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row Mc Boston Statesman. OUR LIBRARY. ANCIENT HISTORY. -THE PHtENIClANS". The Phoenicians were a people so old in naval Tame that we hear of Semiramis having employed them to huild her fleet. It must undoubtedly, somewhat abridge our interest in their history, to learn that their superstition was barbarous, and that they sometimes traded in the persons of human beings; but we, whose fathers burnt witches, and whose ancestors legalized the slave trade, ought to make charitable allowance even for the sins of Canaan. The Phoenicians invented glass making, they cultivated arithmetic, and the art of stamping rnetals into various utensils and ornaments. They discovered the finest of purple dyes; they traded throughout the whole of the then known world, and to parts of it that were known only to themselves. The territory that gave birth to all this commerce, was a little hilly stripe of coast, productive of scarcely more than wood for ship-building, about one hundred miles in length and four and twenty in breadth. The natives originally dwellers in caverns, were probably first driven by hunger to face the dangers of the deep in fishery; but growing bold and skilful mariners, they left the land out of sight and steered their course by the stars. They discovered foreign lands to which they first exported the produce of their richer neighbors, and next that of their own mechanical

arts. By degrees the swarms ot their bartering and manufacturing population hived from one place to another till they covered the whole range of their coast. Sidon was the mother city the elders born 'of Canaan. From her sprang Tyre, that became the Queen of the Phoenician league, together with Tripoiis and Byblus, and Berytus and Serepta, and Orbasia, and other towns, "whose merchants were the honorable of the earth." To these the Phoenician fleets brought home the silver of Tartessus in Spain, (The Tarshish of Scripture,) the amber of the ' Baltic, and the tin of Britain. More than tyvo hundred years before De Gama, their marines had circumnavigated Africa. The very Scriptures that predicted the fall of Tyre, gives us a splendid description of her glory. Ezeiciel's genius glows in describing the sagacity of her pilots, and the pomp and beauty of her military hosts:

"They of Persia, and of Lud, and of Phut, (i. e. of

Lydia and Lycia) says the prophet-, were in thine army, and were thy men of war they hanged the shield and helmet in thee they set forth thy comeliness." Hence it appears that the Tyrians armed their bulwarks with the mercenary troops of the

most warlike nations. For thirteen years these bulwarks resisted Nebuchadnezzar, and after he had levelled them with the ground, the transplanted insular Tyre, with its new fortifications, had well high baffled the career of Alexander himself. But it is not merely our conception of the wealthy commerce of Phoenicia, nor of the broidered work of Egypt which she spread for her sails, nor of the Arabian incense and African gold which 6he has 'gathered in, nor of the nations far and near that were her factors, nor of the Arab and Midianite conduct

ing her caravans over wastes more perilous than the ocean, nor of her nfcennon waving on every shore, from the British Islands to Ceylon, that alone entitles her memory to our interest. The Phoenicians appear to have been the first people in the world who exemplified the natural connexion between peace, freedom, and commerce. Their particular states had hereditary kings; but their monarchies were limited by the recognition of civic rights. Their states too,lhough often at variance, generally formed a great federal government, with Tyre at their head, which received their deputies and contingents for the common defence; thus exhibiting the seeds of representative government, at a period when the surrounding world was swayed by simple tyranny. Moreover, though instances of their abuse of naval power might be culled from history, it is clear, that their main policy was not bent on conquest, but in

dustrious and pacific. Thev opened the mines of

Spain, but left no such memory as the Spaniards in

after-times bequeathed to Christianity on this conti

nent. On the contrary, the rhoenician Hercules

marked the progress of his triumphs by diffusing

agriculture and the useful arts, by planting settle

ments, and by raising the industry of nations; and it was from this people that the Greeks themselves re

ceived their alphabet.

1900 years before that period, the antiquity of their science withdraws our wonder even from the con-

querer of the world.

ANCIENT HISTORY. BABYLON.

Babylon, that was founded by Belus, the Nimrod

of scripture, is described by Herodatus as a stupendous old capital. It lay on the Euphrates; a river, which at the melting of the snows on the Armenian

mountains, where it takes its rise, periodically over flows its banks, and like the Nile, fertilizes them It was there, probably, earlier than in Egypt, tha human industry was exercised in the management o

the sail and water. The pump, and the water wheel, and dams, and sluices, were dispersed along

the Euphrates. Reservoirs, like inland seas, pre

served the means of regular irrigation, and canals that striped the whole of Mesopotamia quite across

to the ligris, had bridges thrown over them, and faoats of burthen crowding along the date trees that crowned their banks. Pastures and cornfields, that astonished the eye of the Greek traveller with their gigantic fertility, spread out to the horizon.

Over tho vast expanse, Babylon glared with her "hundred gates of solid brass; with her central tower, winding up by spiral stairs to the altitude of a furlong; and her walls two hundred cubits high, that were topped with broad streets for chariots, and formed a quadrangle of fifteen miles a eidc. The population of Babylon could not, of course, be bo dense as that of our modern cities, and we must ' suppose that besides its streets and squares, and farfamed hanging pleasure grounds, it contained many groves of the apricot and fig-tree, and gardens glowing with the scarlet blossoms of the pomegranate. The Babylonians hung their houses with the finest tapestry, and trod on carpets of the richest coloring. They manufactured and exported costly cloths, rings and signets curiously carved, and scented water, wThich they were famous for preparing. Their wines were brought down from Armenia; and their gold nd pearls and cochineal, together with the frankincense for their gorgeos feasts, were the imports of a trade which extended from Arabia to Thibet, and which was secondary only to that of Phoenicia. From the size of their molten idols it is plain that they must have possessed vast foundries; and from the pictures of their glazed bricks, they must be considered the fathers of enamel painting. Nothing in their ruins, or in tradition, would lead us to suspect them of anticipating a single idea of Grecian taste

in imitative art; but when we find Alexander the

' Great transmitting to Aristole their tables of celes-

tial observations, that had commenced more than

MICHIGAN, Twenty years ago. On tho ICth of August 1812, or just 20 years ago last Friday, took place the capitulation of Gen. Hull, and the surrender of Detroit to the British. At that time, there was no road connecting this territory with any other Dorticnofthe United States, excepting that then

recently cut by General Hull, for the passage of his army. With the exception of a few small settlements at the mouths of tho streams, the whole of Michigan was a vast wilderness, and from tho description given in the ancient maps, was supposed to be a morass so drowned with water, as to bo uninhabited. This erroneous impression was derived, probably, from the statements of tho Fur Traders, who, although they must have known better, found it their interest to inculcate this belief, for the purpose of preserving undisturbed possession of the

gainful traffic which they had long maintained with the Indians. The extensive country now com posing a populous district of Ohio, north and northwest of Cleveland, in Cuyahoga county, and

Mansheld in Richland county was a wilderness. Tho road from the rapids of Maumee to Lower Sandusky, was an Indian trail which was rarely travelled. It had sucli a winding and zigzag course, for the purpose of avoiding fallen trees and gullies or bayous, in which water collected, that it was difficult, even in a dry time to trace it; and, in wet weather when from the flatness of the land it was covered with water, and exhibited the appearance of a vast lake, the traveller could only pursue the path by the indistinct traces of the ancient blazes on the trees. Tho whole extent of this district being covered with a heavy growth of timber, .much of it blue ash and cotton wood, filled up with underwood of alder and spice wood, and having a usually dark and sombro appearance, and the soil being of vegetable decomposition, black spongy, and porous, rendered the name of the Black Swamp, a most fit and appropriate designation. Till after the late war, the intercouse between Michigan and the other portions of the Union , was very limited; and the arrival of a stranger in Detroit was an event

of so much importance as to challenge the special attention of the male and female gossips of the place. This was long before tho era of steamboats. The few sail vessels then on these waters, were supposed to have done well, if they made a trip from Detroit to the foot of tho Lake in the time that is now required for our packets to make their trip from New York to Liverpool. The steam-boat Walk-in-the-Water, was built in the

year 1811), and about that period the first attempts were made to penetrate the interior of the country by the inhabitants of Detroit. The first settle

ment formed in tho interior, was by a few families

who had moved into the Territory from Upper Cana

da, and ascended what was then called tho Upper

Huron, now the Clinton, some ten or fifteen miles

rom its mouth. They settled on an oak opening,

and raised fino crops of wheat. They had been

there a year or more before it was known in De

troit, and the fact was regarded as a remarkable in

stance of enterprise and hardihood. The next set

tlement was formed at Pontiac and its neighbor

hood.

From this period, tho tide of emigration has

steadily increased from year to year. The inhabi

tants of Detroit, with a public spirit higly to their credit, explored their country, and caused its ad

vantages to be published in tho eastern papers.

I: or some time it appeared up hill work, many visited the country, who, from a slight and partial view

of it, or trom ignorance or prejudice returned with unfavorable reports, which, to some extent, retarded for a time its settlement; and after this the ravages of a malignant epidemic, which for several years afflicted Detroit and its nerghborhood, induced a wide spread report that tho country was unhealthy. The inhabitants of Detroit, with a zeal that cannot be too highly commended, and a forecast which was to be expected from a community, which for intelligence, rarely equalled, struggled to remove those unfavourable impressions. They

took upon themselves the labor and expense of

acting as pilots and pioneers to emigrants, and assisted them with information, advice, and often with money and other facilities. We could name many of the old citizens of Detroit, who were distinguished for their zealous efforts in this way. One who should now visit the interior and behold

a rich and populous country who should behold the steamboats and stages filled with emigrants, crowding into the country aud pushing on to the

very shores of Lake Michigan, could hardly realize the care and nursing expended on the sickly and

tender plant which has now become a tree whose

branches overshadow the land. The language of

our motto "Tandcmt Fit Surculus Arbor" though adopted long before our prosperous and palmy state, seems like the prophetic truth of inspiration.

Michigan may be truly said to be in the very spring

tide oi her prosperity. It is believed there has

been, within the present season an increase of pop

ulation from abroad of near 10,000, besides the

natural increase ; The quantity of produce, and

particularly of wheat, raised this season, is said to

have exceeded, to a large extent, that oi any torm

er year. Health, that highest blessing, without

which all else is valueless, has been enjoyed to

degree that calls for our special gratitude.

juctroit journal.

Front the Hagerstown Torch Light. Wheat. The wheat crop is one of the most important of allcrop3 to the Farmer. A man who has one hundred acres of cleared land, of common quality ought to raise on an average one thousand bushels of merchantable wheat, and atao rye, corn, oats, and potatoes, sufficient to defray the expenses of carrying on tho farm. Tho wheat crop should always bo clear gain. Don't startle at this, farmer. A man who has a farm with one hundred acres of cleared land, can yearly put forty acres of it in wheat; and if tha land be in order as it should be, and as every farmer may have if, every acre of the forty will give 25

bushels. I shall now show how land must be farmed, in order to produce in this way. Never break

your land before harvest and stir it after, as is customary with many farmers. Much plouging impoverishes land, and is productive of no good effects. Your wheat ground must bo heavily set in clover, and broken up after harvest with throe hor

ses, when tho seed is ripe," it will never miss coming up, in the spring, which is frequently the case when sown in the spring with seed. You also save between forty and fifty dollars worth of seed annually which it would take to sow your ground. When the clover is ploughed down after harvest, before you seed the field, you must harrow it lightly the way you have have ploughed it, in order to level the grouud, and prevent the seed from rolling between the furrows and coming up in rows. Never plough your seed in with shovels, nor harrow it across the ploughing, when you have turned down clover after harvest, lest you raise the clover, but always harrow it in by twice borrowing with light harrows the way you have broken up your grounJ. Many farmers who have ploughed down clover once, and finding that their crop was not bettered by it but injured as they believed have never attempted it again. This is almost invariably the case the first time clover is ploughed down

after harvest, especially if the full be dry, and the winter frigid and close. In turning clover down you must necessarily plough the ground deep, the first time you do it you turn up tho clay, which being unmixed with manure of any sort on the top, is in a bad state to sow wheat on. The wheat after

sometime will sprout and come up, but will look

yellow and very spindling. Its roots after some

time, will get down among the unrooted clover,

and thero will choke, for want of moisture, a great

deal of the wheat will dwindle away and die. The

unrooted clover, too, below will keep the ground loose and spungy, so that tho frost will injure the

wheat not a little. But when tho clover is ploughed down a second time, the bad effects to the wheat crop arising from unrotted clover, arc not experienced. You then turn up the clover from lelow which was plouged down before, and which is a manure on the top. The seed sown on it now springs up directly, and before tho winter sets in has taken deep root. The clover now iurned down rots very soon, in consequence of the rotten clover, turned up, which as manure always keeps ground moist, however, dry the fall. You may go on farm

ing in this way every time you turn up a coat of

clover, turn down one and your wheat will never fail, until your land becomes so rich, that you will havo to reduce it with corn.

EXECUTION. Hartford, Connecticut, September C. We havo delayed the publication of our paper this morning for the purpose of giving our readers a brief account (if the execution of Teller r.nd Caesar, which took

place at twenty minutes past nine o'clock. Early in the morning the prisoners were placed in a room together, and the Ilev. G. F. Davis, Hcv. Mr. Remington and Rev. Mr, Barret, Chaplain of the State Prison, spent somo time with them in devotional exercises. At nine o'clock they were taken to tho scaffold. Each one spoke. Caesar declared his innocenco of the crime for which he was to die, and said he should -'not go to eternity stained

with the blood ot Hoskins;" but such had been tho wickedness of his whole life, he acknowledged tho justice of his doom, and trusted ha was prepared to find mercy of God. Teller said, as ho always has done, that he was not guilty of wilful murder, incoherently expressed his disapprobation of taking

the lite ot a man tor any crime, by executing him. "Let him be chained,11 said he, "let him bo put into the dungeon, but let him live, Jcc. He hoped this would be the last event of the kind in the State." At the request of Teller, tho Hymn commencing with "The Voice of Free Grace," was sung,

and at the desire ot La?sar, tho Hymn "Sovereign grace has power alone, To subdue a heart of stone." Prayer was then offered by the Rev. Mr. 'Davis who has attended them constantly during their imprisonment. The prisoners then took leavo of the Sheriff, of several friends, of each other, and at last in a very affecting manner, of the Rev. Mr. Davis, thanking him for his kindness to them, and expressed a hope to meet him where chains and prisons and executions would be known no more. Tho caps were then drawn over their eyes, nnd, while they wero both employed in tho very act of earnest vocal prayer, the drop fell, aud after a short struggle all was over. We learn that Caesar for sovcrul weeks has ap

peared to bo quite penitent and reconciled. During all the appalling circumstances of tho execution, ho seemed to be firm and unmoved. He expressed the strongest confidenco in tho unmerited compassion of Christ, and declared ho was precious to his soul. Teller seemed at times quite agitated, and no change was apparent in his leligious views or feelings. They have both gone, however to a righteous tribunal, and there we leavo them. Review.

..ww. ... ... r,a,v -' ii in navies town S. C. wcro sitting over their wine after dinner, whMi the conversation turned upon tho events of the late war. Several battles on laud were alluded to with enthusiasm, ami the splendid victories

at sea were had in remembrance. At length tho

conversation turned upon tho eiwmi'nt between

the Constitution and Gueniea. The gentlemen seemed to differ on somo material points in relation to that engagement. A Frenchman, who had seated himself unnoticed and unobtrusively, near the taWe, happened to hear the dispute, ho'iintncdiately advanced with a lively srid graceful air to tho company, nnd said 'Jentlcmcn,yoii ppcak of do acsion of da ConEtitu.ehong ond Guerricr, eh?' "Ye?, Sir," was tho reply. "Veil, jeutlcmcn, I have Bomo good ruison to bu acquaint vid dat affair?'1 "Upon what is your knowledge founded, Sir?'1 "Jcnilemcn, I shall relate to you" and ho sat down. "I vas in von littlo brig, loaded vid brandy, bound from Bordeaux to do coast d' Ameriquc von day (ah! sorrowful da v to ine!' C.mt:iino

Dekaire, ho tako my littlo brig, ho take out all my brandy, and ho blow my little; brig up in do air I "After dut, Captain Dekairo go on, vol is dis you call him ? ah a cruise !io go on a cruise, and von day Captain Dekairo hollo to me ah! Monsieur

ranch Captaine, look dare! Ho takes hi vatch

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aivv in imtm .Jiiuuii;, yuu sec. .wo say nossin. Do friguto Americano como vid majesty, vid graudeur- 'twas do first timo I hud the pleasure tosee von Americano von beautiful &hip. Captain Dekaire call out, givo him one broadside! Whorroh! roh! roh! Do frigate Americano, ho no speak, but como on vid majesty, vid grandeur; givo him another broadside! whoiror! roh! roh! do frigate

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John BuWs Motion. It is stated in late English papers, that a merchant in Manchester being in

want of 1,500 pieces of printed calico of a particular discription, printed in three colors, to send off the next day to America, and not finding them at any of the warehouses, he went to Mr. Lockett s manufacturing establishment at 5 in the evening: where the pieces were printed in three colors, dried, glazed, packed and sent off by 12 o'clock, reached Liverpool by the rail road at 3, were put on board, and the vessel sailed at 5, just 24 hours after the order was given! We suspect this beats brother Jonathan a few seconds! Ohio Atlas.

LOVE AND MADNESS.

Another Clough Affair. A most atrocious attempt at assassination was made in this city on Monday evening last. A young German lady about

three weeks in this country, and residing with her friends in Howard street, was walking in compa

ny with several persons in licet street near the in

tersection of Happy Alley, between 5 and t o clock,

when she was accosted by a young man (one of

her countrymen) who, alter walking a few steps

by her side, demanded ot her whether sho would marry him. She answered no. Tho young man retreated a step or two, pulled a pistol from his

pocket, and shot the unfortunate object of his af

fection in the back. He was promptly seized and

committed to prison, and the wounded lady taken

to the house of Dr. Allen, in Ann street. The wound appears to have been made with duck shot:

the whole charge entered the loft shoulder, about

equidistant from the vertebra) and tho arm, to

which direction may be imputed the escape of the

victim from immediate death, as the muzzle of the

pistol was not probably more than two inches from her body. The report of tho pistol indicated that

it had bcenheavily charged, as the assassin intended

to do his business effectually. The writer of this,

saw the wounded lady last evening, and again this

morning, and with much pleasure expresses a belief

that the wound is not dangerous, and that the un

fortunate young lady will this timo escape the

fate which the malignity of herpretended lover had premeditated. Bait. Gaz. In addition to the above, we learn that the parties recently arrived hero from Germany in the same vessel ; that a matrimonial engagement had subsisted between them for some time : upon the strength of which the gentleman had borrowed a sum

of money from the lady, during the passage, which he neglected to refund on the arrival of tho partics here. In default of payment the fair plaintiff applied to tho laws, and obtaining a warrant, had her debtor taken and committed to prison. Being in due time released from confinement, tho lover went in search of his 'betrothed,' but found her disinclined to fulfil the engagement. In conse

quence of her refusal to do this, it was, that he committed the outrage above related. Since his arrest and committal, we understand tho man

made an attempt upon his own life by cutting his throat. Bait. Pat.

The Slave insurrection in Cuba. Wo have re

ceived additional information in regard to the re

bellion, it appears that 500 or 000 slaves had been smuggled from Africa, landed at a place about 30 : i ,i .pit n ...

umes ii c-si oi imvana. come communication took place between them ami tho slaves on tho neigh

boring plantations, in which the former were given to understand that a grievous mortality was prevailing among tho blacks on tho Island Cholera, and that it was occasioned by poison administered by the whites. This drove tho new comers to despe

ration, and thinking that thuy might as well die in one way as another, they roso upon their keepers and murdered them. On this intelligence being spread, a 'military Captain, with two other persons, proceeded to tho landing, in order to do away the impression prevailing among the insurgents, and bring them back to subordination. These men wcro also killed. A troop of cavalry

consisting of about 30 men, was then sent against tho insurgents, who by this time had been joined

by some ot the slaves on the neighboring planta

lions, and a battle ensued, in which a number of tho

blacks were killed, and also two ofiicers and sever

al privates of the troops. The remainder, finding

their forco insufhcient to suppress tho

Americano no ypouk, hut como on vid nnje grandeur. Vat! sjy Captuino Dokairie, is or is ho dum! givo another broadsido! w

roh! roh! dc frigate American uo speak, no answer at a1 at a'!

"But presently, jcntVmcn, I hear do tuudcr whorroh! whorroh! oh! jentlcmcn, do mast, do sail, do par, de yard, do every ting, all about my car. I tought dc heaven and de earth had como together, for do frigate American had fire his broadside. Von big man vat is de name ah ! boswaia he stept up to Captaino Dekaire, he say mo tink you got a hard job. Tarblcau, Monscur, mo link

bo ioo, S3)g j tiy nnd by, Captaino Dekairo say to me Monsieur French Captaino, I link you had better go below! Parbloau Monsieur, I link no loo.

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pit, and daro, gentlemen, I sec do poor sailor vidout leg, vidout head, vidout arm, vidout any ting! By an' by, ull was still. 1 got upon dc deck, and

i uarc see mo poor Captaino Dekario (von bravo man) vid do tear in his eye ah! Monsieur French Captaine, he say to me, it's all ovcrc. Farbleau,

.Monsieur me tink so, too. Presently, von littlo boat from de fiigato Americano como on board, and say to Captaine Dekaire Saire, Captaino Hull ofdc Americano Frigate Constitushong, vill be happy to see you on board his ship. Captaine Dekaire say to me Monsieur French Captaine, Itink you had better go along vid inc. Paiblcau, Monsieur, 1 tink so loo; your ship sinking. We go on board do frigato Ameiicane, between two gran1 rows of do Marine, on tho quarterdeck; and dare, jcntlemen. l had d'3 pleasure to seo von Commodore America von beautiful man ! von elegant cravat! ho mado alow bow, just like von Ficnchman! Captaino Dekaire, offered him his sword.

ro Captaino Dekaire, keep your sword for

lion retreated. A large body was then sent, and deserve it and so he did. Presently do G

jjuuiuu a lunuiu uiu uj)uu mu insurgents wmcil killed 100 to 500. The whole loss of tho whites is stated at 30 or 40. At the date of the last accounts, tho rebellion' was considered at on cud. The negroes, we understand, had no weapons but clubs, and stones. Journal of Commerce. Death by violence and disiiitcrmcnt. A jury of Inquest was held yesterday morning, on Sullivan's

Island, by Mr. r rancis Michel, Coroner, for tho District, on the body of a man named Via?, a native of Maryland, who was disinterred at the Island after being buried 13 days, on suspicion of having died by violence. It appears that on the 13th inst. a Boat containing a party of United States soldiers under the charge of James Stratlon, a Corporal in the United States service, and a native of Virginia, returning from tho City to Fort Moultrie, remained at tho landing at Castlo Pinckncy, while the rest of the crew of the boat left her on a visit to the Castle. During their absence, from some inattention to his duty Vias was struck by Stratton on the head, and on various parts of his body by the Tiller of tho Boat. A part of the crew of tho boat at the Castle saw the transaction and kept it concealed from the Officers at Fort Moultrie. Tho

man having died early on the morning of tho 14th, it was believed from tho the effects of liquor, was accordingly buried the same day. From information communicated to the Coroner ho was induced to hold a Jury of Inquest yesterday, whose verdict in substance was that the deceased had died in consequence of a blow or blows inflicted by James Stratton, and who in consequence was committed to our Jail yesterday by William A. Carson, Esq. Intendent of Moultrie villc. Charleston Patriot.

From the Doylestown Democrat. A young man preparing for college at Hudley,

has subsisted ten weeks without eating any other substance than fruit. The Northampton Courier says he has a notion that it is sinful, and consequently after the season for his favorite food has passed away, he must live on cobwebs and sich things. He is represented as a match for Calvin Edson a walking skeleton.

Concert. During the festival of the Three Days in Paris, there was a Concert of vocal and instrumental music of rather an unusual kind. For the instrumental part, there were SO grand clarionets, 12 flutes, 10 hautboys, 20 trumpets, 16 drums, and 100 other instruments. The vocal performers

were 200 men and 100 women. Tho opinion of

this Concert was announced by between three and four hundred drums, which as a French paper remarks, produced silence. On tho first trial, this Concert was not received with much enthusiasm, but some alterations wero subsequently mado in the amphitheater, which, on its repetition, wero expected to givo it great effect.

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modoro Americano say U mc Hollo, Monsieur French Captaine, varc dc devil you como from, ch! Paiblcun Monsieur say I, I vas in vou little brig, bound for tho coast Amcrique, loaded vid brandy, and Captaine Dekario von day take out all my brandy, nnd blow up my littlo brig in tho air. Den say do Commodore "On do void of von Americano Officer, and dat is never false, you lull havo your brandy back again." And, jenileincn; ho vos as good as his vord; and 1 havo here do pleasure to tell you de story." EXTRAORDINARY EARTHQUAKE . Tho Montreal (Jazettc of Saturday last, contains an account of an earthquake that recently happened at St. Leon, in tho District of Three Rivers, which, if true, is ono tho most rcmarkablo on record. Its extent is said to havo been limited to

about fifteen acres. It is impossible, says the Mincrvc, giving tho details of tho occurrence, to describc tho sccno of desolation which that spot now presents, all is overthrown and fallen to tlic banks of tho river. Tho house and barn of Isaac I.csago have sunk in, 03 also the house and barn of Augustin Ferron. Isaac Lesagc is now dead, from having been crushed under tho ruins of his houso. His wifo who had gono out to milk tho cows, saw tho house sinkin" in. An old man saved himself with several chiP dren by getting out by tho roof. Tho bodv of Lesago has been found dreadfully mangled. Tho houso has so sunk into tho ccrth, tint nothing but tho head of the chimney is now visible. Tho barn has entirely disappeared. Tho family of Lcsage, who havo also lost all their provisions and most of their property aro in a great ctato of privation. It is said that a large cross, erected on tho road side as is customary, through tho devotion of the inhabitants, was conveyed to a great distance, without falling and is even more perpendicular than it was before. Tho whole of tho accident occurred within a short distance of the church of St. Leon.

The narrow extent of tho convulsion, and tho story of the cross, cast a shado of discredit over tho whole account.

It is said tht largo baloon sleeves of ladies' dresses arc about to go out of fashion. This will have an essential influence upon tho dry good market, and will affect stage faro, pew rest, 6cc.

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