Illorning Post. ELECTION or SEN A TOR.—We feel vexed and
'
disappointed at the result of this election. We had
THOS PHILLIPS t WM. H.-SMITH, EDITORS: -
hoped that Irroettsot.t., the fearless, talented, and lode
fatigable advocate of Democracy, would have been
advanced to a position which he could have filled with
so much credit to himself and honor to his State.—
many of the leading whig papers a "Rae EAL. " -IL gives us pleasure to observe that
We hoped that to his capable hands would have been
re assenting to the
truth and soundness of the doctrine of repealing legis- confided the high trust of maintaining the boner and
lative enactments, end among others, the Albany At- the interests of the Keystone State in the Senate of the
Union. Being disappointed in this, our next wish. was
las comes out with the broad, bold proposition, that
—"what o ne Congress can resolve, another can aro- that the nominee of the regularly instituted democratic
caucus could have been elected—not because we
gate." The reason why our whig friends are thus
brought to approve a doctrine which, heretofore, they were particularly partial to Mr. Woonw•en, nor be
cause his nomination indicated any great amount of
have talked of with horror, and against which they
have protested with uplifted hands—is, because some unanimity in the caucus, but because he was the regu
of them are so vindictively opposed to Annexation, ! laxly nominated candidate. But all these hopes have
that they are determined to effect its Repeal. been defeated, and by the miserable divisions of the
Now there can be no possible objection to this democrats in the legislature, the whigs have been able
repeal movement on the part of our federal friends. tc centrol the election.
The question of Annexation was fully discussed be- It is stated by the Harrieburgh correspondent of the
Ace, that Gen CAMERON, in order to secure whig
fore the people during the last Presidential canvass,
aed although the shuffling and indirect course of CLAY votes, pledged himself to go for the whig scheme of
I
on the subject, might, had he been elected, have left "distribution." We earnestly hope that this is a mis•
us in doubt as to what the popular feeling on the sub- take, and that Gen C. may prove a faithful and honest
ject was—the election of POLK placed the fact that a Democratic Senator, and thereby falsify the predic-
tines of those who gave him their votes under the sup
-
vast majority of the people go in for Annexation be
positon that they were electing a man who would be
yond peradventure. Yielding to the popular requi
sition, or to their own convictions of duty, many of the tray his party.
We have an extra of the Harrisburgh Intelligencer,
whigs sustained Annexation by their votes—thus pre
ving that in addition to the whole democratic party, which indulges in boisterous exultation over the suc
cuss of Gee Cssteaors, and reiterates the charge
which forms a majority in the country, a very large
a
number, say one-third of the whigs of the Union, are hove alluded to. All this will tend to create unfavor
able impressions of Gen C. in the minds of the Do-1
in favor of Annexation. Under these circumstances,
m
we are glad that the whigs have declared that theyocrary, and engender distrust concerning the path
will go fur the Repeal of the Annexation Resolutions. he will pursue. But he has it in his power, at the
There is not the remotest shadow of a possibility that same time, to establish his political reputation, by pur
they can succeed in their design, while their recogni-
suing a course that will disappoint the expectations of
the whigs who seem so much delighted with his inc. Lion of the doctrine must silence the clamor they
cess. lie can disperse every shadow of misgiving
might otherwise endeavor to get up against the
Repeal (of the infamous bank charter lately pass-
that the party may feel by a rigid adherence to demo
ed) which will be urged by our.friends in Ohio. We cratic landmarks. We know too well how much re
liance is tube placed in the statements of the whigs,
are perfectly willing that they shall raise what noise
they can about the admission of Texas, an act done to condemn Gen CAMERON upon charges preferred by
with the full knowledge and consent of the whole pea-
them. That his conduct will show that they have
ple—while their movements will strengthen the Dem-
foully slandered him we have much hope—and so we
omens of Ohio in their attempt to repeal an infamous shall await the progress of events.
We subjoin the results of the various ballottings,
enactment sprung upon the people of Ohio, against
the will of the majority, and which, if curried out, will and a statement showing how the members voted on
enere to the benefit of the few, and the robberyof the thofinal
many
PITTSBURGH, TUESDAY MARCH 18, 1845.
it is true, that gross private injury is sometimes
dune by the repealing of a legislative act—as for in
stance the abrogation of the election of Blair & Rives
as printers of the Serate, and the recent removal of
Samuel ModaKy ufthe Ohio Statesman from the office
of State Printer, to which he bad been duly elected
for the legal term of three years. But the whips,
hitherto, while doing acts of this kind, hhve fought
stoutly against the doctrine of Repeal in the abstract
--now, however, they have fully recognized it, and it
will be the Democrats' own fault if it is not carried
out to the hearts' content of the wh'gs—they need not
hereafter attempt to fasten any burden on the people
such as the U. S. Bank of Pennsylvania, or the new
Bank of Ohio, by fraud and chicanery.
A NOTNER OUTRAGE.—The whigs have claimed to
be the exclusive advocates of law and order.—CLAY,
in one of his speeches, vaunted their "respect for the
laws." A beautiful commentary on this boast is to
be found in the expulsion of SAMUEL MEDARY, Esq..
editor of the Ohio Statesman, from the office of State
Brinter, to which he bad been duly and fairly elected
for the term of three years. No example for this da
ring and scandalous outrage can be found, except in
the displacement, in 1841, by the Whig Senate, of
Nair & Rives as printers to that body. It is left fur
the whig party to perpetrate such gross outrages on
common decency and the laws of the laud.
Tut MONONGAHELA NAVIGATION. — The amount
of business doing on this useful improvement is in
credible. We see by the Gazette that 135 packages
were brought from Brownsville by the Massachusetts,
Which wereconsigned to the leading commission hous
es in Wheeling. It is also stated as illustrative of the
number of travelers who take this route, that on
Thursday 114 passengers came down in the packet,l
and on Friday night there were about 60. This is
doleful news for Wheeling—but then, if that town is
half as prosperous as its citizens and newspapers
would have es believe, these heavy drafts from its
trade are but adrop from the bucket. We will under
take to prophecy that before very long, many of the
leading merchants of Wheeling will be found doing
business in 'Pittsburgh.
ATToINTIIENTs Cora IRMED.—The Utrited States
Senate on Thursday confirmed the nominations of
Alexander H. Everett, as Minister to China; William
H. Polk as Charge to Naples; Mr. Jewett, of Me., as
Charge to Peru, in place of Mr. Bryan, Elijah F. Pur
dy as Surveyor of the Port of New York; and of Ben
jamin F. Butler as U. S. District Attorney for the
Southern district of New York. The National Intel
ligenmr says a new nomination has been made in the
place of Vespacian Ellis, now Charge at Venetula; B.
G. Shields, of Ala., i■ the nominee. Among other
nomination., are the following: Prosper M. Wetmore
as Nary Agent at New York; Wm. Parmenter do. at
Boston; W. S. Pickett, of Tenn., as Consul to Havre;
Mr Bradford, of Tenn., Purser in the Navy, in place
of Mr Wells, of Pa.; and J. H. Prentiss, Marshall of
the Northern District of New York.
la' Dr. Hawks, late of New York, is now at New
Orleans. having accepted the rectorship of the Episco
pal church, in Canal street, with a salary cf $5,000,
and a house in Annunciation square, at a rent of $lOOO.
A correspondent of a morning paper snysr—The Dr.
has gone to Holly Springs, Mississippi, to remove his
family to New Orleans. He has preached three times
on ono Sunday to crowded and admiring audiences.
THE COMMERCE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OF THE
UNITED STATES.—We learn from a statistical table of
the Commercial Navies of Europe, compiled from da
ta furnished by Lloyd's that the commercial tonnage of
Great Britain is 3,047,418 tons. That of the United
States is stated by the Secretary of the Treasury, in
bis last. report, to be 2,lsMllo2—difference 888,816.
Even this difference is more than equal to the tunage
of the Commercial Marine of France, which is only
589,517.
Nsw HAMPSHIRIC ELECTION.—In 8 towns, the
vote STEIL, Dem., is 1915—Cotay, ahig, 1837
Hart, ab. and others 577. This is nearly the earns as
ha year—although there are more votes polled this
time. The Boston Post says:
For Mensbere of Congreu.—ln the towns heard
from the democratic Congressional ticket runs about
even with Governor Steel. Mr Woodloury does not
receive as many votes as the other cnndidates on the
the set, but, judging from the few returns we have, we
are of opinion that he is elected. The vote for Hale
is small, and proves that however much the whigs and
abolitionist applauded his desertion of his party,
they bad no idea of rewarding his treason with their
WM.
tar An Irish paper says: "At present the Scotch
poor are not fed; they exist on the recollection of what
they ate in former years !"
BA LLOTS.
Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. sth.
Statos Cestr•.Roa, 11 24 43 55 67
Geo W Woodward, 57 53 55 56 55
John Banks, 19 8 6 2 1
Alex Thompson, 4 2 2 0 0
E C Reigart, 9. 2 1 0 0
Harmer Denny, 3 0 0 0 0
Walter Forward, 2 0 0 0 0
Jonn K Kane, 2 0 0 0 0
A C Ramsey, 2 0 0 0 0
James Cooper, 11 13 6 1 0
James Irwin, 3 1 1 0 0
S D Ingham, 1 0 0 1 0
J Ritchie Jones, 1 1 0 0 0
Joseph R Ingersoll, 3 9 5 4 2
Peter A Browne, 6 5 5 7 1
William Hiester, 4 0 0 0 0
John Sergeant, 1 2 0 0 0
Townsend Haines, 3 0 0 0 0
Horare Binney, 1 0 0 0 0
M D Magehan, 1 0 0 0 0
Goo Sharsw•ood, 1 0 0 0 0
Daniel Stannard, 2 0 0 0 0
John C Kunkle, 1 0 0 0 0
C J Ingersoll, 1 1 0 0 0
Richard Rush, 1 1 1 1 0
Henry W. Smith, 1 2 0 0 0
David R Porter, 0 5 1 0 0
Thomas S Bell, 0 2 1 0 0
Wm L Banning, 0 1 1 0 0
Charles Gibbons, 0 0 1 0 0
John M Scott. 0 0 1 1 0
George Chambers, 0 0 1 2 0
Wm Hollingshead. 0 0 0 1 0
Theodore D Cochran, 0 0 0 0 1
For SIMON CAMERON.—Messrs. Bahia, Car
son, Cornman, Darragh, Darsie, Dimmick, Ebeugh,
E',er. Gibbons, Horton, Kline, Morrison, Rahn, Ross,
and Wilc.ox, of the Senate. Messrs. Adams, Amer,
Benning, Bayard, Bighorn, Bishop, Boyer, Brady,
Brewster (Hunt'don,) Brewster (Philo co.) Bright,
Brown, Cohran, Cooper, Cunningham, Dickey, Dun
lap. Gilder, Hall. Harper, Hazlchurst, Herr, Hilands,
Hoffman (Phila ) Hollitigshead, Kennedy, Kunkel.
Larkin, Magehan, Meloy, Metzer, Morely, Muse, M'-
Farland, 111'Kinley, Nicholson, Parke, Patton, Power,
Price, Riddle, Sanderson. Sankey, Shuman, Smith
(Berke,) Smith (Lan.,) Snively, Stuart, Struthers,
Trego, Walton, and Zimmerman, of the House of
Repreftntaiives-67.
For GEORGE %V. WOODWARD.—Messrs An
derson, Bally, Bigler, Black, Champnays, Chapman,
Enue, legeley, Foulktod, Heckman, Hill, Hoover,
and Sherwood, of tho Senate. Messrs Armstrong,
Bailey, Barber, Brush, Burns, Burnside, Burrell,
Campbell, Cross, Cummins, Doug, Dowling, Elder.
Elliott, Funston, Gray, Hallowell, Heck, Hill, Hoff
man ( Berks,) Jacoby, James', Keller, Knox, Merrifield,
Morgan, M'Bride, M'Caslin,O'Bryan, Painter, Rider,
Samuels. Smith (Clearfield,) Smythe (Clinton.) Smith
(Monroe.) Stetler, Taggart, Tice, Vliet, Wilson, Wor-
man, and Patterson of the House of Representatives
—55
For JOSEPH R. INGF.RSOLL—Mr Crabb, of
the Senate. Mr Ccnnor, of the Honse,-2.
For THS. S. BELL,—Mr Sterigere.-1.
For T. D. COCHRAN.—MrSullivan.-1.
For PETER A. BROWNE.—MrSheets.-1.
For JOHN BANK.S.—M.Murtrie.-1.
GEN. SIMON CAMERON, Flavin received a
majority of all the votes given, was declared duly elec
ted.
Certificates of election were then signed by the
President and tellers, when the convention adjourned.
SPEED OF THE PRINCETON.—Captain Stockton,
having determined to try the speed of the U. S. steam
ship l'rinceton, with the Ericsson propellor, got un
der way from the Navy Yard on Tuesday morning, at
Norfolk, liaNing previously measured off a mile below
the United States ship Pennsylvania, which she per
formed in five minutes three several times, the tiding
having no influence either way.
MISSION s.—The number of Protestant missionaries
now in China proper is as follows:
Sent by America 16
" London M iss ion ary Soc . ,ety 9
" Church Missionary " 0
Total
Mipcelloneous
Native Assistants
Grand Total 35
Many of these missionaries are married and their
wives are actively engaged in diffusing instruction.
Dr Warren recently delivered a lecture on digestion,
before the legislature of this State. The following re
marks, on the use of tobacco, differ from the common
ly received notion:
"Tobacco is among the most powerful narcotic sub
stances we are acquainted with; a very small portion
of it, as even a decoction of the eighth of an ounce,
has been known to prove immediately fatal. Its influ
ence on the stomach is highly debilitating; it directly
lowers the tone of this organ, and diminishes all its
healthy actions. Every way in which tobacco is em
ployed has this effect; the practice of chewing in a
much greater than the others, since a greater quantity
of the deleterious substance is introduced into the
body."
Estaordiaary Absent Mindelness.—A case is
related of a lady in company a night or two since,
who being waited upon with a plate of refreshments,
put them in her pocket. She did not discover her
mistake till she found herself wiping her nose on the
plate.
From the. N. G. Picayune
RAISING THE WIND.
Windis an element necessary to vitality. While
it is thus an indispensable agent of nature, art and the
propresiiive intelligence of the times have adapted
it to innumerable valuable purposes. The flifflculty,
in manycases, is "to raise the wind," Wisich, in a
great measure, and in many instances, depends on
the ingenuity of the operator. The last means resort
ed to for this purpose, of which we have heard, is the
following,
A fellow disguised as a gentleman, se far as gond
dress and address favored the personation, rode up a
few days since on a high-blooded arsii well-conditioned
charger, to the door of those accommodating gentle
, men who are always willing to lend money en deposits,
and who look on the laws against usury as being first
among the superfluities of legislation. The equeste
rian alighted and addressed the comparatively obscure
Rothschild in the most familiar terms, calling him by
name, and briefly and frankly telling him that he came
to bon ow money from him—a small sum—just fifty
dollars, which he wanted for immediate use, and which
he could not otherwise procure, the bank in which he
deposited being not yet open. He would pay it in the
course of the day, and give ten dollars as a bonus,
and five dollars a day so long as it might remain un
paid.
"All very fair," said Discount, "but what securityl"
"My watch," said the man in search of money."
"It won't do," said Discount.
Wel I, then, take my riding mare for the time being,'
said the individual who was bard up—"l suppose that
will satisfy you 1"
"I can accommodate you," said Discount; "but.
mind you. I shall put the mare to livery till you settle
up, and you will be in for the expenses."
"Very well," said the other—"it can't be much,
even if they charge by the hoar; because, as 1 have
said already, I'll be in funds when the bank opens."
The terms of the transaction were drawn up and
mutually signed, the fifty dollars were paid over •to
this modern Jeremy Diddler, and Discount took his
pledge to the livery stable.
"Hallo, there," said he on reaching the stable-door.
"Hallo," said the master of the horse.
"Have you got room in your stable for this mare!"
said Discount.
"We'll endeavor to accommodate her," said the
other, cooly.
"Well, give her the very best in your stables," said
Discount, "and charge your price. I like to pay well
and be paid well: 'live and let live' is my motto."
"You are extremely liberal and disinterested," was
the remark in reply; "but, pray, give yourself no un
easiness about the mare. She is mine ; and I trust
I shall never treat her in a manner that will draw
on me the displeasure of the Society for the Preven
tion of Cruelry to Animals."
"Your's!" said Discount, his lip quivering a ith
surprise and astonishment.
"Mine—yes, mins !" said the dealer in horse flesh.
"I gave her to a gentleman to ride out not more than
half an hour ago, and, like a good customer, he paid
me five dollars in advance "
"I have got an idea," said Discount.
"So have I," maid the other—"l have got an idea
that some person has been fooling you "
"Fooling me, sir," said Discount—"l shouldn't
care about being fooled; but to be diddled—done clear
out of $5O-4—m me, sir, it's too had ; but I'll offer
a reward of CA more to find the fellow, and if I catch
him hegoes to Baton Rouge, where the State will fur
nieb him with board and lodging 'free gratis' for seven
years. But never mind ; when I take a deposit© in
live stock again, I'll be sued for usury, that s all." '
Our readers by this time see that the sharper hired
the mare to make the raise, and that Discount, who
had been himself fur years shaving was, for the first
time in his life, shaved.
From the Boston Chronicle
A WORD OF CONSOLATION
A good many of the smaller class of Whig editors
occupy much of their time, of late, in writing the most
doleful jeremiads, whole books of lamentations, be
cans° the Liberty men did not vote for Clay, to keep
out Texas. Let us give you a word of consolation,
r entlemen. You are saved by this perverseness of the
Liberty party, from the most di.graceful predicament
men were ever placed in. In all human probability,
had you elected Mr Clny, the Missouri compromiser,
the tariff compromiser. the opponent of Arkansas e
mancipation, the slaveholder who has always showed
himself the most cunning in promoting the peculiar in
terest of slaveholdcrs, you would by this time have bad
Texas compromised in by a Whig president in spite
LINES IN AN ALBUM. of a perfect crowd of Whig professions. In the first
BY THE LATE NICHOLAE BIDDLE. place the Democrats would have gone in a solid body
We are indebred to the attention of a friend, to for annexation. Mr Clay would have found it impos
t. horn we are under numerous obligations for mime sible to keep his own heretogeneous party banded a
;
gainst it. Enough sla‘eholding Whigs would have
rous favors which have been to the nawantnge of the
readers of "Neal's Saturday G joined the Democrats, as they have now done, to bring
nrette," for the subjoin
ed graceful and witiy lines, written many years since, Mr Clay to the alternative of being a minority prcsi
in the Album of an admired lady in this city,
b y t h e dent, or compromising Texas into the Union. In that
late Nicholas Biddle. They are, as usual with Mr case you would have to take on yourselves the respon-
s crime. But where should we
B;dille's productions of this character, full of point ;
sibility of the atrociou
and brilliancy; and as they are now , we believe. pre- ; Liberty men have been? Floundering in the rpiag-mire
seined to the public for the first time, they will, no ; a set of miserable simpletors, deluded by your jack o'
doubt, he read with generel interest. It is to be re. lantern, to our utter destruction!
gretted that the author did not rather remain in the I Thanks to God, we understood your candidate and
are still on firm grounds. And you ought to be thank.
walks of literature than devote himself to the perlious
pursuits of the financier; and the change in this re-
ful that you are in a far more honorable position than
spect, which forms the subject of the following poem, you would have been if you had elected your man
withdrew from the ranks of American writers, one
The only regret that you should now indulge is, that
you had not thrown your votes upon Mr Barney or
who was evidently formed to occupy a prominent
place among them. Asa proof of this, no better evi-; some other non-slaveholding statesman who could be
donee could be furnished than the 'Lines in an Album,' ; relied on to oppose to the utmost both slavery and its
to which we now have reference; and pi t y ' t i ll w h en I extension.
alent of this kind is so rare, that it should be swol-
owed up in the all-engulfing vortex of banking and
politics:—Nears Gazelle
Time was when to see thee, fair lady, alone,
Could have warmed into verse a cold bosom of stone;'
But now thy command (all unchanged as thou art,)
Cannot kindle my fancy, or soften my heart.
So unequal our fates since that sythe-bearer Time
Appeased by thy beauty, provoked by my rhyme;
Though he folded his wings, tho' he muffled his tread,
And passed without touching a hair of your head,
As he came by my farm cut me down toe cit,
And dispersed my small stock of merinoes and wit.
If you think this some pretext made up for my wife,
Only look at my dwelling, and think of my life,
Not a mummy wrapped up in his pyramid hall,
Nor the toads that live on for whole years in a wall,
Nor the famed Iron Mask, breathe more dulness and
gloom
Than I when inclosed in my vast marble tomb,
'Midst vaults of damp stone, and huge chests of dark
Iron
That would quell all the fancy of Shaktpeare or By-
ron.
Alas! had the ancients (who often surpass us)
In their fine golden age formed a Bank of Parnassus,
Only think now to sign one's bank-notes like Apollo,
IWhat an exquisite treat their example to follow,)
But that beau of Olympus. too happy to rove,
Would have scorned to make money, and ceased to
make love.
Ana the muses, whose sex may allow of protectors,
Have a true female hate for all sorts of directors.
'Tis freely avenged though, for banks, when they
know it,
Feel a horror that warns them to shun every poet;
And since the first rhyme, the muses' fond votary
(If ever he's trusted) Boons goes to the notary.
Even I, classic ladies, who, fixed on my farm,
Though you never would visit me, wished you no
berm;
Even I would exchange (shall I dare to confess t'ye
all?)
For one sheet of bank-notes the whole quire celestial;
I prefer my last letter from Baring or Hope,
To the finest epistles of Pliny or Pope;
My "much-esteemed favours" from Paris, to those
Thnt brought on fair Helen an Iliad of woes,
And one lot of bills from "Prime, Bell," on the Bid-
dies,
To whole volumes of pastorals, satires, or idyls.
Nay, two lines of bad prose, with a good name upon it,
To the tenderest fourteen ever squeezed in a sonnet.
Why I would not accept—not for Hebe's account—
The very best draught from old Helicon's fount;
Nor give, (though it grieves me to say't to their faces)
More than three days of grace to all the three graces.
Then their music of spheres! what more soul-thril
ling sound
Than kegs of new dollars all rolling rrund?
And Cecilia herself, though her lyre was divine,
Never gave to the world notes half equal to mine.
But we've parted in peace, and I never shall quar
rel
That all my wide branches con furnish no laurel.
And awaked from illusions, am humbly content,
With exchanges, and discount, and quarter per cent.
While the bank is my goddess, its desks are my al
tars,
And all my "fine frenzy" is spent on defaulters.
So unless (like the sculptor of old) on this stone
You can breathe inspiration as true as your own,
Let melllbpe, though no scribbling your tablets de
faces,
To keep out of your books, butkeep in your good
graces.
11116 - P " I've just looked in, to see if you ere doing
well,' as the cook said to the lobster when she lifted
up the saucepan lid.
WATER MILLS ON THE DANUBE
The editor of the Savannah Republican, in one of his
letters from abroad, says that below Freiburg, the
Danube spreads out into one broad expanse, with fiat
uninteresting banks, which are sometimes faced with
stone to control the vagaries of the capricious and
changing current. A few miles below Presburg be
gin the water-mills, which occur at intervals of a few
miles on almostevery part of the lower Danube. These
mills are formed of two boats moored in the river, in
the direction of the stream. on each of which rests one
end of a large water wheel that revolves with the cur
rent. In each boat is a small house, one of which is
the dwelling of the miller and his family, while the
other is the mill. Often forty or fifty of these mills
may be seen near the same place, and when they occur
together they are generally moored in echelon, so that
no one is immediately in the rear cif the other. It is
a pleasing thing on rushing down the mighty stream
in a steamboat to bear the peaceful clack of these mills
—the only sound breaking the solitude that reigns a
round. It is a curious fact that until a very recent
date, the only use these waters were made to subserve,
was the turning of the mills. The Romans knew more
about the river and made more use of it than the in
habitants of Modern Europe, up to the beginning of
this century.
re- The following humerous argument was advan
ced by a canal stockholder, fur the purpose of putting
down rail-ways:
"He saw what would be the effect of it; that it would
set the whole world a gadding—twenty miles an hour
sir! Why, yon will not be able to keep apprentice boy
at his work—every Saturday he must take a trip to
Ohio to spend the Sabbath with his sweetheart. Grave
plodding citizens will be flying about like comets. All
local attachment must be at an end. It will encour
age flightness of intellect. Various people will turn
into immeasurable liars; all their conceptions will be
exaggerated by their magnificent notions of distance—
'only a hundred miles off! Tut, nonsense. I'll step
across, Madam, and bring your fan!' Tray sir, will
you dine with me to-flay at my little box on the Alle
• ghanyl' "Why indeed, I don't know—l shall be in
town until 12—well, I shall be there, but you must let
me off in time for the theatre.' And then, -ir, there
j will be barrels of pork and cargoes of flour, and chal•
drons of coal, and even lead and whiskey and such like
sober things that have always boeaused to sober trav
elling—whisking away like a set of sky-rockets. It
will upset the gravity of the nation. If a couple of
gentlemen have an affair of honor, it is only to steal off
to the Rocky Mountains, and there no jurisdiction can
touch them. And then, sir, think of flying For debt!
A set of baliffs. mounted on bomb-shells, wonld not
obtain an absconding doctor—only give him a fair start
Upon the whole. sir, it is a topsey turvey haram sea
: rem whirlgig. Give me the old, solemn, straight for
ward Dutch canal—three miles an hour for expresses,
and two for jog or trot journeys—with a yoke of oxen
for St heavy load. Igo for beasts of burden; it is more
primitive and scriptual, and suit a moral and religious
people better. None of your hop, skip and jump
whimsies fur me."
ScKN r.— Village Tavern—Two travelers drive up
and otder a peck of oats for their horse.
First Traveler.—(Drawing towards the stove,)
Landlord, I see you have no bar; do you keep the stri
red Pig?
Landlord—Nut exactly, but I keep atom° fox.
Seeond Traveller—Can't we see him?
Landlord—Certainly. Walk this way gentlemen;
(taking them ton room in the rear and showing them
the table loaded with choice liquors,) what will you
take, gentlemen?
Travelers.—O, nothing, nothing at all; we only
wished to see the critter.— V[ Ohron.
Comparative Import of Teas into the United
States during seasons commencing J uly 1, 1842 '43,
and ending July 1, 1843—'44:
1842-3. 1843-4.
Young Hyson 86,052 chests. 77,099 chests
Hyson 15,859 ' 8,068 '
Twankey and Skin 25,223 ' 26,138 '
Gunpowder 10,725 ' 6,001 '
Imperial 8,806 ' 4,841 '
Congo') and Soucbong 44,450 ' 9 4,133 '
Powchong 10,595 ' 13,469 '
Pecco 1,063 ' 1,248 '
Oolong 1,390 ' 1,280 '
Totals let July 203,970 ' 182,372
Total number of p0und5,14.358,274.
Getting ready for the New Postage.—We want
to put our Yankee neighbors on the look out in season
to get ready for the new postage law, which takes ef
fect on the Ist of July. After that time, postage on
letters will be regulated by weight, and not by the
number of pieces of paper. Half an ounce weight
passes for a single letter. The first thing required,
then, will be a cheap scale to weigh letters, as every
man of business will require such a convenience.—
There are several different patters in use in England,
but we have not the slightest doubt, of course, that
Yankee ingenuity can itnprove en them all, and give
us a neat article fur the writing-desk or centre-table
at a cost of less than half a dollar. The other thing is
the letter envelope. The half ounce will carry two
sheets of common letter paper with an envelope.
which will furnish complete security against the let
ters being pried into or read. These envelopes are
made and sold in Lordon for 6d. sterling per hun
dred, and will come into general use here, and those
who first gointo the business will make the money.
—Boston Chron.
NEIN-ORLEANS MARKET
The business in Cotton yesterday did not exceed
3500 bales, comprising one lot of 1556 bales, the terms
of which did not transpire, and another of about 1000
bales at sic.if , pound, Holders are demanding very
full prices.
There is no change in the Sugar market; the de
mand continues active and prices are steadily main
tained at 31 to 5i ta , lb. according to quality. Mo
lasses is scarce at 204 to 21c. la. gallon.
The sales of Tobacco yesterday amounted to 150
hhds. at former prices.
Flour is at $4 05 to $4 10 bbl. for Ohio; St.
Louis $4 25 to $4 75 for favorite brands. There is
no change in the Provision market.
Exchange remains as laste quoted—say for Ster
ling 8A to 9 cent premium; Francs sf-281 to 51.32 A
New York 60 days, 11 to 2 cent. discount; Sight
Checks par to 4? cent. discount.
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AT DIJQIIIMSNE HA LL.
MR. HENRY PHILLIPS will give one of his
Concerts in Pittsburgh, at the above Hall, with
introductory observations, and accompanied by himself
on the Piano Forte, THIS EVEN IN G. March
18th.
FRIDAY MORNING, March 7
Window and Curtain Bands, Glass Curtain Pins
(for blind;) of all the various sizes. With a variety of
other article. too numerous to mention, all of which
will be offered at unusually low prices.
THOS. A. HILLIER,
House furnishing Warehouse, 104 Wood sr..
N. 0. Picayune. I mar 17. below Fifth.
CONCERT
PROGRAMME
PART I.
BALLAD -'Oft in the Stilly Night.'
SONG-' Molly Bawn.'
SoNG—'Return of the Admiral.'
Sono—'The Widow Machree.'
SoNo—'o! Grnmaehree.'
DEscutrTlVE SCENE—'The Sea Fight.'
FART H.
Soso—'The meeting of the Waters.' T. Moore.
NEW SONG—'Never Give Up ' (M & SS.)
BALLAD — 'To Ladies' Eyes.' T. Moore,
RECITATIVE AND AlK—'The light of
other days.'
NEw SoNo—'Geh, the Lake of Killar
ney.' Irish Melody
• CAVALIER ' S SoNG—Down among
the Dead Men.' Charles
*This Song hi published and can he had at the door
—price 25 cents. Also, "the return of the Admiral,'
rice 30 cents.
liellFConcert to commence at half past 7 o'clock.
Admission 50 cents. Tickets for sale at the Music
Stares, Cook's Liteary Depot, at the Monongahela
House, Exchange Howl, and at Mrs Saddler's Alle
gheny Cltv.
N B. No postponement on account of the weather.
ml 3.
Tho Girard Life Insurance, Annuity and
Trust Company of Philadelphia.
INCORPORATED IN 1836.
Capital paid $3OO 000—Char te r perpetual.
PRESIDENT-B. AV. RICHARDS
ACTUARY AND TREIsURER—JOHN F. JAMES.
THIS COMPANY effects insurance on lives, eith
er during the life oldie applicant, for a specified
period. It also grants annuities and endowments, and
is further empowered to receive funds on interest and
to execute Trusts and manage Estates, either from in
dividuals, Courts of Justice or Corporations for the
true and faithful performance of which the whole cap
ital is pledged. Premiums of insurance are very low
and every facility is offered fur affecting the same,
and every policy of Insurance for life is entitled to a
Bonus of the profits at stated periods thereby, combi
ning the advantages of a Mutual Insurance, with the
security of a permanent Capital.
As the public attention has not been much direc
ted to the subject of Life Insurance in this city, the
following instances taken from the records of the Com
pany will show its beneficial operation.
Policy No. 485.—A man who had insured his life
paid his premiums fur 3 years, amounting to $4l 80,
when he died, and his wife and family received from
the Company $lOOO.
Policy No. 546—The insured paid 102 per annum,
fir two years, when his decease occurring, his family
received $5OOO.
Policy No. 250.—The insured paid but one premi
um of $22 50, when his decease occurred, and his
family received $l6OO.
In case of the death of the party insured, the amount
of the policy will be paid with the utmost promptitude.
In order to extend the practice of Life Insurance,
in this city, and the west generally, this Company has
appointed the subscriber their agent, who will attend
to any business connected with the objects of the Cor
poration. Fur further particulars apply to
WILLIAM BAKEWELL,
Office in Bakewell's Law Buildings.
Grant st. Pittsburgh.
mar 111-,13m
Just Received,
ALARGE assortment of NT: s. Betts abdominal
supporters, for the cure of "Ptolapsns Uteri,"
&c., for ' , ale by
mnr 18
Cochran'■ Patent Rifle at Auction.
A T Davis' Commercial Auction Rooms, corner of
AL
\Vood and sth streets, this evenirg, Tuesday,
March 13th, at 3 o'clock, precisely, will be sold with
out reserve, 1 Cochran's Many Chambered and Non
recoil Rifle, a splendid article, and handsomely finish
ed, the property of a gentleman leaving the city.
mar 13 J. D. DAVIS. Auct'r.
School fbr Young Ladies
al - 111F. Rev J, Mrs and Miss Bakewell, respect-
X. fully inform their friends and the public, that
their new quarter will commence on Monday, March
241 h, at their new residence, Little's Buildings, foot
of Third. Liberty street.
m1.7-dlv.*
Wander/Jig Jew, No 8.
HARPER'S BIBLE, Nu. 20
JUST RECEIVED at Cook's, 85 4th at., this
morning, a great variety of new works, among
which are the following - .
Harper's Bible, No. 20;
Wandering Jew, " 8;
Bluckwood's Magazine, for February;
Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb, generally
attributed to Sir E. L. Bulwer.
Mount Sorel, or the adventures of the De Veres,
by the author of Two Old men's Tales."
Sofia, or the magic of Count Cagliastra.
Phil Puree!, and other stories of Ireland, by Wm.
Carleton, with engravings.
The Comic Miscellany for 1345, by Jno. Poole,
author of Paul Pry.
The Ghost Hunter and his family, by the author of
Tides of the "O'Hara Family."
Englishman in Egypt, being No 2 of the Home and
Travelling Library.
Knickerbocker for March.
Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, No 24 and last,
the book being now complete.
Pictorial Hisory of the World, by Jno. Frost, L.
L. D.
Living Age, No 42.
Supplement to Ure's Dictionary.
Harper's Illuminated Shakspeare, No 39 and 40.
Illustrated "Chimes" by Dickens, in one neat little
volume. mar 17-d2t
For Sale.
2 N ESTS best cucumber, milk and butter bowls;
a supply of churns, tubs and buckets; an as
sortment of all sizes window sash and glass; Louisville
lime, by the bbl. or retail; bed chalk, and clothes lines;
carpet chain, Coffee mills, axes, hatchets, augurs, mat
tocks, shovels, and spades. RPFURITURE FOR
SALE,I cheap for Cash, &c., by
ISAAC HARRIS, Ag't and Corn.
mar 17-4td&ltw Merchant, No 9, sth st.
1.397" Carpet and Paper Rags and Country Carpe
&c. bought.
'PHIS is to warn all persons from purchasing of
I_ Alex. C. Fortis, my note fer s3o—on which
there is a receipt for ss—ris I am determined not to
pay it, having received no value for the same.
mar 17-d3t GEORGE BAER.
Fancy Hardware, Just Received.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends
and the public, that he is now opening a fine as
sortment of Fancy house-furnishing Hardware, con
sisting in part of
Table Cutlery, Britannia table and tea spoons;
German silver tea and table spoons;
Britannia Tea .Setts, Coffee and Tea Pots,
Sugar Bowls and Cream Jugs, (seperate,)
Japanned Tea Waiters, Bread Trays;
Silver Plated and German Silver framed Castors,
with 4, 5 and 6 bottles;
Britania framed do, Silver Plate Candlesticks;
Brass do., Snuffers and 'Plays;
Fire Irons in setts and single pairs;
Fire Fenders, (of various sizes;)
Chimney Hooks;
Solar Lurd Lamps, Britannia and Japanned hand
ditto.
T, Moore
S. Lover
H. Phillips
S. Lover
Iri. , sh Melody
WM. THORN,
No 53. Market st
Notice.
Shawls, A ipivicast (laslimensik DoClostei,
83. Market Street, Pittsburgh. 83.
SELLING OFF AT COST.
BE. CONSTABLE requests the attention of tbe
. public to his stock of shawls; consisting of
Blanket Cloth, Cashmere, embroidered Thibet and
Belvidere, and Brodie, at prices ranging from 50 cents
up to $l2.
Alpaccas, figured and plain, Romelies, Zambia
Cloths, &c., at from 114 cents up to 50 and 62 1-2.
Cashmeres D'Cose from .9.5 up to 50 cents, the new
est imported styles.
Just received, another lot of Flannels. imported as
the only kind that is not liable to shrink. jan 15
FRESH ARRIVAL,
At No. 49, Liberty St.,
P. DELANY ,
RESPECTFULLY invites the early attention of
his friends and all who are about supplying
themselves with
SPRING AND SUMMER
CLOTHING,
To his present stock, which he has purchased in the
cities of PHILADELPHIA and New YORK,
AT STILL LOWER PRICES THAN
HERETOFORE.
This stock is large, and comprises
EVERY DESCRIPTION
Of Fashionable and New Style (hods,
in his line of Business. The very liberal patronage
given to the subscriber, enables him to employ per-
sons competent to cut and make work in such a style,
as will be SURE TO PLEASE, and at least
TWENTY PER. CENT LOWER
than they can otherwise suit themselves. A glance
at the Goods and Prices will satisfy any good judgo
that he can get
BETTER GOODS, AT LOWER PRICES,
(made or unmade,) than are to be found at any other
establishment, particularly articles of a superior
quality.
THIS IS THE PLACE
Where a GO OD DRESS COAT for from
$8 to 9 and $lO, of any fAtionable color,
CLOTH AND MAKING WARRANTED,
0:7 Made to order at the same prises.
CASSIMERE PANTALOONS ,
for from $3 to $3 50, and $1 and 5 dollars—fine
qualities in proportion. French and English Cloth
COATS MADE TO ORDER.
And ready made fur from $l2 to 14, 15, and 18 dol
lars. A greut variety of
VIBETB AND mv,ffigzatz
Of the most elegant and varied style—a large assort
ment on hand. Every description of
TWEED COATS
For from '2 to 3 and 4 dollars. Also, a general va
riety of other SUMMER WEAR, with a general
stock of
SHIRTS, STOCKS, HANDKERCHIEFS, SUS
PEN DERS, and all other articles in the Clothing
line,
20 MINUTES,
spent in looking through the finery of this establish
ment will be better spent, and save more money then
could be saved by looking through half the tailor shops
in the city,
Walk in at 49 !
You will be sure to get exactly what you want—or
something better..
mar 15
Spring Fashion.
No 93 Wood Si, Third door below Diamond Alley.
iHAVING JUST RECEIVED FROMAI
New York, the SPRING FASHION for HATS,
I am now, prepared to supply my customers and all
those who may please to favor me whh a call, with
this new and beautiful style of Hat,
mar 14-d3r,w2m
(Western Stnr cnpy.)
Looking Glasses! Looking Glasses !
CHEAP! CHEAP!! CHEAP!!!
THE subscriber has now in store a large assortment
of Looking Glasses of his own and Eastern man
ufacture, of superior quality and lower prices than
can be obtained west of the Mountains. Persons about
refurnishing their houses for the Spring, and merchants,
would do well to call and examine before purchasing
elsewhere, as the undersigned is determined not to be
undersold by any establishment in his line in this city.
All work of frames will be warranted to be of seasoned
lumber, and plates of the first quality of importations.
N. B. All kinds of repairing attended to and Glas
ses removed and re-hung.
_
THOS. A. HILLIER,
Looking Glass manufacturer, 104 Wood near sth
mar 1 5:2 wd
Valuable Property.
PPUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given, that by order
of the Orphans' Court of Allegheny county, held
in the city of Pittsburgh, in and for said county, on
the Bth day of July. A. D, 1844, will be exposed to
sale by Public Vendue or Outcry, on-Thursday the 10th
day of April, A D., 1845, on the premises, at 2 o'clock.
P. M., four certain contiguous Lots or pieces of
Ground, situate on the south side of the Monongahela
River, in St Clair township, Allegheny county afore
said, in the town of Birmingham, marked in the gen
eral plan of said town Nos. 94, 95. 101 and 102, bound
ed by lots N 05.07 and 88, by Neville street, by other
ground and by the Monongahela River. The said lots
95 and 102 containing together in breadth on Neville
street aforesaid 120 feet, and in length 95 feet, the
said 94 and 101 containing together in breadth 120
feet, and in length from said lota 95 and 102 to the
Monongahela River, with the appurtenances, being
part of the estate of James Patterson, Sr. late of Alle
gheny county aforesaid, dec'd.
Terms of Sale—one third of the purchase money
in hand, and the balance, one third in nine months
from date of sale, and the other one third in eighteen
months from date of sale with interest, the said two
thirds to be secured• by bond and mortgage on the
properly so sold.
JAMES PATTERSON, }
Executors.
WM. O'LEARY.
march 14-w&dOoap
Oranges and Lemons.
25 BOXES Oranges and Lemons in prime order.
for sale low by P. C. MARTIN,
mar 13 60 Water street.
Smoked Herring.
20 BOXES smoked and scaled Lubec Herring,
for sale low by P. C. MARTIN,
mar 13 60 Water street.
Potatoes.
3 BARRELS Nesharmock Potatoes, for sale low
0 by P. MARTIN,
mar 13. 60 Water street.
JUST RECEIVED,a guperior lot of Sugar HOOllO
Syrup, in bbls and half bbls; ulso a fine lot of
Sugar House Molasses.
mar 12 CHURCH & CAROTHERS.
JUST RECEIVED on consignment per Steam
ers Hibernia and Monongahela:
130 Boxes superior Cincinnati Soap;
50 " " Star Candles, 4s, 5s and 6s;
For sale by
mar 12 CHURCH & CAROTIIERS.
IMPROVED LARD OIL, of auperior quality,
entirely free from Gum and equal to the best
Sperm 011; a few bbls received on consignment and
for sale by
mar 12
Fish.
'
BARRELS White Fi4h;
4
•
0 10 Drums Codfish; fur sale low to close eon.
signment.
mar 13
Peaches.
28 SACKS for sale by
mar 13. rd. 13 RIIEY & Co
P. DELANY.
S. MOORE
CHURCH R. CAROTHERS.
M B RUBY & Co,