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SUMMARY.

Yellow Fever patients admitted at the
Charity Hospital. New Orleans, Qtt. 3. I6;
discharged. l0; died, 9. Ititernicnls of per-
sons who died of yellow {ever at Nexv Or-
leans, dlltiizug the week, cndingsept. 30, H8.

At Mo’biI‘l3, 22 cases of yellow fever were
reportcd to have occurred during the 48
hours ending at 6 P. M. October 4th.

The ticket which prevailed in New Lon-
don at the recent town election. was called
the temperance ticket, and was composed
principally of Vllhigs. All the Selecluieii
we understand belong to that party. The-
locos run a ticket against it.

Poultry/.-—It is scarcely creditable how
valuable is the Poultry in the United States.
Bvthe census of I840, it was returned at
3l2.l76,|70. New York contributes 89.-
373.029, which is more than the value ofall
its swine. half the value of its sheep, the en-
tire value of its neat cattle, and five times
more than the value of all the horses and
mules in the State. These facts are derived
from a publication of Harpers', called the
‘American Poultry Book.’

The Whigs of Virginia are organizing
themselves for the ensuing contest for the
Presidency. with unwanted energy and spir-
it. They are coming early into the field.
and will rally with entliusiusut for the gal-
lant statesman of the \Vest.

St. Ba.rtliolomcw.-—-It has been proposed
to emancipate the slaves in St. Bartholomew.
and the King of Siveeden has directed a plan
to that effect to be laid before the next As-
sembly of the Estates. The, number of
slaves on the island is but 595, and their es-
timated value $100,000.

The Little Town Meetings show very
-favorably for the cause ofWhig Democracy;
that is if they can be considered as shadow-
ing forth the relative strength of parties.——
But we place little. confidence in these
o*nens generally.-—Nor'wo.l/r Gazette.

They are not so important as omens of
the feelings of the people; but in the absence
of a Registry L:i.\.v, they seal the fate for the
succeeded spring of many towns in which
the parties are nearly equalled balanced;
and neither party can have many towns to
spare.---N. H. Pa.llrirli-um.

Ex-Governor Seward, in it letter to the
Cotirier & Enqiiirer,declines being a candi-
date for the office of Vice President of the
United States. or for any other oflice, ‘State
or National, in the election of l844, or de-
pendent upon the triumph of the Whig party
in that election.’

We learn that the ship Raj ib, Capt. Bangs
bound from Trieste to New Orleans. in bal-
last, was chartered at Gibraltar for $3,000 to
take the crew and a part of the officers of
the steamer Missouri to Boston, to sail about
the 2d of September.

We were yesterday shown a counterfeit
Five Dollar Note on the Tolland County
Bank. which one person in a thousand would
not detect. The plate is beautifully engra-
ved, but is not the s:iine design as the genu-
ine. one.——N. II. Register.

Naval.——Wc learn, says the Philadelphia
National Gazette. that orders have been re-
ceived at the Navy Yard in this city to fit
out the Ratitan Frigate immediately for for-
eign service.

O'Connell, at a recent meeting of Repeal-
ers, handed in a subscription of 5327 from
Botany Biyl The ‘munificent’ to this ii-
mount designated themselves as ‘victims of
bsid laws.’

‘Father, should we love our enemies?’

Yes child, the good book tells us so.

‘Then we should love the devil, for he is
our greatest enemy.

Go to bed child.

The Liberty party counted small at the
town election.’ Bzi rely twelve votes could be

- mustcreil for the liberty candiziate for first

assessor, and but l8 could be mustered on
any subsequent vote.-—-Norwich Aurom.

Gov. Dodge is sail to have been reelected
Congressional Delegate from VVisconsin by
about l500 to 2000. There is also a deci-
ded expression in favor of forming a State
Government.

T/ic Storm. —-During the late storm. the
Light Boat anchored on Bartlett’s reef, near
New London, broke from her-moorings and
drove nearly up to New Haven.

Daniel O'Brien has been convicted in R.
Islanl, of an assault with an attempt to com-
mit a rape upon .\1.irg:irct Mullegan, aged 8
or 9 years.

Tcitnessce Seat of Govern-ment.—The
General Assembly of Tennessee after much
discussion. has fixed the seat of Goverment of
Tennessee at Nashville.

In every ward in the city of New York.
the \Vhigs have uriririimously passed reso-
lutions in favor of Henry Clay for the Pres-
idency.

Diviclenr.l.—-The Fulton Bank has has de-
clared a dividend ofjii.-e per cent. for the last
six months, payable on the first of Novem.

The Legislature of Vermont met on
Thursday last. Each branch is Whig by a
large majority.

Lafayette made this memorable declara-
tion: ‘If ever the liberty of this Republic be
destroyed. it will be by Roman Prim-sis.”

Gov. Bigger, of Indiana, has been indica-
ted by a Grand Jury in that State, for par-
doning an indivi lual before‘ he was tried.-

,A Sweet potatoe measuring 39 and a half
inches in length, grown in the garden of
B. Tardy. Esq. was presented to us yester-

; day.-—-Mobile Register.

Divirlcnrl—The Manhattan Gis Light
Co. have declared a dividend of four and a
halfper cent. payble Nov. l.

Three wagon loads of Mormons started
from New S ilem, Mass. a few days since, for
the city of Nauvoo.

A Clever Repl_1/.—-Aserv.-int girl in the
gown of-A , whose beauty formed a
matter of general admiration and discussion,
in passing a group of oflicers in the street,

 

heard one of them exclaim to his fellows—- .

IBY heaven, she’s painted l’
‘.Yes sir, and by lieiiven only l’
quietly replied, turning round.

shc vcry

‘ fectly right, Joseph l

Tennessee—Govi,- Jones’ Mc‘sscI;ge.—=-'I‘he
Annual Message of, Gov. Jones, was deliv-
ered to-the Legislature on the 3d inst. It

aninvestigation of the condition and man-
agement ot the Bank of Tennessee and
branches, (as was proposed by the last
House, but defeated by the loco foco Senate;
and he suggests a like investigation with rc-
gard to the three other Banks in the State.
He zealously urges anincrease of the School
Fund and enliirgemcnt of all the means of
Education. He also possesses the iinport-
ancc of fartherprovision for the payment of
the interest at least, on the State Debt. The
Debt now amounts to $3,260,416; of which
¥?il,500,000 is the amount ofstock subscribed
to the Tennessee and Union Banks, and the
balance has been expended in works of In-
ternal Improvement, which as yet yielded
little income. The annual interest is $173,-
638, which has hitherto been paid by the
Bank of 'I‘ennessee, but the Governor states
that she has not the ability to continue such
payment. He urges-that due provision be
promptly made, so that no stain of Rcputli-
ation may rest on the mantle of ’l.‘t‘l:D"SS€e.
Gov. Jones declines to make his Message
the medium of setting forth his views on
National Politics, but he urges _t.llf.i’, election
of two United States Si-niitors, as an impera-
tive duty too long and deplorably delayed.

Rail Rorzrl.——-The down Train of Cars on
Friday, was detained for some hours. It
seems that not llf from West Cornwall, the
wood from under a rail had been designedly
removed and the railleft apparently in its
usual position. The Engineer and Fire-
men noticed the removal and leaped to the
ground in time to save themselves from in-
jury. The locomotive and several of the
cars was somewhat d.iiiiagi-if. but fortiinately
no person was injured. \Ve licar that a
warrantfor the apprehension of ll man, who
is supposed to have caused a smrzsli. has been
sued and that he has absconded. The cir-
cumstances seem to show that he is guilty-
if so, he ought to be made to ‘stand on noth-
ing and pull hemp, with his hands tied be-
hiiii.’—Brz'afgcport Stamlarcl.

_'V(ts/i_.i;ngto7i. fl107L‘ll.I7IC7ll AssocicLtion.—-
The trustees have completed the subordinate
details of their organization; a number of
Collectors have been appointed to solicit do-
nations to carry out the objectof their incor-
poration, namely, the erection of such a
National Mernori:-il to George Washington
as will_in some degree correspond to the
illustrious character of the deceased, and as
.l monumental edifice merely, very far ex-
ceeding any other iii the world.

N. Y. Tribune.

E:i;tra.ordina.-r;y Eiis/iibition at t/zc Fair.-
George Hall, Esq. ofBrooklyn, whose phi-
lantbropic labors in the Temperance cause
have been great, statcd a few weeks since in
.1 Temperance meeting that he had on hand
a poor miserable drunkard, whom, with the
consentof the committee, he proposed ex-
hibiting at the Fair of the American Insti-
tute as a specimen of the handiwork of our
American Ruin sellers, which he was sure
would gain the premium. The poor fellow
had consented to go and be shown for a dol-
lar., ‘

Tlic Tan)?‘ Again !—-l‘he receipts from
Custoinsin the city of New York, for the
quarter ‘ending the 30th day of September,
amount _to four millionsfour /mind-rcrl and
eighty I/iousaoid dollars. Assuming that
this sum bears the usual proportion to the
receipts at other ports, the whole amount of
duties for the quarter will be about sci.-en and
a. /ialf millions. And this too with that
odious Whig Tariff, which was to d:-stroy
Commerce, "in full operation l” What will
the British Free Trade Organs Sly now?
Albany Journal.

 

Yale College.-—It will be gratifying to
the friends of this distinguished and venera-
ble institution, to learn that every department’
is prosperous beyond all former periods-.——
Each department is unusually ftill, and the
Fresltinen class numbers among the largvst
that has ever entered the institution. We
understand there are now over 70 in the
Divinity School. The Law Students num-
ber nearly 50, and the Medical Department
may be put at 60 students. More or less
are added to cach Department nearly every
day, so that the number is rather above than
below what will be exhibited by the Cata-
logue. Over 20 students have been added to
the Sophomore Class, and the Freshman
class now consists of one lL.'t’ILr.l7'crl and ten.——
It will probably be found by the Catalogue,
that there are more students now than ever
before, connected with the College.

C/icap Trai.-cling.-—A lad who was for‘
merly employed in this office as ‘roller boy,’
last year left the city with only fifty-five dol
fats in his pocket, and visited England, Ire-
land and Wales. He has just returned, and‘
s-iystliat he is only five dollars in debt for
his traveling expenses. He had no particu-
lar motive in his travels but to see the coun-
try !—-N. 0. Pic.

Joseph Hume, a famous Free Traile Rad-
cal Men'ibcr of the British Parliament, has
written a long letter to Duff Green, urging
the overthrow of our Protective Policy, btit
scouting the idea of any Commercial 'l‘ri-aty
or Arrangement. He says such treaties
have proved a great evil to his country. and
ours will do well to keep out of them, and
regulate our 'I‘ariffto suit ourselves. Per-

Canruln..——An effort will be made at the
present scssion of the Canada Pol‘llelmt’l’ll,
to reduce the salaries of all public ollicers
which now exceed ._£l000. one t/iirzl; and
those less than -£l00O, from I4; to per
cent. As salaries have been regulatetl by
imperial statute, the course will be, we sup-
pose, to solicit the imperial government to
make the proposed reductions.

A correspondent ofthe London Morning
Chronicle speaking of the cordial reception
given to Queen Victora l‘y Louis Philippe.
says. ‘the moment the King set foot on deck,
he took her Majesty in his fll’mS,S'llLll.£‘(l her
on each cheek, and without waiting on in-
stant for recovery from surprise, descended
into his bargcwitli his precious buidcn.

urges a Revision of the laws of tlie'State,'

-are conquered; deceive all who cannot be

‘interccpt us abroad.

Damage». to the Canal.'—Thc severe
‘stoi‘iii of'_last Sunday has done considerable
damage lo the Canal, causing a number of
breaks, all-of which will be repaired imme-
diately. The worst injury vsecms to be at
Farmington, where the Herald of yesterday
says, “a—brcach took place, carryiiig away
the high eiiibankmcnt between the Canal
and the River, at the ‘l'lt'i1l‘f:.'Sl.~p0lUlL of ap-
proximation, where there were but a few
rods between. The torrent made an entire
union between the two, and :1 Canal boat,
loaded with coal, belonging to Henry
Beecher &. Co. being near, was swept by the
force ofthe flood from the canal into. the
river, where she sunk in twenty feet water.
The hands escaped during the transit from
one stream to the other." During all floods
and severe storms of the past summer. the
canal has escaped uninjured, but just as the
iiiost active and pressing fall business had
commenced, the disasters have occurred.-—
But a regiment of pick axes and . spades and
shovels are now at work. and the injuries
will soon be repairs-d.—N. H. C_p_uricr.

English Reciprocity/.—— -English policy
says,_‘Lct us make all -pi=ople‘tribTiT1Ty"T"’fet
us trade with none upon the principle of re-
ciprosilg/, but trade with all who will yield
thebest of the bargain; lctussubdue afill who
are conquerablc, and plunder them aftefihey

conqurcd, to become our debtors, and thus
monopolize their resources by mortgage.
which we cannot seize by force; let us claim
every foot of territory in the world where
the owner is not strong enough to resist the
intruder——ncgotiate as long as possible about
the title. fabricate all possible evid-.-n-"eofo1.'.r
claim, conceal all evidence about theowni.-r’s
title, and finally compo-l him to buy a por-
tion of his own property by the siirrender of
the rest; let us claim exclusive dominion of
the seas and allow their use to other nations
on sufferance, to be recalled when our inter-
est requires their exclusion.’ When a pow-
erful people, with the same intellect; enter-
prise, perseverance and pursuits as our-
selves enter the field of all the world along-
side of us, and claim as their exclusive prop
erty what we admit to be the common prop-
erty of mankind, they ale and must be A our
natural cncniics, and our peace with them
must be accidental and precarious.

Vlle do not object to an extensive commer-
cial intercourse with England. upon terms of
rcciprosity. We would gladly sell to them
all of our produce, and buy ofthem as little
as possible: and we have always said ’that
with a inetalic currency, we could rival them
in manufactures in foreign countries, aliriost
exclude their fabrics from our own, and sup-
ply them with the cheapest provisions and
raw materials. This is precisely what they
fear, for they see in it oitrprogress and their
decline. And how will they prevent it ?—
We answer, by fraud and force. combined.
They rriust, if they can, drive us out of all
new markcts—cri ate new markets from
which we shall always be eXClll(.le'tl. and sur-
round us with t/icir allies and oureiicuiies
Hence they must exclude us fro.n China;
hence they must monopolize. the trade of
Africa, hence they must raise English allies
in Canada, Texas, and the Oregon Territo-
ry. They must surround us at home, and
They must coiilioual_-
ly raise subjects of negotiation with us, ilnd
never settle one without an -eminent advan-
tage.-—-Pliilcul. Ledger.

Walk up and subscribe.—We received
yesterday, uiide.r the frank of the Hon. John
McKeon, one of the Locofoco Members of
Congress from New York, a long printed
Circular and the prospectus of a new Loco
foco. Free. Trade, Calhoun paper, to be pub-
lished in the city of New York! We labor
under the impression that the Honorable
John made a slight mistake in sending us
his Free Trade, Lccofoco documents; but it
we are wrong. and he really and seriously
desires us to accept the agency of this new
organ of Calliounism. why, then all that our
loving friends the locofocos, have to do is to
‘call at the captain’s office and settle l’ VVL-’ll
act, of course we will; but we shall have to.
charge a thunderiiig coinmission—not less-
tlian 99 per cent. will compensate us for the
wear and tear ofconsoience we should suffer
in such an enterprise. VVe await farther
developments l--N. O. Tropic. '

The village of Saratoga was visited by fire
again, on the l0'.h inst. The Pavilliol
Hotel was discovered to be on fire about '3
o'clock this morning, and is now a heap of
ruins. By the great exertion ofoiir Police-
men, aided by the stillness of the air, no oth-
er building was injured. '

The Pavilion was insured in some New
York Companies for $l5,000 house and
furniture I understand.

 

Business, of most (if not all) kinds in this
vicinity, has received an impetus, to an ex-
tent not witnessed for years past. The man-E
ufacture of I-I-tits, the great branch of em-;''
ployment for which this town has long been‘,
noted, is at present prosecuted with great ac-;
tivity, and we understand l.ll.'tl. the supply
falls far short of the demand. Other kinds
of mechanical business are veins fed by this,
great artery. and are raised or depressed

with it. A fruitful season, and ii general
demand for labor. put it bright face upon
every thing.—Du.7il.vwr7/ Times. ,
-—-———————-————-—-—— l

Application is to be made by the Officers,
of our Pulll Road Co. to the P. O. Depart-l
merit, to allow the transportation of bund es,
of newspaper, ‘as heritofore.’ As the road‘
has received no income from this source, it
is probable that permission will be gracious-
ly accorded.——Bridgeport Stamlawl.

Doubtful. Vllliy don't the Rail Road follow
the! example of Rail Roads in general. and

Post Master General.—-N. H. Pallarli-win.

Colonel Richard M. Johnson, accompani-
ed by Governor Cleveland, spent two or
three hours in this city on Saturday last.--
The doors of the Town Hall were -thrown
open for his public reception. and after being
introduced by the Governor to the citizens,
Colonel Johnson made ii speech in his own

peculiar sly lc.—-Jlliclzllctoicn C07l.\'ll_lltll07t.

take no notice ofthe silly propositions of the‘:

A communication in the_Courier& Enquirer
dated Pliiladeilpliia, Oct. '7tli, says. i

In the Pennsylvania Enquirer of the 3d
inst. I find an editorial paragraph stating
that among the papers ofthe late Judge Coop-
er, of South Carolina, was found an original
manuscript copy ofthe famous‘Suncl(iy Mail
Report,’ in the handwriting ofthe late Judge
and indirectly intimating that he was the au-
t/ior, &c. Now tosct all right as regards
the ‘Report’ permit me to observe that my
late friend Judge Cooper was not the author
of that ‘Repoit,’ although he was prtsi-nt.antl
read it previous to its being presented to the
Post Office Committee in Congress for their
:tppl‘ot'al, and made his comments tho-rreon.
but the autlior ofthat ‘Report,’ was a mem-
her from Georgia, and a late Senator in
Congress from that State. Ifany of your
readers doubt the fact. let a CO!X'lml1l’llCiillOll
be addressed to the. Hon. Andrew Stephen-
son,of Virginia, who was the able speaker
in the lower house in Congress, at the timi-
the‘Report’ was drawn up and presented by
Col.-Johnson, as Chairman of the Post Of
fice Committee. '

Sea. Serpents —I'lere area couple of sto-
ries about these ‘monsters of_the deep.’

A letter has been received at the Boston
Merchants’ Exchange. from Captain Wales.
(son of T. B. Wales. Esq.) of bark Wave at
Malaga, from this port dated September 5,
in which he stated that on the 4th ofAugust.
at 6 P. M., bearing by S. 30 miles, be dis-

covered a huge sea monster crossing the how

about half a mile distant to the north wcst.—-
It at first appeared like the surf breaking
over a rock 0! reel, but soon arose in a per-
pendicular position 20 or 30 feet above the
surfacc, remaining for about 10 seconds, and
then fol‘owing horizontally, the hotly disap-
cleiired, li--:i.ving‘a wake in the water, and ris-
irig again in the same position at nearly reg-
ular intervals for the space of half an hour,
when it disappeared entirely. Its form was
that of an ecl, the largest part appearing next
the water. The head was soinewliat small-
er than the body, and from the position ex-
posed, Captain W. judged the body to _ have
been from 90 to 19.0 feet long, and the circu m-
ference that of a liogshead cask. Both of
Captain Wales’ Officers, Mr. Lincoln. a pass-
enger, and a part of the crew had a fine view
of the monster.

The Wiscasscst Republican states that
a strange fish was discovered near Siiguin
on Tuesday, of last week, by Ca pt. l\lclntyre
of the schooner Adeline of Pliipsburg. The
fish is discribed as thirty five feet long. his
body was the size of s six ton boat, and strip-
ed like a tiger; his head was flat like a
snake, his fin like a bout’s sail, his tail flat
like a sail boat running to a point. Capt.
Mclntyre says he sailed along side and prick-
ed the fish with a harpoon, and that be shov-
ed his body tip against the vessel, and made
her tremble as though she had struck-
a rock. Not having sufficient gear, did not
harpooi: him. When first discovered, he
was a mile and a half offand thinking it was
a boat, made for it.

“The sea. s/tall gi'i:e up its dead ’'—In go-
ing out of the harbor of St. Mary's, a short
time ago, the people in the boat saw a large
red chest on the, water, towards which they
stea red, and succeeded in obtainingthe chest.

This on being opened was found to con-
tain tbc corpse ofa young and beautiful fe-
male, clothed in a rich silk dress, and hav-
ing three solid gold rings on her fingcrs.—
And this was all that. could be learned con-
cerning hcr. Who she had been. or what
were the circumstances ofher death, still re-
main sealed. It is most likely. however,
that the fair young creature had died at sea.
and her body coiiiinitted to the deep, whose
waters had thus yielded it up again.

It only remains for us toadd, that the. chest
with the body in it, just as it lay when first
opened, was consigned to the grave, with the
appropriiite and solemn rites of Christian
burial in St. Mary’s.——Neuyfoiuirllriizrl Post.

Late and Importantfrom IV(Ls/iington.
——A private letter from a gentleiraii at
Washington, possessing every means of
knowing what he coiiiinunicatcs, informs us
that “several Foreign appointments will
soon be made vacant. Col. Todd is expect-
ed. to return from Russia, Jenifer frcni Aus-
tria, and Barrow froiu Portugal. The lat-
ter mission has been tendered to Gen. Har-

‘ risen and a man of greattalcnts, but was de-

clined. He is among the very few sincere
and disinterested friends President Tyler has
left. The mission to Portugal has since
been offered to and accepted by a gentli-man
in North Carolina. Mr. Wise is spoken of
for the Austrian mission, and Mr. Spencer
for that of Russia. Several other Diploinntic
changes are anticipation. Mr. Everett will
be recalled in ii few weeks. but who will be
scnt to London or Paris has not yet been
settled.

Mr. Spencer will not remain in his present
post one month after Congress assembles.
and will leave no friends behind him. Por-
ter's rejection will create an additional va-
cancy in the cabitiet.”—-True: Sun.

It is estimated, by cool heads, that the Mi-
ami Extension Canal, terminating at Cincin-
nati. will draw to New York the trade of
Ohio river, f.ir down as itsjunction with the
Mississippi. This iinprovcment will thus
secure the entire trade of Illinois and Indi-

iana, three. quarters of which has heretofore

been transacted at New’Orleans.

The Illinois Canal will open by far the
greatest extent of country to the New York
market of any improvement yet projected.--—
it is not improbable. to say that St. Louis
will ship by this route to New York. It
will also secure, at least. halfof the State of
.Missouri, and the vast territory of Iowa, (be-
ing an increased era of at least l00.000
square miles,) which already send a mighty
ivolume of production to New Orleans.

A man called on_Lr. Devan on Monday
,-morning in great anxiety, says the Journal
:ofCominerce, bringing with him a scorpion
four inches long, that came outofthe hollow
end of it stick of logwood which he was saw-
ing. and hit one of his fingers. The finger
was a good deal swollen and the inflatnation
was rapidlyincrcasing. The circunistance
shows that some caution is, necessary in
deziling with hollow wood from the climate

0fVlpt'lS.

The State Convention which comesofl'atN.
Haven, it is expected will be a very refreshing
affair. Our friends there are already preparing
to entertain the delegates as comfortably and
wiili as little expense to the delegates as possibie,
and the towns are moving in the work of ap-
pointing delegates with a commendable zeal.-
Some of them have arrcady attended to that
duty and appointed full delegations, with a
good supply of substitutes to supply all vacan-
cies.

VVhere is our Town Committee? Is it not
time to stir here ?

The Hon. Lewis F. Linn, U. S. Senator
from Missouri. was found dead in his bed at his
residence in Ste. Genevieve, on the 3d iiisi., at
12 o'clock. M. He had been laboring under an
affection ofilie heart.

Tiii-2 Minni.i~:'rowiv l\IURDEIl—Tlle exami-
nation ofthe suspected murderers of Mrs. Bacon
—Be'l, Roberts and Hall-has l'8SUllt':d in their
commitment for trial at the next sitting of the
Superior Court in Middletown County.

 

For the l\’oru'rillc Guzctlc. A

MR. Enrica, Sir:—-ls it for the general
good that a school or__Academy be kept only
five or five and a halfdays in a week, in-
stead of six? My children's l{lll‘l‘(‘Sl as well
as my own, are best promoted by their zit-
tending school six days in a week of six
hours to the day. It accusloms them to
regular habits of application, and preservis
them from the contagious habits of idleness
and dissipation. If some parents wish to
have their children out of school, nll.l.~l all,
or at least a majority of parents be incorri-
modcd for their gratification ? Can they not
withdraw their children from school for a
halfday or a day, if they choose, or must
the school stop at the expense of many .7 I
confess I cannot aflord it.

Is it for the general good that a quarter of
a year when applied to teaching school, is
allowed to mean three lunar months, rather
than three calendar months, twelve weeks,
yen. in some instances eleven weeks instead
of thirteen?

I have just paid a school bill in which I
was chargetl with a quartcr’s tuition; and
what do you think constituted the quarter?
I will tell _vou. It was eleven weeks of five
days to the week, that is 55 days. For this
I paid $5 and 25 cents for incirlccrttals. The
time should have been 78 days. Here is a
loss of 23 days, or nearly one third of the
quarter. l suppose others fared no better.

The above is not designed as a reproof to
any particular teacher or even the organs
who employ them, but to call the attention
ofthe public to what I believe to he an evil,
for the following reasons. lst. It is urijiist
to be obliged to pay for service which was
never rencleretl. 2~l. It is injurious to the
intellectual moral and physical improvement
of the rising generation. 2d. It is a. bad
precedent.

I would not seriously object to the teach-
er's having half ofa day in the. week but not
more, or if he takes more let him make it
up at the end of his term of service or the
price of the time be deducted from his wages
the same as any other servant of the public.
or ofan individual. ' JUSTICE.

October 10, 1843.

 

Great Fr/2sliet.—We had a heavy storm of
rain on Sunday week, and much damage has
been done to roads, bridges and crops on the
utcadows. None of the corn. and but few of
the potatoes on our extensive meadows have
been gathered. The potatoe crop will be a
total loss or nearly so. and corn must be
much injured. The farmers were busy in
our lower meadows all d.iy, gathering pota-
toes &,c. and bringing them ashore in boats.
We learn from Greenfield that the rain fell
there likewise in torrents, and mtich damage
was expnrie-nced_ N;ish’S mill, in the west
part of the town was swept away, with riiost
of the bridges on that stream. All the sluice

ways were open on our canal, but
were not sufficient to let off the water
and the superintendent was under the

necessity of opening‘ a break in a favora
ble place to prevent its breaking out where
it might do more rhimage.

Nort/mmpton Dcmocritt.

 

C/zuiting the Post Og‘ice.—A Providence
man, who visits the commercial Enporium
rather frequently, tells us that by a running
account which he has kept, he finds that
since the first of May he has brought up-
warrls offoiir hundred letters, and carried
back two hundred. There are several other
men who have carried as many, and some of
them more. He says, that if the postage
were five cents. most ofthese letters would
have been put in the mails, and that such
a change would probably double the receipts
of postage bctwt-on New York and Provi-
dence. Mr. VVickliffe, however, seems de-
termined not to do l.l‘.lS. but to get a law en-
acted by Congress forbidding all the Provi-
deuce folks from wearing pockets.

Jon-r. of Com.

A Rt/.mo-r.—It is rumored in Philadel-
phia that Thomas McCully, the gentleman
defeated in the First Congressional District
as the Tyler and Porter candidate, by Ed-
ward Joy Morris the able and honest Tariff
VVliig, will be rewarded with the appoint-
ment of Postmaster of Philadelphia, vice
John C. Montgoniery! Now this does not‘
serm improbable, as Mr. McCully oas Un-
questionably made great sacrifices-—for his
own personal benefit it must be admitted——
and M r. hloiitgoinery having lost favor with

his Tyler friends, the act might readily be,

accomplished without any particular sur-
prise.

The Fire yet Bo.-rmTng,.——'f‘he Fall River
Monitor says—-‘It is now three months since
the great fire in this place, and yet the fire
in some parts of the burnt district is still
burning. Vile yesterday, in passing the_ ru-
ins of the Pocasset House, noticed that the
fire was burning among the rubbish of a
wholesale grocery store, which had been
kept in the basement of that once splendid
building. There was a large quantity of
corn, meat and otherarticles. buried beneath
the ruins, which in this smothered state con-
tinue still to burn.’

NORWALK GAZE TTE.

Wetlncsday, October 18, 1843.

\V_hig State Convention.

THE Whigs of Connecticut will hold a State
Convention at New Haven, on Wednesday the 8th
day of November next, for the purpose of nominal. ,
ting candidates for Governor, Lieut. Governor,-
Treasurer, Secretary, and Controller, and for the
selection of six Delegates to the National VVhig
Convention, to be liolden in Baltimore in Mziynext‘.
The convention to consist of delegates from each
town equal to double the number of its representa
lives in the General Assembly.- The Committeeiiof
the several towns are requested to attend to the
calling ofmeetings for the appointment of delegates
as early as practicable. ‘

JAMES F. BABCOCK. ' State
EZRA S. HAMILTON, Central ~
HENRY PECK. Couiuiittee

New Haven, Sept. 7th, 1843.

Elections. _

The news ofthe recent elections shows be-
yond a doubt that all that is requisite I5 secure
a victory is aciitviiy on the part of our friends.
The countryi s wliig. and Whig iltcfdedly, “-1,, n
her freemen are all out This was shown by
the election M1840. and will be shown again in
the approaching elrclion, if Olcl Sleepy Davy,
by which we mean ilie great Whig party, can
be lhiiroiiglily aroused. Our friends were never
in a better condition to go into a Piesiilemial
conlcst.——Uiiiicd as one man, wiili a candidate
nominated by the spontaneous acclamation of

and depending for support upon no profligate
management, or party macliincry, with a prob-
ablejopponent, who is not only Vsllllolll a promi-
nent point in his c‘naracter, upon which to'rally.
but obnoxious to the charge of having swamp.
ed his party to an extent more hopeless, and
irretrievable, than. any other candidate that
was ever presented for the siiflragcs of this
Add to this the iuternaal disscntious,
and splitting up of the loco foco party, and
the incentive to action which the Whigs.
have. the contemplation of the conduct
of instead of kissing his
viciiin,could bailic it with his tears : and we
have considerations enough the
The fol-
lowing returns may be looked upon as the.
harbingers of that triumph. T’

people.

in
airaitor veho,
to warrant
expectation of a glorious triumph.

MAiiYLAi\'o.—VVe gave last wcek—17 on’
joint ballot in the Legislature. which secures
the election of a Whig U. S. Senator for six.
yeaisto come. I

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F rain (lie S.'Z77(£7I7l(llt. Rcpublican.- f

The Legislature reiniiius the same as stated by us.
viz: in 82counties whig giiiuin the Senate l6—loss4i
—net gain 12. \Vhig gain in the House 45—loss 6
—\Vliig gain 39. Total gain 51. «’

Majority for Crawford in 81 counties .... -.4,24-T

McDonald’s maj. in same counties, in ’4] -. .2,l89i

 

Whig gain ....................... . .6.-133'
For Coiigress in 71 counties, the vote stands tlius:
Whig Ticket. Loco Ticket,

Stephens..- . .. .3] .890 Stark. .28,]02

Cliappell ..... . .3l,1-17' Johnson . . . . . -. 27,058

Pennsg/'f1:an.ia,by the new alotnieut is entitled
to 24 Congressmen. Ofihi.-. number the Whigs
have clccted 9, and their opponents 11, accor-
ding to the Journal of Comuierce. The Trib-
une allows the locos but ten. Besiileihis mim-
bei there is an elrciiou ofonc whom the Journ-
al classes as aii irregular Deinociat.

By the same authority the assembly now
stands 34 whigs and 39 locos. Of the Senate
we have nothing definite.

New Jersey/.——In this State we appear not lg be
doing as well as we had a right to expect. Pol-
iiics is a trade in N. Y. and the two states are
separated only by the Hudson, and there is good
reason to fear that artful management, and a
llbcffll use offunds have been the cause of our
defeat. Offive Congressmen, the Whigs have
but one.

OI1i0.——Tliis State has been apportioned into
21 districts. The returns we have are only
from 10 districts, and those not all certain.
The \Vliig-i appear to be doing nobly. Of
the 10, 7 probably are Whigs. We can hardly
hope that the whigs will elect a majority of
the’ Congressmen, since the State was so Dis-
iricted as to give, on an even vote, fourteen
focus to seven \Vhigs. -

We hardly know, says the N.Y. Tribune,‘
whetber to expect the Legislature or not,
but the W4-iig gains in Licking. Morgan,
and Pickway, with the reduced Loco ma-
jority in Fairfield, Perry, &.c. give us strong
hopes of the House at least. It can only be
lost by carelessness in the decidedly
Whig Counties. The Senate can hardly be
gained this year.

 

Notwithstanding the reports that have been
circulated to the contrary, the Hartford Times
declares itself’ favorable to the renominalion of
Gov. Cleveland, provided he will accept.

Hartford Courant.

This goes to confirm what we recently learn-
ed from a prominent member ofllie Loco Foco
Party in this County. Gov. Cleveland will be
the candidate ofthe party at the next election.
The hesitation of his Excellency arose from the
apprehensions, that if he stood the nomination
it mightjeopard his prospects for the U. States
Senate. These apprehensions having been of-
layed, it is now understood that the nomination
will be made, and also, that ifthe continued‘ in-
sanity ofMr. Niles renders it necessary to look
for a successor, the Governor will be the man.

 

Col. Johnson was to be erliibitecl at acivif on
military Levee. at Faneuil Hall, Boston, on
Thursday evening last, at the rate of one .'
a ticket, admitting a gentleman, and ggpeffady,

suppose, were permitted to standout side.

 

A weekly paper has been commenced in the
city of N. Y. called “The pbalanx,or Journal’
- of Social Science, devoted to the cause of Ass
socialion, or a Social Reform and the elevation
of the Human Race." Iis object is explained.
by its title.

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the people. holding a place in their affections‘, '

and for each additional lady 25 cents.“ So it :
appears from the Boston Post. The Demo- .
cralic people. what liad'nt got no dollar, wo_ .

 

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