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Advertisements noi havingithe number of insert ons:marked on:them, will be continued until.ordered out izd charged lieordingl All comtnuniations, post paid vill be prompt ly and strictly attended to. 0 ISCELLANEOUS. From the Mvercunj. M dito.-1 -have seen with some appreb~niion tie remarks of your Wash -- ogidn;Correspondent in regard to the - irohibl-course of the Administration in fulfillingtheir iledge to reduce the tariff toise . venue'standard. -To relievesyself from the fears excited by those remarks, I .addressed a letter to .General MeDuffie, who I knew had gro.t personal confidence in President l'olk. to .ascertaim.his opinion ot the subject, and received inanswer the following commnu -cation, which is very satisfactory to me, and I think will be to the public., If -you concur in this opinion, I hope you will give it a place in your paper. Cur HY.ILL, Sept. 27, 1845. My Dear Siir-You' ask me whether, in my opinion, "it be possible, that the .conjeclures of the Washington Corres pon'dent of the Charleston Mercury can Ie true,.i, relatign to the probable course .oJ,.dgdininistration of Mr. Polk in the djustmen: Qf the tariff," and whether -0sucla -courie would nout be a palpable violation of the pledge to reduce the du ties to the Terenue standard. In answer to these enquiries, e d the:sec-Oldil plac , dnt ihe coute r S' -cribe to the- Adtinistratiot would ho a "palpable violation of the pledge to re -duce the duties upon foreigt imports to the revenue standard." and of all the pledges of the party by n hich Mr. Polk was elected. A brief esposition of the true principles -of a revenue tariff and a reference to Mr. Polk's Inaugural'Address, will be sufficient I think, to banish your apprehensions. It is obvious to remark that a revenue tarifl, is the lowest rate of duty upon every for eign import that will raise the required amount of revenue. The smallest addi tion to that rate upon any one article with a view to increase the price of its dotnes tie rival, is " plainly and intentionally" a protective, as contradistinguished from a revenue duty. But, if the additional duty not only enhances the price of both the foreign and domestic article, hut diminish es the revenue. it would be the most bare faced mockery-the most impudent and hypocritical disguise by which a mercena ry and merciless oppression ever attempt ed to conceal its deformity, to call this a revenue duty. Now it is only necessary to apply these plain, if not self-evident propositions, to the articles which it is Ite supposed intention of the Administration to favor and protect, by exempting them from the general rule of reduction. Take for example the two leading articles of sugar and iron. Next to salt, these are -arttcles of'. the most general consumption by all classes of people. . Inna great fintancial and economical re form, ieducing the duties upon foreign im 1por.ts to a general average of 20 per cent, upon what principle of-justice, equtily or sound-policy, upon what shadow of con stitutional power, can a rate of duty be imposed upon these articles, higher titan thegeneral rate necessary for revettue, at the same time adding to the public bur dens andidiminishing the public revenue ? Is it because sugar and iron are produced by a few wealthy sugar plantters and iron masters, not equal in number to one in a hundred thousand of those who consunme thie articles and pay fromt the pockets of nediocrity and, poverty, the contributions * xtorted by a free .government-atnd let .me not say-a Democratic Admtinismra tion-to add to the fort utes of a monied oligarchyT Can it be believed, tat Mr. Polk, bound by the united ties of interest and duty to sustain the great principles of free trade and unshackled industry, which he. has so ably supported through a long course of puble servit'e; will now, wvhen elected 'o the 'highest .station to, which ambition ora patisiotism can aspire. betray bie polittcal principles atud sacrifice those -popular masses, by. whose voluntary at-J unsolkiiedisuffrages he. was raised to--pow er ?&* Itnet not the tale.''-- In~ his In augtfral Address -ho very distinctly lays dawndtieddotrine that revetnue is the-ob-. ject of-all- dustiesl upon' imports, and pro~ tection the incident--.-' *Nothing -can abe- more -plain.-. If-pro teetion to particular classes,t the erpenise all othersresults from a revenue duty-as it does from all revenue. duties -.it is -an -unavoidatile itncident not to i e desired but regr'etted. It ris impossIble to- separate 4hie -proiectiot) given to the sugplsantei-, for ewnmale, by even a rovenun diury 'o 20 per tent, from the twooloud burden im posed upon every body else, not only by -raising to the consumers the price.Qt tm ported sugar which yields a revenue equal to the burden, but, the price of domestic eugar,. which imposes an equal burthen sndyields no revenue. It is this last re suilf,-hic unjustly trausfers 'the money of the many to the pockets of the few, which constitutes- the incidental "protec tion of a revenue duty-a result whicb so far from being d.esirable io the people at large, can only be regarded as a oublic evil unavoidably rasulting 'from Pu une qual system of taxation. Noir lei us suppose the duties upo! all foreign imports, including sugar and iron, reduced to a revenue sianard o1*20 per ceri, and take up the case.ol" sugar plan ters and iron masters at this point. What ground would they have to complain of such an adjustment of: the duties upon imports? Coild they pretend that ny one of these duties imposed a burien upon them not equally imposed upon the body .' the people ? The whole of the so duties wsould operate precisely upon them as upon, others, with the exception of the duties 'ipon sngar and iron, and these while they would. operate as taxes upon all the rest of the people, would operate as bounties.to them. equal to twenty per cent., upon the whole amount of sugar and iron they produced for sale. Sup pose, for example, a sugar planter of Louisiania produces sugar annually to the amount of fifty thousand dollars-proba bly a fair average, and an iron master of Pennsylvania, iron to the same anou.a. The amount of other imported and pro tected articles consumed by eacti, certain ly would not exceed ten thousand dollars. Thus under a revenue tariff these injured citizens would have to pay 20 per cent on $10,000. equal to $2,000 to the govern inent and tit their confederate monopolists, and would only receive. 20 per cent on $80,000, eilual to $10,000. from the great body of the people! Their ground of complait,. then. against the levelling e quality of a revenue tariff, would be that they received under it, only five timesas much in bounties as they paid in taxes and bounties united! And what under theie cijcumstatces do -hey modestly de mand of the federal goveimient and of a free 'trade dertocratic. amaaistration!? i'pqy. _haghbotip!y of twety -per ni resuling from a ire;V'-c duty, be raised to'fifiy by a protecna- duty, swell ing their clear and real icine derived from the system of fede . mxalion from eighty to twenty three thousand dollars! Tl.is plain statemiient literally exhibits the character, not only of the protective duties upon sugar and iron, but of the whole system of protective monopoly, and I am sure no honest patriot can think of the un just. iniquitous and audacious demand made by those bloated and heartless plun derers, that the administration should sa crifice their principles and the vital inter ests of the people. to seccre their allegi ance, for the support of the followers and victims, whom they at the same time de ceive and plunder, nithout feeling his blood boil in his veins, with the warmest indignation. Taking a more comprehensive view of the subject, it may be stated as a fact that the greater part of the revenue from im ports, in derived from duties on the class of protected articles, principally sugar, iron, and ir-in niuntifactures, cotten man ufactures and woolen manufactures. Now all these interests are united togeth er in a plundering cotfederacy upon the people, that each may rob the other, that all may rob the community at large. As I have before stated. each of them would receive at least five tlmes, some of them twenty times as much as they pay. evetn under a strict revenue system. Is it not apparent, therefore, that to permit those interests 'o controil Con::ress, in the mat er of taxatiotn, would be to put the power of taxation. the most important of all po litical powers, in the hands of those who have a deep pecuniary interest in increais itig the taxes? If the manufacturing tn tions of Europe would agree to supply the federal revenue by a perpetual tribute would these monopolists consent-to a total repal of the duties on imports aiid free the country from taxation? They certainly would not. r'bey solemtly declare that these duties, which are suirely taxes to '.he country a-o essential to their- prosperity ; that to reduce them from fifty to twenty per cent would be0 injurious to them, hur to repeal theta altogether- would be ab solutely ruittous. Here, then, is a cotn fession of what is apparetit wit hout it, that those who receive the taxes, itmpudentfy claim the prerogative of prescribing to the governetnt what hurthens shall he im posed on those who pay them! If we submit tothese thtings, cari we claim to live under a responsible, repr'eseauive re public? It ought tiever to be forgotteni that a system of taxation, by which three fourths at least of the putlic revenue is derived from dutties upon foreign -mann factures, the like of which are extensive ly produced in the United Suates, is the most burubensomei and unequal of all the known systems that now exist incivili::ed nations, reduce and modify it as we may. The whole of the duty imposed oti this class of articles, is a discrimination against the imported. anid in favor of home tmde manufacture to the full extent of that du ty. - Now 'when we recollect that nll foreigt imports, are 'as. truly' the productions of domesticpindustry, as their home 'uade ri vais-=and that the industry which acguiies the foreigrxiia't cle isr as. mvch entitled to ebe ipid frtn antiot as chat which makes the -domestic article; it Wil be seen ther the-very lowest rate of'reve nue duties upon sugar and iron, and upo all muunfactures of irou, cotton and tool is an utijust discrimination in lavor of on branch of domestic industry anti agains another. The true point of equality ant justice, -as I have always maintained would be to impose the'sawe rate of duti on the houie.tnade, that we impose on tih imported manufacture. The ezen:ptiott therefore, o1 our home mado anutfac tures, from the duties imposed on thosi a e imnport, is a muost liberal concessiu grarutiously made by the people to tht manufacturers; and that they tire not sat isfied with this discrimination. is a proof how feeble is the sense of gratitude amon masses of men, when their intert sts are it question. But our system it as burthetn some as it is unequal. It may be safel) stated stated that it imposes a pecuniary burthen on the people three times as greal as the amount of revenue it yields to the rreasury. The duty on imported Cot tou manufactures, for example may be assumed to average 40 per cent, and thi atiount imported set down at ten millions This will yield a revenue of four millions But the Cotton manufactures anuuall produced ti the Uirited States and equally enhanced in price with the foreign, by the duty imposed on the latter, amount tc thirty millions of dollars. Forty per col on this gives us twelve millions as the additional burthen imposed on the people by the duty on Cotton manufaclures; t that the people are subjected to a burtiten of sixteen millions to obtain a revenue (if four, paying to the cotionti manufacturers, whu are now realizing from 20 to 40 per cent on. their capital, three dollais for ev ery one they pay to thrgovernment! Now let us compare ihis4 duty on cotton manufactures, with a like duty on ten and coffee, which the inanufactuiers artfully prevailed upon Canaress to exempt firomt duty -altogether by the act of 1832. Let us assume that w e annually import tea and coffee t). the amount of ten millions of dollars under a duty of 40 per cent. This will yield a revenue precisely equal to that derived front the duty on cotnon manufactures. and will impose only olne fourth of the hurthen-t on the people. The inoney collected ait the customn htise wouid be the lull mneasurc of thu popular y A:. d yet it .is o feoF ie sii siW of ime mamnufaciurers to let tea and coFfee remain free of duty, in order to create a iece-sity for incren4ing he duties on su gnr, iron atid thu various manufactureo embraced in the prutective zysitcm. Of all foreign imports, tea and coffee ar.: among the most proper subjects of a rev enue duty, inasmuch as they yield tme largest amout of revenue with the least burthen of to the people, and that hurthen is equally distributed among the consu mers. But the manufacturers, who carry theit manufactures to China to exchage them for Tea, and to Brazil and Cuba to exchange them for Coffee. understand perfectly well the henefit of free trade, if it benify confined to themselves. They are likw Sir Robert Peel's fishermian, who said to that minister, " I am a free trade man, sir, but you must not touch the duty on fish." I ative no doubt, therefote, that a powerful effort will be made by the manufacturers to induce Congress to vio late the true principles of a revenue sys. lem, and the solemn pledge contained in the compromise act of 1833, by leaving tea and cofi'e with the long list of foreign imports used by them in manufacturing, free of duty. lut this scheme, I am sure, can receive no countenance from the ad ministration. They will recommend no discriminations, as we have been semi officially informed, but with a vieWv t revenue; and tupO:t every stound reveoue principle 'he highest rate of duty shouilt be laid 0upon such articles as are not made in the United States. If this class were sulliciently extexsive, the nihide of tiie federal revenue should be drawn from it. We should thus have no wealthy and in fluential class, drawing princely income: frotm the extorted contributions of tht peopile, and stimnulatinig the governmen to all sorts , I .exiravagant expenditure: with a view to keep up a system of higt and oppressive dties. In any schiemecs which the adininistra lion maiy preseit for adjustinig the trriff I feel confid'ent that the leading featur< will be the total aholition of tminimuni and specific duties. These are frautdulen conitrivanices that serve tio other purposes but to deceive the people and disguidt oppression. Let us have ad ealoreeidu ties that every body catn understand. Lei -the people see the full exteut of thil burthiens, andi if they must lie oppresseti let it be -'so nomninated in. the bomd." As thieae duties now stand, low priced ar ticles comsutted byithe poor pay the high es rates of duty. while those of tihe high est price, cotnsumnetd by ihe tvu'althy, pay the lowest rate. This is a fatal oibjectiom to all specific duties. A yard of calico for example, which cosis six cents ii M-anchester, pays 9 cents duty; which i 150 per cent on its cost; while a yard a the hinest- colored muslin which Costs 3( cents, pa0ys only 9 ceuts,- eqjual to J30 pei centton its'tost. These "revoilting delor miuies maust be removed, and I feel assurem that Mar. Polk will-cordialily co-operate it the patrtotte labor It is apptrent that die days of tmonopo -ly and comttnercial restriction are trum bered in all-the ctvilized inationis of the earth .Even in Great Britain-so lon; held up to ur by our inonopolistsas anrex amtple for imitation-all parties nw comn cur in the principles of- free trade,s ant edife nily a to time amd wmanner of re :rormiag cient-restrictions and abuses. Aid perut me to say, that the day thal 2 shallvitnes% the downfall of commercial ,rentritotis and the establishment of free Strade m ongthe nations of the varth, will the The greuteii and most glorious era that ever naraktse e progress of improve ment ii u porul affairs -of man. It should; be ambition of our statesmen to a & ad in this great reform, W hichi ined, as l.firmly believe. .to contribuI. re to the liberty, prosperity ahd pea f. the nations than any event since ihe vent of our Saviour. In this view of 'Ilt#Imject few men ever occupied a more re sible position than-Mr. Polk, aid I ha" very reason to beliee that he filly reilith44ttat responsibility, and will so far 016ilie his views above the risera bloe schedies of mercenary monopolists and factiots contending lir office as to be equal i6 he occasina and fulfil the ex peetactiinI6f his country. -. Yours, &c. GEO. McDUFFLE. -THE PRESS. The influence of the Press, from the talent audblity with which it is at pres eat cou'dilued,..furms one of the strong est safegurils of freeduni, and is a more poerfu hck-against corruption, than all the ena uzntns againsi Legislative wis dom haso8r tevisedf It would be ag eVay a tdsk to establish the worship of the Druids iIi ;s..couutiy, as to raise again the old eorsa wtich have been qgruck dow u. byih 'owerful arim of the Press. A newspjki holds in its grasp the pass tons an dpiidices, the virtues and vices of the ttmus Its onice will therefore be heard -flirj- t be not the original creator, it is the i ifi eat distributor of public opinion. the guide and enlightener of the gove d. an a potent check ou misrule the tru e aihakener of man, and hias ber aduially aroug the pub he mind n tb. great questions inivolv ing teIai:ii friessanod wellare of society. Of late'fe more full piwer has beei exercis'ed byAhe Press, which has been eflected by ?' ap Papers. penetrating the great h f the community, enterirng the wurksboj of the mechanic. beguilinu the leiture' urs tit the laborer, and en leighJte:ug .thet dark places of the land. Ligtt an i have thus been poured 1 ifri .re- u upcnn Ihe-p ii n114tructog I eir iguiorance, couiluering bheir prej-idices, and stimilatiog thon to actiun. When the -reat l:uglish States man exulingly exclaimed in Parliament that -- the Schoolmater is abroad, and I trust to him armed with his Primei. a. gainst tie soidier in full military array," be ev.dently alluded to the tremendious power wielded by the Press on the sub ject of popular education. The people must have light,-the Press is the great power by which light and truth, in resisi less torrents, must be poured into the dark and ignorant mind. In every hattlet, village, and town, of our vast country. Lyceums ar, springing up. Societies for the diffusion of useful knowledgo are. es tablished. which the Press has been in strumental in elfecting; while at the same time it prepares the public for that enjoy ment and elevation of character, which a rightfully directed inste will diffuse among them.-Evening News. Arrest of Counterfeiters.-We noticed in our paper. a short tine since, the ar rest of a part of a gang of counterfeiters in Ketucky, by an agent sent for that purpose by the South Western Rail Itoad Bank of this city. We have since learn ed, with great surprise, that the prisoners were admitted to bail in the penalty of i$400 each, principals and surity. 'Tis extraordinary fact would say little for the morals of Lincoln county, in Kentucky, where the arrest took place, wvere it not knowvn that this unprecedented act of the Magistrates wvas most strongly and loud ly reprobated by the whole community, and there is reason to hope that certain measures which the counsel for the Banks had in view..would, with the aid of pnbd lie opinien, lead to the confinement of the culprets and their ultimate convictioW and pishmn We also learn thatt suct secret anid confidential iniformnation has beeni received, designa ting-the persons and purposes of the whole gang, which is prob ably one of the most extended and besi organized ever known in the country, thai will lead to the breaking up and arrest of the whole gang. The banks, we tinder. stand, are pursuing the remaining mnem hers of the gang with the utmost vigor; andI, in addition to the prisoner noW in the jail of Columbus. Geo., and the' rrrests it Kentucky, two more of the am.a gang have I~eeni taken up inr-diff'erent parts of North Caroline,- anid are now in prison, awaiting- their tiils- and the Banks ex' peet soon to be advised of further arrest in other sections of the United States. *The only hills of the Bank of Charles ton that heave been counterfeited are~t Id.-ntmsihiations'f $20, undt we understn SthecBank has been rapidly withdrawing rtheta from dirculation) for some time'pasi The bills oif the S. W. R. R. Bank thal huave been -counterfeited we 'believe, arc $100.-Counrr 2d inst. Depopulalionl of the Sandwoich falands ---Fou-r hundredl persons, mostly natives .died of epidemic influzenza-in the Sand .wich'lslandsdoringi threat weeks ending ii , the ornuth -of.A pril. last.4 This.is eqizalt r fifty dleaths pe. clay in the city of Nev York.-PatroL-., Eoj... , u nnensnteory ane. FOREIGN V1EWS From the New York Tribune Oct 4. FIFTEEN DAYS LATER. FILtOM EUROPE. AaRIVAL OF ;rriE CAftnaA. The steamship Cambria, Caipt. Judkins arrived at the warf, in Boston, .oa Tihurs day at half past 3. o'clock,. P. ., in 13 days from Liverpool, haviug left that port on the 19th -t. at I o'clock, P. 3., The Cotton Market was. active at full prices, with aspeculative. feeling. Tie Mania for Railway - speculation continues unabated in England, Prance and other countries. The steamship Great Britain, fromn this port arrived ot Liverpool:Sej. 15,at7 o'clock, A, M., she sailed Aug.30th. The disease amongst thd potatue crop seems to be universal; it has attackted the esculent simultaueously in Great Britain, and on the European as it did last year on thu American continent. Severalsut; gestions have been thrown out for reme dying the evil, the most practical of which has been put forth by a farmer. of Disqel dorf; he recommends harrowing deeply the earth in which the tubercles are plan' ted. This plan.,it is said, produce evap rout ion,.by.which the humidity caused by the feraientation will disappear. Some diatricts have escaped the ravages of the disease, but the injury is too w.de spread not to cause alarm. O'n the European continent the potatoe crop has been all but destroyed, and in Holland, Belgium, and the North of France, the most serious fears were entertained-so serious that the exportation of food was rigidly prohibited; and all duties on the importation of it res cinded. The present excited state of affairs in the United Statee, arising out.of the Mex ican dispute, und the feeling, for no wise or pacific purpose, has been evoked to prevent a speedy and satisfactory adjust ment of twe Oregon question-these cow Jined causes are said to have determined the English Government to increase ma terially their force in Canada and the North Amertcan colonies. Atmospheric Railway.-E xperi mnent a\ trips navo been made on the Croyvion Annospherie Rail, n hich, wvi:n aellowie for the fact that every thatig is uut A-in -cuT pTonerwoking, have beetn very satis fuctory. The hue is five . miles long, ex tending fIbm the Dartmouth arms to Croy dol.- I'be average speed, ooly, on: en giuo being emploped for the five miles, was tlirty miles an hour; the greatest ve locity. fobrty.-five. A greater speed was attained otn Friday. The train passed up the viaduct across the Brighton line, which has an incline of I in 50, at the same rate as the others partis. In a report to the Directors, Mr. Sainuda, the Engi neer, remarks : "A speed of seventy, miles per hour has been attained with a train of six carriages, and a speed of thirty miles per hour witl- a train of'sixteen car riages, using only one steam engine ever two sections of minu. In a length of five miles we have round it practicable to ob tail a vaccuum of twentyseven. inches in the whole length, aid have run trains at upwards of sixty miles an hour over the five miles, with aid one engine only." FRANcE.. Paris, Sept. 16.-Mlexico and the Uni ted States have again occupied much,of the Parisian journalists; but all that has been said may be summed-up thus-either that there will be no war at all, or that, if a war,the United States will complete ly crush their puny adversary. The re cent arrivals from. Mexico have caused some little surprise, lbr they shov that England is desirous that peace be main tained, whereas it was thought that site would not only inicite Mexico to hostilities, but supply the nyeacs for carrying them on. .A treaty for the mutual extradition nf criminals sitmilar to that in force between England and the United States, has just been concluded bet ween France and Prus sum. Fresh interest has been attached to the long agitated qunestion of the piercing and cutting through the Iathmus of Panama, by the .remarks made thereupon by.'the National Intelligeneer, of Washingto", and other journals. After an exanminatoin of recommendations by American engi neers, the Parisian sournals assure their American cotemnporaries that they are mistaken in suppositng that France apd England want to monopolize the gigantic unadertakinig, and with it the ~igantic ad - vantages, of~ cutting thi-o'ouhi the neck of land which separates the two oceans. Aumerica, they say, has, both as a mari time andi a powerful nation, an indispata. bleriglit to be associated in whatever may be undertaken by France alone, or by France and England united, for the ac complishment of this object. It appears from a return in the Mon ite ter ofthe state of the beet-robt' sugar man ufactories, tliai, abhoughi the number of them is reduced. 31, comy~ared with last year, most of those that remnaitn are in prosperity, and the amont of duties recei-. ved by the Treasury, has increased- near ly a million and~a half of francs. ~The great Northern Railway, which will unite Paristwith Belgium, and .ith IEngland, lias adjudged to a company, at the head of'which is M. Rothseciild,_,Ir ing Brothers, and thetcshiefs of oghergr morcantile houses-at $nglandnlanc France, the 1ujghish rathter preponderaling . The yonga Prince de Monuort, ndpbe' *olVlNapoleon, has quitted ari..ZThq Goveranent is understood folIkvi illien him ordersa.to leave, basen ifs promise was made to him thast which exile him andall his f'lrfo France, shall. be repealed, ri modified. His cousin, Louis Napol q still rnsains-in the. Chatea ofHau where he hai been confined for.0vyear for his attempt'at an invasion of 'r-ance', Madrid Sept. 9..40n the evening ofh, 4th, number ofdisailected poiAoti satip ted to create an -isurrection. Soei the officers and men of the Reg't of..ia re, had previously been gained yer thd. egimeun! remained' trueand,[on word of .cotitaud, pouied a m'urdsrwj Gre on the asailanis. An ofiwer4Yas killed,. and several person were wo'uied.'e The- troops having. subselueutlyisaal from the barracks, the insurgenis were u to flight and several weie.-arrested.f - drid then became tranquill, and still mains so. A1. Theirs, the emineni ireneli, It ., man, has arrived in..Madrid, d6d s hein fated with all fthe honors. Discatiery of Mosaic.-Three valuable 6ifosaics have been discoversd at>a, e France, in addition o ered there lai yeafh - They bivei: beio part only uncoveWed; as-yet, butisffiietj ly to.inluce their entire design to a':cors' mission of savatns and artists .who ree'r ly. visited them. " The central osad 1 says, the account, ".was the b great admiration. The 'utmost luxury. 04 i. decoration-colors.- of extreme'hufy, and designs infinitely varied.' bave been expended on it. Figures, of birds;fishe,4 . C: of many kinds,:dolphins, fruits.- rosesof - antique forais, &c. are multiplied':over-its surface, and mightserve," it is obseve "as magnificent .models for the oinamen, tal painters., Sliibhei -of some of thea ornaments were made for the-purpose of being tranuinitted to the ministerwhoise department has charge -of the arts an' monuments of thie kingdom.- "' Fire in King Street.-A fire- broke out between 9 and 10 o'clock on on Saturday evening, in ile one..itory brick building (contaiuing two front Stores.) occupied by M1r. Charles Pemble, fur the sale of .Dry Goods, at No. 252, and Mri-Thom son, for the sale of Seed, . No s:reet;-oaxrue"Edsid v - - of Wentworth street. The store ieds closed all the evening, and Mr, P. was absent at the time the smoke was discov ered issuing from the crevices of his,doors. and windows; by persons passing. In order to obtain ingrems, holes were made in the tin roof, and the engines were thus enabled to drench the place well with waa "'k ter, which, in about twenty minutes, qielteR. ed both flame and smoke. We -have heard that the Stock was insured for S3 500-1mout of it was destroyei, or serious ly damaged. The result of this fire is a practical.il[ ' lustration of the utility of tin-roofiug, for-, had the storos been coveredwith iiiloor- . slate, the lowness of the roof-would cer tainly have einlangered the..safety of the adjoining premises, if it bad.'not. destroy ed the new three story building now in. cou.se of erection, immediately on the Soutti of this store. As it has turned out, hower, none of the adjacent ,property is uninjured, and Mr. Pemnble's.-store*is' ? merely unshelved-outside, it lopks-amoe 95 as good as new.-Southern Ptrioj 614 inst... - Punishment for-Stealing.-Tbe-rinci -' pie it always s'iould be borne iu mind i ibe saie in stealing a smalfor larg'o aounti,.alhough the injury-may beto a greater orsmnaler degree. A very erious instanice of.death and punishient foita ing a tiiing. atlah- uccured 'recehtry i Paris. A buy of 14 or 1.5 years old,4wtli burned to deaih in the middle of- :h~ Seine, not far fron. Paris.. Hoeiad i '~ a few pi~eces of . quick lime, and :ha~~~ ced -the stolen articles under his .plousert ta conceal it from observation. 'Juist as was returning homie hoe ope agf' comrades leading -some .harses toldi' He asked the faivor of ridlinheof ttes' which was immnediatelf granted$,,hen* the two lads had led the hioises in(ia tif' T river, that on whici the inuebfilfre.*TiA" seated lost his footing,fand thtriit thes w ater.' The, Jime- at ac/es forment, anillaborti,. after: commeuce" bi~rniig the unfortunate boy,-wshy.as i - swain, cried out for aid, but inefeciiill the spectators thinking, it a pica santry on hiis. part.. Whens arriysat bank tbe lime hadl burnt ista so dre~~ml-'t~ ~ ly that his bowels protruded. He of iid~- d shortly after in great tortures Forgetfullnsass.A writer in thei2 sor Atlas retates-the folknvinug.-4.y oec ticut lady, who was it thi$iigIiMa wiays heaving something -or dtbet ~et hier, whenevfer shewent on ~jiiJ,~ not long since promised -y"tr~uba~ thie presentrof a handsome hbawluo ~ V. occasion of' her leaving hul ~ dashicaried eey thlingshew ~ witih lter' ?lhe ladygof course'eertediti ' heito thu gtmisig enddehgpairlik towardrs thW'elal o i r bii desiknto -Theyiaid-lty drcededemilehowive aving efjy xhibited sjumptIms " hidgetssnqgusual and' onf he b iinqu-it as to the causelishentsclh i" 'Goodness ge ol i. Jewarefat~ M O oD - ~ d.TM T" -iM - -