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%*:??r-c'\7ic'xzK "?:}S3C . THE RiCii MAN'S DAVtUlTKRS. HV A LAD". !r is o'len s:ri?l that the limes are s'rangoly t :d ea\! : certain it is the people are. It wasutice thought honorable ,o labor, to be constantly engaged in some active and honorable avocation?but now a days it is .. ,.ght honorable to be idle. There is much complaint of the high price of every . necessary of human exist ince and \v:th j much tiu:h. But if the amount of idleness j could be calculated with mathematical ac curacy throughout our exieu led republic,j allowing the drones onlv half [nice for j services they might perforin, which otle rs ! are now paid for, it might not be an unsafe 1 calculation to put down the whole amouni j now paid lor prvisions and marketing it the : United States.?It ?s not-a little inconsistent j to hear parei t; wlnnc about fho Ike price of provisions, while they bring up then ! daughters to walk the streets, and expend! money. * r iut* inv.il unmin fillOS 1 ill t/U'J 'J! Ulll t,l*UV W1III1I -vim - . there resides a sentieman \voi\h lioin t:.vo to three millions of dollars, He had three daughters, and he required them alternately to go into the kitchen and superintend its domestic concerns. I lealth and happ.ness. he said, were thus promoted?besides, he 1 could not say, in the vicisitude of for tine ! that they might not, ore they should close . their earthly career, he compelled to reply upon iheir hands fur a livelihood & he would say that they never could become j wives and the proper head of a family ! until they knew with practical experience! all the economy of the household atiuns.? One of these daughters is no v the ladv of a % Oovernor of one of the States; all are at the ] head of very respectable fam.des?and they c irry out the principles implanted by tiieir v.' uliiy par-'at winmngand s-curing the esteem ofall around th m. L-1 the fair daughters of our country draw 1 :sso fo?n iise ii'us ratious matrons of ihc Tuo companions of the men who fought th" b u es of'h j Revolution were in. "trc i "o hardships accustomed to uneons. , toil and so d d ;;ey e-iucate their duughv *s. II ..it i, con eminent, happiness, and 1 .itv smiled around ;lio family alter. The cinuisei wlio understood must tiiorouglily and economically the management of domestic matters, and who was not al'rai I to put her hands into a wash tub. for f;. r ofdes roving t:u 1 * cksi iy and diming tiieir snowy w:is hv fht> vouno- mi?ri nf ? HUWII w^f ... ^ those days as a fit companion for life; but now a days :o learn the mysteries of the household, '.vo:ua make our ia:r ones faint away, and to labor comes not into the code of modern geutiluy! THE EPIDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES. Translated from the Gcrtnan of J. F. C. Hecker, M. D. The last named is a work of extreme interest, net only to the prof* ssional man, but to the general reader; acq i. i ei ig him with the history of some of the most smgu. hr and fatal maladies with which mankind was ever afflicted; d s 'as. s in comparison with tiie mor aii:y of which, the most fatal and wide spreading disorders of our own time, as terrible as some of them .seem, shrink into insignificance and uu mportance, Tue firs, ot these s range disorders here treated of, and which is to be concluded in ihe ilex number, is the Blad: Death of the Fourteenth, Centaury?an epidemic liiai pervaded Europ-, As:a and Ah ica, and spread dosohttion and death wherever it , m de its appearance. S me id .a may be formed of the virulence of this p* sdlence, i from the high rate of i!.c inoriali y that it induced?t Uv t Cam , from 10 to 15.0J0 died daily, being as munv a<, in modern mes, great plagues have carried otFdu Eg tue.r whole course. In China more than I At)-'),00 J perished; Iitdia was depopuiated j f ?. ry, M .-sopetonia, Syria, and Armenia ; ov re I wi h dea l bo i.es; in Cura j i . ... i! a sareu none were 1 .ft alive, J on .o .in the camps, in the carnvanj. s- al >? s wi re so n; in G :zn d y.-s and most of !!? animals, - . vi; y Cyprus was deprived of all j : i s . ib mls. in the countries of the I East China excluded twenty three milhons, | eight hundred unci fortv thousand individu- j . f i::i, f*II Me ans ;o :t. It sw< p; over the j wuler as well as the land, ferreting out the j doomed, on the bosom of every ocean, sea, and river; so that ships, destitute oi crews, I were drifting about at the sport of the elements. spreading the seeds of dis rase whithersoever they chanced to drive ashore. Equally malignant wasr in Europe; GO.! 000 tyingm Florence;50,00J in P..i s 100 000 in Venice; die same*number in Lon.! don; 124,434 Franciscan Fr.ars in Gormu- : nv, &c. &c- More t mn two hundredj >msui)?I s.nJl towns ?ti 1 ullages lust,! .. ... u 'it*. ?4? i.n.iv j) ir.s??: F.a.jce j not inotC than two on' of twenty escaped. 1 In one Parisan Hospital alone the duilv 1 mortality amounted to 500. In one burial ! grounds in London, 50,000 corpses, were j arranged in layers and buried m large pits,' In Avignon, the pope found it necessary to j consecrate the Rhone, that bodies wight be j thrown into -it without delay, as the church j yards could riot contain them. Even in Germany, which was a fevored i land, or.e million two hundred foiy lour thousand four hundred and thirty.four died i Italy lost half its iuiiabi an s some portions i o*"it still more; for example Padua' Corsica ! UUU UUlUiU I if y (UUM^ J * V. iJ'Vw V nit vv 4,/4 k.,v J and the surviving fourth fled from ti:?? ,citv I having it forlorn and desolate. At Fit trance ' a prohibition was issued against publishing \ deaths, and tolling the boils a: funm-als, that i tiio living might not abandon the nsclves 1 to dts1 a r, Even the froz *n regions of lee.; End and Greenland d.J not escape the i scourge. It was a this pe.i>d that Den. j mark and Norway were obfged to suspend i tneir Northern voyages, and towering icc. | bergs so accumuLtid on the Greenland j Coast, as to nr. vent all subsequent comma- j nication with ti;e colony there ioca cJ: and ' no moruii n that time forward has ever seen ijs inhabitants." Europe lost during j Me pravalence of this epidemic 4 we try-five ' f?"f.-s rf ' * ar-s^rrcs! v.umax-jrzKsevrsm Merchr.n's whose earnings ami posses, sions were unbounded, coldly ami willingly renounced their earthly goods. They carried their Treausuivs 10 monasteries and churches, and laid them at the foot of the ai:ur; but gold had no charms for the monks for it borrght them death. They shut their gates : yet still it was cast to them over the convent walls.?IVonio would brook no i impellent to the last pious work which they were driven by despair. When the plague ceased, men thought they were still wan. during among the dead, so appalling was the liv.d aspect of the sivivors, in consequence of the aniety they had undergone, and the unavoidable infection of the air.? Many des*roved themselves as ii'in a frenzy; funeral ceremonies were neglected; mortals every where deteriorated and the service of (*.>dw:i*. in a fireat measure - - -7 laid aside; t;?o cburchos were deserted ; the {> o ?ie remained uuiiistiucted; parents neglectcJ tii. ir children, and children abandonedtheir parents; the crops were blasted; the beasts of the fields, the birds of the air the inhabitants of the briny deep, perished by thousands and tens of thousands. I'arliainents and the Conns of Jusitce were closed; every thing stoov! still, save thfl working of man's evil passions; but these stii! warred violently, as may be 1 . anted by reading tiie bloody quarrel that raged be itrfwin lv.lu"nvt HI V V * II II'l'lttlM 111) Wtlv* X * The natural plicnomir.a that prevailed iust previous to the out breaking of this pestilence, and the moral eiFec s Mat were witnessed immediately subsequent thereto ; were of a strange order; but we cannot now, dwell upon diem. In the whole range I of history, we know not of a period tha opens so wide and glorious a field for tin writer of romance, as the one of whicl we have been speaking; abounding as i docs with die grand. Mo terrible and th< I sublime. ; f fg/i correspondence of the SKETCH CS OF PARIS. Tim PARISIAN LATING HOUSES. i If there be some delicious eating in Pa r;s, there :s a vast deal winch is not. ro every fi e persons who dine richly, liter are fify who dine well, one hundred am fifty who dine poorly, and five hundred who dine wretchedly. Vidocq, and he i pretty 500] authority, says that eighty thou I sand Parisians arise each morning, withou j knowing, not merely where, but how the; j are to eat before night. In my wander j ings about the metropolis, I have of.ei i seen the wretched diners. I do not pas ! them by without observation. Believing | as 1 do, that all revolutions in Europ . should be for ameliorating the conditio! 1 not onlv of the middle, but also of the low i or, classes, I wish to know what, for thes< j latter, the revolutions in France have done 'it -i 1 ] . tlUVC IUCY uuuoixru ui<;u iiuuuuuuus, uiui | raiment, their food * Doub l? ss in thcs? j three phy>i -al spheres, to say nothing o the iii-e!lec*tu:i! ami moral, they have aehicv od mucli. In the matter of food, however I much remains to he done. Death bv star i vation often tukes j! ice in this metropolis ' and sinTering from miserable diet, take: ' place oftener. Tiie lowest forms of Parisian eating ma* ! he found in cerium streets of the Fau | bourghs. and in t'10 market places. Visi ; the Mi'.rchc des Innoeeiis at any hour o I the day. You will see around its fountair ; some score of oM women, couched, in th( j open air, by the side of the:r, little tin cook I ing apparatus. Around each arc a dozer ! men, and children, some standing, som< ! sitting, and ail devouring the bowls o steaming, particolored soup, which liavc just, for eight iiards or two sous each, bei i adlcd forth. Tne disli.'s smell of garlic and judging from signs in faces, cannot b: over rclishaUe. Tne multifarious igredients that surround tire compounders of this broth : 44 The eyes of newt, and toes of lrog, The lizard's legs and owlet's wings " remind you of that of that "gruel thick an<i slab." manufactured by the witches tti Macbeth. This is hut the type in many other scenes, and thus baukuet thousands of the Parisians. Walk in'o the large meat market. At one corner are half a dozen stalls. In each sits a mutton complexioned woman.? A found her are twenty wiiitc platters, heap, od up wiih second hand, and third, and even fourth hand remnants. They are remnants lrotn the great Restaurants.? And now here conies a ragged man, bearing upon his shoulders, a dirty bag.? Bargaining lor its contents with the woman of a stall, he outpoors a bushel of half moated bones, and half mounched crusts of bread. The heap looks repulsive enough, and vou pronounce it unnourishable and unpalatable. Your dog merely smells at it, as he passes by. And yet on such forbidden food, are nourished thousands of the Parisians. Here are some sad facts, about ...I \ 1 .t.? which your guunu oiiu ui mc ivochct, putting ofluxurv iii Parisian banquets, never dreams. There arc wide contrasts in Pa. l is, and none more wide than those in eating. The scenes just visi'ed have some mournful interest. Amidst them comrncnced that cry lor bread in tiie former revoiirion, that cry which was not silenced till tire Royal Family were dragged, by a starving mukitu le, from the palace a; Versailles to their prison in the Tuileries. The next highest form of Parisian eating may be found at the Magazim dc Via. Of these establishments, there are seven thousand in the capital. Tncy are the nearest approach, I have here seen to the grog-shops ot toe Laited Stales, and the gin palaces of England. They may bo seen in every quarter of Paris, and chiefly in Faubourg St. Autoinc. Look into one of them, if you would know, among other things, how a Frenchman behaves when in liis cu. 9 At the entrance may generally be iuhalt d the flavors of marrow roasting. Within is a female, well-dressed, and seated behind a counter, whereon stand queerly fashioned bottles, glasses and flasks. She sells bread at the price fixed, for every fifteen days, by the authorities, wine at G art jo:.--; n Will-, :i?"! hec-r I cider s*.. y * ww..jt . ^,\a .4^ ?vr^ < -z at lour. Tiiis beverage, and bread with | occasional cheese, are conveyed infc a ; small back apartment, containing several : cloth covered tables, to be enjoyed. The ; conversation, and manners of those apart- j m;;nts, vou will lind abundantly in someno veis of Paul de Koek. Good bread, | good cheese, and wine at six sous the liot- ! tic. make tjo unimportant portion of the j subsistence of multitudes of Parisian ope- j ratives. It is just one step above t!ie diet { of the classes just mentioned, and just one ; step below that of Restaurants, whose uiti-1 ners co>t sixteen sous. A Restaurant, of sixteen sous !!?nay of fifteen, if you j at once purchase fifteen tickets, and of fourteen, if you forswear wine. The Rocher de Cancale is the highest Restaurant in Paris. The An ion pot age, in the rue Jannison, is the lowest. They are at the extremities of the Restaurant banqueting l/a i 1i/mv\ ^ /x ?. /li,ryat1 dUflJC* UUINVULII llll'iU MJIIIC UW?,uu varieties. Among theJixed~\rriccd Restaurants are those of eighteen, twenty, twenty-three, twenty-eight, thirty.two. and finally of forty sous. Passing beyond the forty sous dinners, you sail out thro' a widening channel, into a broad ocean ol charges, whose counter winds and across currents so engulph and collapse the purse that yen almost wish your appetite anchored back amidst the tranquility offixedprii! ">s*\oitr Restaurant of sixteen sons, though ' entertaining its customers with rather questionable soups, yet serves itself with pret' ty pompous titles. For instance, it in ' scribes over its door, An Bon Potage, or ^ A La Renommcc dc Bids dc Moulon.? Sometimes it calls itself, Lc Petit T cry, sometimes the Restaurants nc PUnivers. j < ' ^ and then agatn Lc Petit Rocher. An establishment having lately assumed this 3 o * latter designation, was therefor prosecuted by the proprietor of the veritable Rocher dc Caocale. He deemed the assumption unwarrantable, and calculated to jeopardise, and depreciate tbe reputation of bis famed resort. The c >mp!aint was, by r a criminal tribunal, pronounced well ba3 scd, and .the title of Lc Petit Rocher, join' ed the has he ens, i . ? 1 The sixteen sous Kcstauant generally s announces a saloon "superb et tnaguifique," with one hundred or more covers. Its napkins are always wonderfully clean, and its y plates of rarest workmanship. The ser vice is most quick dtvpatch; and its adi verasemcnt wiuningly says, "on-y-lit le s journal." For sixteen sous, it will give you tins dinner; to wit:?a soup, two dishes e of incut very strong, (tres forts) and gamn ished with vegetables selected from thecaste by yourself: a carafou, or little decanter ot c gooJ Macon, bread always a discretion, a very tine (tres beau) dessert, corresponding r to the scaaon, or a petit ccrrc of brandy.? i The generous feature about their b.li of C arc is evidently the pain a discretion. At every other Restaurant, you must pay f> '? sous for each advli.ional roil Hence d) you see the habitue of the sixteen sous es ? tablishrnent nibbing away at roil after roll s until he has managed to secure an extraordinary quantity of nourishment for his mo ' ney. In i s public is comprehended a very t 1 I ! _ I.I targe ctass, inrougn not a weuuuy oar?.? t Many students at law and medicine; frequent I i, roading professional treaties in the inter vals between the dishes. And yet while J there you sometimes seethe uarkly.mous. - tachoud individual, whom in ti e afternoon i you had admired for most exquisite bearing ' among the promenaders in the gardens of f the Tuilerios. It is an equally significant > proof of breeding ;o find fault at the sivteen i sous Restaurant, as at the Grand vatel, a:id t consequently even there may you often ' hear drawled forth ar.stocra'ical reproach es of "{fuel diner, garcon, quel execrable ? uinerl'' I hardly think it worth uhi'e to tarry much, here 01 there, as we journey onwards, uj) and through tiiu thirty two sous,, and I Restaurants, until we arrive at those of forty, i They unquestionably ddler from each oth' er. There is a difference, for instance, be. ; tween tho Restaurant of twen y and flat of twenty-two sous. Rut the distinction is dedicate, and seldom appreciable save by die garcon, and the practised habitue. They ouch have their single soup, then* two dishes moat, their carafon of wine, their bread a dcscretion, and their desert. They each, moreover, have their peculiar clicntelle, or public. It is not until you get up to the thirty-two sous Resturant, that the prospect begins to widen, and yon find yourself entitled to three dishes of mcr, and a half Lottie of Macon, or ChuLUs. Gaucher keeps a very good Restnuran of this description behind the Palais Royal, lie gives you one dinner for thirty-two sous, or fifteen dinners for twenty two and a half francs- I he dishes at Gauchcr's are thoroughly cooked; the lady at the counter has big white hands, and thj gnreons move about with the rapidity of lightening. If! you know how to order you may there get along very well. Gancher's urgentirre,j however, is altogether too second hand.? j 'The forks have iheir prongs half eaten up j by use. The spoons are extremely worn, j and die knives look lean and dangerous.? j The company at Gauchcr's comes under j the head of shabbily genteel. I have be-' fore me a caricature of this establishment. | lm ro met rlicr?A**in?/./1 ??. ib/.I.. 1 llliliJ' 1-1 Uv.? V, JV4.TV UlOVUH.au 111 tlll'U j bowl of soup, a small shoe. Calling the j garcon, they reproach him, i.ot for the presence of the snoc, but for the absence of the soup which that shoo displaced. Gauche r's is patronized chiefly by those gentlemen, who are little? anxious about the distinction between a era and a rabit. Leaving Guucher's we commence at ( once to the Restaurans of forty sous. There j are half a dozon in the Palais Royal. On the western side, Fohet's is :o be spoken j of, and on the eastern, Yen's and Rich-j ard's. At FolleiYyo'i may meet rcspec-! table looking refuges; Italian, Spanish] and Polish. At Richard's presides a dame du cQinptoir, more magnificent than any ! I have yet seen in similar establishments., These Festauranis, however, lack in c-^-1 gethcr too near the saloon, so ttint its1 tunics reek tiiro*if>n your atmosphere. At j Richards and \ ons. ti:e lloors tail in cleanliness, and t!ie garrons move over them in heavy shoes, instead of noiseless pumps. At all oflheni, moreover, the conversation j is quite too loud;?likewise, there is much blowing cf noses;?also, they da ; spit. 1 know oi no two francs Restaurant i containing less exceptionable features than ; the Colbert, in the Gallery Colbert. The j ceiling is loftv, the ventilation good, and . \ magnificent mirrors surround the rooms, i i There are forty tables for about one bun ; dree and fifty covers. The company , ; around you is promiscuous of ladies and ; ' gentlemen speaking all European lungua1 r'ps. That comoanv is rather crenteel.? f r? * ? <5 : The conversation is through subdued ; ! tones. Tito ladies break bread in nice blu kids, and powdered-haired gentlemen ! ! tap their golden snutl' boxes at the end of j the lust course. The garcons, though too I often serving in lidgelty haste, every now ! ! and then exhibit some of that character- { . istic tranquility which adorn the best gar- i j cons of Vefours and Gignons. At the : Colbert, you are perfectly at your ease j and may dine democratically tcilh iiour; \ hat on. ' ' ! i EXTRACT FROM GOVERNOR DUNCAN'S MES| I | AGE, TO THE LEGISLATURE OF IILINOIS. " In my message at the opening of the | II ist session, it was my happiness to con i'gratulule you on the prosperity then so j j eminently enjoyed by every portion of our i j beloved country ; and from mv inmost i . jr i i .u : i Mean, uiu i rejuiuu iu sue me muusuiouf , i citizen every where reap the rich rewards ! J of his labor. And although, even then, 1 i was not without strong apprehensions of an | oarly reverse, I am confident no human j r forecast could have anticipated so sudden | a calamity as has been brought upon the , country by the action of the Federal (Jo- j > vcrmcnt upon its currency. At the time j 1 the President of the United States assumed ; til j responsibility of ordering the public mo- j ney to be removed from their legal deposite , | m the Bank of the United States, for the j purpose, as he avowed, of preventing the [ re-char:cr of that institution by Congress, j ! there never was a sounder currency or a i ! more liealthv state of things in anv Govern-1 j ment in the world. To tfleet this great j , object, namely, that of destroying the lrni. i j ted States Bank, rival institutions were to j ! be created : and it will be remembered that j immediately after the removal of the de- j j poshes, the Government par y commenced i ! establishing State Banks, whilst State Le- , 1 gislaturcs, deluded by the fallacious pro- j ; mise of advantages 10 be derived from the j i deposites to be made in these institutions,: I which were to be fiscal agents of Govern j ment, readily fell into the measure. As j J might have been expected, hundreds of new i i banks instantly sprung up, their enormous ; issues of irredeemable paper afforded the in-; j ducemcn! of universal extravagant specu{lation, and gave us what all must now r- ; j gard as a depraved and worthless curren- j jcy. j "Before the public were aware of the j j ruin which this wild scheme portended, the , J Executive, and a portion of its party, see- | I ing their error, it would seem, endeavored . Jo escape its consequences bv amusing the i people with the absurd and impracticable j ' project of an exclusive hard money currcn- j i cv. I say absurd, for us well m'ght the | j the Executive of the United States expect j 1 to compel the citizens of the Great Valley j j to abandon the use of the steamboats and j | resume the flat bo'tom and barge in the , ' navigation of its thousand streams and riv- j | ers, as to force thetn to give up a sound : j paper currency, at ali times convertible i , in:o specie, with all its adaptetlness to the J purposes of the commerce and business of J | the country. Before such a scheme can j j be prosecuted to the results they promised, j j the intelligence, commerce, liberties, and j boundaries of all these United States must j ' be obliterated, and the people yield to the j j stubborn will and rule of a despot. These ! ! Experiments, as they have been styled by i their authors, may, and 1 believe, have had j their political eflirt; but they have also 1 J had their efUct upon the country acknowl- j : edged to be full of resources, distinguished j for its intelligence, is enterprise, and won | dcrful prosperity, in reducing it to an almost j ; universal bankruptcy ; in prostrating alike j j its business, its energies, and conMdence. ' J MIL U EBSTER AT PEORIA I The Peoria (Illinois) R-gistcr of the 01th ul- j ' imo, furnishes the outline of Mr. IV'ebstef.s ; ! speech in that place on the 01st. Nearly the | ' whole town and neitrhborhood had assemble 1 at 1 I ? ~ o ! the Court Hons'.*, cirJ Mr. W. spoke moro than ' | na hour. i I was oppose:! to all the measures of i the lute administration, having reference , to the regulaion of tin currency, from the j i word 'go.' Tfie la to President of the U. !, States, a man of high purpose, of strong : | character, and a gallant and successful j soldier, whose honest intentions I have never questioned, said in 183*2, he could submit a plan by which the monied con. corns of the government would be much j1 better conducted and carried on. From j ( that time the 'experiment' has beonlin pro- i' gross, and what does it prove? Why, that groat a soldier as he was, he was mistaken in his powers as a financier, and that the j country is now in a coudtiion far worse than s\fthgt HonL- (iftlio 1 HlOlwuu ui i??o L/uua vi tuv v j Suites, he has given us innumerable state j banks,as depositories of the public treas-., ure, who act in no concert save the agree- !, ment stimultaneously to become banckrupt. [A laugh.] Wiieiher they will be as un- ' animous to resume specie payments remains } i to be seen. The government is the great receiver;. and disburser of the money of ilu: country, J and it gives character to ti e currency. Its \ effect on the currency is similar to the j' flowing of your rivers. Your Illinois and \ Upper Mississippi flow on, till the mighty \ s Missouri wi:!i i*s volume of water pours in ! j and gives to all i's owujcharacter and force, i absorbing in its course the Wabash, the < Ohio, and ihc others that em- 'v into it, while ; i? ' i* v y v, -jv V" '* Thus there must be a coi.tr./fling power to | \ give force ami ctTicacv to the various | ci stale banking institutions in our govern- i c niont. Such an one was the Hank of the j e United S;atu>, ami i! the government re. ; t jects it. it must find out a better wav. On c this subject a little experience is worth more ' n than a financial argument. ! i For foriv years while we had a national ! a hank, we had the best currency on earth. ' f Does any man hero want a better one? For j s forty years, I repeat, out of forty eight, since ( the organization of our government. What j t have these S years been? Here is one of j v them, Anno Domini 1837. (A laugh) 1812, j r '13 and '1-1, were three more of thein. * sic * * I hold in utter contempt the understand, j \ ingofmenwho apprehended danger hom ; a national bank guardod by proper res'ric- j (ions upon its charter. Wn t did they 11 do who opposed i s recharter, when they i i succeeded in destroying the last? They i went homo and crea'ed now banks to the i the amount of ten times its capita!. * * . Gondemen you know nothing here of; hard times, you cannot know them. Go j to the commercial cities, where men with a handful of notes from your very best j i merchants and landholders of the west, go 1 | o the brokers and oiler them as security at j j 25 per cut disconnt, for the loan of sums j ( to meet bank engagements, and falling to j i get them cashed, are the next hour bank- j j rupts. Go to the manufacturing villages j < of New England, where you came from, I < and you will sec mechanics and manufac- ; < turers, who have sent out to the south and j < south-west theirgoods receiving back again | i the notes they sent out for collection, and ! j upon the payment of which they depended j.? for bread. Execution, levy, kuin. j t We have at the east a driving, desolate I wind, that sweeps over our Atlantic states, ( called the cast wind, that oftimes extends t itself to the base of the Alleghanies. But c seldom passes that barrier. Yet you may t not escape its banctul influence here. I j ( know not what measure of relief the Exccu- j t tive may have to propose, but I am prcpnr- : t ed in my own person t > sutler all the evils 1 t /-.P n 11 orv<t ."I'lir"!* t'lin (A ir!i'? ' / Ul U u^?i Uli^'wU V. Itli V^IIW J Uivlil IV W* v v/ I \ my a:J to the establishment of a treasury ! i bank, winch shall give to the government i unwarranted power. Yes, better will it be for me and for you to endure ten times as < much, and to endure it forever; yes. rather -! perish credit, perish commerce, than to i confer on the executive unconstitutional | power, dangerous to our liberties. (Cheers) 1 Gentlemen, I know not how long this is to last. But it cannot he got over speedily. Yet I do no: despair of the country. < It is young, strong and rich, and can bear ! any thing save too much prosperiv. LAFAYETTE. Wc quote th<- following paragraph fr< in I a work which has just made its appearance in Paris, the Memoirs of Gen. La Fay- \ ette, published by his family. They ap- j pear as part of an introduction by tire j venerable patriot, and give bis reasons for not giving to the world, during his life, a j detailed account of the political events in which lie played so conspicuous and important a part:?A. \. Slur. " When, in mv youth, I devoted myself | to th; cause of freedom, and I saw no < bounds to the career which lay open to me, i (thought it sufficient for my destiny and j my glory to march unceasingly onward, j and leave to others the care of collecting ! the rcminiscensos and the fruits of my lab >r. j " It wa;oa!y after fifteen years of con- i slant good fortune that whilst contending : in full ctnlidence of success against the coalition of kings and the arisiocraey of Europe, I was overthrown by the excesses of French Jacobinism. My person was i then given up to the violence of my natural < enemies, and my reputation to tin calum- I nics of pretended patriots ; who had viola- i ted their oaths, and proved false to the most i solemn engagements. i " It is well known that the restraints to I < which I was subjected during live years of t imprisonment, were not favorable to litera- j ry efforts; and when, af.er my liberation, t I was advised to write my defence, I was t detcrcd from the task by disgust at the me- \ moirs and notices with which so many ! persons have abused the ears of the pub- j t lie. Besides, events had spoken for us:'c the accusers and their accusations had,'t in many instances, perished together. * i: " Immediately on my return to France,; i my friends called for my memoirs. I found s sufficient excise for refusing them in my v repugnance to deal with Jacobin leaders, j, who became sharers in my proscription; ! with the Giroudists, who had died in de- I fending those principles which they have j combatted and persecu ed in me; with the King and Queen, whose deplorable fate j c permitted me no other feeling than satisfac-1<J tion on account of some services I had s been able to render them; ar.d wi.h roy- j s' alists, conquered, dispirited, and now com- i v polled to submit to harsh and arbitrary J w measures. I might add that, happy in the j ^ retreat of my family, and in the midst of Q' rural pleasures, I have not a moment to j11 spare from these domestic enjoyments. | c " But as I am still urged, even here, by j " the same entreaties, I have, in order to * satisfy my friends, consented to arrange j P the papers which remain, to collect docu- j merits already published, and to append ( u :iotes to the collection, wliic'.i may furnish j o my children and others some ma'crials j " 'or a more important auJ systematic la- j s: jor. ! 11 ki As for me, I confess that my iudilfer- j c ?iice on this subject springs from the con- j a idence I fe d that liberty will finally estab- i ish itself in the old world as in the new ; md that then the history of our re volutions ' ivill do impartial' justice, and show every j fl ^artv, in its true light." 0 j e Mr. Clav.?We read with pleasure and ; ii satisfaction, the numerous express o:ts of v. public sentiment throughout the country,; o n relation to that statesman, Hexuy Cl w. \\ L)n the 4th of July, every where, and cs-' n a.'cia'iiy m Virginia, the toasts s'u u ;v;id ? art of tiic people towards a man who has lone more for this tuition than any one of tur day. It is already certain, lhat whatever may he Mr. Clay's fortune, as far as he honors or distinction of public life are :oncenied, he wiii he acknowledged on ill hands as a national benefactor, and live it itis ory long after many of tiiose who ire now popular favorites, shall have been brgottcn. Especiaiiy we are rejoiced to .eu the people of Virginia, at last, genertusly yielding the tribute of their adtniraiott and gratitnde to a son of their own oil, whoso fame lets already honored the tlacct of his btrth. We knew they could tot be dead and insensible always to the tnpulscsof patriotism, thai justice would, villi them, once more resume her seat; ttid wo have not been disappointed. The act is no less honorable to them titan it liust bo gratifying to Mr. Clay himself, vito has always looked confidently to the dtimatc judgement of his countrv for ? j ? ,, - - J ^ triumphant vind.cation of his public chartctcr and conduct.?Alex, Gaz. CARRYING WEAPONS Late occurrences in our village, justifv, is in making some remarks upon this barParous practice of carrying arms in com)any. Wo fear that an increased inter;ourse with the Mississippi country has had in effect to vitiate public taste and lower the standard of morality in this particular. Wo ;an remember very well when any one who tame into a peaceful company with a dirk pr pistol peeping out of his bosom was regarded with kind of horror: now nothing is note common. We know of several respectable and well bred young m?n, who \ scarcely ever had a quarrel, and who from he known placidity of their temper, will iardly ever have an enemy, who, neverli/v'i cp in 7?iini/i//? i.vnirtOrx.* .-C ? *' 1? UW v oo, tu Iiurni/IG HUUdtJUU U1 ouicrs niUKC hose deadly iusirumcnts a \art oft eir or. linary costume. 8won! Canes, and even j he hateful Bowie Knife, arc oft'-n of late jstentatiously displayed in public. At a ime of great public excitement, this pracice might be in some degree excused, hough never to be justified: But in a time )f quiet like the present, it is chilling to morality and abhorrent to our social na.urcs, for such a practice to preval. Tnere are particular occasions, for instance, where a man liaJ good right to boicvo that lie was about to be dangerously * * assailed when it would be his duty to make preparation for preserving his life: we do L le i ot find f .ult with this, but it is useU s and vulgar practice of going armed in company, we object to. There is no o her way nf m.antinif tK ?r, U.. ? i-1 ? ? ? mvwiiijQ nil o U1.C mill in puOiiC Op n III." It .should therefore, be reprobated by the orderly i is4x s -d citizens of the community, in such ens as may leave nothing to be genedat. Abominable as doing is t has no: such gross and disgusting features as the mode of taking human 1 if.-0:1 frivo'ous pretexts, to which the practice of carrying arms generally leads. We call upon the ladies, in particular, who are forcibly called the reliners of society, to set there faces against a custom so odious.? Sails 'jury JVa t :hma n. A Sixth Continent.?An extraordinary phenomenon, presented in the Southern ocear, may rendi r our settlements in New Si nil Wales of still more eminent importance. A sixth Continent is in tlie very act of growth before our eyes! The Pacific is spotted with islands, through the immense spice of nearly fifty degrees of longitude, and t:s many of latitude. Every one of these islands seems to be merely _ 1 ? * c. 1 1 1-_ u uciiuai spji IUI IUUIIUUUU en ^urm uuuivs, which by a perpetual progress, arc rising from the unfathomable depths of the sea.? The union of a few of these masses of rock shapes itself into an island; the seeds of plants areearicJ to it 6y the birds, or bv the waves; and from the moment that t overtops the waters, it is covered with regitatiou. The new island consumes in ts turn a centre of growth to another circle. Tnc great powers of Nature appear ,o be still in peculiar activity in tin's region md to li'.r tardier process site sometimes akes the assistance of the volcano and ho earthquake. From the South of New Zealand to the north ol the Sandwich Is. ands the waters absolutely teem with hose future seats civilization. Still, the torul insect, tiie diminu.ivc builder of ah hese iri'ghty piles, is at work; the ocean s intesco ed with myriads of those lines ?f foundation ; and when the rocky subitructure shall have excludod.he sra, then viii come the dominion of man.?Liverpool taper, FOREIGN MISCELLANY. Transmission cf Sound.?The Lcrds of e Treasury -at present have under co.osidration n plan for coeveying messages from no Co ennontofticc to another, as simple peed: as it promises to be satisfactory, and ecret if necessary. The plan is the incntioti of Mr. Curtis, the King's surist, ;ho improving upon the experience ofM. I ot, a: Paris, on the transmission of seuiul irough bodies and through air in long ubes, lias shown the easy praticability of onveying inteligence from the Houses of t/~v tliA l-T/-v.. ^ - 1 * "iimiiiuui iu nig nurse vjuarus, 5t. James 'alace, W hitchall, and to or from any other la.ccot giveJ instance. Idiot conversed ^ irough trubes of M. Curtis, description 'ilh a friend at the distance of 1039 yards te time occupied in the transmission ofrhc rst word was 5 seconds and a half. The mie eminent philosopher wished to de.'criinc the point at which the human voice eases to be avoidable, but could not accomplish it. [London paper. In an editorial paper, published some ears ngo in the Mercury, and afterwards ansll-rrcd to the Melange, on the subject f "rapid intelligence, almost instan'anously communicated by means of speakf tube s,'; we resisted severa experiments .hicii had been made by ourselves and furs wit!) speaking tubes. Our object :is to show the practicability of conveying ussatrcs from one extremity of the tunne'; f 1.1U" rail vav to the other by means ck . * that C2S?