Norwalk Gazette, Tuesday, April 19, 1825 · page 2

 

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FROM COLOMBIA.--A passen 'r,\‘vilo
tirrivcd in the stzhr. Elizabeth, at Baltiiuore,
from Laguira‘, informs us that a F}-‘e‘neh '04,
‘and a I4 grin scli'oou'er-, tn'u‘ched at Laguira
about the lath of Mar'clt~, for an ai_'is\v'er,io the
_dernarid relative to the Spanish brig Roma
Libra. ‘Gen. Merino inl'or'iu‘ed the French
cbmmander that he had ma'_de ‘a ’re'pr‘es"enia-
tion to his g’overnrn‘ent.on ‘the subject, and
must wait their iustr'ucti‘ons from Bogota,
which would require about'thr‘ee hionths.-0-;
The vessels did not anclitir, and ‘on receiving
this answer stood to sea.

We are favoiired with Caiiaccas papers to
ihe filth. It will be seen by the following.
extract, that hiliai we stated some time since
relative to an o't‘7'erti‘i‘r'e on the part ofthe King
of Fraiice to Gen. Bolivai, wliich many per-
sons disbelieved; proves to have been true.

Caitaccas, March t6.——-Tlie intelligence
lately received from Bogota, anhouiico two
very iinportziiit events—the'oue, being a pro-
position made under authority ofthe French
Government, to His Excellency the President
and Lilierator, to establish a Monarchy in Co-
lombia, and place the crown on his ljead ;-
the ritlier, arenhuciation ofthe Presidency on
the part of His Excellency, amTan applica-
i_iou for leave to retire from the coiinrry.——
‘With regard to the former proposition, it need
scarcely be stated, that Gen. Bolivar has met
it in a manner worthy ofliimself, the country,
and the insiduous object which it cloaks ; and
tiierefore, we should doubly regret the loss of
such a man, at such a. moment. The pres-
ence ofGeneral Bolivar is as necessary to us
at home, as his name is a tower ofstreugth to
us abroad, and so far from sparing him, we
deem his presence in Colombia essential to
her salvation. There is a singular train of
'circumst:i‘nces connected with this proposition
on the part ofFraiice,whicli it is highly inter-
esting to exauiinc. The object of Spain
seems to be, through the medium of France,
to distract and divide its; and that England
is aware oftliis plot, and resolved to prevent
it, can scarcely be doubted from the sudden
recognition of our iiidependencc at such a
moment. It furnishes“ most satisfactory evi-
dence,tliat however pledged she may he to
neutrality as relates to Spain, she ivill not
suffer us to rctrogade from the point at Wlllcll
we have arrived, through the machinations
bfthe Hol_v Alliance. When we bear in mind
thcdeuii-official assurances made by the Lori-
don Courier, iinincdiately before the recogni-
tion of OHl"~I‘ll(l€pCl'l(lel'lCe that that event was
still distan't~,~i‘ve may fairly conclude that it

 

uhas been*"pret:ipitated by a discovery of this

design on the part of I5'rance ; and that thus
the two Cabinets are at issue on the subject
ofthe Americas. We are further borne oiu
in this opinion by observing the reinarkabl-2
celerity with which the presence of Colonel
Campbell in Barbadoes, followed the recog-
nition oflndependeucr, as ifto encourage our
resistance to the views ofthe Holy Alliance;
hence too the hostile appearance ofFrencli
vessels on our coast, and the interception of
the fisherman Richards at sea,-—tu ascertain
whether the maine had been spruiig—or in
the words of Captain de Frcsne, where Geri-
cral Bolivar was.

If we could imagine (wliich we do not) that

our Government would deliberate for a mo-
ment on this insidious proposition, the ap-
pearance of Colonel Campbell with the ap-
probation of our present system by England,
together with the circumstances which seem-
ed to‘ have called forth that recognition, will
give a new aspect to the question; ivhilst the
liberation ofPeru will satisfy the Holy Alli-
ance, that as the Americas require ‘no foreign
aid to consolidate their governments, so have
they no need to model them by its counsels.
_ Some alarm has been unnecessarily created
by a statement, of Congress having debated
this matter with closed doors. If secret ses-
sions have been held, various causes may ex-
ist at the present moment. for this precaution,
without attributing it to a motive dishonorable
to our representatives, and at variance with
the spirit which seems to have led the Liber-
ator to submit this matter to the legislature.-—
From the tone which we are given to under-
stand, pervaded General Bolivar’s rejection
of the overture, he must have submitted it to
Congress not as debatable matter, but as sub-
ject ofiuforrnation, and tnerefore we cannot
believe that’ Congress has condescended to
discuss its merits, even in that case however
the result cannot be doubtful. Gen. Bolivar
has well reminded the country that the con-
stitution is sacred fdr ten years; and assured-
ly it would be less unconstitutional to discuss
the question which called this observation
forth, than one of Monarcliy. --

NEW-YORK, APRIL 19..—An extraordinary
Congress was held at Bogota on the 8th of
February, to take into consideration the re-
signation of Gen. BOLIVAR, in conformity to
a promise made at Lima, after the reduction
_olthe Spanish forces. Great interest ivas ex-
cited during the reading ofthe General’s let-
ter, and at the conclusion it was resolved that
he should continue to be President ofthe Re-
pttblic.—-—An Agent of Hayti has arrived in-
Colombia, to propose a Treaty of Commerce
and Alliance between the two governments.

A Florence article states that the Colornbi-
ah Plenipotentiary to the Pope, fatigued with
the continual delays which his demands have
suffered, has left Bolonge to return to Amer-
Wliilst they had obliged him to wait the
decision of the Pope at Bolonge, in order to
shun the presence ofthe Spani_shAinbassador,
the Brazilian Plenipotentiary still rernaiued
at Rome, although the Portuguese Minister
was there at the same tiuie.

Hamburgh letters received in Paris, men-
tion that the recognition ofthe South Airieri-
can Republics by Sweden, as announced in
the English Journals, had not taken place.—
The news was premature.-— Fed. Gaz.

QUEBEC, April 2.—-By the February mail,
a General Order has been received, directing
that the pay of Soldiers, throughout the Ar-
my, shall in future be issued daily ; the order
states that His Royal I-Iiglmess has approved
‘ oftliis arrangement as the most certain riiode
of securing the Soldier from ilie temptations.
irregiilarities, and .cous'equent punislunents
which have been found to result from the sys-
teui ofalloiviiig balances to accumulate,’——
eonuected with this plan large sliipments .of
specie in small coins are to be made for the
payment of the troops. ‘

FROM F.NG‘LAND.--London papers to
the 15th irlt. were received at New-York 'ori
the 11th inst. They contain further particu-
lars ofthe inundatiuns on the continent. In
the kingdom of Hanover, the water covered
an extent oftwelve square leagues. About
7000 houses were under water, and upwards
of 300 persons perished. Antwerp papers
state that the number of persons who perish-
ed iu consequence ofthe iuundations, in O-
vary,-rsef only, amounted to 250. Those redu-
ced so as to require pecuniary assistance,
.’i000=—houscs destroyed 15,000, and a greater
number damaged. The ntiinberofbcasts that
perished, exclusive of sheep and hogs, is es-
timated at H.000. A

The West liidia Merchants and Planters
have petitioned for a reduction ofthe duty on
rum, protionally with that on British spirits,
and have been assured by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer ofa successful result to their
application. Intiuiations have been given
by the Br. Gov’t. that in future all quarantine
restrictions are to be done away in the case of
vessels arriving from the Mediterranean with
clean bills ofhealth. The indemnity act is
"yet under consideration in the Fr. Chambers.

It is stated thatthe Turks will make a more
powerful attciupt than ever to subdue the
Greeks the ensuing campaign.

The Portngiiesc Deputicsliave failed to ar-
range their differences between the Day of
A|giers,and there is conscqtieiitly a great bus-
tle at Lisbon in fitting out a squadron to go
against the Algerines. .

Smiiiv.--The Spanish Cabinet is said to
have been unusually active, in consequence
ofdcspatchcs from England and Russia. A
letter from Madrid of the l7th Feb. states,
“that Gen. Alox had gone to St. Petersburg,
to dcniaud the execution of a secret treaty
between the Court of Madrid &.*. that of Rus-
sia, by which the latter has pledged itself to
furnish to Spain a squadron and 19,000 men
to aid that country in regaining her Auiericari
possessions, in the event of England,hy open-
ly recognizing the independence of the new
Auierican States, should render it impossible
for Spain to reconquer them by her own for
ces. ‘VRu.-zsia. it is added, is to be indemnified
for the expenses by the cessioii oftheBalerian
Islands, according to some; of the Califor-
nias, according to-others.”

A letter from Cadiz. ofMarch *2.d, to a gen-
tleriian in N. York, says—“ The new Fro iich
General is liked. and I think we are to have
changes in Spain soon, and for the better.

One ofthe last letters from Cadiz, rec'd in
London, says “ The French General has at
length determined to act vigorously, and to
put a stop to the hiitclicry which has so long
been going on of persons imprisoned for opin
ion. Last week :1 Spanish escort was stopped
by a French patrole, as it was couducfirig the
Ex-Dcputy Antello,and two ofliis colleagues,
from prison on their way to Madrid for trial,
the French General having given orders that
no person should be taken from prison with-
out his authority.”

Melancholy Loss of the Kent-—-VVe yester-
day riientioned under our foreign tiews- the
loss of the E. I. ship Kent. She was bound to
China, and took fire from the bursting of a
cask ofspirits in the hold, in lat. 47, 30, long.
9, 45. Shortly after the accident, the brig
Cambrian, from London bound to Mexico
bore down for her. The Kent had on board
637 souls. The Cambrian succeeded in sav-
ing 301 officers, iion-commissioned do. and
privates of3lst Rcviment, 46 women and 48
children, 19 iualc and female passengers and
the Captain ofthe Kent and 139 of her crew,
in all 554. The seamen ofthe Cambrian re-
fused to go to the Kent again to save the oth-
ers fearful she would blow up. 64 soldiers,
one woman, 21 children, and 4 ofthe Keut’s
crew, were on board the,ves.sel when she blew
up four hours after the C. left her. Of the
90 on board when she blew up, 14 soldier-‘
were picked tip by the Caroline and carried
to Liverpool. 'l‘lie‘,Captain of the Ca'oline
reached the wreck two hours after the expiri-
sion, and the l4 solrliers were found clinging
to pieces of uiasts, &.c.——-Dari. ./Idv.

 

 

Faoar FrrANci:.—-Paris papers to the 14th
March were received at N. York on the 14th
April. It was reported that important chan-
ges were about to take place in the political
system of Russia.—-—The King of Spain had
just experienced a relapse, and was unable to
attend to business. It is stated that while ri-
ding out he was agitated by hearing cries of
“ Death to the King,” from some persons.

In Barcelona, the drought continues and
great distress prevails. Whole families are
going offto the frontiers and into France for
the purpose of begging.

The freedom, orgrossncss with which the
French ministry are treated in the Paris pa-
pers of the first order, may be illustrated by
_ihe following editorial sentences of the Jour-
nal des Debuts.

“ The head ofthe ministry declared brut-
ishly in the Chamber of Deputies, &.c. He
spoke like one who had never addressed men;
like adepository ofsupreirie power, ignorant
ofthe true nature of the royal authority and
deliberative asseuiblies, like the leader of a
party making it his sport to insult and de-
grade his party.”

Among the literary journals which we have
lately received ir. England, is the 82d Nutri-
ber of the Edinburgh Review. It contains
an article of more than fifty pages on the af-
fairsoflreland, which is ivrittcii in the bold-
est spirit. We proceed to quote two passages
as samples.-——./Viztional Gazette.

“The period has at last arrived, when it is
certain that nteasurcs of a decisive character
must be adopted wi.h respect to'Ireland ; and
we are hold to say that the integrity, and, for
that reason, the fate of the British empire,
depends on the nature ofthese measures. If
we act on sound and liberal principles, it is
not yet too late to repair the faults and follies
of which we have been guilty, and to uiake
Ireland our best bulwark : but if we resolve
to abide by our present system,-—if we are
determined to continue to treat five sixths of
the people as an inferior and degraded caste,
and to uphold a'nd cherish all the gross, fla-
grant, and scandalous abuses with which eve-
ry part of the internal administration of the
country is iufl-icted, we must. expect to see
every species ofoutragc redoubled, and the
flames of ‘civil war rekindled with increased
fury, and raging to an‘ unprecedented extent.”

“ Had Hoinbert, when he made his descent
in Ireland, in f“798, been accompanied by 10,-

9000 instead‘ ofj-1000 French troops, and been


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furnish_ed with 50,000 or l00,00f) siapds of" found them aii on goiid land, with fair pros-'

arrns, there would have been an end of the
English gdi/ernment ; and the tricolored flag
would have fioated as triumphantly over Dub-
lin, as it did over Berlin or Vienna. But the
numbers and the exasperation of the people
have been prodigiously increased since 1798.
And if we do not totally change our conduct,
it is certain that, whenever we are involved in
war. either with France, or any of the other
Continental powers,-Jr, with the U. States, we
shall find our bitterest fees, and our foreign
enemies their most zealousiaiid devoted al-'
lies, in the people oflreland. No efforts will
be necessary to seduce the peasantry ftn.their
allegiance; no intrigues, no subsidies will be
required to tempt them to the field——but the
first foreign standard that is erected on the
lrisli soil will be the signal for a rising en
iiiqsse, ofa whole population impatient of op-
piession and burning for revenge. The sys-
tem of White Boy association, so unceasingly
acted upon for the last thirty years, has train-
ed and prepared the peasantry for the riiost
desperate purposes. 'Nor do we think that it
is possible to point out another instance in
the history ofthe world, ofa people so coni-
pletely estranged from their rulers, and so
thoroughly ripe for rebellion.”

Steam .rfIrti'llery.—Tlu:re is an interesting
article in the L ew Monthly Magazine on this
subject, from which we extract a few passa-
ges:—“ One cheering ‘principle would result
from the use of steam weapons in war, viz.
that it would give the most civilized nations
the advantage, and tend to make the wisest
still more powerful. England, America and
France, might adopt them in the fullest ex-
tent ; but Russia, Turkey, and even Austria,
in their present state,would have little chance
against the sciertific combinations, and the
mechanical adroiiiiess that could perfect a
hundred effective steam-engines, while they
laboriously produced one. The navies of
England, France, and America,will, ere long
be navigated and fought by steam.’ On shore,
the art ofwar will be quickly changed to the
advantage oflinmaiiity. In the field, battles
will be quickly terminated. No dense smoke
will arise to intercept the deadly aim of the
steam weapon ;and masses of men cannot be
in-aiitevered iiuder the showers of balls which
steain—hatteries will pour upon them. Deteri-
sive positions will, in many cases, be impreg-
nahle; and_ small fortified ports will take an
enormous time‘io rerluce. Let us suppose a
fortification caseniated and bomb prdof, with
steam guns 60 pounders. The walls would
literally rain upon the beseigers metal of this
enormous irciglit, every gun projecting 50 or
60 balls :1 miiuite. In case of atteiiipting an
escalade, or ofstorming a breach, ifone could
he made in the face of the besieged under
such a defensive fire, not a man would pass
the ditch alive, while it was flanked by a sin-
gle gun, such a hail ofdeaih rni_«_rlit be poured
forth with unceasing em-rgv. England will
fortunately have no rlifiiciilty in getting the
start of other coiiutries in forming astearii
navy. Its elements are peculiarly her own,
and ifthe prejudices of the Navy-board give
way to the necessity of the ease,she will have
nothing to dread. The steam gun, in its pres-
ent incomplete state, has been tried before the
Duke of Wellington, and I understand, as far
as the experiment went, its efficiency was not
called in question a moment.” “ Whatever
contributes to protract a state of ivarfare,will,
by increasing its expenses, operate in a way
friendly to the interests ofhumanity. Govern-
ments, however inclined to rush heedlessly
itito war on every feeble excuse, will pause
more than ever before they bring about the
ruin of their finances. Nations of scanty pop-
ulations wi|l\be able to offer a‘ long resistance
to the strong, and war will become an affair
of defence rather than aggraiidizeriieut. A
cliange in the art of war, which may render
fortified places imprcgnable to every thing
but famine,or capable ofa very protracted de-
(ence,vrill be friendly to the stability Sr. integ-
rity of empires.”-—Li'verpool paper.

LATEI{.~—Ou Friday last Liverpool pa-
pers to the 19th ult. were rec'd at N. York.

During the week previous to this date large
sales of cotton had been made at prices vary-
ing but very slighty from former quotations.

A letter in the London Courier of March
14th, from Trieste, states aflbeliefthat a secret
negociation was carrying on between Sir F.
Adam, and the Greek government. If this
report is tvell founded, we shall have strong
hopes that the British government have de-
termined to interfere, and protect the Greeks
against both the Turks, and the Russians, and
thus secure to them that Independence, for
the achievement ofwliicli, they have riiade
sncli heroic exertions for several years past.

The same paper states that a report still
prevailed, that the Emperor of Russia and
the King ofPi'ussia would visit Milan in the
month of-May, anrl that their ministers and
the Austrian mi nister would hold conferences
at the same time and place. ' '

Young Wood, who killed the Earl of
Shaftesbury’s son in a boxing match at Eton,
had been arraigned and discharged, no wit-
nessesappearingon the part oftlioiprosecution.

Under date of Corfu, Jan, 929., we find an
afflicting account ofthe earthquake which oc-
curred at Santa Maura on the 11th of that
month. Twenty-foiir persons were known to
have lost their lives, and tiventy-three more
were buried under the ruins. The damage
done to property was so immense, that thous-
ands are said to have been reduced to beg-
gary, and the ‘ whole city presents to the
view, only a vast scene of desolation and ru-
ins ; all the houses are either entirely over-
thrown or extremely damaged. All of the
churches except one.are destroyed, and we
say without exaggeration, that the city of
Santa Maura is uninhabitablc.”

The greatest exertions prornpily were made
at Corfu to mitigate this calamity. The ac-
count proceeds thus :——“ No sooner had the
official notice of this calauiity reached this
city, than the Government, deeply moved by
the distress of those Islanders, hastened to
take measures to afford them prompt relief.-
lt sent, witehout delay, his 'Majesty’s frigate
the Naiad, with provisions ofall kinds, timber
for building, workmen, and siiecours ofevery
descriptioii, which the unfortunate situation
of the inhabitants of Santa Maura required.”

FROM HAYTI.——The last 1§i.ir.oi..-ewe.‘

contains the following letters from the Rev.
Mr. DEWEY‘, dated Port a.u-Prince, March
17, and £3:-—“ After I wrote you fro'm Cape
Haytierr, I spent 20 days in‘ visiting the crui-
grants at their settlements, in that vicinity. . I

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‘peers ofthe best rewards to their industry. _ I
found some sick, and many horiie sick, but
the greater part were satisfied with their sit-
nation. I was able to inform them of many
things which removed false apprelicnsions, or
to point otit to them advantages ofwhich they
were ignorant, and I‘ believe I did not visit a
settlement, in which I did not leave the emi-
grants riiore contented and‘pleased than when
I arrived. Except at one settlement,l did
not find any cause for complaint on account
of the provisions, and even in this case the
emigrants did not blame the government, but
the under officers and_men appointed to dis-
tribute the rations.‘ They managed the busi-
ness badly ;biit I believe this was owing more
to inexperience 8:. ignorance ofthe language
ofthe emigrants, than to dishonesty, and the
whole evil might have been immediately retri-
edied if the emigrants had represented the
case to the government of the department.-
Thc most respectable class of the emigrants
are satisfied and ivcll pleased with their pros-
pects. The dissatisfied are principally scr-
vants from Philadelphia, and other great cit-
ies, who had formed unreasonable expecta-
tions, and whose former liabiisand occupa-
tions hail nufitted them for the duties belong-
ing to cultivators ofland.

In the region of Portau Prince, where I
"0" am. an unprecedented drought prevails,
such as Europeans and white Americans in-
form rue was never known before. This has
much increased the trials ofthe emigrants in
this vicinity, and many of them are making
efforts to return. I can assure yoti, lioivever,
my dear Sir, that from an actual residence a.
mong the new settlers in the westerri part of
N. York during two years, that the evils to
be encountered by the emigrants here are far
less than they endure.

But the advantages of easy living and the
rapid acquisition of property were not the
grcat object we had in view in our efforts in
behalf of otir colored brethren. Their deliv-
crance from an oppressive thraldorn, their
education and moral elevation are the great
things. These advantages I havestrorig rea-
son to believe will be secured by their remo-
val to this island. I have not all the irifor-
mation on the points ofeducation and religion
which I need and expect fin. the government.
I have only the assurance ofthe President 8:.
citizen Granville that these objects shall be
promoted, and that the labors of |nissiona|‘ie§‘
shall be permitted. The facts, that our mis-
sionaries have been favorably received, thatI
have been constantly indulged with the privi-
lege of preaching and every facility granted
for this purpose, that a considerable sum was
readily raised at Port Platt for the support of
a school and of public worship, and that two
females from Troy have been liberally assist-
ed in commencing a school here, that a house
has been furnished them and an hundred dol-
la rs given them by the President, are very
eiiconragiiig. My hopes are high that in this
island we shall enjoythe opportunity of bring-
mg to bear on our coloured people all the
mighty influence ofreligious instruction and
common education, unshackled by that crim-
inal prejudice which renders them so ineffec-
tual in our own country. I may be disappoint-
ed. This govcrnment may not be as much
awake on this subject as I hope; but I shall
know before I return. I am prosecuting my
inquiries as fast as I can, and I have no occa-
sion to complain for want offacilities.

.v'l1arcIr2:3.—I have just rcc’d intelligence fr.
the emigrants to the eastward. The comman-
dant at Santana has arrived at this place, and
has brought me letters from the emigrants,
and informed rue verbally thattlie emigrants
are now very well, and since they received
their tools have been very contented and in-
dustrious, and are becoming more and more
pleased with the country. My letters con-
firui his account.

By a gentleman just arrived fr. Port Platt,
I learn that the emigrants there are in good
lieahh, that they are building hiouses,.-and are
successful in cultivating their lands,‘ that a
week-da_v school has been commenced, and
that the Sabbath school which was establish-
ed there has been continued, but that they
need very nitich the aid of a minister. Some
have done so well that they have received new
donations of land in accordance with the
President’s letter to rue, “that every emigrant
should receive as ranch land as he could cul-
tivate.” This information leads rue to repeat
what I have before said, that the emigrants
should settle in the eastern and northern parts

yet there are hundreds here who could not be
induced to go back to America. Many, how-
ever, are about to leave the island, and will
carry houie a discouraging account. There
are 50 who will go in the Robert Reed, but
some ofthese are to return. One is a Meth-
odist minister,a very worthy respectable irian,
whose report will be favorable to the emigra-
tion. He says that of more than 100 on the
plantation where he has been, none are wish-
ing to return. ‘It cannot be denied that some
of the emigrants, have been called to severe
trials. The drought has been a sore calami-
ty, biit it is now over, as we have bad sortie
fine rains. Much inconvenience has also re
sulted to the emigrants from their dispersion.
and as to schools and religious institutions,
many oftliein will suffer still more. But-this
evil, I trust will soon be remedied, and at the
east you perceive it does not exist.

A letter rec’d at Philadelphia says that the
ct_ri_j [ants are so unuianageable and unprofit-
a,liMe;ri.§hat the President of Hayti has offered
tb“"si§nd back all who will return, at the ex-
pense of the government.

 

Capture of Pz'rates.--'I‘lie Sea Grill arr. at
Key West on the lst inst. in co. with two Br.
armed schrs.assisted by which she had rc-cap-
inred an Arucrican ship and brig from the
Pirates, the crews of which it is supposed had
been murdered. The Sea Grill haa I9 pirates
on board, who were taken on board the re-
captn red vessels.

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BALTIMORE, APRIL 6.——A gertleman of
this city, who has just returned from Phila-
delphia, has given us the following details of
a murder committed about a mile and a half
from Charlestowii, in Cecil county.

A yoiiug lady,on Monday last, left her fa-
ther’s house, in company with her little sister,
about four years of age, to visit her grandfa-
ther, distant about a mile from the residence
of her father. Both were missing imtil the
Friday following, when the melancholy ca-

tastrophe which had befallen her, was made
iknown by her little sister, who had ivmlficlleil

-she gave to the person whose house she proflf‘

ofthe island, rather than in this vicinity; and‘

 

in the wiiods fr_orn,tlie fatal period of lii-.3 iii:
ter’s murder until the_n._ The account ivliici_
identially reached, was, “that a big ugly Illa:-‘l
had met her sister and self while on their wajf‘
to their grandfather's; had after dragging her
sister intothe woods and murdered he,r.”.._-j
The body was immediately sought for and
found by the neiglibours—tlie monster has
nearly separated the young lady’s head froid
her shoulders—four'othcr woiiuds were iri-
flicted upon her body. Our informant addi
that a lad who was examined before thejurji
0fl"QlleSl.‘pi'oveil that on the day on whicli
the lflufder was committed he was riding in :1
gig along the road, where he overtook a man’
on foot answering the description of the one
given by the little girl ofthe uiurderer ofhcr
sister, who asked leave to ride with him :1
short distance ; that he took him tip, and af-
ter riding a short distance be got out, \\'llt!r3
the lad turned round 8-; discovered theyoiuig
lady, who was siibsiequeiitly rniirdered, and
her little sister, rising a‘ hill a short ,(ll.\lilLz(.'?‘.
in the rear; that the inaii who ‘had been rid-
ing with him sat down by the road side, :ir;rZ
he drove off. It was tirerefore supposed in
the neighbcrliood that he must have been the
perpetrator oft-His foul deed. 3500 have been
offered for his detection.

The .r‘V'ew- York Legislalure will adjourn on
the Qlst inst. and as the session draws towiirds
a closethe proceedings assume a rather nitiru
interesting character. On Saturday, the nth,
the House passed the bill providing for the
Great State Road. On the same day.
in the Senate, a bill was passed by a vote of
9.9. to 8, appropriating 12,000 dollars,to defray
the expense of surveying the routes of seven-
teen new canals. The Argus says this bill is
one of more than ordinary importance; and
one which the wants oflarge masses of the
population of various parts ofthe state, seem
to require. It includes the following routes:
From the Seneca lake to the Cheinung river,
at or near the village of Newtown; from Sy-
racuse in Onondaga cdunty, to Fort Watson’
in the cuiiiity ofCourtland, and also fr. Clie-
nango Point up the valley ofihe Clienango
river through the town ofNorwich to the Erie
canal ; from the Susqueliaiinali river up the
valley ofthe Unadilla to the Erie canal ; from
the Cayuga lake to the Susquehannah river at
or near the village of Owego; from the Erie
canal in the county of Herkimer to the ripper
waters of Black river, thence on the most. eli- ‘
gible route to the river Saint Lawrence at or
near Ogdeiisbiirgh ; from the Erie canal near
the village of Rome in the courityof Oneida,
by the way of the Black river to Ogdensburg;
from Rochester to Allegany river at Olean
through the valley,ofihe Genesee river ; fm.
Scotsville by way of Le Roy to the upper
falls ofthe Genesec river; from the Cham-
plain canal to the Vermont line along the
valley of the Battenkill, or by any more eligi-
ble route; from Lake Erie to the Alleghany
river through the valley of the Cone-vaiigo;
and from the Allegauy river at Olean to the
Erie canal, by way ol'tlie village of Batavia ;'
from Portland in Cliautaiiqiie . county to the
head ofthe Chautauquc lake ; from the vil-
lage ofCatskill on t-he Hudson river along
the valley of the Catskill and Schoharie
creeks, to intersect the Erie canal west ofthe
Schoharie creek ; between Gravescnd bay,
Jamaica bay, Great South Bay, and South-
Hampton Bay, and across Canoe place to‘
Southhold bay on Long Island ; from or near
Sliarou to the tide waters of the Hudson, at
or near the month of Crotoii river, or to the
city ofNew York ; and from the village of
Rochester in Monroe co. to Lake Ontario.

On the same day the bill incorporating the
N. Y. Dry Dock and Banking Association-
passed both houses.——On Monday the Sen-
ate passed the bill from the house authorising
the survey of seventeen Canal routes. The-
Senate had under consideration the bill from
the house making an appropriation for drain-
ing the Cayuga marshes-—the money to be
refunded by a tax to be hereafter assessed tip-
on the reclaimed lands. The bill was passed
to a third reading. This is a most important,
bill. It is the opinion of the best informed
engineers that the project is feasible : and if
so, a tract of forty thousand acres of land,
now perfectly useless, will be rendered the
richest in the state. By draining the marshes
moreover, the cause ofthe annual bilious fe-
ver, and fever-and-ague, which prevail so ex-
tensively in that region, will be removed.

[This bill was subsequently passed.}

On Tuesday the House passed the bill con-
tinuing the grant to the N. Y. Deaftlz. Dumb
liistitution for five years. The bill provides
for the instruction offour scholars from each
of the Senatorial Districts, allowing 8150 for
each scholar. 'I‘he resolution offered some
time since by Mr. Vanderheuvcl, for instruct-
ing our delegates in Congress, in regard to-

 

-the imposition ofa transit duty upon British »

goods and products, transported upon the A-
merican waters of the Saint Lawrence, was-
called up and rejected, 61 to 43.

The bill to incorporate the Foreign Mis-
sionary Society, was read the third titne,when—
an animated debate arose, of about 20 min-

utes duration. The bill was supported by

Messrs. Zabriskie, Hayden and Lawrence, $5
opposed by Messrs. Boughton, Rich,$L Weed.-._

Wr. Boughton said the Indians ought tobe '

civilized before they were cliristianized, and’
he lllOI);_'_lllI perhaps the course recoininended
oy Mr. Crawford, would be better than that
pursued by this society,‘ The bill was lost,
ayes 69, noes 25.

On Wednesday, after a long debate the
Senate refused to discliarge the committee of‘
the whole from the consideration ofthe vari-
ous batik petitions, in order to take them up«
for a third reading, which is equivalent to give
ing them the go by. The Assembly reject?-'
ed, by a vote of76 to 32, the bill increasing '
the salaries of the'Judges ofthe Supreme and*
Circuit Courts. The bill was opposed by some
on the groun_d that a part ofthese Judges were
the very men who advocated and fixed the
present salaries, and therefore they uuglit not
to complain. .One gentleman‘,remarked-
ihat the old judges had been legislated out of
office from political motives, and the present
ones legislated in; and he was opposed loin-
creasing their pay until they could -per-form
the duties ofthe old judges. The editor oils,»
the.Spectator, after inserting the vote on the” A
bill, says, ‘- So the bill was lost ; and’ those
who from political motives, reduced the sala-
ries to the present pitiful sums, are e’en corri-
pelled to go hungry upon them a little longer.
[should have regretted the fate of this bill,
were it not that its movers and advocates were
willing to starve the old judges. The bitter
chalice is now returned to their own lips.”

 

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