lOBTH CAB03L1N A SENT INMJL . ! r NEW "ORLEANS. A correspondent of the Harrisburff Intelli- gencer, writing from Kew Orleans on the 29th of January, gives this decsription of that city: "No man who enters New Orleans for the first time can fail of being disappointed, aston ished. and delighted. Every stranger comes here with an unfavorable opinion. He eipects to fd a decayed, muddy town, surroun ded with swamps and covered with fogs, and with a population in hourly dread of losing their lives from tne unnealthmess of the climate or stiletto of the assassin. He finds, in reality, a beautiful city, with regular streets fine brick houses, large stores, and a popula tion of 70000 persons, Its site was fixed in 1709. by Bienville, the Spanish commander of the province. In ITZ its population was not more than 200. In 1769, it was 3190; in 1797, it was 3058; in 1810 17,242, and in 1820 it amounted to 27,150. Now, as I said before, it is about 70,000. The province of Louisana was ce ded by France to Spain in 1769, and re ceded to France in 1800. In 1603 it was sold by France to'the United States, and in 1 8 1 2 it was admitted into the Union. Its exports in cotton and tobacco, in 1828, amounted to thVsum of 67,939,000. Its unhealthiness has, until with in a few years, retarded the growth of the city, but no w fear has been succeeded by confidence, and its business population is perhaps the most enterprising and industrious in the Union. Its trade extends to every part ofN the world, and her amount of shipping along the wharves is only equalled by that of New York. Steam boats and flat boats loaded with passengers and productions of the vast territory watered ty trie Mississippi, ana us irmutaries are be - 1 aI rni . yona coiupuiaium. Lacy cover, at some reasons, the whole bosom of the river. The health of the city is now as good as in any part of the world ; and generally it is, I think as healthy here as along the Susquehanna or Juniata river. In sOmc seasons, an epidemic rages which causes many deaths; but they are becoming more rare, and the sickness will con tinue to decrease as the streets become paved nud the swamps drained There are no stones within many hundred miles, and paving being expensive, has not until latclybeen attended to. Only two streets are paved and one of them with sheila brought from the lake shore. The corporation has with much spirit commenced the work, and if the petty jealousies of Trench, Creole and American settlers do not prcventthe work, it will soon be carried to completion, and the city be one of the finest in L world. There should be a million of dollars t. appropriated at once to the object, made paya ble at fifty or a hundred years. Stones have been brought from England, or the northern states, and are therefore expensive, but the city h rich. Its market places alone produce a rent or nearly sixty thousand dollars. The making: ot the canal, which is commenced by the new banking company, will drain a large extent of land in the neighborhood of this city, which has . heretofore been useless. Draining is a more easy process here than is imagined The water is not, as in our swamps along the Susquehanna, incorporated with the earth Here it is on the top, and when once removed,! and : levees or embankments thrown, up, may be kept dry. M lie canal will be a valuable lm provement, and of much benfit to the city by opening a direct trade with the rich cotton lands beyond lake Ponchartrain, which is here t Nj-enty-seven miles wide. It will cost more money than was anticipated, for the reason that tfie engineer naa never run tnc line, and it turns out on examination that the trees on the ground will amount to nearly ten times as many as was represented. Of course more time will be taken to make it, as a sufficient force of cx-r eavators cannot be: put on the ground until the trees arc removed. They require time but the contractors are working with spirit; and they will soon accomplish the work. Ii will be a splendid work, and worthy of the en ... Uprising company who have embarked their funds in it and it will be to them a source of profit, as well in its tolls, as in the great in crease which it will give their lands. Hereto fore very few persons have turned their atten tipn to the value of property ; and the company have, therefore, made some splendid purchases. As an instance, one estate, containing about 600 acres, within three miles of the city, 200 acres cleared, fertile land, and the remainder covered with valuable timber, was bought for $30,000. The whole soil in the low lands will make bricks, and .there is refuse timber enough on i hjp'ground to burn them. They now bring bricks from across the Lake, and pay about ten dollarsa thousand. The cliraat is delightful, the coldest -days of winter not being more severe than the weather in our region during the month of Oc tober, and in summer the thermometer scarcely ever ranging higher than with us. Its citizens, at least those with whom I have become ac quainted, are a most intelligent, liberal and hospitable people; and the order, regularity nod police of the city exceeds that of any citv ; oi America. 1 was told much about the necesi ty of precautions for health here. I find, however, the people live as they do in every other country. A northern man is, to be sure somewhat astonished at the numerous colors, from "snowy white to sooty," that meet his eye, but Jie'soon becomeses accustomed to that, as well as to the habitof keeping the stores and tho markets open on Sunday-; I am glad to say, however, that the respectable dealers arc beginning to discountenance, ,tbxs practice. ? la London's Magazine of Natural History for November, there- is an account of the volcanic island of Sciacca, "in which the author advances ! ty oi East India physicians are not non-conta-opimons supooTtedbvminrrnlrtrnrAl facts, arid I gwmsts? The celebrated James Johnsov has the appearances presented in a sketch which accompanies the essav. Vw thn UnA 8tr, and further, that itis a ?hkrfCVaU? and Dot - of eruption. which it had drawn up. This statement founded on a careful examination of the island and its neighborhood. It does not appear to have increased much in size since the last ac count?. ; . H . - ' I j From the Charleston Courier. I J CHOLERA.. MR. EDITOR, In the numbers of vour val uable paper arrived this week, I am" sorry to see you, with others, advocating the contagi ous character of the Cholera Morbus which has been raging in Europe for the past eighteen months. FuHy convinced that the systems now in force for its pretended prevention of i . .i. i j introduction into tnis country are useicsa aim injurious, and hopine that it may be proven Satisfactorily tint to be contagious and that it cannot be communicated by inanimate objects I trust no apology is necessary for offering this communication to you or your numerous rea ders. I am perhaps, sir, the only American who has had an opportunity of treating the Spasmo dic Cholera Morbus; and having experienced more than one attack of if in the city of Warsaw last summer, I may from these circumstances alone, be entitled to at least the expression of my opinion on this subject, which now interests the civilized world. A concise history of its progress, its mortality, &.c. in Europe, was pub lished in some of the daily prints upon my ar rival in this country from the wreck of unfor tunate Poland the enclosed is a copy of tha communication. In epidemics, we believe the animal ccomo- my is exposed to a predisposing and an exci ting cause. In certain districts, we are predis posed to intermittent fever, from what is termed miasm, a supposed change in the air of which we are still ignorant, and getting wet, exposure to cold, &c, excites or illuminates the attach. With respect to the predisposing cause of the Cholera Morbus as it exists i Europe, we have no positive information. What change takes place in the atmosphere or what is its virus, we know not 'end cannot therefore either de strov or prevent it. Neither are we better in formed as to the predisposing causes of other epidemics, the Measels, Yellow t ever, Influen za, &c. ' The analogy still continues when we consider the exciting causes ; they are general ly well ascertained and defined in all prevailing diseases. Errors ot met, eaung oi com siaugn, sour crout, &c, cold wet feet, &c. are known to have produced Cholic, or common Cholera Mnrhiis: much greater then must be the effect of these causes when there is a predisposition from atmospheric influence. We see at once by this the difference between the common Cholera Morbus which we nave every year more or less in this country, and the Asiatico TCnroncan Cholera. In the latter there exists et tn w nr all p. YDOSPfl thp all it. ton Diebitch and the impoverished Pole, the, passionate and ferocious Constantine as well as the drunken Englishman at Gateshead. j i : ti k. That the disease under consideration, howev er, is not contagious that it has not been, com municated from person to person, or even by a certain something generated by an individual laboring under it, can, I think, be most satis factorily proven. In support of this doctrine, we have negative and positive facts. If contagious, why has it not been imported long ere this into England and other countries, by their frequent intercourse with the East In dies? All agree that it is the Asiatic Cholera. Could the sea arrest or destroy its progress? then it differs widely from lnown contagious diseases, the Small Pox, the Venereal, which have never yet been interruptedly land or ocean. If contagious, why has it followed in a most regular manner the general laws of all epide mics ? progressing from east to west, and go verned by the state of the weather. Docs not the fact of fowls and cattle having been affected by an epidemic in Poland the year previous to the arrh'al of the Cholera, prove an atmosphe ric agency? Were not even fish destsoyed in the same manner in some of the lakes of Prus- sial lias not tneinnuenza, men me noienne, and finally the Cholera Morbus, appeared suc cessively in many, if not in all the large cities of Europe? And if really contagious, ought not its rapidity to be increased, ought not its extension to be greater, ought not the number of cases have continued to augment in thickly populated places, and towns, with its numeri cal increase of foci or points of contagion ? But in Praga and Warsaw for the first ten days, there were lloU cases, and thirty days after wards there were only 49. That the number of cases Varied with the state of the weather, in Poland as well as elsewhere, is certain and posi tive from all the information and reports Which have been made. These, Mr. Editor, are some negative facts little known, or at least little commented upon in America. For positive facts, we ought to rely upon the testimony of those individuals of the medical profession, and upon them alone who have studied and treated the disease : and not upon the assertions of an Editor of a London Quar terly Review, neither upon the decrees of Sir Henry Halford and the Council of Health of London. They are men who have never seen a case of Cholera, nor have ever visited a place where it has existed. They are men too who contend for the contagion of Yellow Fever, without ever witnessing it, and in opposition to the direct positive proof well known in the United States, that an individual laboring under this affection in New-Orleans or Charleston, taken into the country, never communicates a similar disease under any circumstances what ever. The information derived from East India practitioners, and the reports made by commis sions of physicians sent out to Russia and Po land, certainly afford the best and most correct, I may say the only) way to decide this ques tion. Can any one deny that tbp o I even been supporting this doctrine in the pub- lie papers of London. And of all the medical gentlemen attached to the commissions sent hv Governments expressly to study the Cholera, I know, of butDrs. Albers, (Prussian) and Wal ker, (Englishman) who entertain even suspi cions that it is contagious; and they are unani mous in declaring it not to be communicated b v merchandize, clothing, &c. Of the com mis sions, civil and military from France, they have reported without a dissenting voice that the disease was not contagious. Out of about 150 physicians of mv acquaintance, (including Dr, Searle, who had practiced 13 years in the East Indies, Dr. Antommarchi late physician to Napoleon,) who were attached to the hos pitals of Warsaw and the late Polish. Army, I know of but one or two exceptions to the belief that the Cholera was not contagious. Can all these men, Mr. Editor, be deceived on a subject with which they were so familiar, and to treat which many had been expressly commissioned? If so, then let the following positive facts speak tor themselves. When the Persian Prince quitted the city of Tabriz, the Cholera was carried along with his attendants, and continued to attack five or six a day, for ten days; still not a person of the vil lages through which they passed or where they slept, took the disease. When the epidemic was raging in Moscow, 40,000 individuals left the city without performing any quarantine, and yet not one case was transferred by them to other places. In no quarantine whatsoever, has the disease ever occurred. Ships at sea without ever having touched at the ports where the spasmodic Cholera has existed, have been affected by it. Nurses and physicians in daily attendance on the Choleric have still continued to enjoy an immunity from the disease neither was their visits to families or other patients rharked by the appearance of it. One individ ual of a numerous family, a few only of a large city, have been affected. Washerwomen to the Choleric Hospitals have been exempted from it. Dissections have been made with perfect security; nay, more, wounds made while per forming this unpleasant, but all important in vestigation, have healed and without producing any specific enect. My friend Dr. r oy oi ra ris, exposed himself in every possible manner to the Cholera while in Warsaw; he inhaled the breath of the dying sufferer, he put on the shirt and got into the bed of the dead patient, he drank the matter ejected from his stomach, he even infused into his own veins the blood drawn from the Choloric and all this With only s slight nausea and head-ache. These experi ments were in part repeated by another friend, Dr. Pin el, and with a similar result. If these facts, Mr. Editor, which I have has tily drawn up since perusing your paper of the 18th, will not effect the object for which they are written, the abolition of all restrictions on commerce, and a change of public opinion; conclude with the conviction of having perform ed a duty, and claiming charity to believe what I have seen and what I have experienced that the Asiatico European Cholera Morbus is not contagious; and I defy the world to produce one authentic case where it has been communi cated from one individual to another, and still less to have been transmitted by inanimate ob jeets. PAUL F. EVE, M. D. Late Surgeon Major, 15th Regiment, &c. ot the Polish Army. Augusta, (Ga.) Feb. 24, 1832. Earl Fj.tz William. The following ston is so pretty in itself, and so creditable to both parties, that we cannot refuse it a place in our columns. A farmer called on Earl Fitz Wil liam to represent that his crop of wheat had been seriously injured in a field adjoining- a certain wood, where his lordship's hounds! had, during the winter, frequently met to hunt and he estimated the damage his crops had suffered at 50 1. The Earl immediately gave him the money. As the harvest ap proached, however, the wheat grew, and in those parts of the field that .were most tram pled, the corn was strongest and most luxuri ant. The farmer went again to his Lordship : I am come, my Lord, respecting the field of wheat adjoining the wood.' ' Well my friend, did I not allow you sufficient to remunerate you for your loss ? Yes, my lord, I have found that I sustained no loss at all, and I have, therefore, brought the 50. hack again.' Ah' ! exclaimed the venerable Earl, this is what I like this is as it should be between man and man.' He then entered into conver sation with the farmer, asking him some ques tion about his family, how many children he had, &c. His Lordship then went into an other room, and returning, presented the far mer with a check for 100. 'Take care of this : and when your eldest son is of age pre sent it to him, and tell him the occasion that produced it.' English paper. General Aspect of Palestine. The hills still stand round about Jerusalem as they stood in the days of David and Solomon. The dew falls on Hermon, the cedars grow on Libanus; and Kishon, that ancient river, draws its stream from Tabor as in the times of old. The sea of Galilee still presents the same natural ac companiments, the fig-tree springs up by the way-side, the sycamore spreads its branches, and the vines and olives still climb the sides of the mountains. The desolation which co vered the cities of the Plain is not less striking at tne present Hour tnan when Moses with an iuspireefpen recorded thejudgment of God ; the swellings of Jordan are not less regular in their rise than when the Hebrews first ap proached its banks; and he who goes down from Jerusalem to Jerico still incurs the greatest hazard of falling among thieves. There is, in fact, in the scenery and man ners of Palestine, a perpetuity that accords well with the everlasting import of its histori cal records, and which enables us to identify with the utmost readiness the local imagery of every great transaction. mainour gn Cabinet Library. Galilee. This country would be a para dise were it inhabited by an industrious peo ple under an enlightened government. ' Vine stocks are to be seen here a foot and a half in diameter, forming by their twining branches, vast arches and extensive ceilings of verdure. A cluster of grapes, two or three feet in length, will give an abundant supper to a whole fa mily. The Plains of Esdraelon are occupied by tribes around whose brown tents the sheep and lambs gambol to the sound of the reed, which at night-fall calls them hornc LOST, OR MISLAID, A judgment against Frederick Naested and Jeremiah Fonvielle, for $76 65 and in- terest from 22d October, 1828, with a credit of $ 50, dated September 24th, 1831 ; also, a judgment against Frederick Naested and Jere- mian ruilienc, iui it, aim luicitsmuiu 7th January, 1828 ; also, a judgment against Frederick Naested, for 9 3b and interest from December 27th, 1829, with a credit of $26 21, dated September 14th, 1831 ; also, a judgment affainst Frederick JNaested, tor wzs uy,ana in terest, from July Win, iow ; a note agamsi FrPfteriek Naested, for $20, due November 15, icon . nH nn nther note aeainst said ired- llJtV , Uiiu " " O m rirk Naested. for 87 30, due 22d March, 1(M1. All persons are hereby cautioned against tradinir for any of the above described judg navmcnt of the same has been legally stopped. VO W AAWWty w m- J JAMES HAYVAKD. Newbern, Feb. 28, 1832. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, ) Craven County. S TTT)EFORE me, Hardy Whitford, one of the MO Justices of the Peace for the county aforesaid, personally appeared James Hay ward, and made oath, that he received ot jonn rj. Durand, ' on the 2d of November, 1831. the above described judgments and notes, against Frederick Naested and Jeremiah Fonvielle, to collect as an Officer, and that he has lost or mislaid the same, so that collection of said judgments and notes, cannot be legally entor- ced, without new process being issuea. JAMES HAYWARD. Sworn to before me, by said James Hay ward, the 28th of February, 1832. HARDY WHITFORD, . P. STEAM BOAT JOHN MORRIS, FOR SALE. f flHIS superior Steamer is offered for pri- U vate sale until the 15th proximo, when a public disposal will be made in this place, no sale takes place in the mean while. She is aZ I i s t j 6 ;V w,""r7 J.; y I., r ted for freight and passengers ; is built of best materials, and in an excellent manner and now in reauinesa ior linrneuiaie employment araws , 01 A A . v 3 , only 3, lect water is 114 feet lonrr, 23f ft. J b' '-'4 beam or 40 ft. including guards has good an chors, cables, cook stove and furniture. Terms one quarter cash, and the balance 6, 12 and 18 months, with good security. Apply to JOHN A. ROBERTS. Norfolk, 113th Feb. 1832. FIVE CENTS REWARD. ABSCONDED from the service of the sub scriber, on the 13th inst. his indented Apprentice named Francis Chesnut. The above reward, but no expenses or thanks, will be given for his delivery to me. RAIMOND CASTIX. Newbern. Feb. 29, 1832. NOTICE. AT February Term, A. D. 1832, of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Craven County, the subscriber qualified as Exe cutrix of the late JOHN I. BROCK. All per sons indebted to the estate of said deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and those having claims against it, are required to present them, duly authenticated, within the time prescribed by law, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. SARAH BROCK, Executrix. Stony Brandy 20th Feb, 1832. NEGROES FOR SALE. TNN Saturday, the 17th March, 1832, will L be sold, athe house of W. L. B. PEARCE, at the fork of Ncuse and Dover roads, 12 miles from Newbern, ? FOUR LIKELY NEGROES, and a valuable young Mare, well broke to the Saddle belonging to the Estate of JOHN I. BROCK, dee'd. Terms ; Notes at six months, with approved securities. SARAH BROCK, Executrix. 20th Feb. 1832. To the Public. FTllHE subscriber will leave Waynesboro' on Ji- Tuesday evening, the 15th inst. but not without returning his thanks to its citizens for their kind and polite treatment. He informs his friends, and the public in general, that his Reading School will commence on Monday, the 20th instant, in the Building formerly oc cupied by the late Ephriam Daniel, on Black Creek, eighteen miles from Wayhesborough. As the subscriber's family will reside in the same building, which is large and commodious, he will accommodate a few Boarders, on ac commodating terms. He pledges himself to parents and others that the moral and religious duties of those entrusted to his care shall be strictly attended to. Students who are not boarders, and who reside at a distance, shall be accommodated during inclemencies of weather which might injure their health. The branches taught in this Institution, are, Orthography, Reading, Penmanship, Arithme tic Grammar and Geography; prices, from $6 to 8 8 per Session of 120 days. A Bible School will be regularly attended to every Sabbath day, unless interrupted by other devotional obligations; to whieli students of both sexes and all ages are invited, without mo ney and without price. The situation is well knourn to be a healthy one, the water is very superior, and board can be had in respectable families" on moderate terms. tit t n t rxr JAME& BROOME. Black CrcekjWayne County, 10th February, 1832. NEW GOODS TaJm ! Tkf ? UOSeptl il. twratiade V Co TTTTAVE iust receive nflr. TTTTAVE just received, and offer for . JLlLL for cash, the following articles, vu 30 Bblsf Sup. Flour, " Beach's br&n 20 " Nary Bread, &nd' 10 " Pilot do. 10 Hhds. N. E. Rum, 20 Bbls. New Orleans Whiskey, 10 " Baltimore Rye do. 10 " Curtis's N. Y. Rye Gin. 2 Bbls. Lorrillard's Snufl in Bottle 6 . 1 " " Bladd lets, 12 Bbls. Apple Brandy, 5 ' Porpoise Oil, 2 " Winter Sperm do. 2 " Linseed do. 80 Kegs White Lead, 50 Boxes Fontain's Virginia raanukr Tobacco, in pound twists. 100 Casks Stone Lime, h 100,000 Brick, a large proportion of which o 25 M. R. O. Staves, prime qu for the" w . i. jjiarKet. Newbern ; Feb. 22d, 1832 'frltf SUBSCRIPTION FOR IMPORTING GRAPE VINE ROOTS, From France, at a moderate price, and encou: aging the introduction of that culture inio the United States. MR. ALPHONSE LOUBAT having considerably enlarged his Vineyard, on Long Island, where he now has, in full cultiration, thirty-five acres of ground, con' taining 72,000 Grape Roots, of wnicn 7zzvuv are tor his 6ub. :seribers ; having also the peco. liar advantage of being enabled to procure the best species of Roots from his Father's exten sive Vineyards and Nurseries, in the districts of Bordelais Clerac and Buzet departments of Gironde and Lot and Garone, in France, (43 N. Lat.) proposes to the numerous friends to the cultivation of the Grape Vine in the United States, a subscription, which was opened on the first of August, 1828. Mr. A Lwill engage to furnish subscriber if tum fro Af witnj tneir wrape vine noots, ana forward expense, to the different cities where gubscription Hgts shall bave becn opencd The roots will be three years old, and will pro duce considerable fruit the second year from the ime of theJr bei ,anle(L They win fce carefully classed andfc Fackcd in box'egt whh r ti i ";1 . - r - i ,i i some of the original sou in which tneynavt? h j u i. -n i r t. . a I lirnn rnteH nrhiih will rrrritTlv i htnfo fh y - J thriving of the roots, when transplanted. . Orders will be punctually attended to: the subscribers designating the quantities and spe cies of the Grape Vine Roots they wish to have. They will engage to pay for 1000 roots, or more, at the rate of 12 cents for each root ; for less than 1000, at the rate of 15 cents; and 25 cents per root for less than 50. Roots only two years old shall be paid for at the rate of 9 cents each, for 1000 or more ; 12f cents for lcs than 1000 ; and 18 cents for less than 50 roots. Payment to be made on delivery of the roots. dh Orders are received by T. WATSON, Agent. Febiwy 15, 1832 12mo. Linnsean Botanic Garden & Nurseries, FLUSHING, NEAR NEW YORK. WILLIAM PRINCE & SONS, Proprie tors, announce that the great extensions made in their Establishment, which now covers near 50 acres, completely tilled with the choices: TREES, SHRUBS and PLANTS, enables them to offer the various kinds at the reduced prices stated in their new cataloguer, which will be sent to any person who may aply for them. The size and excellence of the Tree? exceeds all former periodg, and the most scru pulous attention has been devoted to their accuracy, which is invariably an object o their personal attention. To Nurseries they will allow a liberal discount and convenient credi?. All letters desiring information, will be relied to by the first mail. As many personi c agents for different Nurseries, it is requested that orders intended for us be particularly tft cified. Every Invoice sent has a printed head ing and our signature and such proof or origin must be insisted on, as we take upon ourselvfs no responsibility unless such an invoice ean be produced. Their Treatise on the Vine describes 280 kinds of Grapes and their culture. Their Treatise on HORTICULTURE contains des criptions for cultivating them; and fthejff POMOLOGICAL MANUAL, just published, contains full descriptions of above 600 VaneU of Pears Plums Peaches Cherries Apricot? Nectarines Almonds kc. besides other truils so that all persons can make their selections, with a knowledge of the qualities. Apply to THOMAS WATS0 r Agent Nevbcrrn Most Extraordinary continuation OF GREAT AND UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS f BY THE SYLVESTERS, ONLY a short time ago, it was announcf that at the Office of Sylvester, 130, BroaJ the 820,000 Prize was sold, and just bfW that, Six of $ 10,000 in Six successive Icteric immediately afterwards Sylvester's O0c i. Pittsburgh sold the $10,000 in a Wholejicw, also Half of 85,0004 of 8 1,000 Whole Tfc &c. Slc. and again did Sylvester, at his U Prize In the ITnintv C.ni lap" Saturday, the 24th inst. Such a combing of success was never known ; the above oe comparison with any other Office in the lini States. Itis also worthy of remark that the above Prizes were Paid immediately on w receipt of the drawing. Sylvester takes . w opportunity of informing his dista!1v" that all orders for Tickets in.any of le" M'Intyre's Lotteries, must be addressed as u der, and will meet same attention as on per -nal application, in all cases the original i ets are sent, and Sylvester is regularly 1 , sed by the State. Letters need only be adares. S. J. SYLVESTER, New-York-

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