An outrage of unusual violence was com-
mitted oii Monday morning, af a boarding
house for colored sailors, kept‘ by James
Johnson, a'colored man, in the under-
ground story of No. 120 Cherry street.—
ofthe” boa‘rders,aPortugues$ sailorby the
name of John Breschia, late on Sunday
eve'ning,exhibited considerable perturbation
of mitid, (probably caused by liquor,) talk-
’iiig inchorently of a conspiracy "against
. his life, and declaring that he should have
.to_-lr'rl‘l‘“some one before he left the house.-—-
He was desirous of getting possession of
. a long sharp pointed knife in a leather
sheath, which on coming there to board
he had delivered to Mrs. Johnson, but
which fearing he might be mischievous she
- refused to let him have, and finally pursua-
ded him to go to bed. The next morning
between fotir and five 0’clock, having‘ risen
before the family boarders, he got posses-
sionofa hammer, an iron pound weight
and a i-igger’,s knife, and commenced ope-
, rations by attempting to cut the throat of
Thomas Jackson, one-of the lodgers -in the
room, while asleep; but only succeeded
in giving him a slight wound on the chin.
{The sleeper‘ starting up, was seized by
Brescliia, who endeavored to knock him
upon the head’ with the hammer; but after‘?
ascitfll", made his escape, in great terror,
into an inner room occupied by Johnson
and his wife. -Breschia next proceeded to
attack another lodger, by the name of
.James Painter, asleep in the same room,
by striking him a violent blow with the
hammer, on his head and stabbing him
.witli theknife,thepoint of which passed thro’
the fleshy part of his arm. By this time
Johnson had waked tip, and came out ofhis
room, when Brescliia, threw the iron
weight at his head with a force which must
have proved fatal, had not the other avoid-
ed it by dodging; and then made at him
with the knife; but Johnson escaped by
running tip the steps into the street. Mrs.
Johnson in great alarm, timv called to Bres-
cliia, through an apperture in the board
partition of the room, and begged
him. not to murder any body He rush-
ed to the spot, declaring he would kill
every soul in the house, and stabbed at her
through the apperture; but not reaching
her, he next endeavored to beat down tli
door with a stick of wood. Not succeeding
in this, he groped his way into a dark
back room partly filled with lumber, in one
corner of which the son of Johnson a lad
about thirteen years old, lay asleep, whom
he stabbed three times ; twice in one side
of his breast, and once in‘ his shoulder.
By this time Johnson had given the alarm
to the butchers in Catherine market, several
of whom ran to suceour his family. Hav-
ing procured alight, they found Breschia
in a back room, where this murderous act
had just been committed, and where he
kept them at bay with his knife for the best
part of an hour, until Johnson went and re-
turned with Mr. George Anderson, one of
the city Marshals. This ofiicer, on his ar-
rival, had the address to pursuade Breschia
to lay aside his knife, when he was secured
and taken to the Police office. The boy
is badly,btit not dangerously wounded. One
of the stabs must have been instantly fatal
had not the knife, which was rounded at
‘the extremity,,been stopped by a rib against
which it struck. Breschiu is now in pris-
on to await his trial.
On his examination yesterday, we under-
stand, he justified his conduct by stating
that he had dreamed that the people ofthe
house were conspiring to murder him. He
is supposed to be laboring under a partial
d,erangement.—-Cour.
Circulating Medium.-—A letter from
Washington gives an amusing account of a
run concerted by the Kitchen Cahint upon
the Branch Batik of the United States in the
city of VVasliiugton. It seems that by book
and by crook (principally by the latter) the
meiiibers of the culinary department had
scraped together the enormous amount of
two thousand dollars, in bills of the United
' -‘States Bank, and determined forthwith to
shake that tottering fabric to its foundation.
Accordingly Francis P. Blair, the Editor of
the Official Organ, wasconstituted the agent
to accomplish the work of destruction. With
a porter and a wheelbarrow be repaired to
the Bank and instead ofapplying the said
$2000 in payment of the $19,800, which he
‘owes that institution, he pompously de-
manded the specie! Strange to tell not a
cheek blanched at the annunciation of the
demand,—-‘but the teller very composedlyi
counted out the specie to the bank debtor,
who, with no little soletnnity deposited it in
the wheel-barrow, & marched offin advance
of it—as grave and heroic as the Sultan
‘would stride from a massacre to his Seraglio.
'One of the Clerks, having perhaps a
sprinkling "of Yankee blood in his veins was
curious enough to observe its destination,
and soon ascertained that it was wheeled off
to another Batik-doubtless for safety. By
way of hunioring the joke, therefore, the
officers of the Bank forthwith despatched
their messenger with two thousand dollars
‘of the bills ofthe Bank that was in the act
of receiving the new acquisition, where Mr.
Blair had the pleasure of seeing his two
thousand dollars rolled back again to th
hated Brunch, whence it came. —
-This is the first run we have heard of up-
on the institution-—and reminds us ofa sim-
ilar occurrence in relation to the Bank of
England. Some years ago a jacktar (Blair's
prototype) having been paid off at Sheer-
ness, received his wages, a £50 Bank of
England note.——Repairing with all speed to
London to spend it—but withal having
much of the characteristic kindness of the
sailor about liim—ht: hustled into the Bank,
'-and eagerly inquired for the President.-
~ That functionary being for the the time en-
gaged, the sailor paced the room with evi-
dent uneasiness and perturbation ; but de-
claring, that he had private business of great
importance with the Picsident, he was at
length ushered into the room occupied by
that officer. A Director'being,present, jacle
beckoned‘ the President, into the corner,-
where cautiously and stealthily unrel-ling‘
liis bill and showing it t'o:.:him,‘ said in ‘a
whisper-—Now,hlust my eyes, ‘Mr. Presi-
dent, I don't want to ~-liurtyour honor, you.
see,noi_- break the hank;--hiit just give me £5
tiow,a_nd,l’ll give you a-wide birth for a Week!
On Friday the,20th ult. as Miss Van Bu-
ran, a young lady of the Valatie was dress-
ing her hair in the factory of Mr. Baldwin,
she accidently brought it in contact with one
of the horizontal iron shafts which makes
53' revolutions a minute. This shaft is
square, two and a half inches in diameter,
and is placed about 17 inches frotn the up-
per floor. The young lady was standing
nearly under it, facing from it, and in toss-
ing back her hair, which she had been
combing over her face probably without
reflecting that a shaft above her was in
motion, it caught fast,and she found herself
instantly drown up toward it with the ve-
locity of lightening. VVitli an extraordina-
ry presence of mind she grasped the shaft
with her hands, at the same time making
a violent effort to place her feet upon it, in
order that by revolving she might escape the
dislocation of the neck. She succeeded
in clingingto the shaft during 2 or 3 revo-
lutions,but its velocity was such as at length
to break her hold, and she was projected
eight or ten feet from it, leaving... her
entire scalp from the extremity of the eye-
lids to the third vertebra: of the neck fast
to the shaft, and revolving with it. She a-
rose immediately from the floor, and pro-
ceeded to stop one of the looms which she
tended,while the overseer stopped the wheel.
Drs. Miller and Philip were immediate-
ly called,and with the assistance of such as
had not fled or fainted from fright, the
scalp was replaced upon the head and ad-
justed, and the patient conveyed to her
room. The scene was truly frightful.-
She is at present in a comfortable condition
and her physicians state that every symp-
tom indicates a firm re-union of the parts
and a speedy recovery of health.
[I('iizdc1'Iioolr Scntincl.
Actual sensibility ofthe Ilcart.-A no-
ble youth of the family of Montgomery,
from a fall and subsequent abscence on the
side ofthe chest, had the interior marvel-
lously exposed, so that after his cure, on
his return from his travels, the heart atid
lungs were still visible and could be lian-
dled ; which when it was communicated to
Charles l,he expressed a desire that Harvey
should be pcrnimitted to see the youth and
examine his heart. “\Vhen,” saysHarvey,
“ I had paid my respects to this young no-
bleman, and conveyed tofliim the king’s re-
quest, he made no concealment, btit expos-
ed the left side of his breast, when I saw a
cavity into which I could introduce my fin-
gers and thumb: astonished with the novelty
again and again Iexplored the wound, and
first marvelling at the extraordinary nature
of the cure, I set about the examination of
the heart. Taking it in one hand, and pla-
cing the finger of the other on the pulse of
the wrist, I satisfiedinyself that it was in-
deed the heart which I grasped. I then
brought him before the king, that he might
behold and touch so extraordinary a thing,
and that he might perceive, as I did, that
unless when he touched the outer skin, or
when he saw ourfingers in the cavity,out this
young nobleman knew not that we touched
the heart.—-Bcll’s Britlgewatcr .’l'rcatise.
The water Spout in the Potomac.—A cor-
respondent of the National Iiitelligenccr
gives the following account of a phenome-
non which occurred on the evening of the
19th August.
It unfortunately was not observed until it
had completely formed, and directly in front
of Mount Vertioii——wlieti it presented to the
amazed spectators an object exceedingly
rare, yet grand and beautiful in appearance.
The base, to our view, appeared to be a
large perpendicular cylinder floating upon
the surface of the river, and supposed to be
about fifty feet in height, and thirty in dinin-
eter; directly vertical to the cylinder was a
dark (nimbus) cloud, in shape of a an inver-
ted cone, with an attenuated point, or tube,
of three hundred and fifty to five hundred
feet in length, which rested upon the supe-
rior end of the cylcnder. The middle or
ititerior ofthe tube was of a dark purple
colour, surrounded with a w/rile vapor or
dense haze ofwhicli the cyleiider was also
apparently composed.
It was borne slowly and majestically a-
long by rather a brisk south wind, until it
came in contact with a cluster of trees ini-
mediately on a point ofland belonging to
the Mount Vernon estate, where it broke
with a weak explosion, but without turbu-
lence ;--the base,or cylender, became almost
imperceptibly annihilated, while the dark
purple tube, with its contents and surroun-
ding investiture gradually and slowly ascen-
ded into the cloud. Its duration could not
have exceeded twenty or thirty minutes,
from the first appearance to its final recess-
ion into the cloud. That it was anomalous,
will be conceded, when it is stated that the
water spouts of the tropics, particularly at
sea, almost ivariably prcsetit an appear-
ance of two cones, the superiorone inverted,
and their attenuated points meeting and
forming the tube ; the middle or interior of
the latteris also always white, surrounded
by a dark and dense,‘vapor: and moreover,
when they break, from any cause, either on
land or at sea, the quantity of water dischar-
ged from them is tremendous. Such, at
least, has been the observation and experi-
ence of your correspondent.
Lunar Pltenomencn.-—The following very
retnarkable celestial phenomenon is men-
tioned in one of the western papers, and we
copy it principally for the benefit of the al-
manac makers in Connecticut, where they
pay paiticular attention to the phases of the
great nocturnal luminary; all of which are
religiously believed to have very potent iii-
fluence in matters pertaining to the science
of pork killing and the proper fructificatioii
of turnip seed.
The editor of a paper called the “ New
Moon,'? printed at Monroe La. having pub-
lished some article obnoxious to the cen-
sures, just or unjust, of certain recipiants of
his moonshine aforesaid——that is to say,
,some of the readers and “ patronsj” of
.-the New Morin having taken in dtidgeon a
ray of his moonlight during its first qtiarter,
two or -three individuals assembled and not
only shot-muskets at the man in the moon
but they actually put the poor devil ‘in pris-
on for thirty days, and by the way, 2 must
have had dark times of itduring sucllu
lengthened lunar obumbration. Ifwe were
that sauie moon we would change at once
to shine no more in that quarter. Such bar-
barians ought‘ to go to bed hereafter in the
dark. Their deeds are evil, and it is pre-
sumed therefore, that darkness is natural to
them; but, however this may be, they de-
serve eternal obfuscation, and if we had the
regulation of their destiny,tliey should nev-
er again have even the illumination ‘of a
lightning bug.--Cour.
VVe understand that the following Banks
have bzen selected by the Secretary of the
Treasury, for the deposit money ofthe Uni-
ted St-ates,in the places where they are re-
spectivcly situated.-—Tlie change to be
uiade on the first of October next .:
Baltimore —-The Union Bank of Mary-
land; Pliiladelpliia—Tlic Girard Batik;
New York—Tlic Mechanics Bank; Do.
The Manliattan Coi__iipany ; Do. The Bank
of America; Bos-ton—Tlte Commonwealth
Bank; Do. Merchants’ Bank.
\Ve understand that another Batik will be
added in Philadelphia, as soon as the prop-
er inquiries aiid arrangements can be
made, and probably, also another in New
York—and that the necessary preparations
are in progress for carrying the measure iii-
to full effect in other places, as speedily as
practicable.
fl?” Our only surprise on reading the
forcg'oiiig,is to perceive that the Manhattan
Company is among the Banks selected.—
That institution, it is notoriously well
known, is literallya foreign Batik in the
sense used by the President in his Veto
Message, and yet in defiance of the princi-
ples advocated in that document, we see
it elected for the purpose of being the de-
pository of the Government Funds! If
the Bank ofthe U. States is unworthy of
the cotifidcncc of the Executive because
one-fiftli of its stock is held by Foreigners,
with how much more force does the
same reasoning apply to an institution, a
majority of tlic stockof which istlie property
of Foreigners? But this is the consistency
of the opponents of the United States
Bunk l——Spcct.
To the Point.—-Upon the oflicial an-
nouncement in the Globe, of the removal of
the Secretary of the Treasury, the National
Gazette remarks:
Mr. Duane has been thrust out, the
President telling him—“ Far be it from me
to expect or require, that any member of
the cabinet, should at my request, order or
dictate, do any act which he believes uti-
lawfttl or in his conscience condemiis.”-—
Rendered into plain English, this means—
“ You must either do all that I or my cal)-
iiiet improper desire, or relinquish oflice.”
Certainly, there is no constraint or dictation
iii tendering such an alternative ! The con-
duct of Mr. Duane assures to him that last-
ing public honor and the particular favor of
Pennsylvania. Our commonwealth shares
in all the indignity which has been offered
to liitn.
in the public estimation oftlic proceedings
of his successor.
It has always been understood that Mr.
Duane was appointed against the wish and
design ofthe Kitchen Cabinet. Their ob-
ject has been to supplant him as soon as
possible ; this was perhaps, one of the pur-
poses of Mr. Kcnd;ill’s errand, and’ has
served to precipitate the resolution for the
removal of the deposites. His two fellow-
secretaries atid recusaiits have probably ren-
dered themselves unpardonably obnoxious
to the culinary brotherhood. Their ttirn
(out) will come ere long. This is tliejunc-
ture for them to resign with the greatest ad-
vantage to themselves and the country.-
VVe shall not be surprised to see in the
Globe, the imputation of venality agaitist
all three. This charge would not be more
bold and unwarrantable than the same as-
pcrsion on the legislature of Pennsylvania,
Congress, and a multitude of individuals
who claim as sound :1 reputation and strong
an integrity as any members of the general
government possess.
sUM1iiAuY.
Vcto.—l‘t is a reniarknble fact, (says the
national Intelligencer,) that although an ab-
solute negative is vested in the King of Eng-
land as a branch of legislative power, it
has not been exercised since the year
l692—a period of one hundred and forty
years. Judge Story in his “Commentaries
on the Constitution of the United States,”
says “This fact can only be accounted for
upon one of two suppositions, either that
the influence ofthe crown has prevented the
passage of objectionable measures, or that
the exercise oftliat perogative has become
so very odious that it. has not been safe to
exercise it, except upon the most pressing
emergencies.”
The Ban./c.—Tlie New York Gazette of
yesterday, says : “There is a confident
hope, and a pretty general belief, in this
community, that the effect oftliePresident’s
Mariifesto, will bring about the re-charter
of the U. S. Batik, by a constitutional ma-
jority of Congress.” A similar opinion is
very generally prevalent.
Ship Rob’t Wilson, owned in New-York,
has been seized in Vera Cruze for having
oti board several boxes spurious coin, inten-
ded to be thrown into circulation. The
shippers ofthe article are known, and the
consignee has been seized, and itiforniation
obtained that it vessel now on her voyage
has a large amount of the same article. It
is a most dishonorable and critnimil pro-
cccdinrr.
The Turks use brass cannon (almost
exclusively. Some of them are of im-
tnense size. Doctor Dekziy mentions one
of which the bore was three feet in diam-,_
Ciel‘, the thickness of_ the muzzle being
eight inches, and the weight at least 4000
pounds. They have just ordered 1500
iron cantioii for the first time, from Eng-
land.
A monstcr.—ASycamore tree,wliichgrew on
the banks of the Mohawk, required 21 yoke
of oxeti, to remove the trunk after it was
ctit down. It is to be sent to Europe for
exhibition. It has bccti occupied as a
booth or tavcrti tiear Utica, and is capa-
ble of holding upwards of 40 persons.
There is nothing for him to envy-
I
Considerable excitement exists against the
late decision of the Corporation of Lowell,
prohibiting-dramatic representations. Sev-
eral meetings have been held and many
spirited resolutions passed; fi'om among
which we select the following.
Resolved, That we have seen with regret
a sectarian feeling brought into conflict
with the freedom ofour local elections, and
disturbing the rightful exercise of power;
an (it hat we deem it our duty to oppose all
such restraints upon freedom of opin-
ion.
Resolved, That the spirit of our political
institutions acknowledges no personal or
individual restraints, except those laws
which are the same to all, and no distinc-
tion, except that which may originate
in merit alone. ,
Resolved, That our motto sliallbe “Equal
Rights l” and that, as otir fathers mutually
pledged “ their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor,” in a cause equally just
and good, so we their cliildreti, will emulate
their example, atid stop at no sacrifices
which shall secure to us the previleges which
they sealed with their blood.
The Hartford Times states that the bod-
ies of Teller and Reynolds, who were lately
executed were given over to the surgeons
for dissection,—and that the flesh of one
of them was thrown into the river, where
pieces of it have been discovered floating
in the strearn.—Tbis is really a disgusting
outrageous act.
Annual Fair of the AmericanInstitutc.—It
will be seen by art advertisement in our pa-
per, that this popular exhibition of Ameri-
can Manufactures, will be lield at Masonic
Hall, in this city, this month, and we re-
commend Meclianicsatid Manufacturers to
be on the alert, to avail themselves of this
favorable opportunity to display their works
of skill and usefulness. The Oration, we
learn, will be delivered by a distinguished
Literary gentleman of Baltitnore, whose
popularity will attract crowds of strangers
as well as citizcns.—Evening Star.
The Hon. John Sergciinthas been nom-
inated as acandidate for Congress, in the
first Distirict of Philadelphia, vice Joel B.
Southerland, resigned; and we are gratifi-
ed to learn this morning that he has accep-
ted the nomination. Of his election little
doubt is entertained. “ The critical nature
of the times calls for the services of such a
man in Congress.
Colonization Social]/.—Fi'om the Sep-
tember number of the African Repository,
we learn that the receipts of this Institution
from August 10th to August 31st, this year,
had been $4,368 75, including $l,937 27
trans'niitted from England by Elliot Cresson,
Esqr. the voluntary agent of the Society
abroad. The subscribers on the plan of
Gerrit Smith, Esq.-—giving $100 a year for
ten years—are now fifty one in number.
Numerotis auxiliary societies have been
formed during the last six months, in every
section of the country.
Domestic Yeast—Persons who are in the
habit of making domestic bread, cake, &.c.
can easily manufacture their own yeast, by
attending to the following directions: Boil
one pound of good flour, a quarter do. of
brown sugar, and a little salt, in two gallons
of water, for one liour.—-W'hen inilk-warm,
bottle, it and cork‘ it close. It will be fit for
use in 24 liotirs. Otie pint of the yeast
will make 18 lbs. ofbread.
The produce received at New York down
the North River, from the canal, &.c. is im-
mense. The following are some of the
items received from Sept. 1st to the 29th :—
Flour, bhls. 89,956—Ashes, do. 1431-
Wliiskey, do. l264—do. lihds. 46-Wheat,
btishels, 1l,804—Corn, do. 20,860--Oats,
do. 55,707-Rye, do. 3,575-—Barley, do.
2,950.
Emigration..——Tlie steamers Henry Clay
and Ohio arrived last Sunday freighted with
about four hundred passengers. They are
bound to all parts of the territory: and
most of them are already wending their
way to the interior. There is every reason
to believe that the increase of population
the present season, will fully equal the most
sanguine expectations.—-Detroit Courier.
Steam boat New England has commen-
ced her night trips, leaving Hartford Mon-
day, VVednesday and Friday at 2 P. M.
and New York on the alternate days at
4 P. M.
VVe learn that the reasons against the
removals of the deposites, offered in wri-
ting to the President, by Messrs. Cass, Mc
Lane, and Duane, will soon be laid before
the public.
A letter from New Orleans says, “the
disease (yellow fever) must soon cease for
the want of victims.’
New principlé.—A moddle of a steamboat
to be propelled by sculliiig instead ofwlieels,
is exhibited in Middletown, Conn.
A convention of Working Men from all
the New England States, is to be held at
Boston on the 2d of October next.
A French traveller puts us down for the
cleanest people upon the face of the earth ;
for, said he, ‘ their very capitol is called
.Wasliing-town.’
Among the contributions to the Token for
1834, is “ the Plague in the Forest,” a Fa-
ble iti poetry, by John Quincy Adams.
It is supposed Lower and Upper Cana-
da now contain about one million of souls.
Eighty-three colored people are ready at
Savannah to embark for Liberia.
McClintock Young Esq., of Baltimore,
is appointed chief clerk in the Trasury de-
partmetit.
The United states troops, near Augusta
Geo. have been ordered to Fort Mitchell,
without delay--in consequence of the state
of affairs in the Creek nation.
Dollars were fortnerly received at the cus-
tom House, Qubec, at 4s 6d sterling each
—and now they are reduced to 45 4d-.
‘ A public meeting was held in \Vashing-
ton on Thursday, for the purpose of devis-
ing means for the erection of a monttment
to the father of his country.
The following statement shewirig the benefit
which would result to mankind were the money
which is spent for rum, devoted to the diffusion of
useful information. we copy by request from an
extra of the Temperance Recorder.
Six cents per day saved by ezichof the
two million families in the Union, would
amount to $21 90 cents to each family, or
$42,800,000 to the whole nation. Let each
familydispose ofa part ofthis sum by taking
I copy of a semi-weekly paper co ntaining
the general intelligence of the day, $3 00,
1 weekly religious paper, $2 00,’ 1 weekly
paper devoted to the farming and mechan-
ical interests,$2 00, 1 monthly paper devo-
ted entirely to the promotion oftemperance:
iftlie ’l‘eniperancc Recorder, 12 1-2, total
$7 12 1-2.
Thus for $7 12 1-2 cents each family
could be supplied with four periodical pith-
lications, embracing every variety of intclli~
gence, for two cents per day aside from the
postage. The circulation of these papers
would add over .; 250,000 to’ the revenue of
the Post-Office, atid the like sum to the pri-
vate emolument of the postmasters. It
would moreover employ thousands of pa-
per makers, printers, 6.30. «See. The bal-
ance of $14 78 1-2 cents remaining _of the
saving, would keep every child in the Union
of proper age, coiistaiitly at school. It is
therefore evident that by the complete aban-
donment oftlic use of ardent spirits, a sum
would be saved, which if expetided in the
diffusion ofinforniation and the education
of the rising generation, would dispel igno-
rancc, and with it all those innumerable
vices of which ignorance is the parent. How
can this desirable good be accomplished .7
VVe unliesitatingly answer, by the firm, vi-
gilant, patient and judicious efforts of the
virtuous part of community, but more espe-
cially by the million and a half of oflicers
and members oftemperance societies that
‘now stand pledged to use every justifiable
means to drive ardent spirits, in all its dis-
guises, from the country; and it is in their
power to accomplish this great and good re-
form ifthev are faithful to the cause and
their pledge.
The 0rcgon.——In addition to the letters
which have been published in the Troy
Press, from John Ball, Esq. extracts from
two other letters by the same gentleman to
his family friends in Heborii, N. 11. have
appeared in the Concord Statesman. These
extracts are liiglilyintcresting, as were those
which first app cared in the Troy paper.—
From our own personal acquaintance with
Mr. Ball, we are confident that whatever
he says may be received as truth. He writes
that in the country where licnow is, (the
Oregon,) white oaks often grow on the
plains like an orchard, and groves of firs
and other timber. The same kind of firs
that we have in New England, grow there
to it great height, and three or four feet in
diameter, answering all the purposes of the
white pine.——Tlierc is another tree, called
the red fir, the timber of which is like the
yellow pine—immensely large. The letter
to which we now allude is dated February
23, 1833. At this time trees were in blos-
som, and in favorable spots, fresh grasswas
six iiicltes high.
The Indians (Flat Heads) have horses
which they sell at $8. The Indians live
on whatever is nearest at hand, and easiest
obtained ; nor do they lay up stores for the
futtire—exccpt that they dry salmon and
roots. On the Multnomah River, the na-
tives snbsist almost entirely on roots, princi-
pally Cama, and \Vappatoo. They are
fond of having the whites come among
them.
Mr.B. says that nine tenths of the wil-
derncss country through which he passed is
volcanic—the rocks showing marks of fire
as plainly as blacksmitli’s cinders, which
they often much resemble, being full of
holes in the same way ; in other cases like
glass, lava, and also compact, a kind of
rock called bassalt. Even the rocks of oth-
er kinds ofteti appear burnt and partially
melted. Along the creeks this kind of rock
forms perpendicular banks, often of aston-
ishing heiglit,und is the greatest obstruction
in travelling the cotiiitry. The rocks on
the lower part of the Columbia and along
the coast is of this cind, and about 100 or
150 miles from the coast are a number of
exceedingly high mountains, in form like
Etna, always covered with snow and have
never been ascended—Mounts Hood, St.
Helens andJefi"erson are of these.
[Portsmo-rt/i Journal.
FOREIGN.
The packet ship Erie, Captain Funk, ar-
rived last evening from I-Iavrc, bearing iti-
telligence from the capital of France to the
24th ultimo, inclitsivc.
GERMANY.—Tlie Frankfort Journal
of Aug. l7th, has the followiiig—“Iii a
school at Taurin, stiperintcnded by the nuns
of St Joseph, the children have lately made
a disturbance by uttering cries, the sisters
tlireatened them with the apparition of the
devil, if they continued to make a noisc.—
Soon after on a signal given, there appered
a chimney sweep dressed in a frightful garb
with horns and ti fiery looking mouth. The
children were so much frigtened that some
of them fainted. At the noise caused by
this scandal, the house and street were soon
filled with a crowd. At length the Rector
ofthe parish came, and put an end to the
shameful exhibition, but not until several
of the Children had died of terror.”
SPA1N'——Tlie National of Paris assert
that despatclies had been received by the
Minister for Foreign Affairs from M. de
Rayneval, stating that the ambassador has
had a conference with the physicians of
King Ferdinand, who declared that not-
withstanding the apparent improveme_nt du-
ring the last few days of his Majes'.y_’s
health, the King was just approaching his
end. It was rumored that in consequence
oftliislcoinmiitiication, the French Govern-
ment had decided to statioti an army of
Observation oti the frontiers of Spain.
A Letter from Madrid, dated the 13th of
August says——Yestei'd:iy a sangtiinary con-
flict took pace in one of the streets of Ma-
drid between about 26 soldiers of cavelry;
sabres were drawn and two or three com-
battants were killed. It appears that the‘
quarrel arose from political disputes, as du-_
ring the contest, cries of Colomarde forever!
Don Miguel forever! were uttered; and
when several patrols came up, those who‘
retained their voices, and the use of their’
limbs, fled, shouting as -lustily Don Carlos
forever! and, Down with Zen! Four of
the rioters, who were wounded were taken ;
the rest were pursued, and some of them
overtaken.
N ORWALK GAZETTE.
TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8, 1833.
’1‘o CORRESI'O.\‘DENT8.—-J. A. is received.-
He is right in saying that the error to which he
alludes, and which filled so large a space in a.
neighboring print, did not occur in his p:iper—a
Few onl_v,pei‘liaps halfa dozen were struck off be.
fore the error was corrected, and these were
withheld from circulation;
VVc have not thought worth while to explain
accidental errors which must strike every one as‘
such who is not decidedly underwilled, or attempt:
to rob the person who discovers and proclaims
them, of the self-complacency which his efforts
may cxcite. It is with the moral: as with the bu-'
siness of a community—-he who has few or none
of his own to attend to, will make himself most
busy with those of other people. The malicious
feeling which is engendered by a consciousness
of the loss, and the wealc-ntindedncrs which is al-
ways connected with the drjicicncy. incline such
a person to direct his attention to those of other‘
people, and if he is conceited enough to suppose
himself capable of being witty, he will make
them the theme of his exercise. Ile, however,
does not injure others or benefit himself, and is
best answered in the language which uncle
Toby tiscd to the fly which be had caught after
it had been buzzing round him for some time,“go
poor devil, the world is wide enough for both of
us. ” The effect of his charitable super-
vision upon the mind ofthe community usually is
to draw from them the application of the adage,
“your charity ought to begin at home.”
From a statement in one ofthe N.Y.papcrs, it
appears that the amount of taxable estate, real
and personal in that city, is 179,381,123 dollars.
and the tax to be raised upon it this year 800
dollars. During the last year the increase of
property has been 23,018,461 dollars. The chol-
era expenscs oflast year, which, make up a part
of the tax of this, were about 300,000 dollars.
It becomes us as the clironicler of passing
events, to record the fact. that an all-important.
and most awful crisis is at hand, which will in-
volvc the destruction of all we hold dear as men
or as Americans, unless averted. Mr. Barnum,
the editor ofthe Herald ofFreedom has announ-
ced that in consequence of having “his property
vanish from him like dew before the sun at noon
day"—-having within a week, had to pay a fine
and costs to the amount of fotir hundred dollars,
he requires more assistance to enable him to sus-
tain his paper, or else that his paper must go
down, and as a consequence, not only the cause
ofliberty, the cause of equality and tl.e glorious
cause oftruth and justice be trampled under foot.-
an.l destroyed," but the “holy inquisitionbe rear-
ed on our happy shores, and the death knell of
liberty announce that ye are no longrr freemen.“
lVhew .’ .' .' Did Washington or Jefferson or
Franklin or any other ofthe wnrtbics of the Rev-
olution, think you, imagine that on him alone,
or any other one man, the destinies ofthe coun-
try rrsted, and that if his efforts should cease
the struggle would be over, and his countrymen
slaves ? Never. Now, however, when we are
13 instead of3 millions, with all the means and
appliances of a great nation, a knight of the
quill of something more than medium notoriety
has discovered that such a crisis as was never yet
known, is at hand, and that on the continuance
Q/‘his print. rests» the question whether the dis-
niiil tones of the “death knell of liberty announ-
ce that ye are no longer freeman.” If such
truly is the awfulness of our situation (and who
can doubt it ?)
"The spider's most attenuated thread
ls cord, is cable" to our slender hold
On frcedom—hc prints or—all are lost. _,
From the Herald of Freedom.
“ Friends and patrons, let what is done he
done quickly. By your assistance let the
merry pen] of ‘ trutli, liberty, and justice,’
continue to resound throughout our land ;
or, through your indifference, let the ‘ Iloly
Inquisition’ be reared on oitr happy shores
and the death-knell of liberty announce
that ye are no longer freemrn !”
Bab! What next! ;! ;
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PERCUSSION Locxs.—'l‘he French are abdut
to introduce these locks into their army. From
experiment it appears that they are altogether
preferable. We subjoin a statement of the ex-
periment which is interesting.
Out of 240 muskets with percussion‘
locks, cotisuming together 27,000 cartridg-
es, tliere were only 21 that missed fire
from the failure of the priming, and _72
from the defect in the charge, making
in all ninety three: while out of the
same number of muskets with flint locks
burning the same number of charges.
1,440 missed fire from the priming, and
378 from the charge, making together
1,826. These experiments did not stop
here. It was desired to ascertain the ef-
fect of firing each species of musket reiterat-
ed for a long time without being cleaned. ‘ll
committees returned that otitof22percussion
muskets, firing 11,000 shots, 8 failed in the
priming and six in the charge, out Of tllfi
same number of muskets with" flint locks,
208 shots fiiiled from the priming,~and
599 from the charge, in all -806. Still
further experiments‘ were made -both in
exposing the muskets to a constant -T8111
by wetting the inside of. the -c8p.*8||d' by
putting a drop of water into the touch
hole. The result was that‘ the".-1218035510“
guns, after being exposed ‘10 ‘I19. .W.€3‘h¢l‘
or even a constant rain,- were.-. greatly
more to be relied-up0.I1 ill.‘-I'll $059 mil}
flint locks.
Norwalk Chronicler