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'' 1 CHER AW GAZETTE. M. MACLEAN, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR. , CHERAW, S. C., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 183G. V0L-1 N0 ? * ~-a-s?1 G. H. TAYLOR, PRINTER. Published every Tuesday. TERHS. If paid within three months, - - - 3. 00 It paid withinthree months after the close ot the year, 3. 50 I not paid within that time, . . . -4.00 A company of six persons taking the paper ai the same Post Offiee, shall be entitled to it at $15 paid in advance, and a company of ten persons at $20 ; provided the names be forwarded togcth. er, accompanied by the money. No paper to be discontinued but at the option of the Editor till arrearages are paiu. Advertisements inserted for To cents per square the tirst time, and 37 J for each subsequent insertion. Persons sending in advertisements are request, ed to specify the number of t imes they aro to be inserted; otherwise they will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. CTThe Postage must be paid on all coinmunications sent by mail. ? ? v KtH.lli ?il u.i u.'i i . BLIGHT IN PEAR TREES. A correspondent of the Northampton Courier recommends as an effectual remedy for this disease, that spirits of turpentine be put on and about the affected parts of the tree with a brush.?Farm, ty Gard. MANURING OF CORN BROADCAST, OR IN THE , HILL. Each of these methods of culture has its advocates, and as for ourself, we have not fully made up our minds with respect to the superiority of etther, although we are free to confess, we incline to the belief, that the broadcast application of the manure is best; and so far as our judgment may be entitled to consideration, we think it would be found most effective to harrow instead of ploughing it in, the tendency of most manures, ex " o , cept the gaseous parts, being to sink. Bv broadcasting, the lateral roots, which extend far beyond the stalk in search of food, have a much better opportunity of imbibing nutriment than when applied exclusively to the hill. The ducts or mouths, through which the sustenance of the plant is derived, being at the extreme points of the roots, it stands to reason that none but the shorter ones, which do not extend beyond the body of the manure as applied to the hill, can derive any essential advantage therefrom. Where time and opportunity suits, and manure is plenty, both applications would be of great advantage, and at all events, a small portion of light vegetable mould and ashes, or a compost of ashes and plaster, or lime, should be put around the plants when they first come up, to give them an impetus at the very onset, as nothing is so beneficial to the future crop as imparting to the young corn a vigorous start at the incipient stage of its growth. No one except those who may have witnessed it, can form any idea of the ureat use which is to be derived from ap plying from one to four gills of sucli composts as we have iKitned, to the corn plants when they first come up: nor can they conccive the amount of increase in the yield of the corn which will be thereby promoted. Ibid. MAMMOTH TOMATOES. We are iudebted to Mrs. Doef. Thomas, of this place, for a peck of very superior Tomatoes, both of the white and yellow varieties. One of them weighed 20 oz., and many of them, judging by comparison, must have exceeded a pound. We hope the ex. ample of Mrs. T. will not be lost upon some of our other friends.?Kent Bugle. The Farmer and Gardener concludes an article on the Gama Grass by the following statement: In corroboration of the preference given to this grass by cattle, when curod into hay ive will mention a fact related to us by a respectable physician in North Carolina,who has several acres of it under cultivation.? He placed before his riding horse, a small mifintitv of fresh corn blades, newly cured timothy hay,and fresh gama grass hay, neith. er of the two first named was touched by his horse until he had consumed all of the latter?a more striking instance of partiality could not be desired. From the Porlstnoutk (N. II.) Journal. Green Corn and Snow Balls.?On Wednesday morning we noticed in a market wagon, containing corn in the milk, the strange sight of a snow ball between 2 and $ inches in diameter. It was formed from the frost which on that morning was visible in every direction around us?blasting, we fear, the small hopes many of the farmers had cherished of their corn crop. BEETS. Beets furnish from a given surface of ground a greater quantity of nutriment for horses and cattle than any other kind of forage. Wherever its cultivation is understood, it has the preference over all other roots. It succeeds in almost all soils, is but little affected by the vicisitudes ot seasons, and prepares the ground very well for succeeding crops. Throughout Belgium and Germany, the leaves are from time to time stripped offand given to the cattle, which eat them with avidity, and easy fatten upon them. Fowls are also fed upon them. They are firsl hashed up, dhd then mixed with bran. PigS eat them with a good relish. Milch cows, when fed upon them, fatten at the expense of their milk. The leaves are equally val Iuablc in the fattening of cattle and sheep. Beets should be gathered when the weath er is dry, and put away in a dry state; anc when prepared for cattle, they must be cu' up tine with some suitable instrument, anc may be given either alone or mixed with straw or hay. They are equally fit for horses, with the precaution of adding a variety of cut straw and hay well mixed together. Tliis food will preserve them strong and vigorous, as is well ascertained in Germany, where beets are much cultivated for this purpose. For the fattening of a bullock, forty or fifty pounds of beets per day mixed with five or six pounds of dry lodder, will accomplish the objects in the space of four months, t Care must be taken to give it in three sepa, rations, since by feeding often and in small } quantities at a time, the same amount of nu' triment goes farther, i Finally?by facilitating the means of stable fattening, throughout the year, beets ' furnisha very important addition to this means of augmenting the mass of valuable j manure. , They may serve also, on occasion, for the food of men ; they are less subject to she vicissitudes of seasons than turnips, and I their leaves supply for several months an ! excellent food for cattle. The root may be easily perserved during eight months of the year. They give milk an excellent taste and quality. Cattle eat them with avidity, j and are never tired of them. The culture j of no forage root can compare with that of the beet, in the number of advantages which the industrious cultivator may derive ' from them. "* We cannot too strongly recommend the introduction of them into places where they are not already in vogue.? Bib. Univ. for 1831. . From the New England Farmer. farmer's work. Selecting and Preserving Good Seed. The seeds of various vegetables are now j daily becoming ripe under the eye of the i cultivator; and if he does not gather the best, and make the most of all sorts of useful seeds, he neglects one of the most important branches of rural economy. Gather the best seeds only for propagation, and I let those which are not first rate never oe ! used for planting or sowing. The dry kindsof seeds are best kept in their own ponds or outer coverings; but the seeds of all soft fruits, such as cucumbers, melons. &c., must be cleansed from the pulp and mucilage, which surround them ; otherwise the rotting ofthese parts will spoil the seeds. When seeds are gathered, it should always be done in dry weather; then they j should be hung up in bags in a dry room, so j as to preserve them from the air. The selections of seeds depend principally on a proper choice cf grains and kernels, as well as roots, from the vigorous vcgetables, growing under our own inspection; for 1 though it be conjectured that the cultivation ' of a particular plant from the same seed, apd ; in the same soil, will at length cause it to degenerate, yet numerous well attested instan: ces have occurred, in which the contrary is ! evident. The more healthy stalks or stems 1 should therefore he selected for bearing i seeds & such as attain maturity atthe earliest I period of the season ought to be preferred, especially if they grow at a distance from weakly plants of the same species; lest fe cudating farina of the latter be blown on the I stigmata of the former, and an inferior kind ! of succession be produced. The proper time for gathering seeds is ) the period of their perfect maturity, which i may be ascertained by the darkness of the | stein : because when the latter begins to J decay it becomes bleached by the oxygen of I the atmosphere, and no further nourishment can then be conveyed to the seed. PARENTAL INFLUENCE. "Where parental influence does not con ! vert," said Richard Cecil, "it hampers?it j hangs on tlie wheels of evil. I had a pious j mother, who dropped things in my way?I J could never rid myself of them. I was a ; professed infidel: but then I liked to be an j infidel in company, rather than when alone ; ?I was wretched when by myself. These , j principles and maxims spoiled my pleasure, i With my companions I would sometimes ' stifle them like embers, we kept one another j warm. Besides, I was a sort of hero; I had beguiled several of my associates into | my own opinions, and I had to maintain a I character before them; but 1 could not divest ' myself of better principles. I went with j one of my companions to see the Miner; lie ; could laugh heartly, but 1 could not; ridicule j on regeneration was high sport to him?to | to me it was none; it could not move my features, he knew no ditlerence Deuveen regeneration and transubstantiation?/did. I knew there was such a tiling. I was afraid i and ashamed to laugh at it. Parental influence i thus cleaves to a n an?it harrasses him? ; it throws itself constantly in his way." i Abdool Kauder.?A curious account is given in Malcon's Persia, of Shaikh Mohydeen Abdool Kauder. Being induced to undertake a religious life, after the fashion [ of his country, his mother taking out eighty i decnars, as he says, gave him half, as all his inheritance, the other half being reserved i for his brother. "She made me answer when she gave 1 it to me, never to tell a lie; and afterwards i bade me farewell, exclaiming, 'Go, my son, I give thee to God. We shall not meet j again until the day of judgement!' I went | on well till I came near Hamadan,whcn our i kiffilah was plundered by sixteen horsemen. ; One fellow asked me what I had got?? t 'Forty deenars,' said I, 'are sewed un; under my garment.' The fellow laughed, , thinking I was joking him. 'What have ; you got?' said another. I gave him the same answer. When they were dividing the spoil, I was called to an eminence, where their chief stood. 'What property have 1 you my little fellow said he. 'I have told t your people already,' I replied, 'I have for1 ty deenars sewed up carefully in my clothes.' i He desired them to be ripped open, and I found my money. 'And how come you,' ; j said he, with surprise, 'to declare so openly ' i what had been carefully hidden?' 'Be cause,' I replied, 'I will not be false to my 1 ; mother, to whom I have promised never to t conceal the truth.' 'Child,' said the robber, i 'Imst thou such a sense of duty to thy mo- t ther at thy years; and am I insensible, at my f age, of tne duty I owe to my God? Give c me thy hand, innocent boy,' he continued, c 'that 1 may swear repentance upon it.' He c did so. His followers were alike struck a with the scene. 'You have been our lea- c der in guilt,' said they to their chief, 'be the t same in the path of virtue;' and in an instant c at his order, they made restitution of their ii spoil, and vowed repentance on my hand." ii Filial Confidence.?An old man had s two sons, who were one day surprised by j: the sight of a lion coming toward them, in a c field near their father's house. They saw 1 their danger and looked around for help. t< On one side there was a high wall which o surrounded their father's dwelling, on the c other side of which they heard the old man's c voice affectionately exhorting them to come n to him and find safety. One of the youths tl determined to obey this injunction,but his bro- a ther opposed him vehemently?'Do you not tl see,'said lie 'that the wall is insurmountable, k The lion will pursue us until we reach it, and h then find us an easy prey. I will trust to my tl speed, and attempt to escape in an oppo- tl site direction.' 'But,'said the other in re. a ply, 'do you not hear our father urging us r to climb the wall; surely he would not do tl this if the tiling was impracticable.' 'I don't care,' said the other, 'go your way, and I ^ will go mine.' There was no time for c further parley. The dutiful son followed v his father's advice and fled towards the wall. s As he approached he discerned a ladder of a ropes suspended from the summi^ on which n he rapidly ascended. He did not fail to 0 call aloud, announcing this intelligence to a his brother, but his eye turned toward him F only to behold his destruction. e ; n A MOTHER S TEARS. t| There is a sweetness, a sacredness in a tl mother's tears; when they fall on the face of b a dying babe, which no eye can behold with F a heart untouched. It is holy ground, upon y which the unhallowed foot of profanity dares b not encroach. Infidelity itself is silent, and e forbears her mocking, and here woman fi shows not her weakness but her strength, v It is that strength ofattachment, which man I never did nor never can feel. It is poren- u nial, dependent on no climate, no changes, v nor soil, but alike in storms as sunsnine, i? it knows no shadow of turning. A father, s when he sees his child going down the dark p valley, may weep when the shadow of death has fully come over him, and as the last departing knell falls on Jiis ears may say, "I will go down to the grave to my son mourning,but he turns away in the hurry of business, the tear is wiped, and though when he a turns to his fireside, the sportive laugh comes t to his remembrance, the succeeding day t blunts the poignancy of grief, and it finds no f permanent seat. Not so with her who has borne and nourished the tender blossom. It c lives in the heart where it was first entwined i in the dreaming hours of night. She sees j its playful mirth, or hears its plaintive e cries; she "seeks it in the morning'' and J "she goes to the grave to weep there." Its * - * " " i-M -~:.i j i . little toys are careiuuy iaiu usiut- us suci?.u \ momcntos, to keep continually alive that \ thrilling anguish, which the dying struggle, 1 and last sad look produced, and though grief, \ like a canker worm, may be gnawing at the t vitals, yet she finds a luxury in her tears, a , sweetness in her sorrow, which none but a j mother ever tasted. i I FASHION. | The following hit at "Fashion" in some of < its absurd forms, is made by Editor Brooks, t in the New York Express. i Fashion is a fool sometimes, though at \ other times there is much sense in fashion, t English fashion is generally formal, silly, t and stupid, whereas French fashion com- < monly mingles sense witn nonsense, in u j most agreeable way, and comfort and health * with elegance and case. In London for [ example, a man must live on the Westmin- < ster side of Temple bar to be "a gentleman." lie must never seal his letters with wafers, 1 but always with wax, and send them by the t waiter too, and not by the Penny Post. lie t must never rap once at a door, for that is a 1 sign of a servant, nor twice, for that is a 1 sign of the Footman, but three times at least, ' loud and strong, provided he is to pass for ) "a gentleman" and it would be the death < of "a gentleman" to ring a bell, unless in a < very peculiar case. In Paris, it makes no t odds where you live, even if it be in the < eigtitli story 01 a ransiun gurrci, uui ui muui / you must creep ou hands and knees, pro- 1 vidcd you appear with a clean collar to your 1 shirt, and a pair of well made boots and i gloves.?And as to going into society, very 1 difficult in England, so impossible even for j an Englishman, unless his pedigree is good, c it matters not in Paris, whose son you are, c or where your talents are, provided you [ have them, whether in your head or your 1 heels, or your finger nails, for all is reward- \ ed in Paris according to its merit. So far g then as we copy fashions from the English, t we are as silly and as stupid as they are. i For example, our fashionables in New York i fixed upon the English notion of peculiar i spots, as fashionable ground. The Battery, t one of the most beautiful and healthiest spots J i in the world, than which indeed, there is j i none more beautiful, unless it be what is call. ( ed the Chiaja, at Naples, the fashionables ? have altogether abandoned to the "loafers," \ a new word by the way, which we find in i use here without knowing the exact mean- f ing of it. Hobokon, a paradise of a place, { a European king would surely abandon half > his dominions for, is also becoming not quite s enough select. How absurdly silly all this 1 is, and how readily it is to be seen, that the 1 "loafers" arc not half so silly as the class < that believes themselves the wisest of all, for * ;he "loafers" know what good air is, and ake pains to enjoy it. J,he Parisians, who, n truth, are (taking civilization in the worhyjineaning of the term) the most civilized )eople of Europe, never make such foolish iistinctions as these. The "loafers" don't lrivc them out of the Tuilleries nor the Luxembourg. Beggars and beaux and belles, ire think on the Boulevarde. The richer ilasses of people in this country must learn, hat in order to improve the appearance, ?r tiie condition ol the poor, they must 11 some drg-ee mingle with them?at least o O 11 public walks or public places. Excluiveness only has the effects of making the ioorer classes have all the pride of endeaviringto appear well, and to behave well.? rhereareno blackguards in the world equal .1 -- i _i . T i 3 I nose in unci auoui ijonuun, miu in uuuiy f the English large towns; and the poorer lasses there, even where clothes are so heap, seem to have on their backs the rejse of the whole world. The reason of iiis is chiefly, that the English gentry keep 11 out of their own caste so tar from them, liat the poor man looses all the pride of inaiug a good appearance. In Paris, society 5 more Republican than it is in England, iiough government is much less so, and iius in Paris we see all classes of men, rich nd poor, master and servant in the Tuilleies, breathing under the same trees, and in tie same pleasant walks. [fence the very poorest people in Paris ave a civility and polish visible in no other ountry. The servant living on easy terms ,'ith, and respected by his master, in his /? * ? i" .? _ ? phere, leels a pnuc deserving tnat respect, nd in imitating his address and his manlers, so far as his situation will permit. The nly really Republican freedom, and really cccssablc society in the world, is seen at 'aris, and at the same time there is no socity known where i..ere is so much polish of rianner, or such a concentration of intellect; bus forcibly reading Americans the lesson bat if we must imitate, an imitation should >e of Parisian not ofLondon notions. Ifthe lattery was in Paris, all of intellect and wealth that there are on the right and left tanks of the Seine would he on the ground very afternoon and evening, with a beautiil informinalinnr nf Parisian disnlav in the - O o I ; * /ay of female elegance; but if it were in ,ondon, "a gentleman" could not enter there inless he saw Lord , or Lady , nth their equippages. The English folly > ours, and the health of the wealthier clascs suffer by it, while the "loafers" and pcoile independent of fashion reap the profit. Extracted from the Penny Magazine. WHAT IS EDUCATION ? This may seem a very simple question, md very easily answered; but manv who ^ IfAtrt* mn/lU of n 1AOC IllUh. v\ uuiu luanjr uu iiiuv^u ai u o answer it correctly. Every man, in n ree country, wants three sorts of education: ?one, to fit him for his own particular trade >r calling,?this is professional education;? mother, to teach him his duties as a man tnd a citizen,?this is moral and political ;ducation;?and a third, to lit him for his tigher relations, as God's creature, designid for immortality,?this is religious educaion. Now, in point of fact, that is most iseful to a man which tends most to his tappiness; a thing so plain, that it seems oolish to state it. Yet people constantly ake the work M useful" in another sense, ind mean by it, not what tends most to a nan's happiness, but what tends most to get nonev for him: and therefore thev call * 9 irofession.il education a very useful thing: jut the time which is spent in general education, whether moral or religious they are ipt to grudge as thrown away, especially ij t interferes with the other education, tc ,vhich they confine the name of " useful hat is, the education which enables a mar o gain his livelihood. Yet we might all be excellent m our several trades and prolesdons, and still be very ignorant, very miserable, and very wicked. We might dc iretty well just while we were at work or >ur business; but no man is at work always, rhcre is a time which we spend with out amilies; a time which we spend with out riends and neighbors; and a very imporant time which we spend with ourselves, f we know not how to pass these times well, ve are very contemptible and worthless ae/t, though we may be very excellent law,ers, surgeons; chemists, engineers, mcchanics, laborers, or whatever else may be >ur particular employment. Now, what enables us to pass these times well, and )tir limes or ousmess uisu, is noi uut nofessional education but our general one. \ is the education which all need equaly?namely, that which teaches a man, n the first place, his duty to God and lis neighbor; which trains Ijim to good irinciples and good temper; to think ol ithers, and not only of himself. It is thai iducation which teaches him, in the next dace, his duties as a citizen : to obey the aws always, but to try to get them made as jerfect as possible; to understand that a ^ood and just government cannot consull he interests of one particular class or call, ng, in preference to another, but must see vhat is for the good of the whole; that every nterest, and every order of men, must give ind take; and that if each were to insisl lpon having everything its own way, there vould be nothing but the wildest confusion >r the merest tyranny. And because a ^reat part of all that goes wrong in public 01 irivate life arises from ignorance and bad easoning, all that teaches us, in the third dace, to reason justly, and puts us on our juard against the common tries of unfaii vriters and talkers, or the confusions ol ;uch as are puzzle-headed, is a most valuaile part of man's education, and one of which le will find the benefit w hcncver he has oc. jasion to open his mouth to speak, or his ?ar> to h?ar. [ A Request to Editors.?All editors of , newspapers, and other public journals, throughout the United States, are requested to mention " that the Pennsylvania Lyceum is prepared to deliver gratuitously, an elementary set of specimens in Geology and Mineralogy, to any aud every county Lyceum, which is or may be tormed in the Union. If any such Lyceum, or a few individuals, with a view of forming one, in any one of the eleven hundred counties in the United States, will request some merchant or other persons, who may visit Philadelphia the present season, to call upon John Simmons, corresponding Secretary of the Pennsylvania Lyceum, or upon Dillwyn Parish, corner of Arch and Eight streets, they can procure a set of specimens, representing the | elements of rocks and mountains, the different strata, or kinds of rocks, the ores of the most useful metal, and a few other minerals ; also a few specimens of improvements in sellools and lyceums, such as geometrical, and perhaps architectural and other perspective drawings, foliums, impressions of leaves, and possibly a few specimens of needlework. Editors of this and other countries, are also requested to mention in their columns, that the next National Convention of American Lyceums, will be held in Philadelphia, commencing oil the first Tuesday of May next; and that any person or persons from either continent, who may bring or send to that meeting specimens of plants, minerals, shells, insects, or other productions of nature or art, may exchange them for others, deposite them for the use of the National Cabinet, or appropriate them in some way for the diffusion of knowledge, and for instituting a scientific, and it is hoped, a Christian intercourse, among the nations of the earth. It is expected that delegates from state and county Lyceums in America, and from similar societies in other countries, will be provided with accommodations by the hospitalities of the citizens. THE ROTHSCHILDS [From a book, called "My Note-book" by Macgregor.] At tlm nnmmonromont of the uars of the French Revolution their father, Moses Rothschild (Anglice Redchild) was a small banker or money lender, living in an ob. scure part of Frankfort. He had establish, ed a character for strict probity, and would no doubt, have amassed a large fortune, and have enriched his family, although events had never so eminently served him. Ilis eldest son, Nathan Meyer, whom he sent to England, commenced business in ' Manchester, partly as a small manufactu| rcr, but chiefly as a broker, or commission ' agent, in the way of purchasing the fabrics 1 of Lancashire and Yorkshire, and shipping them for Frankfort, to supply the German : market. This was a thriving business enough, until the celebrated Berlin and j Milan decrees crushed it, and the trade of Frankfort at the same time. Another son, Solomon, was sent to Paris, where he commenced business as a money dealer and negotiant. The third , son remained at home with his father. ! When the Freuch armies crossed the Rhine, most of the German Princes were , driven from their territories?among others . the Sovereign of Hesse Cassel, who carried ; his jewels and money hastily with him to | Frankfort, in order, if possible, to deposit : them where they would be most likely to es, cape the French. I The reputable character of the humble f Jew, Moses Rothschild, induced the Prince i to call upon him for the purpose of deposit' ing with him his treasure, in value some i millions of thalars. Rothschild at once re ; fused accepting so dangerous a responsi. bility, for the French troops were ad van , cing fast to the city. The Prince who , would not even take a receipt for them, at i last urged Moses to take charge of the mo. , ney and jewels; and the French army was actually entering Frankfort at the moment Rothschild succeeded in burying the , Prince's treasure in a corner of his little arden. , His own property, which, in goods and > money, was worth about 40,000 thalars, ne did not hide, well knowing that if he did so, a strict search would be made, and that ! not only his own, but the Prince's hoard, : would be discovered and plundered. The I Republicans, who like the Philistines of old ' fell upon Rothschild, left him not one thaler's value of his own money or property. In truth he was, like all the other Jews und , citizens, reduced to utter poverty, but the I Prince's treasures were safe; and some. 1 time after the French army marched out f from Frankfort, Rothschild commenced in : a small way as banker, increasing his busi. : ncss cautiously, by means of the Prince's money, until the year 1802, when the ; latter returned to Frankfort, on his way to i Cassel. t He had heard and read in the gazettes . that the French had despoiled Rothschild of every thing ho possessed ; and conse quently he considered that his own must i have inevitably gone. He however called, : without any hope, on the honest Jew, and t when he asked Moses "if the robbers took i all ?" great was his joy when the latter rei plied, "Not onekreutzer; I have all the jewels, which I secured untouched, in a I strong chest, and the money I have also, I with 4 per cent besides for your Highness, from the day that you put your confidence ' in the Jew Moses Rothschild." He then f related the whole story. " As I was left . without a kreutzer of my own," continued i he, "and ha ! so much good money of your . Highness's idle and doing no profit, and as ; I I could get high interest for it from the merchants, I began to use it by little and | little. I have been successful; and it 13 only just you should have it all back with 5 per cent interest. " No," said the Prince, "I will neitaer receive the interest which your honesty offers, nor yet take my money out of your hands. The interest is not sufficient to replace what you lost to save mine; and, further, my money shall be at your service for 20 years to come, at no more than 2 per cent, interest." At the Congress of Vienna the Prince of Hesse Cassel held up the high character of Moses Rothschild so earnestly to the potentates and ministers there assembled, as to obtain from them promises of giving him power of negotiating loans to the family: and the loan of 200,000,000f., contracted by France to pay Allied Powers, was accordingly intrusted to the son at Paris, the present Baron Solomon Rothschild. Thus began their loans and negotiations on a large scale; added to which, their increasing connexions and resources having ena. bled them to have more expeditious intelligence than all other capitalists, they have i 4 pronted Dy tnoir contracts 10 an uuprcwdented extent. Mr. Rothschild, of London, for instance had information of Napoleon's escape from Elba 25 hours before the British Ministry. Their first loan of 200,000,000f. contract ted at Paris, was agreed for at 67 percent, and a short time after sold at 93, making a difference of 52,000,OOOf. on the whole amount, between the contract and the sale prices. The manners of the Rothschilds are hlunt and by no means polished, nor have they much that is persuasive in speech. I allude to Baron Rothschild at Paris, and Baron Andreas Rothschild, who resides inmuch more than German princely style at Frankfort. I find much said against the latter (Baron Andreas) in this town, but F would infer that jealousy alone causes the dislike; for innumerable are the good deeds that he and his wife do, and the assistance thnt hr. affords to his wretchedly used na 9 tion. Chinese Printing.?A mode of preparing moveable type, for printing the Chinese language, has lately been discovered in Paris, by a Mr. LegrancL, which is likely to have a very important bearing on the religious and civil relations of that mighty empire. The great obstacle to the use of moveable type has been the immense number of characters to be formed; (about 30,000,) and the vast expense of dies for moulds. By an ingenious classification of these if i_.? 1 j; characters, the numoer or tetters auu uu? is reduced to 9,000, making a saving of 21,. 000 punches, dies and moulds. The first volume of Confucius on Morals is now printing in this type, and will appear in about two months. Mr. Baird, who communicates these interresting facts to Mr. Lowrie, thinks there is nothing to prevent the establishment of a large printing office at Singapore, embracing a Chinese type foundry, so that Cninese books may be printed in move, able types, and to any extent that may bede. sired.?8. S. Journal Price of Bread Stufs.?We happen to know of an operation at Liverpool, by which 50,000 bushels of wheat are to be immediately forwarded to this country,and by the prices' which are published, there is little doubt that much larger supplies will be soon forthcoming; for the long continuance of high prices, the successful issue of recent importations, and the fact, well ascertained, that our domestic supplies are inadequate to our wants, will give new confidence in future opera tions. Let us sec at what prices we can be supplied. In Paris the price of bread is about 2 cents, and in London 3 cents a lb. We found a shilling loaf in New York yesterday to weigh 2 lbs. 3 oz., which is near 6 cents a lb. The price of wheat in Paris is 112 cents a bushel, and the price of flour five dollars a barrel. In London flour is eight dollars a barrel. In the ports of the Mediterranean i and of the Baltic, bread stuffs are much cheaper than in either London or Paris. The price of good wheat at Naples is 8s lOd sterling a bushel, or 67 cents. From any one of these places freight might be obtained at 33 cents per barrel on flour, and 12J cents per bushel on wheat, or about half the rate charged on transportation of the same articles from Rochester, and onefourth of what is charged from Ohio. Fifty thousand bushels of com have lately been nToived here from Ohio by one house, at a freight of 49 cents. The duty on flour is one dollar a barrel, and on wheat 25 cents a bushel. " Wheat, therefore, can be imported from Naples and laid down in New York at 125 to 135 cents a bushel, all charges paid, and from a hundred other places at the I same or a less price. Corn and rye are not burdened with a duty, and may be im* I ported to great advantage. The countries of Europe and Asia alford stores of bread stuffs almost inexhaustible, so that the supplies for this country, if they should run to the highest possible quantity, could only af. feet prices in a very slight degree. Free trade will supply all our wants, and the cost with a liberal mercantile profit, will not carry prices above 150 cents for wheat, 100 cents for rye and Indian corn, 50 cents for oats per bushel, and ?7,50 for flour per barrel. _Y. Y. Jour, of Com. From the recent report of the statistics of education in Great Britain, it appears that out of 55,799 schools only 2,464 have circulating libraries. In view of this fact tire Tract Society of London have offered one thousand libraries of their publications not exceeding five pounds each, (?22,20) to those unable to pay the full amount, and the vainest half price, to such day schools as are Sundav schools unconditionally.