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Fbom Europe.—'Tbe ships Thomas Dick-
•soa and Vork at New York, bring Liver
pool dates to 10th of Juno, and tba Edward
llonsfle, accounts from tParis.to.tbe 9th,
V
Cotton maintains its previous prices not-
withstanding tho import was 36000 bales du
ring the waik.
The following extract) »ro from the New
York papsrv.
On the 6th June a discussion took place
in the Chamber of Daputios, ea to tha double
vote which, according to tba existing law, is
conferred upon auob electors as pay the high
est rate of taxce. Upon this occaaioo Gao.
Lafayette delivered an extomporaneoua dis
count which produoed tho groatost effect,
aod waa fallowed by the felicitations of all
tfie left aide; and what is‘more decisive, by
the sc/juieiccnco in his* motion of the Cham-
. bar.
Tht young Queen of Portugal.—U is now
confidently reported that the young Queen
of Poitugal it to remain in England, to take
advantage of any favourablo change in the af
fairs of Portugal, the BritishTreveller says—
"We understand that Condo yilla Flor, who
embarked with several officers io an English
•hip for Terceira, soon after their sailing
W«bt on board a French vessel, •• Don Mi
guel received information of tho vessel be was
on board, apd scut out cruisers to search for
the ship. We have long boon aware that
Miguul has bsd his sgeiits in Ibis country
who disgrace tho namo of Engliabmou, by
communicating every information that can
aid tho causooftbe usurper, and sacrifice
the Constitutional party.”
The Havre Journal of Gib June, says,—
"Near 300 .Swiss emigrants nailed yesterday
io the largo American ship Great Britain, for
New York.” Tbs same paper commenting
upon the memorial of tho merchant! and oth
er* of this city, upou the subject of French
Spoliations, apprehends that Congress may
adopt the handiness of language ascribed to
•Ibis memorial; but adds the hope that in
caso of difficulty between the two govern
ments, the points in issue may be referred,
like tboBo concerning bouudarics,to a friend
ly sovereign.
Still there are rumors about the retirement
of tho Cbancollor. Tho Duko of Welling
ton haa ondoavored to get in somo of the
beads of tho Tory party, but they, relying
upon tho influouco of tho Duko of Cumber
land with the Kmg, and calculating upon
coming in altogether, have rofusod to join
biin. Ho muat, therefore, iuve recourse to
Ibe Whigs, however liltlo he may he iocliued
towards Tibera'ity.
A very large majority in favor of Mr. O'
Connell, has boon ascertained, in anticipation,
and tho Dublin Evening Post says, four bar-
anioe yot remain to be disposed of.
Portugal,—.—A dreadful report was pul
into circulation in London, on the evoning of
the ITth, and waa bolievod by tho first Por
tuguese merchants. It ia elated that a num
ber of parsons, on their removal to other pri
son*, have ben murdored at Lisbou, and that
furthor executions are ordered forthwith,both
a! Lisbon and Oporto. The intelligence is
reported to como by his Mnjosty’a ship Vigi-
lout. The vessel arrived with dospaohes to
government ; sho sailed 31st May, but the
lepers by lior aro not gonoraliy delivered-
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.
The accouute from the soat of tho Rus
sian and Turkish war, aro lato. And wo
have given bolow, "from the frontiers of Ser
vian what the Loudon Courior denominates
t ho Turkish account of tho battle of tho 17th
qf May, ucar Paravadi. According to thin
statement, tho Russians must have come oh
second beet.
The latest Russian Bulletin bears tho date
of the camp before 8ilistria, May 29lli. It
appears that tho operation* of the siege of
that place had but just commenced. It Beom-
ad likely to bo nrotractod much longer than
might suit tho Ruffian interests. A Turkish
ship of tho line of GO guns is said to have
hncii burnt nt tho entrance of the Bosphorus,
under the fire of a fort, by n small Russian
squadron. Tho Grand Vizier remained shut
up in Chnumla.
The Intest accounts recciyod at Odessa,
any that the Grand Vizior is concentrating
all hia force behind Shumla. There was no
news from Varna, however; no military ope
rations of importance could tako place.—
The grass was but just springing up, so as to
afford forage for tho horses, atiu tho cavalry
and aitillery cannot act till the ammunition
sod provisions can bo convoyed.
The Sultan has gone to his camp, while
the Russian army is preparing for decisive
measures on the left bank of tho Danube.—
Till Bilittria has fallen into tho hands of the
Russians, wo must not expect any great mil
itary movements.
Very rigorous inquiries aro making in
Wallachia after evil'njinded persons, who,
io their loiters to correspondents abroad, take
paioa to exaggerate whatever thero may be
to regret in the distressing situation of the
two Principalities.
Letters from Naples of tho 23d of May aay,
that tho man of war which is to convey to
Constantinople the Ambasaodors of Franco
and Englaud could not sail till that day. and
that tho wind waa so unfavorable, that iu tho
eytning it waa still in sight of the port.
Besides the gentlemen attached to his em
bassy, Mr. Robort Gordon is accompanied
by Lords Yarmouth, tirusvenor, and Dur
low.
Liitou, *Voy 23.—Onr city has been for
tho last three days in the greatest agitation
in consoqnenee of soveral bands of volunteers
•pouring the streets, headed by a priest, the
curate of Barrciro, insulting and attacking
all those they took for the partisans oflcgiii-
raaey, aod committing all kinds of disorders.
Those disgraceful scenes have boon car
ried *o far, that to-day even some persons of
Che lower orders (whoWl hitherto taken the
part of Don Miguel) proceodM to defend tho
insulted person*, attacking the satellites of
Duo Miguel, and dispersed them with stones.
Id the prisons scones of tho utmost distress
and misery era daily occurring; indeed, des
pair bad arisen to auoh « pitch that the pri-
eonors themselves had defied thoir jailor* by
singing the hymn of Don Pedro, and by pro
claiming the legitimateQueenDonna Maria 11
Piquets of cavalry had boen added to the
regular force that guards the prisons, and
those prisoners who were mopt remarkable for
their attachment to the Queen wero removed
Co tUt tinth
Every body here is persuaded that the pre
sent state of thioga cannot last much loogcr.
Rock in the Atlantic.—Out naval friends
will learu. with somo surprise, the existence
•ojf a rock in the Atlantic. ' yhe.master of a
mfeaqjiatft ship, tho Fortltud%j*a(- Dublin,
MCjiilaKpking his obicrrations at noon, saw
a rook of about 12 feet long, considerably 4-
bovo water, and waa obliged to alter bia
courao to clear it. His observations place it
in long. 133 W. and tal. 4G 33 N. The Do-
vtft Rock, in Fadcn’s chart of tho Atlantic,
is laid down as seen in 1704, a very little
distant from this position s but U # is a most
remarkable fact, that although it’liea exact
ly in the track of vesaola running between
the Wostero Islands and the mouth of the
Channel, it has not been Men since, and has
been considered doubtful. There can be uo
doubt of its being tho Mini as scon in 1764.
Albion-
Our experienced nautical readers will not
be very much alarmed about this nowly dis
covered rock. We could show them cherU
of the Atlantic in which are laid down scores
or hundreds of rocks, not one of which, in all
probability exists. The backs of whalea or
other large (and probably stooping) fish, bayo
often been mistaken for rocks, aod laid down
as suoh In the log*books.—Editors Liverpool
Mercury.
Frontier# of Scrvia, May 23.—At Belgrade
a bloody battle is spoken of, which is said to
have taken place on (ho 16th or 17th of May,
near Pravadi. Tho Turks claimthe victory;
but the Grand Vizier, who commanded tho
troops in person, could not take advantage
of it, because lie had received news that the
Rusainn main army was on the march a-
gainst Eiliatria, upon which, leaving 24,000
cavalry to keep possession of tho heights a-
bout Pravadi, be retired to Cboumla, in ordet
to bo nearer to Bilistria, and io the centre of
operations. It is said that (ho Turks are
assembling a large forco also near Aidos,
and turn their chief attention to Sizeboli.
Accounts from tbo frontiers of Wallachia
say, that io coneeouenco of a sally of (ho
Turks from Widdin, there had been an ob
stinate engagement with the Russians, iu
which the Turks had been indeed repulsed,
but tho supposed intention of the Russians
to cross tho river, at that point had been for
tiro present prevented. The official accounts
of tho Russians will enable us to judge of
these statements. At Belgrado it was still
affirmed, that the Sultan would go to tho ar
ray.
Bucharest, May 22 —We know nothing
certain of tho movements of tho army beyond
what wo havo learnt by tho Russian official
bulletins.
The sicknoss in this city, and in the neigh
borhood, has increased rather than diminish
ed in tho course of last week; end in Bulga
ria, too, diseases aro said to spread more and
more. In Little Wnllooli.s. and in the corps
under Gcucral Gcismar a good state of health
prevails.
from the Gazette de France, dated June 1C
" Paris, Juno 10. —Tho last loiters from
the Levant bring us certain news that tho
blockade of tbo Dardanelles has received all
tho oxtensioo that was apprehended. Admi
ral Hoydon, instead of revoking tho declara
tion of Admiral Ricord, has truly cootirmod
it; on tho other hand, tho Greeks who have
passed the Isthmus of Coriutb, which was ob
signod as their boundaries, and now masters
of Missolonghi and Lepanto, tnako every
where declarations of blockade.
“ Thus wo shall soon see all the coast oj
the Uttomon empire prohibited to tho French
and English merchants. Russiu, which had
promised to wava its rights as a belligerent
power in tbo Mediterranean, and which sub
sequently scorned disposed to confine itself to
the blockade of the Dardanelles, now exleuds
to all the coasts of tbo Ottoman Empire a net
which its allies cannot break through.
"Such is the result of tho expedition to
tbo Moroa, the effect of which hos been to
encourage the Russians iu llicir enterprise,
and to deliver up Greoco to tho influonce of
their policy, It it with the money of France
that the Greeks have quilted the Morea,and
have taken posaessiou ut those coasts which
are now going to be oloscd against our com
merce.
" Our readers will oasily percoivo nil thu
consequences that may arise from such a
slate of things. If war breaks out between
the great Powers, and if the revolution should
arise in France by moans of the elcctorul
colleges, tho weakness and indecision of tho
present Ministry will bo tho cause of these
two misfortunes.
From Buenos Ayres.—By tho brig Soto.
Capt. Ricketeun, llucnos Ayrenn papers aro
received to the lOlii June inolusivo. The
following items and extracts are from the
Journul of Commerce.
Tho city still held out ogainit the invaders
—Rosas nut choosing to hazard a violent eu-
trauco, but endeavoring to compel it to sur
render by means of a siege. Tho city was in
much want of pruvisiuus, and tho govern
ment had passed ndecree,under duto of June
3d, authorising the meals which might bo iu
troduccd from any of (ho ports of the Bauda
Oriental to be sold freely, without being sub
ject to fixed prices.
On the 3d Juuo, a decree was issued by
tho government,revoking a decree of the 22d
M ny,which declared tho city & its environs to
bo en aslamblea—uwlor martial law. The
reason assigned was, that the causes which
induced tho former decree, had ceased to
operato.
Affair with the French Fleet.—A Supple-
meui to tho British Packet contains the cor
respondence between the Argentmo Govern
ment and Viscount Viuaocourt, Commander
of tho French squadron in the neighbour
hood of Bueoos Ayres, occasioned by the
French Commander having, on the night of
May 21st, forcibly takon possession of tho
B. A. squadron in the roods, consisting of
tho brigs General Romdeau aod Cacique, the
schra. Rio Bamby and " 11th June."—and
having at tho samo time burned the schoojy
er-brig Argentina. On the 26th of May, If
was agreed that tho vessels should be res
tored, on the following conditions
1. That Viscount Vioancourt shall deliv
er up the captured vessels, and place fhem at
the disposal of tho Government of Buenos
Ayres, with all their appurtenance, arms,
and crews.
3. That the Government shall not oblige
by force, any Frenchmen resident in this
capital to do military duty, leaving those who
are now enrolled io the companies of militia
at full liborty to continue in or leave the aer-
vice.
*3. That the ioanlta which the Viscount
supposes to have been offered to the French
flag, and tho indemnities which he thinks to
be duo to the Frenchmen injured by the
measures of the Government, shall be points
to be settled between the two Governments.
Thao provisions, after pome delay and
Me
, tha T Ei
•ttW 'with a
cd poosid-
tilled and 1
/
difficulty were finally complied with, lod the
vessels delivered op.
Buenos Ayres, June 0.—JTli
“ 1 Ith Jiine,"1iae returned ft
oada, after having sustained
land battery, iu which she ri,
erablo injury, and lost 2 men
wounded. . f
The enemy have deprived the '8an Martin
of all its cargo, except about, tOipipei of
liquors. . _'
Mew Expedition to Santa Fe.'J-TC appears
thst Gao. Lavalle was endeavoring to cause
a diversion from tbo Buenos Ayrean capital
by carrying the war into tbe enemy's terri
tory The British Packet of May 23d, ssye r
The expedition to Santa Fc under the coo
mabdof Co). Isaac Tbon.gpon, haa aailed.—
The periodicals of Buenos Ayrea rate tbe
force at 600 men of all arras. It majr be pro
bably 400 effective men, a number quite suffi
cient for tbe purpose intended, if the inhabi
tants of the Provinco of Santa Fo remain
neutral, which the government doubtless haa
reason to expect will be the esse,'else from
the nature of tbe country it will have to en
counter many difficulties; at any rate it will
be the touchstone of their attachment to Go*
vernor Lopez and tbe system he upholds, aod
must have a powerful effect upon the war.
The present war is a wound " too tender
o'en for tenderness to touch," afflicting to
every patriotic mind. Few will, however,
withhold the meed of praise for the despatch,
secrecy, and fact, evinced io tbe manage
ment of the late expeditioos sent from hence.
L& Gsecta Mercantile of Juno OiU. eay«
‘ po Sunday a reinforcement of about 100
men took their departure to join the expodi
against Santa Fo " \
Buenos Ayres, June 5.—Our privam cor
respondence announces a project en the
part of the authorities of Mootevideoto offer
a mediation between tho Government of
Buenos Ayres and those who head tht insur
rections from the interior. Wo cannot cal*
culato the effect of this measure, which we
aro assured has been realized.
TUESDAY MMnING, AUGUST II.
T. U. P. Charlton, i. not a candidate
for Alderman.
Watkins.—To. Court, *11 partie* being
ready we. (o go to trial on the 3d in«t. on the
iodiotmeot io the Boaton 4,000 dollar cose.
Account, from Key Wcit ol I3tbu!t. state
that eoma .ickncu existed io the i.laod, and
a faw eote. of,allow feror among tbe fiiher-
oioo, contracted in Harana.
Stato of the Thermometer at
during the month of July,
Anguatz,
1829
1828
1827.
Highest, 04
95
94
Lotl.it, 62
65
70
M.ao, 86
80 4-3
82
Rslo, 7 inch’. 0 100 2 77 100
8 08-100
The Collector of N. York has iaiued order,
that the in.peciora of the coMorne, when
they board packot ships and other vesicle,
shall lake charge of the letter bags, and see
that they aro convoyed to tha Post Office,
with all dee diligeucc. Tbe officer to accom
pany them and be present at the examination
of their content?.
Hu. Rotall.—At Washington,tbo Court,
after it had delivered its opioion iu the case
of Mrs. Koysll, gare judgment against the
Defendant—that she be fined ten dollars and
coBtt, give security in tha .urn of 250 dollars
for ber good behaviour for one year, and
stand committed to prison notil the sentence
be complied with. It is said hor count.1 haa
applied for a reminion of tho fine.
The Norfolk Herald states that a regular
line of travelling is just commenced between
Norfolk and Nowbcrn, (N.C.) via Elizabeth
City, which will probably be extended to
Charleston. A stjge leaves tho first named
twice a week and arrives at Elizabeth City at
3 P.M. on the same day, where a steam boat
Continues to Newborn. The diitanoe from
Norfolk to Fayetteville ie performed in two
day..
Fruit Peaches .weighing nine, ten and
and eleven ounces, and Nectarines five oun
ccs, have been raised in Charleston.
A fig measuring eight and a quarter inches
in circnmferonce, was lately taken from the
gardon of Gon. Van New, io Washington
City.
The following Corauiuoiuauoo from'the
Charleston Gazette is worthy ofootioo
Io noticing tho advertisement of tbe Com
missary General of Subsistence, offering to
receive proposals for tho delivery of provis
ions fur tho use of the Troops of tho United
SUtoi, I was much surprised to find tho arti
cle of Rice, entirely omitted—Flour and
lleans! Flour and Beans! tbo constant
thcinc. Flour is very apt to sour—is heat
iog—hard of digestion—and requires much
preparation betorc it is fit for use—Bean)
tiro flatulent—agree with few stomachs—
and require long boiling. Rice, on the con
trary, is soon prepared—half a pint of Rice
boiled with a piece of Fork, and a fowl grain*
of Fcpper aod Bail, is a dish fur a King. I
really think that in juatico to tho Southern
Stales, n portion of Rico should constitute Uer
a pnit of the rations of both Army and Navy.V^
But to appreciate the great advantages '
which Rice lias over every other hread stuff,
permit me, through, tho mediuai ol jour pa
per, to invito the attention of the Secretaries
of tho Navy and War, to the language of the
celebrated Dr. Ramsay, transcribed from tho
2d vol. of his history of South Carolina,
page 202.
•• Rue, besides furnishing provisions for
man and beast, employs a number of hands
in trnde ; and is therefore a source of Na
val strength. In every point of view it is ol
more valuo Ilian mines of silver and gold —
Rico, is said by Dr. Arbutbnot, to support
two thirds of the human race ; no doubt cun
exist of its contributing extensively ns nutri
ment to the great tutnily of mankind.
Besides its consumption in Europe. Africa
and America, many millions of tho inhabit
ants of Asia, live almost exclusively upon it.
Ill plantations where it is cultivated,. every
domestic animal is usually fat and hearty.—
Among all tho variety of grams, ubneia
morn producti rc, nutritious or uholspubie,
than Rico. In its simple state, it is bjoth a
healthy and cheap food fur tho poor, and
with proper preparations and additions, it
is ouo of the greatest delicacies at the table
of the rich; every particle pf it is trebled in
bulk and doubted in weight, and its capacity
for aliment from the quantity of water it im
bibes in boiling, far water ia now known to
be tbo principal ingredient in nutrition. He
who eats Rice at the same time receives
mucillago and water, solid & fluid,aliment of
the mobt nutritious kind. Its emollient and
glutinous qualities, make it emiucntly use
ful in bowel complaints, and as such, it forms
an important article in tho stoma of armies,
and other largo bodies of men. One pound
of it, lias been fuuud on experiment, to g« an
far in domestic cookery, ae eight pounds of
Flour. It is more durablo than any othoi
known grain. Its substance is so bard as
uot to be pencttable by insects, which
deposit their ova io other farinacoous sub
stances. It has been eaten in a sound state
from five to six years after it was cleaned ;
and there ia uo doubt of keeping good even
more than twice bo long, when it is covered
with its natural husk. When introduced
into tbo stomach otter being well boil
ed, it is more easily digested than al
most a ny other solid food not thoroughly
mastientad. To that class of pcoplo whoso
deranged stomuebs cannot digest bread, un
less well raised aud thoroughly baked, Rice
affords a safe and agreeable substitute, for it
requires no fermentation, and when suffi
ciently boiled, is as likely to agree with the
stomach, as crusts of bread,or the best baked
biscuits.
To exhausted Armies, starving Navies, or
even the needy traveller, though far remov
ed from the haunts of men, if fuel, water,and
an earlheo or metallic pot can be procured,
Rico will quiokly aflord a palatable and
aod strengthening aliment.
In voyages round the World, Flour of eve
ry kind and every thing made from Flour is
apt to spoil, but Rice sustains no injury from
change of climate, or the longest period of
any voyage hitherto known." L.
A Tomporance Bocicly, to bo called the
Columbus Temperance Society, auxiliary to
tbo American Temperance Society, was
formed at our young town of Columbus, on
tbo 28tb ult.
tffiiK Si'AN ihii Expedition.—Disaster hai
already overtaken this second Grand Arma
da, and defeat will probably follow. On tbe
23d ult tbe American ship Bingham, arrived
and anchored off the 8. E. Pass Mississippi,
io distress, having on board 486 men, of the
2d Spanish Regiment of Troops, destined for
Mexico. Coptain Foster of the Alabama
Cutter arrived at Mobile, boarded tho ships
boat, with her Captain, the Lieut. Colonel,
aud several other Spanish officers, on their
way to New Orloans, for succour ; the ship
had parted convoy in a gale, with loss of foro
topmast, and other spars. The convoy had
been out 15 days from Havaua-, under two
LineofBattlo Ships, and several smaller
vessels of war. Tho B. drew too much wa-
or to outer the river at either of tho pasai
Cn.uiLEs Gilpkrt, formerly manager ol
this aod the Charleston Theatre, died in N*
York on the 30lb ult. a victim, according to
(he N. Y. Courier, to keen sensibility and
pecuniary misfortunes. Tho Coimuarcial
states "that he died literally of inadness.pru*
duced almost instantaneously, on hearing
that Mr. Hackett had takon tbe Thenlro
with which he had been so closely connected
from ns foundation. The phrensy came sud
denly and terribly upon him, aud continued
without abatement until this morning, when
he dropped down dead, lie neither ate,
not slept, nor was ho undressed, for six or
seveu da} e—hut paced bis room, watched and
guarded by five or six men, to prevcot vio
lence upon himself "
A tremendous storm of rain, hail, &c. vi
sited Boston on the 30lb ult. According to
the papers, ttio rain poured down, not iu drops
but m cataracts, and rendered mauy of tbo
streets impassable for the space of an hour or
more. The cellars iu the vicinity of Dock
Square, Cuugre6a street, Milk street, and
other moderately low situations were filled.
Io Milk street tho water was even with the
wheel hubs, and at the bottom of Pearl street
two boys were swimming in the dirty water.
Ureut damage was sustained by tbo goods in
the collars. Tbo lightning was almost iu-
ccssant, and the crashing peals of thunder
were heurd almost as soon as tbo flashes
were 6ccn.
A gentleman direct from New Orleans in
forms the editors of tbe New York Journal
Commerce that tho yellow fever existed there
on tho first of July, although tbe papers wero
silent on the subject. The cases, however,
were not numerous, and it was hoped tbe dis
ease would not become prevalent. At tho
same time itVas admitted that its prevalence
would not be surprising, aa tbe low state of
tho river bad prevented the usual washing of
the streeU by opening its embankments, and^|^j rilN BinnsELi.,' convicted of tho mjirdei
the consequence was an unusual accumula
tion of'fillh. .
ti^A successful experiment with a steam car- ‘
riage carrying sixteen inside and aa maoy
9*
^Some of tbe public works of England mui
if wo can form ony judgement of thorn from
tho money they have cost, strike such Amer-
cans as have the happiness to view them,
with great surprise. * * .
Si. Paul's Cathedral, for examplo, cost up
wards of a million and a half sterling.^ It
was built at a time when money was of more
value than it ia at present; and io a' countrv
where wages are lower than they ate With
us. The alone which forms its walls is of a
kind easily wrought, such aa is not to be
found in tbe neighborhood of this city. The
cost of erecting such a building in Pbiladel-<
pbia, would probably be not Ism than from
fifteen to twenty million dollars.
London Bridge baa recently been rebuilt
at on expense of about 400,000 pounds ster
ling, independently of about 200,000 more
expended in the purchase of freeholds to
make suitable avenue* to the bridge$Jand
outside passengers, was made in June, at
Glasgow, intended to run between Lock
Eck and Creggans Ferry. It went with easo
twelve miles per hour. The coach has four
whdels, having the body in front, and two
boilers with two engines, of four* horses' pow-
r each, placed behind. The cistern it plac
ed under the boilers, and feeds them by *the
operation of the carriage. The boilers are
double, and so constructed that a vacancy is
left between the water on each side to act as
a vent above tbe furoace for the amoke, and
also as a passage for the fuelfrom tbe top.
The drivor or engineer has a seat on the top
at the extremity of the carriage, near tbe
machinery, where an index-wheel is placed
;eer thetore-wheels and direct the eoacl
is supposed, from the size of tbe boi
A‘Present.—A complete set of Cut Glass,
manufactured etJPittsborg, Pa., of exquisite’
ly fmo workmanship, which surpasses aDy
thing of the kind ever seen in this country,
aud seldom, if ever, surpassed iu Europe, has
been presented to Geo. Jackson.
Several gentlemen have been robbed late
ly on board of steam boats at New York-—
Io one caso the gentleman laid his watch and
pocket book on the small shelf at the foot
the birth ; and in another, on a 6eltee direct*
ly before him.
Tho Br. ship Hebe, which sailed from N.
York for Liverpool ontbe.31»t ult. carried
out 120 steerage passengers.
A writer in tho Boston Gazette, says that
there is io that city" some hundreds of houses
and Btores without occupants, and a still grew
ter Dumber which do not bring their owners
more than 2 or 3 per cent per annum."
It is enid to be in contemplation to change
the colour of the French uniform from blue
to red, by which a saving, it is said, of 1.600,
000 francs will be effqoted, io so great quan
titics is madder, with which the red is dyed,
produced in Franco.
*According to the census now progressing
in South Carolina, the number of free white
inhabitants of the uppor division of that tit ate,
consisting of twenty four districts is 207,639
being an increnso since 1819, of. 17,331 —
Tbe census of the towo of Columbia is 1931
and that of Caindon 904. a •
A shoemaker of Philadelphia has obtained
a patent for p new method oa mathematical
principles, of cutting leather to bo made into
boots, whereby they may be fitted to the foot
with the greatest precision. •
Capt. Bonnet, of the ship New York and
Capt. Skctcly, of tho Manchester, were each
presented on their arrival at Liverpool with
a piece of plate, by their respective pa6sen
gers in testimony of respect.
A ship called tho Sarah arrived at London
on the 3d of June from Sincapore, with a
cargo worth over $1,110,000 and the ship
and freight worth $89,000 more.
Signs dp the times—Tbo Upper Canar
da Advocate continuoi to publish conspicu
ously, and with commendation, the revolu
tionary documents of the United States. Th-’
last, is tho draft of an address to the Peop’c
by tbe Proviacial Congress.
The Captain of the steam boat Citizen las
recovered a verdict of eighty dollars, Jn a
Justices Court at Brunswiclf* against the
Captain of the steam boat Swao. Both boots
ply between Brunswick and New Yojk.—
The causo of action was that the Swai had
at several times run against (he Citizqn, by
which tho latter boat was injured, ^heso
boats belong to opposition lines, ruucing to
Philadelphia.
of his wife, on the 5tb of March last, was soc-
tonced to bo hung in the vicinity of CiKHioa-
ti, Ohio, on tbo 24th ult. Somo time previ
ous to tho day of execution, a proposition was
made to him that if he would sign aid accept
tho conditions, (which were that he should
bo put into "solitary confinement in tbe
Penitentiary during his natural life,") & com
mutation conformable to thcmfrould be gran
ted hitq by the Governor. This he positive
ly refused, and accordingly' be was brought
out for execution on the appointed day—bat*
abont fifteen minutes after be ascended tbe
platform, be altered his mind, and acceded to
the terms of life offered bim by signing the
conditions; when he was immediately reman
ded to prison—thus be disappointed tbe as
sembled .thousands in their expectation of
witnessing a public execution, which somo
exprened in terms of disapprobation. It is
ud that tbe ground oo which thecommu.
tion was granted, vn bis insanity.
Band! as from tha .hort di.t»ne. batwaalf^,^ Jmt , 0 Nouve ,
srr at Bordeaux, fin St. Domingo, in lot 34,
fell io with a vcsael supposed to be an Ameri-
Loch Eok and Stracbur, (only five miles)
(bat oo fuel will require to be carried, as a
sufficiency of steam will be obtained before
!• j
New-York, July 31.—Saicide.—About
four o'olock yesterday afternoon, a colored
woman threw herself out of a wiodow of the
three sterv house 160 Anthony etreet. Tbe
wretched being came to tht ground head
foremost, and was completely dashed to
E ieces. A coroner's inquest sat upon tbo
ody, and a verdict was returned, " that tho
deceased came to her death io a fit of mental
derangement." Tbe suicide was .addicted
to liquor, and eaily in the morning had
pawned her last gown for half a dollar, with
which the purchased rum.
An Unwelcome Visiter.—A dog exhibiting
unequivocal signs of madness, ran yesterday
into the hat store of Mr. Joseph Juel, No.
194 Broadway, frothing and snapping, and
made bis way directly into.the back room,
where were several workmen. His appear
ance was such as to give them warniog of
their danger, and with somo difficulty
they succeeded in getting bim out of tbe
store. Iinmodiato'y he re-entered, and
raising his feet against the pints of the shelf-
windows, seemed endeavoring to break
through. Some of the pantfs were covered
with his froth. He wan finally killed by the
workmen — Jour, of Com.
The body of Mr. Lord’* son. drowned at
Brooklyn last week, was found on the sur
face of the river, in about half an hour after
firing nnme cannon on the wharf, near where
he perished. It was two or threo days after
ho was drowned, putrefaction had com
menced, a quantity of nir had generated,
and the body was in equitihrio with tho wa
ter, when the agitotion of that element by
the concussion of air from the cannotf,
as it would by ony other means, started tho
corpfio from its resting place, end let it rUa
to view. Heavy thunder would ’doubtless
have produced tho Bn me effectaod prnbo-
bly, io the want of cannon, the Itfonoh of a
vessel, on foil of any large boity.jfn tbe wa
ter that would agitate the whole moss,,
would raise from tho depth any body light
enough t»* float on being put in motion, like
bubbles of air rising to the surface from the
least movement or disturbance at the bottom.
Eve. Journal.
JOHN RANDOLPH OF ROANOKF.
[Cut out of the North Carolina Journal ]
Mr. Randolph, who has been returned as ft
member of tho Virginia Convention for
amending (he Constitution of that State, is
violently opposed to a more extended indul
gence of the elective franchise. In* a speech
at Charlotte Court-house, on tho day of tho
Convention olectiun, ho " declared that ho
had diawn the sword, and thrown away the
scabbard—that all change* wen not improve-
ments, and that it never was known that tho
people ever improved their government by
change. On the right of suffrage, he said '
that the non freeholders spoke of ph)sica|
force, but before ho would consout to extend
to them the right, to tnx his land and slavo9,
he would give them a fight.
[Charleston Courier."
We are authorised usay that the above
is u very groBs misrepresentation of Mr«
Randolph's words on the occasion alluded to-
Mr R. did say that he had commenced bia
public life as ao humble but not inactive or '
inefficiont member of that party which had
ejected from the Executive Chair, tho fa-
Mkt of the Sedition Lnw -*nnd he had closed
it by assisting to expel from ihu samo situa
tion, tho son of tho Father of tho Audition
Law In both these conflicts when ho drew
thu sward, lie had thrown away tbo scabbard.
Never asking or receiving quarter, and riot
always giving it—it could be no matter of*
surprise that he had made numerous, and
virulent enemies, personal as well as political.
'Mr R. exposed the infatuation of Virginia,
a slave state, warring against slave repre
sentation. He said .tho power of taxing
propei ty and appropriating tho proceeds waa
tbo power of life and death over it.
' As some very }uung and indiscreet porsoos
liad boasted thnt the physical forco of tbo
country was with them, Mr. R. said ho
f ould never yield to a threat—and before ho
Surrendered upon such a summons, he would
fo satisfied by experiment on which side the
physical forco reully by.—Richmond Enq.
Board op Health.—A Report of a /
Committee of tbe Board of Health submitted/
lost year, on the subject of the organization^
of that Board, and on the probable causes of
the diseases of this city, bus just been putg
lished, by order of tho City Council, in pain*
phlet form. In tbo organization of the Board
its numerical number only was considered \
as tho Committee believed that the Legisla
ture and City Council, wore not prepared to
invest the Board with powers absolutely ne
cessary for the the prompt aud efficient cor
rection of nuisances.
The probable causes of diseases in the city
are pointed out at length, and ably commen
ted on- The subterranean drains of tbo city;
tbe paving and M’Ada'tiizing tho centre of
streets—the continuation of Btreets over low
grounds, by the deposit of tbo Scavenger's
offal, and tho supply of water for drinking,
or for culinary purposes—each receive duo
aitoDtioD in the Report. Tho Committee
recommend an accurate survey of tho City ;
and that in future, all new drains, or oM
ones, near tbo rivers, that may be repaired
should be sunk to a level that in time, and
ns the improvements extend, the tides' Would
flow and ebb through tbo city. Paving tbo
streets with round stone is strongly rccom-
%endod, in preferrenco to M’Adamizing,
said paved streets cau bo swept or washed^
without injury.
Tho continuing of streets, by doposits of
Scavenger’s offal on tho low grounds, is
greatly deprecated. Tho mode of supplying
the city with water, deserves consideration.
It is stated that tbo site of Charleston con
sists of a stratum of earth from 6 to 16 feet
deep, furnishing water in limited quantity,
though in some places of good quality ; be
low this is a stratum of mud four feet thick,
intermixed with salino particles, yielding a
moderate supply of wators and universally
bad—below is quicksand, of considerable
deptfi furnishing the greatest abundance of
water, though of bad quality. Tho Report
recommends that the private wells 6honld not
be sunk below the first stratum ; these, with
the numerous private cisterns of the city,
and tho cisterns recommended to be built to
the public buildings, would furnish good wa
ter quite sufficient for drinking and domestic
purposes. That in sinking new public wells,
or repairing old ones, it recommends they
may enter tho stratum of quicksand, as it
would furnish an inexhaustible supply of wa
ter for tbe extinguishing of fire*. The whole
Report, and particularly this part of it, isve-
vy interesting. Tbe practical aod scientifio
reader wiU feel equal interest in its persual.
Charleston Courier
can dismasted aad without a rudder. Had
"Pomona," on tbe stern, and appeared to
nave been plundered.
Tbe Crops.—From the concurring teiti-
mony of tbe papers in this .State, and those
immediately adjoining, we are authorized in
the belief, that (he crone of this year will bo