aid. *leader waist to the beat advantage, clothed her
ielf in a dress,which sate tight an' close upon her
without any lining or facing or fur, though it lwrs'ih
winter and exceedingly -cold The consequente was
tharshe appeared pale and miserable, like one perishing
with the severity of the weather; white her sister,who,
regardless of her shape, had attired herself rationally
with thick garments lined with fur, looked warm &heal=
law; and rudy as arose The gentleman was fascinated
by het;ho was the most prudent; and having obtain
ed:the lither's - consent to the choice, left the mortified
sister, to Shlirut In tingle blessedness.
FOR PRESIDENT,
JAS. BUCHANAN,
zY Subject to the decision of
• tat DintootArlo NATIONAL CONTENTION.
Oath) glorning post.
rilkl#4l , 3 it SMITH, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS
SBtIRGII, MONDAY, AUGUST 128, 1843
Wile N. Y. Tribune, and some of its whigco-
tetiiiiiitsries, cannot agree on the pr.oper policy to be
Purlitead.ry the CLAy men at the elections of 11.143.
Thr;9osrier and Enquirer, and some ether journals, in
sistAiiit they shall run a ticket in every district, no
113111.61 W hopeless their chance of election may be,
as tjtay consider such a course necessary to keep their
form together and properly disciplined for the contest
of itfit The Tribune takes an opposite view of the
ma**, Awl thinks that in districts where thr re is no
hopser election, it would be imprudent to bring out a
tickets ast it would only serve to exhibit the weakness of
Citiiiiihd squander money is a fruitless contest that
mig tlre better applied—in buying pipes and yarn, for
ituwoom---itt the Presideutial canvass. We think the
poi* recommended by the Tribune is the correct one
for* fiiends of Clay to follow. There are but few
diati*las where a ticket, ran under the auspices of his
narmai could have the slightest chance of success, and
ifhatittobe the coon candidate in 1844, it will be wise
for 4leaders to keep back all evidences of his unpop..
vatify_ till the latest moment. The result of fire late
elecsio' ns have exhibited too many evidences already of
his iiiiskness. Louisiana, North Carolina, Illinois,
Indkusa; and his own Kentucky, exhibit a frightful pie
-ture ofhis shattered forces, and any m: re reverses der
-ing *present year, would destroy his li ipes of a can
didiey altogether.
In the picture that the editor of the Tribune has
drawn (riche gradual rAurn Of surd!) prtl.4l/0.1 . 1ty to the
country, we see the cause of the diminuthni of Cdny's
'strength; and to the Oise:ice of the vat corrupt haul:-
ing prow, that was :30 Arowrly advocated by that gen
tlenessriuui his adherents in Congre.::, in iv be attrib
=4 the healthy change that lias tatn place in the
political aspect of the western stain, and that has
gives the democrats an equal shall• of power in Mr.
Clay's stronghold. His great Panacea for all our
Apunetclal and financial ills, was a N.Ltio‘ial
heswsis willing to trample on the Constitution and all
the rights guaranteed by it to the p:utple at large, to
plucein the hand. , of a comparatively few capitalists, a
rannied.power, with which th••y might c.ritral the polit
ical Affairs of the whole roinary. his bold, bad
scheme, he was defeated. and he flu d from the Senate,
breathing curses on the President for d.•f•ating his
schemes, and declaring that the total ruin of the country
was inevitable. Bat it seems that withthe overthrow
of ()ISO and his projects, a better state of things corn
mots*, and now, instead of being involved in univer
sal ruin, every thing is going on successfully
. and pros
perously. Without a National Bank; according to the
Tribune itself, prosperity has returned to our country;
thousandS of workmen have procured employment hi
consequence of the adoption of a Tariff that was car
ried by democratic votes; our Foreign indebtedness is
paid off, and the balance of trade is in our favor, the
worthless rag currency with which the people were
plundered but a year or two since, is banished, and its
place is now supplied with specie, and a "gradual but
already sensible improvement to our Agricultural and
general Industry" has taken place. Such is the cheer
ful picture of the condition of the country at the present
time, without the aid of a National Bank, notwith
standing Mr. Clay's prediction, and as the people are
every day becoming more convinced that such an in
stitution is not necessary for their prosperity, they will
not only resolve to do without it, but also without its
great advocate—Herter CLAY.
UFA leading trait among the would-be nobility of
our country is the high estimation in which they hold
the roles of politeness; and they will always find "mit
igating circumstances" for the most .agrnnt uffences,if
they are only committed in a genteel manner. Polite
ness has always been a great thing in our country. It
has enabled many a specious scoundrel to cheat the
confiding workman out of his hard earned wages; it has
shielded many a wholesale swindler from the just pun
ishment, of his rascally conduct, and enabled him Loge
unwhipped of justice, for crimes, which, if committed
by those without the pale of the "polite circles," would
be visited with the heaviest condemnation of public op
inioa. Politeness is now regarded as a leading quali
fication for public favor, and he who cannot bow, and
*crape, and talk according to the established rules of
fashionable society, is voted vulgar, and is regarded to
be much such a personage as Shakspeare considered
him who bad "no music in his soul." Such is the mo
rality of the age in which we live. During the recent
trial of a number of gentlemen who robbed the Plite
nix Beak at Charlestown, Masp., there was a little oc
currence which will serve to show the value of polite
ness, and how much may be accomplished by excluding
all vulgar allusions from a trial. Mr. WEBSTER Was
counsel for the prisoners, and in the course of the trial
(says the Globe) he called upon the prosecuting attor
ney to show what his client did with the money—what
use he had made of it. (It seems that the law requires
proof of a conversion to the embezzler's own use, to
support an indictment for embezzling.) The prosecu
ting attorney instantly retorted, that $l,OOO of the em
bezzled money had been given to Mr. Webster as a fee.
Mr. Webster exclaimed, "This is vulgar,—too vulgar,"
and thus, without denying the fact, completely, in the
eyes of his partisans, put down his antagonist, and set
up his client and h imself. The whole concern was
Whio.therefore, all attacks on it - were "vulgar."
EXTRAORDINARY HOLE IN THE EARTH.-A friend
of the Journal of Commerce, just returned from the
south, tells them that about 40 miles this side of Tus
caloosa, °tithe road to Huntsville, the driver pointed
to a large hole in the field, which he said was the
gri-setest curiosity in the world. The passengers went
to thd spot, and found a round hole about 70 feet in
diameter, with the earth ou all sides apparently solid,
and overgrown with grass. There was water at the
rtom, apparently 100 feet from the surface It is at
top of a ridge of earth, upon which, at the distance
~flnitod,s, stood the deserted dwelling of the owner of
?iodation. The driver stated that about three
_ E.:s ago, in the dusk of the evening, the planter was
. tied by a rumbling noise, and stepping from his
:. , c. was astonished to tlnd that a magnificent pine tree
than a hundred f'et high. and a noble oak which
stood by its side in tho oficaiekOinl both disappeared!
On going to tho spot, dais hole tippenred, but nothing
wait to be seen of the trees, n 4. has ti. 161 , of them
ever been matched—though a *landing iMe has been
sent down-tlnie hundred feet. Ale planter deemed
it:unsure to remain so near a neighbor to such a catas
trophe, htst that should befal him and his family which
befel the pine and dic Oak; and so he removed to an
other house a mile distant, yet nothing of the kind has
happened since, and the wonder still remains unite'
counted fur.
Of the seventeen fire companies in this city,
(says the Baltimore Ameriatn,)eleven have provided
themselves with handsome libraries. The movement
is a good one, and we hope to be able soon to announce
that all the companies have resorted to the same means
of promoting mental and moral improvement among
their members.
We would commend this to the attention of our
Pittsburgh Firemen. We think their time of a winter's
evening would pass over more agreeably and profita
bly in a good library than to spend it in -roasting pota
toes and onions at their engine houses, ashes been the
custom, we are told, Nvith some of them heretofore.
lIUMBUGGERY.—One of the latfet, and at the same
time, the mist unblushing pieces of humbuggery and
attempted deception that we have heard of, was that
practised by a Whig amdidate for: Ace in Tennessee,
who, in order to prove that the notes of tint defunct
United States Bank were the best currency ever known
in our country, actually gave let dollars and twenty
cents, in specie, for a ten dollar bill on that wo rt hl ess
concern! "A fool and his money soon parted."
How gratified the victims of the great Itegula
-tot in Pennsylvania would be if some of the wing po
liticians who pew rich on the plunder of that vast
thieving concern, would prove their attachment to this
only principle of whiggery in the manner that the
Tennessee politician, did. They, however, are not
quite so soft.
PROSPECTS OF A Row IN MOBILE.—We learn that
Shauock, who stabbed a tnan named Bassford, having
been admitted to hail by the Mayor of Mobile, immedi
ately left the city. In the meantime Bassford has
died of his wounds, and the absence of Shattuck has
caused an .excitement in the place, "the result of
which," says a late Mobile paper, "it is impossible to
predict."
That prince of suckers, Beau Hickman, was
palmed upon some western merchants, a few nights
since, in Baltimore, as COUNT D'ORSA Y. They took
him to the Italian Opera, feasted him on all the luxu
ries of the saloon, received a pressing invitation to rail
on him at Bantam's, and when he made his "adjo" they
were informed of the rotil character of the person they
had been regarding with so much wonder and admira
tion.
ritrA very numerous meeting of noblemen and
gentlemen was held in London, on the 4th of August,
to consider and adopt a memorial to the Queeq, ask
ing her to make some decided and public manifestation
other aversion to the unchristian practice of duelling.
MONEY MATTERS IN CINCINNIETI.—The Enquirer,
says:—"There is no stir in the money world, there is
none wanted for nay large commercial operations at
this time, and•of course the banks aro not applied to.
If they were, good paper would be discountaby the
most of them.
"For the past two or three weeks there has nut bten
much change in the rates of uncunent money. The ,
brokers are drawing on the East h.. & per ventum pre
mium for Indiana and Ohio country. paper. Specie
is nut in demand."
NEW OnLEANs. Money is abundant in New Or
leans. The Diamond, howeverfisays that it does nut
circulate to any alarming extent.
The Picayune expresses the belief that the Yellow
Fever will not assume an epidemic character this sea
son. Six physicians were one day seen playing ten
pins together—a very good evidence of the healthful
ness of the city.
COUNTERFEIT INDIANA NOTES, Of the denomination
of five dollars, have lately been put in circulation west.
A woman was arrested in Cincinnati, on the 21st inst.
with a quantity of these notes in her possession, and
she stated that her husband had gone to Portsmouth
with a large batch, to have them signed. We /lave
seen no description of them,but our citizens should be
on their guard, as they will nu doubt find their way here.
LootsviLtE.—This city has lately taken a fresh
start. New buildings are going up in all directions,
and cheerfulness and activity pervade the business cir
cles. We are pleased to hear this, for the tido of em
igration to the west, and the rapid strides and superior
location of Cincinnati, were fast depriving Louisville
of all the elements of her prosperity, and rendering her
a place of but secondary importance.
ar The Quebec Mercury states, that an ingenious
mechanic in that city, of the name of Le Moine, has in
vented a fire engine, which combines great power, with
the means of providing against the freezing of the ca
ter during the excessive cold of our winter months.—
The novelty consists in the introduction of a small fur
nace, which, it is believed, will answer the pat-pose
contemplated by the projector, that of keeping the wa
ter from freezing.
'Mrs. Jane Hall, who was the consort of the
late William Hall, one of the earliest printers of the
city of Baltimore, and the partner of Benjamin Frank
lin in printing and publishing the first newspaper in
Philailelphia,died at Salem, N. J., on Wednesday morn
ing of lastweek, in the 38th year of her age.
13P.A disastrous fire occurred at Milton, Mass, on
Saturday night. It destroyed the Dorchester and
Milton Bank, the large tavern adjacent, the chocolate
manufactory of Mr. Baker, and several inferior build-
a?' The Seneca Chiefs assembled at the Council
House, near Buffalo, N. Y., on Wednesday, to receive
the $lO,OOO annuity due from the Government, and a
quantity of goods.
OZTPerfumed loco foco matches, for ladies' toilettes,
are the latest Yankee invention.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE FARMERS.—The New York
Sun says:—"We understand that the Western has
brought out orders to purchase flour for the English
market. About a thousand barrels of Genessee have
been taken on English account at five dollars, and freight
has been engaged for four thousand barrels to Liver
pool. The English orders generally limit the price to
five dollars and less. If the Banks and speculators in
the agricultural marts will only observe caution, the
prospect is that we may be able, to supply the appre
hended deficit in the English crops. Fortunately for
the country, a large part of the irredeemable currency
of the West has been swept away, and there is now a
bright prospect that the vast crop of this year will be
market6d at prices which will yield a fair remunem
tio:. to the farmer, and a great addition to the ceneral
wealth ofthc coon try."
FLOOD IN NEW YORK
The New York papers of Wednesday give long ac
counts of damage by the heavy rains of Tuesday morn
ing. The streets and lower stories of buildings, thro'
a great part of the city were completely overflowed,
and much property destroyed. Several pccsons nar
rowly escaped with Oleic lives: from tile caving in of
walls and pavements.
By 1 o'clock in the afternoon application had been
made attbe Corporation Yard for 40 engines, and sev
eral were furnished and set in motion. In the after
noon a number of our Fire companies turned out with
their machines and gave their neighbors a friendly lift.
Many of our streets, from thenumber and noise of the
engines at work, presented the appearance of a fire
having occurred rather than a flood. Application fur
the loan of pumps, also poured into the pump and block
marker shops from all quarters . .
On Long Island and Staten Island the rain was e
qually heavy, and the roads and grounds in many pla-.
ces completely flooded. From all quarters there are
accounts of damages to houses, roads, gardens, &c.
A man passing along near the Heights at Brooklyn,
had a leg and arm broken bs the caving of a bank; an
ice curt too was crashed, and the horse
110 spacious Hotel at Fort Hamilton had 5 or 6
feet water in the kitchen at daylight. A large house,
just opipteirite4o tine hotel, was moved several feet by
the force of the falling waters.
At the Narrows, a house situated on the shore al
most immediately under the Telegraph, occupied by an
Irish laborer and his family, consisting of live persons,
was moved 50 feet by an avalanche o f c art h f rom the
hill, and the back part crushed, bnryit , under its ru
ins two men and a child, the latter being
The two Inca were dug out of the ruins much bruised.
The damage sustained mound the different Fulls is
estimated at $5OOO.
The house owned and occupied by Mr. Gumar, as a
boarding house, W ati for some time in a critical situa
tion. One of the pillars was washed away, the founda
tion in one place forced in, and the lower part com
pletely filled with the roaring flood. The female part
of the family were forumately rescued from their peril
ous situation.
The Pavilliun ut New Brighton is not injured, but
dm beautiful terrace along the liver is much damaged.
Must of the residences along the bank have suffered
by the flood; and the gardens un the slope are all wash
ed away.
The - hills back of Richmond presented the appear
ance of a magnificent cascade; such was the deluge of
rain pouring down their sides.
Gentlemen residing at Newark, N. J., came to New
York on Tuesday in their own conveyances, the cars
being unable to pass over the rail road. The seven
o'clock train came as far as the deep cut at Bergen,
and tvus compelled to return in consequence of the
embankment there being washed away. Some damage
was also done just beyond, at the junction of the Pat
terson and New Jersey roads'. The nine o'clock Phil
adelphia train did not go out yesterday morning.
The New Jersey railroad trains ‘‘rie ail iaterrupt
ed, owing to the water which was accumulated ou the
track in the deep cutting at Bergen Hill; together with
rocks and earth washed down from the hills.
West of the Bergen Hill no damage was done—the
ears arriving regularly at Newark.
The Newark Morning Postsayin—‘The dams of the
Washington Factory, the Franklin Factory, and Jo
raLemott s Factory on First river, which were carried
away two weeks agoOnd have since been repaired at a
heavy expenses, were swept from their foundations a
gain. We have not yet heard from the country around
us, but fear that muclidamage has been done.'
THE RELLNC. I'ASSIuN
Ten years ago, we had not passed through so many
scenes calculated to indurate the heart us we have
since. We then resided at Vernon, in this county.—
In the autumn of 1833, the congestive fever raged in
that vicinity. but, notwithstanding death was busy at
his work, there were sonic half dozen of the citizens of
the village who daily met at 31!„'er's grocery for the
purpose of whiling away the time at a game of"poker."
Among the number was Squire W., who had a child
lying at the point of death; in the midst of the game his
servant broke into the room, exclaiming., "31issus ba
by are wno, and 31 issus wants you to mime quick Alas
sa." The Squire rose slowly firm the table, and slid
his "quarters" as slowly imo his purse. "Gentlemen,"
said the Squire, "pass my hand tin• a ti•w minutes, if
you please," and he ltdi. In about half an hoer he re
turned and resumed his place at the table; after some
time it occurred to one of the gentlemen, that it might
I.)_ polite to ask the Squire about the child. "Ah,"
said he, directing his conversation towards Squire W.,
(rather parenthetically,) "how is your child?" ••Think
you," said the Squire, "it is dead."
How often have the best feelings of the human heart
been seared and blighted under the withering induct
ees of debasing appetites! Let the devotees of fash
ionable fully and sensual indulgence answer. When
once the mind roams in pursuit of objects to gratify vo
luptuous appetites, or seeks to gratify the morbid de
sires of avarice or excitement in play, farewell to all the
gentle charities!
Squire %V. was naturally a good and benevolent
man; we have seen him on the judicial bench and in
the halls of legislation, hut never have we seen him on
the bench, at the bar, or in the forum, but our he••trts
has frozen us we remembered the words, "It is dead."
—Mississippi Creole.
TII E WEST. —ln the money article of the New York
Herald, we find the following:
"The West will lie supplied with money by the sales
of their own produce, which is rapidly gaining favor
in England. The progress of business is also indica
ted in the statistics of the Erie Canal, that great chan
nel of communication between Now York city end the
West. Official tolls to first. of August show the tons of
merchandise shipped on the canal, distinguishing that
distributed fur consurriptiou through the State of New
York, and that passed on to other States of the West.
The year 1839 was the great year of bank expan
sions and large imports. The figures show that in that
year, as compared with the present year, the West
bought o 0 per cent. more goods'and sold 50 per cent.
less flour; that is, in 1839, the Western States bought
one ton of goods for every thirteen barrels of flour sot.
This year they pay fur what they buy. The aggregate
quantity of goods sent west has beim scarcely greater
than last year, when exchanges were so much in favor
of the United States, but the Southern trade has been
much lamer. The tolls on die Western public works
continue to show increasing amounts.
These sc-olling tolls are frem the increase of produce
shipped; altogetli(r., tsic imatirt of merchandise. as in
dicated being
no larger than last year. The
whole aspect of the Union is one of great promise,—
Every thing looks well in a commercial and financial
point of view, and nothing but the unhappy propensity
of lawyers and politicians to meddle with the affairs of
private individuals, stands in the way of the highest
degree of national prosperity. '.fhe attempt to graft
the - exploded monarchical system of taxation and op
pression upon republican institutions, cannot but be
ruinous.
MicHioss.—The Detroit Free Press, in remarking I ,
upon banks, gives the following good advice to the far
mers of . ..Michigan:
"Now that the farmers have got their wheat nearly
harvested and ready for market, they may expect the
agents of unsound, dishonest, rotten banks among them
to purchase the fruits of their labor with paper trash.
We, therefore, feel it our duty to warn you, farmers,to
be careful how you prirt with your earnings for worth
less bank paper. You can just as well get good funds
as poor, specie as paper, if you demand it, fur every
bushel of your wheat you have to sell. By all means,
take no paper money except the bills of old established,
honestly conducted, well known banks. When you
find a wheat buyer ofierinz to pay a little more than the
current cash price, provided you will take the bills of
any particular banks, look out for fraud. And be par
ticularly careful bow you take the bills of those banks
of this State which have been started upon old, dead,
defunct, decayed charters, the nominal stock of which
is owned by no body knows who, and no body knows
where. The late explosion of the Merchants' Bank of
Jackson, (which the Maumee' Times lays to the villai
ny of Ohio spe , . dators at Toledo, who plundered our
citizens ~ vith the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Bank
at Adrian,) should be taken as a warning."
MILLER ISM.—The last number of the "Midnight
Cry" (Miller's paper) says:—"We shall commence a
new volume next week, to be completed (if time conti
nues!!) in 26 numbers!" Some time since, the editor
gave notice that he should ~üblish his "Cry" as long
as lime continued,—but et that period the 23d of
April had nut come.
Cttl•N O,PHONG-CHOW-TNE CHINESE IN-
TERPRETER.'
Our Mission to China, placed in the bands of the
Hon. Caleb Cushing, has excited a great interest i n
the public mind, andthis,has extended to all the details
of his outfit, from the silk flag to the gold lace upon
his costly Court costume. It is not expected that
Mr. Cushing will ever learn the Chinese language, eith
er written or spoken, thou;:11 a man of his industry and
research isyery likely to do somethingatthe former, As
our readers know.perhaps, they are not at all alike. He
will therefore be obliged to have an interpreter, and to
procure a competent one, who should be an American.
the Commissioner being completely in his power,—is
rather on important matter. It reminds us of an anec
dote told of Capt. Crosby, who formerly sailed in those
seas, a down-easter, well acquainted with the Chinese
but who did nut know a word oldie lauguage, which is
the must monstrous and unintelligible, seemingly, in
the world, being nothing but ching chong chow chong
citing, and so on to the end of the chapter, Several
American vessels 'were lving at Whampoa, when there
came down from Canton me of the large Chinese junks
of nearly a thousand tons, with one immense mast stuck
up in the centre. and a single sail reaching from the
mast head t' the deck, the queerest of all water craft.
The American captains waiting fur their cargoes, were
having fine times, dining with each other every day,
and when this junk came down they proposed to go on
board. 'But what shall we do for an interpreter?' said
they. 'Crosby, can you talk their lingo?' Capt. Cros
by was of that breed of Yankees who were never known
to plead ignorance of anything, and so answered yes,
of course. It was immediately determined that next
day the whole party would pay the Chinaman a visit;—
Crosby wan in a fix, but he determined to go through
with it as best he might. Su ho culled a Chinese bum
boatman alongside, and.told him to go and tell the Chi
nese commander that the American captains were
coming next day to pay him a visit, and see his vessel.—
At the proper hour they went on board. They were
received with due ceremony. 'Ching Chung,
&s., said the Chinaman. 'What dues he say, Crosby,'
asked the Americans. 'll4 says he is very happy to
see us aboard.' Well thank him, and ask him what
the tonnage of this vessel is.' Ching thong citing chow
thong, etc.' said Crosby. The Chinese thought he
was talking English, while his friends could not dis
tinguish it from Chinese. 'Ching chong chong,
said the Chinaman, with imperturbable gravity. So
they went on, taking tea, and Crosby managing by
shrewd guesses to gratify the curiosity of his country
men: no slight job, as we may fancy. At last, just as
they were takingleave, one of them said, 'Crosby, tisk
him how they ever managed to get that great mast in
to the junk.' Crosby was put to his trumps, but he
was not going to give it up so. He went to thing
chong,ing and gestulating furiously. Not to be outdone
in civility, the Chinaman ching chouged in return with
greatei volubility. 'What does he say, Crosby?' ask
ed the eager auditors. 'Why,' said die Captain, look
ing aloftdeliberately, 'he says they found that tree grow
ing on the sea shore, and built the junk around it, and
when they had got all remits- to lauzA, they sawed it off
at the bottom!' ft has been the prevailing belief, ever
since, that this i, the mile oiChinese ship building.—
We hope Mr. Cushing may find as ready and inge
nious interpreter.—N, Y. Sun.
AFFAIRs IN MADRID—AMERICAN MINISTER IN
SPAIN.—The European correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, under date of 31st July, writes RS fol
lows:—"Since the date of the letter in which I men
tioned Mr. Irving, the American Minister at Madrid,
we have recent and direct intelligence of him. He had
so far recovered from die malady with which he was
confined far several weeks, as to be able to pass days
abroad on his feet and in his carriage,. observing the
popular excitement and the preparation fur defence.
Ile felt ma the least apprehension for himself; indeed
even the British ladies looked to his hotel for refuge
in case of an assault from the troops at the gates The
cry without was "Death to the Englisleayacuchos!" as
it hnd been on the former revolution, 'Death to die
Frenchitied-Spaniards!" The young Queen and her
sister would gladly have put themselves under the shel
ter of the American Legation, rather than remain ex
posed in the palace as a prize to the victors M a despe
rate street affray. My informant mentions that the
only American whom he knows to be in Madrid, and
often with Mr. Irving, was Mr. Sumner, of Boston, a
gentleman distill gutshed for personal merit and exten
stye travel. Mr. Hamilton, of the Legation, was ab
sent in the Pyrenees. Among the reflecting and best
instructed of the foreigners at Madrid, but one opinion
prevailed: Espartero was deemed the only loader who
could achieve any stability of government and national
coherence; his popularity was, however, so far under
mined by false charges, adapted to reigning prejudi
ces in' the different divisions of the kingdom that the
mitaicipalties, subalterns in the army so subject to cor
rupt influonces, dial,' if he could have triumphed over
the insurrectien, he wpuld have experienced insupera
ble difficulty fur any regular or tranquil administration
of affairs. This struggle was considered the begin
ning of a UM series of conflicts, not merely for power
in the Royal Goverammt. but for ascendancy in the
antagonist provinces, cities, and even villages, and
among the military forces, split into political and per
sonal parties, and driven in different directions by num
berless secret societies."
Salting and Prescrring Butter.—We annex a re
ceipt upon this: subject, and will take the occasion to
say, that we have no doubt it is a good out., though we
should prefer one we have used and know to be good.
The paragraph below states that butter packed away
as therein directed will keep ten years. Upon this
part of the subject we cannot speak from any knowledge
of our own; but with regard to the time it will keep,
put away agreeably to the receipt we shall give., tVO are
enabled to speak advisedly, as our butter was - 1 . ) otted
in the month Of dune, and was as f:Weer ical fresh when
opened for use in the month of D ci tither
EIS wlwn fi.r.st tirade, having preserved all its tidiness of
Hata
We took siz ottaces of fine Liverpool blown salt, four
ounces of saltpetre, and six ounces ofloaf sugar, and af
ter pulverdiing die whole, so as to make a fine powder,
we incurp waled it with the butter, after die buttermilk
had been thoroughly worked out, at the rate of one
ounce to the pound; then packed it away in stone jars,
the tips of which lVt` covered, lirst with clean cloths,
and then with bladders, so as to completely exclude the
air. Thus treated when fresh and well nnule, we have
no hesitation in suvicg that butter would keep any de
sirable length of thou', though we should be unwilling
to risk the opinion that it would keep, as maintained ia
the rvceipt below, ten years.—Ainerican Fa MC I%
J' ,all Buller.—Beat well up together in a marble
mortar, half a pound of common salt, with four ounces
of powdered loaf-sugar, to every pound of newly made
butter, (the milk being well drawn off by beating) put
an ounce of the mixed powder, incorporate it well: put
the butter in pots fur keeping. In about a month—not
before—it will be fit for use, and it will continue for
ten years us good as butter newly salted.
AMERICAN STATE DEBTS
The London Observer of the 31st July states that
the gentlemen at the Hague who signed the petition to
the American charge d'affaires, respecting the non
payment of the interest of the North American loans,
have recently received an answer from the charge d'af
faires in the name of his Government. The answer in
formed them that while the President fully feels the
force of the obkation which the States have upon
themselves, is contracting their debts, and is fully per
suaded that their obligations will be fulfilled at no very
distant period, nevertheless, he (the charge d'affaires)
is most strictly enjoined by the Secretary of State to
declare, in the most formal and positive terms, that it
is the decided and irrevocable resolution of the Genet al
Government not to agree to be held responsible in any
manner whatever for the non performance of those ob
ligations. The charge d'afaires, however, states his
conviction that the present state of affairs in the Uni
ted States, upon the whole, is such as to encourage the
hope that credit will be gradually t estored."
RESTRAINTS* ON MARRIAGE.-Sit J. K. Bruce gave
judgment in the Vice Chancellor's court last week on
a point respecting wills. A testator, in 1834, made a
Hill, by which he gave a share of his estate to his daugh
ter and her issuer' but by a codicil, added in 1836, he
provided that his property should pass over to other
persons if his daughter should marry. The daughter did
marry and the "other persons" stepped forward to
claim the money. The judge said that all such re
straints were void by the English law; and the declar
ation of the ccurt was, that the lady should keep the
money.—Landon paper.
AN EARTHQUAKE. AT Si/L.—Capt. Crowell, of the
barque Autdlian, arrived at Boston, from Cadiz, reports
that on the 31st ult., In a taitude 35, longitude 36, he ex
perienced a sever gliolt, of an earthquake.
WIIIG MAXIMS
Heavy taritTs make goofs fall—heavy *Ms make
rivers fell.
. .
'rile more yOl.l tIX the. manufactured goods the cheap
er they become--lie more you pay fur an article, the
Icsa itcosts von.
Every nation ought nut to be independent in itself—
the best way to be independent is to buy nothing and to
sell nothing. Therefore every man ought to make his
own hat:, shoes, and clothes, shoe his own horse, make
his own ploughshares and his own gins, and raise, his
own corn and cotton, tea, sugar and coffee.
Distribution of the proceeds of the sales of the
public lands, "/Zetreachinent"—giving away our in
comes and borrowing money to pay our debts, "ECO7tO..
Making hauls paper adding to tho wealth of a commu
nity—wealth is only imaginar!, , , let a man fancy him
selfrieh, and he is rich—call a piece of paper a 'dollar,
and it is a dollar.
Maintaining and supporting the constitution of the
United States, taking the V ZTO POWEtt out of it—ad
ding to the strength of a wheel, taking out the spokes.
T lie best way to encourage trade is to check impor
tations—the best way to regulate commerce is to destroy
it.
Equal laws, taxing one portion of the Linen for the
beziefit of the other—making one part bear three-Aftbs
of the bucdens and giving die other four-fifths of the
benefits.
To the above admirable maxims. we would take the
liberty of adding another, taken from the writings of
sonic celebrated philosopher, whose name we cannot
now recollect.
Friondship, knocking a man down, tying his hands
and then picking hii pockets.
The fountain at Union Park, being is Bill play and
illuminated with gas lights, attracts crowds olvishors,
and is really a splendid afihir. A new feature has been
introduced, by the hiring of chairs, after the French
fashion. One of our Broadway exquisites, on Wednes
day evening:, was about accommodating himself to a
seat:—'•Those chairs arc to hire, Sir," said the woman
in attendance. "How much!" "Two cents each."
"Give me five," said the dandy. The woman collected
and brushed the chairs, and he seated himself on one
—bung an arm over the other two--and a leg for each;
coolly took out a Principe segar, lit it with a locofoco
match, and in this position eaoed most luxuriously mi
the foaming, cascade; to the infinite amusement of tho
bystanders "May I trouble you for one of thosechairs
for a lady?" said one of the pedestrians. "Can't part
with anyhired 'em Thingamy there will
accommodate von."—Noales Messen 're r.
THE WARREN, N. J. MURDER AGAIN
The Newark, N. J. Advertiser of the '22 st inst., says
another item of evidence in the dreadful Warren tra
gedy is said to have been revealed, and that through
the instrumentality of a dog—which was seen some
few days ago dragging a bloody coat from ander Car
ler's barn, the prisoner new in custody on suspicion.—
On examination it proved to be Carter's coat!—very
much stained with blood. his further rumored that
the servant girl who lived in Carter's family, at the
time of the murder, said that Mrs. C washed her hus
band's clothes the next morning up stairs—which she
had never done before. There are other strong cir
cumstances against the prisoner, who is related by
marriage to Mr. Parke, one of the murdered family,
who was a bachelor, and whose property, in the usual
course of descent, would have been inherited by the
children of Mrs. Costner, who was also murdered with
her husband and infant. Mr. Carter's wife, it is said,
would have been the next heir.
NEW TEA Ist OLD BoxE3.—lt will probably be no
news to our readers who deal iu tea, that the contents
of a package is not always to he certainly known by
the mark on the outside. The old tea boxes are bought
up and filled ngain,and the second filling is not sum to
be so good as the first, and is very apt to be a great
deal worse. Nut unfrequently the first contents are
taken out through the bottom, so that the perfect sound
ness of the top in its original condition is demostratiun
absolute. to careless observers, that the original tea is
still inside. But besides this, old tea boxes arc made
outright—old the moment they arc finished. We make
China tea boxes and print China labels, jest as well as
they do in China itself, and the labels are just as read
able to our people, though they perhaps may lack some
marks which would change the meaning to a C'hina
man, entirely. What we mean to say is, that in these
times, looking at the outside of a package is not a safe
way to judge of tm.—Journal of Com.
• AN UNEXPECTED AND PAINFCI. DEATH.- A
yol mg man name Robert Twigs, died yesterday morning
under circumstances of a painful nature, & which should
prove a caution to others. His residence was in north
cove street, near:Columbia. On Monday he skinned a
cow, which his now supposed died from the effects of
poison. He had at the time a slight sore on his hand.
On the same day his hand becan inflamed,and with
his arm swelled to an enormous ex:teat, with excessive
pain. In this condition, sufrering, extreme agony, he lin
gered until yesterday morning, when he died. Doc
tor Smith was in attendance, and advised the amputa
tion ef the limb, but this would not be consented to.
—Various parts of the body of the deceased exhibit the
effects of a poisunoni inwalatinn.—Batt. San.
NOTES
The following is an account of the average aggregate
amount of promheory notes, payable to bearer on de
mand, which have been in circulation in the Unitea
Kingdom of Great Britain, and of the average amount
of bullion in the Bunk of England during the 4 weeks
ending the day of July, 1843.
FIiGL.LND
Bank of England,
Private Banks,
Joint Stock Bank,
SCOTLAND.
Chartered private and joint stock banks, 2,665,325
IRELANE
Bunk of Ireland,
Private and joint stock banks,
Bullion in the Bank of Englanil, .+:11,872,000
HENRY L. WICKHAM.
Office Stamps and Taxes, Aug. 4, 1343.
DUELLING IS ENGLAND.—The Corocer', quest on
the body of Cul. Fawcett terminated on the 1 Stir Hit.—
The jury, after an absence of an hour and a half return
ed the following verdict:
"We find Alexander Thompson Munro, Duncan
Trevor Grant, William Holland Leech and Daniel Cud
dy, guilty of wilful murder, as principals in the first
degree; and George Gidliverguilty of wilful minder in
the second degree, believing him present only as a med
ical man."
The jury, by direction of the coroner, again retired,
and ultimately it was understood that Mr Gulliver was
to be forthwith committed, on the coroner's warnint to
Newgate.
Tax LAKES.-With the present rapidity of travel
ling, when we pass between America and Europe in
nine days, as has just been done by the Hibernia, with
the prospect of doing it in seven—when we are driven
from New York to Niagara in a little more than twenty
four hours. the trip to Mackinaw and Chicago becomes
a mere holiday excursion; and those who have never
sailed over those magnificent inland seas, will do well
to pass up the Maumoe some misty moonlight night,
to see the spires of Detroit glittering in the rising sun
beams, to waken with their joyous shouts the primeval
forests around St. Clair, to contrast the pure cluystal
depths of Lake Huron with the bright blue waters of
Erie and Michigan; to eat trout weighing sixty pounds,
fresh from the clear cold waters of !V ackinaw, and
snuff the perfumed breezes that sweep over the prairies
of Wisconsin. It is a grand voyage, and as perform
ed in the Lake steamboats, a charming excursion.—
The steam packets between Buffalo and Chicago are
splendid. The accommodations, the style, the living,
are as princely as our sovereign people need desire,
and it is a glorious thii.7, to pass, like a meteor through
New York, touch at Pennsylvania, visit the beautiful
cities of Northern Ohio, almost circumnavigate Michi
gan, coast along the wild shores of Canada, pass alone
the whole eastern shore of Wisconsin, spend aday at the
principal city of Illinois, and finally returning, to touch
for a. few hours on the shores of Indiana, thus visiting,
in a more pleasure excursion of a few days. six sove
reign States, one Territory, and a British Province.—
For health, for comfort, for enjoyment, we do not know
of a better trip than this, and it can be accomplished,
without any extraordinary economy. for less than fitty
dollars, which is the best of the whole arrangement.—
N. Y. Sun.
The following ccett4• u cl,arrh
at Edgbasto, Ewer, 4 find in our C, t 14.1 j r ap.'rs
The members : of Fri,.:Jd-, ±, th,:?asziti
pract i ce, ent ,„ . ..1 ::„• Leialin4 to vctr: : . Lerch
rate, with ti, ir hats or a:al use attar anethrr took
them off, a= i; i; c,;:•,.•.nient or a. , rereab.e ter mto
do h-0 the, comni..!aced, only one or two
remained ~'ove red, a.,,1 wee made diet they should .
take their hat: off Mr. Sturm, who bad previonsiy
taken his :1:1; thll,l said, that if this was petsiated, in as
he did not take his hat off in deference to the bricks and
mortar in the building, he should put it on again, which
he did, and his example was followed by a number of
others. Shortly after this Mr. Pixell, the son of the
rector, requested Mr. Sturge to take his has off. Mr.
Sturge declined doing so, remarking that he meant no
disrespect to any one in keeping his hour; but 41- bik
did not take it ()Wen going into his own place of wor
ship, he did not intend to do so on that occasion. Mr.
then said '•Perhaps you will let me take it of
for you ?" atthe same taking hold of the brim of Mr.
Stnrge's hat, but Mr. St urge haying placed his hand
firmly on the crown, the attempt failed. On gotng to.
tender his vote, the parties acting in behalf of the rec
tor objected to take it, alleging as the ground of their
objection that their was an act of Parliament, authori
zing them to refuse any vote tendered with the hat on.
The salmi objection was made to Mr. South -01, M. J.
Cadbury, and others. The English editor doubts the
existence uf such an act of Parliament.
AN EC DOTE OF JOHN RAN DOL
An Irishman. in the New Mirror, relates the follow
ing anecdote. illustrating the marvellous geographical
knowledge of .John Randolph:
"My knowledge of 1 inland," said he to me, "deems
to a:t..liii , hvnu as much as it did a servant of Mr. Can
ning's. at Washington, the other day. He brought
me a note from his master—who, by the by, is a very
superior man, sir—and the moment bespoke lat once
detected the 31u ucicr man—for he had a fine rich
brogue; so, thinks 1, I'll have some fun."
"So, John, you're from Munster, are you not?" said
"I am, plaice your honor," replied he, surprised at
my queFtion.
"Front the county Clare, I presume'!" (Thi3 wash
guess on me part as to the county.)
"Yes, sir," said he, still more astounded.
"What town did you live in?" continued 1.
"The Town of Ennis, sir."
"Oh," said 1, laughing; know Ennis very well.
Pray does Sir Edward 'O'Brien still live at Dromolandt"
"He does, indeed, sir."
"And Mr. Stackpoole at Edenvalel"
"Yes, surely, sir.
"And the Knight of Glin at ShannonvaleV'
"Yes, sir," and then, after a pause and a low bow,
he added, "might I make bould to at, sir, how long
your honor lived in Clare?"
"I never was there at all," replied I, "but hope to bo
very soon."
'Oh, sir, said he, "don't be afiher fooling see, for
you must be a bit of an Irishman; you have the brogue,
and you know as much of the eounthry as I do myself,
and more too, 1:111
"It was in vain that I assured him I had never been
in Ireland; he went away still insisting that I had lived
there; which . faet he told to Mr. Canning, who was
very much amused nt the way in which Ihad puzzled
poorlm. as he told me himself nextaay."
THE SLAV ' UESTION AND TEXAS.
The Galveston Civilian denies, "on the best authori
ty," the"report" that Capt. Elliot had been "instruct
ed to propose to the Government-of Texas, the aboli
tion of slavery, as the price of active intervention of the
Government of Great Britain to compel Mexico into
terms of peace." The same "report' has also been
copied by nearly all the papers in the United States on
the authority of the New Vork Albion. The New Or
leans Bulletin, commenting on the above, remarks:
..
"The report itself we never happened to meet with.
Whorever it originated, indeed, its absurdity, we think,
would prevent it from having general eirculation.-i
Great Britain does not do heti work, solsanglingly. In
the first place, she has not proposed to "compel M tnikel
into terms of peace," and if she had, she would not be
far from alarming the fears of Texas by demanding
"priee"for her good offices. In the second place,. Eng
lish meditation in the affairs of weaker States, is always
real•. She asks no pay fer a frienil!y inierposilioa,
which is all that she has yet offered, between Mexico,
and Texas; and thmigh no doubt her influence will be
feltin whatever negotiations may take place between
those Stites, it is not probable that she will assume so
antinma five a tone as is applied in the "report" above
contradicted. England will establish a degree of pow
er in Texas, by a conciliator). deportment, before she
assumes to dictate in so delicate a manner."
BUFFALO HUNT, AND LAS3O RIDING. — Tbeft is
much ;peculation among all classes in this city and
vicinity, ri:liecting the great buffalo hunt and 1n350
riding proposed to come off in a short time atsorne suit
al le blac rnlivenrent to New Tod;-.probably at
,friol , oken or Harlem. We learn that an eAkmaen
ced hooter from the prairies is approaching
New York with a herd of Buffalo, and he proposes
to slow Cu a apecimen of the wild sports of the west.
N. Y. Herald.
I . .TV At'e arc pleased to learn that a negociation be
notv pon , lioiThetween the employing and journeymen
tailors of i'lliiadelphia. which can scarcely fail to bo
Productive of amicable remits•
E=.,4'Madarne D'Airusnost (Fanny Wright) lives
in Cincinnati, owns a fine property, and is building
herself a splendid establishment.
£ 19,809,000
4,460,093
Illthrr°l Nairal Gun mi Court Martial convened on
board the U. S. ship Poungyivania, a Norfolk, on t!
23d is t. , forthe trial of Lieutenant Addison R. Toga
ferro, and such others as may be brungbt before it.
2,810,312
Port of pittsburg4.
3,080,100
1,681.938
.11.eported by Sheble and Mitchell, General Ogees,'
Boat Agents, IVater street.
£34,545,794
TWENTY-I , OITE INCHES AVATER IN THE CHANNEL.
kccortlitig to Coppet Mark, at the Wood street Sewer
ARRIVED.
Warren, McDonald, ;
Richard Clayton Hough. Cincinnati
DEPARTED.
Ohio Mail, Warn: Cincinnati
Warren, McDonald, Beaver.
THEATRE.
First appearance of Miss CLARENDON.
First night of
THE FORTY THIEVES!.
The Manager has the pleasure of announcing that *la
Claremlen, the young American Actress,
will make her first appearance in
ELIZA, IN THE Derma 'CELLE.
After vohich the Drama of
THE FORTY THIEVES,
With all the original rnnEie,
PRICES OF Anur.stoN.—Dress Circle, 50 cents;
Second Tier, 37A cents; Pit, 25 cents; Upper Tier, 1.2 i
cents. The box sheet wiil be kept open daily from 10
to 12 and from 3 to 5 o'clock, where seats can be pro
cured on application to the Treasurer.
The most rigid order will be expected and enforced
by proper officers appointed for that purpose.
Pittsburgh Aqueduct
SEA LED PROPOSALS - willbe received at. the Col
lector's Office in Allegheny City, until 6 o'clock, P.
M. on Thursday, the .Bth September next, for the c e cat•
stniction of an Aqueduct, across the Allegheny River.
at Pittsburgh. Plans and specifications will be exhib
ited at said office, one week previous to the letting.
The mater'.. 11s in the present structure to be used, of
far as they are ,:'.lund and good.
ABS A j.. 0.211 MORRIS,
Supervisor W. D. Pa. Canal.
nu.v23-1.. wtd
AGF,NTI.L.MAN, who thoroughly understands
Book Keeping, wishes a situation in that cart—
ein: the best o: references will be given. Address H.,
at this office. aug 28—tr
13ORTRAIT PAINTING. J. OSBORN , Pelt
rail Painter, Fourth st., 3d story Burk's Bull
J. Osborne would solicit a call (rem those twit
ht ire Portrait.. Speimena can be seen at his rooms
may 5.
A HAT SCT.NI
w - id new sceneu, - by
Messrs. CovT.isr
Nan TON
TG "lei chants and Others.