Indiana American, Volume 12, Number 1, Brookville, Franklin County, 29 December 1843 — Page 1

Bl' C. F. CLARKSOX.

SENATORIAL NAMES. We are sometimes much amused bv the curious array of names, which fall under our oblation. It seems as if names were somet ties given by contraries, as if the woid and the thing were to be placed in opposition .ome instances, the names are not credible .! even i" tuu nae as strange ones them-1 . a . . ? . llen-.-v once introduced Mr. Prnnt. shanks to Mr. Sheepshanks

,nk. wi.-M.." r ::.ul",u,,"u"T,,,e l'"10'i press-which is no-

tbe gentlemen flew into a violent passion that ..v. ,.,.,,, uum . ,h should be so insulted! ThSent.f.i..l: r,iiei States, at the r,rPn. k

.' r ' . ' events ot t ip pass ng hour It keen .r,, expressive names. Thus, Maine open, part of the country ormed of alMhat h?. tyoffenn,. Fa.r-f.eld for d.cussion. Vir- occurred in everv other U atTs Ukely ,c touch fsends an Arcer; to whom a wag once men's interests "or their '1 Satiate Archer! could not one suffice? ZiZo ""riot, T''SH thTice and thrice my peace s-"-zh,::,;tt wrvi ' i man suflering escapes its notice, from the mish the eating line, the Senate is well provided. 1 eries of war, pestilence, and famine, to the fuillhe New Jersey Miller wii; supply four. j ur of a merchar:!. or ihe loss of a pocket-book. Ma$?achtt?etts ffives a skote (Choate) Ver- j Every discovery in science or art, every imm nt furnishes ham, which, being sent up into ! provement in husbandry or hou?hold econo-t'-,e Senate, is Up-ham. Pennsylvania, withjm', is immediately proclaimed, as are all Dutch taste, sends a Sturgeon; while Louis- i achievements in anv pursuit of life whetheli:;aan4 Michigan supply abundant Porter toj in catching whales or shooting squir'rc! or in drink; and, finally, should any thing be want- i riding, running, jumping, or walking There ifj. Connecticut goes a Hcntixgt-on the banks ' can scarcely an over grown o or hog'tnake its 1

of the.MLES. ror luei, orth Carolina turns by into wood, so , Sat tt becomes Hay-wood. ! .ith Carolina i I-fritm it:9ii t-r -..v. iua be expected to swell not a litte. Tennessee 1 Fosters her brethren. and Kentu'cky supplies ;

-1 in V V ''"r'T ,!- a x e n,arket' i"e cened to alk in the path of rectitude, and be-j crops, and the weather. Not a snow is suffer'ZTV V90'0 V?ry h0t rC0ld da- TP'"' pjimon ork though clearly wrong, without being recorded.- We may here learn aarms her W r.ght. Illinois raises a Bheese, hat every man in every city pays for his an i Missouri is Dext-on mischief. Royalty is beefsteak, and what he eives for almost all h-

" "u een oemocrauc , ;,K. i , - ' . ' Aliima elec sa King! Delaware returns to ' thedavs of Knishihood's !',f ! ' ' - . Iani that takes the per-SiMMONs. Ohio, being , w.'.aoui reproacn: out. ipr . it c P hmtot.. ai customed to a iin pann home, sends her : eat.ai.1 Arkansas offer, her tribute ,rt .h- ! ar uwivnu. .'UiTidUU IlltllimS llPf VJlPailT - ; mflTi.trr nf I- i-1 .a l U 1 1 : . m0fnory oi rrLTox. When all is ovpr Vnw i ; . 7 Hmpslure offers to those who fall, a Wood to ; I? BRT-ed in, so that they mav be Wood-sr,v-ed; while Michigan gives the survivers a' Wood-bridge. to carry them safe over. j Georgia, alone i . .. uer piorv. asks nnittier wooas, nor he'ds rivers, fish, nor flesh, nor H.story, for a name. She sends her Derrien -the representative of men a noble name, w.th a noble fame. Thus it is that names make up a cuiious subject. He who could trace the history of a name, would discover much which history has r,f ver revealed. Indeed he would have a deep ms;ght into some of the hidden ways of humanity. But, it is a little odd, that our Senate should have such a curious collection of significant names. Cin. Chron. WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT. The Elitor of the Madisonian, Tyler's orgvn. acknowledgedly the greatest fool extant, ?3utimes perpetrates a good thing; and. an others, is an article with the above capt n. in a late number of that paper. It's certs nv too rich a treat to be lnt. Here it is: " H'kafisa Dtmocratl Is this question to ! resolved by referringto thequestion "Who 3d yon vote for heretofore for President? did pu sustain this or that meure?-' The last mvr be a good test, but not the first. Accordtithe first is Francis P. Blair a good Democrat? If uniform opposition to Henry C ay is to be a te,t, then is Mr. Blair no Democrat, because he was the decided friend of II. C.ay ajainst the old Hero, and all the worse i..e c hief instrument used to make Henry Clay secretary of State. Then Mr. Blair is no democrat. Ij uniform advocacy of Gen. Jackson an unerring test of Democracy? Then the Editors or the Richmond Enquirer and Albany Argus are 110 Democrats fnr on. . u. Jckon was so ignorant that he could notconrue the plainest section of an act of Congress: "-.the other denounced him in unmeasured terms. They, then, are no Democrats. "-'ir. van Uuren a Democrat? If those who "ted for Mr. Madison are Democrats, and thoe who toted against him Federalists, then. ir.an Buren, having voted against Mr. Madon. is no Democrat. ''Mr. Calhoun a Democrat? He opposed l,en. Jackson's administration, and he voted fmst Mr. Van Buren as Minister to Eng'"d- According to this test, he is no Democrat. And so on through the nWonionnM-. .ta - .i.s rate -re have scarcely a t.W; . lre land. Let nemocrat m - - - , , . . v ' o III ne a Democrat who voted against the Bank. us romt to mpcurt- fa Internal Improvements, and a Protective Tariff? j a Democrat, be-; Van Buren cannot be ''!? he voted to erect turnpike gates on the Rational Road, and for the Tariff of 182S, and ri--are1, in his Albany speech, tn?t he would '"e Vrtted for tho nroi1intT . .r't. Iiad hp r - mere. According to this test, then f ..s I'cinucrau , ,s Mr. Calhoun a Democrat? He voted for; e st Bank, and sought also to renew its I ul"",' fr he rrP"s as he expressed it. of ' !hw n bank lhroueh lhe l,an,t-' ' he Sllh Tr-9.nr.' . - , , a - . 1a. : .. -- . 15 me Snh Trraoirr 9 sl nf nmAi...1 ' .... H.v.., v 1 1 1 ' v 1 , , 1 . " V,cr'uu"ro1 ,ne inquirer no Demo-; . 1 "! tor he opposed it lustilv. and npvar h,. ' e-v,(., pi - J ' The ti...i 1. . . . . . 1 -icuii.o,, iiiini nave aaaeu is Jhn Trio- - .1 ,.., . i tl"ntoMr 01 , k rV ..fK""-, v. a iscimn-riti: 11 "unuorm opposite Clay be Democracy." then John' ITrieri. 3 uc",",Tac5' ,ne" Jonn I Hen- ri T"1 Dpca e supported , Ve-o ,aWW Conventirtn of 1S39; but ifj TvVr Ultto"be Democracy, then is John fcpifc' -Ved,nthe wool!" Grecn.wro-A, - ' . no Democrat; because he snnnnnit . v I n v in 1I1 f,. r 1 pin . . 3

IWIMF

AKTA AlflEIEICAW

BROOKVILLE, PERIODICAL PRESS. e copy the following remarks on the Periodical Press of this ronniry from an article in Hunt's Merchant s Magazine, on the "Pr,,r. j ress of Population and Wealth in the United n i JSia I dm in ft ft. .. - II l n - . . .h ri""Y.' "'5"r "cuer, oi " tl.. . , . . 1 here is yet another source of nnnni,, M 11 1111(1. i." ,- . Ucea dv me census Pin. iH "7 '1 " . " ,na"ulac'u- - 0. T . . ,a exclusively occu.j - .mwuuuiy auairs, out with the appearance on a farm, or even an extraordina - iy apple or turnip, but their fame is heralded ihrmmk ih ln 11 . . .

...c muu. ncre we learn every lens-lde Iaiivr measure, from that which fmhiuh ,ln.

lanfT to that which gives a pension every i . . " annus, ana wears. Here deaths and Here deaths marriages, crimes and follies, fashions

m,m.,t.. -vi.il,;. .,- I,....' , :..:r,rc,"m pemus, lor i was mistaken. The

iviih ilm aiunl'.nn...nr --. . (M., Miu.iuuavi isuuiii aim science, the effusions of sentiment, and the sallies of wit; and it is not too much to sav that the iet HIH . IIPPP llllf,r,1 111 IE, ct.it. is. in little more .h , t " 1. or T nuiciritlA ' - v ltOlCU 111 c v- . . t - " rv town in thpl'niipri smf. i : j v w.-.u wuilj, ui nidi IIIC IV dom or the pleasantry, the ribaldry or the coarseness exhibited in nno nf tin, Halle ,f Congress, is made by the periodical nres to give pleasure or distaste to hundreds of thonsnnas ol readers. . Nor is its agency limited to our own concerns. It has eyes to see and ears to hear all that is said or do.ie in every cart of the olr.tipand the most secluded heunit, if he only takoi - . f : a ne wsnaner. spps. nin a iaUunn r. . ! as in a mirror, every thing that is transacted in the most distant regions; nor can any thing memorable befall any considerable part of our species that it is not foithwith communicated with the speed of steam to the whole civilized i world. The newspaper press is thus a most potent engine, both for good and evil. It too ofien ministers to some o! our worst passions, and lends new force to party intolerance and party injustice. But its benefits are incalculably greater. By communicating all that is passing in the bustling world around us, whether it be little or great, virtue or crime, useful or pernicious, pleasurable or painful, without those exaggerations and forced congruities which we meet with in other forms of literature, it imparts much of the same knowledge of men and observation. Its novelties give zest to life. It affords occupation to the idle, and recreation for the industrious. It saves one man from torpor and relieves another from care. Even in its errors, it unconsciously renders an homage to virtue by imputing guilt to those it attacks, and prairing none to whom it does not impute merit and moral excellence. Let lis hope that it will in time, without losing any of its usefulness, less often offend against good taste and good manners. and show more faiiness in political controversy. According to the census of 1840 there were then in the United States 130 daily newspapers. 1.142 issued weekly, and lt3 twice or thrice a week, besides 227 other periodical publications. Such a diffusion of intelligence and information has never existed in any other country or age."' THE BENEFITS OF INDUSTRY. There are many persons who regard every species of labor as an evil. Children are of ten unhappy, because they must study to ac quire Knowledge; and men and women sometimes complain, because they must sow before they can reap. To all such persons I would tell the following allegory, which may suggest the lesson, that industry is a blessing and Indolence a curse: " There was once in the city of Bacdad. a ! little boy. who was noor. and nblirrH in his daily bread by rearing floweis in a smill garden. As the price of flowers in that luxu riant climate is extremely low, he was compel lo t'" very industrious in orcer to obtain . necessary food and clothing. But still he had onnil iKillh firnt l,a .: i .iv... ... ..uu n vr ii is -niii sc lllt'ai nn ,,!. -' h and satisfaction. But this was not his greatest pleasure; his rioWC.rs were a perpetual source of enjoyment. Thev were hi flowers; he planted them. pruned and nurtured them. they were the source of his liv he watered them. Besides all this, elihood. They ! gave him bread, shelter. and raiment. He. .1 r , . ' iiiti'1 itrp invf,n 1 11 ciin nc it ihav , , r 1, Anm panions. He saw them snrinft out of ..i...i.,ii,j t. 1 in., vuiir the .1 t. i . , ,- Si uuiiu , uu asurc; ne w aicnea ine ouuuing 8 "n1 "nio,0ll1g "owers w,tn delight But at length discontent sprung up in his UMNO, auu, m me evening 01 a hot day, ne sat clown in his garden and began to murmur. wish." said lie, "that flowers would pla prune, and water themselves. I am t this incessant toil. Would that good would step in, and bring me flowers - C"- " " " 'v JUU ,VF 111 U I 111 LI I . J ..;.! i. i.ih.i ( ,j . . r , tired of genius already made, so that I might be saved all this trouble."

OCR COUNTRY QfR COCNTRY's INTERESTS

AND OCR

MAHKLIM COU.VT1, INdTITdcSiBS

Scarcely had he uttered this thought, when ' a beautiful being in bright colors stood before! him, and said: i

"lou called mc.bov; what do vou dewrer'!. .u. , ." "J -mmonweaIih, gives District School Journal, has suggested feme 'I am weary of my emplovment," said thV iV v lol,w,n "ch report of a scene in v, hich , very useful, practical and at the same lime aboy; ' I live by cultivating flowers. IUm ob-'.IrW ? P'oniinent. though agreeable rules, to be adopted in Common ligedtotoil, day by day, with unceasine in- " tk . P a Schools, for the purpof establishing a sytdustry, and I am only able to obtain mvdiilv Mp.ent of lhe Dardb,ow r- Ga- ; tern of instruction that ill bring into n,e the hrK.J If I eHe. in Connection W ltVl r.in . : r i.- - . .

v-nnu. ji I I us IKPnn -rn . I. : .. J i powerful genius who can give flowers if vou ailil will, and save me all this toil." "

"Here, ' said the genius, holding forth t!:";;;" day, v, hen the pupils are usually too wea-bcau-iful fan of feathers, "take this-wave it, ?;' f. . "'8 R-P-entative of, ry to study with much profit, and too restless over your flowerpots, and the brighter blo-,pA,i rt S r"' a" lf he was not : to be rMnt",d without much difficulty, let soms of Cashmere will spring up at your bid- 1 i , In,?! ?T? T aS n"1 for wnnt of i 'o learhpr directjihe booksi to be put aide, dine!" Saying thi. the spirit departed a?Sr I ? fh,ou,d"- Fan man ' and the pupil, to arrange themselves convert The boy received the charmed fan with Ja V' ITm r 'V bro"d a"diV iently for him to talk to them familiarly and great delight, and waved it over one of his ! forp lhl . fti. i I m" W," f lood i f,,r "'em ,0 reply in concert. The teacher fiower pots. A bud immediately .hot uu hI.A a . fcx;Vesldent at Lel,n. nt'"ces something familiar and imrrestine as through the soil, graduallv unfolded itself and IZnf T """t reriied below. The the subject of the exe.cUe. Suppose it tube in a few minutes a beautiful moss-rose bloom-1 UV wmfi V handsomey ' "ff- I The children are first asked the name ing and fragrant, stood before him! I need UlwiJ' il?, mru l".."'a pi" to SPe ihe'ef comn.on metals. Thry reply iron, lead,

... " ii not describs ihe trancnnrl f tt, i:.. i ner. He found hi cha , f VTJ thine he desired. H, h.rf i.k;:."j",

a few sweeps of his fan brouVh him ZlZ'0? ""L 1 " '

ers he needed. He, therefore in luxurious indolence. spent his time.; ! n,,t Things went on very well for a fortnight. to creen over him "rpow Dim now a different kind of weariness bepan His appetite, too, failed bv grees. and he no longer enjoyed his meals. ! Ha He lost his interest, likewise, in the flowers. saw no beauty in their bloom: their verv i . -. unhappy, and azain bean to murmur , K he 1711 . d takaJay th fS M C0'" I I a moment th b r wi, Btandina ! at hi, side Dri.nt Dein, as standing ! ii ''.,... nnr, bitiu inc nty. nanoin? forth th fm '-toi,. .k-. ' . U . ' , - taKe nack the charm you gure me! Forgive .. . '" '"' "rrs. whirhPr.nr,l,.m.,.U;,,..J l. " things which cost nothing are worth nothing ---j I ake back the charm, and leave thi i,.,,. ! 1. 1 - 1 - . - . . . ! "r aPP'""s vnicn my own industry can se cure, but which your potent spell would chase J' ABOLITION VIVTK iv liQT.Trc " - - . ' x - A 4 a liiV. Slates. Maine, N. Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,

1843 6.351. 3.564' 3.766. ! x v " , Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin. Rhode Island, New Jersey Total, 55.544, Full returns from New York, Massachusetts!

1S40 1S41 1S42 194 1,602 2.JSS 111 2 358 3.110 319 2.794 2 091 1.415 3.722 6.422 174 1.319 1,777 2,808 5.6S2 7,431 343 818 1,114 904 2,848 5.423 159 527 931 328 858 1.665 900 42 69 6,805 20,688 34,716

mm .Micnigan, wm increase the aggregate vote'ro"m lo snow J"" ,n Slr- van Buren."

this year to 65,000 From the Ladies' Companion for December. THE SISTER'S FAREWELL. Oh. stay one moment, brother mine, Nor bear her yet awcy; She is my whole life's sister thou The brother of a day. Amid these dear old solemn shades, Together grew our youth; Together here, in converse sweet, We learned to worship truth. For we had naught but each her heart To read the other by, And deemed all else as pure as they, Or as the summer sky. Tocether, hand and spirit linked, We've watched the rosy years Forfifteen dreamy cycles sweep Nor meet them yet with tears. Together prayed we in the bower, Together laughed and sang. Together plucked the early flowers That in the wild wood sprang. Together, when the evening came, Our father's hands have pressed Our bended heads whose full heart wept Fondly o'er what it blessed. Together in the solemn night. Cheek pressed to cheekwe slept, And dreamed our mother over us Her night-long vigil kept. Ah, then each sister's heart tan o'er, And mingled with the other, Till now I deem that thou hast won A part of miie, sweet brother! Nay, take her now! Her sobbing heart Wiil calm beneath thine eye, As the wild tide beneath the moon Shrinks hushed and hurrying by. Away, away! thy gallant steed Impatient to be gone. Plashes the rivulet in the light Of the new-breaking dawn. Once more the last the last good bye! Sweet sister, think of me! Brave Knight protect her she will piove A beam of light to thee ! To bless thee in thy darksome hours, To cheer thy loneliest way' To make the dreariest night seem fair As gleam of opening day. Ephemerox.

COUNTRY'S FRIENDS.

29, 1843. SCENE IN MR. VAN BUR EN'S JOUR- ! .-..iin: iriiiuiR? ll 1MB ni-..-..;.. r - uIIZ0 ' Jr ""'J. paints a pretty picture of snow renp ; - . srs. Van Uuren t " SUch mcuos object. "n,,sl "Peking speaking of the nnbouaht (Je in this Dlace some whiiA cinr. u...... ' x.-.. return home from the South, with hisSecreta

word ! flP ,i I T P f '!re a" "is1"- The I Chi!d wi imrart Rl1 knoledf e he possessracv 9, H 7 ,h! '",dedpnt emoc- es. In this manner, they will 'be taEght to racy, and from far and near they gathered in think; and the same children who a few mo-

' ,u n ,n . nil . r.V" V.T"" ltIki. ".,,,,,6 oigiutyoi, .ii .t ... . ' v. c.-c ur i . it i nnr weiih. i, j Jr. ru"9 a ! handkerchief as big as a table cloth, and -vipinrst on onesideand then .h J"St " hf 19 ,n th wiping ,,, hroat and under his arms, he .tretcl.es out .his hand to the Ex-President. mi i ... , . . to see you." uv uu u" '"r- ' uurcii! I am glad j am well, but wearied," said Mr. Van Duren. ' . I ensuea, in wnicn Jesse went I T . . ... . . iiirmimi me same wiping operation. "When did you see Col. Dick?" 'Col. Who?-' said Mr. Van Duren. "U'lii Cii n;..i. .,. . . saw him Tsle with him" j "Good God! said Mr. Van Buren i.r ,i;,t j . " . '"ca e-and again j "i aid mat," replied Jesse and again he went through the operation of wiring "How old are you. Mr. Van Buren?" he again resumed. an Buren told him. "Ah," Paid he, "I did not think you were so old; and how much do you weigh?"

9,133 Mr. Van Buren told him, and again there 1.872 was a pause, and some more of the precious 14,636 Democracy having come in, some time was 2.417 "pent in further introductions, when Jesse re6,470 sumed: 1.954; "Mr. Van Buren, ycu are considerable of a 1.253 show about here." 2.050 ! "Ah!" said the great man. 78 ! "Yes," said Jesse, "but you don't look mnch

like your pictures." "Oh!" said Mr. Van Buren. Hereupon Jesse looked round, and discovere3 that the room was quits crowded "J wh," said Jesse, "that we had a bigger I 1 1 . t . I I h la k. 1 r. . I I , . . ' ""a iiiuiuir, ana wnnst Jesse was going through the operation of again wiping. Paulding whispered over to Van Buren "Get up, and let's leave this d d crowd. they'll smother a body." Van Buren rose from his seat, bowed to the sovereign and retired. I pledgrjvou my word this is a true and correct account of Mr. Van Buren's reception here, and I know there are many who can testify to its truth. Jesse often boasts that he has talked to a President. Father Miller lately visited Rochester. N. Y. and devoted one whole week to dealing out exhortations and admonitions in relation to the awful destruction which awaits this sinful world on the 22d of March next, according to the improved reckoning, which 22d day of March, Gentile time, is equivalent to 23d of April, Jewish lime. During the whole time of his sojourn there, he was listened to by congregations,daily and nightly, ranging between one and two thousand. He departed thence to enlighten the good people of Lockport and other cities in relation to the near approach of the consummation of all things. Xat. Int. Great Tiiumph. The Hallowell correspondent of the Boston Atlas gives the cheerinj official news, of the election of Freeman if. Morse. (Whig,) by a majority of 13. in an aggregate of about 11.000. This District was so arranged as to secure, as the leaders thought, the return of a Loco, without doubt, in all coming time. The result Miows a Whig gain of about 3.000, from the September election! Maine will be "right side up,'" no mistake, at the next Presidential election. On Atlas. sweet potatoe was grown on a farm neai Hamburgh, S. C, which measured five feet and three inches in length! The editor of the Hamburgh Journal says it is the longest potatoe in the world. trli is said that 60.000 emigrants have reached Wisconsin this year by the way of the Lakes, and the number has been increased to 120,000 by emigration through other routes. ldThe first woolen factory erected in the United States, was at Hartford, Conn. Gen. Washington was dressed in a suit of broadcloth from this factory, when inaugurated. HCT wo parts ashes, three parts clay, one, part sand, mixed with oil, it is said will make ! cement as hard as marble, and impenetrable ' by water. ; JEJA young man named llenrv iordon.i j conamitted suicide in Chillicothe, O., on the 16th ult., because his lady-love refused to wed h,m-

VOL.. XII. XO. 1.

COMMON SCHOOLS. I r U7(l II 1 I LT I3C11 UCS OI minrl o rn.if. H.ilowingr"At the beginning of the last half honr of copper, tin, silver and gold. Vhich are the precious mcta:? Vhai is the most rueful metal? What are its uses? Or what is made of it? Lvjt the children name everything they know to be made of iion, jnd if any one of the more apt scholars anticipate the flower minds, let the teacher so order the. excrete that evrrv jr.ents since were sluggish, way ward and rest . . ... . 1 ij j less w.ji now be animated and happy. The ! aDo,,t lro"; what state it is found; how it is separated from the ore; made into steel and of its nnmense increased value beingfoJm. ed into the springs of watches. &r. &c The children are then told to write it on the last I nnof nf itipircunu k..,l. -;., j....r.i.- . r -. "., .... .ut ua iC m uiu month. I A 6Uhict IB TlOW niven out for th mnrrnw Suppose it to ;be salt. This is written on the black-board, or on a slate hung on the wall in large letters, and the children are directed to come prepared to tell all they know about it; how and where it is made? V here it is found in masses ? Where there is a salt mountain 7 A salt desert? What is the comparative strength of our salt springs and of ocean brine? W'hat are the uses of salt, &c. The following day the exercise is attended to the word written in the copy book, and the dte; and a ! new subject is wriiten on'the black board I On ; lar exercise, and on the last day of ihe sinnweek all should be reviewed." &3"Green Peas were plentiful in t he Orleans market on the 16th tilt. Et?-The Connecticut River ha cloed ice above Middletown. New with rCr'A line of steam packets is contemplated on the Pennsylvania Canal. IXj'Two million barrels of flour have passed through the Erie Canal this year. HCSThe navigation of the St. Lawrence is closed for the season. KIHorn. who killed his wife some lime ago, is sentenced to be hung, in Baltimore. H3"An extensive linen manufactory is about to be established near Richmond, Va" JQ-The Battle of Trenton was celebrated at Trenton, on the 26th inst. IXr"John Jacob Astor has donated S5.000 for the benefit of the blind in New York. JXj'It is said the total expense of fortifying Paris will exceed 10,400000. IXJ"L.ondon contains 237 churches. 5000 public houses, and 16 theatres. S3'The Mormonites count 20,000 votes in the State of Illinois. HJTlie last census taken, gives France a population of 34.494.875 souls. EC? A Bituminous Lake has been discovered in Jefferson county, Texas. Id" A child was lately smothered in England by a cat making a pillow of its face. ' Etr'Six notorious villains, convicted of mtir der and robbery, were executed at Havana on the 14th ult. JXfA box containing a dead infant, Was picked tip floating off New Bedford, Mass., net long since. itf'CoK Benton and Johnson are in favor of the annexation ofTexas to the United States. So says the Madisonian. Cr"A very large quantity of counterfeit Mexican dollars, admirably executed, are In circulation in New Orleans. Jd'Sarah Williamson has sued Josiah Hope in Michigan, for a breach of promise. A Hopelets case. JXJThe steamer Sultana lately ran from Cairo to Mills Point, 35 miles, in 1 hour and 3 minutes. jTOver S35.000 in specie arrived at New Orleans on the 13th, and 162,000 on the 16th ults. H5Mrs. Ann Sefton is now married to Jas. Wallack, Jr., and both are engaged at the American Theatre, at New Orleans. !XrIn London, a sempstress receives but 6 cents for making a shirt, and only 13 cents for making a pair of trowsers! fXt'The Roman Forum," says a late letter from Italy, "is now a cow-market, and the palace of the Caesars a rope-walk." jEjAt Farnham, Canada, a gang of counterfeiters of Mexican dollars has been routed; 4 w ere arrested at Montreal. tCfThe negroes on Plantations near Matanzas rose in rebellion lately, but were quelled by k,llinR 50 and taking 67 prisoneis. 3"One extreme follows another," as tne dog said when he flew round after his own tail. rr5Jm. iwrv Paniain of ib rtn.tnnritv , Watch, was fined two dollars and cost?, for i smoking a cigar in t?, streets, on Wednesday week.