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appointment; for he has his hands full "now, and wiQ not be disposed to peculate' any < more.** Washington's regard for the popular will. The following is an extract of a letter from Gen. Washington, under date of Sept 25,1795, to be found in Spark's Biography p. 74. ! "With respect to Mr. D??for the office of Attorney General, although I have a ( verv good opinion of his abilities, and know nothing in his moral character or connexions that is objectionable, yet the reason I assigned when bis name was first mentioned to me has still weight on my mind, that is, after a long and severely contested election, he could not obtain a majority of suffrages in the district be formerly represented. In this instance, then, the sense of his constituents respecting him personally has been fairly taken." From a Correspondent of the National Intelligencer. N. York, Sep. 4. The principles involved in the seizure by the Africans, and capture of the schr. Araistead, are likely to lead to a great deal of discussion. They will be defended, I foresee, to the last, for some of the ablest counsel in New York and New England are already engaged. Their trial, it is now believed will come off in New York, inasmuch as the capture was made io Suffolk county, in the Southern District of TKo nouwnanorn are already ad Men a via* ?HV i. ?|?r~. # vancing questions in one form and another, , and the probability is, that we will have about f, as exciting a topic as has lately inflamed this | community. I The stock market to-day was in a peculiar , state. Good stocks went down, and fancies went up. U. S. Bank is 1041-2 to 105, a fall of one per cent. Nothing will begin to be set. tied till we bear from England. Never was there such intense anxiety in the money market for European news. Strangers are thronging here. Merchants from all parts are among us. Our hotels are foil, and overfull. 1 here it no end of the building of new hotels m New York, and there | is no end of the filling up of the old ones. There is business, but there are great sacrifices in doing it. There is money, but 18 and 1 24 per cent, is a horrible interest upon it. If the people in the West, Southwest, and Northwest cannot see this year the frightful tax they pay for disordered exchanges in charges which must bo one third larger than New York prices, they will demonstrate the curious problem of the enormity of tne tax a Government may inflict upon a People without their being directjy aware of it. From the Pittsburg Daily Advocate. the united states and great britain. Our present state of dependence upon Great Britain is strikingly exhibited in the simple fact that the success of a negotiation by the Bank of England for a loan of about 2?0Q,000/. with the Bank of France is treated as a matter of deep interest to this country. The truth is, the Bank of England is to all intents and purposes the Bank of the United States. It exercises an influence over the af. fairs of this country quite as controlling as ever d d our National Bank, but by do means 80 salutary. 11 raises and depresses our stocks and securities at pleasure; it regulates the price of our great staples, cotton and flour; : and it? power reaches even to our currency, ' making it easy or "tight" as may suit its caprice, or more properly speaking, the interests 1 of Great Britain. from the cberokees ] . Extract from a letter dated Fort Gibson, July 24,1839. 1 "There is a prospect at length of a settle- } spent of the difficulties among the Cherokees. Both counsels are in session, mat is, me oju ? emigrants combined with the Ridge party,) : and the new, headed by John Ross. Their in- < ten bona appear more pacific at present, on both > sides. Should matters however, come to the j worst, I have no doubt myself the old set 1 would more than maintain their ground against 1 the Ross party, notwithstanding the apparent difference in their numerical forces/' < SOLIDIFICATION OF AIR. J The announcement that the elastic invisi- c hfe gas, to which soda water, champagne, &c., t owe their grateful and lively propensities could t be brought to a visible, solid state under enor- , mous pressure, was not long since made in . France, and was actual y accomplished at a t meeting-of the Academy of Sciences. This j exceedingly carious and interesting, but b&z- . ardous, experiment was repeated at a meeting of the British Association for the advancement of Science, and the solid gas was handed about j to members?masses of it were divided and t broken, and tasted and felt. ( Professor Webster has recently repeated j the experiments in the Larboratory of Cam- ( bridge, and succeeded in obtaining large lumps , of the solidified gas, by means of an iron cylin- ( der, capable of sustaining the immense pressure required. j RESIGNATION. * The Newark Daily Advertiser remarks as * follows on an absurdity which ought forever to * be banished from an intelligent community. 1 We regret to see by a letter from Mr. Sena- ' tor Foster, of Tennessee, that he proposes to 1 resign his place in the U. S. Senate under the c idea that the result of the recent election c is a censure of bis political sentiments, '* and a declaration of tho popular wish that 11 be should retire. This doctrine of in- < traction, which, in the face of Old Virginia, we cannot but hold to be absurd, * virtually supersedes the constitution, and re- 1 duces every department of the government to < the tenure of an annual election. Jt would, in fact, resolve our Federal Republic into a J mere Democracy, in every thing but the name. ? To use a phrase of Mr. Burke, when discus^ 1 ? sing the same point, it would reduce the * national representation into a confused and * scuffling bustle of local agencv. 1 : j UNITED STATES AND TEXAS. t The Hon. John Forsyth, on the part of the t U. S. government, and Gen. Memucan Hunt t on the part of the Texian government, have j been appointed commissionesrs to run and mark the boundary line between tne two coun- < tries, as established by the treatv of 1828 be- j tween the United States and Mexico. The f rat ifications of the convention to this effect < have been exchanged, and the Commissioners j mist enter upon the r duties on or before the t 12th of October next. CHINCH BUG. A Farmer in this neighborhood has destroy, ed the bug in his Corn, almost entirely, by pouring boiling water about the roots and i lower part of the stalks. The moment the < stalk is shaken, the bugs descend towards the ground, when the water is turned in uponthem < and they are destroyed. j Raleigh Register. i From the N. O. Loubianan. I THE WESTERN COTTON CROP. Mississippi.?The following letter is from an old and esteemed correspondent, whose good faith may be implicitly relied on. It is writ- 1 , ? . ten from the neighborhood of Jackson, and is dated Aug. 22: i Dear sir?Since I last wrote yon I have i travelled through the most productive cotton t regions of the state, and as I predicted then* J the cotton must turn out a failure. I The cut worm, together with the existing < drought (which commenced about the first of: i this month) have certainly proved more de-' I Btructive to the prospects of the planter, than I similar cause have ever done heretofore, in the same length of time. The prospect for a heavy crop was at one time better throughout 1 the state than I have ever known it. Now it < is not more so than it was at the same period 1 last year, if as much so; and the causes which have blighted this smiling promise are unfortu* nate'y still in active operation.and bid fair to ef* feet the total destruction of all the young bowls and forms, which, under favorable circumstan- 1 ces, would mature before frost. In Hinds, ' Madison, Yazoo, and Holmes, (four of the 1 largest cotton growing counties in the state) 1 the crop must be already cut off one half.? ' The first named of those counties are probably laboring under heavier pecuniary embarrass- ' ments than any other in the state, and were 1 looking forward with pride and pleasure to 1 the relief which would be afforded them by an < ,knH<l,nf ?*nn Rnf alafl I in thrpp nhnrt wppks < avuuuaiH ?#* ? v bow changed the scene! 1 a faithful slave. ( On Mr. Clay's recent excursion to Canada, j he took his servant Charles with him, and , whilst there, some Abolitionists persuaded him ( to leave his master's service?telling him that , lie was as free as Mr. Clay was in her Majes. ty's dominions. Charles replied, that he was < aware of this, but that he would not desert his master for both the Canadas! Ftom the Albany Evening Journal. ( Travels in North America ?The Har- ] pers have published, in two volumes, the Tra- , vels of the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray in , North America, during the years 1634,1635, , and 1636. Wc were led to expect, from w hat | we had heard of the habits and bearing of this j youngnobhman, a frank, fair, and honest re- | port of all he met with, worthy of remark, in , his rambles through our country; and in this , expectation we are not disappointed. The work is alike creditable to his head and his heart. He was an intelligent, enterprising, , gallant fellow, whose enthusiam and love of ( adventure led him to explore the rudest and j wildest regions. He writes as he rambled, | with grace and freedom. Com.ng with his , mind free from taint, all that he saw and heard , was impressed upon it in truth and honesty. , Generous, confiding, and social himself he inspired kindred emotions wherever he sojourned. The consequence was that he found respectful and acceptable attentions and civili- < ties, where the Fiddiers, Trollopes, &c. com- i plain of rudeness and insult. ' a horse thief shot bv his own father. An old man in Illinois, having lost his horses, discovered them, some time after, tied to a ' tree. He waited until a person came to feed them, raised his rifle and shot him down. Upon ' approaching, the old man discovered the t hief to be his own son. He gave his father j 93,000 which he said he had made by horse stealing and stated that there were fourteen men in tbc vicinity engaged in the same busi. 1 ness. Twelve of them, upon his information, ! have been apprehended, and are now in the Atlas jail, Pike county, 111. Sixteen stolen horses have been recovered. j Death of a Lunatic at the State Hos. ' pital.?D ed at the state lunatic hospital, in 1 Worcester, on the Uth of August, 1639, Cap. f :ain Beth Broilcy, of Fair Haven, aged 74 1 (rears. ' The life of this man has been one of singular 1 delusion and suffering. In early life he was in enterprising ship master and accumulated i comfortable estate, with which be purchased * i farm, having determinnd to change his busi. j! ness. He found a great difficulty in establishing the boundaries of his farm, which led to j aJrercations and resulted in insanity in 1604. j About this time in a paroxysm of his disor~ t ier, and not knowing what he was doing, he r committed the fatal homicide, which deprived ] -'? -"'I aff<u.,innota mib. and hil _ JIVI] Hi k AIIIVS ?IIU ?UW W1VKHVV VV?*VT ,,. g Jiildren of a guardian and protector. From y bis time till his removal to the state luna- y ic asylum in 1833 he was in close confine- f nent in the jail of the county of Bristol, a j. >eriod of more than twenty-eignt years. From f :his time to the day of his death, he believed E limselftobe the "true God, and the owner v and maker of all things." f Since he came to the hospital he has been t allowed many indulgences, has beeu permitted . :o walk upon the ground and about the village, r :o look after and feed the poultry, which be- fi :ame quite a favorite employment. He uni? G brraly attended the chapel on the Sabbath, t carrying his chair for a seat, on the bottom of ] vhich he had written with chalk, "True God, f. >wner." v To the officers of the hospital, and to stran- B jers who visited him, and inquired after his |j velfare, his first reply was, "True God"?-this g >eing acquiesced in, he would converse ration- c illy and intelligibly, and showed an extr&or- t linary knowledge and memory of persons, ( amilies, and events which occurred previous t o his msaoity, and even while he was in pris- j >n. If his claims to be the "True God" were , [uestioncd, he would become greatly excited s ind violent, and would have no communion t with any one who did not acknowledge bis , lignity and power. ( His fatal disease commenced with in lamination of the lungs, in the month of Fein ruary last, which terminated in dropey of the f :hest and of the eystem. j In the early part of his sicknees he was pa. ient and bore his sufferings in silence and with brtitude. On one*1 occasion, when this was . nentioncd to him, he replied,44 The true God J nust not complain."?More recently, he felt t hatu wicked men and fdevils"?conspired to ifilct him. and he would occasionally exhibit t rritation and ill-mature. During his protrac- . ed and painful illness, however, he followed [ he prescriptions of his physicians as well as nost men, and exhibited great fortitude and , csolution. I For the last number of weeks he frequently j jailed for his M chanot and horses,'4 that be sight go to where he came from, which he said was " Heaven." Whde life remained he . jontinued to adhere strongly to his long chershed impressions, and the last words he uttered o his physician, who inquired after his health f ind feelings were " True God." Worcester iEgis. FROM TEXAS ( The steam ship Columbia, Captain Windle, > trrived here yesterday, bringing Houston dates ( 3f the 22d, and Galveston of the 23d, inclusive. , We are indebted to the politeness of the offi i pers of the C. for files of papers, our own hav- I ing not yet come to hand. From the Houston < Telegraph we learn that the Mexican Federal- i ists have deputed Don Francisco Vedduri, ' governor of Coahuila, to make overtures of ' alliance between Texas and the states of New 1 Leon, Taumaulipas, Chihuahua, New Mexico, ; Durango and the California*; and separate ' from the rest of theMexican states. The St. Louie Gazette says, an English agent, said to be comihissibned by the house of Rothschilds, hat lately visited the iron mountain district, and has been negociating, with i view to the construction of a rail road, from the iron mountain to the Mississippi. It is confidently stated says the Gazette, we know aot how credibly, that, at least 500 men will be engaged and actually employed on the work by September next. Simplicity.?A gentleman Recently travel ling in the country called out to a boy. 'where Joes this road go to my lad!' 'Well I dont know where it goes, but it's always here when 1 come along.* longevity. Marie Geanne Robin, a colored woman, Jied at the residence of her grand uaughter, in Circus street, on Wednesday last, at the advanced age of one hundred and seven years and five months* Up to five months s;nce she was able to walk to church, to knit and attend to the business of housewifery. She never wore specs, nor any other artificial aid for the sight. Her doctor's bill through life amounted to just nothing at all, her apothecary's ditto. She never took a dose of medicine? whether cream of tarter or glauber salts, calomel or lobelia. In the same house with her lived? and still lives there her daughter, who is seventy years of age ; her grand-daughter who is fifty years of age, and her great grand-son who is sixteen years old. The mother of the deceased died in this city, aged onp hundred and one years. N. O. Picayune. Commaftieaiej for the N. Y. Commercial Ad. tertiser. Ne Plus Ultra--Unprecedented Despatch !?Itseeins as if the Newburgers are determined to go ahead and be first on the list. On Tuesd?-. as Henrv Clay was on his pray down from Poughkeepeie to Fishkill, he was invited to visit the Glenham Company's manufactory which is located between Fishkill landing and Fishkill village. While there lie was shownsome broadcloths, manufactured by them, and a pattern for a suit of clothes was cut o$ and presented him by the compaay. The cloth was presented at 2 o'clock P. M. Mr. Mark Hoyle, from Newburg, immediately took Mr. Clay's measure for the suit* and had it ready for him to wear on Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock. The cloth was a wool dyed black, of the first quality; the vest wasjpresen. ted by the Poughkeepste Silk Company, and manufactured by them?the buttors and all the triuimingsof domestic manufacture. a cars op thanks. The custom of presenting officers of vesels with a card of thanks for the mere performance of a duty to which they are bound alike by interest and common courtesy, is thus burlesqued by the Chicago Democrat. The editor states tha. "a man who had been a passenger in one of tht Chicago and Buffalo boats had purchased in New York State a pair of pigs at two hundred dollars, to take to the Rock River country for breeders, and, whilst on his passage to Chicago, one of them was stolen from his pen and eaten by the captain with a few of his jovial cronies at a midnight supper. As might be expected, the owner conliaered himself outraged, and no sooner was be on shore than he sought the office of the Democrat, and entreated the editor to caution people against the boat. Whilst be was sit ing there a lad entered bringing in a card of 'ecommendation signed (among others) by the rery gentleman who had been robbed of his tig. He was asked why he .had signed.it;. nid hiB reply wee, That no was afraid, if be efused, ho might lose the other pig or get brown overboard.' Norpolk, Aug 24. A Suspicious Vessel.?Capt. Nock, of the >acket schr. [President arrived this morning, .?? nniiiAiv communicated the following; 109 pVHwy On the 20th inst 75 miles East of Little Egg iarbor, he spoke schr. Emeline, from New Jedford, bound for Philadelphia, from the Cap. ain of which he obtained the following state, nent: That on the 19th, P. M. off Barnagat, T fathoms water, be fo J in with, and boarded , i schr. of about 75 tons, carrying a foretopsail, iad a sdread eagle head and Haropstead on ter stern?her sails were nearly all blown to licces, and in an almost helpless condition? ter bottom was painted green and was very bul, and from her appearance it was supposed ho had been at sea several months. They vere out of water and had to drink salt water or several days previously. When the Capain of the Emeline boarded her, he found ibout twenty-five persons on deck, and a large lumber in the hold, apparently in a state of itarvation, all black men, none of whom could peak English. The Captain of the Emeline ook her in tow, and made all sail she could, t appeared from the conversation which was teld on board of the strange vessel, that it vas evidently their intention to take posses, lion of the Emeline. The Captain of the Eme> ine cast her of? after which, the strange vestelsent her boat alongside after water; the irew, (7 in number being armed with dirksbey were not permitted to come on board.? be Captain of the E. observed to them to re. urn to their vessel and bring their papers, and f he found that they were pursuing an honest royage he would render them all the assistince that was possible After the boat re* *' 1 * I - # La X? fx urned to toe vessel uiey saw uvtu u?v u. ? vhite man coming up from below, who after mine conversation with the boat's crew, a banloned their design and hoisted op their boat The Captain of the Emeine understood rom the boats crew while alongside, that they iad about three tons of money, and a large (uantity of Linen and boxes of ready made ilothing on board. The men had a large juantity of Doubloons fastened around their vaists. The Captain of the E. further states, hat on the next morning he saw the strange ressel again, about 8 miles distant?they fired bree guns?when he was on board of her not t single gun was to be seen, nor any other than ilack people. He diu not ascertain where the vessel was from or bound to. The crew had i very savago appearance, and the white man luppr.sed to be the Captain, had a piratical ook with targe Mustachioes. Naval.?Capt. Bolton assumed the comnand of the frigate Brandy wine- now lying off he Naval Hospital and bound for the Medierranean on Saturday morning* On which >ccasion a salute was fired which was returned rom the frigate Java, flag ship. NOTICE OR ALARM OONO. A very ingenious instrument has boen invened by Captain George Smith, R. N. intended o uive warning of the approach and to announce :he course & steamer is sailing on in a fog. It consists of a gong, on which a hammer is made to strike every ten seconds, a certain number of. blows by a very simple machinery, according to Lhe course the vessel is sailing. For example, if she be sailing north, the gong is struck once ; if east, twice ; if south thrice ; and if west, four times every ten soconds. By this systematic method, the position, course, and proximity of a steamer will be clearly announced to any other vessel. In rivers Captain Smith proposes the vessel to emit single sounds every ten seconds, which would be sufficient to give warning. From tho Richmond (Va.) Compiler of AflgSL* A 1(00 PftUSTRATED. We came very near having consideraMe of a mob in our peaceable city on the night of Monday. For several days it had been talked about that on that night the gamblers were to | be mobbed. So seldom is there any riotous ! inclination evinced here, however, that we thought no hing of the report, and did not recollect that the appointed night had arrived until, from singular movements about the streets, we were reminded of it. Some hundred or more young men assembled at the markethouse and were proceeding up town, about 10 o'clock, to carry out their design of "breaking up" the gamblers. But before they "coinmenced business" the police caused the bells k? ant* 'h0 a'arm of fire was given.? This diverted the attention of the crowd, and so confused and disorganized it that it did not reorganize , and the night went off quietly, both parties to the affair that was to have been being allowed to sleep most placidly the greater part of the night, so far as that could have been prevented by the interference of the one with the other. Tho almost universal introduction of railroads has causod an immense increase in the consumption of iron. In Scotland thero are now fifty five furnaces, seven building, and twenty.seven projected. In South Waloi thero are one hundred and twonty-nino furnaces, thirty building, and ninety are contemplated. In 1740, tho anna 1 produce of iron in the United Kingdom was but 17,350 tons , within five years, tho annual produce of Scotland and South Wa os will, it is computed, exceed 1,400,000 tons. The aatio of incroaao in the manufacture of iron in this country.it supposed to exceed even this. Bait. Chron. colonel preston. The Southern Christian Advocate, in reference to an account of Col Preston's centenary snbscrip. tion-^said to be $1,000?to the Methodist cause, which is going the rounds of the Northern pa. pers, contain the followingi It is untrue in every particular, except that on that occasion Col. P. did present himself among the contributors. His subscription was made in silonco, oxcopt only his stating to the Secretary, or some gentleman by, the sum ho wished set down to I is name, and which was not 81,000. We suppose ihe story has been fabricated upon the proceedings of the meeting in this paper, and which, as far as it concerned Col. Preston, was in the following words : It was gratifying to our feeling* to see the Hon. W. C. Preston, of tho U. States Senate, among the first who came to the altar.place, in acknowlodgment (as we were told) of his in. dobtedness to Methodism in the person of Mrs. Russell, of blessed memory, who was not more distinguished for being the sister of Pa. trick Henry than for her own extraordinary piety and parts. Bishop Asbury used to call her the elect lady,* (from St. John,) and she, it appears, was Col. Preston's grandmother, and with her he passed his childhood." oreen mount cemetry. We have received a highly interest ng pamphlet, containing an account of the proceedings at the late dedication of Green Mount Camelry, in the vicinity of Baltimore. The site, comprising 60 acres, was purchased by an association of public spirited gentlemen, fro ;i the heirs of the late Robert Oliver, for $ 5,000, with the view of selling it out in lots, and, after reimburning themselves the purchase money, with i terest, and cost of laying out tho ground, Ac., of transferring tho entire interest in tho Cemetry to lot-holders, who will become the corporators under the charter?with this reservation only, that after the accumulation of $40,000 aa a permanent find to maintain tfco cemetry, the further receipts shall be annually divided and aet apart as follows, viz. two.fifths to the exclu. srve use of the cemetry; one fifth to promote the edhse ofternpcrance; one fifth to promote the cause of Sunday Schools, and one.fifth to estab* lish and support a seaman's home, and apprentices' librar/. Charleston Courier. the infidelity of aboiitionism. *'ln the Anti.Slavery Record, of Decomber, 1636, vol. 2, No. 12, in an article under tho title Does the Bible sanction slavery ?" the writer says? Before we go any further thon, it may be remarked, that if the Bible sanctions slavery, tho Bible is totally inconsistent with itself, and consequently is unworthy of any respect. So if our inq tiry turns out in favor of slavery, it is tho - - ?:_u..>n,nn,,n Willi that mail ton, ana not lue hkim u? uuuwu nature." 5 Tne best use we can make of the follow* mg hints from an old and respected corres. pondent, whose sense of right and wrong we have generally found to be unerring, appears to us to be to publish them : Nat. Intell. Messrs. Editors: ****** The genius of error and evil unfortunately presides over this Florida business, and opportunities of gaming confidence are neglected. General Macomb will not, I hope, despair of his pacific arrangement?unL ting, of course, the serpent with the dove; nor the Government forget its parental character, and most honorable fulfilment of the treaty, as wc supposed the Indians understood it. Should it not be observed on their port, the aflinr will be one rather of armed police than of war, over which hu manity should preside. Yours, &c. Near Philadelphia, Ado. 22,1839. Gentlemen: Again l?t me urge on your consideration (should Florida intelligence continue to be unwelcome) the wisdom, of defensive war. Let there be a line of practicability drawn?that of General ? ?-? mvo nn JYJttCOmb S ire.uy, or ftuiin: uiu^i , -r thickets and morasses to the Indians, which forbid the dignity of war ; and confine our efforts to what is reasonably defensible. It is never too la'e to consult the auspices, and when false st^ps have been made it is wise to retreat. This unrelenting war of subjugation and extermination is as dishonorable as ii has proved disastrous. Let us pity the ferocity of the savage?the offspring of attachment to liberty?the effect ol wrong. Treat him as a man, to make him one, and try to conquer by goodness. Yours, &c. Near Philadelphia, Sept, 3. 1839. s u in in A II v. A letter from Haytl mentions the arrival in that island of 101 free colored emigrants from East Florida. Dr. Pierce of New York, whilst passing the street lately after midnight to visit a patient, was attacked by 4 butcher's bull dogs which ran ou of a lot, the gato of which had been left open, and whilst defending hiiuselt was tripped up by a curb stone, when the dogs seized him ; but after tearing his clothes and scrachingj his skin somewhat, retreatad. The yellow fevar has caused so many deaths among the workmen in the New Orleans Branch Mint, that it bccamo necessury to suspend its operations. Tho Mormons are beginning to hold protrac. ted meetings. There has lately been a destructive fire at ^ St. John's Now Brunswick. It will he recollec ted that this towrt seat Eaatpcfrt (Me.] f 1000 after a recent low by fire. Eastpe t hat fiow ' returned the aame amount* The Wheat Crope of Michigan esllnttteld at 6,700,000 bushels, 5,000,000 of' which it considered surplus. Ia some parts of Kentucky Ohio and Indiana thore has boon a severe drought which has Very greatly injured the crops. The Mackerel fishery which bat boon declining for several years is worse this feat than ever. The Ret. Robert Baird has recently sailed f om this country for Franco, tinder the auspices of the "Foreign Evangelical 8ociety,H for the purpose of cooperating with Protestant Christians in that and other Catholic countries of Europe in the work of preaching the Gospel of Christ. A fool of a fellow in New York wae lately throwing boys into the river out of spurt, and caught one boy who implored to be let go because he could not swim. The brute, however, threw hun into tho water, and he was drowned. Tin murderer was released by a magistrate on security of $500! A storm was experienced along the Atlantic coast on tlie 27th and 28th Aug. Dr. Re jet, Physiologist, and author of one of the prize Bridge w ater treatises, has taken the field against the Phrenologists. [A popular work might be written by the same man, or Mr. Web* sler or Mr. Adams to prove that the earth is flat, and that the sun moves round it every 24 hours.] A tcue law.?The cultivation of tobacco has been prohibited in China, on the ground that it is not a necessary of life. An editor in civilized America calls this a barbarism. The oity election, in Charleston, has for once taken place without a contest. Mr. Pinckney is reelected Mayor. Twelvo hundred and twenty-one German emigrants arrived at Baltimore on the 24th, 25th and 26ih ult., bound West. It is estimated that tho late seizures of goods at Boston, Philadelphia, and principally New York for violations of the revenue laws, amount to nearly 2,000,000 of dollars. A.steamboat chased and caught a deer in the Mississippi the other day. The buck was dressed and appeared at a public dinner on board the boat ncXt day, "Why," said a physician to his intemperate neighbor, "dont you tako a regular quantity every day?set down a stako, that you will go so far attd no father T" MI do,* replied the other, *but I always set it down so far off, th.t I get drunk before 1 get to it. 9 The average price of lots at a lato sslo in the new city of Austin, Texas, was fifteen hundred dollar??some lots sold at two thousand seven hundred dollars, Judge Doty (whig) has been re-olected to Con. gross from Wisconsin Territory, by a majority over both his competitors. Coffee and Tea have been substituted for grog in tho Texian Navy. There is now growing in Chcrleston, S. C., a tree producing the fruit from which the Jujube paste is made. The tree was brought from the South of France five year* ago, when it was three feet high, and has now attained the height of 30 feet?bearing luxuriantly. Some English rogues have lately been appre. hended in Boston, and after conviction, sentenced to the Penitentiary. A nurabor of keys and other implements for getting into houses were found in their possession. Their operations seem to , have extended as far South as Baltimore at least. Gov. Clarke, of Kentucky, is dead, and Robt. Letcher has been nominated by the whigs as a candidate for the offioo. Col. John M. Barbour, of Berrien county, Michigan, has harvested one thousand and sixty, eight acres of wheat. He had eighty men em* ployed to gather his cron. Tuscumbu, Ala. August 15. "Collins Bishop, Esq., late Postmaster at this place, is no more. He came to his death by a stab in the breast, inflicted last evening about dusk by the hands ofan unknown assassin, as he was passing from bis office to his residence.* A runaway slave returned to the Arlington estate, In this vicinity, a few days ago, of bis own accord. He declares that ho nas had enongh of it, and that the North is not the place it has been cracked up to be for colored people. This is the second instance within i few years. Alexandria Gazette. CHER A W~~PR ICE CtMBENT, Friday, Septimus 13. aaticucs. rea | & C. { 9 b. Beef in market, lb 0 5 a 0 7 Bacon from wagons, lb U a 12 -by rotail, lb 14 a 15 Hotter Ih 15 a 25 Beeswax lb 22 a 24 r> ?.wi 10 . or UttftBluS vsm J u ? Bale Rope lb 10 a 12J Coffee lb 12} a 15 Cotton, lb 9 a 12 Corn bush 87} a 1 Flour, Country, brl 5 60 a 7 Feathers fin wagons lb 40 ft 30 Fodder, lOOlbe 1 Glass, window 8x10, 50ft 3 25 a 3 37} , ? 10x12, 50ft 3 50 a 3 75 Hides, green lb 5 a dry lb 10 a Iron lOOlbs 5 50 a 6 50 Indigo lb 75 a 2 50 Lime cask 4 a 4 50 Lord lb 12} a 15 Leather, sole lb 22 a 25 Lead, bar ib 10 a Logwood lb 10 a 15 Molassos gal 45 a 50 , N. O. pi 50 a 62} Nails, cut, assorted lb 7| a 9 ?, wrought lb 16 a 18 Oats bash 50 a Oil, curriers pi 75 a 1 ??, lamp gal 1 25 a , linseed gal 1 10 a 1 25 Paints, white lead keg 3 25 a 4 52 Span, brown lb 8 a 12 Pork lbOlbs 8 a 10 Rice lOOlbs 5 a 5 50 Shot, bag 2 50 a , lb 12} a 13 Sugar lb 10 a 12} S.l? ft.irtr 2 75 A 3 mm w . w ?? bush 1 & Steel, American lb 10 a ?, English lb 14 a .German lb 12 ft 14 Tallow lb JO ft 12 Tea .imperial lb 1 a 1 37$ ?, hyson lb 1 a Tobacco, manufactured lb 10 a 50 NEW ORLEANS, September 3. Cotton?Louisiana and Mississippi?Tper lb. Good and Fino 13 a Good Fair 12 a 12$ Fair 11 a ll| Middling 9 a 9$ Ordinary 8 a 8$ The exercises of Miss M. Pritchards School will be resumed on the fiUBi day of October. Sepr. 13 44 2t New books at the book store. i y T ARKE, Beveridre's Private Thoughts, $9 Homeward Bound, Home as Found, Bos* t ton's.FouHold State, Boardman on Origlnial Sin, i Assembly's Digest, McEwen on Types, Looking > unto Jesuit, Crook in the Lot, Brown's Cat?, chism, Man's Introduction, Annan on Me> thodiam, Historia Store, Revival in New Brunt, wick, Holiday House, Lockktrt's Napoleon I Mary Queen of Scoits, Croh*# George 4th Albany Cultivator. Sop loth 41 . ' ' Tf-1 * Br OapEt op the Court of OxdiuaeP, WILL le sold it Chesterfield Coorl.ilouso on the first Moo4*7 in Octdber next, within the toga! hoars, the ret! eelate of Robi. liustis, deceased, containing 100 acres more or lose, situate in said District# on Caeway Branch, being part of a tract of two hundred and forty acres originally granted to Thos Powe, ted from said Powe conveyed to Hastis by deed bearing datoJafy 14th, 1814. Conditions) as mueh cash as will pay at. pensca of sale, with a credit of three months on tho balance, purchaser giving bond bearing in* terest from day of sale, with good personal security and mortgage, if requited, to the ordinary. Purchaser paying for necessary papers. ? -v JNO. EVANS. S.C.D. Sheriff's Office, Chesterfield I C. H. 11th Sept. 1839. \ 44 St Sheriff's Sales. ON Writs of fieri Facias will be sold before the court house door on the first Monday and day following in October next, within the legal hours, the following property, vit. ' #00 acres of land more or less whereon the defendant resides adjoining the lands of Wm, Parker, Benj. Brock and others at the several suits of D. L. McKay and J. C. Wads worth vs. Gecrpo Parker. Dfo acies of land more or less whereon tho def ndant resides adjoining tho lands of Joseph T. Burch, f. Johnson, Matthew Rushing and N. Gibson at the suit of Peter May assiguee ft. ?ionn r. nusning. 1G0 acre* of land mofe or 1cm whoicon tbo defendant lately lived on the east aide of Black Creek adjoining the lands of at the suit of Jesse Burnett v*. Wnj. Tettj* 1000 acres of land rocjre or lets whereon (be defendant residesat the sevorsf suits of A. Bloc, Wm. Morten and /no. Williams ft. Ranald Mcr Donald. 100 acres of land mote of feet on the north prong of Bear Creek, adjoining the land* of Don. can smith and others, at the nit of the Ex'rs. of J. R. Ervin vs. John Mcliauriff. Terms?Cash, purchasera'patli.g for necessary pape.* jltO. EVANS. Shff C D 8hcriff'? Office Sept, 111839. <1?8t AMERICAN ' Phrenological Journal. I MIOTICE. This nnmbsr completes the fir t In volume of the uAmerican Phrenological Journal,** and affords a fit opportunity to spread beforo its reader* and subscribers a few state, ments in relation to the same. The commence, ment of this Journal was regarded, in part, a* an experiment. The time was supposed to haw arrived in this country, when such a publication, properly conducted, would be well sustained.? The reception of tlie work, thai fir, his been so favourable, that its cootinnaaee Is new no longer a matter of doubt. * . The October number will therefore commence s new volume. The sice, execution, and gentf. tl character of the work, will continue the same. It is hoped, however, as the Journal progresses, that every succeMive number will increase in interest and value, ft will bo our design present articles which, as to style, matter, and character, will be adapted to every class of read, era. 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