-'r. ' - --y-'---T.- -.- -.-w---. . Jl .... . .J. J 1. J. . - -1 : 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;'

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