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Correspondence of the N. Y. Times and Star.
WAsat.\‘e'roi'v. Bin. 5. 1841.
Anew edition of the Pennsyl‘vaui'a contest-
ed election case has been served up in the-House
‘of Representatives to-day. Soon after theHouse
was iiigaiiized, Mr. Medell. of Ohio, moved
lhaft Mr. Ingersoll should h_ave leave to show be-
fore the bar oftheHouse.tlie grounds on wliicli he
claitnsthe seat now held by Mr. Naylor. After
some debate, in which Messrs. Barnard of N.
Y. and Alford, of Gs..‘ took a conspicuous part.
the leave was granted.
' His speech evidently failed to answer the ex-
pectations‘ ofhis friends. It was truly ‘ Weary»
stale.flat. and unprofitable ;‘ for his facts.he call-
ed on his imagination-‘--for his wit. 116 _3P_Pf33l€d
(in vain) to his memory.‘ It tv_as'a r6P3“"°“ 9f
the same dull. worn_out.incre_dible story ofwhig
' tired inspectors. _ . ._
In the Senate, Benton's Bill for prospective
pt-e-emption was again the subjectofdisoussion.
and gave occasion fuf‘ sddie sharp sparring be-
-tween Massrs. Crittenden and Buchanan. The
question ofthe U. S. Bank having been by some
means logged in by the latter. Mr. Crtttenden
said that hetook this occasion to repeat what
he had expressed on others,thal’. he believed the
people would ultimately see—and indeed that
they already saw—that a'National Bank woulrl°
be the only means of regulating the currency
throughout the Union.
\Vie'.~ot\‘i=:spAY. January 6.
We have had a highly interesting debate in
the Senate this morning. 0D the Land B1“ Pm‘
posed by Benton. =
Mr. Clay made a masterly argument, He
showed the impolicy of the proposed law.tn ad-
mitting unnaturalized foreigners to equal rights
with those born on the soil—the absurdity that
by lessening the price of the public lands, and
selling them on a credit. the reventte ofthe gov-
ernment would be increased. He put it to the
honor of ihose who favored the introduction of
the bill whether an ‘expelled ministry’ ought to
endeavor to pass laws whose tendency would be
to fetter and impede the action of the new ad:
ministration. He said that as retzartled General
Harrison all such. alliéirlpts would he in vain--
fhat though prescription formed no feature of his
policy. and’ though he believed those persons
who discharged their duties with hopesty and
capacity,without unduly interfering with the po-
litical questions of the day—-if any such could be
found—would be retained in 0ll‘ice—yet either
he or they had greatly ‘mistaken the character
of Gen. Harrison. iftliey thought he was to be
imimidated from the discharge ofhis duty by any
prospective legislation. He showed too the door
that would be opened to bribery and corruption
on the part of theRegisters of the land offices by
the passage of the proposed bill ; and dwelt with
great force on the inconsistencies ofthese new
advocates of the denizens of log cabins,wben com-
pared with ‘their illiberal course on this very
question on a former occasion.
‘Mr. Wright of New York.replied in support
of the bill.
Mr. Clay rejoined with a few remarks in a
very happy style. Among other things. he told
the Senator from New York that the bill was to
be considered one of t_he ‘Land Tra ps’ that had
been periodically set by his party for so many
years.and ‘to so little purpose, that he wandered
at their perseverance. more especially, as. at the
last election, they had only succeeded in taking
four out of the nine States for whom the bait
was laid. ‘ In conclusion,’ said Mr. Clay. ' I
have to‘ gtv'e_the advocates oflhis Bill one short
piece of counsel—that in politics as in pricclle
afl'airs.honesl.y is the best policy.’
The hour being late.Mr-Hubbard liere moved
the postponement of further discussion ofthe
subject, and the bill, with its amendments. and
the amendments proposed. should be printed.-
This, motion meeting with the approbation ofthe
Senate. an adjournment followed.
In the House, the morning hour was mostly
occupied in the discussion of s bill making an
appropriation for the support of the lunatics in
the District of Columbia. This bill the House
refused to pass by a vote of yeas 77-—noes 87.
Mr. Ingersoll consumed tlierest ofthe dayin
the House ‘with the cotitinuation of his speech
commenced yesterday. , , _
So the people ofthe U. States have lost the
best part of twodays to gratify the vanity of Mr.
, Charles J. Ingersoll—tlte gentleman ‘who would
have been a Iory. lia_d he lived in the days of
the Revolution.’
Tnurtsosv, Jan. 7.
In the House. to day. the further considera-
tion of the Resolution reported from the Com-
mittee on Elections. last session. declaring that
Charles Naylor was duly elected as member
from the 3d CongressionalDistrict of Pennsylva-
nia, was postponed till Monday next.
Senate. The Secretary ofthe Treasury com-
municated a Report from the several Banks of
this District, sltowing the condition of their af-
fairs. .
Of the reports made. all were on private
claims,save one from thcCommiitee on Finance,
in favor ofautltoriziug tlieSecreta ry oft iie'[‘reas-
ury to Extend indulgence to certain deposlte
Banks. The Banks in question are thoseof
Natchez.and ifindulgence can ever be‘ properly
extended. it isin a case like this, where‘ a city
was first visited by fire,and then by a destructive
tornado. '
The Prospective Prcentplion Bill was again
taken up as the order ofthe day, and was dis-
cussed with great power and eloquence.
Mr. Huntington said he knew very well there
was a large majority ofthe body in favor ofsotne
pre-emption system, and, therefere. would not
go into the general principles ofthat measure.-—
'His~ business‘ was with the Bill before him,
which be literally dctnolished.section by section.
showing that, if it were passed as it then stood.
it must prove injurious to the States collect-
ively.
Mt‘. Hubbard and Mr. Young spoke highly
in favorofthe bill. contending that nothing was
to be apprehended from its passage.
Mr. Preston drew a picture of the VVest, that
glorious and fertile region, which was once the
appendage ofthe East, but now the times were
changed’ and all things seemed changed with
them—-the East was begining to he looked on as
the appendage of the West.
Mr. Anderson of Tcnnesse, gave notice of a
desire to address the Senate,,and at a late hour
it adjourned.
The bill will pass the Senate, but will not
probably pass the House.
Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.
FRIDAY, January 8.
Itithe House, to-day. Mr. Stanley introduced,
on le,ave.‘a bill to authorize the paytnent to the
States of the the Fourth 1-mstalmenl, undertlie
law of 1836, for the distribution .ot'-the surplus
- -revenue. as soon as the same can be done, after
- providing for the public debt.’ ~
Steam-boat d1'.sas('ers.
Mir. Utiderwood. from the-:'Select Committee
on the subject _'of' Steam-boat Disasters, reported
the three bills ofthe last session, without any
. essential alteration.
These billswere made the order of the day
Oregon. C ,
In the Senate, Mr. Linn introduced his bill
in extentl_'.the laws of the United States over the
territory of‘ore'gou.aad for the protection and set-
tlebcnt of the same. _
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Mr. Linn said he had forborue_to pre§§lh|§
sultjecl, at the suggestion of somsfrtetldsi lesl 5}?
might add to the controversy with (neat Bri-
'-tiu at a time wlieiianother qttcstiott of tmt,‘-’-01'
a rude was pending-;—to their sugge.-lions he had
yieldedhis assent. but not to his judgefflelll-—
He was one that never believed that the N. E.
Boundary question could be settled amicably.-
The British hadgone on. 9'80 by Step. Ufllll the
claim set up assumed quite a formidable shape.
It was notorious that at the treaty ofGbe0l.|hey
did not assert more than a mere shadow ofthe
claim. Delays were always dangerous. By
and by, unless something decisive was done, the
same claims would be made to the territory of
Oregon. _ Indeed" they had already pushed up
to the very confinesof Missouri and Arkansas
The [Iutlsou BayCompany were already bring.
ing emigrants ftotii ‘Europe, sliepards.‘ farmers
and others. and‘ had succeeded in depriving our
people ofthe trade with the Indians. Ifour claim
was valid, Mr. L. was for asserting it at once.
and maiutaing it._ At all events, he-thought we
ought. at least, to proceed puri passu with the
British government. The bill was referred to a
select committee offive. _ ‘
Prc-emplion Bill.
Quite an animated scene was exhibited after
Mr. Anderson had finished his remarks on the
Pre~emption bill. ,
Mr. Crittcnden moved to recommit the bill
with instructions to report aritendinents totlte ef-
fect that the proceeds ofthe sales ofthe public
lands should be distributed among the States;
and that the pre-einption principle should be
extended to such bona fialc settlers as choose to
enter a quarter session at $1 25 per acre. who. at
the time‘ of making their settlement, should not
be worth more than $1000.
Mr. Benton thanked the gentleman for that
motion. and also for what he had said the other
day about a Bank. It was developing the en-
tire policy ofthe new Adiniriistratiun.
VVe(S€lltl Mr.B.) have been charged with debt
—and what is to he the effect ofthis proposition?
It was 10 cfeate firsta national t‘lebt,wiIhoUt which
they could not haven national batik. He thunk.
ed the senator from his heart for shewing his
ha~t_d thus early.
Mr. Crittenden said theSenator was welcome
to all the advantages he could derive from any
ackiiowletlgeiiients he (Mr. C.) had made.—'-
He was always friendly to thedisirihution of
the proceeds of the sales of the public lands a-
itiong the States, He alway Spnlie-f.llS semi.
ments freely.witltout disguise. without conceal-
ment. and, without fear, and would add to the
gentleman's obligations by matting another ac
knowledgement, which was, that he would
vote for such a tariff as would raise the reven-
ue to the point required. He did think it
was with an ill grace that an administration so
extravagant, so wasteful. and so mtich in dett.
should now come forward, in cxlrernis, to read
lessons ofeconomy.
Mr. Calhoun said he should move an amend-
ment by way of substitute for that offered by
the Senator front Kentucky. wlticli be “ (occde
the public lands to the States in which they lie.”
The bill was then postponed until Monday.-—
Thus the whole land question will be opened.
N. E. Boundary.
A highly interesting discussion took place af-
ter the Senate came out ofexecutive session on
this important topic. and when there were not.
more than five persons in the gallery, and the
lobbies quite empty. _
Mr. Wallter introduced a resolution calling
forthe debates in the British Parliament, prior
to 1520. in relation to the N. E.‘ boundary of
the United States. &c. I
Mr.Preston thought :ltis a very strange mode
of proceeding to regulate our concerns by the
speeches of members ofthe British Parliament.
Mr. Webster admitted theimportance ofthe'se
papers. be had referred to them befiire.
Mr. Allen thought it bad policy to protract
this question. He was for decisive measures,
and for closing the disputci.
Mr. Clay thought tltere was nonecessity now
to press the stibject.because it was in the hands
oftheExecutive.wherc it constitionally belonged.
and where he hoped it would be happily and
amic:ibly arranacd. lfwar must come. those
would not then be hindmost who were now most
con] and open to reason.
Mr. \Valltcr said he would leave the question
')per_t, and let his resolution lie for the present.
,, Mr. Clay.-—Tli'at is best—that is right.-
The Senate adjourned to Monday.
Correspondence of the Times zmal Star.
_Vl7iat)xEsnAY, Jan. 11, ‘I841.
One of the best speeches that has been
heard in the Senate this session was made
by Mr. Manguin, of North C:irolju:i,on Ben-
ton’s prospective pre-emption bill. After a
long; absence from the high councils ofthe
nation, Mr Man_<_z_um has returned, with no
abatement of that fire and energy fnr_ which,
equally with the soundness of his views, he
was ever distinguished.
This bill extends its provisions to aliens 5;
foreigners. offering inducetiicuts to all the
paupers of Europe to come over in swarms
and rob the rising: generation of our own
countrymen of their own just inhe‘fitance.-—-
Thu W2-st is to be made a vast lazer house
for the corrupt overplus of population swarm-
ed out from every kingdom ofthe old world.
_ll/fr. Mariguin spoke with great eloquence.
He was followed by Mr. Linn, who made a
few briefremarks, and then by Mr. Calhoun.
who gave way‘ to a motion to adjourn, and
who will have the floor to-marrow.
In the House, Mr. Naylor replied to the
speech of Mr. Ingersoll relative to the con-
tested election, delivered last: week. He oc-
cupied the greater part of the day with a
very eloquent and convincing speech. The
committee of ways and means having report.
ed a bill providing for the civil dc diplomatic
expenditures ofthe present year, the House
adjourned. ’
One of the appropriations made by the
bill above referred to, is for. the outfit and
pay of a minister to England, on official in-
timation ofthe recall of Mr. Stevenson hav-
inc, as I understand been made by the Sec-
retary of State. It is"rumored that Mr. Fort:
has requested hisrecall. . _, _
Mr. Preston’s, name stands foremost as
likely to succeed Mr. Stevenson. Of course.
on this point, nothing definitive can vet be
known. The name of Mr. Cusliing ofMass-
chusetts has also been mentioned. ' That
the offer will be made to Mr. Preston I have
little doubt.
TUESDAY. Jan. I2.
On Tuesday, after considerable time had
been devoted to private business. the Senate
orocee-.ded,to the discussion of the special or-
der, the bill relating to the permanent and
prospective pre-emption system, when
Mr. Calhoun rose anl addressed the Sen-
ate at some length in favor of his substitute’
for the amendment of Mr. Crittenden.
- Mr. Crittenden followed. and was replied
to by Mr. Benton-, \\'li_8D at a late hour, the
Senate adjourned. _ . ~ ‘I
. In the House, after the reference of sev.
eral private claims, &.c Mr. Sergeant report-
ed the Senate bill further to ‘amend the not
providing for taking lhe Sixth C9IfSflS,;\vilh
a small amendment, which was adopted;
and the bill was then read the third time
and passed. _ . i, ,f
Subsequently Mr. Sergeant rcpbiféd ‘the
bill from the Senate supplementaryjto the
act to abolish imprisonment for debt in cer-
tain cases, without amendment.
After some discussion, and the r'ection
of several proposed amendments, the lliwas
read a third time and passed. ‘
Sergeant, from the committeepn the
judiciary reported tliree bills from tje Sen-
ate. viz : _ ‘ '_ ‘ '
To confirm to the State of Indi a-the
land selected by her for that portion f the
Wabash and Erie canal which lies tween
the mouth of Tippecanoe river an ,Terre
Hanna, and for other purposes;
To prevent the counterfeiting of a" _for-
eign copper, gold, silver, or other -co , and
to prevent the bringing into the U. S tea or
uttering any foreign copper. gold, sil r, or
other coin. ’
To amend an act entitled An act’
fectually to provide for the punish ' nt of
certain crimes against the U. States, it for
other purposes.
These bills were then committed
the contested election between Mr.
and Ingersoll. ’
ing to the latest
returns, comprises 1,4. ,
men. - --
THE FLOOD.
the height attained during the memo ble
flood of 1801. Nearly all the buildings ast
of Front street had their first floors cov‘ ed,
and some ofthem to the dept of several ct;
and with the exception ofa few rods t ere
that street connects with Statc,aud with Tali
cott it was navigable. for boats. The bfdge
escaped without injury. ‘
By this calamity. from seventy-five t _one
hundred of our merchants (and some of hem
the heaviest in the city) are temporarily riv-
en from their places of business, and a least
two hundred families are placed in a re un-
comfortable condition, if not in a state _l ab-
solute distress.
We understand that the Bridge at Enlield,
is injured in one or_ttvo of its piers. but nbt so
much as to render crossing dangerous. l-
' We learn also, that the Western Railfload
(west: ofspringlfield, and not yet in ust’§( has
been somewhat damaged. -.
From the samc— Tuesday. ,_ «fl
The water has fallen about five teec, nd is
rapidly subsiding.,Our merchants tvhoyere
driven from-their bu_siness.;are getting,;€:§k
'5-
to their stores._ and the occupants of_th _Sl1t'-
rounded dtvelltngs, in comparison with eir
condition on Saturday, are comfortable',_hnd
feel out ofdantrer. . _ ' 5 '
The loss oftiur merchants will not be I‘) c.
\Ve understand that three bridtres ov r be
Connecticut—-—at Lyme,Orford, aridPier V’
have been carried off. These towns
hove Hanover, N. H. b
The bridge over the Farmington
Hartford is a good deal injured.
The Dutchess bridge over the Hons
ic at Canaan is swept away. j
The Hartford and New Haven Raillipad
is uninjured. , -. __ .
\’Ve learn that the Arch Bridge of tie
Western Rail Roud,at Chester, Mass.. w ch
needed but the key-stone to complete it, 'as
left a mass of ruins by the washing awa_ jof
the timber works that supported it. he
expense of this structure is said to be S 0,-
000. I
on-
From the Hartford Times. ,
The feeder dam, of the Farmington Ca al,
situated near Unionville; the most impo‘ nt
dam on the line of the canal, was much in-
jured, six or seven rods of it being car ed
away. The aqueduct in the north par of
Farmington, was much darriaged-—or.e er
carried away, and the trunk of the aqued tit
nearly or quite destroyed. We underst d
that a bridge in Avon turned~over,'one inEI.
Hartford, and another inCa::ton were car , d
away. Considerable damage was don to
fcnces,and by the washing away of land, c.
’ Alba.n_7/.——Large qtiantities of lumber n
the upper end of the pier have been sw pt
away, and a great amount of property on e
piers and docks destroyed. The river
some time was filled with lumber from abo ,
which had probably been brought down fr
Troy. It is estimated that not less t. u
$100,000 worth of property has been lost it
this city. ‘ '-
Thc New York Journal of Comme
says :
“ 'l‘he__re was an extraordinary rise in, th
CrotonRiver,greater than ever before know
One halfof the Croton dam, a new brid
above the draw, and three bridges and save
al mills belotv have‘been swept away. On
"1
and below the dam have been stvcptaway
have been lost. The flood came so rapidl
got into the trees for security.
The mason work of the dam remainsun
heavy stone protection wall of twenty fee
at a waste weir at Sing Sing, without dam
and new bridge is a serious‘ one to the city.
The work has been upwards of two years ‘it!
its construction, and was all but completed
lastautumn.” ' ‘TV
From the Pennsylvanian. - . :
Extract of a letter dated ‘ ' '_-V
BETHLEHEM, (Pa.,) Jan. 9th,‘ l84,l.l
4- * * All is confusion here. . Th
Lhhigh has been raised. by thefreshet seve
‘feet higher than in 1839. and fourlert It”
at then in I836. The loss of _tjoperty'1pf_
course _irnzn_e-nee. E'ret=y',,bjt'j?_, ge,.‘tvitb,bn
, e ef-.
ofthe bridges is crossed by the New ‘York
and Albany post road.. Several hottses above
and we regret to understand that three livgj
and in the night, that persons escaped from
their dwellings in their night clothes, ant
injured; but the earth embankment, with the
thickness at. its base, is all carried away.-
The water entered the aqueduct dischargino
exception, from Mnuch Chunk to Easton, is
gone. Houses and barns and stables by him-
dreds have been sweptaway. as-,\\’__€ll. 8S_l\\’b‘
thirds of the canal boats. The, ‘Cttn_al_IS S_0
much‘ injured that it is ibéliéved, that very lit.-
tle boating can possibly he done tiits year.-_—
In our little town, the houses in the. lower,
or VVater street, had from three to fiye
feet water in the second story. the flood H5-
ing_ about them to a, height fI‘0_m twelve
sixteen feet. The loss of furniture, &c. is
immensefigvery thing inoveable is gone.
and the banks ofthe river are swept away
to a considerable distance. The lumber
yard of Mr. ‘Weiss has not a board lell. and
the coal yard of Mr. Gouudie "was s\V_ep,t
pretty clean, together with his New brick
building. Mr. Becket's furnace is nearly a
total loss. Mr. Foster’s saw mill and dying
establishment have suffered severely, wlitch
is thecase with all property near the river.
So far, thank God, we have heard of no loss
of lives. though many dwelling ‘houses have
been swept away, in one of which a family
was carried down the river, a German.funi-
ilo was also swept away in a_ boat. No as-
sistance could be rendered here, nor at Eas-
ton','and we know not what has become of
the uufortunates, but hope forithe _best. One
man was taken from a log in comt_ng down
the stream.’ -The loss. in many instances.
fall on the poor. For several days no mails
have been received here. ‘
ARREST or THE MAIL 1toBBI«:t_ts.
It will be recollected that-our\Balttmore
Correspondent, un'der date of December 30th,
wrote us that accounts had been received In
that city of a most extensive robbery _of the
IVestern Mail, somewhere in the netgbor-
hood ofUnioutown,Fayette Co., Penn. ‘ The
robbery, he stated, was commenced about the
middle of November, and continued at in-
tervals up to the 18th ult. The pouch con-
taining the letters from New York and all
° points east of that city had been taken eight
times!-—having very large remittances in it
from merchnnts and Banks in New-York &
Boston. ' The statement was irttmcdiately
contradicted in the papers of the day—in
some of them on the authority ofpostmasters;
but the following account ofthe arrest of the
robbers, it will be seen, confirms in every
particular the information then given by our
Correspondent z——’ .
A-rrest.—The Uniontown, Pa. Democrat,
of Friday last, says :--Our town is now the
theatre of great excitcnient and commotion
growing out of the arrest of Dr. John F.
Braddee, of this place, and three of his sup-
posed confederates,‘ who are charged with
robbing the mail. Suspicion fell upon Mr.
Corman, the driver ofthe mail stage,who was
arrested at the instance of Mr. Plitt, a spe-
Corman soon confessed‘ the crime, and im-
plicated Dr. Braddee. his clerk, Pinn_ell,and
a person named Sayer, who were ‘all ar-
restedvlast night.’ A guard was placed over
the house 6:. outbuildings of Braddee through
the night, and in the morning a search was
'rii1"z'c,'iiiaiI bagsflabclied 3‘, New Y0fk.":"\\'hlCh
had been concealed in the bottom of the
privy. Further search was then made, and
a sum ofgmouey exceeding Ten T/iousruid
Dollars was found in the hay mo\v—besides
sundry apparatus forcoining mone-_v——pistols,
traveling trunks cut to pieces, &-c..&c. They
i_' are, all committed for want of bail, which
was placed at a high amount. On the ex-
amination, Mr. Plit.t gave it as his opinion
' that the sum extracted at this place in cash
and drafts must exceed one hundred thou.-
sand dollars. \Ve understand other com-
mitments ‘are contemplated. '
Shylock, from New Orleans, which arrived
at Mobile on the 28th ult. reported, as ap-
pears by the Mercantile Advertiser, that she
touched at Pass Christian, and while there,
learned that amutiny had occurred on board
the. schooner Alexander, of Pensacola. to
whose assistance an armed party went in a
sail boat. The boat returned while the,Shy-
lock waslying at Pass Christian.
The circumstances, as related to those on
the boat, are as follows: A ship master in
Pensacola had written to a shipping master
in New Orleans, for the purpose of engag-
ing a competent mate and six sailors; who
were to be Americans ; but the shipping
master, disregaiding this, shipped the men,
all being foreigners, and forwarded them on
the Alexandria, bound for Pensacola.
A short: time after sailing from the city
the several men mutiued : drove the Captain
and crew ashore, and took possession of the
schr. They soon grounded her. The Capt.
came to Pass Christian for assistnnc,e;€i_irid-a
party was formed and _fu‘lly_at;iried,and sailed
for her.
the mntineers had killed the cook soon after
tlieCaptain left; quarrel]ingamongthcmselves,
murdering three of their own party ; hoisted
a part of the cargo from the hold, and ‘threw
it overboard. They were secured, and were
to be transported to New Orleans as soon as
the schooner floated.—-Philadelphia Griz.
T its March of Tempemrtce.—By the A-
cadia -we have received London and Dub-
lin papers as late as the 28th Nov. The
teinperance cause both in.England, Scotland
and Ireland, is still onward. Father “ th-
ew has visited Dublin for the third timb, ad
taken 40,000 pledges, a greater proportion
than usual, from the highest classes. At
Castlerea he ‘had taken 65.000, and in Ul-
ster County he had been received with the
le_rs new numbers over three millions.
Dublin an offer of l0O0l. had been made
him ,but he would not accept of it. y A mem-
ber of the society of Friends in England had
requested him to draw on him for 10001. to
promote the caus_e of temperance, but he
had declined doing it. A gentleman from
age to the aqueduct. but the, loss at the darn London offered 5001. to bring him to Lon-
don, this hc refused, saying that to-the ‘Prov-
idence of Godgand not to human" aid. must
he look for the furtherance of the cause. '
Smil/t_ field Penitentiary is Closed !—There
was no longer any pretext for keeping it o-
pen. The steady decle_n_siori of -committals
‘to RichmondBtfidewell—tweltje,hundred_t.his_
-year less than _last--._has~‘left ahundred; c¢_i_ts
empty,‘ 1 Here is one of .tbI;!_- many sqvingra-
rising form’ ’ il¢1,f'P*.?i“*.’."".‘-'..-':'= ”'?‘. .9*‘?¢Z¢’?‘:: .
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cial agent of the Post Oflice Departmeut.——-
made’ wfilch resulted m findmg "0 1985 um" l Tliemfollotving from ait‘art‘tcl‘e“on the sub.
’[ject, written by a philosophical professor, for
Mutiny and Murder.—--The steamboat
On reaching the vessel, they found’
greatest enthusiasm. His army of teetotal-t
In t
. "’LATES'I,'.'-‘FROM FLORIDA. —
, A letter dated Fort -Hplmes, E.‘ F., 30th
tilt‘. states that in the"‘tifl'air,between Col.
Harneyand the Indians at-jthei_r town of
VViski kak, Lieut. Sherwood, :1 "Sergeant,
and three men’ were killed: Also, Mrs.
Montgoinery. wife of Lieut. Montgomery,
7th Infantry.» ‘ "
About $2000 worth of the property taken
from Indian Key last summer was found in
possession of the Indians captured by Col.
Hztrney, in the everglades.
A letter from Apalachicola, of the 20th
of Dec. states that Tiger Tail had surren-
dered to Col. Riley, at Fort: King; also,
nine warriors and seven others, who report-
ed that Chitto Tustenuggee would appear
very soon. ‘
The Body] of Napoleon.--The late Por-
the disinterment of Napolt-on’s remains. and
their removal on board the frig:iteBellcPouIe.
-under the supervision of Prince dc Jotnvtlle,
tnin Alexander, commissioners appointt=d.the
one by France and the other by England, to
superintended the exhumation.
change in the twenty years which had pass-
ed since it was inhumqd.
"parted lay exposed to the view of a group
of his old and faithful follotvers who were
permitted to be present, and of many who
now gazed upon them for the first time. —
The features were so perfect, and retained
so completely their natural form and charac-
ter,that General Gourgand, involuntarily ex-
claimed on beholding them, “Ban .’ lres ban!”
N. Y. Times.
Hamilton.
those ofthe majority of his associates.
his pen and sword.
vices of both be honored and appreciated.
“ The evil that men do lives after them
The good is oft interred with their bones,"
Alexander Hamilton.
maxims.
'5 Where the ofcnce is. let the great axe fall”
-—and there only.——N. H. Palladium.
By Request.
.. -.LI_GH.'I‘NliSG RODS.
the Vermont Cltxoriicle, is worthy of ob-
servation. ’ ‘ —
Discharges of electric fluid may take place
from the cloud to the ground or from the
ground to the cloud.
takes place from the ground to the cloud,and
a house, tree, or any thing else, which is not
a good conductor, is in the way, the greatest
destruction takes place.
rosin,or pitch, is shattered worse than any
one that does not, because rosin, pitch, &c.are
bad conductors.
Wherever the electric fluid passes on a
good conductor, on which there is no inter-
ruption. there is is no danger from it, and no
report. '
as readily as they will receive it from the
air. A needle will, from this point, carry
erful electrical machine, as fast as it can be
excited.
not therefore protect a building from the dan-
ger of a discharge where it takes place from
the ground to the cloud.
As the ground, particularly when moist.
is a much better conductor of the electric
no mean a perfect protection.
house may be struck by a discharge from a
cloud fo the ground. .
protection from thisterrible element, as they
are on the top of the conductor.
electricity may be silently !discharged from
occasions great loss of property, and often
life every year.
instead of round iron-—the_v ought to enter
the ground on both easterly and westerly
sides of a house, and in all cases united to-
gether on the roof,'ari_d to have a point or
points in each chimney; and also to have a
point ofa few inches in length, at every
place where the rods of which the conductor
is made, is united. Let it not be forgotten,
that the"rods going up must be united to-
gather on the roof. _ . ' r
A house thus protected, is perhaps as per-
fectly safe from electrical fluid, in a thunder
shower, as in clear weather. No one has
ever been injured, when the conductors con-
form to these principles and are accurately
put up.’ _
The Royal Baby.-.—--A court correspon-
dent of the Cheltenham Looker-on says :-
‘Let it be supposed,however,that the nurs-
ing ofthe Royal Infant will be altogether a
very easy or a comfortable office. From the
chiefsuperintendent down to the snb-duputy-
assistant-supernumernry-nurse, all and every
one are {to be forbidden, under any circum-
stances or pretext whatever to {kiss the child:’,
.,so-that let lierroyal babyship squall ever so
loudly. .Ille'll8.lI§Il-‘J nursery ‘endearments are
'[orbidd€D.’I!nSl ‘lb?-'y.may"paicify.and,,quiet"liei~
5lt?§t;f!i=3y.",,: I’ : ' “
as they ,1
ison Journals contain the official account of
assisted by Count Roan Chabot, and Cap-
The body appeared to have suffered little
The three coflins
—of which the exterior one was mahogany,
the second lead, and the third and last ma-
hogany—having been cu’. through, and the
‘ white satin sheet which covered the body re-
moved, the form and features ofthe great de-
Cannot the Register trade on its borrow-
ed capital from Jefferson without abusing
Is the latter, who was the bosom
friend of Washington, and‘ exposed his per-
son and his life in the battle ofthe revolu-
tion, to be treated like an Arnold or a Burr.
because his political opinions, honestly en-
tertained, happened to differ essentially from
He
and Jefferson were wide apart in their views,
andiboth were mistaken in many things; but
one was thetvauthor of the Declaration of In-
dipendcnce, and the other enforced it with
Let the fame and ser-
sayslthe poet. and it is too trite in the case of
“Equal and exact
justice to all men” was one of J’efferson’s
Let Hamilton have the benefit.-
When a discharge
A tree containing
Points will give of electricity to the air,
silently with no sensible report or noise,just
the fluid from the prime conductor ofa pow-
Most conductors attached to buildings,
have no sharp points in~the ground, and do
fluid, than the materials of which the build-
ings are composed. if the discharge takes
placefrom the cloud to the ground, the com-
mon conductors afford a tolerable though by
If the direc-
tion of the fluid is nearly horizontal, (as is
sometimes the case) and approaches the build-
ing on the side opposite to the conductor, the
Points in the ground are as essential to
Then the
the ground to the cloud. The want of this
f Conductors ought to be made of square
favottablc.
"of" 'the“deleg‘ation
SELECTED SUMMARY-.
A bustling place is our Rail'Road'Wharf
about these days. i The preparatibns for put-'
ting up new Stores, the other improvements
in progress, the arrival and departure of two
trains of Cars, every twenty h0l)l’I.iN'ld ‘to
stir up not a little activity’ at this dull gens.
on. _'The, ‘qtiantity’ of freight which fihdsits
way to our Depot is under all the circum.
stances a caution to unbelievers. A portion
of this freight is brought byteamsto -New
Milford front places. at a distance of severity,
or eighty miles. \Ve noticed in the carsa
few days since a large lot of Goods from an
establishment in North Adams, atown in
the north western part of Massachusetts.
-Bridgeport Standard.
Eram the Raleigh (N. C.) .Regialer.
Horrible .4fl"a,ir.-—VVe learn that two ne-
County‘ in this State, a few days ago, by a
gang of armed men. and deliberatly shot. at
night, by torclt light! The cause of this out-‘
rage was, that the negroes were charged
with a cruel murder, and doubts were enter-
tained, from the previous escape of an ac-
complice, whether the Jail was sufficiently
strong to keep the others safely until Court l,
This is the first instance we have ever
known, in our law-abiding State, of so gross’
a violation of all law, human and divine, and
we pray it may bcthe last. ‘A -
“Duty to W/rig Edi!ors.—-A correspon-
dent of the New York‘ Dcmbcratic Press
proposes to give the Whig Editors of. the
Union a dinner-for the services they have
pt.-rforrned in the late election. There isa
much better way for the people to show their
regard for such services. It is £11? to pay
up what they owe them; square ofl' their ac-
counts yearly and begin anew: and then
urge your neighbors, who depend upon bor-
rowing, to subscribe and pay for them too.—
This is but justice and right, and we hope
Prompt payment is the only means by which
a paper can be sustained.’
I’Vi(l0ws.—-—Coal that has been half burnt,
kindles more easily than fresh coal. So, a
widow falls in love and jumps. into the noose
of matrimony’more readily than a virgin.—
Widows always think they will never mar-
ry again, while their husband lies dead in
the house; but when the good man is com-
fortably covered up in his grave. they then
get married for fear that perpetual thinking
on their dear husband, will drive them to dis-
traction.
Virginia.-—=The Senate has consented to
go into an election of one United State: Sen-
ator in place of Hon. Wm. C. Rives, on
Monday the 18th inst. (This is to fill a va-
cancy which has actually. existed for nearly
two years) The Van Bu_ren__half of the
Senate refused by a party vote--l6 to l6—
to include the election, ofa successor to Hon.
William H. Roane, whose term expires on
the 4th of March next.
It isstdfécl an the auztiority of the Spy in
W'ashington, that Amos Kendall intends to
make New York his residence, and that he
will probably become associated with John
l._ Mumford in the editorial management of
the Standard. From this‘ we inferthat Mr.
Kend:ill’s proposalsifor his paper to be cal-
led Kendall's Expositor, have not been very
encouragingly responded to. '
A Reported Ban/c Fajltrre.-—The Pitts-
burg American of Friday says—'‘ The re-
port in town is, that the Gallipolis Bank is
gone by the board. We mark it to day at
no fixed price. One letter from Cincinnati
states that it is now selling at 50 per cent
disco_unt—~-another at ‘2.0.”—N. Y. Express.
At a town meeting in Middletown, on
Monday last, a vote was passed allowing any
person who chooses to sell wines and spirit-
ous liquors within the town for the current
year—subject of course to the laws of the
State on that subject. The same vote was
passed lzist year.
The inhabitants of Litchfield, on Monday
last. in Town meeting, by a vote ofl42 nay!
to l4l ycas, decided that they would not, for
the coming year, as they did the last. grant
permission to every freeman to retail liquor;
but by a vote of .158 to 76, decided that they
would grant them that privilege, condition-
ed that each one first pay into the treasury
of the town the sumof ten dollars.
The Supreme Court ofthe United States
convened at \Vashington on Monday of last
week. The case of the Amistad Africans,
will. probably come up on Friday. John
Quincy Adams, and Roger S. Baldwin, of
New Haven, are to plead their cause.
The following sign is over the door ’of
an ale house :-—'Table bear sold hear.’ A
wag made the remark thatthe bear mustbe
the person’s own bruin.
.-
No man sees the wallet on his back, says
the old proverb, alluding to the f'able'of the
traveller with two packs, the one before
stuffed with the faults of his neighbor—the
one behind with his own. , ‘
Francis E. Rives and George C. Drum-
goole. two leading Van Burcn Representa-
tives in -the present Congress‘ from the State
of Virginia, have both publicly declincdbev
ing candidates for a re-election. '
The docket of the Circuit Court of Adams
county, Miss., which has recently commenc-
ed its session, comprises a list of twenty-three
hundred cases, among which are many vio-
lations of the gallon law. ‘
Hiram Ketchum, Esq., has been appoint-
ed by the Governor and Senate, Circuit
Judge in the place of Judge Edwards, who
goes out of oflice in August. '
There are 1,555 Newspapers in th_e'Uni-
ted States: 267 in_ New England; 274 in
New _York 253 in Pennsylvania, and»l64
in Ohio, &c. &.c.
. The valuation committee of Massachusetts
has completed its labors. The whole value
of the property of all descriptions in the
$110,000,000’ is i,n»Boston. The valuation
qlggtys an increase" of $91,000,000" on that”of
, The.Florida war begins to wear 1 more
.a‘spect,-. and-lit is‘ hoped by tliehelp
S om ;A‘l‘ltIlifll‘~Il‘lIi¢8.
‘1‘:l'¢’.I‘.'.l.-ff-")....|.fil.|-St’ 39911 Iso-
the re
.iiit1.$t.¢4;='§. ‘’'g,,u;rr§pde: ,.
groes were taken out of the Jail of-‘Daupliri 0
they will come to the conclusion to do it.-'-'
Commonwealth is 8229.000,000,,of which .
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