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4?b(?. a C(lifilt|OJ'jlVriXJ" ^ a &ecordin& Se crotary, and a i *% I > '.vv " pointed aafioauy* .< Art.- 3. There shall be an Executive Committee, consisting of, the officers of the Society, and 5wven additional members, to be chosen aiHmaBy, and any three of them shall constitute a quorum for the. transaction of business. Att. 4. It shall be a particular part of the duty of this committee to call npon local SocietiesTor the contribution offuuds, which they will expend iu rhe employment ol agents and the distribution of tracts, calculated to -4?ivatice the Temperance cause ; and to re port foKy all their proceedings for the past r year, to the Secretary at its. meeting. A.**. 5. It shall be the privilege of each Society in this Association, to seud up to its anuual meetings four Delegates, each of whom shall be entitled to vote on ail matters before the society. A*T. 6. It shall be the duty of each Soci : desiring to be c?nuected with the State Society, to send to the Corresponding Se V^B^^'at least two weeks previous to the tBftoa! meeting a particular report of its J&ing* for the -previous year ; with such other information as it may cousider important to tbe. Temperance cause. JjttLT 7 Every member of any Temper ance Society in'tbis. State, <hall.be consid. ere$ a membet^f thisSociety, so far as to entitle Ham to fee privilege of introducmg resolutions, iSikiog suggestions, and taking part m debate; but not to vote with this fco ciety, except in the character of a Delegate. Aet. 8. This Society shall meet ann*ally on the Wedoesday after the fourth Monday in November, at half past six o'colck, P. M. at Columbia, unless some <&ber time and I place he determined on at an annual meet ' iiig. t' - A*T. 9- This Constitution may be altered or amended at -any annual meet ing, by a ma ? jority qf two-thirds of the Delegates present. Tt was moved- and seconded, that a com mittee of one Delegate from each district represented in this Convention be appointed j to Humiliate citable persons for officers for the ensuing year, whereujion the said com raittee reported the fo?o$jpS named persons, who were duly elected : President,? Hon. Job Johnson. Vict Presidents.? Ret- A. W. Leland, D. D. Columbia; Rev. E. L- Hazelius, D. D. Lexington ; A. Wallace, E~sa.; Columbia ; Hon. H. L. Ptnckney, Charleston v General Joseph N. Whitner, Anderson. ? ? Corresponding ^ccrttary. ? G. T.Soowden, Columbia. v 'JL "**: Jjtecording Stcretartf.-R.cr. W. W? Eells. Treasurer. ? Robert JBryce, Columbia. Executive -Committee.? John-Bryee, -Esq. Rer, Stephen Elliott. Re* v Professor C.C. Jones, Bictoid; Dr. John- ZWmerm?t?, Darlington;^*. S. Lowers, Lattreot; Mr. Henry Mailer, Lexington ; Mr. W. W. ijsjt. - . r v ^aat the "Corresponding Secre to inform the officers elec. taon. ~V* , * " ? ? pledges were then made to wards* promoting ,tbe objects. ofthis Sooie ty ?" ' ' Lexington District Society/ $50 Laurens EUm ; 4o.' \ . ? * Sprmg * ^0- , . Gihis** ?reek and M ount Tabor So- * ^ ? ?'?~^^eij?v -r* ^ y? ~ J'l; * ? .* AbSevffie town and Asbnry ; do. - oO k Friendship. ^ do. . Y?aftg Men!# Society, Co . lambia, ^ : '? -,?r- . - ? do' 60 Bennettville, per J . Hryce, - - ^ do. ^ . 50 1 gesohed* That the sums pledged be paid } over to t^e Treasurer, on or before the 1st September next.: . ' r Resolved ? That a committee of five be ap pointed to .publish the proceedings of this ] Convention, atnd to draught and publish an addresrtotbe Auxiliary Societies and to the Hev, Professor Howe. Rev. Dr. Hazelins, Kev. X>r: - Lefeud, A. Wallace, and John Bryee, were apjjointeil on this committee. $30 75 was contrtl>uted by the Delegates present, towards the expense of publishing, and other contingent expenses, which amount was paid over to the Treasurer. ' A lettei from the Delegate of th^ Bennett *:Ue Society w? communicated to this Con vention, and. referred to the Executive Com-, mittee. ' : ResoUed . That the Execwtive Committee be requested to pror art* ao Anniversary Ad dress, to he tf direr e 3 at the first anniversary tneefiog. * On morion ?of Dr. IviLeoa^, Resolced, That theihrujit* of this Conven tion Oe- tendered to the pastor and members of the Baptist Church of Columbia, for their jondntb m allowing us the use of their lec ture room during itsipresent meeting. > Adjourned. -G. T. SNOWDEN, Secretary . (JJ^Tfao Executive Committee have en r gs^ed Mr. T. L. McBamE, as an Agent of the State Temperstnce Society, who will visit the Societies in the upper districts. ? He ia respiectfully commended to the friends df the Temperance cause. Sative Pearls. ? We have just been shown bv Dr. Feuchtwanger, a large sized and most beautiful native peajl of a perfectly spherical form, and 1 slight tihge of rose *?>lor, weighing no less than jive and jice six teenths of carats, which woald be worth iu ? England $140. It was taken from an oyster from fhe beds in the Delaware river. Also, two others of still more white and "beautiful color, tand equally exact in sphsreity, from the saine quarter. We sbail. probably at thin rate .soon have Pearl "Blanks and pearl J^ivacs %n iheD^laware^-iV. Y. Star. ? Frua I he Lu?uyi1!c JsurnaL Tb?re ? A great dead of genius in the annexed amusing produciion, which, although written many years ago, is now laid for the first time before the public. A copy of it was presented by the author to the late Mrs. Sophia Phillips, the talented and es timable indv of Capt. Phillips of the U. S. army, and w# are indebted for it to that gentleman i THE RED FISHERMAN. BY W. W. BRA! CT. The Abbot arose aud clos'd his book And donned nis sandal thoon, And wander' d forth alone to look, I'pon the summer moon. A starlight sky was over his head, A quiet breeze around ; And the dowers a thrilling fragranee shed, And the wave# a ?oothing *fciind. It was not an hour, or a scene for naught, But Love and calm delight ; Yet the hely man had a cloud of though; On his wrinketl brow that night ; He gazed on the river that gurgled by,. But he dfd not touch the weeds lie clasped his gilded rosary But he did not tell the beads ; ? Jf he looka<) to Heaven 'twas not to invoke The spirit that dwelJelh there ; If he opened hi* lips, the words he spoke Had never the sound of pr-syer. A pious priest might the AbUn seem ; He had swayed the crosier well ; But what was the theme of the Abbet's dream, The Abbot were loath to leli Compani?nIess for a mile or more He tra<-ed the windings of tlnr shore, Oh ! beauteous, is that river still, As it winds by many a sloping hill, And many a dim oerarihi: g grove, And mailv a flat, and sunny co* e, And terraced lawn, whose bright arcades The honeysuckle sweetly shades ; And rocks whose very crags seem bowers So gay they are with grass and flowers. Cut the Abltot-was thinking of scenery About a* much, forxooth, As a lover thinks of constancy, Or an advocate of truth. ? He did i ot mark how the sky in wrath Grew dark above his head ; He did cot mark how the mossy path Grew damp beneath his tread, A* nearer he came, and yet more near To a pool whose deep recess Ha?J slept for many a changing year Unchanged and motionless. From the river stream it spread sway The space of half a rood ; The surface had the look of clay And the smell of human blood. The trees and the herbs that around it grew, Were venomous and foul ; And the birds that through the bushes flew Were the vrdture and the owl. The water was a? dark and rank As ever a company pnmp'd ; And the perch that was netted, and laid bys Grew rotten as it jump'd : And bold was he who thither came , At midnight, man or bo- ; V. - - . ' . u .For the place was curs'd with an evil name, And that name was **. the Devil's Decoy." The Abbot was weary as Abbot could he And hen I down to rest at the foot of s tree, When suddenly lie heard s.groan !? . , Was it a song ?? or was it a moan?? ... Oh ho oh hot* - * \ - ? " AboveJjclow, " Lightly and brightly they glide and go ; %k The hungry and keen to the top are leaping, u The lazy and fat in the depths are sleeping . 44 Fishing is fine when the pool is muddy ? 44 Broiling is rich when the coals are ruddy." In a monstrous fright, by the murky light ^ He look'd to the left, and helook'd to 'he right? And what was the vision there before him, That threw such a sudden stupor o'er him? T was a sight to make the hair uprise And the life blood colder run ; ? The startled priest struck both his thighs And the abbey cioc^ struck one 1 AH akjne, by the ?ide of the pool, A nil man sat on a three legg'd steol ; ? Licking his hells on the dewy sod, _ And putting in order his reel and rod. Red were the rags bis shoulders wore, / And a high red qaf> on his head he bore . His arms and legs were long and bare ; And two or'three locks of long red hair ^ Were.t< ssingabout his scraggy neck, Like a tatter'd flag on a splitting wreck. It m:ghtbe time, it mtglii Be trouble. Had bent that stout hick nearly double, Sunk in their. deep and hollow sockets That blazing couple of Congreve rockets ; And shrunk and shrivell'd that tawny *kin, 'Till it bardiy cover 'd the bones within., The lines that the Abbot saw him throw H-td been fashiou'd and forra'd long agos a;o ; And the liamls that work d that foreign ve*t, Long ageengo had sunk to their rest? You would have sworn have you look'd on them < He had flsh'd in the jiood with Ham aud Shem ! There was a turning of keys and creaking of locks, . As he took forth a bail from his iron box:? Minnow, oc gentle, worm, or fly. It see.-ned not 10 the Abbot's eye ; Gaily it glittered with jewel and gem And its shape was the shape of a diadem. It was fasten'd a gleaming hook about With a chain within and a chain without ; The fisherman gave it n ki<*k and a spin, Aud the water fizz'd as it tumbled in.. From the bowelsofthe earth . Strange and varied rounds had birth ; Now the battle's burning peal, Neigh of steed ami clash of steel ;r? "Now anokl man's hollow groans Echoeo from the dougeou's atones : Now the weak and \%aihng cry 4. Ofa siripling's agony. Cold by this was the midnight air. Bur the Abbot's biooil ran colder, When he saw agisprng knight lie there With a gashbenenh h;s clotted hair, And a hump upon his shoulder. And the royal ? hurrhmun strove in vaia To utter pater noater, For he who writh'd in mortal pain Was ramp'd that uight on Bosworth plain? The cruel Duke of Gloster. There was a turnin of keys and a creaking of ? locks, , Ashe took forth i bait from his iron box. It was a haunch of princely size, Filling with fragrance, earth and skies; The corpulent Abbot kew full well The swelling form and the steaming smell. Never a monk that wore a hood, Gould better cue*s the very wood, W here the nomfc beast had *too.l at bay, Weary and wounded at close of day. Sounded then the noisy glee Ofa revelling company, ^prigh ly story ? wicked jest ;? Rated servant ? greeted guest;? . Stroke of knife ond thrust of fork;? Flow of wind', a ad flight of cork But where'er that beard was spread, Arac* 1 ween, WMnrteraatf. Pulling ami tugging the fisherman set, And the priest wu ready to vomit ; When he pull'd op a gentleman fine and fat, With a body at big as a brewing vat, . vj And a nose as red as a comet. ** A capital stew !" the fishermau said " Wiih cinnamon and sherry And the Abbot tum'd away t*is head, For his brother was lying before him dead, The Mayer of St. Edmonsbury ! There was a turning of keys, and a creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Twas a bundle of rich and beautiful things ; A peacock's tail, and a butterfly's wings, A scarlet slipper and an auburn curL A mantle of *i!k, and a bracelet of pearl. And a packet of lec era, from whose sweet fold. Such a stream o?" delicate frigrance roild" That the Abbot fell on his face, and fainted, And deein'd Jus spirit half way sainted. Hands seem'd dropping from the skies, Stifled whispers ? suaothei'd sighs. And the breath of vernal pales, And the voice of nightingale*, But the nightingnles were mute, Knvious, when an uimeen lute, Shap'd the music of the birds Into passion's thrilling words. " Smile ! lady, smile ! I will not set \ " I pon my brow the coronet, \ "'Till thou will gather roses white, "To wreathe around its gems of light. " ^mile ! lady smile ! i will not see "Rivers and Hast rigs bend the knee, "Till those bewitching eyes of thine " Will bid me rise in bliss for mine. "Sinile ! lady, smile ! f ?r who would win " A loveless throne through guilt and sin ; , " Or who would reign o'er wood and hill ? ^ " If woman's heart be rebel still ?" One jerk!? and th??rea lady lay? A lady, wondrou* fair: ? But the rose of her lips had faded away, And her check was as wan and as cold as clay, And torn was her raven hair ; " Oh ho !" said the fisherman in merry guise, " Her gallant was hook'd before;" An?1 the Abbot h?av'd some heavy sighs, For oft he had blessed those deep blue eyei ; The eyes of Mistress Shore. -There was a turning of keys, and a creaking of locks, As he took forth a bait from his iron box. Many tho cunning sportsmen tried, Andfn any he flung with a frown aside, A minstrel's harp and a miser's chest, . A hermits'* cowhand a baron's crest, Jewels of lust e ? robes of price ? Tomes of heresey ? loaded dice ; And golden cup* of the choicest wir.e. That ever was pressed from the Burgundy vine ; There was a perfume o; sulphur and nitre, < A* he came at l ut to a Hi -hop's mitre. From lop to toe .the Abbot shook, ; ' t Aa'the fisherman arm'd his golden hook, . And awfully were his features wrought "By some dark dream or waken'd thought. h ok how the fear.ul felon glazes. * On the scaffold his country's vengeance raises \ When the lips are cracked and the gumsare dry. -Wjth the tlwr t tluit unly in death can die. - \ Mark the mariner's frensied frown. As the swailing wherry settles down, ' When perils] have numb'd the sense and will/ Though the hand and toot may -struggle still } Wilder far was the Ab!?ot's glance? . Firm as a monument? s!ill as air? ^ lie bent no knee ? he brcaih'd no prayer; But he sign d, he knew not why, or how, 1 he sign of the cross on his clammy brow. There was a turning of keys and a creaking of . ' locks, . /* As he staik'd away with his iron box. **OI? ho ! Oh ho ! u The cock doth crow: Tis time for the fisher to rise and go M Fair luck to the Abbot, fair lurk to the shrine, ** 44 He. hath gnawed in twain my choicest line, " Let him swim to lh? north, let him swim to the south, ? ' ."The Abbot will carry my hook in his mouth." The Abb't had preached for many years ' With as clear articulation, . ! As ever woe hf aid in the House of Peers, .. Against Emancipation :? His words had made batallions quake, i- Had roused the'ieal if rrarfyrs.; ???;.' ... r Had kept the court an. h? ur. awake.: And the King himself three quarters ; . Bur ever, from that ''bur, 't s said, lie stammered, and he stuttered. As if an axe went through his head ? At every word he; uttered. * fie stuttered o^r b' easing, he stuttered o'er ban. He stuti^r'd drunk and dry ; And none but he and -the fisherman Could tell the reason why From the Richmond Whig. Tat result of lhA l-ati elections in Pennsylva nia and Ohio. Though as Southerners, and a-: opponents of the corrupt men in -power, and their ru inous measures, we may regret, we are by no means depressed by. It the fortuue of war sometimes to be b?aten. The goodness of our cause is uot ai all affected by defeats, either partial or universal. Eighteen months since the Whig party was in a meagre mi nority-? the incompetency and corruptions of tiie Administration suddenly '--ecanie man ifest to the whole country, and the Whigs were every where triumphant. By the free use of the power and patronage of the Ex ecutive, our rulers have gained a temporary advaataga, which their opponents, ihe Peo ple, will, we ttust, wrest from them at the next bout. - At the :esults in Pennsylvania and New Jtr?ey, however adverse they may be to the Whig cause, we are not surprised nor uupre pared ? for in both of these ? States, where the patronage of tiiw Executive has had full play, and where the federal olScers tor num bers and capacity for mischief abound like til? locusts of Egypt, we have not with much confidence anticipated other than defeat to the cause of popular rights. In lac , we be lieve that siucetlie mighty increase of Exec- ! utive patrouage which has taken place with in the last lew years, through the multipli cation of officers, the increase of expendit ures, and the seizure of the public mouey, the 44 Gover.jtneiji." is well nigh able to con trol the elections in most of tin- Northern Slates; Where the people are any thing t'l e nearly equally d.videJ. Its influence throwu into the one scale or the other, car ries all before it.;,5 Such, for some time, has been our fear, and such bid< lair to be the result. A deari majority ol the people may be opposed to tiie acts of Government, but their opposition will be unavailing wbeu.j brought into conflict with the salaried me nials of tiie Executive and the hired aliens brought to the polls to overtake and drive away |>eaceable citizen?. Many oi the election scenes reported to have occurred in Pennsyl vania, prove thai these corrupt means have fcesa resetted to b/Maea holding office tin* ^gpr?s XT' ? " <*?% d#r the Federal Government, and that In ma ny instances the bjklbtbox has been pervert .ed into au instrument of lawless faction, and the elections have been worse than an idle mockery. In Berks county, Penn., for ex ample, there are only 9,000 taxable inhabi tants, including females, and yet upwards of 10.000 votes were polled. . . But it is useless to speculate upon the causes of the People's defeat and the office holder's triumph, without extracting there from the means of baffling their operations in future. It is obvious beyond all dispute, that the party in power have gained par tial triumphs in three or four States, by the corruption ol the ballot-box, and the fiee rise of the almost boundless patronage of the Executive. Twelve months since, they were regarded as dead as last year herrings ? State after State, in rapid succession, aban doned them, and arrayed themselves with the Opposition. The people, in all direc tions of their own accord, without the aid of party leaders, sent forth an indignant verdict of condemnation upon corrupt and imbecile ruleis. The Administration has performed no one act since to gain popular coulidence and support. On the contrary the counry has recovered from the severe blows inflicted upon it, not only without the help ot Gov ernment, but iti despite of all its machina tions, and only by defeating its favorite and ruinous measures. Nevertheless, it is again gaining strength, and making preparations to perpetuate its power. This is conclusive, that the Patronage of the Executive is too great for a Republic ? that by its means alone it is recovering its justly lost influeuce. antj that if it succeeds now, it will, to all, intents aiift purposes, be independent of the People. The Executive and the office holders will be ^Supreme and irresponsible, and the many for , whose benefit government was instituted, will be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the/?. This consideration, which pre sents the issue of a Government by, and 'or the good of the people, orone ol the office holders, and (or their especial and exclusive benefit, should arouse all the patriots in the land, and knit them together as a band o broth rs, without reference to dillerence ol opinion on minor questions against this dan gerous and corrupting power in the State. The PEOPLE, however much they may be taunted with their inferiority indiscipline, and organization to be drilled legions ol ihe Treasury, can if united, put to route tbe.j lawless banditti, and subject their rulers onc?* more to the Laws and Constitution.,;. We live in the hope, that enough of the Spirit of '76 survives among"them to stimulate them, and that hey possess sufficient" intelligence to direct them to the best mode of consum mating these happy results. Should the North, Contrary to our wishes aand in fuimhnentttf bur fears, succomb to the persuasive influence ol lederal gold, we must look, as in times past we looked, to the South, for the means of preserving the Re- , public. The Southern people have ever been less accessible to the influences of the Federal Executive, than their Northern brethren, and in times of difficulty and P^il to the pnblic liberty, their stout arms and fearless hearts have been relied .upon,- and not in vain, to save the country. Happily I the signs at present warrant this be jiff, that i the South, in the approaching crisis, will ?occupy the proud position she has ever oc cupied, unawed by threats and unseduced by bribes? that 9he will be United, as she was in '98' against an Executive aspiring to su: premacv upon the ruins of Stale Rights the ? prostration of public morals and the corrup tion of the ballot box. From the Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico, with the exception of South Carolina and Alabama, the South presents an undivided front against the reign ing dynasty. The fact of the North, the sharp-sighted and selfish North rallying to the support of a measure, which its South ern advocates assert will shower unmaginable blessings upon the South at the expense of the North, will tend to confirm the South in its opposition to the " Northern . President with Southern principles." . The whole country rings with fhe shouts of victory from th&- Administration presses, because one or two formerly strong Jackson States, which had been so far reclaimed -as recently, by small majorities, to. he carried by the Whigs, have now, by equally small majorities, and the most desperate exertions, been carried by their adversaries. It is na tural that every thing which offers the . least. : hope of a reprieve should be hailed with joy bv a party which had looked upon its fate as. sealed. "But. notwithstanding these occa sional and slight retrogressions, it must be obvious to every observer that the Whig cause- has, in the main, steadily acquired strength, and that of the opposite party pro portionably declined. Within the last ten years, almost every State of the Union has been ' Jacksonian in its politics ; but now let any man survey the whole ground, and how different is the case ! Without adverting to those States previously unalterably reclaimed from Jacksonism. we can refer to the general results of the recent elections with exultation. Even these elections, which the Van Buren party proclaim to have been so disastrous to : the Whigs, have given to us, for the first ] time, the Legislatures of three large Stales, ; besides an accession of members of Congress, j Pennsylvania, which a few years ago boast ed a Jackson majority of 50,000 votes, has now a Whig Legislature. In Georgia, here tofore inveterately Jacksouian, the VVhig party have carried the Legislature ; in Illinois , I he same. There are solid triumphs, and, while they exhibit incontestable proofs of the radical change which has been steadily going on in public sentiment, in various and distant portions of the Union, they furnish ample reason for hope and confidence that tins change will still advance, embracing St?rte after State, until the who.e Union shall be redeemed from the unhappy and mischievous delusion which has so long and so obstinately , afflicted ii.?Nul. Inlet ? It cannot but strike calm, observers with wonder, when they look at the question which now divides the Administration from the -People. It is no difference 'of opinion about foreign policy, nor tariff, nor internal improvement ? but mainK as to whether the masses, thecourftry at largr, shall, by those whom they have for the time being entrusted ?with authority to decide, I e permitted to prosper by the good old way that m times pa t they have prospered in. This is the real question at issue between the People and their t li I e rs ? an IJt is one, of which the mere statement is sufficient to show that the momeut.it shail be genera ly un lerstood, that moment it will.be resolved against the Admin istration. . ? The pcriod.whichhv4 passed since the ac cession of Mr. Van Bnren to the Presidency, j has been a season of apprehensions, of Ib.ses, of horrors. Few who had property to lose have ?? uod it net . diminished amount or ~.V . ?aloe, if not swept atray'a1tow calamities of the time*. Ttowe , of fortune have too often been called^o ticipate in the common suffering, tfrri the failure of employment, the redaction of. wages, the bankruptcy of debtors, an<| the thousand ways in which the prostration or one class or interest becomes ihe injury of all. Nearly every man has found, his com forts seriously abridged or his prospects clouded. Right well do we know how this state of things was brought upon us. We can trace its origin, step by step, in Presi dential messages and Congressional subser viency, from the first incep ion of the great experiment in 1829 to its foreseen and pre dicted result in 1837. We can turn now to the reports and speeches of Republican s'atesmen in Congress, and see the whole operation of the project foreshadowed and foreshown by the prophetic ken of statesmen, and the burning eloquence of patriotism and truth. We ran the downward course even sooner than the most resolute opposer of its commencement am! anticipated. Precisely as was predicted, we were driven on in puf suit of the glittering phantOHfcofafi exclusive* spe^je currency, until we came to qne jjur whicil there wks little or np specie at all.-?' And-fcere, the deplh^ef the bog," eur con* ductals lefty u$ to oui ^fate, an<f nothing but tb8 j^eprgSsible energies oP growing country arfid oUr free institutions could [have restdfced us^ Thanks to these great blessin neither stupidity. nor (ove of mischief on paijjf^f our rulers .Jjas been a^bletto do m' t ha nib clieck, for a few n\ont'bs.-btfl^nwaix}-j careesof prosperity. ? T&e People have* res tored^ themselves in spite of the opposition' of the Government. ? Salem Gazette: American Ingenuity. ? The tenth annual Fair of tii$^stitute of New York was open ed last wSfl&WTlie exhibition comprised | hundred of ctinaMk an 1 beautiful aiticles-in all departments 6flp^.useful aikUornameri tal arts. From th^M^ntive^eudU^er.tttqn given from day tt> 0 Commercial A d^rttsefejjM^ffetect tn?fc?tyQ.w-. First on onr list ^^place a^mo|eJ; i n v?ntion v wl^ei^^.^iccessfUj, witt o| new era inrii&fristd^.'of ts^elling^by, roads; Qiem any loco in o t whrcjl' wj" I ble klotritV' LpTane or a de^l bifc wh;ch this is "affected has at lea^t^siniplicify to recommend 'it. The axle of the . rear wheels of the locomotive is made lorifteno u g h to hold two These small wheels rjun -upon a railway, built for the purpose/atdhe po^U-at. which' if is necessary lo over cortfe a n/e lev??iot i , and the larger wheels are^ified.by>tfcre StfiaU-T from the road. weigj^^ofHhe locOIno-' tive is thus r es t e dfo^olft h tffo rew bee I s and the two supernume ary . wheels. The,s??ne power which is necessary to;draw tbreVhun* dred pounds along ilie dead level wi;lhtfef or dinary wheels of the model ^n qut'Stirtp, will wijeu the small wheels begin ito-UCi, '.(j.rawjix hundred pounds un tleva'fon graduated on the scale of six Itun ij ed arid'five'lVet to; the mile. The ? invent ion;*** e Understand,, has been submitted to the inspection of.seV* ?eral mechanics of knp'wn practical .experience? who are unanimous in ibdir.^ognostications of its complete sncces. v Qt/e , jjgT ^ he engfr neers of the New York and Erie Railroad gave it as his opinion that $500. 000 would be saved on the line'of that road by adopt-, ing a locomotive built on this .plan, for sur? inountiung t-he Shawangunk mountain. The inventor is Williaam F. JKelchbun, of Bulla* 1?. Among the articles our attention was strongly attracted by. a new species of ? loth. There are several "pieces in the exhibition, of different textures and thickness, and other pafterns, we understand, are. to )>e added to day. It is from the Uiiibii Mapufacturing: Company^ mills, at ?Norwalki^ctnnec tic'ut and is made, strange as it may appear, with out either spinning or -weaving.tbv.a process similar to thai employed in manufacturing hat bodies, it is witho t threads an ^finished on the surface, leaving the body of t bo-cloth, perfect and ej.t rely unimpaired by the process of finishing. In manufacturing, the wool is O . ? P put together at right angles* in-A web. by very ingenious patented- machinery, with great rapidity, and at an incredibly small expense.. It can be made of any - desired thickness. The advantages claimed for this over cloth manufactured in the ordinary way are that it is much less expensive, that it is warmer, and that it will last longer.. We ?should judge from the specimen before us. that this cloth would be au excellent .article for overcoats. . One thing is rertein about i , he who wears it can never have a thread bare coat. The proprietors of this invention feel very sanguine that it is calculated to effect an en tire revolutian in the woolen manufacture, and raise thai branch of olirdoinestic industry to an effectual competition with the foreign market. MELANCHOLY DISASTER, Several lives lost. We learn from he Baltimore Transcript of Saturday, that on thn night of Wednesday last, the schooner American Trader, Captain Dolby, from Folly Landing, when off the river Wicomico, rn the Che sapeake Bav, was run foul of and immediately sutikj by a Dutch galliot, about two o'cfock in the morning.? There were on board dine persons, three of whom only were saved ? among the latter was the captain, Among those lost were twef ladies, Miss Susan Keller and Miss Kmc 1 ily Palmer, daughter of Colonel Palmer, of the Eastern Shore. Those rescue 1 were saved with some difficulty, owing to the dark ness, and storminess of the morning. Th^y wete taken on board the galliot. The schooner was freighted with corn, which is of course totally lost. The following good humored hit at the contradictory course of the Richmond En quirer is too well merited and too good to be passed by. Its only severity is in the trull, of the satire. We find the article in a late number of the Virginia Advocate ? Long and Hungry, Sept. 25, 1838 Mr. Ritchik; Dkar Sir: I wish you to do me one favor, which, under present circumstances, 1 will never forget, aud 1 j hope you will, at your earliest couvemnce, J atteud to my case. 1 want to know where 1 J am, and what 1 am ; whether 1 am a demo- I crat, or a republican, or a democratic repub- i lican, or a federalist, or a riulhfier, or a con servative, or a whig* whether*} go for a bank or for the biiiiks, agunst a bank. or against the banks, for hard moriey'qr agaiiSst hard money, for the President or against the President; and whether I must abuse Geue-^ ral Jackson, or Mr. Van Buren, #lr. Cal houn, or Mr. CIayr or General Harrison; whether,. in fact, 1 am on my head o/ my .heels, in the party or put of the party!' I W$ . sorter nor%<*3ndIjrant to know - whether! had best keepdaii a while longer Or^co^outt - " ? .?'. ?There istfnother subject about which 1 . wai t your advice . Had I better Stop the ? Globe or foe JVJadisonian, for it does item ? to me. too hard to expect a plain man. w wh om much learning, to stick to both sides of every question ! I have stuck to the Enqui rer through thick and tbiu. and I don't meau to tnind the bard things they say about you now, and to hold on as long as there is a pea in the dish? only I like to show my col ors om 2 nues. 1 went w hyou for the gun boa:*, and against them, under Jeffei for ?he war and against the gun i der Madison. I followed you* wftinTefferson against the bank, ditto to^yoTl and Madi&ou when he went for ihp ^ank. >1 read you* paper and supportedHMonroeivheu you and he west a&ainsreackson^and J turned against Adams, tooth and toepait, aaj^wem for Ja$k?,^ son when you did?th*likd> 1 Lfytded jtfy foWK ? ?ing piece when they iegan to talk about ligjit houses irfrthe^ skies. " I went- for .jhe proclamation, and against , the proclamation ? V _irr Spats, a^^ after thatj I resphred ,notto Spl i t*fhe patty for on v t h i ng, a u d swallowed ? ? 2. ? -arlr'.t- J 'A. AST ? <? >V* -?* r> : '5W'* r/y <, * c o n fe ss I 't/i^Stber ed now; 1? want light and- would like to kooWjwh^dr trronve?*^ ? niem^whc^^^nust now go for princi* pies wither mentor 5tB*en- without pr'tnc^ ' j ilesl ^ ^ > V&S* V T&l f*:. Si^info^u^xK :i- ?**' ?V'HOUS ;VERRONS: . * ? ? 1 SAVANNAH.. Not. 2} " ?? L^EST^ROSfrEOROPE.r- rr r Three days later from Litbrpoolt dire#. -^The ihi pS etw to|f S * ^y , aroveo at-, this port last WedneS^ay evening^a^^m ^ - the polite attention of the consignees, we re cfereefr b;g hejr ^i^rpc^l* f^iteis^o nhfenst X$^1ncfo3iy^%/fh^^S^be :time>. ^within three daySi^liaf'^e have, Fv <fcr*cfc' *' [arrivals at? thjjsr pott aatfc"ipa^8/ftj"e mails Vt. mi ir ittiKiti J - v*- w j ??v wv?i?iv*t un?v? I" ? KLVOl, j measure beeifej anticipate tf by&jae HibeEfua*. . ami BucgUndv^'^ut^e make some extracts, v ndT ^fore^Mw^^^^he iutellig'e oce of v The cotton wiifia (sit de ma nd ^ t h^qg?| conitMue.d: tof^^hrui, relymg'upon the large iuiportej;rs^illiwith>iefS?n^ stocks, -bu?v . these haWsif^Jftc then turned Sellers, and-k^ ?** I in^rat^&V^ arid w.tbiftlt . I .show-jig any anxiety, -yet tlie effect -is Cepiible'by^a decrease it) the fornieY.firriiflel rauJ_we fwfM ^uH^Bj^QOota t i0ji3?OPtl i l!>wer'<^9erijp4-tt3 of*A tgerjc^u Cotton by: r " '*? 1)^? fi'P- 1 aA. - - - wi^ii.h nir m/ n-t^i tjivi v. uinu iu uu^iviit but ijje stcwk ofth>^hA beco^jj (f^e iy*uiof^. ef irw^jF or ihe' -bet?7: de^rijmo1f nberie tr only a lSnited deaiand, 4ind prices^e^ather, tlower. ? - The 5jfaffchester . yarn ij^ket^s still in^ very unfavorable' position, fncesiiaving git ilig way this week wirliout lending. to 8q> iat>' ceased busriess, jfrtd the ^ocks*fere acc^Tf latin g . ? This state - of thiols ballasted st ciently long to givp rise toThe suspicions the demand js unequaf to the prQddctKNtf, ; if this should prove .'ultimately to be e^rrecv it is' not unlikely that an' u^favoraMe effect maybe "piddfTced'bpon the ra^w^oatefjal, par- - - "ticularly iffailuresshould*tak'e place iq Mmi?L - chester or if. the Spinners shotjld redlicetlujir hours of wcrrk durin? the approaching dei*v *" sea*o:i.' Ftir Cotton Man'ufacfure# thereis ; continued good den^and. ' . "//JF,- - Tlie Corn markut '.has rallied und pnebajt ' have advanced about < ?d pef bushel, witk -a' tendency to a further small advaneer bot rfae . duty is now rising rapidfy, ^nd will'4i>Hng - next-week be I6sdJ perljnarter, if not nurre. NE W YORK. p?, 3t: v* ? Later rhoM E KOLAjtn -'-Tlic packet *hlp ' ! Virginia brings London papers to tlie-Jst, a?id Liverpool to the '2d instant, both inclu sive. ~ These, dates are two days later than our last froiti England received by the why" * > of Fiance,- Jiut they contain no Inter itrtetlr$j^ gence than'w.fl had before the Continent of ' '-i Europe.' ? Th^xate of discount in London on cont?j^ mercial paper was 3L.per cent. p?r anntim.^/jW Steam* is still* the all absorbing topic discussion in London, and the Government of j G'reat Britain has become as much interested in the achievement as the mereliants. London Globe says that the Govferntnent has^ decided os establishing^ lineof steam packets. between England and- Halifax, N-.S. audlhat the contract will be thrown open for pdblic % competition. It sjjeaks warmly, of the.^adr-f vantages of this commercial comnin mention*^ The Great Western Steam Ship Coiripinjp .if? are about to build another ves?el, ofequal^T6 size to the Great Western, and she will be called the City of New York. A Jargecargo , of African t?ak timber has been p n rc based' by the coinparfy for this and other ships. ; Th? Great Western was to sail from Bristol the \ 27th of October, ou her fifth voyage, to New , York. LONDON, Oct. I. The abundance of gold, and its contiaued influx fro n various quarters ofthe world, is a _ subject of considerable attention in the city at the present time. The last official, publU^f cation of the assets and liabilities of tbeBan<^ A of England displays a stock of bullion little ? under ten millions, and" within the last few days not less than <?500,000 has arrived byt. - the packet'froin Mex'rco, and a vessel ofwar^ \ ^?hich has broughi' an V unusually " heavy amount from the South American States, th% whole of which will find, its way into the. vaults of the Bank. In various pars of France both wheat an<i flour have been purchased for British account*, which added to the low and exhausted stock/:d| of old wheat has hadt^e effect of raising, th?.^ Pr?c?\ . ' - -'S? . \m.. . . LIVERPOOL, Oct. 2: ;' 5i The transactions in oiir'Cotton market ar% .^ gro ving more important than they have beeo , of late, and a decline of Jd - per lb. w I Kar? but forboding of a still turther reduction in r prices. -The continued equality oCthe im-~4 port aud the sales, the near approach of tW season when the new crop may be e?pected< ^ the great 4f^|>ression which prevails to. the Cutton manufacturing districts, havo^th de tennine J the^g real holders to. pro their sales at more rapid rate thin been doing for some time back. D wk 8ampbri?? A; BdfcbzT* di,po?id ?f