lmrOVfc".RY OP A PI BOS OF AM 1 Hrmin4 or thr Celebrated Pirate, Cap run Kinn'ii Vrosri.. On Monday we were invited la inspect, nt the office of Mr. A. (i. Thompson, Wall btreet, a piece of ordnance, re cently rtnied Irotn thu bed nftlie river, nt the month uftlio race, a little almve Verblank'a Point. It is of the carronnde class, about thrre feet long, capableof carrying about 21 lb. phot, nnd such ns were very frequently used onboard of vessels from the time of Elizabeth to the ear ly purt of the reign oftJeorges. It has n largo handle nt the breech, where it measures up ward of three feet round, and a heavy square night over the mouth ; altogether, a very differ ent instrument of warfare to thoeo used at the ptecnt time. There are circumstances attending this dis covery which may not bo uninteresting to ma ny, fietween the years 1093 and ITtHI. it mny be ien:mhcred that the wholo of this coiat wan mfeaied by pangs of desperate pirates and free (motor, or buccaneers, as they were then terin id ; and none bo much dreaded os the notorious Gapt. William Kidd. lie was alike foired by nil nitions, and a heavy price was set upon his head ; so much so that England was obliged at length to fit out a couple of large vessels on pur pose to capture him, if possible. It whs well known that his principal place of resort and re fuge was Long IidanrJ Round ; and here, in a hort time, these vessels made their appearance, and they cilherdiecovcred the object of their ex pedition. tr he espied them, it is not exactly known which. He ran liisvepsel close under Gardner's Island, where himself and crew loa ded themselves with euch treasures as they could conveniently carry about their persons, and landed on the island, where a considerable portion of their booty was buried, and Kidd in formed Mr. Gardiner, who resided on the Is land ut the time, where it was dc)n.iMted, tel ling him tit the same time, that he must answer for it with his life when he returned. Kidd then set sail up tho North Kivcr, and reached the point betore mentioned, where, rinding escape with the vessel impossible, or that he could not proceed further with safety, iliHcrininoJ upon JviMj-iwj I'L - - - men, n. is supposed, separated and scattered themselves over different parta of the interior. Shortly after, Kidd and some five or six of his crew, crossed over to Boston, where they were la ken prisoners. Upon being interrogated, he informed the then Governor of Massachusetts where he had deposited his booty on Gardner's Inland, observing that only himself and Gardner knew where it lay, and the Governor sent over parties toobtain it, but Mr. Gardner refused to point it out until he was perfectly satisfied that he was safe from the menaces of Kidd and his nssociates. Opon its recovery and examina tion, it was found to bo of upward of a quarter i f a million ia value. Mr. Gardnef then recei ved a receipt of the same from the Governor, which is still in possession of one of tho descen dants of that gentleman. Kidd was further in terrogated as to what had become of the re mainder of his treasures, for it was generally believed that he had a much greater amount, having but a very short time previously captu red three Spnnibh galleys with cargoes valued at near upon tea millions of dollars, la reply, Kidd, it is aiJ, observed that whatever else there was went down with the vessel. Short Iv Hter this, he and his companions were con veyed to England, where they were tried and found guilty of murder and executed in the ear ly part of 171)1. Several attu nipt have been made at different tunes by various parties to ascertain wherea bout the remains of this vessel lay ; and it is said that some2j or 30 years since parties were sent from England to ascertain if possible its ntuation, but without success. Some 10 or 15 years since Mr. A.G. Thompson, of Wall street, whom we believe to be a descendant of the Gard ner' previously alluded to, in conjunction with other gentlemen, secured the land and got a grant from the State to search for the remains til this vtfcst'l. They acted on the traditionu handed down from "sire to ton" anil other con necting links after some years' toil and expense, were fortunate enough to find evidences of ha ving discovered tho remain of a vessel near unto tho spot where it i paid Kidd had destroy ed hi. During their research, by boring and pricking, they have several times brought up pieces of charred wood. This will in some de cree answer to the account given of its being tho identical vessel, it having been set fire to. Further, the size of tho hull as near as can be ascertained, ia about the Mine as that in which it is said Kidd hailed j ulrcudy it is known to sxceed 150 feet in length, and in o'.her respects aj near as potaible about the nze of one of our forty gun frigate. The bull, with tho excep tion of the t-terii part, is in a perfect state. It ia tmpposed it was the stern pirt that blew up after the was set tire to and caused her to sink tiooner than might have been expected by tin daring desperado. A gcntlemnn of considerable scientific attain ment of the name ol Sergeant ha recently in vented a very superior diving dress, and under hi direction an experienced diver wa lust vieek employed to deceiid and inorj particu larly tiununa this hull, and the result has been what we have befire stated, and the raising of this piece of ordnance. Tne diver on this oc casion also f jund another piece clote to where the other lay of much larger dimensions, but which could not then bo raited fur tho want of proper appimtu of ufT.oie.iit strength. lie KCraped from it some of the rust with which it i pretty thickly coaled, su4 upon applying a chemical lent iherrto, it was found to have come off a brie gun. Now it is known that Kidd'a gun were principally of this metal. The hull lies in about 27 feet of water, with two feet of mtiil over Ik r ; nut above two or three rods din tnntlrom low woter mark at tho mouth of the race a little alwve Verplanck Point. Thisspot was formerly called Giberalter Point, at tho lout fifth Dimderbergh Mountain, and answer exactly with all the more correct accounts of the spot where Kidd is said to have set firo to his vessel. Wh"ther thpre be treasure or not in his hull remains to be seen; but tho parlies who feel most interested in the matter are immediately about putting into operation the mo.t efficient means possible for raising it and ascertaining ; and if thiit is found impossible, to remove its contents in detail. Diving bells and other ap paratus together with the assistance of some able divers Inve been obtained for this purpose. With the recent result of similar expectations in respect of the hull of tho Telcmequt on the French coast, and the recovery of the treasures with which she was supposed to have been freighted, we are rather doubtful of the result However it will put the matter at rest. Ilntt-lilug Machine. A correspondent of the Boston Post thus describe.-) the Machine for hatching chickens, in New York : "Among the novelties now striving to ar rest attention is the Eecaleobion, or Hatching Machine. lis imposing name is derived front two Greek word, signifying 'I bring forth life." It ia about as large ns a bureau, con sisting ht n scries of small ovens, wormed by pipe conveying steam. The uniformity of temperature prevents the possibility of addled eggs, which are produced by variations from heat to cold, occasioned by the hen's unsteady perfornionee of her domestic duties. I felt some resiwtnnce to this substitution of machinery for mothers; and if I were a hen, I would get a protest against being thus thrust aide from the uses of creation. This is an ultimate form of the inerhnnical spirit of tho age, wherein men Construct artificial menmrii'P. nnil tench rrrnin. mar by n machine, in which the active verb is a little hammer pounding on tho objective case. Hut what is the use of quarrelling with it! I Does not the Eccalcohian hatch with perfect cer- lainty every cge that is not stale or imperfect! Does it not turn out fifty chickens a day, or twenty thousand a year ! And will not this re duce the price of poultry to the heart's con tent of the epicure 1 Theso machines ore sold at $120, and $73 is charged for one of half the capacity of pro duction above described. Some of the farmers in Jersey and Iing Island are inventing capital in this way, with the expectatien of profit. The chickens thus hatched almost invaria bly live, and seem healthy and lively. When cold, they run into little holes under the ovens. The hard, silent box seemed to mo a poor sub stitute for a mother's heart-warmth, and the friendly, clucking voice, which gathers them under hcT brooding wings. But the lit lo things seemed well contented with their lot, never having known anything belter. Those a few weeks old, thouuh plump and thrivincr have rather a loaferibh look, as if their mo thers didn't know they were out, and conse quently had not washed their faces, or comb ed their feathers. The older onen sometimes take to brooding the newly hatched, who run after them with great eagerness, and strive with each other to obtain their caresses. There is something quite affecting in this relation be tween the bereaved orphans and their elder sisters. This American machine is doubtless a great improvement upon the famous Egyptian mam muls, or hatching ovens, and upon the Chinese method of using up the men, by having them 6it; day aflcr day, on nests of eggs, covered with feather cushions. It is a pity, though, that the demagogues and office-seekers of this country couldn't be usefully employed. If a tylhe of them were to turn their attention that .way, there would be a rapid diminution in tho price of poultry. The exhibition of the Eecaleobion is princi pally interesting from the opportunity it aiford to watch the progressive development of animal life, from the fist littlo white tpec in which fluats the embryo chicken, to the final projec tion of the beak through the shell, which it has broken by viCorou. pecking at !t prison walls. The only thing in which 1 took real pleasure. however, was in watching the first pulsation of the heart, which become observoble on tho third dm Though no bi"Ter than a pin's head, it worko witn the vigor mid precision of u bteitiii engine, l'i. a am I'tii.iricu.NN Uy Willi. There is, indeed, a sinking resemblance between pig and Kliticians. There is no hole so nar row ortlirty that a pig will not squeeze through, squealing vociferously all the sii le, tosetffrea mouthful of com from the public crib. No an nual makes so loud a noise at a trivial mishap, and nunc gel over it to quickly, and goe off so quietly as a pig. Obstinate and perverse, they are possessed of a pecieof laconic brevity, in which they have the advantage of public men, and editors who write long articles. A pig' whole lite i a farce, and end by being hung up the heels, w ith a stick in his mouth, subject to theordorf.f the kitchen cabinet ; a melan choly r semblance to the fate, in our dy, of borne dislinguithtd politician. THE AMERICAN. Saturday, June 22, 1844. Democratic Nomination. FOR PRESIDENT, JAMES K. FOLK, OP TfcNNEHHF.E. FOR VICE PRESIDENT. GEO. 11. DALLAS, OP PKNNsYLVANl A. FOR GOVERNOR, ii i: x n y a. m u ii i,k x b i: li c. POIt CANAL COMMISSIONER, Joshua iiAirrsnoitxi:. ELECTORS, for President wiii Vice 'resident of lhe V. State WILSON MCANDI.l.SS, ., ASA DI.MOCK, Senatorial. REPRESENTATIVE. 1. 3. I. 5. (Sy.o. F. Lehman, l.'l. Christian Knlass, I I. William II. Smith. 13. John IIii.i.. (Phila.) 10 S imi ki. E. Leech, 17 GeoRuE SlHNABI.F, Nath'l. 15. Ki.uHF.n, M. N. Ikvinf., Ja.mls Wcioiiiilrn, 111 Gil MoNTi;OMF.RV Naac Anknev, John Matthews, Wm. Pattmsux, Amirew Bi rke, JuHN M GlI.L. fi. 7. 8. SA.Mt:t:l.CAMr, IS H 20 21 22 Jksk SiiARrK, N. W. Sample, Wm. IIuiuk.nrkk ii, i. 10. CoNR.AU SlII.MEK, 11. Stitiif.n I'ai.hv, 12. Jonah Brewster, 2.1. Christian Mvr.i:s, 21. Rohkrt Orr. 1'. It. I1L.Hi;itt Knq., at H ilenl tote ami t'val fitter, .Vn. 5! I'hir Street, i'fil ladeljtlila, it authorited to act at 1gent, at d receipt for all monies due thin office, for tub- I ncrljdton or advirllslng. CT Our acknowledgments are due to Messrs. Pollock, r.idlack, Eroudhead and Tibbats, of the House of Representatives, and Mr. Buchanan, of the Senate, for documents. Gj A Democratic meeting will be held this Saturday) evening, at the court house. A lare Democratic mass meeting will be h,,1J at Northumberland, on Saturday evening, the 20th inst. C"7 The Supremo Court will commence its session in this place, on Monday the Cth of July next. X?" We had intended to notice the democrat ic meetings, held at Mr. Pursel's, in Point, and Mr. Haus's, in Chilisquaque, for which we, however, refer to several communications, giving an account of the same. (J Our neighbor of the Oiuzette came out in a long explanatory article, last week. It would be a most uuneighborly act, on our part, to press him so closely as not to permit him even a loop hole or corner for retreat. We are, therefore, w illing to let the article stand for what it is re ally worth. r? Shad finite a number of these fme fis-h luave been caught, the past week, below the dam. A number have been taken in the common hoop net. One weighing eight pounds was caught. C7" DiifiWMii, Benjamin Berger, a son of David Berger, was drowned at the Saw-Mill Dam of John D Conrad, in Augusta township, on Monday last. The deceased, we understand, went in to bathe, cot into deep water, and lint being able to swim, sunk to rise no more. There were several others in company with him, who, however, were not able to render him any assis tance. (fj' New Wheat. 2.10 bushels of fine New Wheat was delivered at Richmond, Va , on the 13th inst E7" A company arc now engaged erecting large Anthracite Iron Works, near BInonisburg. The iron business is rapidly extending through out the State. C7 Tho Widows' pension bill passed Con L - j: , .1 . This bill, so necessary to prevent fraud, and the , 'mpo.tatmn of votes from neighboring State., by pipe-laying, received the vote of only two I whig, Henderron, of Mia., and Tullmudge, cf I New York. C?" The Tost-oHice bill has been hung up un til next session. Reason, it interference with political hucksters Cy The nominations of Judge King am! Chan cellor Wallworth, for Judge of the Supreme Court, were laid on the table in the Senate, and will not be acted on. (3 Texas. Mr. Thompson, the bearer of de spatches to Mexico, ha returned. He ha not been successful. The Mexican declare if Texa is annexed that a declaration of war will follow. Cj The new city authorities, in New York, have resolved upon closing all the grog shops, 3,000 in number, on Sunday. Cy The deluded follower of Joe Smith, at Natl von, feel confident that Joe will be elected President Sie, unore aujo.iri.uiei.i . amendment 'O case, on Tuesday last, at HarrUburg. The Chief the appropriation bill to appropriate $273,000 to Justicei in his opinion, sustains the present board, purchase the I'. S. Bank building, in Pbiadelphia, j Xho proullli tak(n agail)1, lhe Commissioners, for a Cu.tom House, also passed. was lM the gcheul(, of ,he lew cotlhtitution , ,., ' " , ., provides tbat the appointing power in the Ex- J- Th bill to hold Elections of President1' . . . . . ' . . , , . , , i ecutive shall remain as heretofore, until the Le- in one day, throughout the l nited States, has . , , , , , ,, . , gislature shall puss such law as may be required been defeated bv a vote ef2G to 2.1, in the Senate. , , , , ., '. ... ... The Miiif Mrrting. i C Our Whig friends having become some what alarmed, on account of the large and fre quent meetings liebl liy the democracy since the nominations, determined to have a grand rally at the Court House, on Saturday evening last. At the appointed time the bell was tolled, but did not bring together, all told, ai many os were ex pected. Arrangements having been previously made, the orators came, ready primed and charg ed for the occasion. David Tagcart, Esq., was first called upon to address the meeting, who, in the course of his remarks, drew largely upon a somewhat exuberant and excitpd imagination for facts as veil as fancies. It is but just to say that his speech contained many chaste and beau tiful passages, which were, however, ever aad nnon strangely commingled with such classic al lusions as "pig and puppy," "blackguard and scoundrel." Mr. TuKgart, in the course of his re marks, went on to state that the Democrats based their hopes of success principally on two grounds. One upon the name of democrury, and the other upon tlunihr, anil without attempting to explain the first, he oddly enough immediately branched out upon the latter, and handsomely illustrated the subject by trying the virtue of that species of logic upon the Democracy. Their visions, be I contended, were clouded with prejudices and bi gotry. This is a common error, however, among our Whig friends. The beautiful parable of the mote and the Lenm at once suggested itself, but then we hardly believed the speaker serious, not w ithstunding his assumed gravity. One thing surprised us. This was Mr. Taggnrt's enlogium and advocacy of Mr. Webster's '-obsolete idea," a IT. S. Rank. In this, we think, he transgressed some beyond the confines of party limits and tactics. The hot blood of youth must, however, plead in extenuation of an occasional kick beyond the trace of strict party discipline. Pome of the . , , , ,' , ,. ' older tacticians were evidently displeased at this t , ,. J 1 public exposure. ' ., , . , ,. . i 1 he next speaker in order was Mr. Skates, a i voting gentleman recently from the South and; . ,.. .... ... .... ! i;ontn Tallin rsi. lie was uigiiiy eulogistic 01 an inc men and all the measures of his party, and stated a number of facts from his own observation, j which, though they may be true, are certainly i not sustained by "the documents.'' He spoke i r . ii., of Mr. Clay's uniform consistency in his politi-p-'l course for the spact- f f,Oj ynr( --;iLr...t saying a word in explanation of his powerful speech against the V. S. Bank, in IS 1 1 , and his subsequent effort in favor of this institution. Mr. Bellas was then called upon. In the course of his remarks he defended Mr. Clay's conduct in regard to the duel between Graves and Cilley. His statement was in accordance with the statements made by Mr. Clay's friends, but not with that of Mr. Wise and others, who were also participants in that inhuman affair. He also at tempted to defend Mr. Clay against the charge I of gambling, with what success we do not pre tend to say. These are sins, which arc, unfortu nately, too common with many of our great men at Washington, and we therefore seldom refer to them. But, we did think it rather inconsistent in the speaker, after defending Mr. Clay, to de nounce Mr. Muhlenberg as a gambler, who was never charged by his worst political enemies with having played for money, whilst it is posi tively usserted that Mr. Clay almost stripped the British Minister, at Washington, during the ne gociation of the Ashburtou treaty, and that gold sovereigns were ulmost as plenty as blackber lieu, during that period. tX7"FRAStrs R. Siii nk recently presided at a large meeting, held at Pittsburg, in favor of Hen ry A. Muhlenberg. The only hope that our op ponents ever entertained, favorable to the elec tion of Market, was the supposed disaffection of Mr. Shunk and his friends towards Mr. Muhlen berg. The last prop of their only remaining hope is now removed, and general Market must necessarily be beaten 20,000 votes in Pennsyl vania. An effiut has also been made to induce those who are opposed to Gov. Torter to believe that Mr. Muhlenberg was nominated solely through tho influence of the Governor. Now, we need no better evidence of the falsity of this charge, than the fact that a large number of the Governor's most violent and uncompromising en emies were among the warmest supporters that Mr. Muhlenberg had. Ky The Canal Commissioner' Cast. The opinion of the Supreme Court, intncfiio twrnn to against the Canal Commissioners, was deliver ed by Chief Justice Gibson, in this important , cons,ltutlon The c,iw,u,e a)so .(,e , ,. . , gislature under the amended constitution. The ; law for the election of Canal Commissioner was j not passed until the se.sion of IS l.'l. llenccarose the difficulty and objection. C7"A writer in Sear' Family Mag.uine, (some crusty old bachelor, we presume,) in a disquisi tion on the language of birds and fowls, attri bute the following naughty words to that domes tic lord of the barn yard the Rooster : 'The most extraordinary of all the speeches of the feathered tr.bj, ia that of chanticleer, 1 which may be regarded as deciding a contro- Smith, and John Clement Stocker, Eqr., offi versy thU ha long been waged in the civili- ! cer of the bank, and John Haine constable, for zed community. Old chanticleer awakes in j , (iiHe and malini. charee. ami forfeit the morning, flap hi wings, and vociferate at 1 the top ol In voice, Mtumn Miei-c-rt.' Im mediately fioin a neighboring roost, another answer, 'So they do h-ur-e !' This is no soon er ultered, than a thirdrcspond at a consider able distance, 'So they do every w-h-e-re !' " The New York Tribune, (Whig.) manfully re pel a charge brought against Mr. Dallas, by kotne of it uiiscrupulou partisans, and very handsomely refuses to pcrtrit any uch trash to go in it column This it a pretty cnol rebuke and rii bcivc d by too many el the Wing press flank of Pennsylvania and Fut Lyon. The following history of the robbery of the Pnnk of Pennsylvania, for which Patrick Lyon, celebrated as one of the most ingenious mechan ics in the country, was arrested and imprisoned in 1798, will be read with deep interest by those who have not before been made acquainted with the circumstances. Pat. Lyon was as honest as he was ingenious. He was the maker of one of the old Fire Engines in this place. The por trait of the celebrated Philadelphia Blacksmith at his anvil, now finds a niche in many public places, along side of the distinguished men of the age. The following is from the Philadel phia Ledger : l n.s msmui.on was ineorpornieu on u.e M . of March. 17J1.1. Six directors were to beehosen ... . i on the part of the State, and the first one appoint ed by the Senate was Samuel M. Fox, Esq., who was elected President. During the year 1798 the bank was entered and robbed of a very large sum of money. The history ol the circumstances attending the commimon of this robber', the prosecution of Patrick Lyon on a charge of being concerned, the discovery of the robber, and the restitution of the money, together with tho suit entered by Lyon against the officers ol thp Rank, will no doubt be ol interest to the general reader, and are briefly as follows The yellow" fever made its appearance in the city of Philadelphia in the early part of August, 1798, and the fright and general dispersion of the citizens in consequence, was, perhaps, one of th reasons for choosing this time as a fitting period for plunder. On the 4th of this month the bank i was entered, ond the iron doors of the cash vault ! niiuln l.v 1iitrilr T vnn ttriml ntwn titimit nn inelt and a half from the jamb, but the lock was not broken, and the attempt was unsuccessful. On the "th of this same month the bank was removed - , ... . . , ,, , from Lodge Alley to Carpenters Hall, where , the t inted States Rank had been kept previous , . to the erection of the building in Third street, ... , , ., , , , nr.iv l.irnr.l I nnlr 1 lin luvil'l nnil innimv u-flri , ,' . ,, ., ., ", deposited in the vaults erected by the tinted j States Bank, but the doors were not the same, j The iron doors made for the book vault of the bank in Lodge Alley, by Patrick Lyon, were j taken to bis workshop, in Lombard street, and ! altered by him to fit the cah vaults, and the same locks were nspil, being of n brttcr kind than any that could be procured in the city at the time. A new patent lock was put on the outer door, and the porters were obliged to sleep in the building, as a precautionary measure. On the 20th of August. Nathaniel Potter, one of the porters, was seized with the fever, and died in a few days, nnd no confidential person could be obtained to Bupply his place. Thomas Cunningham, the other porter, slept there alone. Early on the morning of Sunday, the 2d of Sep tember, the runner, having occasion to go to the bank to complete some business left unfinished the evening before, found the back door open, and looking into the banking room, saw the doors of the cash vault also open. The porter was asleep up stairs. Upon examination the loss was ascertained to be S15S,S2l fil. Immediate mea sures were adopted for the further security of the bank, nnd the detection of the robbers. The fe- I ver, which raged in every portion of the city, prevented any very energetic steps being taken. From the circumstances that tho locks appeared to have been opened by false keys, and Patrick Lyon being well acquainted with all the locks of the bank, he was at once suspected of the rob bery. Cunningham, the porter, was taken with the fever, and died in about five days after the robbery. Lyon could not be found in the city, and it was found that he had left on the 2Sth of August, w ith an apprentice, to escape the fever. They had gone to Lewistown, where the appren tice died with the fever on the 1th of September. On the 16th, on hearing the charge against him, Lyon returned to the city, where the fever was still raging, and surrendered himself to the autho rities. This was on the 21st of September, and after an examination, be was ordered to find $150,000 bail, which being of course unable to do, he was thrown into prison. The fever pre vailed in the prison at the time, and while he was there many deaths occurred ; he was neglected, having no bed to sleep on, and but few of his j friends were permitted to see him, from the time of hi commitment. On th 12th of December, : hi bail was reduced to 52000. This was oh- I tained, and he was set at liberty. j In the mean time, suspicions were excited a gainst Isaac Davis, a carpenter, from the circum stance of his depositing large sums of money in different bank. On the 19th of December he was invited to the house of the cashier of the Bank of Pennsylvania, and partly by threat, and partly by promises of pardon if he confessed, he ac knowledged his cuilt, and made restitution of nearly all the money stolen. He declared that the plan of the robbery originated with Cunning ham, the porter, who procured the false keys, and that he did not know w ho made them. Af ter this confession and restitution, Davis was per niitted to go at large. The officer of the bank still suspected Lyon of having been the accom plice of Davis and Cunningham, and not satisfied with what he had already differed, procured a bill of indictment against him on the 7th of Jan uary, 1700: as a party to the robliery. Thi bill wa ignored by the grand jury, and he wrs relie. ved from the accusation. At the March term (lbOl) of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Pa trick Lyon proccuted Samuel M. Fox, Jonathan prisonment. Toe ca.e wa not decided till the December term IfrO.V The council for the plain tiffwere A J. Dalla. J. Hopkins, J. W. Condy and M. Levy, Eqr ; and lhe counsel for the de fendants, W. Lewi, J. Ingersoll, and W. Raw le, Esqr On the evening of the 1Mb of December, ISOfi, the case wa delivered to a special jury, who, the next morning, returned a verdict in fa vor of Tatritk Lyon, for $12,000 damage. Up. on the delivery of this, verdict. Mr rgeroll. one of the counsel for the defendants, aked for a new trial. The motion was postponed till tho next term. In March term, 1807, the case was reached but a few hours before the close of the term, and by consent of the counsel, postponed till the following December term, when a new trial was granted. At March trm, 1807, the new trial was expected to come on ; but the pro secutor, wearied out, as is supposed, by the vex ations delay of the law, consented to a compro mise, and thu sum of $0000 was paid to him as damages. " fTF We clip the following stanza from one of the latest Whig songs, and shall only add, that a bout the time our Whig friends were singing this Mng Tnnvin , WM prr?iJjne , , ,if ri ,.,: .,:t,., ., , ... ,.. -., ii tEMjiu p, ,iiiii-ii vwtrimy up ported the claims of Henry A. Muhlenberg for Governor : "Now. to 'pay him back in his own coin,' The Wolf and Shunk men say they'll join, To help the soldier Markel in. And whip the Muhley for his sin Hurrah, hurrah, the Keystone's risin' For Markel, Clay and Frelinghuysen." Here follows another stanza : "The Coon now looks around with pride, , For who is here dare touch his hide ; And though the Locos think to cros him, They'll find he's only playing 'possum Hurrah, hurrah, the Keystone's risin' &c." The 'Possum will never assimilate with the Coon, no how thpy can fix it. He always keeps himself abort him, and on the day of the elec tion they will find, as the old song has it, Possnm up a gum tree, Cooney in d hollow." MISCELLANY, Killtorlal, Cniitlrnsed ant SMrrlrri. Tin: Pi.in.ic Lmis. The sales of the public j lands dm ing the last calender year amounted to 1. CIO. 07 1 acres, and produced more than $2,000, 000, exceeding the procreds of sales for the pre. vious year, by more than '!00,000. It is estimated there is 000 tons of anthracite coal consumed daily by the boats on the North River. lOtolOtons is the quantity consumed each trip by the boats burning coal. Ex-officers Sweet and Walker, of New York, received SI Out) each for the arrest of Daily , and tho recovery of the 5-10,000. Quite a clever haul, just as they go out of office. Mr. Benton. Mr. Benton, in a letter to A. V. Brown, speaks of the Texas annexation project as "a scheme, on the part of some nf it mover", to dissolve the Unionon the part of o;ie others ns an intrigue for the presidency and on lhe part of others (I only speak of prime movers, not the millions who follow.) as a land speculation and a job in script." Fence Posts. A practical farmer informs the Hartford Times that in taking up a fence that had been set fourteen years, he noticed that some of the posts remained nearly sound, w hile others were rotted ofT at the bottom. On look ing for the cause he found that those posts that were set limb part down, or inverted from the way they grew, were sound. Those that were set as they grew were rotted off. This fact is worthy the uttention of farmer. Matlf. Si'i;ar a no Beeswax. The Hannibal (Mo ) Journal, of the 1st inst., says, a merchant of that village, in jiacking down a barrel of bees wax, a few days ngo, broke one of the cakes, and found it was a cake of maple suy:ar covered with wax. He then broke others with the same re sult. The perpetrator of the fraud, however, has been discovered, and will be punished. ''Westward,'' &e. A wagon load of emi grants, says the Milwaukie Herald, passed our office to-day, who were bound a little farther west than any pioneer we have heard of lately. Their basgagc was marked to "Sundown," which we suppose mut be near the 'jumping off place." QnK Travelling. A gentlemrn left Ro chester, N. Y., on Sunday evening, at 5 o'clock, and arrived in Boston on Monday evening, at 7 o'clock, a distance of -l.'O miles in 26 hours. So much for Railroads. The TitK E. Dr. Bascom is preaching at N. York, to audiences who pay fifty cent each to listen to the sermons. The proceed are to go towards building a Methodist Mariner' Church. By a census just completed, it appears that Lowell, Mass , now contain 25.1 13 inhabitants, being an increase of -l-l.'i.t since 1SI0. There are several large mills now in proces of build- j 'ng- How to Clean a Fowi.i.v; Piece. Stop up t,,e t0ll,'h ,lo!es b' 1,"itlls (," '',ll? wax ; and then pour quicksilver into the barrels, roll it a long them for a few minutes. The mercury and the lead will form an amalgam, and leave the gunas clean as the first day it came out of the shop. Strain the quicksilver through a piece of thin wash-leather, and it is again fit for ue ; for the lead will be left in the strainer. Cardinal Woolsey declaimed against the art of i printing, as that which would take down the ho- ! nor and profits of the priesthood, by making the people as wise a they. Baxter. When Sir G. Murray attempted io excuse him self from taking office under the Duke of Welling ton on account of hi inexperience in public spea king "Pooh! booh!" said the Duke, "do as 1 do ; say what you think and don't quote Latin." It is said that there are some folks who write, talk, and think so much on virtue, that they ha e no time to practice it. A Cool SrirmE. At Cincinnati, a few days ago, a man named Ketchum, of Newark, Ohio, ! deliberately took off hi coat and hat, and placed hi head under the arm of the fly wheel of tho steamboat Lancet, while her engine wa in mo tion. Hi head w as literally crushed. No cause assigned. Joe Smith Inpiciep The Louisville Cour ier state that seven indictment have been found by the Grand Jury of Hancock county, HI, against Joe Smith, the Mormon Trophct He is charged with icr.iury. larceny, &c
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