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FOBKiQ K —; News—Capture 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