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e ATTENTION - B I,D,' HEA OS.
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(IF allthe remedies cact i, devised for the restora
ILY turn and preservation qf the M uir, nothing has
them found equaLto Alibeit'oo l lea e ,""nous Hair Tonic.
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It seam fails lb restore the hair health atidteau
ty. Many who were baldzi three months ago, can
now ethibit luxuriant heads of hai by the se of it.
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...; Copy of a letter front Dr. KS. Fite .
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Philadqphia. May 10,,1F38.
Dr. JAYNK—Deati' Sir ti'l feel that I eat) hardly
say enough to you in havorr, Alibert's Hai I Tonic,
sold by you. My hair ha been f Bing 00' about
1
tvvU years. and had becoirt very tl in, tbrdatening
speedy baldness, when I couthienee using this rem
alp In about _one week fit ceaaerL to fa li of
I
have aged it now about th i ree months, andhave as
fulTand thick a head of hair as 1 cad phsetbly desire .
I have recommended its use to a titirnbeo 4 of my
ttiends, who all speak welt:inf it. I faithfully em.
played, I have no doubt ot, its general sticOess. I
may add that before using the Tunic, I had 'tried al
most all the various articles employled for the hair
such as the Macassar Oil. tall the different iirepara
tione of bear's oil, veii table hair oil, &c.h withal)
experiencing in ich, if any benefit. I ~, t ,
Respectfully yours,
.
.S. FITCiI, Nc. 172 Chesnut tredt.
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Copy of a letter from C; C.T irk, Pas'tor of ,
he Bap.;
list church , at Haildonfield. N. J. li. 4
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Haddalfiecd, Fehr ua is 12,11833.
Dr. D. Jayne—Sir: I tae pleasu4 in informing
you that the, bottle of Ahbelia's Hair Tonic I;vithich I
obtained of You last October, has proVed most satis
factory and successful. My hair had for; a lung
time been'exceedingly tliiii`. But foil two for three
years past it had so fallen tiut;that my head had be.
come almost entirely bald.; I was under tlle neces
sity of concealing the bald :ems by conribinOhe hair
f ...
on the sates of Bu t now a ft er using ab r ut h a l f
. now - after
of a bottle of the Tonic, i.have as luxuriant a growth
of hair as I ever had. j '
, C. C. Ip A pi c .
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The Rev Leonard Fletcher, Pastor Of th Baptist
church at Great Valley, Pa,, who had beenimore or
•teas bald fur many years, used three Ixitties of the
Hair Tonic, and hay a flag: growth anew hair. ov.
er all ticut part of his help where he w a s before
bald, writes= .,, i
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"My hair is growing finely, I assure mt.”
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L. VIETCHEIL.
Westchester, Pa., Mattli ( _' '
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Mr. Bond, one of the Cninpositors in the ,office of
the Philadelphia Public Ledger, who la4d hi 4 nearly
all his hair trout off the to ot hi'. head, his had it
completely restored by thOse of this' pint Two
Officers ot the Am:lmam:Navy had god l eads of
hair restored to them by ,a ping five bottlerkeach of
this flair Tonig, one of whom was over sixty years
of age. Four gentlemen'connected with the Public
press in Philadelphia, have also had their baldness
removed by using this reiriedv.' The Rev Mr. Park.
sr, Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Delaware
county, Pa., who was completely bald over all the)
top of his head, and was alai, becoming considerably
gray, has used only two :"bottles of this ldnie, and
has not only a luxuriant igrowth of neW hair upon
his head, but all the grayi hairs have disiippeared,
and their places have beertnitupplied by heaiihy hair
of a neural colour. Finally. nine case 9 of baldness
out of Every ten, may pottively be reimoVed by a
111.11.11 M application of this invaluable reinedv.—
There is, therefore.trioaroo excuse for",a baidhead
Prepared only by Dr DO AY N E. sole proprietor,
No. 20, South Third street, Philadelphi' l Price 81
a bottle.
The above valuable Hair Tonic may he had in
Pottsville, of Clemens & Pary in, and of Win. T. Ep
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ling. 1 - .) , iiegisis: .
Where also may he had Jaynet Expectorant and
Carmina:ice Balsam--tile itiost valuable family
imedicinea that have ever Amen known.
Jan 11 r 2-
Croup, Omit, Asthina.
SPITTI NG Blood. !looping Cough and alt. Pet.stove
av DISEAS4.I. curmi by JAYNE'S EXPECTORANT ,
and SUMMER COMPLAINT 4 CHO LELIA IVILMIDOS, DIAR•
RII.IEA, DvseNTslet , and all the various liffeetions_ of
the Stomach and Bowels removed hie !CARMINA
TI YE BALSAM.
Please read the following { letter, 1
DARLINGTON, Beaver County. Pa.
February. 1539 S•
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DEARSIR—I feel it due:to you as' the inventor of the
medicine and to the public. ~isrho may be greatly benefit
ed by it, to state a mire thatWaa performed in my family
by the use of your "Carminative Balsam."
Itly little son, when about t,tvo months old. was seised
with a bowel complaint. cauSed nal suppose by a change
-of diet. It continued for two weeks without interims
anon.; It continued two weeks without i terMisaion, and
motWathstanding the remedies prescribed bY, a respects
blephysician, we gave up the child a victim; as we sup
posed, to a fatal 'disease, but I, providentially heard of
Itayne's Carminative," as an effectual cure for bowel
omplaint, and en nediatelvLdn'a iatched a messenger to
town seventeen miles off fora battle. By the use of
This medicine, in less than / thirty-six hours the disease
was checked; and by its continued nee fora few days
'the child was restored to perfect health. Shortly after
this, there occurred a similar case in-one of the famijies
of ml congregationl. I prescribed ' Javneet, Carmen
titre, ' and the result was a peedy cure. Froin a knoWl.
edge of the efficacy of yourrnedicine in bowel complaint
.a disease to which children are constantly liable. I have
obtained and keep constantly ih the house, a luantily of
the .•'.2arminative. " I: •
The same child, owingto esposure, when recently
-coming up the Ohio, was attacked by that horrible mala
dy; CROUP. %Ye landed in the night at Beaver Point.
and when our fears-were alarmed lest the hoalee sepul
chral cough, was the fOreriintiei• of death, we gave him
a lea.spoon full of the " Eipcctorant. 1' (a bottle of which
you presented me with when ;'Philadelphia) and applied
some lineament, to the threat and breast, and bqore ma
ny minutes the hvargenes a Was ;gene, the child; reathed
freely and slept sweetly. Owitek to these circumstances
it cannot be wondered at Why I haveso high an opinion
of Dr Jayne's Medicine, and Wfiy I advise ever family
tsrkeep it on hand ready far any emergency. _
Respectfulli,yours, •
ARTI . II. 7 It B. BR ;DFORD.
• Piatsr_efahe Presbyterian Church. Darlingida. Pa.
Or "D. Jayne. • r . • .5
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VILLE: of Clemens and P4rvin, and of Wm ' illiaT. Ep
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1' From a late Etigiiel Paper.
Pe South Wales Coal Field., Aitthraelte S.eam
ere.-An interesting experimnni is now in progress
on the Thames having its, objeei the profitable con
sumption of alon g neglected niieral, which exists
in vast quantities in Great. Britain and Ireland—an
thracite coal. _ -From the turn which this investiga
tion is talt i en it is difficult to decide at present whieb,
of all the Parties concerned, are lusty to derive most
advantage: the landholders, miners, and shippers .di
rectly interested in the supply ;, the immense body r sif
customers' including all engaged in the production
of steam ; or lastly the passive public, who have
hitherto been enveloped by the stroke envolved in
the proces. These whose manila orresidents bring
them to keep them in contact with steam navigation
may cong,ratulate themselves that they 'are likely to
derive Bo rne immediate benefit from the innovation ;
for one happy practical result will be, the destruction
of that grand locomotive Muisanee—smoke.
Before proceeding to describe the experiment; it
maybe well to answer two questions which will 'rise
up in the'mind of every intelligent !reader—What is
the peculiar character of anthracite coal! and why
has it not been brought auto use before ! ,
The Welch anthracite differs from the ordinary
Newcastle coal in use in the metropolis in contain
ing no'biiumen, and consequently in producing no
flame, no gas. It is therefore dilfictilt to manage' in
a common open fireplace ; it requires great patience
in the lighting, and still greater forbearance after it
has been kindled,for the use of the poker extinguish
es it. Those acquainted with its habits, and obliged
by necessity to conform their own thpreunto, find by
refraining from disturbing it they enjoy a splendid
and intense-fire all JAY. But this self-denial cannot
be expected to be found in more than one in.a thou
sand of, those 'important potentates whose poker is
their sceptre; and consequently anthracite is ostra
cised from all culinary precincts; in short its banish
ed from every domestic. hearth by the mere presence
of a pokei, which is, as the doctors say., a apple in
its case."
It has hitherto been rejected by martufecturers and
steam engineers_ also on another account. When
thrown on the fire it remains Week for a time—,then
it cracks. 'flies'about and reduces itself to small frag
ments; in fact it puts it out in a manner that sand
or gravel would if similarly thrown over'it, by , exclu
ding the air above, and preventing its passage through
the fuel from beneath. It was tried in the locoroo-
Live engine fire-places of the ordinary construction as
a steam 'boiler fuel, and great advantages were
,ex
peeled from the strong draught induced by the mo-
ti , in of the railway ; but the fuel was scarcely heated
through, when crack !—it was scattered and carried
up the chimney, rattling like peas until it choked the
draught. This "description" hcbelievtd to be occa
sioned by, the entanglement of minute quantities of
air or water, or both. in the body oflthe anthracite
on). When expanded by heat it requires an explo
siv force, and hence all the mischief. .
Thus, until-lately, a great coal diftrict of South
Wales (not to speilk of other anthracite coal-fields at
at present, as all have their-peculiarities) lay compa
ratively unworked. . This district comprises the coal
fields of the counties of Glamorgan, Carmarthen, and
Pembroke. extending a distance of about 65 miles in
length, and between five and si% in width on an aver
age (in fact, eiout one one-third of the entire coal
basin of Swath Wales, and is' in itself calculated to
contain six thousand millions of tons of coal. This
inaas lies adjoining the great lime-stoneridge of Lan
dilaon the north, from Irwin on the east to Kidwelly
on the west, then crosses Carmarthen-hay into Pem
brokeshire, where it is supposed to bp of the hest
quality. Its southern boundary appears across the
vales of Neath. Swansea, A minan,•and Gwendreath.
Accorupamed as it is by the iron and limestone for
niations throughout its extent, the attention of the
iron masters was early turned to it, but for a long
_time resisted 'every effort to make it available to the
reduction of the ore. At length the matter was look
ed into scientifically, and it was found that the anthra
- cite was ,only unmanageable when suddenly heated ;
that when gradually warmed,' set fire to seperately,
and worked with a hot blast :instead of 'a cold one, it
formed an economical, most effectual, and even a su
perior fuel in the great iron furnaces. The result is,
that anthracite property has, within the, last three or
four years, increased between nine-arid' ten times in
value ! Three large iron works are already establish
ed, and smelting ores with anthracite coal in the Neath
and Swansea-vales; and three other extquiiive furna
ces are in the course of erection in the vales of Am
man and Gwendreath. .
The success of these trials stimulated parallel ex-
periments in other branches of manufacture- An
thracite was analysed, and found to contain only a•
bout 5b per cent., of, eatthy matters (instead of from
12 to 17 per cent., like ordinary flaming coals), and
that all the rest oeit was pure carbon. - This was a
great theoretic point in its favor, but still the provok
ing report was made, after each experiment, 'that it
would not burn !" The experience of the iron mas
ters, however had proved the contrary, under better
management, and a fireplace was at last invented by
Mr. Player which exactly suited its peculiarities, ena-
Ning it to become slowly heated up to the burning
point, and preverfting its disturbance afterwards.—
This arrangement is very simple, and easily applied
to steam boilers. As no smoke appears, at first sight
it strikes the observer as if the coals to be burnt were
thrown.down its short chimney until it was complete
ly choked ; but on looking more closely, he , perceives
that this Strange looking chimnv,y is the "feeding fun
nel" by , which theanthracite is • propped uP in a tall.
heap over the fire and resting on it, where it remains
with us lower stratum . groWing hotter and lamer till
it kindles ; then, as the burning mass on the grate be-
neath is gradually consumed, the layer just in contact
with it , sinks quietly into its place, where ii in turn
becomes fully ignited, and so on. The-red-hot burnt
air (not flame) iy carried round about and Ihrough
the steam boiler flues as usual, and then flies off,
without a particle of smoke to mark its progress, film'
the real chimney at the other end of the fianaw..
When so much had been" satisfactorily accomplish
ed, and the power obtained of raising steam in any
quantity by anthracite caal, it was determined to
build an iron steamboat on the exact model of the
four imWoved vessels alreaditunningon the Thames,
(Daylight,: Moonlight, Starlight, and Twilight,) to
ascertain the value of this new fuel by direct compar
ative experiments. This printer pas has beMa ac
complished by a company formed for the puipose,
and the trials have now .been begun in a locality
where the 'results cannot fail to be appreciated., The
perfect, absence of smoke from the-chimney of the an
thracite,- (for so the new iron steamer has! been
named.) is a phenomenon peifectly refreshing to the
eyes, awes, lartseeed palates of ill , who visit the rie.
gg tt , hanks, duteous. eke! the tlgion o filt hy
IfiZS
ME
AND POTT
Weekly by Benjamin "gasman, Poitsville, gehttylki
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SATURDAY MORNING,
smoke-clouds, emitted hy the omnibus steamers. to
save a daily trifle that would be lost by , the consump
tion of coke. As so much then depends on the con
parative cost of articles in competitions of this kipd,
some pains have been taken to ascertain whether an
thracite stood a fair chance of .preference in point of
economy as well as of cleanliness. First, as to coke,
it appears that the ordinary quality obtained from the
gasworks can be had at 295. per tone; good cole,pre
pared purposely, at 425. per tog; anthracite coal can t
be had at Presentin the Poor at 275. per ton ; but if
a regular trade were organized, kis believed that it
could be obtained for much less. It is delivered even
now at the shipping port in Wales at 12s. per ton.
ExPerimenta recently made have ascertained that one
ton of anthracite, burnt in a proper fireplace, will
raise as much steam as one and a quarter tons of com
mon coke. This fact, therefore, places the latter fuel
at a serious discount, even at present totes, as it
wouldit require 36e. worth of coke to do the work of
275. worth of Anthracite. The - trials against flaming
(or rather ameking) coals ore yet to be made, and ar
rangements are in progress to conduct them with
eatisfaciory accuracy. One point seems, however,
quite clear respecting the comparative values of these
'rival smokeless fuels. if the Anthracite shipments
obtain encouragement it will find its *ay to the Pool
at much lower rates (some calculate at 225. per ion),
whereas, if the coiviumption of the common were in
creased, ('supposed by any legislative provision a
gainst the issue of that "circulating medium'' smoke
-on the river,) the gasworks would speedily raise the
price, as they do occasionally -on an extra demand
occurring. Besides, the, production of this article is
limited, and the cost of -coke would, cre long, be
chiefly regulated by that of the dear and superior
quality, prepared independently of gasworks.
The anthracite made an experimental trip from
,Hungerford-stairs to Woolwich and back again on
Monday last, with a number of scientific and profes
sional men on board, amongst them the writer of this
article, who made a point of viewing every thing
with his own eyes; although he must do the parties
concerned the justice to declare that they afforded
every possible facility to arrive at the facts, and ap
peared to desire nothing better than the most com
plete publicity. .
The grand novelty—The furnace for burning an
thracite to raise the oteam. (on whip, indeed, the en
tire success of its appliCation as a tuel oast depend)
is secured by patent, and thelegiumate object of the
company is to introduce-it into every steamboat, by
`the simple argument that it will enable it to burn
a, smokeless fuel—a cheaper and a more effective ar
ticle than the ordinary smoking one.
As all travellers by land and by water will doubt
less wish them "God deed," they will be'glad to
learn that the opinion of the critical party who wit
nessed the performance of the Anthracite was highly
favorable, so far as the - experiment went. "The
conduct of the new furnace" was, of course, the
chief topic of attention, and was examined and watch
ed with scrupulous attention. Although the boiler
is small, it sufficed to generate an abundance of steam;
in fact, the engine was working at 45 strokes per min
ute, which is said to be something above the proper
speed. The peculiarities of the fie I were very sink
mg.- Its power.erf conducting heat is so trifling that
the upper surface of the 1111113 s in the feeding funnel
right over toe fire gave nu indication of the heat be
neath; and when die tire door below was opened for
an instant (contrary to rule) to, allow incredulous
amateurs to take a peep, they still beheld black coals
resting on the surface ut the red ones. The fire-bars
are laid sloping' away fiom the funnel, solhat as the
fuel descends it spreads equally over the extent of
the grate without the aid of a stoker. No slag Or
fire cake results from the fuel, and the few cinders
which tall through the narrow bars still Cont. in so
much carbon that they ale thrown into the feeding
funnel again. The little a stoking room" Oucua u
nun lucendo,) more properly the engine-room, is from
the absence of all meddling with the fire only of a
comfortable temperature—an advantage on a tropical
voyage, to be futly estimated by those who have
stoked hall their lives pevay on board the Atalanta,
the Berenice, the lingh Lindsay.'Atc..
In fact, there are no" stokers'" on board the An
thracite; the ordinary drew can throw the coals into
the funnel, and take out the few cinders - beneath at
their leisure. The "fire doors" are never opened
to feed the fire, as all that goes on upon deck through
the funnel (as millstones are fed through a hopper,
but this does not hop,) and consequendfibe fire is
never half extinguished (as in ordinary fireplaces)
by'a fresh supply, with the necessary evil results to
addition, of steam checked, power lust, and smoke e
mitted. The combustion of the anthracite goes on
smoothly and eqUally, like that of the oil in Parker's
new lamp, which is heated almost to the boiling, or
rather burning point, before it is inflamed in the wick.
Mr. George Belittle, who seemed to take a great in
terest in the experiment, caused the fuel gibe weigh
ed during the trip, and fonetf that the quantity for
producing the effect of one-horse power far an hour
was 61 lbs.; but this, from the short duration of the
experiaient, can only be looked upon as an approxi
mation.. Much yet remains to be ascertained, but
the power olanthracite to raise sufficient steam is do
longer doubted.
In the practical conversation which was freely en
tered into throughout the trip, four great points were
admitted as special advantages resulting from the em
ployment of ai.tli recite in steamers:-
1. The coolness of the engine-room as aforesaid,
and.the preservation Of the health of all occupied with
the machinery, render it peculiarly suitable for voya
ges in warm climates.
1. The natural compactness or condensation of this
coal (the steam producing power being directly pro
portioned to its punty) will enable trading steamers
to make longer voyages with ttie usual weight of fu
el, or, in going their ordinary voyage, to make more
room for the stowage of the cargo.
• To diminish the cost of. fuel for steam-navigation
by bringing into the market not only the anthracite
coal fields of Great Britain and Ireland, but alio those
of the United States. It will constderably diminish
the cost and risk of a Transatlantic trip to be certain
beforehand of &tiding in the port of New York a sup
ply of anthracite from the Pennsylvanian colleries
fully equal to our own.
In time of war the absence of smoke may be of the
greatest moment in concealing the approach of an
armed steamer, or ratner in not betraying its existence
as such to the enemy: If this exemption frog cog
nizance as a craft possessing the power to 1
Wallethe waters like a thing of life,"
were combined with a positive prevention of danger
to the machinery similar to that afforded by Smith's
"screw propeller," Which works quite under water,
Clod which is the invisible motive•power of his rukcs
"sat, ihe_Archiniiiies4 the combins4aa wadi ptol;•
LE G
ably be invincible.
armed steamer ve.y ,
deity of a hostile flee?
the old school of mixt
..A'irVashingto correspondent of the Albany
Argus Italicises as im . ortantintelligence . the follow
ing announcement. .1 hare no doubt the Independ
ent Treasury Bill evi I pose," in spite of Mr.
.is's advocacy of a bill, t Ikea-
I
ss'h . st it may reduce the
wages of labor; and Ir. BEN ToN's hope that it may
bring to our people the blessings 'of hard money
France, whose agric tarot and manufacturinspoPii
latinn are described y ,recent travellers as suffering
worse hardships than are endured by Wed India ll'S
groes ! These are th (tufts of an independent treas
ury and a metallic urrency—fice pence a day in
good copper. .
TOT 1D
To the Editor of the
A 4rial of the blo
An order from eat.
reached this place, fa
inst., at a point on t
miles from its mouth
the purpose of testin
dogs can be used
Thy officers menti
the expedition are B!
Merrill, 2cl Dragoon:
Twiggs will prof, ihly
The country lying
Witillscoochee and t
in the order to he ov •j
that Indians will he f. l
of question of theeffil
decided.
ne in number) at Black Creek,
fers, awaiting the expedition.—
libably be out about:two acct.,:,
.11t of the esperinientis known
rtieulars. It excites great cu
,ch speculation. The choicest
been selected for the expedition,
t a severe trial wiU I e made, c
gs is in command. ' •
In haste, Yours, X. Y.
SI. Augustine, E F.. March 13, 1830.
They were now (n
rnder charge of kee
The command will ,
and as soon as the rw
I odl send you the
riostly here, and in
men and horses have
and no doubt but the
specially if Col. Twi _
The Danville Inte4igencer says, on Monday last,
we had the pleasure Of a visit to thinnprovenient on
Big Roaring Creek, Incas the North Branch of the
Susquehanna river, In Cattawlssa township.. • Tlte
Furnace is to be droie by water, and a better scite
for the application a water power could nowhere be
selected. The stack-is the most substantial and beau
tiful one we ever seen; it is founded on a solid rock,
and the *ail race is ctit through rock. The buildings
for the reception of oie, fuel. &c. are spacious, and
well arranged for the , comfort and convenience of the
workmen when engsked in feeding the Furnace. It
is designed for the use of Anthracite as fuel and is
just ready for blast; it will therefore in all probabili
ty, be thefirat Anthiveite Furnace in blast, in Co
lumbia county. Thomas Boyle & Co. are the pro
prietors of this- promising enterprise, and the works
have been erected under the Superintendence and di
rection of E. Y. Farquhar, Esq. who is now actively
engaged in completing the final arrangements for bu
siness operations."
Suicide—all for Love.—A young man, about eigh
teen years of age, named Samuel Grafton, committed
surtide in New York, on Monday, by shooting him
self. From the testimony before the coroner. it ap
pears that he had formed an attachment-for n young
Indy, which was not reciprocated. He had about a
week since, dogged her with the intention of first
destroying her life and then his own ; but in This he
was disappointed. He attended his business on
Monday morning as usual, and vent to his dinner at
12 o'clock, when he retired to his room. As the
family were aware that he must return nt 1 o'clock,
they became alarmed at his prolonged absence. On
going to his room they found the door locked on
the inside, arid no answer being given to their re
quested for entrance, the lock was broken, when he
was discovered weltering in his blood and perfectly
dead.. lie had shot himself through the heart with a
large horse pistol. The ball had penetrated through
a feather bed and hair, mattress, and lodged in the
wall, while the pistol had been thrown with such
force from his hand as to imbed itself in the opposite
wall, shattering 'ye stock in twenty pieces.
Mooascrut. 'Evz.vm—A House and six children
burnt !—On Saturday night last, near the village of
Yonkers, in Westchester county (N.•lr.) the dwei.
ling of Mr.c.lolna Austin was burnt to the ground
and horrible to relate, six children. three sons and
three daughters, perished in the flames. The cm ,
respondent oflhe New York Commercial stoles the
family had retired to rest. Soon after midnight the
house was discovered to be in &nice by one of the
daughtera sleeping below stain,. Of seven children
sleeping up stabs, six of them perished;"one of whom
a young man about' 19. alter succeeding by the aid
of his elder brother in bursting his way thrOngh the
flames, resolved, dgninst the entreaties of his broth.
cr to return to;therercue of has younger brothers and
sisters in the upper rooms . lle perished in the at.
tempt. His hal -consumed body was found
in she morning lying beside those of three
small sisters end two brothers. Such was the rap,
idity of the flamesithat all effort on the part of the
parent, to save his children, was rendered upavaila
ble and hopeless. he son that escaped from the
upper story was se erely but not dangerously burn
ed.. The fire is so posed to haveheen the 'tank of
accident.
The Maryland
iblature of the Sta
any law in relation
for restraining the
in effect legalising
beforo deemed out
edgement of the
The banks may no
pursuing, to their
manufacturers can
penalties without
bout as well dies
as good condition
will not aufrer-by
community, whe
ty. Virginia on
sion, and for ough
other aide, will do
wro shalt by
Sars.
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ugth (ci our/110de -I ad abject all Nature to Ouruseand pleasure.+-olt Jotmsorr.
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I minty, Peninisylvania.
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1840.
Mr
F mammum...;mmili ertainly it would plice a single
Lich at her ease even the 'vi
* - of ordinary sailing frigates of
r 1 architecture.
correspondent of
n ortaidintellio
1 hare nr
i I Fr-
L OF BLOODHOUNDS.
'au World
;hounds is about to be made.—
win!, 2(1 Dragoons, has just
the concentration on the 20th
e St. Jahns Rier, about 150
called Volusia, expressly ofor
with what efficacy the Cuba
ailing the Seminoles."
ned in the order to accompany
ecet Major Ashley end Lieut.
but I am informed that Col.
take command in person.
lietween the head waters of the
•Ocklawahe is that specified
rrun—and I have no doubt but
I -
und—and thatthe much talked
cy ofthe Dogs will be at once
7 ankt.—Shinplaster.'.--The Leg
• has adjourned without. passing'
to the banks, or any additional act
ssue of o shinplasters. " : This is
ho whole matte —that which was
geous has now the tacitacknowl
!ener.d assembly favorable to it.
go in the course they have been
eart's content—and shinplaster
rndulgo their money.mking pro.
Int. Well, we reckon we are a.
ur neighbors. Our banks ore in
most banks, and our shinplasters
!.mparison with those of any other
1- we regard the quantity or quail
.ne side has legalized the snspen
tve can see, Pennsylvania on the
likewise, and come weal of woe,
i in respectablo coinpany.—Ball.
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LATER !FROM CIANTON
The ship: ALPIO3 I I Captain Locrrr, arrived yrs
tonlay from ,Catitothiand iu adihtion to our own files,
we have been Idndiy; furnished ;by Captain Lovvr-r,
with Papers published in English at Macao. until the
31 of December.
'Matters beta een the Zuglish and Canton autlioii
ties are gradually, assuming a more hostile appearance,
but no further acts of violene or ag,gressian have
been conitnitti.tliiy either party; meantime en edict
has appeared, declaring that ail foreigners who do
not sign the bond required by the,Chinese baf .re the
6th IJecernhar, shall mever afteiwards be allowed to
trade with China. and that theii vessels shall Is driv
en away. We annex some editorial lemtuks, from the
Canton press of the 30th November
As time glides on, the breath between the (Eng
lish and Chinese widens, and there can now remain
very little hope indeed of an amicable arrangement of
extating differences. Our readers Will find bvlow a
new Edict, with a translation of which we have been
favored, containing in imperial order that the trade
of such foreigners as shall still continue to refuse
signing the bond is to be excluded fur evcr,•and the
Commissioner has in consequence issued his com
mands that on the 6th of - the next month of December,
if the English continue obstinate, their trade is for
ever to cease, and their ships; to be dri.en away.
'We believe that the English vessels will in conse
quence of this threat cuter the Bogue, and it rests
altogether wlt!i the :home government, whet steps
are to be taker, under these hostile proceedings of
the Chinese. That the trade is to cease for ever, is
easily decreed on paper, but lsoW will they enforce it
whilst the English have so lone an account to settle
with them ? an account for insults offered to their
officers and subj,tts, and an account of immense debts
owing to them paity by the bong mcrctiants, thi•
authorized commercial agents of this Oovsriiment,
and fur the opium they hive forcibly pos , esstd them
selves of, besides the losses suALiitied since March last
in consequence of the hostile proceedings of the Chi-
GIB
The debts owing by the insolvent hong merchants
do not fall short of fdur and a lualf millions of dollars ;
the value of the Opium surreodered is equal tot. St
least ten millions, and the losses for demuriape,
may amount to a few millions more—so that the Cha
im:le, before they can maintain an, at all times ques
tionable, right to thili attempted exclusion, must sat
isfy the English &panda for 'l7 to 18 millions of
dollars, without reckoning the expense the gri g iibb
will be put to enfOreing pay inent. The rashness
with which the otherwise cautious Chinese have
rushed into these violent measures is most singular.
ate lis probably 'altogether ow - hip the hasty , temper
of the Imperial Coinmissioner,. ho, deluded by the
apparent success of his' liist, act of silence against
foreigners, thought That by continuing in the same
manner he would not en'y suppress the t tpiuni trade,
but also effectually ihuintde foreigners, who, it' was
feared were beginning to enjoy: greater liberty in the
Celestial Empire than was computiable with the jeal
ousy- of the Government.
In how far he has mistakinflie means for the sup
pression ol the Opiunt trade, may be seen by the ma
ny vessels now taking the drug to all parts of the
coast ; and the latter; future events will show whether
he has the power to do or nA. • lite edict !those ad
verted to, meantime does not change the actual po4t
tion of affairs, the English trade having - been exclu
ded from Whampoa. since May last ; the fleet con
tinues at Tungkoo, ;where hitherto it had been face
from annoyance from the Chinese, and will await
there the answers iron the British Government to
Captain Elliott's deSpatches, These may be reciev
ed in the next Month, or at latest in' January.
Whether the Chinele will actually interfere with the
present transhipping system at 'rungkoo, remains to
be seen ; they threat6n to put a stop to that alsa.-41,
I Y. C. 4- E.
From Me Lady'a Boa.
T 1 1 :, SABBATH
UT •LEiI.IIDEII 31. EVERETT
OF all the subjects that can ho presente z d ti the
contemplation of the people at Janie, Religion is the
one in which they take the deepest interest. Of all
the occupations in Which they can ho engaged, reli
gious exercises are those which habitual* produce
in their minds the strpngest .excitenient. if it were
the object of a lawgifer, independently of any other
consideration of expediency arid duty,- merely to pro
vide the people with the means of agreeable occupa
tion and amusement for a day of rest, he could not
do it so well, if at all, in any other way, as by instruct
ing them to devote lit to religion.
Religion reveals to us the secret of our higher and
better nature, lifts us i b we the common offices of
daily life, into COllli/Itlftioll wit'. the sublime spirit,
whose word created and whose incomprehensible es
sence infuses and sustains the universe. It teaches
us that we are not, las the= bare theories of a detesta
ble sophistty would represent us, merely a (afferent
order of the same race of beings with the brutes that
surround us, destined like them
~,to pass an ephemeral
life, and then sink into nothing, but that we possess
within us the germ; of a heavenly nature, fir which
death is only the opening of anew form of existence,
Crud which will develope its faculties hereafter through
countless ages of happiness or' misery, accordingly as
the *opportunities fir improvement afforded here have
been improved or neglected.
Religion expands the intellect by familiarizing us
with the most interesting questions in toe philosophy
of morals and mind. It enlarges the heart by re
pressing the selfish; and encouraging the social and
benevolent feelings. it checks our pride
,in prosper
ity and our depression in adversity, by impressing
upon us the trifling importance of all our present in
terests when compared with those which belong to
us as candidates for a higher state of existence. It
consoles us tinder the agony of parting from those
we love, by the reflections that we shall meet them
again in scenes of Permanent happiness. In a word,
it changes the universe from' a chaos of confusion
and misery, to a grand and heedful creation, the fit
residence and temple of the high and holy One that.
inhabiteth eternity.
It is not in' nature for those who believe these sub
lime truths to hearnbont them or think of them with
out the strongest excitement. What is them on
the most absorbing affairs, the most exquisite enter
tainments, that can ever claim in this respect to come
into competition theist 1 What is there, for
example, in the fable of the mesthighly wrought and
beautifully written romance, which can be compared,
for deep and abliorbing interest, with the splendid
history of creation and redemption, of which the re
cord is the Bible, the 'scene the universe, the time
eternityl God',.superior beings, and ourselves the sub
, ieWs :lAA* eve: complOied.of not, tains excited
by the proceedings id a cede at lave, itt which his prii
' fiartY tir lifei-viereit isailet: ln - thiS Calefwhieh II i
gued every Sabbath in the courts of God, there id
More at stake than any earthly propertY or mortal
life, nut shalt in the infietitence of a better 'world ?
our happiness or mese ry throughciiit all ebarnity.
The mightiest minds of . aiery agednd euntry hays
extraustedthe trsources of language iir:e, greasing tLs
delight with _which . they habitually, dwe upon this
e.
subject. •-. I would rather, r i sayer Lord : aerins,:"",be
lieve all the tables of the Talnitil and the Alcamo
than that this uniVeratil Prime' is withett a hlind.'
Schilles id his beautiful Hymn to l'leasure i retreis - duis
her tanner tie viaVing on the auti•brighto& of Reli
giont With the monarch ininsfrol of liptumihis
is ;
'being or Gm is a motive for general - eieltation and
jubilee. ". The Lord reigdeth r : let the earth rejoice:''
He does. not consider' it a tiresome and gloomy, em-
ployment of time to attend public werslup. "I was
glad when they. said unto me, let us ger .up_ io the
house of the Lord i 'my soul lougeth, ye4l'ainteth for .
the courts of the Lord : my heart and t y flesh cry
ont r fer the livieg.God:' . I •
Will it be said that these are the hig aspirations
of superior minds - , improved by every ti identel rel - -
vantage, but that they ate above the comprehension
of the mass of the people, Whci Can only be excited
and amused by.olijcets and pleastirea of a purely sen
sual chat-set,. r? Those who e_nteriaht this opiniori
do great' injosi ite to the mass of theyeople, and have
f mind every inadeiptate conception of the dignity
and elev-tion of the illltt , Ml charaCter, even in us low
est estate. To all who have reflected on the silence
of gevernthent,. and arriver Lat just conclusions, it is
linnet' alit religion is the chief element Which con
solidates and holds together the frank of 'society. , In
a gloat many countries, it is the force ostensibly and
formally employed for this fuipose: in others, as
with us, it oreraies indirectly : but how" vould it pro
duce the effect in either way, if the mass of the -peo
ple were indifferent to it ? It Was aid by „Gibbed
that 'the introduction of Christianity was one of the
principle eau.,os 17i the decline of tlic Ronan empire.
This nas n holly false in fact ; add souo.er thieltere.
rcasoniug on a directly opposite View of the sub jee.i.
have agreed that the civilizing add constilidating in
fluence of christianity on the rude nrindr of the bar
barian Qadera of that empire, Was the chief cause
which formed the ievv , political creations that grew
ire out of its ruins. e The knigdom of France," says
~Moritesquieu, e was the. work of dm bishops,"- - and
we know that with the Pope at their head, they go
verned Europe for several centuries. In all this there
was much,abuse, but the very extent of the abuse
proves thd strength of the principles. If the muss of,
the people are iiittilli•rent to religion, how hapiened
it that the whole civilized world was thrown into
convulsions for a hundred and fifty years by the reli
gious divisions of the Reforn.ation, convulsions o f
which the great political reveled ars of our own day,
are among the indirect results I ',_ .
NO. 14
Or, to look more nearly 'at mil en n , people; and
the common es perience of' drily life, ,hat am the
books that circulate most widely throngiall the clas
ses of the community We know that where the
popular works on any other: Fui ject are sold by thou.
a aids; throe that treat of religion ore Sold by tent
and hundr..thi of theu.ands. c Would 'hi!: be the ease
ir the people did not tee! a ireep interest. in the sub.
pet perhaps be said tlOt this difference is
in part the diet of exertion. There are Bible Seel.
cues, Tract S.,eieties, Missionary SoeNties, which
are all busy in distributing religious honks, and this
is the reason why they circulate so Widely. But
why are there no such associations for I dle distribu
tion of hooks on history, politics, and other branch
es of useful knowledge ! There is evidently no'oth•
er reason excepting—that the pepple take a much
deeper
„kincrest in religion than they do. in any of
the-e. snliji ii.ter.sting and fuipprtantl as they ter.
tairds' are.
Is it said that public devotional cxereires ore re
gard( d by the people as gloomy or tiresome? How
happens it then that in each of our large cities forty
or fifty churches are regularly ctowded every Sabbath
twice, and often three or four times in the same day?
I had tte pleasure, not long since, of attending an
evening lecture in one of the largest churches in
Boston, where every seat up to the top Of the pulpit
stairs was occupied, and every alley filled with pereonit
standing, all listening with breathless interest to a
sermon a full hour King. There were proba'olY very
few of this audience who had not attended church
twice before on the same day, and not Ono who wes
under any obligation or compulsion to attend at all.
In the less thickly sr Wed Parts of this cOuntry where
the means of assisting in the publmexcivises of reli
g'on are not supplied in the usual way, the inhabi
tants of o considerable extent of territory collset tos
NAN. froth time to time, and hold a pcnicanein as
i.erolity of several days for this , . purpcsr, under tho
name of a camp. Meeting. Is, it probable that crowds
of people would congregate frow distances of thirty.
forty; or perhaps a hundred miles, and engage by the
week together in devotional exercises, if they fat no
interest and took no pleasure in them? j I mean not
to commend hi every respect the order pr the results
of tfiese meetings; but I say that they sttorrgly evince
tLe deep 1141 which the subject takes i oohe publics'
mind. •
Facts like these sufficiently prove that his not con;
siderel by the-public as a gloomy and tirme em
ployment of the Sabbath to devote it tl , rehgious ex
ercises. Where-the attention is deeply with Out be
ing painfAlly engaged, the frame of mi.' if is for the
time agre&ble ; and lam far from bein certain that
any thing would be gained, even on the - score of
cheerfullness, by substituting a differe t method -of
observing the Sabbath, from that which la generally
in use in this couniry.. khan been My fortune' to
witness the celebration of this sacred featieal in sorre
of the capitals of Europe , where' the greater part of is
is regularly devoted to public spirits,d where the
theatres arc open twice as Icing I 'as'on -a y other day
of the week. 'I have seen the French easants danc
ing under the trees on Sunday ahemens; In their
holiday dresses; and I can say with rfect truth,
that .1 know no place in Which the retu n of the Safi
lie
bath is nekomed with so enuchinteres„ end the oc
cupations it brings with' it, puraded with so much
cheerfulness as in the inetropOlis of 'le Pirgiima,
where it is wholly devoted 'to religion. : I. ! at any one
walk the streenrotlioSton on aft ti 6 Sal4ath morning,
when the bells are all fringing and the Whole popular
thin of both sexes in their best attire,( repairing to
their- respective places of worship, and ir the scene do
not produce upon his mind a more pleasing:impres
sion than the tumult of a bull-fight, or the noisy myth
of a rustic dance, tean, only say that his mental con
stitution is different from mine. I . ( -
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New Counties.—The Legislative cc Ohto, it its
present Session, has passed acts erecting threc?new
counties, to wit.:—Summil, troth; parts of Portage,
Stark and Medina ; Lake, from partslof Cuyahoga
and Gad! id Of trot.- I nf Sandusky;
Huron ai
Morns f , itan the loco;
motive on the Long island Ra t Road op &nudity.
set fi re to the woods, , and befoie the, dime* were ar
rested, a pie of straw, underiwhich t 0,000 morns
multicaulia weio buried, was bitrnt, to then with tha
concealed treasure.
Stricken from the roll-"=-Seeoml!Lieutenent
F. Whitney, of the U. S. Marine COrPai, who was
Tecently tries by a Court Mordant C4arlestunrn
Na
ey Yard, was, we rn, round: gr ' the:charges
anti sentenced tots dismisSed frot ice; which
sentence as been approved by tht tt.
W. is the son of Reuben M. WI rewhile fa
mous for his financial concecticn is "mem;
meat, is agent of the deposits br
El