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f-onet. Ofipiain M. was then infer incd of ilia j in fts ofiecirvt
suspicious < ircuh3:Tt;in» es noticed by the £iiard,
Wliat was now to lie finite '! hUoiisf suspi
cion had atlarhed itself to the n!ranger, bulito
ppsitivf pot if h*ul yet appeared against him.
•An. expedient soon suggested itself to the
reatly thoughts of our Yankee Captain. lie (
a century,
century more,
.state, is In.S.,little more tli'jll } ISOfopKair ♦turrc^itti.lfetice of the puiird States Gazette,
half « bentiiry old. for'its ihvt.ntion, in the |. ExiAkk, (in Devonshire,) July, ISS7.
time of < diaries It., leit it for .upwards ot half j ijero fan) in the fceiitic oi the liveliest ru-
litt.le more tlinn a toy. In iialf a jra! district In Fnghaid, at the height .of the
its present perfection may be j haying season. Of course, my j ide of sixty
looked upon as little else than that of tut in- j miles to-day, out of Somerset,.Which is another
ireniotis plaything. It is scarce,ly ten years ] line county, has been a continual treat; such
observed to the prisoner, “ we have 'detained j since the steamboat first ventured to.sea.— ! is lx>th the natural niul artificial beauty of the
vou oti your journey for some length of t ime, Thirty years ;tjjo, the late Lord Stanhope was • region we.havc travctsed. I “• the most part,
and subjected yoir to a pretty siract (xrmiina- laughed at by all London, for his attempt to jit gnOderately'Uiilv. ibe JttsrfU of Dtbon
tion, I feel bound by tbe tides of civility to -swim the steamboat from London Bridge to j is much more so; and so much so, as to make
treat, you to a howl of toddv. before you pro- Greenwich. It now dashes from the tower to j travelling irksome, without showing much to
reed on, hud if you will drink with us you ; Constantinople; or shoots down the Red Sea, j make amends for it. On the othei hand, the
fights the moonshine on its own ground; Past oi England, from which my last letters
sweeps to Bombay, Oevlou, ami Bengal, and ! were addressed to you, is one vast monotony
astonishes the Mogul and the Emperor ot j <d flatness; fertile indeed, and highly tilled,
China, the same morning, with t he month's : but yet monotmioar ? u' farmery country, :n
ncivpojuTs frani I.ondmi. 7 fieriiilwsy, in its j fact, fai moic than a loyei oi iialuie s. I his
present power, is riot ten years old, yet is al- {delightful region around Exeter is both. All
teadv spreading, not merely over Europe, but ; Booth Devon is, perhaps; as a -whole, the very
over'the vast savannahs of the New Woi'ld; j •svrticlcst rural district in Europe, especially
What wi
shall be- made welcome.” 'The man was
pleased with the invitation, and readily agreed
to accept it. The Captain took upon himself
the of lice oi bar keeper, and soon prepared
the toddy. To make it genuine and answer
the purpose for which he wanted it, 1m stirred
in a good and sufficient dose of emetic tartar.
Our stranger being thirsty and somewhat fa
tigued by travelling, drank very freely of the
beverage, while the Cnpt. and others present
barely tasted and passed it round.
A free conversation soon commenced be
tween the stranger ami bis new acquaintances.
He inquired of Copt ,M. t he number ol men
under Ins command, and at the different tm!i-
lary stations above Redhook, whether they
were furnished with field pieces or any kind of
cannon —what number ofcenliitcLj were plac
ed on the watch at a time—how often, and at
what lime in the night: they relieved, &c &c.
About Igor 1.0 minutes after t lie toddy went
round and went down, our guest began to
grow pale, and looked wild; “something,'’
said he, " is the matter with me—I feel very-
sick at my stomach all at once.” lie rose im
mediately from bis seat and went out into the
wood-yard, where a quantity oi chips were ly
ing, and soon began to evacuate liis stomach.
He was carefully watched by Cnpt; M. and
several of the guard, and was seen by them to
draw with his foot a parcel of the chips over
flic matter emitted from liis stomach, before
he returned into the house. While he was
rinsing his month in the. house, Cant. M. di
rected a search to be made among the chips,
where was soon found a silver ball of the size
justice tb that which, to be appreciated, after
all, must be seen as (lod has made it.
L have mentioned the hay-making because
this, is the season of it. The 'country, of
course, is not all. grass. Every variety" of crop
is growing; the grain, potatoes, turnips, flax,
and others. These voir must imagine scatter
ed, in lots, or checks, over the round hills in
STATE SOVEKEUNTV.
THE RECORDER.
if IL I. E I) (1 f V IIL E:
Tuesday, Maiffih 13, 1K38.
»jl ■ I*’— T.-'
even here, is shaken, and both the friends and
the foes of the measure,-are feft in as glorious
a state of uncertainty, in regard to the result,
as could be wished by the bitterest opponent
of both.
alkdirections; each w earing the distinctive . ,
color, by which it is known, but all verdant, ! Several articles will be found in our columns^
and shining in the sun ; with clumps of trees, j descriptive of the sufferings of the poor at the
and avenues, and flourishing hedges, and now j North, which are really appalling. There are
and then an orchard. 11 all this is tne vale of thousands wandering about the streets of New- j VV e' cut the following account from the
York, who are absolutely without a shelter for j Newark Sentinel, in relation to one once well
Out townsman Geii. J. W. A. Sanford, we
see has resigned his agency of Creek Indians
and James Logan, of Arkansas, has been ap
pointed to supply his place.
all this conic to in the next fifty j considering how it is populated and taken care
years ? "What must be the effect of this gi- of. I lie. roads tire, for English ernes, narrow,
giinlic stride over the ways' of this, world ? 1 Blill, they tire smooth and hard; capital roads,
What the mighty influence of that mighty i in fact, and wide enough for the travel; and
communication which, even in its feeblest | their being only of the dimensions they are,
state, has been in every age; the grand iuslru- i makes them more in keeping with the country
nicht of civilization ! Throw down the suml- j through which Urey pass. Tlidy are more ru-
les-t barrier to become more civilized. Open ral— ; more poth-lih,—less common-place.—
the close shut coast of (Tina or Japan to man- j This impression is enhanced, of course, by the
kind, a fid from that hour the condition of the | hedges on either side. 1 liese are common in
people will be in progress of improvement.-—! nil <]u<irters of the, country, to }*.e sure; but
The barbarian an. 1 the despot bate the strati- j there is as much variety in them as in any (
ger. Yet for the fullest civilization, freedom, ! thing else we sec on the road. Not only do j
and enjoyment of which earth is capable, the j individual proprietors display their science |
one thing needful is the fullest intercourse
nation with nation, and of lgjin with man. j public, spun—out im;i« '>• , j ^
a river, you have wound the windings of the
little fiver itself, which its vivid margin of
meadow. You ride along one side, above it,
and gaze at the opposite.
44 So from tltg strop, tliro 1 farms arul proves,
Our cut through J/ovi/vji’s fair valley roves*.
Fair valley indeed! Old Day Was Night,
e passed along the edge of it this evening,
arid my heart is haunted still with a dream of
its beauties.
VALUABLE STATISTICS OF DISEASE AMI DEATH.
The Nevv-York City Inspector has append
ed to liis teport of Interments in that city for
the year 1837, an elaborate table of all the
deaths which have occurred since 1805, a pe
riod of 33 years—the total number by each
diseasp, and the ratio of mortality by each— j street beggar's,
the comparative mortality in different months—
at different ages—average duration of life, &c.
The whole number of.deaths in the 33 years
their heads, or food for tlicir daily sustenance, j known iu our community, who left the State
There are besides the#e, about thirty-five bun- i about the commencement ol the abolition ef-
dred paupers in the city, supported by public | iorts upon the South, on account of charges,
charities. The victims of hunger and of na- J tnie or false, against him, implicating him with
kedness which meet the eye, and openly ap- j incendiaries at the North,
peal to the public sympathy, must be sufii- j Died, near Galveston, Texas, Elijah H.
ciently distressing to the kindly and humane.] ^ r - ^ > In - Lurritt, Mi;. Allred
,, , . , j Andrews, Mr. Jaliez Cornwall, and Mrs Man-
But there are thousands of instances of uesti- » uu ,, , , ‘ J
j Aim Bolden. 1 lio.se persons belonged to a
company of about twenty individuals, who
tution and want, even by those who make
every exertion which the most laborious in
dustry can achieve, but whose labors are too
profitless even to supply" their daily bread,
and vet who suffer on rather titan become
ri(i riRiiMUUal HI U.;i K f.Ui Ij Bin) H<J > uu.ll e'.u 1J V.U ; • 1{J - r oi i* 1 •» . 1
1. . -.1 • 1 1 ,1 • IS 125,501; of these 21,883 wete bv-consump-
oFt and taste m their hedges—or their vanity or I . , . . ... * , , 1
! ... . . , . ° tion, being more than a liftli or the whole uiim-
public spnit—but there are styles ot Hedge- , . .
emigrated to Texas from New Britain, in this
State, last fall. Mr. Nathan A. Andrews fin-
some time a resident of this city, belonrimr to
the same company, died in Texas a short time
previous to the arrival of his associates. Mr.
Alfred Stanley, also from New Britain, started
The Euro nean nassion for the railroad is making peculiar to certain region.fi. A variety , r , . T -> - i
.1.1. ijuuipaa jidSMuu 1UI lllc lajjwauts -r < • persons died of consunuitjon. Besides, 77 00
certainly' one of the most singular, ns it is one j of trees and shrubbery, as \\ell as othei mate-
of the most cheering characteristics ol' the
age. Like till instruments of national power,
it may
mn<
le
an
instrument of evil.
rial, enters into their composition. Here it is
a general fashion to allow them to grow up
L j flourishing, lusty and high. A hedge, in fact.
may give additional strength to the tyrannical, j is almost a long bower, or a plantation of trees,
lightly soldered together. Inclosed in this fa
tal bullet was found a letter on a sheet of silk
paper signed by Lord Howe, addressed to
Gen. Burgoyne, giving information respecting
tiro situation of the royal fleet and army at
New-York; and requesting advice from the
General by the bearer, what progress be was
making wit.li the army under bis command to
ward Albany ; at which place he hoped soon
to meet hint. But the deciphering ami read
ing the letter presented another puzzle to the
Yankee Captain. It commenced in the words
and figures following viz ; “ Mb d21r B.Jr, bO
tli2 c21rlrv y-15 w311 ]24rn,” &c. After a lit
tle examination and study, however, the diffi
culty was overcome. It was discovered tiiat
the arithmetical figures up to six inclusive were
substituted for our vowels, thus, al, e2, id, oJ,
ii5, yfi. The key being now found immediate
ly unlocked the whole contents of the silver
bullet. The hearer of course was continued
in custody', and a court martial speedily form
ed, bv whom, on the clearest evidence of guilt,
the unfortunate prisoner was convicted, sen
tenced and executed.
l or ee a gain st the weak, pour indeed, in a row. Sometimes they tower up
20, or even 3d feet, thickly matted together
with shrubbery below, and grown up with
vines and hamriim flowers. You can imagine
and accumulate
resistless invasion against the unprepared, ami
smile the helpless with unexampled rapidity
of ruin. But its faculties are made for peace,
its tendency is to make nations feel the value j the importance to the traveller’s eye, of such
J of peace; and unless some other magnificent i a feature as this til the landscape, for they' are
of a small musket bullet, made by two pieces j intention shall come to supersede its use, and j n °t only planted along the highway, but in eve-
of very' thinly plated silver bent round and | obliterate the memory of its services, wc can- j r y direction, along lanes, between premises
not suffer ourselves 'to doubt that the whole i nf different ow ners or-occupiers, and so on.—
system which is now in the course of adop- j Thus the country is cut up by them into
tion, with such err!or throughout Europe, will checks of every size. An opposite hill-side,
yet bo acknowledged, as having given the
checks
at a distance, has the air of a vast mop.
The
mightiest propulsion to the general improve- whole region is a net-work of foliage, lliis
niont of mankind. , " j is the general appearance. How much it va-
j ties from even the same country intersected
A Bi.ack, W i:rrr. M an.—A ncic experiment j with fences, or walls, or not intersected at all,
torause. money<—A most ludicrous and amusing j y ou nmv conjecture. It is c feature? too
died of inflammations or other diseases of the
filings.
The next greatest number of deaths was by
convulsions, 9343 being charged to that ac
count; cholera 5084 ; 4986 bv dropsy' of the
brain; cholera infantum 4870; croup 3848;
inflammation of the bowels 3252; old age
3532; dysentery 3368; typhus fever 3602; ap-
poplexy 20?5; small pox 2578; measles 2117 ;
scarlet fever 19S3; diseased liver 1498; in
temperance 1728, and so on down. Of the
whole number there were 15,002 more males
than females. It will be seen by the follow
ing table that two-fifths of the race (in N. Y.)
die under 5 years. The greatest number of
deaths are between 30 and 40, and the safest
period of life between 5 and 20:
COMPAJIATIVE M0KTA1.ITY AT DIFFERENT AGES.
affair was acted in this viemitv a few d
since. A worthless white man (bv the bye, a
Loco Foro Democrat of the first water,) made
a serious and solemn proposition to Mr
Prom Blackwood's “ World we Lire
RAILROADS AND STEAMBOATS.
It might be a serious speculation to inquire
into the probable effects of the railroad sys
tem on mankind. Certainly no system ever
became so popular, and so suddenly and so
widely popular. France lias begun to fling
out those gigantic arms of communication
over her noble country. Belgium exults in
the commencement of a web of railroad in
which it expects to catch all the stray dollars
and centimes of the continent. The transit
from (Jstend to the Rhine will, in the course
of a year or two, be an affair of a couple of
a facetious gentleman full of mischievous fun,
to black him, and otherwise give him the cos
tume of a negro, and to sell him for their mu
tual benefit. Mr. readily' assented
and encouraged the scheme, as well calculated
to promote their fortunes. Accordingly, at an
appointed time and place, the parties met in a
large wood, raised a fire and prepared the
coloring matter, which was admirably applied.
Mr. then took his man to the house
of a neighbor, Mr. , who had previous
ly been advised of the joke, and offered to sell
him at aliigh price. After some preliminaries
aiul enquiries of the fellow if he were willing
to be sold, the purchase was in due form made,
and some shin-plasters counted out in payment
iit the fellow’s presence, evidently to his great
delight. He was immediately put to hard la
bor—but, after a short time, the purchaser
pretended offence in some insolence of ex
pression, and .instantly ordered his man to be
tied, and was preparing his rope and cow-hide,
when the fellow, in the utmost alarm, fled, nor
did he run booty. On meeting liis friend at
the place of rendezvous for a division of the
spoils he was informed, in consequence of his
you it . „ .
I which looks equally well in detail. It is not
mere distance that “lends enchantment to the
view.” Often we find the hedges composed of
the white thorn, or something else that flour crs;
and a white-thorn hedge in blossom—its green
glossy masses sprinkled with these bountiful
dusters of snowy purity—is one of the most
pleasing of all rural things;—to say nothing
of its classic associations, 1 lie shelter it gives,
and the shade it throws, or of that far-famed
fragrance of which poets sing. To enter one
of these little lanes, for example, which are
continually branching off from the road we
travel—what a sweet walk in this chequered
shade, “ high over-arched,” as Milton Lath it,
with flourishing young elms, perhaps; vines
clinging to the trunks, and wild flowers, Vpur
pling the green sward” at each side. I can
only peep into these dark a venues as we roll
by, but 1 long to enter and follow them to
their end. fSotnetiir.es we changed horses at
such spots. No bouse, or stable, in the neigh
borhood, was to be seen; nothing but round
green shining swells, and long slopes; and
vales between, and flowery hedges, and ave
nues of trees; and in the intervals, a group
of hay-makers here and there—then, women
and children, following the creaking wain, or
tossing the fresh cut herbage in the air.—
Here, as vve turn some corner, is a bowery
winding lane. Two boys are waiting us; and
as vve ride up, four fine sleek horses prance
ill-timed elopement before the title papers had
hours. Germany is shaking off the sleep, her j been made, the purchaser had demanded and
blacksmiths are lighting their Hercynian for- received back his money. Thus exploded an j out of the mouth of the shadow. The shift is
ges and from the mountains of the Hartz to the I experiment to raise money, to the merriment
Tyrol, huge men with antideluvian visages I of tho neighborhood. It is a fact ascertained
that the father of tho pretended negro con
nived at the plan, and whs to participate in the
proceeds. I hope our benevolent friends, the
Abolitionists, will devise some means to pre
vent white men being made negroes.—Ackvm.
Near Shannon Hill, Goochland county.
Apes.
Total.
Per. ct.
F ndcr 5 \ ears.
4,953
39,16
Between 5 and 10 years
, 5,023
“ 10 and 20 “
5,899
“ 20 and 30 “
16,628
13.249
“ 30 and 40 “
17,095
13.462
“ 40 and 50 “
12,512
9.969
“ 50 and 60 “
7,785
6.23
“ 60 and 70 “
5,385
4.29
“ 70 and 80 “
3,541
2.82
“ 80 and upwards
, 2.102
1.674
Total,
125,501
The mean average dur
ltion of life, taking
all ages into the account, in
1815, was
30 years,
and it appears to have been diminish
ing grad-
Amidst all the difficulties which the people i on his return home, but died on his passage
of the South have experienced, from the late j Letters from surviving members of the com-
tevulsion in trade and depreciation of their | I ,al L v repie.>ent ^em as in a sickly, destitute,
, , , r . . and suffering comlit ion.—rsuc-Huern Her ah!
products, tuey have great cause for gratitude j Mr E H Burnf> wb6 UH , lbe father of ^
above mentioned and luckless enterprise, was
a man of science, and had earned some dis
tinction. He was long a teacher—then an au
thor—once a member of the Board of Public
Works in Georgia, and afterwards chief engi-
that is more than one out of every five j to Heaven, in view of the blessings still left 1
to them, of ail abundant plenteousness. Po
verty, in the northern sense of the word, is
hardly recognized among us, and destitution
is unknown.
ually ever since, so that the average length of
life last year, was only 22. Last year more
than half the deaths were children under 5
years—a great increase of mortality among
children.
The table of tho comparative mortality for
the different
months,
during the
33 years,
shows that August is the most sickly’ month,
and June the healthiest:
January,
9,976
July,
14,034
F ebruary,
9,782
August,
16,511
March,
9,994
September,
13,349
April,
9,455
October,
11,248
May,
9,3(39
November,
9,973
June,
8,426
December,
10,207
The rale of mortality appears to have been
less in 1810, than in any other year, being
ncer. His “ Geography of the Heavens” is a
VVe have been led to the above remarks by valuable and popular work. He has shared
reading some of the many accounts of per- the usual fate of Texas adventurers,
sonal distress, which are brought to us in al
most every northern paper. Among others,
we noticed an account of a society about to be
formed for the relief of industrious females,
of which Matthew Carey was at the head, and
we were forcibly struck with many of the
statements in reference to the miserable con
dition of even the most industrious and virtu
ous of the laboring females in Philadelphia.
Among other interesting facts stated, we select
the following, in relation to those females who
j depend on their needles for a support, and
who are employed on coarse work. The re
port states that, 1st—It is ineontrovertibly
established, that an industrious woman, even
if unencumbered with children, and working
12 or 13 hours per day, cannot make more
than nine shirts per week. 2d—That the
prices paid in the slop shops are only 8, 10
and 12|V cents per shirt: the first and last
prices are believed to be rare, the great majo
rity being made, as far as can be learned, at 10
cents. 3d—That the rents these poor women
pay monthly for cellars and garrets are gene
rally 50 cents per week, rarely, if ever less,
and sometimes 624 cents. 4th—That it there
fore follows, that a woman, if constantly and
industriously employed, at 10 cents per shirt,
can earn only 40 cents per week beyond her
rent, or less than 6 cents per day for food,
clothing, fuel, soap, candles, &c., for herself
and children, if she have any, as mo3t of them
have.
Surely this is a most appalling and distress
ing account; and if at all a just view of the
present slate of thousands of the industrious
The following resolutions offered by Mr.
Patton, are of the right kind* and we are hap
py to notice that they come from the proper
quarter. Mr. Patten is an administration
man, and has shown in this matter, an indepen
dence as rare as it is honorable. We have no
expectation however, that any thing will come
of the matter; the party in power are too te
nacious of all they can grasp, to yield an inch
that can be retained. The Tost Office De
partment, for instance, has been made a mere
machine for party purposes, and its influence
in this way, has been felt from one end of the
Union to the other. But dare the party touch
the immaculate Amos i No. He is of too
much use to them, to have any overhaulin'' of
his official conduct, no matter how gross and
glaring may have been his official delinquen
cies. However the motion is a good one, and
deserves at least more consideration than we
have any hopes will be given to it.
Mr. Patton submitted the following resolu
tions to the House of Representatives on Mon
day, which were laid on the table, viz.
1. Resolved, That the power of removing
Executive officers is vested in the President
of the Gnited States:
2. Resolved, 7"hat this power was conferred
to enable the Executive “ to take care that
the laws are faithfully executed,” and cannot
be exercised arbitrarily or capriciously, with
out an abuse of power, tyrannical in its ope
ration 1 corrupting its tendency, and converting
a remedy for unworthiness and misconduct
into a terrible engine of Executive power.
3. Resolved, J hat the pair image of the
Executive department has increased to an
alarming extent, and ought to be restricted
and Cyclopean arms are hammering at iron
wedges, rail, and gear for “ tire horses. 4 * Prus
sia is laying down rail roads from her capital to
France, to Poland, and to Austria. The puz
zling question of her politicians being, whe
ther site thus invites invasion, or proposes de
fence. But politicians are blockheads on mat
ters of common sense, and of all blockheads
the German politician is the most profound,
headstrong and hopeless. The merchant, the
traveller, and tho tinker know better tilings.
They could tell them, that the roughest of roy
al roughriders, was never able to whip and
spur either Frenchman, Belgian, Prussian, or
'Austrian into belligerency, more than fifty
years out. of every hundred. But thanks to
the growing common sense of mankind, they
never will be able to do this again, and that the
world are beginning to discover that fifty years
of victory are not worth one year of peace.
In short,the world is evidently become a buy
ing and selling wot Id, a vast spinning and
weaving community, avast aggregate of hands
and heads, busy about the main chance, and
much more inclined to eat, drink and be hap
py than to liuru each other's warehouses., or
blow out each other’s brains. That war will
never cease out of the world, is a theorem
founded on the fact that the countless majority
of mankind have a strong tendency to be fools;
but vve may establish another theorem, that
the more difficult it is to make war, the less
likely it is to be made. The more mechanical
dexterity, personal ingenuity, and natural ex
pense that is required to make war, the more
will success be out of the power of brute force,
and the more in the power of intellectual su
periority.
Let war come to a conflict of steam engines
and nil the barbarian rabble of the world,
Turks and Tartars, Arabs and Indians, Afri
cans and Chinese, must obviously be out of
the question at once. They may massacre
each oilier, but they must fly from the master
of the mechanics. All the half barbarians,
Russian, Greek, Pole, Swede and Austrian,
must make the attempt only to be shattered,
und Field Marshal Stephenson, with hissquad-
A Gallant Yoettl—The Huntingdon (N.
J.) Gazette records the death of a deaf and
dumb boy, named Stephen McGuire, who re
cently died at Mobile, Alabama. He was edu
cated at the Deaf and Dumb Institution at
Hartford, Connecticut, was a native of New-
Jerscy, and went to Mobile for his health, anil
to practise Medicine. He had exhibited talent
of a high and marked order—was enamoured
in early life of the character of Napoleon—
visited France while yet a boy, and partook
gallantly in the glories of trots jovrs—recross
ed the Atlantic—plunged iuto the wilderness,
and bravely fought against the Savages in the
wars with Black llavvk, receiving the palm of
honor for. liis bravery on that occasion, from
the fair hands of the ladies of Galena.
The good of wanting a Nose.—A man
who has lost liis nose, says an old Scotch jour
nal, bus peculiar advantages ; he cannot follow
his nose, but then he cannot be poking it into
every thing. He cannot blow In's nose, but
then he saves pocket handkerchiefs. He can
not be stuffed up in his nose, but then he can
not take snuff, which is, however, another sav
ing. If he goes to sleep, you cannot tickle his
nose; and when lie is awake, he cannot run
his nose against a post. Let him drink what
he will, lie will never have a red nose; and
never be exposed to the nick name of Nosey •
and let him be as impertinent as be will, lie
may defy you to pull liis nose. “Sir,” said a
man to another with a false nose—“I’li pull
your nose.” 14 Sir,” said lie “ I shall put my
nose in my pocket.”
completed in half a minute. I have not tune
even to inquire where they come from, and we
rattle forward as before.
You may imagine an objection to tlie bod
ges I describe. With all the beauty, they
sometimes shut out the view of the traveller.
It is often the case that the pedestrian has to
climb up the sides of the hedge to see over;
hut in this region we, on the outside of the
coach, who arc six feet above the level at least,
have sometimes but little better seeing privi
lege, (as a yankee would say,) than he. We
seem to be exploring almost a tunnel, ol foli
age, cut through the hills. However, this
does not last long. We get glimpses here and
there, at least through lanes and styles, and
yards and gardens ; and besides, the country
is an uneven one. as I have said before. Clus
ters of hills and vales are sprinkled all round
us, far and near. If wc loose a little on die
opposite side of the hedges, it is made up to
us in the “long run” of the landscape. We
also have the delightful 'shade. It makes the
road iu fact like one of the lanes: almost a
Miss.Milford’s lane;—clean, cool, sweet, dus
ky and delicious. In Somerset we had cjq^uls
of dust after us; but it really seems as it dust
would not rise in such roads as these. There
will be plenty in North Devon, they say, to
make up for it.
Devonshire, I need not remind you, is
among the first of the English counties. In
the first place, it ts one of the largest, after
Yorkshire; for it has a circumference of 287
miles, being about 70 miles in its two princi
pal dimensions. More than half of this is sea-
coast. Jt has the advantage of having the
Bristol Channel on its Northern side, and the
British on the Southern. This gives it greet
mercantile advantages, what with its canals,
its little rivers, and the series of nooks, and
coves, and harbors, along its shores. It gets
a great deal of fine sea-scenerv also in this
way, on either hand, with other minor privi
leges, which concern the invalids and the fash
ionables more than they do me. Hence the
poor at the North, as we doubt not it is, while j and diminished so far as is compatible with a
then 1 death in every 46 of the population; in | k oxcites our deepest sympathies for the ob-1 faithful execution of the laws
1815, one in 41 ; in 1825, one in 31, and in i jocls of such distress, should still our murmurs ! ' \ C - S ° 1 1 »at it is e rig rt o the rep-
’ 1 ' resentatives of the people to examine into all
anuses and usurpations which may be appre-
1835, one in 40.
The life of a Physician is a life of contra
diction. He.is slandered, nhusedand derided; j abundance of watering places, especially on
yet he is sought with avidity and freely re- ' this Southern side. Here are Lxmouth and
ceived into the'bosom of families. Hisopuiion j Sidmoutb, and Teignmonth, and all the other
can blanch the cheek or suffuse the eye with j “mouths,’ and a number more withnrj any
ion of fire horses, galloping at a rate of eigh- tears of joy, and liis lips are as closely watch- j mouths at all; but all popular rendezvous,
ty miles an hour* must consume their battalia ed, as if from them preceded ilie issues of life and crowded at this season. The climate is
and death. He lives by the woes of others, 1 perhaps the finest in. Great Britain; ot least
and while he would starve if constant health ! for certain constitutions. You kuow it issome
were the attribute of oqr race, he is endeavor
ing to banish sickness from among men, while
success in his vocation would ruin him forever.
He is always engaged in a war against his own
bread and butler.
THE SUFFERINGS AND PRIVATIONS OF THE POOR.
A poor family in New-York, who had lived
comfortably enough before times became so
bad, showed to a benevolent gentleman who
visited them in their distress and want, eigh
teen pawnbroker’s rickets, which had been
received on articles gathered together by for
mer industry, and which they had been com
pelled to pledge for money to buy food. They
were as follows :
For a bed spread, one sheet and one
table cloth, $1 00
a piece of calico and remnant of
cloth, 1 00
1 bed spread and 2 linen sheets, I 50
1 bed spread, 4 linen sheets and
parasol,
1 cloth coat,
2 gowns,
l shawl and 1 handkerchief,
1 vest,
I table cloth,
1 gown,
1 bed quilt and blanket,
3 gowns and 1 cape,
1 frock,
1 blanket and gown.
1 quilt, 1 coat, 1 vest, and 1 petti
coat,
1 cloak and 1 gown,
1 blue cloth coat,
j for the trivial revulsion of our prosperity, and
fill our hearts with the liveliest gratitude to a
bountiful Providence, for giving us our heri-
hended to exist in any of the executive di
pnrtments, in order that they may be correct-
2 00
1 12
50
1 25
75
31
75
1 50
1 00
3S
1 35
tnge in a fruitful land, where real destitution j ec ^ an< ^ prevented, il possible, by legislation,
and its attendant miseries are actually un-j an '!’ hl and vranton cases, exposed
, J and punished.
'noun. j 5 Resolved, That the power of nppoinl-
We have given, in the correspondence from ! ment an<t removal from office, vested in the
tho Charleston Mercury, the substance of the j T eX ]
Congressional proceedings since our last.
The business, our readers are aware, was in
terrupted, by the usual adjournment, on ac
count of the death of Mr. Cilley. It will be
noticed that a bill has been introduced into
ercise, ought, therefore, to he watched and
strictly guarded, so as, if possible, “ to pre
vent the power anil patronage of the Execu
tive from being brought into conflict with the
freedom and purity of elections.”
6. Resolved, That the representatives of the
,, rr , .. , ... j people in this house have a right to inquire
the House for the prevention ol dueling. The illto the causes for which any Executive
Fiontier bill passed the House on the 2d, and j officer has been dismissed from uffice by the
was sent to the Senate for concurrence. This i Executive.
is not the bill which passed the Senate, but a! ?• R&fdred, That in prosecuting such in-
new bill, which was reported by the Commit- j duI ' T ’ th f House of Representatives has ft
, (. r., . „ . H right to call for and have furnished to it all
tee of Foreign Relations. The Senate bill; b^ ciaJ documents, papers, and letters relating
amendments and all, was laid upon the table, j to the removal of such officer, which may be
Congress will probably do something to pre- j 0:1 tile among the records of any of the Ex
vent our invasion of Canada when all the mis- [ ec \itiv.e departments.
\ S. Resolved, That a select committee of
... i i i c, , members be appointed, whose duty it
on account oi their criminal delay. Should 'win i , • • L 1 J
I shall be to inquire whether any “honest, ca-
officers have been dismiss-
2 , ,3. 3 — — upon j eairom ounce, not- on grounds of error, negli-
1 her territory and subjects, the members of! S ence > incapacity, misconduct or unfitness;
chief is done, and the whole country sufFerind
on account of their criminal delay. Should
war with Great Britain he the result of the i pablc and faithful”
■ conlinued aggressions of our citizens upon I e d from office, not-<
tho
suflenn F'"";’," F" • T i U1 more service to tlic country
this could be told by the honest and ■bi"h-miud-1 „■ „ ,, , J , i
ed poor of the city, who ptefer to see the ar- j i clG they Ve ’ or at a11 events be placed un- j a lpomtment toofiLe.
tides gathered together piece by piece, by j ( cr SUca discipline as would effectually put a j [Correspondence of theChartesti* Mexcarr.j
hard industry when times were better, passing i Stop to the mischief they do the country at! Washington Feb.'28 1838.
Washington.
from them for ono-teutli tlieir value, rather
than make known their wants, and endeavor
to excite the sympathies of reluctant, or even
willing charity.—Balt. Gazette,
ty
with the breath of liis nost rils. Thus England
instead of feeling alarmed at the sudden pas
sion of foreigners for medianicism should re
joice to see the passion spreading, should en
courage them to throw all their powers into
mechanical rivalry, and exult iu every railroad
that shoots its serpent line among the lulls and
valleys of the Continent, and hail the smoke
of every steam engine that trails its markv
line along the sky, as not merely an emblem,
but an instrument of tlieir own superiority.
Medianicism, the great power of ait is Us ex
haustless as any of tire great, powers of nature,
for it is only the exhaustless victor of intellect
combining with and commanding the secrets
c»f nature.
Ten thousand years might roll on, and every
year see a new advance of every kingdom of
Europe iu invention, and England keeping
ahead of them all, and like one of her own
engines, showing her spfeed by the sparks that
lighten rite road behind.. The steam engine'
degrees more northerly than Boston, and yet
here vegetation suffers, one may say, little m-
teiTuption din ing the winter. It is only on
the top of Dartmoor Waste, or among the
high Bcotch bills of North Devon, that they
. —v— 4 ; —j know indeed what winter is. The broad
Cellars.—It is a practice in Germany, leaved Dutch myrtle; as well as the more del-
worthy of our imitation, to keep open a com- ir ate species, constantly flourish in the open
mumcation between the cellars and the princi- j air, and frequently enter largely into the gar-
pal chimney of the bouse, to enable tbe nox- j den hedges. Such are the charms of Devon-
ious air, more or less generated there, to cs- ; sfiire. And then its wonderful rural beauty—
cape. Jt also promotes the draft of the chini- j its hills and vales;—so gentle, round, rich, and
ncy. Ibe air in cellars often becomes highly j green; with just the wood, and the water, and
deleterious to health, and the sickness of fami- j the glimpses of the. blue pea. and its crags, afar
pynnieucs.j an cuect so ennrating as Vveil may weary
in itcellei', Veritilla.tion should be provided for, j who would feigu immortalize themselves by
by leaving 'a passage.open over the doors <54*j copying some small-spot of ITs beauty hero and.
•cor;i>nunic,;itiou. ; there; of.the vain efforts of the pencil tod-
- - ^ :
Convention of Scientific Men.—We
learn from the Boston Medical and Surgical
Journal, that at a meeting of the Convention
of the Massachusetts Medical Society, on
Wednesday, the 7tli inst., some resolutions
were introduced by Dr. J. V. C_ Smith, re
commending that in view of tbe splendid
achievements in science, resulting from the
nutted efforts of the learned, in Europe, a
general national convention of scientific men,
be held at specified seasons, for tbe inter
change of opinions, and for concentrating their
labor; believing that it would not only tend to
develop© the resources of the new world, but
would also advance the cause of human happi
ness. Also, that a committee should be ap
pointed by the council, whose duty it shall be
to propose to all the known literary and scien
tific societies in the United States, to send dele
gates. on some specified day the ensuing au
tumn, to the most convenient and central place
in the Union, for the purpose of organizing a
national scientific association. And that the
said committee be authorized to extend invi
tations to distinguished individuals in foreign
countries, to encourage, by their presence and
Co-operation, the great objeet contemplated iii
the esf^bliSHrhgm of ibis impOXtaut national in
stitution.
j The funeral of the lamented Cilley took place
~ * j yesterday at the Capitol, and was conducted
Mr. Cambreleng introduced on the 2d, the j with great pomp and ceremony. An unusual
Treasury Bill, for the custody, disbursement,! number ofladies and gentlemen attended. The
&c., of the public revenue, in the House of' feeling occasioned by tbe circumstances of hi*
Representatives. It differs somewhat fromM® at ^» ^ as been increased!)} the publication
the Bill in the Senate, having the same object,
and is said to be altogether more objectionable
to the opponents of the Sub Treasury system,
than the Senate’s bill.
The anxiety felt in regard to this measure,
has elicited much conjecture, and many nice
calculations, in relation to its probable fate.—
A correspondent of tbe Richmond Enquirer
of the “ statement of the seconds, Messrs
Wise and Jones. It is alledged that no cause
appears for calling Mr. Cilley out, and that,
on tlie field, the affair could not, under the
rules of honor, have been pressed, after the
overtures made by Mr. Cilley’s friend. This
feeling is deep and universal ; and it is begin
ning to connect itself with party and personal
considerations.
r\s every one expected, the House lias ta-
of the 24th ult., writes that it is supposed at keu the matter up in a very serious manner.
11 As soon as the Journal was read this morning
that time, that there will be for the measure
in the Senate, 27 ayes, and 25 nays. It had
been previously conjectured that it would Ire
lost in that body, or at all events, be brought
to a tie. 7 he same writer however adds, that
“ Mr. Cnthbert of Georgia was then reckoned
among the noes, but it is now said that be has
surrendered.” The Enquirer to this subjoins,
that it does not believe it, and states that the
last accounts make it a tie.
It lias been hitherto supposed, that even if
the bill passed the Senate, (which we think al
together probable), that it would certainly be
defeated in
Mr. Fairfield, of Maiue, rose and asked leave
to offer a Resolution, which was read as fol
lows :
Resolved, That a committee of seven be ap
pointed to inquire into the causes which led to
the death of the Hon. Jonathan Cilley, late a
member of this House, and the circumstances
connected therewith, and report the same to
this House.
Resolved also, That said committee hart-
power to send for persons and papers, am
have leave to sit during the sittings of t i
House. . . ,
Mr. Bell ohjeetedjo the introduction of m •
Resolution,.at the present time T; when tne*L