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PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY JONATHAN II O W , SOMERSET, SOMERSET COUNTY, VA.
New Series.
TyZAKCH 10, 2846,
Vol. 4,-No. 17.
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Not the vile wretch whose sordid mind
The slavish chains of avarice bind;
"Whose stooping onl no pleasure knows,
Save what the dirty ore bestows.
Nothim'who plows the ocean wave,
IIU fellow beings to enslave:
Who cannot make, e'en want a plea,
For one lone act of cruelty.
Not him who light and knowledge spurns.
And to the gloom of ignorance turns,
Who dares his Maker's wrath defv,
In impotence of blasphemy,
lie is my friend the friend I love.
Who the reverie of these shall prove,
Who loves Jiis Coo whose liberal inind
Can feci for ire and all mankind.
THE -CHINESE
AT CAIVTOX.
The Ilons fort upon the river, and
reach hundreds of yards back into the ci
ty suburbs. The visitor will form some
idea of the tea trade when he visits one
Hong after another, filled with tea, r.nd
sees cooleys bringing in chops, and sort
ing esroes, packing, making leaden can
iitcrs, filling chop-boals, and labelling the
chests. These Hongs arc of one story,
in son"i3 places "onen to the skv, and so
long ihat at the end cf one of them the
human form diminishes, and, we see be
ings engaged in occupation, and hear no
noise, and they steal along like shadows.
Here a;-e immense scales fej- weighing
tea; here are tihles placed for supcrinden
dants, where the light falls in through the
roof; far from these tgain arc. foreigners
inspecting a newly arranged chop; at the
extreme end is the little apartment where
the tea merchant receives men upon busi
ness; and through that hi eh do'or beyond
wc see the lively river and a. chop boat
wailir; ready for the cargo. In one part
of the buiiding a second story is added,
for immense suits of beautiful rooms, fur
nished with costly elegance, and adorned
with rarities and articles of vfrtu. We
wonder what all these chambers are
meant lor where no one appears, and we
learn thai they are merely for $how and
the occasional reception of guests. Here
is a door that leads out on to the roof.
Below its is the river, with its' myriads of
beings and boats; on our right the public
square wua the standards of America,
Knglar.d and Fiance; opposite is the ver
dant island of Ilonam, with its villages,
its canals and its great temple. On our
left is another vista of river life, the fort
cf Dutch Folly, and behind us ihe dense
ciy. Wc descend and find in one of the
pretty rooms that a servant has placed tea
for us on a table. Tker?, as wc arc about
to depart, in rciae a gcntlemSh of lively
bulling appearance, who hopes that we
are w ell, and ' is so very polite that we
can scarcely get away from hira. This
is Shinqua, theChesterfieiu tf tiie Chi
nese, whose pack-house wc have visited,
and this is a mere sketch of a single one
cf.thc immense buildings that form the
Hongs of Canton. It is always the cus
tom after three o'clock in the day, to of
fer tea to strangers at all the Hongs, and
perhaps the merchant wishes to make a
good impression,-and trusts that foreigners
will he induced to purchase from him.
Clumsy as are the cargo boats in their
appearance, they approach a ship very
r.iecly, and it is quite amusing to see on
the stem cf the boat a whole family,
sometimes three generations, the females
employed in cooking, while the men arc
employed in putting the cargo in the ship.
Each che-t is marked and bountj with rat
tans, and through these arc passed two
f tjeks colored red on the ends, one of
thre is taken out when the chst leaves
the. chop-boat, and the other by a hand
when it reaches the deck.
As soon as one hundred rchests are
passed in, the sticks are counted, and
thus rerve as tallies. The stevedores are
very expeditious in loading ships, end cal
culate very nicely the number of chests
required for any vessel. Some of the
East Indiamen have the appearance of
large men of war; many of them run be
tween Bombay and China mailnedby las
cars. Three or four chop floats may
ometi:nes be seen together bp a ship's
side, and the tide runs so strongly that
they always start for Canton or Wham
boa at the top of high water, and usually
reach the ship or -the Hong; before the
current turns against them.
The old Hong system, whereby all bu
siness transactions in regard 'to staples,
tuch as tea and silks, were oWiged ft) be
entrusted to a body of merchants, is now
broken up, and the purchases may deal
with any one whom he fancies.
The i -ebon or body corporate of mer
chants consisted of twelve or thirteen
Ken, who were all bound for the debts of
any one member, and at the head of this
company w:is the celebrated Honqua.
Distinguished for his enormous wealth,
K;s liberality, and his many kindnesses
in foreiaers, he attained a ffrat age, and
(Lie-i two crthrr? yr? Laj, sincerely
t
lamented by all who ever had occasion to
deal with him. It is a pleasant thing to
hear of Ho'nqua in Canton; nothing is ev
er said excepting in his. praise. There
are a great many anecdotes told of him.
It is said that a gentleman, lately arrived
in China, wished much to meet him, and
at length, being presented, began a rather
formal speech about the pleasure of see
ing him. Honqua was always ready for
business, and in the midst of his har
angue cut him short with, "Hab got price
current?" The visitor at Canton, can of
ten tell Ilonqua's bnildings and Hongs
from their superior neatness and regulari
ty, every thing that he owned looks as if
it belonged to a methodical, systematic
merchant. But one of his buildings, a
fort on the river below Canton, has been
undermined by the currentand destroyed
It stood upon a point ol land where the
river forks, and, during the British inva
sion, the Chinese threw stones into the
stream at both passages, to prevent the
foreigners ascending. The current thus
pent up swept over the point, undermin
ing the fort, which, in a short time was ut
terly carried away. The wcaldi of Hon
qua made him a conspicuous mark for the
rapacity of .mandarins, and he was, accor
ding to an expressive term, well squeez
ed by them, and his credulity was played
upon by priests. So much importance
is attached to the rites of burial m Chiua,
that priests are often employed to look
for a sacred place of interment, and Hon
qua being anxious that his father s bones
should repose in holy ground, paid the
priests for many years to search for the
required spot. Of course these worthy
ministers were baliled in their search from
year to year, as long as there was any
chance that Honqua would pay. In this
manner for more than twenty vears the
ashes cf the Hong merchant's father were
above ground, and the old man iu his turn
is still unburied.
One of the most beautiful of the Amer
ican traders has been named after him;
some of our fienest vessels are in the
China trade, and certainly there can be
produced no more tasteful specimens of
naval architecture than such ships as
Honqua, Montauk, Paul Jones and Rain
bow. And with all his wealth and influence,
Honqua had less power than the lowest
.Mandarin. He had the privilege ot the
State dress alone, for in China wealth is
no avenue to power, and is always sub
ordinate to talent. Any person, who, by
merit, had risen from the lowest grade,
had a better chance of filling the highest
offices of the Emoire than Honqua by
the aid of money only.
The business of all these hongs is con
ducted through men called pursers, who
are in fact foremen. They act between
the Chinese and the foreigners; they bring
in the accounts to the shipping nouses,
and receive orders for cargo. The same
system prevails among the shops, and
sometimes a stranger finds out that the old
gentleman sitting in one corner of the
shop smoking his pipe, is not a visitor, as
he supposes, but actual proprietor, and
that the lively, bustling fellow who sells,
is only next to head man. In each of the
foreign houses, also, there is a purser, or
as he is called, compradore, who in fact
keeps house, is responsible for the good
conduct of the servants, receives and pays
money, tc. For this he receives no com
pensation from the house, but, having his
eye teeth cut, understands how to make
the situation lucrative. One of the best
known of the Canton pursers is Punhoy
quas, and he goes by the English title of
Fat-boy, and answers to the name readily,
lie is quite an amusing character, very
sociable with foreigners, and never refu
ses a glass of wine if he happens to come
in about dinner time. But give Fat-boy
an order for tea, to have a certain quantity
put up in small boxes within accrtaintime.
and it is done even at a shorter notice
than the limit.
Go to the Hong shortly after the order
has been given, cud numbers of workmen
arc employed for you some in bringing
in the small boxes, others shaking in the
tea, and a set of men are employed in
making the leaden sanislers that fit into
the chests. They have wooden forms
before them of the size of the required
canister; one takes up a sheet of thin lead
and bends it into the shape on the form,
then he passes it to another, who joins
the edges with a little hot lead, and such
numbers work that the thing is soon done.
Then there are others securing the rat
tans, and pasting the labels, on which are
printed the name of the ship, of the tea
merchant, of the Canton forwarding
house, also the initials of the purchasing
house, and the number of the lot. These
papers are printed rapidly, for they are
cut by one set of hands to the proper size
for the use of the others who stamp them.
The names of the Chinese merchant,
of the tba, and of the Canton houses are
stereotyped, and only the initials, the
ship's name and number are to be cut.
These arc carved on blocks of wood, and
the whole fastened in a frame. Then, in
a little space just large enough for work,
a Chinese wdl sitdown, snatch up a piece
of paper in one hand, and stamp, it in
stantly with the wooden block letters,
moistened with the coloring mixture used
ia printing. "
He : has no immense establishment,
with signs on the outside "Book and Job
Printing," bnthe and his materials occu-
py no more room than is absolutely ne-
! eessary, and this is one of many ways in
which things are done in China. The
myriads of people aid each other. One
set of men continually perform one part
of an operation, and their work passes to
another set for the next step. They have
often been likened to bees, and the com
parison holds well, excepting that there
are no drones amonj the Chinese.
Their most absolute law is, work or
starve. Passing through a Honir one
day, I was forcibly struck with the truth
of the adage, "one half of the world,
does not know how the other half lives,"
for on. the sides of the bu doing, at con-
sideraUe elevations, were some twenty or
thirty bedv ""Consisting of rough boards,
with square blocks for pillows, and each
board was enclosed by a coarse blue mos
quito netting suspended on bamboo poles
A ladder was placed for the accommoda
tion of the cooleys, for here they slept
from January to December. Thev nev
er are bewildered with the mysteries of
the toilette, as they wearno underclothes,
and have the advantage on arising of be
mg dressed for the day.
Some idea of the life, bustle and mag
nitude of the Hongs, the persons they
employ, the capital they circulate, and the
immensity and importance of the trade
to which they are devoted, may be form
ed by those who have visited the mighty
docks of London. T.
Kxfract from the Narrative or
tiie laitetl States Imploring
Expedition.
Large Penguin. Mr. Eld's boat suc
ceeded in taking a king penguin of enor
mous size, namely, from tip of tail to the
bill, forty-five inches; across the flippers,
thirty-seven inches; and the circumference
of the body, thirty-three inches. He was
taken after a truly sailor-like fashion, by
knocking him down. The bird remain
ed quite unmoved on their opproach, or
rather, showed a disposition to come for
ward to greet them. A blow with the
boat-hook, however, stunned him, and,
before his recovery, he was well secured,
lie showed, cn coming to himself, much
resentm entat the treatment he had re
ceived, not only by fighting, but by an
inordinate noise. He was, in due time,
preserved as a specimen, and now graces
the collection at Washington. In his
craw were found thirty-two pebbles, from
the size of a pea to that of a hazel nut.
Women or Tahiti. I hesitate to speak
of the females of this Island, for I differ
from all who have gone before me in rela
tion to the ir vaunted beauty. I did not
see among them a single woman whom I
could call handsome. They have indeed
a soft sleepiness about the eyes which
may be fascinating to some; but I should
farther ascribe to celebrity their charms
have obtained among navigators to their
cheerfulness and gaiety. Their figures
are bad, and the greater part of them are
parrct-toed. They are exceedingly prone
to prattling, or may rather be said to have
a talUing disposition, for they cannot
keep even their own secrets. This want
of reserve is not confined to the women.
The men are also incapable of keeping a
secret. A crime is divulged almost as
soon as committed, and, for a small re
ward, they will become informers against
their nearest relatives and friends.
Self-immolation or the Feejeeans.
Self-immolation is by no means rare,
and they believe, that, as they leave this
life, so will they remain ever after. This
forms a powerful motive to escape from
decrepitude, or from a crippled condition,
by a voluntary death. ' Wives are often
strangled, or buried alive, at the luneral
of their husbands, and generally 'at their
own instance. Cases of this sort. have
frequently been witnessed by the white
residents. On one occasion Whippy
drove away the murderers, rescued the
woman and carried her to hie own house,
where she was resuscitated. So far,
howevtr, from feeling grateful for her
preservation, she loaded him with abuse,
and ever afterwards manifested the most
deadly hatred .towards him. That wo
men should desire to accompany their
husbands in death is by no means strange
when it is considered that it i3 cne of the
articles of their belief, that in this way
alonc can they reach the realms of bliss;
and she who meets her death with the
greatest devotedness will become' the
favorito wife in the abode of spirits.
Samoan Notions of their Origin.
Tangaloa, their great god, whe lives in
the sky, sent down the bird Tuli, (a kind
of Snipe,) his daughter, to look what was
below. She reported to her father that
she saw nothing but sea. Tangaloa then
rolled a stone from Heaven, which he
came the island of Savan, and another
which produced Upolu, and the same for
the others. This did not suit Tuli, who
returned to ask for inhabitants. He gave
her orders to plant, the wild vines,
(fuefue,) which after growing, were or
dered by him to be pulled up and thrown
into heaps, from which worms were pro
duced. Then it was desirable that they
should become human. Spirits were ac
cordingly sent to them by Tuli, and the
worms becamt mca and women. "
j A Tonga Man and his Wife." A
A Tonga man had made it his constant
j practice to beat his wife, and to use his
own words, he had "knocked almost all
! the teeth out of her head for her disobe-
: dience. The woman, alter one of these
beatings, was taken ill, and her Feejee
friends wished to express their love by
taking her to her own town to bury her.
They took her to the grove and put her
into it, but she now refused to be buried
alive, and effected her escape. Her hus
band,knowing where she was gone,& hav
ing some affection for hernotwithstanding
his ill-treatment, went to see her. On
his way he met a person from the town,
who told him that she was dead & buried;
But on his arrival at the place, he found
that she had extricated herself from her
murderous relatives, and both husband
and wife were much relieved and rejoiced
at the meeting. In order to free them
selves from such customs they both at
once embraced Christianity, which is
considered as absolving them from this
horrid obligation.
Hunting Down Deserters. Three of
our crew having become enamored of
these islands, deserted while the Vin
cenne s lay at Ermeo. They left the ship
about ten o'clock at night, soon after
which their absence was discovered, and
parties sent out in every direction to in
tersect the roads and drive them to the
hills. This was effected in the
ing manner, and a large party of
folio w
natives . This
were emyloycd to hunt them up.
task thev speedily performed, and
at last
drove the deserters to one of the
highest
ridges, in full view of the ship. Here
the runaways appeared at first disposed
to make fight with stones; but when they
saw the odds against them, and witnessed
the alterness cf the natives in leaping
from cliff to cliff, they thought it best to
give themselves up; which they did to
three natives, naked except the maro, and
armed respectfully with a rusty sword,
an old cutlass, and a piece of iron hoop.
These bound their hands and led them
down rto the shore, whence thev were
brought on board, where the three natives
received the reward offered for their ap
prehension. The ch'c-se and capture was
an amusing sight to those who wat:hed
the proceedings from the ship.
Chiefs of Tahiti. Cn arriving at
Tahiti, or, indeed, at any of the Islands,
respect is naturally due to the chiefs.
This, I am assured, was felt by ns all;
but long before sailing; we became dis
gusted with seeing these large and ncble
men passing from ship to ship, even in
cluding Paofai himself, soliciting foul
linen to was, and performing other servi
ces that where not in keeping with their
rank. There is one, however, whom I
must do justice to, Hitoti. He maintain
ed the character given bycaptein Beechy.
I was much pleased with his whole de
portment on his visit to me, and abo
when I saw him at his own house. He
paid but two visits to the ship, and those
within a day or two of our departure.
That he did not visit the vessel before,
was in order, as was supposed, to avoid
the suspicion of trespassing on our liber
ty; he refused to accept any presents,
would only drink wine when requested.
performing all the little courtesies of the
table with grace and politeness. On his
visits to the Peacock, Lieut. Emmons
and Mr. Hale being the only genUemen
on board, received him with the attention
due his rank." When taking leave, he
requested to know their names, which
were given to him in English orthogra
phy. He at once took out his pencil,
and, with great readiness, wrote them in
the Tahitian dialect, as "Emaani" and
"Helavi."
Primitive Ideas and Habits. The
Samoans are usually very inquisitive, and
it was amusing to excite their curiosity.
Among other things mentioned for the
purpose was, that white men often wore
false teeth and wigs. The latter practice
in particular, seemed strange to them, and
they called it "thatching the head." A
trrestial globe was also shown to them
whereon the position of their islands and
their small relative importance was point
ed out. This excited great surprise, for,
until a few years, they had no idea that
there was any country except their own.
If the chiefs are liberal in their tender
presents to their visitors, they, on the
other hand, do not hesitate to ask for
whatever they see. T hey may, in fact,
be styled sturdy beggars. One of the
most persevering in his mendicancy was
no less a person than Nivasa, the proud
and overbearing chief of Manoho. They
usually began with begging from the hum
blest individual, and ended with the high
est; and when they had obtained all they
could, would go over the side of ihe ship
ridiculing our folly for giving so much.
Old Pco, by way of excusing himself,
when charged with being a great beggar,
said he did not keep any thing he got for
himself: that it was the Samoan fashion
always to ask for every thing ho saw.
It mattered not if his request was refused
he was as content as if he had got what
he desired; but he said he should have
blamed himself if he had not asked.
Singular Seafigiit. On board the
Peacock; they witnessed a seafight be
tween a whale and on of its many n
mies. The sea wae quite - smooth, and
offered the best possible view of the whole
combat. First, at a distance from the
ship, a whale was seen floundering in a
mosi exiraorumary way, laaning me
smooth sea into a perfect foam, and en-
deavoring apparently to extricate himself
tiuiu conic uuu uucc. a approach
ed the ship, the struggling continuing and
becoming more violent, it was perceived
that a fish, apparantly about twenty feet
long, held him by the jaw, his conior-
tions, spouting and throesiall betokening
the agony of the huge monster. The
i whale now threw himself at full length
nomine water, v.itn open monUi, Jus
pursuer still hanging to the jaw, t.ie biood where they aare roasted alive. Whea
the sea the body is cooked, it is taken from tha
to a distance around; but all his flounder- oven, and the face painted black, as is
ings were of no avail; his pertinacious done by the natives on festal occasions.
still maintained his hold, and was It is then carried lo the mbure, where it
evidently getting the advantage of him. is offered to the gods, and is afterward
Much alarm seemed to be felt by the removed to be cut up and distributed, to
mrpy cth?r whales around. These be eaten bv the people. Vuin?n arc not
"killers," r.s they are caiied, are of a allowed to" enter the mbure, or to eat hu
brownish color on the back, and white on ' man flesh. Human sacrifices are a pre
the belly, with a long dorsal fin. Such liminary to almost all their undertakings,
was the turbulence with which they pass- . When a new mbure is built, a party go
ed, that a good view could not be had of out and seize the first person they meet,
them to make out more nearly the de- j whom they sacrifice to the gods; when a
scription. These fish attack a whale in ' large canoe is liunched, th.iT first persoa
the same was zs dogs bait a bull, and : man or woman, whom they encounter, is
worry him to death. They are armed laid hold of aud carried home for a feast,
with, strong sharp teeth and generally j When Tanoa launches a conoe, 10 or
seize the whale by the lower jaw. It is ! more men are slaughtered on the deck,
said that the only part of them they eat j in order that it might be washed with
is the tongue. The whalers give some J human blood. Human sacrifices arc
marvelous account of these killers, and of also among the rites performed at ihe
their immense strength; among them that I funerals of chiefs, when slaves are, ia
they have been known to drag a whale
aw:
3y from several boats which were
wing it to the ship.
towi
A Meeting in the Antartic Seas.
At four P. M., discovered a ship a-head,
and shortly after another was made, both
stan Jing to the northward: the brig hauled
up to the northwest, intending to cut them
off and speak to them, supposing them to
be the Vincennes and the Peacock. Short
ly afterwards they were seen lo be stran
gers, being smaller ships than our own.
At fifty minutes past four the Porpoise
hoisted her colors. Knowing that an
English squadron under Captain Koss,
was expected in these seas, Lieutenant
Commandant Ringgold look them from
his ships, and was, as he says, "prepar
ing to cheer the discoverer of the orth
Magnetic Pole." "At fifty minutes past
four, being within a mile and half, the
strangers showed French colors: the lee
ward and sternmost displayed a broad
pennant. Concluded now that they
must be the French discovery ships under
Captain D'Urville, on a similar service
service with ourselves. Desirous of
speaking and exchanging the usual and
caslomary compliments incidental to n;i
val life, I closed with the strangers, de
siring to pass within had under the flag
ship's stern.
While gaining fast, and being within
musket shot, my intentious too evident to
excite a doubt, so far from any reciprocity
being evincede, I saw with surprise sail
making bv boarding the main tack on
board the flag ship. Without a mo
ment's delay I hauled down my colors
and bore up on my own course before the
wind." It is with regret that I mention
the above transaction, and it cannot but
excite the surprise of all that such a cold
repulse should have come from a French
commander, when the officers of that na
tion are usually so distinguished for their
politeness and attention. It was with no
small excitement 1 heard the report of it,
that the vessel of two friendly powers,
alike engaged upon an arduous and haz
ardous service, in so remote a region, sur
rounded with everv danger navigators
could be liable to, should meet and pass
without even the exchange of common
civilities, and exhibit none of the kind
feelings that the situation would naturally
awaken. How could the French com
mander know that the brig was not in
distress or in want of assistance? By
refusing to allow any communication with
him, he not only committed a wanton
violation of all proper feeling, buta breach
of the curtesy due from one nation to
another. It is difficult to imagine what
could have prompted hira to such a
course.
Revolting Customs of the Ffejee
Islands. -Not only do many of the na
tives desire their friends to put then to
death to escape decrepitude, or immolate
themselves widi a similar view, butTamil
ies have such a repugnance to having de
formed or maimed persons among thcin
that those who have met with such mis
fortunes are almost always destroyed.
An instance of this sort was related to
me, when a boy, whose leg had been
bitten off by a shark, was strangled, al
though he had been taken care of by one
of tha white residents, and there was
every prospect of his recovery. No oth
er reason was assigned by the perpetra
tors of the deed, than that, if he had lived,
he would have been a disgrace to his fami
ly, in consequence of his having only one
leg. When a native whether man,
woman or child is sick of a lingering
disease, their relatives will either wring
thpir hpads off or strangle them. Mr.
Hunt stated this was a frequent custom, j which are bevond the river, that whatso
and cited a case where he had, with dif- j ever Ezra the Prie?tt tha scribe of tha
ficulty, sayed a servant of his own from i law of the God of Heaven thai! rjcLro
such a fate, who afterwards recovered ' of you, it shall be don jcdi!y."
j his health. Formal human sacrifices ara
usually taken from distant tribes, and
when not supplied by war or violence,
thev are at times obtained bv negotiations.
After beins selected for this purpose.
, thev are often kept for a lime to Lo fat-
iciietl.
j When about to be sacrificed, they ara
. compelled to sit on the ground, w ith their
! feet drawn under their thighs, and their
arms placed close before them. In this
posture they are bound so tightly that
they connot stir cr move a joint. 'They
are the placed in then usual oven.upon hot
stones, and covered with leaves and earth
some instances, put to death. Their bo-
j dies are first placed in the graves, anJ
upon them those of the chwf and hi
wives are laid.
TIic Ranks of tiie VrAcn.
The following table, giving the- num
ber and capital of the various Banks cf
the Union, although not strictly accurate,
is a nearly so as a table cf the kind caa
well be made.
States. Number. C2pita!.
New York 103 12,815,520
Massachusetta 104 30,970,000
Lonisianna 6 17,033,000
Pennsylvania 43 10.03 1,000
South Carolina 14 11,431,000
Virginia S2 10,407,000
Rhode Island 61 1 0,174,700
Maryland 20 8.S02,0?0
Connecticut 32 8,157,000
Tennessee 0 7,053,000
Kentucky 10 7,019,000
Ohio 31 6,511,000
Ceorgia 20 5.682,000
New Jersey 2G 3,721,000
North Carolina 19 3,225,000
Maine 35 3,000,000
Indiana 13 2,037,891
District of Columbia G 1,954,054
New Hampshire 17 1,030,000
Delaware 6 1,390,000
Missouri 6 1,200,000
Vermont 17 1,175,000
Michigan 0
Illinois t
Arkansas
M ississippi
Florida
Totals 619 $204,997,503
Mississippi, Illinois and Arkansas had
Banks, which have become insolvent.
In Wisconsin and Florida, it is believed,
there are now no Banks. Bicknell's Re
porter. Tiie wealth of the West.
We have repeatedly alluded to the pn
gress of the mighty West, and to the rap
id approach of the day when that sectioa
of the Union would be able the exerciss
a vast control over the whole nation An
article in the last number of the National
Magazine contains some striking facta
concerning the growth and prospects of
that wonderful region. One of these, ia
a note, states that a single individual ia
Cincinnati has negotiated drafts through
the banks to the annual amount of from
$20,000 to 25,000, for the proceeds of
eggs shipped from that city to New Or
leans. The productive industry of the
nine Siates bordering on the Western wa
ters, is thus set forth;
Agriculture
Manufacture
Commerce
The Forest
Mines
tlO,G 1,833
3:3,227,755
13.322,113
3.37C73 1
C,Cl'3.r7S
11,717
! Fisheries
270,521,032
And yet the entire population, accord
ing to the last census, of these nine states
is less than five and a lalf millions
of people. Bicknell's Reporter.
Bizlical Curiosity. The 21st verse
of Esra chapter 7, contains evsry let;p
of the alphabet, and is the one thus dis
tinguished: "And I, even I, Artaxcrx5 the Kin,
uo maxe a qecree to ait
tiie treasures