Catholicism ta Bnref-eKBglenel. Ve
53 The following If an extract of letter from
President Dcraiv, of Dickenson College, to Dr.
?f wtn, of Washington, published in the Nations!
Intelligencer. President Ddrbin i now travelling
in Europe. Ite bii written to hi friands t num
ber of interesting letters upon various topics, full of
ileep research. end philosophic observation. His
lri of the Catholic religion, at an institution
conformable to monarchical governments, are fully
illustrated by the facts staled in thi teller r
"I have carefully rtudied the Catholic religion,
both as system of faith considered in iuelf, and
as an external institution acting upon society as
such, snJ forming an integral and necessary purl
of the Government in Catholic countries. I have
no doubt no intelligent Protestant in Europe can
Jitubt but that Catholicism is gradually regaining
its ground in Europe, under the direct or indirect
patronage of most of the monarchies, because they
fin J it s very convenient and powerful means of
c int'ol ing the mass of the people through the
priesthood. In Italy and Austria the elegy are in
correspondence with the Bishops, and the Bishops
with the Minster of Police. Louis Philippe and
the Church had no friendship for each other seven
yesrs since; now they are in cto e alliance, ami,
w ith a reluming sense of religion among the pro.
pie of France, there is a corresponding return of
the Church to power. The ceremonies snd decora-
lions of the churches are arranged to suit the statu
of society, so as lo strike snd captivate the mass of
the people. Thence she is acquiring her influence
egain over two divisions of the community ; over
kings und rulers, because they neej her as a means
df government ; and over the m iss of the lower
orders, because she is so arranged in her external
ceremonies as to strike and gratify the senses, and
so adapted by her sacraments, particularly of
penance, and her doctiine of purg.iiory, as to as
sure to the ear, after auricular confession, the pai
dou of i n, and the hope of escape h the next
world, if nut quite successful in this. While in
England she is acquiring great influence, by great
ly mult plying and expanding her external machin
ery, ftich ai fine churches and cathedrals, school
and colleges, and tho residence of in my mi sen
ary priests ; secondly, by the strange approxima
tion of many of the clergy of the establishments
to which is essential to Catholicism ; but, most of
all, by the too equ jI divisions of Whigs and Tories,
so as to give the balance of power, during the last
Administration, very much to the Catholic puity re
presented by Mr. O'Connel ; and when we remem
ler that the religious fsith of a Catholic is superior
to his political opinions, while, on the contrary, the
liberal faith of a Protestant is subordina'e to his
political opinions, we shall fee the true power and
position of the Catholic Church in affairs of govern
ment where there are popular elections. I must in
justice add another element of power ir. which, ss
a Christian, I rejoice. I refer to the increased
morali'y and respectability of the clergy.
While the Church is srquiring power and influ
ence with sovereigns and kings, and with the ma s.
es of people, the educated and intelligent portion
of the community are much better affected towards
her than they were lifty or hundred years ag ,
considering her purely as a religions institution
involviig f . i i h and morals simply ; but they have
an invincible aversion towards ber as an external
institution acting on society as such, because she
effectually destroys the hope of liberty, or the apretd
of liberal principles, which this middle intelligent
class in Europe cherish almost exclusively. 'I he
result is, this class is neutralized in decidedly Calb
otic countries, and the nobility are declining in in
fluence snd also in numbers, because the aover.
eign fears them and approximates the people by
the intervention of the Church, which sympatiz'-s
with the highest and the lowest portions of the
community on the continent, but not with the
middle intelligent class. This is the true position
of the Catholic Church at this lime in decidedly
Catholic countries, as iu Italy and Austria; and
imperceptibly increasing in semi-Cathulic countries,
even where the Governments are Protestant. My
remarks do not apply to Russia, Norway, or Swe-
den, as I have not visited them, and scarcely to
fp.iin, in ber present agitated condition.
With respect to England, I have aatisfied my.
self that she is the richest, wisest, snd greatest na.
tion in the woilJ ; but that she exhibits the extremes
of poverty and wealth, destitution and comfort, de
pravity and virtue, more strikingly than any other
people on earth. She has acquired hei maximum
of dominion and power, but, having a strong and
well-ekldblUned Government, she will I ng main
tain her ascendancy. Much of ber success is tu be
ascribed to the character of her peoplci ; the Anglo
Saxons have always I wen eminent for enterprise
and utility : hence, while Fiance is speculative,
and discovers great principles, snd is content sim
ply with their discovery, England spplies them in
practice, which renders them productive ; and while
Germaiy is metaphysical, and suggests splendid
thoughts and theories, England bol ls fast what
ages if good sense have seitltd in morals and the
ology. But I have said England, bas attained her max
imum of wtalin and power, l bis will app a',
when we conaider her external and internal history
einco the commencement of this country. Fifiy
yeara ago machinery was scarcely used at all to
produce manufactures, and England was the only
nation that poseeeJ It and the skill to u-e it.
Upon the pacification of Europe in ISIS, the eon
tlnental nations were exhausted by the long snd
dent uctod wars of Napoleon, while EngUnd'e toil
had nut lasted one drop of blood. The consequence
was, she immediately htcame the manufacturer
for the world; and the distribution of her goods,
easily augmeutsd her meresoiile marine and ex
tendtd her commerce. Of course, all nations sent
their coin to ber to buy her manufactures, which
they could not produce for want of machinery,
skill, and hands ; the first two of which England
prohibited from leaving her soil, and the latter re
mained with ber because it was for thi ir interest
When the continental nations arid the Uni ed States
alto were nearly ejhausted of their coiu sud bullion,
and sought te pay England in grain and raw mate
r at, she instituted ihe eor moa.and oher cuatoms
to prelect her own agricultural Interests, and
compel money still to flow to hor in return for
manufactures. This policy continued, compelled
other nations to inatiiure manufactories also, anil,
In order to su-tain them, to ensct tariff I iws after
the example ol'England, and the free communica
tion with different nations diffused machinery and
mechanical skill, until nther nation now have in
th Fe resp eta sn eqou'ity with England, and in
point of cheapness of living and of customs teversl
have ihe advantage of her.
These causes operating hi Erglahd and abroad
hae produced the two following results, which
now agitate England and the Continent. In Eng
land the manufacturing interest created anew and
'arge population peculiar to itself, to suddenly col
lected, and so densely and promiscuously crowded
and lodged, at to be destructive of health, but more
particularly of morals decency, snd frugality. This
population required to be fed ; and hence ihe In
creased consumption of food augmented the de
mand and raised the rents of land from 25 to 500
per cei t. The result is, when trade has failed
th m, snd they are lid rally starving, they cannot
melt sway into the egriculurul and Irading masses,
and thus be absorbed and restored, but they must
g'a lua'ly perish until their number shall be redu
ced lo ihe present demand uf trade, and then they
m .y bar ly live again. But while trade was active
the manufrfCtU'ing population prospered again ; but
as tbe nations around improved in their productions,
less vaa wanted from England ; and their success,
exceeded their own expectations, they very natu
rally conceived tbe idea of reducing her wealth, dis
tressing her pei'ple, sud humbling her power, by
excluding her manuf ictures. The consequence is,
France is increasing her laiiff, Germany has entered
ix'ensively into a national ru-loms union with
Prus-ia al its head ; snd the United Stiles, by ne
cessity, hss been obliged to increise the tariff, and
mukt continue it, even if agsin-t her will ; and
the consequence is an unprecedented falling off in
Engli-h exportation f manufactured good, and a
distress among her laboring population that has no
parallel on earth. All and more than I have aaid
may he fully proved by the "Report on the Condi
linn of the Laboring Poor,' published by authority
of the House of Commons, July, 1842,"
The Comet.
We find the following communication, pre
sumed to bo Irom ihe pen of the venerable No
ah Webster, in the columns of tho New Haven
Herald:
Messrs. Editors The present comet is Con
sidered as a very brilliant phenomenon, but it
is far inferior to that which I saw when young,
oitlmr in 176 ) or 1770. That rose in the morn
ing before the sun, and its stream of light ex
tended nearly from the horizon to the meridian,
!?0 or 90 degrees. It proceeded from a point
and became wider at the extremity, like a
dove's tail. It covered five times the space in
the heavens which the stream of light from the
present comet covers This licht always ap
pears opposite to the sun, and is probably the
light of the pun modified by the nucleus or at
mosphere of the comet, in some measure like
the t-treaknof liolit w hich we often see in rum
mer occasioned by the rays of the sun pstwinp
through vapor in different degrees of density.
The vulgar notion is that when these streaks
appear, the sun draws water, when the appear
ance is made solely by the light passing through
vapor, or between portions of it.
The tail of the comet is not fire, and it
might sweep over its without our perceiving
it. Indeed thi.' is probably Ihe case sometimes,
when a comet comes directly between the sun
and the earth. W.
The following note, published in the George
town Advocate, testifies directly to the point
that the peculiar luminous appearance in the
western section of the heavens is a comet;
Gkoroetows Coi.lfge, 1). C. I
March i:hh, ltH.
Dear Sih : Be to kind as to announce in your
paper that the luminous phenomenon seen in
the west after sunset duriug latt week, proves
to be the tail of a cointt, as a. 7 o'clock on
Saturday last, wo paw the nucleus or body. It
was to bo seen from 7 lo three quarters pai-t 7,
and requires a tcletcope if low degree ; a com
mon spy glass is siillicicnt. The eaaiest way
to fix the ghis on the object, is to run thegluss
down along the tail, till il comes on the nucle
us, which will he easily distinguished.
Very respectfully, yours,
J .
Slavs Thahk. The first attempt, from
Lngluiid, to eateblibh the wicked traffic in Ne
groes was in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in
the year lO-'j-i, when John Hawkins, an adven
turer, atterwarefs Sir John Hawkins, fitted out
three ships, and made a voyage to the coast of
Uuinea tor slaves. Aoout the year 1701), a
meeting of merchants waa held in Belfast in
Ireland, to form a Company for this traffic, and
some progress was made in preliminaries, and
certain documents in the case prepared for
signature ; when one of the number, who had
hitherto been silent spectator of the proceed
ings, stood up, and in a tone ofsolernti decision,
and with the strongeat emphasis, said "May
the hand that first signs pa dims for this infernal
traffic be blasted by the God of Justice the
God of the black as well as of the white man !"
The meeting dispersed without a signature, and
never asstxubled aain.
The Law nf Evidence. Lord Denman Chief
Jus ice of the Couri of Queen's Bench, lately in
Iroduca-d inlo Ike House of Lords, a bill for impr.w
ving the Law of evidence. One clause of it provide
that witnesses are out to be excluded from giving
evidence by Incapacity from crime and interest.
K I
THE AMERICAN.
Saturday t March 18, 1843.
REHIO TAL.
HjF The Office of the "SUNBURY
AMERICAN" has heen removed to
the white frame building, in Centre Al
I... -J- .t. c- r tr n
Bujumins me uuw oturcui u. I),
II asset". Uusiness or orders lett at the
Store, will be promptly attended to.
(TJj We have just received sixty teams nf print
ing paper, eimilar in sire and qualitv to Ihe aheel
upon which this is printed. Also 36 reams nf su
per Royal 21 by 23 inches, which will be sold si
cost and carriage, for cash.
fXj" We are Indebted to Jesse C. Iforton, H. C.
Ever and C. W. Hcgin', Esq., of the Senate, for
legislative documents.
(Q" The continued cold weather at this season is
remarkable. Sleighing is excellent, and many per
sons are taking advanlnge of it in "moving," ere it
is loo late. 1'he snow, we stated in our lat, mea
sured 18 or 20 inches. In many places, we under
stand, the average depth is shout 30 inches. There
is. however, less of it further north. Al William
port the papera say it waa but 12 or 14 inches in
depth, When spring once fairly bleaks in, we have
reason to hope for continued pleasant weather, and
consequently a fruitful season.
ir Our comoositor last week, was the eaue nf
an amusing blunder, in an article in which he
makes us say thai a poor deluded Millerite m ide a
'grab for the second advent," instead of a garb.
We can't say, however, that it much impaired Ihe
sense of the article, as the propriety of Ihe oue is
about equal to the oth' r.
(Xj- The Philad. Iphia Evening J. urnal has 1 een
united with the Evening Mercuty, which paper
w.ll be hereafter published under, the title of Even
ing Mercury and Journal. E. W. Morgan, Esq.,
ihe talented editor of the Journal, has retired from
the chair editorial, in confequrnce of other engage.
ments.
( The last Miners' Journal contains an able
article, showing ihe propriely of sub-tituting cast
iron rails, in plneeof the impnrtfd rolled rails now
used on our rail roads. The writer contends tt'at
resi iron rails can and will be made for from J:t0
f3S per ton. while the imported rails cost $00,
and cannot be imported for lee than $50. This
is a question of the deepest imorl ince to the U.
n'nedSMes, and esp-ci ill V to Pennsy lvania, with
her vsl leda of coal ami iron ls may be brought
into requisition, if the plan should succeed, and
m.my of our most scientific men are sanguine of 1
siicc ss, and the u'liina e triumph of the cat iron
rail.
A great improvement in the "team Engine
haa heen recentlv discovered in Philadelphia, by an
ingenioua mechanic. The improvement eonaisls
n tbe direct application of the steam, lo the
periphery of the power wheel, without waale. Two
third of the machinery, and eonaequently, two-
thirds of ihe expense of construction, is done away
with by ibis improvement.
Qy The Mormons do not seem lo stand very
fmrlv with the government cf Illinois. A bill to re
peal ihe charier of Nauvoo and dish .ml the Legion,
has parsed the Senate of lhat Slate, by a vote of
two lo one.
(7 Ths Soviraa Cia. The Circuit Court at
New York decided thai a civil liil unal in the cms
uf Mackenzie, either for murder or man-laughter.
has no juiiadiclion. The charge to the grand jury
waa full and explicit, on this (mint.
Qy" The Congressional Apportionment Bill baa
pai.-ej both Houses, s- h s also Mr. Lowiy's re
funn bill, which reduce nil salaries one third. Mr,
Horton, f om the cnniiitiee to which was reVrr d
ihe 4tilions of citizens of Deiks county, pnying
for the abolition of iho office of B igade Inxeclir,
reported adverae to Ihe prayers of the petitioners.
In the Represtnt alive Apportionment Hill, the
counties of Noilhunilreiland, Union and Juui it i are
linked together, to elect 3 representatives. Ws
think Northumberland snd Oolurnhis should be
joined lo elect 3 members. Mr. Trego presented a
petition for a law to autluH ize the tails on the Slate
rail roads, when they need rem wal lo l replaced
with Pennsylvania Csal Iron. Tbe bill erecting
the new county of Madison, out of parts ol l.nxerne
snd Columbia, passed third reading, in the Senate,
(yj" A poel, who had been disturbed in h'S slum
bers by frightful dresms, thus soliloquizes upon the
imaginary effects of the present comet, which is now
proved lo te genuine:
I saw nine geese upon the wing
Toward the frozen pole.
And every mother's cnhng fell
Cri ed lo a crackling coal.
I raw an ox thai cropped thegrasa
Writhe in the blistering ravs ;
1'he herbage in his shrinking jaws
Waa all a fir ry blaze.
I saw huge firdies, boil d In rags
Bob llrnugh the bubbling waves ;
I listened, snd I hesrj ihe dead
All simmering in their gravea !
Strange sights ! strange sounds ! () ghastly
dream !
Its memory haunts me still.
The streaming sea the crimson glare,
That wrra h d each wwded hill ;
Stranger ! if ..'er tl . y slumbering couch
ftuch fearful visions seep,
.(Spare, ap.ire, O spare thine evening meal,
A lid swart shall be thy sleep."
f t1-it- r
iirgmauvc opinTing.
The reports of the proceeding of the legislature,
by the Keystone , which, by the way, era more
fully and ably reported than eny that we recollect
of at Harrlsburg, gives Ihe following sharp shooting
between Messrs. I.owry and Di ford, on the Reform
Bill. Mr. Lowry proceeded by saying t fcWe
had become weary of the bill, which the gentleman
clung lo his bosom, with all the tenacity of a mo.
ther to her first horn. His child was sent an the
Penate ; a piece which better filled the infant, than
would its fsiher t for after calling it all manner nf
hard names, they referred it to a committee. Had
the father went, he would, s my friend from ihe
county remarked, have been referred as an item of
nn fin shed business. I can show by figures thai
iK;. Kill Um . .nn.l .1.. a,.,. r
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three hundred thmtinnd dollars. And vet tlrs bill.
that man "
Mr. HECKMAN interrupted. He said the
gentleman from Crawford was out of order.
The SPEAKER said i was unparliamentary,
snd out of order, lo allude lo a gentleman by term
ing him "that man."
Mr. LOWRV. F ask pardon, not only of this
House, but of mankind for the disrespect.
The SPE AKER said the gentleman from Craw
ford was exeeedine'v personal and severe.
Mr. T.OWRY. I admit, sir, I am. I intend so
lobe. When he was addressing this House, he
said thai I had not only said, hut written language
which wnnl.1 "diitgraee a scavenger."
Mr. DEFORD aaid he bad uaed no such Isn
oae.
The SPEAKER said he was not in the cha'r a
the time, or he would nt have permitted tbe gen
tteman from Fayelte to have used such language
If be did not nse thai languag, however, he cer
tainty used something; very milch like il.
Mr. I.OWRY Mr. Speaker, the gentleman,
from Favette says he did not use th languge
have attributed In him. He did aay so ; a hundr
men in this House, and as many in the gat'ery
heard him make use of ihe laneuae. Ant yet, in
the face of the same House, and of ihe eme spec
t ..r, within one hour, he eats words st which the
stomach of the cannibal would loathe.
fXj Lieut. Maury, of the I?. P. Navy, has heen
making some observations on the f 'ome, st Wssh-
inglon. The following is sn extract of his report :
Comparing my own observations with the. sc.
counts which have already reached ua from differ
ent parts of the country, there appeara now to be
but little doubt but that this is the tail of a Cornel,
and that ihe head itself has been seen al mid-day
in the East with the nuked eye. If so, for length
of tail and magnitude of nebula, it may be classed
among the most remarkable lhat have ever appear
ed. In the year 41, B. C, liir.loii.ms tell us of a
hairy star that was seen by day-light. In the year
A. D. 1402, two Comets were seen in broad day,
and the tail of one of them at noon. Ttcuo Bbamc
discovered a Comet by daylight in 1577. The
Comet of 171 1 could be seen in the day time with-
I out ihe aid of glasses. Its tail though not so long
a this, w is curved, and formed an arc of 90 deg.;
though for a p rt of ihe lime, it had several tails, tbe
length nf which varied from 30 deg. to 40 deg.
The Comet of 1680 the most celebrated of
nnde n times hsil a tail computed at from 70 to 90
deg. Thsl of 161 R had the larked tail on record
101 d g ; and ibis vies with lhat in length.
The lail, says Vises, in his Astronomy, 'in
creases ss ihe Comet spproachea its erihelion ;
immediately after which, il is longest and most lu
minous, snd then it is a little bent and convex to
wards those parts to which Ihe Comet is moving ;
(he tail then decreases."
If this Cotnet bat obryed this rute, it has alrea
dy doubled ihe sun, anl ia now on its wsy back,
lo be sgain lat in the eginna of space.
M. F. MAURY, Lieu-. U.S. Navy."
A correspondent of ihe New Bedford Mercury,
says thsl the comet now visible, cannot be nearer
to Ihe earth than 90,000,000 of miles. He also
st jlea that the comet of 1770, passed within 2,000,.
000 indes of the earth; and yet product d no ef
fect ven on (he tides.
APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR
Naruiaiti B. ELnaro, Eo. , to le President
Judeof the ISlh judicial dirtrict of I'enii-yUan a,
continued nfihe counties uf L)au hm, l.elinioii.
S, buylkill and Carbon, in the room of the Hon
Calvin lily i he, resigned.
FOR THE aVlKSIClS,
Friendship.
How sweet to the stranger, in a strange land,
are ihe smiles of Friendship ! They sre as balm
lo bis lonely spirit. They sre as checking as the
refie-hing bowers ol spring, which csuse tbe
plants to put lorth their beautiful blossoms. They
prove to him, that, however e 'I I and frowning
muikind may, in general. epir, there ate benevo
lent individuals who iske delight in alleviating the
earee and sot rows of those around them ; who
live, not for themselves alone, but are pleased lo
shsre, wih others, some of ihe blessings the Gal
ol Nslure has bestowed upon them. Though such
di-iuteiealed friends ss these may seem "to csst
their bread upon the waters," without Ihe prospect
of a return, yet ihey rosy hsve their rewards in the
humane reflection, lhat Ihey are smoothing for
others the tuirged path of life, and implanting, in
their hearts, feelings of laating gratitude and esteem
Sunbury, March 21. IMS. A. C
Aa Exrmsivs Won. There is now due for
engraving, printing and binding the six vnlurnes of
ihe (iiolog ral Survey of the Slate uf New York,
already published, including the two volumes in
press, about 1 70,000. The engraving alone for ihe
rhole work, has coal f 50 000. To complete th
pub'ication on the moat economical plan, it ia est
mtted will cost 121.000. The total expense of th
soivev snd nuhlicstion is (321.500. The finance
Committee do not anticipate lhat any very const
derable amount can be realized from ihe sale of the
work, and recommend lhat the copies be liberally
disiributed among literary institutions.
MISCELUST.
Editorial, Cendcnsed and llelected.
Msdder i now cultivated in Obio, and ia said lo
be a profitable crop.
Coffee has been cultivated with great success in
Florida.
Messrs. Cushing and Wise are both out as
candidates for re-election, since their rejection by
the United 8tatee Senate.
Johnson wss executed at St. I.ouia on Friday
for Ihe murder of Major Floyd. He wept at the
gallows, and in a speech of fifteen minutes, proles
ted his innocence.
Tbete will be an immense emigration from Eng
land and Scotland to the Untied Slates this year,
Tha late gates produced a loss of property, in
shi ps snd esrgies, belonging lo England, of about
$1,000,000, and about 500 human lives.
In an attie'e in a late London Timet, the United
Stales are callid a "known swindler."
Chancellor Kent'i Opionion The Boston Dai
ly Advertiser, in copying this opinion, denying
the juri-diction of the Civil Courts In the esse ol
Somrrs rays : Il eiprea e, we doubt not, the u
nivcrsd opinion cf the well-infoimid portion of
ihe American Bar."
'The "Great Western" il is aaid, brought over
$2,500,000 in specie.
The New York American says thai the amount
of specie brought over by her is $70,000.
Mr. Tho. as R a a, of Bedford, Pa, wis killed on
Wetlne-day Isat. by falling from a wagon loaded
with hay. Tbe fall broke bis neck, and he eipi
red immediately.
The Great Western The Western has now
been running five seasons crossed the Atlantic
fifty-four timee, (ami as per log.) made one hun
dred sixty. six thousand six hundred and eighty
seven mites, without requiring any material repair.
Sarcophagus. The ancient Sircnphagua, said
lo he over eighteen hundred yeara old. brought I
some t;me ago by Com more Elliot from the Medi
termncan, arrived at 8pruce street wharf. Philadel
phia, in a schooner from Norfolk, and haa since at
traded the attention of our cit'zens.
"The Dismal Howl." is Ihe very appropriate title
of a new paper which sdvocatea the Miller hum-
liug.
1'he Senate of Ohio, have passed a bill, fixing
he legal rate of interest at 7 per cent.
The Engliah papers mike mention of the death
f Richard Carlisle, the infidel publisher; and they
d.l lhat he, some time since, made an open profes
sion of Christianity.
The Iwo Flanigans who were to have !een exe
cuted on Frday la"t, for the mnr.ler nf Mrs. Hol
ler, have been respited until the 21st prog.
77ie Opal Dullon. A new button by thi name.
for gentlemen's rn vt, hs been invented in Boston.
Itiscostly and brilliant resembling in its hues,
II the colors of the rainbow.
Humility before llenren. Tbe new Tiinily
Chu-ch, on Brosdway, New York, will e vat hulf a
million. Nothing like lowliness, humility and
simplicity in one's devotion !
They hsve one J.is ph King in pris-wt in Virgi
nia. Jo-King is ssni to ne out oi place in prism.
8..m' holv the other dav ran off w'nh the wife of
an editor al Lowi l, Mass. ' Poor fellow, wss
Ihe cool reply of the editor when some one tuld bitn
the news.
rmjits m Crime. The State prison lalror of Il
linois snd Missouri hss been sold out for ten years.
In the latter Slate, Ihe contractor pays f 50,000 for
the whole "lot. This u really speculating in hu
man wickedness.
It is said that two highly e-lecmcd physicians
nrsr Boton, ba'O recently died from the poison
nbihed duiing direction, and that Dr. liaywaid
is now dangerously ill Irom me same cauae.
Metmerism. The Boston Post says, Dr. Collyer
will magnetise the zodiacal comet, this evening.
Admittance to the common nine-pence.
Il is estimated lhat more than three millions of
people in England, Ireland and Scotland, are anx
ious lo migrate lo Australia or America, during the
approiching summer.
The New York Express siys thai Ihe flee, of
wool from about five thousmd sheep, raised by one
man, in the Slate of Michigan, was sold in this
city on Friday.
Th" arrival of specie at New Orleana from Sep
tember lat lo Febuary 25, amounts to f5.740.176.
A Dr. Breevoort was recently srrested at Goshen,
N Y., charged with having stolen a wsteh from a
window. He pretended to be a lecturer on phre
nology.
A splendid edition of Ihe Waverly Novels hss
just been published in Montreal. The engravings
coal $150,000.
A manufactory of gun barrels ia about to be es
tablished al Cincinnsti.
Dr. Alcott, the Grshsmite, ssys that be drank no
thing, during ihe year 1842.
During three months recently, the London
Times paid the Government20,000 for advertising
duties.
Aulubon, the nsturulist, left Bsltimoreon Tues
dsy week, for the Rocky Mounls ns.
The Fnglii-h are reported lo be purchasing targe
cargoes rf Swiaa clocks for Ihe China Market
Some of our Yankee friends ahould compete in
thia matter.
A hunter in Canada, who aimed at a noble deer,
accidentally shot a valuable horse, and was obliged
lo piy f 200.
According lo the Texas aceount nf the halite of
Mier, the Mexicans hwl from 400 lo 700 men
The Meiiesn account nn the other band, states the
loss in killed st only 20 Somewhat of a difference.
Lieut. Gansevoort, of the brig Somers, has ob
tained leave of ah.ce.nea fur ibree months, on ac
count of ill-healih.
O. A. Brownson ia a self-made mm, and at th
age nl 17, was scarcely able lo f aJ or write the
English language.
The firm of RoihschltJ had completed a eon-
tract with the Belgian Government for the loan of
fifty millions of florins.
A gentleman at Point Petre, (Guadeloupe,) giv
ing an account of the earthquake which recently
destroyed that city, mentions that while he was at
tempting to escape, his foot and leg were caught in
one of the deep fissures of the earth, and he thought
lhat ba was fst. But another shock came, and the
crack opened again, and he escaped.
Michakl Haas, a soldier of the Revolution, and
the oldest man on the Pension Roll, died at
Union township, Erie County, on the 4th ult. at
the very advanced age of 118 years. He waa
honest. Wave and patriotic.
Good Fees. Tbe Ju tge Advocate's fees in ihe
trial of Commander Mackenzie, are as follows :
Ten dollars per diem, and ten dollar for every fif
teen pges nf record, one hundred and fifty words
making a page.
Ao Hummi?. ft has recently been decided by
one of ihe Courts in England that a house is not
tenantaMe lhat is infested with bed bugs, snd that
a lease upon the premises can be broken in conse
quence. Great Revival. Upwarda of 9000 persous have
become professors of religion within the laat few
weeks in the city of Atb.iny. The churches are
open every night, and are literally thronged.
Compliment. Messrs. Brown, Brother &. Co.,
in beli rlf nf themsilves and others interested, hsve
presented to the wife of Mr. Recorder Vsux, of
Philadelphia, a massive silver pitcher, in acknowl
edgement of the efficient curse pursued by the
Reco-der, in securing $44,000 of their property
from the possession of Monroe Edwards.
rainter'i Cholie. It i a fact generally known,
that lemon nyrup, made from sulphuric acid, ia an
affective preventive uf tbe disease known as tha
"paintera' cholic,"
Foreign Money
The following Act waa p issed at the recent ses
sion of Congress :
AN ACT to fix the value of certain fore'gn mo
neys of a count, in corupu a'.ion at t ie custom
houses. Be it enacted Ay the Senate and Home of 77e
preentativetof the Vuited States of America, in
Cungress annulled. That in all computations of
ihe v.due of foreign moneys of account st the cus
tom l ouses of the Unit d Slates, the thuler of Pru
sia shall be deermd on I taken to be ol" the value
of one hundred and twelve cents ; the rix dollar of
Bremen shall be deemed snd laken lo las of ths
v.due of severity .iijhl snd three-quarter cents ; the
thalei of Bremen, uf .cventy-two groats, shall be
deemed and taken to be of the vtlue of seventy
one cents-; that the mil-reia of Made ia ehall ba
deemed and taken to be of the value of one hun
dred cents ; the mil r is of the Azorea shall be dee
med and taken lo be the value of eighty-three and
one-third cents ; the marc banco of If umhurg ahall
be deemed l.k-n to be the vslue of thirty five cent;
ihe roub'e of Rossi i shall ta deemed and taken to
le of iho v due of seventy-five cents ; the rupee of
lir.lish India shall I deemed an.l taken to be of
the value of f riy-four and one ha'f cents ; and all
firmer laws inconisUnt herewith, are hereby re
pealed.
Approved March 3, 184:1.
The Bunker II II Monument, although 220
feet high, is 320 feet below the level of the cross
on St, Peter's at Rome ; 140 lower then the cross
on St Paul's at Lond.m ; and 135 less thsn the
P,rnihcon at lris. It is 18 feel higher than ihe
Monument in Loudon ; SO feet higher ih in the
Column of the Place Vendnme al Paris ; 55 feet
higher than the Washington Monument at Balti
more ; 100 feet highei iban Pompey's Pillar at
A'exandria.
In the Saturday Cuuriet of to-day, our brother
Morris, of the Inquirer, apears with ihe following
real epigiam. We are ao pleaaed with it, lhat al
though not given to the m Iting mood, it haa thaw
ed us out, and we have perpe rated a sort of reply,
whiih, if it will serve no other urpose, will per
form tie sup rogatory work of a foil to set off our
m ight m's pl asanl piece ; U. S. Gaztttn.
Nature and Art.
AS triUBiO.
When Eve, the first of woman kind,
As (jueen of bden roved,
Her thoughts weie free as mountain wind,
And all who ssw her loved,
1'he Eagle screamed a lofty note,
The Lion loaned hia mane.
And e'en the Linnett's little throat
Eaaay'd a Aali'ring strain.
The eye the lip the soul fraught face,
'these won the first of men.
Each movement gave to life a grace.
To deck the mother of our race,-
Tbeie were no bullee iben,
oca Aiswza.
Civilisation sad Art.
When Eve through early Eden movsd.
Ami turned her maiden voice,
It ws n.4 xirange lhat Adam loved.
He'd only HolM.-n's choice.
Bui -then ten girls are found al home,
With chance for scarce two men.
Not idlt grace, nor LinnelV hum.
Wilt ce' eh the beau ie make him come
Each girl must buslk then."
FaiTHriLNKsa. Several ihoiauind pr-rsons
within the past four days have been attracted
to tha Murray street wharf, to witness the
faithfulness of a small dog, first discovered sit
ting there on Monday last. The poor thing is
a passive, harmless sufferer, and sits in one po
sition, looking steadfustly at one spot of the
water, aa if expecting' ita friend and companion
to rise from the rirer. It refuses food, and is
inattentive to all efforts to entice it away. If
carried of! by force it immediately returns, and
I resumes ita wonted position. .V. Y. Taper.