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IV. All Lettereadgommunicationeeddreesed 14 the Editor by toilMietbe poet-paid, or they will not be 'Moulded to. rim GARLAND. —" With sweetest flowers enricli'd From various gardens cull'd with care." WOM.O.N. A FRAGMENT Child of the erring heart's desire, To men in blissful Eden given! When you bright orbs of mystic fire First hymned the circling hours of Heaven, Ohl had'at thou mocked the tempter's power, Tho skies had been beneath thy bower: And man's immortal stre, Of thee and Paradise possessed, . Had been beyond the angels blessed! Burthis was nr.t ordained to be, Child of the soft and suffering mien! And keenly has the stern decree Been felt through ages lapsed between nigh gifted men thy trespass shored, And death with his bleak work' preferred To Eden's bowers unblesl by thee, Then wnv'd the sword o'er Eden'• gate, And Paradise MIS desolate! Frail, erring child of birth divine; Weak, wandering, yet bclnv'd of Heaven; Repentant, low, at morcy'e shrine Thou heard'st and art forgiven. 0, who, with hardened mind shall tree* To thee the ruin of hie race, Nor own that faith is thine, WLich, still omnipotent to save, tSurvives and triumphs o'er the grave! maaaalslamags , o , ,, SHORT PATENT SERMONS NEW SERIES-NO. LIVI. On the Loquacity of U omen. Tczr.— Nature, impartial in her ends, When she made man the atrongeat In justice, then, to make amenda IttuJe woman's tongue the longest. Tx N NA nik.r. , . MY llsAntins.—Keep your out crackers closed, atid be tongue tied while I tringue it for a few moments on the subject of tongues, if you please. As regards- the utility of the tongue, it is needless to say that it is one of the mist important tippet' dages of the human system. h is designed for other uses than licking molasses and carrying grub from one grinder to another during the pleasant, but sometimes tedious process of mustification. Its principle office is to form or finish words as they bubble up in a chaotic state, through the thorax, from the wellspring of the heart. In society the tongue is both a useful and pleasing member—us it not only imparts information to the unlearned, but serves in beguiling many a weary hour, and aids in digesting sorrows, that sit as heavy open the soul as stewed horse nails upon a dys peptic's stomach. In its operation it should be guided by prudence and moderation, else it becomes a bore Instead ore blessing. Some People have naturally so much loqua cious steam in their boilers, that when they once get the clappers 16 their corn mills in operation, they never know when to stop them. Such folks, generally speak ing, are as empty as egg shells and softer than soap fat. A darn with a gate that's always hoisted can hold but little water. and a man who leaks at the month, can't have much in him excepting that gas with which the b:adder of vanity is ever inflated. My friends—my text implies that Na' tare made woman with a longer tongue than man in order to compensate her for what she lucked in physical strength—that, whenever the science of fiffification might fail to her pUrpose, she might have recourse to the worst of all weapons—a long tongue; and I.feel bound to say, with regard fltr the delicacy of the fernenine gender, that wo• men's tongues are often ton extensive for their own especial good, and for the benefit of the commum ty a t large. If they would only bring them into play when necessity required, I wouldn't ray a word; but the fact is, they are too apt to keep up a con tinual click clack, for the sake of the music alone; and often, too often, they upset their } own teapots while leveling a kick at their neighbor's. Why, my triendo, 1 know }several of the she sex in this city who have knocked out all their front teeth and wore !away Fart of their gums by the continual } and everlaeting working of their scandal } distributors. I know it is the nature of the beautiful animal to indulge in meddlesome garrulity, and when she becomes so expan ded with gossip as to be in danger of burst ing her apron strings, I ,am willing she should let off her surplus steam, provided she does'nt blow it in the face of innocence, and to the detriment of social peace. I admire, respect and love a woman whose looks are as mild as the moon beam, and whose words are as gentle as the zephyr which disdains to brush even a dew drop from the mountain daisy; but I don't like to meddle with one whose disposition contains the essence of lightning, vitriol, cream of tarter, rind hartahorn—who manufactures words by the mile, and measures their meaning in a thimble. I don't rare wheth er there be any meaning in them or not. I don't like it, and that's enough. All talk and no cider—as is the case with some wo• men nrid the Incofocoo —is unendurable; and all talk with too much cider— as with whigs—is equally as bad. These are my politics. At the rain falls the gentlest from the clouds when unattended by thun der. so, give me a tongue that can silently shake of the particles of speech and let them drop calmly through the ear into the heart—there to moisten and refresh the Young plants of virtue, and cause them to flourish, like hog weeds in a barnyard. My friends—the Dutch governor thought wisely when he advised the girls to wear short tongues and long petticoats, but his advice was as water split upon the ground They will persist in wearing long tongues and short petticoats; and when I came to take measure of the difference it makes in their moral characters, I must confess that I feel a disposition to prosecute them with my preaching till I can let out a hem of the latter, and cut short about four inches of the former, with the keen edged sword of persunston. My dear young damsels, it is said that the angels of heaven only whisper, in their walks mid the silent paths of Para dise, and why don't you take a pattern after them, in whose likeness you were created, and whose attributes you possess, with the exception of that restless and never to-he tired out-member—the tongue? It is a sin, n shame and pity, that so many of our la dies, both old and young, are addicted to etch excessive talkativeness—that they are so inclined to gad about. telling things which ought not to be told, and leaving un told those things which ought to bo told.— There is no doubt in my mind but n strong cup - of tea contains a vast quantity of the animalculre of scandal; and those who drink the derpi st from it are the most given to gossiping. Old maids, for instance, will drink bohea, of sufficient substance to float n pin, and they can breed more mosquitoes about town in a single day, than the swamps of Louisiana can in a month. Perhaps my friends. you may say there is no use in my preaching thus, for if a woman's tongue is made longer by nature, she can bo guilty of no fault, but only subjected to a inisfor• tune. I don't mean to blame her for what she can't help—tin occasional overflow of loquacity; but I want to give her a good dose of tln}onition with respect to what she talks, and how she talks. She must recol lect that woe ds are as slippery as live eels and when they have once carelessly escep ed, they may east their slime on the white frock of reputation, ere they can be overta ken and captured. Slander that has been gathered by degrees, like a slow thunder creed bursts up at the climax of its black• nes4, and unwonted sunshine immediately succeeds, yet still it casts a gloomy shade for a time over life's happy hours, and threatens destruction, though it may ac complish but little. My dear hearers—although men's tongues are shorter, in proportion, than those of the women, and are slower in their move ments, yet I believe they are capable of doing much harm, and are often vulgarly, sinfully and vainly employed. They are levers in the menthe of many, that assist them in putting out oaths as big as a bush• el basket, and as horrible as they are bulky. Some men's tongues are constantly coated with the thick scum of vice—otlArs ate only stained with tobacco juice and treachery—while n few there are that aro kept perfectly clean, by the pure and ode,- terated.saliva of truth and virtue. -} 0, my dear friends, one and all! I pray you keep a tight rout upon that furious charger, the tongue, lest it break loose in the wilderness of unrestraint and dash your vehicles of happiness down the precipice of perdition, pitching hope's golden treasures into the dark ocean of despair. And oh, ye moth ers! look into the mouths of your prattling babes, and see whether any symptoms of the tongue-ail are begining to be developed. Watch over them •steadily, and teach them to lisp thewords of truthjand sincerify; for they may be called into eternity in their swaddlings, and may cause a black mark to be sot against your tomes in the book of life. Yes the very cradles in which they are now sleeping may turn - out to ,be coffins on rockets, soon to' be overspread with the white mantle of death. My hearers—having shown you about half the length of my tongue, the whole of woman's, and the tip of man's in general, I have nothing more to say; eicepting that we shall all soon be obliged, to hold our tongues of the silent sepulchre, beyond G. 774.13Z1NGT0N ZOWEIT, EDITOR & PP.OPMIV:O7.. "The liberty to know, to utter, and to argue, frerly, is above all other libertirs."—Mwros eva.4.?wwenattia.raao .7.4:10 0 etpreavrortree 0VE1N:12112./t3 as, aa4.taQ svhich we may indulge in some delightful cogitations—but no talking. So mote it be ! TILE HOOSIER AND THE YANKEE.- We were greatly amused, not long since, at a dialogue wo heard between a Down easter and a Hoosier from the west. They were respectively cracking up their own localities, and running down their oppo• nents. At length says the Hoosier: "Why, our land is ao rich—why, yo never seed any thing so tarnal rich in your life; why, how - d'ye suppose we make our candles, eh?'' "Don't know," says the yankec: "We dip 'em in the mud puddles," enys the Hoosier. "Yes," replied the Yankee, "and I guess there:slat much mud:in ycur diggins that oat there many places where a man could not dip candles in the mud puddles. I have heard of a man travelling in your country all day long, in the' road where the mud was so deep that you could'nt diskiver a glimpse ()fins legs for hours together." Well, now, just toll us, Mr. Yankee, if it is a fact what they do say about the roughness of the roads down east. They du say there are so many stones in the roads, and the wagons do jolt up and down so all-firedly, that the only way people ever grind out plaster of Paris is by loading the big pieces into a wagon, and just dri ving at a tnoderate trot over one of your roads; and that hallo mile's driving will make it all into powder." "There's no doubt but we can touch dry land occasionally on our roads. But then, if there are some stuns in the roads, the travoller is nevc r way-laid, and his blood taken by musquitoes as big as oysters." "I'll tell you what, stranger, they do say there are hull counties down east where the stones are so thick that they have to sharpen the sheep's noses, so that they can get tlsern between the rocks to eat grass. Indeed, I heard one say, who once travelled through your country, the t lie one day saw a whole held of men and boys stand ing on the rocks, each on 'cm lolling a sheep down by the hind legs in among the rocks to feed. Arid in another place he said he saw the tamers shooting the grain in among the rucks so as to take rout and ornw." "WO now, stranger, suppose von tell us about your own country; you're the only man I ever see from the west that did'ot die of fever n'agur; let's see rf you know as much about the west as you seem to know about the east." "Well, old Yankee, I'll just tell you all about it. If a farmer in our country plants his groind with corn and takes great care on it, he'll get a hundred bushels to the acre; if ho takes midd!in' cars of it he'll get seventy-five bushels to the acre; and if he don't plant at all he'll get fifty." "Tito beets grow so large that it takes three yoke of oxen to pull up a full sized . one; and then it Icnv a a hole so large that 1 once knew a family of five children who all tumbled into a beet hole once before it got tilled up, and the earth caved in upon them, and they alt perished." "The trees grow so large that 1 once know a man who commenced cutting one down, and when ho had cut away on one side for about ten days, ho thought he'd jest take a look round the tree, at:d when he got round on 'Luther side he found a man there who had been cutting at it for three weeks—and they'd never heard One another's axes." "I have heard to I!, yet I somewhat doubt that—itury, that the Ohio parsnips have sometimes grown clean through the earth, and been pulled through by the people on 'tot her sidt.." "Wal, now," says the Yankee, "I rath er guess as how you've told enough, stran ger, for the present. Ilow'd you like to trade for some clocks to sell out west?" "Never use 'em—we keep time alto _ether with pumpkin vines. You know they grow just five feet an hour, and that's an inch a minute. Don't use clocks at all It's no use, old Yankee,. we cant trade, no how." The Yankee gave up beat, and suddenly cleared out. INTERNAL IMPLIOVEMENTa IN ?DR U• NITED SrATEs.— It is not more than men. ty•lour years since the Canal of New York was commenced, and it is not fifteen years since the Rail Road Imes have been commenced in an extensive manner. The following is the astonishing amount in the U. States: Ist. Of CANALa, there are finished about three thousand seven hundred miles. Of these Canals the largest part (nearly three fourths) are in the States of Penney) vania, New York and Ohio. 2d. Of RAIL ROADS, there are no less than four thousand five hundred miles fin ished or nearly so. They have therefore already outrun, in quantity, the Canals.— The largest amount of Rail Roads are in the States of Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia and Massachusetts. Tne longest . Roil Road in the United States, or in the world is (the greater put in operation and the whole nearly finished) from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Boston, and from Boston, through Albany, Utica and Rochester:, to Buffalo. This road is more than six hundred miles in length, and the whole of that distance will be traversed comfortably and cheaply in less than two days. DOW, Jr. ....... • 0••••••• The longest is froM the Potomac river, through Richmond, Petersburg and Re. leigh, to Wilmington, North Carolina.— Thus there aro in the United States more than EIGHT TIIOUSAND MILES (which is equivalent to the diameter of the earth) in RAIL ROADS and CANALS. These are the work of twenty years, and hove cost about one hundred and sixty mil• lions of dollars. No country on earth, ancient or modern, can produce any thing in physicarachlevements at all comparable to this. The monuments of Egypt are nothing in the settle, and the brnzeit columns of Napoleon become insignificant.-- Cin. Chron. THE &Yrs.—The finger of God him• self has marked out the line which separ ates the impluses, the habits, the charac ter of the two sexes:—Man has vigor —wo men refinement: man has the reasoning faculty best developed—woman the percep tive: man has the power of abstraction— woman rarely possesses it: man is the creature of calculation—woman of impulse: man is capable...of deep research, he pro ceeds slowly and cautiously, measuring every distance, and counting every step of his progress--woman bounds along with rapid flint, observing the most prominent objects in her path, and from them forms conclusions often erroneous, but always ingenious. The intellectual faculty in man is usually concentrated --in woman it is diffused: men of genius commonly devote themselves to some oats favorite put suit— women of genius are remarkable for their versatility. Man has the more correct judgment--woman the more correct feel ings. He has a knowledge of right which he often forgets--she a consciousness of it which never forsakes her, even in the midst of crime: man possesses.the stronger passiors—woman the stronger affections: man has boldness-- woman fortitude: man can perform heroic deeds—woman can endure the extreme of suffering: man has the more physical daring; w, roan the more moral courage: man controls others by the force of his character—woman influences by the gentleness of hers. In a word, my dear Frank, the relative position of the sexes is fixed beyond all change; their respective duties are wall defined. Man has been eiv.•n the weapons of moral and mental warfare, that he may go out into the world, and do brittle with and for his fellows—while on woman is bestowed that skill in moral and mental culture which enables her to improve the field of duty at •horns." CAUSE OF SOUND IN THUNDER.—ThiIfi• der is one of the consequences resulting from lightning, and lightning appears to be occasioned by the combustion of some of the infhimmable particles of the air; or, according to more recent opinions, of a condensation of merial matter• conducing to electricity, by which, in either case, a vacuum is created. The sounding atoms which remain uninfluenced by the charge, being forced together by the whole weight of the almovhcro, greatly constrict each other; but their elastic nature causes them immediately to expand,and by this enlarge. meat their to norous property is acquired. A centrifugal force being thus established, it acts in all directions alike; but as the circle extends, its propulsive power be comes gradually diminished, till at last its pressure is no longer felt, nor sound crea ted. The rumbling noise of thunders is produced by that portion of the sonorous circle which strikes upon the earth, whence it becomes Condensed, arid, being intercept ed in its upwards course by dense triaises of vapor, it is again refit et d, and this al tetnate motion and reverberation continue, until the interruption ceases, or the origi• mil foice is exhausted. Echo is alum occa sioned by reverberation from one cloud to another.--Webster's Principles of Sound. FEVER IN New_OnLzerrs.—ln regard to the unusual uuhealthiness of New Or r leans, during the late summer the editor of the Bee holds this language: It has beeiiour fortune to reside in New Orleans fur the last ten years. During I this period we have often witnessed the ravages of the fatal epidemic to which our city is unfortunately subject; but we have rarely, if ever beheld such frightful desola lion as its visitation hits this season occa• sinned In mortality and malignity, in the suddenness of its attacks, and the in discriminate ruthlessness with which it prostrates all classes of the non resident population; in the appalling rapidity ,with which it has extended from hospital into private practice, it has rarely ever bean exceeded. The heart is absolutely sicken• od, and humanity shudders at the scenes of misery and affliction which this awful scourge has this year produced. The brightest, purest and best have fallen vic tims to the pestilence. It has stricken down many of our most estitnahle and be- , loved citizens. Its fury hath fallen on hundreds whom protracted residence and lung exemption had appeared to guarantee from its attacks. Men who had passed fbitr, five, or half a dozen consecutive sum mers in New . Orleans, and had escaped. unscathed from the visitation of former epi• ' demics have now sunk beneath its resistless power. it seems to spare none snvo nu lives in Louisiana; and residents who have i already passed through its terrible ordeal., We have taken the trouble to compare the mortality of the present summer with that .of 1539 and '37—both seasons in which the 'allow fever raged with upcom• mon violence. The weekly number of deaths thus fur exceeds, by nearly a third, that 01.1639 and is greater than that of 1837, if we consider the paucity of the non-resident population. At the worst lie lied of the epidemic in 1839; the bills of I mortality did not exhibit inure thou 189 Ideaths per week. The last weekly state ment for this year shows a mortality of 24:►, and the list for this week will more than probably demonstrate an increase of forty or fifty more. It is moreover univer sally admitted by medical men, that the fever is far more intractable than usual. The remedial agents which have formerly proved so successful, are inert and inefflca cinus. So rapid are tl►e symptoms, so vio lent the derangement of function, and so prone is the disease to eff'ect immediate organic lesion, that unless .medical aid be applied almost at the incipiency of the at tack, and the means employed be of the most energetic character, the cases 'are considered nearly hopeless. A NI ICIIITY CHAIN OF RAILROAD.-WO learn from Batavia that the railroad thence to Buffalo will be very mono completed.— On the Rochester and Auburn line but seven or eight tildes remain to be finished; the cars already cross the Cit)uga Lake on the new bridge erected for the purpose, and will in n few weeks run over the whole line. The Boston road to Albany is neatly completed; in n very blunt time therefore the "Inet link" will he completed in the gr,eat chain from Buffalo to .13oFton, a dis• tnnee of near six hundred miles! The whole world cannot exhibit a specimen of railroad enterprise to equal this. The lon gest one in England is not more than one third the length of this. COLORED LITERATI. — The Paris corres• pondent of the N.xtionnl Intelligencer, men (ions that 4.lex. &Imes, one of the most celebrated literary characters of France, is a full mulatto, his father being a complete negro from one of the Vest India Islands. He was, nevertheless, a General of Artille• ry, and his son is deemed second onl, in literature, to Victor Hugo. It is said that no American gentleman, being invited to dinner, found himself placed on an equality with a colored man, slipped away as soon as possible, complaining bitterly that he was placed at a table next to a mulatto !-- Lumns, it iv said is about to receive the distinguished honor of being elected a member of the-French Institute, an honor to which the A n•erican gentleman would probably aspire to, in vain. THE CASE OF I)rt. BUADDICE..--Mr. Gould states a few facts connected with this case, that we have not met with else. where. It seems that the Doctor was en• joying a quack medical practice in the western part of this State, worth from $5OOO to 815,000 a year, and when arrest ed, no less than 15 plundered mail bags were found upon his premises. "Money and other property wet() missing from the mails, about this time, to the amount of Saila million of dollars, of which 810,500 were found in Biaddee's hay•mow,_and oth er items paid away by him, were recover• ed, though much is yet missing. He was held to bail in the sum of $120,000, and continued at largo from January till May, 1841. When his trial came on, he char. Cored a steamboat and brought to court, more than one hundred witnesses, a dis tance of seventy miles, triumphantly boast ing on his way, that I,e hod those who would SWEAR WM OUT of any difficulty. fie had also procured the services ofno less than seven lawyers. fle was met on the part of the prosecution, by about an r quid number of witnesses summoned by the Uni-' ted States from St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Wheeling, New Yolk, Boston, Washington city, and other places; 18 mutilated mill:tags were exhibited upon the floor of the court-mom, and thousands of dollars of his stolen treasure placed upon the table. Themmil hags and portions of the money were identified, the stealing pro ven, guilt established, and sentence pro wormed—notwithstanding the extensive subordination'hod been resorted to, and the most alarming perjury perpetrated in his behalf. The trial was conducted with great legal ability—the speeches of the counsel and the charge of Judge Baldwin occupied seventeen hours." All the testimony has been published in pamphlet form, and mac be obtained in ibis city at some of the book stores. Thu case iii vulved, the most extensive system of rob bing the mails that ever disgraced our country.—Phila. lnq. FREE NEGROES IN 011I0.—In reply to an article inserted in other papers, the Cincinnati Gazette elates that by the laws of Ohio, "the tree colored person is de prived of all those privileges which a fi eo. man holds dear, and has many deprivations whilst residing here, which we should think would drive them all from our State. They have to give bond and stcurity. They Lave no rights of citizenship us to voting. They. cannot give testimony against a white man, no matter. whiit violmee i s committed against them, and when, under our crinitinil law, a white man would be admitted to st‘ ear against his adversary." A man in St. Louis has a quantity cf large rattle snckes, which he has complete ly tamed, so that they crawl about his Jerson like domestic pets, thilugh the') • threaten the use of their fangs upou than gore. wo-irztta4,73 avo,) LAW or A DVEUTIBIITO.-A decision has recently bPen triode in England, which we doubt nut would ba strictly followed in a similar case in this country. From this is apparent the necessity that advertisers should accompany their communications with explicit directions. The case i■ as Court of Requests— 0' COlinfl versus Blokes. This was an action (brought by the plaintiff, a newspaper propietor, against the defendant who had occasion to advertise in hie paper,) to recover the amount of an advertisement which bad been iriserted fOrry.five times..on the ground that the advertisement had been intended for. one insertion' only. The manuscript , order was produced and appeared indeflinite.- IThe case had been some time • under con sideration of his Honer, who in hie anxiety that strict justice should ho done between proprietors of newspapers and the publie, had taken the opinion of two of the judges en the subject, and agreed with thorn in deciding that newspaper proprietors were jnstiff 6 d in continuing the insertion of ad vertisenients, not ordered for any speeilia nrunber timis, unlit the same were order ed to hr withdrawn. His Honor said ; it was desirable that the public should be made acquainted with this decision, in order that the persons having occasion to advertise may be aware of the necessity of stating on their orders the , number of insertions they may require; if they neglect I to do so, it .was unreasonable to expect newspaper proprietors .to attend to that which was clearly the advertiser's own business. A verdict was then entered for the plaintiff. A Dam., Dunn Awn BLIND Cani,.;••• An English pener states that at the late meeting of the British Association at Ply mouth, Dr. Fowler gave an account cif a yourig woman, now in Rotherbite work house, who has the three-fold infirmity er : being deaf, dumb and blind. The.unfortu• nate individual, who is about 2Q dears of age, was born deaf and dumb, and blinded ay the smallpox when about three years old. Shedoes not hear the loudest efforts of the voice► tut starts on a pcker, hung by a string against her ear, being struck against a grate. Touch is the only sense by which (Ahern can enrnmuniente with her, or which she employs in examining . objects and persons, and though she posses ses both taste and smell, she never np pears to - have used them. Until within two or three y ears since, 'her existence, appeared to be merely animal; but then a morked.difference took place in her habits, and she became as attentive to her dress and personal decorum ns any other girl of her nue. She feels her way without a guide, to every part of the woikhouse,,-, recognises all its inmates by the 'feel of theft hands; makes her bed; and sews not only plain work. but even the more intri• cate parts of dress. She is very tena cious of wfult she deems her own, and was touch pleased with a shilling which was put ;Me her hand, smiling, curtseying, and. • feeling it eagerly for some time alter. A drunken man fell into a kettle of boil ing potash somewhere in Lmjer Canada; and was completely disolved. Not a parti. eta of his bi;cly could ho found. So soya a New York paper. A drunkard's death is an awful death. Befalls under a mill saw and is sawed in twain—pitches into a fire and burns his head uff—is smashed by an engine --drowned in a quagmire—or per ishes on a• sick bed with all his crimes rushing upon his distracted vision, and gasps a curse upon himself and leaves the world! Oh! the drunkard's death is a dreadful death! A CAPE Coo SQUA9II. —We saw weigh ed and measured one day last week, the largest . squash "in all creation"--at least the biggest one we "ever heard tell of," and we be defy any of the groat farm ers, north or south,.east or west of the. Old Colony, who judge so meanly of our fertile sands, to show a nobler, richer specimen of the squash family. Our squash is of the marrow fat specirs--was raised in the garden of our neighbor, Mr. Cornelius Cracker--and, hark ye, it weighs one hun dred and six pounds, and measures in circumference five feet .lix inches--being three inches larger in girth than a (lour• barrel I Beat this if you cue.--Barnstable Pus. Stems OF RAIN.--The air, when dry, believe, refracts more red, or heat making taye; and as dry air is not perfectly trans. parent, they are again reflected in Ih3 horizon. I have generally observed a cop. pei y or yellow sunset to foretell rain; but, as an indication of wet weather approach ing, nothing is more certain than a halo round tl.e moon, which is produced by the precipitated water; and the larger the circle, the nearer the clouds, and consequently the more ready to Sir if. Davy •. , St tvsn 13171 , 4 0 N.— 4 ti'e hove, si n n rich specitoi 4 n of silver front the iVashing• ton tom:, Davidson county, (N. C.) It wry a mass of bullion, weighing eleven hundred and Body ounces. The Ole cnionipc 'omi t silver and gold, in d'fferent p, (To; tionst.--. The mass brought to thin oilier, sins ex tracted front Icad,, mind tho Id 111.1 vet separated front the silver renders this moss Worth about one dollar cod fort%•two mita to the ounce. The micro ctotilv cirru g ht, tied of rich promisc.--N. I'. Com.
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