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SOUTHERN HI RECORDER. vor n». ? I ILL E ViiLI.11, TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1822. 11 v No. 2<*. PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY S. GRA.VTLA.VD (f R. M. ORME, On Hancock Street, opposite Iho Auction Sturt*, Al' TI1RF.F. DOLLARS. IN ADVANCE, OR FOUR DOLLARS AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE TEAR. in' Advertisements conspicuously inserted n t tliu customary rales. Loiters on business, in nil earns, must be post paid. BY AYTlUmVVY. AN ACT to authorize and empower the Cor poration of the City of Washington, in the Dis trait of Columbia, to drain the Low Grounds on and near the l’uplic Reservations, and to tnprovo and ornament certain partsof such Reservation. He it enacted in; the Semite and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer- iat in Congress assembled, That it shall In* lawful for the Mayor, Aldermen, and Com mon Council, of the City of Washinging- to:i, under the direction of the President of the United States, and tile said corpora tiini is hereby authorized, when they shall di*,*m it necessary, to contract with tin* Washington Canal Company, and obtain their consent, to change the present location of such parts of the canal, passing through the said city, as lies between Second and Se venth streets west, into such other course as shall most effectually, in their opinion, drain and dry the low grounds lying on the borders of Tybercreek. See. A. And be it further enacted. That, to effect the object ifoie-aid, and to fill up tin* low grounds on the borders of the said canal, in such manner as they may provide by law, the said corporation is hereby au thorized and empowered, after h aving ex tended the public reservation, designated on the. plan of the sail’, city as number ten, so as the whole south side thereof shall bind on the line, of Pennsylvania Avenue—and after having caused to be divided the said public reservation numbered ten, except such part thereof as has already been sold, and also the public reservations numbered eleven and twelve, into building lots, to sell and dis pose uf tlie right of the United States of, in, and to, the said lots, or any number thereof, laid off as aforesaid, at public sale, on such conditions of improvement, and on such t mw, as the said corporation shall prescribe mil the said corporation is further autho rized and empowered, for the purposes spe- cili' d in Ibis act, to cause to he laid off. in such manner as the President ot the l nited States may approve of, two squares, south of Pennsylvania Weiuic, between Third ami Sixth streets west, to front on the line of said avenue, from the. junction of said Sixth street west and the. said avenue, to the junc tion of Third street west with said avenue ; and also to lay off, north of Maryland Ave nue, two uniform and correspondent squares, and the said four sqitres, when so laid off, to divide into building lots, and to sell and dispose of the right of the United States, of, in, and to, such building lots, or any num ber thereof, at public sale, on such conditi ons of improvement, and on such terms, as the said corporation shall prescribe ; bill nu change, shall be made in Itie direction ot the caul canal,unless the consent, in writing, of the President and Directors of ltie Washing* ton Canal Company he first had and obtain ed—and tile change that shall he made, in pursuance of any contract that may lie en tered into under this act, shall be made by m« said company out of itid ;;,onevs to be paid to the saiu l>>’ the said rnrpo ration—and the said company tu'.ill, doiin, tli same may be collected, be paid by the Mayor of Washington into the Treasury of the U- uited Status. See. fi. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the legal Representa tive of any former proprietor of the Laud directed to be disposed of by this net, or persons lawfully claiming title under them, and they are hereby, permitted and autho rized, at any time within one year from the passing of this act, to institute a hill in equi ty in the nature ul a petition of right against the United States, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colum bia, in which they may set forth the grounds of their claim to the Land in question. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That a copy of said bill shall he served on the At torney Genera I of the United States, and it shall he his duty to prepare and pul in pro per pleas nml answers, and make all pro per-defence thereto, in behalf of the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said suit shall be conducted according to the rules of a Court of Equity ; and the said cnuit shall have full power and authority to hear and determine upon the claim of the one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, or the heirs of devisees of such individual or individuals, shall have complied with tho conditions of settlement and cultivation, in the said contract prescribed, in proportion to his or their interest, under the said con tract, and in the lauds thereby set apart, and shall have paid the amount uf purchase mo ney, proportionate to his or their interest in said land, within the particular periods in the said contract limited, it shall and may be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, and lie is hereby required, to cause letters patent to be issued to such individual or in dividuals, or his or tin ir heirs or devisees, for the amount of his or their interest in the lands set apart and contracted fur by virtue of the said act, any tbing in the said act or contract contained to the contrary notwith standing : saving always, to the widow of any such deceased proprietor her light of dower in said lands, according to the laws of the Stale of Alabama. Approved, SO April, 1822. AN ACT authorizing the payment of certain Certificates. He it enacted hy the Senate and House of plaintiff or plaintiffs, and what proportion, if j Representatives oj the United States of Amir- any, of the money arising front the sale of the Land hereby directed to be sold, the parties may lie entitled In. See 9. And be it further enacted,'That the plaintiff'or plaintiffs, ortho Attorney Gene ral of the United States, shall be entitled to an upper! to the Supreme Court of the Unit ed States, whose decision shall he conclusive between the parties—and should no appeal he taken, the judgment or decree of the said Circuit Court shall in like manner be final and conclusive. Approved, 7 May, 1822. VN ACT making partial appropriations for the support of the Navy ofthe United Status din ing the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. lit it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of Amer ica in Congress assembled, That the follow ing sums lie, and they an* hereby appropri ated to the objects herein specified, to wit : for the payment and subsistence ofthe otti- rers and pay of the seamen, one hundred thousand dollars ; for provisions, twenty thousand dollars; for repairs, twenty thou sand dollars ; for contingent expenses, twen ty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any money in the Trea sury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, 13 February, 1322. AN ACT authorizing the transfer of certain Certificates of the Funded Debt of the United States. He it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ofllie United States of Amer ica in Congress assembled, That the certifi rates ofthe Funded Debt of tile United States, which, upon the assumption ofthe debts ofthe several Creditor States, were issued in their favor, respectively, lu*, ami hereby are, made transferable, according to t e rules and forms instituted for the pur pose of transfers ofthe public debt. Approved 13 February, 1322. AN ACT to alter the times ofhobling Courts in the Western District of Virginia, and tor o- ther pm poses lie it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Slates of Amer ica in Congress assembled, That, instead of the times now prescribed hy law for holding courts in the western district of Virginia, tin- said courts shall he held annually on the first Mondays of April and September, at AVyllte Con: t-bn use ; and at Lewishurg, on the Fri days succeeding the first Mondays of April and September ; and at Clarksburg, on the fourth Mondays of May and October; to which days, respectively, all process return able to tin* first days of the next succeeding term shall be. held returnable, and returned accordingly. Sec. 2. .d::d be it further enacted, That if the judge shall not attend on the first day ot any court, such cou;t shall stand adjourned from day today for three da\s, if the same cause continue; after which time, if the judge still fail to attend, the court shall stand adjourned until the first day ofthe next term. Approved, 2C April, 1822. mil place of holding District of Missis- ime the proposed alteration is in pro- I,be entitled to receive the same ratfi uf wharfage that are secured to them by any former act or acts ; but no landing shall Ire permitted for the purpose of wharfage be tween the west side ot Tuird and the east side of Sixth streets west. See. 3. And be it further enacted, That, upon the payment ot the purchase money, and upon the compliance with the conditi ons of improvement by the purchaser nr put-chasers, or his or their heirs or as-ign-, ti e Mayor of the said city, for the time be ing, shall he, and he is hereby, empowered to execute a deed or deeds in fee to such purchaser or purchasers, his or their heirs or l assings, under his hand and the seal uf the said corporation ; which deed or deeds shall bo recorded among the land records of the county of Washington, within the time pre scribed for the recording of conveyances o( real estates. Sec. 4. In i be it further enacted, That if. after the aforesaid objects shall b • eff, eted, a iialaoee shall remain urn xponded in the bauds of the said corporation, from the pro- aeeds ofthe sale of the said lots, the said corporation is au'horiz*-d and empowered to appropriate and apply, from time to time, as til'* same tnav be collected, the whole or any part efsueh balance,to enclosing, plant ing, or otljei w ise improving, the public re servation between the Capitol Square and Sixth street west, and building one or more Bridges over that part of the Canal lying in or between Second and Sixth streets west ; but the said corporation is hereby expressly prohibited from undertaking any ol tile bn- p-nvenv-nls contemplated by this seetbm, unless tin* said improvements shall lu* ell- ci t'd out of tho funds created by this act, or out of the corporate funds of the said corpo ration ; and the corporation ofthe said city shall have the control and management of the public reservation between the Botanic Garden and Sixth street west, u it It the view to the improvement ami preservation ofthe saute, until Congress shall otherwise direct. Sec. 3 And be it further enacted, That the residue of the food, created by the sales of , Lots authorized by this art, after effecting i part ami dispose of certain public lands I the ihj'-c.ts run'cm plated by tile foregoing the encouragement of the cultivation of the sections, slut]!, from time to time, as the 1 vine and olive,” passed on 3d day of March, AN ACT altering the time the District Court ill til sippi. Ik. it enacted by the. Smote and House of Representatives of the United States of Amer ica in Congress assembled, That the District Court ofllie United States for the District of Mississippi, heretofore holden at the seat of govern ,enl in the State of Mississippi, on the first Mondays in January and July, shall, after the next July term, which may be bidden at the city of Natchez, hereafter hold its regular terms at tin* Court-house of Adams county, in the city of Natchez, on the first Mondays in April and October, and may continue to sit at each term until the busi ness of the court is finished. See. 2. And be it further enacted, That e- vei-y writ, process, subpoena,nr recognizance returnable according to law, or the tenor hereof, to either of the aforesaid terms hol den on the first Mondays in January and July, shall, after the next July term, lie re turnable, and shall be returned, to the next succeeding term of said court, to be holden on the first Mondays in April and October, after the passing of this act. Approv 'd 2G April, 1822. an ACT supplementary to nil Act. entitled o All act, tit set apart and dispose of ccitnin Public Lands for the encouragement of the cultivation ofllie Vine and Olive. Ik it enacted by the. Senate and House, of Representatives ofthe United States ol Amer ica in Congress assembled, That, whenever any individual or individuals, named in the contract entered into between the Secretary of the Treasury and Charles Villar, agent of the French Association, on the tub day of January, in the year 1819, by virtue of the j Act of Congress, entitled “An act to set n- ica in Congress assembled, That so much uf an act, entitled “ an act making further pro vision fur the support ofthe public credit and for the redemption of the public debt,” passed the Sd day of March, 1705, and so much of tlie act, entitled “ an act respecting loan office mid final settlement certificates, indents of interest, and the unfunded and registered debt, credited on the boobs of the Treasury,” passed the 12th day of June, 1798, as bars from settlement or allowance certificates, commonly called loan office and final settlement cirtificates, and indents of interest, be, and Ihe same is hereby, sus pended for the term of two years from and after the passing of this act, and from thence until the end ofthe next session of Congress —a notification of which temporary suspen sion ofthe act of limitation shall be publish ed by the Secretary of the Treasury, for the information ofllie holders of the said certifi cates, in one or more ofthe public papers in each of the United States. Sis*. 2. Ai\d be it further enacted, That all certificates, euinmouly called loan office cer tificates, countersigned by the loan officers of tin- states, respectively, final settlement cer tificates, and indents of intercet, which, at the time of passing this act, shall he out standing, and may .re presented at the Trea sury ; and, upon tile same being liquidated and adjusted, shall be paid to the respective holders ofthe same, with interest at six per cent, per annum, from the date of the last payment of interest, as endorsed on said cer tificates, •Sec. 3. And bn it fm P er enacted, That for carrying this act into effi ct, Ihe sum of fif teen thousand dollars be appropriated, urn of any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated. Approved, 7 May, 182 RESOLUTION providing for the distribution of the Secret Journal ami Foreign Correspon dence of tiie old Congress, and ofllie Journal of the Convention which formed the Consti tution of die United State Resolved, hy Ihe Senate and House of Re presentatives ofthe United States of Amcriea in Congress assembled, That the President ofthe. United States be requested to cause to he furnished to each Member of the pie sent Congress, and the Delegates from Ter ritories, who may not bo entitled to the ante under the Resolution of Congress, of the twenty-seventh of March, one tliuusand eight hundred and eighteen, the President and Vice-President of Ilia United State, tin Executive uf each State anti Territory, the Attorney General, and Judges ofthe Court's ofthe United States, and the Colleges and Univerities in t ie United States, each um: copy ; for the use of each of the Depart ments, viz: State, Treasury, War, and Nr vy, two copies each ; for tile use of Ihe Senate, live copies ; for Ihe use of the House of Representatives, ten copies; and for the Library of Congress, ten copies, of tlie Secret Journals, and of the Foreign Correspondence, ordered to he printed i>y the several Resolution? of Congress, passed on the twenty-seventh of March, one thou sand eight hundred and eighteen, and of April twenty-first, one thousand eight lion died and twenty ; Also to each Member of the present Congress, w ho has not received the same, one copy of the Journal of the Convention which formed the Constitution of the United States. And that the remain ing copies he preserved in the Library, sub ject to the future disposition ot Congress. [Approved, II January, 1822.] and regular, and received not the least inju ry IVuui the worm, although its devastations were general Ihroutli tlie neighborhood. When about four or five inches high, it was ploughed with a bursbare plough, throwing the la id from the corn, at w hich time it was liueduiid thinned, leaving the stalks about one foot apart—about ten days after, it was again (Roughed with the bar-share, plough, throw ing tlie land back to thecurn; a fewdays after, it was twice ploughed with tlu* double shovel |ilougli—this was tlie entire culliva- tion it ijeceived. Thecoill was gathered at the usual time, and gnat pains was taken in the gathering and uvastiring by my manager. The whole being measured by him in a sealed barrel kept it my mill for that purpose. The re sult vas three hundred and ninety-six barrels of ears of good corn. The field was survey ed this summer hy a sworu surveyor of this county—and his report was thirty-one acres, •ncM.ing reel, breaks, which he estimated to contain one acre, so that it may he fairly slated from actual measurement both ofthe field and product, at three hundred and ninety-six barrels from thirty acres of land, or IS barrels or 00 bushels Sz a fraction, in the acre. The corn is of the yellow dint kind, with a red cob. There was an evident dif ference in the field ; the half that was sprink led on the drills before the corn came up, being decidedly the best. The season was uncommonly propitious—the corn never suffering for rain, axcept for a short period in tho month of August just before it began o fill. ° 1 am, with great respect, your nbd’t, SAMUEL RINGGOLD. General Ringgold’s communication is va luable, liecuuso the experiment was made upon a large scalu, and with his ordinary process of culture—not a single acre cultiva ted for premium. It is our own fault, or rather misfortune, that we have not had the pleasure to see Gen. Ringgold’s estate—one ot the most extensive and in a proverbially fertile comity—enriched, moreover, hy a well kept and valuable stock of cattle, ofllie best English blood, at the time of their importa tion.—[Ed. Am. Ear.] AMERICAN SCENERY, The following ^ketches are copied from a work just published atC’harlestoo, entitled “ Notices of East Floridn”:— the fhcfc ofthe country <o the borders of the hummock, on the edgo of the swamp, dues not, in other respects, vary Very materially. “ The number of these pieces of wa ter, which gleam upon the* traveller's eye from a distance, or lie along his route in this direction, i9 scarcely credible, and presents a singularity that 1 believe is not to be met with in the topography of any other region of the world. ‘ The same peculiarity, 1 was told, appears upon the road to TulackcaJia (signifying scattered hammock!.) a dis tance of twenty-live miles from the cros sing place on the Ocklewnnow, and also on the road trum Picoiata- lo Alachua, a distance of 40 miles. 14 The St. Johns itself is infant, hut a • on'inued range of these lakes—thus exhibiting, in its chief featuies, a strik ing analogy to the nature of the coun try through which it llows. So much is this the case, that a US therefore with thankful hearts and Mil* ling lips signify our gratitude to the Ixiunti- lul providence that bath sent a store of guild things for fond, and appetite to enjoy them ; and let us supplicate ti Continuance of hia mercy to give, and our health to receive. The Tortoise, u(|on whose savoury ge latine we have feasted, deserves a more ex alted etdogy than lias ever yet been pro nounced. The incidents of his history are too copious for amplification.—All the pre sent occasion permits is u brief exhibition of u few leading sentiments. Tlie anciant tradition ofthe Mingoes, the most celebrated and powerful of our North American natives, is worthy of your notice. According to this, the female spirit who first visited the world, or desceuded from her celestial,abode, was received by a Tor toise, then 'swimming on the immense and boundless ocean.— By a miraculous display of power, soon after litis event, ground aijd grass, and plants bearing fruit, and all aorta of green vegetables were funned around her. until the eye could no longer trace their extent, and even to this it is under stood by the sages, that the solid land with its continents, islands and inhabitants, rests stream, similar in all respects to this ri- „p 0 n the hack of the huge Tortoise oot- ver, might I am convinced, he formed, spread upon the expanse of water; bearing by merely connecting the various bodies j bis load without growing weary, but some- of water that lie parallel to its course. ,ime3 causing an incudation or a deluge by As it preserves litis like form through submersion, and then again producing earth- ...I* i ii , quakes tvben lie shakes himself. Among its tvltole extent, and ends in a lake, it A , , i ,. , , '* ~ i , ii i i these untutored men, the tribe winch d. may, trout analogy, be concluded ; that I p* appellation, or traces its origin from all the unknown region between it and the Tortoise, is high and honorable above the ocean on the west, is also like the | the rest. country I have just described—a land of i I’ersons w ho indulge in classical and phy- lakes and innumerable sheets of water. | sieal researches, know that the celebrated “ Some new term in geograpL^ must be invented to describe this extraordina ry land of many waters, which lias I be lieve, less of a terraqueous character than any other region of country per haps in the known world. *• Some of tho lakes of which I have spoken, though tine sheets of water, are without any other beauty, owing to their Lyre, is connected witli the history of the Tortoise. For Hermes, its inventor, is al- ledged to have produced the first harmony of sounds, by stretching strings across the dry shell, and playing on them with his fin gers. Hence, as the legend states, lie was occasionally represented with his foot upon a tortoise ; and that particular instrument was called ’J’estudu. Those masters of taste, the Greeks, en tertained other opinions concerning this ani- being surrounded by melancholy and j mal. They extolled the tortoise for two monotonous forests of pine. The wa-j pualities which they admired in w oman Great yield of Corn—Un A Large Scale. Fountain Rock, July 15, 1822. Dear Sir: In compliance with my pro mise, I now give you the result of an expe riment I made on a field of 31 acres, a part of this farm, which was cultivated in corn the last yeaV. The field had been alternately in corn, fiats, wheat and clover, the four proceeding years, the crops of corn and oats w ere no thing remarkable, but the crop of wheat was unusually great, owing I suppose, to the quantity of manure that was carried out on tho field after the oats were cut off'. In the fall of 1320 a large slock of hogs w as turned on the clover, the whole of which they root ed up and entirely destroyed—this was done with a view to destroy the worm. In the mouth of March following, the field was highly manured with stable and barnyard manures—the last ol that month and bt gin ning of the next, it was broke up With one of Murray’s two horse ploughs, (Peacock’s patent) and liamtweil with a large break harrow. It was then laid out in rows oi drills, three and a half feet apart, and the corn planted in the drills one foot apart. The planting commenced on the 2Gtli of April, and w as completed on the 1st of May Before the corn came up one half the field was sprinkled on the drils, either with tin- slacked ashes, or the scrapings ofthe roads, through the farm, and what manure could he collected front the wood heaps at tin house and servants* quarters. 1 The corn came up ramarkably strong, SILVER sriUNC ON LIKE GEORGE. 1 tuade an excursion to this famous fountain, ot which so romantic an ac count is given by B.irtram, and found it well worth the trouble of a visit. It itualed on the west side of Lake Georgp. 'I lie water has somewhat of a mineral taste but is, nevertheless, pleas ant ami refreshing, and ib transparent as air, or melted chrystal. Even where it boils up with a considerable jet the smallest object may be discerned at the bottom, at a depth of ”0 feet. It at once iorms a wide creek of a mile in length, emptying into Lake George, and border ed on each tide by stalely forests. The stream is perfectly straight for the grea ter part of its course, lint forms a short curve near its fountain. The sun may be seen shining, with undiminisbed brightness, on the sand at the bottom of the spring. The genius of classical an tiquity would have represented this bv allegory of a water nymph, yielding to tlie embraces of Apollo. We observed many fish darling about, or suspended in the stainless element, but not in the numbers described by Bartram. A snow white bluff and beach of periwinkle- shells, the height crowned by a beauti ful orange grove, mark the southern side ol the outlet into the l ike. There is a salt spring a little further north, but we had not time to visit it. “ B has been observed, that none ot the plants called ..till lettuce, are ever found to the north of Lake George, though abundant just above its southern bar. This is probably owing to the vio lence of the lake, which is easily thrown into commotion by the winds ; at which time it is very dangerous for small craft. The frequent agitation of tho waters, it is supposed, prevent the plants from tak ing root, or being propagated farther noith. The river often presents a very strange scene after a storm, from the field of this herb, which are detached from the banks by the winds, and float down in such quantities as to give the stream the appearance of a floating Sa vannah. “The bonnet leaf, a species of lotus also abounds in the dead water formed by the meeting currents of the river, and the creeks that fall into it. Their appearance, therefore indicates from a distance, the influx of some tributary ol the main stream. “ The water is generally deep where these plants are found, their stems being of great length. Under their green ca nopies the fish take shelter ; and these spots are considered the best for angling. Their umbrella-like leaves are exc eed ingly stiff; mid the. smaller land birds are often seen .walking very securely upon them. “ A few miles further on, four small but very pretty sheets of water are found, enwreathed, as it were, by bays and dwarf palmettoes ; and these I have named The beads, as they succeed each other in short distances, and in regular order, and are almost perfectly oval. “ I shall not attempt to note the end less succession of the lakes, ponds, and -avannas, which 1 continued to meet with, until within about 15 miles of Big Swamp, when they suddenly disappeared, though ters of all of them are remarkably clear; hence they are lermined in the country, “ Clear Water Ponds.” In the summer, when diminished by drought, the edges that are left dry, are covered with n tine verJurc, which renders, the districts that they occupy, the finest grazing coun try in the world, affording both stock, wntcr, and pasturage, as they never bp- come completely dry. Some of them are said to be unfavorable—and it is pre tended that a rise and fall of water of se veral inches, has been observed in them. Il tl.Wi UlSU UUbU U'fcjooluroJ kiut .. subterraneous inlecotnmunicnlion exists among them, from various phenomena, which have been noticed by the inhabi tants ; while the waters of others are supposed to be discharged under ground into the sea. “ It is nssertained that a spring offresh water rises in the ocean, opposite to the south end of Anastatia Island, five or six miles from the coast. I have met with persons w ho averred that they had seen the one an innocence or mildness of disposi tion, to invite ; and the other a power of self defence or resistance, to repel. These were the attributes that led them to associate the tortoise with Beauty. And the just critic understands well the reason why the admirable sculptor, l'hideas, placed tho symbol of a testudo at the fuot of the ini mitable Venus which he carved. Men of a military character, may refresh their memories, hy a consideration of u warlike engine employed hy the old Ro mans, whose name and functions are deriv ed from the tortoise. At the siege of Mer- scilles, as we are informed by Julius Tii Iitsi tfoiiiinciuai jr Aii itio ur*ti »»< ■ i- — * u ty feet long, was constructed in advance of the besieger’s line, for the purpose of level ling the soil. It was formed of the strong est timber, and covered hy nil sorts of ar ticles that Secure it against consumption by fire and destruction by stones. Under such a cover the assailants could make their ap proaches, with less hazard and loss, in a state of society long antecedent to the use of artillery. With so many excellent and memorable qualities, it is hy nu means a circutnstanco of marvel that tlie name of a feathered fa- this fountain, anil drank fresh water from j vorite should have been transferred to this it. They further said, that they had sounded round it, and had obtained seven fathoms water, while, in the middle, they could find no bottom. This spring may be one of the outlets of the great in terior mass of waters, for which there seems to be no sufficient exit on the sur- Mr. Samuel L. Mitchell, of Ncw-York, who knows every tiling and who conceals nothing that he knows, who lias received every academic honor, and who belongs to every literary and philosophical Society, was present on Wednesday last at the Tur tle Grove, which the Hoboken Turtle Club, of w hich ancient and honorable institute lie is an associate, held ils third meeting for the present season. After enjoying a rich repast, the doctor lose and delivered a speech, which was received with the most heart-fell satisfaction. He first spoke of “the grand conceptions inspired by the commercial city on the Hudson’s light bank,”—then he adveited to the tortoise upon whose savory gelatine he had feasted so richly—then lie told the ancient tradition of the Mingoes, how this earth rests on tlie back of a huge tortoise— then lie alluded lu the Grecian instrument of music formed With a tortoise shell, then to the test-ade of Ihe Romans—then to the turtle of the groves—then to the witty en igma of Sympoaius, whether a tortoiec, was a beast, a Jish, or a harp—than lie regretted that tlie tortoise had not wings like a turtle —then he raid that certain southern nations (called in relation to Europe, accidental,) termed the tortoise tlie gift of God—then he spoke of turtle soup as a remedy for the yellow lei. r. But take Ihe whole speech. [1‘hilad. Union.] # FROM THE NEW-YORK DAILY ADVERTISER There is something so congenial to ra tional and social feeiing on this occasion, that there is a difficulty in restraining the expression of it in words. The prospect of a commercial city from the majestic Hud son’s right bank where we are sitting, in spires great conceptions.—Its industry is a mighty topic. Tlie enterprize which ga- thers into oue marl, tlie productions of dif ferent countries is wonderful. The accu mulation and employment of capital arc al ways interest;.ig themes. The thronging population, ever increasing in number and activity, is a subject of the utmost moment. The arrival and departure of ships, whiten ing the horizon with canvass, afford a noble and diversified spectacle. But from all these subjects, it is becom ing, for a few* moments, to withdraw, tliat attention may be paid to some matters con nected with the festivity of the day. Let amphibious creature. That resident of the groves, where the leafy foresters stand close enough to exclude the piertfiug sun shine, and whore the domestic locast trees (rabinia) lime trees (bilia,) and tulip trees (liriadendron,) stretch out their arms, as it were, to welcome those exotics, tlie poplars, from the I'o, and tlie willows from the Euphrates, to become joint tenants with them, the Dove has been a Hedged to sur render a part of her title, and by odd per version uf language, 1'urtte means (he con ing of a bird of Freedoms ; and also the flat footed reptile of Bahama. From the extraordinary and multifarious functions of this oviparous quadruped, a riddle-was composed by Ihe witty SYM- POS1US propounding the question whe ther that living existence w as a beast, a fish, ova harp f as you may read in his collec tion of enigmas. After a statement of these particulars, I feel more than ordinary satisfaction in oti- seriug, that some of the nations uf the south (termed in reference to Europe, accidental,) regard the GREEN TORTOISE, as a sacred object; a peculiar gift of tliu Great Master of lireath. Certain uf them, have proceeded so far, under this persuasion, as to denominate him, the Eisli of Cod, nr, in the dialect of the French colonists, POIS SON DE D1EU. These correct and hon est indigenes, ascribe to the Soup, nr in o- tlier words, the decoction of its flesh, swal lowed after a venomous draught has been received into toe stomach, the most aston ishing i fleets as an antidote or counter-poi son. What more shall I say on this hand ? Why truly, that this exquisite preparation surpasses all the other compounds ot the kitchen and the shop. Perhaps there is no other known, that possesses in so eminent a degree, the properties both of food and medicine. It is an aliment of the most pa latable and nutritious kind ; so elaborated by coi tion in the cauldron, that vary little digestion in tlie stomach is necessary. It assimilates with our nature, and becomes part and parcel of our living frame more readily thau almost any other substance •, subduing crudities, rendering the humours bland, and promoting good humour and hilarity to an extraordinary degree. It begets amenity and suavity of temper. It diminishes the pronencss to give, and to take offence : and I proclaim tlie informa tion to the universe, that no quarrel be tween the members lias ever arisen upon this hallowed spot, rendering a settlement necessary by single combat. Nor are its virtues less prominent as n prophylactic or preventer of disease.—Come hither, all ye lean t.ibitl sufferers ! ye who are wasted hy atrophy and emaciation ! 1 ami yc who are lingering with hectic fever