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nag*** BY GEORGE PAUL.] 3op)a Capital Ucportcr, PUBLISHED 'WKKKLV, BY E O E A U TERMS—TWO DOLLAKS PER AJflTITM. JOB PRINTING. Tthoroughly HE REPORTER OFFICE HAVING BEENTE renovated, the proprietor is pre|! pared to execute with neatness and dispatch^ nil kinds of RITANW RAIROT JOB nzmmral BOOKS, PIIAMPIILETS, HAND-HILLS, BLA.NK COUNTY OBDEBS. MORTGAGES, •W DONALD M. MelNTOSH, TTORNEY AT LAW, CEDAR RAPID^F Liun comity,Iowa, will practice in the dif law and equity in this State K attend to all business entrusted ferent courts of will promptly to him will devote particular attention to con veyancing and would respectfully solicit 4 share of public patronage. May, 1851. GILMAN FOLSOM, ATTORNEY AT LAW, IOWA CITY, Iowa, will practicc in Johnson and tho adjoining counties, in the Supreme Court of Iowa and in the District Court of the United States, May, 1851. S. A. BISSELL, ATTORNEY AND COUI^SELLOE AT Law, Tipton, Cedar countlr, low*. May, 1851. JAMES D. TEMPLIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY Public, Iowa City, Iowa, will practice in the different courts of this State. May, 1851. D. P. PALMER, ATTORNEY AND* COUNSELLOR AT Law, ill practice in the District and Supremecourtsof Iowa,and in theUnited%^ates pistrict court. Bloomficld, Davis co. Iowa. May, 1851. W. PENN. CLARK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR in Chancery, Iowa City, Iowa, will attend t«» all business entrusted to his care in the U. S. District court, and the Supreme and District courts of tho State of Iowa, and also act as LAND AGENT. Office over the store occupied l»y George Andrews. May, 1851. 4* WM. E. LEFFINGWELL, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law, De Witt, Clinton county, Iowa, will practice in the Supreme and District courts of this State. Msj»1851. May, 1851. JHUSJ Justices BLANKS J, CLERKS' BLANK*^ of All kinks. BLANK XVAUHAX- TEE DEEDS. LABELS, AC. are prepared to»do all OSB, kinds will receive prompt attention. Row My Boat Lifhlly. "Kow my boat lighl»y.'' Tis fragile, 'tis Row my boat gentty. Hail, boatman, oh lailf* Hear tfiou my summons. Aye list to my calll Bright is the water, Tet dark 'ueath its JM& Thy Rliglitly fairy oar Dip light in the wave, 'Neath its white foamy crest There's many a grave. Thy slightly fairy oar Dip light in the stream, 'Neath its dark billow LarkS dangers unseen. 1' GEORGE S. HAMPTON, tNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT City, Iowa* will practice in in this State. MORGAN RENO, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR IT Law, Iowa City, Iowa, will practice in the courts of this State, and attend promptly to all business entrusted to him. May, 1851. L. B. PATTERSON, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT Law, Iowa City, Iowa, will attend to all business entrusted to him in the line of his pro fession. CHARLES A. ROBBINS, WATCH-MAKER,City, ENGRAVER, AND Jeweller, Iowa at the sign of the Big Watch," corner of Clinton and Collegests. May, 1851. G. D. CROSTI1 WAIT, O E N E A A A E N Intra City, Intra. KEEPS CONSTANTLY ON HAND,WAR rants guaranteed not only genuine, but good for the land011 which they are located. Also, will locate Bounty Land Warrants, is sued under the act approved Sept. 28,1859. Also, will furni»h EXCHANGE, on any of the Eastern Cities or St. Louis, in sums to suit and on reasonable terras. May, 1851. w E. E. GAY, HOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER in Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Oils, Paints, Dye Slutfs, Druggist's Glass Ware. Bur lington, Iowa. Also, dealer in Books and Stationery, Surgi cal Instruments, Teeth,Gold and Tin Foil, Per. turnery, Window Glass a great variety of fan cy articles, sporting and fishing tackle. Agent for Dupont's Gunpowder also, for Smith's Eachine Cards, a supply of which will be kept on hand. May, 1851. SWAN'S HOTEL, Iowa City, Ioica. MTHEabove subscriber, owner and proprietor of the house, would inform the pub lic that he has taken possession of said estab lishment, and is prepared to accommodate the travelling community, transient or regular boarders, and will endeavor to give general sa tisfaction. CHARLES J. SWAN. Unconnected with the above establishment is a largo and extensive LIVERY STABLE, where strangers can at all times be accommoda ted with conveyances toanypartof the country. DENTISTRY. TEETH FILLED WITH GOLD orother foil teeth insertedon plate or pivot, in the best style and on reasonable terms. May, 1851. CHARLES A. ROBBINS. FASHIONABLE DRESS MAKING. MRS. c. WILSON, (LATE OF CINCINNATI,0.) would most respectfully inform the ladies of Iowa City and vicinity that she is now ready to perform all kinds of "fashionable and plain dress making, at her residence, (white frame house known as Fisher's). April 30, 1851, CHARLES NEALLEY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER in Ready Made Clothing, Boots, Shoes, and Leather, Muscatine, Iowa. May 1851. MISSOURI STATE MUTUAL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COM pany. of St. Louis. DIRECTORS—John P. Fallon, John S. McCune, W. A. Conn, T. W. Hoit, Daniel D. l'age.F. A. Eaddy.C. H. Peck, S. M. EdgelJ, C..M. V allean, J. Sigerson. Applications taken by the undersigned at the usual rates GOWER A HOLT, Agents. Iowa City, May 1851. (iold k Silver Lever Watches. CYLINDER and Verge Escapement Watches, guard, fob ul Vast chains, for sale here (J. A, ROBBINS. my boat closely, Ton moss cover«T 1 Bodes danger and fear— That small distant speck May cloud thy sky o'er. And bear in its bosons The tempest's wild roar- Bear lightly my bark, On this boisterous sea, While fancy paints brightly, And hope dances free— The clear crystal wave Shall mirror my star, Aad woo with its boKftf Its image afar. Waft gently my baitc O'er life's stormy sea, Faith is my helmsman— Love a pilot for me— Hope is my bright star, 'Mid dangers and strife, T»,guide me in SBfety O'er the Ocean of Why, Smith, I don't mean any of fence. I only think your head docs look a little queer. 1 think it's swel led some.' Smith's face was well lathered, clear up to the temples, and his long hair brushed backwards, hung over the chair: He suddenly leant forward, and, dropping the towel from his neck, and looking into the serious face of Rogers with amazement, exclaimed: 'You don't mean to say that? 'But 1 do, though,' said Rogers: 'yet it may be only a notion of mine.' 'Oh!' said Smith and he threw his head back again and the lathering process went on. By this time Rogers had completed the insertion, around Smith's hat, un der the leather lining, where it fits the head, of a copy of the Baltimore'Sun' which he showed to Robinson, a friend who just then stepped in, at the same time placing the point fin ger of the right hand alongside of his nose, and casting a sly glance towards Smith. Good morning, Smith,' said Rob inson "h«w do you find yourself this morning old friend? 'Pretty bright, Robinson,' said Smith. 'I hope you are well my friend,' 'Quite well, I thank'ee, Smith— quite well. But how, what—eh, your head. Mr. Smith, isn't eh, eh, swel led some?' 'Swelled some!' exclaimed Smith —swelled some Eh! how—eh! Robin son, what do you mean?' 'Oh, nothing, Smith, nothing. I did think—but it's nothing, I suppose. I tho't there was a little tension of the skin—enlargemant of the a swelling, in fact but I suppose it's a 'You suppose it's what!' 'Nothing' oh, nothing only a notion of mine, Smith,' said Robinson. 'It couldn't be that a man's head could spread out of a sudden, 1 should think.' 'I should think not,, said Smith. The barber was now done with hifli 'I should think not!' And he repaired to the glass to put on his cravat. 'I should think not, indeed!' and as he surveyed his polished face and sleek hair, he was evidently pleased. 'No, no, my Itoys,' he said with a smile. 'Smith Jias a hard head Smith's head don't swell for a frolic!' and Smith laughed a glad kind of a laugh, which seemed to indicate an agreeable condition of the inward man, such as a man realizes when he is pleased with himself and the rest of his race. The barber gently plied the wisp to Smith's back, and Smith's gloves were neatly drawn on, and the bar ber's boy, as he smoothed its silky surface, and in a soft tone, 'Hat, sir, your hat?* 'Yes,' said Smith—'jrei, thank'ee loum MttMM iiiiiiii Xiife. Prom the Washington Republ'C. A Swollen Head, and the Man ner of 1 reatiug it. Smith and Rogers are good-look ing, middle-aged gentlemen, and very clever, worthy, and talented fellows, too, and tolerably prosperous in the affairs of the wprld but, strange to tell, they will occasionally get out on a bit of a lark, without the advice and conscnt of their constitutional advi sers—id est, their wives. Now it- hap pened last week that, after 'making a night of it' together, and indulging in a brief morning nap, they met at the barber's 'Good morning, Smith,' said Rogers. 'How do you find youreself 'Pretty bright, Rogers,' said Smith —'head a little queer, though.' 'Ah, indeed!' said Rogers, 'Fact —does look a little queer.' 'What?' said Smith.' 'Look a lit tle queer! What do you mean by that?' SERIES. IOWA CITY, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 6, 1851. boy—but! what!—my hat! yes!— how's this!—too small!—eh, Rogers, that is my hat!—why!* 'Smith,' said Rogers, 'the fact is, I think your head is swelled—someP 'Pshaw!' said Smith, hesitatingly, 'that c-a-n-fcbe yet how is this?' on it Smith,' said Rob :iead must be swelled some.' 'What it can't be,' said Smith, very hesitatingly, 'It can't be Robinson how could—but does it really look so? —yet-this hat's a a 'Well, Smith,' Robinson continued don't see how a good rubbing could do any harm, especially if cologue should be freely used and.' 'The fact is,' said Smith, 'my head ild feci better after a Uttle 'Depend*upc son, 'your he ber's assistance, off and cravat, and down sat Smith. 'Glug-glug-glug!' said the bottle, and its likquid flowed grateftilly over the unfortunate head of the perplexed Mr. Smith, and the palms of the bar ber's hands played freely around and about it. 'Ah!' said Mr. Smith—'ah!' again and again he inhaled with a long inspiration the reviving perfume, and then for a time he closed his eyes and gave himself up to the soothing mani pulations of the silent and assiduous barber. At lenght, after the towel, and the comb, and the brush, had been successively applied, and the neck had been well rubbed, and the external head once more .presented the appearencc of order and neat ness, Smith arose and was about to attire himself once more, while his two friends were profoundly absorbed in the morning papers. 'Smith,' said Rogers, suddenly, 'try your hat on first. See if you are re ally benefitted.* Smith took up the hat, from which Rogers had quietly extracted one fold of the paper, and placed it gently up on his head. He took hold of the brim on each ride, and drew it down. 'Rogers,' said he,'there is improve ment but—»my hat will not come on. Smith said this with some solemnity. 'Oh! exclaimed Rogers, 'if that's the case—if there's improvement, Smith—if there is, Smith, there's no, occasion for alarm. But won't your hat go down? No, that's a fact, if' it won't. Well, Smith, let me tell you —I always find, 'shampooning' to do the most good. Suppose you try it.' 'Well,' said Smith, 'if the io) logne DEVOTED TO POLITICS, SCIENCE, ARTS, i.ITEItATUEK, ^ND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. inf has benelittec^jt^^hus muet^^^ook# reasonable that-*E-' 'That the 'shampoon' will Ijenefit you so much more. Exactly—that's clear enough,' said Mr. Rogers. 'Certainly!' said Mr. Robinson. And down sat Mr. Smith. The towel was fixed before, and the towel was fixed behind, and the shampoon was freely applied, Mr. Smith's head was rubbed like a ball of soap between the palms of the bar ber's hands and the fingers of fhe barber ran through Mr. Smith's hair, and Mr. Smith's head looked like a field of tall grass after a heavy blow and a heavy rain. At length the towel againg absorbed the moisture, the comb again reduced chaos to or der, and the brush again finished the artist-like work. 'How now, Smith?' said Robinson. 'Smaller?' (Another fold of the paper has been extracted.) Smaller Smith?' 'My hat's nigher to fit there's no mistake about that,' said Smith. 'But don't it fit yet?' asked Rogers. 'No not quite,' said Smith—not quite and yet it's nigh pretty nigh.' 'De gentleman's hair are tolibly long,' suggested the patient artist, who had already earned two fips and a quarter, and who now thought an other levy would make an even half. 'Your hair is long,' said Rogers. 'Yes, for such thick hair,' said Robinson. 'But my hat went on yesterday" said Smith. -But you don't expect to get entire ly cured at once, do you? said Rog ers. 'Well I intend to get my hair cut,' said Smith, and down he sat upon the chair, where the masculine Delila soon reduced his sable fleece, the two friends, meanwhile reading very in tently, Robinson's paper being up side down all the while. 'Now, you'll do, I think,' said Rog ers. 'I should think so,'said Robinson. 'If I don't,' said Smith,'I know what will help me out,' "Smith you don't mean to 'Certainly not,' said Robinson. 'Mean to what?' 'You don't mean to use a compres, nor astringent, nor 'Oh, no, said Smith, impatiently 'I wi?h I had done it at first but Idid'nt think of it. Tood or Stevens could have furnished me with a prime hat at once. 'That's a fact,' said both the friends together, 'I dare say I had as well do it yet,' said Smith. 'Well, if your hat don't fit yet, sup pose you do,' said Rogers, as he plac ed back inside the lining a couple of folds of the paper he had just extrac ted. Mr. Smith raised the hat to his trig looking, head, but it still would not go on. 'Robinson,' said he, I can't go to the hatter's bare headed 'Certainly not,' said RotffaiMlk Til From Scluiolcr.iU's Narrative. o to the hatter# and pick a hat out' Itasca Lake—The Source of tfce ior you.. Mr. Robinson was not feomR' totig and when a boy brought'tjiro ||r three hats, a selection wtfs soon owe by Mr. Roger's assistance but M&Stnith was mood and melanchtl^ At length, with a teartul look, aad a fal tering voice, he said— 'Gentleman, this thing of is a bad business—a gentleman, 'It really is,' said Rol 'And I am done wi" ers. 'And so am I,' sal Will/ it—dope, done learn his forehead •tcrjron# ooqp table flbr all expenses he ooeanans. 'That's my opinion,' sai 'Aad mine,' satdf Robinsol 'Rogers,' said Smith, 'I wisT»)if you have any change you would just pay this barber for me.' -1. 'Certainly,' said llogefs, as he han ded over the money. 'Robinson, did you tell Stevens the money was good for this hat?' 'Certainly,' said Robinson. 'But you seem to dispondent. What is the matter? You have not been so deeply injured.' 'No,' said Smith, tearfully. 'No, not very. But it's my opinion, I say, that every vender of intoxicating And the two friends looked at each other very cunningly. 'I am glad,' said Mr. Smith, 'that both of you my friends, concur with the manipulations of the barber here, hav pleasant, and time was not pressing with me. This new hat is very desir able, also. Your sentiments are very just, too, and I derive much plea sure from that. And now that in ac cordance with them, you have paid the barber, and assumed the pay ment for this new hat, you can dis pose, of the old one a* you please— 4fter first taking the paper from the ttning. Excuse me as I have bank business to attend to. Good morn- never was Smith so much ad e ladies on the ^rnue.an afEIessod morning and Stevens has informed us that there is no more punctual customer in the city then the jocular Mr. Robinson, who called to pay for a hat the other day, half an hour after he had bought it. HEALTH OF THE CITY.—The health of the city, at present, is such as to admonish all of the necessity of pru dence in living. The weather has been excessively warm for several days past, and highly unfavorable to health. Three deaths occurred on Sunday from cholera, to-\\it,Mr. John Prugh (of the firm t)f Pru^h A1 Cook) and two children of widow Candee. With the exception of a lingering case or two in the family of the latter wc have heard of no other attacks.— [Burlington Telegraph. CHOLERA AT FOB1 neighboring to which has tunc to scourge of been suddenly ravages. On Frid made its appearanc of Mr. Stripe, of the I ClIOLEXA A'F WKST I'OWT, Itasca Lake, the Lac La Bieche of the French, is in every respect a beau tiful sheet of water, seven or eighl miles in extent, lying among hills of diluvial formation, surmounted with pines, which fringe the distant hori zon, and-form an agreeable contrast with the green foliage of its immedi ate shores. Its greatest length id from southeast to northwest, with n southern prolongation, or bay, which receives abrock. The water is temper ate and bright reflecting a foliage pro duced by the elm, ljrnn, maple and eherry, together with otfear species abuadbiRt in atrUwrn latitudes- the lmver ]mrts ()f thig Htr0 im_the drinks, and every one else, should be Mississippi having its origin here, held accountable for all the evils and all the expenses he occasions.' "And mine too,' said Rogers. 'And mine too,' said Robinson. The outlet of Itasca Lake is per haps ten or twelve feet broad, with an apparent depth of twelve or eighteen inches. The discharge of water seems to be copious, compared to its inlet. Springs may, however, produce ac cessions which are not visible, and this is probable, both from the geolog- my iriend, ica| character of the country, and the been very i transparency and coolness of the wa ter. The height of this lake above the sea is an object of geographical in terest, which, in the absence of ac tual survey, it may subserve the pur- 1?rom loses of useful inquiry to estimate. notes on the ascent, it cannot be short of one hundred and sixty feet above Cass Lake. Adding the estimate of 1,330 feet, submitted in 1820 as the elevation of that lake, the Mississippi may be considered to orig inate at an altitude of 1,400, say 1, 500 feet above the Atlantic. Its assuming former date as the basis, and computing it through the Itascan, or west fork, may be placed at 4,160 miies, one hundred eighty two of which comprise an es timate of its length above Cass Lake. Jtsgeferal course,in ascending above the latter point, is north of west as far as Lac Travers, Then south to its primary forks, which is continued, following up the east fork toilubbak una Lake, and for some distance further. Jt then varies a short dis tance north and northeast, then south and southeast, and finally southwest, to it^ main source in Ossawa Lake, The portage thence to Itasca Lake is west-south-west. Both of these 1 LAIS* FROM SALT LAKB—Indepen dence July 20th.—The Viail under charge of W. Y. Rush and Jo. Par- i kept by Lieut, sons reached here yesterday, having by left Salt Lake on the 1st inst, Busi-' ness was dull, with little money in the valley, l'halps,Cogswell and Ilolliday, with a part of their goods, had reached the lakes appear to rise in springs, on the height of land. They are sepa rated by about six miles of country. Their latitude city of Salt Lake, without serious in- our best maps in forty-seven degrees terruption. Kincade and Livingston were 125 miles this side. Holliday's ox team at Fort Laramie. Their sec ond train at Scott's Blufl'. The mail out was at Ash Hollow, and a number of emigrants on Sweet Water, doing well.—&. Louis Re publican. cholera Hote?'and in the course of the dav Mrs Strine LBE CO0JT- we had no meins of accurately determining, From daily notes of the course and distance.*, Allen, as indicated a compass and watch, their posi tion is. however shown to be south west and not, as heretofore supposed, north-west, of Cass Lake. They are, in fact, a little south of west from Leech Lake, which is placed on sixteen minutes. The highest north ing obtained by the Mississippi is one of the great diluvial plateau, contain ing the contiguous waters of Lac La Sable, Marquette, and Travers, which cannot vary more than a few minutes from forty-eight degrees. These facts will explain the error of geo graphical writers, who supposed that the parallel of forty-nine degrees would intersect the Mississippi. Its origin in the remote and unfrequent ed area of country between Leech Lake and Red River, probably an entire degree of latitude south of Lake, which still figures Turtle Lake, which still llgurers on Homc bci'x the course of the davJMrs^ Stripe tlie u ,ual Maj. J. Huner, and a Mr. Beamieh!r e .u 1 furnishes perhaps the best reason fell victims to it-! attacks. Pvo other I .. i tvnv ivs rv'ttia.FC/Urce has remained so cases had occured at latest accounts. The death of Mrs. Stripe will be la mented by a wide circle of friends and acquaintance.). Maj. Huner was an old citizen, extensively known throughout the State us a nie iiber oi" both our territorial end stats legisla tures, and universally esteemed for his kindness of heart and rectitude of character.—Bur. Telegraph. of our maps as its source, ihrovvs the returns of the cufitoin long envelorcd in obscurity. The Missisrip7i River Traverses more de grees of latitude than any other river in America, and the remark might ...I-.— mhmtrn rent spring water. At the former it is as turbid as earth in suspension can make it, and carries a forest of floating trees on its bottom. Below the junction of its primary fork, it Vi ih** of tortoise, found at the totality of former Indian camp fires, indicate the existence of these species in the lake. And here, as well as through out the lakes of this region, are found the duck, teal and loon in possession of their favorite seclusions. Innu merable shells (a species of small he lix) were driven up to the head of the island. Other parts of the lake yield small species of the umo, which are found strewing the bed of the outlet. And it may here be remarked that this shell exists in the largest and heaviest species heretofore known in lie in the central portions of its w)qy. Its depth is great in all its lower parts, and increase? as it flovfg on to the Gulf, and its general descent and velocity are such as to appear very striking characteristics.* Noblg views arrest the eye of the observer, in every part of its diversified course. Orignating in a heavy and extensive bed of diluvial soil, superimposed up on primative strata, it soiin wears its channel down to the latter and af ter running over them for several hundred miles, plunges at length, at the Falls of St. Anthony, over the carboniferous limestotie formation, which is so prevalent and so vnluable for its mineral deposits below that point. This is finally succeeded by diluvial and alluvial banks, the latter of which are semi-annually enriched by fresh deposits and exhibit a delta as broad and as exuberant as the Nile. Like the latter, it has its cata racts in the Falls of St. Anthony and Pankaigama, and in numerous lesser leaps and cascades, where its current is tossed into foam, and threatens destruction to the navigator. Such are the physical traits, and these are enough in'character, magnitude, and variety, to lead our contemplation ir resistably "through nature up to na ture's God." From tho data above given, tbc descent of the Mississippi will average a fraction orcr five iuches per mile. Famine In India. A British writer*recently remark ing on the horrors which sometimes attend Christian rule in Pagan lands, sketches the fallowing graphic tmt fearful picture: "Turn your eyes backward upon e-w.?ncs of the past year. Go with me into the north-west province of the Bengal presidency, and 1 will show you the bleached skeletons of five hundred thousand human beings who perished of hunger in the space of a few short months. Yes, died of hunger, in what has been .justly called the granary of the world. The air, for miles was poisoned with the efllu via emitted from the putrifying bod ies of dead. The rivers were choked with the corpses thrown into their channels. Mothers cast their little ones beneath the rolling waves, be cause they would not see them draw their last grasp, and feel them stiffen in their arms. Jackals and vultures, approach and fasten upon the bodies of men before life is extinct. Mad ness, disease and despair stalked a broad, and no human power present to arrest their progress. "And this occured in British India, in the reign of Victoriu the First.— Nor was this event extraordinary or unforeseen. Far from it—1HU5 wit nessed a famine in the northern pro vinces:— 182*i saw one in the Deccan. They hove continued to increase in frequency and extent under our sway for more than half a century. Under the administration of Lord Clive, a famine in the Bengal provinces swept off three millions!—and, at that time the British speculators had their gran aries filled to repletion with corn!— Horrid monoply of the necessaries of life! Three millions died, while there was food enough and to spr.relocked up in the tort-houses of the rich.— o o a o i u e are now called to regard the last dreadful carnage—that of the Jast year—we are made acquainted, by house, with tin was ex ported from the lov/er part of Bengal as would have fed the half million who perished, for a whole year!" stream out of the fact that as much grai route the fur trfU ariJ perhaps, be extended to the habitable! the extent of southern aecension globe. The extremes of its chan- Conr.ng up the Southern route ges in climate and vegetable produc- from Memphis, he fell in with an old tions arc consequently very great. It man, whom he fancied, and with occupies more than three thousand I whom ha entered into conversation, miles cf the distance between the' by asking him whether he had lately artic and equator. Long as it its,: heard anything about nulittcation he however, it TY.—We regret to the^t the chol- however, it has a tributary lon^e*' (Major Donelson) hav.ng seen little era has been prevailing, to an alarm- than itself (the Missouri.) Like the or nothing of it, 01 late. Ih old ing extent, for 2o»ue days past, at' Niger, its mouth was discovered by man replied that he was probablv West Point, Lee county. Up to expeditions down ito current but un- taken for a man v.ho knew Jittls of Thursday morning lost, as we learn like that etream, which has so long any thing but for all that, he had from the Fort Madison Statesman, held the geographical world in cus- known Gen. Jackson, and would now some 30 case.- hjtu occurred, 8 yf pense, its sources have been also tell which proved fatal. The names of' sought from its central parts. Its sons, anf that if any one of the deceased are, H'Ttha Fletcher, a entire course is at length known and turned nullifier, he would not kill child of Mr Hunt, Levi Jackson, E- we may now appeal with full certain-1 him, but enchangehim for adog, and jastus Brand, Willi-m Green, David ty to the Balize and Itasca Lake, as then kill the dog. It is impossible Groesbeck, Mrs. Starkie and B. Ding- its most extensive points. At the i for an old man to u»® Uptp ei|er man.—Bur. Telegraph. latter it is a placid basin of transpa-1 j^etjc figure, [$2 00 PER ANNUM.' 1 l'' r. "fi nilri VOL. 10.—NO. 10. Young: America. Col. Cunynghame, in his reccrtt travels in America gives the follovf*: ing picture of the young AmericanW- Yoting England is frequently ac* .... ,r i n i the public table at Bockport, Cass La»te,\\ imped, and Luke 1 epin, j3 yPar!* are lakes of handsome magnitude and striking scenery. The numper of its tributaries of the first, and tho second, and the third class, is so large that it would furnish a labor of swine research to determine it. Tho Mis souri, the Ohio, and Arkansas, are of the noblest class. W hoever has stood at the juoclioti of these streams, as the writer has done, must have been impsessed with jf Gf age, entered freel into conversation respecting the mer its of the different candidates who were about to stand (or run, as it i* here termed) at the next election, for some government officers at the neighboring town. This embryo pol itician wasjeondemning one party for coalescing with the whigs, and anoth er for too highly favoring the demo cratieparty. It tonish 1 men of would* moreover, aa- T-li-MMj to a counting-house, carefUDv recriov* hiagl«»es,and having pl||*diibo^ne in the corner, open nil pocket-book and transact business to the amount of many thousand dollars, then whis tle an opera tune, and ask your opin« ion, not forgetting first to give hid owrt, respecting the merits of Jenny Lind. J^Teoeived it as the opinion of an Mn|^|wityperson of New York, that American youths are really nTOflffinl at business, their quickness being perfectly supprising, in which they far surpass any Euro peans by many years their seniors,' )ut that after the age of twenty-fiv* or thirty years, they were not su perior to the sedate German, the more modest Scott, or prudent Englishman* It is not impossible that this prrcocl* ty, in the development of the intel lect, may, perhaps, have the effwfctf weakening its powers," -j A HINT TO BORROWED.—A corres pondent of the Boston Post relates the following annecdote of ROBHF.RT G. SHAW, one of the merchant princes! We have an anecdote to tell about Mr. Shaw, which was never before in print, and which we think will hmuse our mercantile reader*, and not give offence to our venerable fHend. We happend to be present when the currence took place. A gentleman met him on tho street, and upon a brief conversation, asked him to lend him ten dollars as he was short—not an uncommon thing for him at that time. It wa« many months ago. Mr. Shaw raising his spectacles, replpisd*. 'Yes sir, with pleasure, on one eoQ» dition.' 'What is that?* •Why, that when we next meet you will turn your face towards me, look plesant, and not turn it away, I lent Mr. a small sum of moaey a month ago, and ever since that time he has cut me most decidedly, Meethirn where I will, 011 State strett, Commercial street or in the Ex change, and he always turns his faoe away. When I lend a man money and he is owing me, 1 want him to look me full in the face, as if nothing had happened and then I shall be willing to lend him again.' This is a veritable story. The III looking Horse—A Fun I don't know if he look at all/" -Maj SOUTHERN NULLIFICATION. Donelson, of Tenn.,row in Washing ton, tells an anecdote which shows Major Donelson that he had three TJJAAYYUFOFTRRN J, THE RUSSIAN PAS ANT, as he is fhtae? ly called, says a letter from St. Pe tersburgh, is bought and sold with the land on which he lives, and is a being in no way superior to Monsieur Cufl'ee, although his skin is white or rather brownish, with beards that were never visited by that compan ion of civilization, the razor his perr son is the impersonation of filth, and hia countenance the mirror of igno rance. The depression and poverty of these poor creatures is really piti able, and next to eome parts of Ire land, must give to this cluts of hu manity the unenviable position of the mofrt miserable part of the great family to which we all belong. nCTA Yankee peddler, with hi« cart, overtaking another of hi* dpft on the roud, was addressed: "Hullo, what do you carry?" Drugs and Medicines^' wps reply. '•Good," exclaimed the other, f'yptj ppn go ahead I c^rry grave stogpf,'' ... m.'' v "4 '4 .j *1 x# ii I .-t. I't -rl -a* 9 •. /t V- •S-'V'trtr, v. 1*11 f. i 4 '.Jv\ V, K j'"pVV« .. .'I# ,.R. that was no Joke.—A Frenchman, near the Canada line, in Vermont sold ahorse to his Yankee neighbor, which he recommended as being a very sound, scrvicablc animal, in spite of his un prepossessing appearance. To every enquiry of the buyer respecting the qualities of the horse, the Frenchman gave a favorable teply—but always commenced his commendation with the depreciatory remark—"He's not look very good." The Yankee, car ing little for the looks of the horse, of which he could judge for himself, without the seller's assistance, and being fully persuaded, after minute inspection, that the beast was wortfy the moderate sum asked for him, made the purchase, and took him home. A few days afterwards he re turned to the seller, in high dudgeon, and declared that he had been cheat-: ed in the quality of the horse. "Vat is de mattaire?" said the Frenchman. '•Mktter!" said the Yankee, "matter enough—the horse can't see !—he is blind as batT' "Ah!" said the French man—"Vat I vas tell you?—I vas telj you he vas not look ver good—he garx 4 1 •i