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and^noniam already nearly The cooJcefy 4 "’alone, independe 51 ^ ' *Mm - 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mention the sin gular fact that Waverlv, the first, and pro bably the best of Sir Walter Scott’s prose works, remained unpublished nearly ten years after it was written.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.