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In passing through life, I have been fre-
quently bencfitted by this little admonition.

\Vhen I hear the tongue of slander level-
ing its venom against some fault or foible of
a .neIgIt-I301‘, Itliiiik, ‘look at the t’otlie1' side
Jim.

Be anoderate, have charity. Perhaps the
fault or foible we talk so much and so loiid-
fly of, is almost the only one in your neigh-
bor’s character, and perhaps you have as
great or greater oiie’s in your own.

It may be this is your neiglibor’s Weak
side, and except this, he is a good citizen,
a kind neighbor, an affectionate fathei-‘and
husband, and a useful member of society.
Others may listen to the story of calumny,
but remember they will fear and despise the
calumniator. Learn to overlook a fault in
your neighbor, for perhaps you may some

time wish them to pardon a fault in you.
[VVcst Jersey Gazette.

 

Niagara I’V/ll1'l])00l.-—TlllS whirlpool,
which is several miles below the falls of Ni-
agara, is a large deep basin, in which the
waters of the mighty St. Lawrence revolve
in one perpetual whirl, caused by their being
obstructed by an angle of the steep and
dreary banks which overhang this dreadful
place. Mr. \Vallace the blacksmith, had a
son, a fine youth, who one day went down
to the whirlpool, and the current proving too
strong for him, he was carried into the
whirl. His poor distracted mother sat on
the gloomy bank for hours and days, and
beheld the body of her darling carried round
in a circle by the water, sometimes disap-
pearing for a time and then coming up and
revolving upon the surface of his watery
grave, and thus continuing for several days,
no human aid being available even to ob-
tain liis remains. After five orsix days bo
dies which getinto this dismal cauldron are
carried down the river. It is usual for per-
sons rafting timber from places between the
Falls and the VVhirlpool, to get oil" the raft
before they come to the basin, first placing
the raft in such a position as may best eiia-
ble it to float down the stream without being
carried into the whirl.

On one occasion however, one ofthe rafts-
men refused to leave the raft——he was not a-
fraid, all would go safe ; entreaty was una-
vailing, and the raft, with the unfortunate
headstrong man upon it, made its way dowii-
wards and was soon drawn within the fatal
circle, around which for three days and three
nights it continued to revolve, all the efforts
ofa thousand anxious spectators proving un-
availing. The continued and sickening ino-
tioii he underwent, robbed the poor sufferer
of all power to eat-——.=leep he could not—a
dreadful death was before his eyes, so much
the more terrible that it was protracted night
after night in such a place. At last a man
was found who ventured into the whirl as far
as he could with the hopes oflife, a strong
rope being tied round his middle, one end of
which was on the shore. He carried a line
to throw to the raft—succeeded: the ago-
nized sufl'erer fastened it to the raft, and in
this way he was drawn on shore, and his
life preserved. [ll1’It'e'zzic’s Slretc/(cs.

 

All but llfurdcz-.——Iri the Naturalist’s Li-
brary, now in the course of publication in
England, the following relation is given, of
the chase and destruction ofa gigantic spe-
cimen of the red Ourang-Outang on the
coast of Sumatra. Naturalists, it is often
said, are li_ard hearted. In the case before
us, we do not wonder at the misgivings of
the hunters; though we do at their perse-
vering, after such niisgivings.—-[N. Y./Inter.

“A boat party, under the command of
Messrs. Craygyman and Fish, officers of the
brig Mary-Anne-Sophia, having landed to
procure water at a place called Rambooin,
near Touraman, on the north west coast of
Sumatra, on a spot where there was much
cultivated ground and but few trees, discov-
cred on one of them a gigantic animal of
the monkey tribe. On the approach of the
party he came to the ground, and when pur-
sued, sought refuge in another tree at some
distancc,exlnbiting,as he moved,the appear-
ance of a tall man-like figure covered with
shining brown hair, walking erect with a
waddling gait, but sometimes accelerating
his motion with his hands, and occasionally
inipelling himself forward with the bough
ofa tree. His motion on the ground was
plainly not his natural mode of progression,
for even when assisted by his hands or a
stick, it was slow and vascilatiug; it was
necessary to see. him among trees in order
to estimate his agility and strength. On be-
ing driven to a small clump, he gained by
one spring a very lofty branch, and bounded
from one branch to another with the ease
and alacrity of another monkey. Had the
country been covered with wood, it would
have been almost impossible to prevent his
escape, as his mode of travelling from one
tree to another is described to be as the pro-
gress of a swift horse. Even amidst the
few trees that were on the spot, his move-
ments were so qiiick that it was very diffi-
cult to obtain a settled aim, and it was only
by cutting down one tree after another, that
his pursuers, by confining him within a very

limited range, were enabled to destroy him
by several successive shots, some of which
penetrated his body and wounded his viscera.
Having received five balls, his exertions re-
laxed, and, reclining exhausted on one of
the branches of a tree, he vomited a cori-
siderable quantity of blood. The arnuiiition
of the hunters being by this time expended,
they were obliged to fell the tree in order to
obtain him; &. did this in full confidence that
his power was so far gone that they could
secure him without trouble; but were as-
toriished, as the tree was falling, to see him
effect his retreat to anot.licr with apparently
undirninislicd vigor. In fact, they were 0-
bliged to cut down all the trees before they
could drive liirii to conibnt his enemies on
the groiiud, against whom he still exhibited
surprising strength and agility, although he
was at length overpowered by numbers, and
destroyed by the thrust 0fspears,& the blows
of stones and other missiles. VVhen nearly
in a dying state, he.sci'/.ed a spear made of
supple wood, which would have withstood
the strength of the stoutcst man and shiver-
ed it in pieces ; in the words of one who as-
sisted at the death, the actions of this ani-
mal were so near human, in cndeavoring to
ward oil‘ blows, and seeking to cover his

wounds with his hand, and to staunch the
flowing blood, as together with his dying
moans, to occasion misgivings among the
assailing party as to the nature of the act
they were perpetrating. He measured when
dead upwards of six feet-

 
 

Slretcltes and .E€C£7ll)‘lClt‘lCS of Col. David
C'roclcet.—-‘I was going ‘long,’ said lie,‘down
to 3 little Ilarrieane, ’bout three miles from
our tent, where I knew there imist be a plen-
ty of beer. ’Twas mighty cold, and my
dogs were in fine order and very busy hunt-
ing, when I seed wlicre a piece of bark was
scratched ofi'the tree. I said to my coni-
panioii, there is a bear in the hollow of this
tree. I examined the sign, and I knew it
was right. I called my dogs to me ; but to
git at him was the thing. The tree was so
large ’twould take all day to cut it down,and
there was no chance to climb it. But upon
looking about, I found that there was a tree
near the one the hear was in,; and if I could
make it full agin it, I could then climb up
and get him out. I fell to work and cut the
tree down ; but, us the devil would have it,
it lodged before it got there. So that scheme
was knocked in the head.

‘I then told my companion to cut away
tipoii the big tree, and I would go oil‘ some
distance to see if I couldn’t see him. He
fell to work, and he liad’iit been at it long
before I seed the old bear poke his head out;
but I could’t shoot him, for ifI did, I would
hit him in the head, and he would fall back-
wards: so I had to wait for him to come
out. I did’nt say any thing: but it wan’t a
minute before he run out upon a limb and
juriiped down.

‘I run as hard asI could, but before I got
there he and the dogs were hard at it. I
didti’t see much of the light before they all
rolled down a steep hill, and the bear get
loose and broke, right in the direction ofthe
Hurricane. He was a mighty large one,
and I was ’fraid my dogs would loose him,
’twas such a thick place. I started after him,
and told my friend to come on. 'Well, of
all the thick places that ever you did see,
that bear carried me through the thickest.
The dogs would sometimes briiigliiin to bay,
and I would try for my life to get up to ’em,
but when I would get most there, he would
git loose. He deviled me mightily, I tcllyou.
I reckon I went a mile after the bear upon
my hands and knees, just creeping through
briers, and ifI had’nt had deer skin clothes
on, they would have tore me in pieces.

‘I get wet; and was mightily tired stoop-
ing so much. Sometimes I went tlirougli
places so thick that I doii’t b’licvc I could,
if I liad’nt the dogs figlitingjust before me.
Sometimes I would look back and I could’iit
see how I got along. But once I got in a
clear place ; my dogs, tired of fighting, had
brought the bear again to ba_v, and I had my
head up, looking over to git a shoot, when
lirst thing I kiiewl was up to my breast in
a sink hole of water. I was so infernal mad
Iliad a notion not to get out; but I began
to think it would’nt spite any body, and so
I scrambled out. My powder was all wet,

know what to do, I had been sweating all
the morning, and was tired, and I looked
rather queer with my wet leather clothes on;
but I barked my dogs on, and once more I
heard ’ein figlitiiig. I run on, mid while I
was going long I heard st-methingjump into
the water. ‘vVhen I got there I saw the
bear going up the other hunk of the Obion
rivcr—I liad’nt time to shoot him before he
was out of sight—hc looked niiglity tired.
Vllhen I came to look at my dogs, I could
hardly help from crying. Old Tiger and
Brutus were sitting upon the edge ofthe wa-
ter, whining because they could’iit git over;
and I had a mighty good dog named Car-
low,—lie was standing in the water ready to
swim; and I observed as the water passed by
him it was right red,-—lie was mighty badly
cut. VVhcnI come to notice my other dogs,
they were all right bloody,uiid it made me so
mad tliatI barked ’em on, and determined
to kill the hear.

‘I hardly spoke to ’em when there was ti
general plunge, and each of my dogs foriii-
ed a streak going straight across. I watch-
ed ’eni till they got out on the bunk, when
they all shook tlicinselves, old Carlow open-
ed, and off they all started. I satdown upon
the old log. The water was right red where
my dogsjunipcd,in and I loved ’ciii so mucli
it made me mighty sorry. \Vhen I come to
think how willingly they alljumped in when
I told ’em, though they were badly cut and
tired to death, I thought I ought to go and
help ’crn.

‘It was now about 12 o’clock. My dogs
had been running ever since sunrise, and we
had all passed through a hurricane, which
of itself was a day’s work. I could hear
nothing of my companion; I whooped, but
there was no answer ; and I concluded that
he had been unable to follow me, and had
gone back to the tent. I looked up and
down the river, to see if there was a chance
to cross it; but there was iioiie—no canoe
was within miles of me. 'While I was think-
ing of all these things my dogs were trailing;
but allat once I heard ’em fighting. ljump-
ed up—I hardly knew what to do, when a
notion struck me to roll in the log] had
been sitting on, and cross over on t|iat.—
’Twas a part of an old tree, 12 or 15 feet
long, lying on a slant. I gave it a push, and
itito the water it went. I got an old limb,
straddled the log, with my feet in the water,
and pushed off. ’Twas mighty ticklish work:
I had to lay the limb across, like a balance
pole, to keep me from turning over, and
then puddle with the band that wzis’nt
holding the rifle. The log did’ntfloat. good,
and the water came up over my thighs. Af-
ter a while I got over safe, fastened my old
log to go back upon, and as I went up the
bank I heard my dogs tree. I run to ‘em as
fast as I could ; and sure enough, I saw the
old bear up in a crotch. My dogs were all
lying down under him, and I do’nt know
which was the most tired, they or the hear.

‘I knew Iliad him, so I just sat doivii and
rested a little ; and then, to keep my
dogs quiet, I_,got up, and old Betsy thun-
-tcrcd at him. I shot him right through the
lieart, and he fell without a struggle. I run
up and struck my knife into him several
times up to the hilt, just because he deviled
lllC so much ; but I had hardly pulled it out

before I was sorry, for he had fought all day

except the load in my gun, and Idid’nt-

like a man, and would have got clear but
for me.

‘I noticed when the other dogs jumped on
him to bite him, old Carlow did’iit git up.——-
I went to him, and saw a right smart puddle
of blood under him. He was cut into the
hollow, and I saw he was d_ving—nothing
could save him. V/liile I was feeling ’bout
him, helicked my hand; my eyes filled with
tears; I turned my head away, and to case
his siifferiiigs, plunged my knife through his
heart. He yelled out his death note, and
the other dogs tried to jump upon him : such
is tlienature ofa dog. This is all I hate in
bear hunting. I did’iit get over the death
ofmy dog in some time ; and I have a right
to love him to this day, for no man ever had
a better friend.’

SUDIDIARY.

Cmious IIz'st0i'ical Fact.-—During the
troubles in the reign of Cliarles I, a country
girl came to London, in search ofa place as
a servant inaid—but not succeeding, she
hired herselfto carry out beer from a brew
house, and was one of those called tub-wo-
men. The brewer observing a good looking
girl in this low occupation, took her into his
family as a servant, and after a short time
married her, but he died while she was yet
a young woman, and left her the bulk of his
fortune. The business of the brewery was
dropped, am] Mr. Hyde was recommended
to the young woman as a skilful lawyer, to
arrange her husband's affairs. Hyde, who
was afterwards Earl of Clarendon, firiding
the \vidow’s fortune considerable, married
her; of this marriage there was no other is-
sue than a daughter, who was afterwards
the wife of James 2d, and mother of Mary
and Anne, Queens of England.

Sound Doctrine.—Tlie following senti-
ments are from the pen of Edward Living-
ston, President Jackson’s late Secretary of
State, and present Minister of France.—-
Thcy are extracted from his coriirnentaiy
on President Jefl'crson’s conduct towards
him, in case ofthe battle at New Orleans.
His remarks aptly illustrate the present rela-
tion ofI’resident Jackson and the people of
the United Statcs.— Cin. Gaz.

“Tire gloss zeal for the public is always
spread over acts of oppression; and the
people are sometimes made to consider that
as a brilliant exertion ofenergy in their fa-
vor, which, when, vicwed in its true light,
will be found a fatal blow to their rights.

“ In no government, is this effect so casi-
ly produced as in a Republic ; party spirit,
inseparable from its existence, there aids the
illusion, and a popular leader is allowed, in
many instances, impunity, and sometimes
rewarded with applause for acts that would
make a tyrant tremble on his throne.”

Selma, (/Ila.) 17th October.-—A fatal
rciicouritcr took place in Caliawha on Sat-
urday last, I)0t\V9Crt ‘Mr. Joseph C. Hud-
dlcstoii and Mr. Scaborn J. Sorrel, which
resulted in the death of the foriii-
cr. .Tlie circnmstanc_es of this unfor-
tunate cvent, as they have been related to us
are briefly these :——A difference of two or
three weeks standing had existed between
the parties ; and the deceased in the cxccii-
tion of some threats lieliad previously made
attempting to chastise Sorrel, who dischar-
god both the barrels of a double barrelled
gun at him, lodging their contents in his
body, and terminated his existence. In the
progress ofthe reiicounter Huddleston flash-
ed a pistol at Sorrel.

P7'oji(.'tble Imiestnz.ent.—Captain Steele,
ofthe brigCalccdony,says the Boston 'l'ran-
script, sailed from this port on the 14th of
October, 1831, for the coast of California.
Just previous to his departure, be invested
the whole stock of his affections in a \Vifc,
which he took out with him as cabin freight
onspcculatioii. The brig returned from her
long voyage this morning, and we are hap-
py to learn that Capt. Steele and his lady
are in excellent health, and that a fine boy
and beautiful, girl, named respectively,
Neptune and Ianthc, have been passed to
the credit of Profit and Loss——balaiice of
the matrimonial Speculation--since the
brig’s absence.

W'c regret, says the Courier &. Enquirer,
to extract froui the Augusta Chronicle, the
following information on the critical state of
alliiirs in Alabama. Should it be true, the
consequences may be of a character so so-
rious, as to render it fearful to every friend
ofthe union to contemplate them.

“In addition to the particulars given by
Columbus papers, it is stated by a gentle-
man just arrived in this city from Alabama,
that 400 of the Alabama settlers were armed
and eiicaniped at the Pole-catSprings, wait-
ing the approach of the U. S. troops, which
(consisting of 150 men) had moved on to-
wards that place, with the determination to

expel them by force.
[C/tarls. Cour. Oct. 28.

JlIrs. Parmcntier’s Garrlcn.—'I‘liei°e have
been some inaccuracies as to the price, 6.50.
at which the above garden was recently
sold. VVe learn, froni undoubted authority
that Mrs. P. sold her garden lot, contain-
ing 23 acres, for 57,000 dollars. Mrs. P.
has the ‘privilege, for one month, to sell
plants and slirubhery from offtlie premises,
and we are happy to learn that she is dis-
posing of tlieiri at a rapid rate. It is calcula-
ted that she will realize from the. sale three
or four thousand dollars over the purclinsc
nioiiey-makiiig the total sum more than
sixty thousand dollars. Y. Gazette.

It is the opinion ofrnany, that the visits
of Mr. Clay, will have the desirable effect
of making the people of the \Vcst and of
the East more cordial in their feelings and
united in their views. Mr. "\Vcbster’s visits
to the \Vest must have coiitrilitited to the
same good purpose. And surely it must be
desired by every sincere patriot, that there
may be less sectional feelings and vices
among the politicians and citizens of the
extreme parts of our country.

Iiicrezliblc Brutalii‘_1/ and Crime.-—\Ve
learn that a most atrocious mid appalling
murder was committed on Fi'it.lay night last,
near Frederica, in Kent County. 'I‘he par-
ticulars, as we have heard, them are as fol-

lows :-—'I‘lie perpetrator of the deed, Geo.

Bonwell, lives on the Dover road-about three
miles this side of Frederica——tbe victim
was his oivn daughter—u young girl of 14-
or 15 years of age.-—I-Ie had returned home
in the evening, and found one of the young-
er children crying, and upon inquiry was
informed that it had been corrected by the
elder daughter. \Vithout further inquiry
he attacked his daughter with savage fero-
city, knocked her down with a heavy stick,
and liberally crushed her ribs by stamping
on her with his his feet. She died in about
thirty minutes. The innocent victim ofthis
appalling crime, we are informed, had late-,

ly finished her education at the board--

ing school of Mr. Samuel Hills in this city,
and was an amiable and deserving girl.——
Bonwell is in good circumstances. He has
been committed to Dover jail to await his
trial. [Delaware State Journal.

ZVcw York and Bostrm.—There appears
to be a new project to improve tlieinter-
course between these two commercial cities.
If we understand the plan, it is to make a
Rail Road dovrii Long Island to some place
on the Sound, and then cross over to Con-
necticut or Rhode Island in a steaniboat.—
Iftlie rout were from Brooklyn to River
Head or Southold, about 90 miles the water
passage would be short to Stonington or
New London. The travel on the Rail
Road might be from I0 to I5 miles an hour
Tliejoiiriiey would be one of steam by land
and steam by water.

The Charleston Mercury says the mere
defeat of Garrison and his followers, is not
sufiicicnt to satisfy the South, and errone-
ously attributes that defeat to motives of
“interest or produce.”——The “ North must
abandon all idea of abolition and cease to
agitate the subject at all, to satisfy the
South.” Iftlie Mercury were not deter-
mined to be dissatisfied, it could not fail to
see in the whole conduct of the North, :1
(letermiuation——settled and irresistible—not
to meddle with the subject at all.

The Inn-keepers, and keepers of what
are called Cofee and Porter Houses, in
Cincinnati, have recently held several mee-
tings in reference to a new ordinance ofthe
City Council raising the price ofa license
from $50 to $1.00, and forbidding sale with-
out license, and, on Sunday, with some ex-
ceptions; and they threaten, unless the
Council repeal this law, that they will rip-
ply to the Legislature for an Act to compel
them to do so.

The Roman Catholic Bishops now as-
semblcd atBaltimore, have an immense pat-
ronage. They receive annually a large sum
from Rome, which each individual disbur-
scs according to his own opinion of the best
way to advance the interests of himself and
Catholicism. The Bishop of Ohio alone
receives upwards of twenty-five thousand
dollars of this money. [N. Y. Jour. Com.

South America, with the single exception
of Paraguay, seems to be in the very worst
condition ofany people on the Globe, who
make any pretensions to even a shadow of
government. They owe about $100,000,000
oflcans in Europe; and what have they
done with the money 'l-——wliy spent it in con-
stant broils, rebellions, and throat cutting.

E. If. Avery.-—VVe learn from Bristol,
that this individual returned to that place
about ten days since, where he now resides
with his family. VVc also learn, that he
has been suspended from his ministerial la-
bors, for the present, by the conference, and
that he now takes no part, or attends any of
the religious exercises which are observed
by his congregation.-[ Providcnccpa.

A new Boston Notion.-—Tlie Bostonians
are circulating a petition, praying for a re-
peal ofthe laws restricting the rate of inter-
est to 6 per cent. They say that the rate of
interest in N. York being one per cent. high-
er th:ni it is in Massachusetts drains thelat-
ter of its capital. [Courier.

Spccic.—The following is the amount of
specie exported during the last week from
this port, viz :—-For Padang, $50,000, Su-
matra, $22,000, Calcutta, $1-4.600, Per-
nainbuco, $4,320. Total, $90,920. All
the above was in silver except $9,600 which
was in gold shipped to Calcutta. [Bost.pa.

The Philadelphia Intelligencer says that
a memorial will be laid before the next Le-
gislature of Pennsylvania, praying for an
act to protect the citizens from the careless-
ness ofStearn boat engineers.

The whole number of births in Philadel-
phia during the last 13 years was 83,042-
the number of deaths for the same period,
55,518; leaving and excess of births of
26,824.

Twojurors were fined ten dollars each in
the Superior Court of North Carolina, for
having fallen asleep during atrial which
was to be submitted to their consideration.

The Ohio Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal church, are about to establish a
Literary Institute in Norwalk, Huron coun-
ty, on the manual labor principle.

The final survey of the Rensselaer and
Saratoga Rail road was completed on the
18th ult. ; and it is stated that the work will
be put under contract on the l2tli inst.

The Secretary ofthe Treasury has selected
the Bank of Burlington, at Burlington, Ver-
mont, as one of the depositories of the pub-
lic moneys of the U. States.

Mr. Clay was born April 12, 1777, and
is approaching his 57th year.

The New Jersey Legislature adjourned
on Friday the 1st, until the 8th of January.

The editor ofthe Augusta Courier speak-
ing of using castor oil for lamps, says he had
much rather burn that coniniodity than to
swallow it.

Mr. Oiitelet, in his criminal statistics,
states that ‘oflI29 murders committed in
Fraiicc, during the spaceof four years, 4-16
were the consequence of quarrels in tip-
pling shops.’

N610 Y0rk.~——Tlie expense of widening
Nassau street, New York, is calculated at
$700,000. It is proposed to add twenty-
live feet to the width, so as to make a sixty

foot street.

The Mormons.--A friend from the upper
part of Oxford county, informs us, that one
Mormon preacher from Ohio, and another
from New Hainpsliire, reinforced by a pair
of preachers from Saco, have been making
a great stir somewhere aboutLakeUmbagog.
In ilie plantation of Letter B. in the vicinity
of Lake Umbagog, nearly the whole of a
Freewill Baptist cliurcb, miniberiiig thirty
persons with their pastor, have gone over to
the Mormonites, and avowed their faith in
the book of Mormon. They have all been
re-baptised in the waters of the Lake.—
In Aiidover the preachers have had some
trouble with the citizens, and were rather
unceremoniously dismissed.—[Port. Adv.

FOREIGN.

From the l\ew York Observer
By arrivals at this port, London and Paris
papers have been received to the 30th of

September.
GREAT BRIT A IN.

Emliarlmtion of more Recruits for the
Queen. of P0rtugal’s service-—Ou Saturday,
Says a London paper of Sept. 30, about
200 recruits were marched from Ruther-
liitlie, to embark in smacks, which will con-
vey them to Gravesend, where they will be
taken on board a steamer engaged to sail for
Lisbon. During the week about 700 men
sailed from Gravesend, Captain Symcs,
an officer of thirty years’ experience in the
British army, after he had marched off the
above 200 men, enrolled as many more at
the King's Head, Orchard-Street, \Vest-
iniiistcr. He gave notice that he had re-
ceived orders to enlist another detachment

of 1,000 men.
FRANC E.

Re-appearance of Cholera in Paris.—VVe
regret to amiouncc, says a Paris paper, that
the cholera has again broken out in Paris.
On the 20th mid 2Ist of September, within
forty eight hours, eighteen cases were
brought to the Hotel Dieu, seven of which
proved fatal within a few hours; being quite
as many cases and as many deaths as took
place at this great hospital within the same
period at the onset ofthis epidemic in 1832.

New Miltargf Expedition to Algiers.--A
Paris paper of Sept. 28th, says: “The Bugia
expedition, which has been for some time
in preparation at Touloii, sailed on Sun-
day last, under the command of M. Perse-
val Desclieiies, having on board 1,800
troops. Bugia is seated about halfway be-
tween Algiers and Constantino, and a few
leagues from the mouth of the Zowah, one
ofthe most considerable rivers of the Re-
gency, aiid on the banks of which the city
of Constantina is built. As a military sta-
tion, according to the best opinions, it may
be a second Gibraltar. The Spaniards took
possession of Bugia towards the end of the
sixteenth century.

PORTUGAL.

Dates from Oporto to Sept. 19th, state
that no further attack had been made by
tlie Miguelitc forces. It was confidently
circulated by the Miguelitc partisans, that
Marshal Bourniont would not make anoth-
er attack upon Lisbon, but that his plan of
warfare was to cut of all supplies by land
from entering the capital, and take up his
winter quarters at Coiinbra. He had re-
ceived, according to one account, a consid-
erable sum of money shipped by Miguel’s
agent in London, on board the Lord of the
Isles steamer,besides a quantity ofamunition
and stores. Another account stated that
the Lord of the Isles, had been captured by
two of the Queen’s ships. The steamer
had on board twenty-seven French otlicers
who were going out to join Marshal Bour-
inont, and was also heavily laden with ain-
unition and warlike stores. It is likewise
stated that a small schooner laden with shot
had shared a similar fate.

SPAIN.
Clzolrra at Seville, Malaga, é§~c.—The Ma-
drid Gazette of the 19th of August, states
that the king of Spain is in the enjoyment
of good health. The cholera continues to
occupy public attention. At Seville, the
deaths on the lltli were 125, and on the
12th, 117. At Triani, there were 38 deaths
on the lltli and 12th, and 84 on the 13th.
Letters from Madrid of the same date an-
nounce that the cholera has spread to Gre-
nada and Malaga.
ITALY.

Reception of the Duchess of Berry in
Florence and t/ze Papal Stales.—The Qua-
tidiemie gives the following extract of a let-
ter of the 18th inst. from Bologna :-—“ The
Duchess of Berry who left Florence on the
15th, after being treated IIIQTBZWIIII the
greatest distinction,arrived here on the 16th,
inst. Immediately after her arrival, the
bands of all the troops of the garrison play-
ed symphonies and marches under the win-
dows of the palace where she aliglited.—
Cardinal Spinola, the Legato in command
of the Marches, waited upon the Princess,
who soon after received visits from all the
civil and military authorities. General Gra-
liowski, commander of the Austrian corps,
ofoccupation, had the honor of paying his
respects to her. The Dutches also received
the officers ofthe Swiss corps, in the service
ofthe Pope. Several of the latter had ser-
ved in France, and the Duchess who recog-
nized them on the instant, cotiversed with
them in the most kind and affable manner.
This morning all the garrison troops filed
off before her royal higliness, amidst milita-
ry music. The air of“Vive Henri IV.”
was performed on the occasion. Her health
is very much impaired. Although liarrass-
ed by a continual cough, her heroic courage
keepsxup her spirits. Madame is going to
see her son. The Viscount deiChateaubri-
and, who was to meet the Princess at Van-
ice,is expected here. We learn from Flor-
ence, that Baron de Tallcyrand had caused
a report to be spread that the Duchess could
remain there only 24 hours ; but she stayed
at Florence six days, and was treated as u
Princess.”

TURIKEY.

Constantinople had been visited by one
of the most destructive fires oti record. A
space ofthree miles in circuit, occupied, it
is supposed, by at least 12,000 houses and
50,000 people, was luiddessolate in three
days. According to some estimates the dos-
t.uctioa extended to one fifth part of the



NORWALK GAZETTE.

TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 12,1833.

\Ve find the followingin the New York papers
and give it place. There is certainly it proprie-
ty in making steamboat owners liable for any in-
jury wbicli may occur through carelessness, reck.
lessness or ignorance. It has been settled by
numerous decisions, that stage owners are liable.’
and no reason can be given why steamboat own-.
ers should not be equally so. Indeed we presume
at common law they are.

It will be difficult, however, to regulate by
legislative enactments, the quantity of steam in
boat shall carry, or the rate per mile at which she
shall travel. Tliis,like every other business, must,
be left to regulate itself by tho in(e,-est of those
engaged in it, and no laws, which will not act as
injurious restrictions, can exert, a stronger influ-
ence. Restrictive laws,which will bind down and
fetter the business of running steamboats, leaving
no room for enterprise and improvement, will be
both impohtie and unjust.
been passed soon, after the application of steam
power to navigation, the improvements which
have been made, would not havegbcen made, and
now when accidents are becoming less frequent
and, in consequence of the accidents which have
occurred, the requisites for safety have been dis-
C°V°l'€da and are being applied, and, every thing
promises as great a degree of perfection, as from
the nature ofthings can be attained in any art,
there is no propriety in the interference of Con-
gress.

But, although little can be effected by law,
much may be by public opinion, and from public
prosecution. The fear of loosing public confi-
dence and support, and a regard for their own
lives and piopeity,ure the great restraints under
which owners and agents now act. If to this
were added the certainty that lterruy damages
would be recovered by passengers who sh HIILI
stiffer in person or in property, their combined
influence would be suflicicnt,or at least would be
all that can be done.

A premium of fine hundred dollars is of-
fcred to any person who will draft a bill for
regulating steam boat navigation, that will
meet with the approbation of congress, and
pass into a law at their next session. Ifsev-
eral drafts are offered, the premium will be
given to the author of that which shall be
passed without alteration, if any question
sliouhl arise as to the person entitled to the
reward, the matter will be referred for de-
cision to the Hon. James Kent. The bills,
when prepared, may be left with the editor
of the New York Daily Advertiser, who wil
disclose the name of the individual guaran-
teeing the payment of the premium.

Had any such laws

The Southern papers are commenting on the
anti-slavery movements of the North, with vari.
ous degrees of scvcrit_v—some in a spirit ofkiud-
ness, deprecating the movements as likely to pro-
duce worse evils than slavery, and others in a
spirit ofdr.-fiance, and all in terms of disapproba-
tion. Can an attempt to throw the torch into
the nation, in its present combustible state, when
-gnition and destruction are almost certain, be
excused on the score ofduly? VVe wish some one
whose province it is, would take up the subject,
and convicc the Abolitionists that in the decision
of what is duly, consequences are as much to be
considered as anything. It is no man's duty to
make useless, much less worse than useless efforts.

 

The militia system seems to be getting into
general disrepute. At a company training in N.
York city last week, no person could be found
to accept the ofiiccs, and the company was dis-
banded, as it came I0gCIIlC",‘VlIIl none but a Cap-
tain, and lie_left the ground minus his sword and
accoiitrements. That the people should be re-
lieved from every thing unnecessary respecting it,
is rational and just, and that the organization
might be retained, without so many useless pa-
rades is equally clear. The time is not for dis-
tant when this change will be effected.

 

THE Wr«:..i'riiim has been unusually severe the
last l0 days for the season. Ice ofthe thickness
ofari inch has made in this place, and many fields
of potatoes which had not been gathered ‘have
been injured. Severe frosts have been feltiin the
southern cities, and there is an end of the yel-
low fever in New Orleans for the season. We
have heard nothing ofthe cholera for some weeks
—tliat. too has disappeared. Probably no peri-
od within the last twenty years has a greater or
more general degree of health been enjoyed.-
The scarlet fever, however, is prevailing to some
extent in Canada, and there, as everywhere else’
proves very fatal.

The Hampderi (Mass.) Whig gives a hot-
rible aceount of a man who ventured into a
cage of tigers belonging to some travelling
menagerie that had lately exhibited in
Sprigfield, and upon one accasion the tigers
would not suffer him to come out for several
hours, and he was only cxtricated at last
by administering stupefying doses to the
beasts. The next day the fool-hardy keep-
er again entered the cage, when lie was fal-
len upon by the tigers, and instantly torn to
pieces. [C'om~ier.

The above article is circulating extensively in “

one menagerie in the country which has a pair of
tigers suiliciently tame to permit a person to enter
the cage with them, and that was at New Bruns-
wick, all well on the 9th inst. This pair and the
keeper who is thus familiar with them, were im-
ported from London, and were bred ifwe mistake
not, in the tower. They have been accustomed
to the visits of their keeper ever since they were
young, and are usually as docile as dogs.
Iftlie paragraph was true, it would be a re-
freshing drop in this time of drought; but unfor-’
tunately, like the “ IMPORTANT NEWS” of
the capitnlation of Bourinant, before Lisbon,
which drew so heavily on the large type of the
trade a few days since, it is untrue. The man is
alive, well and playing with the tigers.

The New Haven Palladium informs us that M".
Clay left Hartford at 10 o'clock Friday morning,
7"’ SP1‘ lngfivldi and that he would thence pit;
cecd to Albany. ~

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