn and impressive description. CHARACTER OF THE ENGLISH I’F.orU* BV F. HOPKINSON. The general character of the English it certainly the most fantastic and absurd, with theirs ? rROM tor. vigilante, a Minr.in paper. Mr. Editor—Have tlip goodness to in sert the following article^ your paper. Let us lay aside all personalities, and commence by discussing a subject so ma terially interesting to the Spanish, nation and to the United States of America, the only two countries (we can truly assert) that ought to he most closely united by the similarity of their political institu tions, which fortunately have lately been re-established in Spain, and although they vary triilingly by the name of the consti tutional monarchy and r. constitutional re public. they are essentially the same, be cause they both acknowledge that the sovereignty resides in the people ; and if, (as 1 believe it will not be difficult to prove ;) that the new Spanish constitu tion will be obliged to support itself a- gainst the fanaticism ofthe holy alliance, ligion, namely—not “ to do unto others what you would not have others do unto you”—under these simple principles, 1 would wish to he informed by you thro’ this or any other medium, what are the real motives for not having ratified the treaty concluded between Spain and the United States, signed at Washington on the 22d Feb. 1819. Some persons unacquainted with the true state of the relations existing be tween the two nations, have wished to insinuate that the Spanish minister may have exceeded his power in signing the said treaty—how is it possible to con ceive so gross an error, when that gen tleman lias since been Appointed by his majesty a minister to the court of St. Pe tersburg, and lately, with the approba tion of the provincial junta, ambassador to the court of Naples '! If he had been guilty of making n treaty for which he w as not authori-cd, it is almost incn.-dihle that the two governments would have a- guin employed him on commissions of so much responsibility ; 1 cannot therefore ; help believing that Don Luis de Onia (who has occupied nearly ten years in arranging the treaty in question) con cluded it with ample powers nnd with full knowledge and (even more) with wisdom nnd intelligence that when its minute shall lie laid before the world, will do equal honor to him as well as to the nation he represented. I hare seen in one of the papers a pa ragraph which states that a person na med ."’error, accuse the then Spanish se cretary of state, Don Jose Pissarro, o; having formed the said treaty. I have attributed this intelligence to mistake. Pissarro left the office ofthe secretary of state and was banished in the month n| September 181 it, and the treaty was not Hide until the 22d of February, 1819. The.treaty was signed during the pe- •iod that ihe marquis Yrojo acted as se cretary of state, hut it will lie said that Fizarro formed the instructions under which Ouis acted. I have understood that strict orders were sent during Pi/.ar- ro’s i< (ministration for the conclusion of the treaty in question, hut were not these instructions previously laid before tin conn: il of state l wore they not approv ed of by the said council, and particularly by Ins majesty ? Biz trro being banished, it was reported among the people in this city who had some interest in the busi ness, thatYrujo thought it his duty to ill ameeting of the council of state, that it might ratify the instructions given to Don Luis de Onis, tliis being effectually done, they were forwarded by the latter secretary of state and the treaty was sigu- ed and concluded. The treaty accompanied by all the necessary formalities, arrived at Madrid ratified on the part of the United States, and to the astonishment of all Europe mid America by one ol those intrigues, which unfortunately Spain has been a martyr to, /or the last six ye irs, the trea ty was not ratified, and this moment was seized upon for banishing the marquis Yrujo, minister ad inter, lt was said that the persons who figured principally in th* intrigue, were the ex-minister Lozano Torres, a cannon councellor of slite, and the other a grandee of Spain, he this as it may, the treaty was not ra tified, and wo are on the point (not know ing wherefore) of having war with that n itiou to winch it is our liveliest interest to be most united. It is now officially known that the go vernment of the United States has deter mined to occupy the territory ceded in virtue of the treaty, as an indemnifica tion to the citizens for the demands ac knowledged as legal since 1802, and the Spanish nation, perfectly ignorant ot.^and in no way accessary to the shameful in trigues of a few courtiers, is now exposed to the contempt, ami even to a war with a nation that hi)s the fate ofthe Spanish Americans in its hands. 1 must also add, that it is officially known that the treaty was made and signed with the full know ledge, and by the mediation ofthe French government-*—that England likewise ol- fiiciutly recommended its ratification, and it is even reported that the emperor of Russia made, the same insinuation to the Spanish government. Under all these circumstances, I wish to know the real motives which have instigated the Spanish government to refuse the ratification of the treaty, and expose itself to the most fatal consequences. If it should result that the intrigues of a few courtiers have caused all this trouble, and that these are now (where for the happiness of this he- roical nation they ought to have been possession to prove the justice which an* imates my country to exact the fulfillment ofthe treaty in question. If unfortunately, a happy reconcilia* lion cannot be effected between the two nations, 1 shall at least have the satisfac tion of exposing the intrigues of a few courtiers who were capable of plunging the nation into a war and discrediting her with the whole world, merely with a view of gratifying their private inter ests, their personal animosities, constant ly occupying themselves in their intri gue* of court whereby ministers were placed and displaced at their will, while at the same time they did not possess one single quality necessary for the manage ment of an heroic nation whose very vi tals they were destroying by absurd and tyrauicul decrees A Citizen of the United Statei. w here ran they look for that support j for many years since) confined to their more effectually, than in a nation, whose i houses, a prey to the contempt ot a great interests, geographical situation, and po-1 and magnanimous people, why should litical institutions are so closely united j there not be an end to this business which * ‘ causes a division between two nations, Tnov, July 11. Spontaneous Combustion.—Three years ago an instance of spontaneous comfit,s- tion occurred in Troy. A heap of ma nure, containing considerable straw and litter front a cow stable, during the hot weather in a dry summer, actu dlv took fire. On entering the garden, the owner observed a smell of smoke, and aftec searching on the lots, each side, discov er- cd the cause ofthe tire. Several loads ofthe manure were removed and thor oughly wet with water. It was fie nd that several pieces of the manure w- re perfectly chared, and at a depth of a foot or inure, the heat was insupportable to the hand. Another instance of spontaneous com bustion has also occurred in 'Troy. 'The fact is related ypon the veracity ofa re spectable house painter in this city. A few years since, this gentleman mixed a quantity of lamhlack with boiled linseed oil, so us to constitute'a thick paste, for the purpose of adding oil to make a black paint. This was done at evening—in the morning his painting pot began to smoke, and in a few hours afterwards it actually hurst into a blaze. Another instance of spontaneous com bustion occurred at Albany. During the late war, a painter had planted some hundred knapsacks black, an9t>ilml them together—they took fire and were con sumed. A great number of instances are on record of spontaneous combustion from various substances. If these facts were more generally known, it is probable that the origin of many fires w ould not be attributed to the act of incendiaries. The Heather, for the last week has been extremely hot. Every day but one, thermometer above 90. There was a small exhilarating shower on Wednesday, and on Sunday last, we had a copious fall of rain. Vegetation is suffering much with the drought. On the 5th, at *.2 o- clock, the thermometer stood at 97 1-2, and at 6 o’clock, 93. On the 1 Oth at 3 o- clock, 96 degrees. FROM THE KtW-TuKII DAILY ADVERTISER. BURNT CORK. The season lias returned when bilious com plaints, and disorders arising from debility (which always affect the stomach) periodi cally make liteir ravages on human life. Let parents especially remember the simple re medy first published iu your paper a year ago, and make a timely application of ear- lion of Cork. There is nothing more harm less ; it may be given to an infant, only ob serving that it be thoroughly burnt. Pour a tea-spoonful of brandy on a cork thus pre pared, anil mash it well with loaf sugar and a little nutmeg, or peppermint essence and water. The publication of this recipe has already saved many lives in cases of Cholera Morbus and Billious Cholic, and for the Summer complaint,” in children it is h spe cific if taken in time ; the quantity may be increased at pleasure, without the least dan ger. Every family should he provided with i supply ready for the moment, for it often happens that a person is suddenly violently attacked, perhaps in the night, when it is xtremely inconvenient, if not impossible to prepare it. MED1CUS. Density, Weight, tfc. of the Earth.—From the experiments of Maskelyne, and the cal culations of Hutton, Cavendish, Laplace, kc. it appears, that considering the. specific gravity of w ater, as uni'y, the mean density of the earth would he according to Hutton, 4,95, or according to Cavendish, 5,48. The mean most commonly adopted is 5,4. Ta king this as our ground work, we may now proceed to that most singular question of weighing the earth. Assuming 7820 miles as the mean diameter of the earth, the num- lier of cubic miles will be 481,979,311,961.— Now, each cubic mile contains 174,197,952,- 000 cubic feet; also, every cubic foot of wa ter weighs 1000 avoirdupois ounces. Hence a cubic mile of water will weigh 4,107,085,- 714 tons, and consequently a globe of water of equal dimensions with our earth, would weigh 985,594,985,000,000,000,000 tons,and that multiplied by the calculated density 5,4, gives 5,322,212,919,540,000,000,000 tons for the weight of our tdji\i.~-Petcrsburgh Adis ■**