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institutions whose utility and efficiency luid been tested, in opposition to the tribe of political empirics who are constantly aiming at a display of their quackery by absurd and novel experiments on the body politic. In private life Gen. Harrison is a model of that republican simplicity which characterized the Jellersonian age of our government. The breath of slander has never reached the Iofiy purity of his character. The brightness of his disk has been undimmed by the shadow of a passing cloud. While governor of Indiana, he had many opportunities of amassing wealth by speculating in the public land, for which his situation and the privileges of his office afforded him superior facilities. But he disdained them all, preferring the legal salary for his services, however scanty, to the accumulation of a fortune in that way, although it might

have escaped censure. When qustioned on the subject, he might, like Phocion the Athenian, point to his honorable poverty as convincing evidence of the disinterestedness of his official life. In conclusion, it may be remarked, that if the most devoted patriotism, the most incorruptible integrity political principles the most correct a sound judgment, united to great mental energy, and civil services of his country entitle a m m to the respect and confidence of the American people, then is William Henry Harrison eminently qualified for their suffrages for the first cilice in their gift. It 1 V I : U N A V 1 : AT ION. The rise in the Ohio River, lias caused an active business appearance at our wharves, for the last two days. Within that time, five steam boats, and nine keel boats, have arrived from Pittsburgh, with about eight hundred tons of frt ighf, principally dry goods. Two hundred tons more have been received ly the way of the Ohio Canal, from Portsmouth, making one thousand tons for the l ist forty-eight hours, landed at our wharves. Of this amount about one half was for this city, and the surrounding neighborhood. Much of this freight Mas shipped at .5 1 00 per lOOlb?. and the balance at 75 cents, from Pittsburgh, and from Portsmouth at 20 cents per lOOlbs. The amount paid out for freight alone, in this city, for the above named time, cannot fall much short of tight thousand dollar.'. Cincinnati Gazette. MO IIS AND mors. Our exchange papers from the east and the south are teeming with accounts of riots, mobs, and the destruction of life and properly in various parts of the Union. The signs of the times are ominous; and unless the supremacy of the laws can be maintained unless the rising spirit of anarchy can be checked and subdued there are great reasons to fear that future ages will mark the present period as the commencement of scenes w hich in their last results effected the ovei throw of civil liberty in the United States. Lngansport Telegraph. CINCINNATI STEAM MILL. This edifice, which is six stories high on Front street, and nine stories on the liver, was founded in 1812, and cost .$100,000. It was burnt in 1823, and afterwards" rebuilt at a very heavy ex pense. We are credibly informed, that the entire building, engine, &r. is now offered for the small sum of ihrcc thousand dollars, the purchaser removing the materials from the premises. A large part of the building consists of dressed stone, of a superior qnalitv. Cincinnati Gastlte. Black List. A number of our cotemporaries have commenced the publication of a black list. Of this we highly approve, as it is, we believe, the only course which will remedy the evil so long as the present system of crediting is, continued. We' intend, when necessity requires, to publish one cf our own, and as soon as our limits Mill pcimit to give those of our neighbors the benefit of our widely circulated sheet by the insersion of theirs. This should be done by every press in the Union. Let them be sten-i pod, and published in every newspaper from Maine to Georgia, that the public raav guai d against the fellows who go prowling about the country, leaving their newspaper debts unpaid. Clev.Jh. Bcnrf.u II ill M ox cmp. n't. We are pleased to learn that this monument, which was commenced some four or five years ago, but which has heretofore progressed rather slowly, for the want of funds, is now advancing rapidly towards completion. Seven courses of Rranite have been laiJ this season: and is now fifty-three feet high. Before the close of the year, it is expected the workmen will get it up as high as seventy five feet. The Monument, when completed will he 220 feet. Cleveland Iter all.

MK. CLAYTON'S LOG-BOOK. "Tun Star of the West,'" at the

time proposed for the ascension, ap peared in her full and beautiful torm, ready and anxious one would have thought, from the violent manner in which she f trained the cords that hound her to the earth, to be launched into the element. Owing to the amphitheater, at this time not being so well filled with spectators as it ought to have been considering my enormous expenses, I delayed the ascension for one hour. At 5 o'clock, for the fourth time, I took my station in my serial bark, and at 8 minutes after 5, I bade farewell to the gay scene that surrounded me, and darted into the atmosphere, or apparently the earth fell from my feet; and in a few moments, Lexington with her splendid mansions and her streets decorated with trees, and the surrounding fertile and garden-like country, interspersd with towns, country-seats, and cottages, were all within my gaze, and formed a scene truly enchanting. When the barometer had fallen to 26.5 inches, I cut loose the parachute w hich contained a little dog; it soon opened, and I saw it pass on the N. E side of Ashland ((he residence of the Hon. Henry Clay.) I was desirous to know at what allituie I should loose sight of the spectators when, at the height of threefourths of a mile, they, and also the cattle in the fields, had shrunk to insect size, hut it was difficult to ascertain precisely at w hat altitude they disappeared. The earth now appeared like a vast painted map, the colors of which, not designating counties or states; but showing the products of the soil and the fruit of industry the meadows the grazing lands the corn and hemp fields the 01 chat d and woods all differing in color or shade. In a short time vapour appeared to ascend from the earth and form itself in to thin clouds beneath me. Eighteen minutes after 5, I passed into a dense cloud, and for a few moments was enveloped in mist, and the earth was concealed from my view. Just before emerging from this cloud, in front of me. I had a perfect shadow of my balloon, with the car, the cords, and myself plainly delineated. I waved my 'banner as if to salute my companion the compliment was answered. At 23 minutes after 5 o'clock, the barometer 20 inches, the thetmometer at 25 deg. course S. E. rale 1 mile in two minutes. At 28 minutes after 5, when at an altitude of 2 miles, I discovered that the gas had completely filled the balloon, and that the neck had become entangled between the cords by which I was suspended, preventing the surplus gas from escaping, and confining the valve cord, so that I could not open the valve. I immediately busied myself in liberating the valve cord, and while in the act of doing this, the neck and cord were snatched with violence from me, the upper portion of (lie balloon burst with a tremendous noise, and land the whole fabric fell two or three hundred feet with the velocity of a stone. The rapid descent was then a little checked : and now the most critical moment of my life was at hand a moment tint required calmness, presence of mind and activity, for an awful scene presented itself. The lower part of the balloon, by the violent resistance of the atmosphere, in descending, had been pressed against the surface of the network, and formed into a parachute of about twenty-five feet in diameter; but through the center of this imperfect parachute I could behold the. naked valve, the small meshes of the net, and a great portion of the silk on each side, which firmed the resisting surf ice, hung in ribbands, dashing from side to side, and producing a noi.e like tin; shattered sails of a ship i:i a tempest. This, hurricane nois; was not produced by the rapid descent alone, hut by the violent oscillatory and rotary motion of the parachute. At one moment 1 was almost in a hori7. ntal line with the parachute, and then I was dahed through the air to a level on the opposite Vide; thus describing an arc ot nearly a semi circle, the radius of which was about fifty feet; and at the same time I and my ear were whirling with sickening velocity. While in this situation, I succeeded' in dashing overboard all my bags of ballast, which weighed about o0 lbs. In four minutes I descended about a mile, ;md reached the region of dense clouds. At this time I united the upper end of my cable and held it in my hands, threw over my anchor and allow ed it to swing at the full length of the rope, (iau leet) it was thrown at every vibration, far above the level of my car. On passing beneath the cloud, I saw

the town of Athens a little to the SouthWest of me. In five minutes more I reached the ground with a pretty severe shock, sustaining no injury worth mentioning. The whole balloon or parachute, was instantly flat on the ground, a mass of ribbands. A few

dark faces (negroes) appeared at a short distance from me, with outstretched hands screaming frightened to death at ihe huge machine that came whirling over their heads, and still more frightened when they saw me spring out of it. The spot on which I fell, was on the farm of Thomas Ap Jones, Esq. in Clarke county, 15 miles in a S. E. direction from Lexington, four or five miles South of the Winchester road, and one and a half miles from Combs's ferry on the Kentucky river. Mr. Jones and several of his neighbors came to me, and politely offered their assistance in securing the remains of the "Star of the West." I was welcomed to the house of Mr. Jones received every kind attention, and was by him provided with a conveyance to Lexington. To Mr. Jones, his neighbors who assisted me to the Mayor of Lexington and those gentleman who assisted me previous to my ascension to the ladies and gentlemen, who honored mc with their presence and patronage, I take this mode of expressing my grateful feelings and of acknowledging my obligations. II. CLAYTON. Lexington, Aug. 22, 1835. I M PRO V EM EN ITS. Fifteen or eighteen years ago, the streets of our city were named at every corner building, and the houses regular ly numbered, that strangers might find, by lelerence to such indexes, any part of ihe city. The removal of some buildings, and the erection of others, has nearly destroyed the few remain ing sign boards, naming our principal streets; and as for ascertaining the num ber of a private dwelling, it is impossi ble, as the last ten years has witnessed no new tenements numbered, and most of the marks on the old ones, are ei ther obliterated or torn off. The most durable methods of naming streets, has been adopted in a block of three story houses, corner of Vine and Ffth streets, and in warehouses on Syca more street. It is the insertion of a stone plate, at the second story, in which is carved the name of the street. So long as the walls of these edifices en dure, the passer-bye has an unerring in dex of reference. Cm. Gazette. Retort Propkr. Our Devil a few days since, was intenogaled by a man, who had provisions to sell with the question, '"do you want to buy any flour here?" uNo we take eastern flour," replied the lad. The man with the bag started and asked what he meant. "Why,"' said tlic lad, "when you were asked to subscribe for a Missouri paper you said you could out, because you look an eastern paper. So we took you at your word, and sent east for our flour.'" The man of grains looked confused for a moment and then re joined: "That was right those who won't encourage you, ought not to ex pect your custom so you may send me the paper. II cstern roper. Jamaica affords an example, perhaps without a parallel in the history of men ambitious of tombstone honors, of a man at the foot of the gallows disposing of a hundred pounds of gold for the purpose of having a monument erected to his memory. 1 his gentle man's name was Hutchinson. He was a proprietor, it appears, in easy circum stances, in the parish of St. Anne. A gentleman in this city, with whom we are well acquainted, purchased some vears ago, a township of land in the State of Maine, for two cent? and a half an .acre, amounting to about SG20 . - - - Some two or three years afterward, he sol! the township lor JL47,000. Jt hm since changed proprietors once or twice and in these chances one of them re ceived $14,000 for lumber taken from if. II tias been sold within a lew week for ,$180.000! Huston Cornier. We learn that an Abolitionist was caught near Lynchburg Va., and hung up without ceremony. We hope this may oe the last record of the kind we sli all have to make. It is painful to think of. Let not the innocent suffer at all events. The guilty must take care of themselves. I hey have but lew sympathies from any quarter. Brvtold Wayne, eh? A stalk of corn was brought to this office vester day, on which were growing upwards 01 live hundred distinct cars of corn small to be sure, but having all the ap pearance of perfect ears. It grew in f field in Ihe surburbs of this town. Richmond Palladium, August 15.

DIABOLICAL ACT OF EXTORTION! The Mobile Register of July 29th,

gives an account of a horrid conspiracy to extort a large sum of money from a citizen of that city. Not having time to publish the article entire to-day, we make the following summary ot all us principal facts: A respectable phy sician of Mobile, a Frenchman by birth, is n the possession of a very considerable fortune, and is the father of an in fant boy of five years of age. He has ilso several brothers, who came to tins country some years ago. What their ideas of his obligations to them are, does not appear, only through their in famous conduct. 1 hey laid a plan. bold and bloody in determination, and insolent, almost beyond belief, in the exorbitance of its exactions, to obtain a large portion of his fortune. They stole his young son, carried him a num ber of miles out of the city, and secreted him. They then sent a messenger to the father, demanding ,$30,000 Yor the ransom of his child. If he did not pay it, they positively assured him that ihe child should be murdered, and the murderer would not attempt to escape, but would commit suicide immediately. Such was the father's knowledge of the character of those with whom he had to deal, and such was his fear for the fate of the child, that he immediately consented to comply with the requisition; hut having only about -$18, 000 at his immediate command, he took measures to obtain the remainder through the agency of one of the Mobile Banks. By this means a partial understanding of what was going on soon became known, and shortly after, all the principal facts were noised about the city, which instantly set the whole town in commotion. At first, every thing was in confusion, and no one knew what steps it were best to take. An Engine Company, who had just returned from a fire, however, being yet together, resolved to take the subject in hand. They despatched a committee to the Bank, where the agent had just received ,$30,000, w ho arrested him, although he was well armed. They also arrested the brothers of the Doctor. They chartered a steamboat, took the agent with them and much against his will and inclination made him point the way to where the child was secreted. At first he deceived them, and led them oir in a wrong direction; but finding there was no escape for him, he led them to the right place, where they happily rescued the boy alive and unharmed. But one of the brothers was known to have stolen the child. The others were arrested on suspicion of being accessaries to the plot. As nothing had been proved against them, however, it was supposed they would be discharged. HOOSHIEIl OATS. There is now in the office of ibis paper a stool of oats; it has 12 stalks and heads, one of the heads, which we selected as a fair average contains 270 grains, making in all 3210 grains. The stalks measure 12 inches in circumference, and six feet and a half in height. They were raised by Mr. Garret Seymour of this vicinity. Mr. Seymour is lately from the Old Dominion (Vir ginia.) and however its soil is noted for the production of great men, he says the Hoosier State far outstrips it in the production of oats. We think few countries can equal this production; the increase is 3,240 fold. Mr. Seymour would without doubt, have taken the premium of our Agricultural society, but unfortunately the society was vetoed not long since. Lafayette Free Prs.t. During four months last past, there have been three hundred and twentythree admissions to the house of Indus try at South Boston ; one. hundred and eighty of whom are foreigners. From the 23d of June to the 2d of July in clusive, there were forty admissions, thirty of whom were Irish, one Prussian, one German and eight Americans. The present number in the house is four hundred and eighty-two more than three fourths of whom are foreigners. Of the above three hundred and twen ty three admissions, more than seven eights of the adults are intemperate. fiost m Gazelle. At a recent election of officers for a militia company in Waterville, Me., Geo. 1 1. board win,a respectablecolored gentleman was chosen captain by a ma jority of six votes. He accepted the trust, in a happy and appropriate ad dress to his constituents. The Massachusetts medical society has olfered a premium of 500 to any person who shall within five years. breed and produce not less than one thousand full grown leeches from a for eign stock, equal for medical uses to the best imported leeches,

CHICAGO SALES. Chicago, July 1, 1835. A gentleman who attended the sale of lands and lots at Chicago, has given us a lively picture of the extravagant delusion which prevails as to the value of lots in Chicago. There were two thousand persons, purchasers, from abroad, besides those who had authority to purchase for gentlemen in New York and elsewhere. The village lots sold in some instances, as high as one hundred and eighty dollars a foot. These

lots were generally eighty lect wide bv one hundred and sixty feet deep. A block running to a point, about two hundred and fifteen feet front, was old for forty thousand dollars. The partics, however, dittering as to the rate of interest on the balance of the payment. (one half being paid down.) the bargain was broken. There was not as muc:h land on the line of the canal a? was ex pected. The quantity was diminished by the amount taken by the pre-emption purchasers and Ihe squatters. It sold generally for from one dollar thirty cents to four dollars. The woodland was the most valuable. MOKE MOJJE51.(;. Some violent proceedings have lately taken place in Washington city, in consequence of the attempts of some abolitionists to promulgate theirdocf rincs among the slaves, in and about that cih. by the circulation of newspapers and pamphlets. TheN iliosial Intelligencer states that on the night of the 12th insl. disorders took place in different parts of the city. Several tenements occupied by free persons of color, as dwellings or as schools, were demolished, and the windows of their churches broken. It is very probable, as is usual in such cases, that the innocent suffered with the guilty but let them have been however guilty they were full as excusable as those who in defiance of all law and order proceeded to execute summary vengeance upon them. Some slight disturbances had taken place the two evenings previous, in consequence of which a body of citizens, headed by the civil authorities, armed themselves for two or three nights for the purpose of protecting the city. Several of the more active of the rioters have been arrested and committed to jail. Urbana Record. Printing Establishment. t is slated in an eastern paper that the abolitionists of N. York have an immense printing establishment in Nassau street, constantly engaged in throwing off tracts, newspapers, and pamphlets for gratuitous distribution through the U. S. mails. Three large power steam presses are at work day and night. They possess lists of every lawyer, every merchant, every person of consequence in the southern states. It is supposed that Ibis single establishment circulates by mail more papers thoughout (lie slave holding slates, than the whole domestic press of (hat region docs. Lou. Pub. Adv. Wheat. During (lie present week, wheat has fallen 20 per cent, in price, and nothing has occurred to justify this falling off it has been effected by a combination among the millers, occ. to oppress the farmer. We dohope our farmers will remember the past year, when after selling their wheat at a reduced price, they were compelled to give ensbj and the very highest price, for foreign flour. Let them keep their wheat have it ground at home and sell Iheir flour at a reasonable price to their neighbors; the oflal alone, will, perhaps save the lives of some scores of valuable animals. Weekly Messenger, .Ing 29. The Croi's. The crops of Corn, Hemp, Potatoes, Turnips, &c. are heavier and more abundant, than, perhaps taken altogether, we have ever had before in Kentucky alone season. Our stock is equally abundant and fine -and scarcely a day passes that we do not see droves of horses and mules driven from the Slate, to distant markets. Lands and all productions bear a good price. A most gratifying picture of the prosperity of Kentucky. Ky. Gatctle. Cure for the Diarrihea. As this disease is usually prevalent at (his season of (he year, a gentleman who has for some lime past used the following recipe with great success, requests us to publish it. A table spoonful of vinegar, and a teaspoon full of salt, mixed with a gill of warm water. If relief be not obtained in ten or fifteen minutes, a repetition of the dose, he says, has been effectual in every instance he has observed. This is a simple remedy, worthy at least of trial, and can do no harm. JV. Y. Merrury. Six thousand bales of cotton, the largest quantity ever sold in one lot, changed hands in New Orleans on the 6th instant, bringing near half a million of I dollars. No trifling speculation.