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MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.
China.—A Roman Journal gives the fol
lowing information respecting China, which
mav he regarded as an earnest of much
more from the same source. It announces
the return of Onorato Martucci, a citizen of
Rome, after a journey and residence of thir
ty six years, in Asia and China. This learn
cd and idefaliirable traveller has brought
with him a precious collection of rare ob
jects of every kind. lie has communica
ted some particulars respecting China prin
cipally upon the .statistics of that almost un
known country. He states that according
to the latest enumeration, which was in
18IS, the population of China, within the
great wall, amounted to 14S millions of
souls, occupying a superfiee of 700,000
square leagues. The army was composed
of 1.282,000 men, to wit: 020,000 Infantry,
420 000 Cavalry, and 33,000 Marines.
The revenues of the empire in 1817 amoun
ted to 79,£()0 feflMgj; or 477,600,000 francs,
,.-UvTt, and produce; of the country,
mrevenile is paid'grain, which
f in,public granaries, and preser-
tVom one yegV to another. Upon these
:»Vr illations of* Mr. Martucei, the Jonwal
Deviate very justly repiark?, that we
must on what- bases thev are estab
Jijit.ed, before we can give entire confidence
them- ThcrJenrned geographer Ma!
>ad btifortv maintained that the oii-
*of 333-000.000 given by lord Mao art-
other travellers, as the population
was exaggerated, and that the ori-
terror is in the fact, that the Chi-
j use ofthe number 333 millions
to express that particular number.
*n, as expressing indefinitely anv
> 'number * fis we should say mil-
waning thereby, when applied to ihc
l of the country, only that it is very
selves have
veral voyages in
in so doing, satisfied lliemseivcs that,
as against sea risks, and those of naval w ar
fare, these vessels may be made more safe
and more Efficient than the largest line of
battle ships—which latter, indeed, the
writers say will, under the new system
which they refer to, (and predict the adop
tion of it) only be useful as coal carriers to
tiie steamers.—JV*. Y. American.
The Edinburgh papers mention the sin
gular fact that Waverlv, the first, and pro
bably the best of Sir Walter Scott’s prose
works, remained unpublished nearly ten
years after it was written. In 1S05, Bal-
lantyne offered it for publication, but for
want of encouragement, deemed it prudent
to defer it. Sir Walter himself did notiVp-
poar to place much confidence in this effort
of his genius, and is said at one time to
have been on the point of giving the manu
script to some sportsmen, who applied to
him for wadding for their guns.
e-
a year.
ciave them as before, without the least scruple.” We
would remark in due deference to them, that thpir
opinion of the solidity of Banking institutions gene
rally, in common with that of others, who like them,
arc unacquainted with the secrets of the concern,
cannot,in all cases, he received as conclusive evidence
that things are as they should be. The objection
is not to the opinion which they may indulge, for we
are gratified to learn that such is the fact, but to the
principle of the public pinning its faith to the opi
nions of men who regulate their views by their in-
Jktliens, June 1, 1827.
The waggish Editor of the Winchester Virginian,
in enumerating additions to Messrs. Gales ii. Sea
ton’s “ Signs of the Times,” having mentioned the
terest, and who to-morrow might find it politic to
decry for the purpose of effecting a monied rcvolu-
1 tion, an institution ■which they to-day uphold. The
remoteness of ibis place from the location of the
Macon Bank, is by no means favourable to correct
information upon this subject. We therefore rely,
with others, on the general opinion that die. money
is good ; as such, it circulates without exception.—
The publication of “A Planter,” popular rumor, and
the authorityof the letter to which wo referred, dicta
ted perhaps in a moment of apprehension, were the
exciting causes which induced the remark made
on the 18th ult.
ration of nooning an Egyptian
ts performed'in the Gallery of
tntiquifios, at Paris on Sunday
Dauphiness and a number of
ions attended. The linen
hng the body from head to foot
L-Jhe mummy w as found Ip he
(preservation. The nails on
le remarkably long, Ihe hair
'* t, and had, preserved its
(untnfhiehed: eves of enati
Singular Case of Somnambulism.—On
Thur sday the 12th inst. a young lady w'hilst
on a visit to her sisters in Charlton row,
Manchester, was staying with the servant,
when her si-ter was out, and about 7 o’clock
in the evening fell asleep in a chair before
the fire. She had not slept long before she
got up and walked to the frontdoor, opened
it. and went some distance along the street,
returned, and shut the door, and kept mut
tering something to herself. The servant
observing that she had her eyes shut, asked
her what she had been doing; when in a
very hasty and muttering way, she teplicd,
“ Wishing the ladies good night.” She af
terwards went : nto the cellar, and opened a
slide window, which she had never done be
fore. She then returned up the cellar stairs
•n tor the’ scullery, took down a pair of bellows
that hiing up, ran up stairs into a bedroom,
and began to blow at an empty grate. She
then came down stairs in a great hurry, and
in going down let fall the bellows, which
fell after her and bruised the skin off her
heel;. she went into the scullery, got the
drippi >g pan, put some, cups and saucers,
&c. upon .it, and put them over the fire.-
1n a short time she took them off ogain,
,“ There, you’ll do now.’* She
fluttering,
Hessian Fly as being cotemporaneous with the Tariff
and the Quincy succession, has produced more than
oue Jeremiad or Lacrymiad from the coalition press.
What! say these matter of fact gentry (except in
some few cases where signs of the tidies have pro
duced some little wanderings of the head) what! are
the elements also at work against legitimacy!
It is really laughable, and yet lamentable to see the
sober seriousuess with which every bait that can
Hatter the wishes of the palace tenants is nibbled at by
men* who once ranked high as independent common
sense politicians.—We regret that the number of the
Administration organ, alias, National Journal,
mislaid, which contained the doleful attempt at
comico-serio-waggery on the “combination” on ac
count of this pleasantry of the Virginian. Coining
from Mr. Force, it really would, had 9uch been our
predicament, have had a similar effect on us as Do
minie Sampson’s laugh had on his landlady. For
although this humorous brat of his fell abortive in its
birth, yet, who could have expected humour from
Peter force! Messrs. Gales and Seaton are more
prudent in the midst of their lunacy, they shew some
traits of Common sense by inserting the remarks of
the Petersburg Intelligencer, and abstaining from
any other uotice. We can give them a few more
natural omens on which they can raise mountains.
An old acquaintance gravely assured us, that the
comet of last year, and the severe cold of the past
winter, arose entirely from Mr. Adam’3 election;
that the signs of the present year were as yet worse ;
that the loss of early planted cotton, and the large
spots on the Sun could be ascribed only to the
then came into the sitting room, took up
OfM
d. the
?servation r s to allow of being deciphered
M. Charnpellion. jr.; the body, by this
means, v\ as found to be that of Tete-Muthis,
daughter to the keeper of the Temple of
Isis, at Thebes; different marks and orna
ments also denoted that she had been one
of high consideration among the Egyptians.
It is supposed that the mummy cannot, he
less than 3000 years old, notwithstanding
which the skin has preserved, in a great
measure, its elasticity, and even its humidi
ty in some parts. An attentive perusal of
the manuscripts will no doubt bring to light
curious facts, which we shall he punctual in
laying before our readers. The operation
was managed by Drs. Belatre and De Yer-
ncuil.—Paris paper.
vo
The Manikin.—On Wednesday morning
last, the celebrated anatomical preparation
recently imported from France, for the Me
dical College, was politely exhibited to a
lhr.ee number of our citizens, by Dr. Knight
the learned professor of anatomy in that in
stitution. It is one of the most curiously
constructed, and, in its adaptation to the
purposes for which it was designed, perfect
specimens of scientific mechanism, ever yet
devised. The exhibition was accompanied
by a demonstration of the several parts of
the human body, by the professor, and gave
unmingled satisfaction to all who had the
pleasure of witnessing it. On removing the
outer covering corresponding to the skin of
the natural body, the spectator sees at one
View all the exterior muscles, arteries, and
Veins, with their numerous ramifications
so closely imitated, that he can scarcely
persuade himself that he has not before him
a human subject, instead of a mere prepara
tion of art. ITis astonishment increases as
the Professor re.moves, one after another
every muscle by itself, until he finally ex
poses to view the whole internal structure
of the body, where all the parts are repro
sented in their actual pos’tion in the living
man, and with a perfect resemblance to the
natural organs, in size, form, and colour.
The possession of this truly wonderful ana
tomicp.l preparation,—the only one of the
kind in America,—is a great acquisition to
our medical Institution. It removes in a
threat pleasure, the necessity which hereto-
existed, of obtaining the bodies of the
dead for dissection, in order to communi-
*atq{ instruction for the benefit of the living
^-a raecessity which, while if was perceived
and,Acknowledged by all reflecting men,
Vas at the same time a subject of universal
te^ret. 1 -—Ncic-Haven Register.
pose Newburyport should again unite : will
that immense town be any more powerful
than she was during the last war, when the
Ilerald of her federalism Jiu-’.ed anathemas
on the republicans ?
The Salem Gazette, another old federal
paper, the organ of Timothy Pickering and
the Essex Junto—calls an amalgamation
meeting in Salem, and greatly rejoices that
federalism is to be resuscitated, and that de
mocracy is to be entirely melted down in
Mr. Cooper, the author of the Spy, it is said, will
publish in the ensuing fall, another Novel, entitled
The Red Rover of the Seas
same cause; and ho had no doubt hut if the Quincy
til® poker, and said, ? I will fight, I will
'light.”. a Th® servant wrested it from her
‘ ’ an in. tW front lobbyytthd
Servant 1 took her up, carried
.sitting Doom, and dhopk her vio-
ort time she seemed to he
asked by the servant
votl been doing !” S?ie an
swered, as at first, “Wishing the ladies
good night.” During the whole of the time
she had her eyes quite closed, and the ser
vant girl, (who is young,) was so alarmed
that she dared not leave her, but followed
ter from the first. When the young lady
was thoroughly awaked, she began to he
ick, vomited profusely, and was extremely
unwell. Site went to bed about the usual
hour and was awakened with considerable
difficulty the next morning, at a ht *r hour
iltan she was wont to rise.—Leeds (Eng.)
Mercury.
stock was again planted in the government, the spots
will so cover the whole Suir as to hide his light alto-
Wc really fear that John Q’s. propects are bad.—
If he is to owe his continuation in the Seat-on the
.throne only to the Gales of flattery (however pleasant
U> him) and misrepresentation, that his presses dis
seminate with all the files' exuberance, we fear he
will hardly be Forced there the next election.
*Y'
The last volume of the Biography of the
Signers to the Declaration of Independence
contains notices of nine of the .American
patriots who rendered their names immortal
by affixing them to the chart of American
Liberty. Of these, the earl# life of G eorge
Taylor is the mq, c t remarkable. With but
an indifferent education; he emigrated from
Ireland, arrived in this country without a
sixpence ip his pocket, and bound himspli
to an owner of iron works, who advanced
his passage fees. Taylor was immediately
set to work as a filler. From the blisters
on his hands, it was soon discovered that he
was unused to such labour, when his em
ployer kindly transferred him from the sho
vel to the pen; and in rapacity of clerk,
Taylor soon made himself an important
member of the establishment. Ilis em
ployer dying, he married the widow, and
became proprietor of the whole concern.
Having amassed a fortune by prudent man
agement and great industry, he was called
into public life; and from the provincial as
sembly of Pennsylvania, he was advanced
to a seat in the Congress of ’76.
♦Messrs. Gales Sc Seaton.
More food for the mawkish appetites of our North
ern friend! More room for a pompous display of
affected sentiment! and what is to them more g.atu-
iatory yet, more subjects of abuse on the South and
poor Georgia ? Under the protection of the Genera!
Government, the independent state of the Chero-
kees is to be formed, and possessed of a written
Constitution and established government ! We re
commend earnestly to Messrs. Ridge and Vafin,' el
aliens, to stile their State after.Hia Excelleneyffohn
Quincy. It will be a powerful- argunwefron their
At last the Land Lottery is over,—the
Drawing having been concluded on Friday
—and Fortune, true to her well-known
character of a blind and fickle Goddess, has
scattered her gifts, without any just discri
mination, among the poor and the rich, the
prudent and the improvident, the worthy and
the undeserving. A great deal of real es
tate, for the permanent ownership of which
there will he a scramble for a year or two yet
to come, has been thrown, as it were at
random, among the people of the State—
increasing their property, and adding to their
comforts—for such as do not wish to live
on the land they have drawn, can, in almost
every case, sell it for some price. The
new Territory will afford to a great number
of families comfortable homes, and those
who have plenty of cash may get good land
enough adjoining to form large and valuable
plantations. Money will circulate more
freely—for many a bank bill and Spanish
milled dollar, which has been for years in a
state of cldse confinement, will now escape
from its imprisonment, and be once more
ushered into day-light and good company
nothing being more effectual in bringing out
hoarded treasure than the prospect of buy
ing bargains in land.
The Lottery with all its benefits has not
been free from evil—it has, it is feared
turned quite topsy-turvy the heads of a few
honest men. It has also given rise to nu
merous ludicrous incidents.—The circum
stances attending one of these having af
forded much amusement here, we will relate
them as they have come to our knowledge
The tract of land supposed to be the
most valuable in the new Territory remain
ed in the wheel until the day’s drawing pre
ceding the last—Number 1£xifty-one,
the 21st district ofMtfeStpgee, (drawn on
the 24th inst. by a ferial® idiOt* of Columbia
county,) was this grejlVpri^ Every body
talked of Number was so ex
tremely valuable^-—it/would command so
targe a pritfe-,. (J^n Tjhursday morning ex
pectatipirfi^;©!! tip-toe and the speculators
kept a)shlitjlL out.—An hour or two be
forefhe invaluable “fifty-one” was drawn
the crucible of amalgamation
All the federal papers in Boston ar£ furi
ous for amalgamation, lor “ a union ticket ”
of representatives, and lor prostrating all op
position to Mr. Adams. A young man by
the name of Child, at a Faneuil Hall caucus
on Friday night, April 20, (says the New-
burvport Herald) denounced in strong and
pungent language, the faction, which threat-
ns'to disturb the peace, if not destroy
the liberty of our country!” This Child
submitted sundry resolutions in favour of the
Administration of Mr. Adams: the “ idol of
New-Englnnd,” a new name for Daniel
Webster, 0 supported them, denouncing Vir-
inia democracy, declaring the time bad ar-
ived for New-England to “act with united
counsels and with united forces ”—“ with
out reference to former party !” Disguise
objects as lie may, it is most plain and pal
pable that Mr. Webster has the san.e object
in view that tie always bad :—New England
counsels and New-England men, with him-
elt'at the head, have ever been the burden
of his song : and it would be a most happy
stroke of policy if he could seduce any por
tion of New-England republicans, “with
out reference to former party ” here, but
aving in view the old party grudge towards
Virginia and the democracy of title South, to
unite with the old Hartford Convention men
u prostrating republican principles. Ii‘ N.
«iJei a battery behind wUcli a long and most *neir-j a j. 0 tl(p r (ft,..one, in a different district of
getic warfare ot words can be earned on, and al- • J rpu j
though to them any other name would sound as well
as “ Romeo,” yet the missiles that will be manufac
tured under its canopy, will scatter delays that will
almost defeat their enemies. Oh what a glorious
field for the Hartford Champion and his satellites to
marshal their forces in, and Parthian-like skirmish in
for months ; and for Ihc President to cant in on the
strength of that “higher obligation” than the con-
Mtitution of his country.
Something .Veto!—John Adams, junior, reported
t o Congress the expenditures made by him a9 Major
Dopio in the Palace. His report, officially made, is
contradicted by his father. Where does the truth
lie—in the report, or in the denial ? It is really a
natter of some curiosity! Wc think the Financial
Head will have to settle the contioversy.
Steclii Ships of War.—There is, in the
>ril number of Blackwood, a letter by two
of the Br tish Navy, in which it is
tended, that, owing to the great - m-
provement and more general introduction of
Steamboats, they must henceforth constitute
the efficient arm of naval warfare ; and re
commending it, therefore, as an obligation
of duty on all the officers of tlie British
Navy, to make themselves practically ac
quainted with the natutfirnnd power of stenm
qngines. when < sed to propel vessels. The
Writers of the letter state, that they them-
The first Gazette is said to have been
printed in Italy, at Venice, in the year 1536,
and to have derived its name from the name
of a little coin called gazetta, which was the
common price of one of these papers. The
first regular gazette published in England
was in 1662, entitled “ The certaine News
of the Present Weeke.” The first gazette
in France, was in 1631; the first in Ame-
kca, was the “ Boston News-Letter,” com
menced at Boston, 1704, by B. Green; the
first in Pennsylvania was in 1719 ; the first
in New York was in 1725; the first in
Rhode Island was in 1732; the first in
Connecticut was in 1755; and the first in
New Hampshire in 1756. The number of
papers issuing annually from the presses in
Great Britain, are computed at from fifteen
to twenty millions, and perhaps the number
in the United States is not inferior: ’
Extensive Gaming Establishment.—The
paragraph which follows, is from a late Lon
don paper.—“ The proprietor of one of the
largest gambling concerns in that city, was
once an obscure fishmonger, but is now ex
ceedingly wealthy, having amassed immense
sums by ministering to the had passions of
the profligate. * Hell ’ may again literally
be said to be ‘enlarging its borders,’the
fishmonger having purchased another house,
next but one to the corner of Bennett street
the site of which .he is about to add to the
The notificetion of G. B. Lamar, Esq. inserted in
our last, touching the solidity of tho Macon Bank,
came to hand after our paper had gone to press ; we
had barely room for its insertion—none for comment.
An article of our’s of the 18th ult. originated, as we
have since had reason to believe, in an ill-giounded
public suspicion, but which was deemed at the mo
ment, from the circumstances accompanying it, as
correct. An official refutation, rendered necessary
from the extent of it3 circulation, has been given—
we received it as such, and cheerfully contributed to
the removal of a nunor, which, bad it come to ue
with less conclusive evidence of its truth, we should
have’ been m6r6 scrupulously careful of extending.
We could not then, neither can we now, conceive the
object for the publication of a letter, under the very
eye of the Bank, where, it is presumed, its affairs
are best known, which was calculated to change the
character of a local into that of a general suspicion,
thereby injuring its standing, without the existence
of some cause to authorise such a step. The reply
of “Knowledge,” to “A Planter,” which had for its
object the restoration of public confidence, must have
continued unsatisfactory to those interested, as they
embraced only the pro and con of two individuals cf
whom the public knew nothing. We should unwil
lingly become the instruments of awakening sus
picion against such an institution, or of tampering
with its reputation without a cause ; although there
is in the continued exercise of suspicion a safer
protection against abuse, than can be found in the
unrestricted privileges too frequently extended by
the public tq tpe managers of monied institutions
When a disease in embryo is likely to produce a
** rottenness ip Denmark,” or calculated to endanger
public security, prudence, at least, requires the ap
plication of a remedy in time to check its ravages.—
In the authority of the President, who is pre^imed
to be acquainted with the nature and extent of its
ability, confidence can be reposed. * The Chronicle
in noticing this report, remarks—“The Bills of the
Bank are freely and undoubtingly circulated as usual;
and the Brokers who are generally, the most cau
tious and knowing individuals in sdeh matters, re
Muscogee, came out. The sound of num
her “ fifty-one ” hud an electrick effect.—
Every body started and stared—it was
however, No. 51 in the second, and not in
the twenty-first district, and was drawn by
a revolutionary soldier of Jefferson county
Number fi fty-one had taken so strong a hold
on the mind of one of the speculators, that
he altogether disregarded the District, and
leaping upon his horse, was in a moment
out of sight, in pursuit of the man of the
Revolution ; wishing no doubt to experience
the pleasure which is afforded to every phi
lanthropic heart in being t«.e first to com
municate to so worthy a character the full
extent of his good fortune. The unfortunat
mistako of the speculator being discovered
almost immediately by his friends, they
started after him. immediately, two express
es mounted on fleet horses, with instructions
to ride him down and warn him gf his error
Rut he was licit to he overtaken—John Gil
pin, in his celebrated I nndon race, did not
go faster.—In vain did the expresses urge
forward their horses, in the hope of getting
within hailing distance—the speculator flew
before them almost with the swiftness of the
wind. In two hotirs he was at Sandersvilte,
a distance of twenty-seven miles—getting a
fresh horse there, and one or more after
wards. he arrived at his place of destination,
at least sixty-five miles from Milledgeville,
in about five hours !—That road was never
before travelled with such speed, and per
haps will not be again, until we have an
other Land Lottery. A bargain for the
land was quickly struck and a part of the
purchase money paid down, long before the
arrival of culler of the expresses. We are
glad to learn, however, that when the mis
take of the buyer had been discovered, the
Revolutionary veteran cheerfully returned
the money and cancelled the sale.—South.
Recorder, 28Ih ult.
England will only submit to the rule and
government of Daniel Webster, possibly he
may beat off the foul fiend, and save that
“ National Administration against which
(the Newburyport Ilerald informs us) all
the powers of darkness would seem to be
arrayed in deadly opposition !!”
Those who are fond of t*ie sublime and
beautiful, will derive singular gratification
from the perusal of the following Toast,
which was lately given at a dinner in Ten
nessee :—■
in
Bh Col. S. B. Jacobs—A ndrew J ackson—
we anxiously hope for the preservation of
his life, until his elevation to the Presidential
chair, when his uncompromising honesty,
and incorruptible integrity will wither jnto
political non-existence the “ left handed ”
politicians of the day ; but, should ■ Vrovi-
dence deprive us of him, would it not be
well to stretch his skin over a drum head,
like that of John Ziscas of old, and beat up
a crusade against the aggrandizing, patro
nizing, consolidating, state-right-trampling,
newspaper-crushing, and billard iable policy
of the Administration •? .
Of all the modes of putting down the ad
ministration, the one proposed is the most
ingenious and novel, that has come to our
notice.—Constitutionalist.
Emigration from Europe to this country
is every year increasing. From Great Bri
tain it is greater than from any other part of
the globe : for since the first of May, near
three thousand steerage passengers must
have arrived in the different ships, that sail
ed from England and Ireland. The Boli
var arrived at Quebec from Belfast with 229
settlers; the Camillas, at New York, with
153 ; the Howard Douglas, 181 ; Dalhou-
sie Castle, 70; ship India, 76 ; Robert
Edwards, 44 ; Clematis, 63; Josephine,
from Belfast, 15S; Great Britain, 152. To
this list many others might be added. The
New York Gazette, in noticing the same
subject, says, “From Saturday to Wednes
day, inclusive, there were 115 arrivals at
this port.—These vessels brought about
fifteen hundred passengers, the greater pro
portion of whom are emigrants from Great
Britain. Numerous other vessels from Eu
rope, now due. have also on board, as we
are informed, a great many erjiigrants ; and
we also learn, from a late number of the
Glasgow Chronicle, that several of the per
sons about to abandon tlieir native home for
the United States, have long been in Glas
gow, and w ere considered as the most effi
cient in their respective trades. To such
persons, a hearty welcome is always exten
ded.”—'Pliilad. pap.
“ Signs of the Trines.”—The Newbury
port Herald, an old federal paper which has
really burnt blue for twenty-five years, says
Mr. Adams’s is “an able, an impartial, a
beneficial Administration ;” and denounces
all in the country opposed to him—a large
majority of the people, as we believe—to be
“ a nefarious cabal, whose elevation would
disgrace and ruin the country!” This pa
per notifies an amalgamation meeting of all
parties friendly to the National and State
Administration to attend a caucus on Fri
day evening, to nominate candidates to re
present that town in the Legislature, Sup-
Anolher Revolution “ soldier’’ no more.—
Mrs. Deboralf, wife of Mr. Benjamin Gan
nett, died at hei family residence in Sharon,
Mass, on the 20th, ult. aged 67.—The life
of this woman must be considered extraor
dinary and interesting in a number of re- 4
spects. But the most distinguished feature
in her character is that of having been a he
roine in the American Army of the Revolu
tion. She enlisted, a volunteer, in the
Massachusetts corps, in the habiliments and
character of a soldier ; where she continued
three years, to the close of the war. Ex
traordinary as this may appear, she not on
ly, on every occasion, performed the ardu
ous duty of a soldier with more than ordina
ry alertness, gallantry and courage—having
heen in several severe engagements, and
twice dangerousl v wounded—hut sustaining
a character unsullied, and her sex undiscov
ered till peace was declared- At the dis
banding of the army she received an hon
ourable discharge from the same, and re
turned to her relatives in Massachusetts,
still in her regimentals. After the peculiar
circumstances of her case were developed,
the government of this State not only paid
her full wages, but added a considerable
bounty. She has regularly received a pen
sion from Congress.—-Ded/wtn Register.