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part a very aisagreeable flivor to both milk and butter. Every farmer, however, should have a cellar under or contiguous to his barn that would contain a sufficient quantity to feed during the winter, or a greater portion of it. As the roots are disposed of, a word in regard to the tops: they should be gathered and laid (not too thick) in some cool place ; those from beets should be fed to milch cows?from rut a baga to young stock, or cows not in rsilk, as they give to the butter an un. pleasant flavor. Every fanner who cultivates the man. 1 ?' 1 ? okmiM raiOA Klfl gei wurrzei or sugar iwci 9I1UUIU law MW own 9eed ; as it not unfrequently happens that three-fourths of the seed will not vegetate?a serious loss and disappointment after being at the expense and trouble of preparing the land. The cause of this failure is generally attributed to old seed. I was also under this impression until I attempted to raise my own seed, when I discovered the true cause. The aeed plants throw out a number of long and tender stems or stalks, which soon becomeheavily loaded with seed, and unless supported in some wav, the most valuable stalks are broken off by the first storm of rain or wind they encounter. The seed from these stalks are all gather, ed by the seedsman and sold with the good seed, as they scarcely differ in external appearance from those that have been perfected. Where the plants are set in rows, a few sticks with forked end9. set in the ground, on each side the row, with poles laid in the fork at a proper height, furnish a cheap and sufficient support. Single roots may be supported by two or more small cords tied around the stems at different heights. Of good seed, one pound of rutabaga- and two ponnds of be it are amply f sufficient for one acre. My experience in the cultivation of the carrot has been very limiied. Finding them to require so much more hand labor than the beet or turnip with greater expense in gathering, while they were far inferior in point of productiveness, I was under the impression that their superiority as food for stock was much more than counterbalanced by the increased quantitv per acre of the other roots at less expense, and therefore abandoned their culti vat ion. FEEIIING, dec. I have made some experiments in steaming roots for my stock, but did not, consider the advantages derived from this process sufficient to pay for the extra laborand expense. My apparatus being small (having been erected for preparing food for a small number of swine,) and not convenient to mv-barn, I found it attended with much labor?and as this cannot be done under the eve of the farmer, who, like myself superintends and aids in executing- the other labors of 4he farm much time is generally wasted by the hand employed in preparing the food and distributing it among the stock. The plan of feeding which I have adopted is as follows: Near the cellar which con- i tains the roots is placed an oblong-box, made of plank, say three feet by six, into which the roots are thrown; a common garden spade ground sharp is used to cut them; baskets with a hoop handle that will each hold a feed for one animal are provided ; with these, the prepared roots are carried by a boy into the alley in front of the stalks in which the animals are confined, and deposited in a tight manger, (the first stall in the range being only twenty feet from the cellar.) In this way two boys, one to cut and the other to carry the roots, will feed a large stock in a very short time, and under the eve of the master while he is employed in attending to the other stock about the stables and yard. A small quantity of .salt is given with the roots once a day. I have for some time entertained the -opinion that the best plan of feeding roots is to grate them fine and mix them with cut hay or straw ; and this opinion fcas been confirmed by an experiment made during the past winter : Pounding the beets to a jelly and mixing with them an equal quantity of cutstraw moistened -with water, the whole mess was eaten greedily, and in two weeks the animal had evidently improved in appearance? eating the same quantity of roots she had before, ft is very certain, the more coarse provender cattle can be induced to eat with their richer ormore nourishing food, the better will he their condition. ?Thus,in wintering store cattle, after they have had their teed of stalks or hay in the morning,a rack infilled with straw to which they have access through the d ty, by winch (experience has proved) tney are much benefitted. I contemplate procuring for use next winter a grate mil!, (similar to those used for apples) to attach to the horse power connected with my threshing machine, by which a sutTicient quantity for a large stock may be prepared in a short t.me as they will grate apples at the rate of sixty bushels per hour: expense exclusive of horse power from $15 to 20. Swine eat the sugar beet greedily?they eat them in preference to the turnip ; but when the heet is fed in any quantity they should he cooked, as they invariably produce scouring or loudness of the bowels when fed in a raw State ; when cooked and fed with a small quantity of bran, hogs thrive and fatten rapidly upon them.?Horses also prefer the beet to the turnip, and when worked hard and grained* one feed of beets per day is of great service, as thev are cool, ing and opening to the system, and keep the animal in a healthy and vigorous condition. Although for horses I prefer the /fner varieties of potatoes to any other root, the comparative cheapness of the .beet uowever must induce us to give them .the preference on the score of economy. There exists much difference of opinion in rvgaxd to ihexelative value ofth$ diff. , ^ * '< * rerent roots, and I have long been anxious ; ! to make seme experiments that would settle this matter satisfactorily; as most : of the opinions that I have seen or heard, either verbal or written, have been mere guess work. With this view of last fall procured in New York a lactomoter (a glass instrument ten inches long and' three-fourths of an inch in diameter, worked off into tenths and hundredths) for the purpose of testing the richness pf milk.?With this instrument I have tried the milk of all my cows, and to my great surprise find they give from nine up to twenty.five per cent, of cream?varying sixteen per cent. Only one gives twentyfive per cent., and she,one of the best milkers in the yard, in three successive trials made with her milk, gave the same result?ao other cow giving over sixteen per cent. On the first of January last I commenced measuring the milk of a cow from which the calf had been sold one week previous; she had been fed on turnip-fruta bagafrom before calving up-till this, time, for four weeks previous, one bushel per day.?Her milk was carefully measured for six successive days, average, trr 1 quarts one gill per day; lactometer filled three times during the week,, gave' each time fifteen per cent, cream. Feed changed to sugar bee;?one bushel p?r day for one week;, cumtnencom5nt of second week, measured?continued for six days (same feed)?average quantity j per day, eight quarts and half pint; lact'ometer field three times, each time, givling eleven and a half per ct. of cream. | This experiment thus far was decidedly ! in favor of the ruta baga, and the ap. Tpearance of the animal at the close of the | beet feeding was not as good as while fed i on the'turnip. . l again changed the feed to turnip, intending to feed one week, and again measure, hut a severe and protr^f**^ illness in my family prevented any farther experiments at this time. On the 19th of March, I commenced ; measuring the milk of another cow from wnich the calf had been taken a few days previous. Her feed for some t'me had been one bushels of beets per day, and continued for one week, during which the milk was measured?average per day eleven'quarts and one hall nint millr trior! throoe timos. crave pjft. r1"* ) * ,v- ""vvv o~ " ? I I ven and a half per cent, of cream. Feed changed to turnips; one bushel per day for one week, then commenced measur. ing?-continued six days?average per day ten quarts one gill; milk tried as before, gave nine per cent, of cream. Changed to sugar beet?one bushel per day for one week ; second week commenced measuring?continued six day??average per day nine quarts one half pint?milk giving ten per cent cream. In this experiment there is a gradual falling off in quantity in each of the changes of feed and an incerase of richness on resuming the beet feed. The apparent inferiority of the turnips in this case, I attribute to their having been severely frozen in the fall, as a part of my turnips were frozen in the ground, but the ground thawing in a few days they were taken up and buried. Although these experiments are very far from being conclusive, lam rather in. clined to give the preference to the turnip. I intend, however, to continue them until I am entirely satisfied?intending also to try the different grains (ground)? feeding in the proportion of the average produce of each per acre. I shall also procure a thermometer to be used in future. I find these experiments cannot be rnndiirted with nerfect accuracy without one, as the quantity of cream depends very much upon the temperature. I filled the lactometer in the winter and hung it in a situation where I should suppose it must have heen near the freezing point, and in five hours a perfect separation had j taken place?all the cream heing upon the surface (none rising after)?the instrument being as before stated ten inches I in length. It was filled again with milk | from the cow, and hung in the dwelling ! room over a stove where the temperature I was about summer heat, and in fifteen hours no separation had taken place?not a particle of cream appearing upon the surface. This will suggest to those hav. ing the management of dairies, the great advantage of setting their nans for a few hours in cold water. I am w?:!l satisfied ; out r\f (n?i tim uitlu IP I mat in nine unifiers um ui ..... , summer does not yield half its crenm. I The lactometer and a common t'inib! " I three inches deep and three in d?n?n ' r I at top, were filled with milk from tee same cow, at one time, and placed in a situaiton where thev had the same temperature ; the cream all rose to the surface in one as in the other.?This explodes the old and firmly established opinion of the necessity of shallow pans. I have been both gratified and instructed bv these experimenfs, and hope others may be induced to try them, as it is from numerous experiments only that we can arrive at a correct conclusion. I have no doubt luit that the quantity of butter made, from the milk in our country, during the sum mer season, under proper management, may be more than doubled. This is certainly a very Important matter both to the | producer and tfre consumer. Report of tiie Secretary of the i Treasury.^ [According to this report, the receipts into tne ireasury, in mw, muau..^ Treasury notes, were $26,850,820 44; and the expenditures, $27,863,475 41, leaving a balance of $987,345 03. The report states that there will he required for the services of the present year $28,t 731,336 96; whilst the actual and estimated means under existing laws, to meet.these demands, amount to -only! $20,730,395 84; leaving a'deficiency of $8,000,G41 14, to be provfded for. After an extended statement from which this' is. an abstract, the Secretary proceeds aft follows.] ~ ~ Thus and to this extent, with in the last four years, were the expenditures pushed beyond the amount of the revenue They were made to absorb the snrples in the Treasury and the outstanding debts due to the United States, so thai the Treasury was, on the 4th or march,. 1841' exhausted of its means and subject to heavy and immediate liabilities It was already burdened with a debt incurred in time of peace, and without any.' adb* quate resources . except the authority granted by law to augment the debt. * As yet no provission has.been made to ducedthis debt or to checkits constant and rapid increase. We . find it, therefore, as far as past legeslation and financial at*, rangements characterized it a permanent and increasing national debt. The tetnporary expedients by whi^h it nas bc^O sustained no not at an vary Jis esscim?! character. * r* The attention of Congress is respectfully invited to the necessity of e*ito%nd effectual measures to prevent it? ftirther augmentation. The obyiotrti " remedy is ?o increase the revnue as far as may be without unreasonably burdening commerce, and to reduce the expenditures within the limits of strict economy.' But as it may not comport with the views oPCongress to go into a revisions nd adjustment of the customs so long before the act of March 2, 1833, comes to have its final and permanent operation, the undersigned would respectfully recommend as a temporary measure, the levy of a duty of 20 per cent. Ad valorem on all articles which are now free of duty, or which pay a less duty than 20 prtr cent, except gold arid silver, and the articles specificallye/i. umerated in ihe fith section of the act of March 2d, 1833. . ; : If this measure he adopted, it* is estimated that there will be receiv&d iota the Treasury from customs in the last quarter of the present year, shout $5,300.(100; in all of the year 1842, about $22i500,000; and in the year 1843, after the final deduction under the act of March 2, 1833,* about .$20,800,000, The details of this estimate will he found in "the accompanying paper, marked E and enclosures. ** It is believe that* after the heavy expenditures required for the public service | in the present year shall have been provided for, the revenues which will accrue from that, or a nearly proximate rate of duty will be sufficient to defray,yie expenses of Government, a id leave a surplus to be anually applied to the gradual payment of the national debt, leaving'.the proceeds of the public lands to be disposed of as Congress.shiall thi/ik fit. .. ' 1 The general principals on which tVe final revision of the tariff, is to res!, aj-e perhaps simple and easy to be apprhenjled,' but the work of revission itself, in ifs'.&ddaptionand detail, must be a work" of time. It should be done on cairn reflection and careful deliberation, wfth'a view' to reconcile, as f^r as possible, th'e'confiic ting opinion* and to promote ail the various interests of the whole People of these United States. And it may be important, in that adjusment, not only to reciprocate on fair and equal principles, and in a liberal spirit, the concession which may be accorded to our own commerce by foreign nations, but also to do justice to our own citizens by meeting in a like equaf spirit any heavy exactions or prohibitions which foreign nations may think fit to impose upon the iir portation of our staple productions. Some legal provissions are ilso required to correct inequalities between the duties upon sugar and molasses and the draw, backs upon refined sugarand rum, manufactured or distilled from foreign materi. als. The relation between the duty and the drawback was adjusted by th.e acts of January 21st, 1829, and May 19,1830 since which time the duties have been deminished. while the drawback remain the same. And a provision of law declaring that non.enumerated articles which bear a similitude to any enumerated articles chargeable with duty shall pay the ?ame rate of duty with the articles which it most resembles, would save a large sum annually to the revenue, and to prevent m.M-h annoyance and litigation between the importer and the officers charged with die collection of the customs. Of.the. Public Debt. But it is not expected that any tnodifi-ntfoo of the revenue laws will be opera.tve :o supply the immedia te wantsof thc Treasury, and to pay the dsbt which fall due in the present and in the ensneing year. A further loan is necessary to effect these objects, and the only question that can arise are as to the mode of procuring the loan, the character of thesecu rities, and the assumed duration of the debt. It would, in the opinion of the undersigned, be unwise to charge upon the commerce or the resources of the country, in any form, the burden of paying at once, or at all hastily, the national debt. Before that is done, measures of restoratton and relief are restored, and commerce and industry relieved from, their present state of embarrassment*and depressioo, and a benign and liberal policy on the part of the General Government should call forth once more the hardy industry and active enterprise of our people r it and the vast resources of our country.' If we assume the period of from five to eight years as that in wfoich this debt cam he paid without incomes ience and em* barrassment-i-and the time appears to be short enough?^-we have one of the most essential elements on whr-cb to-form our, 'judgments as to the best aod most con* vcpient mode in which the loai} can be I ?? HI III?? - /. . * ? kept up, and the credit of the Government sustained. .. . - in the inception and durincr"fhe progressive increaae of a national debt, the issue of Treasury. notes, though d.ngeous and delusive, hpve yet their advantages.? They need not bo issued f: ste"'than the actual wants of the treasury re uire, and the power to issue any giv?. n sum is, for effective purposes of immediot ; expenditures, a fund in the treasury available to that -amount. But, when the debt has acquired its maximum and ceases to accumulate, or when it becomra larger than the amount necestary to keep on hand to meet the current wants of the Treasury these advantages disappear. This mode of loan then becomes to the Government what the sale in market of rew promissory notes for the purpose of raising money to take up old prenrssory notes, is to an in'dividual. It is the isrtie of Treasury hotsrio lake up other Treasury notes year after year in sucesssion ; and, under those circumstances, it is inconvenient and expensive.. - C . * * * it ^ f Ifcit the raising of money nv ine issue of?Trea?ury notes ;-subject ion able, been use it deceptive; by this means a heavy debt m^y.b^ raised and fastened permanently upon."t^e Country the amount of riew issues being involved with the payment of the old ; while the people, and even those who administer the finances, may not be impressed with the important fact that a national debt is created or in the process of creation. "* Therefore, in the opinion of the unde". signed, when a national debt does exist, and must continue for a time, it is better that it should be made a funded debt, according to our ancient financial usage. It is then sheltered bv no cover, and is j the subject of no deldsion It is open, i palpable, true; the eyes of the country will be upon it, and will be able at a glance to mark its reduction or its increase ; and it is believed that a loan for the requisite aftiourtt, having eight years to run, but redeemable at the will of the Government, on six months' notice, could be negotiated at a much less rate of interest than Treasury notes." Much expense would also be saved in dispensing with the machinery of the issue and payment and cancelling of Treasury notes. It is therefore respectfullyrecommended that a sum sufficient to pay the debt at present existing, and such as will necessarily accrue in this and the ensuing year, be raised on loan for the time, and on the condition above suggested. On Keeping and disbursing the public moneys. The undersigned would also respectfully invite the attention of Congress to the present mode of keeping and disbursing the public moneys; and also to the sub ject of the creation or employment of a fiscal agent to be changed with the perfoupahce of these and other duties. The subject is one of great'importance, both to ,tjie Croverhment and to the community. . Such agent or depository ought to unite, in the highest practicable degree, the safety of the public funds, and convenience and economy in their administration ; and it should, if possible, he so selected or framed as to exert a salutary influence over the business and currency of the country. The mode of keeping and disbursing the public mohev, provided by the act of July 4,1840, will be found, on comparison with that heretofore chiefly used by the Government, eminently deficient in, all these essential requisites. ' The financial history of the United States, es. pecially for the last twelve years, furnishes abundant proof that the public money is unsafe in the custody of individuals, r*. l i" fr ana tnai cneir omciai oonns are no sumcient security for its safe-keeping and faithful application. Within the period above named many receiving officers connected with the Treasury Department have become defaulters to the Government. The aggregate loss from that cause within that period, as shown by the books of the Department, amounts to $2520.500, but a small part of which will probably be recovered from their bonds. It is true that, in any system which can be adopted, some part of the public money must, in the process of collection, pass through the hands of individuals, and be subject to tfieir defalcations; but the act of July 4,1840, extends and continues the risk beyond the period of collection, and it subjects large masses, which in the fluctuations of commerce, sometimes ac. cumulate, to the same dangerous custody. . Not only is the public money in the hands of individual more exposed to loss from ordinary defalcations than when de. posited in a well-regulated bank ; but the Government is also liable to the risks of tire, robbery, and other casualities, occur, ring either in deposite or transmission, from which it is entirely protected when a well-regulated bank is the depository and the fiscal agent. The present system is also, in many respects, cumbrous and inconvenient. Its tendency is to cenire the disbursements of the public money at some of the Eastern cities, chiefly at New York. That being the great commercial emporium of the United States, is the point at which funds are the most valuable, and there fo/e, the most sought; hence those who are entitled to payments out of the public Treasury claim then there. It is true there is a general discretion in the head of ~ ' - \ .,i the Iiepnrimeni 10 reiuse or gram mc iavor of such payments accorr': ng to its convenience ; but when the currency is de. ranged, and the premium on exchanges is high, this discretion involves discrimination to a large amount as to creditors equally entitled. It then becomes a dangerous discretion, and one that ought jiot to exits. But, under the present system, it cannot be avoided, save in a few cases, without discharging every puhlic liability at the roost favored point.. This would at once centre nil the disbursements eta few of the Eastern cities, and involve the n T reasury in the rink and expense of trans- t< \orting the public funds from the various a points of collection to the places of die- y bursem^nt* a An item of less importance, but still e worthy of consideration, in settling on a permanent and economical arrangement, is the direct expense of the present ays- 8 tern, inclu ling the cost of the buildinga * for the deposite of the public money, and * the salaries of the officers and their clerks who receive and disburse it. No portion F of this risk, inconvenience, or expense need to be incurred where a well-regulated bank is made the fiscal ageut. But the present system is also, in the opinion ofthe undersigned, injurious to the business and currency of the country. Instead of permitting the credit and the finances of the Government to lend their | indirect but efficient aid in sustaining the | credit and regulating the currency of the ! country, it brings into direct hostility * ' " I those important interests. In the progress of the system a sufficient amount of gold and silver to supply the wants of the Treasury must be withdrawn from circulation and locked up in vaults, leaving no representative to supply its place in the j general circulation. A large amount, also, in the hands of I those who pay to or receive from the Treasury, is equally withdrawn from general circulation, and made to flow through those channels alone which lead into and out of the public coffers. The other avenues of commerce and intercourse are thus deprived of their proportion of the precious metals. Within the fifty-two years during which our constitutional Government has existed, we hare had, for two periods of twenty years each, a bank chartered by Congress as a depository of the public moneys and as a fiscal agent. We have had, also, at two intervals, amounting to about nfoe years, State banks employed for like purposes ; and, during the remainder of the time, the funds of the Governrnent have been kept and the finances administered partly by banks and partly by individual officers and agents. The losses sustained by State banks, as depositories, during the first period of their employment, extending from 1811 to 1818, agreeably to a statement prepared by the Secretary of the Treasury in 163d, and revised and republished in 1837, were $l,OfM),076. In the latter period, from 1833 to 1837, though no actual loss is believed to have occured, yet the Treasury and the country suffered inconvenience and embarrassment from the fiscal arrangements with those numerous and disconnected instittutions. But, during the forty years that the two banks of the United States were the depositories of the public money and the fiscal agents of the Government, no loss whatever was sustained, nor any delay or any expenso in-1 curred in transmitting or disbursing the | public money, so far as the agency of those institutions extended. Then, as j regards the wants of the Treasury merely, the safety of the public funds, and econo. my in their administration, experience has demonstrated the superior utility of a hank constituted and adopted by Congress as a fiscal agent. It has also proved to us that the business of the country, its currency, its credit, its industry, and its commerce,are intimately connected with and dependent upon the financial arrangetnonta nf thft General Government. If they be wise and beneficent, they indirect, ly, hut efficiently* promote those great interests of the People; if constant and ! uniform in their action, they give to those interests confidence and stability. Since the removal of the public depos.' ites from the Rank of the United States, \ in 1833, the Government has had no per. j manent fiscal agent and no definite fin- j ancial system. All has been experiment, transfer, and change. The business of | the country has yielded to the unsteady j impulse, and moved forward with wild j irregularity ; at one time stimula ed to J excessive action, at another sunk into j lethargy. And, in providing for the wants of the Treasury, it is surely im. portant to look, also, to the want* and the welfare of the community, from the products of whose industry the Treasury is supplied. And as regards those great interests, we find the testimony of past years is no * . /V / less distinct and strong in lavor oi n mon. eyed institution chartered by the General Government, and possessed of its confidence and credit. The period embracing the last ten years of the existence of the late Bank of the United States as the fiscal agent is fresh in the memory of us all, and is looked back to as a period of great public prosperity; and though other causes did, doubtless, co-operate to produce that favorable condition of things yet one of the governing principles on which depended the steady advance of thedountry in commerce, in industry,! and in industry, and in substantial wealth was the existence of a fiscal agent estab. lished by the General Government, and charged with the equalization of exchanges, and the regulation of the currency. In the present condition of our country the relief to be anticipated from such an * - . i? :, K..+ institution CilfJ lJUl lie uuuicu ia ic, uui must be the work of time. The business of the country would, however, in the opinion of the undersigned, steadily and certainly revive under its influence. In whatever point of light the undersigned is able to view this subject, he is irresistibly led to the conclusion that such a fiscal agent, so framed as to possess those important functions, is alike essential to the wants of the Treasury and of the community. Such ' an ' institution should be framed with deliberation, for it j'.- 1 ^rnrnssmmmm iust hare high duties to perform, and ex* ' snsive interests to protect and promote f 1M nd it should be granted with care, for it rill be liable to great and dangerous buses* As the fiscal agent of the Govrnmentf and an effective regulator of the urrency in a wide-spread community, it hould be steady and uniform in its aC* ion, and fixed and stable in its characer. The undersigned has no douht of the , rower of Congress to create such an initiation, Experience has proved its aeceasity to carry cut other expressly granted powers; it has been exercised ind recognized by the Legislative and Executive departments of the Govern* ment during four-fifths of the whole pSifi* r>d of our national existence, and it has received the uniform sanction of surhigh* est judicial tribunal. Yet that power has been questioned by many wise and patriotic statesmen whose opinions are entitled to consideration and respect; and in a measure like thixofhigb political import, which, if wisely conceie* - . , ?d and cordially concurred in, must have- ': * i great and enduring influence on thS^ prosperity of the country, it is importaal *^"5 r - .;kl? Ia nk.nat* nki.Afinnl W iar W pl/9SU/IUf III livvivm wujwswww?*?w ind reconcile opinions. 'fc *'" " '% If such an Institution ean be so con* ceived in principle and guarded in its de* tails as to remove all scruples touching the question of constitutional power, and thus avoid the objections which have been urged against those heretofore crested by Congress, it will, in the opinion of the undersigned, produce the happiest results, and confer lasting and important benefits on the country. The undersigned, therefore, respectful- ^ ly recommends the creation of such fiscal agent, and repeal the act of July 4th, 1840, providing for the collection, safekeeping, transfer, and disbursement of , the public revenue," except the penal provisions thereof, which Will probably require revision and modification. All which is respectfully submitted. T. EWING, Secretary of the Treasury. Treasury Department, June 2,1841# Collusion at ska. The packet ship Susquehanna, Capf# . J. VV. Mikrcxen which arrived at Philadelphia on Sunday last, had a terrible encounter with another vessel on the 8tb inst. off the banks of Newfoundland.? ' The night was not dark, but tbe sec wae" running high, and they did not discover each other nntill tbe fenrfatl The Susquehanna's bowspfrit Is tfktfft ' >d3 off clean and cut-water torn and retfcbed i ?'' from the ship in a way which show# the encounter must have been IrsroeodwUs* w? *** She was running at the rate of nine knet^n; ^ <c* and shipping seas constantly at thaijtJMC#,,,, the impression on board the SuaquqlNMvM f is, that the blow was so hard ami so pear . " the centre of the other ship, that they must have been totaly disabled, if not stove in, causing her to sink immediately. After the collision she slewed round and grated past the Susquehanna with such rapidity that no oppertuniiy wasgiv* ' en to discover who she was or tbe exteot' of her injuries. The impression on board is, that she was an bast Indranrmtn, or some ship of the largest class, and as the cut-water of the Susquehanna is taken ^ off low down she was on the top of a sea at the moment of the collision. Consequent* ..." Iv the other ship must have suffered the . ... moreseverlv. No cries were heard, and, in the confusion of the crash and anxiety for self-preservation, no distinct know* ledge of the character of the other shipcould be learned. The npinoun on board _, is, that the man at the wheel of the ill-fated ship must have been killed instantly. The whole ofthi painful encounter is only an other evidence of the unavoidable hazards of navigation. Perhaps the ship . instantly founderod, and in one "fell swoop" all on board were ushered into eternity together. The Philadephia Xorth american state* that the Captain of the Susquehanna did not wear about his ship and look after the one he had disabled,,because the consternation was so great for some time on board his ship that noting was thought of but self-preservation. An applicant for office was recently urging his pretentions upon the President and enforcing them by disparaging a competitor, who, he said, had no political weight, and would bring no political in* fluence to the administration. * ?*S;r," said Mr. Tyler, "I do not intend that he shall exercise any political influence." From the Savannah Republican of May 29. PBOM FLOSIDi. We learn from an officer of (he army who came passenger in the U. S. Steam* er Gen. Taylor, Capt. Peck, arrived yea* terday from Florida, that since our laat advices from that quarter, Haleck Tuste* nuggee. whose camp is at Fort Fowle oi? the Ocklawaha, had sent in four of bis . warriors to Col. Riley, commanding 4 i Fort King, asking for rations, which we:e refused. Four other warriors were sent in by the same chief two days after* < wards requesting rations, which were W like manner refused; whereupon the ipes* sengers stated that the chief would Bfttrch T*M mna a nrl halt at a certain Cieelt . IUI X utlif/o^ - between that post and Fort King, (root whence he would send for provisions aqd an escort to take him to Tamp* for the purpose of emigrating. Coacoochee (Wild Cat) had agfinkeei) in at Fort Pierce. He. stated that Sam Jones and Hospitaka were forthwith to hold a council with himself, who? Wefty /' be determined their course for the future. Coacoochee of course expressed himself