The Wabash Courier, Volume 10, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 September 1842 — Page 2

FOREIGN NEWS.

JMrrival ot the BriUmnim* "It• DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. "1 The steamship Britannia, Copt. Hewitt, arftved at Boston about half ppst four clock on Friday morning. She eft Liverpool on the 4th, and Halifax the 17th, and was defined by fern, off Halifax thirteen hours, and off Boston light

four

hours. She brought

eighty-six passengers to Halifax—where she landed twenty-two and took in fifteen. The gratifying fact is announced in the papers of a partial revival of business. The Cotton Market had observed a very active spirit during the whole fortnight, and the daily sales averaged from 5 to 8000 bales.— Lower auttdities of American had improved fullv idi^r lb.

There had been a very slight improvement visible in the manufacturing districts. The Bonded Corn Bill was read a third time and passed in the House of Commonson the 28th ult.

The Overland Mail from India had been received. The intelligence furnished by it will be found below.

A measure of importance—that of permitting the grinding of grain in bond, and which wilt no doubt increase the consumption of foreign grain in England—-has been brought forwnrd in Parliament, and being countenanced by ministers will no doubt become a law.

Though there were some complaints ^of draught in portions of England and Ireland, nnd the south of France, yet, generally, the harvests appear to have been very favorable throughout Europe and it is said, that the aggregate of the crops will far exceed that of any previous year within the memory of the oldest inhabitants.

It was supposed that Parliament would be prorogued by her Majesty in person, on the 17th. I

Tho London Money Market evinced strong evidence of improvement. The transactions had becn on a more extensive scalo than for some time previous, and capitalists evinced a greater desire to invest money. The arrival in London of an accredited agent from the United States government, for the purpose of contracting a loan of twelve millions of dollars was not much liked and it was confidently asserted in well-informed quarters, that he would wholly fail in the object of his mission. The Press have treated the gentleman very unceremoniously. The news from America, brought by the mail steamer Caledonia, which was received in London on the 20th ult. had an unfavorable effect on the market, Consols, which were previously as high as 191, receded to 19$. The depression, however, was only temporary, ns they since ralliod, and were quoted at even higher rates than before.

The cause of the decline was the rumor of new difficulties in tho way of the adjustment of tho North Eastern Boundary question, and the state of the relations between the United States and Mexico.

A letter from Berlin, 21st ult. in the German Journal of Frankfort, says:—"The city of Hamburgh has just contracted, through the house of Rothschild and other bankers, a loan of 82,000,000 of crowns, at 93 rix dollars, with interest at three and a half per cent.— This sum has been placed at the disposal of the Senate, and is destined to the rebuilding of the houses which wore destroyed."

In France, all was quiet. Tho foneral of Uie Duke of Oi leans was attended with great pomp and ceremony. The Cathedral of Notre Dame was visited by an immense number of persons, while the body remained there. Tho number of persons present on Sunday, is estimated at 00,000. One of tho King's aides-de-camp, two colonels, and two lieutenant colonels, from the National Guard and the army, two officers of the same rank from tho navy, and two ordily officers of the king and princes, were on duty round the body, remaining stationary, by turns, and the four corners of the catafalque, relieving each othevery six hours. The number of visiters on other days was greater tlnn on Sunday, and they consisted generally of .well-dressed persons many were waiting in the crowd, from five to six hours before thoy could reach the Cathedral.

The Courts of Sa.tony, Baden, and Wiesbaden, have gone into mourning on the occasion.

It is understood that the Duke of Nemours will be the Regent of France. Great fears wore entertained for the stability of the ministry.

When the body was removed from Neuilly to Notre Dame, the whole population of Paris was in movement at an early hour for the purpoeg|£ gaining favorable places on the line of march. The Boulevards, the Faubourg St. Honore, tho Champs Elysees and all avenues leading towards Neuilly were thronged by masses of pedestrians. The crowd was apparently greater than that which attended the funeral of Napoleon's remain's and it would appear as if not a single person remained in Paris, so dense and overflowing wis the throng.

THE EAST?

Private letters from Constantinople of the 13th ult., announce that the Schah of Persia is making preparations for a war against Turkey, and that a Persian army is to march against Bagdad, and another against Erzorum. Troops had already marched from Teheran to Amodan, on their way to Bagdad. It appears that the cause of quarrel is a disputed boundary line, and that the Schah had forwarded an ultimatum to the Porte, signifying his intention to take xssession of the I territory in dispute, if it were not coded to him by 5th of October. In the mean time the Turkish Pasha of Erzqrum (the contiguous frontier) was preparing for defence. A body of 3000 regular troops were collected, militia were being armed.

IMARKT, Aug. 1.—The import, of British

Q*i0,

Flour «r§ Oatmnl, »ry light.

Mi* of WhaM, SS30 quarter* of Pm, JS1

H81*

Flour iwlWn foreign ports the arrivals amount to 87^57 quarters of Wheat, 303 quarters of Oats, 875 quarters of Barley,230 quarters of Beans, 3312 quarters Peas** 418 quartet* of Rye, and 6796 barrels of Flour. The changes of duty are It. per qua Her km on foreign, and fid. per quarter ton on colonial Rye and Peas.

We have had another work of ve?y favorable weather for the crops, aafer which, and, as regards Wbaat and Fknir, large sua^ioe, prices haveoontimnd to give way. Wheat must be quoted 4d. to 6d. per 70 the Flour Is. to Is. fid. per barrel cheaper than on this day se'nnigbt.

JPromthe Natkmml JnteUigewcer. THE TARIFF QUESTION

The event has proved that we were right in tho belief, expressed by us on Saturday last, in the possibility of the passage by Congress of a TarifT bill of some sort at tigs-present session of Congress. A. bill actually passed ihe House of Representatives yesterd*v, ON the plan proposed by Mr. MCKEXNAN being the same bill, wtU» the exception of the see lion concerning tho land fund# and the duties upon the articles of tea and coffee, Which are omitted from it, (hat was lately passed by Congress and vetoed by the President.

The vote was exceedingly closc on all the questions taken, the final vote being, yeas 105, nays 103.

We do riot remember ever to have witnessed, during thirty-five years' attendance on the House of Representatives, a more exciting scene, a severer contest, a greater earnestness and self-devotion, than characterized the proceedings and votes of yesterday.

About four-fifths of the votes in favor of the bill, it will be seen, on reference to the yeas and nays, were given by the Whigs, the residue of the gentleman of that party not having been able to bring themselves* to vote for the bill, some of them voting against it on the general ground of objection to the duties imposed by it, others under an idea that to pass the bill would be a submission of the Legislative authority to the Executive power. The scruples of gentlemen on either ground we know how to respect. Resistance to usurped or abusive power, especially, will always command our admiration. But what we yet mo:e admire, if possible, is the selfdevotion exhibited yesterday by some individual members (whom it would be inviduous to name,) who, with a full knowledge of the aversion of their constituents to the passage of a TarifTbill without the land clause, felt it to be their duty, as Representatives of the whole Union, to vote for a bill tho passage of which the interests of three-fourths of the people of the Union, the sufferings of a distressed People, and the necessities of the Government, imperiously required. Nor do the gentlemen who thus voted sacrifice, in our opinion, any principle. They yield nothing to the President, whose will, for tho constitutional provision which confers on him tho Veto power, would stand for nothing in the question.— They yield only to the constitutional provision, which is as odious to us as it can possibly be to them, but which neither our opinion nor theirs can change. The requirements of the Constitution, which we cannot change, nor ydi successfully resist by any votes or action of ours, it becomes a political necessity to yield to, in any case where useful action cannot be effected without such concession.— With great deference, therefore, for the opinions of those of our friends who think differently, the case had, in Jour judgment, arisen when it became'perfectly consistent with the most ardent patriotism to yield, in a great exigency, the pride of opinion to the demands of an imperious public necessity.

Of the party in the House in opposition to the Whigs, a few only were found willing to contribute to the relief of the starving operatives in all branches of industry, to the parlyzed enterprise and energies of the country, and the absolute necessities of the Government. To those few let the credit be given to which, by this conduct on their part,, they have well entitled themselves.

The fate of the bill is now in the liands of the Senate, whose decision upon it will, suppose, soon be known.

Mr. STEWART of Illinois, in tho coursc of his speech on the Tariff Bill, gives the following picce of detail, in relation to productions of other States consumed in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts is *now largely engaged in manufactures. An able Representative of that State upon this floor (Mr. Hudson,) has furnished the following table of the productions of other States consumed in Massachusetts, amounting in the total to forty-two millions and a fraction:

An e$timate of the products of the toil, $-c \f other States contained or manufactured annually in Massachusetts. 185,000 bales, 620,000 bbls., 3,730,000 bush., 175,000 tons, 188,600 cords, 8,000,000 lbs.,

Cotton Flour Corn and other grain a Wood Wool Lumber of nil kinds Leather nnd hides -t Beef, pork, hams and lard Butter and cheese Horses, cauls, sheep, and swine Potatoes Poultry of all kinds, _4 ... Pig lead Firs, buScilo robes, &c. Rags, junk, &c., for paper Lime 82,900 casks, Pot and pearj ashes' 500 tons, Tobacco yi

*7,300,000 4.100.000 2.790.000 1,300,000 1,300,000 3,200.000 3,690,000 7,600,000 2,800.000 1,000,000 600,000 300,000 70,000 1,450.000 45,000 963.000 72.000 58.000 68.000 325.000 1,900,000 800.000 47,000 360,000 100.000 185,000

960 hhds.,- ..

Rice Tar, pitch and turpentine Iron Sugar and molasrati Staves, casks, boxes, $. Domestic spirits and beer Feathers, hair, and bristles Oysters, venison, sand, sweet potatoes, summer fruits, such as peaches, melons, Jc.t Hay, grass seed, flax seed, flax. Kneeed oil. castor oil, beans, beeswax, tallow, onions, nuts,

175,000

#42.010,000

dihg to the rates of duty in February, 1842 00 per cent Barley 74 Oats 100 Potatoes 84 Flour 60 Hay 37 halted Beef 80 Salted Pork 68 Bacon 85 and Unseed Oil 80. It is stated that the average of all the articles as above enumerated, is 264 per cent, ft has been shown by ao intelligent writer in the National Intelligencer, that the British Tariff, arranged also into 8 schedules, contains 862 articles, nnd that out of £22,962,610, schedule?, representing

only

Rates of Dntr la Great Britain. A Washington Correspondent of the New York Express gives a table of the percentage rate of duty charged in Great Britain at the present time, on the staple agricultural products of the United Stiles according to which, Louisiana sugar pays a duty of270 per cent, calculated on the cost of the article in New ... #«.nf YorkjJUMiisiann Mobs*s400 percent South- W® J» P01"'.10 ero Tobacco 1300 do Cotlon 8 do Spirits! Publlc *r,,oe'"»

and Grain 2700 do Cider 273 Wheat accor- future upuRV Resolved, That in our opinion, HbNKi CLAY, of Kentucky, does possess the requi-

9 articles, amounts to

£18,575,071 and that in the modification proposed by Sir Robert Peel, tins 7th schedule remains untouched, free trade ^speech notwithstanding.

WBAT AW EXJLWRTK—TWB WASHIMGTOJ?TAHS TO A DisTtLLEar.—The Washtagtocuan* at Hartfoitl, celebrated the anniversary of American independence in the first d»t»H«r* erected in Cuoi*cticut. The boiWtag «s 204 feet long, sod there- was room to iw six tablet the whole length. TYw staod lor the orators was a still epetdedown, and capble of accommodating fi»r persons, This is "carrying the war info Africa/*

JW the United Stmt** CIULH. ORIGINAL SONG.

BT A LADY.

Ant:—liAuld Lang Syne.

Leave vain regrets foreironMst Nor east the skip awaf, But nail your colours to ibe wast, I And strike for' Harry Clay!

ill

From fahn no (reason n*d b6 fefcrM Your (Cauae he'll ae'erbetrajr Whit name to traemea ao enieai

Aa'that of Hatty Olay!

III.

No rain abstractions 611 his head, To lead his heart astray For every noble promise made,

Is kept by JJprrjr Clay. S «i IV.. Then let not treasonVhated /om,

Thus fill yon with dismay, But gath'ring strength to breast tbestorm. Stand last by Harry Clay "AT, Rise bravely for time effort mors

Your.motto thus display: PROTECTION

FOR OUR KATIVK

saoas!

Sustained by Harry Clay. ... I

VI. -V -,

And o'er our gallant Chieftain's grave, Pledjre we onr faith thisday, In Weal or wo, no change to know, •. 'Till triumphs Harry Clay! *..*

*-. CHORUS.

Till triumps Harry Cky, my boys, 'Till triumph Harry Clay v* In weal or wo, no change to know, 'Till triumphs Harry Clay! .:. Philadelphia, Alay 6, 1842.

". .. From the Lexington Intelligencer. A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE. John Tyler, sir, mv Jo John,

When we were first acquaint, :c You did pretend to be a Whig— For Harry, sir, you went vV •, But now you've got in power, John,

The cloven foot yon show— A curse upon all traitors, John, ^. John Tyler, sir, my Jo.

John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, The Whigs they fought the git her, And money a canty day, John,

They had with nneanither But you have them betrayeJ, John, And why did you do so/--A curse upon all traitors, John,

John Tyler, sir, my Jo.

John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, When nature first began .. To try her canny hand, John,

Her master work was man But when she turned out you. John,She swore it wafc^nogo You proved to be but journey-work,

John Tyler, sir, my Jo._

John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, Why will you be a fool, *5' You're sneaking round the Locos, John,

Who use you as their tool-, They're laughing in their sleeves, John, To think that you'll Veto *. .-.n.,..•/-• *.• The only bill can save you, John, v- I

John Tyler, sir, my Jo.

John Tyler, sir, my Jo John, The higher monkies go, The more they show their tails, John,

You know it's always so Then get you out the White House, John, Ana homeward do you go, And make the people happy, John,

John Tyler, sir, my Jo. WAGSTAnf."

CLAY MEETING.

Among the proceedings of a large meeting of the friends of HENRY CLAY, recently held at New Haveu Conn., we find 'the following resolutions.

Rewolvcd, That the tendency of our country since the election of And Jackson to the Presidency, has been to concen trate all power in the hands of the Executive' of the nation and that upon the successful result of the Presidential election of 1840, we had confidently hoped that a stop tirould be put to Executive encroachmonts and usurpations.

Resolved, That we cannot doubt that our hopes would have been realized, and that each branch of the government would hnve exercised its constitutional prerogative without attempting to dictate to or control the co-ordi-nnte branches, had the life of the President of our choice been spared. 4

Resolved, That upon the deatH of thelamented Harrison, and the accession of John Tyler to the Presidency, we had aright to expect that the government would be administered upon the same principles as if he had lived, agreeably to the pledges implied and expressed by Mr. Tyler as a delegate from the Whigs of Virginia to the Harrisburg Convention, and while a candidate for Vice President.

Resolved, That-instead of fulfilling ourjust expectations, Mr. Tyler has not only abandoned the party which elected him, but also proved false to almost every principle and measure contended for by the friends of Reform in the late Presidential election.

Resolved, That the repeated resort to the veto power by Mr. Tyler, and especially its recent exercise, has in our opinion retarded, if hot for many years prevented, the settlement of the business and currency of the .country, upon a sound and substantial basis and that the President, and not Congress, ts reiio ooo sponsible for tho longer continuance of an impoverished national treasury, and commercial embarrassment, and distress.

Resolved, That the Whig members of Congress have, in our opinion, done all that could be done by Patriots and Statesmen, to relieve the Government and the People from their embarrassments, and that they deserve the warmest thanks of their constituents.

Resolved, That the circumstanccs of ortr country demand that our next candidate for President should possess, ia an extraordinary degree, the qualifications of tried integrity and great experience as a statesman—end be ahonorably Apent

site qualifications, in an eminent degree, and that we do hereby express ourdocided preference for him as the Whig candidate fcr President at the next election.

Resolved, That we have been taught, by aad experience, the necessity of selecting, as a candidate for Vice President, one who posjKSMWllie rGGuisitG c|ti&Iificsboos for PrGSidcotj that we believe JOHN DAVIS, of Massachusetts, is well qualified to admintaaer the government of the United States in any contingency which may arise, and that we hereby express our decided preference for him ss the Whig candidate for Vice President at the next ejection-

Resoltedj That when the people of thtese United States have placed "Harry of the West" in the Chair of State, and elected "Honest John Davis" Vice Prescient, they may then confidently rest from their many years* struggle against corruption and misrule, in the mil Msnraoee of goad government and its atteodutet blessaagif, individual and natmaal prosper-

HWIL CUF LLF PGHNGRLVANIA. niiiMiiiYnr if (fti.,) August ©, 1842. HA—V or TK Wur is going it with a perIbcl rash in Psonsyfvania—and no mistake, ^Itrerioae Afthe late Scott Ooavention at Harfisbttrg, wq had supposed that the Whigs of

lua

Pennsylvania were divided upon the question ^f the Presidency —but to our utter astonishment we*4tnd than we are all on the sameside. Th» Scptt Convention came ©ff lost week— but it half a dozen Counties were represented, andla the said half dozen represented Counties, nine tenths of the Whigs at this time are Clay men, and it will soon be a race between die ether tenth part who shall get over first, •fbe Clay men themselves are astonished at gttif own numbers—-and the ahnals of things political make no mention of such perfect uaanimity of feeling, and such unbounded en* thusiasm, as now prevails among the Whigs I5f Pennsylvania. As this same feeling exists thoughout the Union, it will not require even Ihe "son of a prophet" to foretell the result of the next Presidential election. HENRY CLAY will walk over the course in the most approved Tippecanoe style and the aura popular** which wafted Ok! Tip to the Presidency, will be as a zephyr's whisper to the popular whirlwind upon which "Harry of the West" will ride to the White House. Them's my sentiments—and he must shut his eyes and reject the evidence of his own senses who don't beJieve in 'em. Lancaster County gave over lour thousand majority for Harrison: she has if|ready pledged herself to give five thousand Majority for HENRY CLAY, with the understanding that she can add five hundred more fo the back of it if necessary.

OIL IV QUTNCY ADAMS. From the PhUade/phia Gazette. SIXTY four years ago JOHN QUINCY ADAMS entered the service of his country at the darkest period of our revolutionary history, and from that day to this, he has been at the post of public duty, faithfully laboring in behalf of the principles out of which the Revolution sprang the principles of self government and civil liberty. And now we find him with intellectual powers unimpaired, and with a heart as true to the cause to which his boyish hours were devoted as when he stood by his father's side on the quarter deck of the Boston more than half a century ago. The American people—the Whigs of this country should be grateful that in a crisis like the present such a man should be spared to them, and that the living testimony of one thus educated should be heard in defence of their rights against tyranny and oppression. -H'-TV

PUBLIC OPINION.—The St. Louis Republican of the 13th instant says:

4,Ycsterday

the City Council passed an or

dinance laying off a number of new streets in the northern part of the city. One of the streets was called Tyler. Mr. McGunnegle Baeved to strike out Tyler wherever it occurred in the bill, "and insert HARRISON.—The notion warcarried unanimously. Poor Tyler! -there its none, save Fogg, so mean us to do Mm reverence. Nearly every distinguished man in the nation has a street in the city, named after him, except Mr. Tyler, if he may be styled distinguished.

'U TYLER MEETING. There was a meeting in the Pajrk last evfn$to$Rtfh the'Pre^dent in bfc exercis^pf veto power. Daniel Jacksdn presided, afc^sted by a host of vice presidents and secretaries, among whom was Michael Walsh, leader of the Spartan band, of Chepachet no$riety*

Addresses were made by' ex-Alderman Whaler, Walsh and Mr. Arnold, formerly .^liember of Assembly, and late an office-hold-er under Mr. Van Buren. The last named re than liinted at the expediency of dropng Mr. Van Buren as the candidate of the ammany party for the Presidency, and Adopting John Tyler for, said he—"what matters it to us who fills the Executive chair, provided he be a man that represents our (the democratic) principles?" So may it be! and We wish the Democratic party much joy in the change.—JV. Y. Com. Ado. .•

John Tyler's administration threatens to prove the greatest curse with which this Nattbn was ever scourged. The miserable imbecile who occupies the Executive chair by casualty, is weak enough to suppose that he c|n obtain an election from the People them-

Ives! To this end he has surrounded himself ith political vermin. His organs are the N. York Herald, and other vehicles of filth and dime* The places and patronage of.the Government were never before so vilely and shamelessly prostitut&f. The Executive who, in entering upon the discharge of his duties, issued a Circular forbidding officeholders to interfere with politics, now requires from those officeholders the most abject, servile, debasing personal devotion.- Other Presidents have u^ed their patronage for their party' but John TVIer, having bet rayed'his party, uses that pdtronave for himself. There is however,

indecency in the manner of using it that, recipients themselves pity and despise their patron. The men who obtain office from Jdhn Tyler scorn him for the self abasement a4d degradation which his service imposes uipn them.—Alb. Journal. •THE RICHEST JOKB YET.—Robert Tyler, sap and private secretary of the President, wts here a few days since, says the New York Tribune, very deeply engaged in political arrangements and negotiations, in one of his conferences with certain Lncofoco manya, he innocently and modestly observed lit its

father would submit his claims for

rejection to a Democratic National Gonvenftio. The Kindcrhookers screwed their faces into an agonizing solemnity during the br»ef remainder of the conference, but the #*y they guffawed as soonai they got out of sight was positively dangerous.: Happily, no Wfod-VBsaels exploded.

THOSE Two TYLER MEN—The

third Ty

ler man in Boston is mm est inventus. Indeed we suspect the Captain will find hard work to hoM oi to his law if he has got so many. He is about as successful as the rat catcher.— **J^hu what you doing therel" "Catching rate, sir." "How many have yon got?"— **Why, when catch the one I'm arter and aajaher dbe, lit have two, air."—Amer.

I^Tlfausachusetts has a pooolation of 94| to ^e square mile—Pennsylvania but 39-— Eislafld has 260. we thiok probable ths^t Massachusetts will beat all the others in thfaamberof marriageable yoefl^ fadtes, propoUigped to her marriageable young gentlenicja* If it were eot for the Ofd Bachelors, wcrwooldaay that the girls of the Old Bay SW» are as-foor to one, compared to the it is too had.—Sat* Gemrier.

ROlM ANTIC ATTEMPT AT SELF DESTRUCTK». A letter from a friend at Sturbridge, Mass., informs us of a rather romantic attempt at self'destruction which* occurred in that town laat week. The subject of jt was a young lady some 16 years old, named Mary Porter. w||o resided in the family of the Rev. Mr. Austin. Miss Porter bad' for some time, from some cause not stated, been subject to an unfortunate depression of spirits, her melancholy at times bordering upon an alienation of reason but the malady had never been considered ao seriou8*£8 to lender it necessary to keep any paticular restraint upon her. She was much in the habit of taking early morning rides on horseback, in which she was generally attended by some member of the fkmily but occasionally she went upon those excursions unattended, without any apprehensions for her safety being entertained. On the occasion referred to she rode off alone, aad was expected with all confidence, back to breakfast. But the breakfast hour passed, as did several succeeding hours, without her return, or any intelligence respecting her.

Toward noon the family became alarmed, and several started in pursuit of her. Among the number was a lad, who about three miles from the house, found the horse upon which she had rode out but without any rider,grazing by the road-side. The boy returned with the horse, to the house, and Mr. Austin, with our informant, pursued their search in the direction in which the horse was found. Several hours, however, were vainly spent in the search, but at last the young lady was discovered by them perched on a rock in the middle of a shallow stream which courses in that vicinity. There she was, denuded of her riding habit, and dripping with water.— They hurried to her, and led her to the shore and she then informed them that she had taken herself to the wator with the intention of drowning herself, and had made two efforts to do so, but had found the water too shallow. She had mounted the rock to look for deeper water, when she was discovered, and happily rescued. She was forthwith conducted home, and with all practicable despatch placed in the Asylum at Worcester.—N. Y. Sun.

DUEL EXTRAORDINARY! About 4 o'clock yesterday the Pinnacle was the scene of a rare occurrence, being nothing else than a 4meeting" between two young bloods of our city! The particular cause of the difficulty is of little consequence to the world it is enough to say that it bad its origin in an affair of gallantry. The aggrieved party in his note (o the aggriever, was unusually peremptory he ^ad been treated as no "gentleman" would treit another, and nothing short ot blood could haal the wound that had been inflicted on his pride and honor.

The belligerent epistle was favorably reeicved seconds were chosen, and a select number of friends having been apprised of the momentous affair, thoy all arrived at the Pinnacle at the hour named, in carriages provided for the occasion. The weapons selected were pistols, and the dictance fifteen paces. The instruments were then loaded bv the seconds, but it very strangely happened that the balls did riot find their way tnto the barrels! The parties were then stationed, and the word given-—"One, two"—-but here the challenger falteted, and very modestly hinted that he woiHd accept of an apology! Thii having been promptly denied him, they again prepared for the fatal shot and at the word *'two" the challenger as pale as marble, and shaking like an autumn leaf, fired, and dodged!—a moment after which the other dis )rargei) hi# piece, staggered and fell^ '•My God!" exclaimed one near, She's a dead boy! See how the crimson gore rushes from his bosom!" Upon this the challenger made a rush towards hts supposed dying^antagonist, but was seized by his second, and told, "As he valued his own life to fly!"— Springing into his carriage nnd ordering the driver not to spare the silk, in an incredibly short space of time he arrived at Pittsford, from which place he addressed a line to his second, requesting that money and clothes might be sent to him with the least possible delay and ere this he has probably either sought .i. "A lodge itt some vast wilderness" to brood, in bitterness of soul, over his heaven daring crime, or is flying with the speed of steam from the ministers of justice and the ghost of his youthful victim.

The "kilt" boy returned to the city, and would have enjoyed the joke right woll, had not his mammy tied him by the thumbs to tlie bed-post and administered to hjm a. smart switching,—Roch. Dent.

MYSTERIOUS.—The Franklin Democrat says that Mr. Geo. R. Stebbins, of Northfield, Mass., on taking down the collar wall of his house, found the bones of female, judged to havo been from 16 to 20 years of age.— The bones were in a good degree of preservation. There was a hole in the back of the skull whieh, it is conjectured, may have been made by a bullet. Thd cellar was built about 25 years ago. There is a tradition that a female by the name of Kendall about that time disappeared suddenly, and under circumstances which excited suspicion against a man by the name of Maliory, who has since been in the Vermont state prison.

STARVING ENGLAND.—A respectable and intelligent gentleman, who has recently returned from a four yeafe' sojourn in his native land, predicts the most fearful events for the coming winter. He says we can havte no idea, and are not permitted to suspect a tithe, of the suffering and misery with which England is festering- Not only hundred*, but thousands, are actually starving, even at this genial seaaon, for want of the commonest necessaries, and yet little or no effort is made by the lawgivers and legislators, to avert the fearful consequences of a resort to force, by the maddened and desperate population. Let them look to the hazard l*—Sat. Cow» v1

THE MKRMALD.

Has arrived in this 6ity on its way to the British Museum, and we were gratified with a private view of iU We tried hard to detect where Or bow some 'cute Yankee bad joined a monkey's head to a fish's body, but bad to give it up, though our incredolity still lingers. If such an animal ever did exist it is surely the most extraordinary fact ia Natural History. Believe it we hardly can but bow to account otherwise for what oar eyes have seen, staggers us. We should like to bear the opinion of better jodges, after a rigid scrutiny.^Tri&iwe. •'.* *'43'.**

The young ladies of Ripley, Ohie,aairta large cake to the editor oftfceir newaplpeT, en the 4th inst., a» tin Jadepeodanee present. Seosibie girls, those.

NEWSPAPERS.

"A newspaper is a school in a family of children, worth tm dollar* a year. Even the most barren paper brings something new*—jp Children read or hear the contents,' intellif gence of the a flairs of the world, and acquit^ useful knowledge of more importance to them in life than a present of fifty acres of land. Parents are not aware of the east—we say with confidence the vast importance of a newspaper in a family of children. We have made the remark before, and we repeat it|r that take two families of children equally sna irt, and both going to the same school le* one of them have the free use of the newspa* per, and let the other be deprived of the USQ of it, and it would-excite astonishment to mark the difference between them. Full one halC and an important half of education, as it re| spects the business of the world, and the abiU ity to rise and make one's self repectable in it—is derived from newspapers. What pt* rent would not wish his children respectable? Who would be willing to have his neighbor's children more intelligent than his own? and yet how trifling a sum a paper costs! It is ven in these hard times absolutely cortemptible in amount, and no man ever felt it. except in its beneficial consequences, who paid tho subscription regularly once a year.'*.. .*

THE OLDEST MAN IN FRANCE. The oldest man in France, Noel de Quersonieres, is now one hundred and fourteen years of age, having been born at Valenciennes in 1728. He resides in Paris, and the Con*titutionel of that city says* that be is not subject toany infirmity—takes four meals a day—shaves himself—reads and writes with* out spectacles—sings Very agreeably sloepe soundly—writes excellent poetry—and his conversation is full of wit and sense abounding with anecdotes. It appears that at the juvenile age of ninety, Monsieur married a young English girl who had attained the ven-* erablaageof sixteen, and that she died giving birth to a son. Mons. Q. states that his grandmother died at the age of one hundred and twenty-five, and would have lived longer but for a severe fall! When conversing gaily, he will frequently invite his friends to attend bisf funeral in ihe noxt century.—Sat. Courier' "... ,.

Whan a young lady has "turned the first: corner," and sees no connubial prospect ahead it is natural she should look out.

When you find a man doing more business^ than you are, and you are puzzled to know^ the reason, just look at the advertisements he^ hafc in the newspapers, and look out.

Look out for rain when the almanac telhr* you to, and if it don't come, why, you oanrX keep looking out.

gelicatelegislators,

Boz AT HOME.—Since Mr. Dickens has arf rived at homo, he has published it letter in thef London Chronicle, which shows very eyidenK ly that he is not ia very good tempera! the' success of the International Copyright

which he advocated so zealously while in country. He says he has resolved that he will never again enter into any negotiation' with any person for the transmission acrossf the Atlantic of early proofs of any thing ho may write. We really hope that his "dan* der is up" enough to prompt him to do the literary fops or fools of this country justice.* The ridiculous monkeyshines they cut up in his presence are too noh to be wasted, and, they need the lesvon which he can give them. —Nashua Telegraph.

J. Me*'j "5 1 -.i-S.

LOOK OlTTi ,,

When a stranger offers to sell you an arti' cle for half its value* look out- vr When a note becomes due, and you don't" happen to have the necessary funds to meet it, then look out.

When somebody comes along by your roortt that you dont want particularly to she*,"!* ?r very natural that you should see something! in the street to attract your attention, and that you shood look out.

LOCAL LANGUAGE.—Words coined by the vulgar are often deeply forcible in natural' meaning. Gerrymander is a word not known in the dictionary, but it still exiati, and no harm can arise from its origin and definition being understood.

Elbridge Gerry, one of the signers of thd Declaration of Independence from Massachu4*» setts, was chosen governor of that state, ancf

during his administration tho party supporting^ him had the districting of it, to suit their owr( liking. They were very indiscreet in the uia| of this power, and their political opponent^ showed them up to the people in the following ludicrous way: Maps of the state, divided in*' to counties, and these made into districts on the Gerry principle, werestruck off and painted so as to represent animals called "Gerry*1 manders." It overthrew the Gerry party en* tirely, and should be a warning to all subsequent not to abuse the power

ranted them in executing this important and*

trust.

PUBLIC 8ALBS

or Boors

Rate* of Steamboat Freight at Pittsburgh. 1 For Cincinnati—15 to 20 cents per 100 lbs. Louisville, 20 to 85 8lLouis, 50

Nashville, 75

Carnal Freight* from Philadelphia and Bal-

timore to Pittsburgh.

Dry Gdotfs, ll»19J pnr 100 lba^ Hardware A: Queens ware, 100 Coffee, 85 Rosin and Turpentine, 75 -vi vf

A GOLDEN CALF.—The following excellent^ passage oecurs in an article Frazer's Nag-* azine, entitled "Courtship aod Love-making."

I certainly blame no lady who has beeo MJI castooMd to the onfinary elegancies of life tim refining to aaarry a poor man, but must beg. my aweet friends to recollect that,although a, man witbotrt money is poor, a man with notbf, ing but money, is poorer still."

Mica^—A correspondent of the Genessee Farmer says: "The bast way of banishing^ rata aad mice from mows or bine of gram/ and all similar places, we have beard of, ir

scattering the branches of Mentha viridis, or -eoomioa spearmint, about the mow* packiw away grain, or strewing it overtoe eiaa orgrain, casks of appJea, to their depredatioas. We have tned it, sot barsetiir n^hbors, aad found it to "7® uaU" I

AND SBOSI IN Bos*,

TON.—2168 cases sold for cash, good thick* boots at 1,60 a 41,65 second quality, 1,4ft: a $1,45 coarse do. 1,05 a 91,15 prime thick brogans, 85 cts. good do. 05 a 70 cts. coarse do. 50 a 60 cts. good kip brogans, 70 a 80 cts. second quality, 55 a 65 cents wo men's grain bootees, 57} a 05$ roan slippers, 20 a 20}. This wps a falling off of 5 per ct. from the June sales.