Circtilation near 2000. ttl)c Erl)igl) tlegh)tcr. AikidoAlla, Pa. THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, A Word of Advice The cash system is the best one, lriends, wherever it is possible to practice it. 11 all who could do so mould, many who now can not would be able to live upon the pineiple. The laborer will find it better to live a mouth ahead of his wages than a month behind.— Mutdi depends upon a determination to pursue a course of tiction-the will and desire must be fixed, and then thit-g , -; will be accomplish ed easily that I:ow seem loud and impossible. Let every one resolve to introduce the cash system—or what is tlie sari in effect, ails:vs fix a time for payments, and religiously , J bsei ve the period. Farmers and Mechanics Bank. At an election held at Easton, on Monday, the 11th instant, to choose by ballot thirteen di, rectors to manage the business of the "Farmers and Mechanics blank of Easton," ontil . the next election, as provided by the Charter, the follow ing gentlemen were chosen : Frederick Seiw.,Jolin Ci cell, Jr., P. S. Midi ler, D. S. Miller, B.S. Clikkey, John Drake, __C.__C. Field, E. B. AlixFeli, David Connor, A: W. Hadley, It. Divatillead, l'eler Gloss, S. R. lloagland. At a meeting of the Board of Directors held on Saturday last, Peter, 8. Alichkr, Esq., was elec. ted President of the Board, and at another meet ing, held on Monday evening last; the offices of the Batik were all tilled by the election of the following persons: 111uEVERS FORMAN, Cashier, AIELCIIIOII H. HORN, filler, JOHN KlNitur, IVILLIAM lIAMMA NN, Watchman. The new bank being now fully organized by the election of an able Hoard of Direinors, and a competent and experienced set of officers, well qualified for its management, it will go into op_ eration at an early day. The house selected (or the use of the bank is in a business part of the borough, directly opposite Shonsc's Hotel. Money_Market In 1834,' says the Philadelphia Sun, con traction occurred under the Withdrawal of the Government deposits frorn the Bank of-the - Fni= ted States. The pet bank system was shbsti tuted, and we hind expansion till 1837. The crisis of that year eri;tied, and conilaetion fol lowed, until it dropped to its very lowe;t grade in 1843; since then we have gradually ex• ',ended until within a year or two; since then expansion has been accelerated from oth_ er causes, California being the primary and plincipal, rind we call feel that a point of cul mination can be attained under a gold ex• eilement and a gold bask as well as with any other. It may be. and it is, a sounder ba s i s than we had in 7837, but it is just as liable to be disordered and. overdone. Perhaps we have not arrived at the pcdnt thtnt will floduce a like series of disasters as %%as witnessed in 11337, and that this timely ..varning may serve to put prudent Merl Olt their guaid, and remind them that even with the gold of Culdornia Money can become scarce, and the point of explosion on that foundation may also be reach ed. As we trust the banks and the binroweis will have heeded the ad in on it ions of the mon ey market, although we hardly dare hope for it, we imagine that just a sufficient check has been given to s teem lation , as will ensure more modorate prices tulkg for all kinds of proper ty, than %% o have had Mr a year past Pennsylvania The capital employed io the. 21 railroads 61 our State, ,(erritaticiog 1132 rules.) is $OO,- 000,000, and of their canals (1000 miles.) $30,000,000. Large portions of theme meets were made with a view to develope the mineral wealth of the Suite. Iron and coal are to Pennsylvania what gout', is to Caltlontia. the great SOUICD•of wealth to the State. Ihe iron product alone, in 1815, it is said to hale been as fellows: 510 blast furnaces, yielding 386,- . 000 tons of pig iron—average of 900 tb the furnace per an. num, tons, 950 bloomeries, forges ; rolling and slitting mills, and yielding 291 GO tons of bars, hoops, &c., blooms, tons, . Castings, machinery, stovo plates, Ste., Which, at the thou market value was esti tnuted thus.-- 201,600 tons wrought iron, at $BO per ton, 121 1 500 tons castings, at s7s.por ton, 30,000 tone bloom iron, at $5O par Scott, Johnston and Strohm. All those who are in favor of the election of Johnston and §trohm, and who are opposed to increaseing the Slate Debt, are requested to meet at the l'ublic House of George Moyer, (this Thursday evening : ), at 7i o'clock, for the purpose of adopting measures to form a Johnston and. Strohm Club. A general atten dance is' equested. • ..THE QUICLEBT • PASSACIE,"—In 1740, when the, celebrated Swedish naturalist, Kahn visited 'this country, he sailed from Gravesend the sth of August, and arrived In Philadelphia in little less than fort)', one dap:, having matte, ,as the cdp,, oi the shortest pas. sages . rster I:ltt”,vit !--Ea. . tp o ts than ten days is the time now beivieen England and the U.States,. In:ftvo years we con. fidcntly expect to see : the passage made in one The pressure in our Money market, now raging, is just what every man, sound in his views of political economy, predicted when the Tariff law of 1816 was enacted. But for, the famine in Europe in 1846, 1817 and part of 1848, this pressure would have reached us long before now. It has come now, because we buy more than we sell; . because we bring here an enorm ous unworn of foreign goods t‘cliiidi we ought to manufacture ourselves, and which must be paid for in stocks or coin. • Our Stocks are all sent to En rope, or held by foreign capitalists. Our Canals and Rail roads earn •money which is sent oil, in the shape of dividends, to pay interest on our debts. The amount of Dry Goods and Silks imported into this count!), last year, as shown by the Treasury reports, exceeded :F67,000,000, besides, Railroad ken, Bar Iron, Crockery 11_are- 7 -1 ron—Ware r -I n d es — arrd-8 ga amounting to morn than !i:6 ; 000,000, in addi. lion to the dry goods. By referen6e to the re:orns of Specie eon• rained in the Banks of New Volt, London and Paris, in 1848, we find that New Yolk po:. sewed, in rotted numbers, $7,900,000 : London, $73,143,000; 1'ari5,E , 40,589,000; while in ISSO New York possessed SlO.SOO.OOOi London, $(18,720,000; i'111,035,000. ‘Ve here see that the Specie-has inereased only $2,010,000 in New Yolk, while in Paris it_hatt_inereut , ed-near !! , -.05000,000, in the two years. The plain truth is, all the gold bich we have got from California has gone to Europe to pay for goods imported, which we ought to have made in our own country. We spent sioo,ooo,ffilo, first and last, in the es lean War, to acquire new Mexico and We have carried into the harbor of S;in Prifueisco 5500000.000 of properly. We have sufficed 50000 lives in California. We have lost the work and labor of 300,000 men tor three years it) California, and, as, the only recompense for all This, we havereceived about 80. to 90 millions of gold from the Pacif ic coast. And this has mostly gone to France, wider our blessed system of ad valorem du ties, made upon a foreign valuathin. A man in-Paris makes Brandy to sell: He can make _it for 50-cents-a—gallon—he- will:swear thalit is the market mice. Tne brandy pays a duty of 1(10 per cent. ad valorem; hence his brandy can be sold in Ne‘‘'Yink at one dollar per gal lon, freight added. This manufacturer now ( - pens a store or counting.room in New York, and sells his Brandy, and receives orders lor it at $1 per gallon. The American importer sends to Paris for his Brandy; he is now charged 60 cents a gal lon for the same article which the French man ufacturer invoices at 50 vents per gallon. Du ties are How paid by the American importer, 60 cents a gallon, or 100 per cent. In other words, by the Tariff Law of 1816, the Ameri can importer finds that his Brandy has cost him, laid dowel in New York, 1 , 120 per gallon, besides height and commissions, while the Frenchman sells his !handy, by the same Tat - - ill Law of 1846, at per gallon. %Vim dues business under such a Law as this? The Frenchman or American? These ale the blossiegs of Free Trade. All of our importing business is thrown into the hands of the foreignei ; all our money slides off to France, and in the n eon time money is now demanding twenty . to thirty per cent. usu iy for the best COlNtiterchd paper in Wall street. Free Trade says : buy all our necessa ries abroad ; let the foreign merchant do allow import trade. Let the Mattewan Company assign to pay its laborers; let our cotton factories break, let our hoe mines stop; let the furnaces go out : let our woolen mills cease to du businesS; let our .stocks ; let us run iti debt; let us ap point committees by tens and by fifties and by hundreds, to preserve the Viiion, lest some wild Yankee should look it; let us retail before the putters that iepeuled our Tariff Law of 1812 let us shout, tied save the Union according to the Castle Garden system : let us read hum. flies fioni "The Junius! of Commerce" on Free nada, mid tin the Blessings of Slavery as a fem lure of Republicanism. But it is no mallet whether our flour sells for *3 or 87 per barrel ; whether we buy twice as much as we sell whether our stocks are owned in America ci Europe; whether Bankruptcy is universal in 486,000 our country or not. A man of common sense will tell LIP, that the remedy for the difficulties which now beret us is to restore our Tariff to a home valuation; to give us specific duties on our imports; to set our artisans and mechanics and manufacturers iu operation ;to sell our manufactured goods abroad, and to supply our own market with the products of our own labor; to carry away our cotton, leather, iron, and woolen goods to foreign countries, alter they are made up into fabrics by our own people, instead of exporting the raw material. Let us no longer carry on a ruinous trade with France, at the tune of 822,. 000,000 to $30,000,000 a'year for imports, while we sell that nation no more than from 6,000,000 to $13 ; 000 ; 000 a yenr exports. . Let us stop buying sugar front Brazil and Cuba, while we have millions of acres of land in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Texas, waiting for cultivation with sugar. Let us eat our own wheat mid flour at the iron mines, capper mines,,and coal mines of the United States, instead_ot-sending-them-to Sweden,-Russia, Siberia and Staffordshire, to feed foreign laborers and workmen. Let Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio . and Ne'w 'Eng land, raise and manufacture our silk goods, in of Mauve, Spain and Italy.. •• Lei its hear , no more about the humbug of preserving the Union, which preservation means Pree Trade—Which Feseriation means buy everything and sell nothing.—Nctv York 30 ; 000 121,500 $23 ; 328,000 9,112,500 1,50.000 $3,4 ; 956,000 The Paulo But the people of California, it appears, not only have reasonable ',excuses fur these sWnlilla• ry and indiscriminate.executions, but their,situ ation. is such as imperatively to demand them. The Australian convicts .of England, the most. desperate and lawless vagabonds froth every na tion under the sun, hay& been • condentrating• their forces in Califurnla . aince the golden ills, coveries of 1 946. They hare • become formitia. Popular Law in California. The California news by the Prometheus has a strange and solemn interest. To thoie Who have traced ihn history of our first Pacific State through all the marvellous phases of its short existence, the present time assumes, says the "Tribune," the nature of a crisis, in which order and anarchy, violence and security, are struggling for the mastery. On the one hand, we have_ a sickening succession of- murders, robberies and incendiary fires; on the other, p rapidly increasing list 'of trials, condemnations and executions, perpetrated with relentless se verity by the summary action of the people. To those who are unacquainted with the dif• citifies wider which California has labored, ever since the adoption of her State Constitu• tioti, the latter alternative may appear even more terrible than the former; and a course diotated,-in filet, by filo most awful necessity which can be imposed ngon,a,ny...commintity_,.. may scorn little else than the lawless outbreak of unbridled popular passion. The Tribune has been somewhat sharply taken to task by some of its- cotemporaries for justifying the motives of the San Franciseo Committee of Vii gilance, and the members of the Committee themselves have been made the subject of a violent denunciation ; yet every successive-ar rival from California proves more clearly the jastice of what. Our coternpormy Ilrges it first_ asSerted—that dui lynch law now ie operation is not mob law, but the-result-of-a-universal sentirnent of Older, a conscientious belief that it cannot be obtained•by trusting to the regular authorities, and a sense of danger which im pelled thein to immediate action.. We have professed our inability to judge, at this distance,. ivhether Mher means might not have been em ployed to enforce the laws, avoiding a course which must be always hazardous to the future peace of society, even when- the- sternest-exi gency compels it. The disclosures which we have published, show clearly the reality of the dangers to which the Californians were expos ed; they show how nearly hopeless was the reliance to be placed on the ordinary operation of law. So far as the evidence goes, they prove, at least, that there have been sufficient reasons for the action of the Committee of Vi gilance, to exonerate :them. from the vinlent charges which have been made against them on this side of the Continent. While, therefore continues the Tribune, well do -not commend and cannot condemn the course pursued by the citizens of Sae Fran. cisco, Sacramento City and Stockton, we would not withhold the'strongest expression of abhor rence at the lynching of a Mexican woman in one of the remote mining localities. Every circumstance connected with this act invests it with rnost criminal characts7, and illustrates , the extreme peril of setting an example to a ; whole State, which May be followed -by corn munities wherein prejudice usurps the place of justice, and the names of Law and Order! are made a plea to gratify a brutal desire for revenge. lu taking the execution of the crim inal laws out of the hands of the authorities, necessary as it may have- been, the San Fran ciscans have established a dangerous prece dent, of which this case is one of the first fmits. We can oily hope that they will fulfil their design :of ridding the country of the swarms of thieves and, murderers that infest it, and restore the administration of law to its prop er channel, before they shall have given li cense for a similar tragedy. The New York herald also, m speaking of the execution of the decrees of the Vigilance Committee of five hundred, (not quite so cer emonMns as the old Venetian Council,) in the prompt punishment of criminals, and for the preservation of law and order says, "strange as it may sound in this longitude, these off hand trials and summary executions are, in good faith, designed for the preservation, or rather die restoration, of law and order. The criminal may be a murderer, a horse thief, a burglar, an incendiary, a common shoplifter, or a petty rogue, if the Vigilance Committee catch him, and con viet him, he is instantly carried out and bung up at the nearest conve nient tree, or beam, or rope and tackle. The crime, the pursuit ; the apprehension, the in dictment, the trial, the judgment, and the exe ' milieu may all take 'place in the same after noon. The whole business, in the case of Jenkins, was done in the course of an even ing, by moonlight; and in the case of Stuart, another Botany convict, tried also as a thief, the interval ketween the commencement of his trial and the hanging was about five hours. In the oaso of the Itlexican woman at Down ieville-,—who, for fatally stabbing a miner, was tried by: the popular process in such eases es tablished, and convicted of murder—the blood Of her victim was not yet cold, when the wo man, having been tried, convicted, and con demned, we's swinging lileless in the air. The Anglo Saxon institution of the rope, by a sort of trittena-gemotc, or commune consilitun, may be considered as pretty well established in California; but the rapidity with which it brings the criminal to his quietus is somewhat startling to a community accustomed to the slower formalities of law. This quickness of the penalty is even more astounding to our preconceiied.notions than the range of crimes Which come under the death penalty by the new California code. 11'e have no nice dis tinction between murder and manslaughter, nor between highway robbery and a pet t y I theft the same judgement of strangulation makes short walk of them all. Truly, thiSis a terrible state of things, and is deeply to be de dored ble, dangerous and criminally mischievous.. - Murders and robberies were multiplying. San Francisco was in the power of incendiaries, and her citizens and their property at the mercy of thieves and assassins. The existing laws were insufficient; they were so slow, and the means of confinement of offenders so insecure, that the chances were in favor of their escape. Such was the state of things - which led to the Vigi lance Committee, and its summary execution of the judgements under the new code It appears that this Vigilance Committee act as such with. out pay or emolument; but simr4 to maintain the supremacy of the rights of life and.property. There may be, then, no help for the existing state of things in California. It may be that the perative necessities of self preservation have driven the people to these extremities. We trust that law and order may soon be re-established, and assigned to some effective guardianship uir= der the regularly constituted tribunals of the - couirtre - have no doubt, whatever; that the active, honest business community of California, are laboring to this end, nor have we any doubt of their final success in attaining it. Protection to Home Industry. Rid Road Iron.—About 1,900 tons of railroad iron have arrived from Wales for the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad, and will soon be .shipped to Selma.—/Robik Herafil, July 12. To pay •for the above iron, $70,000 in specie had - to be carried to England. Every week we notice similar arrivals_ of iron _at all ahe-princi , pal ports in the country, and in connexion with each is a similar export of our specie. And all this time we have hundreds of furnaces, and lions of tons of iron in our mountains; we have a vast number of but halnetnployed Workmen, and a great scarcity of money! Why do we not keep our money, employ our own,people,and use our own iron? Why encourage foreign in preference to home labor. In the Bristiin Atlas, which has come in, since the above was written, we find the two following items: Ex•Governnr James C. Jones, of Tennessee, is about to visit England for thepurpose of pur chasing railroad iron for the Memphis and Uharleston railroad, of which he is president. The steamship Atlantic left New York yester day for Liverpool, with seventy passengers and 1500,000 in American gold. - - - A friend points out to us the following in the Albany Journal: Out of the two. hundred and ninetpeight fur -taces-in-Penn„VlVania, one hundred and forty. I'nine (just one hall) have stopped within the last eighteen months, and the workmen thrown out of employment! And yet every vessel that ar , rives in this country from England is loadrul with railroad iron. These 149 furnaces, when in full blast, em ploy, on an average, (directly and indirectly,) at least 50 men each. One.half of them would earn $2 a day; but, for the purpose of making a low estimate, we will suppose them all to earn, when employed, $1 a day ; the whole nurn. ber of men would be 7,450; at $1 a day, would earn, per week, $46,700. Aggregate annual earnings $2,428,400. There are at least an equal number of furna. ces out of blast in other States - ; and the aggre. gate sum lost to the iron worltera of the country, is not a dollar below five millions. These five millions, which, but for the present' Tariff policy would go into the pockets of Amer ican mechanics, is now sent from this country ut gold and silver, and' in State or corporation bonds., and paid to the tron•workers of England, Scotland, Russia; and Wales. [Lawrence (Mass.) Courier. The above indicates but a trifling amount of the extent to which the imporldtlott , of foreign iron has been carried. It is probable that more than 100,000 tons of railroad iron is annually requited in the Southern States alone, all of which will be imported direct. The interest has suffered more severely by the late conflicts of opinion than any other whatsoever. The pro tracted Congressional session of 1850, unprofit able, except that it adopted a compromise of opinion, was fatal to the hopes or the industrial' interests which relied upon legislative protection against the pauper labor and mammoth capital. fists of Europe. But the distraction and distress of that session, and the little short of civil war which followed it, has been fatal heretofore to all conference or cooperation. Northern Whigs have been infuriated against , each other. South. crn Whigs have been excited against the North, and unwilling to expose themselves to the re proud) of giving bounties to their sectional and political enemies. We may hope a better day, however, for the depressed interests of the man- ufacturing operatives when an universal acqui- essence in the present relations between the North and South shall allow some modification of the present tariff, moderate, staple, and so ad- justed as to secure the largest amount of -reve nue and the prutectinn of the great interests to which the Courier has adverted An Orchard Mat Pay.—Messrs. Morse & Houghton, of Cleveland, have 93 acres in one . orchard, 3i miles 'east of that city. They have 6500 peach trees of the best varieties ; 2000 ap. ple, 400 cherry, 750 quince, and about 7000 pear, apricot, nectarine, plum trees and grape vines. There will be several thousand baskets of peaches, and as they are rather scarce this year, speculators at Cincinnati and Buffalo have already offered ttiree dollars per bushel for the crop. This, we should think, will par—as it ought. , • Sauer Psssecie—The U. S. Mail Steamship Baltic, Capt. J. J. Comstock, reached the New York Battery at 20 minutes part 6 on Saturday morning From Liverpool, which she left at 4 P. M., ou Wednesday the 6th inst., making the pas_ sage in nine days, fourteen hours, twenty minu t ter apparent, or nine days, eighteen etree..quar ! . tars hours actual time,, ; from 'port to port. If counted frum,the time, she passed the Bar al LiverpOol, (5 P. M.) hec.passage is ; above. It is at all events the shortest passage ever made. IV - There are goo ,expresses, in Boston, nom? municating with 1600 cities and towns. It is estimated that they carry at least 16,000 pitch• gas daily.. ' - Terrific Balloon. Ascension.. The Parisian papers give the annexed account of a recent balloon ascension there. For intre. pidity and daring the fact is unparallelled : On Sunday last, M. and Mme. Poitevin made their second ascent in a carrigge and two hors., es. Leon Faucher having been induced to take back his prohibition. Immediately beneath the ballon was a small car, in which' an assistant took his place; from this hung the ropes and irons to which the carriage was made fast. The balloon rose, at the given signal, with its ponder ous load, with all the grace of a butterfly. Mme. Poitevin showered the spectators with roses, and M. Poitevin held the reins as unconcernedly as if he was driving a slow team out to Blooming. dale. But the most wonderful part of the :Tema.: cle was not down upon the bill, and was only visible to those who had fortified themselves with lorgnettes and telescopes. At the point 1 where the trtke_d_e_y_e_lost_the—i the magnifying glass revealed the following MEI The man in the car let down into the carriage, some 12 feet, below, a rope ladder; up this walk ed M. Poitevin, with a glibness and unconcern , edness positively frightful : Mme. Poitevin was just on the point of following suit, when the strongest magnifiers gave out in•their torn, and the spectators remained in doubt as to the snc• cesslull issue. A thunder storm comidg up, these intrepid aeronatits thought it best to get out of its way. by going above it. Thev therefore penetrated the muttering clouds that veiled the face of the sun, and in a few moments were high and dry. They descended an hour and a half afterwards, and found themselves about 45 miles from Paris. The next morning, the hotel where they had taken lodgings for the night was be. sieged by a crowd so dense, that the gend'ar.. merie had to be called upon to procure an exit for the party. All the way hack to the Capital it was a triumphant march. It was no use try, ing to travel incognito, having, as they did, a balloon to take care of, and one that you couldn't hide under a bushel. They reentered the city, safe and sound, after an absence of twenty four hours. Queen Victoria and Yankee Doodk—Her Ma jesty Queen Victoria and the Royal consorts have been extremely attentive to tfie United States portion of • the•lnditstrial Exhibition; soil pursue their walks through Yankee avenues, filled with works of art, greatly to the satisfaction of Brother Jonathan, who albeit they revere, lhe Republican modes, seem highly honored at the Royal condescension. A few dayaago,says the London correspondent of the New York Spirit of the Times, she was present, and Mr. Pirsson, of New York city, who has a large double grand piano in the American division, somehow or other forestalled his neighbors by getting wind of .her coming, and engaged four splendid per formers, and had them all waiting. As Her Ma jesty approached down the grand aisle, he gave a signal, and they struck up “Yankee Doodle," with variations, much to the Queen's admiration, for she leaned on the arm of the Prince, and waited until it was over. Pirsson, with shrewd discrimination, saw by the pretty smites that lit up Her Majesty's face, that she was pleased with the national idea, and immediately there was an encore. With the , promptness ofJulien, he jump. ed upon the platform, seized a cane, and using it fur a /w/on, recommenced the sAine "gout; old air," and his performers dashed through it, exc. outing the sparkling but difficult variations with a force and' elegance Mat' again enchained the Royal presence, and elicited' the cheers and viv,. as of the whole assembly: _ Distressing Aceident.—.At Chainville, Wm_ gomery county, on Saturday evening last,Thom. as Clark was killed from the effects of carbonic acid gas in a well. Subsequent to the unfortun ate man being overcome by the foul air, efforts were made to hoist the body by grappling irons, says• ffie Norristown Herald, and several times they succeeded so far as to get it within ten or twelve feet of the surface, hut the clothes giving way it would fall downward, thumping and strik ing, and chilling the blood in the veins of the hundreds who hail assembled at the scene of the disaster. Experiments were then resorted to drive the foul air from the well, and shavings and straw were burned in a large bucket, which was lowered into it. A large cedar bush was then procured, which was worked up and down in it by means of a rope, and by this means the foul nir was so far expelled theta lighted candle would bureit - Jhe bottom of the well. A man then descended, and having fastened a rope round the feet of Clark, he was hoisted to the surface. His clothes were found to be entirely stripped from his body, his . neck broken,' his head very badly fractured and his body lace• rated A Southerner al the NorM.—The Savannah Re publican publishes a letter from a Democratic Senator of the last' Georgia• Legislature, now at Boston,from which we gleanthe followingeitract i °One thing I have ascertained to be a certain ty, that we are making more fuss at home on the subject of slavery than the most bitter fan atics are at the North. After travelling through all the Nordiern and Eastern States, I have seen but one Abolitionist, that I could put my finger upon, and even he was willing to stand by the Compromise. lam a tnore steadfast Union man than ever, and hope to return to,my native State in time to give my vote fur Cobb, Hopkins and the Union." Bigham Young.—The President oldie Morinon settlement in Utah To ritory, has made a discov ery of an ancient city in ruins, in the South counties, similar to the discoveries of Col. Don_ iphan during the Mexican war. In the ruins he found immense quantities of broken burnt earth en ware, painted according to their time ;.arrow points, adobes, burnt brick, a crucible, and every color of flint atones. The ruins were about two miles long, arid une wide ; one of them appeared to be the remains of a temple, and covered'alout an acre of ground. In digging. into one of, the ruins, pottery, abbes, a lire place, and the burn embers 'of the fire were found. riff During the week ending the 7th instant, 9208 emigrants arrived at New York from En. rope. • A..baspantte G In some sections of - the south western parts of our country, fit-de are gangs of lawless depreda tors who indulge in the most outrageous exces 3ess, and by the desperation of fheif conduct seem to set justice at defiance. It was the.exiit ence of such gene which ot'ig,inated the body called "Regulators" in Mlssfssfeiti7 some years -since, and similar "Committees of safecy," under other names, in various others of the new States. If . was their custom;'Where the arm of the raw was not long enough to reach, or strong enough to punish offenders, to interpose their powers, and inflict summary vengeance upon culprife. either by the cord or rifle. That the system was in itself a bad one, and In many instances went far beyond just bounds, is a matter ofrnotoriety.• but, it must be conceded' at the same time, that hail not some barrier of the kind been raised against the commission of outrageous crimes, the - region - referred - trrwoutd unquestionably be much" farther behind' a state of civilization at the pt*.• . sent day, than it now is. We find in a Sof:them' paper an article detailing the discO'veey and ar.„ . rest of a gang of villians, itlio hate carried on, for years past, a regular systein of kidnapping slaves, horse stealing, forgery, thieving and mur der. Their &hrtquarters were on. Wolfe's Is_ land, Kentucky, deaf the corner of the stafes.of f Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois and Missouri.— The band` was discovered not long since,ihrough the failure of an attempt, by one of the ringlead - ' ers,Ao_muriler a- Dr.-Bwaynei-who-had-reCover-- ed a judgement for some tbn thousand dollars against Newton E WHO!, another prominent member of the gang'. In May, IfitiO, Wright gave Abe Thombs, a man of desperate character, one hundred and fifty dolfaes id kill TV S. Au . - cordinglv, Thomas, pretending to wish the Dr . to visit his sick father,.enticed him from home. and attempted to murder him ; but the Dr., after" being shot in the arm, gave the alarm, and the. desperado escaped. Notwithstanding every ex. ertion was made to ferret out the villian, so deep ly was the plot laid, that he was only acciden. tally discoverd a short time ago; and his discov ery led to the disclosure of the whole affairs of the company. They seem to have made a regu-• lar business of stealing slaves in one State, run ning. them off to another, and there selling thetn.• Another of their modes of speculating in negroes seems-to-have been as follows: Some of their emi.:saries would make a tour through same of the neighboring slave States, enticing slaves to run away and providing their victims with• means to get into southern Illinois.' Arrived . there, the fugitives were arrested by others of the' gang on the lookout for the runaways ; fled netts claims to them were then set up and main tained by false testimony and perjury. The slaves were then taken into one of the slave' States and sold. They carried on another spe• cies of swindling upon an extensive scale, by' means of fictitious claim's against estates of de. TEM ceabed persons. Having forged notes for Inrge amounts against such estates, they would prove the validity of the claim by some of their gang. In some cases thcy had gone so far as to take depositions ; and were provided with coon!) , seals, and every thing requisite to give their proofs the semblance of legality Medical Use of Sall.—Being once on board a steamboat on the Delaware, on a eohl, unpleas- ant day, the passengers were nearly all crowd_ ed into the cabin. Suddenly one of them fell down in an epileptic fit s attended with strong spasmodic action of the muscles. A gentleman present immediately called to one of the servants to bring him some salt, with which he cranitted the sufferer's mouth until we feared he winild smother him. Almost insmaily the muscular action ceased, consciousness returned, and the poor fellow manifested as much haste In get the salt out of his mouth as the other did in getting it in. We thought the incident worth renietn. bering, and it is now brought to mind by a para• graph Which We find in the New York Courier, on the medical use Of s'alti, which we knob from experience to he true. That paper says, "in many cases of disordered stomach, a teaspoon.. ful of salt is a certain cure. in the violent ruin termed colic, a teaspoonfal of salt, dissolved in a pint of cold water, taken as soon as possible, with a short nap immediately after, is one of the most effectual and speedy remedies known.-.. The same will relievesa person who may seem, almost dead from receiving a heavy fall." Heavy Failure.—A large dry goods firm, on Baltimore street, Baltimore, stopped payment on Saturday, with liabilies of about $300,000, over $lOO,OOO of which are caused by losses in Cali• Imoia shipments. There i a panic among the Baltimore merchants, and several other large houses are wavering, says the uCliriper," caused by California liisses and endorsements. The Richest Man in 16wa a Miner.--TlMmus Seven, n persevaring industrious lead miner, who has pursuzil his vocation with great patience and perseverance, and amid great discourage• ments and difficulties, has at last reached the : point.of his hopes,- the I icheat lead mines in the Union, which makes him the richest ;man in lowa. The, disciveig was made about; six months since, but not till of late ;fully develop. ed. It is a cavern, full one hundred and• fifty feet below the surface, and its Walls, and floor, and roof, almost the : pure ore.— Chicago Adv. New Ballast for Ships.—lft often happens that a vessel has to sail from one port fo another with out a cargo, and in that case the vessel Tree Jo be ballasted with something or other, whether it ge old iron or gravel. A method has been intro. duced into one of the New Castle v'essels,at the suggestion of n Dr. White, which appears to be an excellent plan. The system is a tier of water proof bags along 'each side of the keel, insjde, and one or tio•forWard'and'aft. These , Prit 51. led'with water, ttrld'whlcli can be easily pumped out again. There cad be vet'y little lost oflime either in receiling'or diicharging such ballast, and there Woo experise in getting as mrictibf it as is retinir : etlifor'etery.vessel carries it tielow het bottont "• 1 ' • • Time from Cid:forma to Bogland.—Tl, news received from California, on Wednesday, by the. Prometheus, was carried out in the Niagara, ' and will reach - Liverpotd, therefore 41 about ,thiternine etgeftp•frotn.aan,Frttaqne..
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