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    The -11)entte.watch.
Ibe Tree city.of Frankfort-orpehe
_
win, the bodies of the dead are not k ept ‘
'for several days, se with us, in the house of
mourning, but are promptly removed to a
public cemetery. In order to guard, how
ever, against premature interment, the re
mains are always retained above ground
until tbe certain signs of decomposition are
vowel, and besides this precaution, in
case of suspended animation, the fingers
ofthe corpse are fastened to a bell rope
communicating with an alarum, so that on
the slightest movement the body rings for
the help which it requires fur its resusci
tation—a watcher and a medical attendant
being constantly at larnd.
Now the duty of answering the life-bell
had devolved on one Peter Klopp—no
very onerous service, considering that for
thirty years he had been the official
''Death- Watch," the metalic tongue of the
alarum had never sounded a single note.—
The defunct Frankfurters committed to
his charge had remained one and all, man,
woman, and child, as ,silent as so many
stocks and atones. Not that in every case
the vital principal was necessarily extinct;
in some bodies out oleo many thousands;
it doubtless lingered like a spark among
the ashes--but declined, by national
phlegm, to any active assertion of its . ex.
istence.
Fot a • Grerman,indeed there is .a charm
its a certainsvaporous dreaner'state, be.
tween life and death,beisveen sleeping and
waking, which_a- - transcendental spirit
would not willingly dissolve. But be that
as -might, the deceased Frankfurters all
lay in their turn in the Corpse Chamber,
spa
passiVe as statues in marble. Not a
Amb stirred—nut a muscle twitched—not
i \finger contracted; and consequently not
a note sounded to star tle the ear or to try
the nerves of Peter Klopp.
Jo fine, he became a confirmed skeptic
as to such- resuscitations. The bell bad
never runs, and he felt certain that it nev
er would ring, unless from the vibrations of
aa earthquake. No. no—death and the
doctors did their work too surely for their
patients to relapse into life in any such
manner. And truly it is curious to observe
that, in proportion to the: multiplication
of physicians, and the progress of medical
science, the number of revivals has de.
creased. The inanimate no longer rally
ad they used to do some centuries since—
when Aloys Schneider was restored by the
joking of his coffin, and Margaret Schos
ning, - leaving her death bed, walked down
to sapper in her last linen.
So reasoned Peter Klopp, who, long
past the first remorse and fancies of his
noviciate, had come, by dint of custom, to
look at the bodies in his care but as so ma
ny logs or bales of goods committed to the
temporary care of a Plutunian warehouse
or lethean wranger. But he was doomed
to he signally undeceived.
In the month of September, just after
the autumnal Frankfort Fair, Martin Grab,
a middle-aged man of plethoric habit after
dining heartily on soup, sourkrout, veal
cutlets, with bullace sauce; carp in wines
jelly, blood sausages, wild boar brawn,
herring, salad, sweet pudding, Leipsic
larks, sour cream with cinnamon, and a
bowlsfull of plums by way of dessert, our].
denly• dropped down insensible. As he
was pronounced to be dead by the dactor,
the body was conveyed, as usual, within
twelve hours, to the public cemetery,
where, being deposited in the Corpse
chamber, the rest was left to the care and
vigilance of the death-watch, Peter Klopp.
Accordingly, havirg takena last look
at his old acquaintance, he carefully twisted
the rive of the life bell around the dead,.,
man's fingers, and then retired into his own
sanctorurn, lighted his pipe, and was soon
in that foggy paradise which a true Ger
man would not exchange for all the odor
of - Araby the Blessed, and the society of
the Howie.
It was past midnight, and in the corps
chamber, hung with dismal black, the life
lessiiody of Martin Grab was lying in its
shroud, as still as a marble statue. At its
head-the solitary funeral lamp burned with-
out a flicker—there was no breath of air
to 'disturb the flame, or to curve the long
spider-line that hung perpendicularly from
the ceiling. The silence was intense.—
You might have heard the ghost of a whir.
per. Or the whisper of a ghost, if there had
been one present to utter it; but • the very
air/ seemed dead and stagnant—not elastic
enough for a sigh even from a spirit.
Li the adjoining room repos..d the death
watch, Peter Klopp. He had thrown him
self in his clothes on his little bed, with his
pipe still between his lips. Here, too, all
was silent and still. Not a cricket chirp.
ed, nor a mouse stirred, nor a draught of
air. The light smoke of the pipe mounted
directly epward, and mingled with its
cloud-like shadows on the ceiling. , The
eye would have detected the flitting of a
moth; the car would have caught the rust•
ling of a stray; but all was quiet ae the
grave—still as the steadfast tombs; when
suddenly the shrill, hurried tone of the
alarm. , bell—the very same sound that, for
fifteen lung years, be had utterly ceased to
expeut--abruptly startled the r senses of Pe
ter Klopp.
fit an instant he was out of bid and on
his, feet, but without the power of further
progress.. His terror was extreme. To
be waked suddenly in a fright is sufficiently
dreadful; but to be aroused in the dead of
the night by to dreadful a summons—by,a
callow, it.were, from beyond the grave, to
help the invisible spirit—perhaps a de
mon's—to reanimate a cold, clammy
corpse—what wonder that the poor ,wretch
stood shuddering, choking, gasping for
breath, with his hair standing upright on
his head, his eyes startiui out of their or.
bits, - his teeth chattering , his bands clutch
ed, his limbs paralyzed, and a coil sweat
oozing oit from every pore of his bedyi—
in the first spasm of horror his j tws had
collapsed with such force that be had bitten
though the stem of his pipe, the bowl and
stalk httprite the floor, while the mutt
pierep.esl into , hit throat, soil !agitated
him Nith'-tiew etmiel,ions. hi the_very
criAs of his struggles, a loud crash resouitd
el from the curre-chamher—then came a
rant I'g noise :Is ul lutiso boirds, followed
by a slifl , .ll cry—then a strange. unearthly
sh ou t, which the death-watch answered
with as unnatural a shriek, and instantly
fell headlong on his face on the fluor!.
Poor fellow! Why, it was enough to
kill him.
It did. The noise alarmed the resident
doctor' and the military patrol, who rushed
into the building, and lot a strange and hor
rid eight! There lay on the ground the
unfortunate death-watch, stiff and insensi
ble, while the late corpse, in its grave
clothes, bent over him, eagerly adrninis.
tering the stimulants, and applying the res,
torativea that had been prepared against his
own revival. But all human help in vain .
Peter Klopp was uo more; whereas Mar
tin Grab was alive, and actually stepping
into the dead man's shoes, became, and is
at this day, the official death.watch at
Frank fort-on‘the-Main.
7,
_'he Sandwich Islands.—The envoys of
King Kamehameha, now at Paris, lost no
time in making their• formal protest against
the enforced cession to Great Britain. It
appears in the Paris journals, as fellows:
"We read in a journal the news of a
fact which appears to us inexplicable, if it
be true.
"The islands of Hawaii, (Sandwich,) are
said to have been occupied by British for
ces in the name of Her Majesty the Queen
of Great Britain.
"These islands are civilized, Christian,
and independent.
"Their independence was acknowledged
by the United States of America on the
19th of December, 1842, and by the Bri.
tish Government on the lstiof Aptil last.
"We have a positive promise of their
recognition from the French Government.
"How after that could poseession have
been taken of the islands of Hawaii?
"Under all circumstances, and until more
ample information, we solemnly protest
against this occupation, as contrary to the
rights of nations and the sanctity of the
bonds which unite nations between them
selves, whatever may be their relative pow
er.
"We hand to the Revue de 1' °rive!, the
record of the Oriental Society, of which we
are members, the extracts of the original
acts of our recognition, which are in nur
possession. These documents shall be
published. "TIMOTEO HAALILIO,
"WILLIAM RICHARDS.
Envoys of his Majesty King KamThameha
111. to his Maj. King o' the French." '
"Paris, is! June, 1843."
Ultraism.—Speaking of the fanaticism
that pervades some of the so called reform•
ere of the day, the New York Observer
says: 'Ultraism is a lying spirit, and a
more destructive spirit than any of those
that by the Saviour's indulgence were.. al
lowed to enter the Gaderene swine. Like
them it is headstrong, obstinate and blind;
reckless of consequences, rushing down
steep places and into the sea, rather than
fail of having its own way. This is the
fate of Ultraism. Its aim is 'rule or ruin,'
and as it can neverreign where God reigns,
it fights while it can, and then dies by sut.
ride•
This Bowling Green Fountain in the city of
New York has just been finished, at the ecpense
of a number of private citizens residing near that
spot. It is thus described in one of the papers:—
" The Bowling Green Fountain.—We must con
fess that w e were unaffectedly delighted with this
beautiful fountain, during the display yesterday
evening. The design is a natural, yet, in these
days of finical notions in such matters, a bold con
.crption, on the port of its very talented and Inge•
nious author, Mr. Renwick. It presents such a
pile of rocks as might casually be found upon a
deirable spot in the country, selected by a man of
taste, for the picturesque beauty of the natural
scenery upon and around it, as his resident , !.—
When in play, the jet (in the centre of this pile)is
thrown up some eighty feet or more, and, descend-
ing, fills a reservoir on the summit, which over
flaws the rucks, producing the effect of a natural
cascade, ofevery variety of form and aspect. On
the faur sides of the pile are additional clusters of
jets, which add much to the effect, when in full
play. For the evening, there are gas fixtures pro
vided, illuminating the basin, and exposing the
beauty of the falls most picturesquely. The moons
light effect will be very fine
As the broad column of water descends from its
high elevation, the setting sun's rays falling upon
it produces zountless rainbows, changing , their
form and positibn with every change in the point
of view taken by the spectator; and, altogether,
this must be conceded, by all persons of taste, we
think, to be by far the most beautiful fountain as
yet opened in the city .
It plays 15 minutes in every hour through the
day and evening.
OFFICIAL
Tll Li: ISURY N OTEB.OITTSTANDING:
July 1, 1843.
Amount na per (he records of (hie office, viz;
Of the issues prior to the 31st
August, 1842, $8,559,145 17
Of note. issued under the act
of 31st August, 1842;
Deduct cancelled notes in the
hands of the accounting of.
ficers,
TREAsURY DEPARTMENT,
Regis' tr's Office, July 1, 1843
.
Latest from Maracaibo.—The brig Emma, at
New York cn Thursday s brings intelligence from
Maracaibo to the 16th ult. A report reached
Maracaibo on the 6th ult. from Carthagena s that
an insurrection had occurred near the latter place,
and that Berard men had been wounded in a
skirmish between the troops and insurgents, who
were said to be 3000 strong, and inereasing in
numbers. The heavy Lazes imposed by the gors
ernment had caused great discontent, and this
was supposed to be the origin aof the outbreak.—
Businesi at Maracaibo was dull. The place wy
healthy./ There were no U. S. ships of war in
port. --.- t
A yonfig lad, named Joseph W. 411,bbons, died
in Baltimore, on Saturday, of lock-taw, produced
by running a splinter of wood into his foot.
3,008,940 56
811,56805 73
19,840 00
*1 1,548.245 73
T. L. SMIT7.I,
Register of tha Treasury
FOB cpuswane,
JAMES BUCIIANAN,
io th e dectskle of a National Con.,entkm.
DAILY 111ORNINGT)OS
CMS. PHILLIPS P/11. H. SMITH, EDITORS OM PROPRIETORS
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1843
Grand Re-anion of the Whigs and Blue
Noses.
After all the terrible encounters which
have taken place this summer between slip
whigs and blue-noses; after an expendi.
cure of ink enough to float the Iron Steam
Ship, and of wind enough to raise a hur
ricane, it is now whispered that a negotia.
Lion is on feat which is to end in the for.
mation of a single ticket out of parts of
atone now in the field.
The plan of c - nnpromise,we u Wet-stand,
that both the whig and blue nose con.
ventions, which met to nominate, are to
assemble in joint meeting, and to cull from
both tickets, their choicest gems. The
whigs, it is said, !Live agreed to surren•
der Breckenridge and leave the course for
Craig; in return for which, the blue noses
have evinced a willingness to drop Capt.
Hays, and go in for Mr, Morrison. The
a rangemeat is a very pretty one, to be
sure, and to secure Capt. Hays's assent to
it, we have no doubt that they will prom
ise him the next nomination for Sheriff.
In regard to till Prothonotary, nobJly
cares much for llorner, and we presume
Mr Jaynes will be the candidate.
The Assembly ticket will give some
trou'Ae. But the probability is they will
leave off Huliz because he voted to refund
Jackson's fia., and drop John J. Muse who
is now on the blue nose ticket. Robert Hi
! lands and Fauntly Muse, who are now on
the whig ticket, will also probably be left
off, and then the new ticket will stand;
Robt, S. Cassat, Francis C. Flanegin, John
Riddle, and Jas. E. Sheridan. The blue
node candidate for Commissioner, Robert
Wallace, will probably be retained, and the
whig candidate for Treasurer, J. W. Light
, ner, will also be kevt on the track. For
the rest, it makes no difference.
Perhaps we are not right in all of our
conjectures, but we incline to think that a
!ticket will be made, ternewhat after the
fashion we have above sketched. And
what will be the effect of this magnificent
consolidation on the Democratic party?
' may be asked by some. We answer that
no arrangement the federalists can make,
can at all jeopard the success of the en—
tire democratic ticket. They may man.
euvre as they please, but they have lost
their power, a•id no political sherne, how.
ever adroitly devised, can regain it for
them.
The Fall Election
It will be seen by referring to the advern
tising columns of our dally and weekly pa
pers, that there is a goodly array of names
offered to the democratic Convection, from
which the Delegates will choose a tick, t to
be supported at the October election.
More anxiety is felt in regard to the coun
:y offices, than for any of the other nomi.
nations. All who have announced them
selves as candidates are good and true men,
and whoever may be the favorites of the
Convention, they will, we feel assured, be
warmly supported by the people. In their
political relations with the party, they are
highly e:-teemed, and known to be compe
tent for the offices to which they aspire.—
In urging their claims with the voters, we
hope they may not be guilty of any acts of
injustice towards their democratic compet.
itura, or sully their fair names by resorting
to means that have ever been reprobated by
honorable men and honest democrats,
,It
is the custom of our federal opponents to
attempt to cut each other's throats—politk
cally—in their scramble for the nomina
tions,but it has ever been repudiated by the
democrats., We trust it always will be so,
and that the man who attempts to add to
his own chances of success, by putting in
circulation malicious statements against
those who are his competitors, or who will
employ others to do so for him, may receive
such a rebuke from the people, as his vile
conduct merits. Such a course is charac.
teristic of the Whigs and blue noses, but we
trust will meet with no countenance from
any portion of the democratic party_
Max Bohrer's Concert on Tuesday
evening was attended by the largest au
dience we ever saw in Concert Hall, and
all appeared to be much pleased with the
performance. This crowded house was
the result of a judicious resolution to lower tun reservoir
the price of admission from one dollar to I A young man took a walk on Monday in Phil.
fifty cents. I adclphia with nothing on but a cap and pantaloons.
and for so doing got himself into prison for
The Gazette of Tuesday makes the thirty days. Re had converted himself into a fur
' nace by drinking rum, and took this method of
following pertinent remark :
I cooling off.
.If antimasonry was ever worth any ;
thing, it as valuable now as ever.' i There have been very heavy rains at New
-,
loans. On the 26th tilt, the river was nearly at
That is a fact, gentlemen, and we note .
it as something remarkable in the columns high water mark, and slowly rising.
of the Gazette. Antimasunry is worth
Thomas VIP Dorr, it is undereteod, is about to
I
just as much now as ever it was, but the . publish an address to the people of Rhode Is
reason of its present depreciation is the fact j land•
that its dupes have just found out its reit 1 The Very Last.—Daring a storm at f%harles
value, which is considerably below that of, ton on the 2d lastest, an alligator dropped (root
the most worthless shinplasters, 1 the clouds.
ice First Page.
Temper anae in New Orkans.— We learn, sa't NaNtau—Tbe pine apple crop issai
from the Crescent City that the Temper. to be more abundant than.it has been fur
ance cause is progressing at a fine rate in several years.
N. (Means. 'Tour of our I.tost promisingl A country srulpt o r was or :ered to en
young lawyer s have signed the teetotal ; grave on tombstone the following words—
pledge, and a pair of the most prominent i "A virtuous woman is a cro we to her hus„
knights of the quill in this city have come !band." The .tone howevet, being small,
to the same conclusion. One of these ite l he engraved on it.—"A virtuoub woman is
the handsomest man in town, and 'time wss' worth 5s to her husband.
as father Bacon's brass head io reported to Syrup:—Corn.stalk Syrup, equal to the
have said, when this political A,Ppollo best molasses, has been manufactured in
could carry more good brandy under his Georgia.
vest, than any other we wot: o f. On Hats for ladies are now manufactured
Tuesday evening be went to the Temper- out of Kentucky hemp.
ance meeting, and when be came home, in-
Mr Cushing is confined to his home by
stead of going to the sideboard to that de- severe indisposition.
canter, he sat himself down by a little ma_ severe
efficacy of the alleged cure for Hydro
hogany table, took a glass office water, and phobia which has been going the rounds for some
wrote a long article on the virtues of total wetks, and which consists in opening the pustules
abstinence. If he could only persuade that are said always to appear under the tongue, '
every individual in his party to do the'earne, 1 • now denied. o
their candidate world cortainly be success' pi r ive r n h d e er L s ,
nd
It Despatch
says old Parr i i
atta cking died
' a B
ful at the coming election."
will, and defies any one to produce the original re
_:__
►3'Maxico.—The schooner Virginia,
at New Orleans from Tampico. brings
8119,564 in specie. It would seem that
a new revolution was on the eve of break.
mg out in Mexico, and some translations
of papers brought by the Virginia Autoi
nette, go to confirm the information. An
official communication from General Nich
olas Bravo announces the rising of 3,000
Indians in the neighborhood of Chiapa,
and 1,000 in that of Tlapa. They hare
declared in favor of Federaliim,and tbrest
en to capture Chilapa. Gen. Bravo so
licits the assistance of the Government,
and declares that, without speedy succor•
he will find it impossible to witEstand the
rebels.
Morality of the Law.—The Detroit Ad
verriser says—lt has been related to ns as
a fact, that a man from the country, after
listening to the argurcent of tha U. S. Dis.
trict Attorney before Judge Murell, in the
Dalton case, and learning therefrom that
it was no crime to steal the city warrants,
and shin-plasters, proceeded to the State
Treasurer's office, paid taxes in Auditor's
warrants and took a receipt therefor, and
then he stole the warrants which he had
just paid to the Treasurer, and sold them
to a broker in this city.
- , eorge .yati—a Drunkard and his Wife
Geo liyati, wh., fifteen years aga wit+ the very
soul of the select circles is Baton, and the best
col l hedian in the United Stites, is nuw a common
soldier in Milne. He is the author of the "Mel
low Horn" and many other popular sung.. diy•
att married a beautiful girl, wht in a few years
was obliged to descend from the luxury of riches,
and take in washing fora subsistance. Eder ra
ther livid in one of the in Set split lid mansions in
Boston, and nine y; are ago she was dragging out
a miserable existence in a ce'lar in Ne v York.
At last she was driven mad and died in the alms
house. Reader, w you know the secret of
this tale of misery George kelt, the ..ducated,
fav ,, r..winning man of genius was a drunkard !
When lie tellects .epon his past Ile, as he paces
his lonely round at night, what mast be his
thought.? Poy that h., could not teach-others to
'eel as hi. feel. !hem.
the
Messrs Editors:—Your Daily For
Post, Post.
and
Weekly Mercury and Manufacturer, being
the main leading organs of the Democratic
party, in the county of Allegheny, and as
there are several candidates (all good and
trustworthy gentlemen) for thy - Tarl - criar
public offices of the county—such as Sher
iff, County Commi ,. sioners, &e., and no
doubt fur Congress, and our State Legis.
A Lobeer Story. —We have A.lii stories, snake I lature. Would it not be well to suggest
stories, bear stories, rill sorts of stories, and now to the primary meetings in the various
for a change, suppose we have a lobster story:—
wards of the sister Cities, Boroughs and
they.
A man had just received a large lot of lobsters , I county , that when
f - esh and lively, when a bay stood looking at th Township s of the
! meet to elect delegates to a county con
critters accumoanied by his dog. ' vention, the propriety of first, after the
'Suppose you put your dog's tail between the 1 meeting is organized, and before oin
lobster's claw,' said the man; 'agreed,' says the;i he election of Delegates, the arrang
-1
g g
nto t
b The peg was extracted from the claw, and • ,
the dog's tail inserted. Away went the dog off Ins the names of the different Candidates
home, howling di the scrieeze his tail got from the , for each office, setting each apart, and al.
lobster. . tif, , ,istie your dog back, you young so those recommended for Assembly, &c.,
scam., you,' e• les thl man. • Whistle your lobster , and then follow the usual custom of scratch •
back,' cries the boy, an 1 ab•qualutatad. The '
boy made a lobster sup t ier that nigiit , gin or whatever mode may seem best to
! them, to ascertain what candidate may be
We don't know who did this. i
I the most popular in the ward or township,
• 1
6[7-The newspaper about to be started by la- ,so that the delegates when elected shall
dies, and edited by Ladies, and read by ladies in 'proceed proceed to do their duty knowingly,
New York, is to be called 'The Fair One.' Mrs.'i represent their constituents in the enliven-
Thomas J. Farnham, Mrs. Ann S. Stephens,Mrs, ' tion as far as may be in their power.
Caroline M. Sawyer, Miss Sedgwick, Miss E Rob I
bins, Mary Clovers and Antonia de)(lmmo, it is J. G. and
stated, will be regular contributors,and one of the 1 REMEDY FOR CHINESE LYING.—A Chi
number the permanent editor (or tress). . nese silversmith, to whom the English
Diffidence :Jrdiffident genius going to a' gave the name Tom Work well, brought
Clergyman to request hint to publish the bans of ; home some silvtr spoons as he called them,
matrimony, found him at work, mowing alone in Ito a captain ofa ship who had ordered
the middle of a ten acre lot, and asked him to step them. The gentlemen, suspecting Iris
aside a moment, as ho had something to Say 0 1 friend Tom had played him a trick corn..
his private ear ! ) mon in China of adding no small quantity
of tutenague to the usual proportion of
alloy, taxed him with the cheat, which he
denied with the strongest asseverations of
his innocence. The captain then told him
he brought with him a famous lie water,
which placed on the tongue of a person
suspected of telling an untruth, if the case
were so, burned a hole; if otherwise, the
party escape with and unhurt. Tom,
thinking it a trick, readily consented, upon
which, with much form, a single drop of
aquafortis was put upon his tongue. He
instantly jumped about the room in violent
pain,crying out: 'Very true,halftutenague,
half tutenague,' in hcpes that confessing
the truth might stop the progress of the lie
water, which from the pain he felt he
_lath,
some reasons to think posnatised - thi goal i
ties ascribed to it. several Europeans who
were present,and who had bought several
pieces of plate from him, now put Similar
qUestions to him, and he confrere(' it had
been his uniform and constant practice to
_add a very large quantity of tutenague to
every article made at his shop, for which
during the continuance of pain, he prom•
ised ample re paration.—Chelenham Chron.
icle.
MUSICAL. A R I THMET 1 0.--Ifmusic be tho rood o r
love, and if slcizh-belles are musical, ilow many
Flcigh•rides will it take to wiu a girl's affections?
Duet —A duel took place on the 28th ultimo
near Savannah, Geo. between Lieut
ley, U. S. N . and a Dr Schleigh. The parties
crossed over to the Carolina side of the river, and
at the first fire both were wounded,
Tho amount of Treasury notes outstanding on
the Ist inst. was $11,548,245 73.
Mad dora have made their pppearanca in Ro•
chaster, Albany and flartihrd.
The N. Y. True Sun denies that the bodies of
three men were round in the bottom of the Cro-
11.7 The body of a fisherman was found on the
boach near Mobile, on the 24th alt.,covered with
wounds. Three Spaniards, also fishermen, who
were supposed to be the murderers have been ar -
rested.
na'The N Y Herald says that the deaf and
dumb children at the Alms-houve gave the Mayor
nine cheer,.
The grand jury of Clarion county, Mo., have
presented the ja;l of that county, for being out of
Dirt is stated ii a leder from Fall River that
four lives were lost during the great fire there.
At Vicksburg, the Lovees along the coast are
giving way in various places. Some of the larg,.
est plantations are under water.
Cape May has only about 400 visitors just sow.
The number will be double very soon.
One thousand six hundred and ninety-three
passengers arrived at the New York quaratnine, '
on the 4th inst. from foreign ports.
Easy lo Take. —To a quart df cream, add the
white of three eggs, well beaten, a li:tle sweet
wine, and loaf sugar to taste, whip it to a froth,
and serve in a dish. This is called Snow Cream.
The learned blacksmith, Elihu Burin., is 'to at
tend a convention of the Mechanics' of Maine, to
be held at Girdiner on the 9th of August:
The Abolitionists of Beaver county have floral
noted Dr. Lemoyne, of Washington, as their can
didate f,r Congress.
Du Soil() considers those Boston Str•wberrie°
which Cul. Greene says he wascompelled to split
with an axe,) as 'first chop.'
Tho-nas IVare, Eiq., or Baltimore, ha■ been
ap r ointed by the President, a Purser in the Na
ry.
The Congressional election, under the new ap.
portionment bill, came off last Monday.
Net Middleswort:i has been nominated by the
anti-masons of Union county for Governor.
Miss Sedgwick is to be principal editress of the
Ladies' daily newspaper which is about to be es
tablish -d in New York
The fire in the Sandwich woods has been
checked, after having extended twelve
wiles in length, and three in breadth
The Erie.— T hORe 1 ogaged in Maid;
the wreck of the Erie, (sunk in Lake Erie)
are successfully t mployed with their di.
ving-bell in getting up the machinery. So
accurately were they en•Wleil to designate
the place by means of the compass andlry
the range, that, though the buoys were all
moved by the ice last spring, they replaced
them, and on the first time of letting dowti
the bell it struck upon the boat. The util
ity of the compass with which the discos%
ery was made is thus fairly tested. We
understand it can be successfully used in
discovering beds of ore in mines, and it ia
so susceptible to metallic influence, that
Captain Chapin, its inventor, thinks be will
be able to discover the iron safe which
was on the boat.—Fredonia Cemor.
Commerriat Netus.
BE CAREFUL —The accounts we daily re
ceive of the a'aundance of money in the Easters
cities, and of the consequent increased activity in
monetary and commercial affairs, while they evi. •
deuce a return to prosperity, which most be grit.
ifying to all, furnish matter for serious reßection,
and the exercise of abundant caution. We are
just nuw recovering from the disastrcua comm.
quences of over.tradit.g and over banking, and it
behooves us to exercise the utmost circumapectims
that we fall not again into the same mane of
prudence and extravagance. For some time, the
balance of trade has been in our favor, and the
precious metals have been flowing in upon us by
every foreign arrival, in return for our prodoctit,
This money is now mostly in the eastern cities,
seeking inveatmont, and its possession furnishes
a temptation not easily resisted,and the statements
given of the transactions in the stock market,
would seem to indicate that the stockjobbers and
capitalists have been taught but little wisdom by
the recent prostration and revulsion that the comes
try has experienced, through their folly and reck
lessness, and that they are again about to pianos
into all the mad excesses of ft Finer years. By res.
ference to the account of the sale of stocks, it will
be seen that all descriptions have advanced very
considerably; even thi.se whose worthlessness seem
ed a short time since to be universally admitted, isv
have suddenly advanced greatly beyond their for,
mer value, and as suddenly declined again to their
original standing. No particular cause can
are
d
eigned for these fluctuations, and they are te be
attributed solely to the influence of the wild apk.
it of speculation that has again seized upon the
American people.
There is now about $900,000 in coin in
the Mint in this city. Over two millions
in bullion, coin and ore, are now stored a
way in IThcle Sam's lock up in New Oin
leans.— Cres. City.
Spurious coin of the denomination dot)*
dollar, well executed, and not easily MON
ted, are in circulation in the noniron) IA-
AEIt_IIEWMEEI WM_ •
The "Allegheny Belle,
This fine low water steamer leaves for Cincinta.
ti to•day. She has been thoroughly repaired, and
be found a safe and comfortable - craft. Capt.
Hanna, her commasOcr, is proverbial for his at
tention to the comfort or leis passengers, and.ie t
gentleman in every respect. Any perm tali*"
passage on the Belle, iney rely on a pleating
trip.
"rner"eiv , ....43 1 4 and Micbizan. BtaveV Paeklits,
are laid tip, and tbeir places been supgre - d — orThw
steamers Bridgewater and Warren.
The Mingo Chief arrived yesterday at 3 o'eklekt
and reported the 'Eveline' aground at the foot of
Brunot's Island. She met the •Ccilia' abolrrs
Steubenville.
MANIFEST.
Mingo Chief, livenny from Wheeling. -.4
hhda and 6 casks Bacon, 102 sacks woool, 43
kegs and 2 bias Butter. Barrel Sugar, 9 km*
tobacco, 5 kegs Lard, 314 barrels Flour, 3 bons
Mdse. H. & P. Graff, Robertson & Reppert
Atwoood Jones dr, Co., W. Parker, Wallingford&
Taylor, David Fiti-iminons, Splang & ,Capt.
Devinnr, Juseph Joldan, and W. Bingham, $e
Cabin &, 70 Deck Passengers.
21 inch
lea water in the Channel.
All Boats marked thus ( 0 ) are provided with
Evans's Safety Guard
Reported by SHEBLE & MlrcnEr., General 8. B
Agents, Water street, Late Custom House OaCie
Peterson's Building.
• ARRIVED.
Alpine, Cockburn, Shipyard.
• Bridgewater, Clark, Beaver.
Allegheny Belle, Hanna, Allegheny Rivet.
Warren, Ward,
Moxahala, Parkinson, E'izabeth.
Mingo Chief, Devenny, Wheeling.
DEPARTED.
Itfoxahrla, Parkinson, Elizabeth
•Eveline, Bailey, Cin.
New Haven, Page, do.
Warren. Ward, Beaver.
Pinta, Vandegriff, Sunfish.
DIED.
Yesterday, WM. M. SMITH, in the 22d yeas ,of
his age. The friends of the family are rational
to attend hie funeral at 3 o'clock this afternees,
from the residence of his father, head of Robinson
street, Allegheny city.
ICE! ICE! ICE!!
A NY quantify of clean, first rate Allegheay lee, Mat
be had at HUGH DUFFY'S, corner of Second sod
Grams treets.
'illy 13-4 f.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER ------
Messrs Edltorin—Please announce the name of Melt'
JOHN M. DAVIS, of Peebles, for County Comnibudenietfr
suldect to the decision of the Democratic county Conroe.
tion, to be held in August next.
July l'3—d4-wtc
1 In the District Court of Allegheny County
of April term, 1843, No 360. ( Vend EX.) :
Bank of Pittsburgh,
..; /
vs.
L ..t. P. Peterson.
July 5t1 1 ,1843, on motion of N r Elradfoni
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... ;: t...,....' - the proceeds of sale in this case eonsid.
t ered in court, and the Court appoint New
parties interested d ainy ,t hthe ed 2 is 4 t t r h i bu in t t ion
f o o f r
tthhe
f hearing o
th
court direct personal notice to be given to all Judpastat
creditors, or their attorneys, ten days before the sold doTit
and to all other parties by advertisement in two daily .
newspapers in the city of Pittsburgh, for one irtnikothall.
meriting ten days before said clay.
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Dewoc►uie
Polo the pew i t
A. SUTTON, Pre;