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Jttiis Chemical Water Proof. The inventor and proprietor of this article ii now manufacturing it on an extensive scale, at hi? laboratory. No. I, Eight Buildings, Columbus, Ohio, where it ran be had at wholesale or retail. The value of this composition has been tested by numerous persons of the first respectability in this State, several of whom have furnished the inventor with certificates testifying their confidence in its utility. In the extensive establishment where Col. Jewett carries on his business, he h is u grindstone fitted up, with a watertrough underneath, made of his waterproof leather. This leather is the thin refuse part of the skin, w hich is unlit to be put into mail-bags. But notwithstanding this disadvantage of material, the outside of the trough, now, after eix or seven w eeks use, w ith water constantly in it, is as dry as it was the moment the water first entered it. We mention this fact as a singular circumstance, alio riling the strongest evidence of the perfect impermeability which Col. JtwcU's composition imparts to the lcath.-f. In our former notices of this valuable article, we omitted mentioning particularly, its beneficial applicability to all kinds of leather harness. It could not fail to have been observed by every individual who has had the opportunity,

that those parts of harness composed of

leather arc, m general, injured infinitely more by wetting and drying, both by rain and sw eating of the horse, than by

actual wear. By wetting and drjing,

the leather becomes hard and unpliant in w hich condition it cracks and breaks.

But let the harness bo saturated with

the water-proof, and neither water nor sweat can penetrate it, and the leather must remain as soft and pliable after

exposure to wet as before. This will certainly render the harness more dura

ble as well as less liable to chafe and

gall the horse.

In conclusion, w-c will repeat the sug

gestions of Col. Jewett, that his com

position will be equally applicable to wood as leather, and by excluding the w ater from its pores, vastly increase its durability. If future experiments confirms this suggestion, as we have strong reason to hope it will, the advantages which hydraulics and particularly the

shipping interest will receive frum this

will be incalculable.

Eclectic Journal.

unmanned him, and made him sorrow

ful Hnd foolish? and made him fly to the

bottle for comfort and strength? 1- atal

conduct! But how many editors and

printers might tell the same tale; and,

therefore, all those who neglect to pay

for their papers, and thereby cause

heart-burnings, that need allaying,

should, especially if they belong to a

temperance society, never ask credit of

printer. And, furthermore, all such

persons should reflect how much intemperence the credit system causes among the gentlemen of the bar, as well as of the grog shop that it would be impossible to calculate how much good it might do, if thev onlv would become temperate in their dealings. How many 11 j i

quarrels it would prevent now main

failures it would prevent how many widow's hearts it would save from be

ing broken, and how many children it

would prevent being destitute how

manv but hold I think 1 see legions

rising up against me bankers, lawyers,

baiiitls; na), all who thrive by the sorrows af mankind, and perhaps the most influential. Oh, w hat a world we live in. And then comes Fashion, with the bottle after dinner. And why, says the poor man, may I not follow fashion, and be a little merry after dinner, as those who call themselves my betters do? Ah! ah! the temperance men have a

job to do: but let them have stout

hearts, clear consciences and clear

heads, and they will have blessings in

abundance. 1 nere is anotner cause,

the root of all evil, ioxoraxce, had ed

ucation, that too frequently brings two wrong heads together; but I am touching on a subject that is too familiar, and

may getsoundlv rated by both partic

and, therefore, since I have touched so

many points of interest I will, for the

Horrors or Despotism. I remem

ber ence conversing with a Russian gentleman of liberal and enlightened views who related to me the history of his arrests at St. Petersburg, by the Emperor Alexander, on suspicion and his subsequent years of captivity, and exile in a military proince where snows, labor, hard lying, and every sort

ot severity reduced him to a mere shadow, when, by accident rather than design, he was set at liberty on the acces

sion of the present man, rwcholas. I remember that he told me that it was in a night in February, when descending from his carriage at his hotel at St.

Petersburg on his return from the thea

tre, that at the moment of entering his dwelling, two oflicers of the police presented themselves demanded if his name was not ? He replied in the affirmative. 'You must go with us.' 'Where?' he demanded. 'Never mind,

vou must go with us.' 'Who are vou,'

demanded the Russian gentleman. 'Never mii, you must go with us.' Let

present, stay my pen.

U.

Philadelphia, Post Office,) March 5, 1834, 7, P. M.$ Three bags, containing newspapers and pamphlets, were received on the evening of the 1th, from on board the

Wm. Penn, cae of them partly burnt;

some of the packages missing, and a

portion of the remainder so wetted and defaced, as to render further transportation useless. One of the packages

r . i

me nrsi go up stairs and arrange my

But I shall not be an hour.' 'No, you

have not a minute, 'then let meat least embrace my wife and children, and tell them I am arrested." 'No, our

orders are peremptory, vou must

with us.' They placed him instantly on a sledge they sat on each side in two minutes the vehicle drove off; and in a few hours afterwards his wife and children knew from a copy of a receipt

sent to them, that their father and bus band was hurried away perhaps forev

cr. 1 he mother and w ife lost her senses, and died hi a mad-house. The children survived, but the daughter fell

a victim to seduction, and the son was

made a soldier. There is no fiction

and no exaggeration in this. It is a

picture unvarnished, and indeed a mere

sketch ot what we mean when we write against despotic governments and such

facts as these chill our blood, nerve our arms and make us swear eternal enmity to despotic governments and absolute

monarchies. O. r. Q.

PRIVATE BANKING. A bill is now before the Legislature

of Maryland, to regulate private bank

ing, making it lawful for any one in

dividual or association to exercise the

business of banking and issuing notes to any amount with certain restrictions. The bill, as it stands at present, pro

vides that a license shall be obtained of

the Chancellor, upon an inventory being

sent in of all the real property or stocks in the possession of the applicant, which stocks and real property are to be held

in trust bv the State as a security for

the redemption of such bills, notes, ect. as are issued by the banking company

or individual. The Chancellor, being

satisfied of the value of the property-

is to grant the applicant a license to isue and circulate notes, bills, ect., to

the amount, and one half more, of the

full value of property and stocks so ves

ted in trust, and not more.

The bill furthur provides that five

per cent, shall be paid upon the amount

of captial, as a tax or bonus to the State

for the privilege, and one per cent to

the Treasurer of the Western shore, for

stamping and signing each bill, note,

check or other evidence of debt, pre

vious fo its issue. The association or individual is prohibited from issuing

:inv bill or note of any denomination

less than five dollars.

None of the acts of limitation to ap

ply to any note, bill or evidence of debt

issued under the license. No mention

is made of any limitation of the time

during which the license shall exist.

y'enn. Adv.

discovery,

In grappling for a lost anchor in the

Hudson river, a little below West Point,

a number of links were brought up, which formed part of the great chain streached across the Hudson River du

ring the Revolutionary war, to prevent

the British fleet from passing to West

Point. The number of links recovered

is fifty-one; they arc said to be over a foot each in length, and averaging from thirty to forty-five pounds each in

weight. They are supposed to have di

minished one-third in size and weight

by corrosion, and were raised with dif

ficulty, in consequence cf their close i .i t . . rni

adhesion to me oottom. l hey w ere so imbedded with the rock below, that

it took three days hard pulling to bring them up, and large stone? adhered to them, some weighing from fifteen to t wenty-pounds each. The fifty-one links weighed 1600 pounds. A certificate of ti;f se facts is published in the New-

York papers, and one cf the links has

been presented to the New York Na

val Lyceum. Jutional Intelligencer From thf Wistcm Shield.

Mr. h,niTOii: It unfortunately hap

pen?, too frequently, that w hat is inten

ded for '.he good of society acts reverse

ly, throuph the misconduct or ulterior

views of those who take a leading part

in public measures.

Such, I am afraid, may be the case

with the temperance cause, unless all

political or religious influence be dis

carded, and those who would be the

prisoners in the cause do set the exam

pie, by abstaining from censuring those who differ from them in practice, and

by showing the moral influence it has

on those who are temperate.

Temperance is a good thing, even in encountering intemperance, and will

lead to well doing, if the temperate will

mildly point out the causes of intem

perance, as well as showing its effect

It would be better to prevent it, by re

moving the causes that lead to it, than

by palliating it, by making temperance popular only in a particular party. It is too good a thing to be confined to partisans; and, therefore, I would have the cau5es pointed out. and. if possible.

eradicated. Let us, then, enquire what has led to intemperance, and appeal to facts for evidence. What said the "Young Virginian,'', who published the cause of his intemperance, a little while ago? Did he not say it was credit that first made him swerve from the path of rectitude? that the credit he obtained, and the credit he gave, were hit bane? that it

marked "Massathusttk. .cs,'" taken from

the Washington city letter mail (the only one saved) and containing letters

for parts of Massachusetts and New-

Hampshire, was detained, the letters being too damp to be forwarded. A number of bags containing newspapers

and pamphlets arc missing. Some, it

is supposed, were burnt, and others thrown overboard and lost.

Persons finding any loose packages,

and detaining or embezzling them, will

be piosecuted under the actof Congress, and become liable to tine and imprison

ment. If returned immediately to the office, a suitable reward will be given.

r urlhcr search has leu to the conclu

sion that the I arte portmanteau con

taining the letters frcm Baltimore city

and west, viz: Cintinnati and Ohio St.;

south, Illinois, Indiana, Jventuck, West

rennessee, W. Shore, Maryland, and

Washington, hrownsville, Umontown,

and New Geneva, Pa., have been en

tirely consumed. Their locks r.nd chain

partly melted, trere found in the wreck

of the boat on the falling of the tide,

hy Mr. McCanen, chief carrier, r.nd

Mr. 1 oole, the proprietor of the hotel

at Kaign s point.

Messrs. taberand Potter, after a dil

igent search on the flats, at low water,

w ere ui.aoie to discover any of the lost

mails

It is impossible to fc!l tl" extent of

the loss occasioned by the destruction

of the portmanteau.

JAMES PAGE, P. M.

Mails Lost. We learn that Messrs.

Taber and Potter, the gentlemen de-

.

spatched by the post master in search

of the missing mails, returned vo the

post office yesterday afternoon, with the !

A New York merchant, having his

mind entirely filled with his bank, and

other momentary engagements, run full

tilt against a heavy fisted Kentuckian, the ether day in wall-street. The sturdy son of the west, all fire and metal,

turned upon him. and gave him to un

derstand, in a very few words, that he

lad a great mind to 'knock him into the

middle of next vee.k.''' What was the

rr i .

surprise ol our iventuckian. when the

merchant, with pleasure beaming upon

nis countenance, came up to him and

took his hand, declaring, at the same

time that he looked upon him as being the best friend he had in the world, for.

said he, "as God is my witness, I do not know how 1 shall in any other way get over next Monday with my Bank pay

ments.

A Good Example. The Cattskill Bank, at Cattskill, has made arrange

ments to redeem its bills at par in this city. It is a good example, and we hope will be fallowed at no distant day

by all the banks cf the State, and that no bills will be taken in trade but such

as are so redeemed. la order to effect

this change most effectually, it is neces

sary that the action snould begin with

the city banks. For unlecs they make the bills of Connecticut and New Jersey banks par, they will flow in here and occupy n larger share of the circulation

than tney oo now. I he system of pay

ing at the grand centre of circulation is the best safety fund that can be invent

ed. The c:ty banks would make money by the operation well as do a public

service. j. 1. Journal of Commerce.

the Ariel, as acting captain, and while cruising oil Piil.ui and Dantzig, the ship

'rounded under a pi ess of sail, going

ight knots, on a shoal in the charts. Capt.

A London paper relates the following anecdote of Captain Ross: kln 1309, Capt. Ross was promoted from

chains and locks of the portmanteaus, j ,uil,R a lieutenant of the Victory into

lite letters, packages, .Vc. having been 1 destroyed on board the Wm. Penn, by fire. The mails thus lost, no doubt, contained a large sum of money, as this is the season of the year at which the southern merchants make large remittances to the north. The post master is still engaged in the investigation, nd will, in the course of the day be able to designate the exact mails that have

not been recovered. 1 he Baltimore letter bag, and that containing a portion of the letters from the west, are certainly destroyed. Phil. Enq.

Fatal Occurrence.. On Thursday last

a few miles from this place, a child was left in the house by its mother, who

went out for the purpose of w ashing, when the clothes of the child caught fire, and was so severely burnt when the mother reached it that it died on Saturday. This instance conveys an

other solemn and impressive lesson of

caution to parents in leaving their helpless children in the house unprotectedShipjwtburcr Fret Pm$.

at the rate of

not laid down

Ross, who was then on deck, without

betraying the slightest emotion, called to the man at the helm who appeared much alarmed 'Stcad-x-oy! touch and go is a good pilot.' After thumping repeatedly, she. thumped over the shoal, and got into deep water again, w ithout sustaining any injury, and xvith-

out starting either tack or sheet.'" Cool

and steady bravery in the hour of sud

den danger, is the prevailing feature in

the gallant Captain s character. Baltimore Gazette.

From HerscheWs Treatise on Astronomy,

COMETS.

The most remarkable of these is the

comet of Halley, so called from the ce

lebrated Edmund Halley, who, on cal

dilating its elements from its perihelion

passage in 1C82. when it appeared in

great splendour, with a tail 30 degrees

in length, was led to conclude its iden

tity with the great cornels of 1531 and

1 G07, xvhose elements he had also ascer

tained. The intervals of these succes

sive aparations being 75 and 76 years, Hally xvas encouraged to predict its

re-appearance about the year 1759. So remarkable a prediction could not fail

to attract the attention of all astrono

mers, and as the time approached, it

became extremely interesting to know

whether the attractions of the larger planets might not materially interfere

xvith its orbitual motion. The compu

tation ot their influence from the New

tonian laxv of gravity, a most difficult

and intricate piece of calculation, was

undertaken and accomplished bv Clai

t, who found that the action of Sa

turn xvould retard its return by 100 days, and that of Jupiter bv no less than

518 days, making m all 618 days, by

winch the expected return would hap

pen later than on the supposition of its

retaining an unaltered period and that in short, the time of the expected perihelion passage would lake place within

a month, one xvay or other, of the mid-

ulc of April, 1759. It actually happen

ed on the 12th ol March, in that year, 1 - . . l . . . . A 1 1 I 1

na ncA.1 iciuiii 10 uie. perineuon has

been calculated by Messrs. Damoiseau

and Pontecaulaut, and fixed by the former on the 4th, and the latter on (he 7th of November, 1835, about a month

or six xveeks before which lime it may

be expected to become visible in our

hemisphere; and as it will approach

pretty near the earth, will very proba

bly exhibit a brilliant appearance, tho

to judge from the successive degrada

tions of its apparent size and the length of its tail, in its several returns since its

first appearances on record, (in 1305,

1456, ccc.) we are not now to expect

any of those awful phenomena which

threw our remote ancestors of the mid

dle ages into agonies of sunerslitions

terror, and caused public prayers to be

)ut up in ihe churches against the com

et and its malignant agencies.

More recently, two comets have been

especially identified as having perform

ed several revolutions about the sun

and as having been not only observed

and reccrded in preceding revolutions,

xvithout knowledge cf this remarkable

peculiarity, but have had already seve

ral nines their

"I would much sooner," exclaimed

the immortal Franklin, "see a spinning

wheel than a piano a shuttle than

parasol a knitting needle than a visiting card." 'Tis in the country; the farm house and among our good old

dames, such pleasant sights may only be

ren.

all the principal observatories, both ia

the northern and southern hemispheres, in 1825, 1828, and 1832. Its next re.

turn will be in 1835.

On comparing the intervals between

the successive perihelion passages of this comet, after allowing in the most

careful and exact manner for all the dis

turbances due to the actions of the planets, a very singular fact has come to light, viz. that the periods are continually diminishing, or, in other words, the mean distance from the sun, or the ma

jor axis of the ellipse, dwindling by

slow but regular degrees. This is evidently the effect which xvould be produced by a resistance experienced bv

the comet from a vcrv rare ethereal

medium pervading the region in xx hich it moves; for such resistance, b) diminishing it actual velocity, would diminish

also its centrifugal force, and thus give

the sun more poxver over it to draw it nearer. Accordingly (no other mode

of accounting for the phenomenon in question appearing,) this is the solution

proposed by hncke, and generally re.ceived. It will, therefore, probably fall

ultimately into the sun, should it not first be dissipated altogf ther a thing no way improbable, when the lightness of its materials is considered, and which seems authorized bv the observed fact of its having been less and le4s conspi

cuous at each rc-appearancc.

rheothercometof short period which

has lately been discovered, is that of

Biela, so called from M. Biela, of Josephstadt, who first arrived at this in

teresting conclusion. It is identical

with comets which appeared in 178'J,

1795, &c.,' and describes its eccentric

ellipse about the sun in six years and

three quarters; and the last aparation

having taken place, according to the prediction, in 1832, the next w ill be ia

1838. It is a small insignificant comet

xvithout a tail, or any appearance of a

solid neuclus. Its orbit, by a remarkable coincidence, very nearly intersects that of the earth ; and had the latter, at the time of its passage in 1832, been u

month in advance of its actual place, it

would have passed through the comet;

a singular rencounter, perhaps not unattended with danger.

Comets, in passing among and near

the planets, are materially drawn aside

from their courses, and in some cases have their orbits entirely changed. This is remarkably the case x ith Jupi

ter, which seems, hy some sti .nge fatality, to be constantly in their way, and to serve as a perpetual stumbling' block

to them. In the case of the rrmaikable

comet of 1770. which was fonn.l bv

Lexell to revolve in a moderate ellipse

in the period of about five rears, and

whose return was predicted by him ac

cordingly, the prediction was disap

pointed by the comet actually retting

entangled among the satellites of Jupi-

ter, and neing completely thrown out of its orbit by the attraction of that pla

net, and lorced into a much larger ellipse. By this extraordinary- rencoun

ter, the motions of the satellites suffer

ed not the least perceptible derangment

a sufficient proof of the smallness of

the comet's mass.

It remains to say a few words on the

actual dimensions of comets. The calculation of the diameters of their heads, and the lengths and breadths of their

tails, offers not the slightest dithculty when once the elements of their orbits are known, for by these we know the

real distances from the earth at any time, and the true direction of the tail.

which xve see only foreshortened. Now

calculations instituted on these princi

ples, lead to the surprising fact, that the comets are by far the most voluminous bodies in our system. The follow

ing are the dimensions of some of those which have been made the subjects of such inquiry. The tail of the great comet of 1680. immediately after its perihelion passage, was found by Newton to have been no less than 20,000,000 of leagues in length, and to have occupied only two days in its emission from t lie comet's body! a decisive proof this, of its being darted forth by some active force, the origin of which to judge from the direction of the tail, must be sought in the sun itself. Its greatest lenelh a-

returns predicted, and

have scrupulously kept to their appoint- mounted to 4 1 ,000,000 leagues, a length mciits. The first of these is the comet much exceeding the whole, interval be-

ot bncke, so called from Professor txveen the sun m prll. Th f

. .... . I . -

lnck.i, ol LSerlin, who first ascertained the comet of 1 769, extended 1 6.000.000

its periodical return. It revolves in an leagues, and that of the irreat rnm.t of

n: e . . .

cmpsc ui gicti ecccniricuy, inclined at ion, 3o,uuu,uuu. I he portion of the

an angle of about 13 deg. 22 mm. to head of this last, comprised wi'hin the the plane of the ecliptic, and in the transparentatmosphericcnv k pe which

aiiun inuu ui iiu u;5, or aoout separaica u Horn ihe tail was 180 000

years, i nis remai Kanic uiscovery xvas

made on the occasion of its fourth re

corded appearance, in 1819. From the ellipse then calculated by Encke, its

leagues in diameter. It is hardlv con

ceivable that matter once projected to such enormous distances should ever be collected again bv tho IWhh. .iftr.irtinn

return in 1822 was predicted by him, of such a body au a comet and observed at Paramatta, in New ration which accounts fo

i

a consiae-

rrnnnl fir the ranirl

South Wales, by M. Rumker, being in- progressive dim;m.; f ihn ia;i. f

visible in Europe; since which it has such as have been freouentlv ober.

been r-prcdicted, nnd re-obseryed in ved.