"Oh, Vifilliam, dear William, how beauti-
fulthat is, you are always‘ learning poetry
to make me happy.”
“And Harriet my‘ own prised Harriet,
would I not do any thing in this world to
give you one ti‘iornent’s happiness. Oh. you
are so very. very dear to me, itseeins at tintes
almost to much happiness to last.”
"Oh, do not say so, dear Vllilliam, it will
last—--and weshall see’ many years happier
even than this, for will not our love be stron-
ger and deeper every year ; and nowdearest,
I will be back in one moment, and then we
will go.”
"‘There she has gone, bright and beautiful
creature that she i_s——Ohl how miserable I
should be without her—-she has indeed cast
a strongrspell around my heart. and 099 "mt
never can be broken‘. she is the only star of
my existence,_guiding me on to virtue and
happiness, and can I ever love her less than
now.’ can I ever desert her, can I ever
speak of her any otherthah in praise ?-—Oh
no, it is impossible——she is too good, too pure
——,-happy titan, that I am.”
“Finis coronant opus.”
‘Tm: SECOND Li-:Ar—si.z:_i/cars a/ler marriage.
“My dear, I will thank you for the sugar,
you did not give me but one luriip.
“\Vell Mr.Snooks, Ideclare you rise sugar
enough in your tea, to sweeten a hogshead
of vinegar. James keep your fingers out of
he sweetmeats; Susan keep still bowling,
I declare its enough to set one distracted-
there take that you little wretch.”
“VVhy, Harriet, what has the child done,
I declare you are too hasty."
"I wish Mr. Suooks, you would mind your
own business, you are always meddling with
what does not concern you.”
"Well Mrs. Snooks I want to know who
has a better right if I have_not—-you are al-
ways fretting and fuming about nothing."
"Po, Thomas is tearing your newspaper
all up."
“Thomas come here, how dare you to
abuse my paper? I will teach you to tear it
again——-theresir, how does that feel —now
go to bed.” _
“Mr Snooks, you horrid wretch——how can
you strike a child ofmine in that way..come
here Thomas, poor fellow—did he get hurt
-—never mind—hcre’s a lump of sugar; there
that’s a good boy.”
“Mrs. Snooks let me tell you, you will
spoil all the children, you know I never in-
terfere when you see fit to punish a child-—
its strange that a woman can never do any
thing right.
“Never do any thing right——-faith Mr.
Suooirs, if nobody did any thing right in this
house but yourself, I wonder what would be-
come ofus.”
“Let me tell you, Madam, this is‘ improper
language for you madam—-and I'll bear it
no longer. You are as snrippish and stirly
as a—a—dog—-and if there is a divorce to be
had in the land I’ll have it——you would wear
out the patience of a Job.” .
"Oh! dear, how mad the poor man is—
Well, good night my deor—-pleasant dreams.”
5 « “There she goes. Thank Heaven, I am
alone once more. Oh! unhappy man that
I am, to be chained down to such a creiture
—she is the essence of all ungodliness, cross
and peevish ! Oh! that I could once more
be abachelor; curse the day and hour I
ever saw the likeness of her. Yes I will
get a divorce; I can‘t live with her tiny lon-
ger, it is utterly impossible 3'’
Arrival of the Colunnbia.
The steam packet Columbia, arrived at
Boston at half past seven o’ciock on Thurs-
day morning. She left Liverpool on the 5th
and made her passage in 13 days to Halifax,
arriving there after a rough passage, on
Monday morning at 7 o’clock. She left
Halifax at 2 P. M. the same day.
The news brought by the Columbia is ex-
ceedingly interesting and important-the pro-
ccedings in parliament are particularly in-
teresting, as showing the measure which the
new cabinet intended to adopt or abandon--«
the corn law question, which is so important
to the great mass in Great Britain, is to be
passed over entirely till the next session of
Parliament in Feb. 1842. Notwithstanding
the numerous petitions which have been got
up all overgthe kingdom, to the effectthat her
majesty may notprorogue parliamenttillsome
step has been taken upon this question. The
new Chancellor’s financial scheme is given,
and a loan of three millions sterling has been
advertised.
Trade continues to remain in :1 very de-
pressed state in England, and the sufferings
ofthe operative-s.at'e extensive in consequence
The Britannia arrived at Liverpool on the
evening ofthe 30th ult. The news created
an unusual excitement in the metropolis and
principal towns.
The Globe announces, “that directions
have been received at Buckingham Palace
for the reception of her Majesty and the Court
on Saturday, Oct. 0th, where the Queen will
remain ti'll after her approaching accouch-
merit.”
A meeting was held on the 29th ult. for
tltc election of Lord Mayor for the city of
London, when Alderman John Pirie, and by
trade a plasterinan, was elected. Mr, Pirie,
in returning thanks, said he little thought,
40 years ago, when he came to the city of
London a poor lad from the Banks of the
Tweedy, that he should arrive to_ such dis-
tinction.
Sir Charles Bigot has been appointed
Governor General ofall her M.ijesty’s prov-
inces in North America.
Lord Morpeth had arrived from England,
and intends to make a tour of four months
in the United States.
Numerous large meetings have been held
all over England, to petition the Queen not
ororogue Parliament until the Corn laws
have been fully discussed. Notwithstanding
these meetings it is announced in the minis-
terial organs, that P.-irliuinent would be pro-
rougcd on the 7th of October.
The Emperor ofRusia left Warsaw on the
21st ult. to return to St. Petersburg. There
are rumors afloatthgrt the Emperor intends
to restore the nationality of Poland.
LATER.-—-Since the foregoing was put in type
news 11 days later has been received, announc-
ing the destruction of the Chinese Forls—-Bom-
bardment ofthe City of Canton by the British,
and the ronsom of the city for $7,000,000.
En. GAZ.
Correspondence of the Jour. of Commerce.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 21, 1841.
The suit commenced. by ‘he Q'°‘_'e”",“°m
against the U. S. Bank in the District Court
of the United States, is likely to excite Some
interest, as its issue may be to quash all the
assignments made" to secure particular credit-
ors. Should this be the result, the fate of
our Banks will be bad enough. From pres-
ent appearance their loss by the United SHIPS
Bank must be very large, though I know a
different impression is sought to be kept up.
Some ofour best informed citizens are of
opinion that at least one half the Biink’s in-
debtedness to the other city banks will never
be collected. This will be a most paralyz-
ing loss, but should their assignment be in-
validated. it must be much greater. That
the Government will ever collect any part of
its claim, unless those spccialgassignmcnts
are put aside, is not pretended. The whole
of the Govcrnmcnt’s claim is $350,000, and
is made up of the datnnges claimed on the
French bill ofExchange, which accrued du-
ring the administration of Gen Jackson, and
of $89,000 balance of bonds due by the batik
for the purchase of the stock owned by the
Government in the old Bank.
.
Tfie Crzsliier of the Comm-2-rcia.l .Bank.——
The dishonor of Mr. Redfield is the subject
ofgeneral corivcrsation in the moneyed cir-
cles, and excite various feelings of regret
and condemnation He is quite an accoirt-
plislied man in business. His father is a
respectztble furdealer in Water street; and
his farther-in law rt very respectable gentle-
man of property formerly of the Seventh
\Vard, but now of Westchester Co. He was
a meuiber, and we believe an officer, of the
Church in Market street, of which the Rev.
Dr. Ferris is pastor. Yet he has been for
four years engaged in making fraudulent
appropriations of the money ofthe Bank, and
has every six months sworn to the accounts
ofthe batik as reridercd to the State, though
he knew that the accounts were false, by
means ofhis own depredations. Men always
have some way of settling such things with
their consciences, and we are told that Mr.
R. says, the statements to which he swore
were true transcripts ofthe accounts of the
bank as they stood upon the books. and that,
therefore his oath was not false. The Bank
Commissioners, however, entertained a dif-
ferent opinion as we understand 5.». thought it
their duty to cause a complaint to be entered
for perjury.
The defalcation was known to the Com-
mis=ioner, who examined into the affairs of
the Btnk some ten days ago. On the dis-
closures being made, Mr. Redfield set him-
self to make security to the Bank. hoping
that if he did so, the matter would go no
ftirther. For this purpose he procured the
notes of one gentleman for $10,000, of an-
other for $12,000, and ofa third for $14,000
making $36,000 in all, which with the
bond for $20,000, signed by his fatherin law
and another friend, that he had given at his
entrance upon the ofiice of cashier, covered
the whole defnlcation. These large notes
he was able to obtain of his friends by only
saying that he was in need of them, without
going into the details of his necessity, so
great was the confidence placed in his char-
acter. He repaired to the house of his father
in law on Friday night for the purpose of
completing the matter of security, but he
had said nothing of his errand, when. on
Saturday morning, one of his friends in the
city, perceiving the criminal character which
the afiiiir was taking, sent him word of his
danger, and he immediately told his father
in law that he was in troble, and left abrupt-
lv. Of course he did not go in the steainer
from Boston that afternoon, for it was impos-
sible. Mr. Redfield owned two or three
houses in the city, though they are probably
mortgaged for their value. He said he had
lost the whole amount of his defalcation by
dealingin stocks. His style of living was
alway within his sztlary. He kcpta horse
and wagon of little value, which he purchas-
ed at the recommendation of his physician.
The notes which be procured front his
friends for $36,000 are in possession of the
Bank, but whether they possess any legal
validity remains to be seen.
Correct Opinion of an Enemy/.—"VVhcre
their national honor is concerned,” savs the
Montreal Times, “the Americans have al-
ways acted with promptness, decision, and
energy, as was proved in their war with Eng-
land in 1812. The fear ofanother such en-
counter, at a period when the mother country
is in a formidible state* of preparation, will
doubtless be the means of uniting these two
parties throughout the country, which for
twelve years or more have been on terms of
political animosity. It has always been a
characteristic ofthe Americans, that howev-
er much they may squabble and fight among
themselves, their animositir-s towards each
other are always subsided, and they stand
ready to tnake common cause, whenever
their common country is threatened from
abroad. It is thenthat the North and South
the Eeast and West, vie with each other in
their effbrts to maintain, tinspotted, the integ-
rity and the valor of their Republic.”
The attempt on the British War Steam-
ers.—/\n investigation has been tnade by a
board of magistrates respecting the attempt
to destroy the British ‘vVarSteamers on Lake
Erie. The chiefcircumstance elicited was
that a farmer on Grand Island found the
next morning four men asleep in a shanty,
and a boat hauled up on the beach close by.
The men were armed. One of them was
from Buffalo, and an accomplice of Ls>tt.—
The barrel of powder found near the bank
bore the mark ofa brewery in Buffalo and
contained upwards of 100 pounds of powder.
' Jo-i/..r. of Com.
A singular suicide was cotnmitted yes-
terday, at Mr. W. Granger’.s on the Maca-
damized road. A ‘young man named John
Baily, in his employ, was directed to harness
tip a certain vehicle and convey a lady to this
city. He followed the instructions so far as
the errand was concerned ; but disobeyeil bvi
taking a barouche with two horses instead of
one. The animals ran away, and dashed
the carriage to atoms. This calamitv so af-
fected the young man, that he went privately
into the barn, unloosed one ofthe horses. 8:.
with the halter hung himself by the neck.—-
Whcn discovered he was dcatl.-~-Bizflhlo
Com. Adv. ' i
steamboat Newbern at Savanah from Flori-
da, (having in tow the U. S. steamer Beau-
fort which lately blew up in the St.'_John’s
River,) the Republican has letters from Pi.
latka to the 12th inst.
Several murders haverecently been com.
mitted in East Florida by a party of 15 or
20 hostile Indians. Five distinct attacks
have been made by them. and six or seven
persons" killed. Two brothers were killed
neat‘ Micanopy. The cattle-of Fort Russell
were driven off by them. On their retreat
they came across the encampment of Capt.
Fulton’s 2d Dragoons, and made a rush up.
on it, but were quickly repulsed ; two of our
men \V0undt'd. All is now quiet around
Pilatka. . A letter of the llth says :
, ‘ I-lqspitakfs people have failed to come
In at Fumpa Bay, agreeably to promise;
only about 60 of his band are there. There
are over 300 Indians atthnt post that will be
sent west in a few davs. -lt is believed that
Tigertail will keep his promise and surren-
der ; ifso, there will be a blessed riddance
of a great rascal and near 250 Indians.’
The News remarks :-—‘ The rapid close
of the war by the constant surrender and
capture ofthe enemy, is an event of rejoicing
but with this apparent prospcst of peace, a
perfect security does not exist. Mnrauding
parties ofthe enemy are in small bodies, oc-
casionally throughout the country, and the
traveller and settler, require caution, vigi-
lance and care. 'l‘o a neglect of this, much
of the loss of life may be attributed.
Rapidflll of -flI"tl,e'rn Tra.2.'el.— Doctor
Grant, American Missionary in Persia vis.
ited this country last year for the putipose
of publishing his work on the ‘Lost Tribes
of Israel.’ He has returned to his interest-
ing field of labor, and states in a letter to a
friend in this cotintry, that in less than six
weeks after setting sail, he was standing on
the shores of Asia, of which six weeks near-
ly two were spent in intermediate places, in-
cluding six days in London, two in Paris
one each in Halifax, Liverpool, Marseilles:
and Malta. and some hours each at some of
the ports of Italy and insular,Greece. Dr.
Grant returned to Constantinople in less than
two months after leaving it, having travelled
not less than 15,000 miles in that period.
Cong. Jour.
Important (if true )from the Sante Fe
E2:pIZditi071..—-—'l.‘he Red River Republican
ofthe 30th ult. gives the following news :—
*We learn from travelers direct from the
upper part of Texas, that the Sante Fe Ex-
pedition turned back before it reached its
distination. Its progress was at first imped-
ed by the attacks upon it of bands of hostin-
Indians; but having sent back and received
reinforcements, it continued itsjourney until
the force of the enemy became so large as to
render its farther progress impracticable.——
Some fighting took place, but whether any
persons belonging to the expedition were
killed or not, was not ascertained.
A Culc and Curious Afliti-r.-—J;imes E,
Cole, who was sentenced to the State Prison
for 15 years, about a year since for high-
way robbery in this city, contrived an inge-
nious mode of escape, which however, lack-
ed the most material part, success. - It was
after this wise 2 Cole had been employed in
the shop making boxes, in which the mate-
rials are sent from the prison to this city;
he made one and put buttons on the lid, so
as to fasten it inside and then drove nails a-
round the edge, breaking them off and thus
giving it the appearance of being nailed
down ;. then directing it himself to John
Lorne. corner of Madison and Pike streets.
in this city. Having thtis far arranged, be
employed a negro convict to place it after he
had fastened himself in, on board the sloop
Fanny, to be brought tothis city. The box
was placed on the wharf, liecul clown, and
remained there for about two hours, when
it was put in the cabin of the sloop.
The sloop started during the gale, but
was obliged to ptit back, and did not arrive
until the next day. In the meantime, Mr.
Lent, one of the keepers, missed Cole, and
came down to the city to look for him ; not
hearing of hitn here and learning that the
Fanny had not arrived, he mistrusted that
Cole was on board ; he therefore boarded
her on her arrival, and going into the cabin
saw the box and opened it, when he found
Cole nearly exhausted,-’from his close cou-
finement and not having eaten any thing
since yesterday. He was besides. almost
roasted, the box having been used for a seat
near the Stove. Cole was immediately ta-
ken to the Tombs, and will be forthwith re-
turned to his old quarters.—N. Y. American
Notfar from I{i,.r,r/it.—'I‘he Grand Jury
ofI-ludson county, N. J., at the October term
ofthe Over and Terminer, presented the
Beacon Race Course, at Bergen, as a com-
mon nuisance. “It is the means,” says the
Grand inquest, “ of collecting together as of-
ten as races take place there, a large number
of people, not only from the surrounding
country, but from the city of New York;
airiong the former of whom are many of the
young men of our state, who. uninnitiated in
the ways of vice and immorality, as practiced
by the more bold frequenter of the Race
Cotirse, are led away by the wily gambler;
and from this place many, perhaps, may date
the commencement of a career of vice and
immorality and crime.
A Scene not Conlemplaled by tlze Ma.na.-
ger.—On VVcdnesday evening, diiring the
performance of “Jane Shore,” at the Front
street Theatre, Baltimore, where a numer-
ous audience had assembled to witness the
perfortnance of Booth and Adams, in the last
scene of the play where Jane Shore sinks
exhausted on the stage, exclaiming she had
not tasted food for three days, a kind hearted
sailor suddenly jumped up in the boxes, say-
ing, “D—m my eyes! that must not bel—
Clear the gangway, here!” No sooner said
than done; in an instant he was on the stage
-—pulled out a pocket book filled with bank
notes and tendered to Mrs. Philips, who was
acting Jane Shore, to help herself. The ef-
fect upon the aiidicnce may be imagined.—-
While manager VVeymes half inclined to
scold, half inclined to laugh, conducted him
to the front of the house again, where sat
hie wife and daughter, with whom be short-
Floridrt.-—By the arrival of the U. Sf‘ Hartford an
ly afterleft the theatre amid the cbccrs of
the audience.
Springfield Raz'lroad.—-
Efforts are now in progress which will prob-
tbly result in the construction ofa railroad
lptween ,Hartfbrd and Springfield. Three
rtutesarit injcontemplation. The first to pro-
ceed onlhe west side of the river, through
or-near.“IVinsor village,..and to cross the Ct.
rivér at he foot of Enfield falls, near Ware-
house film, and thence to proceed through
Thtmp nville to Springfield. The second
routefolloi\'s the courseof the first to Enfield
falls, :hence on the west side ofthe river to
the g at bend ofthe Agawam, there cross-
ing tfiit stream, and uniting with the W est-
em ilroad neat‘ the Bridge. The third
rdute-is still more west:-rly. running in a
st‘aig‘ht line to Rziinboiv Factorieson Farin-
ingtat river, there crossing Farmington ri-
vinpjoceeding thence through West Suf-
fiild the Agnwam river, and thence to
the ' estern railroad near the bridge. The
lait riute is the shortest, being more than a
mleshorter than the first ; and the expense
dcmstructing a road on each route is esti-
nat as follows :-—lst route $686,681 ;2d,
57,5 0 ; 3rd, 5'22,860.——NOTl/La771pl0?l Gaz.
1' e Sailors’ Hom.:.'—Yesterday the
fhndation stone of‘ The Sailors’ Home,’ at
tit corner of Pike and Cherry streets, was
loll by the Rev. Dr. Milnor, assisted by the
T,i;stees and Managers and other Members
ofihe Seainen’s Friend Society, together
tv; those of the Bethel Union. An ample
st-go was erected on the site, decorated with
thmany colored flags ofvarious nations.—-
Te ceremonies appointed for the occasion
we opened by the Rev. Mr. Chase, in a
fe ent prayer for the success of the great
rrfigl object of the friends ofthe St-amen’s
e. The assembly was subsequently
udjressed by the Rev. Mr. Gone, and the
pticeedings were closed by Ogden Hoffman
Eiq. in aspeech full of Christian charity,
rtinly eloquence, and inspiring confidence
tlit the motives of those by whom the un-
d' taking was projected would be amply re-
njrded and jnstified by the issue. We hail
e ry accession to the cause of practical
b evolence, and this, in all its bearing, is
o of the most important and promising.
Tribune.
iR/I.0d€ Isla.7id.—The new Constitution a-
ted by the Rhodc lsland Suffrage conven-
'n, proposes to extend the rightof suffrage
levery white male citizen of lawful ago,
\lho may have resided in the state one year,
a in the township where he offers to vote
tl ee months. But in any question of rais-
i ‘ a tax or appropriating the proceeds ofa
t. ,the voter must possess property real or
p sonal, ofthe value of$l50. The Senate
to e composed of 12 members to be elected
b districts, and a house of 80 members, of
w,om Providence is to send 12. The Gov-
er or to have a Veto power, subject to be
re ersed by the decision of it ntajorritg of both
I-I uses.
', l'1‘he Constitution of which the above are
9,iin'e of the outlines, is designed to take the
lace of the Old Charter granted by King
tharlvs II of England, under which the good
ptople of Rhodc Island have lived to this day.
l Journal of Commerce.
{lS_g/inpat/iy for La.[iorers.—A working
-man recently fell from a building near Queen
Vlctorizi. land’ was dashed to death in her
sight. The London Globe says of it; ‘ We
are happy to state that thoughher Majesty
was much alarmed and excited, no perina-
nent injury in her Majesty’s health is likely
to result.’ This is like the woman whose
lap, dog bit a piece of it visitor‘s leg. ‘ Poor
dl_'r little thing.’ said the mistress, I hope it
\ ll not make him sick.’
, .__..______j._
. Acci(1cnt——a. Hares /tilled.-Yesterday
iqorning, one of the carriages belonging to
Pgnnoyer’s line, with two horses before it,
waiting for up passengers, backed of the
south side the steamboat dock, at low tide.-—
'I1ie carriage and one horse received but lit.
tlie injury, while the other horse was so in.
jored that it has subsequentlydied. We un-
derstand that the accident occurred from the
driver havingtied the reins to one of the for-
ward wheeis—-the horses commenced back-
ingl-—thc whecl turning fetched the strain
ha‘ er upon the bits. and before assistance
co (1 be rendered the whole establishment
wa in the dock. Fortunately no persons
we e sitting in the carriage at the time, as is
oft the case when waiting for the up boat.
Stamford Advocate, Oct. 20.
/to Dwfc/I. at S-tunatra.--A gentleman
wh arrived at New Bedford, a passenger in
the Caroline Augusta, from Sumatra, states
the ativcs ofSumtra and the Dutch were
at \ at and the latter wererapidly taking
pos ession of the Island. He furnished no
par (‘I1lill'S.
he Boston Journal says there is_ much
pro ability in, the report——and it behooves
on government to look into this matter with-
outtlelay. For years, the Dutch have been
gratping at dominion in Sumatra. and at-
tempting to control the trade—and many of
the‘R-ijahs have been little more than agents
of he Dutch~—to the great detriment of
A rican commerce. In many ports, the
payinent of an export duty has been demand-
ed bf Americans, at the instigation of the
Ditch.
lfoncy Missing.-—A letter from Brooklyn
to :1 gentleman at Philadelphia, enclosing
$700. mailed more than a tnonth since, as
certified by the Postmaster at Brooklyn, has
never reached its destination. The Postmas-
terpt New York proved its receipt here, and
its regular transmission by mail to Philadel-
phia. Evidence has been obtained also, to
shew that the mail that day was not opened
en route, and that per consequence the mis-
sing money must have been abstracted by
son',e means after its arrival at the Philadel-
phia post office. There is pretty much ofa
til't'tl3 about it in the post offices ——N. Y. Pa.
Military Visz'tors.——The Citizen Volun-
teers, of Patterson, a remarkably fine rifle
corps, visited our. city yesterday, and were
handsomely reviewed by the Mayor and oth-
er city authorities. They were on a target
excursion, and their well riddled target
exliibited indications of some fine shooting.
They were all armed with Colt’s repeating
rifle, which they fired a few cleyoie of 6 rounds
in less than a minute. One oftheir most
expert fusileers fired six rounds of six char-
ges each—making thirty six.charges—in 3
minutes and a, few seconds.--—N. Y. Sun.
SELECTED SUMMARY. _
China.—It appears that Lirt was mover
of the»unfortunate_Keshen’s strangulation.—
When approaching Pekin heiwas met bya
Royal Messenger, who gave him the choice
of bowl or how string, observing that Linhad
proved to the Emperor," that. if Keshen had
raislfd and depressed his guns, we nevercould
have passed the Bocca Tigris. Keshen made
choice of the bow string. Lin is now to be
employed, at the risk of his life, paying forfeit
if he does not get rid of us without yielding
to our demands.
The Metalic Life Protccjtor.-—T'nis is a
new invention by Mr. Ralph Bulkley of this
city. The chief advantages which it claims
over other Life Protectors are, that the air
cannot escape from it, nor the water gain ac-
cess to it. Experiments have recently been
made with it from the North Carolina, by
order ofthe Navy Commissioners, and it has
met with the approbation of Capt. Gregory
and others.-—Jo-ur. of Com.
The Bunker Hill Mon-ztment has become
an imposing object. It has risen to the height
of 165 feet, and may be seen at a distance of
many miles. The contractor is allowed until
October. 1843, to complete, but from the ra-
pidity with which he wrought the present
season, lie will doubtless be able to accom-
plish his labor in the cou rsc of the next sum-
mer. Twenty or twenty-one coursesofstone
only are to be laid.
Buritirig Alice in Englanrl.—-—A London
Paper states that “a girl was burnt alive at
Monmouth, on the 1st of April, 1764, her
crime being that of pettytreason,_or murder-
ing her mistress; that Anna Snowbery was
burnt alive in the city of York, on the llth
August, 1767, for poisoning, and about ten
years afterwards, Phoebe Harris was burnt
alive in Smithfield, London. for copper coin
ing.” These were the last instances of that
horrid punishment in England.
A Tiger S/tot in the streets of Louisville.
——-A splendid Tiger, beloging to the Men-
agerie of Titus, June, Angevine & Co., ex-
hibiting on Green street, Louisville, escaped
frorii his keepers on Friday, and was shot by
Mr.Joseph Potter, piano forte manufacturer.
He inflicted a slight injury upon the arm of
a man who was eadeavoring to ‘head him,’
by a blow from his paw.
Going to Liberia.—The Rev. Dr. Bar-
—ron, Vicar General of the Catholic Diocese
of Philadelphia, accompanied by another
clergyman ofthat church, will sail from Bal-
timore for Cape Paliiias_ Liberia, on the 1st
of December. The vessel in which the Rev.
Doctor will go otit will also take out the
colored members ofthe Catholic church who
desire to go.
A Streak of Lucl:.—-Col. Wood, late rep-
resentatives ofthe city of Natchez, has sail-
ed for England with documents sufficicnt to
prove him the rightful heir to the great
Wood estate. The Col. will only be worth
about $13,000,000.
The Burlington Buckeye of the 30th con-
tains a long communication from D. \V. and
Edw. Kilbourn, Dated at Montrose, in which
they set forth tlii-rteen cases of robbery of
their store, which they allege to have been
committed by the Mormons.
About 70 Mormons, from Gloucester. Eng-
land, recently arrived at Quebec, and were
last week at Montreal, oti their way to Nau-
voo, Ill.
Yellow Fever.——The number of deaths
in St. Louis for the week ending on the 7th
inst. was 39. The 3 cases of yellow fever,
noticed in the Registe-r’s report, were per-
sons who came here sick from New Orleans.
St. Louis Peiinanl 13th.
Hon. Daniel Jenifer, appointed Minister
to Austria. who has been detained at home
by severe illness, has recovered sufficiently
to come to‘ Baltimore for the purpose of tak-
ing eminent mediczil advice.
Libemlity.--—Tlie citizens of Hartford, Ct.
in addition to other large contributions, have
recently made a special subscription to re-
lieve the present necessitii-s of the American
Board ofCommissioners for Foreign Missions
in which they have raised the sutn of$l2_000.
Jlfanilla. Bmi(l.—-Under the advice and
guidance of the American Institute the cul-
ture of Manilla Grass or Hemp is about to
be commenced in Florida.
U. S. Loa.n.—A correspondent inquires
why the Government will not receive sums
less than $5,000 in amount? “Te believe
certificates are issued, or if not, will be, as
low as 8500, so that men of small means
who wish to make secure investment at 6
per cent can do so.—Ma.cl2'sonia.n.
Some rascals undertook to get into the
Bank of Mobile by boring through the door
during a violent storm of wind and rain on
the 9th, btit were stopped by a lining of sheet
iron, and went ofl undisturbed.
The College Building at VVilliamstown,
Mass. which was burnt last Sunday after-
noon, 17th. (the fire broke out while the fa-
culty and Students were at Church,) was e-
Wrected in 1798, at a cost of about $15,000.
The Augusta Chronicle announces that
all the Banks in Georgia have come to the
deterininaticn to pay out their own bills; Gt
the planters may therefore calculate on receiv-
ing a specie paying currency for their crops.
Two U. S. Senators are to be chosen at
the present session of the Tennessee Legis-
lature. Hon. Ephraim A. Foster will
doubtless be one. and perhaps Hon. John
Bell,,although the fact of both residing at
Nashville may be an objection.
No Smoking.—The following resolution
was adopted in the Tennessee Legislature
on the 6th inst :
Resolved, That there shall be neither pipe
nor segar smoked within ._the Senate Cham-
ber during the hours of business at the pre-
sent session of~the General Assembly.
Secretaries’ Forward, Wicklifi"e and Up-
sher are widowers, and Mr. Legare is a
bachelor.
It is calculated that there are in the U.
States 14,012 Lawyers, 14,680 Clergymen,
and 10,322 Physicians exclusive of quaks.
Fire --The Satinet Factory belonging to
Col E. L Phelps, in the village of Broad
Brook, East W‘indsor, Conn. was consumed
by fire on the 22-’). Insured for 825,000,
For the Gazette.
Mn. RE!-1D,—-I am much gratified with see-
ing, in the last Gazette, the remarks of " A
Ci'rizr:N” in opposition to the project ofa union
5Cb00l 3 not that 1 am convinced by them, but
that I ‘am glad to have the subject discussed. V
So serious an undertaking, and so great a
change ingour system ought not to be entered
upon without sutficieiit reason, nottill after ma-
ture deliberatiou. If the project will notgabide
,he most thorough sifting, let it be abandoned.
Citizen says", “ If this union school goes into
operation and succeeds, our district schools will
soon be at low water-mark.” I concede, in the
outset. that ifsuch is to be the efliect upon our
common schools the project ought never to be
carried into execution.
With your leave, Mr. Editor, I shall be glad
to discuss this matter with “ Citizen,” not for
the pleasure of holding a disputation——bul that
before any final action on this subject, the pub.
lic may hear both sides. _
Citizen affirms that " spelling, reading, writ.
ing, geography. arithmetic and grammar, “all"
oftliem. " can be. and are quite as thorouglilv
taught ‘in our public schools, as in schools ofa
higher order.” He demands, “ Are the leach-
ers of our schools such a set oz ignorarnuses
that they are capable of teaching nothing but
the merest rudiments of learning? If such is
the case he says, let them be turned out of otir
school houses at once, and let those he employ-
ed who are capable of giving their pupils at good
common English Education."
In the same breath Citizen gives the follow-
ing comment upon the manner in which these
common English branches “ can be, and are"
taught in our public schools, viz: " Now I pre-
sume to say,” says Citizen. “ that ifthe writer
ofthat article had taken pains to examine par-
ticularly the pupils in our common school, he
would not have found twenty in all the schools
in Norwalk, who understood thoroughly, spell-
ing, reading, writing. geography, arithmetic,
and grammar.”
I leave it for Citizen to reconcile the two
things which he has stated as facts: viz—that
these branches “ can be, and are quite as tho-
roughly taught in our public schools as in schools
ofa higher order”—and that yet not “ twenty"
can be “ found in all the schools in Norwalk
who understand thoroughly, spelling, reading.
writing. geography, arithmetic and grammar.”
Now how is this, Mr. Editor? I think you
were present at our last Common School Cele-
bration. and saw there more than five hundred
faces of happy bright-eyed children in theirjoy-
ous procession. We met in the Congregation-
al Church—there were the parcnts—-there were
the friends ofour common schools—all, all well
pleased and happy. There we met the same
old teachers whom the year before we had gree-
ted as so faithful and successl'ul——most of whom
as beingthe best that the market could furnish dc,
whom wehad retained from year to year--& shall
doubtless continue to retain, if they will stay
with us, till they are gray. In the mean time .
save in one district-—there has been no high ,
school not academy to draw off the better scho- _
lars; no we have been graciously delivered
from all such nuisances as that traiterous cor-
ruption ofthe youth, a “ Grammar School," and
otir teachers have had full scope to do what the
system can.
years. And what is the result ? Why out of
all oiif five or six hundred children, as Citizen
informs us, there cannot be found twenty in all
Ilie schools in Norwalk who understand tho-
roughly, spelling, reading. writing, geography, '
arithmetic and grammar! Pooh pudor! “ Tell
it not in Gath 1” And yet these arethe best
we have ! we have no high school or academy.
amidst a population of some three thousand ,
If
proposed to be henefitted by a union school.
Citizen is contented with this state of things, 1 .
am not. I freely own that my ambition and
my zeal for public education rise somewhat
higher, than to be satisfied with having less
than " twenty in all the schools in Norwalk”
who are " thoroughly acquainted with the me-
rest rudiments ofan English Education.” ,
And yet with such a state of things as this-—
according to Citizen's own statement, he finds
fault with me, for saying that “ It is a shame
that every one who would give his children any
thing beyond the merest rudiments of an edu-
cation. should be compelled to send them out of
town to acquire it.'.' In saying this, sir, I by no _
means intended to intimate that our teachers
were “ a set ofignoramuses.” I know them to
be, most of them, men of rare qualifications ;
and certainly the public have awarded them
the praise, both ofcapaciiy and success. But
whatever be their capacity, the presentsystem
of the schools forbids any thing lobe taught
in them thoroughly save” the merest rudiments
of learning. Certainly. the branches cnumer-.
ated will not be thought, by any one who is not
an ignoramus, to be any thing beyond the me-
rest rudiments, even when they are thoroughly
understood; and I should not think that Citizen
after the statement he has made concerning the
number to be found in all otir schools who are
thoroughly taught in these rudiments. would
advise our teachers to introduce into their schools
any branches in addition. .
I am not through with the communication of,
Citizen. I break off here because I know you,
Mr. Editor, greatly dislike long articles. Ifyou
will permit me, I wish further to advert to the,
several arguments of Citizen in detail. Sure I
am, from his communication. that he is fully
competent to defend the views which he has
entertained. so far as they are. defensible; and
you and the public will, I trust, to a reasonable
length, be willing to hear both sides. A
A Woitxirm MAN.
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-B‘"ll§‘3I‘-II’ subscription to the stock of the
Hartford and Springfield Railroad, have been
opened at 27 State street Boston.
They have had full scope for -
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