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THE TRI?UINE.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 28.
FOR PRESIDENT,
HENRY CL.AY,
OK KKNTCCK7.
City Subscribers, w ho prefer not being callednpor
wee*K' for th-ir jay for this paper, may pay in advance for so
s/iouths or a year at the Desk of the publishing office, and the)
will bare it served promptly and at an early hoor.
For an interesting Letter from Europe?,1 Vitii U
Salerno. Ruin* of Pa-stum?und Progress of ihr Doetrini
of Jltsociation, **? First Pae,e
f?f- For the conclusion of the Hiitory of the Sill; Cut
tare, No. VI., see Last Pagp.
Political Economy.
The penny-a-liners who do up the journey work
of writing Editorials for The. Sun (Beach's) seem
incapable of understanding the plainest propoffl
tion. Fifty times at least have we restated and
explained our elemental view of Political Econo?
my, and yet they broadly reiterate, in regard to
our Introduction to Atkinson's treatise :
?'The doctrine is this : Jill commerce ia an evil! The
transportation of goon's from place to place, for the pur
fate of exchange, out^hl to he prohibited >>\i pencil sTAT
i-tes : This i< the doctrine. Let not the reader be surpri?
sed- No such la'.qua'^e, 'tis true, is fonnd in the preface to
Mr. Atkinson's book ; but it i*. not fonnd theie because
th* writer is incapable of making a fair and logical sute
sneut of his dogmas. 'Tis rrue, there are passages iu the
preface contradictory tothe above view of its doctiin<-. Bui
all authors, confused with an absurd theory, contradict
themselves with every other sentence they ?rite."
It is impossible that any one can have read
the essay referred to and then honestly indulged in
the assertions above quoted from The Sun. Eve?
ry where in our essay is the distinction kept in
view between such articles as a country ran ad?
vantageously produce and such as it rammt.?
The ground of discrimination is also distinctly
?et forth, viz.: Wherever an article can be produ?
ced in a country as cheaply?that is not for as
few dollars, which proves nothing conclusively,
but with as little lalmr, substantially, as in any
other country, then it is clearly advantageous for
that country to produce for itself, and not to sup?
ply it? wants from abroad. But if there l>e any
natural obstacle to advantageous Home Produc?
tion, then buy abroad by all means, and do not
contravene the laws of Nature.
For example, Coffee is a tropical product, to
which the climates of the United States arc un
genial. No advocate of Protection has ever pro?
posed to foster its cultivation here, or to impose
on the foreign article any other duty than a
purely Revenue one. And why ? Because it
could only be produced here at a heavy excess of
cost over that of the foreign product. But Wool
and Woolens can be produced iu the Union as
advantageously (i. e. with as little labor) as in
any other part of the world. This being the fact,
we maintain that it is clearly the interest and
abiding policy of our country to produce these ar?
ticles for herself, no matter though their money
price, in the infancy of the attempt to establish
Them here, be higher here than abroad. The ap.
jiarent, i mined in te cost of the foreign article may
be less, hut the actual, enduring advantage will be
on the side of Home Production. And why ?
Because the same amount of Lahor will grow
the Wool and make the Cloth here as clrscwhcre?
while in cost of transportation, steadiness of sup?
ply, and every thing else, the advantage is on the
side of Home Production. Or, to quote the essay
alluded to, a hundred men engaged in making
Cloth can make just as much here asin lingland,
and will require (absolutely) no more food here
than there. By making the Cloth here instead
of buying it there, we save to (he Country not
only the cost of importing and selling and trans,
porting it, but we save the far heavier cost of send,
ing the Grain and Meat to feed the Manufactu
rerers in England?which saving is divided be?
tween the two classes of producers, giving thd
furnier more cloth, the manufacturer more food1
for his labor, and adding largely, through their
increased prosperity, to the wealth of the country.
Can any thing he clearer than this f
Can any thing he falser than the assumption
that this view of Political Economy is fatal to all
Foreign Trade ? Should we not still require all
the prodi ets of the frigid and the torrid zones?
Tea, Coffee, Spices, Dye Woods. Tropical Fruits,
&c. &C.7 What country ever imported so much
as Great Britain while her Protective Policy was
most stringent? If Protection is fatal to Com?
merce, how came London so much larger than
Amsterdam ? Protection, in securing the fill]
development of the Agricultural, Mineral and
Manufacturing resources of a nation, always se?
cures a more extended and tliriving Foreign Com
mcree. A nation buys most when it is bast able
to ."pay. If we were to foster efficiently, every
branch of industry established in the country,
under the limitation already stated, we have no
doubt our Foreign Commerce would every year
increase, and that the increased import ot For?
eign Products not advantageously produced in
the country would amply replace all the loss to
Commerce from Home Production.
The Sun, with a deliberate recklessness of truth,
proceeds to assert that we have repeatedly advo?
cated penal statutes for the ' prohibition of the in?
ternal trade between our States.' Rear in mind,
?.) Sun! that we brand this as an unequivocal
falsehood, and challenge you to the proof! When
you say that, according to our theory, all trade
?ettveen different States. Cities, and even streets
and families, should he prohibited, your error may
arise from a defect of understanding ; but no char?
ity can cover the falsehood above quoted.
That the establishment of various branches ol
.Manufactures in the West would be advantageous
to the whole country, we cannot doubt. It would
raise the price and steady the market for the vast
Agricultural surplus of that region : it would in?
crease the value of its lauds, accelerate the pro?
gress of Literature and Intelligence; and tend to
remove ^Ac great local disparities in the relative
numbers of the sexes which now prevail amonc
i\p?the East having a superabundance of Wo.
men, the West of Men?a clear moral and social
evil, to be remedied only by widening the sphere
of employment for Women in the West. The re.
quisitc -process of building up Manufactures west
of the Allcganics is now going on, and will eon
tinue to go on at an accelerated pace, if the Tar?
iff is left where it is. That is all wc ask?the
Tariff as it is?under which both City and Coun?
try are now doing as well as their previously ex.
hattslcd and prostrated condition permit. Wo to
whoever shall attempt to overthrow it!
tLT We have reports from various quarters that
JRly Moore will soon take the place of Surveyor
of this port, to be vacated by Mr. Webster's life?
long bosom friend, Mr. Taogart ; that Hon.
Francis Mallory has received the appointment ol
Charge to Constantinople, which was n't offered
xo Maj. Noah; and that Aid. Samuel Badger,of
Philadelphia, is about to supersede John C. Mont?
gomery as Postmaster of that City. Ahem J
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O* The Boston American says The Tribune
i? mistaken in supposing Gen. Cass the second
choice of New Hampshire.-YVc expressed no such
opinion, sir, but merely gave you the authority of
the Nevv-Hampshirc Patriot The difference is
entirely a family one?so be good enough to iacc
the music.
i ?The American adds that Mr- C?iHOTjNis i
) the first choice of the New-Hampshire Loco-ro
co?, and Col. R. M. Johnson the second, and
, Gen. Cass not at all. Very good?4 I '??? agreea
i ble,' as Mark Tapley says ; and new. if the X. H.
Patriot objects, let it talk to the American, and
not to us. _ _
\rj? To-morrow the first great demonstration
from the interior of Pennsylvania in favor Henry
Clat takes place at Lancaster. We have rea>,n
to believe it will be a noble one, inspiring to the
friends of our Country's Hope, and such as to
convince the small band of choice spirits who
still hold out against him, that farther oppnsilion
is ineffectual, and fraught with peril to the be.^t
interests of the country. Pennsylvania cann"t
; possibly afford to divide and throw away the force
I of her true men in the approaching contest.
New-Jersey.?The Whigs of Burlington, Mer
cer and Monmouth Counties, X. J. will hold a
Mass Meeting at Bordentown on the 16th and those
of the Southern Counties at Salem on the29th of
August, to nominal'- their respective candidates
for Congress. Hon. John M. Clayton and other
Whig champions are expected to attend. Xew
Jersey is arousing, and the Loco-Focos can only
succeed there by playing their Louisiana game
being belter friends of Protection than the Whigs
arc._
4 The Elective Franchise?A Word More*'
The Albany Argus still attempts to defend its
assertion that Louisiana has been 'as uniform a
Whig State as any in ific Union' in full view of
the indisputable factsiJiat it was Jeffersonian in !
politics as a Territory, was admitted into the
Union in 1812 as a Democratic Slate, and down
to 1*10 had voted every time for a 1 Democratic*
candidate for President, if the Argus is authority
on the point. If Louisiana has been 'a nni- ,
formly Whig State.' then Jackson and Van Hu?
ren were leading Whigs, as well as Jkffkrson,
Madison* and Monroe.
That the Whigs since IS24 have often had a
majority in the Legislature as well as in the Del?
egation to Congress, we have never disputed.?
Why should we ? There have hern probably
eight years of undivided Whig ascendancy in
Louisiana and t went if of what the Argus calls
Democratic, with two or three years of divided
power. Now on which rests tlie greater blame, if
I blame there be, of Property Restrictions on Suf?
frage in Louisiana?the Democratic party which
imposed them and maintained them twenty
years, or the Whig party, which has suffered
j their continuance for right years .' But, says the j
Argus,
'? But all this is mere badinage. It does not settle the
question whether theWh'ig party of Louisiana were advo?
cates of an extended suffrage. Men change, but principles
! do not. We ask, then, did ^V"11iu executives during the last
I twelve years make any efforts to extend the .elective fran?
chise .' Did they press it upon the Legislature 1 They did
not. Was not Alexander Mouton the first Demtocratii Go
reruor in twelve years? and more, was he not the first exe?
cutive who earnestly pressed this with all the influence of
his high office upon the consideration of the Legislature !
And the re.-.ult is. six mauthx after his inauguration, the De?
mocratic party have cartied the State, and tic Convention i
to hp called. This i? undeniable.";
f*ct us look into all this. In the ffizst place,
' the question' is not whether 4 the Whij,1: parly of
Louisiana1 have any exclusive right to praise in
regard to this matter. It was the Ai gns that
was attempting to make parly capital out of this ;
matter, when we rebuked it. We arc not (Maiming ;
that the Whigs did it, but thai the Suffrage move,
ment is a popular one, irrespective of party. eXow
to the facts.: The Constitution of that Slate
requires that two several Legislatures, may sub?
mit the question of holding or not holding a
Convention to the People at the next Stale Elcc- !
i tion respectively, and that a majority of the Pco- !
I pie at two elections should sustain the call. The
question was thus first submitted to the People by
the Whig Legislature of 1841-2 before Gov.
Mouton was elected. Of course Mr. Mouton
(who was then a U. S. Senator at Washington
will not take the credit of this. The People?
(tliebloody, aristocratic landholders, mind you!
?gave a large majority for a Convention at the
election of 1*4:2, at the same time electing a
j Whig Legislature and two of three Congressmen
! by decided majorities. Gov. Mouton was elected
at the same time, aided, doubtless, by ihe Con?
vention question, which helped him a great deal
more than he did it. The Whig Legislature ?><?
elected again submitted the Convention question
to the People, by whom it has again been af?
firmed by an overwhelming majority?two to one
? in all the Whig Parishes we have ix-ard from.?
Now is there any justification in all this for the
paltry attempt at vote-catching of th.c Argus '
Let us not be understood as judging this ques?
tion of Suffrage Extension iu Louisiana, still less
, as blaming the small number who have felt con?
strained to vote against a Convention. We do
not doubt that they are at heart as devoted friends
to Freedom and to Human Progn ss ..s those who
voted differently. It is a cheat) v avof floating
with the popular current, that of clamoring for
the overthrow of all Constitutional harriers and
the widest diffusion of Political Power, yet to our
mind it argues recklessness of public interests in
eagerness for the gratification of im dividual am?
bition quite as often as a more generous sentiment.
. Considering what the Population of Louisiana is?
how fluctuating, to what extent uneducated, how
?made up of such heterogenous races birr recently
thrown together, how prone arc thousands among
them to that voluptuous sensuality whic h is the
I grave of till stern-souled Patriotism or lofty devo
I tion to Freedom, while we should have voted lor
j the Convention, we deeply respect those who
dared stand up on the unpopular side and vote
against it. We trust their apprehension!" of evil
will prove groundless ; yet if we were called to
designate among that motley population a band
whom no splendor of tyranny could dazzle or
corrupt?whom no prospect ol" favor or power
could induce to how the knee to an Emperor
Napoleon or other brilliant despot, we should
!iH>k for them among the vote:* ageinst rather
than those for a Convention, good mtaa and trite
lovers of Liberty as then- doubtless are on both
sides. And farther : we should have more faith
in the Republicanism of a Louisianiaa who should
vote against the Convention but for n system of
Common Schools than in that of the loudest
brawler for Universal Suffrage- who should be
perfectly willing that the great mass o.f the Peo?
ple remain, as now, without the means of Edu?
cation. The extension o! Knowledge aud Virtue
should Ik* the first care : Power will diffuse itself
I fast enough after these.?So much for the Argus's
insidious allusion to Chancclaor Kent snd Judge
Spencer as having opposed the Extension of Sur
rage in this State.?Does it wish us to quote Mr.
Van Buren *s remarks in the Convention against
Universal Suffrage ?
The Argu.? proceeds to sneak of the iai,t can?
vass 1842 in Louisiana when " it was known
that the triumph of Democracy was the triumph
of Specie Payments.''' This is a new tack.
Perhaps the Argus can tell how the late Whig
Governor evinced hostility to Specie Payments,
and how it comes that such Payment" were re?
stored, although the Whigs held the Legislature.
Perhaps it does not know that the Suspension of
Specie Payments in this State, as in nearly every
other,) was sanctioned hy a Van Buren Legislature,
while the Resumption took place under Whig rule.
But when it speaks of the 4* fact that a suspension
of specie payments was authorized and tolerated
in Louisiana longer than in any other State of
the Union,'' and offers this as 11 the best evidence
that it has boon a thorough and uniform Whig
State,'' it not only states an untruth, but com?
mits a very great blunder. The public are so
well aware of the ' uniform ' political character
of Alabama and Arkansas, two States which
have never yet been Whirr, and which are still
floundering in the slough of Suspension, with
little prospect of speedy extrication, that such
assertions as the above only injure the party
which resorts to them.
?And now will the Argus correct its statement
that Rhodf Island has been uniformly a Whig
State, admit that it claimed a complete Demo?
cratic triumph there in 1833 and for the four
years succeeding, and state why those Who gave
its vole to Van Buren did not begin to extend the
Right of Suffrage to its non-freeholding popu?
lation f Then will it tell us why the Democratic
principle of Free Suffrage has made no progress
in Virginia, the mother of Democracy, winch
has always voted for President as the Argus says
is Democratic, which has never had a Legislature
Whig in both branches, which has no alien or
discordant population, and which yet allows Irr
Property-holders tu cote several times each, and
dot s not permit poor men to rote at all.' Will you
speak to this point, Mr. State Printer ' You seem
to have strangely overlooked it in your last. Will
you attempt to reconcile the notorious* tact with
your sweeping assertion that the triumph of your
party in such a Slate is always immediately fol?
lowed by an Extension of Suffrage ?
Forgery on an Extensive Scale.
On Wednesday week, a man named David
Crowlcy was arrested and committed to prison,
charged with forgery on the Seventh Ward Ban!;,
the Chemical Bank, and the Butchers' and Dro?
vers' Bank, of this city
It appears that during the 13th and JOlh days
of the month, the First Teller of the Seventh
Ward Bank, ."Mr. Francis J. Smith, paid four
forged checks, purporting to be drawn by .Mr.
Minott Mitchell, of White Plains, Westehester
County, of the following amounts and dates :
?380, datetl the 15th of July, payable to A.
Williams; ?201?, dated the 13th, to William A.
Adams; S? IT."), dated 15th duly, and .$7011,
dated the 17th of July. That of .$175 was paid
to a lad named William White, of Spring-street,
near Hudson, on the 17th of the month, and the
one for ?700 on the lilth, to another lad, named
Joseph Harpcrway.
An examination into the circumstances took place this
morning, when the boy White stated he met the accused in
liif i'.uk, who requested him to do an errand for him, and
sent him to one Austin's machine shop, in Gold street, to
get tlx monej for the $475 check. He procured it, returned
to the accused, and handed him the money. Humphrey states
that he met the accused, and was also asked by him to run
of an errand; and after goiug to the Custom House store,
corner of I'litV and Beekmni ;ir-rt.?. he s.int him with the
f7;;(i check, which m< cashed, and lie handed Crowlcy the
money..
Mr. Smith, the Teller, testifies that after finding the StT?
check to be a forgery he watched the presentation of another,
ami when the boj Harperwaj had got it cashed (who by the
bye is an apprentice to Messrs. Harper,) engaged Messrs.
Robert S. Browne and Richard Ackerman, two of tie
rletks in th-? hank, to follow the bd and see what became ol
t!>e money. They saw him deliver it to the accused and ar
rested him with it in his possession and sent him to the Po
| lice.
I ,;n< s T. Brady, Esq. appeared as the counsel for the ac
I ensed, who declined answering any questions in relation t>:
j the matter, further than he was 32 years of age, born iu Ire?
land and .i dyer and bleacher hy trade; residence, SS Chat*
ham street.
Officers Relyea and Kellinger have had this matter iu hand
and it has been discovered that a forged check iu Mr. Mitch?
ell's name has been presented at the Butchers'and Drovers
Bank, hut not paid, as Mr. M. kept no account there. Threi
checks also forged iu the name of-Easton, No. "211
William-street, have been presented at.the Chemical Bank,
two of which weTe paid, but the other dishonored; the ac^
count of Mr. >'.. beiug over-drawn.
Trial of Abnkr Rogers.?The evidence fot
the people in this case had closed, and the pris
j oner's counsel had made some progress in opening
lor the defence when the Court adjourned, on
J Monday night. On Tuesday several witnesses
. were produced, among whom was A. W. Crown
inshield, contractor ibr cabinet work in the pri?
son.
The testimony of this witness, to whom
Rogers had made frequent appeals for protec?
tion from imaginary mal-treatment, as well as
that of other witnesses, although not conclu?
sive as to the insanity of the prisoner, proves
" something peculiar'' to have been observable in
Iiis demeanor lu fore the murder. The deceased
9 ems to have been an object ol* great terror to
him, in consequence of the frequent punishments
occasioned by his repeated violations of the pri?
son rules. The case is not yet concluded, as >e
vcral other persons, among them Doctors Wood,
ward and Bell, were to Ik? examined on Wednes
? day.
?- ?? i ? ? ?
Later front St. Domingo.
By the schooner Victoria we have advices from
St. Domingo to the 1 Ith inst. We are informed
that the elections for President will come on as
soon as the General arrives at Port au Prince ;
he has visited almost every town in the Island,
j and was invariably received with the greatest
honors. He was on his way to the Capital, and
would arrive there in about four days. Great
preparations are making to welcome his return.
No doubt can be entertained as to his election, as
there are none to oppose him half so popular.
There is not much sickness in the Island, al?
though it was feared there would be a great deal;
the yellow fever has merely showed itself, but not
dangerously.
Business was not dull nor lively, the markets
were generally well supplied with American pro
I due,-. The produce of the Island was considera?
bly m demand, and there was sufficient to supplv
all wants. vv'
I Hon. Hexry F. Janes, nominated for Con
gress by the Whigs of the Fourth District, Vt,
declines.
D* Two persons have been arrested in Sehen
cctady for passing counterfeit $1 bills of the
Bank of Rome.
[LT A splendid locomotive of the largest class
was brought to Albany, from Philadelphia, by
the Black Diamond, for the Western Railroad. *
HiterarpJXoti'ccs.
A Trcati.f; o> the Law of Slamm r a.xd Libkl, anil
incidentally of Malicious Prosecution. Nescit vox
missa r*vrrti. By Thomas Stirkie, Ei?.- of Lincoli.'-i
Inn. Barrist?.- at Law. Fron the ;-<:"i>d Encfiuk Edi?
tion of 1830, with n :-*a v.d refer-nces to Amerirw
case*, and to Enelish decisions sine- IS>1<>. By John L
Wendell. Counselor at Law. In two volumes. Albir.y,
C. Van Benthnysen Sc Co. 1>43.
"VVe have received a copy 01" the work of which
we have here given the title, and which, as the
I times fro, promises to be a work of much value
? to the editorial profession. It behoves us who
have the management of newspapers to look care?
fully to our steps, for we walk among snares and
pitfalls, and if we make a rash movement to the
right or the left, we are entrapped in the meshes
of the law of libel.
Starkie's work is much esteemed by the profes?
sion. The American editor has added the Ameri?
can decisions, and the later decisions of English
courts. We copy the following notice of the work
from the Albany Argus. [Eve. Tost.
? The second edition of Mr. Starkie's treatise
' is a great improvement on the first, and in itself
cannot fail to be acceptable to the profession.?
To it are added the notes of the editor, in which
arc collected the American cases, and English
decisions since the publication of ihe second edh
tion; and an introduction pointing out various
1 discrepancies in the hire of libel as held in Eng?
land and as it prevails here: particularly on the
subject fif 'privileged communications; the force
: and effect of the plea of the genera! issiie in the
action of slander as to the evidence admissible
under it on the trial of the cause; the proper sub
i ject matter of a special pica, and the danger of
attempting to plead specially facts which in their
nature are not, and cannot be the subject of such
plea; the evidence admissible /'// mitigation oj
damages, whether the general issue be or be not
accompanied by a plea or notice of justification ;
and the right of a jury in all prosecutions lor al?
leged libels, notwithstanding any direction given
by the court, to determine both the law and the
\ fact in civil as well as in criminal cases. The
? introduction also contains a review of the libel
cases of Turrill and DaUoway, and of several of
! the cases for libels prosecuted by J. Fenimore
! Cooper."'
Park's Manifold Writer.?The art of Man?
ifold Writing is proved to be of wide utility by
! the extent and rapidity of its diffusion. A few
years since, but dozens of the implements were
in use where now there are thousands. The de
! mand has greatly tended to the cheapening am!
! perfecting of the article until now it is quite as
easy to write two or three copie s of letters as one,
and the former are read quite as distinctly as the
latter. In this way you have not only a copy of
your leltter to keep as well as one lo send away,
but you arc sure the copy is exact, which you
cannot be if it be transcribed by the ordinary
? process.
Mr. Park's Manifold Writer is warranted not to
smut nor rub, but lo exhibit every word distinctly
in each copy, preserving all the hair-marks as
well as the coarser. In these respects he con?
siders his invention a decided improvement on
any thing of the kind heretofore presented to the
public. He asks business men to call and ex?
amine it at his Blank Book Manufactory, No. 37
John-street.
Pro duct i vf Farming : or a Familiar Digest of the Recent
Disco\erie< of Liebii:, Johnston, Davy, and other Cele?
brated Writers on Vegetable Chemistry, showing how
the Results of English Tillage might great!} aus;
merited : By J. A. Smith. New York : Wiley ?
Putnam.
We have here, in a paper bound volume of 150
pages, price 31J cents.) a compilation or dige st
I of the additions made to the Science of Agricul
? tore by the eminent scintific writers of our day.
It i> wurtliv the icgfiii] ..f ftttmcra.
-?
QT The New Mirror for this week is embel?
lished by a " Scene near Glcnmary,' which is hard?
ly equal to Mr. Willis's dainty adieu to that pleas?
ant home of his, which accompanies theengra
I ving. Gen. Morris contributes some trippng verses,
; and the number will afford agreeable occupation
for a sultry hour.
O* Lectures on the Epistle to the Romans,
by Thomas Chalmers, D. D. Part V. . and last)
, has just been published by Robert Carter, 5s' Ca
' nal-street.
[LT The Book of Common Prayer, No. VIII.
of Hewet's Illustrated Edition, edited by Rev. J.
j M. Wainwright, D. D. has ju3t been published.
The Crops.?The Wheat of some parts of In?
diana and Illinois suffered severely by winter,
killing, but whal was ::<>! killed dot s well. There
can no longer be a doubt thai the aggregate
Wheat crop of the country will be ?' rv 1 ir^.?
? The complaints of drouth are in :rt asing, and we
! hear some 'Vorn West of the AUeganics. From
the Delaware River to Maine nearly the whole
seaboard has been parched, though we hear of
showers this week in several quarters.
Crops in < *: ??u..i v.? Both Cotton and Corn
promise an abundant harvest.
In Florida, some of the Cotton is already ripe.
?T The Cotton Crop of Upper Louisiana Red
River, is greatly injured by rains.
[LT The British and American Musical Soci?
ety gave their third Concert at the Shakspearc
! Hotel last evening. It was fully and fashionably
i attended, and the performances were received
! with decided eclat. Miss McGloin sun"' the
Echo Song very effectively and was deservedly
encored?and Mr. Clirchugh gave " The Sun his
bright rays'" with great patho-~, sweetness and
expression. This Society, which is but in its in?
fancy has strong claims upon the favor of the
public.
Union College Commencement.?A friend
' who attended the Commencement at Schenectadv
on Wednesday informs us that the attendance
was very large, and the exercises highly intercst
: ing. The Addresses were emphatically able.?
The attendance of Graduates was very numerous.
The Trustees have elected Judge Kent of this
City and Bishop Uedding of the Methodist
Episcopal Church to fill the two subsisting va?
cancies in the Board.
Cruel Fraud.?A scoundrel named Maltitz,
who came over from Bremen in the ship Goethe.
Capt. Homann, which arrived at Baltimore on
Tuesday, conL-ived on the way to ingratiate him.
self with many of the passengers,3 and obtain
from them over ?1.000 in all on the pretence ol
: paying their passage to their several destinations.
Immediately on landing he disappeared in a
coach, and has not since been heard of.
A third edition of -h- Pimphlet, entitled -J Coneiu
' ExponUon oj the Doctrine of .issociation. by A. Brisbane
i is now preparing aid will be readv in a few" davs. Thts
, work conunu a ascription of the 'System of Association
I by ChaBlf.s FoL'RIFR.
I _ Sinzly copies Is- cents: by the quantity 124 c^nts; 8 for
, 51. We are compelled to raise the price from 133 to 183
? cents, as a considerable loss has been experienced on the two
j not editions As this is the las: edition which will be r.ub
Itsbed probably tor some time to come, we wc.uij
n*~ ?tVvt: ^ ?, c ?^rsearlv, to the
Ot?ce of Th- Tnoane, or J. S. Redf.eid. Bookseller'
I Some works iu French and English by' Fofme? and his
J.sciples may be had a: Raid's Bookstore, corner of
Beekman and >i assail meets.
7
News from, the Oregon Company.
We find the following letter from the Oregon
Emigrants in the Iowa Gazette of the sth inst.
Ore oof* Emigration Conratn . >
Ka.nsa' Kor.R, Jut:- 3d. 1513. *?
Dear Sir : Wc have now traveled 400 to 450
miles suice leaving Burlington and are in good
health and tine spirits, as also are all the com.
pan v. The company have organised by electing
Peter Burnett, of Platte City, Mo., Captain.
The company have also elected a committee of
nine, who are to be " Cabinet Advisors" for the
Captain. They are also to decide all questions
of difference?disregard to orders?negligence of
doty, ,vi\ Although I had not reached the camp
priorto the election. I was honored with an dec
: don as a member of the committee. The number
of wagons now in rank are upwards of 120, and
? there arc many others on their way here, be?
sides the wagons and carts of Freemont's. Stew,
art's, arid the California companies, all of which
I are on the inarch and within two days' travel of
each other. . .
The view from the eminences in the prairie is
the most dc lightful.
Here is a small nation emigrating some 2000
miles by land through a wilderness, inhabited by
I fierce and warlike Indians, reiving alone on their
I own exertions for defence and sustenance.
There are over SOU!!, and perhaps 500.0 head
of cattle, mules and horses attached to the com
. pany- Captain Applegate has over "200 head,
and others over 100 head. This has been a hone
! of contention with some of the emigrants, and
very nearly divided the company. Indeed, I am
: not'eertain but it will be the means of a split yet,
as there arc a number without cattle who refuse
to assist in guarding them. The dissatisfaction
' is not quite so violent now, as the cattle owners
have agreed to furnish the company with beef,
' in case of a scarcity of Buffalo meat) work
' eatile and milch-cows, the former at a price to
. he fixed by the committee, and the cows and
oxen without charge. The company have agreed
to this proposition, and the former law, limiting
, each individual to three head of loose cattle, is
I thereby repealed. The number of cattle is quite
i too large. It is impossible to guard them at
night, and the Indians at this place have already
j commenced stealing horses and killing cattle.
The company which leaves next spring for (h e.
' gon should keep strict guard <>n their cattle and
horses at the crossing of this river, as some 8 or
I 10 horses and mules have been stolen in one night
from our company.
Our route, since wc left the State of Missouri,
has been through a beautiful rolling prairie, such
as I have never seen in any of the States or Ter.
ritories. indeed, I do not sec how it could be
beat either in point of fertility, or beauty ol
scenery. There is, however, a drawback in the
scarcity of timber. The roads generally, have
I been very fine. We wili reach the buffalo conn,
fry in four or five days more. A few were killed
a short time since, about live miles from this
place. The buffalo hunters will start out in a
day or two. Dr. Whitman, from Wallawalla.
who is in our company, advises that the company
j divide into three or lour parties, for speed and
convenience, as there will be no danger from the
Indians.
Tell our friends to get ready and come on next
j spring by thousands. There is not half t!ie difir
I culty, from the information I can get from per
sons who have been there, that 1 apprchcndcc
; before starting. The scenery and amusement an
I worth all the trouble. There is not a case o:
sickness in the camp.
J Wc see a Temperance statement that tht
import of Liquors to this country has fallen of
j from 20,M3 casks during the first half of 184:
j to 2,111 during the like half of 1613. Sorry tt
l spoil a good story, but the heavy duty on Brand}
and Gin imposed by the New Tariff had obviouslj
a hand in producing this result, though wc hope
increased Temperance comes in lor a share also
O3 Michigan baa 1 17 rmh-s ,,f Railroad in op.
eration, viz. from Detroit to Jackson, 80 miles
Monroe to Hudson, 42 miles: Detroit to Pontiac
'2~>. Forty miles more are soon to be added or
j the Central road from Jackson to Marshall, ant
loon the Southern from Hudson to IJillsdalc
making 'JM.'J in all which will be in use before tht
year closes.
L Henry Berrycr, of Harrisburg, Pa. was ar
rested last Saturday for beating his wife severely
apparently with intent to kill her. While undci
examination he drew a knife and attempted tc
? cut his throat, but only succeeded in drawing s
good deal of blood. Committed.
TJT Rev. Squiue Chase, Supcrintcn cut of tlu
Methodist .Mission at Liberia, who . turned tr
; this country for his health about avo month:
; since, died at Syracuse on Wednesday mornine
i The St. Lawrence Canal, around the Lone
- tult, has been stopped for the present by a seri.
ous breach of about b'Q feet in its banks. Sevc
ral weeks will be required to repair it.
) 'i'iie Oswego County jail was opened wit!
false keys on Saturday night last, and six prison
ers escaped. A reward of ?130 is offered foi
them.
HO" A colored person, while white-washing ir
the frcioltt-houseat the Boston Depot, Greenbush
accidentally fell from the top of the building am
was instantly killed.
O* Messrs. Raymond & Co. tiie proprietors o
the Menagerie, gave $306 to tlio selectmen o
Fall River, for the relief of the suffering inhabi.
; tants of that town.
i Thomas, aged 17, son of Joseph Smith, ol
1 ishkill, was knocked overboard from a sailboal
. on the Hudson and drowned on the 20th.
[TT An enthusiastic Repeal Meeting was helc
at Marshall, Midi., on the 15th.
Also, one at New-Bedford, Mass. on the 24th
Tue Cxors in Engiaxd.?A letter from a gen
tleman who went out in the packet ship Georg?
YVashingtbn to his friend in this country, written
on the 3d July, says. k- the crops in England, a.'
r:*r as I have had an opportunity of observing, art
very deficient, and if what I have seen is a fail
specimen ol the country generally, I have no doub!
but they wili want considerable: from the United
States it> serve them till crops come round agam."
S r::.\i<;:iT-0:.T.?The Picayune has the follow
:ng anecdote of the late Louisiana Flection :
A sovereign in one of the country parishes, wh<;
went up to vote, was asked if he would vote for a
convention. " No," said he?;i Pil lie -if 1
do ! I came here to vote for Gen. Bossier, and
I'm not a-going to iplit my ticket!"
] Seventy-two of the crew of the U. S. steam,
er Missouri have signed the pledge of total absti.
nance from all intoxicating liquors.
K7" We ?nvite the attention of thc*e interested in snch
matters to the advertisement in another column of Pikece'i
Kitciie* Ha5.;u. We have witnessed the oration ci
he.ir Range?, and heard them spoken of bv i*?uns whr
>me them in use, ar.d, from our own observation, as well as
the judgementof others. ?t believe Mr. Pierce has succeed,
?d tu manr.Uctnring an article wnich combines more conve
uieuces with greater economy of fWl and labor than any in.
vention for aimflai oses which has come ??der our notice.
AMratcvt MraetrM[.-This old ann established place u
eum^e.err night to see Mr.Cole and hu doe Billy, and to hea;
t?.-eat Western, the greatest in his line lmn;.'. .?nd other emi
i.eat and ;v)pnUr Dj.riorir.ers. The attraction* aie unequaled
this Week, and will be sustained by a generous public. Splen?
did entertainment this evening.
BY THIS MORNING'S MAIL
From the Pacific.
By the brig Phoenix, at Baltimore, on VVcdnes.
day, from Kingston, Jamaica, the editors of the
I Baltimore American have received files of papers
1 to the 8th inst.
Correspondence of the American.
Kingston-. Jam., July 8, IS43.
from Ch:
ult.
ship Vindictive, who came as bearer of despatch
es to the British Government from the T.;| ?'"
This officer was at Chagres, and finding no ves.
bound to Jamaica. Commodore Dallas ordere?! the
Vandalia to take Lieut. L. to Jamaica. $be
spent a few days here, and.her captain and off.
cers were entertained with dinners bv the Naw
in port and Army at Port Royal. The Vandalia.
sailed, all well, on the 1st inst. Enclosed von
have an account of the latest Pacific news. The
Yand ilia has sent a letter bag by this vessel. N0
other news. Flour .$8 to ?9 wholesale; Meal
?5.00.
From the Kingston Journal.
Despatches bv the Vandalia.?We stated
some days since, that the American sloop-of.war
Vandalia had arrived here, it was supposed, with
despatches for his Excellency the Gov?:rnor,but the
nature of those dispatches (if there were any) has
not as vet transpired. Since then, the following
extract" of a letter from a gentleman in Panama,
to another gentleman in this city, dated the Sth
of June, has been placed in our hands, and we
transcribe it into our columns, as it seems toosm.
vev some idea of what is going on in our neigh.,
borhood, and which probably might led to the
: Vandalia being despatched to this Island:
" A few days since, arrived here the Younir
j Vindictive, tender fron? Tahiti. She bmnrrht
j two officers with despatches, who went across to
' embark in the United States' ship Vandalia, !'r,r
Jamaica. It appears that the occupation of Ta.
: hiti bv the French, has not been altogether to
'. the liking of Queen Pomare, who writes on Ac
subject to her well beloved sister her Majesty Vic.
toria, Queen of Great Britain, one of her othVers
being the bearer of the letter. The Vandalia
; came direct from Norfolk to Chagres, with Com.
module Dallas, and several other officers, to join
tiic United States' squadron in the Pacific.
" By the last accounts from the Windward,
Admiral Thomas had arrived in the Dublin from
the sea coast with $1,500,000 on freight. The
Salamander steamer was at Callao waiting or.
? i ?lers, and it is sup|>osod will come down hero, and
then go on to Mexico. The Satellite, Captain
Gambir. was at Callao; the United States sehr.
Shark likewise; the whereabout of Commodore
Jones, and the United States' Squadron is not
known here; very probably some part will touch
? i here to leave Commodore Jones, as he is relieved
bv Commodore Dallas.
1 " This last left this a few days since in a Peru.
1 j vian schooncr-of-war that came here with some
1 i exiles from Peru, Gen. Lizarzaburn, Col. Ortiz
? I and Lieut. Col. Corpena ; the schooner is calkd
' i the Alerta. There has been another revolution
' j in Peru, and Gen. Biranco is now the Supreme
; Director. How long he will last there is no
; knowing, because in Peru governments are not
^ very long-lived.
" j 44 Here, as usual, every thing is quiet enough;
" \ business is extremely dull, money extremely )
' scarce, and doubloons not to be had at any price;
; I collections worse than ever."
f _^_
A letter from Washington says:?44 It is cur.
rently reported that Francis H. Davidoe, F.sq..
p| formerly of the city of Baltimore, and at present
, : a clerk in the Pension ollice at Washington, is
about to be appointed Consul to Glasgow."
Things In Philadelphia.
Corn >noudence of The .\ew-\ orli Tribune.
Philadelphia, July 11?V. il.
U.viTbd States Dink.? There are various storiesineir*
cnlation in this city rel itive t>> ?Iis? losnres .?ln>itr to betosdi
concerning the 4>siguiiient,aud other acts, connected yriib
this instiltition, which I forlHAr at present stating, till st-nif
thing farther tnuispfiea. It it ...ml Str. I.i i:;,|.lv?,|l
take a prominent j.art i.i this movement, and that hit liir
visit to your city vvaa iu- a great measure ow me to thi roattsr.
That ' Lit.ting a il important'letter promised <tome wttki
since iu tliCi/Autttrc)', from the pen of Mr. B. lias never yet
appeared, for reasons to~ the public.'utterlj uiikuowu. Wli>t
did it caiiiaiii so very 1 inti resting and important,' and wh]
was it not published if actually in type"?
Dead.?Richaid L. West, one of nur oldest and must c
ful business men, died ?uddeuly .it Georgetown, Delav
few d.i\s since, while on via? to hii sister. Ky his derai*
the marine ami shipping interests of this oiiy have lo>t i.
live and devoted n^ent, and the distressed marinem kiudand
benevolent frieud. Mr. West had been many years an - fes?
tive, efficient, and intelligent correspondent of the Philedd
pi ia Bschange. '
Real Estate.?The amount of real estate assessed *?
the name of the late Jacob Ridgway, in High-slrtct Wars,
t is $191,090, b ing $300 more than that in Chesuut Wiri
The total ..in..nur in hi th Wards is $382,700. The soucf
: Mr. Ridgway is now ? . i t. .-. ? splendid store upon the lot
occupied by the ollice of les father, adjoining his late re<;
, deuce i.i Chesuut-itreet. It will be, when finished, unedi
the deepest and rn>.>t beautiful stores in Philadelphia -
) Whether the project of converting the dwellings of Di
. Rush i .'I ti.e family of the deceased into ? magnificent bold
j has been ahand ni?d, I am n nable to state; but t.nst not.
. j Delicious.?I noticed i.i the High street Market thu
: morning several lint \. itermelnnj, and n large loi rfexcdlesi
; nufn.e^s, having h en brought (?> this rity from BaltSmbre^.
: They sold at exorbitant pri< ssj the latter bringing as hirh s>
25 cents each. Tomatoes continue scarce; a..d enmmaud,
j for the l>? it; $ i per bushel.
The FIs?t.?This has been one of the most opp.-essire
I days of t he s asou. I*aw several horses give out during tb?
i Course of the morning, ar.d at noon s poor laborer; employed
j on one of on.- streets, fell prostrate upon the ground in coa
i sequence of over-exertion, a;id would probably have died bad
it not he> :i for the beuevolericeof a colored woman.
S ale of Stocks.?'There was quite a large sale of stool*
to-day, it noon, a' the Exchange, which I siibjoiu. Tbeat
tendance was not large, neither was the bidding spirited.?
Whether the purchases were bona fide oils I cannot s*y
They were as follows;.: 110 shares Merchants' and Me
chauics' Bank of Wheeling, par vain.. $100 brought fW
per share?purchased hy S. Cooper
90 sh ires of Grand Gulf Railroad and Bunking Compawr,
par value $100, s..U for $300 the lot?tinrcliased b)* V
I Cooper.
298 shares of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, P*
; value $100, sold for $800 tlie lot?purchased by S Ccojwr.
100 shares Commercial fia^ii of Manchester, Mississippi,
par vaiiie f I0J, sold for $1,000 the Jot?pur<based b) 8
j Cooper.
, 617 shares Mechanics' Bank of Philadelphia, par Talo<
$20, told f ,r $10 25 the lot?purchased by Mr. Wiles.
Five shares of New York. Boston ami Illinois Land Co**
pany, par vain- $llrf)0( s.>Iii for $1000?purchased by S.
i Cooper.
Several thousand dollars of th* loan of the Union f
; Company were also put up and sold, but at prio-s considers
; bly bi low p.ir value.
The- business at the Board of Broken to-siay was wit'
limiteih but price, w..-re fully maintained. Many cl uV
members complain of tiie ex<;( j*ive heat of the room,
several were forces! to leave the board in co-is<??|0eDf*.
For Pennsylvania Fives $19 was led am! iMtsknk t'i.'td
Stat.-j Bank $IJ led .,,?1 yt galced_-no ;al-s of either. l>e
transactions .-..?r- as follows : ir?o ,hares Gtrard Bs?k*r5J;
20 do. Spring Garden Insurance. Co. at 7f, 15 d.i. W??<h
Coal iiid Navigation Co. at 7: $f?) Pennsylvania S "
.54; I sh ire North America Bank at 300}:'1(W do. vTck ?
burg at 3 ?.
Corn-Sta lk Sec \ r.?The Rev" Luther Hum?
phrey, of Edwardsburgh, Michigan, ha?, altera
, series of experiments, succeeded in extracting su?
gar and molasses of excellent quality from corn
stalks. Hecalculatcsthathecan furnish molasses
at 25 cents, equal to the best qualities, and sugarat
five and six cents. A.s the recipe is very simple
and practicable in its operation, wc annex it
for the benefit of such of our readers in the coun?
try, as may choose to try it:
? T-.ke the cornstalks aj soon as they have their growth,
or a i soon as the rass-I begins to blossom, rut uVci hi piec?i
boil them i? a kettie for an hour or two, press out the jeic?
any way yon please, and boil it down to a syrup/'
Love of Offspring.?A German paper relates
that a pair of storks had built their nest close to
a brewery at Smoken, near Radon, in Poland.?
The brewery recently caught fire, and the flames
threatened to catch the tree, yet the mother h?d
would not stir, and remained firm in her tfat.
covering her brood with her wings. At length
the tree was involved in the conflagration a""
burnt, with the poor stork and her young. Dur?
ing the whole time, the male bird kept fiyin?
round the scene of destruction, uttering cries of
distress.
uCT Joseph Sweet, aged 20, of Westbrook, Me.
was drowned while bathing in tho Presump??*1;
on Sunday evening last.