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Late and imp»rM'»u.
«*' New \okk, Sept. 3.
.ship United States from Liver-
The ogs us London papers to and of the
pordi. Lisbon fell into the hands of Donna
raria’s troops on the 24th July, after a bat
tle on the preceding day,on the opposite side
of the Tagus, between the troops of Don Mi
guel and those of Donna Maria, in which the
former were worsted. The next day the Duke
de Cadoval and the rest of Don Migud’s min
isters haring abandoned Lisbon, the populace
rose and proclaimed Donna Maria. \ ilia
Elor’a troops crossed over the same afternoon.
Admiral Napier and his fleet arrived on the
25th,and all was tranquil under the new rule.
Oporto had resisted a fierce attack of marshal
Bouruiont; and the question, if left to Por
tuguese decision alone, may be considered
as settled in favor of Donna Maria. We see
nothing but rutnor as to any interference by
Spain—and nothing authentic respecting the
transporting of troops from England to Portu
gal, though the London Exchange was all in
agitation on the 6th, because the Admiralty
bad advertised for two transports of 300 tons
each ! Lord Althorp, it will be seen, declin
ed answering Mr. O’Connell’s question,
whether Donna Maria would be immediately
recognized bv Great Britain.
The Spanish Ambassador at Lisbon, Cor
dova, was taken fighting with the Miguelites,
and released unconditionally by the victors.
J/iguel, it was surmised, would endeavor
to escape to England.
Other accounts are that he was off for
Spain. At any rate he was non-apparent.
In England, the bill removing the civil dis
abilities of the Jews, was thrown out in the
House of Lords—though supported by Lori!
Bexley and the Lord Chancellor—by a vote
of 104 against 54 for the bill. The Archbi
shop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London,
and the Clergy generally, (the Archbishop of
Dublin voted for it) —The Duke of Welling
ton and the whole tory party opposed it. Lord
Grey was absent, and was understood as not
wishing the bill to be considered a <.overn
inent measure.
A dteadful account is given in the papers
of the destruction by fire of the Hibernia,
bound to Van Dieman’s Land, with 232 pas
sengers, of whom only 63 were saved.
London. August 6.
City, half past four: the city never was in
such a state of excitement, as at present
Goverrun-nt lias just issued a notice for ves
sels to act as tenders for three months certain.
An order has just been posted at Lloyd’s for
two transports to be got ready immediately,
to convey troops (it is said 300) to Portugal,
as it is supposed. It is said that Spain has
sent forces to assist the Miguelitu cause.
Holland.
London, Aug. s.—Letters from Holland of
Thuisday’s date speak with much confidonce
of the speedy conclusion of the labours of the
Conference, li was understood on the Am
sterdam Exchange that no proposition for a
government loan would be made thisyear. It
wasalso reported that the terms of atreaty be
tween the Powers and Holland had been a
greed to by the Dutch Plenipotentiaries, and
that the negociations for a treaty between
Holland bad advanced to a point which af
forded the prospect of a prompt and success
ful issue.
At the same time these letters speak of
measures adopted by the Dutch government,
to which a w arlike character might at first
sight be attributed. Besides the strengthen
ing the works of Geertruidenhcrg, which the
King has, by a decree,ordered to be restored,
Stcenbcrgcn and II usden are again to be for.
tified. li sterns tluit Belmoud and Eindhoven,
places which figured in the great contest with
Spain, arc to be surrounded with walls.
Strong entrenchments are to he formed in
the neighborhood of Tilburg, and it is under
stood that a formidable fortress will be con
structed at the southeast angle of the province
ol Dutali Brabant. Far from considering the
determination to execute works of this kind
as indicating a wish to resort to hostilities,
the undertaking these extensive fortifications
is regarded by the Dutch as a proof that their
government has adopted the resolution of
concurring with perfect sincerity in the total
and permanent separation of Belgium from
Holland, but that it is therefore thought ne
cessary to have “a strong bulwark against so
dangerous a neighbor.”
Rotterdam, Aug. I.— While foreign-and
especially Belgian journals, state that the
sickness which has prevailed here for about a
month daily carries off 80, or 100, or even a
greater number of victims. I can positively
assure you (as a fact that will shortly be offi
cially declared) that during the whole month
of July the number of deaths from this disor
dej was 862— i.c. not above 27£ daily. The
disorder has besides considerably abated, and
we may hope that it will shortly disappear.
Turkey.
London, Aug. 6.— German papers mention
that the Russian fleet and army, Sent bv the
Emperor to the aid of the Sultan, left the
Bosphorus on the 10th July to proceed to
Fcodosia.
(From the John Bull.)
England.
It has been pretty generally stated that Sir
John Key, one of the members for the city,
had got the government contract for station
ary, and had therefore rendered lumself ineli
gible to sit in the House of Commons. It
turns out, however, that although Sir John
Key actually manages the business connec
ted with the contract, buys the paper, and
sends it to the Stationary office in his own
carts, and is himself in attendance there, it is
not he who took the contract, but Mr. Jona
than Key, a bookseller, late of Gloucester
shire, and supposed to be a brother to the
Baronet, for whom,out of pure kindess and
affection, Sir John takes all the trouble we
we have described. All this, however, is
matter ofevidencc for the House ot Commons,
arid we do not propose to touch it.
It appears that the storekeeper of the Sta
tionary-office, a Mr. Laurence, was charged
with the duty of inspecting the articles fur
nished, and might on his own judgment re
ceive or reject such as he thought fit or unfit
for the service.
Mr. Laurence, it seems, as soon as the con
tract was settled, expressed a wish to retire
from his office of storekeeper, and, having
communicated that wish to Sir John Key,Sir
John applied immediately for the situation
for lus son.
The duties of the office, as wc have jon
Stated, arc to inspect and decide u;mn if,,
quaipy of stationary to the amount of |..0 end/
to W supplied io the Government.
GEORGIA TIMER AND STAfTE RIGHTS’ ADVOCATE.
When Sir Jo.'in made the application to
Lord Grey, lus Lordship asked how old the
young gentleman was ? Sir John replied
that he was 18. The l’rcmier said bo thought
he was.too young, but referred the matter to
Mr. Church, the controller of the offle.e, who
reported that a boy of 1“ could not perform
the duties (whether Mr. Church added that
Sir Jo!iii Key, the father, was the person ac
tually executing the contract, we know not.)
laird Grey communicated Mr. Church’s le
port to Sir John, who,with wonderful presence
of mind, said, ‘‘Then, mv Iwir.l.l will ask t It.
appointment lot my eldest son, who is near-
To this son the office was given, and Mr.
Kingsmill Key forthwith entered upon tin
arduous duty of examining the articles which
weie to be sent in ; but, afu r he had held'
the situation about three we, ks, it turned out
tnat he was the identical individual for whom
Ins father had first asked the place ; and that
he was not 22, nor near it, but was, t-.s had
first been represented by his parent, l”. Tin
thing made a noise, and the lad has been dis
missed.
Ireland.
The lulfian rural policoof Ireland arc still
continuing their bloody work. Can human
nature endure it longer !
Murderous Outrage The police again. —
On Sunday night last, in the neighborhood
ol Baity tore, a Catholic Clergyman, alter the
toil of his parochial duties during tlie day,w as
about ten o’clock called out of his bed (o at
tend a man who was shot by a policeman
named John Eldon, on the lull of Ballytore.
As soon as the rev erend gentleman reached
the spot, horrible to relate, he found an old
man, sixty years of age, on the road side, shot
through the body, with two bullets, passing
from the hack through the lower part of the
belly, and forcing out his bowels! Bv tlie
prompt attendance of a medical doctor these
were replaced, after much difficulty. The
man was lingering up to Monday night, but it
was not expected that he could have survived
that night.
The circumstances which led to this mur
der were these—the people had a drunken
quarrel among themselves, when they were!
most unwarrantably attacked by the police, j
with guns,dee. One of the police made an at-'
tempt to stab the son of the poor old man—
the latterinterferred in his son’s behalf, and!
struck the policeman with bis band; without j
any other provocation, the policeman shot him i
as described. The policeman, we understand j
is in custody. «.
It is matter of astonishment to some, that \
the people should have a deep rooted hatred
to this body, who are only known to them bv
every species of butchery, cruelty, and op
pression.— W onderful!— Kilkenny Jour.
From the Bondon Morning Sun.
Wc have carefully watched the progress of
the present commercial activity, and have,
on more than one occasion, thrown out sug
gestions of a cautionary measure upon this
important subject. Nothing can be further
from our intention, than to cast a gloom over
the existing animation, or to use any effort
to check that spirit of legitimate enterprize,
which is honorably characteristic of British !
merchants and manufacturers. The question'
that wc would now seriously recommend to I
the attention of all the prudent part of the
commercial world is, whether prevailing ac
tivity is based upon solid and natural ground
of increased demand, or whether there is not
a good deal of speculation mixed up w ith it?
There can he no doubt that the Dutch embar
go produced considerable embarrassment to
the tiade of this country ; and, although Bri
tish goods continued to be introduced into
the ports of Holland, by means offoreign ves
sels, during its continuance, there was never
theless an increase of continental demand up
on its. removal, from all the information we
hate been enabled to collcctjhowf rtr, wear,
satified that the deficiency in supply of Brit
ish commodities, consequent upon the em
bargo, is already completely supplied.
Another very important consideration,
which, in estimating the prosperity of British
commerce, it would be unpardonable to over
look, is the condition of the West Indies
Whether the ministerial plan of negro eman
cipation will work, is not in this instance the
only question, Let it work as well as its
most sangui.ne friends c?n anticipate, a de
cline in the demand for the colonies must,
for a time at least, be experienced, in conse
quence of its introduction, and to a certain
extent, has, uc have reason to believe, been
experienced already.
The continued activity in the cotton mar
ket we believe to he principally occasioned
by two circumstances—a short crop in Amer
ica, and an increase in the general consump
tion of the world. It should not he forgotten
however, that there is a considerable quanti
ty of this commodity in store, which will be
brought out whenever the price ofl'.-rs what
may be deemed an adequate inducement, as
unexpected supplies of corn come to light
when the apprehension of scarcity has duly
enhanced the price.
for the advance in wool we believe there
is a very sufficient reason. For several suc
cessive years the British clip has been below
the former average, while at the same titpe
the exceedingly depressed prices of tins im
portant material have discouraged the breed
ing ol Silesian and other continental sheep.
The real demand for silk goods from ail the
inquiries we hare instituted is,we think, very
extensive, which accounts in a satisfactory
manner, for tin animation at the lute sale of
the India house, and the rapidity- with which
parcels are changing hands; but it ought not
to be forgotten, that the market for silk goods
is so decidedly under the influence of fashion
that, it is one upon the steadiness of w hich,
lor any considerable' period, confidence ran
never be safely leposeej.
It has been remarked that the exchanges
have for some time exhibited a tendency to
turn against this country, and trifling us'thc
export ot gold has yet been, it is a eireuin
stanee which ought io be care fully ivitcheei.'
J’lie general rise in the prices of article s of'
commerce, has already produced inqiortairant
from the continent, of certain articles which 1
are generally exported to the continent from!
this country. That transactions e.f thi-. „ a .
ture- have 1■ it heart o been trilling in amount, w e
readily admit, but in the* prese nt circumst:
eesol British commerce, the first visible ten
deucy ought to be anxiously regarded, in
order to avert the shock and the calamities ol
a violent recoil.
The best proof uc can give of our ronfi 1
4 * rnrc m lb«-Uaiik iJin rtofK, j* a r< f«?r< m i
! 4,m ‘ oluninr, in which, through ml and gooelj
f (up, m have maim ,UKd that the y h-m
generally, in their management ol the cur
rency, evinced both integrity and prudence;
but the actual circumstances and disposition
of the commercial yvorltl, are such as require
on their part, the Utmost ear,’ in the regula-
I tioncf their issues, and we think it our duty
j io yvarn them and the community, that an er
ror committed noyv, might he productiye ot
the most mischievous effects.
Wc have thus glanced at some of the most
prominent eireuinstances relating to the com
mcrciul and manufacturing interests ot the j
country, and we have done so with a v evv to ;
produce caution, not timidity, anil to invite |
those yy ho are most deeply inter*, as well ;
as most likely to be well informed upon the ;
; subject to the consideration ol the question,
whether it can reasonably be expected that ,
I the present activity will be progressive or,
! even prominent ?
PouitMie Cor respond cnee.
From the Phila. Examiner.
Jlaj. Downing on liiaie Right*
Washington, Aug. 26,1832.
Mr. Examiner : Me and the President had \
hardly got over the fateeg of our voyage from
the kip Raps, when your Inst paper arrived, j
and put the Gincral into the biggest fever be !
was ever in since the mte we was almost cat j
up by bed-bugs on board the stemebote goin '
(loyvti to old Pint Comfort. The way I found
it out was this : About e o’clock on Saturday
evening last, I chanced to tro i—to the au
dience chamber, w hich you know is on the
second story, near the sow-yvest corner of tin
pallas, over the back eend of the east room,
where 1 found the Gineral with his pipe in
one hand and a paper in the other, that looked
kinder like a tract. He looked as mad as a
march hair, and a3 soon as he laid eyes on
me, lie exclaimed -Major, yvhat do you think!
He is an impertinent editor who lias the ef
frontery to charge me with desarting the Re
publican ranks.”
“ Impossible,” says 1 “Gineral.”
“ As sure us you live, Major,”says lie, “it's
true. And would you believe it Major?”
continued he, “ he founds liis unwarrantable
! assurshun upon a comparison of the doctri
\ mil pints contained in my various messages
and those contained in the Proclainavshun
I which Mr. Livingston wrote for me.”
! “ The fellow must be an ass, saving your
Excellency's presence,”says 1, “for draw ing
! any sitch a coucloosioti from the dockyrnents
refered to.”
“ You are right, Major,” says he, “ I am a
true ginivvine Republican, of the rale Jeffer
son stamp, and am us faithful to State Rights
as the needle to the south pole. And mark
me, Major,” continued he, rising up on eend,
and chucking the paper again the wall, as he
did Ritchie’s Enquirer last December, when
he found him objecting to “certain parts” of
tiie Proclamayshun; “ Mark me, by State
Rights, 1 don’t mean none of your stupid
inctteiizicks, sitch as Calhoun and the nulli
fyers arc trying to bewilder the people with—
nor even that, absurd and inadmissible rite
claimed by Crawford, Macon, Batbour, and
others of the same kidney, and which nine
months ago was insisted on until l put my
foot on it, by the whole lump of the Southern
Uniou Party,—the rite of secession. But 1
mean the substantial and constitutional rite
of peti'ion, remonstrance, and protest, against
any unconstitutional Act of Congress, sitch
as was practised by the State of Georgia in
relashun to the Injins- This rite is good
Ciiufff'or any State, and if she isn’t satisfied
w ith it, why i.d kick her into submission,and
if sre resists, I’ll hang her for treason. So
long, Major,” proceeded he, “as Andrew
•liK-kson is-'fftr G’< vrrnmrnt'hol 1 uitc.d Slates,
no State shall talk of nullification or seces
sion, let her oppression bo what it may. If
she attempts it, I’ll blow her into atoms.”
•• With lliar, by way of leaving no doubt on
my mind of his !«—Hreueat, the Gineral
struck the table with his lirst, (lie never
swears, but does tins instead) a tremendous
thump which upsot the ink horn all over his
sleeve, precisely as in Ritchie’s case last De
ccinber. Delighted to have the opportunity
j to give niy opinion upon State Rites, I was
! determined to seeze upon it. 1 was afraid,
j however, to come out rite plump with mv
! views, and so was obliged to broach them in a
j sort of slantindiclar manner. So says 1—“ All
j sound filosofy, Gineral. There’s no wav of
’ consolidating the nation into one community
ot interest ami fecli:n r , and brotherly affec
tion, but by coercini' the refractory members.
It is the way the Russians treats the Poles—
it is the way the Turks used to treat the
Greeks—it is the way tile British used to treat
the Irish. No Union can b- maintained hi
any other manner. For my part, I have always
thought that Daniel Webster was rite when
he told us in the Senate that the doctrine of
State Rites was ail a bum.mg, and 1 verily
believe that it was got up be Jefferson, Madi
son, McKean, John Taylor, and other deiny
gogs of the year’9B, merely for the purpose
ot rising into power, by flattering the pride ol
the State ; and I am glad to find, General,
says I, “that you have at last washed your
handsofthe heresy.”
“ Why .Major,” says lie, (iie always called
me Major,)—“ Major,” says lie, “ I agree
with you in part, hut I don't go the whole
hog w ith you. I don't tiiink the men you
name were dcinvgogs. They were honest,
but they were and -100 ice by the spcciocitv of
a doctrine which In id up lib.- rty as a blessing I
'hat was to he enjoyed by imposing litnita- j
tions upon the power of mi. . 1 myself li II j
into the same lieioosion, and continued in it!
until I was fortiuatc euulf to take into my |
counsels those thice worthy federal gentle-!
men ot u lion: my present cabinet is m part!
composed. No sooner did the federal do- 1
queiicc ol McLanc, ('ass, and Taney, pour |
into my cares the doctri.o of nationn\ supra- !
un icy, by which I was «o,he|made “the Govern- ;
ni nt, a theory so congenial to all the prae- j
ttec ol toy life, than I rtipiped them w ith ail J
t.;e in light that accompanies the conscious- 1
i ness that t was the man what knew ho.v to;
j bring them into act. One thing, however,
liothered me like the nation. Whilst I war.
| still under the State Rites’ dcloosion, in the
>' ’r 1830,1 was soongnrdcd as to write a note
to Kernel llayncexprefsiiigthc most euqualt
b' and approval ol Ins • ullilica-diun epoch on
I oitt s resolution, and informing him tiial I
j 111,1 nded to have it placed in my library , a.-, a
[ suitable companion to Ji flcrson's work’s
! Lvciy nay, for the last year, I have been ex*
jI“ ctilljr to M e llml unlucky duculll it pyb*
j I--bid against m< . but si purw ii a | nifi.
; m ill, I |oe»omc in considers it as priv.iii.- cor- -
j fetpond* ne< tbaio'e lit not Io be vil i.it,”
j “Gmcral,” ,- |. <| tilwcvs call him (imer.
al.)—“tuin ral. • I,“if I was you I'd have j
no consarn on that lie-ad. As to your appro
val of Hayne’s nullifying doctrines, you did
no more than all the editors of the republican
party «H<l, from Mane to Lucy Anna. They
were ail at the time under the influence of the
same delusion, which happily tney have, like
your Excellency shaketkotf; and, as to the
"note to Hayne, why let him publish it. With
our tact, we can tarnation easy nullify its ef
fect. All we have to do is to order our papers
at the north not to publish it; and, as to the
south, Ritchie can settle the business *here,
by telling the people that parts of that note
“have K en much misconstrued bv soine, and
groosly misunderstood by others.”
1 hope Mr. Examiner, you will publish this
letter, in justice to the “greatest and best,”
and 1 have no doubt that all 'lie “by authori
ty” editors will imitate the example, and per
haps vou may again here from.
Yours trooly,
J. DOWNING,
Major of Millitia.
[From the U. S. Telegraph.]
LETTER FROM MAJ. JACK DOWNING
To uncle Johnny Downing — Downingseilh.
I haint hardly time to say Dear Uncle. 1
and the Gmera! had it hip and thigh, mard
and saft, to!her night. We argied tell he
hollowed out yotire Hayne and I’m Daniel
Webster. I aint Hayne says I. 1 nevt r writ a
word of that letter about Hay lie’s great speech
agin Webster. Slap went his pipe at inc.
But I never gives up, nor advances backwards
—so be turned kinder like ? —Then we sot in
tosmoklnand thinkin. Says 1 Gineral thinkin
is plag y bard this hot weather. I’d rather
maul rales says he. Hell, says the Gineral,
Major what’s your thoughts; the same to you,
says I. Says the Gincral, Major, that wild
varmint’s got into Congress agin. Who’s lie.
sas i? Davy Crocket—ami his larnin vviil
bother us tor true—lie’s up to snufl, Major—
he kilt a wild cat at a wink. He’ll play hob
with Van Btiren—there aiutonecan hold a
candle to his talking. Then Tom Snclten
from Kaintnck—Major I in treed at last. I’d
rather lick Buckingham six times, than have
them fellers at me and poor little Van. They
know too much.
Gineral, says I, don’t be addled.—You’re
worse scared than Isaac was when old Up
ham gin him blue Betty—l’ll row ’em up
Salt River—that’s flat. Major, says he,you’re
the man—take a drink of cider—then go a
liead. I tellcd the Gineral, says 1, ketch a
wcazzle asleep, lknuwd Crocket would be
lected, an 1 sot my trap, an ketched him
worse than a whale with a Bedford harpoon.
How’s that Major, says the Gineral. Says
I, give me a drink of cider, a chaw tobacker,
a pinch of snufl', and a fresh pipe—and then,
Gineral,don’t breathe above your breath while
I tell you. Says I, Gincral, you know the
States’Bank where Squire Biddle lives. 1
sot right about to make the Squire bribery and
kirrupshin Davy Crocket. The Gineral
snickered. When I went on to sec Itovv the
cat hopped on the bank, I knowed what the
people said, i says to Biddle, when I quit
fingenn and syfertn an hung up the slate—
you know bribery and kirrupshin, dont’tyou?
Don’t I, says he—if Kendall had come to me
instead of going to Clay lie’ll got 1500 in a
minute. You’re Old Nic fur sartin, says I,
Bquire. The Gineral snorted. Now, savs I,
give tne a sarlificatc that you haint bribed
me, and I’ll git ycu Davy Crocket. Do.ie
for a ducking says the Squire. I got the pa
per—and Ire’s the slickest feller liven : fur
says Biddle, Major, send these scraps of hun
der dollar notes to your uncle for samples
how to make’em at, Dow ningville Bank, with
my compliments in full. Now savs he. M:>j
-»« <-rucKett —so down I sets in the big
cheer,and writes—viz . as follows:
Major Downing to Kurnell Crockett.
Dear Davy : I hopp’d like parch peas when
1 heard how you was lected. Come on quick
—the Gineral forgives all, and says yon an I
sliali go on Convoys Penitentiaiy from him to
the Bank. Biddle says bring Crockett—
tiierc aint that Bank livin that can stand
Crockett and Downing. Biddle says damn
the expense—and lie’s got eight dollars a day
to give away, for two years besides what St.
Matthew Clarke pays. Nick’s shampain
slips down like sweet ile—and he’s the fel
ler for giving dinners. lie says the bank
votes eight dollars a day to the cleverest fel
low to he found—and says you’re the man.—
The State banks is fillin Amos’wallet. They
gin him in New York enufl' to buy ail your
uiggarsand land too.
Now’s the time, Dear Davy,
Your’s to command,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
Major, says the Gineral, stop a minute
t( II I’m done laughin—depen upon it lie gig.
glcd like Yankee Doodle.—When he was
dun laughin and crying—says he, Major
w here s the answer ? Present arms, savs 1,
and showed him,
Kurnell Crockett to Major Jack Downing.
Dear Down : 1 knows bribery and corrup.
shun—there aint that inan livin should do
that to me. Ili dart daylight through him in
a jifiin, Did’nt i tell the people at Bull
Greek wiiat war, pestilence, and famine was.
i teli’d ’• rn war was fightiu—pestilence was
ciioiera—and famine was short craps. I’m up
to Old Nick or Young Nick. But the hank
must lie consolidated—and I can’t judge of
the bank up to its null.fication, without 1 try
bow some of the money passes every where.
“Os ; ‘V nothin, Major, till I get the riiic—and
then we’ll treat the Gincral.
Y’our’s to sarve,
DAVY CROCKETT,
J louse of l\< ’prcsentatircs.
P. S. The people out here, says Amos,
is more nave than fool.
Give me that letter, says the Gincral, and
with that he sot to snorting an snickeriii",
just like unto,
“Possum up dc gum tree,
(■ot you Crockett, in my packet,
Yankee Doodle Dundee.”
Fays I, Gineral you’ll he feverry.and have
the back ake, and the like of that : and don’t
sing such peppery fun like o’ that in your lat
*• r days. Major, says be, give us a stanzey.
8o I sure/.- d—an > singed out—
“ Hail Columbia happv land,
Blair and Kendall ‘heaven born’ hand,
Who fit and writ in Jackson’s cause.'*
.Stop Major, says the Gincral—-I shill die—
I'm done over lay lor—you beat snakes. Bil.
ly Lewis, says lie, cull the Cabinet. Nun
says Billy—which one, (lie kitchen, or ihe
toilu r one * Both Billy —bul leave out Tuny
—ln s such a li lh r for gentility—dou’i fi t
him him, Major,sayh he, the Idto of k< .trlun
Duvy Crockett, l,i ats nullification, auti.mn.
miry. Mormoiiiii and konkology. and all
1 h’m fliiof'- Johnny used to tca< li wb< re !
they me I. 1. dec. If Aihoj, says lie, was
only here, you might see a candle through
his nose* Never mind Amos, says I, them
State banks is paving him well lor the bar
gains. I remane, Dear Uncle,
Your nefu to command,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
This to my uncle !>v the States Telegraph,
from the Rap Rips—dog (lays—eighteen hun
dred and 83. Es the Telegraph won’t do it,
let him lolditup and start it off by the first
steamboat to the Portland Advertiser.
Extract of a Letter from David Crocket ti
the Editor of the Con. Jour.
August 9th, 1833.
Mount Prospect.
Dear Sir—Went through—tight squeezing
—beat Fitz 170.
Yours, 1). C.
SALMAGUNDI.
A GOOD BARGAIN.
The Pennsylvanian says Mr. Blair(ofthe
Globe paid off89(t,000 with 8937. It adds
that if Mr. Blair has not already become an
adept in the ait of shaving, he is a most prom
ising pupil, and recommends him to prefect
himself, by a course of study under celebra
ted instructors hi Wall Street, '‘the latches of
whose slices (M. Bonnet says) Master Thom
as Biddle and his little school arc not worthy
to untie! The editor of the Pennsylvanian
recommends his ally to obtain an introduction
to these gentlemen hv means of their mutual
friends of the Standard and Post, both of
w hom he alleges are deep in their secrets. In
proof of his allegation he insinuates that the
Post was once in favor of a plan for establish
ing a hank with a capital of 830,000,000, and
that the establishment of the Standard is in
debted to stock jobbers to the amount of
85,000. We do not wish to interfere in the
disputes of these honest gentlemen, hut real
ly we cannot help admitting Mr. Blair’s
knack at making a bargain. — V. 1". Cour.
Evils of Rail Roads. —The Xnw York
Gazette gives the following humorous argu
ment, which it says, was used by a canal
stockholder in opposition to railways :
“He saw what would be the effect of .t;
that it would set the w hole world a gadding—
twenty miles an hour, sir!—Why you would
not be able to keep an apprentice hoy at his
work; every Saturday evening he must take
atrip to Ohio, to spend the Sabbath with his
sweetheart. Grave plodding citizens would
be flying about like comets. All local attach
ments must be at an end. It will encourage
flightiness of intellect. Various people will
turn into the most immeasurable liars ; all
their conceptions will be exaggerated by
their munificent notions of distance—only a
hundred miles off! Tut nonsense, PI! step a
eross, madam, and bring your fan ! ‘Pray, sir,
will you dine with me to-dav, at my little box
at Alleghany !’ ‘Why,indeed I don’t know—
I shal! be in town until twelve. Well I shall
he there, but you must let me off in time for
the Theatre.! And then, sir, there will be
barrellsof pork, and cargoes of flour and chal
drons of coals, and even lend and whiskey,
and such like sober things, that have alwavs
been used to sober travelling, w hisking away
like a set of sky rockets, it w ill upset all
the gravity of the nation. If a couple of gen
tlemen have an affair of honor they have on
ly to steal to the Rocky Mountains, and there
no jurisdiction can touch them. And ther.,
sir, think of flying for debt. A set of bailiffs,
mounted on bomb shells, would not overtake
an absconded debtor—only trive him a fair
Start. t; r ,r.„ „U..U, «,
topsyturvv, harum-scarum whirligig. Give
me the old, solemn, straight forward, regular
Dutch canal—three miles an hour for express
f'8 ’ and two for jog trot journirs—with a
yoke of oxen for a heavy 1. ad ! 1 go for
beasts of burden ; it is more primitive and
scriptural, and sails a moral and religious peo
ple better. None of your hop skip and jump
whimsies for me.”
A Grand R ah. Road Spectacle. —Tin
locomotive engine on the Baltimore and Sus
cpiehannah Rail Road, come in on Snndai
evening, rv little before 7 o’clock, with four
toon in its train ; averaging, as nearly as wt
could judge, thirty persons to each car—ma
kina a total of 499. These persons wen
mostly those who had bpon to thecamp meet
ing, near Riestertown, and were on their re
turn. The s.srht was "truly grand. The
movement of the lona train, as it were bv
magic, at an easy speed, at the rate of If
miles to the hour, around the spurs of hills
following the serpentine course of the w ild
and tumblingstrearn, the hanks and rocks o!
which, in the vicinity of every settlement,
were enlivened by spectators—the younger
with smiling faces, and the older with a kind
of wonder and astonishment,at the reflection,
no doubt,on the change which two or three
years, with industry and enterprise, had ef
fected in their rooky and w oody neighborhood,
file salubrity of (lie atmosphere was beyond
all comparison—and the pleasantness of the
day—the mild refreshing breezes—and the
quiet and orderly conduct ofcverv passenger
—rendered the scene, and everything relative
to it, most truly delightful Hal. Chron.
“Go it Jerryl —A horse, with saddle and
bridle, was recently found w ithout a rider,
wandering near a country tavern in Ohio.
.Search having been made, the gentleman
owner, very essentially drunk, was found
mo.mted astride oil a wall “kicking and
spurring most furiously,” cursing his sup.
posul pony for not moving forward. Having
become a little sobered, he discovered his
mistake and dismounted, to the no small a
maz incut of the bystanders.
Sij iipallnj of insec's. —When we came
in tin' parlor ol the inn at Fonnov t wc found
it black with flies. “Why do you not de
stroy these flies !" we inquired of the land
lord. ‘•Jlless you,” he replied, “that would
Olay make the matter worse—whenever
we Kill one, all his acquaintances come to
his funeral.— Cary's Letters from Ire
land. J
< 4 7u ewsbury Clock. Ii ifson. in one of
his letters, speaking of Shrewsbury, savs,
• laird Mansfield once asked the Mayor,
it that was the clock (pointing to it) bv
which Sir John l alstaff fought his long!
hour: to which the venerable magistrate
gravely replied, lie really did not know,
as he had not the pleasure oi bcin" ne
■piaintcd with the gentleman.’* c
{From the Philadelphia Gazette]
We saw, in some honest paper, not long
since, an editorial determination that no
more advertisements should be published in
that print, from husbands advertising their
wives. This was a good resolve, and one
which ought to be widely adopted bv our
corps. In the majority of instances, the' man
who thus exposes his consort is a worthless
and malignant fellow, whose own deficiencies
in duty have made his home unpleasant, and
who has driven his companion to a point he
yond which forbearance ceases to be a vir
tue- Miscreants of this sort should not be
allowed to have a medium wherein their
spleen may be vented, even at the rate of “a
dollar per square for three insertions.” J t
may happen sometimes—once in a long w |„] c
—that some soft husband has caught a tar
tar in his matrimonial bargain, and that all
his efforts for tranquility are unavailing—
that he erics peace, when there is no peace.
We recollect one such unfortunate, who came
to the office of this Gazette, and stated, in a
sad and quiet wav—looking meanwhile the
very picture of meekness—that lie w ished to
advertise his spouse. We remonstrated with
him on the impropriety and unkindness of the
measure, and desired him not to expose in
that way a woman whom tie had vowed he.
sere the holy man to protect—the wife of his
bosom, and an amiable woman. He started
nervously,advanced to the window, and point!
ir.g with the forefinger of his right hand to
his face, he exclaimed—“ Amiable! Thunder
and Onions! look at my eyeP'
It must he confessed that the optic was ex
ceeding black, and a blue hazy outline, like
the purple hue of a rainbow, extended into
the cheek, and completely spoiled the res
pec table appearance of that portion of his vis.
age. This was a knock-down argument; and
we took his dollar and his notice, without
compunction.
t Gor.p Coil,' a ok. —A correspondent of the
Commercial Herald, under the signature of a
“Philadelphia Merchant,*’ says:
“Our gold coins are underrateds percent,
that is, the legal value is four per cent, less
than the real value, and in consequence thev
cannot circulate here ; but are exported to
Europe whenever exchange rises above 84,02
per pound sterling ; hut if they were rated
according to the approximate relative value
of gold to silver, they would not he exported
to England until exchange had risen to 84,81
or 84,82 per pound sterling, (about 8 1-4 or
8 1-2 percent, premium.)
“The expense of coining gold is a mere
bagatelle , and unworthy of consideration,con
pared with the advantage of procuring for our
southern gold finders a market for their pro
duce ; hut still would it not be more advan
tageous to the country to give such a vnlua
to our gold coins as would give thema chance
to he circulated ? " ould it not he a most
desirable thing to have coins of the denomi
nation of half eagles ($5,) quarto do. ($2,50,)
and eight do. (81 >25,) in circulation? Then
the paper trash of less value than 8”), which is
a disgrace to a commercial community, and in
creases much the danger to he apprehended
from counterfeiting,! would he abolished,and
our currency would l> e kept in a compartivc-
Iv sound and healthy condition.—Every man
of intelligence in the country would rijoice
at the abstraction of notes ot less value than
five dollars, and the substitution of coin in
their place. This would, besides being
of such importance in keeping our currency
sound, he a great spur to the industry of our
southern gold miners—they would finda Jar
nor martlet f..> tlicir produce, and would of
course extend /heir works.”
Hints to .Ictors. —Madame Clairon at
tributed her growing prematurely old to
the influence of the griefs and distresses
which it was her constant province to rep
resent on the stage : and the vialade ima
ginaire ot Aloliere is said to have proved
fatal not only to Moltere himself, but to
tiie actor who succeeded him in the part.
Pliny has a still more remarkable anecdote
to the same effect: he states that there was
an actor who imitated the feelings of tie
gout so naturally, as at length to bring
the disorder upon him.
11 ager of Rattle. — It is a maxim of the
English Courts of law, that every statute con
tinues in force till repealed by another stat
ute. A singular instance of the application
ot this maxim, occurred at the bar of the
King’s bench in 1818, on a trial for murder.
The accused appealed from the decision ot
the Court, and like a warlike knight in days
of yore, thr w down his glove and challenged
the appellant to single combat! It was de
cided by the learned judges that this, law,
although it had fallen into disrepute, having
never been repealed, was still the law of the
land. l.ord Ellcnborough, who was then
Chief Justice said, ‘ However averse 1 am
myself to the trial by battle, it isthemode of
trial, which we in our judicial character, aro
bound to award. We arc delivering the law
as it is ; and not as we wish it to be; and we
must pronounce our judgment, that the hat
tie shall take place, unless the other patty re
serves for our consideration, whether under
tiie circumstances of the case the appellee is
er.titlcd to go without day.” Afterwards,
by the consent of both parties, the court or
den and that judgment he stayed on the appr-if
and that the appeal he discharged. A bill
was soon alter brought up in Parliament) to
repeal this absurd law. —Lotcell Journal.
Manner of naming Countries.— Tbs
origin of tho word Canada is curious e
nough. The Spaniards visited that £o l,nr
try previous to the French, and iiiSKle par*
ticulur searches for gold and silver, axe
finding none, they have often said among
themselves, “aca nada” (there is nothing
(here. The Indians who, watched *h l ' m
closely, learnt their sentence and its mean
ing. After the departure of the Spaniard*
the French arrived, and the Indians, w‘ iu
wanted none of their Company, ami op
posed they were also Spaniards, come on
the same err.-uitr, were anxious to ink
them that their labour was lost by tarrying
in that country, and incessantly rcf**b
to them the Spanish sentence “*ct» mju».
The French, who knew us lilth' "
Spanish as til© Indians, supposed "!
a ‘-saiiUr*rucun ing sound was the * ,al , l
J
Canada.»»hn hit Inc. burtK? c v W W 1 '*' J