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found W bSard bail 'g.wn i foot1 long t ! ;' 7 .
t: lie t itl h w :tto.cl tln-sk iris of th villa js.- j
A lrKpji9tiiIdrrii ran t bis heel; hoot
ing after him, ami pointiigiTlHS gray bcardL
Tha log, not jme of which he recognised ;
for anlolJ fertittiufrmafv barked at him at he
passed Tlii-j very vllge was altered : it was
larger , and. rarre populous. Theic were ruwsj
of lwuse w h:eh he had never seen before, nid
thosa which lt.id been hi) familiar haunts had
disappeared. Strange names were over (he doora
strange A,ccs at the indowl ?rei j filing wan
stnmjc. Ilia mind now misgave him ; lie be
gan to doubt whether both he and tho world ( a
luuml bin were not biwi'.chrd. Surely this was
his nativo iihigr, which ha had left but a day
before. There atood the Kaatskill mountains
ihcre ran the silver Hudson at a distance there
was every hill and dale precisely as it had al
ways Wen -Rio was Sorely perplexed That
' , SF f ' --
flagon last night," thought he, has addled my
poor head aidly !" V
, It was with aomt difficulty that he found the
way Id his own house, which he approached
with ailcnt awe, expecting every moment to hear
the shrill voice of Dame Van Winkle. lie
found the house gone to decay the roof fallen
in, the : windows shattered, and the doors off the
hinge. A half-starved dog, that looked like
Wolf, was kulkmg about it. - Rip railed him by
name, but the cur snarled, showed hia teeth, and
passed on. This waa ah unkind cut indeed.
My very dog." sighed poor Rip, has forgot.
ten roe !" ...
; lie entered the house, which, to tell tho truth,
, Dame Van Winkle had at ways kept in neat or
der. It waa empty, forlorn, and apparendy a
bandoned. This Hcsolaleness overcame all hia
connubial fears he called loudly for his wife and
children the lonely chambers rang. for a moment
with his voice, and then all again waa silence.
He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old
resort, the Village inn but it too waa gone. A
large ricketty wooden building stood in its place,
with great gaping windows, some of them brok
en, and mended with old hats and petticoats,
and over the door was painted, u The Union Ho-
' M
bout him, but 'that rotten and gone. Jovl "-'illjTanii J but evinced xliereditaryi disposition to at
. When;' Brom Outcher V
M Olt, he went off to the army in the beginning
,.Jrce tliatused to shelter the quiot litllo Dutch inn
of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole,
" V -with something on the; top that looked like a red
night-cap, and from- it was fluttering a flag, on
which was a aingular assemblage of stars and
stripes all this was strange and incomprehensi
ble. He recognised on the sign, however, the
, , -ruby face of King George, under which he had
smoked ao many a peaceful pipe, but even this
' -- ' - 1 1 - , . . I. ... I vul AMI
wwwai changed, for one. of blue and but, sword
was held in the hand instedd of a sceptre; ' the
head was decorated with a cocked hat, and un
derneath was painted in large characters. Gener
al Washington.
There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the
door, but none that Rip recollected. . The very
character of the people seemed changed. There
waa a dusj, ouuij, umpunmu.
instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy
ironniiilUv. He looked in vain for the sage Ni
cholas Vedder, wiih his broad face, double chin,
and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco
smoke, instead of idle speeches, or Van Bummel,
; T the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an
' .1 1
ancient newspaper, in place 01 tnesc, a lean
of the war j sdme nay he was killed at the itorm
iniir of Stony-Point others ihat he -was
drowned in the squall, at the foot of Antony's
Nose. I don't know he never; came back a
gain." ' --, f' .':.:t,-o ' ::;r--;fi:''::, v,' r m
"Where's Van Bummel,- the schoolmaster T'
M He went off to the wars too, was a' great
mlliiia general, and is now in Congress." ,v
Rip's hrsrt died away, at hearing of these sad
changes in his home and friends, and. finding
himself thus alone in the wor,ld. Every answer
puzzled him, too, by treating of such enormous
Isipses of lime, and of matters which he could not
understand : w;ar Congress Stony-Point f- he
had no caurqje to ask after any more friends, but
cried nut in despair, d )?s nobody here know
Rip Van WinkleP ; 'X-1;',
Olu Rip Van Winkle!" exclaimed "Iwo or
three, M Oh, to be sure! that's Rip Van Winkle
yonder, leaning agatnat the tree." ., t,
Rip looked, and beheld a precise counterpart
of himself as he went np the mountain ; apparent
ly as lazy, and certainly as ragged. The poor
fellow was now completely confounded. He
doubted his own identity, and whether he was
himself or another man. In the midst of his be-
wild;rment, the man in tho cocked hat demand
ed who he was, and what was his name!
M God knows," exclaimed he at his wit's end i
"I'm not myself I'm somebody else that's
me yonder no that's somebody, else, got into
my shoes I was myself last night, but I fell a
sleep on the mountain, and they've changed my
gun, and every thing's changed, and I'm changed,
and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am!"
The by-standcrs began now tor look at each
other, nod, wink significantly, and tap their fin
gers sgainst their forehead. There waa a whis
per, also, about securing the gun. and keeping
the old fellow from doing mischief ; at the very
suggestion of which, the self-important man with
the cocked hat retired with some precipitation.
At this critical moment a fresh comely Woman
passed through the throng to get a . peep at the
fas t I til 1 t 1
tel, by Jonathan Dwft
her arms, which, frightened at his looks, began
to.cry. " Hush, Rip, cried she, " hush, you
little fool ; the old man won't hurt you." The
name of the child, the air of the mother, the tone
of her voice all awakened a train of recollections
in his mind. " What is your name, my good
woman t" asked he. .
" Judith Gardenier."
" And your father's name ?
lend to any thing rtseTut his business,;
Rip now resumed his bid walks and habits 1
he sioniiind many jf hia furmerwuiosaugh
all rimer the worst for the wear and tcaroftime
and preferred making friends' among the rising
generation, with whom he soon grew into great
favour. i .. v - ;:T7r..'i'- 'Z.v.
Having nothing to do at home, and being ar
rived at that happy age when a man can do noth
ing with imputiny, he took his place once more
on the bench,, at the Tnn door, and Was reverenced
as one of the partriarchs of the village, and a chron
icle of the old times "before tho war." It was
some time before he could get into the regular
track of gossip', or could be made to comprehend
the strange events that had taken place during
his torpor. How tint there had been a revolu
tionary war that the country had thrown off
the yoke of old England and that, instead of
being a subject of his majesty George the Third,
he was now a free1 cit'zen of the United States.
Rip, in fact, was no politician ; the changes of
states and empires made but little impression on
him ; but there was one species of despotism un
der which he had lonj groaned, aud that was-
petticoat government. Happily, that was at an
end ; he had got his neck out of the yoke of mat
rimony, and could go in and out whenever he
pleased, without dreading the tyranny of Dame
'Van Winkle. Whenever her name was men-
his shoulders, aud cast uphis ryes ; which might
pass either for an expression of resignation to his
fate, or of joy at his deliverance.
lie used to teilhis story to every stranger that
arrived at Mr. Doolitde's hotel. He was observ
ed, at first, to vary on some points every time
he told it, which was doubtless owing to his hav
ing so recently awaked. , It at last setlled down
precisely to the tale I have related, and not a
man. woman, or child in the ncighbourhoo'l, but
knew it by heart. Some always pretended to
to doubt the reality of it, and insisted that Rip
had been on t of his head, and that this was one
point on which he always remained flighty.
The old Ducth inhabitant), however, tlmost un
iversally gave'it full credit. Even to this day,
tney never near a tnunaer-storm'Of " strmmcr
afternoon about the Kaaukillr but they say lien-,
drick Hudson and his crew are at their game of
ninc-pins; and it is a common .wish of all hen
pecked husbands in the neighbourhood, when
life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might
have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle's
flagon. , ' ' '";'
!
,'; Ah, poor man, his name wa Rio Van Win-J ,
Vie its tweSty ycVrsB4ie-ntway fiem j
NEW ORLEANS A DOOM EQ CITY.
A very Iiitellieenf w ntcr in the Memphis Dai-
ErhttlJircr; devoteir a -ctdwwfBf' tbst -stk5 to
home with his guo, and never has been heard df'( the consideration of the late CreVasscs and the
ultimate fate of New Orleans. He very proper
ly says that the beds of all rivers which flow
through a level country , like the territorial forma
tion of the Mississippi valley, are graduallly, but
certainly filling a p. This is the case, for in
stance, with the Po in 'Italy, of which the em
bankments at Ferrara, are so high that the sur-
I face of the river is above the tops of the houses.
I The beds of the Po, Adige, &c, are filling up by
. the annual deposits of detritus brouzhtdown from
she broke a blood-vessel in a fit of passion at a Uie Alps. All these rivers are confiend within
New-England pedlar. their channels by artificial embankments, like
There was a drop of comfort, at least, in this : lhe ,c,vee on ,hc hores ofthe Mississippi. Men
... ,r. . , 11 . l- 1 are talking every day of running these levees up
.ntelligence. The hone.tman could containh.m- j o (he mom hio and u s
self no longer. He caught his daughter and her j perhaps among posibdities to do so but what will
child in his arms. " I am your father !' cried be the consequence 1 Manifestly that the, bed, of
since his dog came home without him ; but
whether he shot hjmself, or was carried away by
the Indians, nobody can leil. I was then but a
little girl,".
Rip had but one question more to ask ; but he
put it with a faltering voice s
" Where's your mother H
Oh, she too had died but a short time since
Dy the arrival of the Europe at Halifax, on
the 24th ult.7 we have seven days later news
from Europe. Wo present "a 8uTiTnjiiry7rll
that is important. - '
-rrjiuttia and Turkey) The English papers
contain many speculations and reports coneern-!
ing the pending decision of the Emperor Of Rus-'
sia in regard to the appeal made to him respect-
tng the extradition or the Hungarian relugces.
Nothing definite, however, can ba arrived at con
cerning the issue, until the resolution rf the Em
peror aud his imperial council shall be made
known. The Emperor's reply was expected to
reach tha Turkish capital about the 10th or 12th
of October. -' 1
The London and Paris esbincts, from the re
presentations of their ministers at Constantinople,
have despatched a large fleet of steamers to the
Bosphorus aud the harbor of the Golden Horn.
Between the entrance of the Black sea and the
Propoiitis, in the sea of Marmora twelve ships
of the line are at anchor, fully equipped and plen
tifully provisioned.
An armed body of 100,000 troops are assem
bled around the I utkisb capital, anil are review
ed dally from d.iy break until dark.
A letter, dated Constantinople the 25 th ultimo.
stales that, before entering Turkey official assur
ances were given Kossuth that he and his fellow-
refugees would be welcomed and allowed to pro
ceed to any part of the world they might desire.
A (considerable' number .of. the patriots have
oecn put on noaru an American corvcue anu a
French steamer, destined, it is said for Greece.
. . -1 . i. tr . 1 1 t-
tioned, however, he shook his head, shrugged' An. etoqueni mier. irom xvossuin ,0 r-
11 v the news from Widden, it appears that
Amiluli had bceu sent to urge the refugees to
embrace the Islamite faith, and had been uusue
cessful. Kossuth, Guryon, Zorao'riski, and oth
era, swore that no power should induce them to
apostatize. Bern had no scruples.
The most unwelcome feature in the news from
Turkey is that those Pashalics in Europe which
are pardv Greek ,and partly Turkish, are in a
state of ferment in consequence of the threatened
rapture between Russian and Turkey.
Under the influence of Russian emissaries, mem
bers, of the Greek church, these Pashalics have
betrayed serious intention of taking advantage of
the present opportunity to get up a revolt.
Great activity prevails in sending couriers to
to and from the principal parts of Europe, but the
firmness in the public funds allays any apprehen
sion of serious results.
A Paris correspondent of 4he-London. Times
says that a note has been addressed by the Eng
lish government to its amhassador at'St. Peters
burg on the subject of Jurkish affairs, couched
in firm and moderate terms, and contains nothing
calculated to wound the sensibilities of Nicholas,
but announces its determination to support the
Porte against any exigencies that would compro
mise the dignity of an independent sovereign.
Lord Palmerstnti likewise sent the proper instruc
tions to Sir Stratford Canning, and placed the
Mediterranean fleet at.his disposal.
Ftaoc has imitated England inahis-respect,
anu a jecv uuauiwuy vciwctpt. wo
powers.
The statement that Gorgcy had been shot is
contradicted. Tho news from other parts of Eu
rope is not important.
Cotton ha again advanced.On the 1 3.h
instant the market at Liverpool was much ex
cited, and spinners and speculators were purchas
ing largely. -The cotton market was also exlrcm
ly animated at Havre.
- The grain market was firm, and the London
money market was easy.
ciuval intelligence.
bilious-looking fellow, with his pockets full of; he "young Rip Van Winkle once old Rip! the Mississippi will fill up and elevate its waters
tkjhta of citizens election member of Con- Rip Van Winkle 1 1 oounirv
vighta 1
gress liberty Bunker's hill--heroes of seven-tv-six
and other words, that were a perfect
Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Win
kle.
Tht appearance of Rip; with his long griizled
fee rd, his rusty fowling-piece, hisnncouth dress,
and the army of women and children that had
gathered at his heels, soon attracted the attention
'of the tavern politician.' They crowded round
him, eyeing him from head to foot, with great
curiosity. ' The orator bustled op to him, and
'drawing him partly aside, inquired, " on which
ids he voted!" Rip stared in vacant stupidity.
"AftOther'ahwrt 4wfc busy liula dlow. pulled Jiim
by the arm, and rising on tiptoe, inquired in his
ear, "whether he was Federal or Democrat."
Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the
the question when a knowing, self-important
old gentlmari, in barp cocked haJb made his
way through the rrowd, putting them, to the right
and left with his elbows as he passed, and plant
ing himself before Van Winkle, with one arm, a
kimbe, die other resting on his eanc, his keen
eyes and sharp roi m penetrating, as it were, into
his very soul, demanded in an austere tone, " whit
brought him to the election with a gun on his
shoulder, and a mob at his heels, and whether
he meant to breed a riot in the village !"
" Alas ! gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dis
may edr I am joorquiet -maiuJiL of the
place, and a loyal subject of the King, God bless
him!" .
. Here a general shout burst from the bystand
ers" a lory ! a toryT'aipy 1. a refugee ! hw
tle hini ! aWay with him !" It was with great
difficulty that the self-important man in the cock
ed hat restored order ; and having assumed a
4nWd austerity of brow, demanded again ofthe
unknown, culprit, what he came .there for, 'and
, whom he was teskity. Tho poor man humbly
ssurd hi in that he nuant no harm, bt merely
came there in. scarTrolOTirrTrfhtse4gh
who used to keep, about the tavern.
V AVeR wh are-4tey IamAjhem.,
' There was a silchc5 for a little whire, when an
' old man replied, in a thin piping voices Nichol
as Vedder t; why he is dead and gone theso
fintitriirn vpjra ! ' Thr wni a woedcit torr.b-
countrv.
All stood amazed, until an old woman, totter- At New Orleans! since the embankinc svstem
ing out from among the crowd, put her hand to commenced, merited of the river has been-elevat
her brow, and peering under it in his face for a d ome 30 or 40 feet. This is proved by the
1 1 e 11:.: depth of water which passed through Suvce ere-
moment, exclaimed "Sure enough! it is R.p roar of h could be heanl some
Van Winklt-Mt is himself. Welcome home a-; geve or ci ht miIe-' bi- crcvae,ie water
gain, old neighbor Why,- where have you been
these twenty long years !"
Rip's story was soon told, for the whole twen
ty years had been to him hut as one night. The
neighbors stared when they heard it :. some were
seen to wink at each other, and put their tongues
in their cheeks ; and the self-important man in
the cocked hat, who, when the alarm was over,
ers of his month, and shook his head upon
which there was a genpral shaking of the heads
throughout the assemblage. .
Itr was determined, however, jo take the opin
ion of old Peter Vanderdonk, who was seen slow
ly advancing up the road. He was a descend
ant ofthe historian of that name, who wrote one
of the earliest accounts of the -province. Peter
was the most ancient inhabitant of the village,
and well versed in all the wonderful events, and
traditions of the neighborhood. He recollected
Rip at once, and corroborated his story in the
most satisfactory manner. He assured the com
pany that it was a fact, handed down from his
ancestor the historian, that the Kaatskill mount
ains had always been haunted by strange beings.
That if was aflirmed-thatthegreat Hendrick
was about 30 feet deep. Here then we have the
startling fact revealed to us, that the. coasts on the
lower Mississippi are at this time from six to nine
months, of the year, far below the level of the
vast deluge of waters which half a continent pours
out incessantly, and rolls along in silent majesty
to be swallowed up and lost in the abyss of the
ocean. .
-It may not be uninteresting here, to inquire
what will be the ultimate fate of New Orleans.
dwd-returcd joahedd.
Hudson, the first discoverer ofthe river and coufi
try, kept a kind of , vigil there every twenty years,
with his crew of the Ialf-moon, being permitted
in this way to revisit the scenes of his enter
prise, and keep a guardian eye upon the river
and the great city called .by his name. That his
father had once seen them in their old Dutch
dresses playing at ninc-pins-in a hollow of thje
mountain ; and that he himself had heard, one
summer afternoon, the sound of .their halls, like
Idistant reals of thunder.
up, and returned to the mofe importunt concerns
Rip s daughter took him home
Rio bethoufrh! himself a moment,. and inquir-T Of the election Rip daug
d where's Nicholas Vedder L"; ' to live with her ; she had a tnug well-furnished
house, and a stout cheery farmer for a husband,
whom' Rip recollectedfor one of the urchins that
used to climb upon his back. As to Kip s son
and hejr, who wits the ditto of himself, seen learf
siotie in Uii churehryafd that used'to Wrll 'all a-'j irg sgaiirtt llic tree; he employed to work on the
ly, the city is a doomed 011?, for if the bed ofthe
river has been already elevated 30 feet since the
levee first began to protect it, a Very ready cal
culation may be made of the time required to
raise it 30 feet higher. And if at its present ele
vation the city has been one half submerged, to
what extent may we anticipate any subsequent
breach, when the waters shall sweep with len
fold fury through a channel twice the depth, for
to this it must come at last, however far removed
the time.
In fact, the days of tho increase of New Or
leans are already numbered. The child is now
born who will when he visits that city, find only
a few hundred instead of thousands of houses
now thec. A great commercial depot there
must be somewhere below Baton Rouge, but it
must be on higher, ground, w here business can
be transacted at a less appalling sacrifice of hu
man' life.'V." .' '.'' ' "l
Therejs jndeed, but or.a excuse even now for
continuing to make New Orlcansrthi depots
and it is, that there is no other. J hat city was
ounded before Fulton brought steam into vogue
fon the Western waters. It was placed there Le
eauso it was accessible to shipping from the
Gulf, where steam , tow11 boats were not and
when it required all the patience and nautical skill,
favored by wind, tide, setting poles and spring
cables of the most experienced navigators to
reach the port This excuse for planting a great
emporium in the very jaw's., of death no longer
exists, or exists only in the logic of the purse.
It is a question or dollars and cents against hu-
To make a. long aldiyihoTlrth-copaB3iJmke l-Tan ff qjhmnnn sufleringf a questioiro"
I " Xowhere ."-i-Tho' Pittsburg Chronicle says,
" Nowhere is the place where the banks lend
money lo popr men who need it, Jrfs,lead: of the
rich who do not.? .' .. v ,.J f
IN FOR ITIIOVV TO GET OUT OF IT.
Once on a time there was a gentleman who
won au elephant in a rame
It was a very fine elephant, and very cheap at
the price the gentleman paid tor his chance.
But the gentleman had no place to put it in.
Nolwdy would take it off his hands.
" He couldn't afford 5fic':it;wlI::f5iWM
He was afraid of the law if he turned it loose
into the streets. "
He was too humane to let it starve.
He was afraid to shoot it.
In short, ho was in a perplexity very natural
to a gentleman with moderate means, a small
house, common feelings of humanity and an
elephant. '
France has won her elephant at Rome.
She has brought back her Pope.
She is at her wit's end what to do with him.
She can't abet the Pope and the Cardinals, be
cause she interfered in the cause of liberty.
She 'can't abet the Republicans, because she
interfered in the cause of the Pope and the Car
dinals. She can't act with Austria, because Austria is
absolutist
-JS TragtdyWe learn, saya the Danville
Registefrthat amannamed Bowen, residing nr
the neighborhood of Berger'a Store in this coun
ty, waa killed a few days ago in an "attempt to
resist with fire arms the officers ofthe law.wltr
had been directed to take him in custody for the
commission of a high misdemeanor. v
' It appears that on Monday last Bowen at-
lempieu 10 kiii nis, wne, Dy,siioouiig uci .
a rifle, thrOuch a window at the residence of his
father-in-law, and bidding defiance to the laws
ofthe land, swore that, he should not be taken
alive. Representation ofthe fact being made to
the Circuit Superior Court now sitting for this
county, his honor Judge Taliaferro issued order
lor the immediate arrest l the outlaw ; and me
sheriff summoned several persona to assist, him
in executing the Judge's order, who armed them-
selves for the encounter. which wss anticipated
with the desperado. : Aecordiugly, 011 arriving
at Bowen's house, he confronted ihem in the
yard with bis rifle and revolvers,', the former of
which after a short parly with them, he levelled
at otre ofthe party, who dropped from his horse
at the instant and thereby laved hjuiselC as the
ball aimed for him lardy grazed the top of the
horse's head.-, Bowen then advanced on the
crowd with a revolver, when finding they imrst
either run or fight for-lheir lives, a volley of pis
tols and musketry were discharged af him which
brought him to the ground a dead man. '
The Bound hlwxdtrt. -The last remnant of
the Round Island expedition was, at its own re-'
quest, removed 011 the Uth inst. by passed mid
shipman Dyer, and landed at Pascagoula For
ty of them immediately left for. New Orleans,
and the rest, some, twenty-fire in number, for
Mobile. It has been a matter of speculation for
some, time what country the Rround Islanders
were to conquer. Mr. Griffith H. Williams,
sergeant major of the late regiment on Round Is
land, informs the editor of the St. Louii Union
that their ultimate destination was the .Island of
Cuba. The men were to have been shipped to
the Island ef Lopez to be drilled and armed.
The expedition had been in contemplation lor
many years and the funds for its support had
been accumulated by annual donations from the
planters of Cuba, and were deposited in ' New
York, subject to the order of General Lopez,
the general manager of the expedition. Its ob
ject was the establishment of a Republican Gov
ernment in Cuba. For the present the expedi
tion has been abandoned, but Colonels White
ad Bicoo, die leaders, eulejtained. no . doubt as
to its ultimate success. .
PwWng of General Taylor's proclama tion
forbidding the invasion of Cuba from the United
piaica, me European t imes say :
We are elad to find that Preiiitmt :.
mH. disposed 4o-snot'r mighty-act of epoliai
tion, to be committed by a-band rthereenary
and unprincipled adventurers. Throttghoot the
wnoie of these doings it is carefullv kept out of
view that a tptcifiertalu exists to which France,
Spain;, Lngland and the United States are parties,
by tehuh the drptndtney oj Cubd to the nwther
country of-Spam i ttmecidUd eliafantiedi"
L ' ieciuin-Th9 ofllcial vote in
reCB,va,a lor v;a,m Commissioned is
Per tonal Jiencontre. On Monday night be
tween the hours of 10 and II o'clock, P. M. or
about that time, Messrs. Barringer and Caldwell
met under Sadler's portico in this place, when a
rencontre took place between them. Four pistol
shots passed from Major Caldwell, we learn,
which were warded off by Mr Barringer, with
the exception of one, wh'c'i entered and came
out, of the fleshy part of his leli leg below the
knee, rdotngonly slight vymyMifJSMatiiger.
nau.not uaawo. ris :; i)
i v;
ed. e oulv matcasuc
seems generally to sustain, not behig present
ourselves, nor desirous now of advancing any
comment. y
Major Caldwell gave himself up to the author
ities, and has given bail for his appearence at
the present term of. the County Court. C'nr
lotte HorneCi XeU.
Cnr Jnhn A. i'lninhl Ml f n ...... 4
.... . v cr, t mier, i w hurl
12,500. There were 83,000 less votes polled
than there were at the Presidential election; the fal
ling off in. the Deinoc a :c tote was 25,895, annrn
the Whig vote 41,848. The Democrats yUl have i
a majority of 20 on joint ballot in the Legislature
in tlo -Senate and 18 in, the House. ,
Manumltilon of ' SlucetThe 'ew York
Colonization Society .having succeeded in eecur- ,
ing the fund proposed last winter, (tGOOO) for
die passage to Liberia ofthe Ross slaves, have
offerecj to the American Colonization Society to
defray the expense of the passage of another lot
of sla ves, one hohdreJ and fifty in number, late
ly emancipated in Darien, Georgia. The esti-,
mated turn, in addition to what the late owner of
the slaves, Major Wood, appropriated, is about
13000, or twenty dollar i for each one of them
Senator Benton addressed an immense mass
meeting at St. Louis, last Friday evening, on the
subject of his instructions from the Legislature.
He refused to answer questions respectfully put;
in relation to his future action iu Congress on
the subject of slavery. ''Another large meeting;
held in the rotunda. 'passed resolutions strongly
condemnatory of Mr. Benton., Much disorder
prevailed,- and the policf were called in, there
being quite a disturbance.
77ie Ccbnlzation So'ci:ty.'i AmerLW
Colonizat on Society has been applied to for a
paa,age to Liberia, on lit? next vessel, for sixty
slave V now residing near Murfreesboro'. North
' Carolina, who enjoy, by the will, of their late
owner the privilege of emigrating to Liberia, If
the Society can pay their expenses. It will re
quire t3000 todu this, and tte Secretary of the
Society has issued an earnest appeal for eontri- '
buttons to that amount. He desires to secure it
within thirty days.' '
A ..Long ' Canal. Te American Railroad
Journal states that the Wabash and Erie Canal,
when finished to the Ohio River, will be three
hundred and seventy-five miles in length, in In
diana, and including the eastern end of it, which
lies in the State of Ohio, will be four hundred and
fitty-nine miles in leitpthfrom Toledo to Evans
ville, the longest canal in tin: United States. It
is nearly one hundred miles longer than the great
Aew ork an.l Lne ta
vi sit". uwiu n inc j . , y
lsissiu
ei,in .,.i.h, M o the hrst female Poets of our country.
The National Common School Convention,
recently held at Philadelphia, adjourned sine die
last Friday. Several topics were rcfered to able
committees to be reported upon at the next an
nual meeting in that city, the 4th Wednesday in
August, 1850. Fourteen States, besides Cana
da, were represented by about 200 delegates. A
resolution was past by acclamation, acknowledg
ing the highly important sen ice rendered by the
Hon. Horace Mann, both at his post iu Massa-
rhusets. and,,,8? PrfiJenl.;of the' Convention, j
Prof. Henry,; of 'WashiiVon; was first vice Pres
ident. The sKakers all gave great credit to the
employment of female teachers, complaining of
the compensation allowed them, and a resolution
by Bishop Potter, urging these claims, was a
dopted. 1 ,
Sulphur Springe, Iiiincombe County. Du
ring the late season, the number of Boarders at
this fashionable place of resort has been. Adults
647, Children 55, Servant 153, Horses 375.
Of tho Adults, 51 1 were from South Carolina,
57 from North Carolina, 32 from Georgia, 10
from Alabama, Ac.
When we get the Plank Road,' and Central
We observe that she has received two premiums
from the Hartford County Agricultural Society'
not for the best Poems, but for the best pairs
of Silk "and Linen Stockings, of her own knitting!
Her daughter also received a premium for the'
best Bead Bag, of her own handy-work. '
Tunnel through the Dine Jtidge.Th con
tract for tins great work (4260 feet in length) was
swarded by the Board of Public Works on Sat
urday last to Messrs. John Riilter Si Co., , of tho '
State of New York, they being the lowest bid
der for the same. Those gentlemen produced
the most ampin testimonials of the eoerjry, skill,
faithfulness an ptmetualliiv with which they have
executed other important Tunnels in the United- '
States. Rich. Enq. ..
Vfat
up by fsctions that it cannot proceed very rapid
ly in business, litis not difficult, in advance, to
estimate the whole' amount of important business'
that will be done. It' is safe to say that no act
tending to strengthen or weaken any party sys
tern can become a law. There will probably bo
a concurrence, of all parlies in a liberal system'
of harbor improvements the promotion of inter
nal navigation.
n .i -us a r
to Asnevilte, mere win ie need oi n lew more
Hotels in that far off region. We know many
1 who would like to po to our own mountains in
She can't act against Austria, because France
is conservative and peaceful -
She can't continue her army in Rome, because
it is not treated with respect.
She can't withdraw her array from Rome, be
cause that would be to .stultify herself.
She can't go forward, becouse she insisted on
the Roman people going backward.
Sho can't go backward, because the French
people insist On her going forward.
She can't choose the wrong, because the pub
lic opinion forces her to the right.
She can't choose tho right, because her own
dishonesty has forced her to the wrong. ,
In one word, she is on the horns of a dilem
ma, and the more she twists, the more sharply
she feels the points on which she is impaled,
like a cockchaffcr in a cabinet, for the inspection
Ofthe curious in the lighter and, more whirligig
species of political etymology.
Poor France !-will nobody take her precious1
bargain off her hands 1 Rome is her bottle-imp.
She bought it dear enough, but can't get rid of it
"at any price tunch. ; a
The Prcn .'Give me, said Sheridan in one
his speeches, but the freedom of the Press, and
you ma.y have corrupt Kings, Ministers and
Statesmen, yet will the liberties of thepeople
be secured;
Those who conduct a newspaper, should not a
buse this "power, nor forget the respeel due to all, as
men and citizens. ; lie should' grant to them, in
whatever capacity," all that he himself would rek
The Indigo Plant in South Carolina. The
South Carolinian, noticing a siatement that the
Indigo Plant, a native of that State, is no longer
raised, savs this is a rreat mistake, tho suddIv -
- e(-. . . -rrv
Rail Road, to Salisbury, and the Turnpike thence increasing rather than diminishing. More atteu
tion, probably, is given to its cultivation now
than for some years past. In every inland Iowa
in the State, and in every country store, there
stead of the V irginia ngsTSalfatoga, "c , ifTrteaffliefottnd aTPgrfrarsqppijrof fthCerolina
were notfor the-difficulty of the. route,l:i4 Indigo. -L ' ' ' .
The Eureka. The bark Eureka, which
sailed from Cleveland, Ohio, bound for San
Francisco, but proved too large for the locks of
the Welland Oanal, was cut away so as to pass
through, and she accomplished her voyage down
the St. Lawrence in safety. On Thursday the
18th, she cleared at the Montreal Custom House,
with her valuable cargo and thirty-eight passen
gers. This is the first American merchant ves
sel that ever sailed below Montreal, and she was
allowed to do so by special authority from Eng
land, , . !
Slavce in Different Countries. -The follow
ing is said to be a correct estimate of the Slaves
in the following countries ; to wit :
United States,
Spanish Colonics,
South American Republics,
Brazil, '
Dutch Colonies,
African Settlements,
V '
8,095,000
, 000,000.
140,000
3.250,000
85.000
30,000
Total number of slaves, 7,500,000.
Cooo Pickings for the I.awycrt.Tht Ashe-
American Tract Sotiett. The -receipt,. of.
this Society in September were $25,218. Since Buiicombe Superior Court, t at its late Term.
the 1st of April the receipts have been $126,145, ', there were 107 Civil, and over 60 State Cases,,
and for the same period the issues were 18,734,-' Judge Ellis succeeded up to 11 o'clock on Sat-.
164 pages, including, we presume, volumes as j urday night, in disposing of about 30 of the form-r
well as tracts. A,n auxiliary tract society has ' err and nearly all of the latter, including one
been established in Oregon, and has applied for 'ease of manslaughter, one of rape and two of
81500 worth of tracts, remitting at the same time " grand larceny, all of which met with appropriate
$100 feTpublieatieitsr-rbe.iiUMion at the Saiid-V sentences. ' ' '
wich Islands requests an appropriation of $20007j ;l..victter from Rome, ofthe 2fsl ulU
A colporteur sailed in the ship Mechanics Own
lor auiornia,
brieks and mortar alrel mQre can be demanded..
nu.uae iur nuiiiau vtuuiue, uganiBi l.icks uiiu uiur-
a L f . I : i t. i . a
lar io oe pui up in soma locauiy wnere neann ivi...i a: r..-.. . .w- :i.
dujii uiiu a wicr tiauiuiiiuii. i , .f - . a it e jt .:n
nave upon iu iu panies. a xjul-uiuuu win
his death fur tho party that gives offices and hon
ors to himself or his friends, . Whigs, on the
contrary,, who get office, at ottee. necora&juRC-
..m f AnN. thn.. ...hA ttrt 1 1 1 f I ' fl T nAt tl.
I TI l IL1 Vt"J WW - H"- (v.jij..-.
ing who maintain their integrity .lay. 10$
states that the Papal manifesto and amnesty wereu
posted up a second tii.ne in Rome on that day, and
that they were defiled with mud, and in several
Lime. An excellent oualitv of Lime is fur-' places with blood. The Cardinals dared not
nished at a Kiln 12 miles from Aslieville, Bun- . show tbeinrelres in the streets, notwithstanding,
combe county, at only nine cents a bushel. The , the presence of the French troops ,.
limestone lies on aiid just beneath the surface of j 1 - '' ' T
the irrountJ. AV hat a fine opportunity for .the. Canada. The Counter Protest The friends.
farmers of the good old State of Buncombe to cn-,- : of British eonpcction have got up a protest 11 1
rich their lands.
set-off to the annexation memorial. It has six.
hundred signatures. A few of the signers . are -rcsneotable
names. .The rest are unknown, or
'dependent on the Government.
ItTamTnotk-Chee There is a Mammoth
niiApaa exhibiting at the AffricuTTurat Fair in New--
York, made fxainone day's milk or 600 Cows, Increase o)"Sieainship.TUert are now un-.v
by A. E. Austin,. Ashtabula county; Ohio,. .t der construction at. New York, and' fast advanO,'
wcicrhs 2.000 pounds, aud co6t 250. at the rW : inir ..towards completion, twelve steam vessels '
J of seventeen cents. per pound, 'aH'.r i imdyjbte l- whose combined tonrtag is 18,800 tons. Of
Ily the jargesi in the world,r 7r H these, verc steamers of 3000 tons sch. V;'