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, rno1it.lrm~: CONNECTICUT OBSERVER-
iS'chool,9 in Massachusetts-a-nd the 300005

. Fund of Connectz’cut~._ .
o By a report of the Secretary on Schools In
Mtissacliilsetts, it appears’) SW5 me H3mPd°9
Journal, “ That in the 128 towns fepofledalhe
, money appropriated to schools by the towns
is 3133,9529 75. No. of children, 71,159.——
No. of Districts, 9721 No. of Academies .aiid
private schools 708-(nearly as many as there
are School Districts .') No. of pupils in private
schools, 18.143. Amount expended in private

tuition, 158.809.” , __ _

The number of towns in Connecticut, is,
we believe, 108-—just the number included in
the report above.
moneys divided to the 9.08 School Societies
in this state, from the School Fnnd,during the
past year, is $79,123 35. We fear that asuiii
equal and in addition to this has not been
raised by tax, for the support of schools, in
Connecticut. But suppose the towns on an

average, raise as much money for Schools; by
tax, as they receive from the school Fund-
then the whole amount expended. last yea’:
for common schools in Connecticut, would be
$144,246 80, while in air equal nllml"-‘T Ol
town in Mass. were expended. 3103:9939 70
If it should be said that this comparison is 1-01
fan, since in Boston alone, more than 54.000
dollars were expended for public instruct-On.
-—¥litt'n, let us look at the subject ‘in another
point of view. ‘ The amount expended for
public instruction in Massachusetts, in the 28
towns reported,is S2 30 for earzhscliolar. The
amount from the School Fund in Connecti-

3 cur, last year, was 05 cents only» ll" 93°!‘
5-rjholar, It’ we suppose as much more was
raised by tax, it would their be only (81 70
for each scholar. ' -

We have no means of knowing how much
was expended, for private tuition, the year
past, in Connecticut-but none will suppose
$158,809-the sum expended, in a like iium
ber of townsin Massachusetts—-has been de
voted to that object, in this state.

If these statements are correct, M assachu-
setts, without a School Fund, CXpe1'ltlSl1t01‘t‘-
for the public instruction ofeacl. scholar, and
more for private instruction,tliari Connecticut
does with her Fund, of$1,700,000.

From re'marks occasionally made, by Edit-
ors in'Massacliusetts, we are inclined to think
there is room for improvement, there, in the
application ofthe Funds raised to promote the
interests of education. If this is the case,
when the money is raised directly by tax, it
might much more be expected, where a large
part of the money proceeds from public boun
ty. There are not wanting facts, to corrobo
rate theory. In instances, not a few, we fear,
lessis thought of the qualifications of instriic
tors, than ofthe price they demand. And it
a school of a few months, can be maiirtaiiied
from the avails oflegislative aid, it is all that
is wanted.

A very laudable jealousy watches over those-
who manage the SchoolFund—-and ifas rnuctz
wisdom and prudence attended the applica-
tion of the avails of the Fund, as are, and
have been manifested in the management of
the Fund itselt‘——-we should have great reason
to congratulate our citizens on its magnitude.
As it is, we must own ourselves of the num-
ber, who doubt whether, on the whole, it pro-
motes the interests of education.

If the Legislature would make it the duty
of each town, to return to the Secretary or"
State-,ihe number ofschool districts—ofschol-
ars-'—of Academics and (private scliools—of
the amount raised by tax for schools, &.c.
within its limits, much light would be thr awn
oii-the real condition ofeducation,in the State
-—and the way be prepared for such legisla-
tion on the subject, as the case may require.
The labor and trouble would be little for each
town. ‘ ,

If some friends of education, in several
towns, would furnish us with the particulars
mentioned above, we should esteem it a par-
ticular favoitr. And we should be happy to
find, that in estimating the ariiouiit raised for
common schools, by tax, at only the ainouiii
received front the School Fund, we have fal
len short of the real aiiiotiiit.

The excellent report of the Committee on
Common Schools,published some weeks since,
is air earnest, we trust, of future, and more
successful efforts in behalf of those monu-
ments of the wisdom and provident care of
our ancestors.

Washington C'ollege.—-It is not customary
to publish the Junior Exhibitions in Colleges,
but the public performances at the Washing-
ton College Chapel on Wednesday last, being
their first acedemic display, it is very proper
that they should be noticed according to their
merits. \Ve were somewhat surprised that
the speakers should so soon have got the pe-
culiar tone and gesture of C-'ille'gians—the
falling inflection at the end ofevery period—-
that sameness of tone and monotony of ges
rule that shew how much the fear of an audi-
'ence injures the interest which the speaker
takes in his own theme. He may be very
modest butan audience would "excuse a young
gentleman if he felt and spoke with a little
more of confidence and spirit. The exhibi-
tion certainly did great cridit to the instruc-
tors as teachers, 81. to the performers as schol-
ars, but not to the scholars as perforii'iers.—-
Their subjects were well selected and well
written of, and there was an appearance of
intelligence about the students of which llteir
parents may be proud——but ifit be not imper-
tirient, we would suggest that mo.'e_ atterition_
rnight be given to a very imporraiit\part ol
education--delivery. A little judicioristcriii
cism (and such we most modestly clainrhtliis
to he,) would be the more healthful prescr
;iiori.—.Mirror.

Fromgiohe .N'alzonal Journal.
SYM-HES’ THEORY.—Last evening
Mr. Reynolds gave his first lecture in relation
to the projected expedition to the South pole.
This expedition is designed to consist of two
_ sail, one 01940 tons, and the other of10,0-tons
to be used ratheras a tender. The destina-
tion is south, wliere it is believed the field for
discovery remains still immense, lialfa hem
isphere being unexplored: and “who can
tell what there is,where man has never been?”
It is proposed to select a crew exclusively fr.
Stflllllctl who have been long accustomed to
the wiialing and sealing busiiiess,- together
witha sailing captain of much experience in
the ‘.-.’ular Seas. The vessels to be ‘manned
"by neairly double the number of men on ordi
. iia‘r,v' occasioris. The whole to be provisioned
for at’ least two years. . The expedition is in-

 

siliiig winter; and to be “ii'ccct'n;S_aiiied by 3
complete corps of scientific men. Who Shall
have passed the ordeal of some Faculty 35 ‘°
their qualifications. It is desirable that the.
best ofinstruinents be procured. _
The object ‘of the expedition is immediate-

fusion ofknowledge ; the improvement ofthe
condition of society; and the extension of the
sources of commercial wealth and prp5P9"lY-

Indeed, inquiries properly co'ndu‘cted,_con-
cerning the South polar regions. may .l“9‘lY
be considered as presenting the most exten-
sive field for scientific investigation, connect-
, ed with commercial enterprise, of any other
part‘ ofthe globe. It is needless to speculate

The Whole 311100111 0f on the probable state oflhihgs to the south.-

There are uiaiiy reasons to sustain the asser-
tion ihai the two hemispheres are not exactly
of the same forlnation ; and it is well known
that the earth is not a splieriod or revolution,
and that the two hemispheres are not Of the
same size. The cold commences nearer‘ to
the equator in the south; and the flattening
ofthe poles is sufficicoily known. _ The pro-
jecting peaks ofland in that direction, as ex-
hibited at Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope,
New Zealand, New Holland, &c. present sin-
gular features in_tlie geography ot the World.
In a word,the exploration of these remote
regions, and the_ collection qffacts, of every
kind are connected with a world of useful in-
forination which cannot fail to exercise an
important influence over every department of
human science and industry. ~

The following circumstances, which we re-
ceived from a source entitled to credit, we
have thought worth publishing, especially as
they relate to Mr. David Bushnell, formerly
of Saybrook, in this State, celebrated as the
projector of that desiruciiveinachine of war,
called the American Turtle.—/lliddlesea: Gaz.

About 80 years since, Mr. Bushnell left his
native town, and from that period no infor-
mation was received respecting him, until ve-
ry recently, when a gentleman arrived in Say-
brook from Georgia,witli the intelligence that
Mr. Bushnell had laielydied in that State,
leaving about 9.000 dollars in cash, acr:uiiiu~
lated principally by the practice of l11eCllC_i'tle_:
which Mr. B. had given to him, he being a
particular friend, provided that if he should,
upon inquiry, discover that Mr. B.’s connex-
ions in Saybrook, were from their character,
worthy ofthe property, such connexions were
to receive the whole amount. The gentleman
with wliciii it was entrusted, asceitaiiied, on
reaching Saybrook, that Mr. Bushnell’s near-
est relatives were four nephews, and those all
nren of worth and integrity, and faithfully di-
vided the..propt-.rty among them. Mr. Bush
riell, the donor, bore a very high reputation as
it iiiecliaiiicalgeriius, and was esteemed an
exemplary member of Society, although pos-
.-essiiig many eccentricities of character. He
left unfinished apiece of meclianisr-.., upon
which he had besiotved much pains——-tliis also,
he bequeathed to his nephews in Saybrook.

. 0 OW ENISM.
We observe in =lie New Harmony Gazette
an oration delivered by Rsibert Owen, iu the
Public Hall at New Hat - -sly, at the celebm
tion ofthe 4th ofJuly, 18:26. The oration is
conspicuously presented as containing “ a
Declaration of Mental Independence,” for
which the oration says the declaration of P0-
litical Iiidependeuce happily led the way.-
This Discourse strikes at the root ofall social
institutions, as at present organized, and de-
nounces, and proposes to read asunder, some
ofthe ties hitherto considered most sacred in
civilized Christian comniuiiities. The fol-
lowing‘ extract from the oration euibraces, in
a briefspace, the sum of the doctrines it in-
culcates :
“ I now declare, to you, and to the world,
that Man, up to this hour, has been, in all
parts of the earth, a slave to a Trinifi; of the
most monstrous evils that could be combined
to indict mental and physical evils upon his
whole race. '
“ I refer to Private, or Individual Proper-
ty-—absiu'd and iirrim'onal Systems of Religion.
and m-'.-rria.ie.foztndcd~on iiitlividuai’. property
combined with some one qftkcsc irrational 3ys- ‘
tents of Religion.”
The destruction of this“ Hydra ol'Evils” is
earnestly inculcated, and it is deiiouticed in
every form ofaccusation, as being “ the real
and only cause ofall the crime, and misery
arising from crime, which can be found in
human society.” The Oratortakes the broad
ground, that it should be reputable, and au-
thorised by law, to dissolve mar ‘rage, “ when
the esteem and affection cannot be retained
for each other l”-—./Vat. Int.
. ALBANY, Aug 8.

The Canal Tolls.—By a cursory examina-
tion of the staiemeiits oi the receipts of toll
from the several collectors, as transmitted to
the coinptroller’s ofiice, we are enabled to
form a general opinion as to the probable a
mount of canal tolls during the year. These
stateinents include a period from the com
inencernent of the navigation to the first of
August, during which time about halfthe ag-
gregate amount or tolls may be stipposed to
have been received. They amount, on the
western canal, to about $335,000 ; doubling
Nvliicli sum, will give 8670.000. 0 . that ca.
nal, during the sauue period last year the a-
mount was about $250,000, or $500,000 for
the year : making probably a difference of
$170,000 for the year. On the noittiern Ca
rial, the receipts amount, this year,..down to
the first of August, to obout 345.500; Wlliuh
doubled, will be $91,000. It ttie estimates for
the remainder of the season, founded on the
results of the past,are correct, the aggregate

,, amount uftolls received during the year, will

_be at least seven hundred and fifty tliousami
. ollars, the sum anticipated by the Canal
oniniissioners in the late annual report.

‘ But adinittiiig that the -remainder ofthe
se’ on shall not equal the first part ofit, it can
scdiicely be expected to reduce the aggregate
stirr!‘tieio-or $700,000, the amount estimated
by the cot iin’is. of the canal fund‘.

It is pi oper to remark, that whilst .ht:
freiglits of roduce down have much increas

ed, in numb r and amounl,since the last year,
the frciglits col merchandize up, have been
very sensibly dfirn:n.is}qi3d. It is remarked that
not more_than halfthe u‘:.~._ual quantity ofgimog
have been shipped for the i5.,-“grim,

It is possible that for the rteinainder of rm.
SUBSQD the receipts upon the pt‘CAa_duce of tr,,._
country, especially upon lumber,‘-,i.vll| be to

duced -, from the fact that more pass-.»,,, d._w.,

ly con nected with the augmentation and dif- .

. TH6MAS iciumasohj. 1
The following letter from the late President
Jefl'ersoii',‘is found in “The Life and Corres-

, pondence?’ (just published in England) of the

late Major Cartwright. _ _ ,
“ MoN'rici-:Lt'.o', in Virg.Jtme 5, 1894,-

“ Dear and Venerable Sir-—-I am much in-
debted for your kind letter of Feb. 29, and for
your valuable volume on the English consti-
tution. I have read this with pleasure and
much approbation ; and lthinkll has d8dll'
ced the constitutiorf inherited by the English
nation, from its rightful root, the Anglo Sax-
on. ‘It is really wonderful that so manyable
men should have failed in their attempts to
define it with correctness ; no wonder then
that Paine, who thought more than he read,
should have credited the great autliolilles Who
have declared that the Will of Parliament is
the Constitution of England. So Vlarboisa
before the French Revolution. °l?5e"’ed ‘_°
me, that the Almanac Royal was the Consti-
tution of France. Your derivation of it from
the Anglo-Saxons,seems to be made on legit-
imate principles. Having driven out the for-
me2 inhabitants ofthat part of the island cal»
led England, they became, as to you Abori-
gines, and your lineal ancestors ;.tliey doubt-
less bad a constitutioii,aud although they have
not left it ina written formula, to the precise
text of which you may always appeal,yet they
have left fragments oftheir history and laws,
from which it may be inferred with consider-
able certain'y. 'VVhatever their history and
laws shew to have been practised with 3l’P'°‘
batioii we may presume was permitted by
their constitution ; whatever was not so prac-
tised was not permitted, and although this
constitution was violated and set at nought by
Norman_ force, yet force cannot change right;
a perpetual claim was kept up by the "aim"
in their perpetual demand of the T-°-SIOFBUOH
)flhelI' Saxon laws, which shows tlieynever
were relinquished by the will ofthe nation.-
In the pullings and haulings for these ancient
rights, between the nation audits kings of lhe
races of Plaiitagenets, Tudors and Stuarts,
there was sometimes gain and soinetiuies loss,
until ‘the filial re-conquest of their rights frotn
the Stuarts, broke the thread of pretended iti-
heritaiice, extinguished all regal usurpationbi
and the nation re-entered into all its rights;
and although in their bill of rights they spe-
cifically reclaim some only, vet the omission
of others was’ no renunciation ofthe right to
assume their exercise al_sn,ivhcnever occasions
should occur. The new king received no rights
or poo ers but those expressly granted to him-
It has ever appeared to me, that the differ
ence between the wliig and tory of Englantl
is, that the whig deduces his rights from the
Anglo Saxoiiisource, the tory from the Nor-
man, and Home, the great apostle of toryisrn
says, in so many words, (note as to chap 42)
“ that in the reigns of the Stuarts, it was lltt‘.
people who encroached upon the sovereign,
not the sovereign who attempted, as is preten-
ded. to usiiip upon the people ;” this supposes
the Norman usurpations to be rights in his
successors; and again (chapter 59) “ the corri-
mnns established a principle, which is noble
iii itself, and scents specious,_ but is believed
from all historyand experience, that the peo-
ple are the origin of all just power”! and
where else will this degeiierate son ofscience.
this traitor to his fellowmen. find the origin of
just power, if not in the majority ofthe Soci-
ty? Will it be in the minority, or in an indi-
vidual ofthat minority ?

Our revolution commenced on more fa vor-
able ground. It presented us an Album, on
which we were free to write what we pleased;
we had no occasion to search into musty re-
cords, to hunt up royal parchments, or to in-
vestigate the laws and institutions ofa semi-
barbarous ancestry. VVe appealed to those
of nature, and found them engraved in our
hearts, yet we did not avail ourselves of all
the advantages of our position. We had never
been permitted to_ exercise self government;
when forced to assume it, we were novices in
its science; its principles and forms had en-
tered little into our former education; we es-
tablished however some, although not all its
important principles. The constitutions of
most of our States assert, that all power is in-
herent in the people; that they may exercise
it by themselves, in all cases-to which they
may think themselves competent; as in elect
ing their functionaries, executive and legisla
iive, and decided by ajury of themselves both
fact and law, in all judiciary cases in which
any fact is involved ; or they may act. by rep
resentatives, freely and equally chosen ;. that
it is their right and duty to be at all times
armed : that they are entitled to freedom of
person, freedom of religion, freedom of prop-
erty, and freedom ofthe press. In the struc-
ture of our legislatures, we think experience
has proved the benefit of subjecting questions
to two separate bodies of deliberants ; but in
constituting these, natural right has been mis
taken; some making one ofthese bodies, and
some both, the representatives of property in-
stead of persons, whereas the double delibera-
tion inight be as well obtained without any
violation oftrue principle, either by reqoiriiig
a greater age in one ofthe bodies,or by elect-
ing a proper number ofrepresentatives of per-
sons, dividing them by lot into two chambers,
and renewing the division at frequent inter
vals, in order to break up cabals.

Virginia, of which I am myself a native is:
resident, was not only the first of the states,
but I believe Iuiay say,the first of the nations
of the earth which assembled its wise men

peaceably together, to form a fundamental

constitution, to commit it to writing, and
place it among their arcliives,wliere every one
should be free to appeal to its text. But this
act was very imperfect; the other states, as
they proceeded successively to the same work
made successive improvements; and several
of them, still further corrected by experience,
have by conventions, still further amended
their first forms. My own state has gone on
so fir with its premiere ebauche, but it is now
proposing to call a convention for amendment.
Among other improvements, I hope they will
aclopt the siib~divisions of our counties into
wards ; the foruier may be estimated at an av-
megs of twenty-four miles square, the latter
should be six miles square each, and would
answer to the hundreds ofyour Saxon Alfred.
In each of these might be, 1. An elementary
school ; 2. A company of militia with its offi-
cers'; 8. Ajustice of the peace and a. consta-
ble; 4. Each ward should take care of their
own poor ; 5. Oftheir own roads; 6. Their
~lWli police ; .7.Elect within tliemselves,one or
~t;0rP.jlll‘0l'S to attend the Jourts ofjustice; 8.
And here give in at their folkliouse their votes

_,1e1ltlt3_CI to setsail in the early. part of the en-

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inthe spring, that! can be expected in lzhe ran,

'1

for all functionaries reserved to their election-

-—Eacb ward would thus be a stu'all‘r'epublic
Within itself,and every man in the state would
1‘-"115 become an acting member in the com-
mon goveriiuient,transacting in person a great
portion of its rights and duties, subordinate
indeed, but important, and entirely within his
competence; the wit of man cannot devise a
more solid basis for a free, durable and Well
administered republic.

“ With respect to our state and federal go-
vemments,I do not think their regulations
correctl y understood by foreigners. The)’
generallysuppose the former subordinate to
the latter ; but this is not the case, they are
co ordinate departments of one simple inte-
gral whole. To the state governments are re-
served all legislation and administration in af-
fairs which concern their own citizens only ;
and to the federal governinent is given what-
ever concorns foreigners, or the citizens of
other states. These functions alone being
federal, the one is the domestic, the other the
foreign branclits of the same government ;—
tieitlier having-c iitroul over the other, but
Within its own department. There are one
or two exceptions only to this partition of
P0“’er- Brit, you may ask, ifthe two depart-
ments should claim each the same subject ol
power, where is the common timpire to decide
ultimately between them. ‘In cases of little
importance or urgency, the prudence ofboth
parties will keep them aloof from the ques-
tionable grouud ; but if it can neiilier be a-
voided or compromised, a convention of the
states must be called, to ascribe the doubtful
power to that department which they may
think best. You will perceive by these de-
tails that we have ‘not so far perfected our
constitutions as to venture to make them;un_-
changeable-—iu their present state, we con-
sider them not otherwise changeable than by
the immediate authority of the people, or a
special election of representatives forthat pur-
pose expressly. They are till then the let:
leguui. '

“ But’ can they be made uiichangeable ?—-
Can one generation bind another, and all oth-
ers in succession‘ for ever? I think not. The

Creator hath tirade-Slieeerth formthqe liviiig,riot

the dead. Rights and powers can only belong
to persons not to things; not to mere. matter
unendowed with will-—the dead are not even
things. The particles of matter~whichcotn-
pose their bodies make part now ofthe '\Udl8S
ofotlier animals, vegetables, or minerals of a
tliousaud forms. To what then are attached
the rights and powers they held while in the
form ofmau ?. A generation may bind itself
so long as its majority continues in life.-
When that has disappeared, another majority
is in place, holds all the rights and powers
their predecessors once held, and may change
their law: and institutions to suit themselves ;
nothing then is unchangeable.
' 0' Tuomas Jnaeenson. '

 

Tradrsmen’s Banlc.---By the Report of
Messrs. Stephen Aden and Peter Stagg, ap-
pointed asreceivers of the monies and effects
ofthe Tradesmeii’s Bank, it appears that the
bills dist-oriiiied amount to $671,348 86, but
that $20,336 12 ofthese bills have been pro-
tested for iioii-payment. The bills receivable
-iniuunt in $99,335 40, instead of $291,075
40 cents, as cxiiibitetl by the clerks of the
Bank, $191,740 having been composed ofpro_-
missory notes secured by liyputhecatiou of
batik stock,‘ and these notes having been sub-
seq—.reut~ly withdrawi from the Bank, and the
siock»intended to secure their payment trans-
Ierred to other bands, leaving nothing in the
shape ofevidence or security for debts due the
batik as a substitute. '3‘lie receivers, however
were informed by the President of the Bank,
that an arrangement will be effected which
will secure to the ' institution a transfer of
stock at par. equal in amount to the bills with
drawn. The balances due from otherb.:nks
corresponds with charges on the ledgers with
one exception, and here there appears to be a
sum of considerable amount in dispute. The.
cash consists in specie ($19,693 1,) and, note.-
ofsolvent banks ($16,204,) total $35,897 1,
together with checks and other evidences of
debt, amounting to 863.720 10. It appears
that there is a deficiency of capital amounting
to $177,838 82, which is owing, -principally,
to tire defect in the amount of bills receivable.

'[‘he Receivers say that if the whole ofthe
securities held by the company are good, and
taken at their nominal value, and the capital
stock, Sac. at par, then the state of the Batik
would be as follows, viz. Dcbtor——to Capital
Stock and sundries, 81,186,076 86. Creditor,
by Bills discounted and funds, 1,007,170 4-
Deficit-iicy in Bills receivable, 191,740--—
3t,198,9l8 4. Leaving a surplus of$t3,841
18 cents ; but they are compelled to acknowl-
edge, that some of the securities held by the
cotiipany, are oflittle or no value; and that
others, to a considerable amount, are ofso
doubtful a character, as to force upon the
minds ofthe receivers the conviction that the
Bank is not whole. The receivers do not con-
sider themselves called upon for an opiiiiou
as to the amount of deficiency in the capital,
as such opinion could only be conjectural, or
founded upon estimates that may vary mate-
rially, according to circumstances ; but, they
have no doubt of the fact, that there will be a
deficiency. Though by no means to an a-
mount that will endanger any claims upon the
institution by its creditors.

Wm. H. Falls liasb-een appointed Cashier
oftlieTradesiiian’s Batik, in place of Samuel
Cox, resigned.

Capt. Rogers, of the Packet Bee, being
under way from New London to Sag Harbor,
Long Island, when a short distance. froiu land,
discovered that his black boy, aged 9 years,
had fallen overboard. 'He immediately, in
his boat went to his rescue. The boy had
sunk to rise no more before he reached the

.spot. Captain Rodgers had an oar with him

18 feet in length, and this he drove to the
bottom (the water being’ 16 1-2 feet) made his
boat fast to the car, and went down, hauling
himself by the car, and found the boy a few
feet fro'ni it lying in the eel grass. He grasp-

ed the boy, and reachetfthe sur"—-it 1.-‘A: 5 ‘lntl
his boat drifting to the shore. i--i - ~ '‘ vile
to reach the boat or his vessel, 2-."',..«8d

with the boy until a person from '-1-F -jot
into the boat and came to his as:‘.'-:»f.'sv;«? .=. a
moment when he was about to st‘ - .’-"=2‘I. i’
the boy was under water from 1‘.

rites, and his knees were drawn up

his stomach, yet byrubbinghiin iv}. - _.
&.c. for‘ nearly 4 hours, he ivas resut.‘ - , 
is now doing well. Such an adveotir
cause of llllrllalllty must long be a so,

pleasing rellectionto Capt. B9561 3- fill.‘

 

Fr m._fhe flmerican of the 71ft. '
Melancholy Suicide.-—Tliis morning the
coroner was called to examine the body ofa
man who had put an end to his existence at
the York House, 5 Courtlandt st.

The history oftliis person is briefly this.—-
He had formerly been in business in New
Hampshire, and had failed. He was about
27 years ofage, and left in that State a wife
with one child, and in a delicate situation,-
which induces the suppression of the name of
the deceased. About six weeks since he ar-
rived inthis cit , with the desigti of re-estab-
lishing‘ hirrlsel in business. During last
week he closed a bargain for the purchase of _
the stock ofa grocery store, amounting to 600"‘
dollars‘, of which hepaid 500 dollars, and was
to have paid the remainder this day. On
Friday he exhibited to those around him a"-
strangeness of conduct that had itot been be-.
fore remarked. On Saturday and on Sunday

of fancied persecution and difliculty, and al-
though repeatedly urged to endeavor to com-

bed ten minutes during the whole period.
Last night he retired to his rooiii—btit tliiti
morning he was not there, although his coat
and hat. were lying on his bed, which it was
evident had not been occupied. Search was

lice, etc. but to no avail ; and it was renewed
in the house. '

At length the door of an unoccupied room
was found locked on the inside, and it'ivas
surmised that he was within. Every effort to
g-a,in- admittance proving fruitless, the window '
was gained by means of a roof reaching be-
neath it-“~a_nd, on being opened, the wretched
man was discovered, _banging by a black silk
handkerchief, from the post ofa field bed-
stead-’ His knees were drawn up in order to
give full effect to thenoose around his neck,
as the post was not sufficiently high to allow
his suspension at length. The verdictof the
inquest was insanity.

Franz the Nat. Intelligencer, .6‘u'g. 9.
Again we have from the West a melarr-.
choly tale. We learn from a private source,
that, about two weekrago, Dr. Young, :1 Rep-
resentative in Congress from the state of Keri-'
tucky, shot and killed in tlie.streiit‘ of Eliza-.
bethtown, Mr. Hardin, a lawyer from Breck-
enridge county. O‘fso aggravating and atro-
cious a character was the cause of this act, as
to shield_ Dr. Young from prosecution, and al-
most tojustify the act in the public opinion.-
Mr. Hardin was one who opposed the elec-
tion or Dr. Y. and is supposed to have been
partly led by vindictive feelings to commit the
outrage which foreran his death. Nothing
short ofan atrocious violation ofthe sa nctua-
ry of his domestic hopes and happiness should
have instigated a man of the amiable charac-
ter of Dr. Young to this rash act.

ST". FrtAivcrsvit.t.i.=:','July 1'3.—-An uiiforo

innate and fatal recontre took place on Thurs-
day afternoon last in our Village, between

Messrs. Theodore Owens, and Geo. F. Bra-

sher, in which the latierlost his life by a imm-

berof stabs iuflicted by a cane sword. We
forbeai making comments on this affair, as it

may undergo legal investigation, as respects
others implicated in it. Mr. Owens made’
an imuiediate escape.

_The National Crisis (Cincinati) of the ‘27ih
tilt; gives‘ the following account of an assassi-
nation at St. Louis : '

“ Horatio Cozeiis, Esqr. a distinguished
member of the bar ofSt. Louis, was assassin-
ated in that place on the 13th instant, by Mr.
French Sirotlier. The editor of this paper,
understood the circuitistarices to be as follow 5
a Mr. Cozeiis was engaged as counsel against
Nlr. Strother; and the latter fiiidiug the cause
was g.-ing against him, asked the former to
step aside, as he wished to speak to him. Mr.
Cuzeos complied with’ his request, and Mr. S.
stabbed him two or three times in the breast,
and once in the neck with a dirk, and killed
him instantly. Mr. Strothcr was committed
.0 prison.” 4

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On"! ofthe city watchmen, by the name of
Van Benschoten, while on "duty on Monday.
-evening, was stabbed in three diffireut places
in the body by a thief whom he was attempt-
ing to arrest near I he Grand street market.-
We have not heard all the particulars relatiiig»
to the affair, but understand that the villain,
fi-riding hiuiselflikely to-be detector’, dropped
lllS plunder, drew a ktiife and plunged it into
the watchman, then fled, and has not yet been-
taken.—-E. Post.

Murder.—We understand that a Mr. Wil-
liains ofFarmsville. Prince Edward county,
last Saturday week in zfcontroversy with his
brother-in-law—Williains stabbed him in
such a lhocking irianner thatlie died the next
morning. Williams is now in jail to await
his trial for the ofi‘eiice.-—-Lynchburg Vt'rg’n.

MOBILE, July 11.-——Yellow Fever.-—-During
the p sttwo -veeks, we have had a contiiru-.‘
ance of very hot and dry weather, and a pre-
valence of north winds, which we have been
taught by experience to consider as particu-
larly unfriendly to the health ofthe city, and
some alarm has existed for several days ttia£
we should be again visited with the distressing
scenes of the last summer. We are tliis
morning informed by physicians that iwo_ca-.
ses occurred last night, which are ‘-_t_ineq1-iivu-
cally pronounced to be the yellow fever.

‘The Cedar .0pple.——A gentleman of un-
questionable veracity called at our of-fice this
week, 8:. informed us of an experiizneiit wlitch.
wasniade a lew.days ago with this apple, on
a coloured child about two years old, at «his
farm in this neiglibothcod, the resoltofwli-iclz
was truly satistactory.- The child took the
apple of last year’s growth, reduced -to po..iv-.-
der, and prepared in syrup, two successive
mornings, fasting ; the consequence of wliicli
was, the coiiipulsioii of iriore than a pint .-if
worms. The child, though much reduced lit.
debilitated by fevers previously‘ to the apple’
being administered, is now doing well,and liab-
had a complete _rctui'n ofappeiiie for food.

~[./innapolis Gazette.

.& French Fleet.-—Captain Sharpe, of the
schr. Eclipse, arrived at Philadelpliia, in 
days from Lagtiira, reports, that o.n the 27th,,

-‘ . easy sail, with Freucli'-colors set.

July, lat. 28, 16, long. 68, 50, he saw ten sat};-
ofrnen of war, standing to the norihward,iw-9‘
sixty-fours, six lrigates, and live brigs, uiide;

filatesmgn.

these alferratioiis increased : be talked w_ildly,...-

pose himselfby sleep, he did not remain in

made for him on the doclts——at the police of--“