137 11,08MM,T,WEITE MIDDLETOII.I THE GARLAND —"With sweetest flower, enrich'd, From various gardens cull'd with care." FOR THE GETTIMURGH STAR AND DANNER TRIBUTE Or GRATITUDE TO THE HONORED OF FAME. DY MRS. LYDIA JANE PEIRSON I HEARD the tuneful voice of Fame, That voice so sweet to mortal ear, Hymning in choral lays a name To every patriot bosom clear A name which on her glorious page In living lines shall ever stand, Reviled through every coming ngo, By august Wisdom's studious band Genies shall bring his works of might, And Poesy wreathe her richest dreams, For him who op'd the gates of light And bade_ them drink her living streams Ah! richer than the monarch's crown, And brighter than the heroe's wreath, Is the proud chaplet of renown That bind« his brow in life, in death! But, hark! upon the breeze there came The low and humble voice of pray'r; And I ,! that brilliant, linnor'd name, Was utter'il with thanksgiving there! One knelt beneath the moon-lit skies, Hor arm was round her infant boy; Tears lay like dew-drops in her oyes, And on her lips was smiling joy. Her heart had known each piercing ill, Her eyes had shed the bitterest tsars; Neglect and penury keen and chill Had lain upon her heart for years. And she had struggled with despair, And wrestled hard with poverty, And buffeting the waves of care Pour'd forth her simple melody. He henr'd her humble numbers blend IF' With th 6 wild breeze's minstrelsy; And prov'd himself the lorn one's friend, 3c By NOBLE OF.NEBORITY! Sbo clasps her little one with joy, lieinow will thrive by Home's , dear hoar Nor dreads she that her crippled boy - Will be an outcast 'on the earth! And she entreats the bliss of heaven For him who never met her eye; Yet hue a flume, with effluence, given To her rejoicing family! Then brighter grew the brow of Fame, And swell'd her hymn more loud and clear The while she gein'd Him laurel'd name With Gratitude's delicious tear. The blessing of the desolate, She said, are on thy name bestow'd! My helloed one is truly great, Ah, nobly great! and greatly good!' Not thine alone the fluent tongue, The dauntless brow, the daring mind, But generous hands to thee belong, And heart munificently kind! Well may'st thou be a x iTroN's PRIDE! A glorious, freeborn people's choice! And mountains, floods, and plains replied In joyful echo's to her voice! LIBERTY. Tioga County, Pa. valai EaaGouIIVOL;IY.C. ON HEALTH--TO MOTHERS aY MIIB. 1.. 11. siouenxvv. Have we not all of us even, with pity and regret, some sickly mother, hardened with the cares of her household I Feeling that there were employments which none could discharge as well ns herself-.—modifications of duty, in which the interest of her husband, the welfare of her children, the comfort of her family. were involved—duties which she could not depute to another, without loss— ' she continued to exert herself, above and be yond her strength. Still her step is languid and her eye joy. less. The "spirit indeed is willing. but the flesh is weak."—Her little ones observe her dejected manner, and become sad ; or they take advantage of her want of energy, and • grow lawless. She, herself, cannot persist in a course of labor, that involves expense of health, without some mental sympathy. A temper the most amiable, will sometimes • become irritable and complaining, when the shrinking nerves require rest, and the de t elands of toil, and the claims upon painful ;hough!, are perpetual. Efforts, which to one in health, are like dew drops shaken from the eagle's wing , seem to the invalid like the ascent of the Alps, or like heaping Petit) upon Ossa. Admitting that a sickly woman has suffi cient self control to repel the intrusion of fretfulness,and preserver subdued equanimi ty, this though certainly deserving of praise is falling short of what she would wish to attain. The meek look of resignation, l though It may cost her much to maintain, is not all that a husband wishes, who, coming from the vexed atmosphere of business or ambition, would fain find in his home the smile of cheerfulness, the playful charm of a mind at ease. Men prize, more than our sex are aware, the health beaming countenance, the elastic step, and all those demonstrations of clothes. Jis order, in which unbrOken activity de. , lights... They. love to see a woman equal to ~her own duties, and performing them with pleasure. They do not like to have the , rinciple theme of domestic conversation a detail of physical ills. or to be expected to question, like a physician, into the variety of symptoms which have supervened since their departure. 'Or if this may be occa sionally done, with a good brace, when ill health is supposed to be temporary, yet the saddening effects of an enfeebled constitu- ' tion, cannot always be resisted by I in) who expected to find in a wife a "yoke fi.llow," able to endure the rough roads and sharp accents of life. A nature possessing great capacities of sympathy and tenderness, may doubtless be softened by the exercise of those capacities. Still y the good pint!, is only from the patient, perhaps the christian endurance of a disappointment. But where those capacities do not exist, and where re ligious principle is absent, the perpetual in fluence of a sickly and mournful wife, is ns a blight on those prospects which allure to matrimony. Folly, moroseness, and lapses into vice, may often be traced to those cau ses which robe home in gloom. Endowments to Literary Institutions. From the Baltimore American. There are persons who object to liberal endowments to literary institutions, on the grtiund that they are apt, to induce indolence and want of exertion on the part of those connected with their management. To a certain degree this view is correct, but it must be received with no small share of modification. Where persons are to he lit• ted flit the every day occupations of life, to which learning is of secondary importance, whatever. tends to make instructors active and energetic, promotes the general useful Hess of institutions. It must be borne it mind at the same time that colleges ate universities have a two•firld Object. It is their aim on the one hand to turn out Btieli scholars as may be able to discharge profis sional or other duties creditably on the score of information; and on the other to make profound scholars, whose pursuit is learn ing and nothing but learning. and whose re searches become available to the world in directly, as it were, but not the less el ca eiously. Much has been said about the fel lowships of the English Universities, as cal eulated to promote idleness, and make drones, who pass their lives quietly, and therefore, in the opinion of some, uselessly. ft is true the learned men here alluded to do not go forth and teach ; they do not busy themselves in keeping large schools, and in structing children how to read, write and cipher, but they do what is infinitely more important to the cause of literature: They devote themselves to studies without the lights of which those who undertake the ac• tiye pursuits of teaching would be most wo• fully at a loss, and by teaching teachers they are eminently useful in their genera tion. Nor could such be the results with out the aid of liberal endowments. Were these persons forced to have recourse to ac tive bodily exertions for a livelihood they could not acquire the learning which is so desirable. It is to' her Universities and their munificent endowments that Gre^.t Britain has to look for the men WhCiSei learn ing has at various periods excited the ad miration of the world ; and it is fur this rea son that we would desire to behold in our country institutions, the endowments of which would be such as to insure a succes sion of learned men—not mere common place scholars. For what is termed useful knowledge, in the every,,,day sense of the term, we are willing to look to our grammar schools, academies and colleges, but an ac quaintance with the hidden portions of sci ence, and a knowledge of the abtruse and difficult works of ancient lore, are only to be found where men can devote their whole energies to the acquisition of them Every man is useful according to the place he fills in the world, and those to whom is allotted the quietude of scholastic life, although their claims to consideration may not force them selves upon the eye of the casual observer have an enduring right to the veneration ni those for whose benefit they seclude them. selves SCARCITY OF WIVES IN TEXAS.-A Cor• respondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser. writing from Texas under date 211th July, says:— Our Congress has passed a law, granting a bonus of two thirds of a league, or 2,962 acres of good land,to every woman who.will marry, during the present year, any citizen of this republic who was such at the limo of our declaration of independence. The consequence_ ou may easily imagine. Every single lady, young or old, good looking or ugly, has been sought out and led to the al tar, and yet nineteen out of twenty of our bachelors are not only unmarried but linen. gaged, although their dispositions are the hest that can be imagined, and their efforts corresponding. A few weeks since a family arrived from Ohio, bringing with them a young woman as !'t servant —Our young men took it very much in dungeon that so precious a corn modity should remain in a situation so unbe. coining and unprofitable, and accordingly held a uweting,at which a considerable sum of money was raised by subscription, with which the young damsel was placed as a boarder in a respectable family. Then they clubbed together and bought a young man's head right of 1461 acres, which they pre• seated to her as a dower: and this evening she was married to a respectable planter•, who receives with her the 2962 acres in ad. dition, from the government. Among the objects of Internal Improve. ment about to be prosecuted by the State of Ohio,—.for be it remembered that -the States which have gone most librally, into the system are' those which are most anx ious for its extention,—is the improvement of the navigation of the Muskingum River, by cleaning out the channel and by the erection at suitable points of lockb and dams. For some time past, great and well founded dissatisfaction existed throughout the Muskingum Valley, at the letermina tion to which the State Commissioners had come, of having the locks of such limited • dimensions as to be unsuitable for the pas sage of steamboats through thorn. It is stated, however, in the Zanesville Republi• can of the ISth ultimo that the Commission ere, "at ..their recent session in Columbus, oiler a full investigation of all tho facts cop• "I WISH NO OTHER RERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVINO ACTIONS, TO rum , 'mixtHorton PROM CORRUPTION. ---STIAlfs .seateoramwataixt, rpetio tpraraDluri, awzp,w2x43l42 aa, aaaa4 have in the preceding numbers gone hrough with ihe new Constitution, article by article, as I promised, arid compared it with the old one, and I hope that I have satisfied many of the readers of this paper, that we have done very well so far under this old Constitution, arid that many of the amendments are likely to produce worse evils, than any that are imputed to the pres• ent sl,stem. I have one thing more to say about it, however, which strikes me as pret ty serious: If I remember rightly, the Convention was called to propose amendments to the Constitution, which were to be submitted to the people. I , VIly have they not done this, and given us a chance of voting upon them separately ? Insti.ad of this, they have made an entire new Constitution, and they want us to swami , it all in a lump. Now this :3 a thing Which I do not approve. Did they suppose that the people were not able to vote upon the amendments separately, or were they afraid to try them to that way, lest some of them should be rejected'? 1 can't tell what was the reason, but I know this, that many will vote against the new Constitution, although in favor of some of the amendments; because they think that others are of a dangerous character. I hope all thinking and prudent men will keep this in mind: that if there is a single amendment whiCh they disapprove of, they may do more harm by voting for the new Constitution than by letting the old one stand. Nobody knows what mischief may be done by a single mistake of this kind. We know by experience that our old Con stitutinn works well, whatever fault the pm. litical philosophers of the Convention may find with it ; but nobody can tell how the new machine will work. I will conclude these remarks with a short history, which 1 have been re@jfrided of by the proceedings of our Convention. There was lately living in one of the mid dle counties of this state, a worthy and re spectable farmer, with a good farm, well stocked and cultivated, an honest careful wife, and a large family of fine healthy chil dren. He was born on that farm, and his father before him; and they had always contrived to do well and lay up money by good management. He never bought what they could not afford, and never borrowed from any bank; but bought and sold for ready money. They were not mar, or mi serly however, for they gave their children good schooling, and there was enough arid plenty for every body. One or two sum mers ago, there came into the neighborhood a travelling merchant, a real New England schemer, who had all sorts of things to sell, and Various patents and improvements to trade with. Among other places, he resort ed to our Penns% lyania farmer's, where he undertoolc to teach them what he called agriculture and political economy. He told our fernier that lie would never grow rich if he went on in his slow, old-fashioned way of farming ; that he had a patent way of doing things by which he could get twice as much grain out of his firm as ever was raised belOre ; and he talked so smooth and leased about rotation of crops and reforms in planting, that our firmer, though he turn ed his deaf ear to him , for a long time, was finally over pursuaded and agreed to take him in the house and let him try his experi meats. The first thing he did was to per. suade our farmer to send away all his old hands that were working on the farm and get a set of new ones; becanse, he said, there ought to be a rotation in men as well as in crops. So there were new men em ployed, who did not work half their time. Then the old style .of farming was done away with altogether; and new methods of ploughing and sowing introduced; and new varieties'of corn and grain were tried ; and all sorts of experiments were tried with every thing; and every thing failed. In stead of twice as much grain being raised, there was not half as much as before. Then the cattle all died in consequence of some reforms in the manner of feeding them, and the great barn was destroyed by lightning in cnnsequence of some amendments in the lightning ,rod. The result was, that our farmer had to borrow money, which' he found he could not pay, because ho could raise nothing; and then he was sued and the nected with the Improvement of the river Muskingum, havo rescinded their order for reducing the size of the Locks; and upon the array of facts and arguments addressed by the indefittigable Committees of Wash.. inirton, Morgan and Muskingum counties, they agreed to increase the size thereof from 150 to 175 feet long, and front 34 to 30 feet in width. This will be joyful intelli• genee to the people not only along the Muskingum valley, but to others who are less directly interested in the improve ment,"—Bult. American. KANAWHA VALLEY. --The Valley of Ka , nawha, so justly celebrated for the fer• tility of its fields and the bold and romantic character of its natural scenery, appears to have escaped the drought which has burnt up so many agricultural districts of the coun try. The Valley, about 100 miles in ex• tent, is said to be blessed, as usual, with fine crops. An unusual quantity of corn was this year planted, and although it. may fall shot t of what some seasons would have pro duced, still the crop be abundant and good. France and Germany (adds the ' Enquirer, from which we derive this infor mation,) may boast of the Rhine—ibut to Western Virginia alone belongs the" Valley of Kanawha." The eonst it talon. From the American Sentinel, a Van Buren paper Lei Well Alone. No. XII. sheriff sold him out; and he had to pull up stakes and go to the far west with all his faMily, bitterly regretting that he did not LEAVE WELL ALoivE, and.cursing the radical reformer who had persuaded him to quit his good old ways and try the patent method of fitrming. The last I heard of him was that he was somewhere in Missouri, trying to Make :‘ living: which in his old ago he found,ndeasy matter. Now it strikes me that this experiment may be tt lesson for all of us. A state is liken great farm; and if the people will be contented to go on in the way that they have found by experience to 'be stile and profile able; if they will "hold fast to that which is good". as the scripture says, they will be sure to he prosperous and happy: every hon est man will be able to sit down under his own vine and fig tree with none to make him afraid ; but if they will run after'every po litical pedlar that comes among them with his notions and patents for improvements in government and wonden•nutmeg amend ments to the Constitution; and it they will he taking medicines when they are not sick, and, trying on new ..onstitutions that will never fit them why have no doubt that like the poor former, they will find reason to lament that they ever listened to the ad- vice of reformers, and like the Italian, have inscribed on their tomb toone, "I WAS WELL, MIT I WANTED TO 1113 BETTER, AND LO! HERE I AM. " will now only add this advice to all good citizens of all parties, whether demo crabs, whirs, or antimasons. Go to "the pat: next October ; vote for PORTER or RITNER as you think right; but LET WELL ALONE, and VOTE AGAINST THIS NEW CON• STITLITION. • Deferred Sirticles. From the Harrisburg Chronicle David R. Porter, vs. Robert Campbell. After David R. Porter became a candi. date for Governor, there appeared, in a pa. per of Union county. a letter, said to have been written by Robert Campbell, of Hunt. inffdon, making some grave charges agains , this individual. A suit was instituted in the criminal court, by Mr. Porter, against Mr. Campbell. It vas boldly asserted by some who were acquainted with Mr. Porter, that HE DARE NOT STAND A TRIAL— for, jibe did, those charges would be proved against him,and ho would be the instrument of his own infamy. This suit was set down for trial at the August term, but has been put off by Porter—showing, clearly, that he is afraid to bring it to a trial, before the elec tion. The excuse for postponing the suit, is, because the .original copy of the letter could not be obtained. But, as bringing the suit, at first,was only a pretence in Mr. Por ter, so this excuse is only a contrivance to get out of the scrape. Mr. Porter could have prosecuted the printer, and the copy, as published would have been evidence, let the author of the letter be who he might.— But 4r. Campbell stands ready for this trial —and Porter's shrinking back, proves him afraid of the result. ila vitt eli'alliti•trie, vs. David R. Porter. The papers which support Mr. Porter, have still said that HE WAS PREPAR ED TO PROVE he did not owe the claim of David McMurtrie. This suit has been pending for more than a year, and was to come to a trial at the present August term. When the cases for trial were called up, Mr. McMurtrie's counsel said THEY WERE READY. The counsel for Porter said they were NOT READY; that a rule must be taken out to get the deposition of a man more than 2,40 miles away whom Porter believed was a material witness. Now, if this witness was material, why was not means used to obtain his deposition before the trial came on, as there was plenty of time? The leaving it off till the very time of trial, shows, most conclusively, that Da• vid R. Porter DARK NOT let the suit come to a trial, at least before the electfen. Samuel Sturgeon. vs. Davfd R. Porter. This suit was referred to arbitrators,and it is know that Porter and 11;s wipers stat• ed that the ar rotors had awarded no cause of action. itrators said this was not true—but orter took the benefit before the award was made out. When a debt stands undisturbed twenty years, the law supposes there is no claim. Mr. Sturgeon, aware of this. and knowing that in eleven drys the twenty years would be up, by his counsel moved to have the rule of reference stricken off, and a rule on Porter to produce •the article of agreement and the books and accounts. without which, Sturgeon could riot proceed. Porter's coun sel objected to this motion; and Sturgeon's counsel finally succr:eded in obtaining a mo tion,that will give him a chance some future day. Sturgeon desires a jury of twelve men, to decide whether Porter is not indebted to him; nod Porter, by his own conduct, has shown HE IS AFRAID to let the case come before a jury. If Porter felt satisfied he owed Sturgeon nothtng,wnuld he not,as soon as possible, have the case tried by an impar tial, jury,and thus establish his character;' but it appears he dare not do it. The in ference, therefore,ls, that Porter does owe Sturgeon, the poor collier,lB7oo, and that he refuses to pay his honest debts. E Tho Philadelphia American Sentinel says that "a number of the old democrats, wlio were originally in favor of a moderate reform of tlto Constitution, of the . State,have become nlarmed at the dangerous doctrines advanc• ed by some of the ultra-radical,, and aro disposed to sustain the old Constitution. rather than run the risk of having the found • ation of their sa'ety and prosperity rudely broken up by reckless innovators.'; di Sail Iglander.—:Porler sYb tailgated by alistate: Frnrn the Phitddelphin Inquirer. , It seeing to be pretty generally conceded by the Loco Pecos, that the nomination of David R. Porter was a sad political blunder. Ho was never suoposed to he particularly strong; but even his worst enemies did not believe him so utterly weak and 111111bl:2as the investigation of his history has shown him to be. It is too late, however. lie cann o t be withdrawn; and instead of assist. mg to buoy up the Sub• Treasury scheme, he will go down with that measure, "never to rise again " It scents that the lion. Mr. Keim, the Van Buren member for Berks, recently ob• served in a conversation with another eiti zen, that HAD THE CHARACTER OF DAVID R. PORTER BEEN KNOWN, HE %V OUI.D NEVER HAVE RECEIV ED THE NOMINATION OF THE CONVENTION. .Mr. Keim was then Asked whether the statements of the Ritner party in regtrd to him were true—to which he replied "I have not seen them contradict ed." He further said 'hat ho Mieved the alThir of Porter with the woman in Lewis town was TRUE, and that Porter should never have suffered her to marry a Negro, ns she had been his housekeeper." The admission of all this by such a gen tleman, naturally produced much fluttering among the Loco Pocos of Berks. Not that they disagree with the General as to the error in nominating Porter—not that they disapprove his sentiment with reference to amalgamation—but that coming froma lead er of their own party.such concessions could not but have a fatal elect. They therefore got up an excitement, and Mr. K. soon after published a note, denying the charge pre ferred against bim, and alleging that he had never made the admissions attributed to him. Under these eireSmstances, the gentleman on whose authority the statement was made, authorized the publication of the following, STATEMENT OF MR. GROVE. TO THE PUBLIC. During a conversation respecting the state ments in regard to Potter's dishonesty, held with George H. Weim, about the beginning of the pm. sent month, (Aue fist.) the said Kahn asserted that had these things in regard to David R. Porter, been known he would never have received the nomination of the Convention. We afterwards talked of the statements made by the friends of Ritner in regard to Porter's bad character. when tilr. Kelm was asked whether the statements we re 1 true, upon which he said he had not seen them contradicted. He assn said that he be o lieved the statements made with regard to Poder's cannaz ion with the vv . /maenad Lewistown eci-be true,and that ho should never have suffered her to marry a negro, as she had been his houseko:eper. SA3I4,VN GROVE. From the Harrisburg Telegraph. Porter and Perjury. In our last, we offered to bet the Loco Focos the sum of 500 1) OZ. -1G R S that David R. Porter,the candidate support ed by them for Governor, is a PERJUED KNAVE: to be entered as an amicable ac tion and tried in the Court of Dauphin coun ty; they to give us one week's notice. As the friends of Porter have not dared to take up this offer we hereby agree to DOUBLE THE BET; the bet to be taken and the trial to take place, on or before the Middle of September inst. We also charge David R. Porter with be-, ing a PERJUREDKNAVE,and will stand ready to prove him such ifhe will dare prose cute us This fact is well, clearly and une quivocally established by the testimony of competent witnesses, as will be seen by re ference to the affidavits of the Messrs. Stone breaker's, an( the statement of Mr. Alliton, in !his week's paper. Let them bemramin ed by every honest, conscientious man, and if they do not convince them that Porter is guilty of WI LFUL DELIBERATE PER JURY, human testimony cannot do it. PENN LVANIA. —This State being one of the "big guns" of the Republic, much interest is k.lt in the election of Governor, which is to come off on the 9th proximo. The candidates are the present incumbent, Joseph Ritner (who received but a plurality of votes at the time he was elected, there having been three candidate, In the field,) and David R. ['Oder, a thorough-going Loco Foco. So much are the hopes of"the party" expected either to wax or wane by the result of this election, that no means are spared, foul or fair, to carry it : aid has been volunteered by the papers of the neighbor ing States. and it is even said that no small quantity of the "needful" has been forward ed from Washington to assist them in their struggle. W e cannot see why the Administration pressess in Virginia should anticipate the , election of Porter with so much pleasure, if, as they pretend, the preservation of the in stitutions arid the general welfare of the country depend upon the maintenance of their party ascendancy. The position of the candidates on one single subject —that of the right of the master to claim his fugitive slave—should induce . them to deprecate the election of Porter. On this subject, letters have been addressed to the candidates by the Anti.Slayery Society of Pittsburg, to which Gov. Ritner has given an open and manly reply, whilst his competitor has, in the true nou-committal sptrit.of the great head of the party, declined to an.swe r—thus being either fur or against, as interest may' prompt. In reply to the letter mentioned. Gov: Ritnor says— [VOL. - 9..-NO. 24. "I am in favor of extending tlio right of trial by Jury to all cases involving the quostion of per. sonal liberty, with the single restriction that in case of fugitives from labor in other Stateß,.who are admitted to be slaves, it should be granted. This exception I believe to be duo to the alster States in which domestic slavery constitutionally exists, and in which, however we may deplore it us a .nisfortune, we aro bound to respect it us a constitutional Institution." Were there a candidate for Governor of Virginia, who would decline committing himself on this subject, there would not be a paper in the State which would dare to advocate his election, and yet the Adminis tration papers here, without an exception, are rejoicing. over their embryo victory in Pennsylvania. That which would not be tolerated hereis all right and proper else where. The gentlemen may "love Rome," but this is some indication that they love thc spoils more.—Winchester Republican, P.Emlstrtvallia. , —Our worthy friend of the American Sentinel talks ofelcctinz, Por. ter, as Governor, by the joint vote of Mull lenberg and Wolf, 12,000 Will you bet on it? flow will this answer: A basket of Gil Davis' Nuptial Champaign that you do not elect him by 12,000—another basket that you do not elect him by 5000—another basket that.you do not elect him at all—and another that.Ritner will be elected Gover nor. Your answer, Alderman.—Noah. The Elections. Itt.ustors.--Suffictent returns have been received to warrant the belief that a Whig Governor and Legislature, and ft majority of the Whig candidates for Congress have been elected. The Senate will consist of 11 Whigs, 6 Administration, and 2 Conserva lives. In the • House there will be 42 Whigs, 31 Administration, and 4 Conserve lives—last year the House • contained 24 Whig', and 40 Administration men. Stuart, the Whig candidate for Congress in the third district has a majority of 135 over his op ponent. RHODE ISLAND.—The 1101130 of Repre. sentativea will contain 46 Whigs, 25 Ad. ministration men, and I' Conservative. The Senate, consisting of 11 members, is entire. ly Whig. . - Mrssovnr.--The Van Buren majority in ho next Legislature will be 28 on joint bal ot; the majority last year was 82! Tnc Winos ot= Outo.—The Columbus Journal says—A most excellent spirit pre. veils among our Whig friends in thii State. The blustering of the . Locofbcos has arous ed a degree of energy:and well directed ac tivity on the part of the friends of tho coun• try which ensures a result in Ohio equalled only by the triumphs of Indiana and Kentuc ky. Every where our nominations havo been made with great judgmon!. TORIVADO.-A tornado of the width of three to four hundred feet, passed near Providence on Thursday week last, pros. Crating houses, uprooting trees, and carry ing complete devastation in its track, PAIL Cnors.—The Franklin (Pa.) Re. pository, expresses the opinion, from all it has seen and heard,that in that county there will not be one fifth of an average crop of Corn, Buckwheat, or Potatoes. The pasture fields in that region were generally dried up, and the drought there still continues. ' , BRITISTI AmEntcAm.—lt appears that the GoVernors ofthe British provinces, includ ing Now Foetidland, are about to assemble at the summons of Governor General, the Earl of Durham. Sir George, the Gover nor of Upper Canada, was met on a tour ho was making,bv an express which called him forthwith to that. place. Sir John Ilarvey,and Sir Cohn Campbell, are ordered there, or have arrived, and the Andromache frigate , has gone to Newfound land, from whence she is to take Captain Prescott, the Governor of that Island, and on her return call at Prince Edward's Island for the Lieutenant Governor, Sir C. Fitzroy, and convey them to Quebec. "TALL Conx."—Some of the Pennsylva ma papers boasting of corn stalks 12/ feet high, as uncommonly tall for that region.— ' A. stalk measuring 14 feet was left at our office last week by some person unknown— and another, 14 feet 7 inches in hPight by Mr. George T. Mixer of this town,who says he has one hundred stalks now standing in the field from which this was taken, which are as tall as that brought to us. —Dayton (Ohio) Journal. FROM FLORIDA.—We have a slip from the Savannah Georgian which gives us later intelligence from Florida, An express had arrived at Jacksonville bringing intelligence that, ..at the 18th ult., an attack had been made by a body of Indians, on a train of wa,gonsloaded with provisions,between camp. Pinkney and the Okefenokee Swamp, the wagons burnt,one man killed,end two others supposed to be mortally wounded. • Fhe In. dians escaped unhurt. ROBERT DALE OWEN is the (V. B.) mem her elect of the Indiana Legislature from Posey. HONOR TO TILL' BRAVE !—An elegant sword is to be presented to Brigadier Gen. BRADT, of the U. S. At:my, nt Harrisburg on the 17th September in conformity' with a resolution unanimously passed at the last session of the Pennstylvanin Legislature. MORE OUTRAGES.—According to ther. New Orleans Bulletin, two citizens of No.. bile were tarred and feathered during the week ending on the 18th In a shop window not far from Scotland Place, London, is the following announce t-" IV anted a man to mg r htrlics traria'
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