wrwki. The project seemed feasible to some, but bet -4rui nf.r.yot Send out who was to buy these works.-;-Zfr. is vory'proreirle that we ban futes'a hlw- to sell the ::::115ijo: tic e• ts, end h 3 prearimed they eCitliti 'be sold too, exhilated any disposition towards repudie ' • aLitl:iC creditors' would seize upon them, to • say I yes likedrowuing Men catch at straws.— A',,l 1 not conceive that it was consistent with a .I.lorh-r ‘pirit of patriotism to make ourselves repudia -.or:, fin. the purpose of 'getting 'a Jaigain out of our 'Trltnt,r.i. Bat suppose we were terlitss a law for the sale of these works, suppose wp could get rid of them by sale and obtain twenty-five millions of dollar, for di , ,an, ought we to submit ourselves to the deinineer in; control of 'a foreign monopoly, because the com !•:.yany that would take these works would not be a cum -t3atty of. Pennsylvanians, but a company of John Bulls the =spices of Qeo een Victoria, and thus would wholedomMerce of Pennsylvania be placed in the baud; and under the supervision of the hereditary goy ‘•r-,.irent of Great Britain. Ought we as citizens of a 1,•,!/. Republic to place ourselves in the power of such a e‘anpany as third Let us turn to the acts of the Bri tish East India Company. There too was but a cozn • morcial company, yet, they have enslaved and sacrificed - Militias of men. What then are we to expect if we - .abject ourselves to the control of an overshadowing :.rreign corporation; and why should we rush on mad .fx to the footstool of Queen Victoria, crying "Help me, - Cassius, or I sink." He would not say, however, that he would not ' •time to a sale of the public works under proper ma fictions, if it was found that the state could not man- Thio them advantageously; but he was not prepared t) Sall them yeti Some gentlemen say, with great 4 - I:fccomplaceasey, that if you sell the public works for 0,000,000, you save one million of dollars a year in * eat; but theSe people forget that we derive a revenue the public works of about $600,000, and if we s•. 11 them we lose that, so that we would only be the t—iner of $400,000; therefore, we should have to t.onide for very nearly as much interest by taxation af tty a sale, as before. Now, sir, it;is known that we must raise $2,630,000 lu meet our eugagetnents, and the question arises what is, the most feasible mode of raising this sum. Vari ous sr.herrtes had been snggested, and he would beg leave to refer to them. In the first place, if we remain ce we are, and meet all our interest, the state of the rase will stand: Ordinary revenue of the government, $590,000; internal improvement revenue, $600,000; which will leave $1,530,000 to be raised by taxation. Then if we sell the public works , and meet the balan f ce interest, we will save irn interest $400,000; add to :'ris ordinary revenue of the government, $500,000; "ed itdeaves us 81,130,000 tobe raised by taxation.' Again: if we retain the public works, and suspend the , irool fund, diocese will stand thus: Income from the %-übiic works, $600.000, saved by school appropriation i , 340,000; ordinary revenue of government, $500,000, making in all $1,190,000; leaving to be raised by tax ation $1,190,000 . . Then if we sell dui+ public works and also suspend the school appropriation, the case will stand thus: Saving of interest $400,000; school appropriation saved, 340,000; ordinary revenue of government $500,000; loss of improvement revenue, s6oo,ooo—leaving to be provided $1,290,000; viz: by ordinary revenue $500,000 and by taxation $790,000. making in all $1,240,000; leaving to be raised by tax ation $1,390,000. This being the state of the case, he would respect. fully suggest whether it would not be better to retain the public works until a more favorable opportunity presented itself fur their sale. He was aware of the difficulties that surrounded the State, and be had sug gzatkrl various modes of extricating her from her em barrassments; and trusted they would be taken into enesideration by the House. There was one other rr- ,, 1e of getting rid of their present difficulties and em barrassments, but in his notes he had left it blank.— He had nerveenough to put down all the other modes suggested; but he admitted he not nerve enough to write down the word repudiation. Dig - ruses is ENGLAND.—We find, in looking over our London files, occasion to nous the painful extreme i' los to which persons are driven for meanie living.— Puente throw in a small sum of money into a society, f ~r providing decent burials for members of the family. Some parents belong to rranysuch. It is now ascertain ed, that with feelings that few in this country can com prehend. these iSitrenu aid in producing the death of musd their e' children, in order to procure the sum pay expenses. lt has come to be a com mas. whenthe child of a parent:who has thus contributed becomes sick, "Aye, aye, that child will nature, it is in the burial club." An instance is men tioned of a child's 41) ing, and a verdict being tender ed. "died through want of nourishment;" and then the parents enforced the payment of burial fees from ten clubs, amounting to £34 3s. "Two similar cases came under the notice of Mr. Coppock, the Clerk and Superintendent Register of the Stockport Unlace in both of which he prosecuted the parties fur murder. In ogle ease, where three chil dren had been„poisoned with arsenic,the father was tri ed, with the mother, and convicted at Cheater, and sentenced to be transported for life, but the mother was acquitted. In the other case, where the Judge sum 'ned up for a conviction, the accused, the father, was,to the astonishment of every one, acquitted. • * • " IL i. remarked on these dreadful cases by the Superin t-ndant Register, that the children, who were boys, nua therefore likely to be useful to the parents, were not poisoned; the female children were the victims.-- It was the clear opinion of the medical officers that in 'ontici.le, have been committed in Stockport to ob tain the burial money."—U. S, Gazette. DESTRI .UCTION OF LIVES AND : PROPERTY AT SEA FOR THE YEAR 1843. The principal . part of these were wrecked on our coast. to which may be added a number of which we have no account, except they were passed at sea, and their melancholy story remains untold. The following are the classes of vessels lost. Ships, 41 Barques, 31 Brig, , Schosoners, 88 Sloops, 1 12 Steamers, Total, 304 Of the above there were of English vessels, viz:— Ships 11; barques, 11; btip, 27; schooners, 9; stea ni ers, 3. Total, 61. To the above, we are pained to add that siz-hunixed and forty-two lines have been lost. - Ten vessels have been reported as missing whose crews, it is to be fear ed, have all perished.—Sailor's Magazin.a BRUTAL EXHIBITION. Death lathe Ring. A London paper notices a pugilistic conflict which recently wok place in the township of Sutton, adjoining to Macclesfield, which terminated in the death of one of the combatants, G. Hammond, and the committal f# manslaughter, un der the Coroner's warren t,ofhisarstagonist John C @imp, and six others, as aiding and abetting. Of these, Crump and three others only are yet in custody. They fought for two hours and twenty minutes, dining which time there were seventy or eighty rounds. The step fittior of the deceased appeared al the fight, towards the ohne. He then urged his step-son by telling him to stand up properly and he would mill his man direct ly, saying to him when he fell that he was not the right color to fight, rubbing his stunts and giving him water. 'One of his sons also appears to have acted as sauna' The finarresult was, that Hammond, on stan ding up to renew the fight, reeled &few paces back ,fell dos& 'rowel:Tay in a fit, was carried in an insensible state tot farmhouse, and expired before Surgir.al aid was procured. AN AhtERICAN BRIG SEARCHED BY A BRITISH MAN-OF-WAR. We have been favored by Capt Moore, of the brig John M. Clayton. which arrived here yesterday from Barbados', with an extract upon the brig's log, by which it appears that on the 4th uk, in latitude of 13. 30, longtimde, 60 while on the passage to Barbados", a British manoef-wsx sohoonlervaid to be the Hornet, fired a gun for him to heave by that he (Capt Moore) hoisted the American ilagnad kept •on his course: that the schooner fired again and her shot &Hilton of hkre he still kept on his course and she fired a third shot, • whishltnesed under the brig's stern: and that she then fired a fixtrdt shot, which passed between the brid e mase. - Copt Moore then hove to, until the who• lOW her intataiongside with an of/0.31mA fire =ea.-. it iffonkr.ovvitanied the brig's manifestand p apers, . long to Caps Moore that he cave eery Woos io ns him- He timminerohed the bold, order a p e to tostites.ii ea titobrig. and returned to MelOmener, • 0 Treisist. FRS. R. SHUNK: Subject to the decision of THE DJUIOCIRATICITATX CO*VZNTION Clje Daily :Morning P 691. PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1844 CAN SNUIIR DE NOSIINATED7...4O all we-have said on the Gubernatorial question, we have been actuated by an honest desire to give the public such informi tion as might be relied upon, and which would exhibit to them in the clearest light the certain nomination of F. R. SHURE. The result of almost all the delegate meetings that have yet been held have verified our statement, and shown that "Otto SMIRK" is indeed the favorite of the people, and that the great mass of the party—those who do the voting—desire him for their standard bearer in the coming campaign It would be folly for us to disguise from ourselves that the coming contest will be a desperate one. Our oppo :rents are nerving themselves and gathering strength by every means in their power. We know their unscru pulons principles, and the gross corruption to which they will not hesitate to resort when they resolve on obtaining power. No fraud is too daring for them to attempt; no character too pare and upright to escape their calumny. To defeat the schemes of our oppo nents we should have a man impervious to their at , tacks, one whose whole public career is free from spot . or blemish, and whose honest, straightforward demo cracy has fixed h im too firmly is the affections of the people to be infured by the assaults of our political en emies. FRAN4IS R. Souse is such a man. His qualifications 4r the office are understood; he is ad mitted by all tug -ties to be of sterling honesty, and all feel, assured 114 in his hands the interests of the State andi the welfiri of the citizens, would be sedulously raided. He !if corn the ranks of the peopel;he knows theft wants, ae wishes, and interests, and his course thr.Agh life saliva that he is their true friend. enthusfa' !tic expressions that have been heard thre 4 ihoutth4 *ate in his favor, show that his worth f appr+te dby his fellow citizens, and that they rartleSydati4tr reward him for his faithful services: . TOI follog table, which we have compiled with Aroma Care, will4ive the public a correct view of litsvri the 04)6:material question now stands, and siit E be die result in the convention: SKRATO/PAL DELICIATILS INSTRUCTED. Shenk. Muhlenberg Philailelphia city, Do , county, Montgomery, Lancaster and iebanun. • Northumberlan4 and Dauphin, Clearfield, Indiatta, Cambria and Armstrong, Westmoreland and Somerant, Swiquehantat, Wayne and Wyoming, York, Becks, Crawford and Venango, Beaver and Mercer, Warren, Jefferson, Clarion, M'Kean & Potter, Schuylkill, Carben, Monroe and Pike, Bradford and Tine, Fayette and Greene, 1 Lyeoming, Centre and Clinton, 1 No beatructiolut Northampton and Lehigh, Luzern. and Columbia, Huntingdon and Bedford, Franklin and Adaxne, 1 Not yet Elected. 1 1 1 I I 1 Allegheny, Washington, Chester and Delaware Bucks, Mifflin,Juniatta - and Union, Cumberland and Perry, Representative Delegates Instructed Arrnetrong, 1 Bedford, Berke, Cambria, 1 Crawford, Columbia, Dauphin, Erie, Greene, Indiana, 1 Jefferson, Clarion and Yemeni°, 2 Lebanon, Lancaster, Lehigh, Carbon, Mercer, Mifflin, Montgomery, Philadelphia city, do county, Schuylkill, Tioga, • Susquehanna, Juniata, Westmoreland, York, Lycoming, Clinton and Potter, Centre, Representative Delegates not butruded. Clearfield, Huntingdon, Manton. Wyoming Northampton; a s Instructed for °Mars, and hose not Elected. Allegheny, • 1 4 Bradford, • Bucks,' ' 1 3 2 1 Chester. 1 3 Comber lead, 1 2 Delaware, 1 Franklin, 1 ' ' 3l Northumberland; .1 Perry, 1 Somerset, FOR IFOYERNOR THVCAS PHILLIPS, ZDITOM. Washington, Warren, hicKeaut and Elk, sine and Fake, Senatorial" instructed, not instructed, not yet elected, Representatives instructed, 28 33 not instructed, e 5 " ins. for' others & amine, 19 5 74 57 Giving Faucta R. SHUNS a majority of SEVEN TEEN! "Tat Nom , " has floored the editor of the Gazette most decidedly. Mr M M GRANT comes to his Said, but after filling a column and a half with 'words, words. words,' the matter remains just where we placed it yesterday morning. The following paragraph, in the Joseph Surface vein, will be considered an extremely "rich "But how did the Post obtain a copy of tke said pa persl is aquestion which will have to be answered.— They were private property, and the man, whoever he is who furnished the Post with a copy, is an unprinci pledperson, unworthy of the confidence of any honest, right-thinking man. We know it was none of the gen tlemen who signed the paper, but if we can ascertain his name, we shall hold him up to the scorelof the community, and as a man not to be trusted." ' - - That sound/ pretty well from a person who has just been exposed in acts ofareachery and falsehood which are unparalleled in the newspaper history of our city, and who has, in his attempt to explain his conduct, corroborated every charge made against him. 0! but he's a "beauty" to talk about "honor" and "confi dence." If we had room we would publish the whole of his explanations, but our columns are too much crowded with other matters of more importance. SINATORIAL DELEGATE 1/11 FATILTTE & The Conferees met on the second inst., and appointed W. F. Con..ts, Esq. the Senatorial dekgate, with instructions to s 'ippon the nomination of Dr STURGEON, as the first choice, and F. R. Sacrtit as the second choice of that District. CLZA.R7IICLD CoUNTY.—The democrats of thisCOUrk ty, u a meeting called for the purpose of ascertaining the wishes of the party, and instructing their delegate. A. K. W RIGHT, EMI. on the Gubernatorial nomina tion, recommended WM. BIOLIR, as their first choice and Fasncts R. &WU as their second choice, 3 AXIS G. BIRSET'S LITTIR.—The Spirit of Lib erty publishes a letter from James G. Birney, in reply to one addressed to him by Mr. FLessoit, the editor, asking his opinion of and his connection with Masonry. Mr. B. gives a very candid and satisfactory account of his connection with the Lodge, and gives his opinion of the institution of Masonry as follows: "Ever since 1823, my ieparation from the Order' has been complete--but without any formal and public renunciation of it. From the period I have spoken of Masonry as I thought it deserved;—ar unnecessary, to say the least of it; as productive of no good which could not be better attained in some other way, for even its eiusrities are indiscriminating, and administered at great expense; as inviting to habits of dissipation, chiefly gambling and intemperance; as giving to frau dulent and dishonest persons a passport to die confi dence of the generous and the unsuspecting; as, in its secrecy, inimical to what ought to be the open and straight-forward course of a republican government; as including weak and unstable men to regard it as a sufficient substitute for the Christianity which it pro faned by its absurd and despicable imitations. &c. Ste " Mr. Birney held, very different language from Mr. Clay, in regard to Masonry. He thinks that its " in fluences are mischievous." Mr. Clay, that it is "harmleu and charitable." It is very evident for whom the distinctive antimasons will vow; they can never support a man who tells them quite plainly, that all they have said against Masonry fhr the last fifteen years has been sheer falsehood. This Mr. Clay hat done. We think it is very certain that this letter is bat a preparatory step towards a thorough organization of the antimasonic abolitionists, throughout the coun try, and their union upon Mr. Birney. They can raise an exceedingly strong party in this state ;Auld by no means an insignificant one in Massachusetts, Connec ticut, Ohio, and Vermont. The letter is therefore im portant, and will be productive of the most disastroui consequences to the hopes of Henry play. lINIST vac ACTOR.—Tbe Cincinnati Enquirer is very severe upon this young man. It says that he has obtruded upon the people of New Orleans a doleful complaint of wrongs suffered and privations endured, in COllll, 2011C8 of the bad faith of Theatre Managers in refusing him the advantage of previous engagements. As soon as we read his "Card" in the Picayune of the 19th, the adage that "public justice is certain," came up in our memory. Facts are known here that bland him with ingratitude to friends who aided him when helpleis, friendless and penniless, and stamp the ras cal upon his character. We wondered while he was here why so few would countenance him, and after he had left were fully informed of his infamous merits.— As enactor he is creditable, but as a man, disgracefu; even to the stage, as it now is COOKT2-RTZlTZltS.—Vincent Clark, Henry Bat see, and Bill Nesbitt were arrested in New Orleans on the 19thinst. Clark had, when arrested, about $55 of spu rious notes of the Hamilton (Ohio) Bank, and in his trunk at a coffee house, were found about $60,000 in counterfeit notes, consisting of 10's on the Bank of Mis souri, s's on the Bank of Indiana. 10's on the Northern Bank of Kentucky, 2's on the Hamilton county (Ohio) Bank, l's on the City Bank-of. New Orleans, l's on the Lafayette Bank of Cincinnati. l's on the Bank of touisville,2o's on the Merchants' and Traders' Bank of New York, end 2's on the First Muncipality of New Orleans—all of them well executed, HIGHWAY ROrBERT.—The New Orleans Bee says that on Thursday week Mr B. F. Spear was handed a letter in that city by a negro purporting to come from a friend at the point of death. He accompanied the ne gro to an untenanted house in the rear of Greenville, where two white men and another negro knocked him down and robbed him of abouts7oo. The two negroes implictited were the next day arrested, .oat COTTON Baarr.—An extract of a letter from Cheraw, 3 C., dated 25th fruit. states that a boat at the landing at that place, took fire the evening pre- Vibus, and was destroyed, together with her cargo, consisting of 300' bales of cotton. Scocironstassr.—Soime folksy§ forced an entrance into the publication office of the Philadelphia Evening Mercury, on Wednesday night, and ransacked the mon sy drawer. They got nothing for their pains, th. cash having been previously removed; an attempt was, made to fire the building by piling newspapers against the door, ani applying the torch. The villains were also thwarted in this. WHAT ' Nzzr?—Tbsy are onkivutins the Shrub, somClifoileed, in Growl% County N. Carolina. 1 RecapiAdation 9 . SI. keg 12 11 1 . 3 '6 0 19 11 " F A GES. " We learn from the Essex O Bann W er that the Ames bury Manufacturing Company, last week, reduced the wages of their laborers fifteen to twenty per cent. Thus while their business is more profitable than ever, and daily growing more so, they are reducing the al ready low wages of their operatives, taking a cruel and heartless advantage of their necessities; for they well know that at this season of the year, the operatives would ratherwork fora baresubsistence than to change their residence. The Banner is deservedly severe up on n the pampered aristocrats who thus, while revelling i luxury, are oppressing those from whose daily toil they are reaping rich harvests. in the monstrous divi dends. That paper says:—This company is a whig concern throughout; being owned principally by the rich Lawrence's of Boston, who with their agent, mean to elect Deacon Abbott, and send him to Con gress to advocate the interest—not of the people, the honest laborer and mechanic—bet the rich nabobs of Bacon Street and Liberty Square.—Lowell Patriot. spff.The Charleston Mercury of the 25th instant, ng of the mildness of the season in that section of the country, says: From our window we can distinguish now fresh ly opened leaves mettle morns multicaulis, amin as woods the buds haves very swing like appeirence. In protected situations many varieties of deciduous trees and vines have retained their foliage in all the freshness ofevergreens. At night, toe, the frogs bid dersance to the season, and sing in full chorus frem ev ery pond. COMMITTEE MEETING. According to previous notice the Committee of Cor respondence met at the hEntsetif H. Cassidy in the city of Pittsburgh, on Saturday, 3d of February inst., (aso quorum being present ,) and adopted the following relutions:— Resolved, That the withdrawal of dol4lnn James Buchanan from the Presidential canvass' created the necessity for mature and deliberate, tlifiection on the pert of the Democracy of. Allegheny county, as to who shall receive their support for the National nom imam; and that upon the decision of this cotnity,Penn trylvimia's preference for Presidency greatly depends. Resolved, That the Gubernatorial nomination is hardly second in itnportanceaodinterest to the people of Pennsylvania, to that of the Presidential question. Therefore in view ofthose two momentous questions, and that the Democrats of Allegheny county may have an opportunity for calm deliberation; we deem it our duty to afford them ample time to preparefor theirdel agate meetings. Resolved. That the Democrats of Allegheny coun ty be requested to meet in their respective townships, wards and districts, on Wednesday the 21st, at the usual places ind hour for holding such meetings, and elect delegates to a county convention to be held on Friday the 23d inst., at the new Court House in the City of Pittsburgh. Resolved, That the proceedings be published in the Democratic papers of the City. J B GUTHRIE, Chairman. JOHN SARNER, Secretary. •om, the N. 0. Pisayttna, January 23d. LATEST FROM TEXAS. The steamship New York, Capt. Wright, arrived on Sunday, from Galveston. Passing events in Tex as at the present time demand but little notice.. Congress has done but little yet. There is a bill before it to reduce the tariff to an average of about 15 per cent. on all merchandize imported, Which will probably pass. Our own correspondent writes us that he has not heard anything lately of the resolutions introduced some time since in reference to the annexation to the ' United States, save that they had been read twice, but he adds—"A document expressive of the wishes of members of Coogrs ss in favor of the measure, and sta ting that the people were almost unanimous in favor of it, signed by all the members of both houses, (ex cept one) has been forwarded to a distinguished mem ber of the U. S. Congress; so that if there should have been any doubts existing at the seat of Government of the United States in reference to the views of the peo ple of this country on the question, they may now make themselves easy on that point." A bill has been introduced in the House of Repre sentatives, and referred to the proper committee, di recting the Major General of the Militia of the Re public, in case information was not received by the Ist of March next, of the liberation of all the Texans in captivity in Mexico, to make a public call for volen- teers to repair to his standard at a point designated West of the Guadeloupe river, for the purpose of an offensive war against the Mexican settlements and towns along the Rio Grande. Rumors were rife along the Western frontiers of a new and formidable Mexican invasion. Little impor tance, however, seemed to be attached to them at Houston or Galveston. -h was not supposed that the Mexicali. (in that quarter, at least) contemplated any thing beyond their old system of predatory and forag ing parties. The news brought by the Neptune--that the Com missioners to Mexico had failed in their Mission and were returning home--is confirmed. They were said ' to be at Sabine on the 10th ultimo, intending to start for horn* on the 12th. The Mexicans, it is stated,had no terms to propose short of tho abolition of negro slavery in Texas, and the return of that country to the condition of a department of Mexico. Tile steamboat Lady Byron. a few days ago, struck a snag on the Brews river, and sunk in eight feet wa ter. She had on board 370 bales of cotton, about one' half of which was saved; the balance, being in the hold, will be a total loss. It is thought the boat may be sa ved, but it is quite doubtful. Faust Mexico.—The Picayune of the 23d ult. con tains the following items of intelligence from Mexico, received per U. S. Brig of War, Bainbridge. The Message of President Tyler caused considers. . bin excitement in Vera - Crus and Mexico. Expecta tion is represented as on tip -toe to know whet action our Congress will take in regard to the annexation of Texas. As to the probable strength of Santa Anna in his new Congress, we learn from what we deem the best au thority, that a decided majority of the House of .Rep resentatives is opposed to hini. As to the Senate there is some doubt, but the better opinion minis to be, that in that body, too, the opposition'aill be in tbe ascend ency. In any vise there.ippear to be good. grounds to anticipate internal dissensions, as Santa Anna is the last man to lay down his power or yield to the wishes of a constitutional majority. Nothing appears to be known in Vera Cruz of the set tlement of the difficulties between England and Mexi co, as we have learned from Havana. On the contra ry, they are looking with some trepidation for the arri val of a British Beet. We lave before stated that the Mexican squadron had sailed to the port of Alverada, to get out of the way of the English; by the way of Texas we since learn that Galveston Island was its true destination. We doubt this. SICKNESS IN WASHINGTON. The Washington correspondent of the New York Sun says: "Two members of Congress have lost their wives since the commencement of the session: Mr Arrington, of North Carolina, and•Mr Redding.of New Hampshire, the tatter who died last night, was a daughter or nime of Isaac Hill, ex-Govetnor, of New Hampshire. Mr Pettit had been given over, but is better; Wise has been very Nick; Mr Iteman Allen Moore, has been con fined to hishouse foo weeks; Col Wentworth is very ill; Gen Dawson is ttlscconfined to his room; and Willis Green has but just left his. Add to this that 50r6 of their, members who were in the house to-day, looked mach more like being at home in bed, and being well nursed, than bmtng an atmosphere with the ther mometer down to'zero, in order to reach the still more dangerous atmosphere of the Capitol." OFFICIAL. . Department of State. January 31, 1844.—Informa den has been received at this Department, that, "by an Ukase of the 6th of November, 1843, His Majesty, the Emperor et all the Hussies. taking into considera tion the badnejs of the harvests in the GAernment of Esthonias this year, has deigned to authorize the importation, free from duty, of the foreign grains hereinafter described, until the first of July, 1844, viz: rye, wheat, oats, barley,. and buckwheat, in grain as well as in flour and paste; but at the same time trans portation of these said sorts of grains, from the said ports to other Russian ports, shall be prohibited during all the season of Navigation of 1844; the transportation by land of the grains of Esthonias to the Government of St Petersburg shall be also prohibited in the same manner as in 1836." atlas Inritra.litswes.—The Jeferstnikst Reipubli can of the 20th inst. earn with regard to thanavigatiew of the Missourk "There has been otnui t kln i bl e &taro— ing ice during the week. Oa yesterday the steamer "Monona" came up tholes proving no obstacle in her way. If we are capable of judging, them Will now be little or no obstruction to navigation during the Whinge of the winter. The Oldest citizens of our State have ' never knoWn theriver inclose after the middle of Jan. , far The Arkansas river was in good navigable eon dition on the 13th ult., and *event' boats were running on the river at that date. 'The Osage Yeoman, of the 18th inst., 441E— "The Osage river has been in good boating order for the last ten days. The Warsaw arrived last evening from the mouth, whither she had gone with a full load of produce from this place. The Warsaw repor's the Missourirlow and full of ice." MISSISSIPPI Rmse.—The Burlington, lowa, Ga. zette of the 20th inst. says the river in front of that place closed on the 18th inst., and persons crossed on thisice an hour or two afterwards. The mildness of the weather on the 20th, induced the belief that the ice would soon disappear. far The St. Louis Reporter orthriS27th says that the 26th ofJanuary was the coldest day of the season,. ami ice bad comm raced running in the. river at that point. Chew.--The total population of this island is 1,007,- 624. The army consists of 7 battalions of the Peninsular line. 5 regiments of infantry, and four other light companies; besides there are four squadrons of lancers, eight squadrons of Ferdinand VII, 1 regiment of dra goons, several volunteer corps,and eight companies of artillery veterans, and a large body of militia. The Ca vyconsists of 2 frigates, of 44 gnus each; 1 corvette - of 22 guns; 1 steamer of 5 guns end l of 4; 4 brigs, of 52, 20, 16 and 14 guns respectively; 5 schooners, of 3 guns each, and two vessels employed to convey merchant men. TEXAN PRISONERS IN MEXICO Common humanity demands that the condition of the unfortunate prisoner, now confined in 'Mexico should be brought to public notice. Their situation is repro sented to us, upon authority quite undoubted; Its deplo rable in the extreme. Heavily ironed and almost with out clothing, they live in absolute valor and wretch edness at the Castle of Peyote. are miserably fed, and the money sent for their evil by the beneve l„t o f t h e , mnital is intercepted by public officials, any. applied to other purposes. We are assured that upon being aroused in the morning three of the inmates of their miserable prison -house have been found dead,and that the death ofa single one under such circumstances scarcely surprises them. The all look forward to it as the only termination of their sufferings. There are seventeen in the hospital of Santiago, ' within a few miles of the city of Mexico. Them con fessed - invalids are treated with scarcely more human ny than those in more rigid confinement at Perote.— Some of them have no other covering than a filthy blanket, bring utterly destitute of clothing. They are dependent upon the charities of foreigners in the capital, but chance reliefof this son is utterly meads. quare to their crying need. I;he British Minis ter is said to have used exertions often to procure an amelio- nation of the condition of the prisoners, if not their absolute release, but all in vain. The veriest felons of the country receive less of indignity in their confine ment, and suffer fatless from pain and want. N D Pic-arose. • Lowatt, Orzarrrviti.— -This New York sun*pub• fishes a long account oftheeondition of the 'operatives of Lowell, the principal hots of which are ftken from a pamphlet on the subject. Let thoie who descant so largely on the happiness of the Lowell girls read the following attract: "But that there may be too mistake--no room for subterfuge or eseape—no chance for misrepresentation, let us take that one ftep more. The amount of labor wrung froth theie poot girls; and the of labor. 'The operatives afterworking hie/ware before break fast, are allowed a short half hour for breakfasti--they then return to the mills and work till dinner,TOr Which they are allowed threefourths of an hOur; they again return to their work and leave off at seven o'clock.— They then have to go home and get their suppers and prepare themselves for such further ocetipatidtt of their time, as to them seereetli best. Thiii will occupy their time till about eight o'clock, Making about fifteen and a half hours of the day devoted to their. employers' in terest. In the winter, they are obliged to get up in the morning before day break,' &c. &c. Need we say an- . other word?" FROM THE RIVER OF PLATE. By the Rosabella, at Salem, we have received Bus nos Ayres papers to the 18th Mem The only news which they furnish of the war, are the official bulletins from the army of Rosas, on authority too questionable for implicit belief. Of these we have five. The most im portant ‘3I - these contains a circumstantial account of wh a t i s mp resen t e4 3 pa a decisive victoryof the Buenos Ayrean General. Lorrando Gomez over General Silva, of the Montevidean forces with 1206 mon, at Cerro delPelado, near Maldonado. Flores, with the remnant of his forces. had. 'oined Silva a few days before, but the united erals re said to have attempted to evade an en ent. mez. however, came up to thee by a forced in and completely routed them. The defeated force is reported to have lost 300 kill ed, with 70 prisoners; and all the spare horses and bag gage, with about 300 carbines, fell into the hands of the victors. The latter report only 8 killed and 10 ITTSBURGH MANUFACTURES, Stc.-...0e, wounded, and they entered and occupied ' Maldonado, hank or procured for customers at short notioe...- which had been previously evacuated. by Riven -- cin , 500 dozen 7by9, 8 by 10, 9 by 12, 10 by 12, and 11:h by the 9th of Nov. 114 Window Sash and Window Glass, by the , box Or re- The latest intelligence represents Rivera as having .. .., i gut to sui4 Cast-steel Axes, Hatchets, Shovels as* been driven almost te the Brnxillian frontier, closely , Spades; Coffee mills, Files and Rasps, Matches, Pat pursued by Gen Urquiza. ' onf . .Aer.kitts. Tubs, Churns, half bushel r.nd peck The Buenos Ayrean papers,entirely in the itt.reat of nzuss, Brushes of all kinds, Bed cords, &o. ',oak- Rosas, speak in bitter terms of the course of the Brit- ~.._ q i uses. Knives and Forks, Pea, Pocket ana ish Com. Purvis, with regard to the blockade, u haw "'s 1 .4110Q/civets, Candlesticks, Snuffers and Spoons, site., ing been the means of prolonging the war. I all of which will be said on accommodatiag terms. Rosas, by a decree of Nov. 9th, requires the con- 4 , signees and shippers of vessels, exporting anyarticks ~, g . ISAAC HARRISi awl , of provisions, to give bowls that those articles shall not Cam Meachat ~ ~ 3 Agent: reach Montevideo. , ?Cu 9, Fifth sr. The season was at its pleasantest at Buenos Ayres. Pears, apples, and peaches were of good size, and strawberries had been ripe about a fortnight. The city was said to be quite healthy. LOOK OUT! We were shown ass bill to-day, purporting to be an Ohio mite, but in reality worthless The now is pretty well got up, and is on "The Farmers, Medulla ics and Manufactures.' Bank of Chillicothe," dated Ju ly 12, signed W. H. Campbell, Cashier', and It. M. Watson, President. One of the vignettes is a cooper at work. the other a Mill in the distance and a female figure in the foreground. Bank of Chillicothe is in large letters to catch the eye. The bill is a fraud from the start, and as Ohio paper has become very scarce, and is sought after by the citizens of the Butte I from a feeling of security in it, knaves will be ready to impose upon the 4a . wary all sorts of frauds, of which the sample before us a very fair beginning.—Ckee lend Herald. Col 8.1111. Johnson, Moro of the Thames." The yeomanry of Allegheny county, in favor of the, nomination of the defender and champion of our rights, Col. R. M. Jokaran, for Presicknt. are teitineete4 to meet at the Washington Hotel, on Saturday, I Sti at 7 o'clock. Now is the time far the people to act. when "traitors brave the field." Democrats, yoP itee all invited. patiiotio letter of the wenwrom Tammy will be read'arthe meeting. By the Committee. RICH'D HUGHES, President. A Ma o N Eleotioo for a rIV and Miners of the company for ereedng a Bridge, over the River Monongahela, opposite Pittsburgh, in the nom ty of Allegheny, will be held at the Toll Holum op Mon; dory, the 4th of bfarch next, at 3 o'clock P. M. JOHN THAW, Tramper. Boameang Iterw o .nish. sat Lift JUST IUICXIT SD, AT COOK'S LITERARY DEPOT, A NT quantity of new and cheap publications, at AIL Eastern Prices. L. S. D.; ja t , Account, of Irish Heirs, containing Treasure Troaran Irish ramanoe of humor and send. ment, by Soul Lover, author of Handy Andy, itc. likseselearts and Warm Or ; %fore surd 'therms- . • - ring% by T. S. Arthur, excitin limper'sedition. Judith romance Bensaddi, the Jewess and Seclusevid, as g . Ladies' Manisa/Lib rari, for February, cnntahring six pieces of music, at the low price of $1,50 per an- DUNI. Ladies' Companion, for February, interesting as usual, and beautifully illustrated. Columbia* Magazias, for February, a 'Outdid cumber. dwriecns Peru daring tne summer, by Jules Janis. The Idgideries of New) York, by do. The Brewer King, by Vincent D'Arl . - Chrisieres Corot, being% ghost story of - by Charles Dickens. Chevalier De Paublat, No. 2. The Canons of Good Breeding or hemline, of the man of fashion, by the author of ihe Lam of:Ur . queue. Thaddeus of Warsaw, by Miss Porter, cheap ' ' 6 ia. -*.* ‘ l--. Hand Book oltadvereal receipts, price can Nears History of Me Psiritane, part 2d. Etiquette for the Ladies, with hints on this preira. iation,_ improvement and display of female beauty. ~ Irealloagh's Gazeteer, part Bth. ifiaeknoos Magazine, for January, ohly $2 a 47 Gibbon's Decline me &Fall of the Boman Ravin* * No 4. Remarks on theFraieh Rescission, by Haney Lest}" Brougham, F. R. S. •,, Charles de Burke*, a Historical itomance i hyllifh S. Gould. lAA of Autrey Jorehos,lyi Antos 'Kendall, No;I. Evans Hi . stHist ory of die Christie* Stets, desaniina.. ring their o r i g i n, peculiar tenets and present wadi. rim, by John Evans, L. L. D. Music Without a Master. or With a master, br a new 'method, containing ample instriactions for the Pi. ano Forte. r The above, and tian_y others not mentioned - above, can be had at cook's, 85, 4th street, when 11.4 . the new and cheap publications are received' as - stitl , as published. I N the District George R White • Court of . vs }Vend. Esp. Allegheny County Berd.Darlington. And now to wit, Jan.!, 1844rOwsuotic' 414111,1 W— •;• Candles, the Court appoint Francis IL Shenk,. Audi- tor, to distribute the proceeds 0104 its this cam, : Front the Record. - 1 GEO. R. RIDDLE, PresbFy; - . Notice is hereby given to all persons intermit - sttbat.--• the above Auditor will mend to the duties of his *p ' z pointment, at his office in 4th street, Pitts t* ea ' * Wednesday, the 28th of February, instant, at 3 oklods • P. M. FRANCIS IL SHURE, f3-3w Audit/Yr. - lirLane's • • Awn Specific This is to certify that with one vial ol i t li t i lane's Worm Specific, one ofzny children passed twenty IleV* en Worms, another mghteen, and a third sixteen. Please let me havednother vial, for it is the meat sur • prising Worm nu:ilk-Me I am% saw. . ;40.111113115iDEY, 6 mile Fay. For sale at the Drug Sawn of lON. KIDD, Jan. 31. Corner 4th and Wood its FOR SALE, THE LATE MR2 ROUAUDS STOCK OF • *id wmarar, &c. T HE subscriber, agreeabyto the Will of Mr Roo and, and by order of the Executors, will sell of, between this and the first of April next, at private sale, the earns stock of Liquors and Wines belonging to the. • deceased, at the old stand, next doortn the corner outs. -- and Market ttreet, Pittsburgh: consisting of 10,000 •• gallons of OLD WHISKEY, well known all over the United States; 700 btittles do; Holland Gin in bottles: 120 galloint French Brandy; Port, Rota, Muscat, Cluunpaigue, and various other Wines, bat principalli Clarets; together with sundry articles which he it for sale, (except the Dry:Goods, which will be sold ;it Auction r onthe 7th pros. at the store mom, two doori . above.) -None of the Whiskey is lee, than nine year! old, and *ugh of it isfiffin twenty to thirty years old.-- To give an opportanity* to correspondents in Philadel- phia, St Louis, and other places at a distance (who • are waißng for public sale) to get so m e of this 01- ebtated,'Whiskey--a fiance that may never again ecatii —the sire softwo_lmocired barrels of it will be reserved until the- 29 - th of Fel:limn), neat. The price for du: oldest Whiskey, is $2 per galloal for the other per gallen. Terms, cash par moneri: • MICHAEL McCLOSKEY.- ISAVite CRUSE, Lep - a/Pittsburg/I, Pa., COMMISSIOIir& FORWARDING MERCHANT, • 4t, BAL2IIIORI2, 1211. References ire Pittsburgh: Bailey & Co; Robertson & Reppeeg . I John and Rich'd Floyd; Porter 4. Cassidy, I . Alsx'r Laughlin & Cu; Robert Galway; Hussey & Pettit; kl; Leach &Co; • j. W. Burbiidge & Co; Rob't Deizeft & Cu; Dairen &-flenting; Ulmer & Ranna; W. &R. M'Cutchoon; Henry Qin/ter. 11:7Particulet attention will be giver' to the sales of Western Pkodatit, consignments of which ant respect fully soliciard. lE t t r i s reerived and forwardoll4kb despa!ehr as jolt 31.6 re Ijj OR SALE CHEAP.—A good secondhand Coob _k; in Patent Revolving Pistol that fires several times. With - once loading, and in good order, will be sold to*- 4r the owner, who is poor and wishes-W*4l. IWIL t. ISAAC HARRIS, Agent and Commission Merchant, feb3 No. 9, Fifth st. • Rare C hancel • lxTE will sell a good stand for lousiness, • palate , • V V will store room,withgoodstablingmidbare all frame, and all necessary out houses, together witlt:2 about six acres of land with it, all a high stature Wit I tivtuion, and a very handsome grove of Locust Trema:4` The house is large and commodious. and the situationV first rate one for business, and very fore store, /t is only 61 miles from Mercer, and 8 utiles from Oreenyillp, but three hundred perches from the Canal, and in a first rate sealant:rot. Tereir--onetthird in hand, onethhd ins year, atui_ ons•third ten years, without interest. given on the let of April next. It is worthy- the az% Lent* of Pitudwetters, se a business situation, per. qualatly as a store., 4is occupied by Mr Jtttua~ T Black. Apply to WOLF ft INDSTIit Reel Estate AArisitts next door to the Post Office. Mk 2 BARE CHANCE—SCHOOL FURNITURE VON. SALE.' ~- • sUSCMitosis s HOOL DESKS. TA* sooroshle lids, essio l / 4 - ad sarawsoad :boo Snot et eat thew to the floor. ..„ '- • • + t bee large beadle% :. . . " 1 for &dorm, tosabor's 64; Agl table with four good durives; 4 in good presemida sod but littleiiatd. er With clothes n , racks, dm, sultaWo For a large These will be sok, cheap, ilapplkusieu be wade lesi-: lesahaaly* et the Gwoett4 S Moe. citre rot &Kw to th. Post Oboe. 11001 Z & IPOSTIIt. len 2 4 • No. 83, /bard; Street,
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