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THE WA
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Ann Tin MANNER OP ar:rtiraitt—BY sr. CHAIM.
Irov. ,
—1
Maiden or the bhoun• 'z age,
O'er whose pathlths sunlight lingers,
O'er whoa/. brow dean& and raze
Ne',or halm swept with loathsome fingers!
Virgin ! pure in heart and mind,
Shun the spit where Unve reposes :
Oh. beware! or thOu ilt find.
Sharpest thorns am ngst I-ie rows
D3TReI thou whim
Sliehtfy on thy iiiiiiiOf coral,
By the charms 'hilt thou hest missed,
Learn. oh: learn the simple moral :
- Time may seem ft) thieo unkini—
i Love a briehterj fa e discloses;
Oh, beware !or thou ilt find .
Sharpest thorns, a °nest hie roma.
•
: . Warrior, from Melba% le field.
With thy laurel' wreath around thee,
~,t
Arm thyself withlsw rd and shield,
Fly, ere vet the , fo bath liouita thee!
Love, for thee, a slnell hail, twined,
Where the eyeint entity closes;
-Oh. beware ! or thol wilt find
• Sharpest thorns areonest his roses,
I •
Father ! thou whn.el l ttering gate .
Tells ot leng.linet -years and sorrows—
Tells what soon :wil be ihylfrite., s•
Ere the-^.
aim brine many morrows
f .
Love will seek e.en bee to bind,
, . Ere death's portal o'er the closes;
Oh. beware! or ipoo wilt find ..
Sharpest thorn urng his roses.
Maiden. dam=el. iwn
Shmr,Olu.suelli of
Conic -rod.near his h
.. Ve not Fir ,
igiicitle, fats? tin'
th e . o,,urcepf a
Oh. beware ! or you;
Sharpest ihorris a
From the ‘ll4‘on ,
EDEN IS
IT jOliN NEW
Oh. I have roltnrct4hrougn many lands,
A stranger to doligth
Not f: rend.hii hod
entild make inv . pal
Tdl nn the Vkv a s 1
And lit night'g.abh
Oh, steer tni,birk t
Fur Eden is Oijr hoL
of rest,
;bore,
tiles`from, my breast,
no more:
y spirit flies
crne— -
i'er - Jordan's waves,
I me.
• Oh. Eden is ipv[Pla
I long to reachios
To shake thetieltro
And weep and . lEh
To that fair hito, in
And site'. bi 4
• Oh, weer my (Irk'
For Edvn naS h
•
Oh, take me O i nir
To my sweet h nm
Where teats or q
!Ilia scald of
above,
row never flow
Awl' all the ri.r ii ove;
My sister spir/ts viatt for me,
And Jesus bid, me t enme.
Oh, steer . my bark to' that bright land,
FOr Eden is my home.
Foreir,,n - Items.
,
The English paper brought by the Caledrinia,
which arrived at Boston list week from Liverpool,
are literally barred of intelligence. Wecan scarcely
chpie up aware of int resting items.
/The Liverpool pppeta are filled with accounts of
the less of the s h ip Covernor Fenner,, a notice of
which appeared in lastoleek's pafOr. Capt. And
rows 'of th- G. F.. we u'ntleretantl; is'about instituting
a suit at Liverpool aglinst the owners of the Not
tingham steamer for t.te da nage sustained by the
lose of his 4ssel.
' The Penny Postage, which it was prophesied
would not pay its expenses, has' yielded £ 441,000
net revenue in the tirt y ear of its experiment. So
• that; judging from the revenue returns of Post office
expenses already vuhikhed. and ;Inking an allow
ance for increased expenditures occasioned by the
extended use of raile4ys, the first annual gross re
ceipts under the new !system have been more than
half 'the annual receil ts under the old.
Daniel O'Connnell has presented, to hie parish
church a magnificent painting representing the mur
der of Thothas A. Berket.
The state of tradelin the manufacturing districts
of England is rather More depressed than--=by the ad
-vices received by the eteamer President. In the.cot
ton and woolen tradee, piece goods and yarn were
difficult of sale, and Price had a downward tendency.
Such of the merc l ents of Liverpool as ate enga
ged in what is lane thei
.i Atherican Trade, " have
strongly recommend d the British Government to
modify the_ duties oq certain articles imported into
Great Britain from t e United Stales. This recom
mendatiomowea its origin, doubtless . -to the one re
cently made in this cituntry in relation to our tariff.
The London TIE ; announces the failure of the
extensive house of ontefiore it: Brothers. Their
liabilities are estimated at £ 100,000 sterling.
The statement i generally discredited that Sir
John Harvey has brien ecallo, and will be succeed
ed by Su William folehroke..
The Notts Revievir says that the apiiit for emigsa
tion seems to be upon the increase, owing, no tbiubti
to the want of erripOiment and low rates of wages.
The lateldies Ecizabeth Kibble of Paisley, Scot
land, directed in' he' will that the sum of .t.: 7.500
be'applied it: foundi x an institution in Paisley for
the reclaiming of Ju enile delinquents.
1
Major GeneralSiY - Neil Douglaes has been offerred
and accepted the cimmand of the forces in Nova
,I T
Scotia and.New' Br nswick. ". • ,
The Earl of Ho th was recently thrown front his
home, while knitting, and severely thjured.
An extensive fail re is announced at Liverpool.
The liabilities of tht house, which was engaged in
the drysaltery and t rpentincl distilling business. are
variously stated int 1 . 0,0001. and 80,000/. Upwards
of 40,0001. am iweihg to different houses in Liver
,
POol• ' . -, f
,
No less than tw
hive been burned
hundred and fortyBve children
o death during the past year in
, ,
ate and eastern division of Mid•
tae city ofWestm
dlesex.f
The Queen hos been pleased to appoint Robert
Leate, Esq., to be, serjeant-surgeon in ordinary to
her, majesty, in!thei . room of Sir Astley Pastor Coop.
er, Bart., dectairdl
The English! p4ers now ire less rabid wheri they
chance to apeali, of the arrest of McLeod by the:Ail:ler
' leant. ;
itne Kolb kissed
rinr, sire
his enchanter:
dden fire,
le banter :
.
bl onr wnee is:
w,tll find
png his roses.
-a
ii livening Argue.
V 1110 ME.
LAND 11AFFITT
I na, nor Inim's sweet smiles,
way ',right':
a r erase
1 dame,
y that sweet star—
ne.
/
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ME
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"I will teach you to piereat. e bowels of the Eanh, and bring out from the Cavern" or Mountains. Bletals!wbieh will giirestrength toast Bands andinibiectall Sitarist° oaten* and pleasure.m—Da • Jontwor."
VOL. xvti.
The following leapital story appeared in did,*
wood's tnitgaiine several years ego. Unlike :uati+
old stories, it will be read with great interest :
•
TILE:FIRST AND LAST DINNER.
• • .
Twelve friends.; much snout the same age, and
fixed, by their puranits, their fatnily connexions, and
other local interesis,:as permanent inhaintants of the
metropolif, agreed', one day when they were drinking
their wine;at 'the tar and Garter at Richmond, to
institute sit annual dinner among themselves, under
the following ;regulations That, they should di9e
alternately afreactt others houses on the first and last
day of 'the year; that the first bottle of wine uncork
ed at this first diriner, should be recorked and put
away, to_ be drank by tim who should be the last of
their number , ; that they should never admit a new
member, that when one died, eleven should meet,
end when' another died, ten should meet, and so on :
and that when only one remained, he should, on those
two days,-t ine by himself, and sit the usual hours at
his solitary table; dint the first time be so dined alone,
lest it should be the only one, he should then un
cork the first bottle, and in the first glass, drink to
the memory of all who were gone.
There wai'something original and whimsical in
the idea, it was 'eagerly embraced. They were all
in the prime of life closely attached by reciprocal
friendship, fond of social enjoyments, and looked for
ward to their-future meetings with unalloyed antici
pations of pleasure. The only thought, indeed, that
could have darkened those anticipations was one not
likely to intrude itself at this moment, that of the
hapless vight actin was destined to uncork the first
Willi at his lonely repast.
It was high surnmer when this frolic compact was
entered into; and as their pleasure yacht skimmed
along the dark bosom of the Thames, on their return
to London, they talked of nothing hut their first and
last fe l asts of ensiling years.---Their imaginations ran_
out with a thousand gay .predicttoini of festive merri
ment. They wantoned in conjectures of what chan
gee time , would Create.
As for you, George,' exclaimed oneof the twelve,
addressing his brother-in-law, t I expect I' shall see
you as dry, withered, and shrunken as an uld eel
skin, your mere : outside • of a man!' and be accompa
nied the words coith a hearty slap on the shoulder.
George Forteacue was leaning carelessly over the
aide of the yacht, laughing the loudest of any at the
conversation which had been carried on. The sud
den manual salutation of his brother-in-law threw
him off his balance, and in a moment he was over.
board. They. heard the heavy splash of his fall, be
foie they could be said to have been him fall. The
yacht was proceeding swifty along; but it was in
stantly stopped.
• The utmost Consternation now prevailed. It was
nearly dark, but Fortescue was known to be tm ex
cellent swimmer, and 'startling as the accident was,
they felt:certain. he would regain the yew!. They
could not see him. .1 bey listened. They heard the
sound of his hands and feet. They hailed him.
An answer was returned, but in a faint guggling
voice, and the exclamation Oh God !' struck upon
their ears. In in instant,two or three, who were
expert swimmers, plungedi into the liver, and swam
towards the sprit whence the exclamation bad pro
needed. One of them was within an arm's length of
Fortescue ; lw saw him c before he could be iiaelied,
he went down, and his distracted friend beheld the
eddying eireles-of the wave just over the spot where
he had sunk. Re dived after him, and touched the
bottom ; but the tide must have drifted the body on
wards, for it could not be found !
They proceeded to• one of the nearest stations
where drags were kept, and having procured the ne
cessary apparatus, they returned to the fatal sprit.
After the lapse of above an hour, they succeeded io
raising the lifeless body of their lost friend. All the
usual remedies , were employed for restoring suspend
ed animation but in vain; they now pursued the re
mainder of their course to London, in mournful si
lence. with the corpse of him who had commenced
the day of pleasure with them in the, rulings of health,
of spirits, and , of life! Ant' , in their severe grief,
they could not but reflect how soon one of the joy
ous twelve had slipped out of the little festive
circle. -
The month's rolled on, and cold December came
with all its cheering round of kindly greettngs" and
merry hospitalities; and with it tame a softened
recollection of the fate of the, poor Fortescue. elev,en
of 1 1 . e twelve assembled an the last day of the year,
and it was impossible tiotto feel their loss as they
sat down to (linker. The'very irregularity of the ta•
ble, five on one gide and itia on the other, forced the
melancholy event upon their Memory.
A decorous sight or two; a few beaming ejaculii 7
lions, and an instructive nbseivation upon the uncer
tainty of life, made up ( the sum of tender posthumous
offering to the name s of poor George Fortescue; as
they proceeded to dis j harge the more important du
ties for which they h ad met. By the time the third
glass of charripaigne had gone round, in additiOn to
Potations of fine old hock, and capital matleira; they
haCceased to discover any thing so very pathetic in
the inequality of the two sides of the table, or so mel
ancholy in their crippled number of eleven.
Several Fears had elt;psed, and our eleven friends
kept up their, double anniversaries, as they might ern
ly enough he called, with !scarcely any perceptible
change. Bat, alas! there tame one dinner at last,
which was darkened by a 'calamity they never
petted to witness; for on that very day, their friend,
companion, brother almost, was hanged ! Yes, Ste
phen Rowland, the wit, the oracle, the life of their
circle, had, an the morning; of that day, forfeited his
life upon a public scaffold, for having made one sin
gle stroke of his pen in a wrong place. In other
/Nerds a bill of exchange whichpaised into his hands
for 700• passed out of it for £l7OO.
It would be injustice to the ten to say, that even
wine, friendship and a merry season, could dispel th ey
gloom which pervaded this' dinner. It was agreed
beforehand, that they should 114 allude to the dis
tressing and melancholy theme ; Ind having thus in
terdicted the only things which featly occupied all
their thoughts, the natural conserence was, thatst
lent contemplation took the place of dismal discourse;
and they separated long before midnight.
Some fifteen years had now glided away since the
fate of Rowland, and the tewremamed ; but the steak
log hand of time hid written sundrychanges in most
legible characters. Ravenllocks had beeomegriztJed„
two or three heads had not as miny locks altrigether
as maybe 'reckoned in a Walk of half a mile along
the. R egen t s Catial-oneiwas actually covered with
a brown Wig, the crow's f l eet were visible in-the cor
ner of thieye---tmod oldrtandwarm madeirs car
ried it against hock, cl ans, end red burgundy, end
champaigne, stews, hashes , and ragouts, grew into
faver--cnists were rarely called for to relish the
cheese after dinner—ctintiersetion grew less bolster"
0
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Weekly by Batman" Potts Ville,
Countyl.PennsYlvaikia.
=I
ono, and it turned chiefly on politics and the state of
the funds, qv the value of landed property—.apologies
Were made, for coming in thick shoes - and warm
stockings—the doors and windows were most care
fully provided with list and sand bags—the fire more
in request...and a quiet game of whiil filled up the
hours that were wont to be devoted to drinking, Sing
ing, and riotous merriment. The rubbers, a cup of
coffee, and at home by II o'clock, was the usual cry,
when the fifth or sixth glass had gone round after
the removal of the cloth.—At parting, too, there was
a long ceremony in the hall, built:Ming up great coats,
trying ,on , woolen comforters, fixing silk handker
chiefs over the mouth and up to the ears, grasping
leturily walking canes to support unsteady feet. -
Their fifteenth anniversary. came, and death had
indeed been busy.
' Four little old men of withered appearance and
: decrepid walk, with cracked voices and dim, rayless
'eyes, sat down ,by the mercy of Hemen, (as they
I themselves trerhulously declared,) to celebrate, for'
the fiftieth time, the first day of the year; to observe
the frolic compact, which, belle century before, they,
had entered into at the Star and Garter at Richmond.
Eight were in their graves ! The four that remain
ed stood upon its confines. Yet they chirped cheer
ily over their glass, thOugh they coulakacarcely carry
it to their lips, if more than half full; and cracked
their jokes, though they articulated their words with
difficulty and heard each other with still greater diffi
culty. They mumbled, they chattered, they
ed, if a sort of strangled wheezing might be called a
laugh; and when the wines sent their icy blood in
warmer pulse through their veins, they talked of
their past as if it were but a yesterday that had slip
ped by them,—and of their future as if it were a bu
sy century that ley before them.
They were just the number for a quiet rubber of
whist; and for three successive years they sat down
to one. The fourth came, and then their lubber
was played with an open dummy; a fifth, and whist
was no longer practicable; two could play . nnly'at
cribbage, and cribbage was the game. But it was
" little more than the mockery of play. Their palsied
hands could hardly hold, or their fading sight distin
guish the cards, while their torpid faculties made
them doze between each deal.
At length came the lass dinner; and the survivor
of the twelve, upon whose head four score and ten
winters had showered their snow,-ate his solitary
meal. It so chanced that it was in his house and ut
his table, they had celebrated the first. In hie cel
lar too, had remained, for eight and fifty years, the
bottle they had uncorked re-corked, and which he was
that day to uncork again. It stood beside him ; with
a feeble and reluctant grasp, he took the 'frail memo
rial' of a youthful vow, and for a moment memory
was faithful .to her office. She threw open her long
vista of buried years ; and his heart travelled through
them all. Their lusty and blithsome spring, their
bright and fervid stimmer,—their ripe and temperate
autumn,—their chill, but not too frozen winter. He
saw, as in a mirror, how one by one, the laughing
companions of the merry hour, at Richmond, had
dropped into eternity. He felt all the loneliness of ,
his condition, (for he had eschewed marriage, and in
the veins of no living creature ran a drop of blood
whose source was in his own ;) and as he drained
a glass which he Lad filled, 'to the memory of those
who were gone,' the tears slowly trickled down the
deep furrows of his aged face.
He had thus fulfilled one part of his vow, and he
prepared himself to discharge the other, by sitting
the usual number of hours at his desolate table.
With a heavy heart he resigned himself to the gloom
of his own thoughts—a lethargic sleep stole over him
—his head fell upon his bosom-confused images
crowded into his mind—he babbled to himself—was
silent—and when his servant entered the room,alarm
ed by a noise which he heard, he found his master
stretched upon the carpet of the foot of the easy
chair, out of which he had slipped in an apoplectic fit.
He riever spoke again, nor once opened his eyes
though the vital spark was not still extinct till the
following day. And this was the LAST DINNER.
The Lowell Journal of Weilnemlity, contains an
interesting sketch of this flourishing city, occupying
a space of five columns.—We hare made below an
abstract of it, and regret that we cannot find room
for the whole of it.
The town of Lowell was incorporated March,
1825. On the spot now occupied by the city, the
population at the time the first purchases were made
for manufacturing purposes, did not exceed 200
souls. In 1828, it reached 3,532 ; in. 1830, it was
6,477 ; in 1833, it was 12,363; in 1836, it was
17.633 ; and by the census of 1890, it was 20,981.
It is how only 20. years siEce the project of using
the waters of the Pawtucket Falls originated with
several enterprising gentlemen of Boston 'arid vicin
ity. The increase of population has; therefore, ex
ceeded a thousand a year, for 20 years. Probably
it will continue to increase at the same:rapid rate,
for ten years to come. The city charter was obtain
ed to 1'835.
Lowell is connected with Boston by the Middle
sex Canal and the Boston and Lowell Rail road.—
Distance, 26 miles. It is connected - with :Nashua,
N. H. by a railroad 15 miles in length, which wilt
soon he continued to Concord N. H. about 30 miles
further.
M
Ell
SATURDAY MORNING. APRIG3:. I'B4l.
From the Troy (N. Y.) Daily Whig.
LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.
The great corporations of the city are 11 in num.
ber, and the capital invested by them; 10,600,000
dollars. The Lock end Canal• . Company, are the
pmpnetors of the water power. Its capital is 600,-
000 dollars. 'The dam across the Merrimack, and
the various canals in the city, by which its waters
are conveyed to the Mills, were made by it: With
two exceptions, it built all the,mills, boarding ban
ns and machinery of the other corporations. It bah
two shops. a smithy and foundry, and gives constant
employment to 500 men, and when building mills
and boarding houses for new corporations, to 1200.
Its principle building is called, es The Machine
Shop. " It turns out manufactured articles to the
amount of 250.000 dollars per annum. The stock
in this corporation has been, if it is not ficriv, proba
bly the best in the world. !resides selling a vast
amount of land, on which the principal pert of the
city now stands, at prices varying fiorn one eighth
of a dollar to one dollar per square foot, which was
purchased atone or two hundred dollars the acre,
the, profits on all the miljaand boarding houses it
bar built on good contracts forthe other corporations.
and, the profts_on• the immense manufacture's of its,
shops, consisting principally of full sets of machine
ry for cotton• and woolen• milts, lbcomotive engines,
tt cam it reserves and receives an annual rent for
the water power disposed t'll° r each mill,. •
The aggregate capital of the remaining corpora
dons is of come 10,000,000 dollars. Besides these
MEM
VANA
DYERTISEsc.
•stahliehrnents, there are the Louiell Heathery; tho
ixtensive Powder Works of 0. 11. Whipple, Esq ;
.the Flannel Mills; the Whitney Mills, where bleu
ketsof tho very best . quality and finish are made; a
Bating Mill; Card and Whip Factory of White &
`Co. ; an extensive Bobbin Factory of the Messrs.
Douglass; Planing Machinea of Brooks and Picker.
tag; extensive Carnage and Harness Manufactory
of Day, Converse & Whittredge ; Sash anti Door
Factory of J. H. Band—employing together a capi
tal of about $ 400,000 and 400 operatives. The
Whole number of males employed in all the manu
facturing establishments in the city is about 2500,
and of females 7000. Very few children are eia
ployed. It is provided by the laws of the Common
wealth that all youths employed in the mills, under
14 years of age, shall attend the schools three months
out of twelve, every year. The average wages of
;females is 2 dollars per week, clear of board; and of
males, common hands 80 cerits per day, clear of board.
All are paid monthly. The total amount of average
monthly wages, out of which cloud bills roust be
paid, is about 170,000 dollars, making a yearly ag•
gregate, paid to operatives, by all the corporations,
of 2,000,008 dollars.
The weekly produce of the mills 2,265,560 yards
of cotton cloth, of which 70,000 are of the Coarsest
kind, called negro
,cloth. The rest is mostly com
mon, coarse, and fine sheetings, shirtings, drillings,
and cotter' flannels. A large portion of the finer
goods is manufactured in calicoes at the Merrimack
print works, and a small portion of the coarser fabric
is printed at the Hamilton print works; 1,800 yards
of broadcloth and 9,000 yards of cassimere are pro•
duced per week, by the Middlesex Company; and
2,500 yards of carpeting' and 150 rugs, measuring
one yard and three fourths each, by the Lowell
Company, making a iveek:y aggregate of 1,265,560,
and a yearly,of 65,609,120 yards: Thus it will be
seen that this city manufactures a fraction over 4i
yards. of cloth per year, for every man, woman and
child in the 'United Staten, allowing the population
to be 15,000,000. 27,000 yards of cloth are dyed
and printed per week.—The consumption of cotton,
per week, to all the mills, is 1,025 bales, or 412,-
000 pounds. The yearly consumption of wool is, in
the Middlesex Mills, 600,000, and in the Carpet
439,536 pounds, making together 1,039,536 pounds.
The Middlesex Company conbumes, per annum 3,-
000,000 teasels. All the Companies consume, per
annum, 11,660 tons of anthracite coal, 3410 colds
of wood, 500,000 bushels of charcoal, 65,289 gal
lons of oil, 600,000 pounds of starch, and 3000 bar
rels of fiour,for starch.
There are two Banks in the city, besides a Sa
vings Institution. The Lowell Bank has a capital
of 400,000 dollars, and the Railroad Bank of 800,-
000 dollars. In the Savings Institution are deposit
ed 386,000 dollars, of which 250,000 dellara belong
to operatives in the factories, mostly females.
There ate in Lowell 18 religious societies, vii:
two Episcopalian, two Methodist, two Freewill Bap
list, two Christian, two Universalist, three Orthodox,
three Baptist, one Catholic, and one Unitarian.
Fourteen of these societies worship in elegant chur
dies, viz: three Orthodox, two Baptist, two Metho
dist, two Universalist, one Episcopal, one Freewill
Baptist, one Christian, the Roman Catholic, and the
Unitarian. The others occupy convenient halls.
The fourteen churches or meet-houses, wt )11 their
furniture and dressings, cost not less thaiftso,ooo
dollars. The eighteen societies raise, and expend
forparochial and charitable purposes, at lesst 0,-
000 dollars per annum.
There are thirty free public schools in the city, kept
the year round. One new grammar school, and soy
mai Primary schools will be put in operation during
the present year. There are now twenty-two Pri
mary schools, and seven Gram Mar schools ; one
High school ;—in the latter young men are fitted for
the Untyksity, and instructed in the higher branches
of education. There was expended in 1840. for the
support of free schools in Lowell, the sum cf 21,439
dollars.
The Catholics form one-eight of the whole popu
lation of Lowell. Five of the Primary school teach
ers, and three in the Grammar schools are Catholics.
In consequence of the just'and libaral policy of em
ploying a fair proportion of their nomination to the
public schools, the Catholic Priests and parents take
ti'deep interest in them; and their children conse.
quently all attend, but mostly where Catholic teach
ers are employed, though there are' no regulations
on the subject,
According to the report of the Auditor for the
year ending Dec, 31, 1840, the city debt is 143,450
dollars and 10 cents. The real estate owned by the
city, cost and is worth 166,503 dollars and 98 cents.
The whole amount of debts due the city, is 26,208
dollars and 04 cents. The amount of personal prop
'rry held by the city, is 9,803 dollars and 67 cents.
The appropriations, for all purposes, during the year
were 98,340 dollars and 46 cents. Of this sum,
47,198 dollars and 98 cents were for the support of
the public schools, and the building of new school
houses. In 1820, the valuation of the property nn
the spot were the city now stands Alril not exceed
1000 doll es; in 1 . 840, the assessors' books shoW it
to he 12,4065300 dollars,
The Middlesex Mechanic Association owc a build
ing 'and library' worth 25,000.
The City Hall cost 20,000 dollars. The Markel
house 46,000 dollars. The Alms House, 18,000.
There are seven printing establishments in the'
city. The following is a list of the publications.
viz- The Lowell Courier. tri-weekly, and the Lowell
Journal, weekly. Whig—the Lowell Adveniser, tri
weekly, and the Lowell Patriot, weekly, Democrat
ic—the Literary Souvenir,, neutral—the e Banner,
Freewill Baptist—the Star, Universalist—the New
England Christian Advocate, Methodist Anti-Slairery
—the Lowell Offering•& , -the Ladies' Pearl, literary
monthly Megazine—the Young People's Library.
Lowell supporta 24 lawyers, and 28 physicians
and surgeons.
Of the literary character of the factory girls, some
inference may be drawn from the following statement
irr the Lowell Journal:
It would doubtless surprise the agricultural and
commercial communities of the South and West, to
know that a monthly magazine, printed on &Tampa
vial sheet, Bvo.. that in literary merit would corOpare
well with the average literary journals of thedouri
tTy, is published irr this city of spindles. looms. ham.
'OW, and anvils, every article being •origind and
written by'aractOry Girls." Yet such is the sober
truth.' It is called ' , the_ Lowell offering."! This
stork was started se an experiment-3200 eopies of
No. l'were printed; 9800 of No. 2 ; and 4300 - of
No: 3; The first edition of No. 1 was soon iixhaus.
tedi and a second , edition of 2000 has been publish ,
s 4, and' will soon be taken up: The account' given,
in the work itself, of it's origin, object; die : . may be'
fully relied on. The editors are two respectable
dergY alert of the city, and pastors of large and flour
ishing societies, whose statements are entitled to im
pliett credence. The editors and publishers of this
work have opened no subscription list, but it may
be considered as permanently established.
The senior editor of the Offering will publish,
,in due season; an Annual, entitled, • The Garland
of the Mills; every article of which will be written
by r iFactory Girls.' A large number of the arti
cles are already in his hoods. From what I know
of them; and the writers, who will furnish all that
may be wanted. I have no doubt the work will rank.
in literary merit, with the average of the Annuals,
as 4 will also in its beauty of type. paper, and bind
ing.i Such a work will be no less Pfronge thin true.
It will probably be placed in the hands of the Prin
ter July. It n ill be of the common size of those
beautiful and interesting publications."
Ili rouis to IRKLAND.—The following extract
(mai a letter dated Dublin, January 2. and received
by the editors of the Knickerbocker, from Mr. Wil
son, the eminent vocalist, whose concerts in our At.
!antic cities must be fresh in the recollection of ma
ny, will.be read with interest:
tt is some four or five years since I was in this
quaker of the wOldr and the change which is now
perceptible on the face of men and things is aston;
ishidg. You of course have heard of Father Math
ew, end his tetotal pledges, perhaps thought of it as
I did, that it was all humbug; that the Father must
be a fanatic, and that it was such a thing as would
soon blow over. But it is not so. It is ascertained
that upwards of three millions of souls in Ireland
have taken the pledge : the consequence of which is,
that instead of the hundreds and thousands of beg
bars that were wont to infest the streets, some of
them with scarcely any clothing upon them, you
scarcely now see one. It used to he difficult to dis
cover what was, or had been, the original color or
texture of a poor 'lrishman's coat ; in fact, it was a
thing to baffle all research. It is now far different.
The , lower orders are comparatively well clad and
clean. The distilleries are oil turned into flour
mills, and,the public houses have vanished. On last
St. Patrick's day, although the streets were covered
with dense crowds of people, there was not a tipsy
man to be seen. In former times, on Irishn-an
would have considered himself disgracing his saint.
his country, and himself if he did not get beastly
drunk on that day. All this reformation has arisen
out of the exertions of Father Mathew, who I hear
is an excellent fellow, and anything Lot a bigot.
He is now electing a chapel 'sit Cork, out of the
proceeds of the sale of shilling tetotal pledge medals.
that will cost nearly eighty thousand pounds, and
which, when finished, will rival iinmagnificence of
design and beauty of architect, any other building
in• Europe. The taking of the pledge is not confin
ed to the lower orders. Many who move In the
first circles of society have taken it ; and what as
tonishes me most of all is. that many of the carmen
have taken it, who used to be • screamers' in the
drinking way."
TAVEAN LICENCES.—The following is the bill re'
lutive to Tavern Licences as it passed both Muses
of the Legislature :
AN ACT supplementary to the various acts relating
to tavern licences
Sim-rims 1. Be it enacted. by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania in General Assembly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same. That every
person intending to apply for a tavern license in
any city or county of this commonwealth, from and
after the first day of A ptil next, shall vice public
notice of the same by at least three publications in
two newspapers where the application is made in
any of the cities, and in one where the application
is made in any of the eni.nties of this 'common.
wealth, (it so many there be in said city or county,
or if .there be no newspaper published, then by prin.
ted handbills, to be posted throughout the township
in six of the most public places, of which fact an al.
fidavit, together with a copy of the printed notice,
shall be attached to the application) which publica
tion shall be made nearest the place where such tav
ern is intended to be kept, and shall embrace the
certificate required by the fourth section of the act
passed the eleventh day of March, one thousand,
eight hundred and thirty.feur, entitled an act rota
Ling to inns and taverns and so forth, the last of
which publications shall be at least ten days before
the first day of the term of the court to which the
application shall be made.
Se.ca.tort 2. That the price of a license to keep an
inn or tavern shall be as follows, via : ten dollars
for one year in all cases where the adjusted val.
uation of the yearly rental of the house and the pro
perty occupied or to be occupied for that purpose,
shall not exceed one hundred dollars and not above
two hundred dollars, fifteen dollars: in all ether ea
ses, the sum of fifteen dollars and the addii lanai sum
of lour per cent on the rental abuse one hundred
dollars. and so much of the tenth section of act of
March eleventh, one thonsnr.d, eight hundred and
thirty-four as is supplied by thin act, is hereby re
pealed.
Sicr. 3. No house of entertainment shall be con
.strained to be an inn or tavern iinchr the provisions
of :he laws of this commonwealth. except such as
retail vinona, spiritous or other strong drinks, 'and
the twelfth section of the act of March eleventh,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty.four, to
which this is a supplement, be and the same is
'hereby repealed.
Serviorr 4. If any person shall be convicted un
der the provisions of this act, or the act to which this
is a supplement, of selling vinous, spiritous or other
strong liquors by less measure than one quart with
out license, such person shall be fined in a sum not
less than twenty nor more than One hundred dol
lars.
SWAPPING WITES.-A late N. Hampshire paper
gives the particulars of a case of swapping wives
which lately occurred in that State. Two men mar
ried sisters, and after a lapse of a short period of time
one of them proposed to the other an exchange of
wives, provided. the interested ladies made no object
lions. They made none, so one brave husband gave
the other a valuable horse, carriage and harness "to
boot," as the expression is. Matters pasced on
swimmingly for a few days during which time he
who received the boot' disposed of his horses, for the
round snm of nearly one hundred dollars In ready
cash. 19 a short time after the disposal of his prop=
erty his newly received wife fell in with a person
whom she loved - more than her own husband, and
believing it now her torn to exercise the glorious
right of 'free trade' she quit iher bed and board,' and
ran away with her paramour.
Havana Riarza.—On the day of the Inaugura
tion, among the multitude who called to pay their
respectato President Harrison, was a junior caper of
the Navy who was quite inebriate. The President,
with a picking eye, saw his situation, and sed—
.Sir. I am very sorry to see you or any Wier pekon
in your condition here' It is needless - to Fay that
the officer retired apparently cut to the quick. This
circa WO krt4W tR 4a roza—lg T: rarres.
EMI
FIVER R0D121503 CostrlcTsnrWe learn (ten
the 14. Y. Courier end Enquirer that the Jury tu
'Robiton't case returneda verdict late on Wedneb•
day evening, the 24th nit., of murder in the fiat die
gree. The prisoner evinced no emotion whatever.
when the 'verdict was returned, although unattended
by either of his counsel. or a single being whom hi
might call a friend ; but maintained the same eingn
lee and morbid composure for which he has beta re.
marked throughout rho whole trial. He is evident.
ly a man of eccentric habit and constitution. upon
whom nu healthy and correct impression can U.
•
made.
NO. 14.
The sentence of the Court was delivered on
Thursday min:og, the Roth ult., within a few snip.
utes of which time the prisoner was brought to the
bar of the Court, and was 13sked if he had any thing
to say why the judgment of the law should not be
pronounced upon him. Upon his eply in the neg.
ative, Chief Justice Bomblower, in a brief but feel.
ing address, reminded him of the awful crime he stood
covicted, exhorting him to prepare to meet that God
whose precepts he had violated, but whose meiry
might yet be purchased by a sincere repentance, and
finally proceeded to pass the sentence, a hich
that the prisoner be executed in the jail of the , enur, l :
ty, according to the laws of the State, between the
boors of 10 o'clock in the morning and two o'clock
in the afternoon, on F.iLlay the 16th day of April
next.
The prisoner manifested the same etoicel conipls.
cency dating the sentence which he had hitherto
shown. The Chief Justice seemed to be deeply 'if•
fected, and kept his face concealed for some mpe
ments after he had concluded his solemn and painful
dutieA.
The New Brunswick Times of Mach 250 says:
This morning Robinson is said to have math,
come confessions—saying, that after he had given
Mr Euydain his death wounds, and had dragged him
do wn into the fr, nt basement, his victim requested a
little time to prepare himself for his fate, but that he
only answered him by a blow open the heats with a
spade, which fully despatched him.
Ma. VA 13CREN AND Ti YEo3liltitY.— ° The
N. Y. New Era speaking of the reception &c., of
Ex-President Van Buren in that city, says that the
Locofocos well deserved the compliment which Mr.
Van Boren paid them at Tammany Hall, as the
virtuous and independent yeomanry by whom he had
been intrepidly sustained in the hour of ditticulty."
This is not the first time that Mr. Van Buren has
addressed his political friends under the style and ti
tle of e independent vomanry "—it appears to he
a pet phraze with the Ex.president. To us o inde
pendent yeomanry" sounds rather paradoxical.
According to Vt ulker, a yeoman is a freeh rider; •
gentleman farmer, a court officer, one who holds
lands and tenements by acknowledgment of superi.
orily to a higher lord; In great Britain the title of
yeoman may be an honorable or an enviable one;
but in this country we would be better satisfied in
being called plain 4. democrats "—it is in keeping .
with our form of government and the spirit of our
republican institutions.
"yeomanry " we ever heard of in Ibis country was
Mr. Van Buren's army of office holders. They were
emphatically " couri.OffiCerB, " and the tenwre oft .•:r
office was, acknowledgment of Eupetiority in Si
higher lord.
JOHN BANKS AND THE T.:RlM—Read the fol•
lowing extract from a speech of JOHN BANKS
in Congrre::—l occupy my place here as an avow.
ed friend of nomEsTic and Ainanic.arg INDUSTRY,
I am prepared to go, in legislation, every just and
reasonable length to protect the labor- of our citizen.
against the labor of foreign governments. Nam
stri.vAnlA, the state tram which I come, and which
I have the honor to represent, in part, on this floor,
has at all times been the firm and steady friend - 0f,,-
this PUOT}CTING POLICY. That state looks upon
this policy as being essential to her prosperity:and
welfare. It is to that policy that she Is mainly in
debted for her present highly 'improved condition.
That policy has contributed largely to bestow upon
the people of that State the many blessings and vir
tuous habits of the people of that State. Hot !odd
advantages are great; her agricultural resources aro
inexhaustible; her mineral wealth is not inferior t*
that of any State in this Union. That policy brings
into requisition all the energies of her industrious
people. It draws largely upon all her advantages
and resources; insomuch that they cannot fail- to
impart to the people comforts, wealth, and independ
ence, in a very high degree."
try The N. 0. Picayune, of the Bth ult., Is fitted
with accounts of sbe first night's recoption at the Bt.
Charles theatre in that city, of Fanny Eissier, the
danseuse. The Elasler fever appears 4o rage with
the same virulence in New 'Orleans as it did in the
Havanna. The box and pit tickets Isere disposed of
by auction, and brought from $3 to $5 apiece.
The last Sunbury American confound! the
Red Back Banks of New York with the Safety Fund
Institutions of that State. The mistake is a most
ridiculous one, and shows an ignorance of the insti.
tuitions of a sister stale that is quite unpardonable in
the conductor of a publi c press.
0:7. It is said that Nichols, a rim writ and triCist
eccentric genius. to the author of the Niagara _Falls
Hoax. He was connected with the N. Y. Herald
some rays since, but is better known as the editor of
the Buff'lonian. We believe he is now engaged in
blowing forth in his best style in the N. Y. Trumo
pet.
0:7 The Governor of Maryland has issued his prat: ,
lamation for a special election of members of Con
gress to represent the State of MarylJnd at the extra
Session. The election is to take place on the 17th
May next.
cc,. Henry Johnson has been nominated as the'
democratic whig candidate for the Governor of Lon
tsiana. A better selection could not have been made.
He will be elected by an overwhelmingmajority.
(3.Tho Baltimore American says that the water
is expected to be let into the Tide Water Canal on
Monday next, the sth inst.
0: 7 McLeod's trial cannot take place until the first
Monday in October next, unless a special Court is
directed for the purpose.
Edward Kent has been unanimously re-nomi•
nated as the Democratic Whig candidate fur Gooete►
nor of Maine. -
1 11. The Hon. Henry Clay, lam Week, left Befit+
more for home, in company' with his 0311Caltle.
Morehead. ;•:0
•ie vi e. The Martiosburg, (Ara.) Gazette ens thitt
work on the Baltimore end Ohio Railroad is advan
cing rapidly to completion. , ,
IP,OTTSVILLE.
Saturday *Morning, alfprU
In canclugion we Would observe that the only
We learn from the tre Gizette that the
Susquehanna river is now in , good order for rafting.
Mr. Attorney Genend Critteadon bat UAW!'
ed to the seat of ciorenatoent.
El