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EstI., announce 11inm as d caudidate fur t.e ,ollice of Tax Collector at the next elec tion. ti Nov O. t 4.- si We are autnhrtzed to antounce Goi.u J. Sui g.PLin as a candidate for the ullice g of Tax Collector, at the next election, I yThI'ec iriendsof Col. JuaLN (UATT-L'k igu a announce hina na u caudidate for tue la ailee of Tax Coll-ctur, at the next ele 11i0- Sep 3 to 3::__ We are authorized to announce e, M. GitA.0i. Esq.. as a candidate for a Ordinaiy of Edlgclieli District, at the te next election. Feb. 7 2 r 1o The friends of Lieut. J.l.1: l;. Illttlants, announce imu as a candidaute fotr he oilice of tax Collector at the next ecle-t ( ir\ are uutinorixed to a nuntte ?Al..m iAL It. SM 1 l I as a cantdittett for Tax Collector at the next election. ,-z Dec 24 if 48 w (~jThe frienlst altaij. S. C. SCOTT. I unaounce lim as a candidate for Tax Ill Collector at the ensuitng election. P Nov G. .f 41 "11 ( We are authorized to antu'4nce Lt.st R. Wisus, as a candidate for the Olice of Tax Collectorat the uext election. Is Feb.26 te 5 bi To the Independent Voters of'" L gefded District ! ! it Fellow Gill:ens:-Contrary to the ad- a vice and wiskhes of tty friends I oler my- a self as a Candidate fur the office of Ta';x el Collector, anal solicit yout- sulleages. 11 ri elected. which 1(do not expect to be, I will ci discharge the duties of rhe ollice to the best t< of imy abilities.o JOHN J. AleCOLLOUJGil. 01 September_10 die 33 .lUST REcF~iVED. i nOin~cT FROMt PHitLADELPHiJA,') Each paper bears tbe label and warranty of -c DAVID LANDRIETII. For sale at Edgefield Court lionse, by R S. ROBERTS, 1lTOrders received by Ri. S. ROBERLTS, for Fruit tad other Trees and Shrnbs of theI best kinad, anid mto.st henlhy conditaon. From whom catalognes tmay be obtained, gratis. Mlarch 4 3t 6 NEW ARRIVALS. LAW and Mlagistrate's Blanks, Mortgages and Decds,otn good paper, &.t50 cents Bare'Notes on the Gospeis and Epistles Blue Ink in Siande. Lemons, Raisiats, Figs, Grapes, Citron anid -Currants. India Rubber Rings for children cutting Teeth. Bone Ring, for sante pturpose. Putety ins Bladtders, 3 pounds for 25 cents Sucking Bottles. With many njew Books, also Paper, Quills, c. -j Yo sal R. S. ROBERTS. Edgefield C. H.. March 11 St 7 EDGEFIE LD ADVER'TISER. WEDNEAY. MitAci 25, 1846. We subjo.n the following exi nets front a "Sermon occasioted by the death of the Hon Major General Hamilton, preached at the lethel Church, in Charleston the J5th day of August, .1U4, befure the State Soclety of the Cincinnati, the American llevo'ntion society' and a numerous assemblage of other citizotis; ad published at the joint request of toe two Societies. By Rtichard k'urmnan, D. V. Pastor 'f said Church, and a umember of the lievoltu ion Society." The practice of duelling, brought so Itfectingly into view by General 1lamnil. on's untunely lamented death, requires it this titme a serious consideratio,; and Swould-be inexcusable .in the conduct oi0 agospel manister, ni bIle performing the et vice n tich is this day allotted to me to )ass this cruel custut over unnoticed; or a thout atteitpting to lix your attention III lt" great. and I Iear, growing evil." "'fone ituh precious ilood has it been he atzettns of Siedding! Of hion% many 'aluable cittzens nas it deprived the na ion? What d spirit of resentment and nbca honor nas it pro'iiotcd :t tle comlu-I lt) at large ! nd how uiany immortal I ouls has it hurried into etetuity, unpre. >ared, to appear with terror and despaw "fore the tribunut of their righte.us, uf nllied judge ?'' "1 pass over the distressing scene which i exhinited in the case of a man who has . slietn in the contest, and lies weltering in is blood. in the near vlen s of eternity, goniing under the conviction that lie as -ported anay his lihfe in a cause that mious reflccton,. atl utscounscIence can ot justlly. I attempt not to describe the r orror and Ieu..rse ti hilms, n h foar a lit. I e or supposed af'ront, has slain a worthy b tan, perhaps his heretofore esteemed and u usutn Irlenld. I open Hth to your %iew i t distresses of a diaconosolae ltanJ., dis. 'Ived it. ears for the loss of ie faithful uarcian and fond paren t. .1 d tt ell not a the insult of'ered by this horrid lrae (Ce t the in; sty of the tai s-thus la ( id, even by the magistrates antd legas turs themselves; n lao sthounld be the uardiaus of its rights -and honor, ' U"' b 'nust call for your particular ni i de, and pernicious consequences , as ey ul'ect tianl's chief out and ever- ' sting interests." I1 "i as not the God of !leaven forbidden Si under and revcnge ; and do nout thee G -s, totwiths:tanding all t; e refinements c atch hatve been taettlpted by the repu I maen ofhnor, lihrm, in Iact, the basis the pta,:tice 1 Will tao, also, the a -htens, ecernal doverrign, enluace the Knelioins o ibi laws ? Or can we rt atmaly suppe that our l lthousand tat b Its -t ill be forgivena ; when to exact a lle, ne me realy to seize a brother !)y e throat ? ilard itleed Want be the p -att of ihat init, who, frutx at princile P resentitl-it I'r soei coatparatively aull taj ry dote to has persuit or Im(ill. it conteot to plunge a fiellow creature to everlasting ruin ; or to q'it his own Klinn 1.f duty tsignted by Providence atd t eternal htpes. Ki grai ly the inht uinaliatuai r n iesmn'. u ha t injury. iradeed, to his mnor, ean an individual sta;;in in this it ort hate, which n ill jusify the enidnet?-' '1 do niot mean to say that tcpitatmnK of little 'inomient. Ni,: it is of Vat ,maijecquence to mta, and wall ever be rupulously regarded by the virtuous indl. B5ut let it be supported by such rI eans alone, as are worthy of a national, It inortal creature. Agtainst brutal lTrce. n putbbte enemty, Kh haand of a robber atnd i K ,aussitn, we are, no doubt, justitied tin iayloying force fur our defence at the, sk of the~ aggressor; but in a state of vii society, t he whol.: of ouri perisonal itt resta should, according to te ordinansce ' 'God, be comnmit'ed to the guardinship t' the laws." '-Of te advocates for duelitng, I woul a ik: whet are its great advatages? alas! Lowards hatve fought, cowards htave con- e ueret, but a cowatrd tnever forgave !" en Klof the tmost genuinae, tried cottrage, uve been known to reject antd hiold tt iai Jtuapt. Thle heroic Cot. Gatdikaer utuld excltaitm to Is paropoa(sed anatragonist sir you ktnow I att taot afraid,. to fighat, j ut I amn afraid to sita." Int htct, thlate is jason to conclude. that waint of courage t face thc censure anrd obloguy of te unt -ise, lyrings manaty to the field of private nunbai,"( "is it a regular or effectual method of uunishitng the guilty, anad of vindicatingK te cause of justice ? If so, how is it rant thec aggressor so often triiuxms, and yes to suffer thec censuro 'antd contetmpt ( alt wvise and good mtena, as well as the 1 e proach of his own conscience ?" -*is it the proper test of refated senti-I netat and virtuous honor? Why then are teelists so often charged, atnd alpparently n justice, wyith sttch a variety of .irmmur I, dishanorabte actions, white oters who ire utterly averse to te practice, are de ervedly esteemted, confided itn and re ,ered, for tteir virtue antd refitneent. ndeed. it t-ather seems that men are pre )aredI ordinarily to be duellists, in pro turtiona as they lose the finer feelings of ho heart, are 'freed from 'he restraint of moral and religions principhes, and fallen inder the dotmainion of pride, ambition, rnaaice and revenge." "But with mome-, perhaps with many, it is- sswrifice of their own principles and feelings, to what they consider the public sentiment. This appears to have been precisely the case with Gen. Hamilton ; and presents us with a spectacle, too af fecting to be wiutely surveyed. That he was wrong, he has not left for me to de clare " '-Lei no one suppose that this pointed disapprobation and severe censure of du elling, expressed wit'l his dying breath, were thte effects of weakness, or religious mel;aucholy, occasioned by thie ebbing of live; for however weak in body, he ap pear; to have been in the rigorous exercise of his inteilectual powers. The truth to be regarded here is this--we are frequent ly fascinated and thrown into-a delirium in a moral sense by the glare of life, but awakened to right views, sentiments and feelings, in the near prospect of eternal realirs. Oh, that he had lived to exe cute his benevolent purposes of exposing the evil of this pernicious usage ; or that I possessed on this occasion his irresisti ble eloquence, to plead against it in the cause oh justice, humanity ard religion." The citizens of the flourishing town of Greenviile are making arrangements to supply the town with water Rim a neigh boring :ouutam some four miles distant. The Spring upon Piney Mlountain. from itch they propose getting water, has )>en lonid to he one hundred and eighty ever. feet ubove tie highest elevation in lie town.-Chas. Mercury, 17th inst. Mail Arrangement -We are requested o state inr pubic iniortatin, ihat on and her to-uorrow, the Rail Road train will tart at 11 o'clock, A. 1.--lb. - New Arrangemeni 'oj the Mail.-The an oinl liuehbgencer of last Thursday sys :--'he new arrangement for the lure speedy transmiss.un of the mails outhwardf, and is to commence on Sun ay next, from which time the mail will elespateied .from Philadelphia at ten { clock ,it nugh, and continue through toI rew Orledus, without unnecessary delay. CongrcssionaI. s 'arrespondence of the Char. Courier b WASHING-1 ON, Mstrc 11. d I learn that li usespasciaes receiv. d 3 y l- G .vr n amem froit Nexico are ol its not e>-.pect to be rec.-iv dais .Min- aI ter, and will return home whene.ver o s instructions shall permit ham to du II .Expecatlions are etetriamled that u -n. Santa Anna will return to Msx+ j, , and be restored to puwet; but it is , ur li more likel, that a monam cly, w ih cl loteign prince, wiil be the issue of the el esc5t leploable sma:e of confusion ai it I hplessi.ss tn witich the couniry n ids itse-ll. i Lieut. Porter his been ds-spatclh d to t L..z tltn, a cross Alexicu, for the put - ste of cuinv-yisng to our fleet in the :c:lic, s suplliy of servieaille per 1 i sion caps-th.- ves. -Is having s lile:d ilhlt ailny that would be of any use. 'ils is another evwuence of thu total eflt iency of the present orgaizItion tilt: N"vy.% ta. R. verdy Johnson made a speec'h the Senate today, on' the Or-gon aestuomn, and gave many reasons for ese anion tiea our title was not clear and qsuestioiable up to 54 40 Mr. Johnson, in the course of his b ;mark,, ook occasion to say that mo is opinion, the President's motives b ere pacific, and that a treaty would be a~de on 49, and presented to the Sen-g ti', wich body would ratify it, oy atE as~t a conlstitutional majority. U 1h this asnuncitation could be relieJd it as official, it would be a greac relief Ste countray. bir. Atchison took the dooir for to worinwc. Tn'me Pouuse wars en'gaiged on~ the Riv r acid Harboi Bill. Afarch 12. The Senate senms to be verb iindig atit, and justly so, at the reiterauve ~ harges of tturague and cot rupcion madle gainst a miiajso:isy or that body, by the Vashuingion Times, as you will sd~e be w. It is un~detstood here that the m~ain bjct ol thu inveshigalion is- to asL~er ien whether any Senator ausihonized hie charge. it has been alle-dged that senaasr Allen was one of the founders md sispo- ers of the paper named. It I ippears, Isurther, that theSentators have este advised that persons here are pre- I >ared to prove that the editors, ot one it ilama, has stated, repeatedly, that Ite facts chaiged, were received froam a < rnemaber oh Contgress. -it is not ac all probable, that Senator Allen will be Fouwis culpable. I uderstand that the editoas ul cte paper profess to be prep pare~d to menet the ,investigation. ht will be a matter of interest, for sam Lime, inasmuch as ithe Senate haive giv en to at so mnucht impo lance. Mr. Jarnagin brought '.o the notice of she Senate, csrtain charges made against a majsanty of that body, by the Wash ington Times, on the 5th, 9th attd 10th instant. They were direct, specific and pos 'charges of corruption against a )ar ortion of the Senate. He had not ' rd to say about the editor, or in e of the Senate. If any iem ber his body w-is concerned in this intri it ought to be made known to the try, and if not, the libellor ongl be punished. He submitted a t resol n that a select committee be appoi d to investigate the charges. Mr. ngum differed from his fr lends, as tof propriety of this movement. He w thorizedby every Whir Sen. ater the Senate, fo say ila tl-re was n undation for the charge. His own 0 'on was, that it the reputation of the' nate was not above all these! att-ckV was tim.e for them to disband. If any dividual Senator here, was so weak o be affected by a charge of this ki he ought to leave his posi tion. He d not believe that any member of eithe party was obnoxious to the charge. Somn rther remarks were made by Messes.. peight, Benton, Chalmers, 3B-rrien,. estcott and Bagby, of the ame gel of tenor, when the re-solution vas ado d nem. con. Msirs. Jarni ;en, Be n, Dickinson, J. M. Claytonl mnd Tur , were appointed the "on, nittee. The di se was engaged today on he Rive nd H-arbor Bill. Mir. oun speaks on M nday. Corre. idence of the Eve. News. Mtichl 12. s Th r' t and harbor bill and sub- e ct of In rual lnprovemeats, gener, i Ilv, bas',. en some time before the louse. u have had, before this, s ze very .le, democratic, and tiuly outhern ecl of Air. Rhett on this a ibject. Upon ing into the Senate Cham erii oun Mr. Niles of Connecticut f iscussing. he same subject. Mr. I bles is a ona internal improv'emen: ~ 't would nut have been revived.: ],' b fought ii 1 ad gone down to the tomb Ie Ca u ets, bue every now and ti eon it ruse fromi the dead, and glared pon us with its unearthlh countenance. i had as many heads as the hydra. 1en1eC al Jackson thought he hat -ki;led n e moeste., but it would require. m1,r. * an the strength of H.erculea to destroy 0 utte ry Gcneral Cass, in reply, di: a it tniuk it a beast in any sense, bu, a ther one of the presidi ,g geniuses of 11 e Repubic. 'Tie goverm..unt has Iwais sustained internal inpr.cveii-ies ti 2d lie went for them, esp--cally at th} i /est, where they were now needed. " At three o'clock, in the House, I saed a capital argument fron, iM. -ancey, of Alabama, onl the sate sub. ci. Hie did not finish his speech I etidi the hour, but all ne said was to ie point. He is a fl.ent, graceful acaker, and what is unusual, cone anids the at ention of the House. lr. .eucey said that ill our Dieocratic d residents, fron Jefferson down, had a Feu opposed to this system .f fleecing a te whole of the people in order to 0 uild up) local and sectionial interests. Hi. said he should watch the pro- a ress of the bill with deep initerest.-a yen if it passed bothe hotises, he iioeid -~ ot despair. Hae believed the Presi cut would veto it. He considereda imn fully cemmiated on chat subj--ci, aes e entire Democratic paaty certainly March 13. The Senate having adj. uiened to luodday next, the Select Comcmittee ol nvestigation releetive to ihe charges of a recasonietc., of tee Times, comemenced peration's tlfs mornmng, It is thought , lie repoet will be ready on Monday or ['nesday. It appears thati ihe ozily eason wnich induces the Senate to in titute the envestigation, was a staetemuent j a the cliect thaet the -ihformiant or .he rines was no other than a mem-r of he hlouse of Representatives. March 14. I was told at the Senut'e Department I odas .that somihinig furth'er relative to ):egan, had recently trnpire~d be ween Messrs. Packetnham aced-Buchan, en. acid that theie is no doubt btut that a ,eatlement upon the basis of the 49thI legree will be effected. If so,- thcese vill pi-obabl~y be a communication sent o the Senate on Monday. This evening, just before the mnail :losed,-tf received an epitome of the ev ience given today before the Inv~sti gating Committee. If the residue be like that of tod'a'y, the whole will turn otut to be a very silly affair. Ii is assort ed that on the day whena Mr. Packen ham is said to have attended a Senato rial Whig Caucus at the Capitol, there was no caucus held. A great deal of the testimony too is'frotm heai-say only. Correspondence of the Balt. Sun. March 12. We are certain of one thing, more over, that Mr. Buchanan has informed the Piesident th .t he will retire from the office of Secretary of State, should lie be required to renew a negotiation upon the basis of 49. But I will take it for granted that the fresident will agree to a trea y upon the 49th, and that the Senate-as will undoubtedly be the case-will give it their constitution al sanction. But how does it appear that the British government will be so ready to ofi'er the 49th Mr. R. John son and many other gentleman, in both Houses, have assumed this as a fact no' to be doubted. Some fete others bo ve expressed doubts. Mr. Dayton thi other day-and lie has the same source of infurmation that any one has out of the cabinet-said that he did !tot believ, that the British governwnt would make us any offer more f..vorablu than they have heretofore made, without some full equivalent. Tuis is the better Sie w of the maiter as it appears t, nie-and it is a lung way Irdn of ring f9. .?Iisceliia n eo us. Fromthr Geencsboro (N. C.EPatriot. ADDRESS TO MECHANICS. 4 Ova MECitA~zcs.-Brethren-y'u s ack knowledge --knowledge which you f I1 hav:i the means to purchase and the I; apacity to compr ebhend. Why don't ou read some good periodical which lheds scientific light up 'n the trades by Thich you make your bread and sustain , our standing in society 1 The 'Scien. ii tic American' continues i s weekly a isits to our table, sustaining its orugi- C al us.frlh.-ss and spirit; its abundant i nd valuable practicable suggestions en ble us to perceive what yon loose by a of keeping up with the mechanical im)- p r :venents of the age. There is nore p seful information for the artizan in u no number of this little s1,eet than can el - r...enA in. .ui tn. m,-e..i.aI ar iA f rigginug mammoth 'literanes of the harth. The latter, we admit, subecrve 0 te piu..pose of the ir publication--ia s ,to kill time ; the forme r, to improve c Our mechanics must cultivate their e rinds, particularly 'a those branches of n :ience connected with their callings, b r they "ever can obtain that stand and d Iflu nce in society which they ough, r' ways to command. TI'ey are hardy, 'nest, and inrdus.rions, its a clas-he14 rone and sinew' .'nd the very fouinda uo- of soci"ty in ou- towns;-but they s uve not th.t 'legre-e of iniebhigenc to c' Inch they might r.iuiify attain, and si insequently lack that dignity and pow e in the community to which their !a umbers and toe int'riisic respec' ability to their trades ohe, wise entitle themi. 'n is witir th''iselves to elevate tkem- uI Ives. The must emph.,y their keaos yE well as their elbows. Tneie is a oI ide field for the ustful and bea't;iful I I splay of mind-taste-geniu.-in the tI echatc arts', as well as in the fine 8' ts and lear tied pr'efessios. T. 'l diniig hand, w.o does a piece of p irk merely as he had been made to do C at tie apprentice's bench. withont t: e e pplicat ion of a single originael idea in 6B rocess,-neerd not expect to succeed T[ qui~diy with thre enierge-ic, itnguiring 'ir. ' zan, who studies his subject, 3:nd takes ai dIvatntage of all thre sugesti ns lie cLan ommratid in this progres~sive age. Su erior mind and superior cultivationb re exhibited apably-ars honnui- o ly and proftably-anid alwatys qie as inocently, in the m-l'chnanic arts, as in to .y o:hier ftetd of hiurnineffort or hu- si ian anmbition. . i Mechiinics-do not depend uporn a our trathes to elevate you. "Keep je our shops, arid your shops will keep L on." Thle hawyer, the physician, the ivitne, mite not honored by their pro assioin; if they have tiot cap)acity and -i .quiremient to enable thiemr to act up b o thre standard of their profession- r hey, and not thecir profession, are dis- U raced. Epraminondas, the gredtest patriot atnd lawgiver of Thebes was mece apipoinited by his envious eiieies, vwho ha jpone~d to be itn power, to clean. hre streens oif the city, with the desig~n o bring disgraco and ridicule upon hiltir iy this tmean occupation. The wise rTheban remarked, that it was not the >flice which conferred honor or fixedt Iisgrace upon the man; but the man had it in his power to honor the office', houtever low, or to disgrace' it, howewver xexahed. He forthwith set about the exercise of unis nten functions with such judgment arid energy, that, in a short time, thre streets of no city were to be compared wvith those of Thebes for cleanliness and beauty. And for a long period thereafter, the office of street scavenger was one of the most honora ble of the city. CENTRAL AMERICA. Intelligence to the 6th of January has been received from Central Amer. ica by way of Honduras. Chilen at the hi-a of 2000 men who had risen iii the Chinandega, a province of Nicars eut nn only 12 leagues from the ciy of Leon, were mnarching ou the city when they were nt by the troops'of Leon, about 800 strong. A battle en sned in which the insurgents were de feated with great loss. A treaty was subsequently signed, tihe principal stipu. lation of which w-s that each provintn should keep its troops within its own boundariet.-Evening News. A Conscientinus Lawyer.-The late Mr. Rodger M. Sherman., onue of the -nst eminen lawyers tihat Connectict has ever spen, stefs his principles as in iigat ion im these words : " I have ever considered it as one of the fast mora miii's of a h'wyer, and have always idonted it in mv own practice, never'to encourage a groundless suit or a ground ess defente; and to dissnade a client -on attempting either of them in cot >li:nre, with his aninosities, or wivli he hori"st praopos.essions of. his .oivn n dgment; :Ind I ever deemed it a du. y, in a doub full case, to point to ev 'ry difficu'ty, and so far as I could, elis ourago . unreasonable anticipations of access." When will the time c"oe Dt such to lie the. usual practices of twyers--National Press. ANOTHER DISCOVERY. New process of 7 anning.-A new dis. very in the art of tanning has been iade by Dr. Turrnull, of London, 'hich is said in a French paper, to e ipse every thing that has been discover 1 in the.practical arts for these hundred ears. The process, it seems, has been iried. on in London on a large scale. Id has recently been introduced into aris. and been . performed there in tiie resence of the best tanners. A cmn:mu ication on the subject has been ttresent i to the French Academy y of ,A ris and ir. urn toul's practicable Apjitieut~oa f the Theory of Endosmosis and Exto. boas to,the,Process of Tanning, and al tthe Application of the Solu'le Prin pies of Sugar to the same p'rpose"-. We give frout a foreign journal, a shrt spl"natin of nhat is meant by endos tosis and exfmosis. When a "em ane intervenes between two ltquids of iferent densiie,, they produce it o cur ut, the one outward called exruimosis ad the one inwards called endo.,:.,i, y this new physical law the currents in rehange until they hecone of the wmn eific gaavily; thus Dr. Turnbull. by wmjog a hide filled with one iuit of a trtain specificnrnvir%. and 'hen in.mer ng the hide- in another lignid of a great or lesser density, keeps lip this recip. cat action, until stuch time as the hide thoroughly tanned. By tle ordinary -ocess of tanning it requires eightee~, onths to tan an ox hide, anI 400 pounds bark. Dr. Turnhuli taus the hide in urteen dlays, and with ony 100 pounds bark. Here, Then, is a sav~ug of out y for the process, and the tatner with e same amount of enpital, can do thirty x times as much :is under the old sas m. And this is not all. Dr TurnbuhuI's ocess gives an extra weight of lenthar, ryint from 15 to 25 pound per cent. alves' skins, which under the old pro es require .an zntmeruion in the var of 'e, six and seven monthi. are byv Dr. urobul's process tcanned in two'days. his rapidity of executioln is by no means tended writh itil- riority of the (ea'her oduced. On the controry, it is said to comle much bet ter, all the eatnra:ion re iired for the pirodactioni oh good leathler, ing as fully effected by the new as the d process. The first part of the ordinary mode of unng is to remtove the hair frim the ~in-to do Ibis ltme is used, and before ie hair canl be detaic.ted. thc corrosive tiou of the litte always prodluces ani in ry to the skin, r,.ndering it sponsy, anid erefore readily susceptible of tmoistutre hen the leather is tmade up thr use, at the mte tiene that thte iteraests of the tatnner re eflected by the loss of weiaht. Dr. 'urobull effects the removal of the hair y the use olsaigar or any substantce con timng saccharine matiler ; or, if lime0 hi sed, it is removed lby the applicatiott of agar, before it can do atny injury, whereas y the old process, a pJ~ot of it must. wrevcr remaitn in the skin. llithetu evy ry process for rapidtty int tannting, has' een attended witth loss ofqtality, fur thle racess was expedited by the use of acids. Iy thte new process not only are no acids scd, in addition to the uinal tantning ma - erials. but even the portion of acid wich hose mnatials ciain is destroveJ. The lest tanners of Paris htave cotIfied to the catlity and great bentlit of this disbcovery ifter seeing the operauion performed nn Ier their own e'yes, and a commision 'rotm thte Academy has beeni chosen to. -*ori~t on these ren'arkaule useful expe tnments. Abscondd.-Ready, the- defdeling eashier of the Mtontreal Banks, afterturn ing Queen's evidetnce and heing admiued to baii,-has absconded, and is now, it is caid in one of the Southern States.