The Grand Prairie.
A letter in the Cincinnati Gazette from
Illinois, dated -July ist thus speaks of the
great Prairies:
- "The prairies of this season afford the fi•
lent view imaginable; they :esemble vast
with bead-land and penensulas .on
*tight hand and on the left, jotting out
%kr t sea of grass and flowers; while in the
- 21ietance, in various directions are seen
roves of timber, like small Islands imbed
ded in an ocean of green. The bays and
severe formed by the projecting headlands
tip being converted into cultivated farms.
• There is a constant succession of flowers
from early May to the frosts of October.—
the spring, pink and white prevail, du
ring the summer, scarlet and crimson; and
'owards autumn, yellow predominates, in
terspersed with other colors. At this time,
'strawberries of large size and fine flavor
Abound. All we have to do in order to
enjoy them to perfection is, an hour before
sea time to send two or three bairns, from
twenty to fifty rods from the house, and
they will return with from three to six and
eight quarts of ae fine fruit as one could
Atisire. There is a slight drawback, how
ewer, even in picking strawberries in the
prairies: you occasionally meet with an ug•l
lir customer in the form of a rattlesnake.l
killed one this season in a bed of straw- t
berries: he was kind enough to give me
Warning in time, as they usually do, yet I
was ungrateful enough to kill him. One
of our neighbors and hi 4 wife went out a'
few days since into this immense straw.,
berry garden, for fruit, when a rattlesnake!
struck at the lady, and hooked its fangs
into the bottom of her dr ess, and being un•
able to extricate itself, was killed in that
Intim:arm. These snakes differ in siza and
eppearanco from the large or timber snake
es much as the prairie wolf dors from the )
large ones. They are equally vicious, in
deed, are more apt to bite, and are thought,
to be equally venomous, though, being
much smaller, they inject into the wound
a entailer volume of poison. I have never'
known of their bite proving fatal to any per• I
son, though several colts have been killed.'
by them in this vicinity; and I have a large
7 dOg that has been lame more than a month,
end a part of the time quite useless, from
hitving been bitten in the leg by one.—
Two feet in length is a large size. They
ens peculiar to the prairie, never being
seen in the timber."
The Disposition to commit Suicide.—
For some period before the individual
manifests a morbid propensity to sacrifice
his own !if., the mind may have dwelt
upon the idea of self destruction. In some
cases the impulse is apparantly--effddeu in
its develop/idol; but
_will_.2.onsalkily be
found, upon inquiry, that - the notion of sui.
ride batbeen haunting the imagination for
a considerable time before the act is per
petrated'or attempted. When the mind has
been directed or engaged in a particular
train of morbid conte rplation for any
bitrigrh of time, the face assumes a peculiar
cast, which is present in no other state of
mental feeling. The practitioner who has
had any experience in these case's can ea
sily detect the existence' of the suicidal
propensity. With a view to the preven
tion of self-murder, how important is it
that the physician should make himself
practically acquainted with this indication!
Petiman relates that Lord M having re
evinced Stuart, a distinguished artist in
London, to paint a portrait of his brother,
* captain in the army. he did so with
great accuracy. When Lord M. saw the
portrait, he exclaimed, 'This is not the
portrait of my brother,—it is the portrait
sof a madman.' The painter requested
another sitting;his Lordship saw the paint.
ing again, when he observed, 'My brother
appears more mad than before.' Three
weeks after the captain blew out his brains!
—F. ffirisloto's Health of Body and
Mind.
Pursuit of Knowledge under Iqficulties.
—Standing with a friend the other
day by the river side, to take in the noble
coup deeil of the new steamer Knicker
bocker, weoverheard a little' anecdote con
nected with water-craft which made our
companion merry all the way home, which
we shall hare transcribe. 'and which it is
hoped will please•' It seems there was—
nay, we know, not seems, there was—a
verdant youth from the interior of Con
necticut for the first time abuard a steam -
boat. His curiosity was unbounded. He
examined here, and he scrutinized there;
be wormed from the engineer a compulso•
ry lecture on the the steam-engine and me
chanics in general, and from the fireman
an essay on the power of white heat, and
the 'average consumption of pine cord
wood.'
At length his inquiring wind nas check
ed in its investigations, and 'the pursuit of
knowledge undet. difficulties' made at once
491 , -
apparent. He had mounted to the wheel Masonry flourishes as luxuriantly as
house, and ins asking the pilot, 'What are er it did; the members of the lodge are still
you doin' that for, Mister 1 what good among the most exalted of the land, , and
does% de I when he observed by the cap - the doings and ceremonies of the order are
thin, who said, in a gruff voice go 'way
publicly proclaimed throughout the coon
from there! Dont you see the sign, 'No .
thlkin to the man at the helium?' Go 'way! try. This is its condition after the fifteen
'Oh! certing—yaes; I only wanted to years' war of antimasonry against it.
kno w —.. •Well, you do know now
How useles3 is it, then, for the honest
that you can't talk t,p him, so go 'way !'
With unwilling willingness the verdant portion of the antimasonic party to atrug.
youth came down; and, as it was Boon dark, gle any longer in a cause, when all their
he presently went below, but four or five'u cess but serves to build up the power
times before he 'turned in' he was on d eck
aid i success
against
and near the wheelhouse, eying it kith which they battle, and to feed the
thoughtful curiosity, but with the captain's cupidity of the hungry political jackals that
public rebuff still is his ears, venturing t o 'sneak into their ranks for plunder. They
isk no questions. In the first gray of the know it and feel it,and it is this knowledge
diwn he was up; and, after some hesita
tion, perceiving nobody near but the pilot,' that is now prostrating antimasonry. With
who was turning the wheel as when he had ' honest leaders the party might still be held
list Seat him, he preferred his 'suppressed together, bat sincere antimasons have be -
Inestion' ; in the oblique style pecnliar to come disgusted; they can no longer follow,
bbregion: 'Wal, goin' it pit, ha 1 Been the lead of a clique of renegade masons
silt ail night I. &retain on her up', eh?' and office hunters, who care nothing fur
What vague conjectures must have bother. i
the principles of intimasJiiri, nnd would
- .
ed the poor queriatia brain during the night,
may be par:ly inferred from the shard
but 'settled conviction' to which he bad at
length arrived.—N. Y. paper.
Pan PRESIDENT,
41IE S BUCHINAN,
Subject to the decision of a National Convention.
DAILY MORNING POST.
111.5. PEIIILLIPS 4.• wig. IL 0111111, EDITOR/ILK]) TROPIIIITORS
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1843
Antimasonry.
The Gazette of Wednesday evening
contained a spasmodic effort to "rouse the
blue noses from their lethargy," and to
make the more creddlotts believe that there
is still hope for their cause. It contained
a vast amount of froth and Flummery about
the purity and patriotism of antimasonry,
but so bunglingly put together, that the
most inexperienced can see that it is the
desperate struggle of the most forlorn of
forlorn hopes. To talk to the people of
Allegheny about the honesty and purity of
antimas inry, after the fifteen years' exper
ience they have hadof its corruption, and
its impudent disregard of the leading prin
ciple of the party,evinces a reliance on the
power of humbug that would be highly
commendable in a cause less worthless.
i Does the editor of the Gazette suppose
that the people do not remember that dur ,
ing the fifteen. years' pretended war against
masonry, it has annually formed alliances
with the "blood stained order." Don't
they know that year after year, the anti,
masons of the country have been persuade
l ed to vote for high adhering masons, an 4,„
don't they know that, at the present time,
the antimasons of Allegheny county are
represented in the state Senate by one of
the most devoted masons in Pennsylvania?
Who, among all the men that have been
I elected by antimasonic votes, has ever
I done any thing to advance the primary
object of the party? Year after year, men I
professing to be opposed to masonry, have
been elected to the legislature, and did
any of them ever reprt a bill, offer a real
olution,or make a motion, for the suppress
sion of masonry 1 Nn, not one of them;
but, on the contrary, they were found in
league with masons, giving countenance
and i oportance to the Lodge, by fellow
ing the lead of its members in carrying out
the schemes of specula and stock job.
be rs.
In 1842, N. B. Craig, a man who has
preached more autimasonry,since he found
it would be profitable, than any other man
in the state, was elected to the legislature,
and then it was expected that the lodge
would be demolished. Mr. Craig was at
length in a position where he could give
masonry a deathblow, sad froth his, long
professions of hatred for the lodge, every
one supposed that immediately after tak
ing his seat, he would make a dernonstra•
Lion against the masons, and continne the
war throughout the session. But Mr.
Craig did not act as foolishly as some ex
pected he would; he adopted the course
that/tad been pursued by every other anti ,
mason when they got into office; he took
his seat, drew his three dollars per day;
united with his masonic colleague in the
Senate, and the other federal me nbers of
the lodge, in attempting to force through
schemes for the benefit of monopolists, and
to the injury of the people, but never once.
whispered sword in favor of antimasonry
or in opposition to the "blood stained or
der."
Such is the manner in which the prin.
ciples of antimasonry were carried out by
the men who have been permitted to lead
the party, They have battled manfully for
fifteen years; they have, time after time,
carried the county, and now they are fur•
ther from the object of their party organi
zation than they were when the great
Morgan humbug was first proclaimed. It
is true that the humbug has enabled many
venal politicians to obtain good fat offices;
it has enabled numbers of empty pated
brawlers to obtain a momentary political
distinction, which under other circutnstan.
ces they could never attain, but more than
this it has never accomplished.
as they have done before, sell the jailing°
of the party to the members of the lodge,
if it could advance their personal schemes'
This is but a slight sketch of antimasoniy,
but•it,may serve to call to mind the gross
manner in which the great body of that
party, has been deceived and humbugged
by its leaders.
Another Bank.
Bicknell's Reporter says:—"Notice is
given by twenty citizens of Clinton coun
ty, that they intend to apply to the next
Legislature for the charter of a body cor
porate under the name and style of' 'The
Lock H . aven . Bridge and Banking Compri,
ny'—to be located within the Borou&b of
Lock Haven, in said county—to have a
capital of $50,000 and general banking
and discounting privileges. The object of
the corporation is the construction of a
Bridge with towing path, across the pool
of the Dunetown Darn; at Lock Haven,
and to issue notes to pay for the Bridge
and for general currency.
We shall see whether the next demo.
cratic Legislature will grant the player of
the petitioners in this case, and thus ops
Dress the people of this commonwealth
with another swindling shop. It is to be
hoped that such a specious pretext as the
'construction of a Bridge with a towing
path,' will not lure the members from their
propriety. Much better would it be that
folks should wade 'the pool of the - Dunse
town Dam,' than to build a bridge by such
means.
The Fair One.—The project of this
daily newspaper, which was to be publish
ed, printed and edited by ladies, has been
abandoned. It appears the called
on the gallant Colonel, of the N Y Com
mercial, to ask hii advice. He says, 'we
kindly and cordially told the good ladies
that the project would not succeed. But
they thought otherwise. They said they
had money. We told them they would
lose it. They said they had friends to
help. We told them they would lose them
too. But, dear souls! they thought we
were jealous of rivalry! They wanted a
name for their paper, and suggested 'The
Fair One.' We told them it would not
answer. It was not taking. The boys
could not sing it on well. The, asked
us for a name. We gave them the—. The
Vixen!' Oh Colonel!' they exclaimed,
starting io their feet—and bade us good
morning.
Backing !Out.
The !Aißarites at the West, remark' an
exchange paper, fearful it'll' ' , after 1848
has passed away, they may ba regarded as
false prophets, are making . grand prepara
tions for a grand breaking up of their int.
position. By the follow* from an Indi
ana paper, called the "Israelite," devo■
ted to Slilleriern, it will be seen that the
year 1543 has been stricken out:
'‘With regard to the time when ho will
come, we know not the day nor the hour,
nor can we speak with certainty as to the
year; but when the last signs are fulfilled,
we may knew that it is nigh, even at the
door. Wo believe that the last signs are
fulfilled save one, viz: the shaking of the
powers of heaven. We are looking for
that sign every day, which will be follow,
ed immediately by the eon of man in heav
en."
In a few months from this they will,
we doubt not, strenuously contend that
they never did fix upon 1843 as the year
fur the final smash up.
Poor Devil.—We dropped in suddenly
on a visit to a bachelor acquaintance the
other day, says the St. Louis Ledger. and
just as we made our appearance. be put
something in hie pocket very hurriedly,and
looking as guilty as if he had been caught
on a visit to a spinster. We cast our eyes
at his pocket, arid half way out hung the
secret. It was his stocking! The poor
miserable fellow had been darning it,
and it astonished us to see what perfec
tion he had arrived at in that branch of
home industry. You may give him, up
girls.
Some crusty old bachelor thus assails
boarding school misses:—"lt is said that
young misses, after being pupils a few
months at some of our schools" become
philosophers in petticoats. They will tell
you all about optics, carbon, chloride and
iodine, and how much caloric must be
evolved to put water in a state of ebullition,
though they dont know how to make the
pudding that should be popped into it
when in that state. They will define mu•
sic to be the harmony of sounds and the
unity of members, and mineralogy to be
the science of the substrata of the earth,
but cannot spell in words of four sylablee,
nor read the simplest sentence without a
blunder,"
✓1 Big Bell.—The Cincinnati Mesaage
says that a bell weighing three thousand
pounds, for the Catholic Church on 12th
et., has just been cast at the foundery of
George W. Coffin, on Columbia st., east of
Broadway.
11 - 7 i mier.-4 moderii*riter thus for;:t
cibly depicts the evils of a great infirmity:
--"Ill temper! sent by the enemy of man—
kind to blast the happiness of all who yield
to thy influence! who keepest more than
half of the human race within the dark and
stormy dominion! what an abode of peace,
and joy, and love—would this earth be if'
thou wert exterminated. Villains and I
their crimes only disturbaus at times, as
tempests obscure the summer sky; but
when thou spreadest thy dusky wings, the
brightness of that daily sun is lost, and the
flowers that spring up in thy thorny path
of life are blighted under thy baneful shad
ows."
A Hard Case.—lf a man declines fight
ing a duel he is called a coward by the
pleas; and should he accept he is equally
abused, Editors thus give a great deal of
encouragement to this "remnant of barber-
A miter in the Post of Wednesday
morning over the signature of a Friend
to Reform has given us along article about
Judge Wilkins, and the nomination of
'42,in which he trios to make it appear that
the nomination of his honor the Judge
died of itself by the neglect of the Legis
lature to district the state. From his tea•
sorting and method of reform, the good
Lord deliver us; when Judge Wilkins was
nominated it was for the Congress of 1893
& 44, and had an election taken place last
fall and he been elected he could not have
taken his seat till December, 1843, conse
quently his nomination stands good to all
intents and purposes. It is true if the
democrats are disposed to act in bad faith
with the Judge and refprm their act of 1842
they may cast Judge ° Wilkins aside and
take up another individual for their rep
resentativr; hut would this be honorable
would it be treating the nominee with
common politeness to cast him off without
a trial 3 Has any thing occurred in the
Judge's conduct or character, to shake the
faith of the people, or cause them to treat
him with such disrespect'? I aver not.—
He may and has been ta'ked of for Gov
ernor of Pennsylvania, but he has not been
nominated; the nomination for Governor
is not to take place for a year yet. Judge
Wilkins is nut an office holder consequent
ly not vs ithin the reach of the reasoning
of this grealftiend of reform. Ilk maxim
is not 'once in office, and still in office.'
He has not vet been elected to the office
to which be was nominated, why then talk
of holding on to office like the Aristocracy
of the Rouen Borough system of Erglandi
If Judge Wilkins is to be laid aside at this
time, let ns do it with honer and honesty,
let us ask him if he considers himself a
nominee; or if we may consider him a can.
didate. And if we must have another man
I go in for new men from the stump; men
for every office in the county who claim
no hereditary privilegee,end who have g nev
er been before the people and by them re
jected. From the highest office down to
county auditor, I will go for new men, if
Judge Wilkins is not a candidate, and this
will be something like what real trieids
reform want, and what, in the end will
probably produce the must salutary results
A CITIZEN. •
Something Novel
Messrs. Editors—An article under the above
head, signed A Countryman, appeared in yo it
paper of Tuesday,whiela is an indirect attack on
the Temperance movement, and a reflection upon
conduct of the Judges of oar Court. The writer
commences with stating "that the Treasurer of
Allegheny county is smd to have reported in a
yes tic manner, that within the Net week, he has
refunded about aixteen hundred dollar.s to persons
who had epplied f,r Lioenau at the last term ut
the Court, but whoao petitions were vetoed un the
grounds of Temperance pr.nciples." "Oh tempe
r*, oh moses"—what an awful calamity. The
wicked Judges to veto out of the counties' pock
et, sixteen hundred dollars. If true, Messrs. Edi
tors, which I have not yet hal an opportunity of
learning, 1 think it would be a very easy matter
to prove, that it will be a saving to the country
of double that amount—but I em extremely doubt+
ful of the truth of the statement. Mr. Country
man then goes on and says —"Tbe discretion sup-
posed to ter vested in the Judges in this respect,
has beer' most imprudently exercised; that'the best
men, the most suitable persons to control (he did
not say keep) taverns, have been disregarded by
the Judge, (which Judge?) on whom rests the re
sponsibility of the selections devoted to censure."
—Judge, take care, this - Countryman has got you
ire a fix—"the selections devoted to consu•e, which
yea are responsible fur,Anay bring down upon you
the execrations of the innocent grog 'sellers arid
the rum suckers, acid sponges, who still hang a
bout the doggcrica.
What supposed discretion have the Judges in
the matter of granting licenses? Does a Couns
tryman suppose that Ju Igee have the discretion
to violate acts of assembly, or decisions of the Sue ,
preme Court? If so, they aro above all law—Mr
Countryman says "every person applying for li
cense
as required by law, is entitled to it. Oh
ho, Jenny Piper's nowe is something novel, very.
Why don't Mr, Countryman cite a case in which
the individual applying for license, had all the re
quirements of the law'', and was refused tone by the
hard heurtod Judges? He can't de it, Messrs.
E liters; I'll engage` to make up the lose to the
county Treasury, if be will point out one—no, no,
Mr. Countryman's communication had a three
fold object—to injure the temperance cause, threat
ce the court and please the doggery keepers. Ins
telligent temperance men don't remonstrate a
gerund houses that have the revirements of the
law. They know what they arc doing, arc sober,
& in their right mind. They occupy broad ground
and strong ground, built uponiiter, morals and
christianity. Mr. Countryman did certainly not
consider well, or be would not hose penned his
article against fetich odds. I think, upon reflec
tion, he will surely be sorry for h;s something no
eel, and back out of the company. If not, I'll
vouch for it, the temperance men will be pleased
to discuss the subject or anything connected with
the glorious cause, either though the medium of
a newcepappr, or on the stump. To say the least
of a Couotryman's eirticle. it shows quite green,
and smells strongly of a certain pettifogger or
groggery keeper. I will stop; for the present, by
asking Mr. Countryman to point one single case
referred to, should he not do it, let hem hide his
head Se:stand branded as the espouser of the king
of evil',tbe friend of the rum sellers and rum-ma
kers, and the deadly enemy of all the wires, wid
i.ws, orphans and children of drunken husbands
and fathers, till he walks up, a man, and writes,
his name to the PLEDGE.
=RimwmFmiißsi,Nowoo
Provisions —Bacon, stocks large and sales small
and rather dull, country cured in lots at 2,ta31,
and city cured nadi cents per lb. hog round.—
Hams, sales in lots, good, sa. sh. Shoulders
2la3c. a lb. Cheese, stocks good and small sales,
choice in boxes 4aasic. and in casks 4.la4ic. a lb.
Beeswax—Quick rale at 26e. a lb.
Fish—Sales aro fair, Shad No. 1 trimmed $9,
50, Herring. $1,1 2 / a 4,25, Mackeral No. 3,157,50,
White Fish 86,50a7, Trout 97a7 50 a bbl.
Groceries—Stocks good and sacs fair, Coffee,
Rio 84a9;, Havana 8119, Laguayro Bi•,9i St. Do..
mingo 74.172 c. in large lots to the city, and a shade
higher by the bag to the country. Sugar is be.
coinfno scarcer and ri-ing, sales in hhds 63:a.7a,
,P
and in bbls. 7a7i cents a pound. Molasses is also
becoming scarcer, sales at ,26,127 c. a gallon in lots.
Teas—Y. H. Via7oc., imperial 60a85, Guns
powder 60a80, Pouchong 60,170 c. a lb.
Iron—Juniata, sales of blooms $48:150. Pig
Meted. salessll,sol22, and fur a few choice small
lots $23.
For the Morning Post
Oil—A lot of goad Castor sulJ at 600. a gallon
Tanner's 18a24c. Linseed 85a90e. Sperm $1,121
Lard Oil 56a75 cents a gallon.
Lead—Pig, small sales a' 3y .about 2000 kegs o
White Lead sold in the last t,n days in lots $1,..
75 cash.
Bicknell's Reporter gives the following as to
the present condition of things in Philadelphia:
"Philadelphia is in a sounder, stronger condi
tion than she has been in fur some time. Most of
her business men who were crippled, and were
living from day to day on protracted credit, have
gone by the board, and thus with the weak and
withered branches lopped off, the great body of her
commercial dealers are sound in means and is
character. Our banks, too, are in better condi
tion than they have been for some time. Their
Means are ample, the public have confidence in
them, they are creditors to the monied institutions
of New York, and we believe that most of them
pursue a legitimate c•'urse of business. They all
pay specie freely and promptly, with the excep
lion of one or two that decline paying it on their '
Relief notes, and the people who some months
back looked upon them with distrust and suspi
cion, now tako their notes readi'y cud freely and
without the slightest alarm. Surely, then, affairs
hove changed for the belt •r. Phdtdelphia, which
has been so much scoffed at, mocked and derided,
has passed through a fiery ordeal, and although
she has suffered, there is no city in the world, the
great body of whose merchants are more honest
and upright in their dealings."
July 17.—Bu;inees dull, and every day decli
ning, a natural consequence of the advanced pe
tiod of the season. The following is a atatenesn'
of the eindition of the market on the 17th;
Fcoult—Limited itale3 arc male at $4,37ia4,50.
WHlrKEY—has slightly advanced, and hrtiders
were asking 22 cents.
SUa►a—The sates exhibit a considerable im
provement in this articlo. Extreme qualities
wero selling at 5.16 i per lb.
MOL►sass—Supply light—quoted at 22423 c.
per gallon.
COFFEE—Havana, prime grcen, BaB/, Rio Sii
8/, St. Domingo 7 c. per lb.
For th* Poe!
Ft.quir—was soiling at Cincinnati on the 24th
at $3,47.
WHISKILT—in fair demand at 17i e. per gallon.
The Cincinnati Message says;
' , A gentleman called on us this morning to ex•
hibit a counterfeit ten dollar note on the Bank of
of Nlissourt. , The paper is the same as the
genu
ine—the engravinz excellent, and the whole, with
out close examination, Calculated to deceive. The
note was letter 8., No 1109, H. Shields, Cashier
e ns-reved, with a dash ,underneath. B. Walsh,
President, written, date Dec. 7., - 1842. The
steamboat vignatte on the genuine has "Pike" on
the wheel house, which is wanting on the coun
terfeit. The cot.nterfeit has a train of rail road
cars in the fore ground, which is not on the gen
uine.'
Counterfeits,—Spurious notes purport
ing to be of the Kensington Bank, Phila.
are in circulation in the eastern part of the
state. The Spirit of the Times says the
Vignette, railroad cars, &c, and signed J.
Wood, President, Stacey A Paxson,Cash.
ier. The genuine 10's of that Bank are
from a steel plate; with a river scene and
landscape. Vignette, two medallion heads
of Napoleon, and a female figure in each
margin, and are signed J Wainwright
President; C Keen, Cashier. The coun
terfeits are not even an imitation of the
genuine, and will not deceive any one us—
ing ordinary care.
Wo aro sorry to see that the St. Louis Ariel
' copies a lying article from the Wheeling Gazette,
stating that navigation was suspended between
Wheeling and Pittsburgh. We !mum our west ,
ern friends, who may desire to pass thro' our city,
that there is not a word of truth in that article,
and that they will experience no difficulty in reach
ing our city at any time through the summer.--
Steamboat Navigation between this place and
Wheeling has never bean suspended fur a single
day during the past season, (as the Steamboat
Register published in the Wheeling pipers will
show,) nor will it be, we are certain.
20 inches water in the channel.
Reported by Sheble aniJ Mitchell, Steamboat A-
gents, Water street, near Wood.
All Boats marked * are provided with Evans'
Safety Guard to prevent explosions.
No Arrivals.
DEPARTED.
Mayflower, Furter, Cin.
New Haven, Page, Louisville.
Ids, Dennison, ein.
Warren, Ward, Beaver,
Rosa of Sharron, Evans, Beaver.
eamitatiatilittpit.
PITTSBURGH. MARKET.
e ßeported for the Mermng Poet by leaac Harris
FRIDAY MORNING, July 28, 1943.
Our rivers are getting very low, the weather ve
ry warm, and business is become very dull. Our
farmers being very busy with their harvest, little
flour or produce is coming in, and as moat of the
flour received has been sent in canal boats to the
'adorn cities,it will advance in our market and is
now quick at our quotations. Our light draught
steamboats arc arriving and departing down the
Ohio river daily, taking off without delay all
freight and passengers, and a good deal is still
doing on the river. Our stocks of goods arc ex+.
cellent.
Flour—From boats and wagons $3,67a4 per
bbl., and from stores $f 50.
Grain—Wheat. 70J75, Oats 22a25, Corn-22a25
cents per bushel
Sevd—Flacseed roady sales at 90 cents'a bush
Ashes—S.iorollings plenty and dull at 31a3ic.
a lb., Pots dull, 4c, Pearls in demand at sc. a lb.
wool—cominun 18, 4 bland 20, & 22, 3.4 24
full blood 28, prime 30 c., all cash.
Philadelphia Nloney Market.
New Orleans Market.
Cincinnati Market.
New Counterfeit.
Navigutiou.
=NEM
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The Crisps..
{}y-In Indiana tho crops are said to hate ija.
proved very mom') in appearance arid promitso.
From the most accurate informatics we can eed•
lect, save the Banner, published at Madison ' we
are inclined to the belief that the yieldsin Indiana
will be at least eq i 11, if not better, than last men
crop• About 100 wagons, principally loaded itith
wheat, pass through Napoleon daily,on their way
to tho Lawrenceburg mills.
The Wayne county (Ind,) Record say., moth
fear has been manifested in Indiana by many par.
sons, on account of a supposed partial radars of
the wheat crop. Accounts from the wester* part
of tho State inform us that there has cover twit a
better prospect of a good harvest.
Ctj—The harvest in Maryland, as we team fro m
the Hagerstown Torch Light, is quite satisfactory
to the farmers.
O"'lrhe Detroit, Mich., Free Press of the 19th
inst., speaks in the most favorable terms both of
the wheat crop and corn crop. The former i►as.
pected to exceed that of last year, when it motto.
ted to 3,95,389 bushels, at ]cast one third.
Ozj-The Rochester Do meant, of the 12th lost
says: "The standing grain has improved much du.
ring the past month, and although it is driven.
than usual, the stalk is healthy, and the beads
long and well filled. If nothing omits to injure
fields between this and harvest, there is no doubt
but Western New York will realize an averaging
crop. The weather is very favorable to all kinds
of grain."
Q If you lack patience, get a tooth-ache sod
the rheumatism with gout combined. You way
become anoiker Jute—B.c. 'paper.
tF e would be a Job for the Doctor, any how.
On the morning of the 12th of the premien
month, there was pot only a heavy frost, bet this
ice in the state of Michigan.
or-Sheep can be raised in lowa at a oast ofIS
cents per head yearly. So says an intelligent wool
grower
O :y—The e - ty of Mobil'', Ala , is Said to be more
deserted this season by her eit zens, than any yet,
since 1839. The streets present a most lonesome
and dreary appearance
Ot—A mass Democratic State Convention will
be held at Worcester. Mass, on the 13th of Sop.
ternbcr, to select candidates for Governor and
Lieut. Governor
(j -The grand sub marine explosion came off
al New Orleans on the 13th, with decided enc•
(:(7 , A Mexican General (Victoria,) in his moo
lutionary camp,tign, trained himself to go withest
foLd fur five daye. in consequence of which hi is
now unable to est more drill one meal in twenty.
four hours.
(Foreign Coin is now receive.] in the Mo.
bile Post Office upon a scale similar to that adop
ted in other cities,viz:-25 rent pieces will be to.
ce;red at 22 cents; l 11 cents, and picayune.
for 5 cent pieces.
Oz e-The old sober. sides of the little Baltimore
Sun, is quite funny at the expense of the tailors
and tailaresges of this city. Hear him. "The
tailors and tailoresses of Pittsburg have made
strike for higher wages, and against the 'ardor'
system. We hope no one of them will make a
.goose' of himself in order to g t what may 'suit'
his views .
fire in Sing Sing appears to have been
t h e r e su lt of accident and not design.
(J 7 -76 learn from the Hartford Courant, that
on Saturday last, the baggage car and paaaenger
oar on the New Haven and Hartford Rail Rends
were thrown off the track by running over and
crushing a horse. The animal got on the track
and run ahead of the train rer several miles, bni
at length stumbled and fell, and before the engine
could be slopped, the train passed over him, WIN
inz him on the ept.
(* - -Mrs. Bannister the actress, fell from the- 1 ,
window of her chamber at Shires' Garden, cm .
einnati, and injured herself seriously. She eme
laboring under Somnambulism.
( . - --Mra. Abigail Town of this town..was happlie
ly blessed with threw little Town on Tuesday ltst,
the 13th ult.—Ontario Messenger,
CONGII ESS.
Mess? s Editors:—Many friends of the Indepen.
dent Treasury Luw, and who arc opposed to Bank
suspensions, desire to state through the medittee
of your paper, that D. EDW. D. GAZZAM, an
early advocate of the Sub Treasury system, has
consent d to become a candidate for Cowes*, If
nominated by the Democratic Convention.
The political and private character of this gm.
tleman is known to the Democrats of Allegheny
eeunty, who have already manifested their COIN
fidonce in his ability and sound politica princi
ples; and his devotion to the interests of the dia•
trict is acknowledged by citizens of all partiip.
Now that there is a fair prcspect of the, success
of the Democratic ticket, many of the party ear.
needy desire the opportunity of voting for a tried
Democrat, whom they so warmly, and as regards,
Allegheny county, so successfully supported whelk
struggling against heavy odds.
II nominated, Dr. Gazzam'a election by a de.
cided majority may be confidently anticipated,
end will be a suhst tntial triumph to the cans* of
ANTI BANK DEMOCRACY.
MARRIED.—On Thursday, the 27th inat. by
the Rev. Asa Shinn, Mr William - Morrison, of
this city, to Miss Mary Jane, daughter of David
Fitzsimons, E.g., of Allegheny.
PENN INSURANCE CO.
THE first olection of Nine Directors of thislas
stitution will be hold at the Monongahela Roost,
on Thursday the 3d day of August, proximo: be.
tween the hours of 9 o'clock, A. M. and 4 P. M.
by order, R. MILLER, JR., Seey
To the Cscamiasioners.
July 29
TRUE ISSUE, FOR THE TRUE.
CHURCHIIA.N.
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late of Bast Deer township, dec'd Pleadadall tti
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