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DESULTORY. * I# From the National Intelligencer, - ► - * ’ : * GOOD OUT OF EVIL. [t is a moft fortunate circum fiance that there are very tew evils Wnich can be iiiflitted either upon individuals or communities, which uo not bring with them benefits, which would not oihcrwife be re ceived. Tins is among th# bsil il> lui rations of the beneficence of a bung who leans, even in the afiiic tioiik impoltd on man, to be regard ful of his happiriefs. From this cucumftance it alio frequently Hap, puis that the individual or nation that aims the molt deadly blow at the felicity or exiftcnce of an ene my, eventually confers the highest biefling. 1 here is eveiy leuioii to believe that this wdl be the case with us. The outrage* perpetrated on us by the belligerent powers of Europe, and their reitndions on cur trade, ae already producing the moft (biking cflcdt3 in the growth of manuta&ures. Intelli gent men among u$ have long seen, t.iat nothing was wanting, but fomc extraordinary stimulus to detnon flrate the incalculable benefits to be derived from a zealous develope xnent of tnis great rdource. r i lie ii justice and oppreflion of foreign powers have given birth to this stimulus; and our countrymen, with a spirit that does them honor, are entering with enthufiafni into thole great manufactures, that have become douoly profitable ft om the troubled iituation of our foreign fntercourfe. There is scarcely a town to the call ward that has not caught the patriotic flame, and w hole citizens have not already o pened their purses with a liberality worthy of the objeft. In many of the great commercial towns a large portion of the capital, ufualiy em ployed in trade, is already engaged in eroding and carrying on cotton manufad >ries; nd we have good authority for laying that :hc profits, notwithstanding the infancy of the eOablifliments, and the inevitable mistakes which will for fomc time o c.< ur in conducting them, are e qj il to thole of trade. In Philadelphia especially, and its neighborhood, a great number of perrons are already actively engag ed in this manufacture. We have before us letters, recently received from a very intelligent man, resi dent in that place, from which we offer the following extracts in cor roboration of these remarks: “You cannot without attending to the fubjed (cotton factory) con ceive how profitable a business it h, and what little capital is required. The machinery is ealily made—la bor is not dearer here than in En gland ; the boys vork for 75 cents a week and find themselves, and no man has more than a dollar per di em. If any persons set up cotton machinery it would employ many persons. In Rhode-Ifland there are 20,000 spindles, which I calculate work up 2000 lbs. of cotton per di em into fine thread, or in the year 600,(XX) at one dollar. Attend to the following calculation : and. c. Cotton costs here, fay 20 cents, one hundred pounds therefore is 20 Cne hundred pound of cot ton lofcs one eighth, or 12 per cent, and there- fore products *#!b. of manufactured cotton, which costs in manufac turing, fay 2.5 cents. 25 4.5 In England cotton costs, with duty, 40 Eighty eight pound manu factured at 2.3, 2.5 Duty at 4 per cent. 2 Freight, 2 linuraqce, &c. . 2 Duty Mere 15 per cent* and oilier charges, 10 81 ct The following statement is the result of cotton made for candle wick at Camac’s mill: and. c. Cotton, lOOlh—it costs 16 cents but is here put down 20 Expence of making by con trast, 11 cents per lb. -88 ib. 9 60 , 29 60 ; Sold at 50 cents per lb,. 4f 14 40 ‘‘ This quantity is eafiiy made with machinery that docs not cost: more than 800 or 1000 dollars at the molt l iliall go to-morrow to fee a factory, where the machinery is .worked by horses.” I wrote you a line yesterday, which I hope has claimed your at tention. Tench Cox has adverfif ed for cotton blankets and other cot ton manufactures for cloa thing —each blanket will weigh 3 1-2 ib. of cot ton—lo,ooo are immediately want ed, and perhaps 30,000 ; they wid be made here. Camac has a wool carding machine which he bought for lefts than one hundred dollars. One man will card 50ib. of wool for hatters, at 5 cents per lb.” “ Machinery is making fall all about here.” DREADFUL TORNADO//! ExtraCl cf a letter from a friend in Jonesboro*, Tennessee , to the editor of the Staunton Eagle, dated June list. 1808. “ On Tuesday the 24th ult. the inhabitants of this town and neigh borhood were aflonifhed much at the appearance of leaves, small pie ces of limbs, baik, &c. falling ap parently from the clouds. The day was mild, except a breeze now and then from the South-Weft with a few flying clouds, but no rain, r.or was there the lead appearance of a ny extraordinary commotion in the heavens, to produce such a phe nomenon in this quarter, every bo dy conje&ured it was the effects of a violent wind—*-but what diftar.ee from us, could not be imagined, as no noise was heard, it was general ly supposed to be at a distance. Accounts from various quarters for more than 40 miles around, slate that the fame appearance was ob served. Since writing this a gentleman passed through this place, who was an eye witness to an awful feene in the neighborhood of Knoxville, a tornado (truck the river Holstein at that place, and threw columns of water out of the bed of the river higher than the surrounding trees, it was on the fame day the leaves &c. fell here, and upwards of 100 fmlu distant. Its ravages were tru ly awful, it arose in Bean county, and proceeded in a fouuVeaft di rection through Knox, Sevier and part of Jefferlon and Cocke coun ties and (truck the mountains near the Warm springs in North-Caro lina. Hoults— barns —trees—and every thing gave wary to its trrefift ible fury. And our informant fibres, several lives were 1 >ft—it was accompanied with hail of extraordi nary fiz’ —he alio (fates that con fidence quantities ot fifh were thrown out of the rivers over which it passed. A more particular and authentic account of the awfu 1 wind w ill no doubt be publ.fhed—but to enable the mi’d to otGerwife con ceive oi its violence, I make this statement refpeOing the falling of the trees, &c. to a distance of up wards of 140 miles from where it happened, and within the space of perhaps less than 2 hours.” * Another letter fays, fonie of the hail-stones weighed 2 ounces, and tneafured 10 inches in circum ference. In addition to the above we copy the following from a K oxvi-i pa per. Staunton Eagle, editor. The dorm on Tueicky the 24 h Pday, has entirely Jeiiroytd tee timber in its course—it commenced just below Clinch river, how far it extended i; unknown, we have hr*rd of it ft*r a distance of 150 nfih s, its width is tre-m a half to a mile, its bearing nearly due east Not a house iu its course but was unrooffed, and by far the greatest number entirely thrown down ; e very tree of more than a foot thro* was either twisted off or torn up by the roots, and we have been inform ed that large trunks of trees which had been partly buried in the road were thrown from their beds to the distance of from twenty to thirty feet; large boughs were thrown to different parts of the country, fix or eight miles from the fccne of def lation covered with ice. Very considerable damage was done to the farms through which it passed, the particulars of which *we have been unable to gather. Every as sistance was rendered to the fuffer ers by the neighboring citiz ns in repairing buildings, mending fenc es, &c. ... - f*- * , * The folio whig shews the mode of choosing Electors for President md Vice-President in the different states, with the number of votes in each. votes New-Hampsk ire , by general ticket. 7 Massachusetts, inode of electing not yet regulated by law —at the last election by general ticket. 19 Rhode-Island, by general ticket. 4 Connecticut, x by the legislature. 9 Vermont, by the legislature. 6 New-York, by the legislature. 19 New-Jersey, by general ticket. 8 Pennsylvania, . by general ticket. 20 Delaware, by the legislature. 5 Mery/and, bv districts. it m Virginia, by general ticket. ?.r> North-Caroiina , by districts. 14 South-Car olw&, by the legislature. „ 10 Georgia, by the legislature. 0 Kentucky — This state is divid ed in two districts; the counties on the south side cl Ken tucky river, elect 4 electors, and those on the north side the same number. 8 1 n/ r > by districts. 3 Tennessee, by districts. 4 Votes, s ii 5 To a person who has never i seen London, thefollowing ac ! count may not be uninitresting; \ London is unparalleled m J 1 extend and opulence in the whole hah table globe, except, perhaps, by Pekin , in China, Jcdd, in Japan, and lloussa , in Africa, which are all said to he larger. It omprehends besides London, j IVestm hstw and Southwark, ?io (ess then 45 villages of con siderable extent, independent of a vast accession cf buildings upon the open fields ,in the vi cinity. Its length is nearly eight miles, its breadth three , and its circumference 26.-—lt I t V contains above 8000 streets, lanes, alleys ancl courts,, an l more than 65 different squares. Its houses, ware-houses, and | other buildings, make 162,000, j besides 946 1 hunches, 207 meet -1 lug-houses for dissenters, 43 ’ chapels for foreigners, and 9 I synagogues for the Jews; which in all make 1205 (daces 0 public worship. The mini bar of inhabitants during the sitting of parliament , is estima ted at !,250,000. Among these are found about 50,000 com mon prostitutes, and no less tiian 50000 thieves, coiners and ether bad persons of all descrip tions. The annual depredations on the public, by this numerous body of pilferers, are estimated at the sum of 2,100,000/. ster ling. I# this vast citv there are moreover, upwards of 4000 seminaries for education— 3 institutions for prorating ?nc rality—lo institutions for pro moting the arts —ll2 asylums for the indigent —3 7 for the sick and lame — 13 dispensaries —784 charitable institutions— -53 courts of justice —7,o4o professional men, connected with the various departments of * ihe t aw. There are 13,500 vess. ls trading to the river 7 hemes, in the course ofayccr , and 4 0,000 waggons going and returning to the r.utripohs in